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q DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 1 10, 1931 Fage Three_ ADMIT GUILT; ASK CHANCE TO ATONE} v CRIMES; “SHOULD BE SHOT”, ONE SAYS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ¢ialism in the Soviet Union, a belief , preceding speakers about the estimate | smashed by the Mensheviks be-| that was completely events. Then came a purely counter-revolutionary | . Organization. Several dealt with the question: “Why did we not think of these things five minutes earlier than the GP.U. got us?” These were the words of Sukhanov. Petunin asserted | it was not an idiotic conception that forced their confessions, or the bio-| logical instinct of self-preservation, for there was nothing left to die for. Rubin said that all Mensheviks in the last period carried seeds of doubt of the correctness of their anti-revo- lutionary policy. Ikov said the prose- cutor, an old Party member, can un- derstand what it means at the age of 50 to break with the Party after 30 years of work, not in diplomacy, but in the realization of Menshevism! which now leads only to fascism.) Even then he was powerless to ar-| rest the development of Socialism. Rubin, Sokolovsky and Berlatsky asked for an opportunity to repair | partially the damage done by their work. Ikov agreed that the demand of the prosecutor was politically cor- rect, and that it was his most pain- ful thought that the workers’ struggle years. If isolation in prison is not unreducable, then he requests the op- portunity to use his knowledge in the service of the workers even in prison. find anything healthy in his past ac- tivity “to destroy me,” if not, “give me an opportunity to atone for my} crime by work in the service of the} proletariat and not to die branded as a traitor.” Then Krylenko renounced the right to reply on the ground that the ac- cused themselves exposed the petty- bourgeois nature of Menshevism and gave a political estimate of their counter-revolutionary work. ‘The accused, under the Soviet code, and unequalled anywhere, were then given the right to the last word, but used it briefly, adding little to their defense speeches, excepting that Suk- hanov declared he wanted to die if the court required it, as he was filled with extreme contempt for his own crimes and the idea of his wrecking and intervention work. The court then retired to consider the decision. eG (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 7.—This morn- ing’s session opened with the defend- ing speeches of Volkov and Teitle- baum, through their defense counsel, Braude. He emphasized that the Mensheviks were distinguished only politically and psychologically by their hesitancy, half-heartedness, and because they were unable to under- stand the trend of events. Volkov, he said, an ex-worker, was typical in not being against the No- vember revolution. He, however, unmobilized the pro-red army, and lke many Mensheviks tried the mid- dle course of neutrality. He re- garded the Nep as a stage of in- evitable restoration of capitalist re- lations, hostile to the socialist of- fensive, and being isolated and sur- rounded by specialists, he was easily recruited, through Stern, for the criminal work. He broke with this internally long ago, and asks for an portunity to rejoin the proletariat in creative work, Regarding Teitelbaum ne said he was for many years in a Bolshevik jail, that he was an exile and an unstable character. Though he was sent to do Menshevik work in Ber- lin, he formed a Tade Mission. He formed a goup of only three or four and returned without hesitation to the Soviet Union, unlike many others, despite his frequent contact and in- fluence of the Menshevik leaders in Berlin. The latter called the defend- ants cowards, but there is too long a Political struggle for this to be true, Braude challenged Krylenko’s doubts about the sincerity of Suk- hanov and Ikov, which was a heavy blow to the old party worker Ikov to admit. In the Industrial Party trial he saw himself as in a mirror. You must take into account the heavy blow inflicted on Russian and world Mensheviks by the revelations of the accused, ‘\ Komodov, on behalf of Finnyeno- taesky, also emphasized the total fail- | we to understand events which led out of the Bolshevik Party in 1915, and after years of work caused him to misunderstand the New Economic Policy as the beginning of capitalist restoration, as well as the misunder- standing of the discussions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, believing this to be the disintegra- tion of the Communist Party. He misunderstood the role of the Soviet Power, which led him to the wreck- ing work and fiually to the appeal for intervention, which would also be beaten. Finnyenotaesky in his last years was a scientific worker. He was an old member of the Menshevik Bureau, ut took no concrete part in the wrecking activity. He left the bureau May, 1930, and he asked for an ity freely to work to repair fee damage by oe solentitio activity, | their ° | (eBpectal Cable to ‘the Daily Worker) ‘MOSCOW, March 8.