The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1931, Page 3

DAG Wass, Lui’ Puen, aUuoDAL, Mako 17, Lodh HUNDREDS SHIVER IN COLD AT EDGEWATER | FORD’S SEEKING WORK A Few Former Workers Hired On Again, As Srowd Is Threatened By Police Ask for “Reds” to Come and Start Something; Organize Unemployed Councils Daily Worker: Elizabeth, N. J. They are hiring at Ford’s! With this as a cue we rushed over to Edgewater early this morning. And though it was quite chilly a thousand or so workers kept vigil, for a block on both sides of the windy street. Two cops every now and then would chase them from one side of the street to the other. It was very dark and together with the coldnéss, and constant discouraging of these workers by the cops, tended to disrupt the hopeful workers. They were told again and again “there is¢————______—. nothing doing now; come back later.” ) 7; qi A guard stood at the gate leading \Oil Drivers Reject - to the stairs of the overhead pas- sage. Now and then, a few hopefuls would pass him, showing “Ford” badges like dog license tags. Brief conversation followed, some Yemarked that only old Ford men would be hired. Others thought otherwise. Someone in the back was heard to remark “Thousands waited yesterday and only fifteen were ‘We all decided to wait, neverthe- Jess, until they would start hiring. But it was useless. Then someone proceeded to give out Daily Workers to these shivering unemployed. They grabbed the Dailies and read them. All of them asking for some “reds” to come and start something. ‘Workers, you are the “reds.” You ‘are those who are waiting for jobs you probably won't get, why ask for “reds” to come. Organize these men, establish unemployed councils. De- mand these promised jobs! Make a definite program of action! —L. A. Wage Cut Demand of Officials and Bosses CHICAGO, TIlL—At a special meet- ing called Wednesday, Feb. 25, of Local 705 of the Oil Wagon Drivers at Ashland Auditorium there were about 500 oil drivers present. Patty |Burrel, chief spokesman for the | union officials, explained to the drivers that the big oil companies had called him in last Monday and told him that the oil drivers would either have to take a reduction in wages of $10 a month or the big oil companies would lay many men off. drivers to a fighting spirit. A motion was made by a militant driver that no wage-cuts could be taken. This was unanimously adopted by the oil drivers asembled. Patty Burrel then informed us that he would again have to negoti- ate with the companies and would call a special meeting in a week or ten days., This has aroused the oil Hoover Pays 30c An Hour to Ammunition Workers Parlintown, N. J. Daily Worker:— ‘There is a camp known as Camp Raritan where the government has its ammunition stored. Recently, the government let out a tontract which included the building new quarters for the officers and a ospital. The government was sup- posed to hire fifty men on the camp to build new foundations under the magazines, So far no one has been hired and every morning there are from 300 to 1500 at the gates looking for work. These workers have been told that only ex-servicemen will be hired. The guards used their guns to scare away the angry men who ‘were demanding the jobs. Such shouts as “We want work to feed our wives and children.” “We want work to buy bread,” were heard. ‘The government realizing that it ‘would be cheaper had hired men who ‘were under « contracting firm of New ‘York. ‘These contractors pay their men 30 cents an hour. This goes to show that Hoover's statement that he pays high wages to those working for the government is bologna. In other places in New Jersey these things happen. For instance, in Par- olin the Duponts laid off 35 workers last week. The Carborundum plant laid off all their machinists. The Federal Teracatta shut down their cable works in Perth Amboy, N. J. Ten per cent wage cuts were handed out along with the city firing 700 workers. No funds was the excuse of Mayor Dorsey when the workers de- manded the reason for this action taken by the city officials, yet the capitalist paper Perth Amboy Even- ing News of that town gave the false report that work is picking up. ‘The workers here have refused to believe the statements of these offi- cials and have organized Unemployed Councils. More and more workers of New Jersey are beginning to realize the need for organization, and are joining these councils. —A Worker. Crane Workers Given. Make Chicago, Til. ally Worker: poor workers of the speeded up, given are Iaid off, the considerable Wage Cuts As Bosses Profits surplus of $24,116,521. The work- ers, realizing this, have organized a fraction of the Metal Workers’ | Industrial League and are doing | fine work in the shop. All workers should join the De- pattment Committees of the Metal Workers to fight speed-up, wage- cuts and layoffs. A WORKER Calif. DAR Organize Berkeley, Calif. Daily Worker: The Los Angeles “Times” had an article which was very interesting. It read that a meeting was