The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1931, Page 3

- _ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1931 Unemployment Increases in Fargo As Starving, Suicide Of Jobless; Slaughter Armour Fires Workers; Agricultural Workers Are Unemployed 14 Jobless Commit Suicide in 10 Days in North Dakota; Hospital Cuts Wages Fargo, North Dakota Daily Worker:— Armour and Company just laid off 18 more wage earners, quite a nwn- ber of them are the only members of families working here in West Fargo. This latest lay-off was general and workers from all departments were siven {definite payless vacations, How they and their families are to live now is no concern of Armours. Instead of any revival such ss we usually have here in the spring work and bus- iness {s, if anything, worse than dur- ing the winter. The writer met a jobless worker who had travelled over a large part of North Dakota, South Dakota and Minn, and in three weeks time had not been able to secure one full day of work, He was on his way back home, on a small farm, where he is not needed. fi Farms Not Working We have never before seen times where there was no farm work to be had in the spring of year, in N, Da- kota. We are also having an exceed- ingly dry season which if it doesn't break soon will mean a crop failure and additional misery to every worker and farmer. St. Lukes Hospital in Fargo have cut the pay of all their help and nurses, The lattter who were getting $35 a month, board and room now get only $20 a month. Also the hos- floor being empty of patients at pre- sent. Workers cannot afford medical treatment in hospitels here. The McCormick Company got the contract to pave the U. S. No. 10 from. Fargo to Mapelton. They issued a call for 75 men, 512 answered the call the first morning, Only the youngest and strongest were hired, Many Workers Suicide. Fourteen workers have committed suicide in North Dakota in the last ten days because of the intolerable economic conditions. One was only 19 years old. Only a workers’ government can solve the problems of the workers in North Dakota and other states in the U. S. Fargo Unemployed Worker. Search Soup Lines in Seattle for Last Penny Daily Worker: Seattle, Wash. Prosperity is thought te be around the corner in Seattle Soup Lines. pita! business is poor, their entire | ‘The other day without warning everybody in the soup line at the armory (called the Sunshine Club) was searched. Oh, no! Not for concealed weapons, but for MONEY. Three of them had a few pennies in their Pockets and were immediately arrested. The latest report was they were still in jail on an “Open Charge,” held for investigation, The police be- lieve each one of them has a bank account, A WORKER. Portland Worker Says “Daily” Is the Only Workers’ Paper Portland, Oregon Daily Worker:— What a fine country this “God’s Country” has turned out, te be! I'm not a member of the Party but I like to read the “Daily Worker” quite often. In one page of it I find more news interesting to the working man than in the full 24 to 30 pages of the “Morning Oregonian” for in- tance. In our city I know of a bookstand where one can buy the Daily anytime. My opinion is that the Daily Worker is the only paper that tells the truth at any time, Things in our city seem to be get- ting worse instead of better.. New lay-offs every day. More and more people clothed in rags, are lining up around the blocks, where there is a soup kitehen, and standing in the rain (Oregon is famous for rain) to get. a bowl of mush. The worst of it now is that if you are unemployed and are wearing out on the sidewalks all day long, looking for work, some of our important look- ing cops will grab you and its enough to make any man’s blood boil. They don't even let you hunt for a job anymore, they want you to go home turn the gas on and inhail all, or you can hang yourself in the base- |ment. (Providing that you have a |home and enough money to buy a rope) or get the old ax and chop all to see them die of starvation or any other way of destruction. But the worker will not do this if he learns that to organize against this , Starvation system will be the best way out. And to organize is what we are | doing, —Yours for Communism. T. R, Park, Harrisburg Jobless Organizing to Fight Philadelphia, Pa, Daily Worker:— While in Harrisburg on the Hunger March, I had conversations with the workers who told me that conditions in this town were very bad, Sixty per cent of the workers are out of