The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1931, Page 3

ae AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDA AY, FEBRUARY 2, 193 BL Page le Hours and Wages of Ambridge Steel Workers Cut to the Bone; Men Start Metal Trades Workers Industrial League Now Active in Organizing Steel Workers Ambridge, Pa. The Ambridge Steel corporations are cutting the wages of the steel workers right and left. Just the other day a series of slashing wage cuts took place in the Américan Bridge Co. which belongs to the United Steel Corp. of Andrew Mellon. In the period of 4 months, three wage cuts took place here. First when the hours were cut from 10 to 8, then from 8 to 7 and now the hours were cut again to 5. While they cut the hours in half the wages were not increased, which means a Organizing to Fight Back Attacks LAYOFFS FOLLOW PAY CUT AT THE PHILA. NAVY YARD Need to Organize Into Militant | Union "Philadelphia, Pa, Daily Worker: Hoover and the Navy Department have enacted a wage cut in the ma~ chine department of the Philadel- phie Navy Yerd. About 100 mechan- {es and 28 helpers were affected by out. the 100 mechanics a number of glass mechanics were cut to sec- to 83 cents per hour. ane big iy time in the They the Philadelphia Navy were cut from 78 cents cents per ho At these re- rates they are doing even, tho of them were cut to helpers, the + work. They are also being up just the same. Lay-offs. were laid off al- room for the third is just a start and it to get the iit i ef a i # : i il follo is same policy as adopted country are adopting: reduction of the pie ta of living of the work- ers and increase of appropriations for the War Department for prepa- ration for another war. ‘This is the smae policy as adopted on an international scale by all cap- italist countries of the world, Navy yard worker, the enly many ner in which to fight these wage- cuts, unemployment, and for better conditions, is to organize into a real revolutionary fighting trade union and fight. That Union is the Metal Workers Industrial League affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. oN, Y. Worker. FORD TO TOUR OHIO FOR TLD CLEVELAND, 1-1. O. Ford, member of the Communist Party and other militant labor organizations, including the International Labor Defense, will tour the Cleveland Dis- a ai a2 ag z Comrade Ford has recently been found guilty on “Red Flag case” in Newark, ©,, and faces a long prison term. He was arrested while speak- ing at a Communist Party mass meeting in that city, and for having “ssid among other things that, “I pre- fer the workers’ flag to the capi- “talist flag.” Fyn tN ct gg Bek hundreds of steel, rubber and er workers in the heavy industries ie ake Geven Seo tea cee oe tyre ef his case and that of many hundreds of workers now facing the same charges. He will try te mobilize the workers to fight for the repeal .of the criminal syndicalist law and ‘for the immediate release of all CAMP AND HOTEL NITGEDAIGET PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN TRE ENTIRE YEAB Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere #17 A WEEK CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N.Y PHONE 781 : 50 percent cut in wages. More than half of the workers in nh the main shops work only 25 hours a week. Those still working 8 hours have only three days a week. Only Beginning of More. The workers of the American Bridge Co. know that this wage cut is only the beginning of a series of wage cuts already prepared for us by the greedy profit makers, the American Bridge bosses. The workers of the American Bridge were always told by the bosses that the Bridge works is an outstanding example of prosperity in Ambridge. Yes, it is an example of prosperity, hut prosperity for whom? For the workers the American Bridge Co. is an example of utter misery and Starvation. Just like the rest of the steel companies the American Bridge Go, is utilizing the starvation of the Ambridge unemployed to cut the ‘wages of those still employed. Organize Now! But we the*workers of the American Bridge know well enough that if we accept this wage cut row it means that another one will inevitably fol- low. We must begin a determined) fight against lowering our wages now. Organized in the Metal Workers In-| dustrial League we will be able to smash the wage cuts, The M. W. I. L. is carrying on a big campaign among the steel work- ers here to smash the wage cuts. A shop local of the League has already | been established in the American| Bride