The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1931, Page 3

OE ————— 1 , OD HAVE NEARK-PEONAGE FOR THE U NEMPLOYED Children of Jobless Going Around With Little Clothes and Lack Good Food Family of Ten Found Starving; Baby Shriveled Up By Hunger, Dies Dear Sir:— Indianapolis, Ind I thought perhaps your readers would be interested to hear of some of the things that are happening in this mid-west, capitalist-ridden city. among the poor has been acute. At times here this winter the suffering There has been very little work. The Chamber of commerce which has charge of all of the city’s work is paying the workers two dollars and twenty cents a week anda basket of grub. If a man refuses to work for this meager salary he is hailed into municipal court before Judge Wetter who has about as much feeling for a poor man as a hound has for a rabbit. Peonage for Workers. Stupidity itself couldn’t fail to see the sinister purpose that lurks behind their plans. They’re usher- in in a system of peonage under which the poor will be as helpless as the Russian peasant under the Caars, It’s no uncommon sight here to see men and children half naked walking the streets shivering with cold. And I have seen men, poor homeless, help- less creatures driven like dogs from the shelter of the court house, Had the winter been as severe as some we have here the death rate among she poor would be appalling. About the saddest story of human suffering I ever heard came to light here this week. A family of ten living in the northern part of the city was found on the verge of star- vation. They had been without food vo long that they had grown too weak to go out and look for help. When found, an infant in the the group was rushed to the hospital in the hopes of saving her life. But in vain. Long endured hunger had done its work. T am told by one who saw her after kind death had ended her suffering form bore mute testimony of the vation. And “Christian America” Jooks complacently on while the ter- rible drama is acted. But I must make an exception to charity of a Negro church this entire family might have starved to death. When applied to for aid the author- ities always plead lack of funds. But they readily turned over fifty thous- and dollars of the peoples’ money to the governor to fix up his already lav- ishly furnished mansion. -G.0P. Four Die, Sixteen Poisoned On Tacoma Breadline Daily Worker: Tacoma, Wash, On Thursday, Feb. 19th, sixteen were poisoned from eating filthy slop that is handed out at the Volunteers of America (Vultures of Amer- fea). Four of these have already died. Two more are not expected to re- cover. The rest are now in the county hospital. This is the kind of bosses’ charity we are forced to accept here in Tacoma. «oA, HH. Sunshine Club Is Name of Seattle Breadline! Seattle, Wash. Dear Comrade: I am writing about the miserable soup lines. The Sunshine Club in particular, In the first place it should be called the gloomy club. As the armory is the place where the soup line is situated, the light is poor and the air is foul, which makes it a most miserable place for the hungry un- employed to find a mere existence in the way of bosses’ charity. The food is the most inadequate to main- tain health standards. As I was coming from the bread- line, there were two young fellows who asked me for a dime or two, as they had been on the bread line for weeks, They wanted to get some- thing more substantial than the slop they received at the bread line. ‘The Sunshine Club is making large profits from the food that is sent] As) to them to give to the workers. the best of it is used to obtain prof- its from. This is the way the workers are taken advantage of in their mis- ery and unemployment, and fellow workers, if we are to gain our object, and get a better standard of living, we must organize into a strong unem- ployed ecouneil and put up a fight for the right to live. We must go to the bread lines and get the work- ers to demonstrate in the hunger marches, as this makes the bosses see that there is misery and unem- Ployment in the United States. We ize and demonstrate in the hunger march, and this way we will become strong enough to take the relief, if the bosses do not give it to us. Bosses Burn Bread Rather Than Feed Starving (By a Worker Correspondent) Chicago, Tl. Daily Worker:— Fellow workers and comrades, Do not let-your families or friends pat- Tonize the following bakeries: Aber- needy workers have it. They refused to let us have stale bread and eakes for needy people here at the house but turned around and burned about 200 loaves of bread each and 50 cakes and cof- fee .rings .each recently. Three. workers were paid 20 cents each for two hours work. Can you beat it! —C.R. Jamestown Furniture