work, and those who are lucky enough, work only two or three days out of the week. The Negro workers suffer mostly. Streets Full of JoJbless. The Harrisburg streets are full with the unemployed, one can also see the places offer at the most a dollar a week. However the workers here are beginning to refuse this fake relief and are organizing themselves into real militant organizations of the T, UUL —A Philadelphia. Worker. Sioux City Building Plans Prove Fake Sioux City, Iowa Daily Worker:— Just a few lines regarding the work- ing class conditions in this town. The state government has given out the idea that they are going to build a $200,000 relief program, a Union De- pot and an Electric and Gas Com~- pany. This has been proven to be bunk, but its just to keep the slaves thinking that better times are com- ing. I have been to four construction jobs and not a man was lined up. The workers around this place are very discontented and are beginning to get in line with the class struggle, EN, DENVER ENGINEER PRAISES THE USSR “Better Off Than in Some Parts of U.S. The capitalist press carries an in- terview with C, ©. Tinkler, engineer and contractor of Denver, Colorado, who is just back from the Soviet Un- jon with an admission that the So- viet Union workers and peasants are not starving and are winning in their struggle, He says there are many things there which could be copied to advantage here. “If we sign contracts it will mean the employment of many American men and the sale of American mar Seek ‘mate Geen 196 toliege sone meye y worth of American machinery and goods, Germany obtained 46 per cent of Russian import business and we supplied 22 per cent, There is no reason why we should not double and triple our trade with Russia. She pays in gold and does not ask credit, Russia is completing one of the greatest electric power projects in the world on the Dnieper river near Odessa and this power will electrify a score of great industries.” Better Off Than in U. S. ‘The Russian people are much bet- ter off than they ever were under the monarchy, according to Tinkler, There are parts of the United States where people are more backward than any he observed in Russia, “There are some things in Russia that we might copy to our advan- tage,” said Tinkler, “Their system of physteal education for boys and mee cy eae, Ther. eae C. C. Tinkler, well known Denver Engineer, who is just back from the Soviet Union. re rr eR have a ssyte mof lawmaking that we should adopt. They pass a law for an experimental period. If it does not work out satisfactorily they amend it, or revoke it, at the next session of council. No Starvation. “We must remember that under the cears the Russian people were sub~ merged in ignorance and slavery,” he said. “They are now being edu- cated and their leaders bélieve in five year illiteracy will be wiped out. Inthe smallest hamlets they have their little schools and education is compulsory, Even people ef middlq age wre learning to read and write along with their youngsters. This t | the kids’ heads off if you don't want | about what is going on in the world | charity signs. Some of these charity | On The Jobs, Call All To Mass Protest Beneath the cold figures of cutting off of relief, growing unemployment, terrific speed up, is the misery and death of countless numbers of the | working class, The cases, each one a terrible drama of life and death, are | too numerous to even mention all of | them, Below are given accounts of a | few recent ones. | Each is a reason for mass action, a jone day strike and huge demonstra- | tions on the First of May, Protest | the murderous capitalist system it | self! Demand relief and insurance | for the jobless! Strike against wage- | cuts and speed-up! You are fighting | for your lives, | . | Ordered Back to Die on Job, | CHICAGO, Tl, April 26-—"The | workers were ordered back after they | had escaped!” This was told press reporters on the scene as the Laflin St. sewage | tunnel, which took a toll of 11 lives, | seven workers and four firemen, was burning. | Firemen said that several of the | tunnel laborers had come to the sur- |face from the gas-filled deathtrap | just as the fire-fighters arrived, | “Go back!” they quoted a foreman | of the construction company. “If the | fire-men can go in there, you can ; Stay in there!” They went back. | Twenty-four hours later, the bodies | of seven of the tunnel workers were {in the morgue, alongside the heroic firemen. Nearly a score others were | Suffering from near-suffocation, hehe anys Blame Contractors as Three Die | BERKELEY, Cal., April 26.