The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1931, Page 3

30,000 SOUTH BEND| 15000 Jobless in PHILA. JOBLESS BEING Grand Rapids; FED PROMISES Kes? Speeded SERIOS DEATH | Show (By a Worker Correspondent, ) In| GRAND RAPIDS, Mich—Condi- j tions in the Grand Rapids furniture Auto Town shops are getting worse and worse, | lay-offs and speed-up, wage-cuts etc. | (By a Worker Correspondent) With more than 15,000 unemployed SOUTH BEND, Ind.—The bosses|in Grand Rapids those that are and their tools, the social fascist so- | jucky enough to be slaves yet sre no Gialists here are trying to create the) petter off than the workers that are! impression that immediately after | employed. Tue boss tells us better New Year thirty thousand unem-| snap out of it or you'll be walking Four Breadlines SHEET DEMANDS Kinship With Bloody Fascism (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA—Only the mass action of the working class itself will | save Comrade Guido Serio. Speaking of this very vital case, I noticed in the Philadelphia Record | fea | of Dec. 25 an editorial dealing with Rloyed workers here will be given! j the streets looking for another Jo.’ tnis and showing the line of the “Iib- jobs and unemployment will disap- pear from the city limits of South Bend, they say. ‘They tell the starving unemployed that the Federal government is plan- ning to build a huge post office building which will cost many hun- dreds of thousands of dollars and that that will solve unemployment. Fake Bldg. Program While it may be true that the fed- eral government is planning to build @ post office here it is also true that only a handful of workers will be hired to do the work. And these wWorters will be speeded up beyond human endurance and their wages ‘will be about 35 cents an hour. No ‘worker believes these social liars. But the government has been building post office buildings around here for the last year and the unem- ployed didn’t get any work. That is why no worker believe that the “building program” will ever be put Into effect in South Bend. Breadlines Here. The unemployed are realizing more than ever before that instead of lis- tening to the capitalist bunk and selling apples they are anxious to do something that will make the bosses shiver and tremble with fear. There are three or four breadlines here and few workers go back again to eat the rotten food given them. Join the South Bend Council of | | work the next day. }even though the worker is working as fast as it is humanly possible. The bosses even cut the workers’ wages for little things as only donating only fone dollar to the Welfare Union, for | this a worker got cut 10 percent and | some are thrown out of work for not | being able to give a donation to the | Welfare Union. | | Get Wage Cut. | At the Luce Furniture Co. the} workers get a wage cut almost every) |day, their piece work prices are cut so now a worker has to work very jhard to make 2 or 3 dollars in 12 | hours work. Some workers who gets} |a job at Luce Furniture Co., work | the first day and make as low as 90 | cents for a whole day’s work. This has; happened many times and many | workers don’t even come back to { Many Shops Closed. Many shops are shut down and the rest are working only a few days a) week, but the bosses try to make the workers turn out as much work as) they did when working full time. | | Even in the shops where the work- | | ers work on day rates instead of piece | | work the workers are speeded up 80 | | it's no better than if we were working; |on piece work, the boss is constantly | watching them and keep track of the | | work done by each worker. Those) |that do not turn out as much as} the faster worker get bawled out and | | @ seditious alien returned to his na- : Unemployed and fight for real sub- jis told to do more work if he wants | tial unemployment relief for you | to keep his job. | ind your family. | Young Workers. | Many young workers and women | are employed in the furniture in- | | | dustry, they work on machines as _ WEAVERS’ STRIKE helpers at very low wages. » LOOMS IN PHILA. Hosiery Strikes Are Holding Firm (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The three hosiery strikes now on at the Master Hosiery Co. the Buck Hosiery Co. and Schletter and Zander continue. ‘There is regular picketing and tho weather is cold and Vare's armies of police are always around, the spirit of the strikers remains undaunted. Boss Papers Mum | Philadelphia Record came out with a | None of the capitalist press saw fit to mention the oncoming strike of the carpet, rug and tapestry weavers, Workers with the present bad con- | ditions getting worse it is time we| do something about it, the only way that we may expect to get any better conditions is by organization. Join erals” in regard to Serio. The Phile- delphia