The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1930, Page 3

BME Geta | vide the pay or by working one group Ny o ‘Uni Cc . » Oht 2 Esti is ceaten, Ot - Organize On the Bread Lines | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER to End -Bread 30, 1930 ~ ines! Deman Let re RSs =—- we cy rs ‘EE’ sa E DOING AWAY WITH) ENTIRE CREWS AT SENECA STEEL C0.’ | Not Paid Waiting for} Work (By a Worker Correspondent.) BUFFALO, N. Y.—In 8 previous Wisconsin Lumber Company Pays From 10 to 28 Cents Hour (By a Worker Correspondent.) WAUKESHA, Wis.—The Laona Land and Lumber Co. 200 miles from here sent a letter to a worker Hub- bard promising him a job at from 25 cents to 40 cents an hour. He | wired back telling them he js com-| ing. He got the family, furniture, etc. and went. While he was on the way the company slashed the wages article on the Seneca Steel Co. we! more than half (10 cents to 28 cents explained the speed-up in produc- | tion in two departments, the hot mill and annealing departments. There} also has been a terrible rationaliza- tion going on in all branches of the industry. The introduction of the normalizer which does away to a) zge extent the amount of work hich was formally done in the an-/ realing department. The introduc- tion of the pickle leveler which does | away with one leveler crew, also the | cold roll leveler idea which also eliminates one leveler crew. Then we see the double unite cold roll which ¢old rolls the iron twice in one | operation which does away with one | cold roll crew. | ** Cut Down on Workers ‘The introduction of the oil an-) nealing furnace which cuts down the amount of labor used at the same time increasing the annealing ton-) nage of these furnaces. | True, we should not look upon these advancements in the industry as against the laborers, but for the enlightment of the work which the laborer formerly performed. The| company on the other hand does not | use these advantements for the re- | lief of workers In doing this work but for the elimination of the worker | the industry permanently. The | it of this rationalization in all in ustries is the widespread unem- ,mment throughout our wonderful vigftry of the United States of Am- triea. We see the system of stag- zering the work among the few em-/ ployees who are lucky enough to have what they call a job by putting two men on one job or three men on | two jobs and making the men di- three days and the other half the ) balance of the week. - i Is a Wage Cut. This, fellow workers, is a drastic cut in youn wages. I ask you to look around you and see personally ii from the foreman up to the general manager do they stagger through work and split their pay? ‘You will find your own answer to that ques- tion if you take a look around your plant or any other plant, We also see the tonnage scale of wages prevailing throughout the en- tire plant. This system means when you do not work and you are ‘waiting for. for one cause or another you (0 not earn a cent, result: you aay put eight hours in the plant and earn a dollar or two. pt |a house. an hour). He arrived here with the burden of a 5-year-old sick child and found When he went around to the company he found out his wages would be 10 cents an hour. The fuel promised was to be $1.00 a truckload, cheap rent. The worker immediately sold his furniture, rugs, 200 jars of canned fruits and came back to Wauxesna, Wis. He is now trying to sue the company in order to get his expenses paid, which amounts to about $100. He is also wondering how those workers with their families are able to exist in the camp. Their pay checks range from a few dollars to the good to a core of dollars in debt to the company. |Fur Coated Students | Get Preference in Post) Office Xmas Rush Jobs (By a Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, Dec. 21.