The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1931, Page 3

F. CORBIN ‘ew Shops Working Paying Wages Ranging 1 to $15 New Britain, Conn. From $1 Daily Worker: _ Will write a few lines to let | is not around the corner in this no receive it. here. are supposed to get their turn ine working. There is a woman there} who has charge of the office and anybody she does not like does not et that three days .they give out very month or six weeks to the vorker, Talk has also been going on in this city that the city is going to cut off all the charity that they have been giving out till now. The city gives so little charity that the workers have all they can do to exist. I wish that you would mention that we haye an Unemployed Coun- cil at 100 Beaver St. I am in charge of it and also am the Trade Union Unity League organizer in this dis- trict and city. 11-15 Dollars Is Wages Some workers are starting to talk about organizing because they all Utica Cotton Mills Running on Short Time Utica, N. Y. Here is a little piece for the city of Utica, Of course, everybody has something to say about this city. Well, Yve got enough, but here is the best part against this city, This city has many cotton mills, but ask if people are working. People in this city work like horses just to get money for bread, Many people in this city are not working, but if a person works two or three days a week the boss says the person is working and the mills are running. Ask if he gets wages that are high enough just for his work. No, he only gets enough to buy bread, and sometimes not \ Calif. Cannery Workers Wages Cut One-Third (By a Worker Correspondent.) SAN LEANDRO, Calif.—The Prince Co. cannery opened up with about 300 women and 50 men workers, We are canning spinach now, Our wages are cut this year, Last year we were paid for cleaning 8 pounds of spinach 8 cents, This year we have to clean 12 pounds for 8 cents. That means our wages are cut one- third. The women on washing re- ceived 35 cents per hour and this year get only 30 cents. Canning pays for a tray of one dozen cans 21-2 cents. ‘The work in the cannery is not easy at all, On cleaning we have to work on muddy spinach and we are covered from head to foot with mud. Every bit of weeds, dirt and what not must be picked out, even to snakes, which are found in the crates quite frequently alive. “Work Like Mad.” Washing is as wet a job as clean- ing is muddy. Canning is so speeded up that to make $1.50 a day one must work like mad. Many a day we work from 8 a, m. to 8:30 p. m., and for what pay? I am considered an experienced cleaner and received $12, plus a few cents, for these long hours of work last week, Milwaukee ‘Socialist’? Foreman Fires a Worker Milwaukee, Wis. Comrades: At th> Oil Gear Co. at West Bruce St. there were a few socialists work- ps, one who is the superintendent, y the name of Hugo Benewitz. This the same Hugo who @ year ago to- gtther with the manager of the com- ‘pfany forced some workers that were adready subscribers to the Milwaukee Leader (socialist paper), to take an- other year’s subscription before the previous year had expired. Discharged Worker, Not long ago the same socialist, Hugo, discharged a member of the same party, The discharged man is William Yaneche. The reason was that he spoiled one little piece of t iron. The iron was more im- portant to Hugo that the whole Ya- neche family. The socialist knew that once a worker loses hig job that there is little chance of obtaining another one, Still this faker follows the steps of Milwaukee Hoan and Ben- | Toledo, Ohio, | Daily Worker: | Now please don't drop dead when I tell you that I got a job. Oh, yes, I got one, All I have to do is work 12 hours a night for 7 nights a week, and all the rest of the time is mine, 80 you see this is a great life if you don’t weaken, I receive for my services $32.50 a week, with the 50 cents per week off = Lock Company Also Gives Those Still Working a Wage Slash At P; F. Corbin’s they have laid off about 150 workers, workers that have worked many years. I heard last night that the office help was getting a 10 per cent cut. Some time ago the other workers received a wage cut and the office help did The workers are being discriminated against There is a place called the City Yards where workers a eS Tae, know that their conditions are very 5,000 JOBLESS IN NEW BRITAIN, CONN. AS P. ’*S LAYS OFF the Daily know that prosperity city. bad. They only work four days a week in this city; few shops work five days. The workers receive about eleven dollars to fifteen dol- lars a week, those who are still working. In the last couple of years about ten thousand workers have been forced to leave the city because they did not have work. ‘There is over a thousand unemployed at the pres- ent time because the mayor gave a statement to the local paper one day before we had the Hunger March that the city was feeding two thou- sand persons, and the Reds had no business in this city. I