The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1931, Page 3

5 season DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1931 | Rockefeller Co. Union Will Not Stop Struggle of Pueblo Steel Workers Many Workers Have Been Laid Off In the Course of Year; Short Time On Join the Metal Trades Industrial League to Fight Against Rockefeller Dear Daily Worker: Pueblo, Colo. A number of the departments of this company have been operating at more or less reduced schedule since the close of the war in 1918- Several years ago the company had an active “efficiency” campaign in which a great number of men were laid off- At ths time quite a bit of labor saving machinery was installed which further reduced the number of men on the payroll. The “business depression” during 1930 was another ex- cuse of laying off more men with the + result that the remaining men had to perform the same amount of work in many cases that had been done by a much larger number of men previously. During the last year many men have been laid off and many others have been put on 1 to 6 days work per week. Company Union Here. The Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. is handicapped by having no coal and iron ore within easy reach; the greatest quantities of coal coming from the Walsenburg district and points further south. Practically the entire supply of iron ore is obtained from Sunrise, Wyoming. Inasmuch as the company cannot produce its basic iron as cheaply as many of the more propitiously located com- panies in the East, the handicap falls chiefly on the employees. All labor difficulties of the plant are handled under the “Rockefeller Representative Plan”, This plan is really nothing but a “Soothing Sy- rup” to keep the workers contended. Inasmuch as the Employees Repre- sentatives have no actual power to prevent any unjust decisions being made, the representative plan does not “hold water” and is nothing but a cleverly planned hoax to prevent the workers from organizing an ac- tive labor union. The C, F. & I. has always been very quick and willing to order out the militia to handle any militant workers, The attitude of the C. F. & I. Company toward its workers has been an attitude of oppression. On the pages of history this com- pany will go down as the “Ludlow Murderers.” The workers of the steel and coal are looking forward to the day when the Communist Party will release them from their bondage of steel chains. —Pueblo Steel Worker. Very Little Work Going On In San Diego, Cal. San Diego, Calif. Editor, Daily Worker: There is very little work going on here. The few fish canneries and the small Tomber industry is almost at = standstill. Building has just about let up outside of a small home being built here and there. There fs some restaurant and hotel work as this is a tourist. town and bese for the U. S. Navy. Wages have | been slashed here the same as they have been all over the country. Dish- | washers get from one dollar a day and up for 12 hours’ work. Elwood Dielion of Florida is paying men 25 cents an hour for doing carpenter work on an auto exhibit that is be- ing put up at the foot of Broadway. Marked on the black board in the “free” employment office the other day was a sign “Two first class lath- ers, $3.50 a day”. Celery pickers are paid 25 cents an hour and work five to six hours a day. A Mexican celery picker said the boss got a commis- sion on each man he hired and charged each man 25 cents a day to haul them to the job. —Cc. G. “4 Nabisco Foreman New York. Daily Worker: ‘That was great work to give that u f iH i-% g [ HH il by i : ; BEF f Hi iat Lp a fil i Denver Red Denver, Colo. Daily Worker: The Denver papers tell us it is a privilege to live in Colorado, that people in Colorado have suffered less from the crisis than the people in any other state. When the unem- ployed workers of Denver marched to the state capital, Jan. 21, and pre- sented their demands for immediate relief, the senate appointed a com- mittee to investigate unemployment in Colorado, and the committee (so \the capitalist papers told us) found |that there was no serious unemploy- iment situation in this state and con- ditions did not justify the demon- stration. is But yesterday one of the Denver junits had a red Sunday in the pack- ling house district, for the house-to- house sale of tickets for the Foster |meeting. About two-thirds of the jmen I talked to were out of work. |Here are some of the stories of un- A