Co. The workers must join| the M. W. I. L. Only thru a militant union of the steel workers will the workers be able to demand an imme- |diate wage increase and other de- mands of the steel workers, IRT BROTHERHOOD A COMPANY UNION Mulcts Workers to Pay Boss Charity New York. Editor, Daily Worker: The I. R. T. News, a paper pub- lished by the Interborough Rapid | Transit Co. on Dec, 24th, published jan account of the voluntary dona- tions to relief funds for the unem~- | ployed. It read as follows: “Employees in eyery department of the Company have just joined this month in a rea] demonstration of as- sistance for relief of the unemployed in the city, Company Union Scheme. “Following a suggestion that orig- inated with the general committee of the IRT Brotherhood and those in clerical and executive positions not affiliated with the Brotherhood have donated to the fund one day’s pay during the month of December as their contribution for relief of the un- employed in Greater New York.” First let us understand that the I. R. T, Brotherhood is not an employees union altho it is represented as such but rather it is a union for employees controlled by the company and hid- ing under the pretense of a Brother- hood of the employees. Whenever, for preof of this, existing conditions make absolutely necessary the as- sistance in any way of any employee or whenever the IRT feels it their duty to punish any employe for some assumed cause the so-called Brother- hood makes a pretense at defending the worker. In extreme cases even going to the expense of mimic legal fights, Of course in the majority of eases the company wins, New-Phone and Ad- dress of the Central Committee New Phone:— Algonquin 4-2215 Algonquin 4-2216 Mail Address:— P. O. Box 87, Station D, N.Y.C. Telegram Ad@rcss:— (temporary) 35 E. 12th St. 9th fl. | Coin ee Soviet Food Tidustry, Speeds Bio Increase Into Protits As U. S. Workers New York. | MOSCOW, Jan. 31. —While the, the To the Editor of the Daily Worker: | American bosses are cutting down We read about speed-up in the! the food supply of the workers, as Daily but sometimes I wonder whe- | shown particularly in the 17 per cent ther those who describe it and call | drop in the meat consumption in the on the workers to fight it really know | U. S. during December, here in the what it is. In the millinery shop| Soviet Union, the food industry is where I work there is a speed up the| being rapidly expanded te raise the like Of which I have never seen. It/| standard of living of the workers. is indescribable. Can you imagine a| This is particularly true of the sugar, movie reel that is run off about ten | conned food, and other industries. tines the regular rate of speed. That| Before the Revolution there existed almost describes it. One girl, a cutter, has developed the St. Vitus dance. Another girl who used to be very pretty a few years ago is pale and haggard and has lost every vestige of her good looks. She is not the only one. All 4 the girls look pale and weary a‘ the end of the day. Capitalism robs the working girl of youth and beauty, The b convert the energy and beauty workingclass youth into] cash. 0! Victims of Speed-up. The girls have to hide the ravages of the speed up with paint and] powder, Fellow workers, victims of the | speed up, the pace which we are forced to work is killing us. It not} only robs us of what is our natural rights but makes it more impossible to make a decent living. The milli- ners who are unemployed are used against us, The dog of a forewoman | is always reminding us chat if we're | not ‘satisfied there are others who | will be. We must organize into the the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union and fight under the slogan of the 7-hour 5-day week. ee eg VETS WILL FIGHT FOR THEIR BONU es Dump Milk Ac Children Starve Soldiers Home, Dayton, O. The Daily Worker: Parasites and bosses of the Daytor Product Co. dumped 100 gallons of milk in the sewer while hundreds of. starving children flock to Patterson's soup kitchens. General Frank Hines, manager of the United States Veterans Bureau another tool of the capitalists is a@ small sugar industry in the terri- tory which is now the Soviet Union. | However, its equipment was very primitive and out of date. branches of the foodstuffs industry as canned products, pastrymaking, starch and syrup production were re- presented only by small undertakings. Since the Revolution the situation has changed fundamentally and par- | ticularly rapid progress has been |made since the beginning of 1930. The raw materials of the sugar in- | dustry in 1930 were two-thirds pro- | vided by the State farms and collec- | tive agricultural undertakings. 