The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1931, Page 3

DALLY WUniR, NeW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1931 Page. Three STARVING PENNSYLVANIA MINERS READY TO HUNGER MARCH SCHWAB KEEPS UP PAY) CUTS AT THE SPARROWS POINT STEEL MILLS Cut Wages Department by Department to, Head Off Concerted Strike Action | Accidents Mount As Bosses Push Up the Speed Another Notch for Profits | Baltimore, Md. Dear Comrades: | At Sparrows Point, where the workers in the Tin Mill De-j partment have already had two wage cuts, and where the! openers two months ago had a 10 per cent cut, another wage} cut is being put over in the same department again. On April) 1, the hot mill men received a 414 per cent cut and the openers | a 6 per cent cut. MACHADO FOR MORE TERROR IN CUBA “Tree” Offer Flops; Mobilize Troops Havana dispatches state that the proposed truce offered by Bloody Machado to his bourgeois opponents has failed. President Machado of Cuba, dictator with the supporter of Wall Street, had been ordered to of- fer his truce by the U. S. Ambassa- lor Guggenheim. On Saturday Secretary of the In- terior Vivancos announced he was “doubtful” of the success of the truce “because of the bitterly contrary stand taken by students of the Na- Unite With Muste fora By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. _ Alexander Howatt, together with | Watt, Angelo and their handful of Trotskyists, working under the lead- ership of Muste, have called a “na- tional convention” of miners to take place in St. Louis on April 15. This convention is the latest step along the miserable paht of betrayal trod by these Muste elements in the Ili nois situation. It is merely a prep aration to introduce more demoral- ization and disorganization into the ranks of the struggling Ulinois mine ers. ! | tional University ab Havana and | other members of scholastic insti- | tutions, who are threatening to start During all these wage cuts, the workers were struggling, and were organizing to go out on strike to fight against these Wage-cuts. But the DbOSSCS WELC8)-—-— --em— ——————re —— n 2 clever. ‘They started the wage|® Way out of this situation, and there | disturbances In Havana and all sec slashes in one department, gradu-| +5 @ feeling that Negro and white tions of the Island.” ally spreading them to the others. They also used the divisions and} discrimination against certain work- ers to keep the workers from put- ting up a fight. Several Injured, In the speed-up following wage~- cuts four workers were hurt in the tin mill department and two in the galvanizing department. One of the latter burned his hand and face, but the iodine doctors refused to leave him go home and the bosses made him work 16 hours a day. Negro workers are fired every day, being replaced by white workers. Every worker is now trying to find Thompson Restauran Chicage, Tl. workers must stick together to make | This is just @ prelude announcing a successful strike. The bosses know | greater terror against the revolution- this, so they have learned a lesson | ary forces in Cuba, especially the from previous wage-cuts, when they | working and peasant masses under announced the cuts two weeks in| the leadership of the Communist advance. In the wage-cut that took | Party. Machado’s terror has been place April 1, the bosses announced increasing, daily, with hundreds be- it only two days previously, so the ing murdered, tortured and jailed. workers did not have the time to| To carry through this increased prepare a strike. It is chiefly be- | terror, Machado is mobilizing his en- cause of the growing influence of tire police force for Monday when the M. W. I. L. that they did this. | he says a plot has been made against So, Negro and white workers, join the life of congressmen by students. the M. W. I. L. and build the shop| committees, so that when the time| comes to fight back we can force) Charlie Schwab and the rest of the parasites to kneel down. —P. Ss. SOVIET COTTON IN ENGLAND London reports state that British textile mills are buying an increas- ing amount of Soviet cotton which | sells at about one cent a pound be- low American cotton. It is clearly ts Cut Wages Again Income from operations $1,276,385 stated that Russian cotton is not) During the past year, Howatt and his Musteite-Trotskyite backers have shown themselves to be definite tools | of the Illinois operators, At a time) when the miners were. breaking away en masse from the Lewis machine and rallying to the revolutionary | National Miners’ Union, Howatt| jointly with his friends, the arch | crooks, Farrington, Fishwick and) Walker, organized his U. M, W. of A. | No. 2. The purpose of this organiza~ | tion was clearly to stop the flow of | | the miners into the N. M. U. and