Vicious Tyrant hold your job, you have to go into debt and get one. Now is there any- thing right in that? He is positively rotten to poor people. But he has all kinds of graft com- ing in to him and does not give a damn about other people. And not only that. When ‘people are out sick and come back again to work, why they are sent to him and he puts them through @ third de- gree. You would think he was a doctor, the question he asks, so per- sonal, and it is terribly embarrassing’! for women. Nerve of him, he should not have anything to do with women’s cases that are out sick. And, another thing, he does not know how to talk to women. —A, Worker in the Nabisco. junday Reveals Extent of Unemployment employment and poverty these work- ers told me: “I would like to hear Foster speak, but I can’t spare the money. I have been out of work since last Septem- ber.” j “My husband is working, but there are five of us to live on his $20 a week; so you can see what 25 cents means to us.” “I was out of work eight months last year. I have had a few days’ work this year, but the wages ore so small it doesn’t pay to work.” “T can’t buy a ticket. I am out of work and have no money. It looks like we are going to lose our home. ‘We can’t make our payments.” “Td like to buy a ticket, lady, but I have no money; I got no work; I can't find no job.” “Twenty-five cents? I haven't got that much money. I have only worked eight days since last August.” —D. BE. E. Carnegie Editor: Very few workers bought these shoes, because they are dearer than other working shoes. ‘ | OUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 5¢ E. 13th ST. NEW YORK CITY | we pledge to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND $30,000 DAILY WO! find . Steel Co. Has New Tyranny ‘would sell like hot cakes, so they or- dered a big stock of shoes, Seeing that their agent couldn’t scare the .| workers into buying the shoes just because they work in Carnegie Steel, what was their next step? The bosses told the workers at work to buy the shoes because they had to get rid of the stock before March 1, 1931, If they didn’t buy any shoes they would get their time. How can the workers of Carnegie Steel buy shoes? They work two and RED SHOCK TROOPS For RKER EMERGENCY FUND |PREPARE MASS DEMONSTRATION FOR FEBRUARY 25 Chi. Jobless to Mass at Union Park (CONTIN FROM PAGE ONE) was called for the preparation on| February 25th, the hall was packed, | and every worker present took the floor and declared he would do every- | thing to make the hunger march a/ success, On February 10th, 5,000| took part in the March, On Febru- ary 25th not less than 10,000 are ex- pected. The hunger march will start at 12:00 noon at 12th and Central, and from there will go to the west end and back to the city hall where @ delegation will present the demands of the unemployed to the city coun- cil. At Scranton, Pa., Public Sq. In Scranton, Pa., on Wednesday, February 25th, a huge mass unem- ployment demonstration, called joint- ly by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League will take place at noon in Public Square, (Mitchel’s Statue). Preparations are being made for a wide distribution of the special edition of the Daily Worker, ‘Word has been received that the Glen Alden Grievance Commtitee thru pressure cf the rank and file is calling a rump convention of the UMWA, District One. The Glen Aldin Coal Company has closed down nine colleries this year, throwing thousands’ of miners out of work. | The miners are demanding the re- | opening of these mines, and have ap- | pealed to the district officials and to Governor Pinchot but all they have gotten is “promises” but no action. The miners themselves are now act- ing and the rump convention of dis- trict One is their first expression. These miners are no longer depend-| ing upon the “promises” of the dis- | trict officialdom and the “Pinchot” committee. In Minersville, Pa., on February 25, @ march from all surrounding towns | will be made on the county seat, in Pottsville, Pa., to put forth the de- mands of the unemployed. Unem- ployment in this vicinity is effecting thousands of workers. In Detroit, Mayor Murphy's Unem- | ployment Committee, in its drive against foreign-born workers, are using numerous dicks and stool-pige- ons. At the welfare stations, soup kitchens and flop houses, these agents terrorize and cross-examine the workers as to their being entitled to draw the miserable pittance. To