The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1931, Page 7

DAILY Chaxieve Organizations, Chicago, Lays Plans for Mass Circulation Leon Litt, new Daily Worker re- presentative in Chicago, orders 8,000 extra copies of the Daily Worker and tells the story of the Chicago Daily Worker conference of 25 fraterna! organizations called together to lay } a permanent basis for building the circulation and financial support oi the Daily Worker. Litt writes: “We held a conference on Decem- ber 21, with 25 organizations and 30 delegates present. . The conference decided to constitute itself as a per manent body for the building and sustaining of the Daily Worker. “An executive committee was elected, which met and decided the council is to meet regularly, once a month, the first Sunday of every month and that the month of January is to be devoted to a cam- The Daily® Worker SPeaty) Ren ann) _~ f IGHTS For The: canes 7 f { Dae Sp paign in the mass organizations for the elections of a permanent Daily Worker representative to the coun- cil, We expect to get at least 100 organizations to affiliate and send their delegates to the first meeting. “We have decided to initiate a special campaign in these mass or- ganizations for the month of Febru- aty to get subs, bundle orders and financial aid for the Daily Worker. | I am quite optimistic about the re- sults of our effort, in building up| this council, and that in the future it will prove to be one of our best | means of reaching large masses or workers and also have a good or-/ ganization to sustain financially the Daily Worker. “On calendars we can sell at least 100 calendars if you are interestea in selling them but they must be here by January 10. “We are trying to mobilize the Par- ty units for the building of the Daily, it is still a very inadequate appa- ratus if we are to reach the large! masses of workers in this city. “Send 3,000 copies,of the Daily Worker of Thursday's issue. Send also 5,000 copies of Friday, Jan. Io. “The spirit for the Daily Worke: is quite good good results cut of these two mobili- vations. “You know that we have several end we expect to get) pomraden selling the Daily Worker 1 am trying to organize them into ‘News Sellers Club. NEMPLOYED W KERS Kk TO SELL THE MILyY and another local comradc unemployed and could use some our time to good advantage for the Party and the Daily Worker by sell- ing the Daily on the Street writes Robert A. Hoyer of West Reading, Pa “The Party Unit, however, does not nave any money with which to fi- nee a daily bundle, and, of course. neither do we. I, th re, wish to you will not e us credit. temporarily, for a daily bundle of 20 copies so that by the sale of these papers we can raise money to pay for further bundles. “We are of the opinion that we may be able to sell many more copie: |daily than the twenty that we are ordering, but we prefer to first try it out with a small number.” receive the paper payable at the end of the week after they have made their sales. are TOO FEW REPORTS FROM DISTRICT 4, BUFFALO. From District 4, Buffalo, we re- ceive too few reports to know just what is going on. But we do know that increases of only 64 in subscrip- tions and 145 in street have been registered since the start of the drive. ‘We also know that there has been no Red Builders’ News Club organ- ized in the district and that it is ob- | vious that no machinery of distribu- tion has been built or circulation would have increased further. It is also clear the Party has not been |made to feel the importance of the | campaign and is not pushing the drive. Such small increases should be the | work of two or three men and not for all Party, League members and Pioneers and revolutionary worker: {in a whole district. | SIOUX CITY BEGINS | TO SHOW INCREASES e Mel Wermblad, Daily Worker rep- }resentative of District 10, Kansas City, writes: “I am enclosing the weekly report from Sioux City, which shows that they are making fair progress in getting mass circulation for the Daily Worker in Sioux City. “The Daily Worker will be dis- cussed at the District Convention. Definite plans for building a mass circulation will be outlined and dis- cussed and I believe that it will re- sult in increased activity in this dis: trict.” The Sioux City report, signed by Waltér S ey, shows 12 new sub- scriptions, six house to house cusiom ers and fifteen copies of the paper seld each day. Sienature Datu Given Impetus by Increasing Hunger Marches One Worker Collects 1,000 Signatures, Another 775; St. Louis Unemployed Worker Has 1,250 to His Credit NEW (YORK, Jan. 9—The cam-| paign for signatures for the Workers Unemployment Relief Bill rece’ additional impetus from the militant hunger marches which have taken place throughout the country during aig \ the past days, wich.cthers scheduled | for the coming weeks. The National Committee for Un- employment Relief, at 2 West 15th Street, reports that within less than a week, using only his spare time;| one New York worker collected 775 signatures. This worker is still at it and intends to reach the 1,000 mark before the end of this’ week. ‘The Gardale, Pa., miner, whose name has appeared in the news sev- eral times, has collected 450 in his Little mining town and ~icinity.