The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1931, Page 3

700 SHIVER, WATT. FOR BACK ACHING DELIVERY WORK Only 75 Tred for 12- Hour Day Job | BROOKLYN.—I saw an advertise- ment in the want ad section of to- day's World calling for strong men to deliver telephone books on a sal- | ary and commission basis. For salary | they paid the magnificent sum of $1.50 per day and the sum. of 11-4 cents for every old book brought back. I came to the place, the name of which is the Reuben H. Donnelly Telephone Book Coa., located at 172 Empire Blyd., about 5 o’colck in the morning. There were about 50 fel-/ lows waiting in front of the place, which was located on a dreary, wind-| swept block. Huddle Tonight. They were huddled around a fire which they had built to keep warm. The topic of their conversation was as follows. One of the workers who had ben sent down by the fake city unemployment agency in New York told us that he had spent his last | dime for carfare to come here and | was about to be evicted from his home if he did not pay his rent. He had been to the fake mayor's emergency relief committee and told them about his case and of the fact that he had a sick wife, but all that he got was'a promise of investigation. | 700 Apply for Jobs. - | After standing around and freezing | for two hours one of the doors were opened and one of the foremen/ started calling out the names of his friends and those that had in some way or other done him a favor. By that time the crowd had grown to about 700 men. The foreman went through the. crowd, picking out those that suited his fancy. Of the 700} workers that were in front of the) place about 75 were lucky enough to be chosen to earn from $2 to $4 for from 9 to 12 hours of back-breaking | work climbing stairs and lugging tele- i phone books. While the foreman and his straw bosses or inspectors, as they call themselves, were going through the workers the latter were fighting among themselves, pushing and shov- ing one another in their anxiety to get near enough to one of these well- | fed bosses to beg him to hire him at any sum as “long as he could make | thank God for a soup. The rest all) a few dollars,” but in spite of all the talk very few of them were hired, showing clearly the meaning of the extensive advertising of the bosses there for 200 men and at the same time sending for 50 men from the city employment agency and then; hiring only 75 men. CHICAGO HUNGER MARCH JAN. 12 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) more, and asked them to return. In the meantime, the Unemp!oyed Councils aré proceeding with all ar- rangements and mobilization for a tremendous Hunger March and Dem- onstration to the City Hall on Jan. 12, at 12 o'clock noon. | Friday morning, an unemployed war veteran located in one of the flop houses dropped over the T. U. U. | L and Unemployed Council head- quarters and deposited the following letter: (he did not have the 2-cent postage to mail it). “Unemployed Council, 23 So. Lin- ; coln St.: In regard to mobilizing of | unemployed on the breadline for hunger march on to City Hall Jan. 12 you must reach all unemployed with leaflets at least one day before march and to get them all it would be best collect signatures for the Workers | week and the next. | strike. Chevy ‘Revival’ Is New Speed Ub tor Auto Toilers (By a Worker Correspondent.) OAKLAND, Calif—I am employed in the Fisher Body-Chevrolet plant in Oakland. There is supposed to be a “revival of industry” at this slave dump. Everything is going full blast. We have reached as high as 300 units & day in production. Everybody is as busy as hell. They are speeding us-up to beat hell. Every day some- one is either quitting or being fired because they cannot keep up with the speed. Piece-Work Basis, The plant is mainly on a piece- work basis, In order to make any- thing ‘like decent wages you have to dam near break your back. Polish- ers are working from 7:30 in the morning Gntil 6:20 at night in order to make about $5 a day,° This is considered pretty good wages. too. At present we are working nights and Sundays, too. The bosses are pushing everything to load up the dealers with the new models. Then will come the crash. We'll all be laid off again. This is the way they have been working