—Sher made a speech in his own defense. He began his revolutionary work in 1902, In | 1905 he was a Menshevik, when he was secretary of the insurrectionary Moscow Soviet. The Mensheviks drew the conclusion in 1905 in favor of a bloc with the . bourgeoisie and re- formism against revolution. His liqui- dationist views, in years reached jin- for war, He agreed with the ne ia, th A ll a zr i | Speeches and proceedings. proceeds without him after so many) ofthe degeneration of Menshevism, | vember, He |He concluded by saying that today every Menshevik was a potential in- class. | guilt. Sher said he recognized his Whereas in 1905, after the revolution he awaited death fearless- ly, he said he was unable today be- cause he recognized his criminal |path, and asked to live to repair the damage he had done. Ginsburg then endorsed the descrip- tion of the Menshevik organization |made by Krylenko. He described his |35 years in social democratic activity. He joined that party in 1897; he was first exiled in 1902. After the revo- lution of 1905 he worked chiefly in legal organization of unions and pa- pers. He said he was loyal to the | Soviet government until 1925 because he believed it was a new path to capitalism. Doubts were created in his mind in the turn towards socialist construction in 1926. This gradually led to his criminal activities, which were fully described in previous He said he was unafraid of death, but he felt it was painful to die at the hands of the proletarian government as a traitor of the working class. Should : | the court decide to allow him his life, Petunin said if the court does not} his desire was to serve the revolution and to justify confidence. Yakubowitch in an impassioned speech which was not intended to defend or to justify asked the court to reject Krylenko’s demand for the supreme penalty. He minutely traced the political evolution prior to and after the revolution. Like the others, he emphasized the conception that the New Economic Policy was a Bol- shevik retreat and a position towards struction which caused a turn in the violent struggle of the Anti-Soviet forces, and encouraged hopes of the decomposition of the Party of the Soviet Union. He said he realized that interven- tion meant the sharpening of the temporary sufferings of the workers, but thought this inevitable. He worked not for the extra thousand roubles but was logically and fanatic- ally developing the Menshevik princi- ples. In 1930 events completely ex- posed the illusions of the Mensheviks, and the triumphant socialist con- struction through proletarian en- thusiasm ,and revealed the criminal and treacherous work of the wreck- ers long before they were jailed. He said he realized the trial was an act in the class struggle. He said he had hitherto been on the other Side of the barricades. The measures demanded by the prosecutor, he said, were not exaggerated, but his con- solation in the hour of death would be that even in that late hour he Participated in*this act in the strug- gle of the workers on their side of the barricades. Helping the court to expose Men- shevism and the Second Interna- tional, Zalkind endorsed the previous speeches. He described his evolution from Bolshevism to Menshevism through intellectual and individual detachment from the workers. Like the others, he does not believe the new line of the Mensheviks began in 1927. He points out the change of the social basis, which was shown even in the municipal elections of 1917 in the Menshevik seats i nthe middle class areas. He traced the wrecking work when the Soviet policy showed that the New Economic Policy is not the restoration of capitalism but a breathing space presuming so- cialist advance. His doubts began in 1930, six months prior to his arrest. He asked his release from the plan- ning work. He regarded the maxi- mum jail sentence demanded by Krylenko, in view of the prospect of his life, as eliminating him from the Prospect of working for the socialist construction even in the smallest ex- tent. This he considered equivalent to death. (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 8.—Groman, one of the defendants in the trial of the 14 Mensheviks, continued his final speech before the proletarian court. He emphasized his recognition of guilt in the preliminary examination and in the trial and said that his aim now was to establish the real motive forces of the leading defend- ants. He traced the history of the Russian social democrats, the Men- sheviks, from the beginning, show- ing the development of opportunism. in the long years of pre-revolutionary struggle with the central aim of bourgeois revolution in Russia, which was regarded as the essential stage of socialism. Hence their pro-war attitude in 1914, and hence they wel- comed the New Economist Policy after the revolution as a step toward capitalism, and hence they welcomed the Trotskyist-Zinoviev and Bucharin oppositions as weakening the mono- poly of power of the Communist Par- oo! and following from this came wrecking activities deliberately to retard socialist construction, with the logical development of agreement with the Industrial Party, for inter- vention preparation, Stressing his own leading part, he declared that Krylenko’s estimate was just. His object was to assist the court to determine the exact de- gree of danger. He described his own biography from his first introduc- tion to socialist Mterature in 1889 at the age of 15, and his first exile jn 1006; his rise to leadership of a me and its logical development after No-| stressed the fact that) the Berlin group of the Second In-| ternational approved their every step. | terventionist enemy of the working| capitalism; a turn from socialist con- | Communist | Unemployed Coun- cils, Attention! ! | The T. U. U. at must have the following information at once: 1. The name and address of the secretary of every Unem- ployed Council. 