The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1931, Page 3

i DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1931 vm Page Three _ PERTH AMBOY JOBLESS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST CUTTING OFF “RELIEF” Force Way Into Council Room Under Leader- ship of Unemployed Council + Demands of Jobless) and Throw Out Unemployed Boss Politicians Rejec é? Daily Worker: On Wednesday morning, 11 demonstrated on corner Smith stoppage of every form of unemployment relief. station was closed down on Friday of last week. \On Wednesday at 2:30 p. m., at City Hall, Mayor Do of the city Red Cross “Relief” the “Relief Station” should remain closed or not. The unemployed, under the leadership of the Unemployed @ouncil elected a committee of fives workers at the demonstration to pre- gent their demands to the Mayor's | Relief Committee. | ‘The delegation of the unemployed | ‘after about one-half hour of cross examination and stalling around by the committee, managed finally to get inte the meeting. Mayor Was Absent ‘The mayor had found it more im- | portant to stay away. Mr.McCullah gave the report which shows that the relief had been stopped in spite of the fact that there still remained over $4,000 for relief purposes. The discussion at the meeting centered around one question—Where to get money if the so-called relief is to be wontinued? ‘The unemployed representatives had been denied the floor throughout, the whole meeting and at this point the secretary of the Unemployed Council, spokesman of the delegation forced the chairman to alloy him to propose where the money for the re- Bef should be gotten. ‘The memployed speaker pointed eut—“That the so-called relief gtven to the jobless was not enough and that it left hundreds of fam- | Western Canadian Farmers Face Starvation Deily Worker: Toronto, Canada. I have been reading your paper {m Toronto, regarding the horrible ergies that have been put into prac- against the militants of revolu- ry labor in the United States. ‘We have exactly the same thing in Wenada, police terror, despotism of Yaws, priest-craft, bourgeoisie press, eountless thousands of stool-| pigeons, embargoes against Soviet ‘Downtown Unemployed New York. {Defly Worker: , Louis Treyan, a member of the re errs «nemployed Council and itenant of +i6 E. Ninth St for the paying $8 per month.) He had been wmemployed because he met with an faetomobile accident which crippled thts legs #0 that he could hardly walk. ‘While he went out to the store his Parniture was put out on the street. ‘When he returned he was surprised find that without his presence capitalist henchman, the mar- strewn his meager belong- Unemployed Coun- put his furniture back into the Troyan was arrested, thrown j Would go back to the unemployed into jail for three days, When he was released he returned immedi- Many City Governments Cut Off Last Hunger Pittance CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) pot at emergency work will be dis- eharged this week. “At the present rate of expendi- tare, $300,000 a week, the funds now available would be exhausted before the end of April,” said Mr. Hioyd, “and at this rate even the proposed $3,000,000 municipal ap- propriation would only carry the work ten weeks longer.” ‘The $3,000,000 municipal appro- pristion, of course, is only “pro- posed”; it is not adopted, and will wot be unless the jobless demand relief in such terms that the em- wloyers’ government dare not refuse. . 68 6 2,300 Fired At Pittston. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March 30.— ‘The Pittston Coal Co. stated yester- day that it is closing down two of its five collieries tomorrow and throwing 2,500 more men out of work altogether for an indefinite period. BER GAY Otty Plans to Drive Out Unemployed. OAKLAND, Calif., March 30.—Lo- eal authorities threaten to stop all temporary relief on March 30, Bread lines will be discontinued and re- -Hef agencies are to cut relief for jobless unemployed married and /single men. A clean swep of the city is under- way to drive out unemployed work- @ms, according to the authorities, Sanitation and safety do not ex- ‘st in the cheap rooming houses, even as they don’t exist in the char- itable flop houses. Those places are overfilled even now. ‘The vice dens are being operated day and night in the city. Chinese lottery is now being sold on the street corners, grocery stores, ete., cheap bootleg overflows everywhere, Legal est oar. Nenad ig- Ly days a week. All other mills wore this. profitable Polite camps are closed. No one knows Perth Amboy, N. J. a. m., over 200 jobless workers and