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| Startling News of Growing DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930 War Plots Against Soviets! Smash Bosses’ W Page Three ar Moves! PLOT TO WRECK COAL INDUSTRY TO AID WAR WAS HIT BY WORKERS (Continued from Page One) bochinsky, published in the white~ guardist paper, “Vozrozhdenye” (Re- naissance), on July 7, 1930, under the title of “The Necessary War.” Rabochinsky contends that inter- vention is both good business and a moral duty. Five years ago, he says, intervention would have needed 1,- 000,000 men and 100,000,000 pounds ($500,000,000). Now, owing to the weakening of the Soviet Power, he declared, it would need only 500,000 men and the war would last only a few months. He therefore urges the European powers to begin at once to “this most just and useful of all wars,” “By spending one million roubles ($500,000,000),” he writes, “humanity will gain not less than five billion roubles ($2,500,000,000), that is, five hundred per cent per year, with the pr--pect of further increased profit from one to two hundred per cent an- nually. Where would you find a better business proposition?” Having issued this enticing pros- pectus to the capitalists of the world, under the guise ~* “humanity,” Ra- bochinsky concludes “as regards Bol- shevism, not war but peace is im- moral.” He describes the present economic crisis in Europe and Amer- ica as the judgment on the powers who have neglected their moral duty by not making war on Bolshevism, This Rabochinsky is no isolated white fanatic but a great capitalist and a leading member of the Com- mercial and Industrial Committee in Po “s, a close associate of Deterding and other industrial magnates. Ra- bochinsky is also in confidential re- lations with the French government, and is fully informed regarding the Political opinions on intervention and military plans of France, Rumania and Poland. Thus he is Poincare intimate ally, and his article expresses the views of French government circles, This is further supported by the article of Poincare himself in “Ex- celsior,” entitled “The Claws of the Soviets,” which is also a war in- citement. This morning’s session was devoted to the ascertainment of the accused's concrete wrecking work. Professor Ramsin, while evading direct re- Sponsibility, described how the Mos- cow power station was sabotaged by the use of unsuitable fuel, necessi- tating frequent overhaulings, and re- sulting in the great loss of power. He also described the impudent method employed by the wreckers who wrote letters to the press, as- sumed-names criticizing the plans; to which other members of the wreck- ing group replied refuting the criti- cisms. Krylenko produced a sheaf of such correspondence. Eneh day's proceed- ings provides more and more con- vineing evidence that the wreckers were only a part of the whole capi- talist scheme of intervention and the division of the Soviet Union which the capitalists are still hopeful of, and only the united action of the world revolutionary workers can pre- vent. * * « {Special Cable to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Dec. 2.—In yesterday evening’s session of the trial of the wreckers the examination of two additional witnesses took place? This gave the trial a new turn, uncover- ing the most active preparation for intervention. It is now proven that circles abroad were established in 1929, unknown to and over the head of the central committee of the “in- dustrial party”; new connections were established with branches of the wreckers’ organization. These parallel instructions clearly show that this breaking through the central committee's connection oc- curred by order of the French gen- era] staff, due to lack of confidence showed that the change in the ar- rangements of the wreckers’ work in the textile industry in 1928 was knowingly forced from abroad for the purposes of intervention. The former Baron Nolde reported that the pref- erence of the textile branches for using foreign raw material was aimed at paralyzing Soviet industry in case of war, by withholding the supply of raw material, Nolde, not knowing like the other witnesses, the character of the pre- ceding statements, on account of his imprisonment, made sensational rev- elations regarding further foreign connections of numerous wreckers in the textile industry. Here the lead- ing part was played by the engineer, Stutzer, who was abroad in the sum- mer of 1928, Stutzer maintained di- rect connection with the French Agent K,, whom he connected with Nolde before the trip. A certain La- zarkevitch likewise relations with K and with Stutzer through Agent K. They informed the two textile wreck- ers about the decisions of the circles abroad regarding the complete re- arrangement and preparation for in- tervention. In the same way was transmitted instructions to build tex- tile factories in White Russia. Questioned about Professor Ram- sin, he claimed ignorance about these connections, about money remit- tances and instructions. More reve- lations are expected through the next witnesses. rs (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 2.