want to mention again about the city yard, that single men get no jobs and foreign born workers are also kicked out. —GEORGE FOSTER. enough for that. When winter was here the peo- ple who were out of work would sometimes get a job working on the street shoveling snow. If they would want their wages they would have to wait about two weeks, just to get a 2 or 214-day work wage. This shows -how much the city does for the unemployed workers, if a person is killed, murdered or commits suicide, it is said to be from the bootlegger business and not from the unemployed condi- tions, This shows just a part of the working conditions in Utica. —JENNIE L, Four women were fired last week because they kicked for overweighed crates. When underweight they add from other crates, but when over the forelady says: “It is all right, just a bit over.” This bit amounts to a lot at the end of the day, ‘The foreladies, weighers and the bosses are usually related and stick together against us. Many spies are among the bunch and, overhearing a complaint, brings our check. When we first’ started this year, three weeks ago, 11-pound boxes were given for 8 cents. Bosses seeing Ro open protest after three days started giving us 12-pound boxes. Last Friday, Mareh 27, and Sat- urday some inspector or labor com- missioner or someone was to come around, so we worked 8-pound boxes. And even then only front tables, where the favorites are stationed, got | them, until others started a howl.! This week 12-pound boxes are com- ing through again. Are we always going to keep our mouths shut? It is time cannery workers were organizing themselves and demanding better conditions. Let’s organize the Trade Union Unity League Union and show the bosses we will not stand those miserable conditions. —Cannery Worker. son (who on March 28 had the nerve to invite the workers to his yellow socialist party), and not only that he betrays the workers but he bru- tally throws them out on the streets to starve, fogether with their fam- ilies, Join Communist Party. ‘This ought to be enough to open the eyes of all common members of the socialist party, not only in Mil- waukee, but throughout the United States, and to say to the socialists: To hell with the party of fakers, brutes and bosses! Working men of Milwaukee and throughout the United States, it’s time to join your own Party, the Communist Party, which is the only party fighting for the workers’ in terests, the Party which has no room. within its ranks for boss agents like the socialist party. Let us all organize and fight for freedom, so we can establish a farm- | ers’ and workers’ government in this country. J.C. | Gets A Job—12 ee A Night, 7 Nights eek for insurance. Now I intend to send $1 a month to the Daily Worker to help in the cause, because we as workers need the Daily to fight our battles to the finish. Hoping for & workers’ and farm- ers’ government in the grand old U. 8. A, where some are worked to death and the rest can starve, beg or steal, —S. EL DAIL YWORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1931 Arrest Miner Who |SEATTLE RED BUILDERS Fights to Live SEND DONATION; PLAN TO PUSH WEEKLY PAGE No Relief Given to Starving Miners Harrisburg, Dlinois, Daily Worker: I have five children, and my wife and I work only one or two days a week. 80 per cent of the miners here don’t know what they are going to eat tomorrow. They cannot sleep at night, for they are starving slowly. Charities in this town are just a joke. My father and mother live across the street from me. They are both sick in bed, and have nothing to eat, so I went to get something to eat for them. The charity organiza- tion I asked told me they had no blanks, so the old folks have to Starve three days until they get some, and give them a can of beans, One trouble here about the U. M. W. A. is that the rank and file are not attending meeting regularly. The fakers are always there to mislead you. We have about eight hundred members in our local, but never over twenty-five attend a meeting. Yes, the miners are going to fight here pretty soon, but the bosses know they are preparing. ‘They arrested Roy Groves here yesterday. When I went to see him last night, the sehiff didn’t let me in, but asked my name. Before he was electéd he was a good friend of mine.