The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1931, Page 3

) i | a_i e 9 a \ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931 Fage lhree JIM-CROWISM AT GARY FLOP HOUSE City ‘Charity Fosters Race Hatred (By a Worker Correspondent.) GARY, Ind., Jan 8.—Carrying out friends throughout the state of li | | the bosses’ policy of isolating the Ne- POS. So T came to Iowa, got me a) My recent tour of the short log) gro masses, the city soup kitchen and flop house at 1932 Broadway is seg- Iowa Miners Feel Pinch of Few Days’ | Work, Bills Pile Up Slater, Iowa, | Daily Worker:— | Comrades you remember the N. M. ‘Union strike of December 9, 1930— jsinee that time I was out of work, blacklisted by Fishwick and his boss | Job here but I expect it is going to be jclosed at anytime—then I will go |baek home to Springfield, Ill. [LOGGING CAMPS ARE MISERABLE Conditions Are Worst | in Long Time | Editor, Dear Comrade: country reveals conditions at their worst, the camps are mostly built for summer logging but they log up till regating jobless Negro workers who} This mine has been working just |the first of the year which makes it are forced to apply for a measly meal | for the winter—before closed down | most miserable for the lumber-jacks. and a place to sleep, |for the summer—then you know the The camp cook-houses are contracted Negro and white workers are forced | Poverty of the miners—they are dis-|anq fifty eents a meal is the price to sit at separate tables and to sleep | Satisfied with every thing but they |for transient, if you are broke you im different parts of the old store| don’t Know the way out. Am trying|are out of luck unless some friend which has been turned into @ flop|t® organize a branch of the LL.D. I|is in the camp and gets you a meal house. In addition, unemployed workers who apply, must pay graft or carry favor in order to enjoy the city’s eharity. Just last night, I stood with many other workers before the doors of the place waiting for a meal. The door opened slightly and the supervisor looked out, seeking a favorite. Altho there was quite a bunch, he picked ‘one: white fellow, only after that fel- Jow told him that he had a quarter.) And this is unemployed relief! All| the rest were left out, and stood there | muttering and cursing. | ‘The Salvation (Robbers’) Army also) Funs a soup kitchen and flop house in’ Gary. And at this place, unemployed workers are literally treated as slaves. One is forced to slave about four houys for a skimpy meal and a bed. Here the bosses forget about the free Isborer and his wages. What have the robbers of this damn outfit done with the millions they have faked out of the workers’ pockets, that a man is forccd to slave for a meal? The Salvation Army in this town cer- tainly isn't edvertising its good deeds. It hasn't any to report. But it could dig up lots of fakers, with a bell and pan to collect the dough. —J. B. Boss Orders Cop to Chase Bors Whe Came to Apn'v for Work New York. Daily Worker: Over 100 boys applied for the jo> ‘advertized in “The World” Tuesday, Jan, 6, as a boy wanted for erran sy and to learn the trade of a “dent: mechanic.” At 8:30 a. m. they lei the crowd go up. They rushed to the seventh floor where the laboratory ‘was located. The boss got scared arc instead of hiring the boy he adver- tised for, he sent over the starter to tell the boys that a boy was hired the night previous and that no help was wanted. Chased By Cops. The boys refused to leave. Som-- one called out: “If a boy was hired. show him to us. We want to him,” and the entire crowd caugh: and re-echoed: “We have got to se him.” The boss must have gotten cold feet, because five minutes later a-cop arrived and started chasing us down. The crowd lost nerve and in spite of the two or three fellows who insisted that they would not leave until they see the boss, they were persuaded by a bunch of fellows to leave. ‘Then the fun started. The fellows were sent downstairs by the elevator, then they would run up the stairs to be sent down again by the elevator. Finally they were all chased out of the building. They were hangins, @round in groups, discussing the ‘job, | which at the most would pay $12 a ‘week, in fact seeing such an influx! of heln the boss would surely try to offer $8 and perhaps $6 for this job to learn a trade. One group developed a fight. One blamed the other for leaving the place first. They realized now . that they should have remained up- stairs. Now the only thing that re- mained was to shift the blasf® on Someone els¢—so much like th®vA. F. of L, leaders de. As long as you are not the one to be biamed, the be- trayal does not count. —Worcorr. JOBLESS MASS IN LAWRENCE TODAY (CONTINUED FROM PAG ONE) class sections for the meeting which is expected to be the the city sinee the memorable days of the strikes. Already the unemployed council has collected 1,500 {don’t know just now if I will be able to-do since they. have no money and big-store bills to pay and work is very poor—they are working 3 and 4 days |a week—so you see what condition they are in. JOBLESS FORCED “TO EAT GARBAGE | ticket. | Small Fry Gyps. | Most of the camps are gyppo or small contractors that take a strip of timber at so much per thousand feet, then they are contracting for a day's 2.