Factories Slash Pay Jamestown, N, Y. Daily Worker: ‘The Union Furniture Co. has had three wage cuts in eighteen months, the first, 10 cents per hour, the sec- ond six months later 10 cents per ‘nour and the third, 10 per cent: ‘This last cut took effect Fel Railroads Talk of C Toledo, O. Daily Worker: I see in the Daily Worker of Feb. 19 that the steel industry is dis- charging the old men with a long service record. I don’t work in the steel industry. I work on the railroad. I am per- sonally familiar with 3 or 4 cases of the M. C. Ry. and the Nye at Toledo. Bill Lee , a switchman and Gov, Olson of Minnesota Toilers’ Enemy Uttle Falls, Minn, Daily Worker:— Hardly had-Governor Floyd B, Ol- son, farmer-laborite, stepped into the breeches left by Gov. Christensen that he began to show himself as a and piece work has been cut so they can't make a daily wage. Also the other furniture factories are having the same trouble and very few are operating over two and three days per week while conditions in general look very dark. Unemployed Council of Jamestown. utting Out Pensions Holl and an inspector were retired without pension. Bill Lee scabbed in the strike of the ARU in 1894, but went out with the men in 1920 but went back to work 3 days before the strike was over at Toledo. I overheard a Nye official talking today and he said the company was going to get away from the pension. —G. A, His visit to the National Military Training Camp at Ripley, his visit to Lindberg’s home a ten acre farm place. » While the farmers are going bank- rupt and not able to pay taxes and the city feeding the unemployed. That 2 o Communist Candid- ates Arrested Re- sisting Move DETROIT, March 1—Wm. Jarvis, war veteran, gassed in the war, was ED BY BOSSES 1931 ge Three Toledo Raises From Chicago comes comment on | their district issue of Feb. 18. “After going over the second | special Chieago pages,” writes E. | Gardos, “we can state that gen- | erally speaking the district com- mittee is satisfied with the paper and the cooperation given by the evicted from his home in Lincoln | Pary, suburb of Detroit, on Feb, 24.| *titorial staff to make it a success. He had paid $3,200 on his house, ana| TM on eee eritisiome = on was behind in his payments since sen “8 igang, wahecdord editorial on the first page, remind- July, when he had both his legs) | th broken on ® construction job, and| in& the workers of Chicage op how he still uses crutches. ‘The landlord,| and it did not appear.” who caused the eviction, is Fred Pil-| Gardo then raises the question of on, richest man in Lincoln Park, has | using Chicago news in every issue @ private pool and gymnasium in his | pesides the Wednesday page, since house, and is a pillar of the Cath-| ihe worker Correspondence group is olic church and a real estate dealer. |being built, and gives some points ‘The Unemployed Council of Lin- | ° the Readers’ Conference of the to act on primary day, Feb. 24, | that her drawn face and emaciated | truth that she was a victim of star-| this, for I have heard that but for the | must go to the mines, mills and fac- | tories and get the workers to organ- | coln Park took note of the fact that this crippled worker and -his family would be evicted and made prepara- tions to stop this eviction. On Fri- days, February 20, at the meeting jof the Unemployed Council at the Goodell School, where the chief of self were present, a decision was | made to stop the eviction. The final plans were made on Monday. On February 24th, at about 4 p.m., word came that the eviction w taking place. The entire working i left their work and went to the place of the eviction, The crowd be- gan to gather, and at 6 o'clock the Jchn Voden, member of the Unem- ployed Council and Communist Can- didate for Councilman, took a piece of furniture and started to take it | into the house. He was jumped upon by a dozen policemen. | Wm. Reynolds, Communist Can- didate for mayor, went to his as- | sistance and he was jumped upon |by the police too. His brother, Charles, came to his assistance and the fight with the police started | Jehn Voden, William and Charles | Reynolds were handcuffed and drag- | ged into the house, stood against the wall and beaten up by Wm. Gal- | loway, constable, political product of the A. F. of L, They were taken to the local police station. but the police refused to ac- | cept them, fearing action on the part of the enraged masses. They were then taken to the county jail |On the way to the jail the sheriff threatened Wm. Reynolds, who is an American, born in the United States, with deportation to Russia Their trial will come up on March 9th. PURDEN PLACED ON CARPENTER” AFL. Officials Levy (By a Worker Correspondet) BALTIMORE, Md., March 1.