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eel) TN eee ‘toe Sy ena 1 ed Bes they’ can work safer, why the Minneapolis Boss Sheet Admits That Coolie Wages Are Paid on Gov’t Contract) Left-Phrases Sugar Coating of Paper Hides It As Workers’ Enemy Workers Must Put Up Real Militant Fight Against Such Standards To the Daily Worker: MINNEAPOLIS, ‘Min. Even our docile, capitalist controlled “Daily Star” occasionally reveals @ bit of truth concerning working conditions here in Minneapolis. In the Feb. 12th issue, an editorial captioned “Near-Serfdom Here at Home” tells the following story: “Thirty cents an hour for day labor—the munificent salary of $14.40 ® week! Starvation Wages! “It sounds like the wages of on the rubber plantations of Belgian? Congo or at best “The pauper labor of Europe,” which some of our self- confessed statesmen rant about so fiercely when they discuss the tariff. But it is not in some far-away land that this outrage against decency is perpetrated—it is right here in the Twin Cities. And to make the mat- ter all the more reprehensible these coolie wages are being paid by the A Guthrie Co., which has been awarded a $683,599 contract to build a lock for the government in the Ford Dam. “The fact that men can be found who are glad to work for anything Chinese coolies, of half-savage tollers rather than starve has been taken advantage of by the contractors, who undoubtedly propose to put in their own pockets the difference between a living wage which the government in letting the contract naturally fig- ured would be paid and the starva~ tion dole of $14.40 a week. We are informed by Col. Willing, United States district engineer, that the government is helpless in the mat- ter.” There’s but one way to combat these rotten conditions and that’s to join the fighting trades unions of the Trade Union Unity League. —J.M. “Safety First” Cover for Speedup at Carnegie Steel Clairton, Pa. Comrade Editor: The Carnegie Steel safety first, what does it mean to the workers? The company sends a fellow to go and talk to the workers about the safety conditions in the. mill. They tell the workers to put their signatures on the blank. When a. worker gets killed, why the company says that it was safety first. because his signa- ture is on the blank. ‘The company always says that it is the worker's fault. But they never say it is the terrible speed-up that causes most accidents and deaths, Safety First Bunk. At the safety first meetings, in- stead of -telling the workers about mmpany gives more work to them, Were is what the safety first com~ mittee says: Workers, keep the place clean and dry. If there is anything lying on the ground pick it up and you are doing a great deed. Yes, the workers have company in- surance and from one to two dollars are taken out of their pay. It doesn’t mean anything if you get injured or crippled. You must get killed before the company gives out any money. Yet they have the nerve to say: Look what we do for the workers. If they do it at all, why the hell do they take money from the workers to pay their insurance Workers of Carnegie Steel, the hell with the boss insurance. Fight for social insurance and make the bosses and their government pay us insur- ance. But not to take your wages for insurance. —F. Canton Workers Lose Savings In Bank Crash Canton, Ohio. The Canton Bank and Trust Co. today failed to open the doors at 9 a, m. and word came out that the bank had gone broke, and many unemployed workers lost all the savings they had and many of the small business men were caught in the crash. ‘The president of the bank was arrested for embezzlement, bu? he was immediately let out on bail, of course. The news leaked out that the big boss depositors were tipped off a week before to withdraw their money, but the workers are the ones that have to suffer. The “Repository” came out with the statement that the other banks here would pay the depositors that lost their money, but they didn’t mention how soon. The same as Hoover’s prosperity in 60 days, but is that going to feed the hungry women and children? Just prom- ises. With all their savings gone can they buy bread with these Promises? —W. A. 200 Steel Workers Laid Off at South Chicago South Chicago, Il, The Daily Worker: I am looking for work, as are thousands of other workers in this steel Slaves’ community. The local paper a few days ago carried news stories that the steel mills are hiring men. The next day I went to find out for myself. After talking to some worker I found this to