to; make them still more helpless in the | face of the employers’ wage-cutting, | speed-up program. And the worst of lit was that this reactionary pur- pose was accomplished to a very great extent by the Howatt organ- ization. Now the crooks Farrington, Fish-| wick and company, have patched up/ | their differences with Lewis, and) Howatt is on the job to make a new) |manenver to prevent the disgusted | and disillusioned miners from tak- | Howatt and Trotzkyites in New Betrayal of the Miners “National” Convention in St. Louis to Lead the Miners Away From Struggle against the operators and their la- bor agents. Howatt, despite his re- cent alliance with these notorious agents of the Peabody Coal Co., an alliance consummated in the face of open denunciation by the National Miners Union, now actually has the assurance to appear before the Illi- nois miners in the guise of an oppo~ sitionist, and to call upon the miners to support his proposal for forming @ “progressive U. M. W. of A.” He is still trading upon his one-time repue tation of a fighter in the Kansas coal fields, The National Miners’ Union should carry on @ campaign of the most thorough exposure of Howatt and his pals, Such elements are the greatest danger to the miners, With the em- ployers slashing wages and worsen- ing conditions ruthlessly in every section of the mining industry, and with the U. M, W, of A, losing its grip more and more upon the min- ers, these Musteites are always on hand to try to prevent the miners from taking drastic action against their exploiters. The Fishwick-How~- att betrayal in Mlinois is a clagsica’ example of their treachery. The sell out of the Anthracite ‘outlaw strike” by the “progressive” leaders, | supported by the Lovestone ele- ments, is of the same stripe. Only by | the defeat of these tools of the op- erators and the Lewis machine can the National Miners’ Union establish its organization and leadership in the mining industry, The course that the miners should take at the Illinois convention is clear, First of all, they should clean WAGE CUT REPORT DOES NOT COVER ALL U. 8. PLANTS Many Thousands Are Affected (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ieee of thousands of workers. The Labor Bureau, however, does not say anything about the new drive against wages which started around the first of April, and which is reaching into every industry in the country, threatening to cut the pay of every worker in the United Statess. This new drive is intended to cut pay, even where previous wage cuts were put over, Besides the battering down of the living standards of the employed workers, the Labor Bureay reports that the condition of the unemployed is become worse all the time. The 10,000,000 who are without jobs are drawitg closer to the starvation level. The worsening of the condi- tions of the employed proceeds with the worsening of the conditions of the unemployed. The Labor Bureau, referring to | the unemployed workers, says that | there is arising a “desperate situa~ tion,” due to the fact that “the funds of the jobless had been exhausted iad that welfare agencies are near- ing the limit of their funds, and the | final source of aid to the unem-| | ployed seemed to be the local trea | sury.” “It is on aceount of the immi- | mence of this crisis,” they say, “which | threatens to mean actual starvation | for thousands (they put it mildly, | millions would be closer to the truth) |that many who know the situation | have been pressing for an extra ses- sion of Congress in order to tap the NEGRO, WHITE JOBLESS UNITE TO MA KE DEMAND; STEEL WORKERS RALLY Unemployed Sleep in Coke Ovens; No Relief; Hunger Stalks Region; Mines Fire More PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 8—~Prep-| arations are being rushed to mobilize for the state hunger march on Har- risburg, the state capital. The march starts from the Pittsburgh region on April 18, and from Phila- delphia on April 17. It will be in Harrisburgh on April 21. In Brownsville 30 Negro and white coal miners are sleeping in aban- doned brick coke ovens. On Sunday, ata mass meeting held by the Na- tional Miners’ Union, one of these unemployed workers, a Negro miner. spoke for a militant struggle against starvation. 1,000 Apply; 4 Hired. The Lily Mine has started up in Brownsville. On the first day open, 1,500 men came from towns miles away to try for jobs. Only a few were hired, The second day, 1,000 men came, but only 4 were hired In the excitement a man was Squeezed against a wall by the crowd | and died shortly after. The Lily Mine is working with only a small! crew, loading sample coal. In the Republic section, 11 mines! out of 14 are shut down, and men} are getting one day's work a week.) | distressing situation encountered sev: Jobless Delegate Driver From Town When He Presents Demands for Relief in Niagara way, Superintendent of Police Curry and his uniformed thugs threw them out of the building and drove Hall out of the city, . Still Less Relief. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 8.— The Scripps-Howard Newspaper Al- liance reports that news from the South, Southwest and Mid-West shows relief being cut off in all those sections. In Oklahoma it was in- tended to cut off all relief early in April, but the “report from Okla- homa City is that if this is done the eral months ago would soon return. Other cities, according to this capi- talist news service, claim that they do not need to give relief any longer for unemployment, but that “the problem of rehabilitating the unem- ployed and their families’ is with them, The news service tells of shutting down the commissary in Houston on April 15, of “the pinch of hard times” | still being felt in Akron, Youngs- town and Cincinnati. Workers in all these cities know that even the little relief that was | The companies give no relief what- | given did not go far, that jobs are jever and the county, through the| not more plentiful now and that Daily Worker: The notorious slave-drivers of the John R. Thompson Co, have cut wages another 10 per cent, making a cut of 35 per cent since he first of the year 1930 to March 31, 1931. They have reduced the number of food workers from 1,600 m January'1, 1930, to 900 on March 31, 1931, amounting to a reduction of nearly 44 per cent. The speed-up and long hours on their feet, 10 to 12 hours daily, 7 Jays per week, without rest, the rotten conditions they haye to Federla taxing power es an emer-| Red Cross, gives practically nothing | mass starvation is under way. | at all. Relief is being cut off in North- | gency measure.” : » | ‘ | But only the workers themselves The National Miners’ Union has| eastern cities, not covered in this atti i organizers out into these and| report, and in large Mid-Western employed and unemployed, fighting | 8°" OTE a ; eda 8 realli ae pis wats and for|other fields to mobilize the jobless/ cities like Chicago, which the report immediate unemployment relief ana| and part-time miners, all of whom! does not mention. tianvinyisens ppadilel will be | 2t@ Starving, for the hunger march | able to force yellef from the bosses on Harrisburgh. This march is being | and their government. led by the Trade Union Unity League * : e (including the National . Miners’ street car men of the Pacific Elec-| - 1. : : tric Power Company are facing a ten | : per cent wage cut and will get it Roy Jones, of Springfield, Il. writes in to say: “The conditions (here in Springfield sure are hell. | There were 12 coal mines working | part time this winter—now 9 have | closed down in the last week, throw~ +ing out of work about 3,000 to starve . for 1930, compared with $1,494,344 «qumped,” but is sold cheaper be-| ing real steps towards building an é for 108. erat is produced cheaper. ‘ organization and developing struggle | ou ath =e aul gang. addy Net profits of $1,126,585, equal to | | has shown by his alliance with Fish- $3.75 per share on 300,000 shares of a wick that he is utterly unfit to stand capital stock in 1930. Net profits | jat the baad 3 a zaineet union, He for 1929 were $1,584,836, but this | knew perfect ly wel that Fishwick, included $389,441 on sales of lease- together with his cronies, Farrington bolds, and they were equal to $5. 28 | -and Walker, were paid agents of the a share. ‘The balance sheet of © Peabody Coal Co, The miners must December 31, 1930, shows surplus of | epudiate Mowatt as a first essential $6,997,674, compared with $6,847,524 a ; to the building of a real fighting PRE end of 1921. ye - o miners’ union, | These are the figures given out D t at Ma F t | Secondly, at the convention the) by John R. iTiseeee; or. This emons ~ e +¥, ws * miners should take charge of their | movement themselves, They should Jobless Organize. shows how they grind out profits werk under, and the slop they are allowed to eat, these are killing them rapidly.’ They’ are only paying floor boys and dishwashers $10 per week, counter men and girls $12 to $16 Per week, cooks $14 to $16 and girl zashiers $10 per week for day work and only $2 a week more on scale for night work. ‘Yet they report | total sales of $14,943,317 for 1939, compared to $15,742,600 for 1929. | at the expense of the workers. Workers, organize and fight these slave-drivers, until you get better working conditions, better wages and better food, also the 8-hour day, 6-day week, decent dressing and locker rooms with shower baths and facilities for recreation. Join the Food and Packing House | Workers’ Industrial League, head- quarters at 23rd and Lincoln Sts., Chicago, TH. —C. R. ‘lore Ware Cuts and Leyoffs in Bedford, Pa. Bedford, Pa, | the wages of plasterers from $6 per, Daily Worker: | 8 hours work to $4, and we are do- The Penn mill here has closed) ing more work now than we did aj} flown, throwing 40 men out of jobs| year ago, when we made $10 a day.