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

_ DAILY WORKER, , NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931 Page Three U.S. Steel Corporation Finger-Prints Workers In Futile Effort to Smash the ‘ Dear Edito In_recent months we had respect here in Pittsburg, Cal. tive agencies and the regular company in order to stop our FRENCH WORKER DEFIES BOSSES Will Carry on in Spite of Deportation (By a Worker Correspondent) IN JATL, Feb. 8.—Well, it seems that I'll have a free trip to France. They may deport a Communist, but ‘Communism remains right here in the U.S.A. and T am confident that tens f thousands of American workers will take my place in the ranks of the only revolutionary party of USA. They may deport an unemployed worker, byt they cannot deport un- employment either, because as a fruit of the darn system, it will only dis- appear with the system itself. I shall tell the French workers about this “free” country of “pros- perity” where workers have to eat dogs and cats in order to escape starvation, where workers are killed, clubbed and jailed because they re- fuse to starve. As a Communist, leaving this coun- try does not mean leaving Commu- nism, Hell, No! But on the con- trary, I shall double my activity in the ranks of the French section of the Communist, International. T appeal to all French comrades to double their activity for the organ- ization of these thousands of French workers. > Tam fully confident that our Party, now cleaned of all rotten elements, of che bourgeoisie, is becoming the real Party of the American working mass- es—the Party which will smash this, system of starvation and establish a Soviet system. Long live the American working lass! Long live its vanguard, the Com- nunist Party of the United States! Be ready for the defense of the Soviet Union! jon and starvation! Down with this system of exploita- | Organization of Men Into Metal League ‘Bosses Mobilize Spies, Detective Agencies and) Regular Police to Fight Unionization Pittsburg, Calif. The U. S* Steel Corporation is known already to all steel workers for its notorious spy system and blacklisting system, | which are being ruthlessly used against every attempt of the| yellow cur of a deputy sheriff—it steel workers.to-organize and to struggle for better conditions. | won't be long for these defenders of plenty of experience in this Company spies, private detec- police force were used by the organization campaign and the appearance of our shop paper. In addition to this they are now using a new, and, from the viewpoint of the bosses, probably a better sys- tem of blacklisting. Being Finger Printed. Just like a criminal every worker | must submit himself to have his| finger-prints taken when he is hired | end besides having to go through all sorts of questions and red tape. in order to weed out all revolutionary workers, particularly the members of the Metal Workers’ Industrial League | and the Communist Party, who are ful campaign to organize all stecl workers for struggle against part time and speed-up in the plant here. The entire plant works not more | than two or three days a week, The | time work is in the foundry, where than that, has become the order. to 40 per cent in the Rolling Mill and Tin Mill, on account of rotten steel, which is being used, and the closer inspection, which not only slows. down the production but also throws out all stuff with the least defect, and so cutting down heavily in two ways on the tonnage we get | paid for. The rates for light gauge | Steel are much too low, so that our wages decrease 40 to 50 per cent when we work on light stuff. The sanitary conditions in several departments are extremely bad. For instance, in the galvanizing depart- ment, where the fumes and the smell from the acids fill the shop some- times so thickly that you can hardly see through it, affecting directly the | health of the workers, and there is | no ventilation system. | We must fight back. We will an- lover the bosses by | organization campaign much intensively than ever before. We will build a real powerful and fighting Metal Workers’ Industrial Mion. —A Steel Slave. more Workers’ Enemy, | | | ine meetings, the Workers Unem- ment Insurance Delegation ar- ved in Washington, D, C., on Feb. | and formulated proposals for a eral law which would give every employed worker $15 a week, $3 for ch dependent, and two months im- ediate winter relief. “These. proposals, together with. the _ pmand for immediate passage of an bra insurance bill and the mand that the delegation secure je floor of Congress to voice the peds of the ten million unemployed, ere carried by the delegation into Je halls of the national capitol. |... Guns Instead of Bread. “And how. is the delegation re ved by tne capitalist law makers n it demanded the passage of our 1 to stop the immense number of jaths by starvation? We were faced th mounted. machine guns instead getting bread. We were threat- with gas bombs instead of get- ig bread. We Were given a display a force of a thousand government ice and secret service agents, We held to be enemies of, fighting mies of this whole gang of ex- —Spiters, from Wall Street to Hoover 4(¢ from down. Many of bm actually thought we had come Washington, D, ©, to capture the pitol by force. They fear . the rkers in action. They know that ie prey force saves their hides, bag delagatiad lected by masses workers in large and small indus- pl centers, most of them just be- ing to fight wholly upon the side Washing- thoroughly convinced of one CAMP AND HOTEL NITGEDAIGET ROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN TRE ENTIBE TEAR yovernment Proves That It Is Organize and Fight! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) thing: that enemy met enemy in the Capitol grounds and halls. Yes, we are enemies, class enemies who will fight on and on and fight to defeat all these representatives and senators and the capitalist class they loyally serve, Here there can be no compro- mise. We will fight for all we can get while our enemy still rules, we will fight to abolish our enemy and its incubator of misery, hunger, back- breaking work, starvation wages, a life that condemns all workers to suf- fering and pain, a slow and early death. Let All Hear Of It. “This lesson must reach all work- ers. What your Washington delega- tion experienced must now be told to all workers, all employed and unem- ployed who signed our unemployment insurance bill, all workers in the or- ganizations who endorsed the bill, all the thousands upon thousands who fought in our hunger marches. Washington has refused to feed the starving, has refused to save the thousands that are dying from hun- ger and disease. Washington offers bullets instead of bread. It prepares for war against the Soviet Union where workers rule and are happy. It threatens to suppress workers’ or-| ganizations and deport the foreign’ born. It mobilizes its forces to save its own neck, Our answer must be: We workers will live and we will eat. We will eat and we will fight. We will or- ganize our forces into unemployed councils and class struggle unions of the Trade Union Unity League. We will go into battle and we will win. Fight on Feb. 25. On to February 25, Interhational Unemployment Day, the day upon which we will again demonstrate in powerful numbers. Tell all workers about Washington. Workers, unite! To Deport Wag. Wednesday Bachman of the Fish It is clear that this is being done | carrying on a systematic and suceess- | work, unemployment and low wages | worst condition in respect to part | one day a week sometimes even less | The wages have decreased from 30! carrying on opr | | Committee in the course of a long hysterical assault on the “Commu- nists who come here and who do not represent the unemployed,” declared that “it's time Congress begins to pay Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere WORCORR BRIEFS Red Cross Refuses to Aid Qakland, Cal. | Daily Worker: Nearby, in beautiful, healthful Cal- | But Workers. Goaded. By Sharp Wage Cuts ANA | ifornia, lives a molder. who had gone | Bad Conditions Go On Organizing out on strike, lost all his money on strike fees to the AFL officials, who helped the boss blacklist the strikers. He and his family were evicted a short while afterward, and arrested by a deputy sheriff the next day for sleeping on the sidewalk. In this fair country, if it isn’t a brutal cop its a the boss class, The evicted .molder went to the Red Cross three times for help, and got no help. Again an eviction and an arrest for living on the sidewalk. The de- tective arresting him cursed him out | and asked why the hell he didn’t go | to the Red Cross. ‘The Red Cross had | said they could not give the two-bits a day because he ly |and one child depe | ers The work- ning certain | cd in Oakland are be | that they are Soomed to starve to | death unless they fight with the) Council of the SHERTaa : —J. Thomas Misery Grows tn New Orleans New Orleans, La. To the Daily Worker: The crisis here is growing stead- ily worse and worse. Misery and hardship are multiptied daily. Many families have already been thrown from their homes because of failure to pay rent. Hundreds of others are facing evictions. Many others also are without food, fuel or any of the y necessities of life. the Unemployed Council —I, C. Join and fight. ea ore Lumber ‘age Cuts In NW PORTLAND, Ore.