us all year, off again, on again. Must Fight. We must have a real union here to fight the bosses. We must fight against the speed-up and piece-work system by which the bosses make us work like hell to make a few miserly dollars. We had a strike here a year and a half ago which was led by the Trade Union Unity League. “Bill” Spooner, local A. F. of L. leader. helped the bosses all he could in that —Auto Worker. to distribute th> leaflets a‘ the bread-lines in tie morning ° tween 5:30 and 8 a, m. because they are al; out by that time.” Over 1,000 men sleep at Monroe and Loomis, snd cat at 712 West Monroe St. Also more than 1,000 eat there so that make over 2,000 at one place. All are on line between 5:30 and 8 a. m. because they are all building. It is the same in Slow Death House No. 1. “I don’t know about the other slow death houses. And at Monroe and Loomis, flop houses, about 15 are glad they get soup, the rest are all Reds. At Wrigley’s building. about 50 talk Red same in county jail and Wacker Drive. All talking about, bet- tering conditions and fighting bosses. Hoping for biggest hunger march ever held in Chicago. “But I think very few of the unem- ployed at bread-lines and flop houses will be at William Z. Foster's because we have to be in flop houses before 9 a. m. if we don't, the dick takes the card away from us and throws us out.” Special leaflets to Negro workers and jobless are being issued to adver- tise the great mass meeting at which William Z. Foster will speak Friday, Jan. 9, at 7:30 p. m. at Chicago Coli- seum. Unemploycd workers are ad- mitted free, others pay 20 cents, to- wards @ fund for organizing the jobless. Another special leaflet is being is- sued to the rank andsfile of the A. F. L,, calling on them to attend the Zos- ter meeting, and to resist the taxa- tion schemes of the A.F.L. officials The second United Front Confer- ence of Chicago Workers Organiza- tions will meet Sunday. Week of Struggle NEW YORK.—This is the opening of a week of intensive struggle by the tinemployed in many localities for immediate relief from the cities and state legislatures, and of demonstra- tions to help organize the jobless into councils of the unemployed, to COPS CHASE VETS TRYING TQ MAKE LIVING SELLING |Estimate 150,000 L. A.| Jobless Workers | | (By a Worker Correspondent) | LOS ANGELES, Calif—I want to/ | tell about conditions in Southern | California and what is being done-to “help” the masses of unemployed. | The police terror here is great. There |are sevetal bread lines in the city, | where the workers are made to listen | to hours of bible prayer and then given a ticket for bread. There are at least a hundred and | fifty thousand unemployed here of | all races. ‘Che Salvation Army made | believe that it was going to relieve | unemployment by handing out char- | ity in market bags that had the Army crest on its sides so that the workers could parade their misery before the bosses. The Salvation | | Army collected about two million dol- lars in cash besides the food they j handed out, but this they kept for | themselves. | Another drive to “help” the unem- | Ployed was that of letting the War Veterans sell Christmas seals on the | streets. The veterans earned about | $1.50 a day selling these. Not being able to get along on this starvation earning many of the vets started to sell holly. The florists here got wind of this and paid each cop on the beat to chase the vets off the street. The cops did their bit and many of us had to throw our holly away because we weren't allowed to sell it on the | | Streets. | While the writer was selling the | Christmas seals a big, pot-belly with | Spats came along and handed the Salvation Army lassie $20. When asked to buy some seals and help the | war vets, he answered: “To hell with | them. Let them take care of them- | selves.” It is about time that you World | War vets woke up to realize that you | cannot get anything from the Ameri- jcan Legion and the government it | |represents. Join the Unemployed | Councils if you are out of work. Boss State Leaders | at Melchett Funeral LONDON, Dec. 31.