The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1931 Page Three VENTURA CHILDREN| FAINT FROM HUNGER IN SCHOOL; MISERIES GROW Vicious Boss Judge Sentences Sacramento Job- less Worker to N inety Days In Jail Sut Sacramento Jobless Militant and Are Growing In Struggle for Relief Daily Worker: Sacramento, Cal. Just to show what conditions are in California, I am send- ing you a clipping from the Sacramento Bee, a boss paper. This shows how the people are starving to death right here in the golden state of parasites and corrupt politicians. Children fainting in school from hunger in Ventura, Cal., mothers dig- ging in the garbage cans picking up bones off the street to feed their little children. And if they say they are hungry, where the police hear them they give them blackjacks. Judge L. M. Shelley, police judge, sentenced our comrade Emil John- son to jail for 90 days because he took part in the demonstration on February 10. This lousy judge told Johnson if he did not like this coun- try and its institutions why didn’t he go to Russia where his kind were in power. This corrupt judge gets $3,900 a year for sentencing workers to fail. Just a short time now till the work- ers will give him and his whole damn ar police force a pick and shovel and put them to work like they did in Russia in 1917. The workers in Sa- cramento will get another hall and they will be several times stronger than on February 10. We will be strong enough so that the police can’t smash us. The police made hundreds of Communists here in Sacramento and the boss class has not got brains enough to know it. } —An Unemployed Shop Worker. Minden Mines, Mo. Mayor Finds Jobless “Solution” Minden Mines, Mo. {ployment problem, temporarily at/Clear case of race discrimination. Daily Worker:— ©ur city mayor thought that he would solve unemployment in our lit-/ a cost of about $1,000. Only married has worked at his trade since early te city. So he puts in a new white! men are hired and crews changed fre-, childhood and been subjected not way lighting system which costs $1,000 | and he employed 8 of his friends to do the work. The capitalist paper wrote an ar-|only 8, ‘They did not change the crew | tion and Jim Crowism practiced by | | ticle as follows: “Minden has solved its own unem- jleast. Twelve men are employed |daily on the new white way lighting system being installed by the city at |quently so that as many as possible | have work.” But they did not employ 12 men, |—the same crew that started it fin- | ished it. —E. N. T. Government Engravers Deprived of Half-Day Saturday Holiday WASHINGTON, D.C.—The workers in the Bureau of Printing and En- graving (which is under the Treas- ury Department) recently staged “one of the most extraordinary demonstra- tions seen in a government depart- ment or bureau” according to the Washington Post of March 6. ‘The workers “yelled derisively” at their foremen the Post continues in ® front page article “and for a few minutes there was something like a revolution in various divisions. Short Lived Joy. ‘The trouble started when foremen tried to prevent the workers from ex- pressing their joy at the passage of things are not allowed during working hours. The joy was short lived however. As the Post headlines announce the workers are to be robbed of their half-holiday. Not only that but they are to work overtime and Sundays too, while layoffs or “furloughs” of three to five days per month without pay are to be enforced. This action of the great engineer in the White House hit the workers “with som thing like a thunder bolt yesterday A clipping of the Post article is en- closed herewith. —J.W. GARVEY MOVEMENT COLLAPSES; By CYRIL BRIGGS Arising out of the terrific mass suf- fering and ruthless slaughter of mil- lions of workers in the imperialist war, the close of the World War saw a world-wide revolutionary ferment among the disinherited workers and colonial peoples. The successful pro- letarian revolution in Russia served to fan the flames of this mass discontent by affording inspiration and guidance to the oppressed masses. Among the Negro masses there de- BABIES DIE OF HUNGER INU. 8 New York Times Lies About Soviets (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) cally states the cause of death to be “indigestion,” and the contributory cause “lack of food!” And what about conditions in the Soviet Union? There are crowds of witnesses to show that nobody, nobody whé works, is starving in the Soviet Union. But we prefer to use the N. Y. Times to sho wyou that the N. Y. Times is an