The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1931, Page 3

__ DAILY MOVIE OPERATORS KAUFMAN CLIQUE $20,000 Misleader Own Gang Has| Near Slavery in N.W. Lumber Camp; Will tigate Here? (By a Worker Correspondent) PORTLAND.—Speed-up at killing | pace and wages at a level that binds them in actual slavery is the condi- tion under which workers in the Sil- | \ver Falls Camps are producing tim- | | ber. The conditions in this camp are NEW YORK.—I am 2 motion pic- | just what camps in the Soviet Union sure operator out of work for last eight months, having tried to) the |are made to appear like. Silver Falls lies on uneven ground get a job in my home town which is | and has plenty of hills, yet the best a Philadelphia, fied fakers are conductiong a so- called organization campaign across the river in Camden, N. J. where the operators are getting the lowest wages in the east and I understand only about 32 new members were secured and some kind of action i$ expected soon. Kaufman Gang. I stopped in Newark and there, as everywhere the Operators Union is controlled by the Kaufman Gang and they are supreme, to the detriment of the members who pay real money and assessments, yet have nothing to say in the matter. Theatres are op- erated under and below union wages and the independent theatres are getting away with a low scale of wages, longer hours and fewer men. Yet Kaufman is yelling that all these concessions are only temporary and that next September the local unions will work with the others in the state to increase membership, but that will only mean more money for the grafters. Big Initiation Fees. I am out of a job for the past eight months but try and get one. Sam Kaplan, the manufacturer and the president of local 306 of Motion Picture Operators, is a regular be- lated plutocrat on the way of becom- ing @ millionaire from selling ma- chine parts to the theatres. A union that charges under $1,000 admission fee to the union with about 600 op- erators non union, walking the street without jobs while Kaplan needs a) strong bodyguard of gunmen to pro- tect him from the loving attention of his members. Like all A. F. of L. anions it is for the benefit of the big chain houses. While in Brooklyn a scale union also protected bv vangsters is under- mining A. F. of L. union by taking over 80 houses away. $20,000 Faker’s Salary. Many members are wondering why a man of Kaplan's calibre should get $20,000 a year? While large numbers of members are starving? Why have numbers of non-union houses in New York increased? When will the union fakers stop slugging their own mem- bers? and when will the members have enough guts to control their own union and expel the Kaufman gang of racketeers? The T. U. U. L. has a chance ‘0 | Thornton to save more dollars to eo) seme time was Bad gents, Where the self satis- | bucker can make is from $1.50 to $3.60 for they are paying 11 cents a 1,000. |A day's work in this camp leaves a | worker who has risked his life and produced several hundred dollars worth of value, with 50 cents to $1.00. Board is $1.50 a day and room $1.00 extra a week. This is the answer of Oregon bosses to unorganized lum- jber workers. A militant lumber workers industrial union will put a stop to it. Come on workers—form the Lum- ber Workers Industrial Union. Report camp conditions to the Daily Worker and the Trade Union Unity League. Support the “unemployed bill. DRIVE CANADIAN HOTTY, WOREE | EDMONTON, Cazada, Worker.—You are receiving from workers describing conditions in mining and lumber camps. Here is some of the conditions that the white collared slaves of the MacDonald Ho- R. tel, Edmonton, a part of the C. N system of hotels have to exist on. ‘They are supposed to work ci hours per day and one day off every week, but the boss makes them work | ten or twelve hours per with only | only when the b The food that is issued to them is the “left overs” from the tables of | the parasites which are able to live here. After being rehashed time and | time again, until it has lost all its | food value. One of the employees volunteered | if the boss would give him five dollars a month extra to board at home, bh he was refused so that you can see | for yourself how place on this garbage. wills it ‘There is sup- | province yet we never see them areund the hotel of “our railroad.” As a preliminary to the putting of employees on short time, notices have employees will be laid off for one week per month. Said layoffs without pay to cut down expenses of running the hotel and the workers having to foot the bill making it possible for Henry an occasional day’s holiday and that | much value they | posed to be health inspectors in this | put put in all departments that all| _ |} (b) a levy on all capital and property in excess of $25,000; (c) a tax || STEEL WORKERS | TO FIGHT BACK; | ORGANIZING NOW Schwab Lays. Off More Workers POINT, Md.