| saying the Hoover stagger wages of | There are about 300 men out of, 30c, an hour. The Handle factory | work in this town. There are also | ts still running at cut rate speed.} a court house and a jail, both filled| Men that were making $6 a day now! up. are working for $. and 5 days a| ‘The farmers around here are on} week. The local candy factory has/ the ruin. Those that own their own} layed off men, and those that are! places are just as hard hit as the working have received a 10-cent cut! from their wages of 5c. an hour, | with 4 days work a week, j The job that I am working on cut | Elizabeth Party Los Angeles ts J. Gray of Elizabeth, N. J,, sinks a) few well-aimed blows into the Party | membership, ‘Nething at all is be- ing done about the Daily Worker here for getting news subs, selling at fac- tories or getting the Unemployed Council members to sell. We want to start a Red Builders’ Club, but it is hard to get it on the ynit agenda to get its O, K.” Gray, Ars and Williams, unem> ployed, smesh this situation by or- dering 50 a day of their own, The Party membership must get behind them and not too far behind. In fact, with Dailies under theiy arms on the streets and in front of the “No Help Wanted” signs. L. A. Eager for Section Page. “Very enthusiastic about a sec- ‘on page for Los Angeles, but must ent this for approval. Los An- goles could well take care of a sec- t'on pege with proper prepara- tions,” writes Rose Spector, Daily Worker representative. This will be a giant stride for Los Angeles. C, McGinnis of Oakland, Calif., wired a cut from 350 to 200, promis- ing a letter of explanation (cone tinued in our next), Oakland’s been doing excellent work, A temporary halt. Steubenville, Ohio, Pioneers send 24 cents in stamps for four a day for a siening H. “The Pioneers of avie will try to sell them. send receipt." They mean The wealth of experience Presse bye"ness! of the young should proye invaluable to old Party members. Davenport, Towa, sent $1.50 for 25 for a week to be sold on the street..“We would like to become good Red Builders,” write Katherine K, and Betty R, tenant farmers, Very few farms, though, have been sold for taxes or bad debts. —G,. E. Sidestebs Activity tor Daily; Eager tor Page From H. A. of Wheeling, W. Va.: | “The Daily Worker is going pretty slow here, but I am trying to or- ganize @ Red Builders’ News Club. I think we will sell a great many more, so watch for an increase,” “Selling Like Hot Cakes.” The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union reports: “The Daily Workers Sel] like hot cakes here in Brooklyn. One started Wednesday, selling 50 6 day since. If we had a few more comrades we could sell hundreds every day.” A few more unemployed mariners should rig up the sales! Tony J. 6. has been treking ' Starts a bundle of 10 a day to J. M. of Dubois, Pa, Anna B. of Dunbar, W. Va., has her eyos on C, J, of Charleston, getting 10 daily (paid). Perth Amboy, N. J, once-upon-a-time sliced 15 to 7, but Joseph F, F., financial secretary, took a tip, put jobless on the job and hammered the bundle back to its original shape, “Won't forget about paying, either,” he assures us, Boosts, Apologizes. New section representative, Ro- chester, N, ¥., sends newstand in- crease of 10, while H, 8. sends a boost to 50 alongside an apology for looseness in the Rochester school of Daily Worker finances. Promises remedy. They're tackling house-to- house, Cc. C., Daily Worker repyesenta- tive of Chester, Pa., says: “Send 25 a day to J. S, Twin Oaks, Pa. I hope this Negro unemployed fellow, like the other, will soon increase.” he remarks, the “other” being Lonie Counell, getting 35 8 day, not storing any, (CONTINUED FROM VAGE ONE) ‘ ee fear that the progress and success:of the Russian revolution will inspire the American workers with: revolutionary self-confidence, That is an- other yeason why American capitalism.is cagrying onfeverish war. prep- arations against the Soviet Union. That is why it lies about and slanders the Soviet Union. The more miserable the conditions become for the workers In Amer- | ica, the more jies American capitalism is peddling thru the mouth of Hamilton Fish about the conditions of the workers in Russia. The more American workers aye starving because they cannot find a market foy their labor, the more hysterical American capitalism is raving thru the mouth of Matthew Woll about “forced labor” in Russia. ‘The more American workers are declassed and pushed into