be a lie. I also talked to some foremen that I know. They told me that there were more than 200 workers laid off the night be- fore./ Also, the United States Steel Corp. has closed its employment office and has placed a no help wanted sign on its gates, It is a known fact among the workers that this wage-cutting office has—not been closed for years. But, as they see the rage of the workers, standing in line to get a job which they don’t get, they are forced to close this office, fearing violence from thé starving work- ers, - —I. G. Deported French Worker A Real Militant New York City. ‘The Ddily Worker of February 16 carried an article about Leon Mabille, the French worker who was deported for his working class ‘activities in this country. Leon Mabille has been a member of the French Sea Fleet that re- fused to shoot the Russian workers and mutinied under -the leadership Workers Ill Treated and Starved In City Sacramento Hospital Dear Comrades: If you friends wish to keep your health I will give you a little good advice—stay away from the County Hospital run by the capitalist class, if you don’t want a drink ftom the black bottle. I saw one of my com- rades put in a box. I had my own experience when I was laid- up my- self. The butcher there tried to keep me, but I fooled him, I got out, The first thing that they do to you upon your entry was to throw you into the bath tub and then took your clothes away. (Proof positive that they thought that you would not need them again). Then they ee you to bed where the of Andre Marty at present a member of the French Chamber of Deputies. Mabille, has been in the States as far as I know since 1924. At the time when he was in New York he worked as @ cook, He was @ member of the Amalgamated Food Workers at that time. —TAR. starvation was immediately applied. They gave you a little rotten grub just to kid you along. There was an old lady who told me that they took care of old men. who had no place to go. I saw com- trades there that were so starved that all they were was skin and bones. ‘This is all I have to say about these capitalist hospitals. Especially here in Sacramento, nee Ae A Correction NEW YORK.—In Comrade Harold Williams’ article on “Chauvinistic Tendencies in the Harlem Section,” a serious typographical error occurred. A motion of the Section Committee of Sec. 4, District .2, appeared in the article as follows: “1. It was wrong for the unit buro to admit unemployed comrades free of charge.” This is manifestly wrong. The mo- * DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1931 Send In Reports of Activities to Trade Union Unity League All district and local secretaries of the T. U. U. L. are called upon to report regularly upon their un- employed demonstrations, the lo- cal activities, the progress made in al] struggles, to the national office of the T. U. U. L. Aside from sending news of demonstrations, activities and struggles to the press, the T. U. U. L. must receive from all points complete and concrete accounts of all activities. Send in your re- ports upon the Feb. 10 demon- strations at once, (Trade Union Unity League, 2 W. 15th St., New York.) 100 DEPORTED ON. FRENCH LINER Militants ‘Beaten Up By Guards (By a Worker Correspondent.) I, Sam Barman, am being deported on the French liner S.S. Espango, owned by the French government. There are three other comrades. One to Germany, one to Norway, one to Jugo Slavia. We are being’ de- ported for our working-class activi- ties. ‘The guards beat me up on the im- migration train for making a talk to other workers being deported. They handcuffed my hands behind my back, and stood guard all night with a Thompson sub-machine gun. ‘There are about 100 workers being deported on this boat. Food and con- ditions are rotten. We are going to hold a meeting on the deck tomor- row and demand clean towels and soap, better grub and three meals a day, with better sleeping quarters. ‘We are sailing by way of the American slave colony of Cuba. I go to Glasgow, Scotland, and will write you from there. The only time the bosses can close my mouth is when I am in the grave. COLUMBUS JOB- LESS PLAN FIGHT (By a Worker Correspondent) COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 19.