—Fur- | APPEALS FOR UNITED EFFORT ‘Save Lives of Scotts-| boro Nine (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) pay $3 a week rent fer a little shack, without gas, electricity or plumbing | of any kind. There is no hot water, | | only running cold water in the yard. | | There is no toilet, only an unsanitary arrangement in the yard, with a large pail for emptying of whieh she ; has to pay 50 cents a month. “Can't Afford Potatoes; Fruit Out | of Question.” Feeding a family of eight on $4 a | week is impossible eyen in the South where food is supposed to be some- what cheaper. The family are forced to go hungry many days. When they | do eat, the diet is eonfined to lean| meat, syrup and bread. “No, we can- not afferd potatoes, and fruit is out of the question,” Mrs. Patterson an- | swered a question of one of the press | representatives. Father Faces Loss of Job, | “T like it here in New York, but | I am worried over Haywood and | worried about home as well,” she told the workers’ press when asked how she liked her reception and treatment in New York. She is afraid that ber husband will soon be deprived of even the $1 a week he is now getting. “The boss told him they may have te close down the foundry after this week if no more orders come in,” she ex- plained. The family consisis of her hus- band and herself, Haywood and the | following other children: Sybil, 25; Julian, 21; Ollie, 16; Louis, 12; and Willie, a grandchild, the son of her married daughter, Mayselle. May- selle is living in Cincinnati, Were Originally Share Croppers in zi Georgia. The family has been in Chatta- nooga for the past eight years. They originally came from Georgia, where the entire family had worked as share eroppers. Things got so bad, however, that they had to leave the plantation and try their luck in an industrial center. Denounces Steve Roddy. Stephen Reddy, the attorney who was hired by the Ministers’ Alliance to defend the boys, had never been to see her or any other of the par-| ents in Chattanooga, she said. “He/ just went along and helped railroad | the boys,” she declared indignantly. | “T just know Reddy didn’t do any-| thing for them boys. He came out) in the papers saying the boys lad had @ square deal. “Roddy Just Naturally Scared.” “Reddy just naturally was scared. He had been paid $50 by the Minis. ters’ Alliance but when he got t Seottsboro he denied he w : €E 38 hiss Be Slave; Dem | Workers Fearing Discharge, Driven Into Trap | and Die; No Compensation; Man Would onstrate May 1! ther evidence placing blame on the contractors for the collapse of the new engineering building at the Uni- versity of California has been brought out by the investigation by the State Industrial Accident Com- mission, A carpenter who was discharged Shortly before the accident testified that he and another carpenter were fired because they could not hurry enough, the shorings being full of automatic clamps almost usciess, It was these shorings which col- lapsed. Another of the injured work- men has died, bringing the number of dead to three, and still another is ex- pected to die, while several more of | the nearly 20 injured are still in a critical condition. aan. 6 PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 26.—~An- drew Susko, 42, father of seven chil- dren, one-legged as result of an ac- wife is in the hospital after a futile | attempt to kill herself by poison, and | their seven children are in the Juver | nile Detention Home. Susko lost a leg in an accident in one of the Mellon steel mills, the Riter-Connelly mill of the McClintic- Marshall Steel Co. He lost compen- concrete from a former job and the | carelessness, Then the company agreed to furnish him a job but gave him work he was unfitted to do and fired him for his alleged refusal to work, Bills piled up on the desperate mother and flock. Then the officers came to evict them and to take their |last few sticks of furniture for the jrent bill, Susko tried to stop them. His wife took poison. Frantic, he | took a pistol and went to the mill and demanded that the superinten- dent furnish him a truck to move his goods and a company house in which | to store them, The boss coldly and ished his gun. Police were called and Susko ran, threatening to kill the officers or himself before he would surrender. He was captured by use of a gas bomb, County authorities have decided he is sane, cident years ago, jobless, is in jail, his b * * NEW York.