the abyss of the slums, the more eagerly American capitalists thru the treacherous | hands of the American “socialists,” collect money to help the declassed | petty shopkeepers in Russia, : is The more evictions, suicides and starvation of proletarian victims of capitalism the American flag has to cover up, the more ferocious .become the ravings of the profit-patriots against the Red Flag. ‘ The more violent the capitalist police become, the more brutally it clubs the workers, the more beastly the American capitalists become in their lynching expeditions—the more they are shouting about the “vio- | lence” of the Communists. The more brutal the capitalist dictatorship tramples under its feet | | even the most elementary. rights of the workers, the right of organizing, | | miners, should lose no opportunity the right of assembling, the right of striking, the right of picketing, the more persistent become the ravings of our bosses and their agents about | American democracy as against the Russian dictatorship, Workers of America! Be not misled by this propaganda, Demon- strate and strike on May First against the growing fascist terror in America. Demonstrate by downing tools on May First that you understand that American democracy is a capitalist dictatorship and that the Russian dictatorship is a proletarian democracy. ; Capitalist Government or Workers’ Government, American democracy is the government of our enemies, the capitalists. The Soviets are the government of our own class, the workers, Our own immediate interests demand struggle against the one and support of the other. Sumptuous palaces and skyscrapers surround us. We have built them with our labor—but we cannot pay rent, It is the essence of capitalist justice to defend the right of the landlord to collect yent against the right of a worker to have a roof over his head. Therefore, capitalist justice evicts the worker. | Granaries and warehouses surround us, filled to the bursting point. | We have filled them with our labor-~but we eannot pay for our bread. It is the essence of capitglist law that the right of the capitalist to collect | a price for his commodity is superior to the right of the worker to live. ‘Therefore, capitalist laws jail the workers for taking the bread without which they capnot live. Rich capitalists of ll sorts populate America, They have coined their riches oyt of the fruits of our labor, The supreme law of capitalist gov- ernment is the defense of the riches of the rich, Therefore the cepitalist government slugs and clubs and jails the workers who appear before them with the demand of taxing the rich to provide unemployment insurance for yt a jitemaking is the supreme law of capitelism. Defense of profit- making is the dominant function of capitelist government. Any effective struggle of the workers for the right and for the chance to live, must of necessity turn into a struggle against profit-making capitalism and against the profit-defending capitalist government. Only @ workers’ government, a Soviet government, will represent the interests of the workers against the capitalists. Only a workers’ government will solve the problem of unemployment. Only a workers’ government will finally stop lynching. Only @ workers’ government will stop the exploitation of children. Only a workers’ government will end imperialist war . May First must become the occasion for the American workers to demonstrate for a workers’ government. Demonstrate on May First against unemployment and for unemploy- ment insurance. Demonstrate and fight for immediate unemployment relief. Demonstrate on May First against the lynching by the profit-makers of America, and for the right of the Negro masses to govern themselves, Demonstrate and fight for the T-hour day without reductions in pay. Demonstrate and fight against wage cuts. Demonstrate and fight against the open strikebreaking activities of | the Secretary and the Department of Labor in Washington. Demonstrate and fight against the persecution of the foreign born workers. Demonstrate and fight against the capitalist attack on the Soviet Union. Down with profit-making capitalism! Long live the Soviet Union! A CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF \ COMMUNIED PARTE OF THE U.8,A. (or treacherous “progressive” elect. a rank and file committee to head the organization, making sure that<:none of those associated with the Fishwick-Farrington adventure be given any post of trust whatso- ever. Thirdly, the miners of the Mlinois convention should then develop a united front with the National Min- ers’ Union, Such a united front, based upon the elementary demands of the miners, would lead to @ real solidification of the workers’ ranks }and lay the basis for effective strug- gle. The