The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 20, 1931, Page 3

¥ { PLUMBER MISLEADERS DEMAND GRAFT TO GET INTO PLUMBERS ASSN. Daily Worker: ganized by all means. admittance into this union. sons for getting graft. When I cal- led the executive board they asked my whole biography of life and then at the end they even started to curse my parents and they got me by the neck and kicked me out for fur- ther notice. The further notice was when I decided to go up myself and talk business. But how can you go and talk business to a person you don’t know. I had a friend that had the same trouble . He went to the secretary so he got his union card. Naturally for money and he told me to go up to him. Officials Ask Graft I went up and said “I have an application here yery long.” He re- Plied “It is very hard to do anything for you.” I told him that I did not “want him to do anything for noth- ing so he stopped to think and made an ‘appointment for next week. The following week I came up there. He got busy looking for my application. He found it and asked $75.00 to put it near the top of all applications and said that next week I would get New York. Daily Worker: z A meeting of the Railway Express 450, New Jersey, of the A. F. of L, was held at Beethoven Hall, Sim- day, March 15, for the purpose of yoting on. whether all the men {would prefer a day off a week in- stead of laying off in slack seasons, according to seniority, was very dis- orderly and ended without taking a vote. ‘The men with little service were in favor of the day off system and the others against it. The union delegates and the express company were also in facor of the 5-day week (at 5 days’ pay) in slack seasons (I don’t know which of these plans is best). But nearly all the men know they are in @ company union. This don’t mean that they have all turned rad- teal I believe that it woud be possible to organize them in a radical union by not using too much radical: lan- quage. —J. D. Dayton, Ohio. To the Daily Worker: ‘The bosses at the Park Tool House are making scabs of the un- employed workers. The jobless are sent here to work for their tickets, which are worth $3.60. . workers what kind of trades they have. The carpenters, bricklayers and others of the building trades Washington, D. C. Daily Worker: Every day I read on the back page of the Daily Worker discussions and sriticisms concerning the daily tasks vf our Party. I find it very instructive and be- feve they help in preventing many njstakes. I would like to touch upon » subject that has not been talked in our press, but to my opinion erves strong mention. rere are a number of -members je Communist Party, considered ieir units as very-good camrades, children are very far from the labor movement. How ‘comrades justify that I cannot rstand. } “Low Pay . Portland, Ore. ally ‘Worker: Just another story of how a big rm helps the unemployed and sedy—Lippnian, Wolfe’s, third larg- t store in Portland, is one of the ost philanthropic institutions in wn. They give thousands of dol- rs to the Community Chest. Out Enclosed find EMERGENCY FUND Hold Up Applications Until Plumbers Pay Heavy T:tbute to Union Bureaucrats Plumbers and Plumbers’. Helpers, Write in About Conditions in the Union New York. Can a plumber exist belonging to the U. A. or should he organize a revolutionary union? The answer is that a revolutionary union should be or- When I wanted to belong to the U. A. of Journeymen Plumbers Assn. a few years ago I applied for}, When I sent the application it was laying there several months, to make the applicant disgusted with waiting so long #0 that there should be more rea-¢- employees, Locals 808, New York, angi! a letter to appear before the ex- ecutive board, so I thought I got my card already. When I received the letter to come there I took along $30. Five dollars I placed in one pocket, $25 I put into my pocket book. He asked me, how mitch money have you. I told him $5. So one of them answered “God damn it, those lousy helpers won't give us even for a glass of beer, We sit here and sweat our guts and then he said, get over there and pay in those $25 for your in- itiation fee and don’t forget every week you'll have to pay $25 weekly until you pay up $110.00.” When I had to take the examina- tion they asked $150.00 just that I should pass, so I got it down to $100 and told them when I start to work as a mechanic I will give them more than fifty. Instead giving them more money I sent them another man for his union card and he had to pay $500 in order to get his book. To be continued next week. —Plumber Correspondent. Railway Express Misleaders Try Put Over Boss Proposals < (Editeriat Note: Either plan would place the burden of “slack times” directly on the shoulders of the express workers. In either case it is a material reduction in wages for the workers. It is in this that the workers sense that one plan is but the alternative of another one favoring the company, and, as you say, makes them “know they are in a company union.” Radical talk would mean talking in terms of the workers’ interest and not alternative plans proposed by the bosses. In this case it would mean putting up demands