—Many injured men gation into administration of the workmen's compensation law here | that they were kept waiting for years | While lawyers argued, that graft, jfraud and “unethical practise” by | doctors and lawyers was common. eurtly refused him and Susko flour- | testified at the official state investi- | sation in the courts through the judge’s decision that the accident might have been caused by his own It was brought out that the physi- cians appointed by the state adjust- ors were bribed by lots of well paying cases given them through the insur- ance companies, before even their an- nouncement was made public. | A dramatic incident occurred dur- ing the hearing. A man crippled for life by a head injury, suddenly turnea | to Commissioner Perkins; “For God's | sake, Miss Perkins, help me get the | minutes in my case. The sheriff is | about to foreclose on my house. I’m } | crippled for life and can't get a j \"Miss Perkins said she doean't have |enough clerks and stenographers to | look after the compensation cases. | Cases were cited where doctors had deliberately changed diagn when, a worker threatened to sue his em- ployer, where men had been forced {to return to light employment in- | stead of being cured of injuries, and {then denied compensation for later j injuries because alleged to come from | the earlier one. | Offers Himself as Slave. | | HOBOKEN, N. J., April 26.—A 36- year-old man here offers himself for sale for $250 and enough to eat and @ place to sleep and clothes to wear. | His name is Peter J. Ross, 1300} Bloomfield St. He states that if no} one will buy him he is willing to go} | jail to avoid starvation. | . * . Father of Takes Poison BUFFALO, N. Y., April 26—De- spondent over repeated failure to |find work, Frank Wachowski, 41} years old, of 101 Theodore St., took poison Thursday night. He could not | stand to see his wife and six children | starving any longer. | | will answer on N NEGRO YOUTH WRITES FROM JAIL ENDORSING I. L. D. DEFENSE Charles Weems Wants Attorney to Visit Jail International Defense at Once—Request In- dicates Continued Efforts to Coerce Boys card nine Scott NEW cei’ YORK.—A pc d from one of OKLAHOMA CITY, April 27.—At a mass meeting here a ringing reso= boro victims hingham prison | lution was adopted unanimously, de- by Allen Taub, ernational Labor! nouncing the Scottsboro frame-up Defense attorne idicate that in| and demanding a new trial for the spite of the firm repudiation of} nine boys, with a jury of workers, Steve Roddy by the boys and their | at least half of whom shall be Ne- | parents, and their whole-hearted ei groes. The Negro masses of Okla- dorsement of the I homa City are thoroughly aroused attempts are s and are rallying to a fighting alli- bosses and others to e ance with the white workers against on the nine boys ir this vicious frame-up. eliminate the I. L. D. The post card is from Charles Weems, 20 years, the oldest of nine youngsters, and says: “Say, Mr. Taub, come down here, please, right away to Birmingham County Jail. Se that's all for this 1 this outrageous NEWARK, N. J., April 27.—Five hundred white and Negro workers, in a mass meeting here, demanded the u nditional release of the five Paterson kers and the nine ilk st Negro bays in Scottsboro, Ala. A de- time. Come right away, please. | fense conference has been called by We want you for us,” the International Labor Defense for The program of the » D. for) May 10 at 10 a. m. at 90 Ferry St. the strongest legal ¢ , backed up by the united of the Te? ee aS Negro and white, must re-| CHESTER, Pa. April 27—Unani- ceive the support of everyone inter- | ™0us approval of a resolution call- jested in saving the lives of these | i& for a new trial for the nine Ne- children, gro Scottsboro frame-up victims was Workers throughout the country| Voiced by the 35 Negro and white delegates who attended the Unem- | York, where the Daily Worker re- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) crs copy of this same photo for sale at the photo agency of Underwood & Underwood, at 242 W. 55th St, New porter who inquired about it was told: “It was taken 15 or 20 years ago!” Bolshevik “Tce and Snow,” Now what about the photo which the above caption mentions at the “Left, @ photo of political prisoners working in the lumber camps amid ice and snow.” The Evening Graphic, | lying. a8 all capitalist papers do, would have you