High Street against the The relief y called the meeting Committee to decide whether ies hungry and starving—and that the factory workers should no’ be forced to contribute to the unem- ployment Red Cross Relief Fund— but that the factory owners’ profit should be taxed, and that the sal- aries of all the cities’ officials be cut to $1,500 per year and the rest be used for unemployment relief.” Bosses Scared At Proposals When the members of the com- mittee, politicians nad business own- ers heard these proposals which meant that they should pay, the com- mittee members jumped out of their seats and began to yell, throw them out! Throw them out! The speaker continued, saying that the delegation and report to them how the city relief committee was trying to put the bur- den of unemployment on the backs of the workers and that they would organize the employed and unem- ployed so strongly so that they would be able to take relief if the city re- fused. ‘Thereupon the unemployed delega- tion was thrown out of the City Hall with the assistance of the police. Russia and barring of free speech. But we have succeeded in making} the capitalists fear our activities. ‘The farmers out in Western Can- ada are facing certain starvation. We have 30 per cent of our millions on soup lines, but they’ are rallying to the class struggle. The workers are organizing themselves against the oppression of the bosses and their government allies. —A Worker. Council Aids a Member ately to find only that he had no home. He was given a summons to re-appear Friday night, March 27, at 9 o'clock, in the 54th St. Magistrates Court on a charge of disorderly con- duct. ‘The International Labor Defense provided him with a lawyer. When his case was called the probation of- ficer recommended that this com~- rade, an old man, be sent to a city home. Members of the D. U. C. were pres- ent at court and demanded his re- lease, with the help of the I, L. D. lawyer. A few comrades were thrown out because they tried to protect this worker. The comrades won the case. This trial proves what the bosses are trying to do to us workers, even to old men. Organize more Unem- ployed Councils, to fight such cases as these throughout the country. —k. as a whole. But the misery and starvation of the working class must be covered up and put out of sight! A cry is on that employment is going up and that there is no need for relief. .This is a lie to excuse the cutting off of relief. Arrests on vagrancy charges, beat- ings and persecution of the organized workers as a part of the “city sweep- ing” plan will not stop the growing of the Unemployed Councils nor end the struggle. Prifits But No Wages. A little while ago new post office bonds were voted and work started. Only a dozen men have been em- ployed on the job so far. Hundreds not needed stand around from day to day, hoping to be hired, J, Ca- tuscl, grading contractor, has com- pleted work. He was getting 35 cents per yard digging, paying the workers less and filling in with the same load at other places, getting another pay as per another contract of 30 or 35 cents per yard, thus making double profit on the same labor. That is only part of the work on the project. By the time it is fin- ished many more will rake off profit aplenty, previnding a few workers only with jobs at miserable wages, Use your Red Shock Troop List every day un your job. The worker next to you will help save the Daily Worker. MILLS CLOSE IN SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON South Bend, Wash. Daily Worker: The crisis has sure hit this town. One sinall Shingle Mill runs about _| worker, and Frank Roy, a U.S. MAY DAY DELEGATION TO GO TO THE USSR 3D to Express Solid Front On War Plots (CONTINUED FROM I GE ONE) Santa Rosa, Cal., Council; John Katanoy, a steel worker in the Baltimore and Ohio shops and member of the International Associ- ation of Machinists; Gonzales Soto, @ Mexican agricultural worker from Palo Alto, Cal., elected by the Agri- cultural Workers Union and the “Vi- da Obrera”, Spanish language work- ers’ weekly; Charles Sumner of New York City, a member of the postal workers’ union, who has been elected by a group of New York post office laborers; Ivanov and Friedman, members of the Independent Shoe Workers Union of New York; E.Lem- pi, elected by the Finnish Women's Councils of the New_York District; Matti Wick, a New York auto worker elected by the national convention of the Federation of Finnish Work- ers’ Clubs; George Pratt, a Negro marine fireman of New York, elected by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and a New York Negro