—More pullers have been fired SP. \RROW! S within a period of six months as 2) result of the introduction of the |“Stick Pulling Machines, There were formerly 75 stick pullers, now there are only 40 on the same work. | A concrete example of rationalization | | (speed-up) was put into actual prac- | |tice on the stick pulling machine. | With the introduction of the machine, |four men were used to operate th | machine. | One worker hauled 3 shears, one worker opehed corners and one was catcher. Through the customary methods of elimination the crew was cut down} to 2 men after the crews broke in on | |the job, One man now carries stick- ers from 6 shears, cleans up, opens corners and hauls them to the scales. stickers from The work now is the worst form of} the mill is the men are exploitation. Although working on part time, forced to work 10 hours a da many times have to work overtime at a wage of 45 cents an hour. The jpay of a stick puller for two weeks |don’t average more than $25: to $30. | The workers in this departrhent’ are |very militant and are fully aware of the intense exploitation they are |forced to contend with and from all |signs, important developments of | struggle will be fought in the Tin and Hot mills. the 8-hour day, ede hour rate fee stick pullers, also | time insurance. The fight t speed-up is concretized by a nd of four men on the stick m | agail | dem: | pullin; | Ther | demands set forward by the Tin Mill | Committee of the Metal Workers In- | dustrial “League. The speed-up and| | low wage is making the workers think about organization, consequently the growing militancy and determination |to fight against the Bethlehem Steel Barons. Join the Metal Workers Industrial | League. Potate Prices Are ‘Below Production Cost RED BANK, N. J. | government economic report, the cost jof producing a bushel of potatoes |in Monmouth and Middlesex counties | of New Jersey was 60 cents. Average |price received by the farmers at th In other . x WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JAN TARY 13, 1931 Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes: 1,—Unemployment insurance at the rate of $25 a week for each unemployed 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; on all incomes of $5,000 a year. | 3.—That the Unemployment Insurance Fund thus created shall be administered by a Workers’ Commission elected solely by employed and unemployed workers. 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 shal! 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. The final form of the bill will follow the general line of the three points printed above. ‘Red Boosters Club of Philly Starts Off Right by Boosting feeded. one} and | The workers are building | |the Tin Mill Coppmlives to fight for : 5-day week and 65| achine instead of two men. } is the healthiest reaction to the | | In 1928 says the A letter from John Bedner, secre- tary of the Red Boosters’ Club of Philadelphia, indicates the club in- tends to be a real force in building |the circulation of the Daily Worker in Philadelphia. Bedner writes: “We have organized a Red Boost- jers’ Club here in Philadelphia, Pa. We have six members so far and hope to have at least five more new members by next Saturday. “The following were taken up at the Red Booster's Club meeting | yesterday: The sale of the Daily Worker and question of ordering | more papers. Send us 50 Daily Workers every day besides the regu- lar bundle we get now. “John Bedner was elected secre- tary of the Red Boosters’ Club. We are holding a Red Boosters’ Club |banquet a week from this coming | Sunday.” |GETTING THE DAILY WORKER TO FARMERS | This note comes from Andrew Om- | holt, Minot, No. Dakota: “We are activizing the Party in behalf of the Daily Worker and other activities of the Party, espe- cially the United Farmers’ League. We are making arrangements for county conferences of the farmers in North Dakota, the first one to be held in Montrail County, in the | court house at Stanley, the county | seat. We are sure of a big confer- | ence. We have invitations from sev- | eral communities to come and hold | meetings. “Comrade Ella Reeve Bloor, field | organizer for the United Farmers’ | League in North Dakota, is the most | popular person among the farmers.” 75 MORE DAILY FOR CITY OF OAKLAND “Send %5 copies of the Daily Worker each day to J. B. M.”