—Giving further | proof of the domination of the | capitalist state machinery by finance capitalism and the big industrialists, | the funeral yesterday of Lord Mel- | chett, British industrialists, was at- | tended, according to the capitalist | press, by “high state figures Great Britain and other nations, tn- cluding the ambassadors from Po-| land, France, Austria and Greece.” | |The Maharajah of Burdwan, one of the Indian princes attending the ake round table conference on | India was also in attendance. | Unemployment Insurance Bill. | Mass hunger marches are taking | place today in Cleveland, Ambridge, | Pa., and Youngstown, Ohio, today. | Yesterday was Red Sunday for col- jlection of signatures to the Bill, in | Philadelphia. | The Sacramento jobless march on | the state capitol, Wednesday. ‘Thursday the Brooklyn and Bronx jobless march on their boro halls, to ' demand immediate relief. | On Wednesday, also, a delegation | from the jobless of various cities in ; Michigan marches into the state | legislature at Lansing to demand the state take action for relief. | ployed and workers’ organizations are jholding their second united front conference on the unemployment. campaign. Other struggles are under way this DAILY WORK | Total December 8 | Atlanta District, Atlanta, On Friday, the Cleveland unem-| 7, ER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1931 Stockton, Cal., Red Builders News Club Increases Order; Smaller Cities Slow Action A real live force in the distribution of the Daily Worker is the RedBuild- ers News Club as indivated by. this communication from the Stockton California club composed of Clarence Coffee, chairman; Paterson; Weber, Dean and Stener: “Yesterday morning Comrade C. Coffee and Comrade Paterson got up at 3.30 o’clock and drove to Sacra- mento to get the Daily Worker, as) our papers didn’t arrive. So he went and got some from the Sacramento Local. Then this morn- ing our Daily Workers arrived with the imerease from 25 to 75 daily tor which we thank you, “So Comrade C, Coffee and Com- rade Paterson took 30 copies each out in the Persite District and then on the return of these comrades from selling the Daily Worker, hay- ing sold all the copies, a ‘big cop took them over to the city jail for selling the Daily Worker.” However, when we showed them the ea mail entry on it, they had to let the comrades loose. Comrades, this morning the increase in the Daily Worker was received and we sure do need them, so be sure and keep sending 75 copies daily. In the very near future we will send for 100 | copies and even more, soon after that. | Thanking you in advance.” RED BUILDER SELLS TO LONG ISLAND FARMERS. “Whoa! Whoa! gimme a Daily Worker.” This is what you hear around the station at Inwood, L.L., when the truck farmers come in | for their mail. The reason is that | Dick Voss, member of the Red | Builders News Club now has select- | etl this station as his headquarters. He sold 29 Daily Workers in two | hours. The rest of his bundle of 40 | were sold on the trains. JOHN BARNES PASSES WHOLE OF DISTRICT 1. District one Boston has increased | the circulation of the Daily Worker | by 92 since the start of the campaign | for 60,000 circulation. John Barnes lives in New York City and started | selling 2-3 copies a day. Now Sells | 100. Barnes so far has increased his | own circulation more than the whole | of District 1, Boston, in the same | length of time. | SAVE THE “DAILY WORKER” - RUSH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS! DISTR: Total December 8 DISTRI Total December 8 . aie DISTRICT 12 | Total December 8 ............ W. S. Braugh, Seattle, Wash. . T 10 00 DISTRICT DISTRICT 15 Al ...% 13.00 English ch 00 | +$126.10 | Total Decem! A. Greenberg, New J. Alenskas, 0: New Unknown, Db Sem New ork Slovak, Wkrs. Society, N.Y Joseph J. Wurman, New York Total - 81,301.50 DISTRICT 3 ber 10th . +8 83.22 8 85.00 | DISTRICT 4 | ges Pp eerpgas soni? 85 | rotal December 10th conn 1.00, Fimatedy “Cin Scot eee ee ‘antic ty Ber Aen Gs as 50 | ik. Kentkinen, Bestia, $2.00 | G. Hill, Scotia, NY. 00 pibiaiorie Helma’ Blo, Scotia, N. 1.00 etal Dedsmtee = $ 2.00 Michael Mitler, Scotia, 1.00 | DISTRICT 17 Total December 8 - 826.00 40.00 $60.00 DISTRICT 1 Anonymous, Grent Falls, Mont. 5.00 DISTRICT 19 Total December 8 UNORGANIZED Total December 8 .......... ‘8 9.00 The following donations were re- ceived December 11 to 15, DISTRICT 1 Total December 