Con- ference; Rudolph Katz, of Buffalo, a cigarmaker, who was one of the leaders of the famous silk strike; and Louis Ferenczy of Ohio, a member of the United Textile Workers Union. In addition, twelve more workers are being elected by various cities, including a Gary steel worker and two members of the Young Liberators (Negro). The delegation will include |two farmers, Julius Meisenbrch, of Hy~- sham, Mont., elected by a group of wheat farmers, and Jessie Trask, a woman farmer from Minnesota. Five professionals have been elect- ed. They are Louis Lozowick and Morris Pass, artists, both. represent- ing the John Reed Club, an organi- zation of radical writers and artists; Aaron Kurtz, elected by the Prolet- pen, the organization of the Yiddish radical writers; Edith Segal, director of the Red Dancers, and Albert Gold- man of Chicago. This years May Day delegation will be distinguished from all previ- ous workers’ delegations to the Sov- iet Union in a number of ways. For the first time it will include poor farmers, a government employce, rep- resenting the 650,000 federal wage workers, and a Latin-American and]. agricultural worker. The agricultural workers are the most exploited sec- tion of the American working class, while the 4,000,000 Latin American workers in this country also are the special objects of persecution by; tiie American ruling class. ‘This delega- tion also contains a greater number of native-born A, F. of L. members than ever before. Women, youth and the Negro masses will be represent- ed. The delegation will sail at mid- night April 15th on the Europa and will spend five weeks in the Soviet Union, traveling over 5,000 miles as the guests of the Soviet trade uni- ons. A mass send-off is being ar- ranged for them April 15 at 8 p. m. in Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, New York City, at which F. L. Palmer, of the Federated Press, will speak. John J. Ballam, Nat'l Sec’y of the Friends of the Soviet Union will preside. Workers’ organi- zations are asked to send representa- tives. AFTER 8 YRS. MICH. CASES COME UP Through “Ham Fish’s Attacks (CONTINUED FROM GB ONP) he, himself, who had suggested to the prosecution its motion. According to the eminent judge, it is not the business of the court to guard a defendant against any infringement on the defendant's con- stitutional rights. According to Judge White's construction (and his interruptions are borne out by the practice of all capitalist courts), the judge and the prosecution can tear the constitution to shreds and throw the pieces into the face of any de- fendant. That is what the consti- tution is for. It is up to the de- fendant to protest. And when, as in this case, the defendants do pro- test, then the eminent judge ex- plains that this isn’t the time for a protest. The assistant attorney-general sat, through the | proceedings without opening his mouth. The judge pleaded his case. The motion of the prosecution wasn't even read. The judge granted it without hearing it. It was directed against the accused and that was sufficient ground for granting it. All the rights Judge White condescended to grant to thé accused was that, if they didn’t like this ruling, they can go to the Su- preme Court and try to have it re- versed, After this destructive per- formance of capitalist justice, Judge White set tho date for the trial of the accused for June 1, Among those called in for trial are William 2%. Foster, Harl Browder, Max Bedacht, Robert, Minor, William Weinstone and other active leaders of the Communist Party. Central Labor} The Philadelphia District is losing no time in getting its sections pre- pared to fulfill its quota of 80 yearly subscriptions or renewals in the 1,000 Subs By May 1 Drive. M. Silver, district Daily Worker representative, encloses a detailed and conctete plan of work, and writes: “I am confident that we can carry through our quota success- fully. As you can see by the plan enclosed, we almost guessed what our quota will be when we under- took to secure subs totalling 1,000 months which is a trifle above the 80 subs set for us by the national office. In this connection we will . take a chance and challenge the Chicago District on who will carry through its quota in a shorter period!” Comrade Silver, as a starter, sends 27 subs totalling 107 months. Fol- lowing are the number of months set for each section in District 3 in getting subs: Section 1, 100; Sec. 2, 175; Sec. 3, 150; Sec. 4, 50; Sec. 5, 75; Sec. 6, 50; Sec. 7, 200; Sec. 8, 15; Sec. 9, 125, He continues: “A letter is being sent to all ex- pired subscribers, urging them to re-subseribe and start