—C.M. 81 SUBS RESULT OF DRIVE IN KANSAS CITY Mel Wermblad, district Worker agent in Kansas City, Daily sends Its Bundle; Seeks New Members |came near to overthrow the Nanking | crowd. PLEDGES TO BUILD ; DAILY IN AMBRIDGE “The Daily Worker is the only paper that has brought out the class | struggle to the forefront and has | vy Ay ALwals SELL “THe Aor Dai Ly WORKER | t 4 - - ia * | {proved to the working class what they, as workers, are entitled to,” writes A. J. Z. of Ambridge, Pa. “I greet the Daily Worker for its part in bringing the unemployed question before the eyes of the American working class. The capi- talist press and its agents, the A. F. of L., said nothing about unem- ployment until the Communist | Party and the Daily Worker ex- posed the fakers, Green, Woll and the Socialist Party. “This Party is nothing but a new- born baby to the other capitalist par- ties, who are not interested in the | conditions of the workers but the bosses, “Therefore, I pledge my full sup- ;port to the Daily Worker and the Communist Party, and I will try and build the circulation of the Daily Worker in Ambridge. “Send me a bundle of Daily Workers and I will try and sell them to the workers of Ambridge so they can get acquainted with the only paper that belongs to the working class and fights for their living and better working condi- tions and the overthrow of the bess class.” | Chinese Soviets. sertion enabled the Red armies to| | tions. INTE RNATIONAL oaNEWwWSs NANKING ARMY FORCES JOIN RED 18th Division Deserts;} Shingkuo Falls NEW YORK. Capitalist, dispatches from China received New York yesterday admit that the Red Armies of the Chinese peasants press and workers are in control of large! areas in Central China and constitute a far greater danger to the Nanking punpet government “than the armed rebellion of Marshall Feng Yu-hsiang and General Yen Hsi-shan”, The peasants, impressed by the Chinese tools of foreign imperialism|the constabulary when trying to re- |e" into their armies, continue to desert to the Red armies. A New York Times dispatch reports the desertion | of a large portion of the 18th Division sent by Chiang Kai-shek against the This wholesale de- capture the formidable base of Shingkuo, with great stores of muni- Shingkuo was the headquart- ers of the Nanking expedition against |the Red forces. A memorial sent to Chiang Kai- shek by the Chinese landlords and merchants of Kiangsi and Hunan |provinces recites the “sufferings” of |those exploiters of the masses and admits that 37 of the 81 counties in |Kiangsi are entirely administered by |Chinese Soviets, while in 38 other counties of Kiangsi, “the Reds sec- retly control affai: leaving only 6 counties in an area as large as France” free for landlord oppressioon of the masses. situation prevails.” In the meantime, the v: rious mili- \tarist tools of foreign imperialists are again at each other's throats. Gen- jeral Chang Fa-kwai has successfully Jinvaded Yunan Province with his Ironsides and decisively defeated the forces of Nanking. ing impossible demands of Nanking with a view to reopening the conflict between Mukden and Nanking. Burn Negro School in Bloomfield, Mo. BLOOMFIELD, Mo., Jan. 11—Ku Klux Klan and other fascist organ- | jizations are active here in a cam- | paign of terror against Negro worker jand poor farmers. Several days ago a Jim Crow school house at Gray Ridge was burned to the ground, it being the southern should not be wasted educating Negro | children, that it only robs the plan- | tations of cheap child labor. have in} which | “In Honan a similar | In the North, } Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang is mak- | bosses’ opinion that time and money | | | Philippine Peasants in Big Fight Against Landlords Land (CONTINUED FROM fanatics” led “Colorum but it is cautior admitted that the cause is the fight against the land-| | lords, PAGE ONE) ligious ca ulary which beats, jails and Lills the peasants as a regular program of im- perialist terror Peasants in Surprise Attack. | The peasants fought with great | heroism. At 2 a. m. Sunday they} {suddenly appeared in making | |® surprise attack on the Constabu- | lary barracks, routing thi impel! jist dogs and killing five, including jtwo officers. The post office and jother building were burned later by capture the town. The peasants were at first, it seems, armed only with bolos (large knife for cane cutting) but used the arms captured from the constabulary with deadly effect. The whole imperialist apparatus and n were |thrown into panic. From all parts of the Islands constabulary and Amer- ican troops were rushed toward peasants held the town by fierce fighting until their shelters in the post office and other buildir were burned, when they retreated seizing a catholic barricaded and held for n Five more constabulary and five wounded tr. hich the: any hou were killed ing to take the convent But imperialism wanted to “teach them a lesson” and shot down even 2 convent girl student who, heroically mounting the walls in plain view urged the peasants, whose leader v her own father, to fight to the last, |was herself murdered by the bullets of the imper' s. Her name was Faustina Vivol At dark, the peasants withdrew mest of their forces, escaping to the forests, and only afterward did the} jconstabulary capture t few left These escaping are being hunted |dcwn like wild beasts. But thou- sands of other peasants in other vil- lages and in the neighboring pro- | vinces are also = | The imperialist “ * of Man- ques- tioning how it w eds of } men mobilized without it knowing of it Heavy troop detachments are being rushed northward MASSES STARVE INST. LOUIS (CONTINUED FRO hinaiipioned: and thei not get any relief from the $300,000 appropriated by the Obey Cae PAGE ONED taxes and the brutal constab-| lies did |” TRIKE WAVE IN CUBA IS RISING Both Machado ‘Nationalists’ rales and | NEW YORK.