—On March 2nd all union carpenters are | being called to a special meeting un- up the question of assessing the em- ployed carpenters to feed the unem- ployed union carpenters. The average union carpenter is only making at the best for the year about $1,000 to $1,200 a year if he is fortun- ate enough to miake 25 weeks work for the year, and out of this amount they must shell out $1.75 a month as dues and every 3 months an addi- tional $1 for a working card, The union never did allow exempt or unemployed stamps for unemployed carpenters, but have deliberately thrown out the unemployed carpen- ters who were unable to pay the exhorbitant dues every month, The officials are ever ready to cut the small income of the workers but at the same time the bureaucrats hold all easy jobs at big pay. For the one local they have 4 business agents getting only 50 bucks apiece and they could get along elegantly with 2 bus- agents. On the payroll there are a financial secretary, a recording secretary getting around 60 bucks and on top of that a host of officers draw- ing a salary from $2,500 te $3,000 a year. This large payroll is kept up through the “extraction process” from the blood and toil of the workers who have to pay 55 bucks to get into the ‘union. Fellow workers of the carpenters union—rank and file workers, fight against this tax. This is nothing but an attempt to put the burden of un- employment on the back of the work- ers instead of making the bosses pay from the huge super profits they have made from the workers. Force the A. F. of L. to demand Unemployment Insurance from the City administra- real class enemy of the laboring class. Oranges Rot As Jobless Starve In Florida Fort Pierce, Fla, Daily Worker:— ‘To let you know that I am still vere yet, ‘This crisis is giving me hell. Don't snow if I will be able to live over it r not. « have no job and no money at all. i] I got is just a few chickens, no rice for eggs, feed hith, Will try nd get some hens for fryers. Don't now how I will get feed for the is the situation in this country —A, chickens. Slow starvation is what I get every day. Nearly all of the orangers and Grapefruit are rotting under the trees here. No market they say. The poor children up north would be glad to get some oranges, When I get through reading the Daily I take them to Fort Pierce and give them awey, Hope the workers will soon be in the white hovse and tion for the unemployed workers, Make the bosses pay! Demand no dues payment for un- employed carpenters! Demand that the officials’ salary be reduced! De- mand that the number of business agents be cut down to two instead of four! Demand a lower initiation fee of ten dollars for entrance into the nion! Rank and file workers fight against this lowering of your stand- ard of living! Take the control of the union out of the hands of the bureau- crats! police, the constable and Pilon him- | crew, on a school house that is going | up. where William Reynolds work, | fight with the police started, when | der the penalty of being fined two| dollars. This meeting is going to take | |22nd. Here are the editorial crit- icisms and suggestions: 1. To eliminate all possible ab- | breviations from articles, or at least | give full name of organizations (ILD, TUUL, etc.) the first time this is printed in the paper, 2. Not to take things for granted —that the A. F. of L. has fascist | leadership; that the socialist party is’ the third party of the bourgeoisie, etc. Because of the many readers we are getting, it is necessary to print @ paragraph or two and explain this | to the workers, 3. According to some of our com- rades, the headlines and the entire | paper cater too much to the unem- ployed campaign. While this is the most important campaign before us, | we should play up quite conspicuously the struggles of the employed work- ers. the paper around the factories, 4, News for which the workers buy the capitalist papers—foreign news, capitalist politics should be | better played up. | | “As a positive feature of the con- | ference, we must mention that every one present who spoke, in- eluding Lucy Parsons, spoke with a good deal of enthusiasm about the Daily, how the workers are re- ceiving it. A sympathizer who is now buying the paper told us how his son fights with him to get it first, although this worker had dif- | ficulties to get his boy to read the | paper in the beginning. A com- | rade who has a route reported that he got seven new members into the Party out of his readers, In one word, while’ the meeting was | small, it reflected how the Daily is growing, not only in number of its readers, but also in the appre- ciation.” “DAILY” POPULAR IN TOLEDO, 0. “Please raise the Daily Worker bundle te 130 daily as soon as you con for the Toledo workers like