fight against this, the Unem. ployed Councils of Detroit are effect- ively preparing to put an end to this intimidation and to expose Murphy's attempts to fool the workers. The Unemployed Council is rallying thou- sands of workers for the February 25th demonstration, demanding the creation of a city unemployment fund, through taxation on incomes and property of the manufacturers and business men. Mobilize In Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 17. The Pennsylvania Station, at Liberty and Grant Streets, will be the scene of a huge demonstration against unem- ployment on Wednesday, February 25th. Preparatiors are being pushed now by the local Unemployed Coun- cils and Trade Union Unity League. Whitewash Cop Who Killed A Negro Youth Philadelphia, Pa. Editor Daily Worker: Some time ago it was reported in the Daily Worker that a young Negro worker was shot down in cold blood by @ cop, here in this city. Well, you know that that cop was found not guilty in the investigation that followed. Of course, it was a farce planned in advance, and the verdict rendered was that the killing was an accident in line of duty of the hench- man of the boss class. He said that his gun was dis- charged in the air, and as a result J. Chew, 19, got three bullets through his head, for taking 10 cents worth of food. Isn’t this clear? The cop shot in the air and this Negro work- er gets three bullets in his head, the cop goes free, ‘This is capitalist justice. If you steal a loaf of bread, either you get killed or sentenced for life; the Mel- lons and Hoovers and: the Morgans steal millions and all they get is a medal from Congress, | —P.B. three days in a week. Mass layoffs are taking place. Over 160 men were laid off in one week. Duquesne is covered with stool- pigeons of the Carnegie Co. Steel Worker. +e cents | appeal for funds so often. Portland, Ore., Points Way to Increased Circulation by Way of Red News Clubs; Sends Tips Portland, Ore., which recently | started a new bundle order of 50 for the Unemployed Council alone, is carrying on work which should re- | sult in a steady increase in circula- tion. | “The workers,are anxious to buy | a Daily Worker. In Portland, | where tht Daily Worker boys have been arrested, beaten up and kept | for deportation, the Daily Worker is sold,” writes Minnie L., Daily Worker representative. “In No- | vember we used to get 50 copies. | ‘Today, Portlind gets 128 papers, so you see the Daily can be sold if only the comrades realize the im- portance.” M. U's letter clearly shows the re- sponse of the workers to the “Daily” despite government terror. She gives some concrete suggestions on form-| ing Red Builders’ News Clubs. “Each comrade knows a few sym-|~ pathizers,” she writes. “We also have a list of subscribers. Each unit elects an active Daily Worker agent with two comrades to help him.| ‘These three call a meeting of sym-| pathizers where the Daily Worker} agent (or any Party speaker) ex-/| plains the importance of the “Daily,” appeals for subs and arranges Red Sundays. At the same meeting two sympathizers should be added to the Daily Worker committee, to meet} every week. “They must arrange meetings at | least twice a month,” she contin- | ues, “and should see that these are | made interesting, by a musical pro- gram and refreshments, so workers | | can become better acquainted and | feel at home. I'm sure if every city | will do that, the sale and subs will double.” Comrade L, pays her bills promptly and calls upon other Daily Worker representatives to do likewise, so that the Daily Worker would not have to} A report like this indicates the possibilities which may be achieved in selling the paper by systematic work. We wish to receive reports a little more regularly from Portland, so that direct help can be given from the national office. CHESTER, PA, FORMS SECOND NEWS CLUB “I want you to know we have estab- lished a new Red Builders’ Club with 3 members,” writes C. C., Daily Worker representative of Chester, Pa. “Now we have two. Please send 50 copies from today. We will try to build up more clubs.” READING BUNDLE RAISED TO 100 From Reading, Pa., which or- déred 40 copies a day, we received a wire: “Increase bundle to 100. Confirmation through district agent.” “CANNOT DIGEST CAPITALIST BUNK” D. Rackson of Syracuse, N, Y., en- closes $1 for renewal, writing: “Though not a member of your Party, I find that since I've got ac- quainted with your newspaper I