~ He came to my house to ask me to vote for him. But now when men are hungry and have no jobs to make their living, he throws them in jail. —J. K. NAVY GETS READY FOR COMING WAR Perfecting Its Murder Machinery Giving a graphic description of the war preparations, the Washington bureau of the United Press says: “The fleet gathers for its annual maneuvers; a naval conference pon- ders intricate questions of tonnage in London; squadrons of airplanes dive and zoom overhead in a demon- stration; a president boards a battle- ship to visit neighboring lands.” Steadily the conflicts between the imperialist powers grow, and the at- tacks of the Soviet Union becomes sharper. With it all goes the rapid increase in armaments and the war maneu- vers. Right now the Navy Depart- ment has more than 200 “‘scientists” working in the strictest secrecy pre- paring the death-dealing apparatus for the next war, ‘They are preparing poison gas and death-dealing rays to kill off the workers, to further the struggle for the enslavement of the colonial peo- ples and for war against the workers’ fatherland, the U.S.S.R, Against the war preparations all workers must raise their voice, and prepare to act. Why can the bosses find so many millions for war prep- arations and not one cent for un- employment insurance? Demand they turn the war funds over to the; unemployed. Join the May Day dem- onstrations and rally against imper- ialist war—for the defense of the Soviet Union, Terre Haute Jobless Demonstrate, To Come Out on May First (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) city workers must be allowed fresh meat instead of merely salt pork and stew meat as at present. The jobless also demand that city workers be al- jJowed clothing and fuel as well as provisions, Furthermore, it points out, there are many jobless who are given nothing, though they have re- peatedly applied for relief. On March 30 the Unemployed Council held a meeting, voted for these demands, and sent a commit- tee to present them to the mayor and city council. The council met in special session April 1, and the de- mands were put before them. Since it is only a few days to election time, the city councilmen promised every- thing. But the Unemployed Council continues its organization and will take further action if the city goy- ernment breaks its promise. The workers and their families who are on the city welfare list are slow- ly starving. A family of four is al- lowed $4 worth of groceries each week, nothing for fuel or clothing. The men work at city jobs in return for these grocery orders, es Starving in Council Bluffs. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, April 6. —The Council Bluffs Council of Un- employed held a meeting in the home of one of the members April 3 and drew up a list of the absolutely starving families, which the council will take to the charities and de- mand action on, Hundreds of jobless here are simply starving to death, without even piece of bread to eat, Thousands are living on scraps of charity or quarter rations provided in other ways. This is @ city of about 50,000 inhabitants, ee Meetings in Omaha, OMAHA, Neb., April 6—The Com- munist Party holds successful stree meetings every Thursday night ai Fourteenth and Douglas. At the same corner the Council of the Un- employed holds mass open air meet: ings Saturdays, and is reviving it work generally, The Seattle Red Builders News Club at their last membership meet- ing March 26 not only decided to send a donation of $10 to the Daily Worker, but decided, on their own hook, to get in toueh with the Dis- trict Organizer and the Daily Worker agent regarding a district page. Here’s an example of Communist initiative in laying plans for a weekly issue in Seattle, and indicates real vitality in the Club. Following are the presept members: H. Stapp, Wm. Barton, C. D. McLellan (chairman), L. Tisipou- lis, N. Atelivich, D. C. O’Hanrahan, and C. J. Blane, (secretary-treasurer). JAMESTOWN MAKES UNNECESSARY CUT On March 28, F. C. H. sent us‘a cut down to 100 daily, and 200 Friday and Saturday because “things are continually growing. worse and the customers are broke, and we cannot afford to dig down and pay out of our own pockets for the balance out- side of sales.” 31, S. P. writes as follows: There is no excuse for these cuts in a city the size of Jamestown. If the present force is crippled, why haven’t you, made any at- tempt to get other jobless workers selling the paper? A leaflet to the unemployed of Jamestown, inviting them to a meeting where they will be shown how to make expenses by selling the Daily would be a more effective means of continuing the sales'and PAYING for the bundles than cutting the orders down and losing contact with workers! NEW HAVEN, CONN. NEWSSTAND ORDER From R. S. Kling, District, Daily Worker representative of New Haven, Conn. “Send 5 copies daily to each of these newsstands We are circu~ larizing the neighborhood with leaf- lets, also to the workers of the New Haven Clock Co, as a means of popularizing these newsstands.” JUGO SLAV SUB FOR SON “Please send the Daily Worker here,” writes Andy K. of Calhan, Colo., enclosing $2 for 4 mos. subscrip- tion. “As my father reads Rovnost Ludu, and I can’t read it, he has sent for the Daily Worker for me.” Ss BICKNELL, IND. INCREASES TO 60 From M. T. of Bicknell, Ind. “We want the office to send 60 copies every day instead of 40 un- til further notice. Let Fish take this blow under the chin and the rest of rotten capitalists that ex- ploit the workers to starvation.” SENDS $5 FOR “ ¥ TRUTHFUL PAPER” “Enclosed find money order for $5 for which renew my subscription