The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1931, Page 3

sy | i; (hI ——- BELLINGHAM A. F. L. ASK WORKERS TO ACCEPT WAGE CUTS Pretended to Call Protest Meeting Against Lumber 10 Per Cent Cuts; Threaten New Cuts Instead ‘| Refuse to Allow Workers to Have Floor; Put Up Senators and Mill Owners Bellingham, Wash. Daily Worker: Through the local capitalist press, a meeting was called by the Central Labor Council, to discuss the question as to whether or not it would be to the best interest to Bellingham and the Whatcom County for any further reduction in wages at this time, and how to help bring prosperity back (what- ever that is). The Central Labor Council pre- tended to call this meeting on ac- count of the recent wage reduction of 10 per cent by the Bloedel Donavan Lumber Mill, which was followed up by another 10 per cent wage cut at the Whatcom Falls Mill (to meet the low wage scale of the Whatcom County Relief jobs $2 a day). How- . nh eae upon the superior court judge, bos- ses, mill owners, senators, etc., every- body except real workers. One young worker who tried to obtain the floor was told by the chairman that he was out of order. The young worker refused to listen to the knock of the gavel. The ex- worker. He had police ready on his side. Then Senator Brown, and some contractors received the floor. The workers shouted for some real worker to have the floor, and refused to listen to the proposal of building a president, Rooney, tried to stop this | ever at the meeting they never men- tioned anything about wage-cuts of the unorganized Saw Mill workers, but instead talked about a threat- ened wage-cut of the carpenters and highly paid skilled craftsmén of the A. F. of L. who have as yet received no wage cut except when they cut new court house and other rubbish. One of the birds, said that the cost of labor was too high and that each should stand part of the cost, by a reduction in wages. One comrade finally received the floor for 5 minutes and he was re- ceived very well by the rank and file workers. Other comrades persisted in getting the floor, but the chair- man over-ruled them, hinting at the fact that bulls were waiting for any attempt of exposing them. However, we sold Daily Workers and we got workers to come to our hall to discuss this fake meeting. —A Worker. their selves running hog wid to bid on small jobs. Many class conscious workers at- tended this meeting to obtain the floor and expose these Labor Fakers. However, we decided to listen for a while. We wanted to hear what the Labor Fakers were going to say. But! Lo and behold! The chairman called IWW Tries to Fool Class Conscious Workers Into Buying Buttons Chicago, Ill. | looked phony to met, but a friend of mine explained that those are from the I, W. W, I asked him about cre- dentials from the party but he did not have any. I wanted him to ex- plain why instead of picketing the factories he goes around our demon- stration to sell his fake stuff. Daily Worker: I don't know when, but to the cock- eyed mother, the I. W. W. a new child was born. She gave it a swell name. Union of the Unemployed. Ac- | cording to her former policies, she started to collect money in the name of her new-born. Workers Fooled by Fake Button. 1. W. W. Sell Fake Buttons. I have seen many of our comrades In Chicago, on May First, a bunch | wear this button and they are fooled of 1. W. W. came around the place of | by it, I myself almost got fooled. Why demonstration and started selling but-|hasn’t the party been warned about tons to the unemployed. I asked the|this. Why don't they explain the salesman where he got the things.| difference between the Union of the He said that he got them from the| Unemployed and tle Unemployed office. and that every member wes | Council? — supposed to sell 50 of them, This —WORC ORR. Denver Unemployed Council Reaches 2000 Mark Denver, Colo. , What became of all the money that Daily Worker: was given over for the sick. They The conditions here in Denver are getting worse. All the government does is to holler about silver ques- tions, which is the bunk, but they never say anything about the thou- sands of starving workers. Unemployed; Commit Suicide. Threee workers killed themselves because of being unemployed, a young woman worker took poison for the same reason, but she hasn't died yet. Then, at the county farm, the rations are only bread and “milk.” And they talk about “starving” in Russia. Our unemployed council has doubled in the last two weeks, lots of them are on the road, but we have 2,000, At each street meeting we have very good workers speaking. We've got a good hall. There are some of our comrades in jail. Lots of the boys thought they would cele- brate and marched into jail. —A Worker. Told They’re Too Old for Jobs New