2. The number of members in the Unemployed Council. | Send this information in today. We must make it possible for the national office of the T. U. U. L. and Labor Unity to address the Unemployed Councils directly from time to time. | ‘Trade Union Unity League, 2 W. 15th St.. New York, N. Y. the » Menshevik - party ty which | ‘he wu, used in recent years for wrecking pur- | poses. He declared that Menshevism today was bankrupt. life was granted that he would ful- | fill the line of the Communist Party | even under the severest conditions. | Outside of this he said, his life was | not needed. He said he wanted | partially to wipe out the great crimes ie has committed. Then Sukhanov commenced a two- | hour speech, objecting to the sharp | words of the prosecutor of yesterday about seeking originality. He said) re accepted full responsibility of his activity in the Menshevik Bureau in the USSR. He said he understood the social importance of the pregent | trial. He traced the evolution of Menshevism from .1903 at consider- able length. Today, he declared, Menshevism is the foundation of the capitalist state, and without it it is impossible to rule against the will | of the proletariat in the chief capi- | | talist countries. Under Russian con- disions, social democracy ig not a “loyal” opposition but counter-revo- lution. The slogan of the Menshey- iks in 1917, “Stop the Civil War,” was thrown out and directed, not | against the whites, but against the | workers, It was the first act of in- tervention policy. The further out- | standing step was the transfer of the | Menshevik executive, in the summer of 1918, from Soviet territory, where | they felt unfree, to the area of| Czechoglovak rebellion i nthe Volga. He said he entered Menshevism realizing all this, including the wrecking and intervention, which he | repeated was an essential part of | Menshevism. These views he said| are not new, and are not forced by prison walls, as all those who know him can confirm, He traced his personal biography, depicting the chief objection after | 1917 was military Communism, which they regarded ag a road to reaction. After the New Economic Policy they thought all was well, and in 1923 applied for membership in the Com- munist Party. In 1924 he edited the Soviet press abroad; in 1926, he was enthused by the British general strike. He was thrown off the track into complete panic by the econ- omic difficulties beginning in 1927. against these difficulties, and only | say the terrifying approach of mili- | tary Communism, driving him to en- ter the Menshevik block with Kon- dratyev, Ramzin, the Kulakg, and the devil himself. All this said Sukhanov was more than a crime; it was a mistake, in the words of one of Napoleon's min- isters. a eee Krylenko quoted a long series of articles from the Socialist Vesnik, paper of the Russian Social Demo- crats, written in 1929 and 1930. All| were drawn up with the same double- | faced terms, describable as legal agi- tation for pro-intervention. One, Shifrin, analyzing world politics, concludes that France, Britain and the border states, were uninterested in war on the Soviet Union, but feared the military action of the Soviet Union in India and China, creating a war danger and another Chinese Eastern Railway incident, declaring that it was Stalin’s policy to utilize the war panic, playing with fire. Another states that the Soviet government was staking its cards on military catastrophe. Another de- manded the Soviet workers to pre- vent the Soviet government from | Playing with war towards China, 25 years after the defeats of Czarism, thereby suggesting that the Soviet Policy was analagous to Czarism’s. Khylenko quoted the parallel de- clarations of the Second Interna- tional. Thus, “Vorwaerts,” German socialist organ, on December 3, 1929, said that the war menace was in- tensified by the struggle of self-de- termination of Georgia, Azerbaidjan and Armenia, A peace guarantee would be the internationalization of the oil in these regions, which is the fulfillment of Deterding’s dream, the detachment of the Caucasus from the U.SS.R. During the conflict over the Chin- ese Eastern Railway, the Second In- ternational declared in favor of the demand of Soviet withdrawal from the railway and settlement by ar- bitration. It supported the impudent interference of the imperialists. The manifestoes