The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKE R, N Ww YORK, _ MONDAY, MARCH 16, 16, , 1981 BUFFALO HOTEL BOSSESIJAIL 5; 8,000 IN (Oakland, Calif. Plans District! 3RIDGEPORT MASS AGREEON PACT CUTTING! HUNGER MARCH Page; Other Districts Debating}|?ICKETING TODAY PAY OF HOTEL WORKERS Question; Districts N Now Active| siiers Firm: Refuse! Page Three Texas District t TUUL Sco Scores Official Aids to Floggers SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 15.; We further declare that this is a —Texas District of the Trade Union | malicious lie when the report is cit- Cops Beat t Jobless In} A Unity League has officially sent a| culated that Coder and Hurst prom- x forced 10 P. C Connecticut Oakland, Calif, is the first sec- ene to Admit Weinstock resolution to the Dallas mayor, to| ised to leave Dallas; this report is Statler Hotel Has Already Enforce » C. tee, tion in the entire California district} ~ GER eres ; | Governor Stirling and to the press, | circulated by thé hoodlums of Mayor (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | to show any reaction to the advant- tis Crop WHen ' (CONTINUED EBON BAGH (ONE) / rating: |'Tate, who want to discredit organ- Wage Slash and Stagger System Toolmakers and Die Sinkers Offered 54 Cents An Hour In Stamping Plant Comrades :— Buffalo, N. Y. In Buffalo all hotel and club managers met in the latter part of February and agreed to cut all the wages of their employ— ees and to introduce the stagger system in all of Buffalo’s hotels and clubs where the idle rich play and enjoy life while the unemployed are starving and live in shacks. This agreement must be enforced by April 1st by all hotels belonging to this association. Employess in the Lafayette Hotel receive the following wages: waiters $15 a week and the kitchen help get from $12- $15 a week and these workers must buy their own food. The manage- ment does not even pass out the scraps to these employees as they did before. Statler Cuts Immediately. The Statler Hotel has already in- troduced a 10 per cent cut and has the stagger system of 5 days a week, one week on and one week off. The employees of this hotel are speeded up to such an extent that the hotel was forced to introduce ri- gid rules in order to subdue the EERE SAS REE |workers. There is great discontent among the workers. The U. S. Hames Co., a metal stamping factory is offering the tool and die sinkers 45 cents an hour, This class of worker were receiving as much as $1.25 an hour. The laborers get 35 cents an hour and lower in other factories. ‘The speed-up is so terrible that the workers quit the jobs in spite of the fact that they face starvation. Wage slashing and speed-up is the policy of Buffalo employers. —J.W. “We'll Show You How Free It Is,” Say Minne-| apolis Police Sluggers To the Daily Worker: Minneapolis, Minn. ‘On the evening of March 2, W. Z. Foster was scheduled to speak at Cataract Masonic Temple but a well-equipped army of Banker Kunze’s cops scattered the crowd. We then hiked to Humboldt Hall thinking that the meeting might be held there. But upon our arrival we found another detachment of cops stationed outside of the hall. Some of us entered the hall only to be driven outside. Again we were ordered to keep moving. One poor fellow told the cops that this is sup- posed to be a free country in which the people are guaranteed freedom of speech and of assemblage. Whereupon one of the bulls replied: “We'll show you how free it is.” U-.wittingly the cop spoke the truth. Or can it be possible that he was bright enough to realize that our much- vaunted freedom is only an illusion? —Worker Correspondent. P.S. This evening the bosses’ yellow press announced “Reds Blocked in Three Tries; Plan Secret Meeting.” until last night. Today, however, we are Reds to the man. installment Co. Robs Detroit Worker of His Furniture (By a Worker Correspondent.) DETROIT, Mich.