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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1931 Providence Cab Drivers In Militant Strike Against A Big Wage Slash; Hold Out Despite AFL Misleaders New England Power. Co. Buys Up Cabs and Then Cuts Wages and Raises Fares Because of Militancy an 4 is d Steady Picketing Men Stand Good Chance of Winning ‘ (By a Worker PROVIDENCH, R. 1.—One Correspondent) hundred and cighty cab drivers of Providence are carrying on a militant strike against the mis- érable wage of $2.25 a day imposed on them by the noble bosses of the New England Light and Power Association. Prior to June 1980 the cabbies worked for various small companies at a rate of 85 cents from the center to city limits or return and split 50-50 with the company. This way they could make a half-way decent living. But the N-E.L. and P, Co. complaining that low wages paid to drivers caused unfair competition to their street cars suc- ceeded with the aid of crooked stateo- officials here to buy Up all cabs who would sell out and Have the licenses revoked of those who wouldn’t. Bosses Cus Wages The first act of the power trust was to raise the fare practically double and cub the wages in half so that including a measly botius of 10 per cent make $2.30 to $2.95 a day for 10 to 12 hours and on rainy nights 16 hours work. Out of this they are fot to pay $35 for a uniform and a eap, $1.50 for a hack license and deposit $1 hard cash for a lotisy 10 cent badge. In case of accident the driver has to pay for the damage. ‘The drivets organized jn November against these capitalist slave drivers but being unfamiliar with labor or- ganizations joined the Amalgamated Street Carmen’s Union, a branch of the labor faking American Federation of Labor, a union whose chief ac- tivity is sending flowers to deceased members. A Militant Strike But in spite of the A. F. of L. “leadership” the cabbies themselves show a militant spirit equal to that of our own red unions. By the spirit shown by the cabbies in the speeches at the meetings in the faithfulness wjth whieh they do their picketing and attend their meeting every day and cause people are refusing to ride in scab cabs the bosses of the N. El. and P. Co. have got to realize that they will have to meet the demands of 45 cents an hour and reinstate- ment of discharged drivers if they want to operato cabs in Providence. —R. A. WORCORR BRILFS 84 to 90 Hrs. In Restaurants BARBERTON, Ill. Daily Worker: Being a class-conscious worker I recently came here from Chicago. After a six months stay there I did various restaurants and hotels as a waiter, dishwasher and floor scrubber. And believe it or not for no job I received more than $18..-A week's work in a restaurant means 84 to 90 hours a week without an hour off while the jgb lasted. —G.C. $97 for A Year’s Work FREEHOLD, N. J. Daily Worker: Working from March 1929 till March 1930, David Fitzgerald, a farm hand received only $97 from his em- pleyer Mrs. Ella Reid of East Free- hold. The agreement Fitzgerald made at the time he was hired was for two dollars per day as his wages. Today he received in court a judgement for $551 as wages alleged due him. Farm workers should organize with the Agricultural Workers Industrial League and fight for their rights. Nearest information, 308 Elm Street, Perth Amboy, N. J. Shout for War On Soviet Union Durham, N. C. The Daily Worker: p I am enclosing a newspaper clip- WisTRICT | OFEN FOR ‘The Chicago district has already received its first district page in the | | Feb, 13 issue. The edition includes | | articles protesting attacks on the Ne- | gro candidate on the Communist bal- | | lot in the coming elections, evictions | of Chicago workers, a story of an ex- serviceman’s family starving on hun- ger rations, the Chicago workers’ an- swer' to police terror in the Polish | district, the Red Election Rally Feb. {18 and a Worker correspondence on | the speed-up in the Postal Telegraph | Co. Philadelphia, the second to respond to the drive for district pages, is cooperating to the fullest extent with | the national office in order that {ample gime is given to prepare the | issue for Thursday, Feb. 19. “These | editions will be continued provided our comrades in the units will feel PAGES MONDAY, week for the national office weekly bulletin, Please call at the same address, eighth floor. ROCHESTER, MINN. BUILDS ROUTE | “I stepped out here with Comrade | P and got the subs,” writes P.S.G. of | Rochester, Minn. “When we got all the subs we can get in Rochester, Page ~ LABOR UNITY HAS | | SPECIAL ISSUE) TUESDAY, FRIDAY — Comes Out