—The capitalist press of New England announced a few days ago that our beloved Uncle Sam would relieve unemployment by j hiring extra help in the Post Cice| Department for the Xmas rush. They lied as usual. The 400 extra employes who were hired by Postmaster Charles W. Bi- reley to assist in the New Haven, Conn., Xmas rush were not unem- ployed workers but the fur-coated Yale students, sons of wealthy and politically influential families. Postmaster Bireley admitted that he had received 1,800 applications for work, and furthermore admitted that he did not give out the jobs in ac- cordance to the need of the appli- cants. Sons of the present employes in the post-office were employed, it was revealed, but Postmaster Bireley stated that he had to do this to keep his men satisfied. The postmasters’s excuse for not hiring the destitute and unemployed heads of families was that in his opinion they could not withstand the rigors of the Xmas rush. LL OVER 6,000 ILLITERATES IN D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C.—There are 6,611 persons 10 years old.or older in the nation’s capital who are un- able to read or write, according to 1930 census figures just réleased, SAVE THE “DAILY WORKER” - » RUSH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS! The following are the donations Sam Paul. Canton, Ohio received since December 8th. Vacllinidex, Cleveland, Ohio ee DISTAICT 3 mont, Ohio 10.00 : Grim, Cleveland, Ohio ... 5.00 J. Peter, Cleveland, Ohio 1.00 N. Hernik, Cleveland, Ohio 2.00 pe ny L, Akmas, Cleveland. Oblo 1.00 “i madera, Webster, J. Menich, Cley BO eS iwi Harry Fox, Clev. 2.00 1 4. Darrow, Cleve! 12.00 : J. Rakochy, Clev 0 pistaicr 9 SInsarchuk, Cleveland, 01 = peg Sulovsky, Cleveland, Obie noe 56.00 | J- Susan, Cleveland, Ohio 1.00 J. Kundrat, Cleveland. Ohio 2,00 Unit 25, Cleveland, Ohio 7.50 00 | Unit 22, Cleveland, Ohio 1.00 1.00 | Unit 2-1, Cleveland, Ont 1.00 Carpentern Group, New York 200.00 |N. Kroger, Cleveland, Ont 2.00 Sree at ew. reek Unit 3-30.’ Cleveland, Ohio 5.00 an a eee f. Wisknutz. Cleveland, Ohio 1.00 Pekar ll Foeiaia 35.00 | J. Kurmel, Cleveland. Obie. 1.50 Pk ak SE L. Martin, Cleveland. Ohio 10.00 econ Te 21.00 | J. Stonkino, Cleveland, Oh 2.00 UF tecllnan, New York Ukranian Dramatic’ ©1 Ral itz. Hi ie 00 “ Re a York + € Youth Clad, & abo N. ky. Cleve. 5.00 wood, N. J. ... D. Nostik. Cleveland, Ohio ... 50 pe K. Tamkus, Clevel Ob 3.00 semartes N D. Lambros. Cleveland, Obfo |. 1.00 Mette Manja, j $355.07 is DISTRICT 7 - DISTRICT 3 Total December 8. $210.62 Tots} December 8 .... J Uv. lamtramek, Be W. Chapian, Phila. A en'chd, Phil Tom Dudrio, Ph Anna Dudzio. P S. Konopka. Phil J. Marak, Pniin.. Pen Aurora Club, Ivc., Bal bow 1 OUT THIS OUT AND MAIL Encloped find 00} Antonio, small as the number is, nev SCHWAB DRIVES ON SPARROWS PT. " STREL WORKERS New Wage Cuts and Speed Up | (By Worker Correspondent) | SPARROWS POINT, Md. — In | every department of the Bethlehem Steel plants heré there can be wit- | nessed a vicious exploitation of the | Negro and white workers. The great | majority of the Negro workers re~ ceive only 37 cents an hour with the exception of men on contract jobs and in this case the most a man can earn is $4 for an 8 hour day job that demands the highest speed. There has been three cuts made recently. (1) Hours reduced from 9 hours to 8 houts without increase in pay, (2) contract cars that used to | pay 1 for a gang now pays $8; cars | that paid $6 now pays $4 for a gang. | @) Working week reduced from 6 days to 4 and § days a week with- out an increase in pay, More Speed-up. «| Speed-up is more intense now, before there was a gang of 16 men now is reduced to 9 men. Contract gangs that had 12 men now cut to 8 men. The remaining working! force is required to do the same amount of work. Men are forced in many cases to work 10 and 1 hours to finish the car. On some cars the men only get $1.75 to $2.50 per day as in the case when a car of ore is frozen, on this car four men get 7 to 8 dollars which takes all day to unload. The facts point out very clearly the methods used by the Bethlehem steel barons to extract more profits out of the toil of the working class. It also shows how much the Schwabs and the Graces kept their promise that they would cooperate .n this time of unemployment by mci saying off men but the speed-up shows clearly that they are laying off men. Even though the Negro workers were getting only enough to barely exist on, More wage cuts and speed were introduced. The workers are subjected more every day to starvation basis. The increased wealth and better ef- ficiency in the industry means more misery for the Bethlehem Steel workers. | The Workers, Negro and white, ‘ will answer this slavery with an or- | ganized Metal Workers Industrial League that will fight against