Record calls itself a liberal paper. Shows Liberal Stand. It shows the stand of the liberals in this case when it says that “there is no room for sentiment in the case of Guido Serio” and here they state | the case and the reason for his ar- rest and sentence of deportation to! Italy, which means certain death to active opposition to fascism. “Serio asks to be sent to Russia at his own expense” and here they state, “is it sophistry to say that to order tive land to face a death penalty is equivalent to inflicing a death sen- tence for his offense committed here? Is it brutal to say to the prisoner ‘that is your affair, not ours. You cannot expect us to protect you against Italy, whose laws you also) defied?” On the other hand would it be in accord with the comity of governments for this one to help Serio escape justice in his native land as administered by its government? Such questions are bound to be asked,” | And here ts the answer given by this reactionary “liberal” paper: “We can perceive no reason why the fed- eral authorities should hesitate to send Serio back to Italy IGNORING his request to go to Russia. But it will be interesting to see what the United States Circult Court of Ap- | peals, to which the case is to be car- ried, will rule.” the Furniture Workers Industrial League located at 756 S. Division Ave., Third floor. The F. W. I. &. holds a meeting | each first and third Wednesday of | each month, attend this meeting and | learn more about the program of the | Furniture Workers Industrial League. | Finally however on December 27 eight days after the strike vote was taken and arbitration voted down the story that the general strike of the | weavers was to be submitted to arbi- tration. The story admitted that the bosses wanted a 25 per cent wage cut. Whether the weavers will accept | any cut at all as proposed by the bosses thru “arbitration” remains to be seen. It is unlikely. After the new year the workers of 27 mills, all in Kensington, will in all likelihood | go out on strike. Engineers Calculate Starvation of Jobless NEW YORK.—Another swindling “investigation” which will make a pretense of solving unemployment, and in the course of months and years pile up some figures of doubt- | ful value while 9,000,000 workers | starve for leck of jobs, is to be made | by the American Engineering Coun- | cil, chiefs of that organization stated yesterday. They have appointed 100 sub-com- mittees to collect figures. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ditions in the bituminous districts now beggar descrip- tion. Men, women, and children are in great masses. There is next to Babies are dying like flies for want children cannot go to school for lack of food and clothes. Barefoot, they trudge abo ‘The dread hunger disease, pellagra, is spreading throughout the bituminous sections. The companies have no organized relief systems. Their motto is the brutal one of John L. Lewis that * “300,000 miners must get out of the coal industry.” many places the miners are still allowed to remain in This is because the mine companies, realizing that the crisis in the coal industry is chronic, have 30 more use for their surplus. company houses than for their surplus miners. The company houses fall more and more into disrepair, the companies doing nothing to keep them up. Often the decrepit company houses. without light and water, they barely ished workers from the wintry blasts. gions thousands of miners and other homeless work- ers sleep in the coke ovens trying to shelter. In such desperate conditions of miners and their families while parasites spend millions of dollars parties” for their daughters, trips to Europe, ete. Many miners, seeing their families coming desperate, Suicides are rapidly on the in- Organized banditry is beginning. Hungry workers are organizing in small groups and stealing whatever food they can from the richer farmers of the country round about. A delegate to the recent meeting of our Miners’ Union Board Jowing typical incident, One miner told another that Was going to an adjoining town to look for work. he ‘The second ridicyled him as wasting vited him to join the party he had and get a sheep. He joined. The workers are going | into the company stores, demanding food, and if it is not given them, taking it by force. Here is a typical incident: In a western Pennsylvania town a Negro woman a few days ago demanded food Pledge to build RED SHOCK Starvation Stalks Through Coal ONE) actually starving nothing to eat, of milk. Grown loaf but a dozen. ut in the snow. stuffs, In Our Party, the Unions have just shelter the fam~ In the coke re- find warmth and | **- live great armies useless capitalist for “coming out starving are be- dustry. reported the fol- his time, and in- organized to go on February 