can- not digest any more all the bunk of the capitalist press. Here's a wish for a million readers of the Daily Worker before long.” r JOBLESS 7 MONTHS; SENDS LAST CENT “Enclosed find money order for 50 cents and the last cent at that,” writes Harry Goldblatt of Ports- mouth, Va. “Been out of work for 7 “OFFICE Worker, Sp aa c Spy SELE FeoMe iG oS D ice i ‘be yy \ ot ee Net (' Wy pias oe ly / OR Lisy oF New SUBS To Dae OP2KED_ SHouR Be MAILED To-DAY months and still looking. No more chance than a rat in a trap. Long live the Daily Worker.” CHICAGO DISTRICT ACTIVITY STEADY L. Litt, Daily Worker representa- tive in Chicago, is utilizing the fra- ternal organizations for the 60,000 circulation campaign. “Please see to it that the bundle orders for different organizations | are sent out on time. We are try- ing to involve the organizations in popularizing the Daily Worker so that many are beginning to order | bundles for the night they meet,” he writes. “We are continuing to build up the Daily Worker Build- ers and Sustaining Council.” Chicago ordered 8,000 copies of the Friday, Feb. 13, issue, the first dis- trict page, which is being used for mobilizing workers for the Feb. 25 unemployment demonstration. SIOUX CITY, IA, SENDS REPORT From Walter Swezey, Daily Worker representative of Sioux City, we re- ceived a report that three monthly subscriptions were obtained and 290 Daily Workers sold on the street dur- ing the week ending Feb. 7. OLD SEA DOG TO SELL “DAILY” “I would like to paint this town Red,” writes John E. P, of Flint, Mich., aged 67. “Send me a few copies of the Daily Worker to start with. Will also take subscribers, as I have lots of friends all over. Sailed ocean and lakes for 53 years, but now just fit for the scrap, heap.” CLEVELAND CHECKS UP J. Fromholz, Daily Worker repre- sentative of Cleveland, writes: “We will have a complete report next week on our Red Builders’ Clubs. We have overcome some of the obstacles in building the clubs and we will begin to push forward this week,” he continues. “You will find District 6 lining up with the rest of the districts, pushing the cir- culation upward.” Fromholz concludes: “The workers can be reached, if we will only go out after them, and for this we are mobilizing the councils and the Daily Worker Red Builders’ News Clubs.” Incidentally, Cleveland is contem- plating an Ohio page for Feb. 21, setting a good example of what can be done with systematic organiza- tion. Wages Slashes In Sioux City, Iowa Sioux City, Towa. Daily Worker: Sioux City as a trading center is mostly farming. A few months ago most of the workers thought that the world-wide crisis had not hit Sioux City very hard, but one Sat- urday two of the largest banks closed their doors. ‘Two weeks after these banks failed Davidson Bros. Department Store Slashed the wages of their workers from 15 to 33 per cent. The bosses are laying the burden of the depres- sion on the workers, The president and owner of David- sons Department Store made a very! strange move for a capitalist. In| order to get a half million dollars in- surance to keep the business on a sound financial basis, and so that the young parasites of this depart- ment store could continue with the store, he shot himself. This is a peculiar way for a capitalist to save his accumulated wealth and power. Fellow-workers of Sioux City, you can all see that the bosses and the capitalists are going rapidly on the down grade. They won't all shoot themselves. They will try to lay the burden of the economic crisis on the shoulders of the working class. The workers of Sioux City should rally around the Communist Party to fight the exploiters. Capitalism won't give up without a fight. —A Worker, Conditions Getting Worse In Syracuse, N. Y. Syracuse, N. ¥. Daily Worker: Here things are getting worse and worse, All the factories are cutting down time and wages. The Syracuse Washing Machine Corp. not long ago cut down wages 10 per cent to the piece-worker and | very difficult for the reason that 5 per cent to the day worker. The | they have not got good control of Crouse Blinds Co., one of the model | the union bodies and to reach the shops here, cut down the molders | workers one by one takes time, but to 25 per cent and 10 per cent the | they are doing the best, you may petite aghast only works | depend on that. Another fs the two days a week. worker was | lack of able functionary comrades, telling another and I overheard | especially in English, that where he works they cut 25 — A Worker Correspondent, @ mail line, The International Labor AUSTIN MARTI |Semenveesee ates - of Habeas Corpus, realizing the politt- cal issue involved. DENIED ASYLUM NEW YORK.