The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1931, Page 3

BOSS GOV'T SPY | SYSTEM VICIOUS ON POSTAL ME: Organize to Break This Espionage! Chicago, Tl. Daily Worker, Dear Comrades: We are three workers who after ‘wing out of work for some time, filed »pplication for temporary work in the nest office. When finally we got the jobs we found that the work will only Jest time. hours at night, some of us as postal clerks and some as laborers. The pay|any such thing in Endicott, Bing-| foot deformed in smelting plant in| was 65 cents an hour for clerks and | ‘fe 55 cents for laborers, so you can) can see hundreds of workers flo |ger cities, and that their ‘ne i for @ few days until Christmas} We worked from three to eight E. J. Shoe Corp. On Short Time: Many Are Jobless Endicott, N. Y. | Here in Endicott, the Endicott| Johnson Corporation of the largest | {shoe corporations in the world tries |to tell the workers that they have no breadlines like they have in the lar- refined soup line. Yes, we un ployed workers that are cut of a) job do not have to stay out in the cold to get our bowl of soup but we get the same slop that other workers in other cities get Only they let us go into the Endicott Johnson restaurant in Endicott and Johnson City. And, of course, some of the company stools who write on the E. J. page of the Bingham- ton Sun (controlled by E. J. Corp) try to cover up the horried word soup line by saying that there isn’t hamton or Johnson City. But you “LIVE IN OAKLAND RR. DUMP LANDS ‘And Bosses Boast No | Slums Here OAKLAND, Cal.—This city boasts of having no slums. True. Yet, the | city and the Southern Pacific R, R. i dumps on'the bay shore are alive not only with rats and vermin, but hu- man beings, who make their homes | here. Men from there togeth Middle-aged from heavy industry, who has his three fingers cut off by the lathe in | Toledo; another with a stump of a life are of i Pittsburgh; then husky, red-faced lumberjacqs, against, pale-faced, near imagine how much our pay checks | ing into the restaurants for a free | appearing in spite of the dump en- amounted to. To work @s clerk in) the main post office on Clark andj} Adams St. is real hell. foremen are all around you, and con- stantly urging you to speed up more! and more, All kinds of peep holes) are placed in the ceilings and walls. of the work-room through which! ‘0 vegister at the fake employmen: | , stool pigeons, known as “Inspectors” | fice that the village fa are constantly watching the men, to established and wher he see that nothing is taken. We saw clerk in the office that he would [ike ! someone arrested by these inspectors, /10 get a job. the clerk said that he | cars or under them. We were informed by those work-{| WAS sorry, thai he had 3 ‘ker's ing regularly in the post office that anyone eaught taking something even tf only = two cent stamp, gats al severe sentence in Jati by the federal! th government. Even the tollets are not; free from inspectors es above each toilet is a hole in the cetling for them | to look through. Spy System. ' Besides inspectors, there are num.’ erous other pests The past office maintains @ powerfu) spy eystem W: weed out radicals. These spies are sent to work among the men, and! keep their ears open reporting eny-/ thing against thr Interest of the! masters of the city. We found} regular men that favor- full sway in the post of-| an examina- | ler or clerk or | » he may i y i Ba uit TE ae He 338 i is put on a DrseuRaAlNy. all in to graduate | sub to @ regular. However, names way down the list jump up to the top of the list in miraculous fashion. The reason is plain, they fi i After) Uist | \ tit #3 bowl of soup, a cup of dish water known as coffee. The workers are be- Slave driving | ginning to wake up to the fake un-' are ¢ employment. relicf. Register Jobless. A few days ago the wriler went stared but that he coul reg vironment-office workers; down, to waifs not over 16. Hundreds of these | ning the dumps of the city ‘They have ns and rub- “jungles” as their homes. | dugouts among the tin | bish, salvaging boards, barrels and tins for improvised hobes. As many 300 men are living now on the P. dump. evening to warm themselves. When ainy, they manage to