The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1931, Page 3

25,000 Miners Now(CAPITALIST GROUPS IN PERU UNITE Strike in Glen Alden AGAINST WORKERS; FEAR CRISIS WILL, LEAD TO MASS UPRISINGS Rank and File Block Strike Breaking | — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1931 CHICAGO DISTRICT INDEFENSIBLE CUTS MAR THEIR RECORD District 8, Chicago has fallen down) Party membership, and should imme- considerably in carrying on the prop-| diately reorganize the Red Builders MOST FACTORIES ARE CLOSED TIGHT HERE” SAYS BEACON WORKER National Biscuit Co Print Shop Pays $12 A “UNITE IN MAY 1 DEMONSTRATION” T UU L Issues Call to All Workers Week to Married Men Contract for Public Works Provides Jobs for Only Eight Workers Daily Worker: Conditions here are just as bad as anywhere. tories are closed tight, especially the hat factories, single shop is working full time except a small shirt and pants shop where girls in their teens are working for $5-$6 a week, putting in 9 hours a day and 54 days. Exceptions are few. Recently the city has given contracts for $140,000. Many workers have been hoping to get jobs there. The first day at least 300 men were at the scene—only 8 got jobs. for the solution of unemployments through public works! $12 For Married Men. The National Biscuit Co, has a print shop here, now working four days. Sometime ago the superinten- dent was fired for daring believe that, married men ought to have more than $12 a week. One of the big ~ Shots from headquarters happened here and this superintendent, think- ing that this is the chance, hastens to tell him that many men are get- ting $12 and that they have been asking him for an increase. ‘The big shot then goes around to Woll Fears Workers May Comes to His Meetings Jersey City, N. J. Mr, Matthew Woll came to Jersey City March 25 to attack the “un- ratic” Soviet Government at ewn American democracy. When I came to the place of the meeting a man at the door asked my name and address and where ‘When I went upstairs an- me that I cannot him that the first 0. K. the same Powers, . 3 ‘Powers, i i ya ii white-collared bandits here in the Oregon Workers Are All In Debt Beacon, N. Y. Most fac-} Not a So much the men and approaches them in- dividually, asking them if they were not satisfied with their jobs and pay. The men, naturally, knowing how impossible it is to get another job, answered they were. Then he turns around and fires the superintendent, evidently be- cause he did not consider the inter- ests of the owners in squeezing as much profit as possible from the toil and sweat of the workers, It’s too bad that workers here are helpless, due to lack of fighting class organization. Ss. B. Mr. Woll said that in the Soviet Union there is much unemployment, but even a child knows that this is a lie. Mr. Woll spoke of slavery in Soy- iet Russia, but he did not mention the slavery in capitalist countries. He must like the speed-up system. It does not mean anything to him. He does not have to work. Mr. Woll compliments the social- ists, and no wonder. They all serve their capitalist masters. In England and Germany, where the socialists are powerful, millions of people are jobless, while in Soviet Russia, where the workers rule, there is a shortage of workers. After listening to Mr. Woll’s speech he did not convince me of being a convincing speaker. But one thing T must admit, he is a perfect liar, —J. M. United States of America. But job fear seems to have them. After I talk te them and give them a paper or two, they act like they are afraid of me. The old Powers Co. at one time carried on a very se- vere blacklist against the I. W. W., and I think the job-fear is still a hangover, But I feel it will not be long until, thanks to you comrades at the front, we workers will all be drawn into the struggle, and will put in use whatever ability we have for the real constructive work of build- ing the Workers’ State of the World, —F. E. M. Cutting Down on ‘Relief’ All Around in Detroit Detroit, Mich. Editor Daily Worker: In Detroit we have a wonderful mayor, by the name of Murphy. When he was wanting to get elected, he said he would see that there is work for everybody. But all he has done is to get a number of lousy flop houses and rotten soup lines, all the time putting a good front to make the people think they have a wonderful mayor. His cossacks arrested three com- vades from the Greek Workers’ Hall for distributing leaflets for our mass weeting Saturday and Sunday, Mar. Salt Lake City Red Cross Refuses Aid to Veteran Salt Lake City, Utah, Daily Worker: T wish to tell the workers what tactics the Red Cross, Community Ohest and Salvation Army are using to bleed the average worker. When the legal pan-handlers go out, they tell the butchers and grocers to send all destitutes to the Salvation Army to be taken care of. Here is what they did to me: 1 have been wintering in Califor- nia, end have met with an accident in which T tore the ligaments out of my Jeft shoulder. 