for six months. The other $2 is for donation from my father and my- self. There are three people beside myself who read the “Daily” for they haven't the money to subscribe them- selves. The Daily is the only paper barring none that tells the truth and describes the working class move- ment.” K. G. Jr., Kenosha, Wis. PROSSER COMMITTEE HEAD FIRES 150 OF OWN EMPLOYES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) loaves of bread and two quorts of milk to 3,107 families (15,133 per- sons), cut down. the allowance to half that amount .and announced that it would soon, shut down en- tirely unless more donations came in. The city admits that “need for relief still exists.” But while cutting off even this sop of bread and milk, th eauthorities | find money te buy -Sheriff Lewis | Worker a gas-gun outfit costing $135. “Let them starve, and give them gas | if they squak,” is the program here. ‘The need for relief not only con- tinues, it is increasing. In the last week of March the Minnegua Steel Plant laid off 100 men. Today 400 more are to be laid off permanently. This is known because the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. gives the Prote: tant employes the right to buy coa on credit from the Anderson Co. and have the amounts deducted from their pay checks. The Catholic workers get their coal in the same way from the Moore Coal Co. The C. F. & I. takes care to notify these coal companies who is going to be fired, in order to cut off the credit, even when it does not notify the men who are going to be fired until the last minute. * « Nice Little Joke! CHICAGO, Ill, April 6—The Chi- cago Daily Tribune of April 1 carried this advertisement: “Structural Draftsmen and Checkers, With Sev- eral Years’ Experience, Apply Mc- Clintic-Marshall Co., 8301 Stewart Ave.” It was a three-line want ad. Over 200 of these highly skilled men rushed in, some of them from as far away as 300 miles. When they got there the officials of the McClintic-Marshall Co. told them, with broad grins, “It’s just an April fool joke!” . . NEW YORK.—The state depart- ment of labor, in a news sheet sent out yesterday, takes great credit for getting a promise that wages total- ing $10,000 will be paid to 90 work- ers employed on a road paving con- tract near Middletown. The com- pany simply closed up shop and re- fused to pay the wages. The report itself says: “Penniless and disheart- ened the men drifted away and many of them were reduced.to the bread lines. One, an alien, was de- ported.” Some of them had been workipg Six or eight weeks. The contract having been renewed, the company agrees to pay* the wages now. But the department of labor does not say how the men will be found, or how the deported man will be recompensed, Sia Seattle Breadlines Close. SEATTLE, Wash., April 6—The Central Labor Council has closed down its kitchen, in the midst of growing unemployment. In order to! keep unemployed workers from join- ing the militant councils of the un- employed the Central Labor Council taxed all the unions some time ago and started up its own soup line. Now this, too, is abandoned. The breadline at the Armory of the Washington National Guard ex- pired March 31, This means that over 2,000 people, including men, women and children, young and old, will face starvation. One leading restaurant, “The Boldt’s Cafe,” got $30 per day for cooking hash once a day, Never- theless, five men will be laid off after the closing down of the kit-| ; chen. And what sore of food was handed out at this breadline? Fish, which was smuggled in from Canada and other countries and then seized by the United States Customs, was served to the unemployed. Meat that the butchers could not use was also given for the unemployed. The Pacific Telephone Co. donated its services for gathering and transport- ing this rotten slop, which even a dog would not touch. One Unem- ployed Council member on the bread- line witnessed an incident where a big German police dog would not eat the stuff that was given to the work~ ers, 9 Negro Workers Face Lynch Mob in Ala. As Trial Opens on Horse Swapping Day (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) sons would be in town today. Guardsmen with machine guns have been placed in front of the court house, but no one here entertains the idea that they would really shoot to protect the nine Negro workers against whom the bosses have been inciting the mob through their newspapers and by word of mouth through designated mob leaders, Bosses Seek Terrorist Effect An investigator sent to Scotboro jointly by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense reports an overwhelm- ing conviction among all classes of the population that the nine Negro workers will be lynched before the trial is over, The trial itself would be nothing but a farce, but the im- perialist bosses are after the terrorist affect sich a mass lynching would have on Negro workers throughout the South, who are showing growing signs of revolt