On Feb. 25, Int'l Hunger Day | A 100,000 issue of Labor Unity for the Feb. 25th preparations, Inter- national Fighting Day Against Un- employment! The International Unemployment | Day issue of Labor Unity will come off the press Wednesday or Thursday, Feb. 18 or 19. It will contain im- | portant. material dealing .with..the Washington Delegation and the next | steps in the struggle for unemploy-} meng insurance. It will tell of the} coming strikes, and will call on the| workers to rally to the defense of| the Soviet Union. | It will contain important informa- tion on the struggles of the workeys in other countries, against unemploy- | ment and against wake cuts. A special offer is being made on Lower Workers’ Living! Standard in Uruguay As Peso Drops 38 P.C, MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay.—tThe value of the peso has decreased more | than 38 per cent. As was foreseen, | especially for the necessities of life. | This is because imports must be paid for in gold and not with: the face value of the peso. If the peso loses part of its value in gold, more pesos are required in the commercial ex- change to buy foreign merchandise. The fact that prices did not rise | immediately foilowing the decline in the exchange value of the peso, caused many workers to believe that the decrease would have no effect on the cost of the necessities of life. However, as soon as the warehouses | had exhausted their reserve supply | of merchandise, while hoping that the peso would regain its value, mer- | hants were forced to buy new sup- plies at higher prices, The bourgeois pre: has accepted the Thursday Daily Worker is some- what different, and specifically Phil- adelphia so that we can mobilize them every Thursday for the sale of the Daily,” writes M. Silver, Daily Worker representative. The Phila- delphia issue will be brightened con- siderably by a good cartoon on the Pennsylvania coal and iron police. Once'a week, a district edition with four columns of space devoted exclusively to news items of local interest goes a long way toward winning workers over to the ‘Daily.’ They'll look forward to the day of the special issue, They'll write for | it. Other districts may choose any day except Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. The cost, $8 per 1,000 for at least 2,000 copies of that issue; must be paid in advance. | Who's next? we are going to nearby cities and do | the same—Winona, Austin, Aybert, Lea, Owatona.” | Incidentally, both have already se- | cured 50 weekly subs, and have in- | creased their bundle orders to 25. FRISCO IN LINE FOR RED NEWS CLUB “Your letter containing sugges- tions for a news club will be taken up immediately,” writes Sam Darcy, district organizer. “We are finally on the way to establishing a func- tioning Party apparatus and the Daily Worker will therefore im- prove. The question of a special HOPES FOR 600,000 bundles of 1000 or more, at the rate/as natural that w s be charged of $10 a thousand, Orders of 100 higher prices, in order to stabilize more, up to 1000, will be at the rate! tne peso. Suggestions for a propor- ee 100; . | tionate raise in the salary of the ‘These special rates will apply for| workers are met with advice “to be | the International Unemployment Day | patient, everything will be all right, | issue only. ‘ | the peso will soon regain its value,” Orders should be placed thru Labor | ete, In the meantime, the burden of Unity, Room 414, 2 West 15th St. the loss of value of the peso falis New York, N. Y. on the «workers, whose miserable wages | | are in reality cut 38 per cent; Jitizens of Bulgarian FIGHT BALTIMORE . ,| town of Troros nailed a sign on the Girl| church entrance reading, “Lenin's Club,” put up the red flag, painted | the house red and joined the Bolshe- Swindled Negro Out of $3.20 | viks. BALTIMORE, Mr., Feb. 15—Ethel| focal authorities could not bring Kennedy, 2 young Negro girl, had/the situation under: control. The ———————— GERMAN FASCIST LEADER JAILED Striking Dockers Build | prices have shown a marked rise, Revolutionary Union (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN.—The leader of the fascist al organization who assisted the fugitive murderers, Captain Maltitz, was arrested in Insbruck. Maltitz admitted assisting murderer Becker, one of the three facist murderers who killed two workers on New Years Day in Berlin. The tempora: result of the ex- amination mater captured in yes- terdays raid on the Facist headquar- ters shows that the Facist had con- nections h officers of the War Ministry who supplied fascists with impo. t 1 The material nature of alos revea Mainz last ever red and a policemar Mueller, dead. Duri a cist dem gsberg a young worker was stabbed in the ‘ou back. The Socialist M r of the I ited the p! ers decided evolutionary union as to found the reformist union fails in the wor WORKERS STARVE |AFTER SELLOUT GOAL; SENDS $6 page will be taken up and we will ping from the most prominent daily name of Pitt. Landlord Removes Doors and Windows PITTSBURG, Pa. Daily Worker: Unemployed Coutvils are so ef- fective in the Hill district here that & Negro landlord by the name of Ulysses 8. Davis took off the doors and windows of the house that one of his tenants lives in, © man by the name of Clarence 3 ~ : with a family of three small c! vb 4034 ‘Uwing Street. Hughes sued the lane. | before Squire P. J. Sullivan and the Squire instructed the landlord to put the doors and windows back immediately. This fatnily stayed in that cold house for two days before that landlord re- placed the doors and windows. Anothef landlord took away the only steps leading to the second floor of one of those fire traps that the Negro workers are forced to live in on the hill. —W.HS. Flophouses « <rflow In New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, La. To the Daily Worker: _ Geo. W. Fulton, $4 years old of 538 N, Rampatt St. dropped dead Wednesday afternoon while Walking on Toulose St. Death was caused by heart disease according to coroner Geo. F, Roeling. Conditions here are becoming steadily worse and there is much real suffering among the workingclass. At every corner on Canal St. and in the business section jobless workers, men, women and children are selling apples, oranges, candies, etc., striv- ing desperately to earn enough to capitalist paper in this state on ‘“Rus- sian Influence.” Morning Herald, You can see by reading it how the capitalist world desires to wipe out Russia from the face of the earth. =D. E. C. 'TUUL Organizer to Broadcast on Eco- nomic Crisis Monday CHESTER, Pa., Feb. 15.—The regu- lar meeting of the Unemployed Coun- cil was attended by over 100 workers today. Ninety per cent of them were Negroes. An intensive organization- al campaign is especially up daily. Steps are now being taken to form | block councils. Despite the intense cold, over 500 workers demonsttated on Feb. 10. It is the Durham | “Am enclosing $6 check for which | renew my subscription,” writes H. S. of Elk, Calif. “Here's hoping the| Daily Worker will some day reach the circulation of 600,000 instead of |the sought for 60,000.” JOBLESS | OCT.; SEN F. H. of Ft. Wayne, Ind., writes: “I am sick since Oct., 1930, and I don’t know when I am able to work again, Enclosed find money order for my subscription, $3.50.” RENEWS, SENDS SUB TO SISTER “I enclose money order for $6 for one year’s subscription,” writes A.M., | of East Dennis, Mass. “A while ago | 1 sent you five dollars for your Emer- | gency Fund, together with a two | months sub for my daughter. I am } | Sending you the money now since you need all the help you can get and then write you.” . USES DAILY TO ANSWER LIES F. B. of Helena, Mont., sends a| year’s renewal and writes: | “I am not getting your paper for fun, but I want to be in close touch with the Soviet system ‘the capitalist press tells pure lies about. Don’t forget the Soviet book, also the cal- endar. I want to hang it up in our public dining-room, EVERETT, WASH. SHOWS SPUNK From M. M., Daily Worker repre- sentative of Everett, Wash., we learn that their sales from 100 a day went cown to 40, then up again to 60-70. “We expect a bigger increase un- Jess the bosses’ tools stop us selling the paper on the streets, which they are now trying to do,” he writes. “If so, they have to step applied for many weeks in vain for | a job. At the employment agency | called the Maryland Help Associa- | tion, 108 Clay St., near Liberty St.,| |a@ dried-out man ordered her roughly | to sit down and wait for something | to show up. She was finally called | | over and told to go to 216 Ridgewood | Rd., Roland Park and there she would be taken o1 as a majd. First, | in order to get the job, she was com-| pelled to sign a contract with the Maryland Help Assn., that gave them the right of taking $3.20 from her first weeks’ pay. Ethel Kennedy worked there 8 days, including Sunday and found that the job was everything but a maid. She had to scrub, wash clothes, and a host of other drudge jobs. She had to get up at 5 am. every morning in order to get to the house 7 a. m. in the morning, and then work 12 and 14 hours a day. Out of the supposed $8 a week, | she had to pay $1.40 every week car people changed he the | main streets, naming them after Lenin and other revolutionary lead- | ers. | A special police force arrived and| arrested the leaders of the move-| ment, BiG WOMEN’S MEET, IN PITTSBURGH Prepare International) Women’s Day | PITTSBURGH, Feb. 11.