The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1931, Page 3

ee ee ee D. ALLY WORKER, V YORK, FRI DAY, MARCH 2%, Page Three Quotas Set for Districts in “1,000 Subs By May 1” Drive. New subscriptions or renewals —ONE THOUSAND BY MAY FIRST—is the present dbjective in the Daily Worker circulation cam- paign. This latest move for 60,000 readers should spur “.ry Party and League member, evcry worker and sympathizer to jump into ac- tivity and get our campaign across. Following are the quotas for the districts: Boston, 60 (720 months of subscription); New York, 150; Philadelphia, 80; Buffalo, 40; Pittsburgh, 50; Cleveland, 90; De- polis, 60; Kansas City, 8; Agricul- troit, 140; Chicago, 140; Minnea- tural, 12; Seattle, 28; California, 70; South, 5; Birmingham, 6; But- te, 7; Denver, 5. Every name sent in for subserip- tions or renewals will be printed in the May Day edition sent to the Soviet Union, which will contain an 8-page supplement beside the regular paper. In order that every section of the country will receive the spe- eial issue in time for distribution, four editions will be printed. ‘The Far West (west of Mississippi River) will receive the issue dated April 24; the Midwest (west of, and including Pittsburgh and South) will receive the issue dated April 28; Eastern states (east of Pittsburgh), April 30; New York City, May 1. Greet the Daily Worker with these 1,000 subscriptions and hasten the 60,000 goal! CLEVELAND RED NEWSIES ACTIVE From J. Fromholz, district Daily Worker representative of Cleveland, Ohio: “Kindly split my bundle order for the time being. We now have a Red Builders News Club established, and they are to get 100 papers daily. My bundle order is now 250, and is to be split in the following way: 100 to W. R., 150 to me. “We are making this arrange- ment in order to cut down our surplus, and to get readjusted. Had been getting many extras, although we were sending many direct to the homes. In about one week, my bundle will again appear, as at present.” Comrade Fromholz assures us this is a temporary split, the only reason why we accept it. We are certain that the comrades and Red Builders in Cleveland will increase their sales to the extent of ordering separate bundles, Tats | A #81000 Bur ry. Do rr “ Bins SUBS: x} Dau Woe kere D IS ON THE JOB SELLING DAILIES.” “You haye started to send 5 Dailies to us every day. However, my father is on the job selling them and he would like his bundle to be increased from 5 to 10 a day. I sent in some correspondence to the district for the district page, and will also send some material to the national of- fice.” Mary Jacobs, Dayton, O. TIPS FROM ALBANY RED BUILDERS “Altho we aren't doing so hot ourselves, we wish to make some suggestions,” writes M. Pell,’ driv- ing force of the Albany Red Build- ers News“Club. “Where possible, the Red Builders should put a Daily in the window for passers- by to read (we are doing this). Now that the warm weather is here, Red Builders should hold street-corner meetings. They need just pick out articles from the Daily and read aloud to the crowd while other red builders sell the Daily. ‘This is a good way t® get rid of the day’s left-overs at night (we are now doing this.)” RED SUNDAY IN NEW YO) MARCH 29 New York will have a Red Sun- day on March 29, when Party and League members, as well as sympa- thetic organizations will canvass for subscriptions and renewals and will popularize the Daily Worker when visiting workers’ homes. , This will be a good beginning for the 1,000 new subscriptions by May 1 drive. Ham Fish Joins in Frame-up of Akron Worker to Put Over Wage Cut for Bosses (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) have been hired at low wages. The same practice was followed in ‘the Great Lakes Airships Corp. shops in Cleveland where the ships that col- lapsed in San Diego were built. Boys are employed in these shops at 20 cents an hour by the patriotic profi- teers who work on these government contracts. For the past several months, the Goodyear Co. has been imposing one wage cut upon another. When the last wage cut was announced, the workers were on the point of open rebellion and openly discussed plans for a strike. -Although Kassay, who was regarded as an especially skilled worker and who enjoyed considerable influence and the regard of the other workers in the shop, did not get his wages cut, he was suspected as a leader of the strike preparations. Principal Motives for the Frame-Up. ‘The Goodyear Co. had to have a good excuse for delaying the