The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931 Page Three DEMONSTRATE AGAINST HUNGER, EVICTIONS! ALL OUT TODAY! Demonstrations Force Speedier Relief From Phila. Charity Outfits Bosses, Panic-Stricken In Face of Growing Mil- itancy, Try Increase Charity Make the Cry for Unemployment Insurance On February 25th. Sell Mightily! Philadelphia, Pa. was the growing militancy of the jobless. The heads carried out their in- Dear Editor: ‘The so-called Welfare agencies, Force Portland Jobless workers on the breadline of the Com~- mons, a local charity graft here, are doing two days of the hardest type of wrecking work on a bridge for two meals and a bed for a week. Actual wages on this type of work come be- tween $5 and $7. That there is some- body getting paid for their labor, is city and county jointly. fed to the workers in the Commons is filthy and practically impossible to eat. The beds are cots, dirty and hard. | PHONE 131 Salvation Army, Family Society, City Mission, éte., receiving money from the Lloyd unemployment committec is rapidly expanding its apparatus as Jobs decrease. ‘This outfit becomes panicky when they hear that a demonstration is being arranged. Before January 29th the time the Phila. jobless delegation presented their demands to the city council, the Lloyd committee was alarmed. Become “Generous”. At the regular weekly meeting of | the heads of the various institutions they suddenly found they can afford “to be generous”. They did not as much as mention the cause of their eudden generosity. That would be too much for the apologists of Amer- tean imperialism. They knew well it New Haven Charity New Haven, Conn. Dear Comrade: A worker who has been selling no- veltiés on the streets for over a year or so told me this interesting story. ‘There is so much unemployment here that his product would not sell suf- | ficiently to earn a living and of course he had to look other wheres for a living. After in vain for a few months or so he decided to go to the Welfare Committee for relief for his family | and this is what he got. “Well here you are again. What do you want now” asked the clerk. Shutting Off Gas and Light in Flint, Mich. Daily Worker Editor; I will tell you how the Consumers Power Co. of Flint treats the work- The meter man came down to a family on Bristol Rr., cut ing people. oft the gas and took the meter out Shoemaker and Wiiliamson St. the light was disconnected and meter This is done all over Flint. taken out. People who have their furniture The Kobacker and Vinegartens Furniture Co. send out big moving vans which take the furniture and haul it Comrades, if I would write day and night for a week, I could not tell all about the misery in Flint. Now listen, fellow workers let’s do some- thing here. We can't stand the rotten conditions any longer. Cotton Pickers Now Facing Starvation (By a Worker Correspondent.) “KERN COUNTY, Cal—Condi- tions in tho cotton fields are very bad and are getting worse. The cotton picking is just about over. ‘That leaves but very little to do in this region and with this let up, more unemployed will roam Cal- ifornia. There are many who have large families, who are barefooted and almost naked. They made just bare- ly enough to keep their lives within their bodies this fall and winter here. They are going to be out of work and starving outright imme- diately. They are talking about providing themselves with food by PORTLAND, Oregon.—Unemployed unquestionable as it is owned by the The slop NITGEDAIGET CAMP AND HOTEL PBOLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere 817 4 WEEK CAMP NITGEDAIGE?T, BEACON, N.Y structions of the Lloyd committee. At the staff meetings with their work- ers, they for the first time since the | crisis told us to “be generous” while | up to now we were harassed to death with “thorough investigations, tap all resources, tell relatives it is their | privilege to assist their poor and job- | less relations.” Try Head Off Fight. | ‘The same is true now on the verge | of the International Demonstration | for the Unemployed. Whereas appli- | cations were piled up and waited while applicants were starving and being evicted now we are worked to to be “generous and prompt.” Only thru mass pressure can the workers ever expect any relief. | —An Investigator. Refuses Jobless Aid | Turned Down. | “Why