—Emil Weiler, 4208 Pennsylvania Ave., who has been unemployed for some time, but who recently got back to part time work, for which he receives about $12 per week, was a victim of the vicious, profit-grabbing Peo- ples Outfitting Co. This Peoples Outfitting Company is a large in- stalment furniture store which robs the workers so as to line the pockets of its owners with profits. Emil Weiler purchased some fur- niture from this store about two years ago on the credit system which amounted to $217.50. He had it all paid up but the sum of $30 when the company sent the Dep- uty Sheriff to his home to take back the furniture. In the mean- time Weiler had secured the $30 and offered to pay it but the sheriff refused, saying that the costs of court action were $11.40 and therefore he would have to pay $41.40 instead of the $30 which he owed. The worker did not have that much money so the Deputy Sheriff, guarded by two stalwart, pot-bellied members of the Detroit ers’ furniture away from him. This worker knew nothing about the Unemployed Councils or this could have been prevented. Work- ers! Are we going to sit idly by and let the bosses take our furn- iture away when it is in many cases more than paid for? No! We must join our Unemployed Councils and fight against things like this. Indianapolis AFL Fights Demands of the Unemployed Indianapolis, Ind. to 30 cents per hour. This “huma- Daily Worker: nitarian” cares nothing for the The “full belly boss class,” to- | thousands of workers with families gether with its brother, the Cen- | who are starving, for the children tral Labor Union hete in India- | of the jobless, who are crying for napolis, has, because of the grow- | milk and bread, He cares noth- ing militancy of the workers for unemployment relief, appointed a Labor Skate in the form of Otto Ray to terrorize and intimidate the workers into starving without making a sound. This faker was hired as a sort of license inspec- tor with a captaincy in the Police Department. This fascist, with a reactionary record in the A. F. of L. has also stuck his nose into handing out charity jobs—at star- vation wages. This fascist of the A. F. of L. in order to stop the unemployed from organizing, has attempted on \several occasions to railroad the Neaders of the unemployed, T. Bo Ross and others, to jail, ters to work, he is only interested in putting the leaders of the un- employed who are organizing, out of the way, hoping to destroy the fighting spirit of the unemployed. Will Not Stop Jobless. But this will not stop the work- ers from organizing—this will not hinder the boys in leading—they will still devote every minute of their time in organizing the army of unemployed for real relief—for the right to live. The 65,000 jobless of this city who participated in demonstra- tions at the State Capital and City Hall, demanding $15 a week for every jobless worker, will not stand for any faker like Otto Ray. —A Worker. alnd in failing, this “kind gentle- n” has forced them to work for - thle city for @ measly wage of 20 Vet Sympathizer, He Fights in the Workers’ Struggle Chicago, Ill. would like to act I think I better not Mditor Daily Worker: join the Communist Party. Tve been a sympathizer of the} But don’t you make the mistake Communist Party for about three | of counting me out of the Red Army. ever since I heard the first I've got hands, fect and everything t steech when I was cured | and believe me I can shoot like hell. 1 religion and other dis- 2 When some Communist snobs at eaees of which I had been afflicted. | a “sympathizer” like me I can cer- Tin ce of those who had some- | tainly show him if I want to that tt to do with that democracy |I always try to do the best I can ‘uff in the last war, We'll I’m still| for the movement, financially and bothered from that war and as I) otherwise. don't feel as tho I could act as I —Vet. RED SHOCK TROOPS Enclosed find CMORGENCY FUND NAMB i. ivievviscecvddavescvesssacsssccnsesccscvcncsccecesne ADDRESS We ece bees The majority of us weren't Reds | Police Department, took the work- | ing about putting family suppor- CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th ST. NEW YORK CITY $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND Ne pied» to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER marchers reached the city hall, the | police force, which had been mob-| ved and held in waiting, launched | an attack on the demonstrators and the crowd. A battle took place which | lasted for several minutes, as the} workers militantly fought back.) Lloyd Brown and several others re- ceived blows on the head. It took some time before the po- lice with difficulty cleared the space before the city hall and hustled away the five workers who were arrested. Meanwhile Lloyd Brown led the workers in a march back to the| Ukrainian Hall, where over 100) workers took part in an organiza- tional meeting for the Unemployed Council, ‘The mayor, in refusing to see the | 9,000 were being fed by the