10th, miners. CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E, 13TH 8T., NEW YORK CITY RED SHOCK TROOPS eae $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND OOPS for the s Fields of Pennsylvania from the company store for her starving children. Yt was refused her, so she snatched a loaf of bread. This was taken from her. her husband came, pistol in hand, and took, not one hangers-on present, at the peril of their lives, to pre- vent him. The coal companies and local governments, realizing the growing hunger and militancy of the miners, are increasing their thug forces generally and, in southern Illinois and other bituminous, are placing special guards around freight cars loaded with food- workers’ organizations, in @ united front movement, have scheduled hunger marches in the local districts. ‘There must be many more organized, The two Execur tive Boards of the TUUL Miners and Metal Workers’ struggle against mass starvation. The starving are ready for action. A wave of revolutionary spirit sweeps among them. Denied the opportunity to work and refused unemployment relief, they will not pas- sively starve. They will seize food wherever they find Whole sections of the bituminous are on the verge of hunger riots. ‘The situation in the mining industry provides a test of our Party’s ability to lead the masses in struggle. Tf we will this winter but give the miners a little or- ganization and leadership they will bring forward the question of unemployment and unemployment relief so dramatically and drastically that the repercussion will be felt in every industry in the country. The mass political strike is a-slogan of action in the mining in- Every Party district in whieh there is coal territory should at once organize hunger marches in all important coal camps and towns. These should be connected with mass collection of signatures for our bill, the election of delegates to Washington, prepara- tions for the great national unemployed demonstration councils, the Miners’ Union, and the Party. We never had a better opportunity to develop mass organization and struggle than ‘Whereupon, ten minutes later, Moreover, he dared the company TUUL unions, and various other issued a joint call for a militant miners: and the organization of unemployed now exists among the famished ,Jot of money in the Navy Hell, no. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRID. JANUARY 2, 1931 Page “Last night, I waited three hours | in the Breadline at Times Square for | a measly sandwich and a cup of cof- fee with saltpeter in it,” a jobles worker writes. “Hundreds of unem- ployed workers had to wait till twelve o'clock midnight, six hours of freez- jing on the cold pavement for a lousy | sandwich. | | ‘Some sentimental guys thought |they’d help the jobless handing out |nickels. Another one picked out the |most ragged of us to hand a thin) |dime to each one. But a couple of | | unemployed workers handed out hun- |dreds of copies of the Daily Worker. | “The workers in the line grabbed | the paper like hot cakes. They | surely know the Daily, The street | | cleaner who has a job cleaning up | | the paper sups picked up two Dail- jes and showed them to the cop with a dirty grin, but a jobless worker hollered ‘gimme that paper.’ | Then another picked the other | Daily from the trash can.” “Three U. S. sailors came to the. | breadline at this time and wanted to get in line but the cop refused to let| them pretending that it was a dis-/| grace to the uniform to let them in} line. The sailors protested. I’m hungry, one of them said. I want something to eat. You thing I got a Let me in this line. A big crow! gathered around the cop and the} three sailors, the sailors, trying to get in the line and the cop pushing them } off. Then a half a dozen cops came and pushed the gobs away.” LETTERS SHOW ENTHUSIASM OF WORKERS FOR THE DAILY H. H. B., Detroit, writes: “Please continue with the Daily Worker, for I‘love the paper, the} Daily Worker..I read it every day. I talk to my fellow-workers and will send you the names of several work- | ers. Some seem to understand and | some seem to be still asleep. About| one out of every thousand is working | and the rest are out on the streets. | But continue on with the Daily Worker. Teach the soldiers with the Daily Workers, Give me liberty or | death.” “Wait Hrs. on Cold Pavement INTERNATI for Lousy Sandwich;” Workers \Eager for Daily; SS eee Orders Grow NEWS© M. C., Brooklyn, says: “I like, very much, Comrade Walker’s work, fine work, very in- spiring and admirable indeed. I am very glad also because our chil- dren are ‘crazy’ about funny papers which we now have.” T. E, Columbus, Ohio, writes “Receive 25 copies of the Daily Worker. Sell out every night. En- closed three subs.” This from A. E. M., Wisconsin: “Your paper is a mighty paper | 150,00 BRITISH |Cable Reports MINERS STRIKE Show the World Crisis Extends Threat Walkout | ‘The latest cable reports to the De- eae | partment of Commerce from many; LONDON. Jan. 1.