— The -rd Western Lumber Mills made a 15 to 20 per cent cut on workers who e just returned to work afler a month lay-off. The mills are running | four da The McCormick mill at St. Helens ‘s making cut after cut, the latest being 10 per cent. liunber workers are finding increased the ing “promise with the workers,” are being exposed on every hand, “Med to Stop Talk; obless Stil Hungry The breaking of a juicy political) |murder scandal has crowded all | thought of the jobless out of the ca- | pitalist press in the last few days, and the February 10th demonstration was practically boycotted by it. Work- ers with em) stomachs have been given pages ond poges about the murde cf William E. Potter, loral republican party j¢+Ger involved in |many nuricipal v-eft scandals, and | are tantalized with the oft-dafr-red | hope that at last the grafting higher- | ups who rule this city will be expused. But they may be sire that o-itler press nor polilicieas will ever follow the trial of guilt mght up t2 its source in the rotien capitalist rule that bires peiiticiars and press to lie tu the workers, Cyes not hasit. to hire murderers icy the Pot when chevy threaten to squeal on the; masters, and turns all its powers of suppression against .i.c jobless when they protest against starvation. p plained, was to deport the spokesman of the delegation of the jobless, Al- fred Wagenknecht. Bachman’s argument is that Wag- enknecht is wrongly naturaljzed, can have his papers taken away, and “has been a fugitive from justice” because of his way of entering the country. Is a Citizen, ‘The facts in the case, facts which show Bachman’s disregard for facts, are that Wagenknecht is a citizen by virtue of his father’s naturalization, that he arrived in this country when 18 months old, and has been here, voting and all, for the last 47 years, “Why don’t we cancel the citizen- ship of some of these aliens and de- port them out of this country?” asked Representative Dickstein of New York, ranking democrat of the immigration committee. Representative La Guardia of New York spoke up naively, and said that the Fish Committee was doing more than anybody else to advertise Com- munism and asked, “Why, don’t we give food to the hungry, and work to the idle, and then we won't hear anything about Communism!” Poor La Guardia, he just wanted to em- barass the administration, but he put. his foot on the tenderest corn of capitalism, Work to the idle and food to the hungry is just what it has ho intention of giving in a time of crisis. | had a wue astern On every hand | veland Graft Chief. | | From K. Ilmoni, newly-elected dis- | trict Daily Worker representative of | Buffalo, we received a report show- ing the inactivity of the Party mem~- | bership in the Daily Worker drive, | and steps taken to remedy the situa- tion....He writes: “Our Daily Worker apparatus has broken down, due to neglect, Arthur Allen, aged 10, youngest member of the N. ¥. Red Builders’ News Club, sells Friday afternoon and Saturday. When gibed at by a Daily News vendor for selling the Daily Worker, Allen retorted: “If 1 had your papers, I'd throw them in the ash can before I had them,” We have had difficulty in getting responsible comrades to handle the Daily Worker on the routes, much less to act as District D, W. Agent. The Daily was discuvsed seriously | by our District Buro two weeks ago and a decision was made to place me in charge of the district D. W. apparatus,” Following this, Ilmoni reports that | cut of a daily bundle of 150 only 50 cepies are sold, irregular payments for which will be checked up. “Til send in regular reports every week,” he continues, “but for a time at least they will be incom- plete, as the comrades out in the district fail to send in reports. 1 am laying plans for the establish- ment of a Red Builders’ Club, and alse a Boosters’ Club. I believe the Boosters’ Club, when it is estab- | lished, can help financially.” | From the letter we see that the Party membership in Buffalo has | shown an irresponsible indifference to | the Daily Worker campaign and hes not realized that Buffalo, one of the important auto, metal and steel cen- ters in the country, has great possi- | bilities for organizing workers with | the help of the Daily Worker by sys- tematic factory sales, house-to-house canvassing and street sales, Ilmoni himself shows commendable initiay tive in calling @ meeting of comrades | handling the Daily, about which he seys; “There are only four or five comrades taking any interest in the sales, and they are bothered to some extent by pessimism. I believe J'll have to go out myself and build up routes for them,” Such detailed reports, giving con- helpful in correcting organizational weaknesses, and all other districts are urged to follow the example set by Buffalo so that the maximum as- sistance and direction can be given to weak districts from the national office, crete facts in the district, are very | Buffalo District Adopts Measures to Correct the | Uses Forced Negligence in Campaign GALVESTON ON THE UPGRADE “We are starting to get weekly | | Subs,” writes Al McBride of Galves- | ton, "Texas. “We are putting all our time on the Daily Worker six days le week,...Send.. a dozen. subseription. | blanks.” SENDS YEAR’S RENEWAL, $5 From the pine hills of Montana we received a letter from J. M. of Hy- sham, enclosing a year’s renewal. He writes: “Will be pleased to have Daily Worker Calendar, also the ‘Five Year Plan’ Am enclosing $5 more, as I want to help Harry Eisman and the fund for the Gonzales widow to take them to the U. S. 8. R.” “SURE AM WITH YOU IN THE FIGHT” “Enclosed find renewal of my subscription. I sure am with you in the fight to educate the masses, that is the best way to build up | our cause.”