10th...... B. P., Haverhill, Mass... P. Pantley, Haverhill, Mass... A. Sychevaky, Haverhill, Mass. <. Kasinchuk. Haverhill, Mass. D.F g| 28353322325225835 Balter, Haverhill. Mass. H. Kalaus, Hoverhill, Mass. A. Zilonis, Haverhill, M: J. Koval. Haverhill, FE. Podhorny. Haverhill = Bachur, Haverhill, 3 W. Smith, Haverhill. Mass. J, Natinak, Haverhill, Maxs.. P. aKtuk, Haverhill, Mass. Carl Stenauist, Maine .. Harry A. Battle, Orange, Mass. Total DISTRICT 2 Total December 10th . lin, New York, N Iman, New York, N. aiken, Princeton, N.J. Morhac, Jersey Cit Martinkevich, Bk} Leff, Brooklyn, (nit 12, Rae, 1. New Vark: Chanax, Long Isi_na,d . Wuls, Liberty, N.Y inlonter, Liberty, N.Y Righthand, Liberty, N. . Coulter, Liberty, N.Y. . Sunshein, Liberty, N Bork, Liberty, H. Barufkin, Katonah, . Hanson, aKtonah. .W.O. See. 3, Bronx, K. Chnil, Hempstead, N.Y. D. Kostynink, Hempstend, Pora Hh p J. Warbec, Hempsten L, Sorokowsky, Hem 3. Ski Brooklyn, N.Y. |. Katz, New York, Communist Votes Torn Up in Jersey Town; Hague Calls Off Strike After Graft ‘Fee’’ (This is the sixth in a series of | rested for selling the “Daily” was that primaries against Colgate for the re- articles on A. F. of L. and political corruption in New) Jersey.) . woe By ALLEN JOHNSON. Hague could never have obiained his stranglehold on the democratic! mechine in New Jersey without) the active support of the capitalists who | control the state. They secretly chafe’ however at the enormous price he ex. acts for helping to prevent the work- ers in “his” province from rebelling at their slavery. But Hague’s influ- ence, buttressed by that of the church and the press, is boing rapidly under- | mined by the prolonged crisis which has sent at least one breadwinner in every Jersey family into the ranks of the jobless. ‘This growing revolt on the part of the Jersey workers, of course, it not | directed only, or even largely, at Hauge, for the workers realize wel! | that Hague is merely the instrument of his employers. The reaction on tho part of the bosses has taken two aspects. One is the placing of big cepitalists themselves, like Morrow, or their direct representatives, like Edge. in high government positions, Jailed for Selling “Daily.” ‘The other side of this reaction has been @ growing terrorism against al) those who try to organize the work- ers and lead them in a militant fight against their exploiters. Thus it is a he was “crying his wares too loudly.” In many cases, workers have been held in $10,000 bail for distributing a leaflet announcing an indoor meeting of the unemployed. During the last election these at- tacks on Communists became in- creasingly common, for the capitalists were beginning to learn that the only real threat to their continued ex- | ploitation came from the Communist Party, comprising the vanguard of the working class. Despite constitu- tional guarantees, Communist candi- dates in many communities were not permitted on the ballot. When they were, many votes that were cast for them were not counted. In the town of Keansby, for example, the follow- ing incident occurred: A watcher in a polling place, noticing the counter throw an occa- sional ballot away, asked him the reason, The counter replied: “Oh, they're no good.” To satisfy his curiosity the watcher later took one of the discarded ballots from the waste basket and examined it. He went over to the man who had thrown it away and sald: “Jim, this ballot looks okay to me. What's wrong with it?” The answer, short aud sharp, was “I told you those ballots were no damn good. The're | Communist votes.” Edge and Hague Ballot-Box Stuffers. Long practice in the removal of “undesirable” votes has made the counters in the polling places effi- cient at their job. ‘When the present Ambassador Edge was running in the publican nomination for governor, lest te Edge’s democrat partner, called Edge on the telephone and told | him that Colgate was running far ahead of him in Hudson County and | Would probably capture the primaries if the ballot boxes weren't stuffed. Edge, then in Newark, rushed to | Hague’s office in Jersey City and | called in Billy Verdun, republican boss of the county, for a consultation. | The verdict, of course, was that new | ballot boxes be constructed immedi- | ately. This was