The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1930, Page 3

mermernmenemnntllin yy | i” 10, 1930 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER Page Three ' — = Wet Tre RSsS =- Ee ay ree oo ae = ae a TEXTILE BOSSES STEAL VOTES IN MANCHESTER, NH. | $5-$12 Wage for N. H. Textile Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) MANCHESTER, N. H.—“The Man- chester Leader” is supposed to be a public newspaper but in reality it is the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. paper. Giv- ing the election returns our Com-| munist candidate for governor, ac-! cording to this paper got only 78 votes in the whole state. Isn’t that a shame! Well, I would give me) head that there were more. For example, I myself voted in ward 8 Manchester and according to the returns in this paper the 8th ward got 0 for Communist candidates. | Besides this ward was flooded with | 200 copies of the Daily Worker. | Hunger Wages. ! The Amoskeag Mfg. Co. is surely | the cheapest paying concern in the country because weavers are getting as low as $4, $5 to $12 a week and| some cases one dollar a week. A woman weaver was telling me) that one woman in her department | got one dollar for working 5 nights | at weaving from 5:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Cops Break N.T.W.U. Meets. Yes, we were getting along nicely with our National Textile Workers Union, but since we attempted to get the masses and called a meeting on) Victory Park for September 1, but the permit was denied us. Our or- ganizer Jack Krantzo was arrested because he was talking on unemploy- ment. And every meeting that was called by the N.T.W.U. was attended by dicks, cops in plain clothes and uniform, The workers got scared and don't attend meetings so much. But work- ers, this won’t solve the problem. ‘We must all come to the meetings and make up our minds to fight and fight hard. Our “city fathers” have opened an unemployment office in the city hall} here too and we can go and register now, but that is all. CLEVE. CARMEN _ ARE ‘STAGGRRED’ Means Less Wages and More Work (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, O.—On November 5, the Cleveland carmen began working under the stagger system. All regu- lar men work five days and off on the sixth day, and the salaried men donate three days of their pay per month to the company. The shop men work ten days per month and the fire boys are cut ten cents per hour. The conditions the workers in the different departments work under are the most inhuman. The Cleveland Ry. Co. has started @ schaal for motormen and cpnduct- ors and grade them on the merit system. They do not pay the men for attending school. They have four grades at the school and the ones that are in class D are undesirable. The officials of Div. 268 seem to be in agreement with all these plans of the company. Most of the time at the union meetings has been taken up with politicians of the republicans and democrats. Several of the mem- bers of Div. 286 have protested against so much valuable time beirig wasted o nthe parties of the bosses. MINE UNION TO PURLISH PAPER a First Issue Dec. Appeals for Funds PITTSBURGH, Nov. 9.—Facing the urgent necessity of at once beginning publication of an official organ, the National Buro of the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union, has issued an appeal to all workers and their organizations for funds to aid this publication. The orran, which will be known as The Mineral Worker, will be is- sued twice a month, on the 1 and 15. ‘The first issue will appear on Decem- ber 1. The subscription price will be only $1.00 a year, 50c for six months and 5 cents a copy. ‘The issuance of the Mineral Work- er is necessitated by the crisis in the industry, unbearable conditions of the workers and the developing strike move, etc. The crisis in the mining industry is the worst in the history. The overwhelming majority of the workers are today unemployed, and the rest are on part time and starving while they work. Wages have been slashed below the mini- mum. The murderous speed-up has reached a point beyond endurance. The Mine, Oil and Smelter Work- ers Union is the only revolutionary union in the mining industry, fight- ing these unbearable conditions, The lack of an official organ which is | papers, in speeches to workers, etc. to become the best agitator, propa- gator and organizer, hinders the work Bosses Always| Fear That Men May Organize (By a Worker Correspondent) HOBOKEN, N. J.