believe that the Bol- sheyiks, and particularly Stalin, | Whose “pigtute” is shown. at the up- per right side of the story, are re- Sponsible for “ice and snow!” Now, workers, Russia has no mon- opoly on “ice and snow,” and right here in America millions of .jobless workers both froze and starved. Yet those whe worked in the lumber camps of New England, Michigan and Minnesota and the Northern | Recky Mountains also worked “amid | 1 ice and snow.” But the Evening Graphic liay says they are “political | prisoners.” What is the truth? ‘The truth: is that the men shown at work are not “political prisoners” at all! Just regular lumber workers, loading lumber at Krasnoborsk, south of Archangel! Just workers, eom- fortably dressed in heavy overcoats, thick mittens and fur caps (furnished free, by the way, te Soviet workers), and looking quite well-fed and cheerful, as you might see if you want to go to look at a copy of this identical phote, which you will find for sale at the “Press Cliche Photo Agency,” at 545 Fifth Ave, New York! So much for that lie! Now, workers, look to the right side of the Evening Graphic pages. See the man shown crouching in the Photo (under Stalin's picture, which, by the way, has been doctored up to make him look like a burglar!). Un- der this photo of a crouching man, the Graphic’s liar has written: “At the heavy door crouches the thick- lipped guard, ready to brain an escaping prisoner!” Pretty terrible, isn’t it! Naturally any reader would think the picture was taken in Soviet Russia—but it wasn't! It never saw the Soyiet Union! It is only a photo taken from a movie film called “Con- demned,” produced by the United Artists’ film company, from a novel called “Condemned to Devil's Island,” written by Blair Niles. And the “thick-lipped guard,” who is sup- posed to be a terrible Bolshevik, is only the American movie actor, Ron- ald Colman! So much for that lie! Pap dlcd Photo remains to show , vible” are the lumber camps of Red Russis. Look at the Shewn by the Graphie at left. Tt is @ picture of Ra Pongld, the fake “socialist” and ser- yant of the British King. Under- neath it, the liar of the Graphic has written: “PREMIER RAMSAY MacDON- ALD, labor leader, who is investigat- ing stories of frightfulness to con- viet labor in Russia. He has had North to help mobilize the workers for a united effort to free her son and the other eight boys, will leave some time next week for Chattay noose. nonsense. It is true the people are on rations, but J saw no_s of 5 SL re submitted to him evidence that men workers, look at that photo “the right.” A man, stripped down the waist, with his back covered ith the marks of a lash! Evidently chained to the bars of a prison! Ter- rible! Barbarous! But where did it happen? Which is the savage gov- ernment that has beaten the back~ of this man, this convict laborer, till the blood burst through the agenized kin? Tt happened, workers, not tm the Soviet Union, lea! Beve pe to to wi TALES OF SOVIET “HORRORS” EXPOSED AS CAPITALIST LIES, rolled up at the bottom, reveal it as an American photo, Such over~ alls are not used in Soviet Russia, Neither is one-piece underwear, clearly shown, turned down at this poor victim’s waist. If the anti-Soviet liars who are| responsible for this outrageous photo forgery have not gathered them all up by the time you read this, you will find a copy of this photograph of brutal whipping of convict labor- ers at the agency of the "P. & A. Photos, Inc.,” at 220 E. 42nd St, New York City. And on it you will find a label stating that it was taken in the state of Delaware, where the cap- italist government of these United States, including Congressman Fish, is still whipping prison Iabor- ers! This is all, workers, You have seen the proof that every photo is a lie! Now, why de the capitalist papers lie to.you about the Soviet? For two reasons: First, they want you to believe that the Seviet Gov- ernment of workers and farmers is bad for workers; so bad that you | Will not protest, strike and refuse to | shoot Russian workers and farmers, against whom the American capital- ist government, headed by Hoover and Fish, are preparing to make war! Second, the American capitalists want to deceive you into thinking that conditions are so terrible under the Soviet in Russia that you will not organize, revolt and establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government here in America, in spite of the mis- ery, wage-cuts, starvation and ter- | ror