1 started east to- wards Detyeit, Mich. In Salt Lake Oity I was snowbound, and I got sick, I went to the County hospital. Refuse Vet Aid After being discharged, I was ad- vised by the nurse to go to the Red Cross, I did, The Red Cross asked me if I was a war veteran. I said yes. She asked if I were married, and I said no, The nurse said she was sorry, but could do nothing for me. She said the Community Chést has appropriated funds to the Sal- yation army to take care of a case of this kind. Forced to Work The Red Cross nurse pave me a note to the Salvation army, saying, “Anything you can do for this man will be appreciated.” At the Salva- tion army I got a warm reception. I felt like I was being arrested, for they did everything but take my finger-prints, Finally I was ~ duced to of logs to saw. ~~ + 28 and 29. One of his cossacks was watching some of us workers when we were putting up stickers oppos- ing the death penalty bill. When he saw me put one up, he grabbed me and gave a lecture on my not being allowed to put them on private property, etc. Welfare and relief is being cut in Detroit. At the same time there are wage cuts by which the bosses are trying to get the employed workers on the same Starvation system as the unemployed. Unemployed, join the Unemployed Councils and fight against the slow starvation. An Unemployed Worker. asked the adjutant general of the army to call the hospital, as I was in no shape to work. At this he; started preaching to me, telling me I wouldn't work if had 50 jobs, that | T was a hoodlum, etc. J was in no shape to be bawled out, so I was soon shown the door, The hotter they can make it for the worker, the more money they can panhandle, That's the tactics they use to subsoribe, A Worker. P, S.—The dictionary says @ bood- lum is @ California rough-neck, but IT am a native of Michigan, a neigh- bor of Edsel Ford, and have a good working record at the River Rouge Plant. Demand for Relief Grows In Harrisburg HARRISBURG, Pa.-The number of applicants for help in Harrisbyrg in- cludes new faces every day, the sec- retary of the United Charities ad mits. Harrisburg papers publish a appeal for work for two girls, seve~ teen and sixteen years of age. Th: |family of sixteen members cann support them any longer. The Salvation army and Unit Charities report that they are una’ to take care of the demands for h- Very few garments have been dona to school children asking for the (CONTINUED FRO: MAGE UNE) dorn workers, Against this program of mass starvation and oppression we must fight resolutely. May 1st presents a great opportunity to rally our forges for a mass demonstration against the exploiters and to lay the organized basis for sustained struggle. We call upon every section of the TUUL na- tional unions, employed councils, local trade union unity councils, shop committees minority groups in the A F. of L., etc., to immediately take up the question of mobilizing all their forces for the May Day demonstra-| tion, Join in local united front movements with the Commynist Party and other revolutionary organ- izations. Draw in the A. F. of L. unions, the workers’ fraternal socie- ties, the unorganized, and the unem- ployed masses. Form May 1st committees in all possible localities and factories, “Util- ize these to mobilize the workers everywhere. Make it a real mass demonstration. Wherever possible transform the May Ist committees into shop committees and develop the May Ist demonstrations into strikes against wage cuts and in defense of the workers’ interests generally. The demonstration must be built around the concrete demands of the workers. May Day is the international strug- gle day of the working class. This year, in the mist of the great capi- talist crisis, the rising revolutionary wave in Europe, in China, in India, etc, and the tremendous Socialist’ construction in the Soviet Union, it takes on a higher significance than ever. All over the world, millions of workers will demonstrate against mass starvation, against the capitalist system, for defense of the Soviet Union, Let the American working class, in greater masses than éver before in its history join militantly inthe world demonstration on May Ist, Workers: Rally for a monster dem- onstration. Fight for unemployment | insurance and immediate relief. Or- ganize and strike against wage cuts and speed-up. Smash the stagger | plan of Hoover and the A. F. of L. Defend the foreign born workers. Death to the lynchers of Negroes. De- mand the rejease of all political pris- oners, Defeat the fascist program of the Fish Committee. Defend. the Soviet Union. Organize the Unem- ployed Councils. Build