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/ } iS ceca DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1931 “1,000 By May 1” Campaign; Reading, Pa. Reports Work Subscription lists for a “whirlwind” campaign” to grect tha Daily Worker With 1,000 new Yearly sibs or renew- als before May 1 have already been sent to all districts. Only one month is left in which to get these filled, but the following incentive will prove stimulating toward getting these sub- scriptions: By renewing now, subscribers who are in arrears in their accounts can open new accounts, and every sub- setiber’s name (unless requested not to) will be printed in the May Day edition sent to the Soviet Union. In addition, the Daily Worker wants to be greeted by workers (at the cost of 25 cents) and workers’ organizations which will also be in- cluded in the May Day issue. The Party and the Young Communist League is to put all its energies into reaching this 1,000 by May 1 goal, and workers and sympathizers are joining in the dive to put the Daily Worker on a firmer financial foundation than it has been in the past. REPORT ACTIVITY IN READING, PA. Reading, Pa., sends a detailed re- port on daily sales for the week end- ing March 21, and some news about the Red Builders there. Harold John, Daily Worker representative in Read- ing, gives the following figures: Monday, 150 received, 34 sold; Tues- day, 150 received, 106 sold; Wednes- day, 150 received, 150 sold; Thursday, 275 received, 228 sold; Friday, 400 re- ceived, 167 sold; Saturday, 225 re- ceived, 196 sold. “We sold very few of Monday’s papers due to very unfavorable weather,” he explains. “A mass meet- ing under the Party auspices took place Friday evening and for this WRITE This OW OUR SB ease, as event I ordered 500 papers in all. I was advised by the D .W. that my order was not received in time to be filled, but they had sent two bun- dles of 200 each, so that I received within 100 copies of the number which I wanted. The sale at the meeting was as good as could be expected.” “I now have four fellows selling regularly, except that one of them is sick just now,” he continues. “Frank Quire is secretary. In addi- tion there are Howard Wells, Stew- art, and Joe Plantus.. Their sales are as follows: Quire, 50; Wells, 50; Stewart, 35; Plantus, 15. 1 want membership cards, Red Cartoon books, and aprons for those en- titled to them. I am also putting the Daily on three newsstands now. The newsstand sale is prac- tically negligible but it will grow, I believe.” Reading, Pa., shows some life, judging from the report. The com- rades there should hold Jamborees, issuing leaflets to unemployed work- ers to come, and in this way in- crease the Red Builders Club, Com- rade John, incidentally, explains that for the past few weeks regular re- ports were sent to M. Silver, district D. W. representative in Philadelphia, which evidently were not forwarded to us. Chicago Candy Store Pays Starvation Wages No 8 Chicago candys Chicago, Til. Daily Worker: Recently I became acquainted with your paper and I admire its defense of the oppressed who are honest but who are being taken advantage of on all sides in a cowardly way by the bosses who exploit the workers. About ten days before Christmas, being unemployed, I made application to a candy chain, the Dutch Mill stores, for a job, The man who hired me said they paid $2.50 a day. He said that I would have to work four days without pay in order to get ac- quainted with the kind of work. Needing work badly I accepted this unjust offer. half an hour when I was already on trade, There was nothing to learn. I worked there five days and re- ceived $2.50 and a discharge slip. The two fifty hardly paid for the carfare I had spent in those few days. Jet alone the cost for luncheons. The capitalist papers have an ad from this concern every day. I suppose they try the same thing on other desperate workers, This is good cap- italist efficiency, but from now on. I am a Communist, —F. B. Omaha Packinghouse Jobless Throng Plants’ South Omaha, Neb. Daily Worker: As I am a worker in one of the South Omaha Packing Houses, Vil write a few lines in regatd to the conditions in them, at the Cudahy Packing plant there are so many men looking for work that the police force could not handle the crowd, and they had to build a cage around the hiring boss to keep him from getting tramped on. At the same plant, they work the girls 10 hours a day, although it is against the law to work them more than 9 hours. One of the girls told me she was afraid to report it, for if she did, she would Jose her job. At the Armour plant, the com- pany informs you every week that you must act as a salesman at night and on Sunday, when all are off work. You must sell their products without pay if you want to make your job secure, They have a company union, but all it does for you is to help speed you up. We sure need the TUUL in this town.