against the brutal system of actual slavery under which shey live today almost 70 years after their paper emancipation, Negro Reformists Aid Lynchers The murderous lynching planned for these nine Negro workers in Alabama, the more than 43 recorded lynchings last year, the 10 known lynchings already this-year, are on the heads not only of the imperia- list bosses who direct and prosecute this lynching terror against the Negro masses, but on the heads, as well of the Negro reformists, who treacherously betray all militant struggle against lynching and per- secution of Negros, and who are today, in Harlem, Chicago, ete., des- perately working to divert the Negro struggle of Negro and white workers Page Three News Briefs ‘The Bank of France is suing the Soviet Government in New York federal courts, through the Soviet financial agents, the Chase National and Guaranty Trusts, for $5,000,000 sent the banks in 1928 which France claims was gold confiscated in Len- ingrad banks in 1917, although it cannot identify the particular gold. o. 4 a The Soviet trade delegation has arrived in Berlin to direct details of the purchase of $75,000,000 worth of German machinery for Soviet indus- try. . ‘Washington dispatches say that a Reindeer Committee has been ap- pointed to “end the chaos” of rein- deer raising in Alaska. This seems to be the only chaos possible to solve under capitalism, and even this is not assured. . ‘The New York Women’s City Club is making a big howl to revise the city charter to provide for a “non- partisan” city manager system, which in other cities: has supplanted par- tisan graft for non-partisan graft, under the pretense of eliminating graft. Fi of James Maxton, the fake “leftist” of the British labor party, has made @ maneuver usual to him at the con- ference of the independent labor party, by first “attacking” the Mac- Donald leadership and then keeping the I. L. P. in organizational and political subordination to MacDon- ald. The Portuguese general, Sousa Dias, has led a military revolt and seized control of the Portuguese island possession of Madeira which lies off the African coast. The Portu- guese dictator, Cormona, is sending troops to suppress it, Much ado about Australia and the repudiation of debts by the New South Wales “labor” premier, J. T. Lang is filling timid British bond- holders with alarm and the entire world capitalist press with bunkum. Lang and a very artful social-fascist secretary of dhe N. S. W. trade unions, Jock Garden, are even claim- ing to initiate a “Soviet” program, with a “three-year plan.” Garden is @ renegade Communist. While this plan will undoubtedly bring at least the appearance of shuddering horror to British capitalists and their ser- yants in the “labor” parties of. both Britain and Australia, the result, if ‘any, will be an attempt at a fascist regime of collaboration between “producers” (meaning employers) and workers. The purpose of Lang and Garden in proposing it is, by pointing to the opposition of British and Australian ultra-reaction, to get workers’ support for it. ae The Berlin “socialist” paper, The Vorwaerts, has issued a “stern warn- ing” to advise the German govern- ment that the proposed customs union with Austria must, in “social- ist” opinion, result in “intimate Franco-German co-operation” and that what the Vorwaerts calls “a healty development”—namely, an anti-Soviet bloc—is “conceivable only with the aid of French capital.” ria ia | Although it is common knowledge that judgeships are bought and sold in New York City at prices quoted by Tammany Hall’s open market, after seven months of “investigation” by Samuel Seabury, it is officially stated that it has been impossible to get proofs, which is the usual result of capitalism “investigating capital- ism. Wage Cuts in Goodrich Rubber, Rem- ington . Arms Co, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) profits of the bosses), says the financia Chronicle, “AND THAT IS REDUCTION IN WAGE SCHED- ULES.” Nor are they content with cutting the pay of the railroad workers. “What is here said regarding rail~ road labor,” they emphasize, applies with equal force to labor in general.” That there is a nation-wide, con- certed slashing of pay, directing by the “59” Jeading rulers of the United States—the capitalists and bankers who get the greatest share of the profits and run the government—is beyind doubt. The capitalist papers have admitted it, Hoover has ad- mitted it. Ip the face of this, the A. F. of L. officialdom is doing its usual task—helping the bosses cut pay. ‘The only force that is rallying the workers to organize and “strike against wage cuts is the Trade Union Unity League, with the support of the Communist Party. The T.U,U.L, and the Communist Party calls on all workers to smash the pay cut drive, Mobilize on May First, unemvloyed and employed, | ogainst wage cuts. Organize shop committees, Strike against wage cuts, DOVER, Dela., April 8,—During the discussion on the Little