—Over 150,000} es show the economic crisis is | for the toiling masse: eryone miners in the South Wales coal fields yeaching sharper phases in nearly whe works for wages, especially un- | bave gone out on strike today. A. J.| every country in the world. On the skilled Ibor, are anxious for a (Cook, secretary of the Miners Fed- | pasis of the condition of many.of the | Daily to satisfy their hunger. It (eration, working together with the| markets on which United States im- takes only a few editions to wake | bosses and the MacDonald govern-| nerialism depends, it is clear that) up a strong desire for the Daily. | ment, is feverishly attempting to stop} there will be a still further cut in| It opens their eyes so they can see | the strike and to keep it from spread- | soreign trade in 1931. The following | their enemy.” | are some of the details reported: 200,000 In Textile Mills! BURMA PEASANTS GAIN SUCCESSES Bombay Riots Spread; Cops Hurt (Cable by Imprecorr) LONDON,~ Jan. 1-One hundred and: ninety-two were injured yegter- day-night in Bombay Street fight when police and troops tried t@ pre- vent. the. holding. of 25 moegtinga to commemorate. the anniversary. of in- dependence at-the call of: the Lahore Congress. The police fired on Male-. | consternation the Daily “DAILY WORKER GETTING BETTER AND BETTER” D. M. C., Harrington, Wash., writes: “Say, comrades, you should see the Worker is causing among the fascist elements of this little farming community. The proprietor of the local grocery store threatens us with the American Legion for distributing the Daily. “The Daily Worker is getting bets | ter and better every isue.” From “An American Slave” in Or- lando we hear: “Have sure been slow raising the $6 enclosed. Sure can’t do without the Daily Worker now, as we need it to sow the seed of discontent and the air is full of it everywhere. A person can sure see a change going on in the workers’ minds, Before they would not care to read the Daily Worker. Now they want it.” L. L., St. Louis, writes: “Three weeks ago we started anew method of getting weekly subs. We) are getting satisfactory results. We distribute the paper at the same houses and then send a committee to visit the workers and try to get them to become regular subscribers, The first week we distributed 40 papers and took 8 subs. Now we have 18 subs on the carrier route. We intend to build.” - | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | headquarters at room 909 Markle Bank Building in Hazelton under the | name of “Direct Sales Co.” He also | gets mail delivered under the name | of “Qualiteed Chemical Co.” Downey | is a fleshy, bulldog individual ot} about 240 pounds, | Downey’s stunt at first was to im- port ten under cover spies who under | the cover of “salesmen” visit the | homes of the strikers, spie on them, report the most militant ones, and do everything to discourage them. Strikers Use Good Means. Since tHe strikers, despite their misleaders, have been indulging in mass picketing going over to Kings- | ton, Pa. across the river from Wilkes Barre where the Duplan Silk Co. has | a mill, attempting to get the workers | there out, Downey got hold of 19 “salesmen strikebreakers.” The bosses want to open the plant soon and are carrying on a furious propaganda to get the workers to go back to work. Downey’s instructions are to spread the lie that the strike is lost. His instructions to the “sales- men strikebreakers” (a copy of which the Daily Worker was able to obtain) says: Spread Lies. “The strike in Hazelton has been lost. It was lost before it started,” The instructions go on to tell the boss spies that “You may find that some of these prospects are afraid that their sons and daughters may be intimidated or assaulted. As- sure them that the company wil: provide them with ample protection, as they would not allow any of their employees to be intimidated or as- saulted by any outside agitator. ”” Under the eapiton in Bold Type “IMPORTANT!” Downey instructs his strikebreakers that: “Under no circumstances ask the prospect questions, because you yourself would naturally feel sus~ picious, if you were asked ques- tions by a stranger, Let the con- yersation drift around to the point you wish to cover in your report.” “When a party looks at you with jing among other mine districts. | Following its usual policy of be-} jtrayal of the workers’ interests, the) era] business and weakness in ex-| nment is frantically change has continued with no im- | j attempting to get 150,000 coal miners| provement in the outlook for better | | MacDonald gover {in South Wales to give in to the | |; bosses. At the same time, 200,000 | |workers in the Manchester