infernal Har, The day before the editorial lie appeared, on Monday, March 9, on page 8 of the Times, an article by a capitalist newspaper man, Henry Wales, cabled from Moscow said: “Careful observation of the crowds on the streets fails to show any in- dication of starvation or even under- But you see that it is a le! ‘You see that only under capitalism are babies of the workers dying of starvation. You sce that only after the workers by revolution, overthrow capitalism, is there food, shelter and clothing for those who toil! Use your Red Shock Troop List | the country were meeting with armed | veloped a deep conviction of the ne- cessity of a militant struggle against the brutal oppression and murderous such as “the right of self-determina- world,” were avidly seized upon by the Negro masses. The eyes of thous- ands of the most militant of the Negro workers and farm laborers were eagerly turned toward the revolu- tionary movement. Mass support was easily secured for militant publica- The Emancipator, The Messenger (whose editors had not yet betrayed the Negro Liberation Struggles). In Harlem and other Negro centers huge crowds nightly listened to revolu- tionary speeches by Richard B. Moore, W. A. Domingo, Otto Huiswoud, and Herbert Harrison. (Harrison had not then launched on his opportunistic career which so marred his revolu- tionary record in the years preced- ing his death.) Negroes throughout defense the terrorist attacks of the bosses. On every hand were unmis- | takable signs of a militant determin- ation to resist the attacks of the bos- sos and wage the liberation struggle. At this moment Marcus Garvey ap- the Saturday half-holiday law. Such | tions like The Crusader, The Voice, | Unloose Terror On Coder and Hurst Were Lynched By Mob (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) preparations for celebration of May 1. International Labor Day this year falls in the midst of deep and widespread unemployment and dur- ing a.wave of wage-cuts May Day takes on added importance because of this, the strugle of the interna- tional proletariat against the hor- rors of capitalism gains strength from the fact that the workers sim- ply must fight or die. Comrade Charles J. Coder, Daily Worker representative of Dallas, Texas, who, together with Comrade Lewis Hurst, was beaten with double ropes and left for dead by an armed gang after being kidnapped last Fri- day, has not yet been found, accord- ing to the latest report. Last Thursday we received an en- thusiastic note from Coder, from which we quote: “Am at present receiving 50 cop- ies of the Daily. Received the is- sue of the 26 this afternoon. Good service!” In Youngstown a united front May Day conference with delegates from | all workers’ organizations ie being | held Sunday, April 5, at 7 p. m., at 334 E, Federal St. Similar confer- ences are being held in Warren, East | Liverpool, Mesury and New Castle. | With the steel workers will march | | the miners of the Ohio coal fields. Among the miners, unemployment | cuts deeper even than among the mill workers. . Negro Demonstrator to Trial. EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, March 11.—Roy Mahoney, a militant Negro | worker, will be triad under the “‘crim- | inal syndicalist” act of Ohio, which carries with it a ten-year sentence | in the penitentiary, for participating }in an unemployed demonstration. | Mahoney was arrested with six other | workers, but all except the Negro | militant were released, which is a He is out on $4,000 bail furnished , by the International Labor Defense. Roy Mahoney is a bricklayer who | he continues. Coder enclosed $1 in part payment of bundles received, promising to be paid up for the next week. “Am encouraging the unemployed workers to sell them, and willsoon have a Red Builders’ Club here,” “One hundred cop- ies (issues of the 19th and 2ist) are in jail, as “evidence” in the frame-up vagrancy charge against | Comrade Lewis Hurst. Workers are not being interfered with in Daily Worker sales, the court hay- ing ruled that it is a legal paper.” Comrade Coder, who had also planned forming a Red Builders’ | News Club in Fort Worth in the near | | future, and who expected to double | Fights For Daily j only to the usual exploitation of the l average worker in America but has suffered because of race discrimina- | the white ruling class. A few years | ago Mahoney joined the Communist | Party and the Trade Union Unity | ‘League and participated and led in} many struggles of the workers in| Liverpool. The employers of this | city have had their