Bill in the State House of Representatives against the boss system of starvation, | H@r@, Representative Donovan re- lynch terror, race hatred, wage cuts, | marked, “I don’t believe it will pass imperialist war, deportations of for- eign born, Negro and white workers! De- monstarte on May Day against the boss system of hunger and terrorism, because it does not raise anybody's salary. If it raised some salaries it would be sure to pass.” ROYAL PARASITES GREETED AT CITY JOBLESS WERE OF JAPAN TOBE . HALL WHERE U. S. SLUGGED BY COPS Workers Must Voice Un ers Who Are Being Imperialis On Friday, April 10, both the fed- eral government at Washington and the crew of grafters in Tammany Hall will greet with royal splendor the Prince and Princess Takamatsu of, Japan. On the very same steps where hundreds of unemployed work- | ers were beaten by the police, where | Nessin and the unemployed delega~ tion were beaten and arrested, Mayor Walker will greet these representa-} tives of Japanese imperialism who in} turn direct the murder of the work- ers and peasants of Japan who are| clamoring for bread. The state department, which di- rects the war preparations against | the Soviet Union, the Workers’ Re- public, has made special preparations | for the greeting of these royal para- sites when they arrive in New York. | The greeting will outstrip the trap-| pings that surrounded the “welcome” to the royal prostitute, Queen Marie | of Rumania. Whom do the Prince and Princess | Takamatsu. of Japan represent?| They represent the ruling class, the | capitalists of Japan, who have jailed | 1,000 workers for belonging to or| supporting the Communist Party of | Japan; they represent the class | which has decreed the “Imperial} Ordinan’ under whose provisions | revolutionary workers can be put to| death; they present the class who murdered Senji Yamamoto, the only revolutionary representative to the Japanese Diet (Congress), and Com-| rade Watanabe, secretary of the} Communist Party. ‘These two parasites will be greeted | by the capitalists of the United | States in riotous splendor, while the delegations of unemployed workers ity With Japanese Toil- Murdered By Their t Masters are mercilessly beaten and jailed. The Japanese princes are traveling around the world on a “honeymoon” trip, but in reality it is a diplomatie tour, sounding out the various ime perialist allies for alignments in the coming imperialist war; preparing the war against the Soviet Union. Japan has been hard hit by the present world economic crisis of cap- italism. Nearly 40 per cent of Japae nese exports go to the United States, and the two royal drones will come as business men, to further this trade. More than 50 per cent of the factories in Japan are closed—and eyen when they are open the work- ers slave from 10 to 12 hours a day for starvation wages. Now more than 2,000,000 Japanese workers are unemployed. Their posi tion is similar to that of the Amere ican unemployed. There is no un- employment insurance in Japan, and these workers have been clubbed by the Japanese police, just as the American workers have been slugged when demanding unemployment re- lief. Japanese imperialism is preparing its war front against the Soviet Union, and the visit of the members of the Japanese royal family, head of the imperialist murderers, will talk over the united attack against the workers’ republic. Against these parasites, represen- tatives of the same class who rule in the United States, the workers must raise their indignant proteste— against the murder of their fellow- workers in Japan for the unity of the international struggle against imperialism and for the defense of the Soviet Union, Jobless On D FROM (CONTINUE! ONED appropriated for military purposes. If the legislature does not approve this bill, the committee has decided to move for a referendum. Other demands of the Unemployed Councils to be passed on at the Columbus conference, which will pre- pare the final program for presenta- tion to the legislature n April 27, include laws to prohibit the eviction of unemployed workers from their homes, to prevent turning off of gas, water, and electric service to pro- vide for the use of public buildings to shelter the jobless, and to provide for free meals, free textbooks and free carfare for the children of jobless | parents. Latest reports on arrangements for the hunger march are at hand from Hamilton, Middletown, Dayton, Springfield, Mansfield, Carcy and Canton. They indicate, as did ear- lier reports from Akron, Northfield, ' Galion, Columbus, Massillon and Wooster, that lodging be provided by the cities in most cases, but many of them are still refusing to supply ' food, despite pressure from the local unemployed. An unusual degree of interest in the march is r ‘ted in Massillon, due to its association with “General” | Coxcy, and a local unemployment in- surance committee is completing plans for the reception of the march- | ers on April 18, when a mass