formal inspection by about two months. Time ‘was needed in which to patch up the defective parts. Time was needed in order that the company could save paying a heavy penalty for being bé- hind in its contract. Some of the naval inspectors were cooperating with the company in covering up, de- fective parts. It is known that the company pulled wires to secure ap- proval of parts. that had been pre- viously condemned by a naval in- spector named Hall. (This refers to ® previous ship which has now been launched.) _ Furthermore, the work- ers in the plant had to be terror- ized into submission to wage cuts, By means of the Kassay frame-up, the Goodyear Co, expects to escape paying the penalty for defective work ‘and failure to meet its contractual ligations. The bosses of Ohio seek justify the Criminal Syndicalist Law, which the legislature just re- fused to repeal. The D. of J. agents are able to boast of a clever piece af detective work and prove to the gullible that such a spy agency is imperatively needed to preserve them Pema “red conspirators.” For Ham Fish, the frame-up is a god-send, It oomes just in time to prove that his discredited proposals for fascist ter- ror against all militant workers, are essential for the preservation of the rule of the multi-millionaires, ‘The Frame-Up Experts At Work. The arrest of Paul Kassay took place suddenly. The first announce- ment to the press came after a five hour grilling in the inquisitional chambers of the local police head- quarters. In screaming headlines, the prostitute press declared that “Com- munist confesses plot to wreck giant Zep.” Hair-raising details followed. “The plot was hatched by the Soviet the most, sensational detective story style. But the charges themselves are more than ridiculous, A stool pigeon named Petro, posing as an agent for the Amtorg, claims that Kassay told him that he weakened the ship by spitting on the rivets. Every worker in the plant knows that in order to place a rivet upward, all must wet the rivet with saliva so that it will stay in place till the riveting process is completed. The inspectors use a strong search light whigh reveals any space that might be left where the rivets are fastened. ‘Certainly ac- cording to the workers, if ice was to form, the searchlight would quickly reveal this. According to the spies, } Kassay, who is an expert mechanic, tried to wreck the ship by leaving two out of six and a half million rivets loose! The stool pigeon Petro, who made suggestions to Kassay that he shall weaken the ship and that he would be rewarded for this by a good job in the Soviet Union and $3,000, now claims that Kassay accepted this offer, This is the extent of the “evi- dence” which is the basis for the sensational stories, the ravings of Ham Fish, and the demand for the excessive bond of $20,000. On the basis of such evidence efforts will be made to railroad the worker Kassay to ten years imprisonment and to justify an attack upon the Commu- nist Party and the revolutionary unions.. Rally to Defense of Paul Kassay. The Communist Party and the In- ternational Labor Defense have al- ready taken steps to provide defense for Paul Kassay and to expose before the whole working class the slimy frame-up of the Goodyear Rubber Co. the state authorities and the federal government spies prompted by the fascist Fish. The capitalist press which is play- ing up every ridicilous accusation and every statement of the prosecu- tors, is also trying to disarm the workers who would rally to the de- fense of Kassay. The Scripps Howard paper in Akron thus publishes an editorial “advising the Communists” that they are not to become involved in the Kassay case. This prostitute organ declares that “Ohio will not submit to the crusifixion of another Sacco, .another Vanzetti, another Mooney-Billings, within its liberal courts.” (sic!) But the workers of Ohio know that the Ohio courts are yery liberal in Jong prison sentences for workers. The Ohio courts are capitalist courts, similar to the courts in Massachusetts and California, The fact that the judges before whom Kassay has al- ready appeared have made vitriolic attacks upon him and upon the Party and have held him on excessive bail government.” The clever and “ex- pensive” work of federal agents who traced Kassay in the course of an in- vestigation of the wreck in San Diego a plane bullt by the Great Lakes hip Corp. where Kassay was pro- yemmmloyed, was described 1 am: despite the flimsy character of the charges, should be sufficient proof to the