city. The | best answer to this is the fact that | thousands of militant workers an- swered the call to demonstrate for relief. According to the mayor’s ad- mission, over 7,000 workers are un- | employed. . Expose “Radical” Phrases of Olson. | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 15. —New tricks are being used by the “labor” governor of Minnesota to keep the unemployed, whose ranks are constantly growing, from fight- ing for relief. Speaking at a mass meeting called by the American Fed- eration of Labor locals in the St. Paul City Auditorium, Governor Ol-| son did his best to deflect the grow- | |ing mass discontent into safe chan- nels. Starting out by proving he} was from the “plain people,” he went | on to state that there “is a tide of | unrest in this country. People are| tired of the old platitudes, the old | slogans; tired of being told what is | apt to be. “I challenge any economist de- fending the capitalist system,” he went on to say, “to answer the ques- | tion why, if the system is correct, | | food should rot on the ground while | men go hungry?” | He also talked about free speech, free assembly and freedom to or- ganize. Very “radical” sounding phrases. But he forgot to mention how he had instructs police terror in Minneapolis, where the workers are not allowed to hold meetings. | neither in the streets nor in, ‘halls, |and how the cops break up every | meeting. ‘To expose this faker and to show | what his “radical” sounding phrases | really mean, the Trade Union Unity | | League distributed 3,000 leaflets in| |front of the auditorium before and |during the meeting. The leaflet) | pointed out that the workers must | realize that such tools of the bosses | |as Olson are the worst enemies of | | the working class; they shake your) | hand with one hand and cut you | throat with the other. | Despite the arrests and terror, pice |T. U. U. L. is growing, the Unem. ployed Councils are increasing their | influence and there is a fighting spirit among the workers. * Two Get 90 Days In California. HANDO, Calif., March 9 (By Mail) |The case of four workers arrested in an unemployment demonstration on Main St. on Jan. 20 was placed ‘in the hands of a jury March 4, The defendants were Hector Tri- | ana and Alex. Ivance, accused of beating a cop; James Conley, charged with “disturbing the peace,” and Joe Holub, accused of distrib- uting handbills and “disturbing the peace.” Witnesses testified that squads of police beat the demonstrators. At- torney Gallagher told the jury that “anyone who testified for the defense was in danger of losing his job be- cause the ‘Red Squad’ of the police department would go to his employer and demand his job.” The prosecu- tion put on 11 witnesses, 10 of whom | were policemen, “because policemen can’t ‘co-ordinate’ their testimony,” Gallagher declared. Holub was found guilty and Muni- cipal Judge H. Parker Wood sen- tenced him to 90 days in the county jail. The jury failed to agree on a verdict on the other three. They were put on trial again. This time Hector Triana was found guilty and Municipal Judge Thomas L. Am- brose sentenced him to 90 days in the city jail for beating a cop. The jury failed for the second time to agree in the case of Alex. Ivance. James Conley was released, . ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION; DEMAND RELIEF! | by Comrade Mugiar we tli iin iT | ages of the district page which was discussed at a recent Daily Worker Conference in Oakland. C. Mugia- nis, section Daily Worker represent- ative writes: “Although the conference was not a large one, since very few Party comrade’s did attend nevertheless it was a very live one. Many points were taken up, a good discussion took place and four new members joined the Red Builders News Club, In a very short time the Red Builders are going to or- der many more copies. Plans are being made to order 1,000 copies of the Daily Worker in the near future. WE ALSO TOOK UP THE PROPOSAL FOR A DISTRICT PAGE, AND WILL SOON ORDER FOR THE SAME.” Comrade Mugianis further reports that the News Club has a member- delegation and ordering the police) | ship of 14 at present, who are very | attack, made lying statements that | active in getting the Daily Worker | into every worker's hand, and states ’ WILL SHOW TROY HOW This is H. “Ginger” Neilson, New Jork Red Builder, who is on his | way to Troy to lend a hand in the Daily Worker activities there. Neil- son was one of the