Haven, Conn, Just think of it, workers over the Daily Worker: required age, standing in line, with New Haven Workers There was once a man by the name of Ponce De Leon who was anxious to discover the fountain of youth. According to historical documents he and his soldiers traveled over a thou- sand miles only to be disappointed, but the unemployed here in New Havetd don’t have to travel, they have discovered it already. Any worker can observe it in the employ- ment offices. It is the most pitiful aight to behold. their hair and eyebrows all covered with dye, men whose hair was gray, now stand in line with dark hair, trying to fool the employment agents. There is no history giving such rec- ords where humans had to resort to such tactics in order to live. Yes, right here in capitalist America, land of money and honey, with the Fish committee, shylocks and sky-pilots trying to bolster up a decayed sys- tem. —Wm. L. Hoover Committee Member Cuts Wages and Fires Workers * (By a Worker BLWOOD, Indiana. — No doubt the readefs Of our local papers will recall the incident of the owner of the Sel- lats Kitchen Cabinet plant of this place being called to Washington City last Winter a8 One of Mr. Hoover's special committee to suggest ways and means to bring prosperity back. Correspondent) up the work so that the remaining two thirds, produce the same output as the former force did. The Ameritan Sheet and Tin-plate Company weht on a schedule of three days per week, which does not look very encouraging to the workers since they received a 10 percent cut in ‘This plan Was put into execution just Wages about a year ago. Forty-two recently by discharging one third of of the employes weye discharged the the employes and giving others a 10| first of the month“on account of be- ver cent cut in wages, then speeding |ing past the age limit. (GHTING STARTS tape Workers IN EGYPT VOTING Brutally Attacked In Police Machinegunners Palo Alto, Cal. Kill 80 Workers Palo Alto, Calif. (Cable By Inprecorr) Palo Alto Police Chief Zink and his aides swooped down upon the LONDON, May 14—Reports of heavy fighting reach here from Cairo, unemployed colony here and brutally Daypt. Bkyptian elections have opens ousted sotie 50 or more men. These men have ho homes and, ed. Polive used Machine guns against a denionstfation in front 6f a rail- building shacks from dump material, lived here along San Mateo-Santa way Wrokshop. Thirty were killed and many wounded, Three Bnglish Clara County line dumps. polwe were killed, Striking students at the Bulak technical school were joined by arsenal and failway work- Strikes ahd demonstrations are| than éver, Piel work is searce throughout the interior of] the pay is cut 50 conts por day: rich President Hoover. Here jis of a hill. Agricultural Workers around this | | { | i Scottsboro Defense Conferences May 17. New York City, 11 a, m., at Fin~ aish Workers Hall, 15 West 126th Street. New Orleans, La. Hall announced. to be May 22. Erie, Pa.—Hall to be announced, May 28. Buffalo, N. Y., at the Michigan Avenue “Y.” May 24. Chicago—Forum Hall, 43rd St. New Orleans, announced, Charlotte, N. C. Hall to be an- nounced. 323 «=F. La.—Hall to he May 25. Philadelphia, Pa. At the Knights of Pythias Hall, 19th and Lom- bard Sts, May 26. Washington, D. C. Hall to be announced, May 27. Pittsburg, Pa—At the Pythian Temple, 2011 Center Ave. May 28 Minneapolis, Minn, announced. Boston, Mass, aounced. Hall to be Hall to be an- May 29. Cleveland, Ohio, at Spiro Hall, 3804 Scoville Ave. St. Paul, Minn. Hall to be an- nounced. Duluth-Superior, Minn. be announced. May 31. Chattanooga, Tenn.—Hall to be announced, Newark—At 90 Ferry St., at 2:30 p.m Elizabeth, N. J. Hall to be an- nounced. Hall to June 5. Indianapolis, Ind.—At 5361-2 Indiana Ave, Baltimore, Md.—At Galilean Fishermen's Hall, 411 W. Biddle St., at 8 p.m, PHILA. IN NYD PREPARATIONS Plan Big Send Off on Thursday, May 28th PHJLADELPHIA, Pa.—Work here on National Youth Day is going | along full swing. The conference which was held here May 2 repre- sented only 12 organizations and ebout 500 young workers (and about the same number of adults). Nev- ertheless, plans were made for in- volving more than the organizations present in N. Y. D. A campaign for $300 was started. Lists, collection boxes, affairs and other means are being used, to collect money, ‘The District Board of the Labor | Sports Union and the League Coun- | cil of the Philadelphia L. §. U. Base- ball League have both endorsed Na- tional Youth Day. The Philly L. 8. U. Baseball Leagué has challenged are not using it for this hell-hole. | the New York Baseball League to an all-star game, the best players from each city leagué to play at Ul- mer Park, Brooklyn, on the 31st (the second day of N. ¥. D.). Vanguard Group In Play. The