for shorter hours with no wage-cuts. The A. F. of L. has no “radical” talk or action, the bureaucrats are wholly and solely for the bosses. The reformists like the Musteites have “radical” talk, but betray the workers (Danville, hosiery indus- try, ete.). Only the revolutionary Trade Union Unity League unions and leagues talk and ACT “radical” that is upon a clear cut program of the workers’ class economic in- terests.) Dayton Bosses Force. Jobless to Scab are made to work for $3.60. This is forcing scabbing on the other workers who have these kinds of F of the jobless was a brick - by trade, but he refused to to do that kind of work for He said he would do the if he was paid the union Later he refused to work at all because he said he was hun- gty and he didn’t eat enough to be able to work. —M. J. a2 Jay g8 * wo : Must Win Children for Workers’ Movement Surely every class-conscious worker knows that without taking the youth away from the present ruling class we cannot hold the future. Is it pos- sible that there are comrades who believe we are the last generation called upon to bring about the world revolution? Are we going to stand by and watch the school teachers, who de- fend and justify everything the capitalist world does, influence our children? Watch the youth drift away from us? I know from personal experience that we can have the youth if we are willing to put in hard work. - I wish some comrades would write on that question a few words in the Daily Worker. —B. P. La Garou ae for Portland Dept. Store Girls of their profits, lord no. Working girls get $13.50 a week now since the Xmas spirit gave them @ cut and a mass lay-off. To hold their jobs they pay $1 a week to the Com- munity Chest. Fifty-two dollars a year to carn thé privilege of working there, of becoming prostitutes in ore der to live. The workers have no 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 . + GONREG ois csriesovcdseserescteccececeereses We pledge to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER DAILY WOK, WoW Yous, rniDAY, MACH 20, 1951 Page f MARYLAND STATE! HUNGER MARCH TO START MARCH 31 Pennsylvania and Ohio Marches in April (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)’ nomination for president on the democratic ticket, hos skillfully usec demagogic phrases to fool the work- ers by making “promises” for unem- ployment insurance, help to the farmers, etc. In his message to the state legislature he proposed a bud- get of $72,000,000, but left out thc unemployed workers and the drought- stricken farmers entirely. ‘The unemployed workers will de- mand a part of the budget for un- employment relief, the turning of the funds for the National Guard and other military appropriation over to the fund for unemployment insur- ance, the abolition of the vagrancy law, the reduction of the salaries of the state officials, etc. The marchers will-leave Baltimore on March 31. A mass meeting. will take lace in Baltimore on March 30. Workers and sympathetic organiza- tions are asked to send contributions to help carry on this campaign. The contributions should be sent to the Unemployed Councils, 9 S. Greene St., Baltimore, Md. This is the third state hunger march to be organized for April. Pennsylvania _ jobless will start marching on Harrisburg, the state capital, on April 4. From many points in Ohio, a march will start April 16, converging on the state capital, Columbus. The growing crisis, with more and more unemployed, and the tactics of the employers, very plain now, to do nothing to relieve the distress of the jobless, but instead to use them as a club over the heads of the em~- ployed to force through wage-cuts and speed-up and longer hours, forces the jobless and employed workers alike to greater efforts. Now is the time for the most in- tensified organization campaign, to build up the unemployed councils and the unions of the Trade Union Unity League! ee Live On One Banana a Day. NEW YORK.—Frances Perkins, director of the state of New York Industrial Board, told Wednesday to the Women’s Fund Committee a story of eight unemployed girls in New York living for days on less than one banana a day, and no other food. She said: “The girls found that ten cents worth of bananas had more sustenance than ten cents worth of any other sort of food. They managed to scrape up $2 a week between them, and after paying the rent on a dingy furnished’ room they spent the rest on bananas. This gave each girl less than a banana a day—or five bananas a day between eight of them. “Distress among single women from unemployment is now unpre- cedented. Most of these have neither relatives nor friends to as- sist them. In previous depressions they could return to the forms— but now—in the majority of cases —their fathers are themselves me- chanics out of work.” . ALLENTOWN, Pa., March 19— The family of Henry Wolfe, 8282 Lawrence Ave., Allentown, is unem- ployed and destitute, the wife is to- tally blind and the landlord is pre- paring to evict them. The Allen- town Unemployed Council should rouse all workers to their defense. Fined for Speaking At Protest Meeting SPRINGFIELD, Mass., March 18. —The bosses and their courts have