star sellers here, and a veteran of the Club. The comrades will miss his hu- mour and pep, that. the Conference pledged that Oakland will see that every factory and .worker’s ,home gets the Daily | Worker, We. welcome the first step taken | in getting the district, page started in. California, and urge the other sections to co- operate with her in the distribution of the weekly issue. Oakland has also increased its bundle order 100 a day. Other districts have shown interest and have inquired about these district editions, DETROIT GAINS IN NEWSSTANDS ORDERS Detroit is livening up after a recent slump in Daily Worker or- ders. Sarah Victor, district Daily Worker representative, sent in five new subscriptions, two renewals, and an order for 15 copies for a new newsstand, as well as an in- crease of 10 for an old stand. We are still without reports on the Red Builders News Club. What action from them? FRISCO PARTY MEMBERS ALOOF Some Comrades in San Frangisco come in for some criticism on their apparent negligence in the Daily Worker campaign. Frank H., one of the Daily Worker agents writes: “Due to the numerous changes that have taken place in the liter- ature department such as the Dai- ly Worker agent, sales have drop- ped down considerably. We now receive 175 papers a day which you should cut immediately to 130 a day and 180 on Saturday. OUR MAIN SHORTCOMING IS THE LACK OF INTEREST THE PAR- TY MEMBERS TAKE IN BOOST- ING THE DAILY WORKER.” Leading functionaries in the Cali- fornia district cannot afford to per- mit this negligence to continue on the part of the Party members, and should strengthen and give leader- ship to the Daily Worker activity down to the units. We want in- creases from San Francisco — not cuts! “WOULD BE LOST WITHOUT DAILY” “Enclosed find $3 to renew my subscription for another 6 months. We are having quite a battle getting the Daily Worker into the hands of the workers. It seems they are un- able to grasp the lesson that the paper has for them. The capitalist press has poisoned their minds so much that the story of the class struggle is a hard a for them to swallow. “I enjoy reading ‘The Daily very much and would be lost without it. If you want the news of the world from the workers’ viewpoint, you must go to the Daily Worker for it.” Frank T., Bicknell, Ind. BUTTE, MONT. SENDS REPORT From John K., local Daily Worker representative of Butte, Mont., we received a report indicating that out of a bundle order of 300, 114 are sold on the streets and 89 are sold from house-to-house. LW.O. BR. 8 DONATES $11 TO DAILY WORKER At a bitthday party for 3-year old| Miners’ Union calls for @ general| sates to Lenin Blatt held at 376 East 94th St, GROWN Wite FREE THe - Tus 4 YAVER Fa. iO) Geo IT GROWS 2€az Freepom £ ‘Rom Poverty AND EXPLOITATION. yi) CHI “S Brooklyn, the International Workers Order Branch No. 8 collected %11 for the Daily Worker and donaicd the sum, WORKER’S SONS SUPPORT DAILY “We are sorry that we ate be- hind on the Daily Worker because my dad is working only a couple of days a week and we are hardly making a living. We are 16 and 17 | year old boys. My dad saved up | $2 and we are sending it. We are very pleased with it, and will try to support the paper.” Edward ©., Whittemore, Mich. GOT SPARE TIME? PAY US A VISIT If any comrade who can spare on} | hour or two during the day will call | lat the national office of the Daily | Worker, 35 E. 12th St. 8th floor, | N.Y.C., we would appreciate their help. TROF. SEES END OF CAPITALISM 5 Wants Fascism to Come to Rescue (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ot protected. Accidents and invalid- bring acute suffering. Self- respect of many men is impossible because such problems as these are | not sanely handled.” He shows the danger of war against the other imperialist powers, \ and | takes it for granted that England and Germany would be defeated, would become Communistic, and then | the United States would inevitably follow. It is a gloomy picture for | capitalism that the Harvard profes- |sor paints, But he has a solution— | fascism and war. He wants capital- |ism to “plan” economy. He insists that the capitalists maintain their profits, continue the exploitation of the working class, but adopt some method of planning by giving the state more direct power, through the capitalist executives to cut wages when they please, to direct war against the Soviet Union—to do any- thing to save wage-slavery and the parasitic, admittedly dying capitalist system. And the American capital- ists must take the lead, he says: “On our (the American capitalist’s) ability to obtain such leadership in American business, the fate of capi- talistic civilization may well depend.” French Toilers Are Faced With Pay Cut 200,000 Seamen Face Wage Slashes PARIS.