The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1930, Page 3

ae _DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVE MBER 17, 1930 Page Bbc wei Te RSs E- Fe acy rez “= za = PONTIAC FACTORIES SHUT DOWN OR ON PART TIME; JOBLESS FAMILIES GET $1 PER WEEK TO EXIST ON Wages Down to Fifty Cents an Hour for © Skiied Machinists CRUSHED IN RUSH IN BOSTON LINE Mayor Curley’s Fake Scheme (By a Worker Corresponder) BOSTON, Mass—Mayor Curley’s| administration of the city of Boston | has adopted a scheme of a ‘lammany the werkers in hone of getting a job, by registering a; his smployment agency, 25 Churcn St., Boston. Big Line Almost all workers wao look daily for a job know this fake relief sys- tem of Mayor Curley and they don’t want to even visit this fire-trap joint. At the opening of. that joint thous- ands reported dai/y, now the number decreased to two or thousand every morning. On November 12, after armistice day, many workers had the illusion that what Mayor Curley, Governor Rouevelt of New York, and Gover- nor A‘lem of Massachusetts, said on armistice day in speeches was true, namely that jobs are increasing and business improving. So Wednesday morning they jammed Church Street. When the door opened the rush was so strong that a worker almost starved was crushed to the brick wall and broke his ribs. Taken to Hospital Immediately the workers on the line rescued the workers and placed him Anside in the private office. The city hospital was notified bus the answer came that they will be immediately. ‘That immediately resulted in calling the police wagon. It took about 30 minutes before thg police wagon came and took the worker away. Many workers envied him because he will at least have a warm bed and some thing to eat for a while. One hour and a half later the City Hospital ambulance came. Many workers were talking among them- selves “it depends where the call comes from.” At this time of the year workers begin to get class relief. The unemployed must organize strong unemployed councils and fight for emergency relief from the city and state until the passage of the federal Unemployment Insurance Bill. Demand free rent, free gas, free elec- tricity, and schools to be open to) homeless workers. Join the unem- ployed council at 22 Harrison Ave. It meets every Monday and Thurs- day at 1:30 P. M. ALL ON PART TIME IN NIAGARA FALLS Poll 25 Communist Votes Here (By a Worker Correspondent) NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.—During the last election November 4th we had twenty-six votes here. Our com~- rade Hall, candidate for general at- torney who was to be on the voting machine was thrown out. Many of our votes was stolen. ee The city p mployes are work- ing only three days a week. ce. . The International Paper Mill, one of the largest in this city and which has a capacity of seven to eight hundred closed down. There's only eighteen men working—the foremen. . * * All factories in this city are work- ing only part of their time, except the chemical works which are working full force. That can be easily ex- plained because they produce gas which American imperialism needs for its war preparations. Thousands of unemployed workers stormed the city hall last Saturday. ‘The bourgeoisie has contributed a miserable sum of twenty-five thou- sand dollars with which they are try- ing to fool the hungry workers, But they are fooling themselves because the workers understand who their enemies are. October Shows Wage Cuts in Massachusetts BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 16.—While employment in Massachusetts public utilities remained practically constant in October, weekly carnings dropped 14 per cent from the September average from $32.73 to $32.26, accord- ing to the department of labor. Average weekly earnings on electric railways gained .6 per cent but dropped 2.1 per cent on railroads and 25 per cent in gas and electric com- panies. The is based on util- ities employing 54,651. Don’t miss the full story of circu- Jation gains i: Wednesday's Daily Worker. | of business in the near future. But ercoked politician, namely to keep; (By a Worker Correspondent) PONTIAC, Mich. — The General) Motors divisions, Fisher Body, Pon- tiac plant and Yellow Cab have been running very slow in 1930 or not running at all. Wilson Foundry and Machine Co, is about the same with the result that unemployment is gen- eral and the suffering of the work- ing class is something terrible. ‘The bourgeois press controlled by the Chambers of Commerce is con- | tinually attempting to placate the workers making promises of a revival these promises have lost their mean- ing even to those who stand pat with the bosses. Sure enough it was said, the piants were going to start