new ac- counts, the sections to receive lists of these expirations for visiting them. Sunday, April 19, to Sun- day, April 26, will be the week of concentration, and Daily Worker squads are to prepare the mem- bership for this mobilization week. In addition, this week will be util- ized for making it financially pos- sible to buy 50,000 Daily Workers of the April 30 issue, which will be the May Day edition. Workers from sympathetic organizations will be mobilized to participate in the subscription drive, and the dis- trict is to keep a check-up on the fulfillment of the quotas, which will be published in the organiza- tion letter sent to the units.” Every district should follow this example of HOW the units are to be directed in carrying out Daily Worker activity for this drive for 1,000 yearly subscriptions, and Phila- delphia is to be commended on its initiative in guiding the day-to-day activity among the sections. ST. LOUIS REMEDIES D. W. WEAKNESSES “The section committee has taken up the situation of the Daily Worker and the way it is being handled by the Daily Worker agent,” writes J. Lawson, section organizer. “The fact is our sale has decreased in the last few weeks, and the payments are not regular. We have taken steps to remedy the ion and haye made the units responsible for bundles out of the section order. In order that the papers do not remain on our hands when a comrade assigned to them fails to come, we have decided to divide the bundle so that two units receive it direct. “On April 4 we are having a sec- tion affair for the Daily Worker at the Labor Lyceum, 1243 N. Garrison Ave.” It is true that St. Louis has been slow in activizing the comrades in the 60,000 circulation drive, but this report indicates that the leading comrades in the section are taking organizational steps necessary to put Daily Worker activity on a func- tioning basis. We hope more regu- lar reports will be forthcoming. LEAVES “DAILY” ON CAR SEAT; SENDS $1 “Enclosed herewith find $1 for my subscription, as I think it ex- pired. I am selling newspapers to accumulate some pennies so with my family we don’t starve. I have not enough time to read much, but I read the Daily Worker on the street car, and before I get off I will leave it on the seat, or give it to some worker so he will read it.” —Manuel Palmer, Detroit, Mich. SHOULD PUT SOME ONE IN HIS PLACE J.D, of Dayton, Ohio, writes: “Please stop bundle of 5 Dailies at once, because I got a job out of town. But I think it won’t last very long, so as soon as I’m through I will order them again.” This comrade makes the mistake of dropping five customers @ day. What he should do is to get someone to take his place during his absence, so that the contacts already made are not lost. KANSAS CITY SENDS REPORT From ¥E. Evrard, Daily Worker agent of Kansas City, Mo., we re- ceived a report indicating that 236 copies were sold on the streets, 305 distributed and one 6-month sub- scription was obtained during the week ending March 21, MINNEAPOLIS IN STEADY ACTIVITY “Enclosed find $8.50 in payment of our account for the regular bundle order,” writes W. B., section organizer of Minneapolis, Minn. We have taken steps to organize the comrades selling the papers into a Dally Worker News Club and this will undoubtedly increase the sales,” CARTOONS FREE FOR BEST SELLERS Just a reminder of those original cartoon strips by Ryan Walker, well- Philly Challenges Chicago i in “1,000 By May Ist” Drive; St. Louis Strengthens Activity In the above diagram pick out the reader of the Morning-Evening Sunday-World-Telegram |and the | Teader of the Daily Worker, Builders’ alone. News Club, in units or GET GREETINGS FOR MAY DAY Workers are urged to secure greet- ings for 25¢ which will be printed in the May Day Edition, and work- ers’ organizations should do likewise | (at least $1 should be donated) for the special issue which will be sent to the Soviet Union. It is under- stood, of course, that where printing | of greetings will endanger any work- er, we will guard against this upon notification, | STARTS WITH EDEN PARK, R.I. 25 “Please send 25 of Daily Workers at once.” J. F., Scandinavian Work- ers Educational Society. IN ORDER ON BASIS OF $8 PER 1,000 Units, sections, districts, Red Builders News Clubs, etc., ordering bundles of over 100 copies, will be charged on the basis of $8 per thou- sand. This should stimulate increases in orders, and will allow a certain margin to those who do not always dispose of the entire bundle. WISHES TO START STREET SALES From Andrew Reese, Chicago, Tl.: “I would like to try and sell the Daily Worker, but would