workers that they must rally throughout the country a mass move- ment of defense as the aaa nae of saving Paul Kassay Sais ies Sms | | | bration will be held at the Ukraini- | an Hall, 849 N. Franklin Street, un- | MOORE AT PARIS COMMUNE, PHILA. a __|Rally ‘Against Flynn Sedition Law Putting forth the demand that the fascist Flynn Sedition Law be re- pealed, and all class prisoners be un- | conditionally released, the revolution- ary workers of Philadelphia will gather this Friday night, March 27, te celebrate the sixtieth anniversary | of the Paris Commune. ‘The cele-} der the auspices of the International | Labor Defense in this district, Richard B. Moore, national Negro | director of the International Labor | Defense will be the chief speaker. A feature at the mass meeting will be the ratification of the delegates elected at a récent I, L. D. confer- ence to go to Harrisburgh and pre- sent to Governor Pinchot the de- mand to wipe off the Flynn Sedition Law which is being used extensively as @ means of terrorizing and jailing militant workers. | An ‘appropriate program has been arranged for the occasion, Among the participants will be a workers’ chorus, the WIR orchestra, and the Vanguard group in a play entitled “The last days of the Paris Com- mune.” 75 KILLED, 500 HURT IN INDIA Fighting Ts Spreading Everywhere (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) dent in Karchi where the Indian Na- tional Congress is, meeting writes: “The independence leader, who was the object of hostile demonstrations by ‘red shirts’ throughout last night, told newspapermen that the execution of Nationalist extremists at Lahore had not affected his position toward the peace settlement.” That is to say, Gandhi’s object is to do the dirty. work for British imperialism, despite everything. He said that the British or with his lieutenantDWILNNUPNI government had “committed a first- class blunder,” making it harder for Gandhi to put over the sell-out. Refused an interview with Gandhi or with his lieutenant, Jawarhalal Nehru, who is parading as a “left,” the “red shirt” representatives de- parted shouting: “Who killed Bhagat Singh?” and answering, “Gandhi! Gandhi”! More “red .shirts” are arriving at Karachi. The “red shirts” are a militant youth organization who do not approve of Gandhi’s program of uniting with the British imperialists. Not only are there reports of fighting in Cawnpore and the Thar- waddy forest as well as the Insein regions, but mass demonstrations against the British are taking place in Bombay and Calcutta, Her Pay Cut, Steno _ Ends Life By Gas NEW YORK.—Thousands of work- ers have committed suicide, faced with starvation, through unemploy- ment. Now we have Elsie Jordan, 25-year-old stenographer, who ended her life Wednesday By gas in her room at 239 West 70th St., because she had her wages cut. Finding life a struggle against starvation even while at work, when her flimsy pay envelope was chopped still further, Elsie Jordan killed her- self. i ‘The bosses kill off thousands, not only thréugh unemployment but with their wage-cuts, by which they con- demn the workers to slow starva- tion, MOTHER HELD FOR ABANDON- ING BABY NEW YORK.—Mrs. Josephine Jen- kins, 24 years old and destitute, of 449 Lexington Ave., was held on $500 bail for a hearing today on charg of “abondoning her baby.” Mrs. Jen- kins was starving, and was arrested earlier the same day on charges of stealing a dress for her child in a Akron Children Meet to Take Up Fh Against Bad Conditions in Rubber City AKRON, Ohio. — A conference to take up the most important ques- tions before the workers’ children in Akron today, and io draw the workers’ organizations of Akron into the work of building a mass children’s movement here, will be held Sunday, Aril 5, at 3 p. m,, at the Workers Center, 9 W. Bartges. | The main question to be taken up | at this conference will be the fight of the workers’ children against the miserable conditions which they face as a result of the mass unemployment in Akron today, and how the adult workers can aid in | this fight. The conference will also consid- er the question of drawing com- rades sympathetic to the revolu- tionary movement into the work of leading different kinds of chil- dren’s clubs, such as sports, sing- ing, etc. Other questions that will be dis- cussed at the Pioneer conference will be the preparations for a Pio- neer camp this summer and the support of the Young Pioneer mag- azine for workers’ children. All workers’ organizations of Akron are urged to