—The creation of a National and unemployed workers, final form as (possibly) amended bill will follow the general line of All workers are called upon bill. nature drive. All organizations the collection of signatures. York City, for signature blanks. Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill ‘The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes: 1—Unemployment insurance at the rate of §25 a week for each gnemployed worker and $5 additional for each dependant. Unemployment Insurance Fund to be raised by: (a) using all war funds for unemployment insurance; {b) = levy on all capital and property in excess of $25,000; (c) a tax 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 All whe 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 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 the three points printed above. to help collect signatures for this Get the co-operation of all workers you know in the sig- should activize their members in Write to the National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance, 2 West 15th St., New | Reno, Nevada, is the latest link Reno, Nevada, Latest City v to Build Red Builders News | Club; Orders Bundle of 75 ; WANTS DAILY IN HOME pay and even roll their own landings | in the chain of Red Builders News !OF EVERY WORKER jin the flume which takes the place} Clubs stretching across the country, | of day hook-men. And the speed-up jof the loggers you would think there were a shortage of men in the coun- try. In the Preist River camps bunks ladding to the dozen clubs already | putting their weight behind the Dail; Worker 60,000 circulation drive to the | top. “T have been getting the Daily Worker for several months and con- sider it just the paper that should be in the home of every worker that wants to better his conditions social- INTERNATIONAL GERMAN CRISIS. |M’Donald Aids IS LEADING 10 | Wage Cutting _ BIG STRUGGLES Drive of Bosses Bruening Threatens | M™die Round Table Conferenee for 9 | . : bloody suppression of the Indian | More Blood and Iron | workers and peasants, he takes time A) ees off to consult with the textile and | A revolutionary crisis is rapidly! coal bosses to put over a wage cut maturing in Germany, is the admis-| for over 650,000 workers, More than sion made in a cable from Berlin te | 150,000 Welsh miners are already on the New York World on Monday.| strike. Other mine workers are call- “That Germany is heading into the ing for a General Strike. The tex- most dangerous domestic crisis since} tile bosses of Lancashire, to put over the revolution that culminated in the | the eight-loom speed up system and establishment of a republic is believed|a wage cut are threatening to throw to be the substance of the impression | out 500,000 workers. gained by Chancellor Heinrich Bruen-| ypemployment is rapidly increas: ing during a visit to Upper Silesia’ ing ‘The total registered unemployed from which he has just returned,” | 3+ the end of December was 2,643,127, says this dispatch. |which was 234,756 more than in the They refer to the angry demands! preceding week, and 1.132.896 more {of the hungry unemployed which eels than the year before. This is M greete Bruening when he came te! nonaia’ nt to the British we Upper Silesia. Stones were thrown ‘ e wholesale wage cuts at the Chancellor and it was by in- biped’ to Rend “out for shoes jcreasing the armed force protecting +111 employed. his train that actual physical violence |" "4 vont ot a bhawtee hy was prevented. The windows of one SAR GHC. OTGIS. 18. ORE WANE : England he Lioyd’s Bank has cut of the autos in his group was smash- ed. The workers cried: “Down with its dividends and the leading five big | ARGENTINE TRADE DRIVE IS SPUR 70 | ANGLO-U. S. WAR British Prepare for the | Major Push A sharper drive for Argentine trade is brewing between Britain and the United States. In London widespread preparations are being made for the British Trade Exhibition in Buenos Aires which takes place in Spring. When this Exhibition was first. an- nounced Irigoyen, a close ally. of Brite ish imperialism, was in power. Ameri- {can capitalists, who were increasing their trade, had hard sledding because |of Irigoyen. The British were mak- ing special efforts to root out their chief competitor. Dr. Max Winkler, when the Exhibition was first an- nounced, and it was stated that the Prince of Wales would make a special visit to Buenos Aires to open the Bx hibition, declared that this would not go unanswered. Very soon thereafter the crisis shook the Irigoyen regime and wrecked it. President Uriburu, made over- g |are tents and in bad weat’ or they |are cold and miserable. In most of the camps the transient lumber-. | without bedding unless some friend gives them a blanket so you see lum~- Misery In Minneapoli Deepening (By a Farmer Correspondent.) MINNEAPOLIS, Min. Jan. 14.