—Austin ¥. Mart! was formerly secretary to Sandiago, but. : was repudiated dino (Special to the Daily Worker) | his Communist ‘belles, space a LOS ANGELES, Cal—Austin F.| jailed by the Nicaraguan government Marti has been denied-admittance by | and deported to El Salvadore, practically every Central and South | home country. Although a native of eeeereces ose OPeneeoecereceereccsereserersccesocccccocesosetesensossesecsces American republic, and has been re-| that country he was deported, fused admittance into this country by | given a visa to Mexico. ithe Mexionn immigration officials in Los Angeles. | authorities would not let him Marti fs now in San Francisco har- | and he carried back to bar on the liner Colombia of Panama, | where he waa forbidden to am t h his| thing is quiet” Page Three UNEMPLOYMENT IS Phila. Workers to Pr otest INCREASING INAgainst Vicious Sedition Law FASCST ITALY Officially Admit Over 721,976 Jobless ROME, Feb. 17. — Fascism can no longer hide the fact that unemploy- ment is on the increase in Italy. The latest report made public here, with the approval of the fascist censor- ship, states there are 721,97 unem- ployed in Italy, as compared with | 642,169 in the previous month. These figures, of course, are not an accurate guage to thé real unem- ployment situation in Italy. Tens counted, and the fascists use every of thousands of workers are not| means to keep unemployed workers from registering. The unemployed | actually number up in the millions. | This is further proof that the eco- nomic crisis in Italy is worsening and with it comes a weakening of the fascist. dictatorship. * . BERLIN, Feb. 18—On Saturday and Sunday wild scenes occurred in half a dozen movies in Berlin, when @ reactionary film was shown. The audience whistled, cat-called, aimed eggs filled with ink at screens, drop- | ped stink bombs, smashed windows and tore down posters. Large forces of armed police tried to secure the} showing, and ejected hundreds, ar- rested many, but without success. The bourgeois press comments that the police were energetic to secure| the showing of the reactionary film and showed a laxity when the fas- cists tried to stop the showing of the “All Quiet” film. Don’t Fight Back So Bosses Slash Twice) Struggle “Can Stop) More Wage Cuts Staten Island, N. Y. Dear Comrades: | Speaking to some of the workers inthe Staten Island Varnish Co. here at Elm Park, who said that condi-| tions are getting intolerable. ‘They said that in 1930 or at the end of 1930, after being speeded up) to capacity, many workers were laid| off. Those who were fortunate) enough to remain at work got a 10 per cent cut with no complaining about it. Of course, the bosses, see- | ing that no one complained a few} weeks later, cut down another 10 per cent of their wages. ‘Wages at this factory before these cuts, were from $20 to $40 a week with | only a few skilled working there’ for | many years receiving $40. I told them how to fight back and organize. I told them about the “Daily Worker,” about the Reds who come to assist the workers in their struggles for better conditions. I told them that when they are ready to/ fight to send for organizers by writ- | ing to the Trade Union Unity League. Staten Island Comrade. Philly Workers Will Hear About Trial of Soviet Sabotagers PHILADELPHIA, P a—First-hand | reports of the great Moscow trial of the eight counter-revolutionary engi- neers and of the latest developments in Soviet agriculture will be given to workers and friends of the Soviet Union at a mass meeting to be held here Friday night, Feb. 20, at 8:30 at Girard Manor Hall, 909-915 Girard Ave. The speakers will be A. B. Magil,| who was correspondent of the Daily | Worker at the trial, and Dr. Karl) Scholz, professor of economics at the | University of Pennsylvania, who has | recently returned from the U. S. S./ R., where he made a study of the collectivization movement in agricul- ture. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the Philadelphia Lo- cal of the Friends of the Soviet| Union, NEGRO LYNCHED BY BOSS “POSSE” He Rebelled Against ‘Forced Labor; Killed CLARKSDALE, Miss. Feb. 18.