send delegations to this conference, ‘Boston Raincoat Makers Plan Strike for Autumn BOSTON, Mass., March 26,—The} raincoat fhakers here, members of the Needle ‘Trades Workers’ Indus- | trial Union have discussed the seri- | ous situation in the trade with the| Executive Committee, and at meet- | « ings of the entire membership, and} a special meeting of all raincoat} makers recently voted unanimously | to prepare and mobilize ail raincoat | makers in Boston and vicinity for) a strike at the beginning of the fall season. This decision has been en- dorsed by the Shop Delegates Coun- cil of the Industrial Union. ‘The time when the strongly or-/| ganized raincoat makers earned well and were known in the labor move- ment as a militant element is gone, | but can be brought back. The em-| ployers now take advantage of the| industrial crisis to cut wages and increase speed-up, until now, work- | henchmen, and stops action, ing at top speed, a raincoat maker | gets about half what he used to. The ability to struggle has tem- porarily been smashed by the be- trayals of the Schelssinger-Dubinsky “Union,” which in New York, under the leadership of Gingold, sold out the raincoat makers. In Boston, the “International” gang betrayed the workers of Cable's shop, Each time the Boston rain- coat makers start to do something to improve wages or conditions, the “International” scab agency cuts in, sends one of the chiefs from New | York, or uses some of the local Now, led by the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, there is| a real chance to win back old con- ditions, to defeat the employers and the “International” scab agency, too. 17 BIG U.M.W. LOCALS OF GLEN ALDEN COMPANY VOTE TO JOIN IN STRUGGLE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) representatives there yesterday. Six hundred delegates and local mem- brs were present, and the nteeting, being too large for the union hall, was held in the Y. M. C. A, Officials Exposed. ‘When Murray and Boylan got there, they found that the militant rank ‘and file opposition of District 1 had distributed leaflets beginning: “Don’t let the traitors and strike- breakers speak! Murray, after he sold out the soft coal miners, is here to break the backbone of the Anthra- cite. Boylan has broken more than one strike here, he wants to break this one. “Carboni acted as a stool pigeon and prosecutor and had two miners arrested yesterday for giving out a leaflet catliz.g on the miners to strike. They are telling us we are breaking the coniract. Mr. Murray, Mr. Boy- lan, Mr. Kmetz, Mr, Carboni, and the rest of the fakers, aren’t the coal companies breaking the every day? What are you doing about that? Nothing!” When Murray and Boylan first|! tried to enter, the rank and file miners blocked their way, hissed and booed them. By parliamentary man- euvers, the officials inside got them admitted, in a criss-cross fire of mo- tions and amendments, and rulings by the chairman, etc. State Grievances. The International officials and the government agent, an experienced strikebreaker, took seats on the plat- form, but the miners’ delegates went on with their business. Delegate after#the place of work, timbers, props, delegate took the floor, pointing out men are being docked daily for coal which falls off the cars, kecause they are piled high, and are docked for not piling the coal high if none does fall off. They told of doubling up of jobs, of bosses threatening to fire anybody who made the least protest, and of the breaker working and coal being hoisted after quitting time. “This is not a sympathetic strike,” the delegates said, referring to the first strike which started Saturday in two locals because the teamsters were forced to work an extra hour per day without pay. “We all have these same reasons for striking Union Square store. That shop organizations can ‘sit successfully built where the correct methods are applied is shown by the experience of the Metal Workers In- dustrial League in one of he big industrial centers of the East. In this center, the mills are all on part time, with the workers getting only 2 or 3 days work a week. A high degree of rationalization has been obtained at the expense of the workers. In one shop 380 workers produce six times as much as 1,800 workers used to produce in Girard, Ohio. The speed-up is terrific. The workers are forced to work an 11- hour turn, with 13 hours at night, without any time off for lunch or supper. In most plants the majority of the workers are young workers. These, including the