—Reports from Hae |vana tell of a fierce fight between \striking textile workers, supperted by workers and sympay y workers and students. avagely beaten and the leaders of the participating students’ group were, with many workers, sent to the Cabanas prison, the prison in | which m; lutionaries are mur- dered under the guise of “suicide.” The Havana Harbor Workers’ Fed- tion has threatened to strike in | Solidarity with the striking fisher- men and stevedores, thus tying up all activ in the port of Havana. Another harbor strike is beginning on the southern side of the island. The strike wave wing, despite the reformist and fascist union lead jers, and means an entrance of the ers into the field of anti-imper- gele on the basis of con- [ demands of the workers, whose conditions are miserable. The so-called “Nationalists,” not lepending on the masses, are using errorist. methods shown not only by continuous bomb explosions, but by the burning of vast amounts of sugar cane on the plantations. Such a hile showing the deep anti- | impe feeling of the followers of | the ionalists,” are ineffective. methods the Communist > rising strike wave and suppor! mass action. Doubtless because the bourgeois to Machado notes with activity of the work- one of its leaders, Menocal, has | held a private discussion with Ma- chado, apparently trying to reach a |compromise. Both make the absurd jclaim that the conference was the result of an “accidental” meeting, | ers, |56 Hatters Join Danbury Strike (CONTINUED OM PAGE ONE) Hall night The. Lee hat shop, owned by the same ‘boss which controls the Na- tional and the Eastern Fur shops where the strike is on, has announced ja wage-cut, and it is reported that 65 workers have already walked out. A Strikers. Dance to raise relief funds has been arranged for Wednes- |day night at the Mechanics Hall. | Hundreds of tickets have already been |sold among the workers in Danbury ympathetic to the strike. | The government has already step- | ped in to attempt to break the strike, at 253. Main Street Monday ay v ‘the unions. organize the trade. =A, & a summary of the results of the Daily |, — Several anonymous threats ‘ Be Oe get | ABBA Weinstock, Conciliator for the |room, the workers of the MacDonald | cents on the red side of the ledger. | Sowing the following gains: | SUCH A GREAT PAPER jie also) eis landlord demanding that 7 The me » ea a ene cently attempted to break the’ New BIG CHI DETROIT | Hotel are hot organized. This is the ‘This kind of bookeeping is liable to|. Kansas City, Kans, 3 monthly | “Thank you very kindly for con-|he discharge his Negro farm help and Sy. Tie Bosses and Mheit govern: | Haven strike of 400 girls in the Les- él | : make him see red. | subs; Kansas City, Mo., 5’ weekly, | tinuing to send the Daily Worker to |employ white persons. jepene ais : ive | now Shirt factory, arrived in Dan- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) workers away the crowd swelled Large numbers of rank and file mem- | bers of A. F. of L. locals came in groups, filling a considerable section of the hall. And whenever the of- ficialdom was mentioned a deep “boo” swept the Coliseum and the fakers in the balcony didn’t dare interrupt the meeting further. x Scores A. F, L. Corruption. The complete bankruptcy of the | Federation on the unemployment question was pointed out by Foster, who stressed the racketeer control of Fitzpatrick, one time progressive, is not raising a finger against the gangster control, but simply going along with them, he said. “Unemployment is gnawing at the vitals of the capitalist society. In the Soviet Union,” Foster said, “there is no unemployment. There is no real solution to unemployment in a capitalist society. We will never see the day under capitalism when all workers will be able to find jobs. “Mass starvation, bread lines, evic- tions wholesale, maddening speed-up, lynchings, lowering of standards of living—a fine picture of civilization in a state of collapse!” Foster de- clared. “And it isn’t a temporary sickness, but a death sickness. Capi- talism is dying. But don’t think it will die of its own volition. We'll have to give it a good push!” Cheers and applause swept the hall, Now Act! “You've cheered, now act!” Foster said, calling for a powerful hunger march and strengthening of the un- employed councils in the fight for unemployment insurance and intensi- fied activity in building the unions and leagues affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League. Indeed