off and go good from the 10th or 11th’of Novembre But today the “pickup” was pestponed another week. So just one more promise was busted. Many Bankruptcies In the meantime there is no work, no pay checks end no business. Many businessplaces went bankrupt. Thous- ands of workers not finding work have left Pontiac. Real estate busi- |ness went flop and with it building and allied activities. Rent dropped to about 40 ver cent of what it was in 1929. Wages for those who work part time are cut low. Fifty cents per hour is con- sidered good wages now even for the skilled workers, such as metal fin- ishers, carpenters and machine oper- ators. The unskilled labor and women, if there is work at all, are paid from 25 cents to 40 cents per hour. Today at Fisher's there were over 500 men wanting jobs. About 50 were called in to be examined and hired. About that many were sent home as there was no work for them in the plant. And so the jugglery goes on. Any- thing to make things look better than they really are and cover up the rotten conditions of the capitalist system which is getting more bank- rupt every day in every way. $1 a Week Called Relief It is said that over 9,000 families are living in destitution, some of whom get help from the city of one dollar a week per capita. That is hard to get now. Oakland, county which is providing funds for the poor out of taxes is financially embarrassed just for the present and an official suggestion was made that the “indignant persons’ be shipped to where they came from. So why not freeze them out? “Welfare” Schemes Despite the bourgeois press optim ism campaign the economic and in- dustrial machines are having a series of serious troubles all the way from ignition to punctures and vlowouts In confusion and irritation resulting from these troubles the bourgeois press forgets its happy-smile-good- time rehearsal and enters a field of so-called welfare promotion schemes. Then we read of “If yu have a job give a job,” “Clothe a Child Club” and “Solving Unempicyment by Ap- ple Sauce.” Just now the Pontiac Daily Prest is having a wonder of a success with the “Clothe a Child” campaign. The aames of the poor half-clothed school children are pouring in faster than the names of volunt-ers to clothe them. All of which indicates a pros- percus and happy year and a country economically sound for, those that can stand ii. Next thing we will be see rg is unemployed workers selling apples to one another to speed pros- perity. But the woikers will not zemair fungry, docite and tolerant indefin- ite'y. They'll fight for social insur- ance, real wages and for a workers’ system, BALLAM IN HARTFORD WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19 HARTFORD, Conn. — The work- ers of this city will have an opport- unity to hear a talk on revolutionary trade unionism by an American del- egate of the Fifth Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions recently held in Moscow. The local Trade Union Unify Lea- gue is arranging fa mass meeting ‘Wednesday, November 19 at Crystal Hall, 460 Main Street (corner Shel- don and Main) at 8 p.m, Comrade John Ballam will speak. Unorganized, organized and unem- ployed workers of Hartford are urged to attend to this meeting—A. H. Farm Unemployment Worst of Last 10 Years WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Demand for farm labor on Noy. 1 was 73.6 per cent of normal, against 87.5 per cent |Papers, Bus Co. Detroit, Mich. | 35,000 Workers.” Lure Jobless to. (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill. — Posted on the window of a bus station here in Chi- cago is the front page of the Sunday Detroit Times with a headline, in 2 inch letters clear across the top, which says “Auto Factories Rehiring This means that thousands of workers will spend their money to get to Detroit in the hope of finding jobs, only to be told that they can- | not enter or if they do get in they] will be arrested and jailed. ‘This | paper like all the big city Sunday} papers has a large circulation out- side of the city. It circulates all over Michigan, part of Ohio, Indiana and Tllinois, This newspaper and the bus com- panies know that the police in De-| troit are trying to keep the unem- ployed from entering the city and are jailing many more for “vagran- | cy.” The whole article was there the first three days but today I notice| that they tore off a statement made | by Duncan the head of the Unem-| ployment Bureau of Mayor Murphy’s | committee, saying that “I de not ex-| pect the business in prospect will ap- preciably relieve the situation.” This shows that all the talk before election about helping the jobless was all the bunk. CRISIS HITS CAL. NEGRO WORKERS Force Woman to Sell Selves to Live (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal—The crisis has hit California very hard. Al- though the bosses try to cover up by keeping the unemployed moving from | place to place, the ugly facts are, | nevertheless, clearly apparent. There is a large number of unem- ployed Mexican workers here who are becoming restless as they see their families slowly starving and every now and then open rebellion breaks | out. Some militant Mexican work- | er takes his rifle and shoots it out with his oppressors, usually killing several before hastily deputized Le- | gionnaires cowardly lynch him. The papers always report these outbreaks as the work of a whiskey or dope- crazed Mexican. Negro workers are simply refused any employment, whatsoever and in order to continue existence the col- ored women are forced into prosti- tution. They sell their bodies for 25 cents or 50 cents, whatever it will bring. If Negroes apply to the social wel- fare agency for aid the supervisor, Mrs. E. Arbuckle adroitly suggest that the women get out and hustle for themselves. “Old and New” to Get Showing in the Anthracite Region WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Nov. 14.— Anthracite workers will have the.op- portunity soon of seeing in moving pictures how the Russian peasants are carrying through the Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union, building collective farms and building social- ism, The Argus Film Corp. will pre- sent the Sovkino production, “Old and Few,” directed by Eisenstein, at the following places in the Anthra- cite: Luzerné, Pa., Saturday, Dec. 6th, at Italian Hall, 206 Oliver St.; Shen- andoah, Pa., Monday, Dec. 8th at High School Auditorium; Hanover, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 9th, at the Globe Theatre; Plymouth, Pa., Wednesday, Dec. 10th, at Polish Alliance Hall, W. Main St.; Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Friday, Dec. 12th, at Y.M.C.A, Auditorium, N. Main St.; Scranton, Pa., Saturday, Dee. 13th, at Junior High School, N. Main Ave. Working class organizations in the Anthracite are asked not to arrange jany affairs on conflicting dates so that the largest possible number of workers will be able to attend the showings of this picture. There will be two performances at each place. The first will start at 7 p. m. and the second at 9 p, m. Tickets are 50 cents and 20 cents for children. Tickets may be obtained at Room 47, Lenning Building, 31 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre. “Relief Plan” of Mill Has Wage Cut With It NASHUA, N. H., Nov, 16.—While some authorities announce that wage cuts in textiles are a thing of the past, the Nashua Mfg. Co. offers a wage cut with its “idle relief plan.” A guarantee of full time employment @ year ago, according to the Depart- ment of Agriculture. The decrease was greatest in the South and least in the North Atlantic States. The supply of farm labor was reported on Nov. 1 as 107.2 per cent of normal, the highest figure that has been re- Ported in ten years or more. until next May is the bait dangled before 300 workers who have been on a 3-day week—provided they accept @ lower wage scale. More irregular work is threatened if they refuse. Each Wednesday in the Daily Worker the full story of circulation is told in hard figures. | Ross says, |Oakland Tosses Challenge Across Country to Boston; Milwaukee Versus St. Louis New forces sweep into the Daily Worker campaign for 60,000‘ circulation with the dispatch from Nat Ross, section Daily Worker representative i Milwaukee showing mobilization in the S. P. stronghold. Ross writes: “To put real pep and action in the Daily Worker drive revolution- ary competition must be started. @ | The Milwaukee section challenges the St. Louis section to get equal the number of subs and double the bundle orders.” The Milwaukee quota is 50 subs and 175 in bundle orders by Decem- ber with twice that by January. The St. Louis quota is 65 subs and 100 in bundles by December, doubled by January. Milwaukee is the first to introduce} the idea of individual challenges. “Comrade Hilty has chal- lenged Poposky that he will get 10 subs in a month, and also double the house to house sales of Comrade Talton. “The North Side is to challenge West Allis and the South Side chal. lenge Central on bundles and sub: Ross further states: “It looks as though the Daily will | really be built in the section now.” The letter to the units says: “With a ‘socialist? mayor and a ‘socialist’ sheriff in Milwaukee, the ‘progressives’ in control of the state, the comrades in our section have the duty of educating the American workers throughout the country on the every day betrayals of the socialist party and the La Follettes.” “The Daily campaign must be on