of the Second In- ternational, the articles in Vesnik, Abramowitch’s instructions on prac- tical wrecking—all are links in the same chain, social-fascist interven- tion preparations. Krylenko summarized the ample evidence produced, the accused's statements, the interception docu- ments, the published articles justi- fying the charges point by point, culminating in a withering descrip- tion of the accused counter-revolu- tionary group of wreckers formed to undermine Socialist construction, and to destroy planning, to prepare armed intervention in cooperation with the | resentative of Chicago, Ill, He said if his| |= | ON FORCED LABOR He failed to see the resolute struggle |, bourgeoisie, receiving money from the imperialists, allied with the or- ganizers of kulak insurrections, trait- appar et sip oie f Bb Chicago Distric t Concentrates On Fraternal Organizations; Red Builders L. Litt, district Daily Worker rep- sends a detailed, concrete letter in reply to our suggestions and increasing cir- culation. We have established a perman- BUY One Gpy or MORE From Tre Werke. WHO 1S SELLING THe Oa, oe), WORKERS bale. Tae STREET } OR ATTHE factoRn¥ GATE/. . ent Daily Worker Builders and Sustaining Council which meets regularly the first Sunday of the month,” he writes. “We now have | over 30 delegates definitely affil- | iated with the Council, and a num- ber of organizations represented by these delegates have already or- dered bundles, donated money, ar- ranged for affairs, etc.” In addition, the report informs us that organizations are voluntarily contributing a monthly affiliation fee. One delegate is receiving the Daily twice a month—25 copies, and sells these papers at the American Federation of Labor local union} meetings. The Council is initiating @ campaign for greetings to the Daily | on May 1, and is planning to raise | enough funds to get at least 30,000 copies of that edition. “One section, No. 5, Is quite good in building up house-to-house routes,” continues Litt. “This is due to the fact that we had a good section representative that attends the meetings of every unit buro and workers out with them the details of how they should cover the territory, etc.” | Wo: Activities Drop have been receiving letters showing a few facts and figures, letters which request regular payments for Daily ers received. One district has replied, showing its willingness to pay the bills, but adopting the wrong methods. From San Antonio, Texas, we re- jceived the following from Alma | Krause: “Please cancel at once the bundle order of 50 Daily Workers coming to George P. We will still be get- ting the bundle of five that comes for Sam S. and until we build up our organization this will be all we can handle. Just as soon as we possibly can will order a bundle that we know we can handle and pay for. As to the amount we owe now, will try and send something every week until it is paid up.” The way to pay our bills is to SELL the Daily Worker! Unem- ployed workers in San Antonio should be drawn into selling the paper most of their time, earning their expenses. Units, even if they sell only one- third of their bundle, still eover the price of the number they receive and have no excuse, therefore, for cut- ting orders. And if the amount owed for the “Daily” cannot be paid at once, a Daily Worker affair to raise a substantial sum should be arranged, This letter from San Antonio shows @ marked difference from the one received a month ago from George P., who wrote: “While we have just started to do real Party work here, we see the im- portance of Daily Workers. ... The unit decided that we get 50 copies every day and put unemployed workers to sell them.” Evidently the comrades in Texas have failed te build a good apparatus among the jobless workers, and should remedy the situation from that Which proves that a live repre- sentative on the spot produces re-| sults. Comrade Litt promises more | attention will be given to the Red Builders News Club which has cut its bundles by 100 a day because according to T. Lambraw, secretary | of the Club, “there was never any | effort at getting more sellers in the Club.” DETROIT RED ‘WSIE “The Murphy Unemployment Com- mittee has actually gone in for | slavery in Detroit,” writes Peter Petros, describing conditions under which workers are forced to work | in ice water in the River Rouge| Canal before they get their “gro-| ceries.”