held specially to hear an address by the representative of the D.AR., who came all the way to California to warn the Daughters of the menace of Communism. Her account of the doings of the Communists among school children was bloodcurdling. There was noth- ing noticeable or unexpected in her hharangue, however. What did cause White Guardists Here the surprise was the report of one Mrs. F. P. Thoms, Regent of the California D.A.R. She gave a very interesting account of the White Russians (her own name for them) in the region of Pasadena and Los Angeles. She went on to say with much pride and naivete that the local Daughters had organized a Russ-Ukrainian Civic Center at Pa- sedena to counteract the influence of the so-called hateful “Commun- ists.” She further stated that the Project was supported by funds of the State DAR. —A Worker. nver Mayor Accused Denver, Colo. aily Worker: am dropping a few lines to let you know the conditions in Denver. It 1s getting worse and worse. We had two of our speakers here con- cerning demands of workers. Some grafter, Stapelton, got his henchmen to take down our speakers and had them put in jail. But he couldn't get his men to speak because we had another party speaker of our own. Some news concerning our Mayor. He was accused of graft in the New City Hall case. He was also in- volved in the Waffit Tunnel affair and the gasoline tax affair. He is Enclosed find EMERGENCY FUND NAME cescscscsscsevssscvsescees, of Graft; Workers Fed Garbage just like our old Governor Adams and the rest of the crooked officials in the State. Some big preacher also stopped in, this town and asked Comrade Guynn’ to bring up his mass of workers to his church. Guynn refused. The comrade told the preacher that the workers refused to listen to his para- sitic talk. As for the food missions that these preachers offer, they are rotten. The workers are being served poison food and given clothes from the garbage cans, They are being taken into un- employed councils rapidly as a result of this practice. —A Worker. CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th ST., RED SHOCK TROOPS. For $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND We pledge to ‘baild RED SHOCK TROOPS for ‘the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER CAR WORKERS Mayor Earns Salary’ from Three Sources | (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, O.—The Cleveland car men are going to write a series) of articles to Labor Unity exposing | some of the misleaders at the head of Division 268, There are about 500 | car men working at this station/ (Woodhill) and about 2500 motormen and conductors in the city. ‘We have been working under the; worst conditions in the past year. Our board member Frank Uhler and Harry Kessler have fooled us long enoygh| and we must demand justice to all car men. Uhler is Mayor of Newberg Heights at @ salary of about $1200 and js also @ conductor on the cars, and as board member he gets 3 days pay for col- lecting dues on two days and we have @ sick club which he collects dues for | union dues. To be brief Uhler gets $19.37—1y, | each pay day for collecting union and sick club dues, under section 10 of our general and by-laws he is hot allowed | to collect the sick club dues as sev- eral members of the sick club are not members of Division 268, but as he is a real faker he gets $150.00 per year out of collecting for the sick club. Some of the extra men at this sta- week as Uhler did in-one collection day, but he would get up-at our meet- men, they don’t want to work and they talk with non-union members and play pool with them, but of course he did not mention the fact that he was collecting sick club dues from these same men. Kessler is drawing a pension as a Spanish War Veteran and Recording Secretary of the Local. He records the minutes as he sees fit and has them recorded not as they should be always. CALIF. JOBLESS HUNGER MARCH Jobless Meet. Tomor- row In Philadelphia (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) delphia will hold a mass meeting on Thursday, March 19, at 8 p. m. meet- ing in Russian American Citizens Hall, 8640 Eastwick Avenue. William Simons, district secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, will be the main speaker; there will also be a Russian speaker. Admission free! This section is close to the Hog Is- land Municipal Airport, where on Jan. 27, a meeting took place for over one hour with 4,000 workers present, who unanimously endorsed the Social In- surance Bill. As a result of'a march towards City Hall, Simons now faces trial on the charge of inciting to riot. It is expected that large numbers of workers will come who were present at the Hog Island meeting. This meeting will be a step in the campaign for the Pennsylvania State Hunger March to Harrisburg, April 10th to 14th. Demand Food. POMEROY, Ohio, March 16.