—Unem- ployed workers held a mass meeting here in a hall on the corner of Par- sons and Livingston Aves. for the purpose of organizing an Unemployed Council t6 push the struggle for un- employment insurance and against the bosses’ hunger system. ‘The hall was packed to capacity with the seething, surging mass with the one thought in mind, “some- thing is got to be done.” A council was organized, with 78 workers joining immediately. ‘The next meeting will take place at the same hall this Sunday, Feb. 22 at 2:30 p. m., after which meetings will be held daily. Many workers here will demonstrate on Feb. 25, International Fighting Day, against unemployment. —One of the Unemployed. CHICAGO READERS MEET SUN, FEB. 22, A second Conference of Chicago} . readers to discuss the editorial and circulation problems of the Daily Worker will be held this Sunday, Feb. 22 at 4:30 p. m. at Peoples Auditor- ium, 2457 W. Chicago Avenue. Be- sides general discussion of the con- tents of the aDily WDorker, there will be criticisms of the special page which Chicago is now getting each Wednesday. Plans will be laid to in- crease the circulation of the Daily Worker by forming new Red Builders News Clubs, getting all Unemployed Councils behind the 60,000 circulation drive, and securing every jobless worker possible to sell the Daily worker, Eyery indication points to a tre- mendous gain in circulation in Illi- nois now that Chicago has its weekly Daily Worker every Wednesday. The Conference will take up in detail fur- | into the 60,000 circulation campaign, | Bronx Workers’ Center, 569 Prospect | | proposals were made and delpgates Fraternal organizations are leaping pressing their membership into ac- tion. Last Sunday's Conference of Workers’ Organizations, held at the) Ave., circulation. is a great step in building mass | Concrete organizational representing 16 organizations will re- turn to put these into effect. A rep- resentative from egch organization | was elected to mobilize it for spread- | ing the “Daily.” At least one bundle a week will be ordered to be sold at meetings, af- fairs and to workers in their terri- tories. Red Sundays will be ar- ranged for the purpose of securing subscriptions and making contacts | with workers in their homes. In ad- dition the conference will help in the formation of Red Builders’ Clubs and in building up of Worker Corre- spondence from the shops. The participation of fraternal or- ganizations in the 60,000 circulation drive throughout the country in- creases the possibilities for mass cir- culation tremendously. HOUSTON I. W. 0. ENTERS DRIVE The International Workers’ Or- der, Branch 194, of Houston, Texas, “has undertaken to sell Daily Work- ers in this city,” writes L. A., sec- retary. A committee has been elected to be in charge of the dis- tribution and they will see that the Dailies are sold as all other papers are. We should like for you to send us 25 copies of the Daily Worker.” PATERSON, N. J., FORMS NEWS CLUB Six young Pioneers, ages ranging from 10 to 16, are now busy with house-to-house canvassing in Pater- son, N. J., and with factory sales in the evening. What's up? A Red} Builders’ News Club! C. Rees, of the N. Y. Red Builders, and Jack Ross, of the Daily Worker staff, went over there and got it going. Let’s hear from you, Paterson. HILLSDALE, MICH., TO GET DAILIES Wm, T. of ‘Hillsdale, Mich., is plug- fore he leaves. “Before I leave here, I will have a bundle brigade to distribute our Daily to the poor farmers here,” he writes, “and will have a few sub- scriptions which I will send in. As soon as I receive my first Daily Worker, will send for at least 40 copies for house-to-house dis; tribution.” GREAT FALLS, MONT., BUSTLING “Today I engaged three more news- boys for the house-to-house sales,” Falls, Mont., despite the Anaconda Copper company-owned, one-man state. night and sold 137 copies at the meeting, also other literature. Going to Cascade today to see if I can get the town hall for a meeting for the ging hard to get things started be-| writes Willis L. Wright of Great) “I held a meeting in Belt last | Daily Worker.” BRONX FRATERNAL CONFERENCE SPEEDS DAILY WORKER DRIVE INJURED WORKER STARTS SALES From T. J, S., Kane, Pa., we re- ceived a letter: “For a long time this rotten com- pensation system kept me back LN Your Stop ce Teor Tae 7 DAS ‘toes a7 fo} mw 15 READ. Jenn (N Your Order. from selling Daily Workers, but now nothing will stop me. Please send me about 30 to start, and I will work hard to sell all I can and to get more readers.” LOS ANGELES: TWO VERSIONS “Well, comrades, the bulls have started to try and stop the sales of the Daily Worker on the streets in this fair city of Los Angeles,” writes the Daily Worker represen- tative. “Sunday they run the com- rades around the place away. Said that it meant jail if