—B. K, Trial of Nine Negro Workers Set for Day of Fair As Press Whips Up Lynch Spirit (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) who were with the girls. All pleaded not guilty. Several mobs haye gathered here within the past few days in an at- tempt to lynch the workers. The boss press and the correspondent of the Associated Press have boasted that “the Negroes would be given & speedy trial.” ‘The danger of a mass lynching id still present. There was strong lynch sentiment today when the men were returned under escort of guardsmen to the city prison after their ar- raignment. A surly, determined mob massed about the prison. Mothers ha@ brought their habies to see the fun, Lips&cked girls and their busi- ness men escorts drove up in fine cars to be in at the killing. Remarks from the crowd showed a general opinion that the guardsmen would not use their weapons to defend the . Negroes against a determined attempt ‘to lynch them: “Them guards won't s\hootéus,” an old woman said, adding \Mhat she “wished the men had guns fo shoot them niggers down.” Busi- ness men in their cars made re- peated attempts to delay the return of the prisoners, stopping their cars several times in the path of the guardsmen on the pretense that they had engine trouble. Prepare Mass Lynching. je ent 4s certain that a anass lynching of the nine workers will take place on April 6 when they come up for trial. It is significant that the trial has been set for April 6 which is horse-swapping and gen- eral fair day for the surrounding farm population. Five hundred more people will come to town on that day. The town population is 3,000, Local Negro church and business leaders are scared and afraid tomake any attempt even to demand a fair trial for the prisoners. The Negro workers are bitterly resentful but lack militant leadership, Only the nation- wide protest of the working class started immediately and expressing itself in mass protest meetings, reso- lutions and telegrams to the governor of Alcbama end the officials of this town can save these workers from a mass lynching on ADB | These meetings must be held im- | mediately. The struggle lynching must be intensified. The mass demonstrations throughout the country on March 28 against lynch- ing and deportations must be fol- Jowed up. The workers must make the bosses realize that we will not stand for their planned mass lynch- ing on April 6. Mobilize the working class for the fight against persecu- tion of Negroes and foreign born, for the fight to save these nine workers facing lynching fn Alabama. TWO THIRDS OF OLNEY JOBLESS ‘Model’Town Becoming Pauperized Fast PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Olney is @ part of Philadelphia, where reside 100 percent native born Americans, who “own” their homes—with a big mortgage in some banker's hands. A typical neighborhood of the “City of Homes”, as the local realtors style this huge dismal village of 2,000,000. The people of Olney did not know it a year or two ago, but they were workers, Then, in the years of 1928, 1929, they thought they were sitting on the top of the world, that they, too, were “owners”, Didn't the “Ledger” say so? But to-day, in 1931 how fares it in Olney? Not so good. In fact, worse than “not so good”, Conservative estimates are that two- thirds of the people of Olney are out of work. And what's worse, altho it’s already spring, jobs cannot be gotten, Prospects are for an indefinite per- iod of this kind. Many people in Ol- ney have been compelled to give up “their” homes to the mortgage hold- ers, and move into a few rooms. Pauperization of a “model” Amer- ee community is proceeding rapid- I wasn’t in the store | against | _.. G BABIN, of the maye Districts Receive Sub Lists for|“PLENTY MISERY’ IN CHESTER, PA. Charity Humiliates the Jobless Workers (By 2 Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa. — ‘There’s plenty of misery in store for you, even if you're “only” unemployed. But | when you're out of a job, and sick- ness sets in at that, then you find yourself in a hopeless situation. Only lately this has happened to me. I became very sick, and was forced to apply to a welfare society for help. The agent of that society flatly refused to give me a note to a city doctor, on the ground that I was not married, and therefore could roam around the hospitals, where you “enjoy” dog-like treatment, hav- ing to wait hours for this privilege. My plea with the welfare agent that I was too weak and needed imme- diate ald failed to move this solemn and “man loving” person. Don’t you think for a minute that the married