—Do you know what the trouble is with most of us workers? We are too damned modest and bashful. When the Communist Party tells us that we create all the wealth, that the bosses are scared of | our organized strength, many of us! workers take it as an exaggerated statement. Particularly many unskilled work- ers feel that the capitalists supply | the “brains” and money without which the industries cannot be run, and upon which they are therefore | dependent. This is of course, a mis-! take, a capitalist lie. which they spread about in the schools, in the Have Dicks Here. A good example of this can be seen at the employment office of the United States Lines, Hoboken, N. J. n hiring workers there, what are they most careful about? Skill, experience, brains? No, they hardly inquire about that, but what they do want to know is if you belong to a union, if you were ever active in a strike, if you show any sign of being class- conscious. And they are really so scared o nthis point (just as the Communist Party tells us), that be- sides their manager, each worker is looked over by a Burns Policeman and a company stool pigeon before being hired. Bosses Are Scared. This is true not only with the United States Lines, but with most big industrial corporations. This is the best proof in the world of our power and how the bosses try to mask their dependence upon us. Workers, let's not be fooled and bull-dozed any longer. When we are organized, and rightly organized, we will be our own bosses and free human beings. The Communist Party and the revolution- ary trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League are the right organiza- tions. Will Fight For Jobless Relief (By a Worker Correspondent) ATLANTA, Ga.—I got hold of one of the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill as proposed by the Com- munist Party. I read it through and found it to be a great thing for the working class if they would only get together. I am interested in that move because the workingman needs help. Every workingman ought to join and de ali he can to put over the project. I think that every man should have a living. AMIDST ORCHARDS WORKERS STARVE But the Bosses Shout “Buy Now” (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN JOSE, Cal—Fresh fruit left to rot on the ground, warehouses chuckful of food, restaurants throw- ing it away, all because the bosses’ precious profits and legal robberies must be saved. Just a few days ago the San Jose Mercury-Herald stated that the con- demned peach crop would be saved by making peach butter for the poor. Crop Now Ruined. Little do the people know that the crop is practically ruined and it’s even too late to make garbage out of them. Besides the peach butter is to be sold at cost price. Imagine trying to sell it when the people can’t even use buttons instead of money. A certain worker here injured him- self while at work. He fell from a ladder, a distance of 35 feet. As he was badly cut up his employer sent him to the Santa Clara County Hos- pital where he was treated and sent back bleeding just as bad as ever. Two days later his money gave out so he decided to walk into a restaur- ant ond ask to be fed. He did, but was thrown out with the proprietor threatening to have him arrested. These shameful boss acts must be smashed and will be, only let’s get together and demonstrate our strength. FEWER ANTHRACITE MINERS WASHINGTON. —Census figures just made public show that the aver- age number of wage earners in the anthracite coal industry in Pennsyl- vania in 1929 was 140,709, compared with 147,372 in 1919—a loss of jobs amounting to 4.5%. Yet the value, at the mine, of the coal produced ‘was $392,979,161 in 1929, or 8% more than in 1919, despite a reduction in tonnage of 16.2%. The total produc- tion in 1919 was 78,723,668 long tons, while in 1929 it had fallen to 65,974,- 551 long tons. of the union tremendously. All workers and their organizations are urged to support this drive for a fighting organ in the mining in- dustry. Send contributions and sub- scriptions to the Mine, Oil and Smel- COMMUNIST VOTE | IN JOHNSTOWN PA. SHOWS STRENGTH Jobless Army Grows in Steel Town (By a Worker Correspondent) JOHNSTOWN, Pa.