these wage cuts, speed up and unemploy- ment. Join the Metal Workers Industrial League, 95 Greene St. Baltimore, SPEED TAKING OF SIGNATURES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | Detroit jobless demand: relief at the rate of $20 per week for each jobless worker with $5 more fo reach de- pendent; no evictions, free medical and dental service, free gas and light and heat for the jobless, free fare for the unemployed; free meals, clothes and car fare to children of the jobless; free fare for all unem- ployed, abolition of vagrancy laws, and jobs secured at the city employ- ment agency to pay at least $330 a ‘Week. The unemployed mass meeting at which Foster speaks in Cleveland is Jan. 6, not Jan. 1 as eroneously re- ported in the Daily Worker yester- day. The Cleveland Council of the Unemployed invites all jobless work~ ers %® its meetings, daily at 10 a. m. at 5607 St. Clair Ave. 44 RED VOTES IN SAN ANTONIO IS PROGRESS SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec, 28.— Forty-four Communist votes in San ——_.| ertheless is a matter of pride for the workers. It is approximately three times the number cast in 1928, It takes real courage to vote Red in $50! this city, and the Communist unit L. Parsky, Chiengo, Il. DISTRICT 9 Total ecember 8 Frank Jilek, St. WHEREVER WORKERS MEET, SIGN UP FOR IN- 872 /SURANCE! "oo | Were raised. made almost no campaign, only part of the small unit here taking part in leaflet distribution. No local issues Nevroes are completely disfran- chise. get more results, IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E.13THST., NEW YORK CITY RED SHOCK TROOPS For $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND WDONALD SENDS 1,000 SOLDIERS © 150 Attend Banquet of Red - AGAINST BURMESE REBEL PEASANTS) Builders News Club in N.Y.; (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) colonies, to conditions of actual starv- ation and misery. Under militant leadership 1,000 Burmese peasants seized a large sup- ply of arms and ammunition and have successfully battled against the imperialist troops. Prepare for Battle. The Burmese rebels are fortifying themselves in the jungle vastness, making their defeat a difficult mat- ter for the labir government troops. “Reports received here are they have plenty of ammunitien and guns and have taken up 2 position behind five miles of impenetrable jungle. They are said skillfully to have strengthened their position by the erection of strong barriers of. felled trees, and a highly developed scout system has been organized to prevent them from being taken by surprise.” ‘The British governor of the ter- ritory is calling for extermination of the rebels. Admits “Desparation.” A difpatch to the New York Times from London quotes Uba Pe, one of the Burmese rich lendowners at the Round “Table Confefénce, as saying: “I think it probably is a sporadic outbreak due to the workers’ inabil- | ity to pay. taxes in previous years | in November. | “All single men have to pay about $1 a head tax and married men $2. | With no work and heavy food | charges they evidently have been driven to desperation.” This information from one of Brit ish imperialism’s best” friends gives the lie to the statements contained ing without any cause against a ben- ign imperialism. Though the head tax of $1 and $2 appears low, when it is realized that ants to get any money, and that they do not have enough rice even to keep their families alive, it can be seen that it 1s impossible for them to hand over any money to the British para- sites. ‘The struggle against tax payments is growing throughout India. The struggle of the Burmese peasants should receive the wholehearted and enthusiastic support of every Amer- starvation is one of all workers against their capitalist rulers. FIGURES CONCEAL TWICE AS MUCH IN CREDIT; HUNGER MARCHES BEGIN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Garner and others over previous re- funds, show that Mellon regularly conceals the refunds in the form of credits and abatements, and that these regularly amount to about twice the cash refunds. Thus, when Mellon announced that during the last fourteen years tax re- funds amounted to $1,254,317,800 — | all going to the biggest corporations —Garnér showed that in addition to this, during Mellon’s nine years in office, the