the Reyolu- tionary Unions. Don’t starve, fight! Down tools and demonstrate on May Ast. Fight for the right to organize, strike, etc. BOSSES TO PROFIT IN WAR ON USSR Call for War to Smash Workers’ Republic {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | ——— | with more profits in sight, — and) against the Soviet Union, as well as their imperialist rivals. The Herald-Tribune (April 5) re- Prints an article from the London Times showing that this war is “ne- cessary” against the U. S. S. R. and starts to stir up the necessary pro- paganda. They follow the line of the vicious chauvinistic novel “The Red Napoleon”. They say that the Sov- jet youth is being drilled for world conquest, for the day “when the great last fight must begin for the overthrow of the governments and institutions of Britain, Germany, France and other countries.” To arouse further indignation and show that war must be declared they g0 on to state: ‘ “If the warlike utterances of | Bolshevist leaders he regarded as the result of habit rather than con- vietion, and therefore not to be taken at their face value, they are interpreted literally by the masses of Komsomol and the younger members of the Communist party. They, af least, are preparing for wat, and they are coming more and more into posts of influence. Their mania has been concentrat~ ed on the five-year plan, but they are told and they believe that this plan is merely the prelude to war, the great war for world revolution, the war in which Budenny has ublicly promised his cavalry that their horses shall ‘drink the wat- ers of the Thames’ This is designated. of course, to show why war must be started im- mediately to crush the Soviet Union. The slogan would be “defend civili- zation”, and the labor party together with all social fascists would be in the front ranks of this war now be- ing prepared by the imperialists the world over against the advance of “ocialism in the Soviet Union. At ‘ye same time, as the facts of the ". S. Steel Corporation show, profits “at least 50 per cent would be) de during the slaughter. “mash the war danger! Mobilize May Day to rally for the Defense the Soviet Union! Fight lynching. Fight deperta- op of foreign born. Elect dele- ates to your elty conference for orotection of foreign born, he er kind of activity in the Daily Worker campaign. This can be seen from the fact that a number of cuts have taken place which were not Jeter filled with increases. The Red Builders News Club, for instance, re- | duced its orders from 500 daily to 400, is in a disorganized state, and | has sent no reports on its activities | sinee the beginning of February. Just | now, the South Side Workers Center cut its bundle from 50 down to 15 | daily. In addition, in the Indianap- | olis section we find a bundle of 50) stopped altogether, as well as an-| other bundle of 100. | The Chicago comrades evidently | }are not putting much effort into getting the “Daily” sold in working} class neighborhoods by building up steady routes through thorough house-to-house canvassing; they | have allowed the Red Builders News Club, which until February thrived and increased its membership from 9 to 14, to disintegrate, failing to re~ cover the cut, or part of the cut of | 100 in their bundle orders, thus los- | ing an opportunity to build up street corner sales and make contacts with hundreds of workers and in addition, the Indianapolis section of District 8 has syffered two bundle stops to- talling 150 daily. This cutting is no way to build up Circulation, to pay bills, or to gain| the prestige and support of workers | to our paper. The leading function- | aries in Chicago should emphasize systematic day-to-day sales to the News Club. “DYNAMITE” RED BUILDER Meet Fred Conklin, best seller in the Albany Red Builders News Club. A former clerk, before he got a taste of Hoover's “prosperity,” Conklin now averages 100 Daily Workers a day. His pet corner is So. Pearl and Hudson, and his pet shout it, “It’s full of dynamite!” Every time Fred sells a Daily, he yells “Bang! Another shot at cap- italism.” The cop on that corner has taken to wearing ear-muffs, Niagara Falls Protes (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the city construction work because of @ wage cut put through by the school | board, the union officials betrayed these strikers by branding their struggle ‘‘yun-official.” The unemployed councils call the | Strikers and all workers to force rescinding of this wage cut, and de- clares solidarity with the strikers. The unemployed council calls for | another demonstration May 1, against [mass starvation and against wage | cuts. ee ah Crisis Brings More “T. B.” Senator Wagner of New York, speaking over Columbia Broadcast- ing System's radio network Saturday admitted in passing that unemploy- ment is biting into the