The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1931, Page 3

6 ere Greene | ES a a. eee ee) Se ee a Page Three NATIONAL BISCUIT CO. |MORE INDUSTRIES |N. Y. Red Builders Pass CUTS FORCE IN HALF; |IN USSR EXCEED USE STAGGER SYSTEM Co. Reports $188 Million Asset; Yet Greedy For More Profits They Slash Packing Girls Wages in Half Bakeshop Workers Slave in Choking Coal Gas; Co. Refuses Ventilation Daily Worker: Omaha, Nebraska. The National Biscuit Company like a giant monster stretching its tentacles over the land and across to Canada crushing all biscuit companies like it does its workers, with their speed-up system, has given ou! @ financial report of $22 million net surplus and has a clear asset of 188 million dollars. Cut Forces. The National Bisquit Company has its ovens speeded up to run from 60 Ibs. of flour a day to 72, but this wasn’t enough so they cut the force of Oven workers in half. Girls Work for Half Wages. The packing system was changed from piecework to week-work. Girls who were making about $24 a week under the piece-work system were given $18, now they are making about half this much since they are not on straight time. These girls’ wages are cut down even when they are at work and ‘they are waiting for more belts to start, while they wait they are timed and for this time they take out a certain percent. of wages. Not only this, but many times I have seen girls with bleed- ing fingers, the skin rubbed off from the rough trays forced to keep on working, staining the cookies with their blood which are covered up with coating because they are placed in conveyors. Other dept’s rush two days’ work in one in order to lay off the work- ers on the second day. Workers in the Bake Shop are forced to work amidst choking coke gas since the company has failed to put in proper ventilation. Nat'l Biscuit Workers Organize. All National Biscuit Workers are urged to organize into a revolution- ary trade union, the Food Workers Industrial Union, so that they will be able to fight against the attacks made by the bosses. —A Biscuit Slave. Worker Sees AFL Treachery in Empire Steel Strike Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Comrades: Regarding the Empire Steel strike. Tam not thoroughly acquainted with all the details, but this is the way I understand it. The Empire work- ers, along with the other workers in the steel mills, received a 10 per cent wage cut about two months ago. Now there is another 15 per cent cut posted at the Empire around which the trouble centers. Then again I ses where the workers con- cerned have voted to join the old Amalgamated of the A. F. of L. Boss Trickery ‘That this is a piece of trickery along with the wage cut is obvious. The A. F. of L. want to get a hold on the workers so they can betray them to the steel barons. And as it was done in Cleveland, so the bosses will try to do it in every sheet mill in the country. Now as I see it, all sheet mill work- ers should be posted in this treachery and acquainted of the policy of the Trade Union Unity League. i —O. BA. Sacramento Jobless Worker Forced to Take Job As Sheep Herder in xchange for Board Sacramento, Cal. Daily Worker: T am enclosing $5 money order for Daily Worker bundles from the Sac- ramento Red Builders Club, which was organized last Monday night. Some of the police around the skid road are trying to intimidate the newsboys, threatening them with the Vag Law if they do not get out of town. ‘There are not many jobs listed on the employment office boards. Those that are listed pay very small wages. Here are some of the samples: Turkey herders, $15 a month. Choreman on ranch $15 per month. Peach binning, $1,25 and $1 with board. One of these employment sharks called in a jobless workers and offered him off to a sheep owner for the rotten sum of $15 a month. The worker went out to get his “balloon” and when he came back the sheep owner told the worker that he wanted a younger worker. However, the sheep owner offered to take him as a sheep herd- er in exchange for board only. —A Worker. Marion Bosses Terrorize Negro Workers: Try to Stop Daily Worker Distribution (By a Worker Correspondent) NAACP Fool Workers MARION, Ohio.—The bosses are| The majority of the workers are doing their best to keep the workers, white and colored, from rallying to the defense of the Scottsboro case. This is a real jim crow town. The bosses’ agents are doing everything possible to frighten the workers from taking our papers. We need some good organizers here to awaken the white and Negro workers. being hoodwinked by the NAACP. 