they came back. But some comrades from the unemployed are going to make a stand for it.” And from “A Subscriber” we re- ceived the following: “Regarding your article about L. A. functionaries’ laxity in the. D, W. 60,000 circulation drive. The left- wing movement in L. A. is Yiddish almost exclusively. They hesitate at nothing to make the Freiheit pos- sible, but will do very little for a non-Yiddish paper, be he Communist or just sympathizer. I am speaking from personal experience with the comrades here.” Following this {s a statement that leading comrades have not taken ad- | vantage of the population, which is | liberal, to secure financial aid for the | “Daily.” “Your agent may be a sincere com- | rade,” he continues, “but a very poor | business getter. The Daily Worker | ~ is not published in the Soviet Union, | but in these glorious (?) U, S., and to do business here you need a highly proficient business man.” ‘Who wants the floor for discus- sfon? CHRISTOPHER, ILL., LAUNCHES “DAILY” “We have organized a nucleus here in Christopher. We would like to have a bundle of 10 Daily Workers. We are just organized and all out of work and will try and get some subscribers for the paper.”—L, A. S, secretary. Here’s luck to the new unit. PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Feb. 19.— This city, situated in the bible belt of New Jersey and the scene recently of an evolution controversy, was the center yesterday afternoon of a vici- ous attack on a young Negro worker who was brutally beaten up and near- ly lynched by @ white mob for ask- ing and accepting a glass of water from a white girl worker in one of the houses on Catalpa Ave. ‘The young Negro worker, Ignatius Du Busson, had got a temporary job as a street cleaner, his first job in many months. He was\ working in Catalpa Ave. yesterday. Getting ther methods for increasing circula-| thirsty, he went to one of the houses tion, te elDrs as 6 Cane Eee tion as adopted by the Section Com- mittee read: “1, It was wrong for the unit buro not to admit unemployed comrades free of charge.” Comrade Saunders, who was de- clared in the article to have abstained from voting on a motion criticising Unit 5 for failing to correct the chauvinistic tendencies exposed by Comrade Williams’ article has in- formed the Section Committee that her abstention was not based on vac- illation but on the consideration that in her opinion a wrong procedure had been followed in taking up the ques- | ura. with the unit instead of the CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th ST., NEW YORK CITY RED vei TROOPS $30,000 DAILY WORKER cemented FUND Enclosed find . We pledge to balid RED SHOCK TROOPS for EMERGENCY FUND NAME Poor eter y .. dollars . Meee eee eeeeseeeeneeeseneenereeseanecseseseceeresneseees cents the successful BENS of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER POO ener e ame ee eee eeenenseseseeeseeeeeeetereesennees and asked a servant girl for a drink of water. Returning to his work he| was questioned by the foreman as to, what he had to say to the white girl. Undeveloped white workers, suffering from the influence of the rotten boss ideology of race hatred, and egged on by the foreman, began pelting the Negro worker with stones, Du Busson tried to escape from the mob, and was felled by a particularly heavy store thrown by the foreman. The mob jumped on him, savagely kickin gand beating him, while the forema nealled for a lynching, At this stave nolice arived and ar- rested the victim of mob violence, took him to the station and locked him un on a charge of disorderly conduct. No member of the mob was arrested. ‘The boss press took up the hue and Dery against the Negro worker, ped- dling the vicious le that in broad daylight and in a busy thoroughfare he had attempted to rape the girl. Du Busson was held by the bosses’ court for trial and was held over for a hearing on Tuesday. The girlvas brought to court and made to testify against him, but contradicted herself so badly that only a boss court intent on fostering the hatred and persecu- tion of Negro workers would have accepted such testimony. The boss press is carrying articles with huge screamlines in the attempt to whip up lynch sentiment, et ee “ithe Gorman gang, NEW JERSEY BIBLE BELT MOB ATTACK, TRY LYNCH NEGRO. WORKER Boss Police Arrest Victim Only; Boss Press Peddles Lie of Attack on White Girl— Protest Meeting Tonight Militant white workers have called a protest meeting for this evening at the Workers’ Home, 308 Elm St., at 6:30 o’clock, to expose this boss-in- | other whitewashing is promised by spired attack on the Negro masses. NEWARK BOSSES TRY 10 JAIL 16 Trial Today of Leaders of Unemployed NEWARK, Feb. 18.