situation in Illinois is one that, offers a real opportunity for the ‘building of the National Miners’ Union. Many locals in the district, disgusted with both Lewis and How- att, are disaffiliated altogether and can be readily won over to the N. M. U. The N. M, U., aggressively developing its initiative as the na-| _ MOONEY-BILLINGS tional fighting organization of the for developing united front struggles | with the rank and file members of the moyement coming to a head at the St. Louis convention, In Tli- nois the N, M, U, made many serious mistakes during the strike of a year and a half ago. These errors can and will be overcome. Not through fake Howatt organizations in Mlinois, mover ments in the Anthracite, can the miners build an organization, can only be done through strength- ening the fighting National Miners’ Union, FINNISH FASCISTS: FOR WAR ON USSR: Wave ofTerrorAgainst | Revolutionary Workers MOSCOW. A wave of terray against the revolutionary working class is at present sweeping through Finlend. Innumerable hard labor sentences have been passed on revolutionary workers and left-wing leaders. Pare allel with this campaign of suppres. sion is a wild chauvinist campaign against the Soviet Union. The fas- cists speak openly of the coming “conquest of Soviet Carelia,” the “overthrow of the Soviet power,” and even of “the annexation of Lenin- grad” and the “annexation of the northern Soviet districts to the Ur- als,” If ridicule killed, they would all drop dead, but it doesn’t and in the meantime Finnish fescism rep> resents @ very serious threat to the peace on the Soviet frontiers, Val- enius the convicted Ohief of the Fine nish General Staff has now been re> leased from prison. He ts “bound over.” The rabid anti-Soviet General Mannerheim, the murderer of thot ands of Finnish workers, has been ap- | pointed president of the Army Coun-| cil, ‘This | unless they go over the heads of | i their “representatives,” the mislead- | lers. The union officials are not even | making a bluff to stop it. The Pa-| been sicked by the cheap praise of | |the company newspaper “Watts | Watt,” which comes out with a heap lof lies to keep the workers from | | striking, praising Mr, so and so for | his courtesy to customers and good | service to the company, | | Layoffs are being made daily and | everything is being prepared by the | bosses and misleaders to put over the | | wage cut. | | Only action by the workers them- | selves, forming grievance committees, |and preparing to organize a strike | committee, will fend off the pay cut. | ‘DEMAND TO FREE | | | | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 8—~| Support for the demand that Mooney | and Billings be released from their | life terms given them after frame up in 1916 by the organized capita]- ists of this city, is being won among the rank and file of the AFL in| spite of the attitude of the AFL of- | ficials, | (The Tom Mooney Moulders De- | fense Committee has recently pub- lished @ pamphlet exposing in detail the treachery of the AFL official- dom, This pamphlet is now running serially on the back page of the Daily Worker.) Among the unions passing resolu- tions demanding release of the two worker victims are: Typographical No, 863 of Merced, Cal.; Typograph- ical No, 15 of Rochester, N. Y,; Painters No. 275, Chicago; Carpen- ters No, 2090, Sacramento, Cal.; Metal ‘Trades Council of St. Louis. ‘The State Legislature of Wisconsin has appealed to the California Gov- ernor for 4 ful] pardon. A motion has been introduced into the California State Legislature call- ing for @ full pardon of Mooney and Billings, The Sacramento legislators sent it to a committee, Letters of protest are reaching Governor Rolph daily, in an ever- increasing flood. The volume of those already received is too great for listing in detail. Prof. Albert Binstein’s leter is an especially illuminating side-light on the subject of Tom Money's long rei ape aa and is quoted here in “I know well the injustice of the Mooney case in California, and how the big business interests there try to prevent the majority of the people from being fully informed about it. I have found that such ridiculous examples of injustice are more pre- Europe. But T know also the heroic efforts made by a minority, in your fight against this injustice, And I am convinced that the time has come when the majority of the people are now more fyly informed in this case justice 3 yalent in America than in Western | Three local unions of the National) Miners’ Union at the P. & W. Mine,| Duquesne Mine at Avella! and at} Cedar Grove, have established a leific Electric Power workers have} Workers’ Unemployment aInsurance} Committee ta mobilize for the strug- gle against starvation. The miners here are working one and two