1 distribute all the Daily Workers that I get here in spite of the fact that the bosses in the shops do not allow the workers to take the papers. I am ver¥ interested in this work and am working hard and will still work harder. I hope the workers will soon get together here. I will do the best I can with the papers. Worker Exposes Knickerbocker Trash New York, N. Y. Daily Worker: Acting as fish-hooks to catch the American workers the New York Eve- ning Post makes much ado about the Knickerbocker sertes, which through lies, tries to get workers to fight in the interests of the rotten capitalists. ‘The clergy, including the pope in. Ttaly is the worst enemy of the proletariat. The cardinals, nuns, the bishops and the “holy fathers” are alarmed and are showing their venom against the good U.S.8.R. But they will find that they are mistaken, the workers will quickly grasp the char- latans’ aim and the corrupt Roman machinery under the leadership of Raskob, Hearst, Morgan will_ burst like @ swollen soap bubble. —M. A. High Pressure Efficiency Experts Speed the Armour (By & Worker Correspondent.) GHICAGO, IlL—Workers in the Chicago stock yards and packing houses are talking about organiza- tion and strike because of the -ter- rible conditions and speed-up. It is known all over the world that the American high pressure salesmen are the real skin game artists, One of these high pressure boys was appointed not long ago as the president of the Armour Co. by the bankers controlling the corpora- tion. He in turn is appointing all of his kind as officials to slick the workers. The latest ordér of his which appeared in the “Armour Oval” states that “we must earn our pay.” One would think from this that Workers the Armour Co, was giving away free wages—that is, wages for no work, Here they are firing workers right: and left, speeding us up be- yond human endurance and cutting wages. And then this high pressure boss tells us we must “go back to the first principals (whatever that means) and earn our daily pay within the starting and closing hour.” “All our efforts belong to the stockholders,” he says, and it is not permissible to use the stockholders’ time for gossiping about our per- sonal affairs. Our answer to this, workers, is to organize into the Food and Packing- house Workers’ Union and strike against these conditions. Cut out and mail at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York SAVE THE DAILY $35,000 Save-The-Daily Worker Fund Enclosed find by July L. . Name .. sesseee Clty » dollars : Sia bie avon Weaiaiee gies Ve cents We pledge to do all in our power to save our Daily by raising $35,000 MUST HAVE $1,000 A DAY! FIVE YEAR PLAY Largest Blast Furnace Starts Up MOSCOW.—The Leningrad ligh metal works, “Voroshilov,” has al- ready exceeded its Five-Year Plar program. In the last year of th: plan it was to have produced goods to the value of 6,750,000 roubles. The present annual production, however, is valued at 10,752,000 roubles. This year the total value of production is calculated to be 20,600,000 roubles. ‘The Leningrad Optical and Photo- graphic works “Ogpu” has just com- pleted its Five-Year Plan program. It is the biggest works of its kind in Europe. Further factories which have al- ready completed their Five-Year Plan are the Moscow brake works, the Leningrad works “Red Chemist,” the rope factory in Odessa, the petrol distillery in Krasnedar, the “Red Treugolnik” rubber works in Lenin- grad, etc. The value of production in the “Red Treugolnik” works dur- ing the past 12 months was 57 million roubles, or 9 per cent more than the production proposed for the last year of the Five-Year Plan. The Makeyevka foundry, in the Don Basin, which has just been re- constructed at a cost of 30 million rubles, has now fired the largest blast furnace in the Soviet Union, which has a capacity of 710 tons of pig iron. On May 1 the foundation stone of a@ new works for the utilization of turf was laid in Ivanovo-Vossnes- sensk, On the same day the foun- dation stone was laid for an interna- tional children’s home for the chil- dren of proletarian political prison- ers in the capitalist countries. On May 1 the first ship arrived¢in Baku with a load of oil from the new oil field in Neftetchala. On the same day the first load of crystal iodine, produced in the new works in Neftetchala, arrived in Baku. On May 1, in Samara, a new over~ land power station was opened and also a new urban water works. JAIL RUMANIAN SOLDIER AS RED Peasant Disturbances in Greece VIENNA.—A soldier was arrested in a garrison town in Rumania and charged with “Communist activities.” He was alleged to have written a let~ ter to the newspaper of the Young Communist League, “The Young Worker,” describing the conditions in the garrison, The captain of his company ordered him to run the gauntlet, a punishment which has fallen into disuse in all civilized countries. The company was drawn up in two lines and the alleged Com- munist was ordered to run between them, the soldiers being expected to strike him and spit at him as he passed. As the culprit ran through the ranks not a hand was raised against him and not a man spat at him. The whole company was given disciplinary punishment and the al- leged Communist will be tried by vourt martial. Peasant Disturbances In Greece. On the fourth day a mass meet- ing of about 2,000 peasants took place in Grevena, Greece. The peasants streamed in from the surrounding villages, bearing black flags. They demanded measures from the gov- ernment against the economic dis- tress and in particular tax allevia- tion and an end of the forced sales. Coltisions took place with the police and cavalry was used against the peasants. The peasants, who were driven off, threatened to come armed the next time and to resist al! at- tempts to disperse their meetings. ANGELES POLICE RAID VOTE MEET Smash the Communist Election _ Rally LOS ANGELES, Calif, May 21.