eye on him for} | a long time an@ have now finally ar- rested him and fully expect to send ; him up for 10 years. The International Labor Defense | is fighting vigorously his case and) calls upon all workers “to come in | militant fashion in defense of this | | working-class leader, proving our | | solidarity with all workers of all'races | who are leading in the struggle | |against the ruling class the world}. | over.” eh oe ee 4 | NEW BRITAIN, Conn., March 11. | —The Unemployed Council .of the} Trade Union Unity League is follow- | ing up the successful unemployment | demonstration held on Feb. 25, by | calling upon the unemployed ‘work- | Star and Hartford, and march to) the City Hall, where an unemployed | delegation will present their demands | at the Ukrainian Hall, 11 Erwin Pl.) |. .The chief demand of the unem- | in order to provide every unemployed | mand the endorsement of the Work- | ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Five thousand unemployed work- | ers are walking the streets in New Britain, and practically all the oth- ers are working part time, so that on some days of the week practically all factories are closed down, OPEN SCHOOL IN CALIF. DISTRICT To Train Students for Class Struggle BERKELEY, Cal.—Every day the capitalist system pounds its poison into the heads of working class youth, poisoning them with beautiful | phrases of the hopes, promises and | peace of our “prosperous” country. | While listening to the beautiful peared on the scene. ‘With the appearance of Garvey and the spread of his pernicious influence the struggle of the Negro masses was diverted into reformist channels and away from the revolutionary move- ment. This, of course, did not occur at once. It was some time before Garvey developed those schemes and eloquence which were to so seriously deceive the Negro masses with illu- sions of escape from the hell of capi- talist oppression by surrendering the struggle in the United States to re- turn to an Africa still groaning under the lash of the imperialist slave dri- vers or, (a later development of the .|Garvey philosophy) of helping their own bourgeoisie wrest from the white bourgeoisie the right to ® greater share in the exploitation of the Negro masses. From the very start, Marcus Garvey ‘was adept in covering up his betrayal of the liberation struggle of the Negro masses by fake struggle phrases of “throwing the white man out of Af- “seizing Africa for the Negro,” of rica,” ete., ete. Under cover of these struggle phrases, Garvey deliberately sought phrases of hope, workers’ children fain in the school room from sheer hunger. While Hoover's Peace and Plenty words float through the sir, 11,000,000 workers are seeking jobs to ward off starvation. We must counteract all this bunk, and expose the corruption of the capitalist system. We workers must have training scholos of our own, to develop leaders who will be able | to lead the workers in their relentless struggle for freedom. Such a school is now in progress in the California District. The student body of our Workers School is composed of workers from the basic industries and sections of the State. We have workers from Los Angeles, Stockton, Sacramento, Oakland, Fort Bragg, San Jose, Eu- reka, and San Francisco: It is in- teresting to note that eleven of the students are young workers. The majority of the students are Amer- ican. This fact goes to show that the Communist Party 1s Americaniz- ing itself, and is firmly imbedding itself in the American working class. The worker students will be trainec. and better fitted to take active part in the work in this district. Workers alliances with the imperialst enemies of the Negro masses, with the notor- every day un your job. The worker nest to ren NBL ny tte Dat ‘Worker. ious Ku Klux Klan, with the southern slave drivers. othe as will be grounded in the fundamentals of the class struggle and will be bet- ter fitted to take part in the day to day struggles in building a mass or- ganization, Here is Walter Stein, member of the N. ¥. Red Builders’ News Club. He walked into Louis’ Restraurant on First Ave., near 14th St., shout- ‘ing “Get the Daily Worker, the only. working-class newspaper,” when.a fireman, a 100 per center, declared Stein ought to be thrown out with that Bolshevik paper, and he an American, too. “The only difference between you and mej’ explained Stein patiently, “is that you take the bosses’ point of view ‘and.J take. the workers’ point of view, ers of New Britain to demonstrate | his order within, a week, showed | jon