“. At St. Louis) an unemployed worker, has 1,250 to his credit. He tacked upon the walls of employment agefi- cies and Wvisited the bread lines. This shows what can be done by a little effort. In a statement issued today, the National’Committee calls for reports from workers who, by their own ef- forts, have collected signatures into the hundreds. “How about inaugur- ating competition among all workers who are collecting signatures? Agreed! And now, who will be the worker who will have to his credit ihe greatest number of signatures by February 1?” os 8 6 HOQUIAM, Wash., Jan. 9.—Hoqui- am unemployed held a rousing meet~ ing last it at which a committes of action was selected to speed the work of collecting signatures for the Wotkers , Unemployment Relief Bill and to ch the organization of an Unemployed Council. Altho on short |notice, it was well attendec, with the! unemployed workers show- ing great militancy and freely join- ie discussion. One worke:, ing given $15.00 by the welfare com. mittee feed his family for two weeks, At the end of that perioa, being still alive after playing tag tion, he returned to the welfare ‘committee. This time hs was. gi 10 and told to make it ead over? weeks, which amour to less than 10 cents a day for eaci mote ot a hig damily. At the end or! ed | sh the. meeting was called | the second two weeks he was forced to return to the welfare committee, and this time he was given five dol- Jars for two weeks! Less than 5¢ a day for each member of the family! Some of those present who still had jobs, told how they had been re- lieved of a Gay's pay to furnish this | fund from which the grafters dishea j out 5 cents a day allowances for hungry workers. JONESVILLE, Mich., Jan. 9.—The | campaign for signatures for the | Workers Unemployment Relief Bill is going ahead here. We are already more than 50 per cent over the top, | counting our quota on the basis of the quota set for New York City. Undoubtedly our “metropolis” has | hardly started to nibble at its own | quota, New York City, we challenge | you! CRISIS IS UNDERMENING - IBANEZ REGIME IN CHILE Reports sent to Chilean workers \in New York from Chile state that | the nitrate industry is in a state of | paralysis. Ibanez, fascist dictator of Chile has sent a representative to confer with officials of the American gove: ent to work out schemes of rationalization of the industry. The sending of this representative, Ramsis, to the United States shows that the Chilean papers are lying dustry. In addition, the workers in the shoe industry are working on part ‘time; the marine industry is deeply affect- ed. Unemployed worknrs have broken interference from the carbineros (riflemen), The growing crisis is un- dermining the Ibanez regime. WAGES CUT TEN PER CENT Restaurants are to be given a 10 per cent wage cut, according to the an- nouncements of the company. THE CIfY HAS MONEY FOR COPS; MAKE IT FEED fHE JOBLESS! ss ear SATU IRDAY. J! NU ARY 10, 1931 _WORKER, NEW YORK; nce of 25 Fraternal ‘Jer sey “A..F, OF.L, Official Cuts Wage Scale, Spli itting the Difference With Employers his is the tenth of a series of vtieles on A, F. of L, and political corruption in New Jersey.) «#8 By ALLEN JOHNSON, -Without the support of Brandi the most powerful A. F. of L. offi- cial in New Jersey, Mayor Hague’s control of the democratic machine in the state would be minus its strong- est supporter. It is Brandle who orces the members in the A} F. of L. unions to march in Hague’s polit- ical parades, it is Brandle who rallies | his private gunmen in support of Hague's ticket at election time, and} Brandle who throws the entire the American Federation | it of of Labor in Hague’s favor when the latter gets into “trouble.” In common with all good defenders of the capitalist system, Hague spends small fortunes trying to evade gov- nment taxes. He has been em- inently successful, for he never, until a few months ago, paid the govern- ment a penr in income tax, de- spite his $25,000,000 nest egg. And