lives of the rising generation of young workers by @ great increase of tuberculosis, the disastrous effects of which will | be felt in years to come. The capi- | talist press prints little about Wag~ ner’s admissions that unemployment | 4s the cause for this great. increase | in the “White Plague,” and gives full attention to the merely medical and pallative side of his talk. The speech was made for the National Tuber~ culosis Association. . WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5— | Secretary of Labor Doak, speaking Saturday over the Columbia Radio Broadcasting System in the forum | of the Washington Star, declared his | office was doing everything possible for unemployment, and praised the veto of the Wagner bill. This bill | for national job agencies, coupled with some aspects of a weak and in- effective insurance, is the only thing actually proposed so far in the Na- | tional Congress by a congressman, | except for the Workers’ Unemploy- |ment Insurance Bill, to which the | boss legislators would not eyen lis- |ten. This latter bill was drawn | | up and endorsed through numerous | | meetings of jobless and employed | workers, to the number of over a mil- ;lon, When elected delegates of , these jobless came to offer their bill {to Congress, the police force met them and threatened them with ev- ery weapon in the arsenal, and Con- | Gress absolutely refused to even con- | sider the bill. Doak did not mention | the Workers Unemployment Insur- vance Bill. And Doak took advantage of the radio hook-up to publish one of the | most brazen and stupid lies that has ;eome, even out of Washington, Mr, | Doak said; “While there is great unemploy- ment in the country today, and great numbers of people working short time, there is not as much Workers Rally to Kassay Defense CLEVELAND, April 3.—At a meet- ing of the Hungarian Beneficial So- ciety, the worker members unani- mously decidet! to assist the Interna- | tional Labor Defense in its mass cam- | paign to free Paul Kassay, a Hun- | garian worker framed by the govern- ment on the fake charge of sabotag- ‘ing the work on the navy dirigible “Akron,” The meeting was addressed by Jennie Cooper, district organizer of the ILD who exposed the frame-up charges as one of the numerous at- tacks on foreign-born workers aris~ ing out of the adoption by the gov- ernment, without action by Con- gress, of the vicious plans of the in- famous Fish Committee -to jail and déport all militant workers as part | | Today; Mass Demonstrations M t at City Hall ay 1 unemployment this month as there was last month. Above all else this evening I would impress this upon your consciousness: the sit- uation is daily improving; many men who have been idle are re- turning to work and labor condi- tions in this beloved land of ours are bound to get better,” The stupidity of talking about the conditions this month growing better when the month was only four days old when the speech was made, is obvious. As for January, February, and March, ihe figures of all the states which have published figures, including especially New York state, show that unemployment increased by two or three per cent in each of them, over the month before, With this sort of attitude there is certainly nothing to hope for from the federal government unless the workers by mass demonstration force the hands of the government. All out May First in the interna- tional demonstration against star- vation! Fire More in Philly PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 5.~ The “make work” division of the Committee For Unemployment Relief began ten days ago to discharge the relatively small numbers they have given temporary jobs to, and the process continues. Friday, Miss Ella Harris, in charge of the application department of the family charity} agencies, stated: “We are feeling the effects of this lay-off very decidedly, and expect that in a few days we will get the full brunt of this program.” She did not say that the jobless fired from even their pitifully in- | adequate temporary work would get anything much from the charities, And there are tens of thousands here who did not even get any tempo- vary work. * * A Charitable Jail Sentence WILMINGTON, Dela,, April 5. — Fred Hehl, unemployed for a long) time, was jerked into court here on a charge of sleeping on the third floor of an abandoned house. He explained that on such a rainy night, the park could not be a good place to flop in, and he saw no harm in temporarily occupying the vacant house. The judge was moy- ed to sympathy, “I'm sorry for you,” said His Hon- | or, “so IT am going to send you to the county work house for ten days. There at least you will get food and a roof over you.” Turning over to the unemployed of public buildings and vacant houses is one of the demands of the Unem- ployed