— jare short on bedding and the camps | sleep in the wash house/! Here's the note from F. Blackstone: “Find $5 on account. Increase bundle order from .50 copies to 75 at once. Have organized a Red Builders Club. Need more papers. 100 copies of Saturday's issue.” Judging from the results of other ly, economically and otherwise,” writes W. J. H. of Chisholm, Minn. “Please keep on sending it to me.” TOLEDO ON THE JOB, INCREASES BUNDLES From A. Burry we hear seen in|” Things are happening out here in this ;agrievitural state that have never be- |fore.been witnessed by citizens of | Minnesota. | While walking through the down- | town district the other day I saw two boys about twelve years of age ran- |sacking a garbage can at the rear of a |luxurious cafe. When they left the | can , each had a pasteboard box filled |with old buns, pie crusts and well |gnawed pork chop bones. One boy | started eating from one of the bones jas they came out of the alley. Both of them were fairly well dressed. This es! where the “middle” class is Again, I saw a poor Negro wo- n pick a piece of bread crust from the dirty, slushy sidewalk, in front of the main post office building, and eat ‘t voraciously. She nearly had her epped on while she was get- g the er ‘the food passed out by the charity orgarizations here is unfit for hogs It is a vory common thing to , and hear, ragged starving work- muttering to themselves as they < slong the streets in this city. jegiking nm and iris six men on the streets. d it impossible to se- nd are forced td sell their rm-Labor, govern- 2”, was sworn in + the tmemployed dat the cap- the usual line of “TBs. Pi wt has no power to do this or It is easy to p' ‘2 and the satisfactory reply a bunch of canitalists would get 2y called at the same door. Ol- administration promises to pro- le plenty of jails and a force of cops to keep the wo-kers in them. In his speech yesterday he asked that more cops be added to the forces. The Farmer Labap-Party has always shown itself to. Be ju |tion. of the capitalise SATTERGOES IN (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONED and militant employed workers here, even as the local press admits. Take From Workers. Although hundreds of thousands of dollars have been collected by the welfare funds, mainly through for- cibly.taxing the miserably low wages. of those who are still employed, only “a small part of this money has been given to the unemployed. More than 30-per cent of what has been collected has been used for red tape adminis- trative purposes. The city of Pitts- burgh made a gesture of giving re- lief by giving an average of $4 a month per family for 3 months to about 8,000 families. In outlying towns conditions are even worse. In most of these places not even a pre- tense of giving relief is being made. Spend On Police, ‘The Pittsburg city officials are the most brazen in their contempt for the starving unemployed, while re- fusing to give adequate relief to the £0,000 unemployed, an additional $1,200,000 is being proposed to in- creese the police force! The workers that are still on the job are not much better off. Their ‘wares heave been slashed to a starva- tion level. The speed-up is becom- ing murderous. In the Wildwood mine, new machines are speeding the men to such an extent that 300 pro- duce as much coal as 2,000 men did before. Thousands more are losing their Jobs through this vicious speed- up every day. In the mining towns almost every employed miner works only one or two days a week. The steel towns are very little tetter, Workers and their families aro ac+ _trelly starving while still having a 3| fob. Hot Dog Jamboree of Red builders News Club, 27 East 4th St, Sunday, 3p. m A Another frac- | ber workers, what we have to submit to by not being organized and will continue to be this way and worse until we start fighting the boss for better conditions and to do this the National Lumber Workers’ Union is the only solution. | As we all know the Jumber indus- try is on'the decrease and there is no demand for forest products, but |this is no reason of thé lumber | facks, so we lumber workers must or- |ganize and fight the lumber baron against the speed-up system and Jow |wage scale. Also the lumber barons jare trying to ineite and antagonize \the workers against each other and |we must realize this fact and organ- |ize all the foreign born workers into our unions and fight the capitalist |class together; this way we will gain jour object and get better conditions and