he wouldn’t have paid then if some polit- ical enemies, jealous of his bank ac- |count, hadn’t repeatedly asked fed- | eral officials to examine his books, at least one of these enemies making a | personal appeal to Hoover, | Hoover, of course, with his great sympathy for wealthy criminals, did nothing. the republicans would have an edge on the next sham battle at the polls, did the federal officials demand that Hague pay his incom etax. A long, secret battle followed, in which Hague | sought to avoid the payment of a dollar. The income tax officials, intent on making political capital of the affair, | insisted, and it looked for a time as |if the matter would be carried to the | courts, where some of the sources of | Hague’s income would be brought to light. It was at this juncture that Brandle, the “banker and labor It was not until it was/ pointed out that by tarring Hague | | leader | more stepped in and saved Hague investment houses in the country, has than a million dollars, And|been acquired by a combination of when he stepped in he revealed, | banking and labor interests, The new jy indisputably, the links that/controllers are Theodore }connect A. F. of L. officialdom with |New Jersey, president of the National the most powerful: capitalists in| Labor Bank; John Dowd, vice-presi- America as well as with the most!dent of the International Brother-| corrupt political machines in the | hood of Boilermakers; S. W. Gutten- | country. berg, vice-president of the Brother- Brandle and Morgan Help Hague. | hood of Locomotiy gineers, and Brandle went to Washington. D. A. Park, president of the N. Y¥ Someone, just who we don’t know then went to Morgan and told him| the entire situation. Morgan controls the Public Service of N. J., which sells most of its illuminating gas and electricity in the state and owns al- most all the street railways and many bus lines as well. For years Public Service has ben trying to buy some of the bus lines in Jersey City, but has been unsuccessful because Hague himself owns many of the busses and | |in addition pockets the $20,000 which he charges his friends for a fran- chis w ‘hen Morgan heard of Hague’s little difficulty, he sent word to Hague that his income tax fine would be fixed at a nominal sum if he were willing to turn over the Jersey City bus franchises to Pub- lic Service. Hague graciously ac- cepted the offer, which means, ulti- | mately,"a ten-cent fare in Jersey City, and had the Public Utilities Commission, a republican controlled body, grant Public Service the franchises. Morgan, in turn, saw | to it that Hague’s fine was reduced to $60,000. The finishing touch to the whole matter was applied when Brandle paid the fine with his own check, Brandle, Hague and Mor- | gan—symbols of the blood relation- | ship between the A. F. of L., capi- talism and capitalist government. | Brandle is not only the servant and | ally of capitalists; he is a capitalist himself. On July 2, 1926, the Newark News reported the following item in its financial columns: “Control of G. L. Miller & €o., one of the largest Empire Co. When fools and financiers the “prosperity” of the working clas: above that they and his fellow ists didn’t save the money they put into this investment corporation by working at their trade, and a careful examination of their genealogy re- veals no wealthy aunts or grand- mothers who might have left them legacies. Owns “Labor” Bank, The Labor Bank that the Newark talk of American think of. Brandle Brandle in 1925, “to finance any and all matters pertaining to the welfare and management of labor unions.’ |The charter doesn’t specifically say who it was that would be financed, although the fact that Brandle forced more than 40 A. F. of L. unions in New JerSey t odeposit their funds in his bank may yield a clue. The Na- tional Labor Bank, entirely in the control of Brandle, is housed in the largest. skyscraper in the city, also owned by Brandle. There isn’t a trick in Wall Street's bag that Brandle| doesn’t know and hasn't used. After holding company to include that and his other ventures. He then sold stock in the holding company. quiry addressed to the New Jersey attorney general's office in Newark will disclose just how much that stock is wWerth today, likely to reveal just Why Brandle isn’t being prosecuted as the most craven kind of a stock swindler, specializing ‘andle of | it is of men like the} labor-leader-capital- | News speaks of was incorporated by | incorporating the bank, he formed a} An in- | although it is not| in women, preferably widows. »| Also Owns Insurance Company. Jeline to his banking activi- Brandle