girls, are forced to turn out the same work at adult workers, and are paid half as much. In one plant, the conveyor bolt, has been introduced, thereby intensifying the terrific speed-up. ‘There is no He ieee ventilation. The young girls once a week, An Industrial Council of the MWIL with representatives from each shop group has been or- ganized, This is mainly for the pur- pose of developing local forces, in- terchanging experiences and co-or- dinating the work of the groups in the different mills. Local leadership is being built up. Some of the shop groups aro already in a position to take care of themselves, with the rk im acid fumes and contract | check-up of the council These ate| This tee Mr me engl Fear ae Pa IS ek a tt ails i, ak BE, against the damnable conditions contract | 20! existing under all Glen Alden opera- tions,” the delegates said, Show Kennedy Lied. Many of the delegates tore the mask off of the International and district officer’s hypocrisy. They told how Kennedy had declared that the five and a half year contract must be accepted as it would keep the wages from being cut or, conditions from growing worse. The delegates said the miners had accepted this assur- ance, and now the officials had be- trayed them, standing by while the Glen Alden company ruthlessly made conditions worse. Finally they gave Murray ten min- utes to speak. He began with insults, saying he had been in many states, and “I have never seeh miners act like they have acted here.” He urged them to all go back to work—and arbitrate, Boylan Threatens Scabbing. Ata was given a few minutes, he threatened there will be no settlement until the men go back to work, and furthermore, the unem- ployed will be used to replace them if they do not go back. Seventeen of the locals voted for @ strike, an overwhelming majority. The officials of Truesdale local had refused to call a meeting to vote on the strike, so a meeting was called by the Militant Rank and File Op- position, The Rank and File called for a large strike committee with no officials on it if they were against the strike, and to fight for these de- mands: All supplies to be brought to boaras, powder and other material; pay for all rock and dead work, and for setting of timber; recognition of the Rank and File Comittee; no check-off; no conciliation board of compulsory arbitration system; re- turn of ali men fired in No, 11 and No. 2 USE PRISONERS TO BUILD MORE PRISONS BOSTON.—The Committee of the House supported the use of convict | laborers working on the construction | of new prison buildings in Massa- chusetts. What about prison made goods? M.W.I.L. Shows Shop Groups Can Be Organized By Using Correct Methods Terrific Speed-up Help Work of Organizing Workers tuberculosis. Just recently in another plant a wage cut was put through under the pretense of reducing the hours of the workers, from 10 hours to 5. In five of these plants, the Metal Workers Industrial League has been able to form shop organizations thru fearless application of correct meth- ods. All groups have secretaries and function regularly, holding mectings This plan already tating up the question of establishing department committees, ‘These shop groups were not estab- lished through much general talk, or mass meetings. They were organized as @ result of day to day work, visit- ing of contacts, speaking to individ- ual workers, etc, Once the groups were established, the immediate task was to develop activities inside the shop organiza- tions to keep them going and de- veloping. ‘This is what is usually taken up at a meeting: Discussion ‘on conditions in the shop, connecting up the reports of each individual member or his ac- tivities in the shop. Working out of concrete demands; taking up the task of popularizing these demands within the shops, through leaflets, shop papers, stickers, ete. Three groups are now receiving weekly bundles of Labor Unity and selling them inside the mills, Every member has the task of bringing in additional mem- | central meeting will be held April JOBLESS FIGHT — | (Worker Gets $48 for Injury CONSTABLE SALE On $3 Million Graft Road Job State and City Rulers Give No Relief relief is carried on only by their own organizations, and has to be carrical on against the attempts of the so- cialists to worsen their conditions, ew No Relief From Government. ‘The state legislatures of New York | and Washington, and the Board of Estimates of the city of New York have just taken up the unemploy- ment problem. Result, absolutely nothing for the