meeting will be held in the City Hall. Hamilton Comes Through In Hamilton, the city manager has told unemployed representatives that arrangements will be made to house and feed the section of hunger marchers who will start from hf cinnati on the morning of April*20. He states, however, that there will be a convention of the American Legion in the city on the same day and that the Legionaires may start trouble. The city manager of Middletown has taken the attitude that lodging will be provided but that the city will not feed the marchers. Local unemployed are making arrangements for a canteen to supply the marchers, if the city cannot be in- duced to provide food. In Dayton the city manager has promised that both food and lodging will be provided for the marchers when they reach there April 22. The Chief of Police has granted permits for a March through the city and for an open air meeting on Paterson Boulevard. Springfield reports that the city manager has promised the use of city buildings to lodge the marchers on April 23 but that he is unwilling Force Many to Promise Lodging to 400 Route to Columbus march are reported from all over Ohio with delegates being sent from nearly every section. The first to start will be those from Cleveland and Youngstown on April 16. The march from Toledo April 19 and that from Cincinnoti April 20. There will also be a motor caravan from the mine fields of eastern Ohio. All the marchers will converge on Columbus on April 25 in advance of the opening of the State legis- Jature on April 27. Just Good Wishes ‘The Mayor of the City of Bedford writes a letter wishing “Good Speed” to the marchers, but “regretting that neither lodging nor food can be supplied then because two main factories in the town have closed down and moved away. The town is ready to close its schools. Ap-) parently in Bedford, food, clothing and education for the joblescs will be cheerfully sacrificed to avoid any cutting off of official salaries or fure ther taxing of the well to do. The state hunger march is organe ized so as to sweep all the main in- dustrial sections of Ohio. Evéry- where the marchers will call on the thousands of jobless, and the wage cut workers who still have jobs, to come out in mass demonstration on May 1, International Labor Day. ‘to demand the right to live, to protest starvation, to fight wage cuts and lay offs, to demand insurance for the unemployed. PRL eY eer GUIDO SERIO ON TOUR FOR LL.D. To Speak in Albany, Troy, Schenectady NEW YORK, April 6—Guido Serio, who is facing immediate deportation to Italy for his anti-fascist cativities and will undoubtedly be executed there unless the workers of the Uni- ted States are successful in stepping the attempt to deport, is at present on @ speaking and organizational tour for the International Labor De- fense., Serio's case is now up on ape peal before the United States Cir- cuit Court where the vicious attempts to deport him is being made by the Department of Labor. é The immigration authorities are working hand in hand with the Ita- lian Embassy at Washington who are under instructions from the Musso- lini government to ship Serio back to Italy where they can handle him effectively and put a stop to all his to provide food. The village of Carcy which will | be reached on April 21 by the section of the march starting from Toledo on April 18 is unable to furnish food and lodging according to a let- ter to the state committe from Mayor Ed Campbell Jr. The Committee of Public Welfare of Canton likewise declared it is un- able to render aid and suggests that “the unemployed councils make over- tures to’ the State legislature for the relief desired.” Mansfield Mass Meeting In Mansfield, the Unemployed Insurance Committee recently or- and for unemployment relief and in-} and control their own form of gov-| ganized is holding a mass meeting surance, and unconditional equality} ernment. Demand death to the in.the Trades Council Hall on April of the Negro masses, with the righ’ | lynchers! Organize defense corps of | 8 at 7.30 P. M. to rally support for of the Negro majorities of the Blacl | white and Negro workers to, resist| the hunger march which is to reach Belt in the Southern States, and of She lynch Show your solidarity Africa, West Indies, to determinate! May Day! Demonstrate! Mansfleld on April 18, Intensive preparations for the militant activities. Serio had escaped | from Italy in 1924 after the fascist had almost killed him and left him for dead on the street. He has been active in the workingclass movement ever since arrival in the U. S. Serio will speak in both Italian and English at Albany, Tuesday evening, at the Workers’ Center, 9714 Hamilton St.; at Troy, Wed- nesday evening, at ‘the I.L.D. Hall 2731 River St., and Thursday, Serie will speak at Schenectady at the Sons of Italy Hall, 121 So. Ferry St.. 8 p.m Use your Red Shock Troop List every day un your job. The worker next to you will help save the Deliy Worker, ) 1