runs a bonding and in- tie: surange company, the Branley n Corp. The writer had seen letters written by Brandle threatening small builder with quick punishment if he didn’t immediately buy his in. surance in Brandle’s office. Without exception, every builder and contr: tor in Jersey City, and almost ev one in Newark, is forced to buy his ins nce from Brandle. If he| doesn’t, Brandle will call a strike. If he does, and he rarely fails, he can violate every rule on the union beoks pertaining to the welfare and wage ‘ale of the workers on the job. Wage scales in Jersey unions vary with the amount of graft that the employer pays Brandle. Thus the scale in the Teamsters’ Union is $48 per week with an 8-hour day. Mem- | bers of the union who work for Swift | & Co. work 10 hours a day for $45 a| | week. Mueller & Co., the macaroni anufacturers, pay members of the union $39 per week at 10 hours a day. Brandle, differing in no particular | from the employers who have been profiting by the present crisis by) slashing wages and lengthening hours, | jis cashing in on the plight of the men in his unions, of whom about 75 per cent are now unemployed. When union members working on a} $14 scale are sent out on a job Brandle asks them if they will work for $6 a/ | day. Most workers, unable to evade | the “Bo: accept. Brandle and the employer split the difference between the wage that the worker gets and what his scale calls for. On the new addition to the Jersey City Hospital, which has just been completed, and on which Hague has |made several million all told in | boodle, the union workers are forced | to take five days’ pay even though | |they worked and signed for six, Brandle and Hague splitting the dif- | ference this time. NEW TORTURES OF JOBLESS WORKERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) demonstrated before the State House here under the leadership of the Un- employed Council. House a hastily summoned confer- ence of college professors and bosses were considering methods of fighting | the demands of the militant unem- ployed when the cries of the demon- strators reached them, The unemployed then marched to} Tomlinson Hall, where the police, on crders of Governor Leslic, commenced. a vicious onslaught. Arrest Two. ‘Theodore Luesse, organizer of the Unemployed Council; Joseph Ber- « and two Negro girls were at- ed and beaten with blatkjacks. suesse and Bertioux were arrested nd held for inciting to riot on $2,000 2ond. The International Labor De- fense has secured their release. Te ee Connecticut Jobless Organize. NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Swinging ac- tively into the ‘signature campaign for unemployment insurance Connec- tieut unemployed have planned seven hunger marches to force relief from the bosses, With 4,000 signatures already col- lected the Unemployed Gouncils of | this district have set 10,000 as their | goal by Feb. 1. The hunger marches are as fol- lows: Bridgeport—Jan. 19, from the | Workers’ Center to the City Council meeting. Stamford—The date of the next City Council meeting, from the Work- ers’ Center. New Britain and Waterbury—Date of the next City Council meeting. New Haven—Monday, Feb. 2, to march from Workers’ Center to the City Council meeting. Inside the State) Further Proof of Huge War! Fleets During 1930; British “Labor” Min- istry Spokesman Admits War Danger °‘ LONDON, Jan. 9—Noting a vast, In the meantime, while the increase in the production of fight- ing planes during 1930, Jame’s| tures for war purposes, mass unem- World’s Aircraft, published here to-| ployment and suffering are on the day, further serves to show up the|increase in every country save the huge war preparations for the im-| Soviet Union, where the workers rule. | perialists against the Soviet Union {c- W. Eady of the British labor min- and in the struggle for markets. istry made the admission today that im- Reviewing information obtained | not only was unemployment on the from military sources, the publisher | increase in Great Britain, with a writes: present total of 2,643,000, but that he “There seems to be more inclin- |‘ |“saw no reason to repeat the old ation than ever for every country | cheerful estimates.” In fact, he con- to entrust its safety to air power | fessed. conditions were getting worse and less inclination to depend | not only in Great Britain, but in all either on altruism or the League | other capitalist countries. of Nations. Nations, moreover, are | Eady further admits that the im- tending to build air forces distinct | perialists are being forced to seek a from navies and armies on the pat- solution of their