—Two hundred thousand seamen and fishermen, etc. are now threatened with wage-cuts. All the existing agreements are to be re- vised by the employers. The revolu- m ishly to prenare the resistance of the affected workers. . e e The big mining associations in France are taking advantage of the large stocks which have accumulated | as a result of the crisis to cut wages. important districts, but at the mo- ment 220,000 miners are threatened with wage-cuts averaging 3 francs a day. The coal areas—Aveyron, Loire, northern France and the Pas de Calais—are affected. There will be extended to the whole of the 350,000 French miners. Contrary to the expectations of the employers the miners are considerable fight and the reformist trade union leaders are being com- pelled to maneuver frantically. They have been forced to agree “in prin- ciple” to the general strike. How- ever, behind the scenes they are con- ducting negotiations in order to ef- fect some sort of compromise and avoid a fight. The revolutionary strike on March 16, ‘HELP EVICT NEGRO tionary unions are working fever-} 4s,| preacher and the bosses however, no doubts that the cuts| the iandiord, ates Thursday and Friday. He exposed the strike-breaking role of Weinstock and Kamp and pointed out the A. F. of L. leaflets, which had been torn up by the strikers when at- tempts were made to distribute them, had been brought in simultaneously with Weinstock’s and Kamp’s ar- tival. Russak’s proposal for mass | picketing was enthusiastically re- ceived. As a result it has been ar- ranged for the Shelton strikers to come to Bridgeport in a body on Monday morning and picket together with the Bridgeport strikers, There are a few scabs in the Bridgeport mill. The Shelton mill has been closed down practically complete, As a result of the unbroken soli- darity of the strikers, the bosses have already been compelled to open ne- gotiations with the strike commit- tee. However, the strikers are not | putting too much faith in these ne- gotiations and are going ahead with | their plans for mass picketing. Welcome N. T. W. The confidence of the strikers in the N. T. W. U. was made very clear at the mass strike meeting on Friday. An attempt was made by @ member of the strike committee, who was evidently under the influence of the | bosses’ agents, to deny the floor to Devine, National Secretary of the N. T. W. U. and Russak. A vote being called for on this question, the 400; Shelton strikers voted unanimously to give them the floor and make proposals, The firmness and determination of the Bridgeport and Shelton strikers have made their prospects for vic- tory very good. . (By a Woman Mill Worker.) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., March 15.— The Blumenthal Co, is publishing in the yellow papers that the weavers make $40 or more a week. This is not true. On the night shift they make as low as $3.35 for 11 hours work, and if anything breaks down and they have to wait three or four hours, they get nothing for that time. The company saw no workers com- ing in when they set the date for re- opening first on March 9 and then on March 10. Now they are sending company agents to the workers’ homes and trying to get women workers especially in Bridgeport. They still do not succeed, for the women’s interests are the same as the men. ‘We appeal to all workers who see advertisements of Blumenthal for help in the mills to pay no atten- tion. The strike is still going on. NEGRO PREACHER Open Air Meeting to Be Held Tonight BROOKLYN, N. Y.