—Sixteen com- rades are coming up for trial today in the city of Newark for leading the unemployed demonstrations on Jan. 7 and Jan. 28. Most of the com- rades are charged with disorderly conduct. Two are facing serious charges of assault and battery. The International Labor Defense is defending these comrades and all workers in the city of Newark are asked to come down to the court heuse on Thursday, Feb. 19, in order to demonstrate against the attempt of the bosses’ police and courts to railroad the comrades and give them long sentences, The comrades—John Kasper, or- ganizer of the Unemployed Council in Newark; Mary Kingstone, Shirley Etlin, Bernard Ryzanski and Saul Stark—will lead the defense and ex- pose before the working class of Newark the hypocrisy and the cor- ruption of the city administration of Newark.” STRIKE CAUSES HEAVY LOSS DANVILLE.—President H. R. Fitz- gerald reported a loss of $665,432,690 for the year of 1930 for the Riverside and Dan River cotton mills, to the stockholders’ meeting. The workers GRAFT BIG WHILE Chiang Kai Shek Government OK’s PITT UNEMPLOYED, FREEZE, | HUNGER Big Silver L oan of Wall Street to Aid In War On Advancing Reds “Relief” Ts” Cut’ Sa |Report from Shanghai to Daily Worker Shows Financial Crisis In Nanking Gov’t Altogether PITTSBURGH, Pa. Feb. 18.—/ Charges by a local food manufacturer that city officials are “cheating the| city of thousands of dollars yearly”) by refusing lowest bids on food pur-| chased for Mayview (city hospital) | are being broadcast here. There are an average of 3,000 persons at May- view at all times. The manufacturer whose bids were-not- accepted has charged that on individual items, his | own bids were as much as several hundred dollars lower than the bids accepted by the city. Actual figures | given by himself and by the city show his charges to be correct. ‘The meaning of these charges is that Colonel Succop, director of the City Department of Supplies, by con- tracting with the L. H. Parke Co., a huge wholesale food house, is lining} his own and the pockets of other city officials with thousands of dol- lars, Thousands Starving City Council has passed the buck by refusing to conduct an investiga- tion, and has turned the entire mat- | ter over to Mayor Kline, who has announced that he will conduct a closed and secret investigation of the entire. matter. While thousands of workers in the city are starving, and the city has cut off all relief, due to “lack of| funds,” these grafters are putting away thousands of dollars, and smashing the protest of workers who demand relief from the city. An- Mayor Kline to the grafters, while workers starve, A report issued by the city on trav-| eling expenses for the officials of | the city in 1930 includes an expense of $10,000 when city officials took a steamboat excursion down the Ohio| River to celebrate the opening of| the 9-foot stage in the Ohio River. In addition, $5,691 was spent on vari- ous jaunts and visits made by city} officials. There is always plenty of} money for such things, but nothing | to feed unemployed workers and their babies, “TLL SOCIALIST. | IN BERLIN CAFE ‘uspect ‘Mot: Done By) Fascists (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN.—Yesterday evening un-| known assailants fired six shots through the window of a cafe, killing the socialist, Arlt, and seriously wounding two others. The murder- ers escaped without a trace, but are believed to be fascists. A little while back the fascists | made a similar raid on another cafe | in Roentgenthal, killing one and| wounding several, MAGIL SPEAKS IN CLEVELAND, FEB.23 CLEVELAND, 0O., Feb. 19.—How unemployment has been abolished in the Soviet Union and what the Five- Year Plan means to the rest of the world will be told by A. B. Magil, labor journalist who has just returned from the U.S.S.R., at a mass meeting in Cleveland on Monday February 23. The meeting will be held in the Slo- venian Auditorium, 6417 St. Clair Ave., at 8 p.m. Magil covered the trial of the counter-revolutionary en- gineers in Moscow for the Daily Worker and other papers, and he will give a first-hand report of this fam- ous ‘trial in tlre course of his illus- trated lecture. Dr. F. W. Walz, » member of the | Cleveland city council, will speak on| the recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States government. This is one of