—Further in the evening session of yesterday the court proceeded to uncover the prac- tice ‘of wrecking work in particular fields. The defendants who so far posed as “great authorities” clearly try to hide from the proletarian pub- lic the full scope of their wrecking work. The Soviet prosecutor has succeeded in defeating these at- tempts, quoting their former written articles, and by confronting the de- fendants with each other. Wrecking work was admitted dur- ing the investigation, and is now better illumined. The picture given in the trial reveals and helps under- stand why the wreckers succeeded for years in carrying out their sinister work. They worked, using refined methods, whose character could be uncovered only by uncovering all the circumstances connected with the wrecking work, and revealing the practical results during a consider- able time. - A characteristic example is given by the defendant Charnovsky. Re- porting the wrecking work in loco- motive construction, Charnovsky concerned the fact, already revealed by investigation of the transporta- tion field, that under the cover of “objective” arguments, the wreckers pushed the construction of gigantic locomotives, weighing thirty-five tons per axle. The introduction of these extraordinary heavy locomotives would require rebuilding the entire road bed, particularly the reconstruc- tion of all railroad bridges. The aim of these machinations was to invest tremendous funds in this re- construction without useful effects, The wreckers introduced strong wrecking groups into the central bureau for projecting new machine shops, while they sabotaged machine construction where needed. Kalinikov was forced to admit the genuineness of the stenographic re- ports of his speeches in the State Planning Commission about “too rapid construction tempo,” and about the realization of the tasks of the Plan. ‘These speeches were made by order of the central committee @f the ¥in- dustrial party,” aiming at wrecking the metal industry. The cross-examination of Fyedotoy continued for a long time. Professor and the insufficient activity of the central committee. Cross-examining the first witness— the textile specialist Kirpotenko— ‘the Soviet prosecutor, Krylenko, suc- ceeded again in clearly unmasking the hypocritical pretense of the “hon- orable professor” Fyedotov. The al- leged “idealistic” purposes, prompt- ing him to approve the plans of “luxurious” textile factories, which Fyedotov defended also in the press under the slogan of “factory palaces” ‘was exposed as ordinary wrecking work, The “theoretical arguments” of Professor Fyedotov for preferring old British textile machines exposed the clumsy mask governing the ma- terial interest he had in receiving bribes from British manufacturers. Kirpotenko's statements sho’ in the People’s Commissariat for La- bor, and later in the Technical Coun- cil, the organized wreckers’ group de- ‘Wiberately worked out unnecessary and excessively expensive construc- tion projects, pretending to care for the “hygienic requirements.” Like- wise Fyedotov’s pose as a “petty and insignificant” tool of the leaders in the wercking work collapsed. Confronting each other in the court room, Kirpotenko, Kuprianov and Sitnin established that in conversa- tions abroad the industrialist Karpov demanded in the summer of 1928, through Kuprianov, the removal of the “unfit old fool” Fyedotov from leadershin of the wreckers’ work in the textile industry. Sitnin attempt- ed, unsuccessfully, to deny Kirpoten- ko's claim, that Sitnin accepted “a promotion.” Sitnin was considered in his party's circles as particularly fit because he was also considered as ® “loyal to the Soviet” official. The next witness called, Nolde, Fyedotov stubbornly attempted to de- fend his “idealistic intentions” in connection with a series of important wrecking measures carried out by him. He was finally forced to admit intentional wrecking, particularly re- garding the wrong use of Russian- grown cotton and the systematic hindrance of the application of mod- ern American textile machinery, Public commotion was caused by his confession of the recent plan to establish great textile factories on the frontier territory of white Russia to play them into the hands of the French and Polish invadors in case of intervention, which he expected rapidly to occupy the Western ter- ritory. Particularly damaging appear the measures adopted by order from t | abroad, aiming at the wrong distribu- tion of textile products among the peasantry. Professor Fyedotov ad- mitted the systematic withholding of textile goods from the agricultural population engaged in harvesting, supplying it with unfit goods, while other territories simultaneously wos oversupplied. These measures aimed | at the discontent of the) parsant masses and delivering big goods to speculators. ONE OUT OF FIVE JOBLESS. BUFFALO, N. Y.