Friday at 1 o'clock at Winter, | splendid energy in the beginning of | BANKRUPT TO WORKING CLASS Daily Worker activities in Dallas, and we hope that both he and Com- rade Hurst are found so that they to the city administration. Follow-/can continue their militant work | ing this a mass meeting will be held | against the terroristic methods of the Ui government there. terrorism to which they are subjected | ployed delegation will be the immedi- | BALTIMORE RAPID under the capitalist system. Slogans | ate appropriation of at least $500,000,, TEMPO MAINTAINED The Baltimore, Md., Red Builders tion,” “Africa for the Africans,” “Full | worker with a minimum of $10 per | are still going strong. Carl Bradley, equality of the Negro masses of the| Week? the delegation will also de-| star reporter of the group's activi- | ties furnishes some more light, as | follows: “Holloway, an unemployed work- er, just joined the sellers today and made a good job of selling 33 Daily Workers to the longshoremen at Locust Point. He knows what the Daily Worker means to the work- ers, and will be one of the most promising sellers.” Comrade. Holloway, after two weeks’ membership in the club, will receive a Red Cartoon book. Others who are qualified are: Thomas, Da- vis, Edwards, Gross and Hynes. “Today's sales were exceptionally good,” continues Bradley, assuring us that an increase in bundles will be ordered when a more sure guarantee of deliveries is put into effect. Bradley has sent in some corking good snapshots of most of the mem- bers of the News Club, ‘Thomas, Hynes, Bradley and Edwards, as well as of Davis, Negro best seller of the lot. Published in a few days. Watch for them! “CAN'T FIND ‘DAILY’ ADDRESS”; BALTO. NEWSIE “I run across a lot of fellows in my travels selling Daily Workers,” says Hynes, one of the Baltimore Red Builders. “The average worker looking through the Daily will have a helluva time finding address. There ought to be some real at- tractive, conspicuous BOX that is similar to a sub blank or applica- tion. Labor Unity has a fairly good one.” SHOWS FRIENDS HOW TO START ROUTE From Martin Depner of Chicago, who wishes to help an unemployed worker sell the Daily Worker: “If you would inform me as to how I could act as an agent, starting with ® bundle of 25, my proposal is to walk around the working-class dis- trict, selling them with a slogan ‘Buy a Daily Worker and get acquainted | with existing conditions.’” HUNGARIAN WORKER ORDERS 50 A DAY L. T. of Pontiac, Mich, a Hun- garian worker who realizes the im- portance of the “Daily” in uniting native and foreign-born, writes: “Replying to yours of Feb. 26, I am willing to accept a bundle of 0 every day. I am willing to de Dallas, ‘Daily” Agent Not Yet)French Financier Texas Workers Found, Planned News Club;| Admits Plan Gains Baltimore Red Builders Lively) cays Soviets Carrying! re: MARCH Nate vey ONGE! Sperie Hen iepey Demons aaron’ 4 AMIN EVERY ee 2M with / ey, Stee: WORKERS = WA ALWAYS AND a TH ba TM! 4 Naas = everything I can in Pontiac for our movement, The capitalists can’t feed the workers with lies and Promises all the time.” “MORE NEGROES READ OUR DAILY” “Send ten dailies for five days. | Workers ask many questions, so if |I cannot answer I tell them: ‘You |read the Daily Worker. The answer is in there.’ So some of them do | read. More Negro workers are in- | clined to read our Daily. Kennedy Radio Corp. laid off 800 workers. The same with the other small factories here.”—S. Turkal, South Bend, Ind. The issue of last Tuesday, March 10, was the first to break all rec- ords for the early train. The edi- torial department was only two minutes late, and the press started at 8:05 p. m. (8 o’clock being the regular time), which resulted in 17,000 papers making the 10:50 p, m. fast mail train. The mailing department fs not yet fully or- ganized, but this situation will be rectified. We are planning to get the whole national edition out on this train every night, and we want reports on the arrival of the papers all over the United States. | MARION, OHIO | COUNCIL ACTIVE | From J. Fromholz, Daily Worker | representative of Cleveland, Ohio: | “An unemployed council has been working in Marion, Ohio, for some time, but has just been connected with the Center of the Unemployed Council. They are ready to spread | the Daily Worker among the Marion workers, so send them a bundle order of 25 daily.” ‘UTW TRIES T0 ROB STRIKERS Asks Court for Funds | and Building (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | last week simply ordered the men | back