18 million ewts. of sugar were produced | as against 8 million cwts. in 1929. In 19a: the production of sugar is to | an 27 million cwts., or one million | higher than the production originally {laid down in the Five-Year Plan for | the last year of the plan. The canned products industry | has made even greater db aii In Such | ers Go Hungry “1931 the 1 the industry wiil produce a | as compared with 350 million tins in 1930: In 1931 the Soviet canning industry will overtake two such ad- vanced canning industries as the Jtalian (500 million tins) and the German (340 million tins) and take the second place in world preduc- tion behind the United States. The confectionary trade in Soviet Union was able to inc production by 84%, thanks to the solution of the grain problem. In| Northern Caucasia giant starch and | syrup combinations are being built In 1931 the production of starch and syrup will increase by 65%, Macaroni production will increase in 1931 by 51%. The total yield of the Soviet | fisheries for 1931 is estimated at 22 million cwts. or two million cwts, more than the largest other fishing | industry in the world (Japan). Soy- jet fishing production will increase still further as the result of collec- tivization and intensive mechaniza- tion. A plan of development for the motor-cutter fishing flotilla provides for the increase of the flotilla units from 350 to 3,400 units. 90 fishing | trawlers are approaching completion in the Murmansk docks. These trawlers are equal in capacity to the largest American trawlers and are far superior to the British trawling | units. the ase Los Angeles Functionazies Show Gross Negligence Toward = 60,000 Circulation Campaign The comrades in Los Angeles, Cal. are evidently indifferent to the Daily Worker, the present 60,000 circulation campaign, and the connection be- tween the paper and the masses. Bobbie. Hall, section Daily Worker | | representative, writes about the al- | most complete inactivity of the Par- ty members in the Daily Worker driv “Things are in a mess right now. There was so much ta be done and not so many that would do it. There was a Daily Worker com- mittee organized. 1 think it will function, It is the last thing | Daily, I can't get a Party member to take the Daily to the factory | gates to sell.” ~ thought of in this section — the | against paying off the bonus the) Leading functionaries tn the Cali- graveyard bonus while hundreds of | ‘fornia district have failed to grasp ex-soldiers children are underweight | the importance of day-to-day factory | | treasurer of the United States refused | | to pay off the bonus but you can rest | and crying for milk. Andrew Mellon, the great noble assured we are demanding payment for same, The hot water that this capitalist Mr. Patterson is putting out in his soup kitchen is outrageous. Instead of the Welfare organization giving the men who get two or three days work their slips for food they dish it out themselves and the men who work have to take what they give them} after earning it, Wake up, folks and fight to the last stand for the Unemployment In- surance Bill.—E. D. CHINESE PRESS ADMITS THE ANTI- RED DRIVE FAILS Chinese Bourgeoisie Is Depressed PEKING. — The Chinese newspap- ers describe the situation in the pro- vince of Hunan in sombre colours. They admit that the anti-red drive ho> col'spsed. Instead of defeating and annihilating the red troops the Kuomingtang armies haye suffered a series of reverses at their hands, whereby the red troops have captured great quantities of arms and ammu- nition. Certain points are in posses- sion of the Kuomingtang troops, but their tenure is not secure. The situ- ation in the province of Kiangsi is similar, ‘ Here the Nanking armies have suf- fered a debacle at the hands of the red troops as a result of which the 5th and 18th Nanking divisions were surrounded and disarmed. The red armies in the south of Kiangsi, in the northwest of Fukien and in the south of the province of Hupeh are still undefeated and occupy large stretches of land. As a result of this wretched military situation the Chi- nese bourgeoisie is very depressed, ’ RED SHOCK TROOPS For fia EMERGENCY FUND NAME a CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th ST., NEW YORK CITY IMUSAOPSTORRELPD OND SO Rees see seceseees een deg