I would like to get a little relief for my family” said the worker. “What do you want relief for’? shouted the clerk, “how about the job that I offered you two years ago.” “Well you see at that time I got one | that paid better than the one you offered” replied the worker. “Well, I'm sorry for you” said the clerk, “you |refused that job that I offered you so now I can’t do a thing for you. | Get out.” ‘This clerk would make a good ad- dition to the Fish Committee, he’s so lousy. —A. B. Flint, Mich. without a notice, Farther down on just about paid for and get laid off. down to the furniture warehouses. —WORKER’S WIFE. taking it. I am a good cotton picker from the south and to tell all the detaifis of hardship encountered on the California fields would fill many sheets of paper. But suffice to say, here, I hardly made enough to buy a scant supply of beans, rice and bread made of flour and water. I made $1.25, 65 cents, and 28 cents, respectively in the last three weeks. Workers need organization and guidance. The Agricultural Workers Industrial Union will get full sup- port of these underpaid starving, workers in the fields. Agricultural Worker. to Do Wrecking Work This “Charity” like others cooper- ates with the central registration buro which tabulates workers for their handling by the bosses and keeps re- Mef of that sort at a minimum. Workers in the office last week threw the bed and food slips for the Com- mons on the floor with a “hell with that.” Conditions under boss main- tained blackmailing charity are be- coming unbearable. Workers must organize the feeling of fight that they have, and join the Unemployment council. SUE FOR DAMAGES DONE TOMS RIVER, N. J.—Harry Spiers, President of the New Jersey Pulver- izing Co., declared that he would seek action against lawyers who instituted suits against his compapy asking for damages for 13 deaths and numerous cases of incurable silicosis suffered by Negro workers working in the bad- ly ventilated plants. +t PARIS, France—The military gov- ernor and prefect of police Chiappe, have declared that all unemployed and employed workers who demand relief from the French government jenna Enclosed find EMERGENCY FUND NAME ADDRESS Apeeendeceeveves: on International Fighting Day, Wed- death investigating with strict orders | that during the last three weeks | Demonstrations In All Cities Fight (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) piles up in stores or is simply de- stroyed, all agents of the capitalist class continue to advocate that the jobless take their medicine lying down, I don’t care to protest and don’t do anything but wait until they get a chance to take somebody elses job, with a wage cut. ‘The socialist party {s consistently for this policy. August Claessens, socialist leader in New York, and for- mer assemblyman for that party, de- nounced the unemployed councils and demonstrations by the unemployed in a speech February 15 in Albany. Claessens passed blindly over the fact that these demonstrations are all that have wone even thé smal Imeasure of breadline and emergency work re- Hef now obtained, and said, “We socialists do not like demonstrations like your organization has staged.” Claessens was thoroughly exposed and heckled by members of the Al- bany unemployed council present. At the same time, a few gestures toward fooling the workers with fake unemployment bills are being made. The latest of these is one introduced Reynolds of Cleveland. knows something must be done to side track the masses of jobless, who have staged great demonstrations in Cleve- land, and at thé last one helped themselves to food in the restaurants and charged it to the city. Reynolds’ bill is pure fake, as far as doing any- thing for the jobless is concerned. It taxes all the workers one half per cent ,with the employers paying about the same amount, and allows the worker, to-draw half his wages as in surance, after two weeks off the job. Nobody can get anything under this bill untill January, 1932. The em- | ployer can prevent the worker getting anything at all by firing him instead of laying him off. The bill is still in | the committee. An employer speak- ing in favor of it, said it was needed | to save the country from the anger of the starving jobless. The real unemployment insurance bill, demanding the war funds of the | national government for jobless re- |lief at the rate of $15 a week now, |and administered by the workers and he jobless, was met by police armed n tear gas and machine buns when workers’ delegation from all parts | of the country came to present it to ithe national congréss, February 10. |The provisions of that bill are what the millions of starving unemployed must have to save their lives. Today there is a demonstration in évery capitalist country to compel granting of immediate relief and in- surance. All out today, demonstrate, and march! 