unemployed worker would get better treatment. The bosses’ charity fakers have all kinds of excuses for them too. What I am telling you here has proven to me once more that the unem ployed cannot depend on char- ity institutions. They were created by the very same bosses, who are re- sponsible for our sufferings, with the purpose of pulling the wool over our eyes, and prevent us from fighting for our rights. No, it’s not charity that we want. ‘We must unite our forces, all work: ers, black and white single and mar- ried, old and young, and fight under the leadership of |the |unemployed councils for unemployment insurance and real relief. —Unemployed Worker from Chester. VETS CALL FOR ORGANIZATION |Letters from All Over Country Want WESL The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s | League, in its national campaign to | organize the worker ex-servicemen throughout the country, is meeting with greater success than the or- ganization committee expected. Letters from ex-servicemen are being received from every part of the country with suggestions and pledges for financial help when they receive part of their tombstone bonus. The worker ex-serviceman is beginning to | recognize that the Workers’ Ex- | Servicemen’s League is the only vet- | erans’ organization which represents the worker veteran in the struggle | for a full cash bonus. It is the only | veterans’ organization that supports | the Negroes in their struggle against | race discrimination and against | lynching. It also endorses the un- employment insurance program of | the National Unemployed Council. | A letter received from an ex-ser- viceman, F. D., from Milwaukee, | Wisconsin, suggests that a leaflet: be distributed from house to house to | expose the rotten war game of the parasites that cause it and profit by it. The organization committee of the W. E. 8. L. wishes to inform through these columns all ex-ser- vicemen who have communicated with us that all their suggestions are being carefully considered by the committee and requests that all com- | munications be properly signed and addresses correctly given so that an organization of workers’ ex-service- men may be quickly formed in your | locality. Address mail to Organization Com- mittee, Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, 79 E. Tenth St., N. Y. C. (30,000 FRENCH MINERS STRIKE (Cable By Inprecorr) PARIS, April 1—Thirty thousand miners were out on tsrike yesterday in the Northern district; 7,000 in the Gard district went out. The sit- uatioh in the Loire and Moselle dis- tri¢ts is unclear. The fighting spirit of thé miners is magnificent. They are out against a wage cut that was agreed to by the fakers in the union leadership. Derhonstrations and collisions with thé police took place. In the Gard district the strike is limited to lim- ited to twenty-four hours, owing to the failure of the new decision to continue the strike indefinitely. The number of strikers in the Northerg district is increasing. Mishawaka Officials Offer Seed Instead of Feed to Jobless (By a Worker Correspondent.) MISHAWAKA, Ind., April 1—The “goodhearted” officials of Misha- waka have a new stunt for unem- ployment “relief.” They are offering seeds to the unemployed so they can grow some stuff. Besides, the city has offered 100 vacant lots. But how the unemployed are going to eat and live for the next six to eight months before the few leaves of grass sprout, Mayor Mason L. Petro, of course, is unable to answer. To buy the seed, the mayor ar- ranged a card party and dance, But this affair was not for relief, but to celebrate the successful passage of a 100 pey cent increase in the salary M ww * U.S. Imperialism in _ Porto Rico (By Labor Research Association) Here are a few facts not given out by the Hoover press anegts from the battleship Arizona when it took the head of Yankee imperialism on his aour of the Caribbean war bases. These facts are extracted from the manuscript of a forthcoming book on conditions in the island now heing prepared by an authority on Latin- American relations, a professor at a university in New York City. They are based upon gareful investigation in Porto Rico by a man familiar with the language and very conservative in his statements. ‘The sugar industry of the island is in the hands of United States capitalists. The chief companies are the South Porto Rico Sugar Co., the United Porto Rico Sugar Co., the Central Aguirre Sugar Co. and the Fajardo Sugar Co, Their combined assets amount to about $65,000,000 and they control about 100,000 acres of the choicest lands of the island. They control the legislature, and taxation, land legislation and every- thing affecting them is rigged in their favor by this puppet parlia- ment in which Santiago Iglesias, the