done by the six men who are listed on the Jersey City payroll all the year round as “ballot box re- | pairers,” and Edge, Hague and Ver- dun then stuffed so many ballots into | ‘the boxes that Colgate lost the state by a few thousand votes, It is Edge’s ability as a ballot box stuffer, it is sald, that has evoked the sincere ad- miration of President Hoover. In, any event, it is true that Edge is a equent visitor at the White House. Although, as has been noted, ‘tague’s influence with his capitalist bosses is somewhat on the wane, he still exacts high tribute from them for “keeping the workers safe”—that is, safe for capitalists. Most of the | important firms in Hudson County | still contribute to Hague’s “campaign” | fund. The amount varies with the size of the company. The National Grocery Co., a fair-to-middling sized corporation, pays $5,000 yearly, and) other firms pay in proportion. These graft payments, for they are nothing but that, must not be confused with the more direct, if more secret, pay- ments, that Hague gets from the really important exploiters. Hague Prevents Strike. When Peck and Hill, a New York furniture house, moved to Jersey City, the Jersey Teamsters’ Union de- cided to call its members who were moving the company’s furniture on strike because Peck and Hill was an open shop firm using non-union teamsters. When Peck and Hill learned of the impending strike they forthwith sent a representative to see Mayor Hague. Hague was closeted with the man for an hour. When the conference was over, Hague immedi- ately called Ted Brandle, czar of the A F, of L, unions in New Jersey, and told him that there was to be no strike called on Peck and Hill Brandle assented, for wasn’t Hague an honorary member of the Team- ster’s Union—and hedn't he prom ised Brandle a share of the “fee” that Peck and Hill gladly paid to prevent the strike? This close relationship between | Hague and Brandle is a touching sight. When they both go to Palm Beach it is in Hague's private car. When Brandle wants one of the mili- tant workers in the unions he con- trols shot at, it is Hague who sees that the police suddenly become blind. And when Hague wants some choice | liquor to warm the hearts of a few fellow-thieves, it comes straight and | fast from SBrandle’s Jersey City, speakeasy, one of the largest in a! state of many large speakeasies, a Goodly number of them owned by A, F, of L, labor “leaders.” m4 | a Worker can come every second day | i. Lindstrom, Scotia, N.¥ ‘Total | | DISTRIC’ Total December 10th F, Stefanik, Scranton, J. Mankin, Pittsburgh, Pa. Total DISTRICT 6 10th .. Fromholz, Cleveland, J. Fromholz, Cleveland, ¢ Nat Robboy, Cleveland. 0. . Pusiewiez, Cincinnati, 0. Totat (To be continued) | the retrospect of the Er a wre ERNATIONAL Bnitain Faces | Black Future Forecasts for the new year on the economic crisis throughout Europe and reviews of the past year, appear- ing in the capitalist press, show the depths of the economic upheaval throughout the world, which, in many | countries, is reaching the stage of political and revolutionary crises. A London dispatch to the New York Times gives a black picture of the past, and a very gloomy one of the future perspectives. The cable starts out saying: “Great Britain has | finished a year of frustration in poli- | tics and gloom in trade and indus- try.” The number of unemployed in England is now over 2,400,000, the | largest number ever recorded. The/| story goes on to say: “The prospect for 1931 is not much brighter at the year’s beginning than last twelve months. The breakers ahead seem | from a little distance as angry as| those just left behind.” | The strike of 150,000 miners and} the threatened walkout of 200,000 Manchester textile workers portends | bitter class struggles on top of the | growing economic crisis. | | The crisis in Great Britain, which is part of the world crisis, takes place | within the scope of a deep war crisis | that has hit Britain particularly hard Every industry, and particularly the | basic industries, on which the pillars of British imperialism rest, have | undergone drastic decline. | News from France and Germany | show that both these countries face severer difficulties in the coming year. ECUADOR FEARS UPRISING. | QUITO, Ecuador. — The