Councils here, of the boss campaign to smash the struggles of the workers against the growing mass unemployment and starvation, A committee of three was elected (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) many pickets and arrested eight. Some of the pickets were carrying an American flag at the head of their line and the police smashed that up, apparently just to show the strikers that the Stars amd Stripes is the flag of the employers @nd can not protect. any workers, ‘The National Miners’ Union today and tomorrow will hold many or- ganizational meetings to prepare the miners for a fight to the finish against the company’s program of} wage-cuts, no pay for dead work, in- creasing the hours and intolerable conditions. The meetings will or- ganize for the utmost resistance to the sell-out policies of the General Grievance Committee and the strike- | breaking program of the district and international U, M. W. officials. Rank and file committees of the | miners on strike are being organized | for a fight for the strikers’ demands | and against the misleadership of Dis- trict President Boylan and the local traitors who contrel the General Grievance Committee. Local Fakers Meneuver. T he Tomicheck - Maloney - Davis | group, which controls the General Grievance Committee, have been maneuvering for days to call off the strike in some such way. as would enable them to get a good vote for district office. They are running in the district U.M.W, elections against the Boylan group. Boylan and the international officers openly order the strikers to go back to work and throw themselves on the mercy of the company and negotiations of grievances. Last Tuesday the Grievance Com- mittee voted 41 to 37 to remain on strike, while appealing to Interna- tional President Lewis to lead their struggle. They voted to meet when | Lewis should answer, or on Saturday | at the latest. At the time, National | | Miners’ Union members and the rank and file opposition in the U. |M. W. locals pointed out that this was a trick, that the great majority | of the General Grievance Committee | was in control of the local fakers, and that they did not dare directly | to call off the strike because of the | | mass sentiment of the miners to! | continue it, but counted a vote which | they could change almost at a mo- ment’s notice, when they thought it | expedient. Lewis Tries to Break Strike. Lewis answered immediately by wire and denounced the strike and | ordered the miners back to work, to ; the great indignation of the then | 20,000 strikers. The General Grie- | Vance Committee, however, did not meet yntil Saturday. Meanwhile | mass picketing at the four remaining (mines of the Glen Alden brought | terrific clashes with the police and up te Friday these mines were still | at work. Saturday the committee met and | heard John Kmeta plead with and | threaten the strikers in an attempt | to drive them back to work. Kmetz blamed “Red propaganda” for start- ing the strike, while the miners know that the strike first started because in one mine the operators simply added an hour's unpaid labor to the daily task of a part of the miners. Representatives of some locals at mines which had been idle for four months, and which support Boylan, voted to go back to work. The rank and file miners listening in at the committee meeting contin- ually interrupted Kmetz and those voting to gq back to work, hissing and threatening those who were openly trying to betray the strike, The chairman several times in- structed the miners to leave the hall, but they refused to budge, and con- | tinued their demonstrations against their enemies, | When the vote was taken the) chairman announced a tie, 50 votes | to strike on and 50 to end the strike, with 8 refraining. There is nodoubt that the militancy of the miners alone prevented a vote to return to work, When the vote was announced, the indignant miners rushed the Gen- eral Grievance Committee, broke up | the meeting and were ready to throw | the betrayers out. Kmetz and many committee members who voted ta breaw the strike fled down the fire escape, After the meeting was broken up several committee members got tor Fret Tuvetyy moruing, wats 6 meeting Tus a poses 3 for the General Gries vance members, and no rank and te members allowed in it. Last Saturday's New York Times reports that in the General Grie- vance “Committee meeting, reported iCerro Gives Power Over to 60 Leading Bosses and Then Takes Trip to Europe; 200 Communists Are Arrested (Special to the Daily Worker) LIMA, Peru (By Mail).