credits and abatements amounted to $2,252,042,000. It is beyond shadow of doubt that the present year’s refunds, counting cash tefunds, credits and abatements ‘together, amount to at least $400,000,- 000—Or more than three times the amount of the Hoover “emergency building program bill to aid the un- employed.” Mellon Gets His. As in previous years, Mellon gives the largest tax refunds to corpora- tions in which he and his family are interested financially. ‘The largest refund this year, (cash, not credit or abatement) is $15,205,- 343 to the U. S. Steel Corporation — controlled by Morgan, Mellon and their associates. A similar refund of (This is the second in a series of articles on A. F, of L. and political corruption in N. J.) By ALLEN JOHNSON The name of New Jersey evoke different images if Mifferent people. To @ worker who doesn’t live there, it means the Passaic strike, with its heroism and fortitude on the part of the strikers and its stark brutality on the part of the cops and their bosses, the textile barons. To the pot-bellied bourgeoisie New Jersey denotes its famous shore resorts, Atlantic City, Asbury Park, Long Branch. To the financier and the industrialists New Jersey raises a vision of an open shop paradise where A. F. of L. officials can be bought at @ fixed price. To the New Jersey worker the mention of his state evokes only the bitterness created by being forced to slave under- horrible conditions for wages which even “his” government in ‘Washington has declared are but half what they should be if the worker is to get the minimum necessaries of fe. New Jersey, though !t {s the fourth smallest state in the union, is one of the most important industrially, yanking sixth in the country. Its chief industry, petroleum refining, has an output valued at more than $275,000,000, In foreign exports the state ranks seventh, sending out about $225,000,000 yearly. Although 70 per cent of the population live in $88,000,000. the total population of about four A beginning has ben made. A bet+ ter campaign to bring local issues before the workers next election will are foreign born, with the Negroes, of course, are t! most explolted of all the they have #0 li $2,099,876 goes to Baldwin Locomotive Works, in which Mellon’s outfit is | interested. Other companies getting big re- |funds are Swift & Co. ($6,993,516) |Libby, McNeil & Libby $3,693,361 Eastman Kodak (3,416,218). More than 14 big corporations get refunds of over a million dollars each. | Among these are: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., $1,057,002; Southern Pacific Co., $1,334,907; Central Steel Co. (Mas- sillon, Ohio), $1,058,121; Chicago, | Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., $1,790,250; Pullman Co., $1,147,285; Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, $1,379,268; Atchison, To- peka & Santa Fe Railway Co., $1,645,337; United Fuel Gas Co. (Charleston, W. Va.), $1,016,750, and Plankinton Packing Co. (Mil- waukee, Wis.), $1,543,797. Practically every one of these com- panies has conducted a wage cutting and lay-off campaign throughout the year of the crisis. Wages have been |reduced to an average of 30 per cent in these biggest companies, hundreds of thousands of workers have been laid off. Yet they get three times as much money from the U. S, treasur as the jobless! Tens of thousands of workers are ditions in various parts of the state this series will give an accurate picture of the state as a whole, The republican bosses of the state are Eonch (Nocky) Jolson, treas- urer of Atlantic County, Ex-Senator David Baird, Ambassador Walter Edge, Senator Kean and Senator- elect Dwight Morrow. The democra- tic bosses are Mayor Hague of Jersey City and Theodore Brandle, A. F. of L. leader. So far as any social, po- litical or economic distinctions be- tween the democratic and republi- can politicians are concerned—why, there just are none. Hague is as good a republican as Edge, and Mor- Tow is as good a democrat as Brandle, The thing that binds them all together is a common desire to milk the workers dry, and in all truth they have come near to mak- ing @ perfect job of their business. ‘Formal deals are consequently made before every election at which it is decided just which plums will fall to the democrats and which to the republicans. . In