officials | of Quita are sitting on pins and need- | les. They have heard rumors of re- bellion. The government has taken steps to see that the oppressesd In- dians do not revolt. placed guards from Quito, ward. They are getting very worried because of the activities of Commu- nists in the provinces of Guaynas, Manabi and Esmeraldas. “STAGGER” PLAN AND GRADUAL FIRING STEEL BOSSES’ WEAPON (CONTINUED FROM PA o ) | they are extending little or no relief | | to their poverty-stricken workers. | 05 | The situation in Youngstown is typical | oe | of the smaller steel towns. The city | om | overnment does nothing, leaving the | whole relief problem up to the com- | panies. The Youngstown Sheet and | | Tube Co. gives relief to desperate | | cases, but only once. After one help- | ing of groceries the worker is left to} shift for himself. It is about the | same on the local soup line, but here | for a bowl of miserable, hard-times | soup. Where workers live in com- | skins. Conditions in all the steel towns, while not yet so desperate as in the adjoining mining regions, are fast reaching the breaking point. In many places the homeless workers are sleeping in city halls, jails, rail- road stations, garbage incinerators, etc. Just outside of town in Pitts- | burgh there is a “jungles” in which Jonly $9 a ton. Millions are begging They have | north- | Ruhr Strike Spreads; |8ritish Workers Form Two Workers Killed) Labor Defense Body a. to Fie*t Gov’t Terror (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) LONDON RESTA TERA under police attacked a demonstration of strikers, arresting eight. A conference of the reformist min- ers union was also held today in ~The increasing terror MacDonald government and the terror raging in all capitalist are against the workers, led the British workers to form & cOm~ mittee for Labor Defense. The com- the Bochum. Be Bes I aaa rades, A, Thomas, Helen Crawfurd, soe us nae eisai ped etaibts | Dunstan, J. T. Murphy and E, ‘0 break the revolutionary s \. : = Bennett, d the followi: peal: der any clroumstances. An appeal is- | Dennett issue sata ons “At the present moment scores of British workers are in prison for fighting the battle of our class, There are three from the Deily Worker staff, 23 seamen of South Shields, serving long senténces, nine comrades of Fifeshire serving sen- | terices for fighting against evictions, ares = - e | Serving sentences for giving e fective as of Jan. 15. After that date, | king class messages to the sol- the notice said, the men would be re: diers. There js Comrade Swaib, sex- etnployed es a Agni Maina byl tenced to 12 months hard labor on Yesterday in an article inspired by | 5 frame-up of “incitement” to steal. the mine owners, the Berliner Boer-|Tyere are the prisoners of Meerut, sen-Courier warned the government who, for 20 months, have been on against throwing the mine owners! lyr)» , into the anti-government front, as- “shall w aH} Hatod serting that Chancellor Bruening | ap one dso bayer me os gave the mine owners assurances of | #Mple, whilst the white terror of fas- “ample wage cuts.” cism cruelly tortures the revolution- 7 ary prisoners in Poland, Hungary, - - | Rumania, Italy and America? Im- BUEN WHEAT FOS) COAL | possible! We must have an organ- NEZ PERCE, Idaho.—Workers in ization in this country giving. un- this town, only ten miles from big | divided attention. to this question of timber and in the midst of a wheat | the prisoners of capitalism. We must region, are burning wheat to get | have here a national section of the warm. Coal costs $16.50 a ton and | International Labor Defense... .” wocd $10 a cord, while wheat costs —_——- OVER 500 FARMERS STORM ARK. TOWN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONS) sued by them to the miners ignore revolut ry strike slogans. Tomor- row, the strike struggle will be car- tied on on two fronts; the employers and their police and their reformist | allies against the revolutionary) miners. | The strike was called following no- for wheat to make bread and the farmer is forced to burn it for fuel. The Farm Board has millions of bushels of wheat stacked away in storehouses and whole families throughout the land are starving. ..... | might have had went up in smoke | with the bankruptcy