eseeentederssencsecceredoncerecd seve $30,000 DAILY hb ageopion EMERGENCY FUND We pled-e to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER sales of the Daily Worker; of house- to-house canvassing for subscrip- tions; of a functioning Red Builders | News Club on the streets of Los An- | geles. In the Unemployment cam- paign, in the Lenin Recruitment | drive, in hunger marches and de- monstrations, when the Daily Worker should flood the factories and work- |ingelass neighborhoods, Los Angeles shows a glaring lack of understand- | ing by its failure to strengthen the machinery in the sections and units for Daily Worker sales, This letter from Bobbie Hall comes one month after a previous report on a general membership meeting called for the Unemployed and the Daily Worker, at which the national representative of the “Daily,” Comrade Feldman, was refused the floor by both the chair- man and section organizer. Only by taking ten minutes of the Daily Worker representative's time was she allowed to speak. At another meeting, when funds for the Daily were collected, the Organizer Sec- retary demanded the money to pay for musicians of a Trade Union Unity League dance which the po- lice broke up, Leading comrades in Los Angeles should check up, down to the units, on the looseness toward the Daily Worker campaign, and give direct assistance and cooperation to the Daily Worker Committee just orga- nized, WORKERS SUB FUND NEEDED Mrs. H, J., of Pearson, Wash., some time ago sent in 7 monthly subscrip- tions. Now she writes: “I have asked for a renewal. They cannot subseribe, They still get the Daily and they all read it, but cannot subscribe to it, so it is up to you whether you wish to send the paper to them or not.” We want to continue sending them the Daily. Seven Daily Worker readers in a town like Pearson are valuable, But we will be forced to drop them from the list unless some workers, who ean afford to eontri- bute toward the Workers Si ‘und, will keep them on, SENDS 3 SUBS; WANTS MORE LISTS “Enclosed find check for $4 for a half year sub for myself and 1 month each for S, and R. If you send me another list I think I can get a few more readers.” —L. H., Detroit, Mich, “DAILY” CALENDAR SWINGS ARGUMENT Neil O'B., section Daily Worker representative of Milwaukee, Wis., writes: “Enclosed find money order for six months sub, This subscriber was given one of the new Daily | Calendars just received and was the closing argument in getting a 6 months sub instead of a one month sub.” THANKS DAILY FOR CONTINUING SUB | It took one month for NSS., of Detroit, Mich., to get his bank to re- | new his lost check for a Daily Work- er subscription. He writes: “I can hardly describe how thank- ful I am that you didn’t stop the Daily Worker because in all this time it would mean to me as if I were} without eyes,” BOSS PRESS | ADMITS MISERY | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) mortgaged to the hilt, Small farm~- ers owe more than they can pay, | even if they get a crop this year.” | | In the meantime, admits the same lispatch, “with or without the seed loan, they starve unless the Red Cross | |or some other agency feeds them. The boss press is, of course, opposed to any form of decent, self-respect | ing relief by means of payment of adequate relief by the government, on | the lines demanded by the Commu- nist Party and the revoluttonary trade unions, and puts the whole question | of saving these starving poor farm- ers and share croppers and their fam- ilies on the basis of charity hand- outs by the Red Cross or other char- ity fakers whose relief consists in serving scrimpy meals at a lay-out of 3 cents a meal. Fear Bloodshed. In many sections conditions are so bad that the bosses are fearing food riots if the Red Cross does not come in with its 3-cent meal “relief” and | its lying promises. Bankers in the three counties of St. Francis, Crit- tenden and Cross, where more than two-thirds of the population are forced ta exist on Red Cross starva- tion rations, admit that “there would have been bloodshed here if the Red Cross had not intervened.” These same bosses are forced to admit that the families receiving Red Cross “aid” are still starving: “Not that families are geeting a ration which would be looked upon in normal times as sufficient.” Many families are existing on hickory nuts, Children are kept from school because they have no shoes or clothing, This is particularly true of Negro children, many of whom have to stay indoors