have to know where to buy them in Chicago. Kindly send me the address of your Chicago station or office.” We suggested that this worker ei- ther order a bundle directly from us, or join the Red Builders News Club, located at 409 Halsted St. ’ WAUKEGAN, TLL. SPIRITS HIGH AGAIN “Here's a little picture of Wauke- gan,” writes O. Salminen, in a de- tailed and graphic report: “We have three Red Builders who are deter- mined to root the Daily Worker into the workingclass neighborhoods. I spent several days in a Negro district with the net result of two readers for my route and a possible Red Builder from a Negro youth. En- closed you will find a copy of our first local bulletin.” Comrade Salminen is in the swing of Daily Worker activity again, and has succeeded in getting exactly as many readers as he gets papers, in spite of the difficulties in organizing their first jamboree, and in breaking ground in the foreign language- paper-reading workers section. “Increase my Daily Worker bundle immediately to 30 copies daily, he continues. “We may grow slower but never will we cut bund- les nor fail into the habit of let- ting payments on bundles accum- ulate. I hope other districts and local agents will stress similar slogans, for they are a question of life and death to our paper.” GALVESTON, TEX. BACK ON THE JOB Al W. Mc. Bride of Galveston, Tex. sends a 3-month sub, writing: “This is our first paid-in-ad- vance of the Daily Worker, and it is from the most exploited of all industries here, the fishing in- dustries. The rotten laws that are here are all for the bosses, making Galveston a second Miami Beach or a rich man’s playground and a Poor man’s hell. Comrade C.1.D. is relieving me of Marine work and T will have more time to push the literature here in the South.” “KEEP HEAD ABOVE WATER,” JAMESTOWN From S. P. of Jamestown, N. Y. we received the following bit of in- formation: “why we did not get your answer they can be delayed? Our organiza- tion life depends on the D. W. and the life of the D. W. depends on tis.” YOUNG SOCIALISTS IN GERMANY AT ODDS ON PARTY Riotous Scene Over Sell Out of Party BERLIN. — Wild scenes occurred at a delegate meeting of the Ham- burg Social Democratic Party when young socialists protested violently against the treacherous policy of the social democratic leaders. ‘The representative of the Central Committee Hase declared furiously that 99 percent of the members of the Young Socialist League in Ham- burg and in the Reich were tainted with Communism. At this there were cheers and laughter from the young socialists, The member of the Y. 5S. L. Samann declared that the youth saw that the social democratic lead- were going away from socialism (voting for the emergency orders, for the armored cruisers, etc.) and that therefore they protested. Another young socialist declared that the social democratic fraction | in the Reichstag was doing every- thing Bruening wanted. An attempt of the social democratic officials to} throttle the discussion was received with roars of protest. A social democratic official Meit- mann declared in the discussion that it was shameful to hear the young socialists singing Communist songs at social democratic demonstrations. The young socialists thereupon shout- ed that the. social democratic leader Hoersing publicly sung the patriotic “Deutschland Lied”, the German na- tional anthem. in the Southern Prison Camps By CYRIL BRIGGS. One of the most typical institu- tions of capitalist America is a sys- tem of convict labor so horrible and | revolting, in the admission even of} boss newspaper correspondents, that it has no equal in blood-curdling horror and disgust in all the annals of recorded history. For comparison admits Robert N. Webb, in the New York Graphic of March 21, 1931, one must turn to “the human treadmill of pre-civilized days.” horrors of chattel slavery (supposedly abolished in the United States), the cruelties of mediaeval society nor-the horrible tortures of the inquisition conducted by “the holy Roman Cath- olic Church” against the heretics can afford comparison. Fantastic as are the imaginary hor- rors conjured up by the imperialist liars for the Soviet Union lumber camps in their vicious campaign of lies against the Workers Republic, not even the fetid. filthy minds of the most degenerate of these shameless liars could conjure up anything ap- proaching the horrible details, the inhuman brutalities and murderous tortures of the extensive convict la- bor system in the United States— paradise of the capitalists. Describing the convict caravans in which the victims, mostly Negro workers, of capitalist