—A hundred residents of Pity Me (actual and appropriate name of a mining | town near here) marched on the court house Friday and demanded of Judge Fred Crow that they be given aid. They stated that women and children were starving, and were without clothing. They charged that the Red Cross had cut them off. CUT PAY OF DEPT. STORE TAILORS Slave Conditions in Big Dept. Store (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO—One of the largest. de- partment stores in the city, Carson Pirie Scott, has forced a five dollar weekly cut in wages through the tail- oring shop. Hours are extremely long and no overtime is paid. Three and four times a week the workers must slave until ten and eleven at night, being paid only fifty cents for supper money, and labor under @ brutal speed-up, ie To fight against such slashes in wages, vicious speed-up and killing hours, the workers in this shop should and must organize, not under the boss collaborating Amalgamated union, but under the fighting and fearless needle Workers Industrial Union. ~—Tailor, NEW YORK CITY ++. cents Minneapolis is the latest of the smaller districts to join the ranks of those which now’ have special weekly | issues, B. Siskind, writing for the| Secretariat, says: “We have taken up the matter of a special page at our last Buro | meeting and have made the follow- ing decisions: That, beginning on April 3, we will start with two col- | umns every Friday. Comrade N. B. will be the editor, The papers should be sent to three different points, namely, 400 to St. Paul, 400 | to Minneapolis and 300 to Duluth. | Please inform us if this date is in conformity with your schedule and give us all advice necessary on this work.” Minneapolis is the first of the smaller districts to. show a keen un- derstanding of the possibilities of | (Han | out the country. He studies the OF MINNEAPOLIS TAKES |PLAGRANT FAKE CLEVELAND HAVE) WEEKLY PAGE, CALIF. |IN CENSUS COUNT EXPOSED FAKERS ACT/VI7Y PICKS UP) WN CHICAGO, ILL. aa I= In hana ANO AEGRO DORE RS | JAILED N. Y. RED NEWSIE MILITANT Clarence Turner, now serving six | months, pending appeal, for selling the Daily Worker in the New York subways, is right up to the minute on news of Red Builders through- Dailiy Worker almost by heart, | When visited last week he ex-| pressed enthusiasm over the photos of Daily Worker sellers which have | time, no check-up could possibly be on the same day that he collects tion were not drawing as much per| | r ings and say to hell with the extra| ‘ been appearing and promised to dig one up of himself. We'll print it as | soon as we get it! BALTIMORE TOP-NOTCHER | CHICAGO CLUB SENDS FIGURES From the Chicago Red Builders’ News Club we received the following report from T. Lambraw, eecretary: “A total of 7,600 copies were sold during February. A. Bisbikis sold 1,038; King, 902; McDermot, 664; Dorn, 625; Varvella, 652; De; Leon, 529; Engh, 503; Esquival, 447; Vin- oc on! | i = Hive | sky, 407; Ismail, 389; Lambraw, = KER StES | 365; Sabel, 405; Adams, 300; Pap- Oo “¥" | pas, 153; Nucleus 10, Feb. 11 to Feb. 28, 150; miscellaneous, 261.” The Chicago Red Builders re- | cently suffered a cut in bundles, due to the lack of effort in drawing in new members, and we hope that by | this time the comrades in the Club | |have taken steps to popularize the “ | Club and invite unemployed work- | ers to their meetings to join up. Y This Comrade Davis, who started something in Baltimore, Md., when he sold 100 Daily Work- ers the first day on the job. When Daily Worker sales down there are a little slow, our “special Daily Worker physician” is sure to stroll in, take 100 copies and sell them all! (More photos of Baltimore Red Builders soon!) KEEPS TRYING TO GET SUBS “Please find enclosed money or- der for three months. Please note I would have renewed sooner, but I have been trying to get subs to fill out the blanks, Unable to get any- jone, as most all slaves down in | Southern Illinois are without finance. Til keep trying for subs for Daily mass circulation based on a special Worker.”—W. 8. E., Harrisburg, Ill. weekly issue. containing two columns of spate ‘devoted exclusively to local | news. ° Since Friday is used for the | Cleveland edition, Minneapolis will | select. another date. But when| enough “districts order special pages | | enumerate the flophouses at one shot. it will be possible for more than one since the second page will be done ver’ to thebt tle “deniands. O. K. FOR OAKLAND, BUT DON’T FORGET FRISCO! Sam Darcy, district organizer of California, writes: “We are handling the Daiiy Worker on a somewhat new basis, We have chosen Oakltnd as a point of special concentration and when we build that up on a better basis we will then devote more energy to building Frisco.” shcwn increases. Comrade Mugiani: section Deily Worker representative, reported an additional increase of 100 as a result of the recent readers’ conference and the. activities of the Red Builders’ News Club. Of course, with the help of the D. O. and lead- ing functionaries, no doubt Oakland is in for more increases. But we must point out that San Francisco has ben a hard city to continuing the success in