sleep in box- Snapshots show: No. 1, homeless : 2 By fd €- + waif of not more than 16 years of Gee. many darkens. Gs you china | $C. Unis 15 in 0, BoA. in the state ae Bul wae ie wins | of California, “the golden state,” and not in Sbviet Union, about which . Ah. abe thou x more satlaieiae housand or more | uch 9 cry was raised not long ago, fu Short Time. The HB. J. Corp. ia only working 4 and @ half days per week “and most of those thay ‘34 lo $34 per week offices are crowded with looking for work. Corditious are av rotten tn the home of “square dea!” that the hall owners are afra’ rent us the hail. The police told owners not to rent the halls to workers organization. The E. J. C knows that the workers are | ning to wake up. A. RK. sz ALBANY JOBLESS | MISERY MOCKED Albany, N. Y. Editor Daily Worker: T would like to ask the readers of the Daily Worker or anybody who of the roaming waifs. ! “NO: 2, a group of Negro workers, who built a wall to shi em from winds. There is a large num- f Negroes and they are hest end of the life will bring the that ur not separation will bring change. No. 3, 2 worker who just completed : me. He h he left a st ‘ing famil, rk is more plentiful, but found it same as in his home city. “LABORITE” PLAIN CROOK. LONDON, England.—A town councillor of Harwich came out in -his true colors recently. Ker ¢ They build fires in the | is from Milwaukee, He ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1931 5: CS erry t Page Three Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bil} proposes: 1.—Unemployment insurance at the rate of $25 = week for each anemployed worker and $5 additional for each dependant. 2.—The creation of a National Unemployment Insurance Fund to be raised by: (a) using all war funds for unemployment insurance; (b) a levy on all capital and property in excess of §25,! on all incomes of $5,00 a year. and unemployed workers. 3.—That the Unemployment Insurance Fand thus created shall be administered by a Workers’ Commission eleeted solely by employed All who sign the lists now being circulated by the Workers Na- |] tional Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance or its sub- sidiary organizations, demand that congress shall pass the bill, in Its final form as (possibly) amended by the mass meetings which ratify it and elect the mass delegation to present it to congress, or as (pos- sibly) amended by the mass delegation itself. bill will follow the general line of the three points printed above. 5 (e) @ tax The final form of the 11th Rea Builders Nees Club Organized in Philly; | Promise to Double Order nizing a Red Booste! Philadelphia,” w “Tomorrow we An rec. |additional to the regular issue we jare getting, | “The Daily Worker is being well edvertised here in Philadelphia by the Red Boosters’ Club. We always take the old copies with us and | give them to fellow-workers who | are unable to buy a copy. Also we | go through all the flop houses and | away the old copies so we can | gi | build up the Unemployed Council | of Philadelphia. “The ‘Daily Worker can’t be beat vith Ryan Walker's cartoons, Jorge's column, the Red Sparks, etc. The paper is worth $5 a copy to me today. in a few hours yesterday I sold 35 Daily Workers, This morning in ene hour's time. I sold 20 Daily Workers and I am not finished for the day yet, as we go out again at 3 o'clock. We get as high as 10 cents for some copies of the Daily Worker.” | STOCKTON CLUB SELLS | BUNDLE OF 75 DAILY | S. Dean and Manuel Cardenas of | “In Stockton we have only a small | hall at present, but our membership | is growing fast. We have now a Philippino comrade as speaker, also Spanish comrade and an English nity and the Stockton Red Builders’ News about a, | Club write: ; am out of work at present and had tes| to borrow money because the Daily are| Worker is badly in need now.” holding a meeting. We will soon in-| se the order over 100 per cent) STAMP COPIES WITH NEWS STAND ADDRESS “Please send a bundle of ten Daily Workers to comrade J. J.,” writes H Ward Kepler, Daily Worker agent in Dayton, Ohio. “I would also like to make a suggestion that comrades in charge of selling Dailies should buy rubber stamps and steamp the back numbers to be given away, with the