you suffer here from the rule of the American capitalists! Yet in Soviet Russia there is no unemployment! Wages are raised v~not cut! The seven-hour day, working four days and off the fifth, is established, and the workers are building socialist industry, for themselves, without any capitalist Pprofit-robbers! Remember these lies, workers! Re- member that these liars are your class enemies, liars for the capitalist class! When they attack the Soviet Union, you should defend it! For it is the one and only country ruled by workers! And come on to the streets May Day, in a one-day strike, united, employed and jobless; to warn these capitalist liars that some day the American workers, too, will establish their Soviet Government! FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION! RUSH FOR MAY DAY GREETINGS Not enough ads and greetings have come from workers in shops, factories, workers’ organizations. A May Day edition without these revolutionary greetings will not represent the rea) support that the Daily Worker has been re- swer that the workers give the Fish Committee and the bosses that the Daily Worker is sup- ported by masses of workers in the U. S, and that it will be de- fended by them. Rush your greet- ings! (Individual greetings, 25c; organigatioons, according to their means.) In Now York, bring those xreet- directly to the office, 35 E, WAGE CUTS. IN | MINES DAILY! District Conventions of | NMU to Plan Fight PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 27.—Wage | {cuts every day in one mine or an- other! Starvation wages! Even the capitalist press, in reporting some of the wage cuts, is forced to admit that | “the present wages are the lowest in the history of the industry.” In the Avelia section, where hor- rible hunger prevails, the miners and their families live exclusively on dan- delions, mothers not being able to nurse their babies. The gencral wage scale is only 30 cents per ton. This compares with 77 cents per ton three years ago. But this is not the lowest | in the indystry, In West Virginia | the wages are still lower, There the} general wage scale is only 21 cents} per ton, and in some instances even| 18 cents per ton. These low wages have brought the conditions of the employed miners | almost equal to the conditions of the unemployed. They are working and | at the same time starving. Many | miners refuse even to work under} these miserable conditions. But the coal operators are not sat~ | isfied even with the low wages that now exist. Their greed for profits has no limits. They continue to Slash the wages, thus increasing the | misery and starvation ef the miners, The United Mine Workers of Amer- ica leadership, without exception, | helps the coal operators cut the| wages. The fake progressives of the| Howat clique are doing the same by telling the miners that “wage cuts cannot be prevented in a period of depression,” The National Miners’ Union is car- vying on an extensive campaign for strike struggle against wage cuts. It has proven by winning a 10 per cent wage increase for the Tomajko min- ers that not only can wage cuts be | prevented, but that the coal operators can be forced to increase the wages, The district conyentions of the N.| M. U—metal mining gh May 10; Ohio for May 17 and Pennsylvania on May 23-24—will be a tremendous step | forward in mobilizing the miners to fight against wage cuts, speed-up and | for immediate unemployment relief, « Miners! Elect your delegates at once and notify your respective dis- | trict office. | demonstrations will be held in the frame-up and roading and the| Ployed Conference. The conference persistent efforts now being made| so endorsed the May Day demon- by the bosses and their agents to | Strations to be held in this city May knife the defense of these boys. Down | } A noon-day demonstration will tools May Day! Demonstrate against | take place at Third and Market sts lynching, against starvation, wage-| While in the evening a mass indoor cuts and prepar: s for attack on| Meeting will be held at Lithuanian the Soviet Unio: Hall, Fourth and Upland. GREENVILLE, S. C., April 27. ms ALBANY, N. Y., April 27.—Over yhite and Negro members of the| 100 colored and white workers met Unemployed Council of the Trade night at the Workers’ Center Union Unity League joined today in Hamilton St., at a meeting called the nation-wide protest against the| by the International Labor Defense Scottsboro legal lynching. A tele-| to protest the frame-up of the nine gram of protest was sent to Governor | Scottsboro victims facing the elec- B. M. Miller at Montgomery, Ala.,| tric chair, An appeal for their re- demanding the release of the nine| lease or a new trial is being eircu- boys, | lated in Albany. 