—W. A. W, Centerville, | Towa, MINER WORKING PART TIME SENDS $3 R. B. of Bellaire, Ohio, writes: | “Bnelosed find a check of $4 for a renewed sub. I was short with money | so I'm late with the sub. The works here are poor, 1 to 3 days a week and $1 to $3 @ day.” SWIFT & CO. TRY TO STOP “DAILY” “Daily Workers sold in Swift & Co. in So. St, Paul were confiscated by a dick there, also the sign ad- vertising the sale of the shop Paper,” writes a Worker Correspon- dent, “In spite of this confisca- tion, the sale of the Daily Worker and the shop bulletin will be car- ried out the next day. The right to the streets belongs to the work- ers.” | | | i FRANK SELLMAN ON THE JOB AGAIN From Spokane, Wash., Sellman writes: | “I send in a challenge to the com- rades all over to bring in 10 more new subs or renewals in a month, beginning Feb. 10. Who will take me up on it and do better?” Sellman thus far has secured 19 subs for the Daily, and is agitating District 12 for a special district page. Keep it up, Sellman! WINONA, MINN., SHOWS ACTION “Rush bundie of fifty per day here~ after,” wires P. 8. G. of Winona, | Minn. “Very important bundles start immediately.” SENDS EVERY CENT FOR SUBS N. Busic of Tacoma, Wash., sends two 3-month, one 6-month and one yearly subscription plus $1 donation, saying: “Enclosed you will find a money order for $13, I am sending you every cent without taking any com- | mission, because I understand the conditions of our Daily. Yours for Communism.” 7,000 Demonstrate Awe Court (CONTINUED FR acting sec’y. of the N.T.W.U, was ordered out of town by the police, Poe 500 At Worcester WORCESTER, Mass., Veh, 12-r Over 500 workers gathered in Salem Skuare here behind the City Hall. Max Larner spoke to the crowd while the.committee of the demon- stration went in to see Mayor O'Hara. The mayor demogogically offered the committee of three work fro a few days shoveling snow. “Just as I ex- pected,” declared Lerner to the work ers assembled, when the committee made its report. “There are over 12,000 unemployed in Worcester and the representives of the local rich men offers only three of them jobs as bribes. The fight for immediate cash unemployment relief must be continued.” 500 In Lynn LYNN, Mass., Feb. 12.—Inspired by the call of the Trade Unity League about 500 unemployed workers in this shoe town invaded the Clyt Hall demanding work. In the absence of Mayor J, Fred Manning another of- ficial by the name of Dan answered their appeal for work with the ery: “Get out! The whole damn crew of you and stay out!” This official was too dumb to use the stall about “future public works.” Pi ew 125 At Maynard Maynard, Mass., Feb. 12.-~A meetr ing of 125 employed and unemployed workers here voted yesterday to com+ pletely support their unemployed delegation in Washington and to de- Business interests are thinking of starving the masses into wage cuts L 87 4 WEEK some attention to an organization MP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, Wx || COMposed of aliens who are trying to PHONE 721 overthrow this government.” ~ an. thing Bachmpan msant be ex and longer hours and speed-up, of starving them into the army for the coming war, oat mand locla relief. - ° * . Haverhill Told To Starve HAVERHILL, Mass., Feb., ae chief city council here yesterday voted x dare spn demande of te umeclan A sine eacaetintwengmaintins aig te in Boston Into Light Terms OM PAGE ONE) ed council of the Trade Union Unity Leeague for immediate cash relief. The vote was 4 against and 1 for the proposals of $12 weekly cash re- lef and $2 for each child. The vote was forced when Joseph Dion spok- esman of the unemployed workers committee said: “We have made der mands and we are here for an answer yes or no!” Exposing the fakery of Mayor Forrest V. Smith, Mrs. Gertrude Hitehcock, explained that when she went before the board of public wel- fare yesterday, accompanied by her daughter and asked for room rent, she was told to leave the country, She was born in the United States. The number in the demonstration is not known yet. eo 8 6 Indoors At Chelsea CHELSEA, Mass. Feb, 12—Sixty three unemployed workers met in- doors here yesterday to back up the Washington jobless delegation. * 6 8 NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—The dem. on stration for unemployed insurance has been set here for Thursday, Feb, 12. Springfield Jobless Defy. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Feb. 12-~ In spite of last-minute attempt of the police to prevent # jobless dem- onstration from taking place at the post-office, for which a permit had Yankee Pibay By HARRISON GEORGE. ILL Mr. Fish please consider an embargo, such as the U. S. has established against Soviet lumber, against Cuban sugar and Guate- malan coffee, the forced labor in the} production of which “has” previously | been exposed with documentary proof | in the Daily Worker? We venture to state that not a word will be uttered on the subject, even by those great “humanitarians,” Matthew Woll, Andy Mellon and Nor- man Thomas. But today, we wish to ask if imports into the United States from Santo Domingo should not also} be barred, if Mr. Fish is to be taken! seriously about “forced labor?” | Santo Domingo is supposed to bel an “independent” republic, yet it was | occupied by U, S, marines from Nov. | 29, 1916 until July, 1924 and is virtual- | ly a protectorate or vassal state of the U. S. A. as shown by the “ad- visory commission” to organize its finances, headed by Dawes in 1929, ‘The government is a mere pawn in| the hands of Yankee imperialist in-; vestors. And when the past pres- ident, Vasquez, was no longer to an- swer their purposes, a reyolt was ar-| ranged and‘a military dictatorship | under General Trujillo set up a year ago, with which Washington is in perfect relations. ‘To show how much an appendix is Santo Domingo to the U, S. A., we may merely state the fact that it has no national money of its own, and uses United States money. Amer- ican investments a year ago totalled $29,548,000. Yet what do we hear about forced labor—not in the Soviet Union—but right here at America’s doorstep and under its control? The workers’ defense organization known as the Caribbean Red Aid, in| @ recent statement on conditions in | Santo Domingo, protests at the ter- ror against the Dominican working | class, and says: “The troops stop and question workers in the streets of all the cities of the country and after brief ques- tions and replies declare the passers- by ‘vagrants’ and take them off un- der arrest. Each one of those ar- rested awaits the most terrible prison regime and FORCED LABOR.” Perhaps Secretary Mellon of the U S. Treasury will now put an em- } bargo on all sugar, cocoa and tobacco | coming into American ports from Santo Domingo? Perhaps he will de- cree that “the burden of proof” rests on the various Yankee imperialist corporations and the National City Bank which finances them, to prove | that Dominican sugar, cocoa and ta- bacco are not produced “in whole or in part by forced labor?” This is the bar put against Soviet lumber this last Monday. Ah, how vigilant the Washington officials are! They can see “forced labor” in the distant camps of the Murmansk pen- insula in far-off Soviet Russia. And thejr hearts throb with humane pity at the tale of elsingfors “refugees,” But they have not a quiver of sor- row for the tens of thousands of lumberjacks of the Pacific Northwest who are submitted to the blacklist of the Jumber trust and are forced (by hunger) to labor under the vilest gnd | most abject conditions, long hours at | starvation wages, under the Weyer- hauser foremen! And, of course, the poor starving agricultural worker of Santo Do- mingo. jobless and searching for bread or work in the cities of this country, under the iron heel of a mili- tary dictator, is less than nothing to the imperialist powers at Washington. He may be forced to labor for Amer- ican plantation owners as a “convict~ ed vagrant” or be shot for refusal— it is a matter of indifference to Washington. But the soft spot in the heart of American imperialists is touched by the fact that in far-off Murmansk there might be “forced labor” out of which Wall Street finds it impossible to extract a cent of profit! dollars for imediate cash relief to the jobless, ‘The speaker at the demonstration was Jack Rosen. tO an | 4 February 10 PROVIDENCE, R. I, Feb. 12—A group of 75 workers speakinfi in the interests of the thousands of job- Ises went up to the state house here demanding immediate relief and sup- port of the federal unemployment bill, . 150 At Gardner GARDNER, Mass, Feb, 12—-This chair factory town was not to be left behind in yesterday’s nation .| wide demonstration of the jobless, Over 150 workers gathered i ndoors and applauded the program for im- mediate cash relief, Abe Harfield, district secretary of the T.U.U.L. spoke at this meeting and then went to Fitchburg where he spoke to another meeting of 100 jobless work- ers, e+e Hamden Friday. HAMDEN, Conn.-The situation ‘AND REFUSES TO BE ARGUED DOWN Amidst | guns and Sie gas ae armored | trucks from the military forces | mounted with machine guns, five/ uniformed and secret police to every Un- the Workers’ Insurance Deleg: tional capitol steps | at noon on F 10 to make its-de~ mands for h relief for the unem- ployed of $15 a week and $3 for each | dependent from the capitalist gov- ernment at Washington, D. C. It marched through this armed camp | with firm step knowing that it was backed by the power of nearly one million and a half workers who had | yoted for and signed the workers’ | relief bill. | The smaller delegation of 15 which | went to demand the floor of the heuse was flanked with three armed | police to every delegate. Inside the capitol building swarmed with secret service men, many dressed like work- | ers, trying to hide their identity. The office to which they were led was crowded with police. Congressmen | | and