the Daily Worker.” A .Burry, Toledo, Ohio, ‘This would help betted to spread | VETERAN EVICT- Reports on ‘Daily’ Conference; Bundle Order | BUTTE, MONT. | SENDS REPORT From Willis L. Wright we received @ report indicating that out of 300 | eopies received, 143 were sold on the street, and 70 from house-to-house, by J. K., agent. | “I can’t make a report on the Great Falls sales until I return there after | the Foster meeting,” says Wright. | \Hunger Marchers Approach Goal (CONTINUED FROM i PAGE ONED The workers were served supper and an entertainment was given, The werkers were then taken to various workers’ homes, where. sleeping quarters had been arranged, | MACHADO SAYS | the Hunger Marchers went to Eliza- | beth, where they marched through | $ the proletarian section in the rain, | td'a meeting at Union Square. Din- | ing of 400 workers was held. REIGN OF TERROR RAGES IN CUBA: In the morning, after breakfast,’ Forced Labor Recruitment Continues; Worker Killed for Refusing HAVANA, Cuba, March 1.—The reign of terror ner was served and an indoor meet- | by Machado against the worker: a HE HAS BEEN | “TOO EASY”; MANY ARE KILLED Young institutea sis growing shaper. On Feb- The Trenton marchers were greeted ANACORTES, WASH. | PUT ON THE MAP From George K. we receive an en- Couraging letter and a few facts on | train time: | “Eohave received’ the 69,000 Cir- culation Campaign bulletins regu- larly, and the last one at hand is Bulletin No. 13. Sorry to see that all the other places are doing bet- ter'than Anacortes, but I hope that | we.soon will be ale tob do better | asa Comrade from Bellingham was here organizing the Unemploy- edCouncils, and we will choos a Daily Worker agent as soon as we | can.” Following this he reports that Anacortes receives the Daily Worker four days af d's of issue, at 2 p.m, resi 1 We hope Comrie K. writes | regularly, esnocially + 3 the |tivity of the Council in the Da’ | Worker sales. us “KEEP DAILY AT ALL COSTS” | “Twill try to send shortly funds |to cover what I now owe and | for advance sub,” writes C. 5. cf Washington, D. ©. “7 \out for work for so lone. }> |we must keep {he Daily | ing at all costs.” Iso “DAILY” GROWING AMONG PEOPLE “I conferr to you I hardty con sell 25 copies because the peor'e are absolutely going broke; the workers have been exploited by the Standard Steel Car So. so feroci- ously, But this was not enough so the bank closed its doors and robbed the working people of every- | thing they had. But I will scll | the Daily Worker at a penny a | copy. to keep the Daily Worker | growing among the people.” SELLS IN DECATUR j This is William Tuttle of catur, IL, who is handling Daily Worker in that territory. says: “The paper business is very slack at present, but has begun to pick up. I am new on the job and have just begun to learn the trade. Got | two new subscriebrs. F. T. B. has | @ job at present and has turned | his paper business over to me. Pa- pers get here a day after the date of issue, somewhere between 9 a, m. and 1 p. m.” William T, seems to have enter- prise and we anticipate some lively sales, Keep in touch with us, reg- ularly. (Sellers, send photos) De- the He | Force Bosses To Tax “For Relief” Experts; Strikers Return to the Mills (CONTINUED visited us a month ago, and I'm sorry the commission on public to hell and ‘back again. If they were not here Tuesday everything would have been all right. There is where the breeze and wind of Russia came in.” Father MeDonald carried on an energetic campaign under the slo- American Woolen Company is, hon- est.” “Labor an dcapital must get gans: “Go back to work.” “The together.” - ‘Then came the organization of a “citizen’s committee” to “negotiate” with the strikers. This committee on Thursday came to the strike head- quarters, where the strike committee was meeting, accompanied by city offi- cials and police. They began their “negotiations” by physically seizing the leaders of the Textile Workers Union, and beating up the other members of the strike committee and driving them out of thei rheadquar- ters, They jailed Berkman, Devine, Murdock, Danilezich, and Czarnecki, on @ charge of “conspiracy”—the same charge that has been used to fight trade unions since the beginning of the 19th centyry. The bail deman- ded for them totalled more than $100,000. ‘ Enter the Fish Committee Lawrence strikers and sympa- thizers quickly raised the bail for the arrested leaders, but no sooner were they released than Federal im- migration officers appeared, with “telegraphic instructions” from Washington, to arrest the three of- ficials of the union and hold them for deportation warrants. This was the first use of the new deportation regulations proposed by the Fish Committee and adopted by Congress only six