location of the news stands that handle the Daily Workers.” WORKERS WANT ACTION; MUST HAVE DAILY “Please send daily a bundle of 25 Daily Workers to Station A, Pueblo, Colorado,” writes 0. J, C. “We in- INTERNATIO oN EWS °o NAL STRIKES TENSER Miners Call for a Gen- eral Strike Reports from Britain and Germany showing the growing tenseness of the coal and textile strike situation. Over 25,000 Burnley textile workers have been locked out already by the bosses for refusing to accept wage cuts and speed-up. Very soon more than 500,000 Lancashire textile workers will be locked out, facing a long, bitter struggle. | A resolution was passed by the} Lancashire and Chesire Miners’ Fed- | eration calling for a general strike | to support the 150,000 striking Welsh | miners was passed Saturday. “It is| not fair to let the South Wales min- | ers fight alone,” says the resolution. ‘They demand the calling of a general strike against the wage cuts. | In West Wales tinplate plants are closing down, due to shortage of coal. | | The effects of the strike are also | being felt in other parts of England MacDonald is conferring with both | the coal and textile bosses, planning a sell-out agreeable to the employers. | | A wage-cut of 6 per cent is the | verdict of Dr. Braun, official arbi- | trator, in the Rhur coal fields. Under | pressure of the Communists and the | | workers who have shown their spirit | | of fight, the reformist trade union | leaders say they will reject the six] per cent wage cut. They hoped to | get a smaller wage cut than would | be agreeable to the bosses so that a struggle could be averted. The Bruen- ing government intends to put the| wage-cut through, since the bosses | state they are not satisfied as they | wanted a bigger cut. | Stones and shouts of “Down with | | the hunger minister” greeted Bruen- | | ing’ during his recent tour of East Prussia, A cordon of soldiers and police surrounded Bruening’s automo- | |try by American firr GERMAN, BRITISH (FIVE-YEAR PLAN SUCCESSFUL BEYOND GREATEST EXPECTATIONS Over-Fulfilled in Most Industries, Says Valery Is Meslauk, Arriving i nN. Y.; Planned Out for 1931 Far Above Original Schedule NEW YORK.—Valery I. Meshlauk, acting Chairman of the Supreme Ec~ onomie Council of the Soviet Union, which is in charge of all state ownea| indust: has just arrived in this country in connection with the pur-| chases of American equipment | Soviet industries and contracts technical assistance to Soviet indus: iy at 25,194,000,000 rubles, as compared with the five-year program for the fiscal year 1930-31 of 16,476, 000,000 and for 1932-33 of 26,287,~ 500,000 rubles The schedules of Year Plan for 19 sent estimates for 1931 tively, as follows: oil 500,000 tons; cos he original Five- 3 and the pre- are, respec- 00,000 and 9,000,000 and Meshlauk yesterday gave out 82,500,000 tons; pig iron, 10,000,000 ures showing Soviet industria and 8,000,000 tons; wheel tractors, duction for the past Soviet fiscal year | 53,000 and 54,000 units; shoes, 80,000,- 1929-30, ending Septemb 1930, | 000 and 84,700,000 pairs: power, 17,- was 101.9 per cent in excess of the| 100,000,000 and 13,600,000,000 kilo- production in 1913, the last pre-war) watts; general machine building, year, The Five-Year Plan was over- | 2,059,000,000 and 2,483,000,000 rubies. fulfilled for most branches of indus- “A significant aspect of the in- try. During the past year a total ot | dustrial development in 1931 will be 3,200,000,000 rubles was invested inthe huge amount of new construc- Soviet industry as compared with the| tions to be completed during the Five-Year Plan schedule of 2,331,-| year. 000,000 rubles. An even more inten- sive development of Soviet industry is expected to take place in 19: when, according to plans of th Supreme Economic Council, total in- | vestments in industry will be 6,050,-| 000,000 rubles as against the Five-| Year Plan's schedule of 3,165,000,000 | rubles. | “The successful carrying out of the Five-Year Plan,” stated Meshlauk, at the offices of the Amto rading Corporation, “is clearly indicated by a comparison of the original program for the first two years with the ac- tual fylfillment in the most impor- tant branches of industry. The pro- duction of