district | reported responsible for large can-| jare preparing for a walk-out against | celjations in ordered agricultural ma- | |the proposal of the bosses to increase | | speed-up and cut wages. | The MacDonald government has | been calling for “peace,” asking the | workers to | forward by the bosses in order not to} |strike and thus cause His Majesty's | | Labor Government embarrassment. | Negotiations between the 150,000! day law which in itself is a compro: | mise put over by the MacDonald gov. ernment. Realizing they gained advantage by the action of the Mac- | | Donald outfit, the coal bosses are) pressing this advantage in order to increase hours of work. | In the Manchester textile mills the | | bosses have evoked a scheme ‘0 make | | the workers take more looms than | formerly which would throw tens of | | thousands of textile workers out of | | jobs, and make these remaining do| more work at less money. The work- | ers are adamant in their refusal. | | In a previous strike over the same | issue in Scotland, the labor mis- leaders, through the instrumentality ARGENTINA-—-The dullness in gen-. cereal prices. The unfavorable credit conditions in the country districts are chinery implements, of which heavy stocks are accumulated and on hand. Committees of land owners and tes- ants have ben formed in some dis- cept any conditions put! tricts to compromise for reduced land | rentals in order to meet the emer-) gency for the next crop season. AUSTRALIA—The general trade and financial situgtion is less satis- } coal miners and the bosses ended in | factory than during the preceding | |} deadlock. The bosses are trying to| month. As bank deposits continue | |smash the seven and one hulf hour | to decline, and state and federal defi- | s lcits increase, credit grows tighter.| Rangoon itself was in a state of tur- Government deficits for the five months ended Dec. 1 totaled $95,000,- 000 and revenues are lower. Iron‘and steel production is approximately 50 per cent that of November, 1929, and building permits are considerably lower. NEW ZEALAND—Business gener- | ally continues depressed throughout | New Zealand. Imports during 1931 will be reduced 35 per cent, according to present indications. Automobile registrations for November were the lowest for the past ten years and December sales have been very slack to date. Building and construction | is practically at a standstill and lum- ‘BOSSES TRY TO SMASH HAZELTON STRIKE BY IMPORTING MORE SPIES x me sete ein, ating i. St Sree comoms Si | 5 { ber and hardware business is very | | of the MacDonald government, were | dull. There is no sign of improve- | able to stab the workers in the back | CANADA—With new lows for} | wheat established during the week’s | trading at Winnipeg, the depression of the South Wales miners. suspicion or looks at you in a worldly barhil-erowds: injuring. many. The masses surged: forward throwing stones. Seventeen police were injured severely and sent to the hosnital. “irs, Hovahar Lal Nehru was arrested under the criminal law. amendment act. +0 @ Latest dispatches from Rangoom, Burma, state that the 1,000 peasants who are in rebellion against the head tax,and robbery. of their land through the-aid of, British imperialism out- witted a patrol of British and Pun- | jabi_ troops, executed a bold sorty | within seventy-five miles of Rangoon | and bombed a bridge so damaging it as to halt train service and inter- tere with the movement of troops. So successful was this raid that | moil. Reports were spread that the | rebels had broken through and had | begun $0 attack the city itself, Most of_the -villages of the Tharawaddy | district are deserted, the inhabitants | having joined the forces of the retiels. ; Despite the feverish attempts of | the MacDonald troops to wipe out more than 1,000 peasants and agri- cultural laborers who are rebelling | against head tax, starvation and the | robbery of their lands, dispatches | from Rangoon to capitalist news- | papers here state that the rebels are successfully continuing their attacks against the imperialist authorities. The insurgent peasants are forti- fied in the jungle are near: Rangoon | in the Tharawaddy district. British and Punjabi troops who were sent against them reported kiling over 100, but the peasants have been able to make several successful sorties. wise fashion, oniy give them the reg- ular sales line then pack up and go.” How the Rats Work. These salesmen were supposed to sell ties, Christmas cards, patent»me- diicne, .some were connected with local clothing houses. Each man was given a list with 25 to 40 names of workers in the plant that was sup- plied to Downey by the Duplan plant, | The Daily Worker has a copy of} | one of these lists. Each night these men had to turn in a written report to Downey on | strikers and their families that they visited and their feelings and how | they progressed toward breaking the | strike—even reports showing how| much money they had in the house, if they were hungry, if they could pay the rent, The “salesmen” pile it | into them that “things are tough and | the best thing to do is to give in. Also they report whether the strikers | have a militant attitude. These re- | ports were sent to the Markle Bank | Bldg. where a stenographer workea at night typing them out and de- liyering them to the company. One of the “salesmen” Garrett called on a worker who was a staunch supporter of the strike and tried two or three times to engage in a con- versation. 