8 « MASS TO SUPPORT BILL DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 24—Tomor- row a bill will be presented to the city administration in Detroit, de- | manding cash relief of $15 for every | unemployed worker, and $3 in addi- | tion for every dependent. This dele- gation will be supported by a huge cemonstration that is being organ- | wed, and that will march to the City Hall from Grand Circus Park, to pre- sent this bill. The march will start at 2p. m. The unemployment situation in De- troit, today, is far more acute than ever before. The welfare racket of Mayor Murphy’s city administration ‘s not taking care of the unemployed. The city flop houses are lousy. Sin- gle unemployed workers only receive 20 cents per day to live on. Workers With families get little more. Now, Mayor Murphy comes out with a statentent to the effect that the city is spending too much for unemploy- ment relief and can’t keep it up! This means that even the miserable sum in the form of soup-kitchens, flop houses, and welfare checks, that some of the unemployed workers are receiving, will be taken away from them unless they organize and fight. 0 On 8 March in Baltimore BALTIMORE, Md. Feb. 24—The unemployed workers of Baltimore will continue the struggle for unemploy- ment insurance and march on City Hall today. According to J. Knock Insley, Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, employment in Maryland has decerased 4.1 per cent from De- cember 1930 to January 1931, increas- ing the unemployed army in Balti- more to at least 60,000. The City Council and Mayor Broen- ing showed their “generosity” by do- nating $50,000 from the City budget as a “gift” to the unemployed. This would mean less than $1 for every cried family for an indefinite The unemployed will demonstrate at the City Hall against this mockery of the thousands of unemployed workers and will demand an immediate appro- into the Ohio legislature by Senator | Reynolds | Starvation; All Qut! working class Negro and white sec- | tions to the City Hall. PE ee March in Chester CHESTER, Pa., Feb. 24—Fearing the militancy of the unemployed workers, Judge Berry was compelled |to discharge the case against Gold- berg and Slaughs, arrested for dis- | tribution of leaflets advertising the February 25th demonstration here. “His honor” looked over the leaflets for fifteen minutes, then observed the large gathering of Negro and white workers present, and discharged the defendants. Despite intimidation by the police, the preparation for the hunger march and demonstration is proceeding in full swing. The unemployed council meeting was attended yesterdw by. approximately sixty workers, forty of whom were Negroes. The meeting confined itself to practical organiza- tion in preparation for the demo! stration. Members of the council wil cover fifteen large plants with leaf- lets where hundreds of workers apply for jobs. This distribution will take |place on Tuesday morning. The |Council now has over 175 members re- gistered, 75 per cent of whom are Ne-| groes. In the last few days a number of native white workers registered in the Council. ‘The hunger march today will begin at noon from the headquarters of the Unemployed Council, 120 W. Third Street. The route of the march is) down Third Street to Edgemont Ave., over to Eighth and Market Street, passing the City Hall and halting at Third and Market, where the demon- stration will be adressed by Mac Har- tis, T.UUL. organizer and J: Stepp, representing the Communi: Party. at the demonstration to present de- mands to the Mayor and the City Council. Defy Threats In Allentown. ALLENTOWN, Pa, Feb. 24.