—According to a state survey recently made one out of five persons “are unable to attain jobs” in Buffalo. 1931 CALENDAR FREE! Historical data on big events of the class struggle in the first an- nual Daily Worker Calendar. Free with six months sub or renewal. Pravda Appeal toWorld Toilers 10 Hit War Flot MOSCOW.—The “Pravda” pub- lishes a leading article entitled “An- swer the War-Mongers!” describing the fierce indignation of the masses of the Soviet Union when they learned ot the activity of the counter-revolu- tionary industrial party, Countless resolutions were adopted pledging the workers to carry through the socialist constructive scheme to final success despite all obstacles. The best members of the Shock groups answered the sabotag- ers and the imperialists by joining the Communist Party. They demand capital punishment for the criminals. As a result of the exposure of the criminal treachery of the counter- revolutionaries a new wave of labor enthusiasm is sweeping through the country. This powerful proletarian action is the best proof of the strength of the Soviet State. The masses have held the front through- out the years of civil war and im- perialist intervention; they are now advancing toward socialism all along the line. They will clear out of the way all elements which attempt to hold up their advance. Imperialist France maintains its anti-Soviet policy with a grim per- sistence. It clings to the czarist debts. It cannot forget the “mili- tary alliance” of imperialist France with czarist Russia. After the fail- ure of the first intervention, the French government took up a policy of boycott against the Soviet Union, whilst at the same time feverishly preparing a new intervention. The material in the proceedins against the industrial party shows how far these preparations had succeeded. All preparations had been made and the date set, but in one point the imperialists had erred; they un- derestimated the preparedness of the proletarian state which tore the net of intrigues and destroyed the coun- ter-revolutionary organization. The workers of the Soviet Union are con- vineed that their fellow-workers in the capitalist countries will hurry to their assistance in case of a new in- tervention. The new intervention will meet a wall of proletarian solidarity around the Soviet’ Union. RED MOVEMENT IN $0, CHINA GROWS |Cotton “Pool” RAPIDLY; REDS TAKE MORE CITIES 13,000 Danish Workers Meet to Fight Fascism; Many Unions Present COPENHAGEN.—Recently an anti- fascist conference took place here, at which 13,000 workers were repre- sented. Many trade unions were also represented, for instance, the Wo- men’s Union, the Seamen's and Fire- men’s Union, the Dockers’ Union, the Educational Workers’ Union and others. The Red Aid and the Com- munist Party of Denmark were also represented. After an introductory speech on fascism in various parts of the world and the forms taken by fascism and social-fascism in Denmark, a long discussion took place. All the reso- lutions placed before the conference were unanimously adopted. It was decided to form a workers’ defense organization and to further the work of the Red Aid of Denmark. Mea- sures were decided upon for an en- ergetic campaign against fascism everywhere, BRITISH MINERS STRIKE SPREADS Scotch Stand Fast and Welsh Begin to Strike (Imprecorr Cable) LONDON, England, Dec. 2—The 92,000 Scottish miners strike stands solid. Cook of the Miners Federa- tion demands that they return to work tonight under the temporary agreement. T he _ Revolutionary United Miners is conducting great propaganda for continuance of the strike. Despite the settlement put through by the reformist union heads in So. Wales, four Porth pits struck today, answering the call of the revolution- ary opposition. In many places in South Wales the reformists secured the adoption of resolutions to’ stay in, but every- where strong minorities demanded strike. The reformists’ action is in sharp contradiction with their announted Prepare to Give Chiang Kai-Shek’s Army a “Hot Welcome” SHANGHAI.