—At the call of the Communist Party in Pitts- burgh representatives from shops and | fraternal organizations attended a conference for International Women’s Day. Comrade Anna Damon of the Fakers Wash Hands Of Strikers (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ing and trying to fool the workers into thinking, “everything will be all right”, as Gorman himself said at a union meeting last week. Families of strikers who have noth- ing in their homes but, maybe, a little flour and lard, are wondering what happened to the $25,000 and more that the U. T. W. chiefs got from the workers in Danville. Looted the Strikers. A dollar a week initiation fee be- fore the strike, and $3 after the strike began, was paid into the union treas- ury by 4,500 members. They also paid 25 cents a week dues, The maj- ority of them joined up Jast February Fulton came hére several months ago| keep from starving. systematic campaign is being carried | the quicker the better.” over our dead bodies and I don't |... Women's Department Central Com-| 4. narch. The U. 'T. W. announced from. Maine and eked out @ miserable existance selling pencils and begging. All the flop-houses are full to over- flowing. —J.C. ee Baby Born Under Viaduct in Oklahoma City; Many Hunger Ray Pierce, 17 year old delegate from Oklahoma City, Okla., to the ‘Washington Delegation, ‘on ‘beiiig in- terviewed by the Daily Wofker as he was prépafing to beat his way back to ORlahoma, told of conditions in that state. The oil fields are practically shut flown. Drilling is going on only where the fields are developed. ‘There is no Tush to find new places to drill. Laborers in the fields get $5 or 36 a day, but work only two or three days # Week. ‘There aré about 1,000 working “in two packing Houses belonging to Moftis ahd Wilson. ‘These workers had @ strike several years ago and were sold out by the A. F. of L, Council Grows. On this basis the tinemployed couin- cil ahd the Trade Union Sui aaeue built their organization. are about 6,000 of the books as mettibers. But of these 5,000 many are migratory workers, some of whom have moved on. oo unemployed council fights evic- oh cases, successfully, evi almost. The per siete a reported to the cotineil meetings, and committees are appointed to go down and stop them. In two cases the po- lice came in and made arrests, but in general the council hag the situation going their way. The militancy of the workers and unemployed wor! who have hela huge Gtnouatrations and Whg took fed from a big chain store Of January 20, i¢ very great. “They have seven still held for trial because of the J. I. Whidden, field organizer; Albert Grinnell, district organizer of the Y. | @.L.; and Frank Pierce, of the exec- |utive committee of the tenants’ league, and one more. Negroes Speak. | The unemployed council holds meetings at the soup lines, and meet- ings are held at the court house. On August 1, they captured the court house and held a meeting inside. When Negro workers speak, says Pierce, it shocks the business men of this Jim-Crow town considerably. Last Labor Day, 5,000 marched on the state capitol, Arrests were made, but the militancy of the crowd forced their félease. When Secretary of Wat Pat Hurley came and was difted by the chathber of commerce; the jobless cathe down and heckled him on his way out. They demanded to know what U. S. gun- boats were doing in China, and ac- cused him of not having |courage enough to answer the question when he drove off in silence. The unemployed gather, to the hiimber of 500 or 600 under the via- duct on the river bottom. They have no blankets, and build fires to keep warin. The place is called Hotel Hoover.” The uneniployed council had a hot fight here to foreé the local hospital to take in a farmers’ wife who gave birth to a baby ih “Hotel Hoover.” She had been forced off the land by starvation. r Pierce miade his way from Okla- hota City to Washington in six days, hiteh hiking. “Damn right”, he said, “I'm going back the same way and go on or+ ganizing.” Party; iver of the Vote against finger printing, reg- istration, and photographing the foreign born. Elect delegates local conference for protection of foreign born. RED SHOCK TROOPS For on to bring out thousands of work- | efs at the next demonstration which takes place Feb. 25. Following this | demonstration a general unemployed | cofferehce, will be held in this city | | on March-7> Speakers are being sent | to Negro churches and fraternal or- | ganizations, A.F.L. locals and many | Other organizations. A broad con-| ference is expected. | The next meeting of the Council takes place Mohday. Feb. 16, 11 a.m at 120 West Third St. During the nieeting there will be a broadcast from the local radio station, WVX,| between-12 noon and 1 p. m. Mac | Harris, organizer of the Trade Union | Unity League will speak on the} “World Economic Crisis and Unem ployment Insurance.” This is a sh’ Wave broadcast and can be picked up by ordinary sets. The wava length is 340 kilocycles. FIGHT EVICTIONS IN SACRAMENTO Many Families With No Food, Fuel SACRAMENTO, Cal—The case of Mr. Hicks of 203 El Camino St. at Sacramento, was recently brought to the attention of the Eviction Com- mittee of the Unemployed. Mr. Hicks, with a wife sick in bed and a widowed daughter and three chil- dren dependent on him, had been un- able to find work for sonie months past. His rent became two months overdue and he was given orders to move. The Eviction Committee in- vestigated and found the family with+ out food, fuel, or medical care. Al three were secured for the family, and also a “no pay—no rent” guar- antee. The Committees are very active here ahd are doing good work. The results of this work are being shown ih the growing interest and support of the working class who ate getting behind us with a militant solidarity more and more. Eviction Committee of U.C. ORGANIZE TO END STARVATIO DEMAND REEF! $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND Bnclosed tna NAMB iisteisesissebsasessedesee MARRS eee eee eee rece eee e dooney GOMATS 6.0... Pee, We to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for thé succ i Mm RORNCY suiceessfill completion of the $30,000 DAILY WO Corererr reer « cents RKER oo eee ee cere reas mean maybe.” AGED 71, BROKE, ENQS ONE DOLLAR “I have always been with the Daily Worker since the paper was founded in Chicago. I am 71 years of age and have got a hard time to make both ends meet. I enclose $1.” —A.J.M., Gen, Idaho. VOLUNTEERS IN NEW YORK WANTED . The distreit office of the Daily Worker needs some volunteers to visit newsstands and inquire for or- ders. Comrades who can spare an hour or two should report to room 505, 35 E. 12th St. Some help is needed in typing envelopes once a | | 3,000 JOBLESS ANSWER PORTLAND — TERROR BY DEMONSTRATION The lady of the house was a tyrant, and especially because she was a Negro was she subject to most brutal discipline. She found that when she qujt at} the end of the eighth day she re- ceived only $5.60 and the $3.20 was| turned over to the employment agency. She got cheated out of one days’ pay. She then went to the} agency to demand her $3.20, but the | little “slave sellers” ignored her com- | pletely, and told her to go home, and if they had another job for her, they | would give it to her for nothing. | Everyone acquainted with the em- ployment agencies knotvs that the job } will never be given under these con- | | Women’s Day campaign of the dis- | pointed out the need of carrying on {CONTINUED FROM PAG rol a Party, and while talking he intro- duced the pamphlet of Foster's tes- | timony answering the Fish commit- | tee. Luka Skako, who is under $3,000 | bail for his membership in the Com- | munist Party, was arrested by a} police agent for selling the pamphlet. He’was taken to the police station | and it was through the militant de- mand of the crowd when they marched to the city hall to support | |® delegation of 15 working men and | |; Women, in presenting the local de- | mands tothe city council, that forced his release in a few hours on no | charges and with the literature in his possession intact except for one copy which the police thought the | immigration authorities might want. Smoke Ou tthe Mayor. Fred Walker led the delegation of Workers to the mayor's office, but “hizzonor” was not in, Commis- soiher Pier wes there and expressed sympathy, but stated that nothing could be done. Walker and the committee re- ported to the crowd and while they were taking a vote either to go to the hotel, where the mayor and a group of grafters were gorging them- selves while workers were starving, or to wait on his return, “hizzonor,” no doubt called by his frightened subordinates, came strolling up, The speaker did not know “Our George” and then when fe identified himself and then when he identified the mayor he voiced the local demands. After he finished the mayor wanted the soap box and the workers ridi- culed his appeal for a