the last election, for example, Morrow, Morgan’s partner, was slated to win. Frank Hague, the Democratic boss of the state, con- sequently knifed his candidate, the democrats the remaining two. ; But because the democrats get the short end of this trade, one of their 1] partner of J. P. Morgan, the gentie- man who, among other brought America in'the American capitalist press that | the 1,000 peasants are bandits, fight- | | | | | | when work in the rice fields ended | urance! = = ea (MORE BANKS FAI TWO LARGE ONES Over 1800 Papers Ordéved sso sova ioav earxuxoos Over 150 unemployed worker: tended the Red Builders’ News Club banuet Sunday afternoon at m. at the Workers’ Center and ordered 1,800 papers, the highest order so fe placed by the club. The membership campaign forthe club was launched. Levin, manager of the Daily Worker, took up the importance to | the Daily Worker of the Red Build- ers’ News Clubs which are springing up all over the country and particu- | larly pointed out how distribution of | the Daily Worker was maintained in the emergency when the Daily Worker was forced to miss metro- it is virtually impossible for the peas-| Politan news stands because of the action of Andy Anderson, president | of the Pressimen’s Union, in stopping | the press. Levin said the club should | be proud of the role which it played in bringing the paper to the ma: in spite of the action of the bosses’ jean worker, as the fight against) || months subscription or renewal. | ISURANCE! necessity be incomplete, but i 18) dollars that hoped that by describing typrear con- | at two per | boss of the southern part of the state. | hirelings. | _ Following the banquet the meet- | ing was addressed by Jorge, who | writes Red Sparks. He blended his | humorous opening remarks with a | serious discussion of the Daily Worker. He appealed to the mem- | | bership of the club to give the staff | of the Daily the opinions of the | paper which they receive in their | contacts with the workers while | selling the paper. The club received | Jorge with a long salvo of applause indicative of their enthusiasm for | the already famous “Red Sparks.” | Shoholm, chairman, then threw the afternoon open to the eats, | Following the banquet prizes were 1931 CALENDAR FREE! Quotations from Marx, Lenin, etc., in the first annual Daily Worker Calendar for 1931. Free with six =| hunger marching in all large cities and many small ones now. They are) getting nothing from Hoover’s pro-} gram, and unless their organized) | protest forces, action, many of them} will starve or freeze to death this! | winter. | All workers must prepare for the| mass demonstrations in all cities on} | Feb. 10, the day the delegates elected | at huge mass meetings of the job- less and workers go to Washington | to present the list of names of those demanding the passage of the Work- | ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Every jobless and employed worker | should sign his name to the lists now| being circulated demanding Passage | of that bill. | SIGN UP THE BREAD| aS FOR JOBLESS IN- | | “There's lots of f Weinritt, 294; 0%; Himmel- Allen, 171; ing the wek the club sold 7,659 . The question of membership in introduced by Mike Ap- pelman, who pointed out the impor+ tance of bringing new workers into the life and jes of the club. The workers were also addressed by Edward Roy: former manager of the Daily Worker, who related some of his experiences in getting the Daily Worker out and gave val- uable hints and suggestions to the members. Wexler, membe: Worker staff, Builders with some of ketching. EXPERT DAILY WORKER HOW John Barnes, a Negro comrade, who is leading in the house to house work of the Red Builders’ News Club, has a territory in Har- lem which, he says, is “a hard nut to crock.” He meets with some in- teresting experiences. no cincn to sell in Harlem,” “It's the Daily Worker v3 e Barr you a turn down. But you can’t le them phase you. I don’t. I ring a bell and say: ‘Hello, mam. Here's a copy of the only paper that tells the truth. I want to leave it with you. | Then I talk to her some about he own problems. It isn’t unusual to find the door elgsing in your face, | but that doesn’t stop me none. I often put my foot in the door while it is closing and say: “Now, look here lady, times out of ten she will say he is, out of work. “I say: ‘Are you standing anart from all this trouble that is going on about you in Harlem and all over the city?’ Many of the women I meet tell me they can’t pay their rent, that they may be evicted, and their husbands haven't been work- | ing for quite some time. Then I | tell them how the Baily Worker | fights for unemployment victims and wants to get all the unem- ployed workers free rent and in-| surance, | “Some of the folks I meet are| afraid of the Garveyites but I show| them how the Garveyites are their enemies and not their friends. | “Sometimes they still are not con- | vinced, but I come back the next| day and nine times out of ten I get me a customer for the Daily Worker.” Ambassador Edge and Vice King Partners in Enslaving of Workers tor Standard Oil the Red Cross invested ; cent with the Morgan | firm during the war. In effect, Morrow is Morgan's per- sonal emissary in New Jersey, and it | is by means of the gigantic Public | Service Corp of N. J., in which Mor- row is a large stockholder and Mor- gan has the predominating interest, | that the latter is able to control the| destines of a majority of New Jer-| sey’s inhabiants. | David Baird, whose seat in the} U. S. senate was given to Morrow | so that Morrow might eventually go| | to the White House, is the republican | Baird, too, is a large stockholder of | Public Service. Though Public Ser- | vice pays its servants well, Baird, | like all politicians, is, greedy enough | to steal the shoes of a dead man, | and consequently makes it his busi- ness to collect tribute from every disorderly house and gambling den in Camfén and the surrounding ter- ritory. Baird, in the course of his business, makes use of a large and extremely efficient gunmen’s club in Camden which Yarely if ever is botltered by the police. e| With Morrow in the north, Baird in the south and a host of minor | politicians and “labor leaders” cover- | ing the rest of the state, there ts! Searcely an inch of Jersey territory that is not under the fond supervi- sion of Morgan's Public Service, ‘The third of the G. O. P. leaders is Walter Edge, ambassador to France (where he doubtless is an! earnest contributor to plans for an attack on the Soviet Union) and former U. S. senator. many years a co-leader, with Nochy Johnson, of Atlantic City, where every third house is a gambling joint, every fourth a brothel and every fifth a hotel in which the employees labor from 10 to 14 hours cent appointment as ambassador, got untold millions in graft—directly and indirectly—from every one of the Prostitutes whose patriotic duty it is to make Atlantic City “the play ground of America.” Edge didn’t stop collecting from tor: he was sent there on « 1 of W. J. | worry about the affairs of Public He has been! with the Standard Oil for a long| period. It started in fact, even be- fore Teagle, president of the Stand- ard Oil, and Edge married two sis- ters. Senator Kean, the fifth of the re~| publican quintet, has little ame to Service. This may appear a little selfish on his part until it is re- membered that Kean is one of the richest men in the world and with the present crisis and everything has had a bad time of it nursing his} hundred and twenty odd millions | along. Although Kean rarely goes out of his way to help further Pub- lic Service banditries, it cannot be| said that anyone has ever seen him | obstructing Public Service schemes. | Now to come to the republicans’ | “opponents.” ‘The shining light of | democracy in New Jersey is Mayor Frank Hague, a blackjack artist and gunman in his youth but now vice- chairman of the democratic national * them your husband working?’ Nine | tex.” This is clear proof from @ capi- talist source admitting that the big banks are feeling the shock of the crisis and that a good number of with hundreds of millieris of dollars involved have gone under. ee 56 Big Gary, Ind., Bank Goes. GARY, Ind., Dec. 20.