decreed that workers must not fight against starvation, must not fight for relief and unemployment insurance. #0" Philadelphia activity for the sale of the district issue is picking up, as seen from the letter received from M. Silver, @aily Worker represen- tative, who writes: “I mailed off the material for Thursday's edition, this time prob- ably more than the comrades in the office will be ‘willing to use. The reason for the sudden pros- perity in articles can be found in the fact that the district page is becoming popular among the com- rades. Among the articles is a news item for our State Hunger March and an article for March 28.” Cleveland sends its order for 2,00¢ copies, and includes the follow stimulating note from J. Fromholz “We have our News Departmen —— tryou, G2 IN , h Dany A 2 «| oeeap 4 re wh ee & See THAT Goss Does NOT Loree Kee THE DAN cay Sur of ze mrePt organized. We are now putting more pressure on the sections and units for the supporting end, and this will be oiled up and moving as our news service.” Both these districts show some ac- tivity among the Party and League comrades which should result in more widespread sales and distribu- tion and an increase in bundle or- ders from the minimum of 2,000, which is only a starting point in the drive for mass circulation. BUFFALO PLANS RED NEWS CLUB From K. Ilmoni, Daily Worker representative of Buffalo, N. Y. “Not so good yet. One important (at least in the experience of Dis- trict 4) event happened today. I received the first letter from any- | where in the district after almost wrecking a typewriter in an effort te get a report m the sections. “I am calling a meeting of all unemployed Party members to | establish a Red Builders’ News Club, Send a. dozen or so mem- | bership cards to start with. Will | write you more later.” | A short leaflet advertising this | meeting would increase the at- tendance. The News Club would also draw in unemployed workers who are not Party members. Keep after the sections for reports, Buffalo. We expect to hear more from you. 10-MINUTE TALK BOOSTS BUNDLE “As a result of a 10 minutes’ talk for the Daily Worker from the steps of the Utah State Capitol to about 5,000 demonstrating unemployed workers, who enthusiastically en- dorsed the ‘Worker’ and condemned | the capitalist press for systematically | and deliberately suppressing all facts regarding the economic situation, the demand for the Daily Worker is in- creasing every day. “We therefore want you to increase the bundle order from 45 per day to 100 until further notice. The newly- elected Daily Worker committee has promised to have a strong, active and lively Red Shock Troop in a few days."—O. W. L., Salt Lake City, Utah. ALBANY RED NEWS CLUB CUTS ORDER From Mike Pell, Albany, N. Y.: “Kindly cut our bundle to 150 copies per day for the time being. Some of our Red Builders have been terrorized and bribed by the police, especially since the Hunger March. Others are finding work on the docks, so, until we get new forces, it is necessary to cut the bundle.” nt With Pell and “Ginger” Neilson on the spot, we’re sure this situation is When they demonstrate against starvation and for their demands, they are clubbed and arrested. When thrown into jail or fined. Ttzkowitz was fined $25 in court today for speaking meeting in Chicopee, ‘to protest the arrest of a demonstration of unemployed workers last month. demonstration was attacked by the leaders arrested. ORGANIZE TO END STARVATION , . cents eererereeeccccacccccescecccoeces DEMAND |< a temporary one only. SON HELPS DAD. PAY FOR SUB “I enclose $1 for the Daily Worker. A month ago my son sent in 50 cents he earned. I am still in arrears, so use part for back payment and part for the subscription.”"—C. D. Mt. Glemens, Mich. CONEY IS., B'KL' PIONEERS BUSY In Coney Island, Brooklyn, N. ¥., seven Pioneers, ages ranging from 10 to 12, are on their young toes getting Daily started in their neighbor- hood. Eli Cohen is starting a route; represen- tative of the Daily Worker, writes from Houston, Texas: “Had several old copies distributed at the demonstration, after an- nouncing the Daily Worker from the steps of the City Hall. Everyone was very eager to get a copy and keep on Cleveland, Philly District Pages Activize Members within a very short time a larger order will be requested. The com- rades here will organize a Red Build- ers’ News Club as soon as the papers arrive. Very many of the unem- ployed who came to the meeting after the demonstration were willing to sign up into this club.” A Los A rade who signs uimself “Red Da Seller” gives an xcellent scheme for selling the “Dai- y.” He writes: I have followed your report on les of Daily Workers, by Red New: Ss and cannot understand why ales are not made by the sel- I noticed that many Los An- eles paper sellers come about 8 o'clock in the evening selling through the residential section. They would shout paper and the headlines; every- body came out to buy. “I wanted to try this with Daily Workers, so I got fifteen copies of Feb. 25 and started in the working- class district, shouting ‘Daily Work- er! Thousands Demonstrate for Bread!’ It was after dark and porch lights came on. Doors open- ed and ‘Here, boy, over here’, ‘Paper here’. ‘Over here.’ ‘Hey, you. Over here.’ Seld 15 copies in 3 blocks. Repeated in the same three blocks next night and sold 9, and the other 6 copies in the next 2 blocks, mak- ing a total of 30 Daily Workers in two nights in five blocks.” su REQ-HEADED BUILDER This is Henel Langford, one of New York’s red-headed Red Build- ers who got to Albany before the Hunger Marchers and started sell- ing the Daily Worker on the streets there.. Truckmen and drivers | show the best response to her lusty headline yells. MAYOR FAILS T0 FOOL EM TWICE Underpaid Women “oining Needle Union (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, March 18.—In collins- ville, Ind., a mining town of ten thousand inhabitants, 600 women and young girls employed by the Forrest City Manufacturing Co., producing house dresses, are getting from five to six dollars a week and less. Some make only sixty or seventy cents a day. In one case a girl made three dollars in two weeks. For these miserable wages they have to slave nine and a half hours each day and five and a half on Sat- urday. And also speed up them- selves working under the piece work system. _Most of them are wives and daugh- ters of miners. In many cases they are the only supporters of their fam- ilies, because their fathers and hus- bands are without jobs. Lately conditions have become so rotten, that if has even reached the mayor of the town. But there were some reasons why the mayor learned about conditions in the shop at this particular time. It is before elec- tions and he wants to get votes. A more important reason is, the work- ers began to talk of doing something about it. And the mayor does not want to see the workers organize and fight for better conditions. So he got on the job and called a meeting of the workers Feb. 26, at which fhe mayor and some local A. F. of L. officials were present. The workers were then told that the best way to get better conditions was by “peaceful persuasion” and therefore they should do nothing about the rotten conditions, but they should leave it'to the mayor and wait until another meeting will be held two weeks later. March 12 another meeting was held at which the faker force of the A. F. L. was increased in number. Speeches were made by all of them in which they tried hard to convince the work- ers that they must not organize and strike, but they should keep on wait- ing until they hit the soft spot in the bosses’ heart and appeal to his human feelings to be good to the girls. And again were the workers told to go home and keep on waiting until another meeting will be held. But representatives of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union got on the floor and exposed these fak- ers by showing them that if the mayor was really interested in their conditions, he wouldn’t have sent po- lice to a meeting one year ago when the workers wanted to organize. The N.T.W.LU. is active organizing a committee in the shop to prepare for a real struggle to improve the asking daily for it, 9 please rush pals yoda Me gapsdtte SJ by ion seathtenae are joining the unfon, conditions of the workers, ¥ oe Sathekt SWEDISH FARMERS| KLAN BUILDS UP LYNCH SPIRIT IN DALLAS; OIL CAPITAL RUNS K. K. K. RETURN TO USSR; Go Back to Stay After Taste of Capitalism STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Under the influence of religious and polit- ical propaganda, about 900 Swedish colonist families decided two years ago to leave the Soviet Union and return to the land of their fathers. All sorts of promises were made to them and they were led to believe that they would find a paradise un- jer capitalism. It did not take long for them to discover their mistake and realize that they had been mis- used politically in a campaign against the Soviet Union. Those who had misused them cared nothing for the fact that almost a thousand families had been uprooted under false pre- tences and with deceptive promises. The peasants, however, found it more difficult to return, because those who had, for political reasons, assisted them to leave the Soviet Union were not in the least inter- ested in giving them the chance of rebuilding up their lives. However, the greater part of the original emi- grant company has already returned to the old homes on the Dnyepr and during the next few days 108 fam- ilies will leave Sweden for the Soviet Union. Those peasants who are now in the Soviet’Union write that the Sovief authorities have given them back their old farms ‘and helped them on their feet with loans, stock and tools. The fact that the peasants have learned from their experience is seen from the fact that many of them have now joined the collective farms and are working for the build- | ing up“of socialism, They have learned that there is no short cut) to paradise. Only collective effort| with the toilers can bring them nearer to their aim. The whole af- fair has had a further effect. Those peasants who left the Soviet Union at the instance of their pastor in 1928 were deeply religious. The suf- ferings and deceptions practiced on | them have resulted in a fatal blow) to the prestige of