senators were present. These the delegation engaged in rapid fire and militant conversation. One congr man tried to third degree Sam Nesin, wanting to know whether he was a] citizen, how large his family was, when he had last worked and at what. Wagenknecht interjected, de- | manding to know when he had last worked in a coal mine or steel mill, when he had last missed a meal,| | whether he had ever done a day's useful work in his life. He failed to answer and sneaked out of the room No Worker Congressmen, In presenting the demands of the employed and unemployed workers for the floor of congress and through constant interruptions by the bosses’ law makers, Wagenknecht ‘There is not a single representa- tive of the working class in the cap- itol. Not one of you law makers have taken a single step to give cash re- relief to the unemployed upon the |basis of unemployment insurance. In- stead you dilly-dally in this law fac- tory with fine phrases, trying to soft- | soap and fool the workers, while thousands of unemployed workers and their children are dieing all over the country, in the mining camps, steel mill towns, in the poor farm- ing areas, You vote money to feed} the horses, mules and pigs of the) more well-to-do farmers, you give hundreds of millions in tax rebates | to the corporations, you grease the | road to more wealth and easier prof- its for the wealthy, but you have failed to give a single red cent to the 10,000,000 unemployed, to the starv- ing thousands. Demands the Floor. “This workers’ delegation is here because it considers itself more im- portant than all the congressmen and senators in this capitalisb law fac- workers’ delegate, employment mounted the r | cities, ‘The starving farmers must give a first mortgage to the federal government and to the local bankers to get the loans. The majority of the bankers already have first mort- gages, so the farmers get nothing. | Tens of thousands of children stand in the breadlines, children are in the breadlines in-Oklahoma: City; where the richest oil fields of the Rocke- fellers are.” A congressman from Alabama told Harper: “Why I have always been interested in your people.” Harper replied: “Why, last June 10,000 white women, men and chil- dren were walking the streets, look- ing for jobe in Birmingham. The in- terest of the congressmen is to help lynch Negroes into submission to | slavery.” Congressmen Wild. During the entire time the situa- tion was very strained. Word had gone out that the Reds were about to capture the national capitol, that they intended to occupy the house and senate chambers by force. The entire capitol building was in tur- moil. In the senate a member hegan referring to the Communist menace which would some day over ride them, while a congressman demanded that the Reds be chased out of the city, that they be “not allowed to dirty even the first steps of the cap- itol with the bums whom they lead and who would not take a job if it was offered them.” “We Demand Relief.” After the small delegation that had gone to the house through the armed camp of the capitalist law makers at Washington, D. C., had been ejected, the house of representatives was sud- denly interrupted by Kearns, a work- ers’ delegate from Pittsburgh, who shouted: “Our delegation has been ejected. We demand relief—.” He got no further. Police jumped on him, one shoved his fist into Kearns’ mouth, the members of the house, who were heatedly debating free speech for congressmen in the house, jumped up in their séats and for five minutes the house was in turmoil, the speaker wrapping his gavel with- out effect. Five delegates who sat in the gal- lery were arrested, but later released. Congressmen commented upon the lack of decency, that a worker should dare to interrupt the august body. All delegates reassembled at their headquarters hall at 5 p. m., to de- cide upon next steps. It was resolved to empower the small delegation to draft a statement embodying the sentiments of the delegation and based upon their experience with the capitalist legislators. It was decided that al] delegates return to their mining camps and factory towns, there inform all workers and workers’ organizations that not a single congressman or senator in the tory, It demands to occupy the floor | capitol is interested in the starving of the house to read its statement | ang dieing unemployed workers, their and proposals for a bill which will! children and babies. It was decided give every unemployed worker $15 that Feb, 25, International Unem- and $3 additional for each depen-| ployment Day, be a day upon which dent, It demands that this bill be employed and unemployed workers passed today. It demands that the wij] fight and demonstrate by the wealthy who have coined millions hyndreds of thousands for immedi- and billions out of the blood of the ate relief, for immediate food, for workers shall be taxed and that all unemployment insurance, at the same war funds be used to create a fund time exposing the entire capitalist for