the unit agenda every week during the drive... . “House to house sale work has fallen off lately and must be im- proved at once. “Assign comrades to Daily sales at factory gates. Concentrate on one or two big shops where we have noon meetings. “Each unit must place the Daily Worker on five stands or stores in its territory... .” Oakland Contracts To Defeat Boston The West meets East as Oakland sends its challenge singing over 3500 miles to Boston. The challenge is on a percentage basis. In Oakland a conference of Daily Worker representatives has been held and plans for the campaign laid. Details are sent in by C. Mugianis, Daily Worker agent of the Oakland section. The leaflet announcing the conference says: “The working class has its own daily in the country, the Daily Worker, also its revolutionary youth and union press. “These papers, especially the Daily Worker, are the most pow- “erful collective organizers of the workers. It is the means of our class to put forward our demands, our propaganda before the workers. Every class conscious worker must feel responsible for its existence. “This conference must constitute as the red army of our workers press. We must take up the following: (1) | Getting more paid subs; (2) take up selling ‘DW’ at all meetings; (3) Get | ‘DW’ representatives elected in each sympathetic organization; (4) Or- ganize for the sale of ‘DW’ at fac- tories and house to house; also other ways and means to build it more powerful weapon of the workers. Section Versus Section in Ohio In a communication from J. Fromholz, Daily Worker representa- | tive in Cleveland, he says: “Akron, Canton section chal- lenges Section 2, Cleveland. The Cleveland Section 3 challenges the Toledo section.” ‘The Rochester Daily Worker repre- sentative writes: “Rochester is also in the drive to build the Daily Work- er readers. The two Party units are being mobilized to help out in this drive.” Sub lists showing a map of the U. S. drawn by Ryan Walker with the Daily Worker covering the U. S. under a caption “Paint It Red,” are being printed and will be broadcast over the country in the campaign for 60,000 circulation. Watch for these lists. Sam Bell, 1502 Linwood Ave., De- | troit, is the second member of the Paid-in-Advance Club. His subscrip- tion is paid up until bes 8, 1932. (Continued from Page One) the interior, declared that he would hire strike-breakers to run street cars and other public utilities under | heavily armed guards. The reformist trade union leaders, publican bourgeoisie, to their jobs in order not to com- pletely paralyze Madrid, and thus temporize the sharpness of the struggle. ‘The Communist Party of Spain and the revolutionary opposition in the trade unions is calling upon the workers to take the leadership in the struggles, not only against the mon- archy and fascism, but as well against the capitalist republicans and their socialist allies, In those sections of industry where the general strike has not been com- pleted, Communists and revolution- ary union members are picketing the plants, calling on the workers to walk out on the general strike, The main attack of the Berenguer government is against the Communists and revo- lutionary working-class organiza- tions, as the bourgeoisie and social- ists can always be counted upon to compromise with the monarchy if the struggle becomes more serious. Many clashes have taken place in Madrid between strikers and police. Mounted police and soldiers are pa- trolling the streets. Street cars were smashed. Throughout the city work- ers are raising the cry of “Revolu- | tion!” The socialists are attempting to direct this revolutionary upsurge the eestablishment of a repubdlic—} meaning a capitalist republic without any amelioration of the terrible con- , | ditions of the workers. | The Madrid general strike, which cents an hour, but owing to the will undoubtedly spread to other in- dustrial and commercial centers, is the culmination of a whole series of strikes which took place during the past year. While the bourgeois republicans have been active in an agitaional way, together with the students, in urging the establishment of a repub- lic as a means of solving the deep- going economic and political crisis of Spain, the workers independently have been fighting for their immedi- ate demands of higher wages and against increased working hours. In many cases, these struggles have led to severe clashes with the state forces, Many workers have been killed and hundreds of Communists arrested. During the present general strike who have an alliance with the re-| have ordered | electrical power plant workers back | into bourgeois channels calling for | GENERAL STRIKE IN SPAIN THREATENS FASCIST RULE) Communists, ordering a dragnet search for all Communist agitators. | When a red flag was raised by the | students of San Carlos Univertity ex- tra gurads were rushed to the school | arrest Communists, who were blamed for the event. Dispatches from Malaga and other centers state that the general strike has assumed huge proportions there also. Details are lacking since a censorship has been clamped down. Strikes are continuing in Oviedo, Barcelona and Valencia. In Oviedo 20,000 coal miners have walked out. The total number of workers out in the general strike has not been esti- mated, but it runs well into the hun- dreds of thousands. MISS. SAW-MILL MEN GET SLASH (By a Worker Correspondent) GIDEON, Miss.