days before. The Fake Ballot ‘The bosses then made a desperate effort to break the ranks of the strikers, by gathering a few score corrupted workers, active reaction- ary elements of the American Legion, baptizing them as a “strike com- mittee,” and holding a “ballot” un- der the direct supervision ofthe police. About 300 workers took part in the “ballot,” but the bosses bra- zenly announced 2,000 votes, but even these shameless lars were ashamed .to claim a “unanimous” rule this country, H.W. G. Join the Trade Union Unity Leacue, at 9 South Green St., Baltimore, Md. ‘ vote, and conceded 400 votes to con- tinue the strike, more than the total safety did not give the ma ticket | “news” that the “strike committee” | stick together on the job, just like |others which intended to show the} Withdraw Efficiency. ¥ROM PAGE ONE) of all the “voters.” | had conducted a “ballot,” which had | decided to call off the strike. All| church bells in the city were rung —the mill whiltles blew, criers were sent over the city. ‘Then the mill officials announced that back wages, usually paid at | night, would be paid Friday morning. | Several hundred hungry workers | wwent to the mills to get their wages, and about three thousand others, de- ceived by the elaborate staging and seeing workers going to the mills, weakened and returned to work. It was at this point that the Na- tional Textile Workers stsrike com- mittee, meeting Friday night, de- cided to return to work on the basis of the partial victory. On the ques- tion of ‘extra pay for overtime, the committee decided not to work over- | time as*the best way o fdealing with this question for the time. These decisions were ratified by a great mass meeting Friday night. Monday morning the workers are returning en masse, The strike was organized and led by several small department locals of the National Textile Workers’ Union. In the first days of the stsrike it extended to cover the three big- Gest mills, and embraced the entire working ‘force of more than 10.000 workers... Of these about one thou- sand have joined the NTWU, while the remainder, not yet individual members of the union, have been represented in the strike committee which was built up of delegates from all departments in the mills, As Edith Berkman, Pat Devine, anc Wm'"Murdoch were being taken to Boston by the Federal immigra- tion: police for deportation, they is- sued @ statement declaring that the union will remain in Lawrence and organize the entire body of textile workers into a strong union which will safeguard their victory, and pre- pare for new struggles for better conditions. The strike committee has declared its full solidarity with the arrested leaders, and has filed a formal demand with the govern- ment for their immediate release. Workers’ ‘organizations are adopting resolutions of protest against the outrageous governmental attacks and demanding the release of the arrest- ed workers In spite of the lined the streets, marched alongside the Hunger Fighters and in every way showed their solidarity. Daily Workers and leaflets were distributed and sold. Cheers and anplause grected the marchers. A good meet- ing was held and workers joined the Uneraployed Council. A _ collection was made. The marchers paraded on to Rah- way, where the workers poured out of their homes to greet the mareh- ers. At, Carteret the whole town turned out in a splendid demonstration of greeting. A large meeting was held, where the unanimous vote of theas- sembled workers endorsed the Un- employment Insurance Bill. The en- tire population of the town then escorted the marchers out of the town, where they were headed for New ‘Brunswick. The n chers ex- nected ‘to reach New Brunswick at 6:30, In every line of march Dailies, pamphiets, were distei They Trenton, the seat of the UND NEWU TO KEEP VICTOR Strike Co mmittee Issues Statement OM PAGE ONE) y (CONTINES the “basses did their- lying statements, to claim that not dare, even in more. thah 2.000 out of 11,000 strikers participated. in their vote. And even of these so-called 2.000 they admit | 400 voted against the bosses’ pro- | posal. s Win—But Not 100% vented us on Thursday from form- ulating ouganswer to the bosses’ pro- | pesals. We now declare that the company has granted all our de- mands Gxdepf) time and a half for overttiine. We won the strike but we @id not win a hundred per cent vistéry. We repeat what we have stataed before, that we prefer not to work overtime. Although this de- mand remains unsettled, the workers can as a last resort refuse to work overtime on the old basis. With this declaration we go back to work in an organized manner on Monday, March 2. This means that--we-must have our committee in every department. mill committee. The mill