—There were fifty (50) Communist votes here that | were not counted until midnight. The capitalist press didn’t say a word about the Communist votes. The workers in Johnstown are finding out what Party fights for the working class. Of course there are lots of workers that are still fooled. Orders Workers. The Lorain Steel Co. sent letter to the workers, with $2 enclosed in each envelope, telling the workers to vote republican. Six weeks ago %.1in Steel started to work the eight hour shift. For the month of October they have broken the records, produciva more steel than when they were on a 10 hour shift. And the first of the month the bosses gave each worker | a big cigar for breaking the re:9-4. Workers, don’t let the bosses fool you any longer. That cigar is to! blind you, to keep your children starving and go naked. Unemployment in Johnstown is in- creasing daily. Factories are being cle--d Cown more and more each day. Miners Are Starving. Miners in central Pennsylvania are working ( and 7 days a week and starving. Workers, shew the bosses that we have the power to organize into the Trade Union Unity League and min- ers join the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers’ Industrial Union. The socialist party in Johnstown refused to give the Communists a hall for a meeting. The leaders of the socialist party threatened to beat me. But workers in the hall de- fended me. So you can see that the workers are ready to struggle and defend the Commur> ,Party. Many Jobless ‘* in Millville, N. J. MILLVILLE, N. J.—I am a Mill- ville man out of a job. There are all kinds of men and women out of work here. Today at the gravel place got a wage cut. The men were getting 40 cents an hour. Now they get 35 cents an hour. When the men kicked the boss said I can get all the men I want for 35 cents. There is a new school in Millville. Some of the workers didn’t get all the money that was coming to them. Millville is a hellhole. eine (Millville is a small glass products and cotton ,mills center in southern New Jersey. Wages have always been low here, especially in the cotton mills.) Get your organization be- hind the Daily Worker Drive for 60,000! 1,200 Sliced Off New York Quota in 60,000 Campaign By Jamboree Fire-Eaters SCENE: Jamboree of Red Builders News Club, first meeting Saturday night, 27 East 4th Street. 200-POUNDER: “I lady in the ferry said she wouldn't be seen dying | with the Daily Worker. I left a copys beside her. Next time she came over | and bought one.” 1 NEGRO WORKER (smiling): “I sold 100 Daily Workers a day to Irish| women in the Bronx. If you can sell a Irishman. . .” ITALIAN WORKER: I sella 10} copies. Then I eata breakfast. It’s @ gooda paper.” | EX-BOS'N’S MATE: “Attract at-| tention. Hold the paper in front of | the job boards at the agencies. Shout | ‘R..R..Reddest in town.’ They'll dig!” | PINK-CHEEKED SEAMAN: “On| rainy days sell in subways, street) cars, stations, restaurants. Never | stop because of cold.” BIG SHOULDERS: “3 cents? They give you nickles and dimes.” 150-A-DAY MAN: “Hand the pa-| per to them. They read a coupla| lines. Then buy.” CHAIRMAN: “What'll we call the | club?” Circle,” “Red Boosters.” CHAIRMAN: “We'll vote.” Later: “Red Builders News Club” o— VOICES: “Soviet Club,” “Union New ” “Daily Truth Peddlers,” “Red wins. 15 minute intermission for hot dogs. New York cut off a big slice of its quota of 8,000 new Daily Worker readers in the campaign for 60,000 circulation with the formation of the Red Builders News Club composed of jobless work- ers who live by the sale of the Daily Worker and whose 24 charter members ordered an even 1200 papers at their initial jamboree and hot dog free-for-all Saturday night. =. Levin, business manager of the Daily Worker, gave the line for the | red hustlers. These jobless workers, he said, were breaking the ground. He told how revolutionary papers were sold in America in the earlier days. He pointed out the advantages of group work. Each member of the Red Builders’ News Club who sells 250 copies during the coming week will receive a copy of Red Cartoons autographed by Jacob Burck, himself. Next meeting Sunday night. Well, here's the latest. -A “Comrade” in Dayton writes the Daily Worker about the horrors of capitalism. He says he had to travel 50 miles to Cleveland to get his Danish pastry. RED VOTE GROWS IN MINN., OHIO Great Gains In All In- dustrial Towns (Continued from Page 1) are no figures allowed out to show how many more. But the Commun- ist vote in 1928 for the whole state was 2,884, which means that there are at least three times as many Communist votes in Ohio this year as in 1928, and probably four times. In Connecticut, the vote is not completely reported, but the total state vote, estimated on the basis of present returns, shows about 1,500 or double the 1928 total. New Haven county gave over 400 votes this year fdr governor, 217. In West Hartford, Kling got 36/ votes this year, and the socialists got | 27, In 1928 the Communists got 6 and the socialists 30. In the big brass center, Waterbury, Communist vote this year was 129, compared with 32 in 1928, In 1928 the vote was