Vanguard Dramatic Group will present a play at Passaic and the Pioneer Harmonica Band will be on tap. As preliminary affairs to the send-off meeting to Passaic thre will be a District Track and Field Meet of the Labor Sports Union here at the Vare Recreation Center, 26th and Morris, on Saturday, May 23, at 2 p.m. This will precede the District Convention of the Labor Sports Union, which will be held at the L. S. U. Center, 1208 Tasker St., at 6 Pp. m, on the 23rd. A dance will wind up the events of that Saturday. The dance will also be held, along with some boxing and wrestling, at the L. S, U. Center, 1208 Tasket St. Rallies Wednesday, May 20, in South Philly, held under the aus- pices of the National Youth Day Committee and a big send-off mass meeting Thursday, May 28, at 1208 Tasker St. will wind up the Na- tional Youth Day preparations in Philadelphia proper. At®the same time 10,000 printed leaflets are being issued. A special leaflet is being put out by the Youth Sestion of the Neédle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union to the young needle trades workers, while special leaflets are being issued to a number of large shops and laundries in the city. LongshoremenWork For 15 Cents Per Hr. Conditions Worse on Florida Seaboard Tampa, Florida Daily Worker:— ‘We have been here in ‘Tampa, the Workers unloading bananas are paid 15 cents an hour, with several bullies peak of low wages here in the South. |"*” hollering at them to hurry, day and night the same way. | The motor ship, Louis Garcia ported at 3 a, m., tuesday morning. beautiful mansion and spacious gars | IE dens aré located, nestled in the side [fr Mis ship without pay. ‘The workers were called and they Palo Alto is a home town of our {Came to the docks. However, the ship did not pier until 9 p. m. in the even- ‘The workers waited 17 hours $1.50 for 18 Hours. ‘These workers were protised 25 town are suffering this year Moré}vents af hour if they worked fast, And {atid the bulliés certainly speeded the half-starved workers. After working [Read ‘ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1931_ Kentucky workers are awake to the fact that the Daily Worker is fighting their battle for better con- ditions in the mines, as indicated by the following letter from M. B., Madisonville, Ky.: “Please find en- closed $1 for ten months’ subscrip- tion to the Daily Worker. I hope this reaches you in time to avoid any suspension in such interesting times as these. If there are any subscribers for the Daily Worker here, just send me their names and addresses and we will all get to- gether and do a little organizing in this field, as I am sure it is very fertile soil.” Kentucky certainly is a fruitful field for organization with the Daily, as the strike in Harlan, Ky., is prov- ing to the workers that they can ex- pect nothing but militia and mur- der from the bosses, Bundles of Dailies should be constantly flowing deep into the heart of this blood- stained, blue grass region. Would like to hear from workers in Louis- ville, Elkton, Greensburg, Frankfort, Cannel City, Corbin, Hopkinsville, ete, who are interested in selling and spreading the Daily Worker. The Daily should supplant the Derby in this boss state and every working- class neighborhood should be con- tinually illuminated with the work- ers’ paper. Butte, Montana, in bad shape. “Regret that the workers in Butte are broke,” whites W. L. W. “They are not able to pay for a Daily Worker, to say nothing about collec- tions.” Anaconda, Mont., also in the throes of a serious financial indis- position. “Comrade J. K. was forced to leave here for the want of some- thing to eat. He had been out of work since last fall, and, as the rest of the members are all out of town, he had no one to help him finan- OPPORTUNITIES IN KENTUCKY RIPE FOR SPREADING “DAILY ” Wer cially.” We hope for the quick re- covery of Butte and Anaconda, as well as the early discovery of some new blood at these points. $8 Donation Plants D. W. Seed. Interesting news from A, P., Gary, Ind.: “One of our Daily readers do- distribution to the workers who could not buy them. This was a great help to us in our Hunger March to Indianapolis." We wish other financially healthy comrades would contribute like sums to help spread the Daily in their sections and dis- trhcts. Results speedy. “We had three letters already from the work- ers of Elkhart, Marion and Fort Wayne, Ind., wanting more copies to distribute to the workers in their re- spective towns.” Eight dollars buys 1,000 sample copies—which lead the way to permanent contacts. West Allis, Wisc., Indifferent to Daily Worker. Cc. P. Unit at West Allis, Wisc., shirks responsibility in connection with activity of Daily. “Received request from the W. A. Unit to re- duce from 75 to 30 daily,” writes N O., agent at Milwaukee. Evidently the W. A. Unit doesn’t consider mass nated $8 for 1,000 Daily Workers for | 700 In Victoria Canada, May First Pledge Fight Capitalism to | | (By a Worker Correspondent) VICTORIA, B. C.