in an effort to keep warm, Even the feed for the animals—the government refuses food for human beings—has been limited and horses and mules are daily dropping dead. | This is a terrible misfortune to the | poor farmers and share croppers who are dependent upon their mules and horses for ploughing. Many large corporations own land upon which live stock is dying. They let thoir tenants assume the entire buvden. Open admission that the Negroes and many whites are living in actual slavery is made by the Times dis- | patch: “The share cropper made noth- ing last year, owes the planter for his food and clothing and must work jt out this year. The share cropper can’t move to another plantation unles his debts are as- sumed by the new planter.” This, as pointed out frequently by the Daily Worker, means nothing less than selling the worker, and is slavery. This is admitted by the in| Demand Relief PRAG UE.—During the last tees | milliard tins of various foodstuffs, | months unemployment in Czechoslo- Tri vakia has increased, according to of- ficial figures, by about 39 percent. | Demonstrations of the unemployed | workers are becoming more and more | equent and violent collisions often e place. In Aussig a demonstra- tion of about 1,000 unemployed work- ers marched to the municipal author- ities in order to send a deputation. MELLON CUTS 5 STEEL WORKERS’ PAY, HOOVER OF NAVY YARD MEN “FATAL PRE-WAR COMPETITION IS Youth, Health Ahead for Greater Food Supply Czech Jobless; BEGINNING AGAIN,” ADMITS LORD IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT DEBATE ies to Justify Air Armament by Fact That All Capitalist Powers Rush to War Debates in the House of Lords in England Thursday con- slaughter. | cerning war preparations showed. how rapidly the imperialist powers are preparing to plunge the workers into another The excuse for the discussion was the forthcoming | “disarmament” conference of the League of Nations. How The authorities refused to receive) much “disarmament” this conference will discuss is already ja deputation and the police immedi- | ately attacked the workers with great | brutality and without warning. Two workers and a pregnant woman who| conference of the League of Nations rushed naval arms building, and | indicated by the action of the London Naval Conference, which by the work of the preliminary “disarmament” meetings could not run fast enough were| when the proposals of Jitvinoff, Soviet delegate, for immediate | groups of the employed, as well as|# good thing to give unemployment | | demonstrated at the city hall Jan. 29 knocked unconscious. A number of| disarmament. were rejected flatly workers were arrested and terribly| the imperialist powers. beaten up in the police station. Viscount Cecil, one of the speak- | A great demonstration also took|ers in the debate said that ‘the fatal | place recently in Freistadt in Sile-| pre-war competition was beginning sia. The police failed to break up|again.” He justified the air arma- the demonstration. Severe collisions! ments of Britain, saying: | occurred in Podebrad where the dem-| “Every increased expenditure is onstrating unemployed broke through! justified by the air minister by com- a police cotdon and drove the police! parison with the expenditure by| back. other countries on their air forces.! —— So long as that state of things con- INDUSTRIAL DISE. tinues, it cannot be said that peace} timated that 160,000 per- | is secured.” sons in the United States die from! All the imperialist powers try to) starvation every year. This death | justify thein rapid war preparations | toll comes mostly fro mthe ranks of | by the action of their leading compe- the work: a great many of | titors. those who succumb being children who have to work in the° factories | or w © parents are impoverished | Protect the foreign born. Elect delegates to N. Y. Conference Feb. i 8 at the Irving Plaza. FE actory Towns Will Feb. 10 Demonstrations {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | ning, Ziegler reported as to what had} The mass meeting was addressed by | t@ken place at the meeting with the the secretary of the Metal Workers’ | City commission, Hypocritically the | Industrial League and the result is | Commission agreed with the demands formation of shop and departmental | “i principle,” and that “it would be councils of the unemployed, to join | insurance,” and that it “would con- in struggle not only for unemploy- | Sider the paying of cash for city re~ ment relief, but against wage cuts lief labor instead of script’+-but that and bad conditions of the employed. | it “didn’t see how it could raise the In every industrial center this com-| funds.” It is clear, that the city bined front of the employed and un- | Commission got scared by the mass / employed must be built up. | demonstration outside, and probably | fi ee |it really will be forced to come| | across with some of our demands. 