five fold. Kling got 105, against 29 |i#4tions. The revolutionary sports | in 1928. The socialist vote was cut in half this year. Hartford gave 228 Communist votes, and in 1928 there were 85. This is considered a socialist stronghold. Partial Returns In Massachusetts In Massachusetts, the only way to get figures on the Communist vote is by writing all the election com- missioners in about 250 towns. This |is being done by District 1 of the Communist Party. So far, only 193 towns have reported, and these show 3,030 votes for Canter, Communist candidate for governor, against 2,403 in 1928. For Eva Hoffman, Com- munist candidate for state treasurer, there were this year from these 193 | towns, 5,306 votes, against 3,225 in | 1928, These figures exclude the big in- dustrial, towns of Lawrence, Worces- |ter, Springfield, but they include to R. S. Kling, Communist candidate | Boston and New Bedford. In Boston, Canter got this year) 1,208 votes, against 662 in 1928. Hoff- man got 2,191 votes in Boston, against 1,095 for the same office in 1928. In New Bedford, Maria Correia, tex- | tile worker, led the Communist ticket with 523 votes for her for governor, and Canter got 253. The vote for Lawrence was re- In New Britain the vote increased ported before, and shows 537 Com- INTERNATIONAL RED SPORTS INT'L | MARKS 10TH YEAR \To Hold Big Meet in Berlin, 1931 BERLIN.—The Executive Com- mittee of the Red Sport International has issued an appeal to the working class sports and athletic organiza- | tions of all countries pointing out that in a few months the Red Sports | International will celebrate the tenth | anniversary of the foundation. Behind the R.S.I. lies ten years of activity in a systematic struggle against the bourgeois and fascist | sport organizdtions. Revolutionary | j workers sports organizations have | been formed in Great Britain, Nor-| way, Sweden and in the Balkans at | the initiative of the RSI and | against the will of the reformists. | | revolutionary sport deep into the | masses of the colonial peoples. The R.S.I. has won the bitter en- mity of the bourgeoisie and in mew countries (Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, jetc.) the revolutionary sport organi- |zations have been prohibited. The | |slogan of revolutionary sport unity | |has found an echo in the ranks of | | the workers in the reformist Lucerne | International. | Hundreds of thousands of workers | in the reformist organizations stand | shoulder to shoulder with the R.S.I. | against the treacherous disruptive have expelled whole organizations as | in Great Britain and Alsace-Lorraine, or have expelled hundreds of thou- sands of class-conscious sportsmen |from the reformist organizations as | in Germany, Finland, Czechoslovaki s and Switzerland, because these work- jers opposed the bourgeois demorali- ization of the workers sports organ- | | | | | and athletic Spartakiade in 1931 on | the 10th anniversary of the founda- | tion of the Red Sport International will take place in Berlin. The Daily Worker swings the Join the 60,000 drive. Send subs! Bundle orders! jover 1928. Big Gains In Pennsylvania. Scattered reports are received from Pennsylvania mining and steel towns not previously reported, all show multiplied gains. Clairton gave 16 ;Communist votes this year, and in (1928, there were 6. Port Vue gave | 20, and 6 in 1928. Allegheny Valley shows 168 Communist votes this year, against 39 in 1928. Portage gives 49 against 8 in 1928. In the textile center of Pennsyl- vania, Reading, Cush, Communist candidate for senator, got 62 votes, and in the rest of Berks county, 85 |More, making 147 in all. “The New Hampshire report is in | full and official, but of course, does not count the votes stolen. It shows 216 for Iram, Communist candidate for senator. Of this, 104 votes are| from the industrial town of Brad- | | ford, where the republicans got noth- ing, and the democrats got 171. Garvey Officials Join With White Interests _to Rob Investors in “Booker T. Washington Get Big Graft As Ship Is Sold At Auction By a seaman on the cruise of the “Booker T, Washington” Upon our arrival in New York, we were hot surprised when every- body started to accuse us of keeping the boat out for nearly six months, when she left on a thirty-one day cruise. We had known all along that Carter was sending back telegrams inciting the people against the crew in furtherance of his plans to make us the goats for all his blunders as well as for his deliberate sabotage in holding up the boat unnecessarily at the various ports. Crew Made the Goat. ‘To our chagrin we found that the people had