4 Besides, one of the “salesmen” spies by the name of Greeves is calling on the small merchants in the vicinity of the strike and bringing pressure to bear against them to keep them from giving credit to the workers 50 that they will go hungry. ‘What the Strikers Must Do. ‘The strikers in the Hazelton plant of the Duplan Silk Co. must organize a large and representative rank and file strike committee to conduct the strike. The strike can be won if thd workers stay out and organize, not allowing themselves to be misled by the A. F. of L. fakers, Mass picket- ing must be conducted to get out the workers in other mills. Strikers, hold! together! Smash the wage cuts! Get | DANBURY HATTER MEETING TODAY ‘Plan Strike Against 20 Per Cent Cut | DANBURY, Conn., Jan, 1.—All fur} workers and hatters of Danbury are | called to a mass meeting Jan. 2 by | the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- | trial Union to discuss the 20 per cent | wage-cut in the National Fur Shop| and prepare for a strike on Monday. | The mass meeting will be held in| Cyphers Armory, on Library Place. | The fur workers of the National | Fur Shop, about 300 in all, most of | them young girls and boys in their | early twenties, are extremely resent- | ful against the cut which will reduce | their wages now averaging $17 to $25, to from $13 to $20. They are talking of a strike, and at a shop. workers’ meeting held) Tuesday night with an organizer of | | the Trade Union Unity League, it | was decided to call a meeting of all | fur workers and hatters in Danbury, | not only to support the proposed | strike in the National Fur Shop, but to spread the strike to all the fur} shops in Danbury, which are also | contemplating wage-cuts, affecting | about 1,000 workers. June Croll is scheduled to speak at | the mass meeting, representing the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Union, where a strike vote will be taken. LYONS CARMEN STRIKE. ‘Three thousand street carmen in Lyons went o nstrike yesterday under | revolutionary leadership to secure the reinstatement of a victimized worker. ‘They are also demanding wage in- creases. The municipal council is | trying to maintain a skeleton service | with scab labor, the census of unemployment in 1929 in touch with the Trade Union Unity League at 39 North 10th St., Phila~ delphia. NEW YEAR OPENS WITH LARGEST NUMBER OUT OF WORK IN HISTORY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 1920-22 crisis, when Hoover himself admitted there were 8,000,000 out of work. The figures for 1920-21 are 33.6; for the crisis of 1907-09, 29.7 per cent, and for 1893-4 28.6. to have jobs, the result is the 12,600,000 unemployed! This does not count those who were out of work before. Here is a little information on the “normal” amount of unemployment which the bosses do not even pay any were 5,796,920 out of work. Prof. Horace Taylor of Columbia in 1928 ‘said there were not less than 4,000,000 unemployed in that year. And Dr. Leo Wolman, so-caled authority on unemployment, said in 1927 there were at the minimum 2,055,000 out of work. ‘Worst In 100 Years! ‘We can see that before the onset of the present severe crisis there were at least 3,000,000 workers who could not get jobs. All records for drops in production have been smashed by the present crisis. Sir Charles Addis declared that the present world crisis (and it finds its severest expression in the United States) is the worst in said, nearly four months ago, the average amount of unemployment in any one day was between 7,000,000 and 9,000,000. Since then the em- ployment indexes have dropped about ten per cent, adding several millions to the ranks of the unemployed. More in the Future, From all these facts, and remem- | bering that the agricultural workers are not even counted in the above estimates, the American workers have in their ranks an army of jobless be- | tween 10,000,000 and 12,000,000 stead- ily unemployed. With part-time em- ployment, the figure is brought up to between 14,000,000 and 15,000,000. ‘The leading capitalist experts say this figure will be increased in 1931! The downswing of production is un- interrupted. Speed-up fs. being in- creased, meaning present production is going on with les workers. Every process of the crisis is squeezing more and more werkers out of their jobs. The entire working-class in some form or other, is affected directly, by the largest mass of unemployed workers ever seen at any time in one from all parts of Germany. | attack took place against a group of the neck, {im agriculture continues paramount in the Canadian commercial position, GERMAN WOODWORKERS | FORM NEW RED UNION, (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Dec. 31.