—May Day in Victoria. was celebrated by meeting 700 wor' a marvelous turnout for this conservative burg After. a number of interesting speeches, lasting for two hours, the meeting ended with the singing of the “Red Flag.” Resolutions were adopted sending greetings to the Soviet workers, con- demning the “slave labor” and “dumping” lies, condemning the gov- ernment’s refusal to have a con- tributory unemployment in- surance fund and condemning the fake relief measures adopted by both the government and the Victoria city council. of state The workers resolved to fight cap- | italism to the bitter end and ex- | pressed a determination to establish world Communism! We have a militant feeling at last and mean to keep it up to fever heat | circulation for the Daily of sufficient ‘BIG SCOTTSBORO importance to give it a leading wit CAMPAIGN IN CHL “Comrade P. says he does not get| United Front Defense Proper co-operation from the unit| Me Nay 2. as a whole, and it is impossible for | Conf. May 24 him to get the papers out by him- | self. Have talked to the unit mem- bers and the unit buro also, but have not been able to get them to take the proper interest in the Daily Worker.” Comrades of the W. A. Unit must be aroused to quick action, and in the kee we expect to hear of some real co-operation on the part of the Com- munist Party membership. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tween Seventh and Fifth Aves, The parade itself will start at 4 o'clock from 128th St. and Lenox Ave.,near the headquarters of Section 4 of the New York District of the Communist Party, which is supporting the dem- onstration. From 128th St. the work- ers will march up Lenox Ave. to 145th St. through 145th St. to Seventh Ave. down Seventh Ave. to 116th St., through 116th St. to Fifth Ave., and down Fifth Ave. to 110th St., where @ demonstration will be held with nationally known speakers, in- ‘cluding Mrs. Ada Wright, the mother of two f the Scottsboro boys, United Front Conference Sunday. Saturday's parade and demonstra- tion is @ continuation of the nation- wide fight to save the nine youths and of the huge demonstration of 100,000 white and Negro revolution- ary workers in New York on May Day against the Scottsboro legal lynch- ing, against starvation, for unemploy- ment relief and insurance. It is also a prélude to the City United Front Scottsboro Defense Conference which will be held on Sunday, May 17, at the Finnish Workers’ Hall, 15 W. 127th St. beginning at 11 o'clock. Delegates will be present at this con- ference from scores of Negro and white organizations which have been visited by I. L. D. and L. 8. N. R. speakers during the past weeks. Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the boys, has spoken at several of the membership meetings of these organ- izations and won them completely N. Y. Workers in Big Demonstration Tomorrow to Save Nine Negro Boys | for the struggle to save her sons and the other 7 boys. Mrs. Wright will be the guest of the conference on Sunday. Defense Continues Throughout ; Country. These cohferences are being held all over the country. Already 20 cities have set dates for such con- ferences. Most of the northern con- ferences will elect delegates to the All-Southern United Front Scotts- boro Defense Conference, which will be held in Chattanooga, Tenn., on May 31. These conferences will be followed by bigger and national con- ferences as the struggle to save the boys and smash the boss terror against the Negro workers develops. Hundreds of Thousands in Defense Movement. ‘The campaign to save the boys has already resulted in a broad protest movement extending north and south. Over 40 Ostreet and indoor meetings of white and Negro workers have protested against the Scottsboro boss court lynch verdict, These involved tens of thousands of workers. addition, .over 300,000 workers parti- cipating in approximately 125 May Day demonstrations throughout the country joined their voices in mili- tant protest against the frame-up and railroading of the boys to the electric chair. Over 300 organizations have condemned the legal lynching and wired vigorous protests to. the governor of Alabama, demanding a new trial for the boys before a jury of workers, at least half of whom next report of the agent at Milwau- | In} CHICAGO, Ill, May 13.