increase in pay. So, fellow workers, organize and fight; don’t starve. N. L. W. I. L, ‘Another Penn. Bank Is Closed; Workers’ Savings Are Robbed | DARBY, Pa., Jan. 13—The Darby Bank and Trust Company here, with | $1,261,000 in deposits closed its doors recently under the excuse that there lwas “unusually heavy withdrawals.” |The closing of the bank, located at }oth and Main Streets, Darby, Pa., a end ‘told them that the/few minutes walk from the city line | |of Philadelphia, deprives hundreds of ture the royal! unemployed workers from getting| \their few dollars. The State Secre- |tary of Banking insists that this |bank is “solvent,” but the workers |can’t get their money out. | (This is the 15th of a series of articles on A, F, of L. and political corruption in New Jersey.) oe By ALLEN JOHNSON The percentage of illiteracy in the thickly populated sections of New Jersey is 1,500 times greater among the foreign born than it is among | those born in the United States, and | the Catholic church is doing its level best to make that percentage still greater. ‘The church has a relentless policy of opposing the establishment of new | career of Mayor Mark Fagan, a thor- oughly “regular” democrat, because he insisted on building new schools as i they were. needed, and it has helped |to keep Hague in power for almost 20 years because he has carried out | the church's school policy. In accor~ |dance with the church’s program, | Hague has built only three addition, al schools in the last 10 years despite @ tremendous growth in the city’s |population. Moreover, the most im- jportant reason for the erection of even these three schools is that Hague was able to pocket several hundred thousand dollars in boodle on each of them. Although the Catholic Church op- poses the establishment of secular schools with all its strength, it is al- ways begging for funds to erect par- ochial schools, And where begging isn't effective, browbeating and threats often are. The children who enter these parochial schools are sub- jected to a stream of persistent, thorough going, persuasive, anti- workingclass pi \da, all of it nicely sugar coated with orthodox christian phrases. Seeks to Win Negroes For almost 2,000 years the Catholic church has been the ally of every governing clique that has waxed rich and fat on the toil of enslaved mass- es, and by its aetions today all over the world it shows that it has not lost its cunning. The Negroes of America are a super-exploited race, jim-crowed, lynched, held in semi- public schools. It ruined the political | Red Builders News Clubs, Reno should not be long in increasing its circular tion by means of canvassing from house-to-house, building up routes in to be found. Members of the Reno Red Builders News Club will find that workers are anxious to read the paper when once they have become acquainted with its working class character. TODAY LAST, DAY FOR ‘LENIN MEMORIAL ORDERS The Lenin Memorial Edition of the | Daily Worker, Saturday, Jan. 17, will |be eagerly read by every class-con- jinterest of those not yet familiar |with the teachings of the leader of |the Bolshevik Revolution. Articles will include Lenin’s activities prior to and following the Revolution, a letter from Lenin to the U. S. workers, Education in the U.S.6.R., Lenin and | the Masses, Reminiscences, and Lenin {and Workers Art and Literature. Orders at 1c for five or more, re- | ceived today. INCREASE IN AKRON BUNDLES “Please increase our order for Akron to 65.” — H. Larkin. “COULD NOT DO WITHOUT PAPER” L. C. True of San Francisco renews | his subscription, writing: “Please find enclosed $1.50 with which renew my subscription for three months. I am barely making a living but we could not do with- out our paper.” 7 workingclass neighborhoods, and sell- | ing the “Daily” wherever workers are | | scious worker, and will awaken the | “Please raise the Daily bundle to 120 daily.” WANTS TO USE STORE FOR EW DAILY HEADQUARTERS | “I am mailing you a money order for $1,” writes Max Simmons of Chi- | cago. “Send me ten papers each day. I will try and see if I can’t start |to build a new South Side head- quarters for the Daily in my store.” CLEVELAND UNITS GETTING ON THE JOB “Please take care of the follow- ing unit bundles: E. M., 5 daily, | M. ©. 