* “T have become a member of the | ‘Daily: Worker Red Builders Club, and I shall distribute the Daily among these workers and organize them to demand sufficient relief, and to demand that forced labor be stopped.” This is the first word received from the Detroit Red Builders recently organized. We want more! “DAILY” NEEDED IN NIAGARA FALLS “I was just sent to Niagara Falls, and found that without the Daily it is hard to carry on the work,” writes Peter S. “As soon as you get this letter I want you to start sending me 10 copies every day. Niagara Falls is a small and tough town, but the struggles will be big- ger.” The Falls won't be the only thing worth seeing when our comrades get started there! “FROM OUT OF THE WEST” A Daily Worker Builder, Ira A. Roberts, writes a refreshing note on what’s going on in the great open spaces: “Left Everett, Wash., last night,” | he says. “I sold Daily Workers for Max M. 15 days, about 4 hours a} day. Made an average of 12 sales a day, but of course I have been sick. “Comrades, I do wish to state that Max M., your Daily Worker agent in Everett is a bright spot. True to his colors as an Indian. He is a real fighting Red. You cannot do any better because Max is a real worker with the Daily Workers. Yours is Red always.” DON'T CUT BUNDLES TO PAY YOUR BILLS! Daily Worker bundles should be paid for. We cannot continue to print an average of 39,000 papers a day unless payment for most of these is made. That's why some districts cialist phrases, preparing a blow against the Soviet Union. This final stage in the evolution of the so-called Socialist organiza- tion determines the political and cri- minal responsibility and the degree of dangerousness of the defendants. They must be dealt with as the most dangerous of the white ele- ments. We must decide on the maxi- mum measures to safeguard the country, to impress those who still support them, ‘Thereafter, Krylenko made de- mands for the extreme penalties, “Let the capitalist press and the Second International lie about your severe sentences. The workers of the world supported us thirteen years, and they will respond to your words with the truth which will penetrate all barriers and obstacles, to the knowledge of the toiling mil- lions. “Your just sentence means a new | end, instead of cutting their bundle order to 5. This jis {Winfield |A. [Dwyer of Boston, Mass. who has been selling the Daily Worker regularly for three months, the only seller in Boston, as far as we know. Dwyer is Irish and except for rainy days sells an aver- age of 70 copies a day. We hope he won't be the lone seller much longer, and that a few more un- employed workers join him in get- ting the “Daily” started in Boston. STIMSON, BRITISH PUSH WAR ON USSR: Molotoff Reports at 6th Soviet Congress (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) had exported only 1,000,000,000 rubles | worth of commodities. On its face, the charge of dumping is a delib- erate lie. “Foolish Fish.” Molotoff attacked the “Foolish Fish Report,” and pointed out that this was seriously interfering with the trade of the two countries. The cry of “forced labor,” Molotoff said, was worse than absurd. He pointed out that while the richest capitalist countries were crowded with starving unemployed and wages were falling, in the Soviet Union unemployment did not exist. While wages were going down in the capitalist coun- tries, they were going up in the Soviet viet Union. Social insurance of all kinds is increasing in the Soviet Union. Social insurance of all kinds is increasing in the Soviet Union, Molotoff said. Allotments for wages was 2,800,000,000 rubles, $1,400,000,000 higher than last year. (In the United States wages for the workers were reduced over 9,000,000,000 last year). “In foreign countries,” Moletoff said, “the working day was from eight to twelve hours, while in the Soviet Union two-thirds of the workers were on the seven-hour day.” Tremendous applause greeted his declaration that “The victory of So- cialism is now fully assured!” Joseph Stalin, secretary of the Com- munist Party, Soviet Union was en- thusiastically greeted by the Con- gress and was made honorary mem-| ber of the presidium (the adminis- trative body of the Congress), eee rules of the embargo demand “proof” that the lumber was not produced with “convict labor.” Since there are no diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, this is a “legal” impossibility; hence, the embargo was intended to drive out Soviet products. The arrival of blow in the defense of the Socialist construction, and for the cause of the shiploads of lumber with sufficient proof to convince anybody is a test to Prove the real nature of the embargo. ' Anti-Imperialist Exhibit Arranged; OKLAHOM [A CITY MAYOR FEEDS JOBLESS CLUBS, Ask for Material SHERIFFS AND DICKS To Combat Imperialist! ¥ Exhibit In May BERLIN.—An anti-imperialist ex- hibit is being arranged by the League Against Imperialism in Berlin and Paris in May, 1931, to offset the In- ternational Colonial Exhibition to be arranged by the French, British, Bel- gian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese and American imperialists in Paris be- ginning in May of this year and last- ing to October. The imperialists are arranging this exhibit to cover up their murderous policy in the col- onies, and to mislead the workers as to the true role of the imperialist powers. To combat this the League Against | Imperialism is calling upon all its sec- | tions to aid in arranging a real anti- imperialist exhibit—photographs of the treatment of the colonial masses; documents showing exploitation; workers’ and peasants’ newspapers and propaganda material, and all such exhibits as will show the real conditions of the colonial masses, as | well as the purpose of imperialist rule. Every worker who has any such material should