religion. The parsons will never again re- cover their hold on these peasants and their families. Those peasants | who are still in Sweden are regarded | by their former well-wishers as a/ Bolshevist plague, because they make no attempt to conceal their desire to return to the Soviet Union, Pity Me, Jobless Miners | Marched On Court House. | POMEROY, Ohio—More than 100| unemployed workers from the little} mining town of Pity Me marched on the court house in Pomeroy last Wed- nesday, demanding relief. They stated that the Red Cross had cut them off, and that women and chil- dren were starving and in urgent need of clothing. If the Pity Me miners follow up’ their militancy with organization in- to the Unemployed Councils of the Trade Union Unity League, demand- ing not pity but their rights, they'll b eable to change the name of their town to Pity You (and mean the bosses). Toledo Jobless Break Into Stores and Get Food; Need Organize TOLEDO, Ohio.—Sick and tired of the bosses’ promises of relief, the Toledo Council of Unemployed took it upon themselves a few days ago to go out on their own hook and get relief. Seven unemployed workers went to the grocery stores and meat markets and demanded food, telling the managers that they refused to starve amidst plenty. They came back in one hour's time with enough food to last a couple of days. This proves that the unemployed will not starve-as long as the gro- cery stores and meat markets are full, if they go about getting food in an organized manner, by joining the Unemployed Councils. —E. M. Lantern Slide Lecture For Pioneers’ Benefit CLEVELAND, Ohio—A lantern slide lecture on the Paris Commune will be given on Sunday, March 29, at 4:30 p. m., by the Cleveland Young Pioneers at 1245 Prospect Ave. In addition to the lecture, an interest- ing musical program has been ar- ranged in which several of the Young Pioneers will take part. a The affair is being held to raise money to build up the Pioneer Cen- ter as well as to help out in the cam- paign for the new Pioneer Maga- zine, the first issue of which is to appear on May 1. PROMISES FAILED) Revive Old Lying Film “Birth of a Nation” te Whip Up Race Prejudice Exploiters Enraged Because Negro Workers Take Big Part in Demonstrations (By Special Correspondent) DALLAS, Texas, March 19.—Event shaping themselves now in this over. grown, tinsel-draped oil-boom city o 300,000 will determine within a fey days whether the kidnapping and th: flogging of Coder and-Hurst will sim- mer down into normally brutal at- tacks on future demon: ms, 0; whether it will boil into violent con- flict between workers and exploite: The situation is extremely tense Not the leas# of the sparks whicl may set off an explosion any time i: the current showing of the fiendist incitement to race prejudice, the movie, “Birth of a Nation.” Incitement, This film, barred from many parts of the North, boycotted by class con- scious workers everywhere, is a vicious thing, particularly when shown in a community like Dallas, where from a quarter to a third of the white pop- ulation belong to the K. K. K. The play, supposed to picture the Reconstruction Days after the Civil War, holds up the Negroes as beasts no better than animals of the jungle, hunting down pure young white Southern belles in order to rape them. It shows the Ku Klux Klan as a band of high minded patriots, forced now and then to show a little violence to the Negroes in order to protect South- ern womanhood. It is mass of lies and race prejudice almost beyond comprehension, but in Dallas it ap- pears with frequent sub-titles flashed on the screen: “This Scene is a Fac- simile of an Actual Occurence.” On sub-title declares: “The Ku Klux Klan is The Organization Which Saved the South From Anarchy.” The audience applauded vigorously for two minutes when this title was flashed on the screen. They applauded again, when, dur- ing the showing, an interlocutor came forward and read Wodrow Wilson’s tribute to the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan holds the b=!.nce of po- litical power in Dallas, No cae can be elected to office unless he belongs to it. The mayor’s secretary, Nor- man Register, the fellows who told the reporter Barr the story of the | kidnapping and flogging of Coder and | Hurst, is secretary of the local branch here, which calls itself “The Old Cliff” Klan, after the part of town in| which most of its members live. The mayor, chief of police and prosecuting attorney all belong to the K. K. K. The K. K. K. in turn, is dominated by the money of the Texas oil inter- | ests, and by the Dallas Power and | Light Company. The later, in turn, is controlled by New York financiers. | Even the “Birth of a Nation” is controlled by New York capital. So we have the curious spectacle of “Yankee” cash, whipping a Southern mob in a lynching bee. Race Angle It must be remembered, in order to understand the significance of the showing of the picture, that the main CINCINNATI JOBLESS FIGHT MORE EVICTIONS CINCINNATI, Ohio.