soap box at their meeting. He told the workers that it was illegal to feed the star- ving and that he could not cut his salary or those of other officials, The mayor threatened the crowd with men “who would defend the flag and that this was still America.” It div not work and the crowd stood firm and voiced their entire approval of the U. C, Reporters and Spies. Reporters o fthe capitalist press took their story from the stool Pigeon, Bacon, who turned over to th epolice a score of workers last September. When Walker saw him in a window and pointed him out fo the crowd, Bacon fled. Thee thousand raised their hands when Walker called for s vote of all ditions. She then appealed to the Unemployed Council of the TUUL at | 9 South Greene St., and there the | unemployed workers elected a com- mittee to present the demand for the $3.20. The committee was reject- ed. The boss of the agency cot yel- low and said the boss wasn’t in when the committee arrived, but it was those who considered themsélves Communists—this was an atiswer to the terroristic tactics of police agents prowling around, pies ers McKEESPORT, Pa., (By Mail).— Three thousand demonstrated here Feb. 10, and pledged another demon- stration on Feb. 25. Fifty police beat up the ‘speakers and arrested two of the demonstrators.. The crowd hung around and the unemployed council rented a room in Danders Hotel and spoke from the window to the masses outside, Three cops ran up, broke down the door to the room and beat up Michael Sparks, who was speak- ing. The crowd shouted angrily, “Let him speak!” Those arrested on the street were Anna Swetlet and Frank Kovach. The National Tube Co. held back the workers five minutes at quitting time to try and interfere with the meeting. Workers jammed the court room next day at the trial of/ those a- rested, ahd Chief Whalen had them driven out. But Martin, chief of police from the McKeesport Tin Plate Co. and the big superintendent from the Tin mill were allowed in to see if any of their men were there, so they could fire them. The three arrested were fined $25 each, and when they refused to pay, given 30 day sentences by Judge Luni page 5 Feb. 25 ‘ SAN ANTONIO, Texas. (By Mail). The hunger marchers formed here on Feb, 10 at “The Markethouse” and paraded to the city hall. On the way, a detachment of the marchers was attacked and cheir ranks broil. by Mexican stool pigeons, instigated by the Mexican consulate, However, a crowd of about 7,000 gathered in front of the city hall, and 14 local demands for relief, against evictions, against the vag- rancy laws, ete., were read by a com- mittee on which were George Pap- cun, Sarah Levine, and Tom Rea- gan, The mayor rejected them all. For all he cares, the jobless of Texas can go right on starving to death, But 2,000 of the crowd marched for two miles back through the city to the unemployed council head- quarters at 404 1-2 Nebraska Street. The hall which holds, 200 was revealed later that he was th. boss. Workers and unemployed of Balti- more are asked to come down to 108 Clay St., 12 rioon, Feb. 16 and pro- test against the employment agen- cies that rob the workers of their pay and fool them wtih the jobs that they give out. Many Starve "n Davenport, Ia. Daliy Worker: DAVENPORT, Ia. Gonditions here are very bad. Thousands of peopyp starving and the emergésicy fund spent. When any- one applies for aid now they send him up to the city hall and a faker offers you a job as salesman for a furnace company. He ought to be a rotten egg. Ohe woman With five little ehild- ren on being turned down for aid said, what will we do now, and I Says organize and take it. —Worcorr en those inside, Papcun spoke at an overflow meeting outside, The demonstration here for Feb. 25 is being prepared. Re we San Jose Demonstration. SAN JOSE, Cal. (By Mail) In spite of heavy rain, 130 demonstrated here Feb, 10, and a demonstration Feb. 25 is being planned. The police threatened to use machine guns, rif- les, poison gas and clubs if the dem- onstrators tried to march. Demands for immediate relief were voted for, but the city manager found it con- venient to be out of town, ‘The jobless of San Jose will serve these demands on him yet. 1500 at ‘Holyoke. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — At Holy. oke, important industrial center, near here, 1500 workers staged a spon- taneous protest demonstration Feb, 10, when the city told them there was ho more work for them, Police Yo be called to quell the riot, had from I don't know yet. mittee, Communist Party of U.