problems through tern which Britain originated.” | the medium of war when he declares Preparations in Jane’s Aircraft Tells of Vast Increase in Expenditures for Air) | periatists are making huge expendi- | Fighting planes, he says, have been | developed with a speed of 200 miles jan hour, which, he adds, is nothing jiess than surprising in view of the |guns, bombs, etc., carried. that even the slow recovery he vis- ualizes “depends on the steady im- provement of trade, without any fur- ther serious dislocation of industry from war or other causes.” PHILA. CARPET WORKERS STRIKE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) in July last year, and that cut went | into effect, Then one fine morning | the workers at the Standard found their pay envelopes short, and an un- official but just as real second wage cut was put over on them. In spite of the treachery of the | U.T.W. there is a possibility Unat the | agreement may not be renewed at all) | | when it expires. The membership of | DEMANDS STAND ON ALIEN BILLS Of Fake "Progressives | in Congress NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee for the Protection of Foreign Born yesterday sent letters to the so- called Progressive Senators demand- ing that they state their position in regard to the persistent campaign of proposed discriminatory laws and inst the foreign born, in the form | At Hartford—-Feb. 10,a mass meet- the U.T.w. which was 1,200 is now) bills for the fingerprinting and regis- | ing and march on the State Capitol gown ot 313 dues paying members, | tration of foreign born workers. Building, where the legislature meet ye workers are disgusted with the) The letter categorically asks these | about conditions in the nitrate in- Unemployment is widespread. | into stores and taken food without! NEW YORK.—Workers in Child's; together with the State Unemployed | Delegation elected at the January | Unemployed Conference will present | the demands of the Connecticut job- At Springfield the march on City | Hall will be held Feb. 10. eles STAMFORD, Conn.—Hundreds of unemployed workers crowded the At- lantie Square to register for jobs upon the imaugural day of the mayor. Finding that mere reigistration gave them no jobs they marched on town ‘hall and into the mayor's office and demanded work. The mayor ignored their demands and made all kinds jof excuses. The cops tried to intimi- date the workers, but the jobless were in no mood to tolerate any “rough” stuff. After exposing the lying mayor the vorkers immediately marched to the | Workers’ Center and held a meeting at which it was decided to hold a |big mass meeting on Tuesday, Jan, | 13, and a city wide conference on | Jan, 26. At this meeting all of the workers |pledged themselves to strengthen and ‘spread the fight for unemployment insurance, CAFETERIA WORKERS SLAVE 12 HOURS NEW YORK.— Workers In the Thompson chain eafeterias are ter- ibly expleited. them 12 hours a day, for 6 and a ha. days a week, at a vicious speed-up. ty |U.T.W. ‘The National Textile Workers Union | ‘calls for a fight for the eight-hour | |day and five-day week, time and a_ ‘half for overtime, restoration of the wage scale befor July, 1930, and real union conditions. cise Fight Lawtence Cut. LAWRENCE, Mass., Jan, 9.—The National Textiie Workers Union calls’ the weavers in the Wood Mill to or- ganize in their department to pre- vent night work and an indirect wage cut. “We are how working the 82 inch looms for the same price that we were working the 72 inch loom,” ‘says the union. “But we are not get- | iting the 20 per cent extra for work-. ling on the 82. We are no longer |paid time and a half for overtime. | This is nothing less than a wage cut.” | eee WATERTOWN, Mass,—On Wednes- day the Hood Fubber Company here | /announced a wage cut of 25 per cent! for all office workers, inspectors and) foremen. All the other workers in| prod®ction are given a 10 per cent) cut in production which means a_ wage cut. The company is also put- ting the entire plant on a 4-day a week basis. The members of the T.U. |UL. in the plant are calling upon the workers to support their struggle offs which are a regular feature in| the plant, ‘The. bosses ‘at the wage cuts and the lay- | fakers to state their stand on the fol- lowing points: the proposed law providing for deportation of foreign | born workers, whose political views and class interests conflict with those | of the bosses; the right of asylum for | political refugees; discrimination against the foreign born, one expres- sion of which is the immigration quota system; on proposals for regis- tration, photographing and finger- printing