—A number of organizations, white and Negro, | have already elected delegates to the United Front Scottsboro Defense con- | ference which will be held May 24 j at Forum Hail, 322 E. 43rd St. At a mass meeting at the Pilgrim | Baptist Church attended by over 500 | people, Rev. J. C. Austin made a | powerful appeal for the united front defense campaign. He was followed by William Browder, local secretary | of the ILD. A substantial collection | was taken up for the defense and the conference endorsed by the con- | gregation. Similar actio nwas taken | by the New Mt. Zion Baptist Church, with 600 members, and the Friend- ship Baptist Church, with 75 mem- bers. Over 600 delegates and visitors at the Shareholders Conference of the | Vilnis, Lithuanian Daily, after hear- jing Ed. Williams, local secretary of | the League of Struggle for Negro | Rights, endorsed the defense cam- | paign and gave a collection of $50.60 | tor the defense. A telegram of pro- test was sent to Governor B. M. Mil- | ler of Alabama, at Montgomery, Ala. | ‘The Amnesty Campaign Conference called by the ILD last Sunday, and | attended by 175 delegates from 49 organizations, also endorsed the | United Front Scottsboro Conference, | electing 7 delegates, besides calling | on all organizations represented to | send delegates themselvs. DEMONSTRATE IN MORE FACTORIES IN SOVIET UNION FINISH FIVE-YEAR PLAN IN 25 YEARS; REDUCE COSTS OF OUTPUT Clothing Facto MOSCOW years and six months. jlodarsky” in Leningrad which million rubles. During the last six months, however, the factory produ- ced goods to the value of 33 million rubles! The productive costs were to have been reduced by 10.5 million rubles in the plan period, but already the wor! ers have reduced productive costs 11,540,000, despite the fact that wages have been steadily rising In Kiev the cake and biscuit fac= production of this factory in the finale year of the plan was to have been 28| and Bakery Among Those Which Exceed Plan; Plan Bigger Production in 1931 More and more factories are joining the ranles of those which have carried out their Five-Year Plan in two Amongst the latest factories are the clothing works, “Vo- employs 5,000 workers. The tory, “Karl Marx” has also carried out its 5-Year Plan in 2 years and 6 month: It was to have produced to the val- ue of 13 million rubles in the final year of the plan, but in 1930 it pro- duced to the value of 16,479,000 rubles. y|In 1931 its production will be three times greater than ¢the originally the plan. production fixed for the last year of “Don’t Cure If South End and Roxbury Unemployed branch went to the Public Welfare Department and demanded that im- niediate relief be given to some starv- ing families Miss Shay, speaking for the Wel- fare Department answered, “Don't care if they are starving.” Mayor Curley knows about this and refuses to do anything. In Thurs- day’s papers he says “Boston has the best relief system in the country Mayor Curley’s system is to starve the families of the unemployed work- ers quietly. The South End and Roxbury Branch of the Unemployed Council got busy and sent out committees of uneraployed workers in the neigh- borhood and got food for the fol- jlowing starving families that Mayor Curley’s welfare department refused to feed. 1. The family of Mrs. Moore, 63 Northfield S+., with two children had been unemployed for months and no food in the ho Starve,” They Says Boston Official Relief Mrs. Cestello, who is sicx and can't find work, is being thrown out of ker home by the greedy landlord erate need. h Bryant of 64 Northfield St., is a widow with two boys, had been unemployed tor many months was forced to move by the landlord, needs money for food and rent badly. 4. Pat MacBride of 57 Northfield is 65 years old, has a little room ii the cellar, which he gets for clean- ing up the house. He gets nu wages and is compelled to get his food from the streets where he can find it This unemployed branch is pian- ning to send another Labor Com- mittee of unemployed workers to the City Council and to Governor Ely to demand regular relief for these and all other starving families in the South End and Roxbury. The branch meets every Tuesday end Friday, 130 p. m. at 113 Dudley St., Roxbury Mayor of Denver, (By a Worker Correspondent) DENVER, Colo—Some of the bosses’ candidates for mayor are raising the question of taxation and harping on this as the only issue. ‘The workers’ candidate, Bill Die- irich, tackled this question at an out- door meeting Wednesday, May 6, and challenged all the candidates to stand for a graduated system of tax- ation, where the worker or small property owner received the mini- mum of taxation and the large prop- erty owner received the maximum of taxation. A worker in a railroad union the | PARIS ASSEMBLY | | Paul Doumer was elected president | of France by the combined Senate | and House of Deputies Wednesday against Aristide Briand. Both these candidates are vicious enemies of the Soviet Union, and Briand, who was regarded as a “milder” diplomat as compared to Doumer, was one of the leaders of the war plot against the Soviet Union exposed in the wreck- ers’ trial in Moscow. The election of Doumer will intensify the war prepa- rations against the Soviet Union. Doumer, also, was one time governor _| of the French colony of Indo-China. must be Negroes. Cuts! Show A. F. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ride the Wave of this movement, so he and his fellow misleaders may be in the better position to betray the struggle. “How the A. F. of L. ‘fights’ wage- cuts is exemplificd by their shame- ful betrayal of the workers in the South. These workers, facing actual Starvation conditions, and being forced even lower, developed a splen- did offensive against the bosses. But the A. F. of L. broke this by its shameless sellouts, In Elizabeth- ton, Danville, ete, with the help of the so-called progressives of the Muste group. The A. F. of L. con- vention refused to assess itself even & miserable one cent per member to organize the South, although it is paying § capitalist-sized salaries to thousands of labor fakers, Although or otherwise for 18 hours, the bosses paid these workers off with $1.50 a " Arrest 6 Militant Workers. A month or so ago, the workers tried to call a strike against this system of working all hours on the .| banana ships. The petty bosses called the police and had six of the most militant workers arrested and charged them with disturbing the peace of the bosses. Bosses Pay 15 Cents an Hour. ‘The longshoremen in the port have no union, and thé bosses taking ad- Vantage of this pay them from 16 céhts $6 40 cents an hour, Longshoremen must organize thto the Marine Workers Industrial Union, y Worker, <A Meats ‘Score Green's Fake Attack On Wage | His election presages a sharper at- | tack against the revolutionary masses | of Indo-China. | The French Socialists heartily sup- ° ° ported Briand, endorsing fully his OF L. Role in Drive) ter reversions agsinst tne: Bovie | Union. The Communists exposed both of it claims 3,000,000 members, it actu- | the imperialist candidates, demon- ally alloWed 4,000 strikers in Danville | strating against Doumer and for the to be literally starved, and then) independence of Indo-China. The wound up by betraying them with| Socialists started a physical attack one of the most shameful ‘gentie- | against the Communist deputies. men‘s’ agreements in the history of the American labor movement. Such " a leadership, whose real role is to} LESDINiy Sant enor) break the resistance of the workers PARIS, May 14.—The French Na- to capitalist. exploitation, will lead | tional Assembly, representing a joint no strik struggle against wage-cuts, | plenary session of the chamber and except to betray it senate, opened yesterday. The Com- “The T. U. U. L. calls upon the | munist parliamentary fraction dem~- workers to rupediate the treacher-| onstrated against suppression in the ous leadership of the A. F. of L.and| French colony of Indo-China, be- ee Vs to unite under the banner of the revolutionary unions for a real strug- gle against wage-cuts. It calls upon the workets to prepare for the deep- ening Wage-cuts by establishing local branehes of the revolutionary union and to set up united front shop com- mittees of organized and unorganized workers. It urges the workers to meet the initiation of wage-cuts by a@ posse of militant strikes. The workers must prepare for broad Strike movements against the intoler- able worsening of conditions, The T. U. U. L, slogan is “Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts,” cause the president of the senate, Doumer, now candidate for presi- dent of France, was governor of Indo-China. Shouts of “Long Live Indo-China,” | “Long Live the Revolutionary Masses of Indo-China,” “Down With Imper- | ialism,” rang through the legislative halls, Great tumult ensued. Comrade Duclos read the Commu- nist declaration. A fight oceurred between the socialist and Communist deputies. During the naming of the leading imperialist candidates the Communist deputies booed. Comrade other day told the workers’ candi- date that he had a small home on the outskirts of town which he could not sell for more than $750, yet he had to pay close to $100 in taxes on this property. Capitalism is taking away the little property of such workers just like they are foreclos- ing on the small farmers. As shown in a previous article, a Bill Dietrich, Workers Candidate for for Taxation of Rich corporation like the Denver Tram- way Co. pays taxes on approximately $11,000,000 and is valued at $23,000,000. Capitalism will always place the lighter burden on the rich. That is why Hoover and Mellon returned taxes to the corporations. Fighting Eviction. However, the workers’ candidates raise the issue of thousands of work- ers in