—A mass meeting held here Feb. 20, at Workers Center, 337 Hamilton St., was packed with employed and un- employed workers. It made prepara- tions to hunger march tomorrow, leaving Fifth and Hamilton St. at 2 p. m. and going to the city hall to present demands to Mayor Gross. The council holds three meetings & week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at_1 p, m. at 337 Hamilton St. eee ae New Brunswick Demonstration. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Feb 24—Employed and Negro and. white workers, men, women and children are called to| demonstrate tomorrow at French and New streets, at ::30 p. m. The call is sizned by the Commun- ist Party, the T.U.U.L., and the Un- employed Councils. It demands in- surance at the rate of $15 a week and $3 more for each dependant, and until insurance is obtained, it de- mands from the local government $10 a week relief, with $2 more for each dependant. ~ e 3 e\ e City Work Ends. PERTH AMBOY, N. J., Feb. 24.— The last of the men employed on city work here will be fired Friday. The Perth Amboy jobless and work- ers who still have jobs will demon- strate tomorrow at 4 p. m. at the ¢ity hall for immediate relief. Ce ae Mass Meetings Prepare. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 29.— Mobilization mass meetings of un- employed Coun¢ils in a number of factory-towns, to prepare for the Feb. 25th demonstrations. In Port- chester and East Portchester a mas meeting was held Tuesday night. In Waterbury, the “Brass City,” a mass meeting was held Friday night. In South Norwalk, a mass meeting will be held Wednesday night. In Spring- field, Mass., a mass meeting was held last Tuesday. In Hamden, Conn., on last Monday. In Danbury, @ mass meeting will | be held on Monday, March 2nd. In Norwich a mass meeting {s called for Friday, March 6th. Seven unemployment demonstra- | tions will be held on Feb. 25th in} the leading industrial centers: New | Haven, Hartford, New Britain, Waterbury, Bridgeport, Stamford, and Springfield. See Organize in Hamden. HAMDEN, Conn., Feb. 24—Two hundred workers joined the unem- ployed council here Sunday at a lively meet at which many spoke about the need for immediate relief, & delegation of 7 was elected to pre- sent the demands to the Baard of Selectmen. An executive committee of 4 was elected and they in turn added 2 more to the committee, they also elected a secretary and organ- priation of $6,00,000 for winter relief. ‘The march will begin at 12 noon nesday, will be arrested and may be expelled from France, RED — TROOPS + dollars ........... ANUUE Reece este eebeeeteeneaeneees ‘ . ee reer errr Trier from the Workers Center, 9 South Greene Street and pass through the [etnies nsteanuninesetatetinipinntinases OUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th 8T. NEW YORK CITY $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND . cents We pledge to build RED SHOCK PRODEA for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER ee ee eet Serre etree ere e Ts izer. This Council will meet next Sun- day night at the Highwood Gymna- slum on Morse St. and meet once & week thereafter. This council decided to be at the New Haven demonstration tomor- row on New Haven Green in a boby. ‘They will leave from the gymna- stum at 10 A. M. ee Demand $100,000 Fund. CHICOPEE FALLS, Mass., Feb. 24. With 200 men laid off from their jobs by the city, and over 2,000 ad- mitted by the city to be unemployed, the Trade Union Unity League is calling an Unemployment Demon- ment, in the form of an emergency appropriation of $100,000, Caer ee Demonstrate at Post-Office. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 24— The city authorities were finally | onoea to give a permit for the Un- employment Demonstration tomor- row at 3 P. M,, at the Post-Office, under the auspices of the Trade Union Unity’ League and the Com- munist Party. A successful mass meeting of nearly 100 unemployed workers was held last week to hear the report of the Washington delegation, and to prepare for Feb. 25th, Demand Lowell Permit. LOWELL, Mass., Feb, 24.