steel, for instance, for the | two years was 10,300,000 tous as com- pared with the schedule of 9,900,000 tons. Coal production amounting to| bile to keep back the violence of the | 86,600,000 tens was only 1,100,000 tons, | hungry masses. Despite this the | 0% one per cent, below the program windows of various cars in Bruening’s | The iron ore production of 17,400,000 | parade were smashed. The walls of | tons was 100,000 tons above the pro- | the palace of the archbishop of Bres- | 8Tam, while the oil output of 30,- lau, where Bruening was scheduled to | 300,000 tons was 2,200,000 tons above | ATROCITIES STIR WEST INDIAN ISLE Resentment Over Brit- ish Brutalities ROSEAU, Dominica, B.W.I, Jan, 1—So deep is the resentment of the m here against the savage atro- Ss inflicted by armed forces from the British cruiser Delhi upon scores of workers during a hunger demon- stration here some months ago, that the question cropped up yesterday in the puppet Legislature, when repre- sentative Shelling Ford, a native re- formist manouvering for the support of the masses, introduced a resolu~ tion demanding investigation of the circumstances. Ford brought out the fact that af- ter the stay Sunday night, was daubed with | the plan. The output of tractors was demonstration had been { thought that beyond the Rockies the “labor” | tend to build up the Daily Worker here in Pueblo. The workers want action, so we need the workers’ paper.” speaker. Our Daily Worker sales are going on every day and we are selling 75 papers per day. We also expect our membership to increase | immensely in the next few months.” WHEELING, W. VA., | red-paint signs reading: “Death and | hunger dictator!” | writes R. T., of South Bend, Ind. “T will renew my subseription as ‘soon as I am able. | 12,600 units as against the plan or | 8,000 units. “As a result of the achievements | ; to date the revised program of thse | Supreme Economic Council for 193s | \calls for an output far above the} UNIT 4, BUFFALO, ASKS He was | FOR 25 COPIES DAILY ‘found guilty of robbing the workers | J. W. writes: “Send 25 copies of of the city of $67.92 over a period of | the Daily Worker daily to Unit 4, hree months. » ;might know if there is any working know some grefting politicians 0. telass movement in this fair city of \ Prominent business men, Who us¢ | their intluence with the officials ot | the post office. ! Arthur C. Lueder is the postmaster-! of Chicago. He is a large real-estate! man worth several hundred thou- | sand dollars, He gets over $8,000 a year for doing nothing. The fojlow- ing is a common joke among the men: One is asked, “What is the most unusual sight in the world?” ‘When you say you don’t know, the reply is: “To see Leuder in his of- fice.” The postmaster is rarely in the office, going about his private busi-| ness. The job he holds is one of the | numerous political graft jobs handed | out by the republican and democratic | parties. _. We forgot # mention the filth and dust that fills the air, and gets into | the lungs of the men. Colds, and consumption play hell with the health | and lives of the post office. men. This is some of the rotten condition the) “wonderful” government “of the peo- ple, by the people, and for the peo- ple,” hand out to the workers. It is. plain the government is for the bosses and against the workers. The Trade | Union Unity League should begin to organize the postal workers for some real struggles. ©—Tbree Workers. FEEDS ROTTEN MFAT TO JOBLESS Hands Out Elk’s Meat; Found in Woods HOQUIAM, Wash., Jan. 11.--A col- umn headline in the Aberdeen World proclaims to its readers that the needy unemployed of the Grays Har- bor will get a feast of elk meat. Two men were arrested by the game war- den for the possession of elk meat and were fined $250 for the posses- sion. | There was nothing to show tha’ the men had killed the elk, they hed no firearms with which to do the, killing. The men swore that they had found the meat in the woods and that the birds were eating it and be- cause they needed jt they took it. dered the meat confiscated end turned over to the county charity officer, John Troup, to be distributed to the needy families, without know- ing whether or not this meat was fresh, The ten