—This is just one of the numerous saw-mill towns owned body and soul by the corpor- ation of Gideon & Anderson. The population consists of about 2000 people, 500 of which work in the mills of said corporation. The company owns the bank, stores, homes, in fact everything in the town including the church and preacher. 23 Cents An Hour. ‘The men are paid twice a month. |More than two-thirds, 350, are com- |mon laborers receiving only twenty | cents an hour. Up until three months ago the men received twenty-five crisis tye bosses discovered how they could iicrease their profits without having to invest a penny by cutting wages. Here is how it was done, They increased the hours to ten a day at the same rate of pay—$2.00 per day, thereby having the workers give two hours more without pay. Preach Qoyalty. * The manager of the plant intro- duced this increase of hours with a speech that the company will be loy- al to the workers just as they are loyal to the company. The company, he said, is not going to cut wages or lay off any workers, but the only thing the workers will have to do is to work 10 hours instead of eight hours a day. Such happenings are taking place all over the country daily. Fight against them! Organize in Madrid the Berenguer government |the Lumber Workers’ Industrial made a vicious attack against the Union! 4 and an immediate order issued to| INTERNATIONAL NEWS o BRITISH WORKERS FACE WAGE CUTS M’Donald Gov't Aids Bosses’ Drive LONDON, Nov. 16.—Wage cuts af- fecting 500,000 workers are being proposed by the four great railway companies here and the leading coal bosses. The way for the carrying out of these wage cuts has been opened up by the MacDonald's government action against gthe workers. Mac- Donald’s policy has been to aid the the British bosses increase their profits at the expense of the workers. The proposed wage cut against the 500,000 railroad and coal workers is | just the beginning of a general wage cut drive. It is part of the wage | slashing campaign going on through= out the world with the help of the} socialists and the yellow trade union | leaders. In the United States Green & Co, head the wage cut drive. In Germany ‘the betrayal of the metal strike of 130,000 laid the basis | for drastic wage cuts for all workers. |Finish Huge Hydro- | Electric Dam in USSR MOSCOW.—The great dam for the new hydraulic power station in Mag- netenburg has now been concluded four days before the time set by the workers and 19 days before the time originally fixed by the engineers. The Ural river will now be turned into its *|new bed. A gigantic foundry under- | taking and a socialist town are being | built here. CONVENTION TO FIGHT LYNCHING Votes Mass Violation of Jim Crow Laws (Continued from Page One) delegates from New York to the Anti-Lynching Convention, were ar- rested at an unemployment street meeting of 500. The meeting de- nounced the handing over by the Community Fund here of $78,000 to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scbuts. This money was given these two training schools for militarist im- perialism at the time thousands of workers are out of work in St. Louis and literally starving. The two delegates and the four other arrested workers were taken to | the wolice station and released, with a warning not to agitate or de~ nounce anything in St. Louis. They went right back to the meeting, and were cheered by the workers and jobless there. White Workers’ Pledge The convention opened Friday night with a small but enthusiastic mass meeting at 221 Lawton Blvd. A presidium was elected of Negto and Southern white workers. The white workers were cheered as they pledged their full support to the aid of Negro workers in their struggle. Ed Williams, Negro, was elected) chairman of the mass meeting. Yesterday 44 Negro and 34 white worker delegates opened the first business session of the convention. Delegates have been steadily arriv- ing since then, and word has been received that sme have been forced back or delaked by authorities in the towns they pass through. The