—Convinced that the city will do nothing for them, more and more workers are joining the Unemployed Council here since the last visit of the jobless delegation to the city hall. The council is fighting eviction cases wherever possible, in many cases succeeding in keeping jobless workers in their homes. In one case, however, two. members of the Unem- ployed Council were arrested in try- ing to prevent an eviction, Comrades C. Stark and G. White. The council intends to make a big issue of this case and will fight the courts on this issue. Bible Stoolpigeon Rats on Workers Who Talked Organization (By a Worker Correspondent) ‘TOLEDO, Ohio.—How religion is used by the bosses against the work- ers was shown to me while working on @ night shift in the Gordon Bum- per plant, owned by the Mather Spring Co. Here the poor wage Slaves were very much dissatisfied with the low wage scale and the Jong hours. In one room there is ing and polishing is done, the air is filled with emery dust, which also is inhaled into the lungs. A religious stool-pigeon, who Admission for adults will be 10 cents. Workers’ children admitted free. Come one. Come all. CORRECTION five, hundred dollars each. This should be five thousand dollars. The three were arrested and held for de- knows all the bosses, was telling me about the dissatisfied workers, which brought about an argument. I told him that the Communist organiza- tion is the only one that will solve the problem for the workers, far more than any other organization or religion. He took this up right away and asked me if I believed in re- I told him no, He then me if I believed in the Bible, and again I told him no. Then he said that he believed wholeheart- edly in the “good old book,” and just for that, I was going to have some damned bad luck—and it would not be long either. The very next day I was laid off. So religion showed argument used to excuse the brutality gainst leaders of the jobless here, the T. U. U. L. and the Communists, is he race issue, The demands for ab- olute equality of Negro and white vorkers enrages the Southern ruling class. What infuriates the exploiters here S that two thirds of the workers in he demonstrations are Negroes. I ave checked on the numbers of the ruary 25th International Unem- ployment Day demonstration here, and find that there were at least 4,000 out that day, of which 2,500 were Negro workers. FOREIGN LOGGERS EXPOSE ‘FORCED LABOR’ SLANDER Indignant Resolutions Passed By Loggers MOSCOW.—The “Pravda Severa” published in Archangelsk continues its exposures of the “forced labor” myth. Thousands of letters of pro- test have arrived from the logging districts from workers who are in- dignant at the calculated slanders of the conservatives. The newspapers have published letters from Cana- dian and American loggers at work in the Soviet logging camps. They all indignantly refute the “forced labor” lie. The “Krassnaya Svesda” (“The Red Star”), the organ of the Red Army, reminds the government of the United States that trade worth $130,000,000 is at stake. The Soviet government will answer all attacks on its foreign trade by counter- measures. The United States, points out the article, is not the only coun- try in the world from which the Soviet Union can order its machin- ery. If the United States insists on sacrificing the advantages of trade with the Soviet Union, well and good. But the Soviet Union will answer all attacks, no matter from what quar- ter they come. Numerous meetings of timber workers have been held all over the logging districts. Indignant resolu- tions have been adopted everywhere against the British and American capitalist lies. Numerous meetings have decided to answer the csm- paign of lies by increasing their ef- forts to fulfil the plans. One of the resolutions adopted declares: “Our timber is the product of social- ist labor which takes on the forms of social competition and shock group work. Labor in the Soviet Union has been raised to an affair of honor and heroism.” 1,000 AT CHICAGO ELECTION RALLY Mock Trial of the City Fakers CHICAGO, Ill, March 18.—Over 1,000 attended the Red Singing Com- petition and Mass Election Rally at the Ashland Auditorium last Satur- day. The Hungarian, Freiheit, Ukra- nian and Lithuanian Singing Socie- ties each sang two workers” songs. Among the songs rendered was the Soviet Song of the Youth, by the Ukranian Society, and the Volga Boatmen, by tha Lithuanian singers. The first prize, a beautiful red ban- Lithuanian Society. _ In addition to the musical enter- tainment, a mock trial of the City Council in Session was presented the Workers’ Cultural League, which the republican and poliictians were exposed. The gree! est applause came when Phil Frankfeld, heading legation of the unemployed into the City Council and the demands of despite the wishes of the politicians and police. Comrade J. infil | munist protest against the attempt to port Comrade stands for the gro workers beating and torture in Comrade Williamson workers to vote of hunger Vote Wangerin; oe City Treasurer, August Poans-. POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N. J. —After soup and children’s bread- lines we report the latest addition joining the ranks of starving unem- ployed—the babies Point Pleasant Board of Health started distribution of baby food to prevent frera going hungry, “en” |