—The Na- tional Textile Workers Union takes O’Gara Puts 400 Miners Out On Streets Eldorado, TL Daily Worker:— Just a few lines to let you know the panic as the miners call it, is on with No, 12 O’ Gara miners. The mine worked its last day yesterday. Four hundred more miners are put on the grass to eat instead of the Com- pany mules. The coal company takes good care of their mule slaves while they let their human slaves scramble and worry for what they get. A delegation will be elected | unemployed | Many Jobless These miners are facing more than they think. I was in Harris- burgh this morning and saw scores of miners from No. 12 to sign up for a job at O'Gara and Wasson Coal Company. The Wasson Coal Company came out plain and told the miners that they couldn’t sign up because they had 1,500 signed up now. And besides 150 men from another mine that has been down for a long period before they would hire any one. Now people here in the coalfields are worried. These 400 O’Gara No. 12 miners are scattered just like a flock of wild geese with their leader gone. Their leader has been a fake union and the few scant meals that were dished out at the company store when on the days the mine ran. But today we are sending in some réd drakes to this scattered flock. Send revolutionary greetings to the Pennsylvania striking miners. We here in the Illinois coal fields are watching this strike. We also know we will be going the same route soon. —W. BR. G. the lead in organizing a demonstra- tion here tomorrow, and has de- manded a permit. The city officials are trying to deny it on technicali- ties. The demonstration is to be held on South Common, Admit 100,000 Unemployed in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Mo. Feb. 24—By census ‘es there are over 100,000 unemployed in this city This does not include those that are laid off | for a certain period of time, or those that are working part time. The majority of those admitted by the census are unemployed Negro work- ers. Tomorrow the workers will demonstrate in front of city hall and demand immediate relief and will mobilize for struggle for Unem- ployment Insurance. Marches will |take pplace from 2033 Washington Blvd. and from 4th and Chouteau starting at 1:30 P. M. and will reach city hall at 2 P. M, Pittsburgh Demonstration. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 25.—The police have refused a permit for al | demonstration here tomorrow at| | Pennsylvania station at 12:20 p. m.| 1931 CALENDAR FREE! | The jobless and militant workers are |] Historical data on big events of determined to demonstrate. Plans || the class struggle in the first an- |for effective action are going for-| nual Daily Worker Calendar. Free ward. with six months sub or renewal. The circulation of the Daily Worker has in- ed a total of 1859 during the past week, ording to figures shown in today’s tables... Of this increase, 776 is due to special order which will be dropped off next week, leaving a solid | whole campaign. but what fs sold. Due to that tables show figures Detroit of the steps to 33 per cent of its quota. and Philadelphia. all of which is due to —Drawn by J. C. Rogers. circulation steadily, and gain of 1083. Increases shown also include gains made by extra orders of issues containing dis- trict pages for Philadelphia and Chicago. after a previous loss. PHILADELPHIA SHOWS OUTSTANDING GAIN District 3, Philadelphia, tops the list with the highest gain of 526 for the week. Only 20 of this | figure is the result of temporary orders. The solid gain is 500. Philadelphia was greatly aided by a gain of 333 due to its special page once a week, when 2,000 copies were ordered. This week- ly edition is solid circulation, however, as Phil- adelphia will have a page each week and the or- der will probably be increased as the units get behind the special edition for systematic sales and distribution. This week’s increase by Phil- adelphia constitutes one of the most snectacular solid agins since the drive started. The district has increased its circulation by 1125 since the beginning of the drive. A month ago the district had reached only 33 per cent of its quota. It has now reached 58 per cent, higher than Detroit, which has reached only 33 per cent of its quota. This is an increase worth broadcasting. M. Silver, district Daily Worker representative, is largely responsible for activizing Philadelphia for the weekly page, and is now planning to draw the sections into contributing material and push+ ing the soles in outlving towns. This is an ex- ample of district work carried on in a thoroueh, conerete and nroductive manner, and we look to Philedelnhia to continue the present tempo of its circulation gains, week. Summary of Overdue . Paid in advance .. Districts 1. Boston aN. Y. 8. Phila, 4. Buffalo 5. Pitts, 6 Cleveland 7 Detroit 8 Chicago © Maple. 