believed all his lies and were hailing as heroes those directly responsible for the disasters and de- lays suffered on the cruise, namely, Carter and Lady Davis, while brand- ing as traitors the men of the crew who had starved and suffered in their determination to bring back the boat safely. ‘We could hardly reach Liberty Hall at 138th Street without some one calling us vile names, and threaten- ing to attack us. We tried to ex- plain to the people the truth of the matter and the thousands of dollars collected by Carter and Lady Davis which had mysteriously disappeared, but they would not listen to us, as their minds were already poisoned with the vile telegrams, League with Shyster Lawyer to Rob Crew of Wages. But we were to receive still an- other surprise. We found that of the six months wages due us we could only collect $10 to $15. Not ter Workers Industrial Union, 611 Penn Avenue, Room 512, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. i content with starving and ill-treating us on the cruise, the big officials | were determined to make us sweat silk hat and gloves at the left. business men, careerists, etc., is the A GARVEY PARADE IN HARLEM —Note the gentleman in the Silk Hat Leadership Silk hat leadership of preachers, curse of the Garvey Movement—as of all reformist Negro organizations, to collect our wages. The Shipping Commissioner ad- vised us that the only way to get our wages was to libel the boat, but that we were reluctant to do as we were in sympathy with the poor people whose hard-earned money had been used to buy the vessel. The officials told us we would get our wages in a short period of time, and they then turned over the payment of the money to a shyster lawyer by the name of Crick who had his offices on Stone Street. They, along with this shyster lawyer, paid us stims at the rate of 50 cents, one dollar and five dollars at a time. No doubt the officials benefited by this trickery used on us, What Had Become of the Money? We had received very little of our wages when news leaked out that the ship was in danger of be- ing sold at auction. This was the biggest surprise to us to hear them telling the people they had no money to meet the liens on the boat. What had become of all the thousands collected by Car- ter and Lady Davis? Who were the officials on this side who were split- ting with Carter and Mrs. Davis and enabling them to hold out on the working-class investors without ex- posure? Certainly, we all knew it was impossible for Lady Davis and Carter to spring this trip without help from the big officials who had remained in the States, White Companies Pool to Grab Boat. We were all saddened when the final blow came and the boat was put up for sale. We all knew what | this meant, for it was no secret that the “Booker T. Washington” was a good vessel and that there were sev- eral big white companies trying to | | get hold of it. The fact is that the vessel could have been sold at any time at a profit were it not that the officials were not interested in accepting legi- timate offers, as to do so would have deprived them of the graft they were after. During the very first week the boat became the property of the Black Cross Navigation and Trading Company, Mr. Garvey was made an offer by a British firm, which was ready to pay him $110,000 for the boat—ten thousand more than had been paid for it to the Panama Steamship and Railroad Company. And even up to a few weeks before it was sold at auction for the sum| of $25,000, with the white companies | in a pool and agreeing not to bid| over that sum for it, the company had several good offers which the company turned down. Officials in League With White Interests. This was exactiy what some of the officials of the company wanted, for they were in close league with these interests who wanted to pick up the vessel for a small part of its cost, | Especially were they in league with |the white man who held the mort- | gage on the boat and who was a sort of go-between for the white ship- ping interests. So once more, the Negro workers who had put their | faith and their all into the company | Were robbed of their all, as in the case of the Black Star Line, while | Several of the big U.N.LA, officials wallowed in blood money received for their part in the dirty deal. Ce a (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the end of the series by this seaman worker. The Daily Worker will print tomorrow and next day two articles giving a Communist ap- praisal of the Garvey movement as a whole. We will also begin shortly a series of articles on other reformist Negro organizations, such as the National Associatién for the Advancement of Colored People), J policy of the reformists, The latter | di munist votes, a seven-fold increase | The Economic Crisis in Italy Growing Worse; Production in Big Drop ROME.