brutality, are taken to the scenes of their exploita- tion, Webb writes: “A prison on wheels! Steel cages packed with sweeping humanity un- der a blazing Florida sun! Prisoners on parade! “On rolls this strange caravan— horrible, revolting! The whine of its iron wheels grinding through the scorching sand rasps cruelly upon a watcher’s nerves—reminding him of nothing so much as of the human treadmill of pre-civilized days. Instituted Under Florida Law “It is a weird spectacle, fantastic, unbelievable—a spectable that the greatest showman who ever lived should never have conceived. Strange and nerve-chilling exhibits have fill- ed his fron cages, but had P, T. Bar- num attempted such a display as daily rolls through the backlands of Florida, he would have been driven from the country. Yet it is counte- nanced under the majesty of a Flor- ida law:” (Just as the African dodger game is permitted at Coney Island, in the State of New York). The men are forced to work 13 animals are put back into their cage. They are forced to sleep on iron “beds” covered only with a piece of Pittsburgh Police Form Radical “Bomb” Squad PITTSBURGH, Pa..-The Pitts- burgh police force has announced the formation of a Bomb Squad, similar to the infamous Bomb Squad of New York City, which will have “Bomb Arson” and ial Fight lynching. Fight pore known staff artist of the Daily| taken care of, ‘This banat ‘ae ti tion of foreign born. Fenn eee | eh gaan eae ee ee itt | ommmone’ of several dicks, ‘who on- perk g Papas aie remem conference for | awarded each week to the three best | doubtedly will work hord to frame A Se ans SA SOE. m,n 0, Hs Bes | tinh ae bw 9 Ton ently, ill, as often happens. “Scorpions, mosquitoes, any kind of bug. can readily get. into the cage. Snakes can glide through the narrow jis growing. Torture Convicts Not even the | * In More Troops national-revolutionaries and murder-@ dered 600 persons in punitive under- takings and demonstrations. Thir- teen hundred villages have been burned down, and over 6,000 nation- al-reyolutionaries. have been either | imprisoned or banished. ss | Because of the growing struggle | for independence of the Indo-Chinese | French imperialism has intensified | the terror against the 20,000,000 Indo- | Chinese workers and peasants. ‘The | number of French troops are con- stantly being added to. Edgar Snow, |N. ¥. Sun correspondent in Hanoi, | French Indo-China, in a dispatch to| his paper said: “Recently another detachment of the Foreign Legion arrived from Mo- rocco, and today there are 2,000 of that famous corps on duty in this land, east of Mandalay and bordering the South China Sea, In addition, France has 13,000 more regulars and 30,000 native troops—in all, twice as) many armed men as she needed a| year ago to keep the peace and pro- | mote trade of this Oriental empire.” Yet despite this importation of troops, the struggle for independence Snow points out that ‘Executions of Communists have been taking place with a frequency rival- ing the procedure in parts of China.” He goes on to say that “It is obvious from the examples of India and China that the day of all imperialism in the East is waning.” Fight Against French Imperialism i in Indo-China Grows Despite Executions of Rebels; 6,000 Have Been Jailed N.Y. Sun Correspondent Sees ‘Day of Imperial- ism in the East Waning;” But French Bring to Kill Masses PARIS.—Following a whole series of executions of Indo- Chinese revolutionists the French imperialists have recently executed Uguyeh Tri Sie and Pham Van Thinh, who were sen- tenced to death last August by the French authorities. of twelve months the French imperialists have executed 34 Inside BULGARIA RANKS FOR WAR ON USSR Say Moscow Produced “World Situation” VIENNA.—A copy of the “Slovo”, the organ of the Bulgarian bankers, of the 27th February has just come |to hand. The number contains an open appeal for a joint war of inter- | vention against the Soviet Union. The article in question points out that the world situation was never so fav- | orable for “Moscow’s criminal work” s it is at present. Mass misery and | dissatisfaction offered the best pos- sible basis for such work. The hand of the Communist International could be seen in Germany, Italy, | South America, China, India and of course, Bulgaria. The article then reproaches the great powers with not using their military forces against the Soviet Union although they are armed to the teeth. Pitt, Metter- nich and Alexander saved Europe from the menace of the French rev- olution. Today unfortunately there was no feeling of solidarity which alone could paralyze the threatening danger. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) branches are being organized in| other parts of the city. A woman cotton mill worker, Mrs. | Fanny Herbert, member of the Un- employed Council, denounced the stretch-out, low wages and mass starvation, for three qustters of an hour, at the city council meeting, in the city hall, on March 24, a com- mittee of the Unemployed Council, men and women, whité'‘and Negro, presented demands, inéliding one for cash relief, to the city council and also a list of 15 families for which immediate relief was demanded. Del- la Sullivan, needle trades worker, recently elected recording secretary Glen Alden Col- lieries Still On Strike Yesterday, (CONTINU! PAGE ONE) a rank and file strike committee to be elected by the strikers, and which makes demands for pay for all dead work, the delivery of supplies to the working face, no wage cuts in any form, no “topping” of cars, abolition of contractor system, abolition of the check-off, etc. The following review of conditions in the mines will show what the min- ers have to fight about. . . PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail).— “Unemployment takes a terrific toll of the miners,” stated National Sec- retary Borich of the National Miners’ Union here. He told of actual ob- servations, and reports to the union offices, which show, in districts where there are no government fig- ures at all or any attempt made to either count or feed the jobless. In general, over the whole of the bitu- minous mining fields, half the min- ers are unemployed altogether and have been without work for more than a year. Of those who still work, 90 per cent are working only one or two days a week, and, in very rare cases, three days a week. Less than 10 per cent of the soft coal miners are working full time. This means that actual starvation is prevalent in the came out in a fight between the Eastern and Southern coal op- erators, The capitalist press states that in JOBLESS COUNCIL MAKES RED CROSS, GROCER, GIVE FOOD Wastmoreland County, Pa., only 32 out of 53 mines are working. Tn 1931, additional thousands of miners have been laid off. The Part Time In Anthracite. In the Anthracite, the big Glen Alden Co, has Jaid off 700 miners. Estimates of the jobless in the An- frame! move one way or emother bat a few | thracite AB _ Bal Se be, eer of the Unemployed Council, read the demands. Watch Red Cross, Members of the Unemployed Coun- cil make it their business to sit in | the Red Cross headquarters to pro- tect the interests of the workers coming in for relief. The other day, Mrs. Annie Shipman, sole support of three children, with no food in the house, was turned down by the Red Cross agent. L. M. Jones, Unemployed Council member, took two loaves of bread from the shelves, gave them to Mrs. Shipman, and told the Red Cross agent to give her a grocery order. She did. The Red Cross admits re- ceiving $23,874 in the year 1930, and admits that only 905 families were given relief that year. Of the 905 families, only 75 were Negro families. It was found out that the salaries Red Cross functionaries got in 1930 was $6,640. Colored workers going to the Red Cross for loans are fing- er-printed like criminals. Workers asking for coal are told to “stay in bed to keep warm”; workers asking for food, who have no money or tools, are told, “You don’t need food from the Red Cross; go on the farm and raise some.” About 10,000 workers are out of work in Greenville, and starving. The employed workers only make $6 and $7 @ week. Every day, barefooted children can be seen on the streets. Hundreds can’t go to school because they have no’ clothes. Workers say they won't stand such conditions any longer; they are determined to get food and clothes. They are deter- mined not to get kicked out of their houses. Men and women, white and colored and 15-year-old wage earners, are joining the Unemployed Council. Weekly mass meetings of employed and unemployed workers are held each Thursday evening at the new headquarters, 11A O'Neal St. Bench- es, enough to seat 200, have just been made by volunteer committees of members. Workers are joining fast, 28 signing up at the last meeting. The City Executive Committee of the Unemployed Council, of 24, white and Negro, of whom 8 are women, mects Levery Monday evening and plans the work, E, R. Rowland, a painter, is secretary. Unions Collaborate With Bosses; Sell Out the Railwaymen LONDON.-~The National Union of sold out the workers’ interests. They agreed with the employers not to lead the workers in strikes. Here. For Information Write te The DAILY WORKER