—Yesterday the national conference of woodworkers opened here and ‘organized a revolu- tionary trade union movement to re- sist wage-cuts and the treachery of the reformist trade union leaders. } Many delegates, employed and un- } employed worrworkers, were present Yesterday evening an armed fascist workers in Yorkstrasse, Berlin. The Communist, Meyer, was shot through MASS COLLECTION | SUNDAY IN PHILA. pis | PHILADLEPHIA, Pa., Jan. 1—A; special Red Sunday has been arrang- | ed by the Trade Union Unity League of this district for the collection of signatures in support of the Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. All mem- bers of the unions affiliated with th | Trade Union Unity League and sym- | pathetic organizatons are urged to} eme out Sunday, Jan. 4, between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. The following stations are announced as collection headquarters, Go to the nearest for lists, ete. 1208 Tasker St., South Philadel- phia, 567 N. 5th St., North Philadelphia. 1331 Franklin St., North Philadel- Phia. 2926 Gordon St., Strawberry Man- sion. 4045 Girard Ave. West Philadel- phia. 2802 Kensington Ave., Kensington Section. The Unemployed Councils of the Trade Union Unity League are mo- bilizing the Jobless workers of Phil- adelphia as well as the workers who are still employed and are subject to the wage-cutting campaign and the part-time work, A rally will be held Jan. 14, 8 p. m. at the Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian Sts. as part of the cam- | paign which is carried on by the| Trade Union Unity League for signa- tures to be presented by the Unem ployed delegation in Washington on Feb. 10, Is is part of the prepara- tions for a big Unemployment: Con- ference which will be held Sunday, Jan. 5, for which the unemployed ” well as the employed and particularly A. F. of L. locals in the textile and building trades are being mobilized. These workers face starvation and eviction from their homes. The main speaker at the meeting | on Jan. 14 will be William Z. Foster, general secretary of the Trade 1! Unity League recently released from jail after serving six months for leading the March 6 i, tas le HUNGER MARCHES DUE NEXT WEEK (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tration is following a policy of de- liberately starving them into material for the next war and to make them allies in a wage cutting program Steel Jobless Mobilize. In Ambridge, Pa.,, ther ewill be a hunger march Jan. 5. In Youngstown, Ohio, there will be another, Jan. 5, There are more than 20,000 jobless. here, and they will not die quietly. They want food, and they demand the city furnish at least $10 a week for single unemployed workers and $20 for those who haye families. The jobless will march at 7 p.em. and will send a delegation into the city hall while they demonstrate outside. Southern Delegation. On Jan. 6, over 100 delegates from the throngs of jobless throughout North Carolina will be at the state capitol in Raleigh to present the de- mands for the right of those who | sent themto live: On Jan. 7, delegations from all over Calif. will meet the jobless masses in Sacramento, state capital, at 11 a. m., at Second and K. Sts, and will proceed to the legislative halls and make their demands. On Jan. 8, the jobles of Brooklyn and ronx wil march on their borough halls, demanding unemployment re- lief, no evictions, no cutting off of Bas and light for the jobless, food Borough L have ben defying police teror for days and mobilizing larger and masses behind them. They have mil- itantly stopped evictions by mgss demonstrations and by. putting the furniture back. They lead the marches on Jon. 8. On’ Saturday, Jan. 10, the swarms of jobless who are growing desperate from hunger in the great steel and coal center, Pittsburgh, will march and make their demands for tmme- diate relief, All these hunger marches go hand in hand with the continue] to collect tens of thousands of sigr tures for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, to organize the Coun- cils of the Unemployed, to build up great mass meetings to ratify the bfll and elect the delegations which vill take it and the signatures to Wash- ington and present them to congress on February. 10th, CAMP AND HOTEL | Ly =