— An election campaign rally at the Workers Cooperative was broken up by the police. The cops blocked the entrance to the hall early in the evening declaring that no more meetings would be allowed. This follows a whole series of raids and acts of terror against the revolutionary workers in Los An+ geles. The recent victory of the Commu- nist Party here in the city primary elections, when 17,000 votes were given to the Communist candidates, has intensified the police terror and persecution. Other meetings, indoor and out~ door, in the Negro section of the city, in connection with the defense of the nine Scottsboro boys facing ‘egal lynching have been broken up Sy the police. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it The New York Hed Builders News Jlub held a banquet Saturday eve- iing, May 16 for the Red Builders ind Daily Worker Representatives of 2arty Units. The Red Builders spoke of the pur- ost and activities of the club and he Units responded on how to build ip carrier routes to secure the Daily against being driven off news stands ind streets. Comrade Fieldberg, who ; had built up a route well over a 100 a day told of his experience. Comrade O’Boyle suggested that selling the paper from the speak- er’s stand by taking up a collec- tion from the crowd and passing out as many copies as are pair for, is a much more effective method than going through the crowd with the paper, selling one copy at a time. This method, Comrade O’Boyle explained, is used at meet- ings of ex-servicemen and unem- ployed councils. With the coming of warm weather, he pointed out, a hundred units each, holding one or two street meetings a week, can by this method have a marked effect on circulation, Greetings were received’ from Comrade Stokes and Turner, who are serving time at Welfare Island for selling the Daily in subway trains. Comrades present were urged to write to them at 600 E. 55th St., N.Y.C. In the midst of the meeting the following resolution was proposad and passed unanimously with great enthusiasm: Resolution Passed To the Governor of Alabama: We, two hundred workers present at a meeting of the Red Builders News Club send our protest against the vicious frame-up of the nine Scottsboro boys and demand their immediate and unconditional re- lease. RED BUILDERS NEWS CLUB. An unexpected treat was a ‘talk Resolution on Scottsboro Case at Fine Club Banquet by Comrade Engdahl, recently re- turned from the Soviet Union, His graphic pictures of lige there, as com- pared with the life of the worker here, made the evening one to be re- membered. Comrad Engdahl con- cludd by referring to the Red Build- ers as fighters in the front line trenches of the class war, and urged them to further effort to build up the circulation of the working class press, Today marks the second day of the Financial Campaign. Meetings of readers, sympathizers and support- ers of the “Daily” should be held in every possible locality and inten- sive effort made to organize mass groups into Friends of the Daily Worker Clubs. The widest possible participation of non-Party workers must be ob- tained at tehse meetings. Red Builders Clubs as well as Worker Correspondents must be brought into the work. of organizing the Daily Worker clubs. There shoul be no mechanical control of these clubs. All work should be voluntary and every effort made to develop initiative in non-Party workers. Meetings should open under chair- manship of Daily Worker agent. Short introductory speech may be given either by agent or Party rep- resentative. The meeting should pro- ceed upon a planned agenda to in- clude: discussion of contents of the Daily Worker and methods of dis- tribution; the campaign for funds and how it can be made successful; organization and future activities of the Daily Worker clubs; discussions from the floor, etc., etc. All meet- ings should be abundently supplied with copies of the Daily. We look to every Red Builder, agent, correspondent, subscriber, sym- pathizer, to help organize Friends of the Daily Clubs and help win the drive for $35,000 to have the “Daily.” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) worker will haye to prove legal entry. If he can not, he is just out of luck. Furthermore, in deporting any not able to show legal entry, or any one registered whom the authorities may care to-deport later because of strike Jeadership, etc., there must be a period of forced labor, according to ‘the interpretation of the law by the Detroit News. Forced Labor. “In order to pay for the deporta- tion expenses,” the worker will be thrown in jail, placed on a chain- gang and worked on the county roads, until, in the opinion of the authorities, he has made enough to pay for his fare to the country he is to be sent to. In addition to this, a blacklist scheme is written right into the law. ‘The act “prohibits the employment of aliens who do not possess o regis- tration card, and subjects firms vio- Jating this provision to a $100 fine and their employment officers to a 90-day jail term.” Of course, the companies will take care of black- listing militant foreign-born workers who do not have cards, for the state will provide them with the names, description and finger prints on rec- ord. The bill is passed, and waits only the governof’s signature to become a law. Hunger Marchers Protest. ‘The hunger marchers, and all real workers’ organizations, are protest- ing against signing of this bill. ‘The Metal Miners’ District Con- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) for the best; but should MIGHT prevail over RIGHT, we feel that the bloody sacrifice will but forze the faster that thunderbolt which must eventually destroy the cruel reign of the PRIVILEGED CLASS.” Pee wate | Pittsburgh Organizations Support Conference PITTSBURGH, May 21. — Many additional organizations are rally- ing to the support of the local Uni- ted Front Scottsboro Defense Con- ference to be held at the Pythian Temple, 2011 Center Avenue, on May 27. Camp No. 5 of the American Woodmen last night elected two de- legates to the conference and un- animously adopted a resolution con- demning the vicious frame-up of the 9 boys. Camp No. 3 and the Brad- dock, Pa., camp had already elected delegates. The 8. N. P. J. Lodge No. 210 of McKees Rock elected two delegates, adopted a protest resolution, and took up a collection of $3.71 for the defense. ‘The Superior Athletes, a Negro sport-social youth club, also followed the same procedure, and made a donation of $2. FER RO Detroit Churches Elect Delegates DETROIT, Mich,, May 21. — Two mroe Negro churches here were won for the united front defense when the “House of God,” and the United STATE HUNGER MARCHERS READY; DEMAND RELIEF, —— NO REGISTRATION vention of the National Miners’ Union, meeting in Ironwood on May 10, passed resolutions endorsing the hunger march and its demands, and pledged to mobilize the unemployed miners for participation. Conditions Worsen. Conditions are growing worse in Michigan. Relief is being cut off, on the argument that the unemployed, whose apple business has gone to smash, can make from 30 to 60 cents a day selling “frostbites” on the street, Big furniture shops, like Berkey & Gay, are closing down completely, throwing more thousands out of work. There will be a big Trade Union Unity League picnic at Co-operative Lake, off route M44, seven miles be- yond Bostwick Lake. Free admission and free transportation from 336 Bond St., at 10 a. m. Sunday. aie Teer EDITOR'S NOTE—It is plain that the Michigan finger-printing law, the most vicious so far pro- posed by any government, is a blow at the native born worker, too, It is primarily a strike-breaking prop- osition, intended to throw such a scare into the foreign born in this country that they will not dare to show solidarity with the American born workers in their struggles. In addition there are many native- born migratory workers who could not prove their American birth. These may be seized if active in a struggle against wage-cuts and slammed into the forced labor gangs. United Front to Save Nine Negro Boys Gains Support address of Gomrade Al Smith, a new active member in the I. Lb. D. by unanimously adopting a resolution condemning the legal lynching. Another Big Negro Church Joins United Front ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 21. — The campaign for the United Front Scottsboro Defense Conference here is gaining more and more support. Last night the congregation of the Lans Tabernacle C. M. BE. Church endorsed the campaign of the I. L. D. and the L..S. N. R and elected delegates to the conference which will be held at the Hibernoan Hall, 3619 Finney Avenue on May 31. faa Rese Gary Charches Endorse I. L. D. GARY, Ind., May 21.—Several Gary Churches have heartily endorsed the united front campaign of the I. L. D. and have elected delegates to the local United Front Scottsboro De- fense conference to be held Sunday, June 7, at the Croatian Hall, 23rd and Washington streets. aXe, Se BUFFALO, May 21.--'The Young People’s Forum have elected ten de- legates to the United Front Scotts- boro Defense Conterence to be helc here May 23 at the Michigan Ave “y". A number of Negro and white workers have joined the I. L, D. anc the L, 8. N. R, Church of Amerion responded to the'S ma Sh Frame-Ups | Scottsboro Defense Conferences May 22. Erie, Pa.—Hall to be announced. May 23. Buffalo, N. Y., at the Michigan Avenue “Y.” May 24. