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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1930 DE Ee UPHOLSTERERS’ FAKERS LEAVE LOCAL 37 FLAT Strike Left in Lurch in Boston (By A Worker Correspondent.) BOSTON, Mass.—Local 37 of the Upholsterers’ International Union of North America is no longer in ex- istence. Its charter has been revoked by the international of which Mr. Cohn is president and Mr. Hatch vice-presiderit, These two manicured parasites are interested only in retaining their lucrative positions and not in or ganizing the workers. Boston and its environs have for years been ripe for organization— have begged for it, but the central body has made no more effort than was necessary to save its face. Refuse Strike Report. On Sept. 2, 1930, Local 37 called a strike in Boston and several up- holsterers responded. ‘The international flatly refused to support the strike. Instead, after the strike, it revoked the charter because the local was unable to pay a debt of a few hundred dollars. This act instigated by Messrs. Cohn and Hatch, nullified all existing agree- ments betwen the firms and workers, caused drastic reduction of wages and increase in working hours and pro- duction and automatically suspended from the international all members of the local. _ Must Join T. U. U, L. ‘These suspended men have not dis- banded and do not intend to. But they are at a loss as to what their next step should be. They realize that without a central organization eR im & Ex QrERSsS EP §S 4 <>» oO 30,000 Workers Starved In Seattle, Wash., “Queen City” (By a Worker Correspondent.) SEATTLE, Wash.—One of the most. prosperous cities in the richest coun- try on earth, where more than 30,000 workers live mostly on climate and hot air, Seattle is fast becoming the “Queen City” of beggars and work~- ers’ suicides. “Twenty-five Thousand Men, Women and Children Starving In Seattle,” says the Seattle Star in frant page headlines. ‘The paper asks men, women and children who are still working today for donations to feed the jobless. Do they ask business men, millionaire corporations, ete, for a handout? NO. Character Building. ‘The Community Chest some months ago asked for $700,000. The people were bludgeoned into giving it to them. Seventy-five per cent of this money will be spent for character building (Y. M. C. A. and Boy Scouts, etc.). Next the disabled veterans ap- peared on the streets begging for funds. Then the Red- Cross, Good Will Industries, the sky pilot De Mathews and now the daily news- papers are begging for money from wage workers to feed the starving jobless. The only cheerfyl sight in this vale of misery are the Daily Worker agents on street corners downtown. to help their efforts will be fruitless. Also they are loath to being once more affiliated with the Upholsterers’ International Union, should a new charter be granted to them. They have more than enough of Messrs. Cohn and Hateh. It is the writer's hope and wish that the militant Trade Union Unity League will take a hand during the next strike in Boston and lead the workers in the upholstering trade to success, COMMUNISTS URGE SMALL I. S. BANK DEPOSITORS TO ORGANIZE FOR FIGHT (Continued from Page One) United States involving $265,000,000, the largest bank failures in the his- tory of the United States, is not an isolated instance ut is directly con- nected with. the worsening of the economic crisis. No longer can the capitalists hide the fact that their entire economic and financial structure is receiving chattering blows. Growing out of the deepening crisis in all bsaic indus- tries, the recent bank smashes, which this year number close to 800 invlov- ing over $500,000,000 and which are continuing every day without let-up, will come further attacks against the standard of living of the American workers. Not only are over 300,000 worker- depositors in the Bank of the United States involved, but hundreds of thousands of poor farmers and work~ ers find their savings tied up or lost in hundreds of other bank failures. Meanwhile, the Wall Street papers are guardedly admitting that the crash of the Bank of the United States, taken together with the bank crashes throughout the country will further worsen the crisis. The Journal of Commerce which points out that in the past ten years there have been 6,000 bank fajlures, Invioving over $2,000,000,000, says that the big bank smash in New York will result in further cutting down the purchasing power of the masses, further intensifying the crisis. e Journal of Commerce (Dec. 13) says: “The serious general conse- quences of bank failures grow out of the tying up of the purchasing power represented by deposits for indefinite periods with all the in- cidental embarrassements to busi- nesses that suffer from curtailed buying and to borrowers who are affected by forced liquidation. Within the past few weeks, for instance, there have appeared in the papers almost daily little no- tices from various towns in many different parts of the country men- tioning that with the closing of a particular bank the community has been deprived of all banking faci- Iles. More Blows. ‘Besires American capitalism is re- ceiving blows from other directions. Not only are banks crashing, indus- stries going lower and lower, but , which in the early days of the went upward, are now exper- fencing a big drop similar to that, which took place in the stock market. This is greatly worrying the bosses, as they feel this shows a great weak- ening of some of the most important industries, especially the railroads, It is now reported that Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury of the United States was present in Wall Street at the time efforts were being made by the leading bankers of this country to save the Bank of the United States, and that even he, with whatever resources of the gov- ernment were at hand, was unable to stop this gigantic crash. This is a good indication of the rotten con- dition this bank was in, and the shaking of the financial structure &s a whole. The talk of other banks that they will not be affected is pure lies. No bank crash of this magnitude can take place without having some effeei on nearly every financial institutie: in the country. Worker-depositors, Organize! The effect on geenral business is now .openly .admitted. This .will sharpen the bosses offensive against the workers. There will be more wage cuts, more unemployment, more layoffs. Thousands of those who lost their savings in bank crashes will now be shoved out of jobs and will be Worker-depositors of the Bank of the United States, organize to pro- tect your interests! Demand the re- turn of your deposits in full! The promise of 26 other New York banks to give “loans” up to 50 per cent of deposits in the Bank of the U. S., has proved to be a fake. Not a single loan has been made, and the .unemployed .workers who de- pended for their food on the few pennies left in the bank are forced to go to the breadlines or starve to death. Stockholders Say More Coming. ‘Wall Street stockbrokers have been telling their clients that they expect othr bank failures. The New York Stock Exchange is carrying on an “investigation” to find out which of its members has been giving out this information, The New York Times (Dec, 13) says on this: “Obviously to determine whether brokers or brokerage houses have circulated distributing reports re- lating to the condition of any financial institution, the New York Stock Exchange called upon its ‘members yesterday to submit, members festerday to submit by noon today copies of all telegraphic commynications of such chargcter that may have been issuer or re- ceived yesterday of the day before.” Other bank failures did take plece after the crash of the Bank of the U. S. On Dec. 13, the Commercig! deposits of $4,000,000 closed its doors after a run had been started on the bank. More bank failures have taken BOSSES’ “RELIEF” INCREASES ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED Not Slow Starvation But Relief (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--The local bosses use a rat-infested building at 18th and Hamilton Sts. as a flop house for the unemployed here. After he waits in the starvation line for quite a while the worker is taken before a white-collar stiff, a college student, who does the work of clerk~ ing for the flop house, and asked a lot of insulting questions. He is then ordered by a cop to take his clothes off and put them into the delousing can, after which he is given a bowl of rotten stew and a cup of slop called coffee. After this princely meal the worker is ordered to a cot The heat in this foul-smelling build- ing is furnished by a few stinking oil stoves, After the worker takes a bath he gets under the horse blan- kets supplied with the bed. Work But No Pay. In the morning he has his clothes returned to him and if they had any resemblance to clothes before they surely have none now, because the delousing process ruins them. After dressing the workers are lined up and given jobs to scab on the street cleaners and painters who receive from 50 to 70 cents an hour. These jobless have to work for the miser- able slop and the cot that they have been given. The regular workers are laid off and the money saved goes into the pockets of the grafting poli- ticians. The bosses’ relief plans increase unemployment. It is only by build- ing up the Unemployed Councils and by fighting for real relief that the workers will be able to do away with the evils of unemployment and the capitalist system. Packing House Toilers Suffer Under Speedup, Spies-Experts Mingle (By a Worker Cerespondent) KANSAS CITY. — The working conditions in the packing house plants in Kansas City should be ex- posed to all workers. Everything that makes work unbearable, is being practiced in these hell-holes of in- dustry. The speed-up system is being practiced in all departments, but es- pecially in the beef, hog and sheep killing departments. If any of these workers dare to talk about organizing they are very promptly fired. {n every department there are ef- ficiency experts whose chief duty is |to watch that all workers are driven to the limit of their physical strength and when they are no Jonger able to keep up with the speea-up sysiem they are fired. In all departments are stool pig- eons who are elected by the fake company union and really represent the bosses instead of the workers. They report to the bosses whatever the workrs say about this fake union. In some of the packing house plants the forty hour weekly guar- antee has been abolishe@pgand as soon as this has been accomplished they will start slashing the 5. . All workers must organize against speed-ups, wage cutting and this is best done by joining a militant or- Ganization like the Trade Union Unity League. Join the Communist Party and read. the Daily Workr. An Armour Employee, place in Raleigh, N.C. As a result of a whole series of bank crashes in that city, there is now a. crisis in the city government, Boss Press Kills News. While .the .capitalist .newspapers have systematically killed important news on the condition of the banks, the -Annalist, ,leading Wall .Street organ, admits that the fear of further bank failures is worrying the bosses. “A. McB” writing under the head of | “Financial Markets” in the Dec. 12th ‘icene of the Annalist says: The dominant market influence this week has unquestionably been fear over the possibility of further bank failures.” ‘ ‘ Many clothing firms, in the gar- ment district, who had aecoynts in the Bank of the United States are refusing to pay their workers’ wages, on account of the fact that they can- not get at their funds. One firm went bankrupt and the Irving Trust Co. has been appointed its recciver. * Cat this out and mail immediately to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. New York City. RED SHOCK TROOPS be For $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND Enclosed find .......+, We pledge to build RED /ENCY FUND NAME PU eee eee Teer eee eer errr reer eT ee Perr eeeeereeeeeeereecerr retires ADDRESS 20... .ssssorerseessennesconnsconncnssenansceerneenassensepecessssssssnnessenssanssneesansessnae sens Page Three 200 Attend First Banquet of Red Builders Club in Sacramento; Send in Subs Don't miss the startling series of exposures of graft and corruption in New Jersey. In the Daily Worker soon. “The Red Builders’ News Club of Sacramento is going great guns,” writes A. E. Mazzarella, director. “Yesterday we gave our first ban- quet. and entertainment and were surprised to see the tyrnous of revo- lutionary sympathizers. This ban- quet was given to help the Daily Worker in its present crisis and the numerous struggles it has to com- bat to maintain its existence, and keep up the fight in behalf of the working class, against this starva- tion system and for adequate relief for the unemployed.” “The Trade Union Unity League Hall was jammed with more than 200 workers, consisting of Negrees, Mexicans, Filipinos and all the na- tionalities of the white comrades. They unanimously promised their supert in popularizing the Daily Worker among their people. “We had solos of revolutionary songs rendered in every language conceivable. Daniels gave a stirring address, emphasizing the role of the Daily Worker in the class struggle. “He made an appeal for donations and s riptions. nclosed money order for six subscriptions. Dona- tions were sent through district of- fice.” Use the Daily Worker, 1931, cal- endar in the drive for 62,000 circu- lation. Free with every six months subscription or renewal. SENDS IN TWENTY SUBSCRIPTIONS, CASH A. H. Johnson of twenty subscriptions is concentrating on hou: work, talking to the w Situation in the c: “Enclosed find twenty subs and money order to cover same. £ am ighberhoed at a time and their neighbors. In this way I am able to talk over their problems with them and make it a regular neigh- borhood affair. I can talk all night and spare time to neighbers and not be afraid of a boss stand- ing around or have some spy watch- ing. “IT will send in at least ten sub- scriptions every week from new on.” Get yolr copy of “The Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union,” by Gregory T. Grinko. Free with every one year’s subscription or re- newal to the Daily Worker. 91 YEARS OLD, MUST HAVE THE DAILY WORKER The revolutionary spirit of Charles Bonsoll, 91 years of age, has grown more fiery with the years. He writes: “I wish I possessed a lot of money so that I could give finan- cial aid to the Daily Worker. As it is I am only able to keep my subscription paid up. I had my Political eyes opened in 1872 when I left the republican party and hope to live to see capitalism de- stroyed and peace and brotherhood established with a World Soviet Republic,” DAILY READERS IN CHICAGO TO ORGANIZE E. Thomas, Daily Worker represen- tative in Chicago, sends in subs, new orders and the following comment on activity: We are going to have meetings of the Daily Worker readers, where we will organize a concrete plan of work. We are also beginning to i¢ the counc ef the unem- ployed. By doing this we will be getting comrades to the Daily Worker regular] In other words, regular new ~ From Saima Rissanen of Superior, Wisc., this note: “In Superior I am trying to do my best in the Daily Worker d I am trying to make out of town for this pur- 1 Bee CANTON COMMUNE ANNIVERSARY PUT FEAR INTO BOSSES Declare Martial Law Against Workers Reports from all parts of China tell of the advance of the Communist forces. An Associated Press dispatch from Hankow declares that the Red Army forces Friday were besieging Lichow, city of Hunan province, after capturing Tsingshih, another im- portant center in Hunan. Tsingshi is located 125 miles north of Changsha and Lichow is a few miles southwest of Tsingshih. Chiang Kai Shek is now in Han- kow, where he is mobilizing his forces in an effort “to crush the Commu- forces.” The first act of this Wall Stret tool was to order the exe- cution of five workers on the charge of attempting to assassinate him. The Chinese landlords and rich ex- ploiters in Hankow are very nervous. The blustering of Chiang Kai Shek is not reassuring them as 20,000 of his troops were nearly annihilated by an equal number of poorly armed Red soldiers. From Canton comes the news that on the day of the third anniversary of the Canton Commune martial lew was declared as the “result of Red YOO Let MS GET ALL THE Coin Dwancr AAD SLL LET You, Po 7He Same ous 3 COPS SLUG WOMEN ATN.Y. DEMONSTRATION FOR DEFENSE OF SOVIETS AG AINST IMPERIALISTS (Continued from Page One) tically the entire hour. Traffic was blocked. The parasite Christmas shoppers who flooded Fifth Avenue were ter- of the “International” and “Solidar- rified when they heard the strains ity Forever.” They urged the cops on. The millionaire members of the nion League Club on 38th St. and Fifth Ave. stared out of the club windows amazed at the militancy of the workers in resisting the cops. In front of Constables department store on 40th St. and Fifth Ave. the cops made a ferocious attack on a group of five women workers. Two were knocked to the pavement and stamped on. But when the rest of ‘he demonstrators closed in the cops backed up and waited for reinforce- ments. One “big fat detective who arrived on the scene early kept at a safe distance all the time. One of the women workers who was hit over the head with a blackjack was bleeding profusely, but when she was taken to Kadish's Drug Store at 6th Ave. and 40th St., the owner of the store re- fused to treat her and she was taken home The N. Y. Telegram, in the first story of the demonstration that ap- peared in thet paper late Saturday afternoon, carried the headline: “Cops beat women on Fifth Avenue.” As this was the truth, it was corrected in later ‘editions to read: “Cops beat Jommunists on Fifth Avenue.” Sarah Geifind, who was arrested at the demonstretion charged with pushing en officer, had her case post- poned to December 22nd at 2 p. m before Masistrate Stern. Hundreds cf copies of the Worker were sold on Fifth and adjoining streets. Daily Avenue “LOW COST OF PRODUC- TION IS MORE MISERY FOR WORKERS (By a Worker Correspondent) OMAHA, Neb.—The bosses of the packing plants in Omaha do not know or care what the working con- ditions in these plants are. It is well therefore that we call their attention to the condiions in the freezer in one of the packing plants in South Omaha. These men work in the freezer at 10 degrees below zero for two and a half hours at a time, spreading livers on trays. After the frozen livers are taken from the trays these men are compelled to take the trays to a room wsere the temper- ature is about 70 degrees above zero, to be washed in hot water. During this work the men get wringing wet with sweat and steam and must then go back to the freezer to spread more livers. All men over 50 years of age myst take # physical examination once a year, and if the companys’ doctor decides that there is anything wrong with him, he is discharged. They also hire young boys 16 years old to tend doors for 25 cents per hour. These men should organize and fight against these conditions. Join the Communist Party and help free the working masses from these working conditions. D. R. L. A. Building Workers Forced to Work Below Scale (By 2 Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif—On the southeast corner of Beverly Blvd. and Hayworth Ave. the wages paid on the building under construction is as follows: Bricklayers, $5; carpenters, $4; borers, $3.20 for an 8-nour day, The union scale here is $11, $8 and $5, spectively. It is difficult to fird out what is being paid on many jobs, because the weges are so low thet the workers are ashamed to let anyone know that they work for it. All are deeply in debt, with no prospect of being able to pay while conditions remain what they are now On many buildings they have ine treduced the piece-work system. Carpenters underbid cach other set- ting jems, hanging doors, etc., until the wages for an 8-hour day at top speed on many jobs is lower than that received by Mexican laborers whom eyerybedy thinks are working too cheap. Here is a conversation betwen two carpenters. “What's the matter; did yoy lose your job?” “Not exactly; I quit. The boss cut my wages to $4. day and I told him I could not work for that. The boss told me one of the men came and offered to work for $4 because he was broke and had a family to sup- port. But he only worked two days before he was laid off. I guess the 1931 CALENDAR FREE! Unpublished photos of the class struggle in the Daily Worker 1931 Oslendar. Free with six months subscription or renewal. boss didn’t like his work er some- thing. They still owe me some money; in the morning I am going to try to collect it.” Tf any worker wants to fully enjoy the bosses’ freedom come to Los An- geles. disorders in the northern part of the KEwangtung province and as a pre- caution against possible violence.” This shows that the working masses in this city are again taking up an | cpen revolutionary struggle, and that are fearful of their dic- The Associated Press from Canton goes on to say: atches from Hoikow, Hainan , off southern Kwangtung, said | widespread disorders were occurring jin the northern part of the island. At the request of Hoikow authorities the Kwangtung government ordered three gunboats bearing marines to the island city.” US. ADMITS TOTAL OF JOBLESS FALSE Census Figures Faked, 3 Million In April WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14.-— Yesterday the Bureau of the Census admitted that its statement during the summer that there were. only. 8,151 unemployed by census fig+ ures, was false, and it now states that the figures showed 3,297,863 un- employed when the census was taken last April. At the time it was: freely charged | that the. census bureau was delib- erately falsifying the returns in order to help out the Hoover election cam~ paign and to keep the jobless quiet and prevent their fighting for work or wages. The admission now that the census bureau revort lied (or as the offi- cials put it, “was mistaken”) to the extent of a million does not make it any less likely that they were really lying to the extent of about five mil- lion. At the time the 2,508,151 figure wes announced, the calculations of the Daily Worker showed about 7,000,000 out of work. Since then there have been a couple of more millions added. Two months ago the irector of the census himself admit- ted, in an unguarded moment, that there were about 9,000,000 out of work. The A. F. of L. reports, strain- ing every