—During the last few months the Communist movement in South China has extended rapidly despite a number of local setbacks. The town of Kiang, in the province of Kiangsi, has been in the hands of the revolutionaries now for over a month. The insurrectionaries have built entrenchments ground the town, set up barbed wire and wire charged with a high voltage. In a memoran- dum submitted to the government by bourgeois fugitives from the province, it appears that 60 districts of the province are in the hands of the revolutionaries, The government troops prefer not to engage with the revolutionaries. Fighting is proceeding in the prov- ince of Hunan. The revolutionaries are again advancing toward Pinsiang and Luyang. The railway line from Changsha to Hankow is threatened by. the revolutionaries. The revolutionary troops still have the upper hand in the province of Fukien and a new Red Army (17th Army Corps) has just been formed and equipped. The towns in the west of the province are in the hands of the revolutionaries. In the Yangtze Valley the revolu- tionaries are preparing to give the punitive expeditions of the Nanking army a hot welcome. They welcome the sending of these troops as the easiest way for the Red Army to ob- tain the necessary equipment. The province of Kwangtung is be- ing shaken by peasant revolts. The authorities are continually demand- ing new troops to deal with the pea- sants. On the island of Hainan a revolt has broken out again. The authori- ties complain that they have not enough troops to suppress it. In Honan and Anhwei peasant revolts are proceeding. According to a re- port from the province of Szechwan the Communist organizations there are extending rapidly. The western half of the province of Kwangsi is now in the hands of the revolution- aries. dlaim Saturday that they would fight the “spreadover” and wage cuts, and organize sympathy strikes. | pay Bankers’ Grib On Farmers (By a Worker Correspondent,) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla,—The Cotton Growers’ Association, which is said to be a farmers’ organization, is nothing but a co-operative swindle. Here in Oklahoma it has about 25,000 members and in 1928 it handled 364,- 000 bales of cotton. The farmer who joins this so-called farm movement agrees to deliver his cotton to the association, to “pool” | his product for a “good” price, by the way. Quite often the pool period is six months and the grower gets half cash down, sometimes four-fifths down for his crop. While the “pool- ing” process is on the farmer must insurance charges, storage charges, etc., on the crop “pocied.” It is easy to see who makes the money. It is said by farmers here, who have been victimized by this associa- tion that the “pooled” cotton is really sold by the association on the day the cotton is delivered by the farmer for whatever the price is on that day. Many farmers are getting their eyes open to this swindle. The Cotton Growers’ Association is dominated by the bankers and mer- chants of the South and through the Farm Board it is joined to and completely controlled by finance capital the same as the Farmers’ Union. ‘The United Farmers’ League, which is now being organized in Oklahoma, is exposing the robber character of the Cotton Growers’ Association and calls upon the farmers, Negro and white, to build township committees of action and make a real fight against the bankers and merchants and the capitalist authorities. Farmer. DRIVE AHEAD ON 5-YEAR PRO- GRAM ON ALL FRONTS MOSCOW.—In the “Young Com-~ munard” pit in the Donetz Basin 43 German miners have formed a shock group and undertaken to hew 175 tons of coal a day for 24 days. The resolution adopted by these German miners declares: “The Soviet Union is our Fatherland. We pledge our- selves to place all our experience at the disposal of the Soviet mines. We intend to make our work exem- plary.” 5000 Circulation Gain Since Start of Drive Is Fastest R amounts of %. Nov. 30. slow. it by January 1. Here are the tables. This includes Detroit’s “1,000” in- crease which now registers at 611 in these tables and not over 714 altogether. This means cireulation in the rest of the country increased 1461 during the 8 days. We want mass circulation and we want your district and city carefully: Summary by Districts. The increase is too Study the figures for ecord But Below Possibilities Daily Worker at the time the drive started minus all special editions and not counting mis- cellaneous and foreign circulation was 22,311 as shown in tables published for Nov. 1. Today the circulation shown in this same manner, without special editions, foreign and miscellaneous circulation, of about 5,000. If the 276,119 extra orders on Special Elec- tion Campaign editions was spread over the month today’s average Daily circulation would appear to be 37,000. figure 27,265 which is solid, day to day, cir- is 27,265 an increase Instead we have the 6 2 g 82 2 8 @ culation in the U.S. As a matter of fact the if = ages bs et average press run of the Daily Worker for the Pre PO, CiRCULAT Gry a 38 Ee 33 B i i: week ending Monday, Dec. 1, was 31,166. _ ON THE Cai A Jour 1. Boston ata ate aso 8 : AQ 3 S88 5 * SUBSCR: u 2. New York . 