Oakland, leading comrades should not ne- glect the difficult but extremely important territory of San Fran- ciseo, especially since there have been repeated cuts in orders. BRONX RED NEWS CLUB ON ITS TOES A little more than a month ago, the Bronx, N. Y., Red Builders’ News | ub membership totalled two. But/| that didn’t discourage them. After | persistent visits to unemployed coun- | cils and individual workers, they suc- | ceeded in raising their number to 8. | From a réport on its activities we léarn the following: During the first two weeks of February, 371 were sold. During the last two weeks, 1,319 were sold, nearly four times“ as much, H. Lipkin is the best seller. Starting with 25, he now averages 75-100 a day. I. Ruderman built up his carrier route from 26 to 50. Breit~ man sells about 45 a day, and John Roy, one of the newer sellers, av-. erages 40. B. Halfin sells 35 and Wm. Levine about 25. The Club will meet every week at the Work- ers’ Center, 1400 Boston Rd., where ® program will be arranged and prizes awarded. Three volunteers from the Bronx Jewish Workers’ Club have been recently recruited, and the Bronx Red Builders expect to triple their circulation.” . Go to it! And send your pictures int “PIE IN THE SKY” AND POVERTY “I went to church the other night. The preacher, after reprimanding the capitalists, said the Communists were striving to bring about the Millenium, but were wrong in that they left God out of it. I find out that very few adult workers here have over a third-grade education. At I was financially able, T would put the Daily Worker in every workers’ home. They seem to be afraid to spend a dime-in their own interest. Pie in the sky, so far, is rampant Gistriet’"t6> ‘choose: “the same date | Oakland's circulation tables have tackle, and in their enthusiasm for | ALSO STARVING. “4 Hours for Women “Unless They Riot” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) |) miners. In a statement to the legis- | lature Thursday, he said that there | is widespread suffering, which the | “Salvation Army and Red Cross are hopelessly inadequate to relieve.” Bittner, however, remarks that he is against any “dole.” . . ° “Let Them Starve.” | HARRISBURG, Pa., March 16. | “Until we hear some real hollering | from the workers and see some real | rioting, we won't believe that there | is any amount of suffering,” said an | employer of labor, discussing with several union representatives the hearings at the Pennsylvania state capitol on the 44-hour bill for women in industry. “We won’t do anything until the people do something.” Robert Haight, highly paid lobby- | ist of the Pennsylvania Chamber of | Commerce, discussed the hearings in the ante-room of the House of Rep resentatives. “Let the workers starve if they don’t want to work the. 54 hours,” said Haight. Haight repeated before a score of witnesses, “Yes, let them starve.” The prosperous Curtis Publishing | Co. of Philadelphia, open shop pub- lishers of the Saturday Evening Post and The Ladies’ Home Journal, sent to the hearings a woman representa- tive who testified that rather than reduce hours of its women employes from 45 to 44 a week, the company would fire them all and hire men instead. ‘The 54 hour week for women is of course one of the schemes to keep the masses unemployed, and to grind the most possible profits out of those | on the job by threatening them with the loss of their jobs. « 8 6 4,000 Emergency Workers Fired. NEW YORK.—The Welfare Council of New York sends out to the press, evidently with its endorsement, this Unemployment.” “The free wards of hospitals are badly crowded, largely with cases at- tributable to long continued unem- ployment. lated in plain language, this means that the jobless are starving so fast the hospitals can no longer care of those who collapse from hunger.) The “Welfare” chief continues: “While no one knows how soon how rapidly business conditions improve, the experiences of all agencies in this and other cit previous unemployment emergen show that the most acute distress among the greatest numbers will be felt long after business recovery 1s definitely in sight.” Nearly 4,000 of the 24,000 heads of families hired at $15 a week last : ests here, and poverty, also."—W, H. 6. an ees UM eg, WROTE, ete fired, last winter by the Prosser Committee, (Editor's Note—Trans- | the kl | Cover the Loop Flop-/ houses at the Wrong Hour (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill, March 16—Unem- ployment census supervisors in this city lied and minimized the catas- trophic jobless situation in Chicago. This I know because I was one of those hired to take the census and got the instruction, About January 14, a day before the | enumeration began, Ralph Goodman, | census supervisor issued a statement | through the Daily News that unem-| ployment decreased 40 per cent since | the census of last April. At that made since the first figures were not turned in before the 19th, Fake Returns. On the south side, Tibbets, another supervisor, hoping to