nerve to keep the numbers down, and estimating the jobless un- organized on the basis of the jobless organized, show nearly 5,000,000 un- employed. It was revealed yesterday that one of the tricks used by the census buy reau to keep the numbers apparently small was to tabulate the unem- ployed reported in non-industrial re- gions, then, instead of tabulating those in the industrial centers, the bureau estimated these latter on the basis of the non-industrial reports. Even this was too high a total to suit them, and they just lopped off about, a million, “by mistake,” Definition of an unemployed worker, so made as to exclude half of the jobless, and the deliberate evasion of areas where unemployed are thickest, acounts for other mil- lions. Some of the chief census tak~- ers resigned in disgust over the triek- ery. Evidently the fortheoming second census of unemployed just ordered is worrying the bureau heads and the administration, and they are revise ing their figures upward, knowing that they can not keep the fake go- ing on such 3 Jow basis and will have to be more reasonable in their lying. The national government does nothing for the jobless, aside from the bill to give a hundred million for |#Mxious to hear a report on the St. public construction, very little of | Luis convention of the League. which money will ever reach the un- employed. The fight goes on for real | tion. insurance through |struggle for the Negro rights and| establishment of a $5,000,000,000 fund | sgainst lynching, pointing out to the | out of netional war appropriations | White workers that it is their duty and taxes on huge incomes, and pay- |to lead in mass violations of all jim- ment through workers and unem-|Ccrow laws and practices and in the Ployed committees of $25 a wek in-| defense of Negro workers against the surance to each jobless worker. City {lynching bees of the bosses. unemployment and district unemployment. confer- ences are being held at the call of | active support to the program of the the National Committee for Unem- | League. ployment Insurance, BRIEFS FROM ALL LANDS VIENNA.—The fascist minister of the interior, Prince Starhemberg, said during the course of a recent speech: “The great decision will not be taken in parliament. Our mili- tary formations will take it. It is therefore absolutely mecessary that our militant activity shonjd be con- tinued with all possible enesxgy. The Hitler movement (in Germapy) 15 our strong ally and sooner or later we shall unite with it.” % 420% BERLIN.—The Communist daily newspaper, “Ruhr Echo,” has been suppressed by the police for 5 days in connection with an article on t slapping administered to ex-police chief of Berlin, Zoergiebel, by a young unemployed worker, a one PRAGUE—The revolutionary list won advances in the shop council election at Trinetch Iron Works. Out ot 4,095 votes, the revolutionary list got 2,465, and 11 seats, as compared with 300 votes and 1 seat at the last election. * * PARIS.—Six Hungarian emigrants have been deported from France be-’' cause they joined the Students’ So- ciety. * The French police provokes daily new clashes between anti-fascists and fascists, in order to hasten the expulsions of anti-fascists from France, At a church in Toulouse fascists demonstrated under the lead- ership of the consul and shouted “Long live Italy!” Workers who pro- tested against it were arrested by the police and the consul was safely brought home by the police, ‘os, The Comunist Parties. of France and Italy issued a joint manifesto, pointing out that a reactionary of- fensive has begun against the Ital- jan immigrant workers. The mani- festo appeals to the workers to form anti-fascist groups in the factories to combat the growing fascist danger, and for the protection of the immi- grant foreign-born workers. * Jewish Boss Press In Lies About Crash (Continued from Page One) had promised every one of the de- positors that his money would be re- funded in full. The Day’s headline said: “Depos- itors in the Bank of U. S. Will Be Repaid Dollar for Dollar, Superin- tendant Says;” the “socialist” For- ward declared, “Depositors of Closed Bank will Get Full Amount of Money If They Do Not Go to Court to press Their Claims;” and the Day said “One Hundred Per Cent for Deposit- ors 0? Bank of United States.” What Broderick had actually said was that he hoped by Monday or Tuesday that the “complicated ma~- chinery” necessary to permit “depos- itors to borrow up to fifty per cent of their deposits in the Bank of U. 8. would be ready. He