3 MORE DAYS TO MAY IST. SPEED UP PREPARATIONS D FROM PAGE ONE) (CON TING | Statement issued by the arrange- | ments committee. “If you do not uled for | give us the right to hold a meeting New Kensington.—Evening indoor! in hall, we will mobilize the work- meetings May 1; speakers, Stern, | ers and have a meeting in the square Young Communist League. lan May 1,” is part of the statement Ambridge—Evening outdoor. meet-| of the committee issued to the local ing May 1; speakers, Powers, N. AM-/ press, which, of course, keeps silent. ter. ‘ .| The conditions of the miners are Johnstown, Pa—Speakers, Rodgers | potting worse and worse, Recently a and Mankin, | miner employed in Maxwell No, 20 Portage.—Speaker, Brisker. Colliery of the Glen Alden Coal Co. Browmuaville-¥,, Giders. | committed suicide because he has Washington. | not been able to feed his family, Canonsburg.—Speaker, Ka mene- | ich. | | Seranton, Pa., Demonstration. McKees Rocks. kids 2 : Workers in these cities should} SCRANTON, Pa.—Preparations are wateh for further announcements. | being made for the holding of 8 huge Mass meetings in the Bastern|May 1 meeting at 427 Lackawanne Ohio coal fields will signalize the be-| AVe» Scranton, Pa. at 7 p. m. on ginning of the hunger march of un-| Friday, May 1. Several organizations employed Ohio coal miners to os. | 9f Goranion and vicinity. epee lumbus to demand relief. May Day ek nee nbd ps evening indoors at Yorkville and| Seranton this year, Neffs with local speakers, at Bellaire] Efforts have been made to secure with Frank Borich, at Bohemian| 4 permit, but have been unsuccessful Hall, 41st and Harrison Sts. |so far. In the past the city aytheri- An open-air demonstration at/ ties have been determined not to let noon in Wheeling, W. Va., will be| any workers’ organizations celebrate held at Riverside Park, between| May Day or hold any other meet- 16-18 Water St, at 1 p. m, with| ings in the city. Borich speaker. | Unemployment is increasing in * * * this vicinity despite the contrary Wilkes-Barre Meet—Permit Or Not.| statements of various politicians. At WILKES-BARRE, Pa—Mayor| this meeting there will be a report Hart of Wilkes-Barre flatly refused! from the Harrisburg hunger mareh to give the United Front Committee, | that took place on April 21. Over 25 composed of 14 organizations, a per- | miners from the Anthracite partici- mit to hold a meeting on May Day, | Pated in the hunger march and will Mayor Hart stated if the Central] ?eport on the results of their march Labor Union of Wilkes-Barre agreed | to Harrisburg. to giye a permit then he would con- | Se Ce oe it, The committee went to the gara Falls On May 1, Central Labor Union and the petty; NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.—Brepa- | labor fakers played the role that was | Tations are going ahead for a sue- | desired by Mayor Hart and refused | cessful May First demonstration to to take action. be held in Niagara Falls, Hundreds At the Next meeting of the City| of American and foreign, Negro and Council a large committee of work- | white workers are expected to par- ers will go there to insist that a per- | ticipate. The demonstration will be mit be granted. The mayor has, held at the City Market, corner of stated that during the last year 27| Pine and 19th Sts. at 6 p. m,, fram “Red” meetings have been broken up| Where the group will march and and he does not intend to have any | Meet many other hundreds at the *Red” activity in this vicinity. | Niagara Walls High School Audi- A May Day meeting will be held | torium here, permit or no permit, is the| The board of education granted | permission to use the High School must be padd for in adyance or. wi receiv: Use This Map to Order May Day Editions | Pick out your state on this map and order your May Day edition for the date indicated. Large bundles $8 a thousand. Small bundles | for individuals, etc, 1 cent per copy, Rush your orders. All bundles — they will ny? be shipped. (Note:—District | “~~| when it was approached by the May | Day Conuittee. Soviet Union Tour $ Includes all expenses for 7 day tour in Moscow and Leningrad 1 Steamship tickets for all countries at reduced rates. 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