jobless. Washington state legislature has adjourned without even taking out of committee the bill for a state system of unemployment insurance and re- Hef—to be sure a very weak one, but the only one they even let go as far as @ committee The bill to investi- gate was even c'tched. In Albany, where a few days ago the New York State Federation of Later and the National Association of Manufacturers appeared elde by side against the Mastick biil for 15- surance, Governor Roosevelt has now taken a hand—to postpone any pus- sibility of ‘msurarce until the last wage cut can be put through. Roose- velt notified the legislature yester- day that it should appoint a com- mittee to investigate the possibilities of insurance, ‘rot a dole,” he made | plain, but “insurance for which the worker insured shall previously have paid by deductions from his wages.” Roosevelt cails this the only sort of insurance that agrees with the dig- nity of American labor, and “our economic Jaws.’ In New York City it was announced yesterdat that the motion to ap- propriave $2,000,900 a month to em- ploy the 24,000 the Prosser Commit- tee is firing, “might not come up until another session of the board of esti- mates.” Build Unemployed Councils. Active organization of the councils of the unemployed, and building of the militant unions of the Trade| Union Unity League must continue, to win any relief for the jobless. | Preparations are being speeded for three state hunger marches. The workers of Maryland march, starting from Baltimore the last day of this month, and reaching Annapolis, the state capital, the next day. On April | 10 and 11, bands of jobless march | from Philadelphia, Chester, and other | Pennsylvania cities to reach Harris- burg several days later. The four) lines of march in Ohio start on the Sixteenth, and converge on Columbus on the 26th. The Ohio jobless will make their demands on the state | legislature April 27. RULE PARTY OFF BALLOT IN CHI. Workers Rally to Sup- port C. P. CHICAGO, Ill. — The board of election commissioners has finally ruled off our Party from the ballot. ‘The workers once more clearly see what a “democratic” form of gov- ernment we have. ‘The workers full well know that the bosses’ board of election com- missioners has ruled the Communist. Party off the ballot because they are afraid that our Party has too much influence among the workers, A. J. Cermac, the democratic nomi- nee for mayor, with his fake prom- ises, cannot fool the workers as eas- ily as in the olden days. When the Party was ruled off the ballot, many organizations of workers sent in pro- tests, resolutions, telegrams, etc, The bosses know what it means and it took them a week to Gecide whether we should be on the ballot or not. The only thing that will force the bosses to concede is the mighty force of the working class. In the most important factory districts we are holding mass protest meetings, The | 3 at the Peoples’ Auditorium, 2457 West Chicago Avenue, Every sympathizer, class conscious workers, unemployed or employed, will attend this protest meeting. Our Party may be ruled off the ballot, but the Party calls upon all work- ers to write in the names of our candidates on the ballot, or when he gets a sticker, to paste it on the ballot. Attend the mass meeting on April Make your protest felt. PREPARE MAY 1 IN CLEVELAND Conference April 13 1245 Prospect CLEVELAND, Ohio.—In order to prepare a mighty working-class dem- onstration on May Day, all workers’ organizations are urged to send dele- gates to the United Front May Day Conference, which will be held at 8 p. m, on Friday, April 3, at 1245 Prospect Ave, (second floor), Unemployed and employed alike are being stirred to action to make this year's demonstration the great- est in Cleveland's history. Signifi- cant of the interest aroused is the 3. |and more resentful and discontented |man cars, if we were conductors be- | (By = Worker Correspondent) Washington, D, C. Daily Worker: ‘The Mt. Vernon Memorial Boule- vard is being built between Washing- ton, D. C. and Alexandria, Va., with @ system of graft that is worse than the Teapot Dome case. Under cover of patriotic (?) reasons, and a bar- rage of holy-Gawd myths, the work- ers are being exploited and lied to| in order to build a. bee-oo-te-ful highway for idle rich, and equally idle government officials to roll their rumps over. The engineers misjudged the ex- penses for such a road by three mil- lion dollars! Only Soviet engineers | are supposed to make such glaring mistakes; but since