of the local bank | recently, The local Red Cross agent, | compelled to distribute the little food | allowed, had the gall to say that he | “recognized some among the farmers as imposters,” but no such lie can cover up the fact that the mass of farmers and their families are liter- ally starving. Even the lawyer who tried to keep them from forcibly confiscating the food from the stores admitted that they were “too hungry to listen to speeches.” But all he advocates is that merchants move their goods to other towns or “mount machine guns jon their stores.” Moving.goods to other towns, how- ever,.is futile, as Charles L. Thomp- son of the Pulaski County Red, Cross and. agent of. the State Drought Re- lief. Committee, says he “fears sim- ilar trouble in other sections of Ar- | kansas.” COMING EVENTS IN JOBLESS CAMPAIGN DETROIT—Delegation to state legislature, Jan. 7. Foster mass meeting, Danceland Auditorium, Jan. 11, CLEVELAND — Second United Front Conference, Jan. 9, South Slav Hall, 5607 St. Clair Ave. PITTSBURGH—Hunger march jj January 10th. United Front |} Conference, January 4, Russian |] Hall, 1345 Fifth Ave., 2 p. m., fol- |] lowed same day by Foster mass meeting at Carnegie Hall, Federal and E, Ohio Sts. SACRAMENTO—Hunger tharch || |] on state capitol, Jan. 7. Delega~- }| tions from all over state meet at |] 11 a. m. on Second and K Sts. |} || CHICAGO. — Ratification mass |] meeting Foster speaker, Jan. 9 at The demonstration was notable as || Chicago Coliseum, 14th St. and]! tne first instance in whieh masser | Wabash, 7:30 p. m. Second United |! at poor farmers have followed the || Front Conference, Jan. 11. Hun- [/ notices of the United Farmerg ger march on city hall, Jan. 12. {! peague, whose headquarters are at NEW YORK — Hunger marches || New York Mills, Minnesota. Both on Brooklyn and Bronx Boro {| Negro and white farmers united for | Halls, Jan. 8. Hunger march on #) action and used the power of mass |] New York City Hall, Jan. 19. | action to compel the granting of |] Mass trial of Hoover, Green and |} their demands. |} Walker, Jan. 11, Second meeting }) ‘The demonsttation also exposes the || N. Y. Campaign Committee, Jan. ]/ cynical hypocrisy of Hoover's admin istration, in restricting “farm relief” many hundreds of workers lead a miserable and precarious existence. Everywhere the unemployed are treated as criminals. Vagrancy laws are used against them. In Wheeling the unemployed workers are given the alternative of accepting such jobs at |] 12. ‘Two hundred open-air meet- | pany houses they are given a day or | two’s work a month and then the amount of the rent, light, etc. is de- ducted. The cost of even this mis- erable relief is shifted over onto the workers, the latter being assessed a | day’s wages now and then to pay | for it. | Wherever the steel companies are giving such relief they do it very strategically with strike-breaking purposes in mind. Thus, Americans are favored at the expense of the foreign-born. The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., which expects a strike sooner or later, is by means of giving relief attempting to corrupt the’ Ne- gro workers. There, our organizers | report, the Negroes are told when given relief that if they have any- thing to do with the Metal Workers’ Industrial League the relief will be dis- continued at once. It is: significant that half of the workers who have so far joined our Metal Union are Ne- groes. But the situation is one that we must give urgent attention to. Evictions Daily Occurrence. In Pittsburgh the steel companies | leave the relief problem more to the | city. So far the local government {has voted for this purpose only a | begearly $100,000. Here evictions are a daily occurrence. Even while the | Metal League Board was meeting the | | local Unemployed Council stopped several evictions. One was of a Ne- gro woman with several children , The workers were mobilized to pre- vent the eviction, and when the land- lord and the constable appeared to put the widow out of her “home” the workers made such a militant resis- tance that these worthies not only did not go through with the eviction, but were lucky to escape with whole CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO TH E DAILY RED SHOCK TROOPS $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND | Enclosed find We pledge to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion ofthe $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND NAME SO eee cane eee eneeeeseneeceseeeeeeeeeee eee eeee eee eeeeeeeeeee sescseccnedacvensconsees such wages as may be offered them | Gif by any chance there are jobs) or else go on the chain gang. In these | | towns, as in the mining districts, the | “crime wave” is rapidly mounting, the | workers refusing to starve in the | midst of plenty. | Must Speed Up Organization. The situation is ripe for organiza- | | tion and struggle. The workers are militant and responsive to our ef- forts. They have no one else but us to look to for leadership. The bosses | are fully aware of this and wherever | we become active they at once coun- ter us by their twin methods of ter- rorism and extension of “relief.” In Pittsburgh our fight against evictions, although but poorly executed, has | been so effective that one of the largest landlords in the city (he owns | 1,100 houses) actually came in per- son to our Party office to urge that ings, Jan. 13, 14, 15. Indoor meet- ings Bronx, Harlem, Downtown, Williamsburg, Boro Hall, Browns- ville, to elect delegates to Wash- ington. House to house canvass for signatures to Unemployment Bill, Jan. 16. PHILADELPHIA — Foster mass meeting at Broadway Arena, Jan. 14. BOSTON—Hunger march, Jan. 3, on City Hall. Foster mass meet- ing at Ambassador Palace, Jan. 15. NEWARK, N. J.—Hunger march Jan. 16. Second United Front Conference Jan. 18 at 2 p. m, in Slovack Hall, 52 West St. STAMFORD, Conn. — United Front Unemployment Conference, Jan. 26. RALEIGH, S. C.—One hundred delegates from all over state make to loans te rich farmers t6 buy seed and feed for animals, and opposing as a “dangerous precedent” the give ing of “food to human beings.” Lo- cal capitalists are panic stricken at the prospect that the farmers will re- | turn when the miserable bit of food given them Saturday is exhausted. CAMP AND HOTEL NITGEDAIGET PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Prolctarian Atmosphere $17 A WEEK CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, ¥.¥. we give up our fight against evic-|] demands on state legislature, PRONE 781 tions. He went out quicker than he |{ Jan. 6. came in. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—State |} The Trade Union Unity League holds as its major industrial task the building of the union of metal work- ers. Upon this it concentrates its | | Main forces. And one effective way | te accomplish this vital goal will be to carry through militantly our un- employed campaign in the steel towns. | Every steel center must have its hun- ger march, its mass collection of sig- | natures, its delegate to Washington, ‘its demonstration in the great na- tional unemployed demonstration on , Feb. 10 in the steel and coal towns can .well develop into a great mass political strike. The steel work- ers are ready for us. Are we ready for them? If we are we can best | show it by big unemployed struggles in the steel centers. Unemployment Conference and hunger: march on state capitol, Feb. 1 and 2. | WHEELING, W. Va—United Front Conference, Feb. 1, at 2 p.m., at Masonic Temple, 1407 Market St. LOS ANGELES—Second United Front Conference, Jan. 15. SOUTH BEND, Ind. — United Front Conference, Jan. 18, 2 p.m., t! at Workers Home, 1216 West Col- {/ fax St. | FIRST ANNUAL DAILY WORKER CALENDAR FOR 1931 sre eg cers An bli tui pe Views Densmore Five amaching cartoons of the luse atruggle. el } Historical data on the big events The Campaign Committees in | many towns have not sent in the reper he grea Be, announcement of thei meetings oar rae and hunger marches. They should || Bx Bagels acim ¢ do so at the earliest rt it te em possible date. ft a ae oer oo fears 7 x jeatly Eonrd. “Tecdesntnathio to every bound. WORKER, 50 E. 13TH ST., NEW YORK CITY | 's home, FREE with every stx month's Fenewal. a3 lew worker te aevecribe” Sou ele cnlendar, he gets one Without subscriptions petee Se (Only one enlendar to each worker, DAILY WORKER { 60 EAST ASTH STABET, N, ¥, ©. For voee GOMES... es sesssseeeees COIS. | | Si tom Se ae FARO ween eens en eneeeeeneeeeeeeeeseneser ees steseeeeesessesbeseoneee