to work, with a threat to expel | them if they did not go. The National Textile Workers’ Inion had been urging these men to seize control of their own struggle, disregard MacMahon and Kelly and carry it to victory. Form Another Union. ‘The striking weavers in a meeting Saturday voted to go on with the strike. Kelly and MacMahon de- | clared the local dissolved. The strik- | ers’ meeting was unanimously in fa- | vor of defying the U. T. W. heads. | The rank and file members rose one | after another and exposed the long | role of scabbery and treachery that | MacMahon had played in their af- | fairs. They voted to revive their old organization they had before being | brought into the U. T. W., and to use |and old charter of “Local 25” which they accused the U. T. W. of disrupt- ing and disorganizing years ago. MacMahon, having been exposed to his face in previous meetings, dared not appear at this one, but sent Kelly. Kelly tried several times to speak and was howled down by the strikers. Kelly then hid himself at the rear of the platform and said no more. Militant Picketing. * "The hosiery strikers, now nominally lead by the U. T. W., are developing militancy in their strike, against the wishes of Gorman, Kelly and Mac- Mahon. An active picketing demon- stration March 9 turned into @ bat- tle with the police at the gates of the Strahn mill, in the course of which police reserves and riot squads were sent in to club and arrest 78 Pickets. The court yesterday dismissed all but four, one of whom was fined $25 and the others $5 each. These three were workers, not strikers, who joined the picketing, and the heaviest fine was given the man who was accused of being a Communist. ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION; DEMAND RELIEF! Santal Midy prescribed for years for Kidneys <e and Bladder Back aches, night rising, should tee ete sages reo Coane yen arg 01 on the waerkd fon halt corrected before they for = Out 5-Year Plan | | PARIS.—Jean Parmentier, one of the most prominent economic and finance experts of the French gov- ernment (Parmentier took a prom- inent part in working out both the Dawes and the Young reparations plans), has just returned from a journey to the Soviet Union, where he studied finance and economic conditions, and above all the prog- | ress being made with the carrying out of the Five-Year Plan. He de-| scribes his impressions in the bour- geois daily newspaper “Le Matin.” | He expresses the opinion that the | Five-Year Plan will be carried out) to at least from 75 to 80 per cent. The export of timber, grain and oil provided the Soviet Government with sufficient cash to purchase the | machinery needed and to pay for) technical assistance. The Soviet or- ganizations paid promptly in all cases, and neither Ford nor General | Motors or any other large firm had | any cause to complain. After the} carrying out of the Five-Year Plan the Soviet Union would export twice as much iron. Already petrol prices had fallen by about 50 per cent as @ result of the increased Soviet ex- port of petrol. The great petroleum companies were feeling Soviet com- petition keenly. The aim of the Soviet Government was to obtain foreign currency to pay for machin- ery, etc., and therefore they de-| manded the highest prices they,could get for their goods. There could be no question of Soviet goods being | sold at a sacrifice. Parmentier thus makes two very important confessions: First of all that the Five-Year Plan is a suc- cess, and, secondly, that there is no truth to the “Soviet dumping” allega- tions. His evidence is a blow at the bourgeois and social democratic press | which continually publishes exactly the contrary. SWEDISH FASCISTS NOW ORGANIZING Kulaks Parade Their Forces STOCKHOLM, Sweden—The fas- cists in the Swedish province of Vest- ergoetland where rich peasants are the dominating influence, organized a general parade of their forces to take place in the industrial town of Lid- koeping. 