1894 7014 1419 7248 8438 8667 er OF SUBSCRIPTIONS 3. Philadelphia 778 487 785 585 1265 1370 . 4 Buffalo Pe 237 256 «285 485 (B41 Overdue subscriptions . + 4533 Since the Daily Worker campaign for 60,000 | 5, pittsbursh B44 295 BID BIO Paid-in-advance subs . . 4271 readers started—daily circula' has increased |, Cleveland 868 1193 1974 2061 Total + 8804 5,000. 7. Detroit 990 2066 2445 3056 Nov. 30 4 8. Chicago 1841 2845 8701 4186 Overdue subscriptions . + 4309 During this period two districts have reached 6, atiaweapalta , 300 419 808 818 Budincacvanen “ease 4903 and passed their quotas for December. These K Clty 388 286 234 945 «480 470 : are’ District 18, Geattle, which mage 120 por |!!' Dracus, 398 91 ims gests ae Total + 9002 cent of its quota and District 19, Denver, | 12. seattie 291 810 301 900 1131 1201 529 NEW SUBS— which made 110 per cent of its quota. 18, California 689 RIX 694 1103 1502 1797 REN W Other increases in the amount of daily circu- | 15. Connecticut 204 188 210 198 392 408 EWALS IN 8 DAYS lation since the beginning of the campaign to- | 16, South 67 93) «=66Y MB 160 160. 4 gether with the percentage of the December | 17. Birmingham 99 12% 104 152 221 236 35 beta ied the roe. of 8 days 288 new sub: : 19. Denver .. 95 187 98 187 982 235 g| scriptions were obtained. There were 241 re- juota reached are: Dist. 16, South, 54, (72 per ~ 4 ae Dae newals. This is the best record so far on sub- t); Dist. 6, Cleveland, 570 (54 per cent): Unorganized 87 «28 «87 BBS. cent); Dist. 6, land, per 3 Pi nn | geriptions but falls below expectations. Ninety Dist. 7, Detroit, 776 (48 per cent), That 1,000 8804 16389 9002 18263 25193 27265* 2072 . toe names were removed from the subscription list eee SUABEH DUE ee ue Se *NOTE:—Thene figures do not include miscellancous,| 4Uring this period. per cent) B isis “4 ‘s foreign and special editions. ALL COMRADES MUST Dist. 10, Kansas City, 80 (31 per cent); Dist, * y 17, Birmingham, 22 (29 per cent); Dist. 2, New Summary by Cities. ALSO SEEK DONATIONS York, 1170 (27 per cent); Dist. 1, Pittsburgh, 8 Although ultimately paid-in-advance sub- 187 (25 per cent); Dist. 3, Philadelphia, 245 (20 g 3&3 ¢ 8 38 2 g scriptions will wipe out the necessity for drives per cent); Dist. 4, Buffalo, 65 (13 per cent); ge z. rt Re ae Be i for money we cannot expect funds for circula- Dist. 9, Minneapolis, 96 (13 per cent); Dist. 15, an fe &2z de z: 3 5 tion to come in fast enough to overcome the Connecticut, 61 (7 per cent); circulation in Dis- | poston 68 107 74 95 175 169 —| Present financial crisis of the paper. For this trict 11, agricultural, decreased 8. New York 861 5894 871 6198 6755 7069 314 aged ies ey eter beeen de only Philadelphia 392 260 399 365655764109 very effort to boos! ly Worker cir- THIRD ONLY OF DEC. Buffalo .. 53 118 54 128 171 172 1] Culation but also to obtain donations to ensure QUOTA IS OBTAINED Pittsburgh 183 201 «187 «161 «334 298 —36| Continuance of the paper. Youngstown . 2 66 25 66 81 9% 10 The gain of 5,000 daily circulation is the | Cleveiand 283 soo 285 «379 «as 46s 12) TEMPO OF CIRCULATION fastest gain yet recorded by the Daily Worker. gy " i i4 ” ne Led ~ bai DRIVE MUST BE SPEEDED Ne it mly one-third of | Gary ‘ s i eSabadaor gad Wigs ee ained by De- | Miveuk Bl 242 «88 4ST 823) 25 BOR December is reached and only one-third of que ts ees Bt. Louts 1OL 110 101 110211228 42] the December quota has been obtained. The cember and is too glow an increase in circu- | c1 025 18 1978 752 1883 21 2635 344] 5.000 Increase lation when the opportunities offered the Party | ytnneapctis a0 180 61 180 240 ast | 82000 Inc tn chrouiation tn © month te net for the spread of the Daily Worker are con- | s+. pay pape Oe ig EN Picea) dim 5| ¢noush. Every district must redouble its ef- sidered. Kansas City. 19 26 19 55 45 74 a9| {OFS dig in furiously to broaden the circula- - Beattle 70 736 «73736 806 809 3 tion of the Daily Worker. All signs point to N5XT WEEK’S TABLES TO Portland dee: ya ea te 1 the Fe tae the re fe we time to get WHOLE MPAIGN Lon Angeles , 244 378 243 388 622 631 9) mass atation, e spor creases, some COVER 0 CA San Frencisco 115 99 114 199 214 313 99) districts passing their quotas, indicate that it Complete gains in Daily Worker circulation | Oaktana 11 «14500 (77) «(148 8k 3| is merely a matter of determination. Party until December 1 are not revealed in today's | Denver .. . ee) 7 Ut 191 «792 1 members and red workers must throw every- tables because all circulation has not been fully | Okla. City .. 