from whom the meat was taken: swore that the meat wae) found in the woods, yet it is good enough for the hungry unemployed of Grays Harbor, ‘Workers of Grays Harbor, do not) aliow these Inckeys of the capitaiist class to feed Ha. and your families on rotten food! foin the Unemployed | ing to buy real estate, is now Council and fight for its demands! | shown up as liars by its own figures. ° Aloany, the capital of New York State? For if there is. I haven't seen any of its movement, if any. Not that there isn’t any reason for action, jthere is plenty and here is some of them. The Salvation Army (read Starva- tion Army) waters, and I mean water, between 700 to one thousand ‘men once a day. Watery Soup Served Then there’s another joint which the fat rich charity ladies cailed the | Lotus Club that makes the pretense | to feed the women and children and | what a feed it is a bowl of hoi water called soup and a cup of hot water called coffee. What 2 great feed to learn the kids to salute the flag) on and that is not all, to get this, slop you have to go through a third | degree of the police. There's half a dozen of them stand- ing at the entrance to these joints and they ask you all kinds of ques-' tions and you can hear them for a block laughing at the hungry work- | ers. Talk about humiliation. The le- gendary Christ never went through the humiliation that these workers go through every day to get that | stinking slop. | Don’t you think it’s about time to) put an end to this mockery? Well, let's organize and demand unemployment insurance at once. | — Jobless. JESUS ARMY REAL ESTATE “RELIEF” NEW YORK.-Under the deliber- | ately misleading headline, “Harlem to Get $170,000 From Army-Navy Tilt,” the Pittsburgh Courier, which has a circulation in Harlem, published in its current weekly issue a story based on figures released from the Salvation | Army to the effect that $170,000 from the Army-Navy benefit game will be used for relief to starving Negro un- employed workers in Harlem. In spite of the fact that the fig- ures yeleased by the Salvation Army, as quoted in the article, shows that $125,000 will be used by this bunch of fakers to further increase the tre~ mendous real estate holdings of the Army by buying the former Tele- phone Exchange on 124th St., aban- doned by the telephone company since the installation of the dial sys- | tem, the Negro petty bourgeois press | makes not the slightest attempt to| show this trickery against the Negro | unemployed workers, but instead ac- tively help the Salvation Army, which several days ago denied that any of the Army-Navy game money was be~ 1931 CALENDAR FREE! Historical data on big events ot the class struggle in the firs(; an- nual Daily Worker Calendar. Free { with six months sub or renewal. | Buffalo, N. ¥.” |BORROWS MONEY TO * RENEW SUBSCRIPTION | “Encldésed you will find my re- newal for the Daily Worker for one year,” writes R. C.,,.Los Angeles, Cal. “I know it has ben overdye for some time, but I was out of work. In fact ALF, of L. Czar Robs Foreign Born Workers; _ | Calls 4 Strikes in Attempt to Collect Graft (This is the 11th in a Series of articles on A. F. of L, and poli- tical corruption in New Jersey. By ALLEN JOHNSON Jim Smith, a worker, pushed ound, knocked about, exploited, getting wages that keep him on, and | sometimes under the borderline ot | starvation, forms a union with some fellow-workers so they can fight the bosses better. The bosses are or- ganized against the workers, wh, not the workers against the bosses? The union is formed. After a hara and bitter fight, Jim and His com- rades win higher wages, shorter working hours, better working con- ditions. Pretty soon, Tom Jones, a slick, smooth oily guy, gets elected as busi- ness agent. The fellcws in the union grow careless. Jones starts sporting fancy clothes and in a couple of months rolls around to union head- quarters in a shiny roadster, Things start to go bad for the workers in the union. Hours are lengthened, working conditions begin | to get pretty bad. Then a wage cut. The men want to strike. Jones, the delegate who has just bought an au- tomobile, says no, it won't do us any good, Let's not rush things, he says, let's arbitrate! It doesn’t pay to