of the unemployed; on the Harris law on the basis of which thousands of Mexicans are herded over the Mexican border; on the laws permitting special discrimination egainst the Japanese, Chinese and Hindus, barring them from this coun- try. The National C nittee for the Protection of Fo Born stresses its dependence on mass protest against the bosses’ campaign of per- secution, and calls upon all workers, native and foreign-born, Negro and white, to unite against the reactionary measures that are a menace to the working class as a whole, and in par- ticular to the foreign-born, The Committee calls for the speed- ing up of plans for local conferences in every city. New York has already taken practical steps and has set Feb. 9 as the date for such a con ference. Other cities must follow. ORGANIZE TO END (STARVATION; DEMAND ‘RELIEF! FORCE CHICAGO POLICE PERMIT 1D FROM (CONTIN PAGE ONE) eloping into a mighty thing. In any case, first Alcock offered a permit for a route on the far west side. This was refuzed by the committee. The permit for the route outlined above followed. Jobless Discuss March. Thousands upon thousands of stickers and leaflets calling upon Negro and white workers to join the! hunger march Monday noon plaster Chicago. Monday morning, when 500 work- ers called by the Majestic Radio Co. were again told “nothing doing,” and police squad cars circled the lines of workers, the hunger march be- came a chief topic of discussion among the men who had been wait- ing since before dawn. In the soup kitchens and flop houses where unemployed are being starved by inches on slop, the hunger march and the fight for unemploy- ment insurance is talked about. ‘Tuesday evening, when a repre- sentative of the Unemployed Council requested the floor at Machinists local 390, American Federation of Labor, the chairman refused to con- sider the reqfest. Workers made a bitter fight on the floor, and nor until the chairman told the mem- bers that a vote to give the floor to a representative of the “organization whose aim is to cestroy” the Mach- inists Union, and warned the men that voting in favor of the motion meant a vote against the union, was the Unemployed Council represent- ative’s request defeated by the nar- row margin gf 55 to 47, But during the spirited discussion on the motion, the demands of the Unemployed Councils were brought out, and aj lerge percentage of machinists de- clared they would join the march. Unemployment among the machin- ists is rapidly rising, aided by the rapid strides in rationalization. WAR MANEUVERS OFF NICARAGUA, To Exert Pressure on} Revolutionists | | peopie Page =a i TLIMPERIALIST LEACH : ne FACTS BERIND FORMOSA REVOLT Japanese Imperialists Forced Peasants Intc Slavery; Stole Their Land and Mistreated Their Womer BERLIN. A complete exposure of tric aL sdged complaints to th: the lies in the capit t prs the Formsa r imperialism is contained in document issued here by the tional secretariat of u r Against Imperialism The g The analysis of the rea! facts be- | statement then go hind the For it again to quote dc ed at- revolt published of tanc | by the Leg f ta mosan “The imperialis nts t Soldiers; it their best to a y nee of the that the inst land and the in Formosa wa ad- | mistr c eir women by th hunters on the rhe wu: were circulated the guilty will see, howe Japanese forc terrible brutalit | population of F. “The cause were: the inten: exploitation, oppressive confiscation of native land arbitrariness, and the misu civi Irom the € From persons, Japanese im; i The ve mi offic roduced > of na- 1 Formo: tive women by the Japanese con- s of the Japanese fo of - queros.” ion which aim at exterminating More than 1,500 Formosans took the insurrectionary tribes down to up arms against their imperialist op- the last man, vepresent a threat to pressors. While the Japanese press. whole population of Formosa. It and together with it, the entire im- perialist press of the world the most preposterous lie: real reasons for the uprising, | 30, 1930 the “Osaka-Asahi perialist. or- nt with all possible is danger. Great ions against the apanese imper- have already beem the Japanese work- on Dec. was forced to admit that the basis for the revolt were: 1) The natives of the affected dis- RUHR STRIKE HAS BEEN CALLED OFF Bigger Strike Coming Communists Gaining BERLIN, Jan. 9.