6 100 6 100 106 106 6| thing into the campaizn and win mass circu- recorded. Increases coming from the far west arrive several days late. Tables next Wednes- day will show by district and city all gains made from the beginning of- the campaign. New quotas for Jan. 1, double those for will be assigned. These will be the final quotas for the whole drive. 8 DAYS REVEAL 2,000 DAILY INCREASE Tables today show an increase of 2,000 cir- culation for the 8 days between Nov. 22 and December, 27,265 daily circulation. the average daily circulation of the Daily Work- er was given as 29,784. arrived at by taking an average of figures for @ month which included all special editions dur- ing that period. The actual circulation of the i} TOTAL FIGURE OF 27,265 NEEDS EXPLANATION The total given in the district tables above is lation by January 1. Committee When the drive started This latter figure was In the words of the resolution of the Central Plenum: “Every campaign, every activity must there- fore make conscious use of the Daily Worker as one of its principal instruments, The non- Party sympathetic workers must be mobilized and organized to extend the circulation of the Daily. The financial support of the Daily and prompt payment for the paper must become the first revolutionary duty of every worker. , There can be no unpaid circulation of the Daily Worker.” Ferm Tenants’ BROOKLYN, N. Y.—On t employed Council and Commun eviction of a family of a worke take place. Demonstrations were held that day. The Unemployed Co: determined to prevent the evic Indoor meetings of the workers and tenants followed the demonstra- tions and it was decided to form a Tenants’ League.’ A provisional com- mittee was elected and up to date the committee received about 100 ap- plications for membership. The provisional committee of the Brownsville Tenants' League put for- ward a militant program: to fight evictions of unemployed, to fight for lower rents, for free food and cloth- ing for children of the unemplcyed, to support the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill and organization of tenants through house and block committees. The Tenants’ League is only two| weeks old, but is facing responsible tasks already. Every day workers about to be evicted come to the Tenants’ League for help. The other day a committee of the League was sent to organize the house where an eviction was about to take place. The landlord was so scared that he signed a contract whereby he withdraws the summons against the worker from the court and al- lows him part payments as soon as he finds work. The Communist Party must give its utmost support to this organiza- tion. The provisional committee is arranging for a concert and dance on Dec. 6 at 105 Thatford Ave. All workers are asked to attend and help the Tenants’ League. CHICAGO MAYOR PLAYS ON HUNGER (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Dec. 2—Mayor Wil- liam Hale Thompson has made an appeal to the children. He has had his “upright” officers of the “law” distribute handbills to the pupils of the public schools. He uses the police who have again and again at- tacked the demonstrations of the workers, the police who beat up and killed Isaac Wiesenberg, and a Negro worker, for fighting for bread and jobs, to give but his leaflets ap- parents to vote for him, and “bring back the good times.” He says “To stimulate business and increase prosperity and to create jobs for the unemployed I have evolved a plan whereby one million dollars in awards will be presented to the holders of coupons which will be secured from storekeepers with every 25 cent purchase during my million dollar prosperity drive. I would like to have you ask your fathers and mothers to ask the store- keepers with whom they trade if they ing this drive. It is certainly impossible for any- one with or without “horse sense” to see how this campaign will bring back “prosperity.” It may maké a few more jobs for some more geng- pealing to the children to get their | will have the mayor's coupons dur- | Brooklyn Tenants Stop Evictions, League for Struggle Make Landlord Back Down on His Eviction Summons Against Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) he 10th of October the first action against evictions was taken in Brownsville by the Un- ist Party, Section 8, when the r at 553 Saratoga Ave. was to which