—The economic erisis in in- dustry and agriculture is intensify- ing. All branches of industry with the exception of naval shipbuilding | are involved. The production of pig- iron has dropped by 30% in com- parison with last year, steel by 20% The building industries, in particular the cement factories, are suffering heavily. The boom in the paper making industry has stopped and production is sinking. The artificial silk industry is seriously affected and prices have fallen by 109%. VIENNA JOBLESS IN HUNGER MARCH The RSI. has carried the idea of} Put Up Fight Against} wor Wage Cuts VIENNA. — Unemployed workers demonstrations took place in Vienna and in all other industrial centres recently. The unemployed in Vienna held meetings at three points and afterwards processions marched to a central meeting place, united there and then marched over the Ring to the Freiheits Platz. The demon- strators carried banners and placards protesting against the cuts in un- employment benefits and demanding the introduction of the seven hour y. On the Freiheits Platz the un- jemployed were addressed by repre-| | sentatives of the unemployed work-| ers organization, of the revolutionary trade union opposition and of the Communist Party. A collision outside the University almost occurred when nationalist | students provoked the demonstrators by singing “Deutschland ueber alles.” A triple cordon of police was drawn ,round the University to protect the students. } In the evening 10 unemployed ; Workers meetings were held in the | workers quarters. The W.LR. organ- lized soup kitchens for those unem- 4 angry masses into the red ranks. | ployed workers who had marched into Vienna from the surrounding districts to take part in the demonstration. Reports from the provinces show that strong unemployed workers meetings and demonstrations took place everywhere. There would seem to have been no disturbances of any note, ALL WORKERS GOT A 20 P. C. SLASH |Wages Cut In 1 Year $9,000,000,000 (Continued from Page 1) making the workers believe that wag |cuts didn’t xist and weren't coming. This was a smoke-screen to prevent the militancy of the workers against wage cuts developing into a broad strike movement against wage cuts. The main task of the A. F. of L. officialdom is to act as a valuable auxiliary of the bosses in putting over the wage cuts. Matthew Woll, the rabid agent of the leading exploiters, who directs a ferocious attack against the Soviet Union, because the workers are ra- pidly building up industry there, rais- ing their standard of living, right in the midst of the wage-cutting cam- paign in the United States devotes a lurid article in last Sunday's issue ot the N. Y. Herald-Tribune to “The Red Menace to Trade.” The crux of the article is a whole fabric of lies about “starvation wages” in the Soviet Union. This is just what the bosses want. Woll is trying to keep the workers at- tention away from the wage cuts right here. He is stirring up the war frenzq agaXist the USSR, where un- employment has been abolished; where wages are going up. Even the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics admits that between Oct. 15, 1929, and Aug. 15, 1930, the bosses in 551 plants have cut wages from 5 to 10 per cent. Alfred L. Bernheim, writing in the “Nation” (Nov. 5) points out these figures are cock- eyed. They do not begin to show the | whole picture. Bernheim states that the number of workers whose wages have been cut during the past year runs well into ‘the millions. Wage cuts have taken place in such large factories as the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills, International Harvester Co., Fisher Body Co. (a subsidiary of the General Motors), Chrysler Corpora- tion, National Cash Register Co., Got- hamSilk Hosiery Co., McKeesport Coal and Coke Co., Scoville Manu- facturing Co., Firestone Tire & Rub- ber Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Westinghouse Electric & Manufac- turing Co. In these plants alone hundreds of thousands of workers have had theid wages slashed. There has not been a plant in the United States which has not cut wages for some of its workers dur- ing the past year. True, these wage- cuts are not “official.” They are not published. Thousands of workers are fired. Some are hired back—at lower O18 SI9x¥IOM Bunos 10 usUOA, ‘sadvan employed at about a 50 per cent reduction. In the Stock Yards, Chicago, tens ae ‘FIN. FASCISTS IN| BANDIT MARCH Push Fight on Reds in Finland HELSINGFORS.