gain some pub- city, organized a “brigade” of 60 men and shot them into the loop to It was a calculated fizale. ‘The census takers were to enum- erate every flop house between 6:30 Pp. ™m, to about 9:30 p. m., as they were entering the “hotel” for the night. But most of the unemployed do not get in until much later, since they have to stay in the soup lines or are still trying to raise the price | for @ “flop” on the streets. As a re- sult—only 230 unemployed were listed in the entire loop flophouse section, in a district where a minimum of five | thousand lodge every night. | One enumerator, assigned to a par- ticular hotel, disobeyed the super- visor’s order and instead of enumer- ating in the evening, came to the flophouse at 4 o'clock in the morn- ing. He started to list as the men left the hotel. He registered 480 out of the 600 registered for the night. A number refused to answer ques- tions, expressing contempt for the | government and its method of mak- was being done fore them by “re- gistering them.” 480 In One “Hotel.” Soviet Press Discusses Development of Planned Economy in Soviet Union; Is Force in Building New Society Productive Forces of Workers Republic Being Developed Rapidly; Unemployment Is Now Abolished in U.S.S.R. MOSCOW.—The Soviet press devotes considerable space to the tenth anniversary of the formation of the State Planning Commission. The State Planning Commission was formed on the introduction of the New Economic Policy. The “Pravda” publishes an article by Comrade Kuibichev, the chairman of the State Planning Commission: After the adoption of the state electrification plan “Goelro” which arose at the initiative and with the cooperation of Lenin, the class enemy realized the significance of the work which had been undertaken and therefore the activities of the sabo- tagers was concentrated against this > ing the unemployed think something | plan and against the subsequent Five Year Plan. Struggling in the throes ot the world economic crisis, capital- ism seeks to borrow the ideas of so- clalist. planned economy. This at- tempt is, however, quite hopeless. The apostles of planned economy in the capitalist camp forget one thing, and that is that our successes in this direction are conditioned by the whole system of socialist organiza- tion; they are the work of the pro- letariat. The overthrow of capital- ism and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat are the absolutely necessary conditions for planned economy. The “Pravda” comments: The past ten years have shown drastically the advantages of planned economy. The application of planned economy in the Soviet Union is building up a new order of society—socialism. The productive forces in the Soviet Union are developing rapidly and ceaseless- ly; the conditions of the working masses are steadily improving; un- employment has been abolished; and the contradiction between town and country is gradually being overcome. On the other hand, the whole of the capitalist world is writhing in the throes of an unexampled economic crisis. During the past ten years the State Planning Commission was the general staff of our planned econo- mic work. Not all the sabotage of the specialists was able to hold up its work or deflect its aims. Under the leadership of the Communist Party it has advanced systematic- ally towards socialism. The crowning of its work was the Five Year Plan, Thanks to the inexhaustible energy of the working masses this Plan is being carried out in record time, GRO AND WHITE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | boy. I would have fought them un- til they thought a wild cat got ohead | of them. There were no crops here last year. Too much draught. Herc I am working my old hands to the bone trying to make a living, and a lot of people got so much money they Compare 480 jobless in one hotel— and not an unusally big one—and the | figure of 230 for the flop houses in| the entire loop! Even now, before the total figure: are issued by the U. S. Census Bur- eau, I say they are fake and mini- mized! By the way, the enumerators would like to know why it took the govern- ment over a. month to pay, for tho work done. —Census Enumerator. CAPITALIST IN DRIVE ON USSE It’s War to the Death Between Systems (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 0! tial success.” Hence, Babson insists, the capitalists must lose no time. ‘The fact {s, that Frarice, England, and | the United States have already spent | millions for this coming war. Fascism, Babson explains, is “mili- tant capitalism.” “Fascism is direct- action of militant capitalism,” are his exact words. That capitalism the world over is going over to fascism, Babson also admits. “England,” he says, “May be heading toward dic- tatorship, and it may be under some, at present, obscure left-wing laborite.” Babson, as well as all the other capi- talists well understand the social-fas- cist role of the socialist parties of the world. The capitalists count on the socialists at the proper moment