socialist betrayer, is an important figure. For further facts on Iglesias the ‘worker should read the pam- phlet “Yankee Colonies,” by Harry Gannes, in the International Pam- phlets series, ‘The dividends of these corporations over the last 20 years have ranged from 4 to 115 per cent per annum. The professor describes it as “not only @ reasonable but an absolutely enormous profit.” “Sugar is 60 pe rcent absentee con- trolled; fruit is 33 per cent, or more; tobacco is 85 per cent; banks are 50 per cent; railroads, 60 per cent, or more; public utilities, 50 per cent, and steamship lines, approximately 100 per cent. At least three-fourths of the wealth of the island is in the hands of the Yankee financial pirates. The control of the absentee is all but complete and with the aid of the Coastwise Shipping Act and the American Tariff bids fair to ab- sorb all of the profitable enterprises.” As the result of the operations of the powerful sugar companies the food crops formerly raised by the people are no longer grown in any large amounts, and the people are forced to import at high prices the very foods they once produced in abundance, such as rice, beans, po- tatoes and corn And what prices the Porto Ricans are forced to pay for their food im- ported from the United States! A detailed investigation comparing the retail prices of food in New York City and in Porto Rico has been made by this investigator. After pricing 1 8articles of food, compris- ing 65 per cent of the food used by the Porto Rican workers, it was found that the average cost to the Porto Rican was actually about 14 per cent higher than in New York. When this taken in conjunction with the fact of low wages, he concludes, “No great imagination is necessary to conceive the enormous difference be- tween the standard of eating, not to say the standard of living, of the American citizen of Porto Rico and of the United States.” This, of course, does not mean the 10,000,000 who are unemployed in the United States or those who are employed here at starvation wages. Wages in the sweatshops of Porto Rico range from $1 to $4 a week, most of them receiving less than $2 @ week. Yes, the professor tells us there was once a Jaw setting a mini- mum wage of $1 a day. But like the child labor law in the United States it was declared “unconstitu- tional.” It interfered with the prof- its of the sugar, tobacco, fruit and needle trades capitalists. Wages of workers in sugar cane centrals and fields average about $135 to $168 a year. This is for the worker who has employment. About 60 per cent of the workers in Porto Rico are jobless, The wages in Porto Rico are “roughly about one-half that of other tropical countries pro- ducing the same products.” Some 72 per cent of the women in the tobacco fields receive less than 50 cents a day when they have work. And the yearly income of the average tobacco factory worker as well as that of the coffee worker—who has work—is about $180. Of the 1,500,000 of Hoover's “fel- low citizens” in the island at least 600,000 have the hook worm disease, 200,000 have malaria and 30,000 have tuberculosis, while the death rate is two and a third times higher than in the United States. (len Alden Grievance Committee Maneuvers Again to Sell Strike (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) sell out the strike, Just as the strike started because of the mass resentment of the min- ers against intolerable conditions, so it continues in the same way. The chiefs of the local machine, Frank ‘Tomicheck, Maloney and Davis, dare not simply call off the strike, be- cause then they would have a rebel- lion on their hands, their influence would be lost, and the miners would strike on, electing their own rank and file strike committees to lead it. Election Complication. ‘The local fakers have announced that they are running in the com- ing district elections for district of- fice against John Boylan and his henchmen who now hold those of- fices. Both Boylan and the Tomi- check-Daovis-Maloney gang want to sell out the strike. Ihe Glen Alden company of course doesn’t care who sells it out, so long as it is smashed. But the miners are resentful, and are beginning to be very suspicious of both groups. So Tomicheck, Maloney and Da- vis got the brilliant idea of turning over the strike to Boylan, and in- viting him into the General Griev- ance Committee meeting Monday night. Boylan came. There the lo- cal fakers proposed that he take the strike over, and since Boylan has continually, like the International officers, proposed that the miners go back to work and let the district ma- chinery handle their grievances, they asked of Boylan a guarantee that some of these grievances should be rectified. The trap for Boylan was this: with Boylan in