—By orders of the landlord, court and preachers Nancy Fower, a Negro mother of four children, was evicted from her home, 850 Myrtle Ave., Tuesday. Nancy's husband jobless for three months with his wife having had an operation recently had not paid rent for two months finds its family pen- niless and homeless. A Negro preacher of the Baptist Church of 850 Myrtle Ave. (base~ ment, Mr. Edwards actively parti- cipated in helping the marshals to throw out of the home of this Negro family, the furniture and their babies, When the Unemployed Council and the Tenants League of Williams- burgh learned of this eviction case (one day later) and was trying to locate the whereabouts of this fam- ily this preacher refused to reveal it. The Salvation Army which has for two weeks given few pennies to this family as “relief” stated through one of their representative that “the Salvation Army will not give a pen- ny more of relief to this family.” Nancy when approached by the Unemployed Council representative stated with frankness the misery un- der which this family has been suf- fering. She said that even though her husband has been completely unem- ployed for the last three months he was working very little previous to that time. She stated that In view of the starvation facing the whole family she went to the Gates Ave. police station for help and they refered her to the State Street employment agency where no help was given to her and her family. will hold an open air meeting in front of the place where this Ne- gro family was evicted to expose the landlords attack upon the workers and the alliance of the Negro ‘The meeting will be held Saturday evening, March 14, at 7 p.m. at Myrt- lo Ave. and Marcy. All neighbors are called upon to respond to this meeting as & demonstration of sol- The Tenants League of Williams- | They began operations in the less | burgh with the Unemployed Council | “The executive committee of the} Trade Union Unity League, Texas | District, after investigating the kid- | napping of two leaders of the work- | ers of Dallas—Charles Coder and/| Lewis Hurst—wants to state that this | crime is an open conspiracy, led by | Police Commissioner Graves, ap-| proved by Mayor Waddy Tate and} sanctioned by Sheriff Hood; in fact, | the whole police department is im- | plicated in the affair. “This also includes Governor Ster- ling, who encourages mobbing and | framing up of workers as displayed | on Feb. 25 in Austin. Fought Attack On Negroes. “These workers’ leaders were} flogged because they were leading the workers in the struggle against un-| employment and preposing measures | for immediate relief for the unem- | ployed workers of Dallas and Texas, for organizing a struggle against the | terrible wages, long hours and for| better working conditions in the| southwest; also because of their fight for full social, political and economic equality of the Negro masses, and against the deportation of the foreign-born workers, espe- cially the Mexican workers. “We declare we will not be ter- rorized by mob lynchings and kid- nappings and floggings, but will stay | in Texas, and in Dallas especially, | and go forward in our work of or- | ganizing the workers into the unions, | j are directly izers Coder and Hurst. “We further want to state that the press in Dallas and throughout the state of Texas is trying to create a mob hysteria, though it is being shown they could not get the masses involved. So the police commis- sioner, Mayor Tate, Sheriff Hood, with the help of the district attor- ney’s office, organized the mob per- sonally. Who Is Responsible? “We put the responsibility for the kidnapping and flogging of these two workers on the shoulders of Mayor Tate, Police Commissioner Graves and Governor Sterling, who held responsible for these two victims of ‘class justice.’ “We demand that Mayor Tate, Police Commissioner Graves, Sheriff | Hood and Norman Register be held | on charges. “Mayor Tate and his whole gang state that they got no official com- plaint. This is ridiculous! They only further damn themselves with these lying statements; in fact, it is not impossible that the mayor and the rest of the city hall machine were participants in the mob action. “The investigation of the grand jury will lead to nothing, but will further expose to the masses the true character of capitalist justice. “We call on the workers to pro- test in mass and defend our organ- izers throughout Texas, by action. Death to lynchers and kidnappers!” TAKES PLANE TO GET CODER, HURST “tass Protest Grows;) Denounce Terror | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) three men to the city limits, where | Edwards was released, the police hav- ing meanwhile notified Edwards's young son that this was exactly what would be done with Edwards: Then) Coder and Hurst were taken eighteen miles out, through the little country town of Hutchins, and two miles south of the place, where they were flogged into insensibility, tied, and at least Coder, thrown into a knee-deep river of intensely cold water. Details of Coder’s escape from drowning, and his joining with Hurst, who according to present information seems to have been carried further and flogged again, will be forthcom- ing when the story of the two workers is told. (The Daily Worker expects to have their own account within a day or 80.) The campaign of mass protest against this terror upon militant workers who reflect the determination of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League to fight for equality of Negro and white work- ers in the South, continues, * 8 Galveston Protest Meeting. GALVESTON, Texas, March 15.