to become the directors of “direct-action or militant capitalism.” ‘Throughout the world the capital- ists are strengthening their war front against, the Soviet Union. The so- lalists and fascists are their main in this war, to rally the masses Jsorts of lying propaganda for eae e834 : ‘workers the war Bext to you will help save the Daily Worken, don’t know what to do with it. Is that fair?” Many Negroes Demonstrated. The reason why the whole tov 5, boiling over is that two-thirds o ‘12 4,000 demonstrations on Feb. 2 nding unemployment relief were to workers. There are at leasi A v N KANSAS CITY, Mo Coder and Hurst hav | lowing statement, declaring that they | are going back to Dallas to continue | the organization work, and telling | how they were kidnapped and flog- | ged, and then rescued by Negro farmers: “We were both arrested Wednes- day, March 4th, and held on “suspic- ion’, That night we were both beaten up in the jail cells by gangsters and a prize fighter who were specially | sent in by the police to do this. We were given no médical attention altho we were both bruised and bleeding. “Thursday night, around 8, we were taken out of our cells, and into the basement of the police station by the jailor. We were told by the desk sergeant that we were released to our lawyer, George Clifton Ed- wards. As we went up the stairs to the sidewalk a number of men sur- rounded us, several with pointed | guns, and we were ordered to get in- to a car, which was parked right in front of the police station entrance | with its motor running. One of the | men who pulled a gun on us had/ been standing in the basement of the | police station next to the desk serge- ant when we were brought out from | our cells. “Inside the car with us there were | three men, one of them driving and the other two with guns pointed at us, As we drove along they cursed and threatened. “You dirty nigger lovving”, they shouted, “don’t you know this stuff won't go in Dallas?” “After we had been driven for thout, 30 minutes, and were well outside the city limits, they stopped the car, and we were told to get out. Three other cars, full of Ku Kluxers, stool pige- rch 16.—| ued the fol- | out. Our hands were then tied be- on the ground covered with blood and with our hands still tied behind us. UNEMPLOYED MENACED BY NEW POLICE TERROR 40,000 jobless here, and there is @b- solutely no charity. The unemployed ore starving. You can’t walk down the streets without unemployed orkers begging for a hand-out, for 1 piece of bread, In order to inflame prejudice ainst Negroes, they are running the ati-Negro movie now, “The Birth of » Nation.” The grand jury is investigating the ‘Torging of Coder and Hurst where der and Hurst are expected to y tomorrow, Tuesday. The oap- t press tries to say they were logged. The press admits they were kidnapped but not flogged. . oder and Hurst Tell Story of Kidnapping and Rescue bloody and bruised appearance, “We intend to go back to Dallas as soon as we have recovered strength and carry on the struggle for unem- ployment insurance, and against Jim~ crowism and Negro discrimination, Neither the Ku Klux Klan, and the capitalist government agents wha work with them, can drive us out of ‘Texas. (Signed) LEWIS HURS; CHAS. J. CODER.” . ee DALLAS, Texas, March 16. —- The Dallas Dispatch of March 9 quotes from the statement of Attorney Geo. Clifton Edwards, with the comment that this confirms their editorial al- ready printed in which it was de- clared that the city authorities are “thoroughly incompetent and ought te be replaced.” Edwards said, as quoted by the Dis- patch: “About six o’clock I reached the city hall, went directly to see the chief of police. There was @ delay of 10 or 15 minutes and then he, Chief Trammell, told me he would phone Judge Muse (about prosecu- tion) and said I should phone him in half an hour. “At seven o'clock,” continues Ed- ward's statement, “from my home I phoned the chief and he told me he had decided to release the men. “About eight o'clock I went down town and at the desk I told the of- ficer what I wanted.” “Then”, says the Dispatch, “comes this very important statement (by Edwards): “After a delay of about 15 minutes he (this officer) ordered the men down from the jail cells.” ‘The Dispatch then continues: “Edwards walked out on the side- walk and the kidnapping immediate- Edwards’ mind that some one from police headquarters telephoned some one else that |the prisoners were about to be released. Mnough time elapsed to get three or four cars and 10 or 12 men together and get them, say, from the neighborhood of the courthouse, Oak Cliff or West Dallas, up to the city hall.” WORKER MAY LOSE EYE. i eliminate competition, ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION; DEM arakana, Texas, where we changed for another freight to Kansas City. ‘We did not have an opportunity to | get in touch with the district office, of the Party or the Daily Worker, ‘because we had been stripped of every cent and we did not want to venture