refused to say whether the depositors in the closed bank could expect more than fifty per cent of their money, adding “When the time comes I will make a complete report ;until then I have nothing to say on the matter,” The stories carried by the three Jewish papers were so similar that it is evident that they were discussed beforehand at a conference. They all went on to say that there was no danger of any other banks failing, directly contradicting the Wall. St. financial newspapers, which state the situation in other banks is precarious. The Federgl Reserve Bank, the editor of the Day continues, has promised to lend the Public National Benk and the Manufacturers Trust Co., both in danger of failing, “as much money as they need.” This is apparently as true as the rest of the story, because it would be abso- sluely impossible because of the deep- going character of the financial crisis, for the Federal Reserve Board to lend “as much money as was needed” to anyone. The frantic efforts of the three Jewish papers, as well as the English papers, to hide the importance of the Bank of U. 8S. failure, is sure proof that the bank situation is extremely bad with many other powerful banks on the point of failing. Many at Mass Meet of Coney Group of LSNR NE W YORK.—A Coney Island group of the eLague of Struggle for Negro Rights conducted a mass meet- ing last night at the First Baptist Church, 17th St., which was largely | attended by Negro and white workers A. Welsh reported on the conven- | Sadie Van Veen spoke on the! INTERNATIONAL 2h EPws UNEMPLOYED IN | HAMBURG CLASH WITH THE POLICE 1800 Go Out on Strike in Berlin (Wireless By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Dec. 14.—Yesterday eve- ning forbidden unemployed demon= strations took place in Hamburg. Po- lice attacked the demonstrations, fir- ing over fifty shots into the masses. An 18-year-old worker was killed and many were wounded. Yesterday evening unemployed demonstrations also took place in Duesseldorf. They were broken up by police clubs. One hundred and sixty-five workers were arrested. Today 1,800 employees of the larg- est Berlin Dairy Co. Bolle went out on strike. The reformists tried to prevent the strike, but the revolu- tionary opposition was too strong. The workers are fighting against an arbitration decision of a 5 per cent wage-cut. The reformists reckon that the decision will be declared binding when the strike will be called off, RED UNION OPPOSITION IN GERMANY HOLDS MEET BERLIN.—The national conferenee of the revolutionary trade union op= position took place on Nov, 15 and 16 and was attended by numerous delegates from all parts of the Reich. Apart from the speeches of Comrades Dahlem and Emmerich, already reported, Comrade Kirschey reported on the situation of the working class youth in industry. The representative of the Revolutionary International of Labor Unions then spoke and was welcomed with t¥e- mendous enthusiasm. He declared, inter alia, that the R. I. L. U. wel comed the formation of the revolu- tionary Metal Workers’ Union in Berlin. In a thorough discussion the con- ference stressed the great importance of a fighting alliance between the workers in the factories and the un- employed workers and special mea- sures were adopted to further this alliance. The various resolutions were unanimously adopted. The organ- ization basis for a permanent trade union movement was laid and weekly contributions fixed. The na- tional committee of the revolutionary trade union opposition was supple- mented by the election of further members, mostly working men and women from the factories. Paper Box Makers to Meet Tues., Dec. 16th BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—A mass meet~ ing of all paper bag makers and paper box makers is being called for Tuesday evening, Dec. 16, at 8 p. m. at the Grand Mansion Hall 73 Lud- low St., Brooklyn, fo rthe beginning of an intensive organization drive to organize all workers in the paper in~ dustry in the struggle against wage cuts, piece work and speed-up which is daily afflicting every worker in the industry. ‘This meeting is being called by the Paper Workers League of the Trade Union Unity League. FIRST ANNUAL DAILY WORKER CALENDAR FOR 1931 Seven striking half-tone pletures of the class struggle never be- fore publshed, including: lished picture of Lenin dressing Moscow workers, Views of the biggest strikes and demonstrations in the U. 5, Five smashing ¢eartoons of the class struggle. 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