the city of Denver who can- not pay their rent and are facing eviction. Is there one of the bosses’ candi- dates who dares to come out and say there shall be ho evictions for unemployed workers? No, the work- ers’ candidate is the only one who has this in his platform, which is the platform of the Communist Party Vote and organize against starva- tion, misery and unemployment. Workers of Denver, roll up a big vote for your own interest. Bill Dietrich for Mayor. Drive On Penna. Sedition Laws Phila. Mass Meeting Thursday, May 14 PHILADELPHIA, Pa—A mass meeting to demand the repeal of the Flynn Sedition Law of Pennsylvania and to protest against the vicious sentence handed out to Bill Law- rence of the Communist Party and the conviction of Tess Ryder and Anna Lynn of the Young Communist League will be held at the Garrick Hall, at 507 S. Bighth St., on Thurs- day, May 14, at 8 p. m The meeting is called under the auspices of the I. L. D., Communist Party and the Young Communist League of Philadelphia. Speakers will be Tess Ryder, Bill Lawrance, Jack Rose and a member of the Na- tional Committee of the I. L. D. ‘Under the Sedition Act of Penn- sylvania, workers are jailed almost every week in an intensive drive by the police in an attempt to stop the distribution of any kind of working~ class literature. Within the last two months ten workers have been ar- rested under this law, eight in Phila- delphia and two in Bethlehem, and it was only through the determined fight of the I. L. D. that these work- ers were released, Break Up Meetings. In the Anthracite section of Penn- Duluth and Superior . .Bakers Strike Over. . Wage-Cut, Picketing DULUTH, Minn., May 14—In ad- dition to the strike of 600 longshore- men still going on here, there are two more strikes. The bakers of Duluth and Superior, Wisc. have gone out against a wage cut. They are picketing the shops where scabs have been brought inf rom St. Paul and Minneapolis. ville, a small mining town just out- side of Wilkes-Barre in the Anthra- cite section of Pennsylvania, on Sat- urday night, May 9. Two hundred and fifty workers attended an open-air meeting, at which Joe Weber, organizer for the Nationai Miners Union, and Jack Rose, seore- tary, of Philadelphia, were speaking. ‘This meeting was broken up and the two organizers were arrested and la~ ter driven out of town. It is only through the mass pro- tests of thé working class of Penn- sylvenia that this high+handed method of attempting to curb free speech and assemblage for the work- ing class can be done away with. Anthracite Conference. On May 10 a conference was called in the Wilkes-Barre of 21 workers’ organisations in the Anthracite to protest against and demand the re- peal of the Flynn Sedition Law The conference was well attended. A resolution was passed against the Flynn Sedition Law and sent to Pinchot. Many amnesty petitions Marty's name was cheered together with the revolutionary Black Sea sailors. The Communists voted for Cachin as president of France, eo ew “The T. U. U. L. calls upon em- ployed and unemployed workers to stand shoulder to shoulder in a com- mon fight agaitist the employers. were taken out by organizations for the purpose of collecting signatures against the Flynn Sedition Law, and to be taken by the delegation to Hatrisburg this June. sylvania, every attempt to hold a meeting is broken up either whether it be outside or indoor, Permits are refused and chiefs of police in dif- Defeat the starvation plan of the BERLIN, May 14.—Berlin police bosses and the capitalist government | under the emergency law, dissolved by a militant struggle against wage-| two revolutionary mass metings, be- cuts, agaitist the speed-up, for un- employment insurance and immedi- Ale unemployment relief, for the re- lease of the Scottsboro prisoners arg] other class War prisoners. Workers, refuse to bé driven into poverty and starvation. Fight for pourselyes and ee a 's denounced the shame- measures of the Brue- ning overhment, | Gollisions occurred yesterday eve- ning beforé the town hali of Hager between fascists and Reichsbanner (republican army) whereby ‘Shits ferent towns brazenly tell the work- ors that there will be no meetings of any kind. .The breaking up of these meetings Always is accompanica by the arrest of the speakers, and, if the least show of resistance is: made, the workers are clubbed and beaten as well as jailed, ‘The latest of these high-handed twe | methods of the police in breaking up! working class can were seriously stabbed." meetings was carried out in Swoyers- prisonerst ¢ i All workers in Philadelphia or vicinity are expected to attend the the Hall on nd voice a mighty protest against police terror and the tyrant. nical Piynn Sedition Law Gar Only the organized power of the ye the polkidee 4