—One of thé leading banks of this United States Steel Corporation city smashed to= day, The Central Trust & Savings Co. failed to open. Deposits amoynt to more than $1,000,000. Most of this money was put into the bank by steel workers who slave in the Gary mills. Thousands are unemployed and face starvation with their funds tied up in the bank The bank is headed by one of the Indiana politicians. State Senator C, Oliver Holmes is president of this defunct bank. Eight more banks closed Monday, making the average for the month more than ten a day. Among the latest banks to go smash are the Bank of Oxford at Oxford, Miss.; the Vanburen County Bank at Clinton, Ark.; the Chambers County Bank at Lafayette, Ala.; the Farmers’ State Bank at Wheaten, Kan.; the Farm- ers’ State Bank at Brighton, Col.; thé Peoples Bank of Greensboro, Green County. The deposits in these banks {amount to millions. In many of these agrarian centers the closing of the anks completely paralyzes economic activity and plunges the poor farmers into worse conditions. (CONTIN ‘ROM PAGE ONB) right after its crash, but nothing (came of it, and no statements on conditions of this bank have been’ | forthcoming. The inside dealings are | still dark to the 400,000 depositors whose money is still tied up and no promise made about when any of it | will be returned. Talk-is still going on about “in- | vestigation” of the’ affairs of the Bank of the United States. This se- called investigation is in the hands | of Crain, a Tammany politician. The bank officials, involved in the rob- | bery of the 400,000 are Tammany. po- liticians, and» such men as Smith, Gilchrist, Lefcourt, and others — all Tammany henchmen—are involved ine the bank dealings. What sort of in- vestigation this will be should be ev- ident to all workers who know about the graft and robbery of the Tam- many politicians. Correction on Yesterday's Story. In yesterday's edition of the “Daily” Worker,” in a story on the Fish in- vestigation of Communist attivity in, relation to bank crashes, an error was made in stating that “The cap- tion ‘Prepare for More Bank Fail- ures’ never appeared in the Daily Worker.” This was the heading to an editorial which appeared in the Daily Worker. The prediction of bank fail- ures contained in the Daily Worker. has been more than exceeded by the facts, “ The Fish Committee in referring to the editorial “Prepare for More Bank Failures” attempts to make it appear that it is the Communists who cause bank failures. This is a deliberate He, The bank failures, which are rob- bing millions of workers and farmers of their hard earned pennies, result from the basic. economie crisis whieh is shaking American capitalism, plus the rotten bank dealings, gambling, fraud and stock-selling schemes of the bankers themselves, This is what Fish is trying te pre- tect in taking up the cry against the Communists as the instigators of bank crashes. Fish knows thet the Tammany grafters are head over heels involved in the bank of |the Bank of the United States. Though he is @ Republican, he committee, a close friend of Al Smith's and slated to be a member | of Smith‘s cabinet if that bootlegger | had been elected, a millionaire twenty-five times over, and still an employer of gunmen, although the | targetS of his gunmen’s bullets dif- fer greatly from the targets that were popular in Hague’s youth. For then it was small business men who were fired at in New Jersey, and today it is the militant and cour- ageous worker—and ocasionally. the rival racketeer, The other democratic boss, Ted and czar of the A: F. of L. unions in New Jersey. Mr. Byandle’s ac- tivities in labor racketeering will be chronicled at some length in future articles. And so we find that of the seven Political bosses in New Jersey, one {s @ Morgan partner, with all that signifies, another ts a brothel and gunmen-club protector as well as a Public Service servant, a third is | Rockfeller employee, a fourth, | Knoehy Johnson, is New Jersey's grestest criminal, even according to | capitalist standards, a fifth is one of the world’s richest men, a sixth is ® racketeer and ex-gunman and the fo an AF. of %, oficial be Brandle, is a racketeer, a bootlegger | PELLAGRA KILLS 875 EN N. C. - | GREENSBOROUGH, N. OnPel- | lagra, the disease of malnutrition, has taken 875 workers’ lives from Jan. 1 to Nov. 1 of this year, These | Were only the numberof deaths from. | that scourge as reported to the North Caroling Bureau of Vital Stat of the Department of Heslth. year there was a toll of 061, end of the year the amount Pellagra will go far over ; Mark, since the last two the year always bring number of deaths, TAKE A LIST TO WORK WITH YOU FOR JOBLESS in es