fight. Jim and some of the more ex- perienced workers know better. They have learned that a bess won't yield an inch without a damn stiff fight But some of the fellows are taken in by the Business Agent's smooth gab. They vote against a strike and they win. So do the Business Agent and the boss. Boss and A. F. of L, Delegate. ‘The boss sizes up the situation and begins a general attack on the union, and Jim and a few other militants are fired. In a short time the union is completely crippled. The delegate buys a bigger car. The workers are temporarily crushed. The boss de- clares a bigger dividend. Here, briefly and somewhat over- simplified, is the history of the avex- age A. F, of L. local. Is the picture overdrawn? Look at the following intidents, all of which happened ré- cently and all of which are typica: of A. F. of L, union leaders all over the country, 4 There is a fight in Concrete Work- WILL BUILD UP ROUTE “Send 15 copies of the Daily Worker to my address every day,” writes Wm. Kammer, Daily Worker agent. “The Party nucleus of Wheeling is going to build up a route for the Daily in our section. Send at once.” SENDS FOR 5 COPIES WILL RENEW LATER Enclosed 25 cents in postal stamps for which send me 5 copies of the Daily Worker for 5 days next week,” “Conditions here are bad. Work- | original schedule for the third year | ers are starving. The charities are | of the plan and is practically on a! opium here. They give spoiled food | level with the original program for to hungry workers. The city hires | the last year of the Five-Year Plan. unemployed to sell apples: In the | The total value of the output of factories conditions are getting | large-scale industry during 1931 is worse. Lay-offs, wage-cuts and | scheduled, according to prices of | broken up with the landing of armed forces from the Delhi, the Carib wo- men and children had been subjected to a reign of terror. On the advice of the Attorney Gen- eral the resohifion was ruled out of order on the rounds, typical of cap- Italist justice, that since the govern- ment was prosecuting several werk- ers for participation in the demon- stration, the puppet Legislature could not criticize the murderous actions of the government's forces. speed-up are common here.” | tun cry was uoxey MAYOR FLEES AS JERSEY WORKERS THE JOBLESS! |More Demonstrations Elizabeth and Newark Soon; 30,000 Jobless | Mass Meets Wed. SOUTH BEND, Ind. (By Mail).—} ELIZABETH, N. J., Jan. 11—Mass With opportunity to circulate only | protest meetings under the auspices of the International Labor Defense | 300 leaflets announcing the hunger | ers’ local 325, Jersey City. Ted ers could no more have dug up $100 | Brandle, “the boss,” has made a com- | pany union out of the local. James Cullon is leading the fight agdinst | Brandle. He is running for the posi- on of business agent against Brand- | le’s candidate. Those who wouldn't | vote for Brandle’s man expect to taste Brandle’s penalties—beatings, | police attacks, discrimination in get~ | ting jobs, possible expulsion from the union or being shot—but they vote | for Cullon anyway. | Cullom is elected. Brandle tele- | phones the chief of police, telling | him that he may need some cops soon. He tells the members of the union that Cullom will not act as business agent—election or no elec- tion. Brandle’s man is business agent and that’s that. He is still business |delegates, and Cullom is out of the local. Soon after, a Brandle henchman proposes that all the fellows chip in and buy Brandle a car — a Rolls Royce. Brandle tries hard to blush and look shy. No, a Rolls Royce iis really too much, boys; I know | times are bad and I know most of | you aren't working. The henchman j insists. Brandle says, well, if you lows insist on buying me a car, all ‘right, But I won't take a Rolls Royce. Make it a Lincoln, that's a pretty good car too, And a Lincoln | it was, even though many a loan jshark was visited during the time | that the members %f the union con- tributed their share towards the pur- _chase of the car, Exploits Foreign Born Workers, The Seaboard Terminal Corp. re- cently built a warehouse in Jersey City. Brandle, of course, arranged to supply the workers, He did in the following way. His