forward it to the League Against Imperialism, Interna- tional Secretariat, 24 Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, 8. W. 48. In a circular issued to all its sections, the League Against Imperialism appealing for this ma- terial says: “The League Against Imperialism which is the only international or- ganization that devotes itself to the struggle of the oppressed masses of the colonial countries, has resolved to organize a counter-exhibit, an inter- national anti-imperialist exhibition, to be held in Paris during the period | of the so-called “International Col- onial Exhibition.” In spite of the very short time at our disposal to carry through the work of collecting | and organizing vast material neces- | sary for the success of the proposed | exhibition, the International Secre- | tariat of the League Against Imper- ialism ‘has requested the French Sec- | tion of the League to open the Anti- Imperialist Exhibition even on a small | = | scale, on or about the same date as the “Colonial Exhibition,” that is, in May, 1931. All workers are called upon to aid lin the arrangements for this exhibi- | tion, CHICAGO CITY RELIEF T0 STOP (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) dreamed of becoming public wards.” | With 700 new families approaching charities every day and with the number of unemployed mounting above the 500,000 mark, the specter of thousands of more workers and their families starving and freezing to death hovers over Chicago. Bond Issue a Fake. Due to the pressure of the mili- tant mass demonstrations here the county board proposed to the state legislature $2,000,000 bonds for re~ lief. The $650,000 already alloted for | the whole year is already spent, and $70,000 additional is spent, The bonds are all that the capitalist gov- ernment has proposed for the jobless and now William Struckmann, attor- ney for the county board, declares: “The action of the legislature willbe that poor relief must stop at once. There is no other alternative. The Jaw is plain. Under the supreme court decision the county is pro- hibited to continue expenditures for poor relief under the guise of emer- gency.” Of course, if it was a war they had on hand, or if they wanted to raise money to smash a strike, the law would be found not so strict. But just to save workers from star- ving to death—then the law is strict. | Vote Communist, | | In the present election campaign, these facts show that Cermak, the democrat, and Thompson, the re- publican candidate for mayor, are only playing with the lives of the hungry jobless, holding out vain hopes and laughing at those who are fooled thereby. Only the Com- munist Party has a real program, for a $75,000,000. appropriation from the city to provide $15 a week for each jobless worker, to stop evictions and for free gas, light and electricity. Only the Communist Party demands that there be no discrimination against Negro workers. Vote Com- munist on April 7—Otto Wangerin for mayor, August Poansjoe for city treasurer and Lydia Bennett for city clerk, BENTON, Ill, March 9.—Unem- ployment in Southern Illinois among the miners has reached an alarming . Workers Arrested On Oklahoma City, Mo. Daily Worker: ‘They don’t allow labor to look for work in the Bow and Arrow State. They have a slave market here, run by the C. of C. which supplies labor | to their friends. I missed a man from the unem- ployment ranks and thought he had left town. I saw him two days ago and he told me that he had gone out of town to look for work in the resident district. The police in charge of that district seeing his shabby appearance pulled him into jail and held him on a vagrancy | charge. He was put in jail for a | whole month. In the place where oil was struck in Tairyton one of the old cattle- rustling hangouts, there are K.K.K. Socialists, Republicans and some De: mocrats who are the same people that ran out Jim Ferguson when he was elected Governor last fall. They had put out a man named H. Murry New York, N, Y. Daily Worker: A graphic illustration of white| chauvinism and the method used in | keeping Negroes at variance with the white occurred in my school in the Bronx, N. Y. A circular came to me asking me to fill out the nationality of each | child. The nationality was to be| judged by the birthplace of the fath- er, Thus a father who was born in| England has we say an English child. | The list had many nationalities and | ended with colored. The colored | children were not to consider them- selves American even though their} fathers were born in America, The | ist was American, Polish, French, | Spanish, etc., and colored. They try to isolate the Negro chil- dren from the fact that they are| Americans in this way. When I asked Editor Daily Worker: the priests. The answer to my questi people about three months because fakers. you, but from now on me and my Foltis and Fisher Fire New York, N. Daily Worker: The workers of the Foltis andj Fisher Cafeterias have received} within 6 months a 15 per cent wage reduction. The Company continues to reduce the wages of workers in| many ways such as transferring the workers to