— George Spann, Negro tenant farmer who, in revolt against the system of forced labor under which he -was | held as a slave without liberty to) leave the plantation of his landlord, | Negro population here were released following the lynching of Spann. | gether PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 18.—Hun-, dreds of workers of Philadelphia will protest against the anti-labor laws | of Pennsylvania, particularly against the vicious sedition law, which is} used against any ‘militant worker. ‘The protest meting cailed for Fri- day, Feb. 27, will be the first of a series of protest meetings staged by the International Labor Defense to- with the Communist Party and Young Communist League. The ‘bosses’ attack is especially vicious now, with unemployment | growing, with the growing militancy of the workers and with the feverish WAR VET CALLS FOR UNITED war preparations. The workers must answer this front of the working cl bosses’ and their anti-working cl: laws. ‘Only the militant protest of attack with a united against the s | the’ workers can free our political prisoners. Only the voice of the working masses can stop the bo: P terror campaign. ‘Therefore all work- ers, employed and unemployed, Ne- gro and white, native and foreign- born, young and old, are called upon te come to the protest meeting at the Garrick Hall, 507 S. Eighth St., on Friday, Feb. 27, at 8 p. m. Good speakers. Admission free. STRUGGLE FOR BONUS AND RELIEF By Preventing Unit | Exposes Opportunists Who Try Betray Fight y of Veterans With Rest of Working-Class (By a Worker Corresponden SEATTLE, Wash. Feb. 16.—In spite of the efforts of stool pigeons | and racketeers to mislead the Vet-| erans in the city and divert them from a militant struggle for the bonus | and for unemployment insurance, a large number of vets joined the Feb. | 19 demonstration. | The racketeers held a parade and open air meeting and their speak- | ers were limited to their own gang. | The writer, a war veteran, tried to | speak at one of their meetings and | they tried to pull me off the stand. Failing in this, they called in their | police allies to bust up the meeting rather than let the vets hear a mes- sage of class solidarit; One of their speakers stated that he would lay down his life for the bonus. He used all kinds of revolu-| tionary phrases, making an emotional | | plea to the crowd to help them out in their fight. The crowd responded | and they collected money for the| cause. Business men contributed} | clothing and money and the police | protected them from class conscious | speakers who tried to expose them to the veterans and their sympathizers. Now, when they get to Washington | do they expect to get police protec- | tion? And if they are refused how | are they going to fight for the bonus | or anything else? If they have to} have police protection in their home} town and have favors from such re-| actionary organizations as the IWW| and the Red Cross? And wher they | refuse to put up a fight right here! | | | " ; aré hired to weaken our solid | organization. in their home town their comrades who a’ with the rest of the w they show they are not s are just a bunch of opportunis The reason the vei ing for the bonus in full now 13 years after the war is bec se they e broke and they are not able to get a job. Therefore they are f: ing for immediate relief in the of back pay earned during the war. They were working men before the war, during the war, and th are still working men, and their cause i & working man’s cause, and they must stay with the working class in a solid front fight, and fight shoulder are fi 1 | to shoulder with men and women of their own class. Anyone who adyo- cates a movement that separates the vets from the rest of the working class are just trying to weaken our forces. They are traitors to the ¢ and must be treated as such. V erans should get wise to these fakers and discourage them the best way they see fit. The veterans of Scattle want the Daily Worker to expose these fakers in your paper, and to warn the vets against these opportunists in the fu- ture, to tell them to get in the Un- employment Councils and fight with the rest of the working class against the oppression of the capitalist class. And remember that united we stand and divided we fall. —A.E.C., a Veteran. ‘TEXTILE UNION q City Council Flees from NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 16.