strong arm squad went to New York City employment agencies and hired all those foreign- born workers who could afford to pay $100 to join the union. Glowing promises of high wages and steady jobs were madé. The workers were Overjoyed. Imagine a union man and steady jobs. {t seemed almost | too good to be true. Of course, there was the matter of getting $100 to join the union. ‘That sort of put a different com- than they could a million, But some had saved for years and what better investment was there than a good job? Accordingly, dozens of foreign born workers went to work at the Sea- board construction jeb, that is, after Brandle had obtained )$100 each one of them. They worked for exactly one week before they were fired. Their hundred dollars? Well, it takes a great deal of money to keep up Brandle’s Lincoln. Week after week Brantile hired dit- ferent groups of foreign born work- ers, taking $100 from each other of them and then casting them aside when their week was yp... And the building, a huge strycture, took @ long time to erect. Apprentices who enter Brandler unions do so on much the same basis. No youth can join without paying Brandle a “fee” ranging from $100 to $1,000, depending upon how much the traffic will bear. Once they pay tribute to the A. F. of L., the aps prentices wait for jobs. And they continue to wait. When Brandle meets a corporation which insists on exploiting its work- ers without first “takiug care” of Brandle, trouble follows. Needless to say, the trouble is born by the workers affected. Here 1s a case in point. Calls Strike for Graft. A few years ago, the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company had its head- quarters and some of its largest warehouses in Jersey City. The truck drivers were all members of the A.F. of L. Teamsters’ Union. They were overworked, needless to say, and un- derpaid, but no more exploited on the whole than 95 per cent of the workers enrolled in the A. F. of L. Brandle became a little restive at the A. and P's refusal to reco; his “right” to strike insurance and determined to make an issue of the matter. He informed the A. and P. that un- coming after you to join the union, | strike. no less, and offering you high wages and Brandle called the strike, which, less the graft was forthcoming im-| mediately he woyld call a teamsters’) The A. and P. didn’t reply, of course, the workers lost, as Brandle | intended they should. Brandle was graft he was in the habit of obtain- ing. Again the A. and P. refused and again Brandle called a strike which) the workers lost. Brandle repeated| the procedure a third time with the | march here, 200 joblelss and workers | | came out Wednesday to demand food | {or work. They marched two miles | to reach the city hall, The mayor | fled out the back door, leaving the | police to attack the parade. Only one member of the committee was | same results, able to penetrate the police cordon | Once more he told the A. and P.| and he was immediately arrested. | he would call a strike if his demands were not met. The A. and P. replied} that if he called another strike it| woyld move its headquarters out of| The police tried to intimidate him, | but had no luck. This worker told | the chief of police he would not get | out of town, as ordered, and would the city within a week, and throw from 5 to 6,000 men and women out of work. Brandle, notwithstanding, called his fourth unsuccessful strike. RORIESIE swarm iGe 810 ld wank Sollee , . kebt its word. It lost| vai 5 | Bae ae pica York,| With $2 a week additional for each Neither did Brandle. But a large ma-| dependent, this to be paid out of the fority of the families of the 5,000, $500.00 park fund. There were de- | workers who lost their jobs feel it|™@nds for free rent, gas, light, car~ to this day. fare and against mortgage foreclos- | é 2 ures on workers’ homes. The demon- | An executive of the Natjonal Bis- anded a ‘or | cult Company was asked why his strators also dem: da permit for s e city ha sey City, with its exoellent trackage will be another hunger march Jan. and wharfage facilities. The execu- 14 or Jan. 15. Bes Lie his tee and inet AR Here the jobless are beginning to vandie charges foo much for his! invade restaurants