—In the present struggle for power between the various fascist groups in Peru there are two bourgeois parties that are conducting the various uprisings. One is called the Civilistas, composed of the most conservative elements, composed of army generals, navy commanders and some of the leading capitalists. Thee sixty individuals who compose the leadership of this party are the rich-| est in the country, in direct co-op- | eration with the various imperialist forces. The other party calls itself the Apristas, composed of the petty- bourgeois army officers. They are attempting to utilize the masses to establish their fascist rule. Thus far they have had a little success, due to the heroic efforts of the Communist Party of Peru. The Civilistas managed to win over the famous Col. Sanchez Cerro, | who led the revolt which overthrew | the Lequia regime. Sanchez Cerro received ample support from British | imperialism in overthrowing the pro- Wall Street Leguia regime. Cerro formerly belonged to the Apristas. | It was the coercive rule of Cerro against which the garrison of South~ Pery revolted, siding with the Apris- | tas and demanding that Sanchez Cerro resign. Cerro answered by calling out his two faithful regi- ments, commanded by his close friend, General Jimenez, and com- menced a distribution of arms to} the civilians of Lima, who favored} his rule. But this last, measure did} not please the 60 leaders of the Civi- | listas. In this situation, the Communist | Party of Peru issued a leaflet to the working masses, the soldiers and ma- rines, exposing the Cerro regime and the Civilistas. This alarmed the big bosses, so they prepared a coup | d'etat, hoping to kill two birds with | one stone—they wanted to prevent} the armed masses from “upsetting | the political situation,” as one cap-| italist newspaper termed it; and on} the other hand they wanted to dem~ oralize the Southern rebels. Using the Peruvian fleet they prevented the departure of troops after embarkation. They kept Gen- eral Jimenez prisoner on board his | troopship and took the presidential They sent Sanchez Cerro to | To make it} palace. the best hotel in town. look real, they demanded that Jim- enez surrender his armed forces. | But this he refused, and, when they thought that the situation was well in hand, they permitted the general to disembark and to take the palace over again from the temporary gov- | ernment, That very day all the capitalist forces met—the Cerro forces, the Jimenez forces and the 60 capital-| ist rulers of Peru. They agreed that | Cerro was a worthy servant of the native capitalists and the foreign im- perialists and should be sent to Eu- | Tope with a fat commission to buy} arms, to get acquainted with Euro- | pean culture and to play roulette at Monte Carlo. They are preparing for an “election” and are united in their struggle against the masses, The Communist Party of Peru has suffered heavily, due to these events. More than 200 members are in jail, ‘They are made to work without food. A mass campaign is being conducted | demanding the release of the polit- ical prisoners. About 20 militan workers were shot in the uprisin: which took place in the factor the sugar refineries and on the larg plantations. POLICE SHOOT NEGRO WORKER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) show they were doing something to stop the robbery. Picking up two Negro workers in Greenwood, which is a part of East Birmingham, two carloads of dicks) brought them to Daws’ house, look- ing for another Negro worker whom the two had seized said lived there. Seeing Dawes approaching the house with his hands full of packages, the cops hopped out with a double bar- relled shot gun and called to him to put up his hands. Dawes immedi- ately complied, but because he had meal in his right hand it took a little longer for him to get the hand in the air, The cops immediately opened fire on him. After they shot him they asked his name and found he wasn’t the one to draw up a protest resolution to} @bove, “A check by newspaper men the city council of Akron and the | indicated that 54 votes were cast to governor of Ohio demanding the un-| remain on strike, 34 to return to conditional release of Kassay, and| Work and 12 were not cast, The sec- repeal of the criminal syndicalist law | tetary, Andrew Sinnott, however, an- which is being used against the work. | Rounced that the vote was $0 to 50.” ing class. 