10 daily,” writes J. From- | holz, Daily Worker representative. “Send 50 more collection lists.” FOLLOW UP | EXPIRATIONS January is the month for unusu- ally large numbers of subserintion ex- tton of atl subscribers have been sent to all district Daily Worker repre- sentatives, Party members as well as |D W. representatives should lose no time in visiting readers whose subs have expired so that these may be re- tained as Daily Worker readers. | BROOKLYN MARINE UNION | STARTS BUNDLE ORDER The Red Hook district in Brooklyn, N. ¥., will become acquainted with |the Daily Worker shortly. Here's a jnote from M. 8. of the Marine Work- jers Industrial Union: | “The M.W.LU. has opened a new | hall at 312 Columbia St. and we | would like to have some Dailies sent here every day. About 25 copies would be enough for a start. I have Worker | Pirations. The lists showing expira- | the Hunger minister!” The World cable states that the | entire police force at Breslau was un- Jable to keep order when Bruening arrived. There was a crowd of 10 thousand mainly composed of Com- munists, who cried: “Down with the cunger dictator!” As part of the maturing revolutio- nary crisis the World mentions the growing strike struggle in the Ruhr coal fields; the increasing number oi unemployed, who number more than | 4,000,000, according to official figures. In his speech at Ratibor, after the unsavory greeting given to him Bruening threatened a severer dic- |tatorship. “The country cannot sand his kind of agitation,* he shouted. | “So far the government has kept still (he means it has killed only j hundreds of workers) but, if this goes on, I shall open the eyes of Germany by telling where the res-| |ponsjbility lies. I cannot continue to | govern Germany if it is not possible > give back to the people their sense of truth and unity.” By “truth and unity” he means meakness in accept- ing wage cuts and unity in starva- tion. | no money so if you would send the | Papers on credit, I will pay the bill | at the end of the week,” | | The Lenin Memorial Edition, Sat- urday, January 17, will contain ar- | ticles on Workers in the U. S, and the Soviet Union, with a few com- | parisons on how they live. Lenin Reminiscenses, Quotations, and Let- ters to U. S. Workers are among the articles. Orders taken up until Janu- jary 16, lc each for five or more| | copies. | BROKE FARMERS ASK | FOR 150 DAILIES | who took Irigoyen’s place tures to Wall Street. He promised slose cooperation with Hoover. Hé joined the Pan-American Union, @ tool of Wall Street. He appointed an ambassador to Washington, a little thing Irigoyen had overlooked. Sinee then the antegonism between Eng- banks announce decreases in earn- ings from 16 to per cent. Sterling exchange is dropping. The basic in- dustries are going into deeper crisis In this situation the Labor Govern- ment is girding its forces for a smash- ing attack against the British work- ers at home at the same time that it increases its murderous laught inst the Indian and Chinese masses. 32 German Textile Factories on Strike Against Wage Cuts BERLIN.— Thirty-two textile fac- tories in Wupperthal are stricking today against wage cuts. Railways have given notice to ten thousand workers in Saxony. Last evening seven hundred dele- gates of the all revolutionary sport associations decided to amalgamate all organizations under the name of the Arbeitersportverein Fighte. All the organizations were expelled from the reformist Sport Cartell. 2 PACIFIC COAST JOBLESS MEETS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) interest; $3,000,000 that is set aside for “miscellaneous” (whatever that may be); $2,000,000 of the present po- lice budget of more than $6,700,000; $3,000,000 that is proposed for 1,000 additional policemen who are used mission; limiting salaries of city of- ficials to $2,500 per year. 10. The above mentioned money to “You are making a real hit with | the broke farmers. Mail us 150 papers at once.” —P.B.A., Roswell, N. Mex. be administered and distributed by 2 committee of employed and unem- \ployed workers. . ’ Bigger Prison for Hungry Priest and Hague Divide a $185,000 Steal; Church Orders Children to Pray for Hagu in the north. More and more Ne~- groes are turning to the Communist Party for leadership out of their capitalist hell. The Catholic church has noticed this trend. Does it attack the Ne- sro for listening to the “horrid prop- aganda” of those Communists who point a way to freedom? Not a bit of it. The church lea es such clum- sy methods to Ham Fish, Park Ave.’s favorite Red baiter. The church uses far subtler methods: jt builds churches for Negroes, such as the Christ the King Church in Jersey City, and jt permits Negroes to march in Holy Name parades. It is true that the churches are jim crow churches and that Negroes march to- gether in the parades between groups of whites. And it is while Negroes are under the influence of incense in the ehurches that they are told of their “proper place” in the world; and it is while Negroes march to the tunes of martial music that they are convinced that they are an inferior race which must hearken to the fatherly advice of jts white masters, Tries to Scgregate Foreign Born Next to the Negroes, the foreign born workers in the United States are the most exploited of all groups. It is to be expected, then, that the church will attempt to divide them from the native-born workers and drain off their hatred for their ex- ploiters into safe channels—that is, safe