76 branches of. the fascist organization took part. The parading fascists were surrounded by many thousands of workers, who broke up the parade, captured and tore many of the fascist flags and drove the fascists helter-skelter off. the streets, The masses sang the “International” and then marched through the streets. The Swedish fascists are planning & mass meeting to take place in Stockholm at the beginning of March. The German fascist leader Hitler is booked to speak. The workers in Stockholm are preparing to give Hit- ler or any other German fascists who | try to show themselves in public in Stockholm, a warm reception. WARN WORKERS AGAINST STOOL O'Connell Worms Into Our Organs (By @ Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa—aAll workers are warned against the slimy snares of a company stool pigeon recruiter by the name of J. J. O’Connel, alias J. J. Kelly, alias P. Stuart, who par- ades as an “efficiency expert” in the employ of two of the largest steel corporations in America. ‘Under the ruse of a newspaper re- porter seeking interview, this snake invades the homes of militant work- ers and by using all kinds of tricks tries to deceive them into accepting his offer of an “investigator's” posi- tion at $140 per month. He begins by flattering the worker, then makes his offer, and finishes up by stating that the worker can remain just as radical and loyal to his fellow - ers as ever, and that all that will be required from him will be daily re- ports on the superintendents of the various plants, who may be operat- ing their mills contrary to the “bene- volent” plans and policies of the Board of Directors. Yes, he says that the Board of Directors want reports about the vicious actions of the su- perintendents (and no doubt about the grievances of the workers, and who of them are raising these griev- ances) in order to “restore the rights COMMUNISTS GA Great advances are being according to a series of cable paper correspondents. For so; Kai-shek expedition to “wipe o ficant story coming out of Chi made a trip up the Yangtze Riv: On the previous day, mutiny of 10,000 of Ch: troops, the soldiers joir Army. They then de: army of Nationalist soldiers s Abend, reporting the: tightening grip of the Chinese Soviets, states: “More than 200 miles of both banks of the Yangtze River are firmly held by Communists, who trenches, completing many gun em- Placements, recruiting busily... “The Red zone extends from just above Sinti, which is 100 miles above Hankow, to a point above Temple Hill, which is less than forty miles below the populous city it, which is only a score of miles below the important trans-shipping city of Ichang, the Communists have been battling Nanking troops from Ichang and there have been heavy casualties on both sides. “Despite the Nanking govern- ment’s announcement early in Feb- ruary that the river would be clear- ed of Communists, investigation re- veals that the Reds are stronger than ever and are proceeding with- out interruption in their annual Spring activities. Nanking gun- boats have not engaged the Com- munists during the Winter months, and government garrisons en- trenched in the towns are inactive while the Reds roam and plunder at will two miles outside. “At frequent intervals along both banks of the river for more than 200 miles Red flags are flying and the waterfront is decorated with signboards containing Com- munist propaganda and calling for recruits to the Red armies...” The propaganda about the Red Army “plundering” is the extiise for imperialist gunboats firing om’ revo- lutionary workers and peas@tits. The Red Army, together with thé Péasants take the land from the bloddSucking fioney-lenders and rich land-bwners who have been sweating tHe Chinese peasants for generations. This to the capitalists is “plunder,” when the Peasants take over the land they have slaved on all their lives. While Abend quite “frankly” re- Ports the advance of the Red Army, this is not done to show the growing strength of the Soviets with the sup- Port of the workers and peasants, but is laying the propaganda basis for sending more imperialist troops and gunboats to China to kill the advancing revolutionary masses, All workers, who suffer starvation and wage-cuts, killing speed-up in the imperialist countries, must come to the support of their Chinese fellow- workers, who are fighting for bread and land, and against imperialist slavery, by demanding that all im- Perialist troops and warships be taken out of China; that the huge ex- penditures for war funds by the ca- Pitalist powers go to the unemployed in the form of unemployment in- surance, Many Hear Moore At Marlem Worker Forum NEW YORK.