different departments where a smaller wage is given. The Company also fires all the workers who complain, every day, and hire new workers. These new workers are given lower wages than those re-| ceived by the former. They have also introduced a spy system to terrorize the workers into shutting up on the rotten conditions here. They use the Labor Department to ¥. Communist Candidate Votes Eldorado, Tl. Daily Worker: Just a few lines to let you know that in the March 3, 1931, elections I received 79 votes for Mayor. The election was a primary. There were 1,732 votes cast. With this number of yotes and the many other sympathizers who Not Permitted to Look for Work, Are Vag Charges for Governor who had pretended to be a great friend of the workers and farmers until he took his seat, when he turned out to be their worst | enemy. On February 10 when the workers and farmers marched to the State Capitol, he called out the State Troops, notified the Sheriffs and the dicks to fight the marchers, and calmly took a trip to Illinois on per- sonal business. That’s how much he protected the workers and farmers. Not only that but he has raised the taxes, helped cut the wages and has organized a fake relief to unemploy- ed workers by offering them two bowls of rotten soup a day in return for cleaning streets. In the February 25 demonstration, he also called out his cops and dicks who were ordered to beat up the de- monstrators and then to take them to the filthy jails for investigation. —One of the Workers. White Chauvinism Enforced in N. Y. Public Schools those children with American fathers to stand, the three colored children I have in my class did not stand. I repeated my question, and asked the children to stand of those whose fathers were born in the U. S. A glimmer of wonder entered their eyes. They stood up and told me that one father was born in Spring- field, one in Richmond, and the third in St. Louis. They were very puzzled since they had always been told that they weren’t Americans, It was a strange experience to be called an American in a New York City | School—It seemed! Thus subtlely and insidiously do the Public Schools breed race dis- | crimination. I send this in with hope that more Negroes will realize the nature of this government. —A Teacher. Parish Priest Refuses to Aid Mother in Need Brooklyn, N. Y. On March 6 I went to the parish church to ask relief or half from ion was: No, we don’t help ang more they are only money suckers and My father is seriously ill and we are in very bad condition. The priest also said we should ask help from the Charities bureau, for they can be bothering with helping anyone. Then I said it would be very nice if I would continue to give nickels and quarters to the church to support family will go to church no more. Friends, keep away from the churches, —A Mother, and Reduce Wages of Workers supply inspectors, who quiz the work- ers every week as to how many hours they work and the pay they receive. The workers thinking they are here to relieve conditions are ready to give them the desired information, which is brought to the officials of the company, who fire those who have told too much and the company promises the others better conditions which have not as yet been started. They are trying to prevent the workers from organizing the Food Workers Industrial Union, which they can’t do, since the workers are tired of the rash promises and are beginning to organize, against these wage cuts and the other rotten con- ditions of this slave institution. —A Worker. Gets 79 Out of 1732 Cast haven’t woke up enough to support the movement in every way we can do a great job. Times are growing more miser- able each day. People are getting arrested every day here in the coal- fields for taking something Sf must have. —Wm. R. Gir to give aid, stating that the funds it has were only for drought-stricken farmers. The starving miners are asking where the money goes, be- cause it has been reported to them that the starving farmers are re- ceiving only about $1 2 month to live upon from the Red Cross. They are also asking what the Red Cross in- | tends to do with the $44,000,000 it has in its treasury and which repre- sents assets in part invested in 13 buildings. One-half of the workers in Frank- lin County are without jobs, Banks have failed. Williamson County is gives a few starving miners’ fam- ilies 50 cents worth of food every two weeks. The families of 84 rail- road workers who have been out of work a Jong time are being cared for by employed railroad workers at Hurst-Bush. ‘The miners in Benton have begun the work of organizing the unem- ployed miners into Unemployed Councils so that the fight for im- mediate relief from the bosses and the government may be carried on in an organized manner. The star- ving miners and their families in Southern Illinois should consider or- ganizing a hunger march, invade the in the same condition. In Franklin stage. The Red Cross has refuused County a fake charity organization state capitol at Springfield and com- pel the state government to act. 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