for their bosses, This is pre- cisely what the church does, There is a separate parochial school for every nation@ity, and in every one the same respect for everything that is capitalist is insidiously pumped in- to the minds of these workers’ chil, dren, A majority of the population of Jersey City 1s Catholic, and conse- quently the city is “governed” very much like @ church town in the mid- dle ages. Whereas the political dis- trict leaders in a city like New York are generally gunmen or thieves, in Jersey City they are priests, so it will be seen that workers in Jersey workers in New York or Chicago. Priests must pass on the vast major- ity of those who seek municipal jobs says nay only the bishop himself can change the verdict. Most Priests Are On Payroll on Hague’s payroll in one capacity or another and there are many who are ous favorites, for most of the well- ;Snown ministers and rabbis are also jon the payroll. One rabbi who was deposed from a state job by the legis lature last year was immediately re- appointed upon Hague’s demand be- cause the rabbi was in the employ of three. synagogues and therefore could be three times as profuse in his praise of Hague as the less ambitious | rabbis. It is the priests, however, who are | Hague’s and Brandle’s strong support- jers. During election campaigns, the |Catholic pulpits of the city resound with praise of Hague and with or- ders, not requests, that every good Catholic do his utmost to elect the man who has committed more crimes than thé combined population of @ dozen jails. Father McGinley, along with a few other of the more influen- ‘ial district leaders, speaks thus about Hague all year dound, but perhaps Father McGinley has reasons for do- ing so since Hague regards his ad- vice very, very highly, In every one of the many convents in North Jer- girls are ordered by their Mother Su- periors to pray for the election of During the past five years, Jersey City has become one of the leading gambling and drug-selling centers in the East. Hague levies tribute on the drug peddlers and owns some of the gambling houses. His income from race horse bookies alone is $14,000 a lof thousands of dollars to the occasionally buys one an altar, he donate d recently to St. Francis Savery in the south end persgouted [are worse off, if that ts possible, than church cost him $30,000. The church in Jersey City, and when a priest | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 15.— The Council of the Unemployed calls on San Francisco’s 70,000 jobless to come out of the flop houses, the bread |lines, and away from the slave mar- [ket on Monday at 11 a, m. to hun- ser march to the civic center. The {march starts at that time, at the knows where Hague gets the money |°™Plovment agency district, ‘Third chat he contributes to it and doesn't | 224 Howard Streets. vefuse it: on the contrary, it sanc-| Four hundred new members for the |tions Hague’s activities because it | Council of the Unemployed is the an- | mobilizes its forces to elect him again |SWer of San Francisco jobless to the and again. Consequently it is not | “ppropriation of a half million dol- playing with words to.say that the |'%"S by this graft ridden administra- courages drug-peddling and gambling. prison, San Quentin. | Here is further proof. | While keeping up the fight for re- {cause he had paid his protection | fire departments. |money to the very police official who nf = \led the raid. He protested to Hague | Action in Seattle |but Hague passed the buck and told| SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 15. — The | him to see Malone, his assistant. workers and unemployed of Seattle Malone likewise refused/to vouchsafe |and Bellingham are in action. In Se- jany reason for the raid. The bookie /attle a united front conference is be- |now furious, went to the priest who |ing held at Moose Temple, at 1 p. m.. |was leader of the district in Jersey | Sunday, with American Federation of . City, called Lafayette, where the | bookie ran his office. The priest lis- \tened to his story and told him to} {come back the next day. When he| \returned, the priest smilingly assured | him that everything was all right; he | had spoken to Hague and the mis- understanding had been cleared ‘up, Hague had been promised morse money for the bookie’s concession by a com- petitor, but the priest had convinced Hague that the competitor didn’t go to church as regularly as the first Laboy locals and groups from the bread lines promising to attend, and with a basis Jaid for unemployment land and the United States has in- tensified a thousand fold. | A cable dispatch to the New York | Times (Jan. 12) says: “The British | Trade Exhibition in Buenos Ales in ithe Spring is showing signs of devel- joping into the greatest trade push in |which England's business men have \engaged since the war.” | This portends a sharpening