3,500 Demonstrate. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 1— Over 3,500 jobless workers of this city ‘The demonstration followed a very enthusiastic unemployed meeting held | here on Tuesday where a delegate was elected to go to Washington to, demanding $20 a week cash relief for ive ‘League program for | relief activity and for | employment insurance. | responded with such tremendous en- | Marches from various parts of the | demonstration; other speakers were | vote on the demands, | the jobless, and the abolition of pay- ment for work with script to work- ers hired by the city. The demon- stration was preceded by Hunger city, organized by the Unemployed Councils in those sections. Many who saw the demonstration estimate the numbers at 5,000 to 6,000. Grand Rapids is a furniture manufacturing city of about 200,000 inhabitants. Conn acted as chairman of the Kamp for the T, U. U. L., Mary Himoff, who presente dand took the Brown and Ziegler. Faulkner spoke, represent- ing the poor farmers in the vicinity of the city. A mighty “aye” greeted the proposals of the unemployed councils, The workers elected a com~- mittee, headed by Ziegler, to present the demands to the city commission. At a mass meeting the same aver Gary Steel Workers Attack on Jobless Demonstration Smash Gary Demonstration. GARY, Ind. Feb. 1—By a full mobilization of all city police in ad- dition to the special police of the steel companies, the demonstration of unemployed workers, held here Jan. 28, was finally broken up after nine arrests. Singling out the leaders of the un- employed for arrest, the steel trust thugs jumped upon and brutally beat up two women workers and three others who came to their defense. Both of the women aye now in a very serious condition due to the fact that one has just had a major oper- Form Tarrytown Jobless Council In Spite of TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Feb. 1,—The chief of pelice of Novth Tarrytown, a vicious bully named Murphy, tried to terrorize the foreign born workers from atterding the first meeting, Friday, of the Unemployed Council, by Cemording to know their nation- ality, etc. His blucteing failed to daunt the workers, who remained seated, present the petitions of the Grand | Rapids workers for the Workers Un- | employment Insurance Bill. Over 400 | workers were present at the meeting. | One of the outstanding features of both the meeting and the demon- | stration was the participation of many young workers who also signed up for the unemployed counells. | Demands of the Grand Rapids demonstrators include transfer to an unemployment relief fund of the $1, 500,000 bond issue now meant for building a new city hall, payment of $20 a week unemployment relief, pay ment of some relief to part-time | workers, the 35-hour week and $1 an | hour minimum wage for employed workers, and the usual demands against evictions, for free light and heat, free fare for unemployed work- ers’ school children, no evictions or forecloniyen, etc, Resist Pelice ation and the other !s pregnant. Every effort to get them bailed out or even get them doctor's care has resulted in flat refusal. Those arrested were Stella, Dora, May and Sam Sree: Ora Thomas, John Rusek, John Gusby, Igi Rez braca, and Sam Langford. The In- ternational Labor Defense is prepar: ing a mass protest meeting for next week and rallying workers to demand their release, All efforts are now being made to bold a successful demonstration Fev- Tuary 10. Police Terrorism Unity League then went to the Vil- lage Hall, to see whether such a per- mit was necessary. A few minutes leter, Murphy came in the village hall, and seeing his chance, struck the organizer across the face, and Murphy and another bull then threw him out the door. Murphy did not dare do this in the | Council Bluffs, Ta. Organizes Council Council Bluffs Council. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Feb. 1.