del- egates come mainly by hiking or with cheap autos, and some have been delayed by zreakdowns. A rousing welcome was given the Southern delegation of 16, with Mary | Dalton, National Textile Workers) Union Organizer at Atlanta, slated for the electric chair on a charge of “insurrection” by the legal lynchers of Georgia because she organized both Negro and white workers into the same fighting union. Mary Dalton was eletced chairman of the convention by acclamation at its second session yesterday. In Saturday's sessions the econo- |mic report was delivered by Otto | Huiswood. ‘The organizational re- port was made by H. Newton, Negro worker, and another of the six or- ganizers held for a death trial in Atlanta. Saturday also the resolu- tions in regard to mass vfolation of iJm Crow laws, death penalty for lynchers, and abolition of debts and were passed. The delegates were most militant in their discussion, and particularly able were Negro women delegates. NEW YORK.—Mail stories on the Preparations of the St. Louis Negro and white workers to greet this na- tional anti-lynching onvention. The “UBF and SMP” hall at 2621 Lawton Blvr was secured for the convention. Richard B. Moore, Communist can- didate fer attorney general of New York, and a Negro worker, was to be one of the speakers at the mass meeting Friday night. At the con- ference Sunday a week ago 11 or- Ganizations sent 24 delegates to take part in planning the feeding and housing of the convention delegates. Changes in Daily Worker circula- tion in every district in the Party show in tables published each Wed- nesday, « mortgages on Negro poor farmers! 15,000 a in Formosa Battle Jap Stores; Capture Guns) TOKIO (By Mail).—Fifteen thou- sand natives are up in arms against Japanese imperialism on the island of Formosa. Numerous police sta- tions have been attacked and de- stroyed. In the town of Hikeh the insurrectionaries captured hundreds of rifles. national flag has been hoisted. The Japanese authorities have sent in-| fantry regiments and 600 armed| Police to quell the rising. Commenting on the insurrection the “Pravda” points out that there | have been constant risings in For- mosa where the peasants are very much under the influence of the na- | tional-revolutionary movement in China. Last year the Japanese | authorities carried out mass on account of Communist propa- | ganda, The revolutionary movement | or Formosa is part and parcel of the | national-revolutionary struggle in the colonial and semi-colonial countries. The movement will undoubtedly de- | velop into a general attack on Jap- anese imperialism and on the native bourgeoisie which is allied with it. TAKE STEPS AGAINST RIGHT-OPPORTUNISTS tion in the “Pravda” building has ad- opted a resolution welcoming the ex- pulsion of Riutin, Slepkov, Nussinov and Kovraiski from the party and warning the party that the faction- alism of the right-wingers and their co-operation with Trotzkist and semi- Trotzkist elements makes watchful- ness very necessary. The resolution declares that in its merciless struggle against the agents of the class enemy, the right-wing opportunists, the Party must not overlook the left- wing opportunists and must fight against the conciliators. In conclu- sion the resolution declares that the continued silence of comrades Buch- arin, Rykov and Tomski concernigg ‘Third Phila. Shoe S Out On Strike Against Pay Cut | Bosses Jail Pickets on One Boss Ready to PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Answering the discharge of three active Union workers, and the bosses attempts to stop the organization of the shop, workers of the Standard Shoe Co., walked out on strike and are carry- ing on militant picketing in their struggle for better conditions, The Shoe Workers’ Industrial Union has been carrying on active organizational work for a number of weeks in this shop. The workers responded to the call of the Union. This aroused the ire of the boss Who immediately discharged three of the most active workers prior to his an- nouncements of a 25 per cent wage cut. When he saw that the workers were beginning to rebel against this, he rescinded the cut with the pro- posal that the three active workers be | kept out of the shop. The workers refused to give in to this demand, and are now fighting for recognition of the Union and the reinstatement of the discharged men. Third Shop Out. This is the third shop within this week to strike under the leadership of the Shoe Workers’ Industrial Union. The workers of the Finkel- stein and Model Shops have been out on strike for the past few days against a ten per cent wage cut and the demand for the recognition of the Union. The bosses of the Finkelstien shop are using provocative methods in order to smash the strike. Three of the strikers were arrested on a trumped up charge while picketing the shop. They were released on Hotel Garbage for WASHINGTON, D. C.