THIS was a pa- triotic graft, no one cried to the Fish that the Reds were putting diluted sand in the cement, or playing leap frog with the ledgers, or expense ac- count, Congress in a moment of generos- ity donated about three more million dollars, with the order that the en-| gineers must give satisfaction. One wag got up in Congress and claim- ed that the Mt. Vernon Boulevard | could have been paved with silver dollars for the amount of money which was spent. It could have been paved with gold dollars twice. Through the negligence of a fore- man, who only has sense enough to eat, dress, and lick his superiors’ boots, a worker was injured on the job. The worker received forty-eight dollars compensation for a month in the hospital, and promises of easier work on his return. gHe returned to work and was given tasier work for a while. Suddenly the big boss de- cided on a speed-up. ‘The injured worker was asked to| go back to his old work, and to help the others. He did, and because of | the strain, had to lose a few more} weeks (without pay) and know by| then that his back would never be entirely well. On his return the second time, re- peated attempts were made to place him back at his old job, but the worker refused to injure himself any further. Because of his attitude, the stool-pigeon foreman from Penn state made the remark that: “He would soon get rid of that worker.” The injured worker had to lose some time again because of his in- jury, and having an intense hatred now for the corruption and misman- agement of the Mount Vernon boule- vard, decided to refuse to go thru all the red tape in order to receive compensation. He would starve may- be, or he would have to go some- where else for work, but he would not lick the boots of any ple-in-the- sky bureaucrat. He went back to work, and worked a few weeks be- fore the government laid off about seventy-five workers because of lack of funds. A worker who was permanently in- jured, and had been employed for over a year was laid off with no job in sight; and workers who licked the bosses’ boots were kept on, al- though they had been employed, but a few months, One worker was kept on because he had # car and drove the two-faced foreman to work. This worker also has @ job at night, and | makes over two hundred dollars a month; while some workers who were married and made possibly sev- enty dollars a month were laid off. Workers Laid Off This, comrades, is the kind of gov- ernment we work for. The govern- ment has enough money to pay a lot of grafters ten dollars or fifteen dol- lars a day, but out of three million dollars they do not have enough to pay poverty-stricken farmers and workers forty cents an hour. The men who were laid off with- out one minute’s notice are plenty. We will have to get together and kick all those “efficiency” experts out, and put in some workers who can make a Soviet America, and build « system which will give work to ev- erybody, instead of this government of bull shooters and money grabbers. —A WORKER, . (NOTE: I have been laid off with the rest, and I am not going to stop fighting and writing until the black and white workers have kicked all the Hooey Hoovers off the earth, and planted a Red Flag on the white house. Jarmen’s Union Misleaders Put Over One Man Trolleys Oakland, Cal. | Daily Worker: If the capitalist countries are going to pull off a war, they must move | quickly or the workers will not fol-| low them. They are growing more | all the time. Look at my work (street railways, the Key Route System—re- porter). One man doing two men’s work and getting five cents an hour more pay only. Conditions of work are getting harder and harder all the time and nothing we do is right with the company officials. One man | brooded over the matter until he went loco and committed suicide. The Carmen’s Union is practically | a company union. The business agent of the union helped the com- pany put over the one-man car plan. We have to give 100 hours of work without pay to learn to run the one- | fore; 50 hours if we were motormen. Now they are even dividing the men of the union. Those who operate the busses belong to the Chauffeurs Union. We who still operate the cars are in the Carmen’s Union as be- fote. The men are discouraged and pay very little attention to the union. There must be a lot of stool pigeons among the men, for everything we say about the work is reported back to us within a day or two, to the manager. So we keep quiet. tus spoke a worker in the carmen’s union. If the carmen, not only here in Oakland, but wherever there are men operating cars, would join the Rail- waymen’s Industrial Union, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, they would be strong enough to fight such unbearable conditions of their daily labor. Don’t grumble against the bosses, it will not help. Organ- ize and fight. Show your solidarity with other workers on May Ist. —G. W. Protest Tomorrow; Fight Against Brutal Deportation and Lynchings! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Detroit, or held for deportation as in the case of Yokinen in New York. Deportations of militant foreign- born workers are, being speeded-up by the government, which has just announced its intention to deport 100,000 foreign born seamen, In Akron, Ohio, the government is rush- ing the frame-up of a Hungarian worker, Paul F. Kassay, ‘The workers will answer these vici- ous attacks in monster demonstra- tions tomorrow. In Chicago, where half a million workers are unem~- ployed and hundreds of working- class families starving, and where the boss terror against the Negro and foreign born workers is being carried out with the utmost savage- ry, the workers will hold a mass meeting at 8 p.m. at Slovak Workers Home, 5lst and Whipple Streets. This will be followed up with three meetings on Sunday, at 3 p.m., at the following halls: Forester Hall, 44 and State Streets, Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St., and Labor Ly- ceum, 2733 Hirsh Blvd. In Johnstown, Pa., there will be a@ meeting at Sylvestre Hall, 537 Maple Ave., Woodvale, Johnstown, at 2 pm., Saturday. In Monessen, Pa., the demonstra- tion will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, at Finnish Hall, 618 6th Street. In Yorkville, 0., at 7:30 p.m., Sat- urday, at Misko Hall. In Pittsburgh, Pa, on Sunday night, 8 o'clock, at International Ly- ceum, 805 James St. N, &., with a preparatory meeting Saturday night at the Pythian Temple, 2011 Center Street (Wylie entrance), says the conference call, “must ex- press in unmistakable terms that we will not submit to starvation and want amidst plenty; that we will not permit our wages to be cut and our living standards driven down; that we will not allow the bosses to ter- rorize us, to smash our organizations action of Unemployed Council No, 9 bers whom he considers trustworthy. srriNenl rrr a8 in donating $5 from its meager funds to aid the May Day preparations. “Our May, Day. demonstration,” pp erstfaredsaleenisa and rob us of our political rights; that we will resist with all our might tho attempt to send us into 2 new world slaughter ‘Sy i Liou een, i ‘ In Arnold, Pa., Sunday night, at 7:30, Umbra Hall, In Avella, Pa., Suncay, 2 o'clock, at Granish Hall, Browntown. In McKeesport, Pa., Synday, 7:30 p.m., at Workers Club, 12th and Loc- ust Streets. In Milwaukee, Wis., Saturday night, 8 o'clock, at Labor Temple, 808 Walnut Street. In Philadelphia fourteen demon- strations have been arranged for Saturday at the following corners: 4th and Federal, 17th and Fitzwater, ‘7th and Snyder Ave., 11th and Rod- man, 13th and Reed, Kensington, Marvine and Columbia Ave., Marvine and Girard Ave. Hutchinson and Poplar, 46th and Haverford Avenue, 40th and Poplar, 32nd and Cumber- land, 24th Turner, 22d and Indiana ‘Ave, These are all afternoon meet- ings. In the evening, at 7 o'clock, there will be another demonstration at McPherson Square. In Newark five demonstrations have been arranged for 2 p.m., Sat- urday. Demonstrations will also be held in Linden, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Paterson and Passaic, In Niagara Falls, N. Y., at the Hip- podrome Hall. In the South, demonstrations ‘are being arranged in sevéral cities, and Southern white and Negro workers will march side by side as in demonstrations held by the Union Unity League and the Com- munist Party. These and hundreds of other working-class organizations, including a number of AF. of L. locals whose rank and file members have defied the reactionary policies of their fascist leadership, are sup- porting the March 28 demonstrations throughout the country. In New York City, demonstrations will be held in Brownsville, Wil- liamsburg, South Brooklyn, Long ‘Island City, Astoria, down town and midtown Manhattan, the Bronx, etc. The main demonstration will be held in Harlem beginning at 144th Street and Lenox Avenue, with a parade through 144th to Seventh Avenue, down 7th Avenue to 114th Street, east to Fifth Avenue, down Fifth to 110th Street, where a monster ba. bsickeNaing wma be held.