the main demands of the Friends of the Soviet Union, un- der whose auspices the meeting is being called. Harry Fox, state secre- tary of the F. 8. U. will be in the chair, and the meeting will voice the protest of Cleveland workers against the recent embargo on Soviet lumber, the anti-Soviet recommendations of the Fish committee and the geno: Al offensive of American capitalists against the first workers’ republic. One of the best antidotes to capital- ist propaganda against the Soviet Union is for workers to see for them- selves what conditions are actually lke over there. Special pictures of Soviet industrial conditions will be shown at Monday’s meeting, which will tell their own story of working class progress in the only land where | mended, ates. baeaie WASHINGTON, Feb. | of one billion ounces of silver to bolster up the Nanking regime in| China, which the senate sub-com-} mittee on foreign affairs recom: proval of the Chinese government. The loan was proposed by the com- mittee under the leadership of Sen- of Nevada. It was frankly stated that the loan would be used to crush the advancing Communist forces and to “stabilize” the Chiang Kai Shek government to provide a market for U. S. imperialism. Judge Paul Linebarger, Wall Street legal adviser of the Nanking govern- ment, advised the Washington my ernment that the Chinese nationalist government is quite willing to accept | the loan of one billion ounces of sil- | ver (about $260,000,000) on the terms | dictated by Pittman and his commit- | tee. The terms provide that the| money would be used under the di-| rection of the Bias sel imperialists. or, 8 A Sey from our Bete corre- now meets with the ap-) ator Pittman, rich silver mine owner | ndent st states “Owing to the general e and to continuous m the finance of the Nan! government of the Chinese landlord jand bourgeoisie is enti bank- rupted. Its only method is to keep jon by floating loatis and issuing | bonds. It is quite common for the | Nanking government several times a | month to issue tens of millions in | bonds. On Dec. 1, 1930, the lsth Year Rehabilitation Bonds amov' to $50,000,000 Mex (about $15,000, 000 U. S. currency) were issued; on the | 30th of the same month it was de- | cided to issue another Joan.” In this manner the Nan! ernment is sinking deeper getting more and more into th of United States imper absolutely subservie The latest prop: over complete cor | At the same time it hastens growing rivalries between Britain, United States and Japan in the | for the ote m ‘NEW YORK—Throughout the cap- italist world, the militant workers are preparing for big demonstrations against unemployment and for ade- quate relief. In England, a national conference of the National Unem- ployment and for adequate relief. In England, a national conference of the | National Unemployed Workers Move- ment of England will be held on Feb. 21-23 in Bradford. This conference will prepare a fighting demonstration | American unemployed will demon- strate for relief. The Trade Union Unity League has sent a cable to the unity of the inicrr-'ional against starvation a: struggle sery that suffer. The cable is as follows: “Unemployed Workers Movement of “England, Sidnet Eliag, “Revolutionary greetings to your in England on the same day that the| Bradford confsrence expressing the | the workers in the capitalist lands} ‘National Conference of the National} Chairman. | Greets British Jobless Conference for Feb. 25 conference from workers of the Unit 3 engaged in sharp struggles diate relief and unemploymer arice through hundreds of marches and der the employers and t! and national gover: gress of our str tt |enipsoyed wakicots | whios 6 upied state capitol for two hours and con- pitalist politici employed o} all countries. must unite common struggle, must figh' their lives against wage cuts increased unemployment relic expose labor misiea | militant strugz! against the capitalist class your conference results in m: achievements for the 1 open-air meeting last week before the house at 541 Blake Ave. in Browns- ville, where the landlady, Feldman, brutal manner to victimize the Ne- gro janitor living there. This landlady forces the poor jan- itor who has two ill-fed children and a sick wife to pay $8 a month for the great “privilege” of being a jan-| itor and living in the most squalid, | cold an duncomfortable rooms in the| house. Now she is attempting to evict him | for non-payraent of two months’) “rent.” She tried to frame him up on the lying charge of “attacking” her, using