days} a week and hunderds are starving. | ‘The Workers’ Unemployment Insur- | ance Committee organized the min- ers into a Hunger March on Wa: ington, the county seat, last week. | There they demanded of the county | welfare department relief for them-| selves and their families. The au- thorities were compelled to cough up | $5 each for the men there, and told! them that was all that would he forthcoming. | Today at Granish Hall, Brown- | town (Avella), there, was a mass meeting under the auspices of the National Miners’ Union and the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance } Committee. At Portage, Pa., last week in reply to wage-cuts and lay-offs among the | miners here, an unemployed council} of 10 was formed, which will prepare | for the hunger marchers when they arrive here, and in Johnstown, and | to join them in the march on to | Harrisburg. The Pittsburgh Conference of workers’ organizations to support the hunger march is being held today at the International Lyceum, 805) James St. N. S., Pittsburgh. hee eee NIAGARA FALLS, April 8.—Dele- gates of the Unemployed Council and of the Trade Union Unity League appeared at the city hall Monday) with demands that $900,000 be ap- propriated to feed the starving by the city council through reduction | of official salaries, taking over the | money set aside for payment of in- teerst and principal on city loans, taking over also money set aside for the luxuries of the rich, such as art galleries, etc, and by an income tax more. The city council met them with @ declaration from George W. Knox, corporation counse], that all this was illegal. In a capitalist city it is per- fectly legal to starve thousands to death, but it is illegal to touch a penny of profits to save their lives! : “Sit Down.” The delegates, Otto Hall, organizer Negro worker; Peter Stephens, or- ganizer, and Martin Adams, secre- tary, of the Niagara Falls Unem- ployed Council, spoke and were re- ceived with insults by Mayor Wil- liam Laughlin and the council, Otto Hall was simply told to “sit down, you are not a resident of the city,” Adams assailed the council for draw- ing big wages while workers’ fam- to help the likes of you.” “You never helped me any,” Ad- ams reminded him, The delegates were ousted from the council, which has appropriated only $25,000 for relief and has cut the wages of those doing emergency work. When Hall and the others were talking to the reporterg in the halle on those getting $5,000 a year or! ilies starve, and was told by the! mayor, “I gave most of my salary | with the rest of us. The factories aré working only part time. The soup lines are getting bigger and bigger right along.” WORKERS TELL OF PLAN'S PROGRESS Town for 50,000 Being Constructed MOSCOW.—A delegation of work- ers from the new tractor works in Tchelyabiansk in the Urals, which is in course of construction, reported to the Sixth Soviet Congress concern- ing the progress made, The founda- tions of the main departments of the workers have already been con- cluded. A temporary colony for 10,000 workers has been established. A permanent town for 50,000 people is being built, Five four-storied houses with 40 flats each have just been completed. On Noy, 7 an exe perimental station was opened for the study of technological processes and for the training of the skilled cadres for the new works. On Feb. 15 last this experimental station turned out the first Soviet caterpillar tractor. When it is working at full capacity the main tractor works will produce 40,000 caterpillar tractors annually, each with 60 horse-power, or 2,400,000 horse-power annually. The date for the final completion of the works has been fixed for Nov. 1, 1933. The first experimental factory for wood-fibre was opened in Mogcow. The factory is equipped with the most modern machinery and will produce cellulose. The final aim is to make the Soviet Union indepen- dent of imports. New farms are being formed for the production of the raw material for this new in- dustry, such as Kenaph, Kendyr, etc. Shoot Down Jobless Negro Seeking Coal CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 8.— Porter Bailey, 19-year-old Negro, was |shot down and killed by a night watchman at the J. R. Barnes Coal |Company. Bailey was trying to gem of the Trade Union Unity League, a] some coal for his family. The watch- | man says he fired in self-defense, al- | though there was no gun found on | Bailey. This was the third killing of | | this kind in the last five days, “Sick Bladder and Kidneys are Dangerous Don’t neglect burning samy passages, painful elim- ination, harmful irrita- tion and night rising, Correct such ailments at once before they be- come serious, Doctors for half a century have preseribed Santal quick relief, Get it el ae 7