unemployment insurance. You system and all is greasy law makers. state that you refuse us the floor, re- fuse even to place our demands be- fore the speaker of the house, We answer that we shall go back to the| workers and mobilize additional mil- lions for this demand, for struggle, | and eventually shove you all off the backs of the workers.”, Want Action. One congressman began to plead with the delegation, saying that con~- gress moved slowly, that it had al- ready done something, passed a con- struction program, voted two million dollars for medicine for farmers, whereupon the delegation interjected, saying we are here to make congress moye fast and moye today, not to- morrow, for even today, according to your own Senator Caraway, another thousand unemployed workers have starved to death. Nesin spoke up and said: “We represent a million and a half workers and farmers who signed and endorsed our demands for insurance and elected us to present them in the name of 10,000,000 unemployed workers in the U. 8. A. In spite cf all the talk on the part of congress about unemployment, there has been nothing done to relieve the starving millions of workers and their fam- ilies. Billions of dollars are spent for battleships, poison gas and grafting politicians, and we demand that this money shall go for the relief of the unemployed workers and starving farmers.” The sergeant-at-arms answered: “I have been authorized by the speaker | of the house to accept your petition and it will be properly recorded.” Nesin answered: “The constitution of the United States says we have a right to petition congress in person and we want to exercise that right.” Eating Garbage, Lillie May West, delegate from Youngstown, said: “Conditions in Youngstown are horrible. We're eat- ing out of garbage cans and living like pigs. My man, he's been out of steady work for four years now. We Shows Up Government. Wagenknecht and Johnstgne ad- dressed the delegates. Wagenknecht reported upon the occurrences of the day, exposing to them the character of city, state and national govern- ments and how all capitalist politi- cians fight against everything that the workers fight for; that the only recourse the working class has is to amass its power in more and stronger unemployed councils, in strong class struggle unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League; that all politicians, whether republicans, dem- ocrats, socialist or farmer-labor are yellow and reactionary, interested only in lining the pockets of the wealthy with more gold and profit- ing thereby themselves through graft and fat subsidies and jobs. Mass Power Next. Johnstone told the delegates that it certainly is apparent to them now that when workers ask for bread the national government gives them ma- chine guns and gas bombs instead. “Next time we will not come with signatures, we will come with or- ganized mass power,” he stated. ‘If the boss of the house, Longworth, thinks that workers are going to do any bellycrawling before him he makes the mistake of his life. If these fakers in the capitol think that they will longer fool the workers by \ calling them Reds and Communists, | they will soon experience a rude awakening. We now go to our cities |to organize for International Unem- ployment Day, Feb. 25. Let this be the day upon which we resolve to or- ganize the employed in the shops, mines and mills into fighting unions of the Trade Union Unity League, into fighting unemployed councils.” The delegates gave three cheers for building the class power of the | workers to fight against wege reduc= | tions, to fight for unemployment in- surance and jmmediate bread for all who are hungry. ‘They sang the “In- ternationale,” and “Solidarity Yor- ever.” Amidst great enthusiasm, they been granted, 300 workers held a/|of the Hamden unemployed workers militant unemployment demonstra-| is becoming desperate, and the town tion on Feb, J0th, at Dwight Street, | authorities are doing absolutely noth- displaying banners demanding im-| ing to give them even the meager mediate relief and supporting the| and inadequate relief that other Unemployment Insurance Bill; the/|cities are, The Trade Union Unity | Ley endo tiy Paglia League ts isuing a leaflet for a mass ment of Springfield adopt an Emer-| meeting to form an Unemployed sen, Avarcesisiien of Landaa Gounell in Hamden, Friday afternoon. an tg, a a A ANA AA Ai hire th li cet el enn ge sensi average about $4 a week.” | A congressman said: “You won't | get anything as long as you demon- | strate with the Communists.” West answered: “I know people who get less and nothing, who don’t Ldatalgatcaal iesiay cg al , |heard to give praise for the excellens legro Speaks. manner in which they were takes Sol marper Negro ex-serviceman, | care of by this ten mcunted buses, rickety automobiles and began their long journeys back home. Sandwiches were prepared by the Workers’ International Relief, which attended to housing and feed- ing the delegates, and delegates were a IS saan 5 Pg" ena