—In connection of several highly- placed personages for complicity in with the arrest the kidnapping of the former presi- dent of Finland, Stahlberg and his the s organized what they frankly c: “March of the | bandits on Hel The fas- |cist organization appealed to all its | wife, fasci: da |members who had “violated the let- ter against of the law” in the campaign | Communism to march to rs and give themselves up | to the police. Over 400 active fas- cists who I d taken part in numer jous kidnappings, beatings, raids on king class organizations, etc, in mote ars to Helsingfors, | aro 2 where they reported their actions to the police. The most notorious ban- dits were decorated with garlands and a public meeting was held at | which the fascist leader Kosola de- | clared that all t be arrested or none. The lawbreakers then signed a declaration g full responsi- bility for their actions. A deputas tion visited the minister of the In- terior under the leadership of Ko- sola, who declared that the govern= ment had so n ed its plain duty |in the struggle against Communism | that private citizens had been com- pelled to take the law into their own hands to save the fatherland. The minister of the Interior re- ceived the deputation with extreme politeness, listened to their statement and declared that he did not doubt for one moment that the courts would consider the high motives of the fascists. He could well under- stand the causes of what he termed the “movement of the people.” ‘BUCHAREST AGRARIAN “MEET ANTI-SOVIET MOVE | MOSCOW.—Referring to the agra- rian conference in Bucharest, the | “Pravda” points out that it is the |fourth of its kind during the past | three months. The intensification of |the situation on the Central Eu- ropean agricultural market causes | these countries to strive for a joint | policy. The incitement against al- leged soviet dumping coincides with machinations of the imperialists and their vassals and this is no accident, The states taking part in the agra- | rian conference were chiefly those | which are to form the chain of anti- | soviet agression on the western |frontier. The delegates to these | conferences would like to find a way out of their difficulties at the ex- pense of the Soviet Union, and in this they are supported by France, |but recent events in Western Ukra- inia, Roumania, Bessarabia, Budapest and the increasing revolutionization {of the French workers show that their machinations will fail, of thousands of workers do not know from week to week what their pay envelopes will expose. Wages are cut at the will of the bosses, There is no declared hourly or weekly rate, Farm laborers have had their wage jeut. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics states that between July, 1929, and July, 1930, farm wages de« clined 13 per cent. In the building trades, as well as in every other industry where the A, | F. of L, has job “control,” wages have been cut with the knowledge and ap- proval of the A. F. of L. fascist of- ficials. The “American Building Contrace tor,” the mouthpiece of the building boses boasts of how it cuts wages, The October issue of this magazine states: “The effect of unemployment is now beginning to be reflected in current wages, and the month’s re- Port indicates that while little or no changes are being made in the official wage scales, many trades- men are working for considerably less than the official scale.” .-This shows the complete smash- up of the “wage agreements” in the building trades, and that the bosses have everything their own way, with the A. F. of L. officials not only | agreeing to it but helping out in jevery way they can without “of- ficially’ changing the wage agree ments. ‘These are the facts about wage , cutting. They do not begin to show ‘what the future will bring for the | workers. A 20 per cent cut is only a beginning. The bosses admit they are out to smash wages. The A, F, jof L. is helping in every way it can— going to the extent of aiding the war preparations against the Soviet | Union—to divert the workers’ attens | tion away from struggle. Only the revolutionary trade unions, under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League are organizing to strike against wage cuts. The workingclass must be aroused to the tremendous danger which faces it, There is no time to wait. Wage cuts come down every day, There | will be no limit to them. The worke |ers must form shop committees ime mediately, Organize and Strike gainst wage cuts!