control and the strike over, the companies give the local fakers the credit for settling it, and since Boylan, a henchman of the operators can not and does not want to win anything for the min- ers against the operators, the min- ets would blame Boylan for their continued miseries, and vote for Ma~ loney etc., in the election. Boylan Won't Promise. But Boylan saw the trap, and while continually ordering the min- ers to go back, because of the con- tract (the contract which the Glen Alden Co, breaks ruthlessly!) he re fused to promise that any of the demands would be granted. This complicates matters for the local fakers, and the vote to continue the strike was @ result. It is the opin- ion of the militant rank and file here that the vote could have been anything the fakers wanted it to be, and that it was made close, so that later when they hope the miners will be worn out and discouraged, the fakers could have, by changing a few votes, a majority in favor of going back, whereupon they will wash their hands of the affair, and say that they were in favor of a con- tinued fight, but yield to the senti- ment of the men, Miners Break In. Monday's meeting, supposedly an eecutive session of the General Grievance Committee, was crashed by, about 500 rank and filers who | cut into the discussion, howled at the fakers, and showed ~ their’ de- termination to carry on the strug- gle, Boylan at this meeting condemned the strike as impossible to win. Tuesday's meeting found Tomi- check proposing that as Boylan, would not do anything, the interna- tional office should be appealed to sanction the strike. This is asking a wolf to guard sheep, for Lewis and Boylan are all in the same ma- chine, only Lewis is the older and more experienced rascal. Kmetz, international board mem- ber, who was the only international official present (Boylan also was ab- sent) immediately answered for Lewis, that the decision of the in- ternational office would be that this is a matter for Boylan to decide. Nevertheless, the General Grievance Committee majority voted to leave everything to this appeal to Lewis. and to adjourn until Saturday to give Lewis “a chance to decide”. Then the local fakers issued a state- ment to the capitalist press claim- ing that they were the best patriots in United States. Lovestone’s Treachery, Another treacherous gang lifted its voice this week, the Lovestone- ites. They put out a leaflet pur- porting to come from “Progressive Rank and File Strikers”, which sup- ports the leaders of the General Grievance Committee, proposes no policy and no demand to win the strike, The miners only chance to win any of their demands is to take the strike into their own hands. The National Miners Union is holding a mass conference today to make bet- ter preparations for fighting the be- trayal and to strengthen the rank and file opposition movement in each local. It is also calling on all locals of the U M W A to support and endorse the Glen Alden strike. ‘The National Miners Union has issued another leaflet to the strik- ers, explaining the situation, and urging them to elect their own strike committees, to remove the treach- ervus local officials and exposing the Grievance Committee as the instru- ment of the operators. The National Miners Union urges the strikers to refuse to go back to work until the demands are granted, and until a vote of those on strike is taken in favor of going back to work. The N. M. U. proposes that the rank and file strike committees be organized for every mine, and then that a General Rank and File Strike Com- mittee representing all mines be formed. ‘The demands of the rank and file miners (only the least important of which the General Grievance Com- mittee recognizes) are for: 1, Payment for all forms of dead work, 2. No wage cuts in any form. 3. Delivery of supplies to the face and unloaded by the company, 4. Against topping of the cars. 5, Abolition of the contractor sys-' nl aad a aS $20,000 Gain in Pa. Convict Labor Jail Answer This One, Mr. Fish! (By a Worker Correspondent.) PITTSBURGH, Pa—Business 1s booming at the “free” labor institu- tion of the Allegheny County Work- house, located at Blanwox, Pa. Nearly $20,000 is actually admitted to be the profits of the broom fac- tory, laundry and upholstering at the workhouse, It 1s becoming well known that at the workhouse furniture is made by convict labor, and labels of well- known furniture companies are pasted on the articles which are then sold as “free labor's products.” Despite these admissions, the bosses have the crust to carry on their fake agitation against “forced labor” in the Soviet Union, which means the force used to make work- ers eat, sleep, live and work under decent and human conditions. The only consolation for the