— About 125 workers turned out to a meeting here last Tuesday to discuss the question of unemployment. The meeting was called by some local workers who had banded together in an organization led the Workers Defense League against Unemploy- ment. John Dawson, Omaha organizer of the Communist Party, took the fleor, end outlined the Trade Union Unity unemployment national un- The workers thusiasm that the few local fakers present did not dare to open up, but sat there quietly without making any counter-proposals. It was decided to hold an organ- ization meeting tomorrow to estab- hee a local unemployed council. (aaa to find jobs “next week,” if they would only keep away from “that or- ganization which belongs to the So- viet Government.” Meantime, over a hundred workers had gathered outside the hall, Ame icans, Canadians, Italians, Spanish workers, and some women too. All had come to organize into the un- employed council. For the time being, they decided not to take possession of the hall by |foree. Seventeen met with the or+ g@anizer later in a certain place, and formed the Unemployed Council of the Tartytowns. The following are the demands drawn up, which will be ratified at the next meetings of the Unem- ployed Council of the Tarrytowns by hundreds of workers more: 1.—$15 per week for all single yn- employed workers. 2.—$25 per week for all married | unemployed workers. 3.+Free food and clothing for the childyen. 4.-4+No evictions; no rents during entire period of unemployment. 5.—Free light, gas and coal in the house. 6.—-When any jobs are to be had at the Chevrolet or Fisher Body (the only plants in town), the residents of Tarrytown are to be given first choice. Today, the bosses import their stool pigeons and favorites from Detroit and Canada, while the tax- paying workers of Tarrytown starve. (Editor's Note: The object of this sixth demand is evidently to take away from the company the power to import its pet stool pigeons and give them jobs, and so far the de- mand is correct. But it is not a useful demand to try to split the workers along lines of local resi- dence, or to imply that a taxpayer has more rights than one who does not pay taxes. In our opinion the right demand would be one to force the company to take back those it has fired.) re ae | Disrupt Negro Jobless Meeting. HACKENSACK, N. J., Feb. 1—The unemployed mass meeting held in the Negro section of the city last week by the Unemployed Councils of New Jersey was broken up by the police, detectives, fascists and city politi- cians. The cops came down at the beginning of the meeting and sta~ tioned themselves outside of the hall, to intimidate the workers. Some of the workers did come in. As soon as the meeting was opened, | there began to enter a steady stream of cops, dicks and black shirts, until the audience was completely sur rounded by them. After the second speaker finished, the Negro politicians, put up by the cops, began to disrupt the meeting. Before the audience broke up though, they were informed that more unemployment meetings would be held, and that a demonstration would take place at the public hears ing of the city budget where the un- employed workers would demand that a sum of money be set aside for unemployment relief, There is a great deal of unemploye ment here with the city doing ab- presence of the workers. In fact, Times dispatch, which further says: _{What the share cropper, tenant Murphy then threatened the hall} while the organizer was away, he owner, and insisted that a permit be | begged th eaudience to “put their @ 9: before the meeting could open. knives away” (they didn’t have any, ‘The organizer for the Trade Union | but he was afraid). And he prom- eorterrtrrreerp anisms nessaemtoinrienn —oeenpaligulenia ringer nt sannniearirigiateesfarlbathberdoe and small farmer have been living | eral appropriation for food “relief” under for years, is nothing less | for starving farm families and the than saretr nd unemployed. Ho boasted of the efficiency of WASHINGTON. ~ Oscar DePriest charity this winter in Chicago, said from Chicago, Negro Congressman, | he was “not for the dole in America,” solutely nothing, except giving out states that the white and Negro workers must organize together in order to be able to fight against the bosses and their tools, the city poll- ticlans. ‘The Negro politicians at the meet- ing tried to appeal to the workers by attended a White House reception “ the night of Jan, 29, Next day he | *!*hough he “represented more poor spoke four minutes in the House in | People than anyone here,” and hypo- support of the Hoover machine's pro- | critically advised every city and stete