and seize food. services. We don’t want strikes but neither do we want to put Brandle in Rockefeller’s class.” How like a breath of clean, sharp air it is to be reminded of the Trade Union Unity League. There is the Zelgreen affair, for example, in which the A. F. of L. succeeded in displac- ing restaurant workers for whom the T. U. U. L. had won the eight hour day, with men who were willing to work 12 hours a day. How the T. U. U. L. local fought, leaders as well as rank and file, against clubbing cops who attempted to break up the picket lines with the T. U. U. L. established after the A. F. of L. obtained an in- Junction for the boss. And how clear it becomes that A, F. of L, leadership is thoroughly cor- Tupt and anti-working class when the T. U. U. L. policies are compared with it; policies which include fighting for a 7-hour day and a five-day week, for higher wages and no wage cuts, for social insurance and against speed up, for militant industrial unionism . and against A. F. of L. craft union-| ism, for full social and political equal- | ity for Negroes, against a bosses’ war, | continue organizing the 30,000 jobless, | | most of them from the steel mills | here. Newsboy Collapses | From Hunger on Job (By a Worker Correspondent) PHOENIZ, Ar.—Rudolph Jackson, a 21-year-old boy, homeless, unem- | ployed until a wee kago, collapsed on | | his corner at Central Avenue and Washington Street where he was sel- jling papers. He was suf! ng from malnutrition and influenza. | Jackson was employed by the Ari-! zone Publishing Co, who are well! known in the intense exploitation of | their workers. There are about 5,000 workers unemployed in this locality of a population of 93,000. Under the | bridges of the Salt River, our water- less river, these unemployed men, wo- | men, and children are living and} eating what slop they manage to beg from house to house canvassing. Mor- tunately the climate is mild, ‘and sleeping in the open does not do. ar | much harm as compared to the| northeastern sections | simply trying to throw @ scare into the A. and P. A few weeks had Brandle elapsed, plexion on things. Most of the work } again demanded that he. regeive the ers’ government t in the for the defense of Soviet Russia, the| BLESS COUN.) phan Y wBihlls AGA toe abe ORM JOBLESS COUN establishment of .|CILS; FIGHT FOR JOBLESS | ving unemployed. are being held here and in Newark on Wednesday. The Elizabeth meet- ing will be in Ukrainian Hall, 214 Fulton St., at 8 p.m. The Elizabeth meeting denounces the arrests in front of the ¢ourt house on Dec. 31, when a committee was sent in by the jobless to demand relief items be inserted in the county budget then being voted on. The board of freeholders held their meet= ing illegally, previous to the adver- tised time, and jammed the budget through, providing for all sorts of luxurious frills and flouting the star- When the jobless leaders spoke on the street outside, exposing this, their meeting was at- tacked and Veronica Kovacs, Sol Harper of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and K. Novich, Daily Worker agent, were jailed. Anti-Lynching. Kovacs and Harper, with Fried Bie- denkapp of the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union, will be speakers at Wednesday's meeting, in which Har- per will also bring up the lynch gang activities following a fake “rape” charge against Negro workers, on Dec. 30. The three arrested Elizabeth work- ers will be tried Jan. 16 at 10 p. m. at Magistrate Brown's Court. The place and hour of the Newark meeting have not yet been reported to the Daily Worker. Thirteen job- less leaders are held for trial there after arrest at the hunger march on the board of commissioners’ meeting on Jan. Of these, John Casper, district organizer of the Trade Union League, ‘and J, Ludin are charged with assault and battery and held on $500 hail, and the others are charged with loitering and held on $250 bail. CAMP AND HOTEL NITERNAIGET VROLETARIAN TACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIBE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped ort and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere sit aA WESK CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, 5.7. PHONE $11