con- vict workers of Blawnox is that they work and get at least their slop— (prisoners call it bread and bread, since all dishes taste almost alike), while workers are working in this district, in coal mines and mills, and don’t even get that. MAGIL SPEAKS ON SABOTAGE TRIAL Schenectady,Troy, and Albany Next Points SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—The sig- nificance of the Five-Year Plan and of the great trial of the eight coun- ter-revolutionary engineers in Mos- cow several months ago will be dis- cussed by A. B. Magil, proletarian writer and journalist, in illustrated lectures to be given in Troy, Schen- ectady and Albany, N. Y Magil, who was a correspondent for the revolutionary press at the en- gineers’ trial, spoke in Troy Tuesday, March 31, at 8 p. m. at Pierpont Hall, 15 103rd St.; in Schenectady, Wed- nesday, April 1, at All Souls Church, Union and Wendell Ave.; and in Albany, Thursday, April 2, in Chan- ning -Hall, corner Washington and Robins St. The meetings are under the auspices of the Friends of the Sovieb Union. In Schenectady all halls were re- fused and the F.8.U. was compelled to arrange the meeting in a unitarian church, The lectures are illustrated with pictures that have recently been re- ceived from the Soviet Union show- ing the trial and the economic and cultural development of Soviet Rus- sia under the Five-Year Plan. Magil will also tour Connecticut, speaking in Springfield, April 6; Hartford, April 7; New Haven, April 8; Bridgeport, April 9; and Stamford, April 10. KASSAY MEETINGS CALLED IN OHTO Workers Must Smash Frame-Up CLEVELAND, April 1—The exec- utive Committee of the International Labor Defense of the Ohio District held a special meeting last night to develop the campaign for the smash- ing of the frame-up against Paul Kassay. The following special con- ferences are being called: Cleveland, O. Sunday, 2 p. m, April 5 at 1426 W. Third St.; April 1, Akron, O. A mass meeting to expose the frame-up of Paul Kassay is being called by the Cleveland LL.D. for Friday evening, April 10, to be held in the Engineers Building. Speakers’ will include Paul Kassay, | Horwith, Jennie Cooper and Herbert Benjamin, district organizer of the Communist Party. All workers are invited to this mass meeting to learn the facts about the frame-up of this worker and the attempt to deport thousands of work- ers, because of their militancy in the labor movement. All workers’ organizations are urged to send delegates to the abové con- ference to be held Sunday, April 5. Cleveland District ILD. is also carrying on a vigorous campaign for the repeal of the vicious criminal syndicalist law and for amnesty for all class war prisoners. Newark TUUL School Holds Banquet and Dance on April 5, 1931 NEWARK.—The Section Training School of Section 10 has decided to hold a dance and banquet on Sun- day, April 5, 8.30 p. m. at 93 Mercer St. The students of the school call on all workers to attend this dance, tem, 6. Consideration for all mine work ers, who can not make a shift. 7. Abolition of the check-off. 8. Recognition of the Broad Rank and File Mine Committee to settle all grievances at the colliery. 9. No discrimination against any of the strikers. 10. Reinstatement of all striking ECQUADOR GOVERNMENT, CHURCH AND (Spe large landed estates. More than 200,- 000 Indians, from all over the coun- try, expressed their support of the congress. The questions taken up were: Conditions of life of the land- workers, enslavement of women and children by the landowners, fines and abuses of the agricultural workers, demands of the agrarian communi- ties, situation of the poor farmers, relation between the large estates and the towns, foundation of an Indian Peasants Federation. ‘The bourgeois press became alarm- ed over the calling of the congress. They declared its object was the ex- propriation of the land, the plunder of the towns and the murder of the landlords and priests. Ecquador is going through a sey- ere economic crisis, and the govern- ment clutched at this propaganda to persecute the Communist Party and the revolutionary groups. On January 25th the government sent its troops in order to dissolve by any means whatever the peasants who were gathering for the congress. Renegades from the Party worked with the government. The consti- tution was openly flaunted to stop the congress. A group of well-known comrades were thrown into jail. In Cayambe, the city of the congress, atrests were made. The leaders of the Indian peasants were beaten up and jailed. Many delegates were stopped en route to Cayambe. Sol- diers covered all roads leading to the congress. The landlords hired spies to inform them on the delegates. The landlords and priests, the church and the authorities mobilized all their