10 Kans.cty 11 Agric, 12 Beattle 18 Calif. 15. Conn, 273 16 South 17 Birming, 18 Butte .. 98 18 Denver Unorg. CHICAGO GAINS AMED BY DISTRICT PAGES District 8, Chicago, is the next to show a de- cided increase in circulation helped, like Phila- delphia, by the district page. Tables for this week show a gain of 401, 6f which 333 is due to the weekly Chicago edition, District 8, besides being the first to start a district page, ts to be commended upon its Chicago Red Builders Club which has made rapid strides recently, increasing its membershlp and ordering 500 copies a day. Sinee the start of the drive, Chicago has gained 2.088 in circulation, or 60 per cent of its quota. The gain, numerically, is greater even than in New York, which has increased 1979, or only 23 per eent of its quota. L, Litt, Daily Worker 1102 649 53 18 118 ant 89 stration for tomorrow at 1 P, M,, at Market Square, to demand imme- diate relief from the City Govern- agent of Chicago, is holding regular Daily Work- er readers’ conferences here where plans are laid for more effective circulation growth and shows Note:—These tables do Many Bloody Collisions Occur Between Fascists and Workers In | Germany; Fascists Have Arms British Militant Miners Méet; Call for A Gen- eral Strike The Nat'l Unemployed conféerenes BERLIN, Feb. 24. Yesterday |{n Bradford pledged support of un- (Cable By Inprecorr) 1 bloody collisions occurred everywhere|@mployed workers to the miners against the Communists, the social-|Tuaty were made. Many delegates ists, the Reichsbanner (republican|tramped miles to attend the confer- guards). | ence. In Stuttgart nine workers were sent | to the hospital when the fascists at | |AUSTRO F ASCISTS occurred in Chemnitz when the fas- 4 . cists fired into a crowd. Two hundred fascists in Kosel at-| ‘MEE | REVERSES tacked workers, one was seriously | wounded. searched in motor lorries and ene | fered by the Austrian fascist Heim- Ee Seventeen fascists! went’ movement at the recent elec- In Braunschweig fierce collisions | tions which showed that for all their occurred. Several were injured in-| bellowing the fascists had only « Ba Colsgne iedredi ig |hind them, has sharpened the in- Prussian diet seccny concern nn, | ternal dissensions and distatiatad- new minin; tee eeamainin the | tion... The Heimwehr organizations in teerupted the Gita - ie Genaaid iN) Vienna, Burgenland, Tirol and the y Pty condolence | Vorarlberg demanded the resignation ties that they could have prevented| ee the disaster by adopting proper se- | HeimWehr leader. curity measures, As Starhemberg refused to resign The Communist fraction in the| and’ “demanded instead dictatorial Thuringian diet (parliamentary body) | Powers, the organizations in question referendum to secure the dissolution.| berg under Steidle’s leadership and . * * denied Starhemberg’s right to speak LONDON, Feb, 24—Three import. |! the name of the Helmwehr. ant conferences took place during the| With Starhemberg remained the week end. The Welsh militant miners| organizations in Upper Austria, Salz- all the coalfields met in Sheffield.| the organizations in Lower Austria Both decided to issue a call for a| and Vienna. Starhemberg has agreed general strike against new agreements| to resign his partliamentary man- on March the first. The program of| date, but insists on retaining the action was adopted, including the! leadership of the Heimwehr organ- 1,083 New Readers i some generalship involving the district in the | cial orders, netting a real gain of 110 for the | Cleveland is planning @ district page which will boost the circulation by at least 333. Dis- trict 1, Boston, shows an increase of 143, all due to special orders which will drop next week. District 18, Butte, put oma solid gain of 59, due, largely to the efforts of Willis L. Wright, dis- trict Daily Worker representative who has ar- ranged Daily Worker meotings in the outlying towns between Butte and Great Falls. Summary By Districts 11120 91649 11144 28553 32838 S46o7 foreign end especial editions. tor ast week exclusive of in the provinces. The fascists fought | Struggle. Last preparations for Feb- tacked the Reichsbanner. Collisions | In Gladbach the fascists ware VIENNA.