\S. A., was the main speaker. Comrade Mary Smith, women’s work director of Pittsburgh District, outlined the tasks and plans for International trict. After this a good discussion fcellowed. The delegates present activities in the shops, coal fields and steel towns among the working | wemen and wives of workers. Upon a motion of one of the delegates a final mobilization conference will be held on March 1, in the afternoon, and a mass meeting in the evening. A committee of 10 was elected to help the Communist Party carry through the campaign. The commit- tee will meet Feb. 15. The plan of work calls for the holding of a factory gate meeting at the Westinghouse factory on March 2 and a demonstration on the 9th. Holding of preparatory meetings in mining towns and in the Hill sec- tion. An intensive campaign against the hieh cost of living, high rents and evictions. The organization of women info councils of unemployed and the building of womén’s auxil- iaries in the coal fields and mining towns. Meetines on March 8 will be held in the ‘following cities under the aushices of the Communist Party: Pittsburgh, McKeesport, New Ken- sington, Johnstown, Ambridge, York- ville, Canonsburg, Wheeling, W. Va.; Neffs, Ohio; Bellaire, Ohio, and Mon- nesen. Ae resolution calling on the work- ine women to fight against U. S. war preparations and for the defense of the Soviet Union, denouncing the | Fish Committee report and pledging full support to the Communist Party and the struggles it is conducting against unemployment and in’ the general interests of the working class was unanimously adopted by the con- ference. Support was pledged to the striking miners. The Working Woman was endorsed as the only revolution- ary women’s paper. Miss. Worker “oses His Savines ~~ OXFORD, Miss Dear Workers: I know you wonder why TI don’t write more often. There is a reason or two, I have no work and haven't had any sinee I don’t temember when, The bank in which I had saved up @ few dollars for a rainy day has closed and in spite of all the sweet promises of re-opening it stays closed Bilbo, our honorable (?) goverhor refused to grant us any time in pay- ing our taxes and has warned us we'll be deprived of the pleasure of re-electing the gang of political / criminals in office should we fail to} pay our taxes in time. My last months grocery bill for four of us was $4.50, not much but just where the $4.50 is going to come Sa Yan donations amounting to $150,000 from outside sources—and also announced that $150,000 had been spent. Leaders of the American Federation of Labor during the strike pledged. “full financial suppor' and sai} they would, if necessary, “empty the treasury for the Danville strikers’; Not one cent did they give, however. Press Lies for U. T. W. Danville papers refuse to print a statement issued by the National of- fice of the National Textile Workers Union, on the Danville strike, because it exposed the role of the United Tex- tile Workers Union, The Danville Register, a paper controlled by the mill interests, which before and dur. ing the strike, was consistently against the U. T. W., now fearing that the strikers may rally to the Na- tional Textile Workers Union, has become the open champion of the United Textile Workers Union. In the isstle of Feb. 5th, it states: “A prepared statement by the Na- tional Textile Workers Unioa was issued on the termination of the Strike, but it is so inflammatory in terms, and so teeming with libelous accusations directed toward the United Textile Workers Union, that it cannot be printed.” AFL Journal Raves When Jorge Exnoses Pope in Big Oil Dea) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb, 15—The Philadelphia “Labor Record” a weekly tabloid of the A. F. of L. officials here, which endorses the sell out in Dan- ville and Kensington by the United Textile Workers and fights against unemployment councils, is trying to start a holy crusade against the mil- itant workers’ organizations and par- ticularly against the Communist Par- ty. Evidently the A. F. of L. chiefs think something must be done to stop the workers from thinking about Danville and Kensington. The only article on the front page of the “Labor Record” of Feb. 13 is @ Wild howl against the Daily wé@ker columnist, Jorge, for exposing the fact that the pope recently bought-a lot of Deterding’s Dutch Shell Oil stock, since when he has been calling down curses on the Soviet Union, and since when the blessing of autos by priests has been a flourishing business. CAMP AND HOTEL NITGEDAIGET PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere #17 A WEEK OAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, FT PHONE 131