organ- ization was the keynote of this, the largest indoor meeting held in Chi- ‘cago under the auspices of the revo- lutionary unions in several years. And the response of the audience every time the necessity for intensi- fied organization was mentioned, and the large number of applications signed, indicated that the sentiment of the thousands gathered was sharply reflected. Many subscriptions to La- bor Unity were taken. Nils Kjar, pointing to the recent ex- pose in the local press that $156,000, 000 had been squandered last year by city hall, called for a fight to the = for unemployment relief. “It's better to fight for the working ‘a art of the delegation to go from the spec today to ty al vention. jelass than lie down and starve to death. Let's organize and nothing | but hell can stop up. Misery Among Negroes. Brown Squires, introduced by Chair {man Phil Frankfeld as an “ex-ser viceman who fought for Wall Street during the last war, but who was now | fighting for the working class,” tol of harrowing conditions among the Negroes of Chicago and called for a united fight for unemployment in- surance and everybody joining in the | colelction of signatures on petitions | for insurance. Large numbers of Ne-| groes attended. | Otto Wangerin, prominent trade unionist and Communist candidate for mayor, exposed the gangster and boss-controlled candidates and called | upon all workers to support the only working-class party and help collect the 25,000 signatures needed to put the Communist candidates on the ballot. The local demands Wangerin included: (1) An immediate appropriation of $75,000,000 for unemployment relief. Every unemployed worker to receive relief up to $25 a week, depending on size of family. (2) No evictions to take place. Free gas, clectricity and carfares. (3) Free hot lunches for children of unemployed. (4) No discrimination against Ne- gro workers. Negro workers to be hired on equal basis with white. Equal relief for Negro workers and their families, (5) Opening up of unused apart~ ment houses and public buildings to the homeless unemployed. Clean, comfortable beds and cots. Warm blankets. Unemployed to leave at 7 a m. Committees of unemployed to be in complete charge. Wholesome, decent meals to be provided for un- employed IMMEDIATELY. A red silk flag embroidered in gold with the Trade Union Unity League insignia of the rising star was pre- sented to Foster by a group of chil- dren from the Jewish Workers’ Chil- dren’s School. “We Igarned in school how you were arrested for fighting for the unemployed workers,” a seven-year- old youngster said, “and we wanted to make something to give you for the Trade Usion Unity League. So we made this.” ‘The delegation to carry the bill to Severn Feb. 10, was elected and stressed by | hotel that the labor fakers of the A.) FOSTER MEETS | F. of L. stopped at while in con- | IZE TO END ORGAN |STARVATION; DEMAND | RELIEF! 4 monthly; Little Rock, Ark. 7 monthly; Oklahoma City, 25 weekly, 1 monthly; Omaha, Neb., 12 month- ly; Sioux City, Iowa, 6 weekly, 18 monthly, (This is the 12th of a series of article on A. F. of L. and political corruption in New Jersey.) ee Sone) By ALLEN JOHNSON. It is hardly necessary to point out President Bill Green’s friendly co- operation with the Hoover govern- ment to prove that A. F. of L. offi- cials are, as a whole, among the great- est enemies the American working class has today. When Hoover called a conference of the “59” who rule America “to discuss plans for im- proving the business situation,” the “59” promised to cut neither forces nor wages, Green, in turn, promised he would call no strikes. The results of that conference are now history. The “59” went back to their mahogany desks to inaugurate the most widespread wage-cuts and lay-offs the country has ever experi- enced, but Bill Green, “the workers’ friend,” kept his promise and Father Walsh publicly thanked god the other day at Fish’s anti-Communist meet- ing, because “the A. F. of L. is the greatest defender of capitalism that America has.” Bill Green, head of the A. F. of L., goes to see Hoover—and the income of the American working class is slashed $17,000,000,000, or more than a third. Bill Foster, head of the Trade Union Unity League, goes to see Fish—and the capitalists of Amer- ica quiver in their silk underwear when they read the statement out- lining the Communist program for the American working class, A. F, of L and Its Friends. It takes no great shakes of a brain to realize that when the A. F. of L. leaders are close friends of capital- ists, they are no friends of workers, and conversely when capitalists hate and fear the Communist Party pro- gram, it means that the fulfillment of that program is the best thing that coujd ever happen to the Amer- ican working class. Replicas of this touching friend- ship between Green and Hoover can me, the one paper that tells the truth,” writes