prevented the eviction uncil and the neighbors were tion also on the next day, but the worker happened to get some money and decided to move. DESPERATE TRICK TO GET A MEAL Fight for Real Jobless Relief (By a Worker Correspondent.) OAKLAND, Calif—Grinding of brakes and a commotion drew my at~ tention on 12th and Jefferson Sts. | today. A truck driver was excitedly shak- ing a man about 30 years of age and asking him if he was hurt, “No, 'm | not hurt, though I wish I was killed.” “I am starving. Have been unem- ployed for 11 months, Thought maybe you could give me a cup of coffee and a doughnut seeing that you are still working. I knew you wouldn't stop otherwise and I am desperately hungry.” Another “Hold-Up.” The driver pulled out some change and handed it to him. The unem- ployed worker, beaming all over, grabbed the money greedily and tushed through the crowd without the customary thank you. The truck driver looked after him, scratehed his head, cranked his machine and remarked: “This is the second ‘hold- up,’ if I can call it so, today, An- other middle-aged man on East 14th St. called and waved until I stopped, crying that ‘you are employed and should help. My family is dying of starvation.’ Had to dig out a few cents. I don’t know what this coun- try is coming to. I guess there will be a revolution or something soon, so many are starving and desperate. We are being worked and speeded to: death.” Fight For Relief! In the land of prosperity able- bodied men are begging, families starving. The bosses are putting the burden of the crisis on the workers’ shoulders, but it is setting them to think. They are beginning to realize. more and more that something will happen to this country. But another lesson must be brought home, that “this something” will happen sooner and workers will get better conditions enly through unified ranks of work- ers of all races and nationalities as well as the American workers. Only through organizations which co-or- dinate the struggles the workers will be led to successful fight for better conditions, Such organizations are the Trade Union Unity League, with councils, and the workers’ political vanguard, the Communist Party. —A. A. ALL YEAR VACATION place—$10 per wk. CAMP AND HOTEL sters, and for a few more grafters, parents of the hungry school child- tion. The loving, thoughtful mayor under whose hand flourishes the gangster world of Chicago, and all the other grafters, under whose hand there are now 450,000 jobless, and this amount is still on the increase, has come to the conclusion that an attempt must be made to fool the workers into thinking that he will do something for them. It took him fully two years to realize that there are children going to school with empty, gnawing stomachs. Yes, you're right, this realization came just before another election. Mayor Thompson is using the partially taught in the schools of these United States to rally and fool the workers to vote for his fake campaign to bring back the “good old times.” But, the dear mayor forgot to count on the Young Pion- eers of Chicago who are using every available method to counteract this poisonous propaganda. MADRID PRISONF TYTREATEN FUNG®R STRIKE MADRID, Nov. 28.—More than a hundred politteal ‘pri rey tlonary trade unionists and © nists, held in jail here arbit without charees by the Rosen fovernmont, are threatening a hun- ger strike. Most of the prisoners are held as @ result of the government attempt to suppress the recent wave of strikes. They threaten hunger strike if their demand that one of the number, con- fined in an underground dungeon, is not released from that horror, and the mistreatment generally given all Prisoners, stopped. Ps but how it will afford jobs for the| ren is beyond our powers of imagina- | children who are supposed to be im- | NITCRDATCRT PROLETARIAN VACATION OPEN PLACE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere THE $17 A WEEK CAMP NITG BEACON, N.¥. FIRST ANNUAL DAILY WORKER CALENDAR FOR 1931 Seven striking half-tone pletures of the class struggle never be- fore publshed, including; An unpublished picture of Lenin addressing Moscow workers. Views of the biggest strikes and demonstrations in the U. 8, Five smashing eartoons of the class struggle, Historical data on the big events of the class stray cle. Important quoiatione Marx, Engels, Lenin, ete, fom from nthe 5 r to exch Waly one ¢ worker, PALLY WORKER 50 FAST 132M STREET, N. ¥. ©. By Mail: 50 cents m month, outside Man- hatian and’ Bronx, Manhattan and Bronx, exe month Ze; 2 months, 81.50; 4 months, $2.25; 6 months, $4.50; 1 year, $8, He drove off muttering. its affiliated unions and unemployed | Write Avanta Farm, Ulster Park, N.Y. |