forces against the peasants. The government has now {orbid- den all Communist and trade union meetings, agitation and propaganda. These organizations are now working illegally. The peasants show a revo- lutionary spirit, despite the terror. The slogans of the struggle are: Down with the reaction! Down with the Ayora puppet government! Long live the Peasants’ Congress! Free- dom to the Indian masses, OUTDOOR MEET FOR KASSAY Fight for Higher Pay in Plant Workers have offered their little homes, to help the International Labor Defense to raise thé $40,000 bail which the capitalist court of Akron set on Paul Kassay, Hungarian worker who has been framed by the bosses on ridiculous charges of “at- tempting to wreck the Zeppelin.” These workers are already being terrorized. The day after Kassay’s release, three workers lost their jobs, the bosses openly told them that: “You have furnished bond for that man, we don’t intend to keep you working in our plant any more.” Meantime, the wages of the workers are constantly being cut, and the hours lengthened. Conditions are daily getting worse on the job, Stool pigeons are being placed to spy around on the workers. Every effort is being made to intimidate the work- ers The International Labor Defense is making arrangements to hold an out- door mass demonstration in Akron for the purpose of warning the work- ers and organizing them against this terror of the masters. A leaflet will be given out to the workers urging them to organize and not allow them+ selves to be cowed to submission. The bosses will not succeed in their efforts to further enslave the working class. ‘The workers are well aware of the bosses’ schemes, and are beginning to guard themselves against them. LANDLORDS MOBILIZE AGAINST R PEASANTS CONGRESS; JAIL LEADERS 200,000 Indian Peasants Voice Approval of Revolutionary Struggle Against Slave Labor; Defy Troops 1 to the Daily Worker) QUITO, Ecquador (By Mail).—Recently an important Congress of Indian peasants was held here. This Congress was a big step forward in mobilizing the Indian masses. It is pro- ceeding with advances in the trade union field. The Congress was held in the town of Cayamble, which is surrounded by 2 MURDERED AT COMMUNE MEET IN JALAPA, MEX. Increase Terror in the Latin American Lands MEXICO CITY (By Mail) —On March 18th, the anniversary of the Paris Commune there was a demon- stration here under the auspices of the International Red Aid in Jalapa. The police fired upon the demon- strators killing two, Indique Vasquas, # food worker, and Aurelio Rodrigues, |@ peasant. Many others were wound- ed. a & On February 27, in San Patricio, Tamaulipas, the worker Nemesio Es- trada was assassinated, and others were arrested. In Huestusco Vera- crux, Rafael Popo, an active mill- tant worker, was murdered. . During the past year there were two cases against Gaston Lefarga and Jacob Hurwitz, and the courts have now confirmed their jail terms, + a.) % On March 21, the fascist laws against the workers became oper- ative. Meetings of Communists are prohibited. On the same day troops attacked a demonstration of unem- ployed organized by the Regional Federation of Labor. Several work- ers were wounded and some arrested ia tee In Columbia elections were just held. To prevent the masses from helping the Communist Party many of the revolutionary workers were ar- rested. Both Communists and mili- tant workers were jailed. The gov- ernment is proceeding against them under what they call the “heroic law” which is a law to complete repression of the working class. CUTTING WAGES IN W. READING, PA. Textile Workers Seg Need to Organize (By a Worker Correspondent) READING, Pa. — You may net feel so good when I tell you how they are cutting wages here Now, I want to write a few linés on the Narrow Fabri¢ Silk Mill, of West Reading, The bosses have an- nounced a 10 percent cut in wages, to take place on April 3. This re- duction will affect not only the piéce workers and the laborers, but even the white-collar |slaves, |the |joffi¢e workers in that firm. What’s more: They are now plan- ning to slash the working-week down to three days. Conditions as they are bad enough, and it’s hard for a textile worker to make ends meet. Now harder times are ahead. Let this serve as a warning to the workers. The only way to resist wage cutting, and combat successfully in- human conditions is by organizing in- to our revolutionary trade unions un- der the leadership of the Trade Uni- on Unity League. —x. ¥. Z, Advertise Your Union Meetings Here. For Information Write to The DAILY WORKER Advertising Department 50 East 13th St. New York City NAME CITY ..eeceeee: 4 e sports and other stories, Full tions by famous artists. 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