John P. A. Chicago. | “Good luck to such a great paper and | THE CITY HAS MONEY FOR COPS; MAKE IT FEED also to those who are responsible for such a worthy newspaper.” jbe seen all over the United States. Locate a crooked A. F. of L. leader— you'll have to walk much less than you will for a Camel—and you'll find @ mayor or a governor in the back- ground. Sometimes it is the other way round, but the point is they usu- ally work together. In ‘sey City, as we have seen, Brandle, the state leader of the A. F. of L., actually forces union work- ers to march in Hague’s political pa- rades and supplies his gunmen when they are necessary. Hague, in turn, throws all sorts of graft Brandle’s way and Brandle reciprocates by per- mitting Hague to share his own graft |from labor racketeering. Jersey City, with one of the most. valuable waterfronts in the world, owns only one pier, the others having been given to the various railroads for a negligible sum. On this pier |are conducted two activities, the pro- ceeds of which have helped Hague buy a castle in Ireland, a chateau in southern France and the largest apartment house in New Jersey. One of these activities is the smuggling of drugs, one of the most important in- dustries in Jersey City and controlled almost entirely by Hague. The other is what is called “a loading racket,” When a ship docks at the Jersey City pier no truckman who has not made a previous arrangement with Hague can unload its cargo. The arrangement calls for the pay- ment to Hague of three cents for every hundred pounds of freight that is co '-d from the pier——and the ships are large ocean liners. The man who collects this tribute is an inspector in the Jersey City Police department, a hard-boiled, rough and tumble thug who has needlessly shot a half a dozen men in the course of his police career. This inspector also collects from the drug smugglers, githough the “fee” in this case is a good deal higher than three cents a hundred- weight, once fired a street cleaner who couldn't pay the normal three per cent of his salary to Hague because his wife was bedridden and doctors’ bills had eaten up his money. Hague, as the leading Catholic lay- man in New Jersey, regularly con- tributes $30,000 altars to the various Catholic churches, and it is believed by many that he ordered the burn- ing of the Fourth Regiment Ar- mory in Jersey City because it ob- structed the light of a new church, St. Aedan’s, which was being built. When, in the normal course of Brandle’s business as an A. F. of L. official, he meets an employer who objects to the high price that Brandle charges for strikebreaking and wage- Slashing, Hague is always willing to exert a little pressure on the boss who wants to “hog it all.” He can invoke the law, for example, which requires the payment of a tax on personal property: a law which is universally evaded by the wealthy men in the city. The evasion of this law is one of the reasons why the workers of Jersey City are burdened with the highest tax rate in America, and is comparable to Hoover's re- {using to permit $15,000,000 to be spent on food for starving farmers a week after he had returned $160,000, 000 to various corporations in “excess taxes.” While the T. U. U. L. leaders are golng to jail, being beaten and risk- ing their lives to organize the workers of the United States, Brandle, the A, F. of L. leader, is busily engaged in organizing some of the exploiters of these workers. ORGANIZE BOSSES’ ASSOCIATIONS. There is, for example, the Hud- son Builders’ Material Co. This is an organization that sells building supplies to such corporations as the Pennsylvania and Lackawanna rail- roads. It is an association of bosses who employ many workers. . The offices of this byiragpedlisey are be te cotadenal on era 2a Aa a, THE JOBLESS! A. F. of L. Official Organizes Employers Into Protective Assn’s; Gets Part of Profit it? Also the fact that Brandle is the head of the Hudson County Building Trades Council. How con- venient it would be for the bosses if the head of the building trades were friendly to the men who used so many building trades workers? How many strikes could be avoided and how easy it would be to “keep | the workers in their place.” Well, the fact of the matter is, Brandle organized this bosses’ organization and gets a part of its profits. More- over, it was he who suggested the idea to the bosses and not the bosses to him. The same situation exists in the| trucking business. Brandle has or- ganized the truckmen of Jersey City) into the Hudson County Truck Own- | ers’ Association. Truckmen pay Brandle for admission into the asso- ciation and in addition pay an as- sessment on each truck they own. | Isn't it peculiar that Brandle con- | trols the Teamsters’ Union? Then there is the Mason Material Men's Association, also organized by Brandle. Because of the valuable as- sistance Brandle renders members of this bosses’ association, he is permit- ted to get a “cut” on every bag of cement sold in Jersey City. The con- nection between Brandle and these associations becomes still more en- lightening because of the: fact that | many of their members are also mem- bers of the League for Industrial Rights, a strikebreaking organization which, for a yearly “consideration,” will supply injunctions to any em- ployers who want to use them in “labor disputes.” There is a wealth of evidence to prove that the one sure way for an A. F. of L. official to lose his job is to display any interest in the wel- fare of the men in the union. Brandie, only a few years ago the business delegate of one local, now has more official jobs and controls more unions than all the other A. F. of L. officials in New dersey com~- bined. SN Ae jit to us. Ur thrown out of their house A high point in tae resist this starvation policy will be the hun- \ger marches, Friday, which unite in a great demonstration at 3:30 p. m. at| the city hall. There will be marchers from all the bread lines and slop al- |e: nployed workers are The jobless will gather at 2 Fourth the 30 p. m. at and nd Chouteau jmareh to hall {march will s from 23rd and Wash- ington and march to the city hall, where a meeting will be held and a jlarge delegation will be sent to the board of aldermen meeting at that |time, putitng forth the demands of jthe unemployed for immediate reliet jand appropriation of $10,000,000 for jrelief by the board of aldermen. Among their demands are $8 per job- | less worker each week and up to $15 |for families, no evictions, etc. A number of meet be held prior to the hunger march in prep- jaration of the mass meeting which jis being arranged for William Z. Fos- | ter on Feb. 8 at Hibernian Hall. Resisted Eviction. On Thursday four more workers go | on trial for their participation in the struggle against evictions here in St |Louis, Ethel Beran, Ronald Lutz, |Yetta Becker and J. Peer, leaders of |the Unemployed Councils, have been \fined $25 each, trial to the same judg jsustained the sentence of the lower court in finding a worker $200 for not having money with whieh to move. The International Labor is defending the cases of all workers |arrested, and is conducting a cam- paign amongst the workers in defense of those on trial. On Jan, 14 the I. L. D. ts holding a mass meeting to protest against sentencing of work- ers for fighting against evictions. meeting will be at Hibernian 3619 Finney Ave. . 8 6 Foster Meet In Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan, 12.—To- morrow the jobless of Pittsburgh and surrounding steel and mining towns will gather in Carnegie Hall, Federal and East Ohio Sts., to hear Foster and elect the Pittsburgh members of the delegation to go Feb. 10 with the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill to Congress. The mass meeting is expected to speed the work of col- Jecting signatures from those who de- mand the passage of the bill. To enforce their demands for $15 a wek for each unemployed worker, the jobless will rally Jan. 14 for a march on the bind Hall, PRLARELEAIA, Pa, dan, 12 who recently e to} Another | and now come up for | Defense 'T' The | Hall, | bury and immediately proceeded to |confer with the bosses on how to sell out the She made an offer | to the Strike Committee to speak be- fore the strikers and ask them to let }her “arbitrate”. The s refused. | Foster speaks here at : a » mass meeting |for which preparations have been made during the last several weeks. The meting will be at Broadway Arena, Wednesday night. Philadelphia jobless are now pre- paring two more stages in their strug- |gle against starvation. There will be }a united front conference of dele- |gates from workers’ organizations on | Jan. 25 at 10 a. m. at 39 N. Tenth St. There will be a hunger march on the city hall Jan. 25 at 2 p. m. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 12.—A lseries of hunger marches and unem- | ployment conferences are being or- ganized throughout the state, which will culminate in a march on the state capitol building in Hartford on Feb. 10, when the State Unemployed Delegation will present their demands to the state legislature, which is in session. | Unemployment conferences will b& held as follow Stamford, Monday, Jan. 26; Hartford, Tuesday, Jan, 27 |New Haven, Wednesday, Jan. 28; Bridgeport, Thursday, Jan. 29; Springfield. Friday, Jan. 30. Hunger marches will take place in New Haven, Monday, Feb. 2; Bridge- port, Monday, Jan, 19; Hartford, lay, Feb, 10; Springfield, Tues- b. 10; New Britain, ‘Tuesday, Stamford and Waterbury, the first week in February, on the day the respective city councils meet. So far over 4,000 signatures have been collected on the unemployment petitions. The goal of 10,000 by Feb, 1 is rapidly being approached, ORGANIZE TO END |STARVATION; DEMAND | RELIEF!! 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