7 Another resolution was ado ure ging every branch of the ee, to Perth Amboy Tiling Co affiliate with the ILD; A donation |Fires Third of Workers of $13 was given immediately, with Cw ea a pledge to raise more funds, PERTH AMBOY, N. J, April 5— ‘The campaign against the framé-|The American Encaustic Tiling’Co., up of Kassay and for the repeal of| used to cS ele? 200 workers. Now the criminal syndicalist law will be| there are between 125 and 140 work~ used in forwarding the mobilization | ing. Wages used to be from 47 to of vast masses for the May Day dem-| 50 cents an hour. Now the men get onstrations against unemployment,|45 cents an hour, The girls get $12 wage cuts, persecution of Negro and] to $15 a week, and work 8 and 9 foreign-born workers, against imper-| hours a day. Three girla used to ialist war and the bosses, planned at-| work om one press, The company tack on the Soviet Union, and for] put ix new machinery whieh elimi- unemployment relief and insurance, nated two girls from they were looking for. The bosses’ Papers omitted any report of the shooting. The workers in the section are all aroused over this murderous attack upon a defenseless Negro worker, who is now crippled for life, The Communist Party and the League of St le for Negro Rights are issuing leaflets and rallying the workers—Negro and white—to protest against these bloody attacks and to organize together to prevent them in the future. The two orgganizations are calling) upon the workers to demonstrate on | May Day against persecutions of the Negroes, against starvation, wage cuts and imperialist preparation for war, and for the right of self-determina- | tion for the Negro majorities in the South, for immediate relief apd un- od REPORT ADVANCE OF COLLECTIVES IN SOVIET UNION Yakovlev Contrasts Conditions In US MOSCOW.—Comrade Yakovlev, the People’s Commissar for Agriculture, reported to the VI Soviet. Congress concerning the development of the collective agricultural movement, He pointed out that the Soviet Union Was well on the way to becoming the most. progressive agricultural country in, the world. At the beginning of March 1931, nine million peasant farms were organized in the cellec- tive movement with a total of 30 | Million adult peasants. The area un- der seed in the collectives was 65 mil- lion hectares as compared with 43 million hectares in 1929. In this spring 1,200 tractor and agricultural ma- chinery stations would be operating as compared with 159 last year. By the end of the year 1,400 tractor and agricultural machinery stations would be in operation, In 1930 the collec- tive farms sold three and a half times as much grain to the government as did the kulaks in 1926-1927, and one and a half times as much as the rich landowners put on the market before the revolution. Yakovlev stressed the necessity of adopting the method of payment by results in the collective farms, instead of per head. The kulaks were mak- ing propaganda against the methed of payment by results. The exper- jence. of the best collective farms showed that the method of payment by results was the best way of or- ganizing collective labor. In this way the peasants were given an interest | in the results of their work. Yakovlev declared that at present two methods of forming agricultural large scale undertakings existed. The capitalist method in operation in the United States and the socialist method in operation in the Soviet Union. The American method led to the ruining of thousands of small farmers, te the increase of the span between the prices of industrial commodities and those of agricultural commodities, and to a slowing down of the grawth of the area under seed. The capitalist crisis hit agriculture particularly hard. The socialist method of form- ing large-scale agricultural under- takings with the consent and partici- pation of millions of peasants, abol- ished the misery of small-scale pro- duction, destroyed dependence on the rich farmers and abolished the latter as a class. The socialist method was the development of the agriculture] collective movement and the develop- ment of the soviet farms with the Breatest possible development of ag- ‘cultural mechanization. The fact hat the collective and soviet farms ould till half the area under seed in the Soviet Union this spring showed that the collective agricultural moye- ment would solve the most difficult problem facing the Soviet power. The delegates who took part in the following discussion confirmed the statements of comrade Yakovlev. The theses were unanimously adopted. -~ Gas Company Forces Negro Worker to Pay $12 for $1.50 Bill WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5.-- Not content with the outrageqysly | high rates which it charges for gas | and electricity, the locat public util- ity company is now imposing enor- mous “fines” for late payments. A Negro worker employed by the company was informed that @ gas bill of $1.50 that he had owed to the company for a year would have to be paid immediately and that he would have to pay $25 instead of the original $1.50, The $25 was to be deducted from the worker's next pay envelope. “His wife protested so much that the company “compromised” ic agreed to take $12 instead of the $25, and, in order to keep his job, worker was forced to submit to the robbery, NITGEDAIGET CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE TEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere AT A WEES CAMP NITOEDAIQET, BRACOX, ¥.3 PHONE 181