— Between 500 and 600 workers gathered here in @ mass protest meeting against the Dallas terror. Large for- ces of police had been stationed at the city hall to attack the crowd there, but it met at the county court house. The speakers spoke from the “Rebels Monument.” Both Negro and white workers were in the crowd. Demands were adopted for unem- ployment insurance, and for a 50 cents per hour minimum wage. Jobless Protest NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., March 15. —The regular meeting of the unem- ployed council here March 12 adopted a resolution denouncing the outrage in Dallas, and sent copies to the gov- ernor of Texas, the mayor of Dallas and the press. Advertise Your Union Meetings Bere. For Information Write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Department 50 East 13th St’ New York City 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 NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N.Y GERMAN REDS SWEEPING AHEAD Aim to Double Mem- bership in 6 Months BERLIN.—Following on the suc- cess of the Communist Party of Germany at the Reichstag elections, the Central Committee gave the dis- tricts the task of doubling their membership in six months, that is, by April 1, Only paid up members were to be counted. ‘The membership at the beginning of the recruiting campaign was 121,- 392. In October an increase of 25 per cent was to be obtained. The inerease actually obtained was 27.6 per cent. The membership figures reached 154,886. In November the figures rose by 9.3 per cent and reached 169,416. In December a fur- ther increase of 6.6 per cent was ob- tained and the total figure rose to 180,657. In January the increase was 10.9 per cent and the total figure 200,477. In January the figures for 8 dis- tricts had not yet been reported. The December figures were there- fore taken again, although the per- centage was higher. Assuming the percentage increase for January to have been the same as in the other districts, the Party has now 205,956 paid up members, and has won 84,664 new members inside four months. 1931 CALENDAR FREE! Quotations from Marx, Lenin, ete, in the first annua) Daily Worker Calendar for 1931. Free with six months subscription or renewal. District Pages Improve Activity ‘The apparatus of the Com- munist Party in the Dally Worker campaign which has hitherto been weak in certain parts of the country is now eon- siderably strengthened in thase districts which have ordered special weekly pages. Units which formerly have shown no life and activity in selling the Daily Worker, are now mobilized for the sale, dis- tribution and house-to-house canvassing once a week, thus becoming involved in spreading the paper in working class ter- ritories. Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland have found this im- provement in their district Daily Worker machinery. Pitts- burgh, beginning March 23, will order its weekly editions every Monday. ‘Use a district page to estab- lish contacts with workers! Order this weekly issue, which includes four columns of space at °3 per thousand for an extra order of at least 2,000 copies paid for in advance. Use it to PHONE 731 build your circulation! idarity in the fight against the land- lords. dress the meeting. Fight lynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born, Elect dele- your olty conference for protection of forvign berm A story of the immortal struggle of PARIS ON THE BARRICADES By GEORGE SPIRO Introduction by M. OLGIN a the Communards of 1871 for the first Negro and white speakers will ad- | Workers’ Government, heroically revered by the workingclass and crushed by the bloody hands of the bourgeoisie REDUCED TO 15 CENTS Sola WORKERS 80 EAST 13TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY The only center fer relatos, Hooks, pamphlets and mages at the BOOKSHOP { niall i