of the |impetialist rivalries in Latin America | with an increase of the war danger. |The American bosses will reply by a |further push for trade. Along with this goes increased armaments and the stage of open armed conflict for Latin American trade is rapidly he- ing reached. CHINA RED ARMY KEEPS ADVANCING ‘Captiite Nanking Gov. | -General Cable reports from Shanghai tell | of further successes of the Red Ar- | mies in the Kiangsi province agginst | the Chiang Kai Shek expeditionary forces against the Red Army. Chang Hiu-Chan, nationalist governor-gen- (eral, was captured in battle by the | Red Army. More than three divisions have been surrounded and either cap- ms | mainly for clubbing workers into sub- tured oF have daperied to the Janke | of the Red Army. The nationalists are sénding all | their army bombing planes in 4n ef- | fort to keep back complete route of their forces. “MORE JOBLESS’ —~ J, S. LABOR DEPT. ‘Start Phoney Census to Hide Unemployment WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Not much space is given in the boss press to the latest report of the Department of Labor on unemployment increase in December. The Decembef figttes show an increase of 1 per cent in Most of the priests in the city are| Catholic church in north Jersey en-| tion for enlargement of the state those thrown out of work and an ine | crease in wage-cuts amounting to 4 | per cent. The figures of the Depart- drawing city money who are on no! About a year ago a prosperous horse |lief here, the jobless expos the united | ment of Labor, however, are plainly public payroll. So far, as the payroll | bookie was raided by the Jersey City |front of the Wobblies, Proletarian | faked. They do not show the req} |18 concerned Hague plays no religi | police. The bookie was amazed be-| parties, Salvation army, police and conditions. As an example, the fig- rees issued by the state department of labor in New York shows a de- crcase of over 4 per cent in employ- ment. The figures-issued by the U, S. | Department of Labor, under instruc+ | tions of Hoover and Boake, the sec- | retary of labor, are trimmed to guit the optimistic propaganda of the bosses and to fool the workers. : At the same time the federal gev- ‘ernment is starting another “census” lof the unemployed in a few cities. councils in the neighborhoods, some | y) the last census those whe hat of which will send delegates. charge of it admitted it was faked. The conference will nominate those |The report made indicated 3,400,000 to go to the Feb. 10 delegation to) out of work, when the head of the present the Workers Unemployment | census bureau said there were at least Insurance Bill to Congress. ‘The ratification conference on the Pill is set for Feb, 1, in Moose Temple. There will be a special issue of 50,000 In the new “census” unemployed | workers selling apples are to be counted as “employed.” Undoubtedly | 7/000,000 to 9,000,000 unempleyed. | leaflets on unemployment and a 2,000] 2) workers in the breadlines or in week. Hague contributes hundreds | jvarious Catholie churches and! One | »eokie and therefore wan't entitled ta so profitable a business. The Catholic Church is never averse to engaging in a little under- hand deal with Hague. One Lock- wood, a Protestant, willed a $25,000 plot to St. Michael’s church on con dition that an orphan’s home be built on the property. Lockwood's will also supplied the money for the | Week ~- without mentioning wages! building. Monsignor Shepherd, the _ Bellingham jobless and workers are “Tiny Pope,” sold the plot to the | holding their united front conference city, under Hague's direction, for | today. $185,000, Mayor Hague and the | Jobless in Aberdeen have held good Monsignor divided the $185,000 and mass meetings, and have elected 4 | the city to this day has never been izing councils able to get a clear title to the plot, because Lockwood's will was vio~ lated. What did the church do for the orphans? What is the church doin g for the 49,000 unemployed in the city, most of them Qatholics? copy special issue of Labor Unity. The unemnloyed council heve has to fight confusion created by the fake jinsurence bills drawn by the Muste- ites and the Central Labor Council (American Federation of Labor). The C. L, C. proposition is in the form of | more names to the demands for the passege of the Workers Unemploy. [ment Insurance Bill were majled to New York, adding to 2,500 sent in few days before, a charter amendment for the five-day | ‘Three days ago lists containing 1,078 | usemployment agencies will be |counted as “employed”—fulltime, {looking for jobs or spending 8 hours a day waiting for slop on the bread- } CAMP AND HOTEL NITGEDAIGET PROLETARIAN VACATION PLAGE OPEN THE UNTIBS YRAB Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere sir & WERE CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACOE, B.T- FROWE Te