— A delegation of 25 unemployed work- | ers elected at two meetings called by the National Textile Union here} went to the city council meeting last | night to place the demands drawn up at these meetings before the City | Council. Immediately on entering the city hall, one of the city officials demanded to know who the delega- tion was, what they were there for, and the names and addresses of the different members of the delegation. The delegation resisted this by stat- ing that they were within their rights and did note see the necessity of giv- ing their names and addressess, A number of times the chief of police | McLeod and his plainclothes men ‘ied to bulldoze the workers by stat- ing that they had no right to come there before the council was in ses- sion, but throughout these entire proceedings the workers stood their ground and kept the city council members and the dicks on the de- fensive. When the city council opened its meeting, immediately the spokesman for the delegation, Pat Devine, Ann Burlack, Joe Figuerretto, and Math- ew Souza forced their way into the ground floor of the city council while the main body of the delegation took } seats in the balcony. The demand for a hearing was placed before the president, and he knowing that to refuse a hearing would enrage the workers, promised that !t would be taken up during the order of busi- ness, Then he ordered the spokes- man out of the chambers stating that they would be called in when the matter would be taken up. The spokesman for the delegation refused to leave the room and were forcibly ejected by the police called in for that occasion, Immediately shouts of protest came from the bal- cony. As soon as Devine and Bur- lack were ejected from the main floor of the city council chambers they im- mediately proceeded upstairs to the balcony determined to raise the is- sue from there. A very tense situation prevailed in the council chambers for the unem- Ployed delegation occupied the entire balcony. The president of the coun- cil rushed through the order of busi- ness bent on getting away from the delegation of workers, Immediately the conimunication | Was read, Burlack got up and de- '. JOBLESS’ DEMANDS IN BEDFORD HE Chambers With Shouts of “Fakers” In Their Ears; Big Demon- stration On February 25th been prepared for the moves of the delegation immediately grabbed De- vine and bodily dragged him from the room. The delegation shouted: “Let him go, we demand a hearing in the name of the unemployed workers of New Bedford.” Burlack started to speak, with the delegation on its feet, and the city council escaped from the chambers. Cries of “fakers, cowards,” followed the council members out of the room. The delegation marched out of the city hall shouting the demands of the unemployed, and singing Soli- darity. ‘The chief of police did not dare to make an attempt to arrest any of the delegation. With’ this preliminary visit the workers of New Bedford are prepar- ing for a mass demonstration here on February 25, the time when the world proletariat is coming into the streets demanding bread, work or un- employment insurance, ROB OLD STEEL MEN OF PENSION Big Plants Fire Many Workers JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Feb. 18.—In the Bethlehem Steel Corp. plant in this city 60 old workers were fired last month. They have service rec- ords of from 16 to 25 years. In the first ten days of February 22 more were scrapped. ‘This ts the way the steel corpora- | ton gets out of paying its measly | Pensions that it promises to the | workers if they slave hard and don’t | strike. In many of the cases where | the older workers were fired their pensions were due in a short time. Many more were laid off in the Schwab plant, and this is the plant that has already Jaid off 60 per cent of its workers and the balance work on the stagger system, two to six days in the week. The Lorain Steel Works, a subsidy of the U. S. Steel Corporation ,is working on the stag- ger system, with 60 per cent of the original forces. The rest have been scrapped, | The Metal Workers’ Industrial ‘The boss papers boast that “every-| manded to speak on the communi-| League of the Trade Union Unity and “no further trouble is feared,” intimating that the cation. The president stated that a motion to act on the communication was before the council members. A | League is organizing the metal work- ers to fight against these conditions. The Unemployed Council is calling on the workers to demonstrate on Feb, 25, on World Unemployment Day, to demand immediate relief and inguranca, vee