have, we did in our splendid strike. Join the NTWU The policy of the National Tex- |tile Workers’ Union is to unite all | the workers. Therefore the depart- ment and mill committees are com- posed of. union members and work- ers who are not yet in the union. At the same time more of us are joining the.National Textile Work- ers’ Union. The bosses refuse to recognize the union but the work- ers recognize it, And the bosses will be forced to deal with the organized power of the workers led by the Na- tional Textile Workers Union. Everybody stand united for bet- ter conditions, WORKINGWOMEN TO DEMONSTRATE Hundreds of Meetings To Be Held In U.S. NEW YORK. — Workingwomen in all countries are preparing to stage gigantic demonstrations on March 8th, International Women’s Day, at which they will demand unemploy- ment insurance, a 20 percent’ reduc- tion in the cost of living and other immediate necessities. In the United States, traditional “land of chivalry”, millions of work- ingkomen are being paid starvation wages, are being evicted from their homés for non-payment of rent, are waiting long, cold hours on bread- lines‘ for the slop which merely ac- centuates the pangs of slow starva- tion, and are watching their children die of starvation before their eyes. Workingwomen in capitalist coun- tries all over the world are turning their eyes to Soviet Russia, where women, for the first time in history, are enjoying equal pay for equal work, the abolition of all night work, two months leave before and after childbirth with full pay, the right to hold any job, no matter how ad- vanced, and other privileges which, even according to capitalist critics, make Soviet Russia the most civilized AAU A ruary 23rd, Machado, despie the fact that hundreds have been plan | Every depart- | | ment must send representatives to a | Frederick the Great Film, continued owners | on | must deal with this mill committee | clubbed and slugged, and made over lor all grievances which the workers | eighty arrests in Neukoelln alone.) We must not allow the eom- |Many sociulist protesters were also ar- pany to play one department and! rested. Several movies already have | The bosses then breadcasted the | one craft against another. We must | withdrawn showing the film whilst | lin Linden, N. J., by,over 700 workers. | jailed or murdered, stated in a speech that “Our error was not severe rain, workers |so much violence, but our weakness in applying it.” | On Febuary 12 among 32 reported jailed for their political oppbsition to Machado, were the following: Sivio Casteneda, Fyancisco Jimenez, incente Liviz, Mario Fabra, Ignacio Cace) Sererino Lopez, Joasuin Anido, , Venancio Touran, Evangelista Garcia, Jose Guitan Veira, Maria Seijo Martinez, Enriqu Bullon | Mosquera, Manuel Mosquera Jose Roig, Guillermo Esty In Camz7usy, Antonio Garcia Mari, a worker disappeared. He was un- doubtedly been murdered by the Ma- |chado forces because of his revolu- tionary activity. In January, 42 work- ers were hung in Oriental Province of Cuba. In the police massacre that took place in the Havana Work Center, a ja few days ago, 100 we wounded and 30 arre: A Polish worker was bsdly wounded and brought to the hospital. He disap- seared iron the bespital. It is feared he has been killed. The forced recruitment of convict jor still proceeds. Every worker ho is poorly dr is arrested and compelled, under force of jail or beat~ ings, to work on the sucar planta- tions for 30 cents a dey. In El Mariel, many workers were forced to do this kind of labor. One, a yor >? worker 21 years of age was imemdiately killed when he refused to do this forced labor. Twenty workers were arrested in Havana and face deportation. A few ago the fishermen held a meet- The police dispersed them. CHARGE WORKERS | STEALING ARMS | Protest Against Film | Goes On BERLIN.—Lawyers defending the |30 Communist workers charged with | stealing arms and ammunition from | objected to the President of the court, Schmitz, on the ground that the lat- ter openly sympathizes with the fas- cists and therefore is prejudiced. | The president made a statement denying sympathy with fascism. The |examination of the accused workers | began showing that the police search- {ed houses in the absence of the de- fendants and that they refused to |give receipts for confiscated materials. |The worker defendants denied the re- | sponsibility for the material allegedly found by police. The Reichswehr em- ployee, Pestner, who instigated the jarms raid, was exposed as a fascis!) agent provacateur. Protests against the reactionary, Sunday and Monday. Police | picture have removed the latter from |the program. The socialist, Grzesin- |ski, mobilized hundreds of police to protect the film. | Marburg ended in a general fighht. |Two were seriously hurt and eight | were lightly wounded. The police sup- | ported the fascists. Workers protest |demonstrations paraded through the | streets. RED CROSS ENDS FAKE FEEDING WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—On | March 1 the Red Cross wili stop even | pretending to feed the starving farm- |ers in the Southern plantation states. The national headquarters announced this fact recently. In Louisiana and adjacent plantation states March 1 {has ben set to stop handing out the | miserly slop that the starving farm- \ers have been getting, but which did |not keep hundreds of them from | dying of hunge:. WAGE CUTS INCREASE (By a Worker Correspondent) BRUVEVILLE,, Ind.