—A large number of workers attended the Harlem Work- ers Forum Sunday night to head Comrade Richard B. Moore speak on the subject of “The Mass Trial and Its Significance.” During the discussion, Negro and white workers, unanimously express- ed themesives in hearty agreement with the Party's struggle against white chauvinistic tendencies among the working class, and pledged full Support in that struggle. August Yokinen, who was present, took the floor during the discussion to condemn his former attitude and repeat his pledge to actively strug- gle against all forms of national and Tace prejudice and hatred. sions to them that will avoid strikes.” How kind-hearted? All they want is to get reports that will help them to avoid strikes! All workers should beware of this super stool-pigeon with the little blue eyes and smooth-shaven face, who of the workers and to make conces- weighs about 150 Ibs, and stands about 5 ft. 6 in. tall. cable by Hallett Abend, New Yor against them. | are digging miles and miles of new | | of Shasi. Above Shasi and around | BOSS NEWSPAPERMAN VISITS RED TERRITORY IN CHINA AND SEES INING IN STRENGTH 200 Miles of Both Banks of River Firmly Held By Communists, He Reports; Digging Miles and Miles of Trenches made by the Red Army in China dispatches by capitalist news- me time, the capitalist papers have kept silent on the activities of the Red Army in China, in view of the complete failure of the much-boasted Chiang ut the reds.” na in the pa The most signi- few days is the Times correspondent, who past Communist strongholds. ted Press dispatch told of the I | FRANCE GAINING |Workers Joining for Struggles PARIS.—As a result of intense pro- paganda the revolutionary trade |union federation (C.G.T.U.) has con- |Siderably increased its membership recently. The unions affiliated to the |C.G-T.U. have won 1,800 new mem- bers in the Paris district alone during |the past month. During the first |week in the textile strike in Cours, | 250 of the strikers joined the revolu- tionary Textile Workers Union. Every |day mew workers are joining up. Cours was for years a bulwark of the reformist unions. The propaganda and agitation of the Communist Party is also very suc- |cessful. In Clermont-Ferrand, the | center of the French rubber industry, 3,000 workers attended a mass meet- ing organized by the Communist Party and addressed by comrade | Marcel Cachin. One of the cleverest Socialist leaders Grumbach spoke in the discussion, but was torn: to pieces by comrade Cachin. RED UNION GROUP MEET IN GERMANY Many Delegates At- ‘tend to: Plan Work BERLIN—Recently a number of important revolutionary trade union Opposition conferences took place. ‘The;natignal conferences of the fol- lowing revolutionary oppositional groups took place: Railways, muni- cipal and transport, foodworkers, tobacco workers, hotel and restau rant employes, post and telegraré. employes. Delegates were preserd at these conferences from all partd of the Reich, from the factories and the labor exchanges. Two hundred and fifty delegates attended the na- tional conference of oppositional railwaymen, and 31 of the delegates Jcined the Communist Party. Forty delegates were present at the na- | tional conference of the postal and telegraphic employes. Thirty dele- gates were present at the conference of the municipal and transport workers. Ninety-one delegates were present at the conference of the food and tobacco workers. All the con- ferences adopted decisions to strengthen the organizational basis of the revolutionary trade union op- positional movement. “End Illiteracy” Is Goal of Compulsory Education in USSR MOSCOW.—On the 19th of Feb- Tuary the congress for general com- pulsory education will take place. A compulsory education day will be or- |ganized. The past three years show a steady increase in the extent of the elementary school system in the So- viet Union. In the school year 1930- | 1931 14 million children were drawn {into the education system. In addi- | Gon millions of adult and adolescent | students are at work to liquidate il- literacy. Under Czarism progress in the abolition of illiteracy was infni- tesimal for decades. Since the Novem- ber revolution, however, rapid pro- gress has been made. Elementary schools and evening classes are at work in 70 languages creating “a cul- ture national in form and proletarian | in content.” } CONTRAST OF POVERTY AND WEALTH DEEP EVANSTON, Ill.—Hundreds of men and women are going hungry in Evanston, a Chicago suburb, rated as having more millionaires per capita than any other city in the country. eee CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th ST., NEW YORK CITY RED SHOCK TROOPS For $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND We pledge to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND NAME ADDRESS —e See Peeeen eves evosescoeeesesouwoeas sere seenereeseeeeeeenedeseeseeeueeeeseneseseneseseosesreseseseees Stee Omen en ee eee eeee esse sean eee eeeeeeeeneeeen enn enenawesesEeeesseseeHssetH SESE OHSS EDIOREEEOEOEOS