—The sharp reverse suf- eluding police. Four fascists were in- | small portion of the population be- phrases by shouting to the authori-| of Prince Starhemberg, the fascist lodged an application for the People’s | formed a fraction against Starhem- met in Cardiff. Representatives from} burg, Styria, Carinthia and parts of election of pit committees everywhere.! izations. n One Week; Phila.. Chicago, Make Spectacular Advances Summary By Cities DIFFICULT TO LEARN PROGRESS IN NEW YORK #2. uw f : a” ee aS Ba: Figures in these tables for District 2, N. Y., : §4 24 §2 ie 3 are net figures based not on what is ordered, | ee eee confusion and overwork, | Boston .. 83 83 82 a9 «(166 the . Y. district office of the Daily Worker finds | Newark... 15. 4 it imipossible to furnish up-to-date figures, so | Elizabeth. . 14 69 that are two weeks old. [Ne ¥. City 10546359 1038 6360 7404 District 7, Detroit, is losing ground. The na- | Yonkers... 63 63 tional office of the Daily Worker has advised |‘Mla.. sd A Cag Rea aM ae take tn a special letter ees Te 379 «7843486 which, however, has been ignored. No Red jury oy bs he einer ed Builders News Club has been formed, although rochester. + ieaa omar eet smaller cities like Albany, Chester, Pa., Stockton, | Pittsburgh 155 293 154-178 378 Calif., have clubs. Detroit is the only latge in- Akron... 75 91 78 166 dustrial center in the country which is left with- Canton... ce BO 45 BO 100 out a club. It is the biggest district which has Toledo. ‘ 88 145 «89 «145 «(233 failed to order a weekly district page, Detroit | Clevelana BOS AAR CED URE tae has gained 1085 since the start of the drive, Detroit .. 934 1660 926 1643 2494 It is back in the third “787d Rapids - 59 100 69 100 169 place in the three-cornered race with Chicago a cai hed iG istrict 9, Minneapolis, shows a gain of 404. | stismecpot ‘is is a temporary order of |st. Paul . 92 (388 2500. In District 10, Kansas City, of a total in- Jsuperior 32 crease of 226, 120 is due to special orders, leaving | KansasCity 126 166 a solid gain of 106. Kansas City has increased its Seattle .. edie Hd is second highest in per | Pertland Re aibedd centage of quotas, District 13, California, boosted |" 48’. paaled its circulation by 182 this week, a good gain Feds ramen i ‘a The district is putting | sacramento 100 120 «120 the Daily Worker on a more solid basis than in | penver ve 209° «232-283 1 | the past, is activizing the Red Builders News | oxla. city 100 «110 «112 2 Club, and paying bills weekly. District 6, Cleve- land, put on only 134—24 of which is due to spe- oe 299 NEW SUBS AND M4 RENEWALS FOR WEEK One hundred eighty-six new subs and 118 ree newals were received during last week. A total of 169 was dropped from the list, ALL DISTRICTS MUST HAVE SPECIAL PAGES Chicago and Philadelphia weekly pages have Subscriptions put on solid gains for these two districts, and Feb. 15 Feb. 21 are pushing the circulation campaign nearer to 6223 5047 to 60,000 goal. Cleveland is contemplating a dis- 5897 6097 trict page just as soon as it gathers material, beacon ee and Pittsburgh is néxt, planning a page begin- 11120 11144 ning March 23. The line-up is as follows: Mon- day (beginning March 23), Pittsburgh; Tuesday, open; Wednesday, Chicago; Thursday, Philadel- phia; Friday, Cleveland (tentative); Saturday, not available. No district can afford to let another week pass without ordering a district page. We expect to | hear from such districts as Detroit, Seattle and California, three important districts which should concentrate on weekly pages, Smaller distrieta which cannot afford the regular district page of four columns could arrange for two columns of news by ordering 1,000 copies every week for FRATERNAL GROUPS JOIN 60,000 DRIVE More and more fraternal organizations are getting behind the 60,000 circulation campaign. The latest conference of workers’ organizations in the Bronx last week indicates the possibilities. .-| For this reason, all fraternal organizations should | appoint Daily Worker reps to be in charge of {| Sales and distribution. Every organizer should subscribe to the Daily Worker and shoulud see to it that a bundle is ordered for each meeting, and should organize all unemployed workers within the organization to spend full time ealling the Daily Worker, sats aetna temnamies Sd Not include miscellaneous, Pog! pM prin id prese run all tamparary, orders |