—The Brown Shoe Company Vincennes plant gave thelr workers a wage cut also who were already working at starvation wages, Their women workers some of them receiving as low as 7 cents per hour according to the reports of these same workers. The Holland Cook Wholesale Co, cent wage cut, their truck drivers also gave their employees 15 per were only receiving $20 per week before this cut, now $17.00 If this keeps up Vincennes will be making history again pretty soon. of all ‘countries in its provisions for the welfare of working women. The Women’s Department of the Communist Party calls on all work- |ingwomen in the United States to demonstrate at the hundreds of mass meetings which will be in this coun- try on March 8 to unite and or- ganize for the fight that must be waged to win the demands that are the right of every workingwomen, , | Jos2® Garcia, Emilio Novas, Juan Blanco,, JAIL 6 PEASANTS at the Havana Workers’ Center. Last evening the fascist meeting in! IN BUCHAREST Collisions Continue in | Germany (Wire By Inprecorr} ERLIN.—Yesterday eveniig the ishanner attacked workers in the gallery at the meeting in. tht: Berlin Borough Council. They used steel reds and clubs, ete. Afterwari col- lisions again occurred before the ‘Town Hall, where the fascists shot a Reichsbannerman. A fascist was ar- j Pested. | Last evening collisions. between workers and fascists octurred in Weissensee. Three fascists were seri- ously injured. Two arrests were made. A collision occurred in the’ ‘hall of a fascist meeting in Flensburg, when the fascist guards tried to eject Com- munist workers, A fascist was’ seri- | ously injured. At the Leipzig trial workers are accused occurred: The accused Wagner. as desp}bed | by the Reichswehr employee, P¢stner, {came to the Communist Party. of- fices and offered a great armssdump administered by the Reichswehr- for the fascists, Communists ‘thought Pestner a spy, and decided to expose him, When Wagner refefred to the | origin of the dump the colirt ex¢luded the general public, and “conducted a | four-hour secret session. | The judge obviously strived to clear | Petner at the cost of the accused. where= thirty the__ following and police terror pre-|the Reichswehr barracks in Leipzig|The trial was adjudged until Thurs- | day. | oer | BUDAPEST.—Six peasants were seized and sentenceti to various ferms charged with distributing Coifimunist | literature. 4 | . PARIS.—Dockers of La Pallice were locked ont today because they refused |to unload a ship from Havreswhere a | strike is in process. . MAYOR AND CH PUT ON STAND Defense ForcesRelease of Five (Special to the Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 1. — Seven workers were arrested in East Liverpool on February §25th during |the Unemployment Demonstration here. Over a thousand employed and unemployed workers gathered in and outside the court room on Fri- |day at 2 p. m. when the trial started. | The International Labor Defense |put the mayor and the chief-ef po- |lice on the stand to prove that they |are persecuting these workerg-for or. |ganizing and leading the unemployed | against starvation, and that they, the | authorities, are helpless and bank- |rupt in the face of this important situation. Five of the workers were released. Mahoney, an active Negro worker, was charged with Criminal Syndi- calism and placed on $4,000 bail. J. Komo was charged with speaking without a permit and was held on $225 bail. The International Labor | Defense bailed out both the workers and is appealing the cases. Arrangements are being made by the LL.D. to hold mass protest meet- ings in that city to mobilize the workers against the bosses’ terror and dicalist law. 1931 CALENDAR FREE! Quotations from Marx, Lenin, ete., im the first annual Daily Worker Calendar for 1931. Free with six months subscription or renewal. NITGED AIGET CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $17 A WEEK CAMP SITGEPAIGET, BEACON, N.Y PHONE 731 FURNISHED BEDROOM — Suitable for a couple or two girle—2723 Barnes Avenue, Apt. 4-D, Allerton Sub. Sia