—The Revolution- ary Strike Committee called off the Ruhr strike until the arbitration de- cision is announced. Meanwhile, in- | tensive preparations are being made BURMA PEASANT REVOLT HAS NOT BEEN CRUSHED Despite the pated announce- ments in the ruling class press that the revolt of the Burmese peasants had been crushed and their strong- hold destroyed, the latest Associated Press dispatch from Rangoon, Bur- | ma, states “that the Tharrawaddy rebels are engaged in making in- accessible Taungpyat Mountain, their headquarter to organize a new struggle on @/ ‘The peasants are asain: against broader basis. : | starvation, head tax, and the robbery Today Hindenberg issued a new) of their land by the British bosses. emergency decree, altering the arbi- tration system. Formerly, decisions were only possible with a majority vote of arbitrators plus the owners or unions. ‘The arbitrators proposed | a 6 per cent reduction, the owners | insisted on 8 per cent, while the unions refused to go over 4 per cent, | because the social democratic union | Conte atten =" | BOTH LONG HOURS AND FINES FOR AFL BAKERS The new decree allows arbitrators to issue a dictatorial decision, irre- NEW YORK— Recently the Jewish list Forward carried an article spective of the wishes of owners or unions, The arbitration court meets promising the bakers that they would soon get the eight hour day, With the tomorrow to settle the Ruhr conflict approval of the A. F. of L, business | They have put up a militant fight | against superior ‘military forces. Whole villages have gone over to the | rebels. The MacDonald government | has ordered armored trucks into the jungle with machine guns in an en= | deayor to crush the revolt. The capitalist press announces a 6 per cent cut is a certainty, Mass dismissals of strikers in Up- per Silesia are taking place, where| ents. The proposition is to fine all the fascists and reformists are co-| ¥20 put in more than eight hours, operating against the strikers. Police| Im reality, this cheme will only take are clubbing and arresting pickets|® few fines for the business agents, who let the workers be fired if they do not put in 14 to 16 hours. The workers seldom see the business age v rs seldom see the business agents in the shops, but the bosses see them! Join the Food Workers Industrial Union! right and left. However, 40 per cent are still striking. The strike is now extending in the Beuthen district. Officials announce the increase of unemployed to 380,000 during the| fortnight between the sixteenth and| the thirty-first of last December. At the beginning of the year 1931 there | are more than four million registered on the unemployed exchanges. The highest level is expected in March, when a six million figure is men- tioned as the possible number to be out of work by that time. | Yesterday evening, fierce collisions took place in Fuerstenwalde, near | Berlin, of socialist and Communist workers against fascists. Shots were fired and many on both sides were injured. The incident is noteworthy, because socialist and Communist workers spontaneously formed a united front against the fascists. CAMP AND HOTEL NET CEDATGET PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Moderuily Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $17 A WEDK CAMP NITGEDAIGFT, BEACON, N. MONE 731 RED BANQUET given by the NEW YORK WORKERS CENTER to greet the Central Committee of the Communist Party on the occasion of their moving into the new building, 35 East 12th Street Nicaragua, scene of many rebel- | lions against Wall Street's rule, will | be used next month in Uncle Sam’s | war games when the United States fleet will carry on its anual ma- neuvers off Panama. The U. 8. warships are too wide to Sunday January 11, 1931 Admission Fifty Cents ’ All Workers Organizations Are Uurged to Elect a Delegate to this Banquet travel with great convenience through | the Pandma Canal. American en-_ gineers saw that Nicaragua was an_ ideal place for another canal because of the large lake in the center of | that country. | This year in the war games 125| ships are to participate on the as-| sumption that the canal has been completed. This tremendous war game will use thousands of men, 11> | battleships, three aircraft carriers, 13 light cruisers, 74 destroyers, 39 sub- | marines, 44 auxiliaries, as well as 250/ plines. The Los Angeles, giant air ship, will be used in these war ma- neuvers for the first time. | Uncle Sam is preparing his game of war skillfully. He 4s practicing | how to “protect” two canal zones, and | how to keep the Central American natives under his coptrol | 8-Day Bazaar TO HELP MAINTAIN THE CENTER, TO THE C vVEW YORK WORKERS COLLECT ARTICLES D, SEND THEM TER, 35 EAST 12TH STREET, N, Y. C. FOR THE 8-Day Bazaar WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE FROM Jan. 11 to 18 i | H chia coerennnsernensens PRESTON STU OTS 8 TAROT ST ETT EEG TS