—Anything but real relief for the unemployed |'workers. In keeping with this policy | Col, Wood’s latest wrinkle in fighting the demands of the jobless toflers for the right to live, has suggested that 14 British Miners LONDON.—Fourteen miners of one shift were killed when gas exploded ;at the Grove Pit, Norton Canes, Staffs. At an inquiry many miners testi- fied that all the pits in the district are full of gass and that no measures were taken to safeguard the miners, US.S.R.—The sharp contrast be- tween the wide spread unemployment throughout Europe and the need for workers in the Soviet Union has been brought before the masses very clearly, Not only have industrial workers turned to the U.S.S.R. for _ | Work but circus performers have also In the town of Musha the} arrests | MOSCOW.—The party organiza-| WANTTO PROHIBIT ‘MEETS IN BERLIN Bruening ‘Wants to Cut Social Insurance (Cable by Imprecorr) BERLIN, Noy. 16.—The socialist police chief, Grzesinski, announces his intention of reviving the Kaiser Wilhelm custom of controlling public | meetings by the police having the right to disperse all meetings at will. The Reichsrat is discussing the “economy” budget of the Bruening | government. The police, army and navy expenditures are to remain, while expenditures for social insur- ance are to be ruthlessly cut. Today the household budget com- | mittee of the Reichstag adopted the | Con nist proposal that the govern- | ment subsidize a supply of fresh meat |to the poor at prices not exceeding | the nondutiable frozen meats. The | government declares the proposal as not realizable on account of the ex- | pense, and will request the Reichstag to annul the decision, 3,500 Textile Workers Strike in Shanghai SHANGHAI—Three thousand five | hundred workers of a spinning mill in | Shanghai are out on strike. They have occupied the factory and de- mand the release of two of their number arrested for distributing il- legal leaflets. One thousand five hundred silk workers are on strike in Shanghai against wage reductions. As a result of the crisis most of the mills have been closed down. About 50,000 silk workers are unemployed. One hundred clerks of a bank are also on strike for better working conditions, the activities of the right-wing op- portunists must be considered as soli darity with these opportunists, hop Comes Trumped Up Charges; Give in; Strike May Spread to Other Shoe Shops i in City copies of charges through the aid of the International Labor Defense who is working with a committee elected by the strikers themselves. On Mon- day the owner of the shop attempted to assault one of the pickets but im= mediately changed his mind when the strikers came to the aid of their fellow workers. Bosses Fear Militancy. The owner of the Model Shop an- nounced that he was willing to meet with a committee of the strikers to arrange a settlement. Meanwhile the picket line is being maintained and militant methods are being utilized to carry on the strike until the de« mands of the workers are granted. These three strikes are the outcome of the miserable conditions existing in the shoe industry, and the active | organizational work carried on during the past few weeks by the Shoe Workers’ Industrial Union. Strike sentiment is spreading throughout the industry and a number of other shops are expected to answer the numerous wage cuts by militant strikes, A mass meeting of all the shoe workers had been arranged for Fri- day, Nov. 14, 8 p. m., at 1208 Tasker St. The speakers will be Fred Bird enkapp, national organizer, A. Lipa, local organizer and Paul Ortona rank and file strike leader. The Trade - Union Unity League is giving all Possible assistance to the strike. A banquet in order to raise funds has been arranged by the youth section of the T.U.U.L. on Sunday, 10 p. m., at 567 N. 5th St. Jobless Wood’s Idea the hotels feed their garbage to the | Jobless, | The suggestion was made in a letter to Thomas D. Green president of the American Hotel Association of the United States and Canada. Killed in Explosion ‘The mine owners are seeking to ree duce the miserably low wages of the British miners when the 7 and ofié~ half hour law goes into effect, The labor government is expected to ene force the cut in the interest of “ine dustrial peace.” European Circus Workers Turn to USSR traveled to Moscow, where they will be featured in the coming circus season. To quote a capitalist sheet - in the theatrical world. “There ts considerable unemployment among circus workers throughout Europe andthe Soviet Union offers a market _ for their talents.”