two bribed witnesses, after one ten- ant had refused her dirty offer of $2’ to testify against the janitor. With the help of the capitalist) police and court, this vicious land-| lady, who had attempted to use | Southern lynch tactics, succeeded in| having him jailed for one day. Now she persecutes him Mee Brownsville Unemployed Council Puts Up Stern Fight Against Evictions |Make Cop Take to His Heels When He Tries to Victimize Negro Worker NEW YORK—The Brownsville Un-; | employed Council held a militant has been attempting in the most) striking his children and slandering him everywhere. Determined to put an end to this brutal discrimination and attempt at eviction, the Brownsville Unemployed Council held an open-air meeting be- fore the house and won the sympathy of a number of tenants and workers to the defense of the janitor. A policeman attempted to break up the meeting, but met with such determined resistance that he took his heels. Fifteen minutes later, after the close of the immediately enthusiasti meeting, a score of police reserves two rushed up and managed to “get” of the demonstrators. The Tf tienal Labor Defense will d them in court today. The Brownsville Unemployed Coun- cil, through its activities, is attract- ing many unemployed workers who are organizing to fight against evic- tions, for Unemployed Insura: and for other militant demands of the jebless. The council mects every day ai noon at its headquarters, 1844 Pit- kin Ave., near Powell St., Brooklyn. INCREASE RAIDS ON FOREIGN BORN Workers ‘Must Smash Boss Attacks > NEW YORK.—Following close on heels of the mass arrest of over 100 seamen at the Seamen's Institute, Department of Labor agents in co- operation with new Alien Bureau of the local police department last Sat- urday night raided the headquarters of the Finnish Workers Education Association at 2056 Fifth Avenue, where a dance was in progress. The police and Department of La- bor agents blocked the doors, stopped the music, and subjected all foreign born workers present to a savage in- the workers rule, The F. 8. U. is also planning to send over some workers on @ delegation to celebrate May Ist in the Soviet Union. As a practical token of the American workers’ soli- dartiy with their Russian comrades, the F. §. U. is campaigning to send $30,000 of farm machinery to the Soviet farm which it has adopted. In connection with these cam- paigns, a number of other meetings are to be held throughout Ohio. There will be a Russian-language meeting in Cleveland on February 26 at the Ukrainian Labor Temple, 1015 Au- burn Ave. Other meetings at which A. B, Magil will speak will be held of this mill were out on strike for many months, but were sold out by Reo at Akron on Feb, 22, at Warren on Feb, 24, at Canton on Feb, 26, and at Toledo on Feb, 27, « quisition. 16 men and 2 women were rushed to Ellis Island for deportation. ‘The boss press reporting the raid boasts that “Ellis Island’s detention pens are being taxed to capacity by aliens seized by police and Federal authorities.” They further admit that these workers are being deported as rapidly as possible, which means that in most cases they are being denied the right to engage counsel. These mass deportations are being used by the bosses as a weapon against the growing resistance of the working class to the Hoover hunger | program. Workers, native born and foreign born, Negro and white, must energetically oppose these attacks on the working class. Workers! Smash Accidents Increase As Speedup Grows Precautions Thrown. to the Winds in Rush NEW YORK.While accidents due to speed up are not reported, stray items in the capitalist press indicate the growth of such accidents. Joseph Malinowsky working on the American bridge job at Kill van Kull bridge near Bayonne, N. J. was killed when a hand car overturned and he was thrown into the water. William Berger, an insurance col- Jestor, was killed when in the rush in a crowded elevator at the Hudson and Manhattan Railway station he got his foot caught as the elevator descended, Because precautions were not prop- erly taken to place the gang-plank of the Anchor liner Caledonia, Chas. Nelson, a worker, was hurled into the water with the gangplank. He was rescued by his mates. ERC SSE RRR RE ETE eNO Shoe Repairers Wanted to go with the group to SOVIET RUSSIA Vor Information apply to Millstein’s Shoe Repair Shop 1987 SECOND AVENUE Corner 102nd St. New York City of the bosses! Defend the foreign J the deportation and lynching weanons | born anddlimaro workers!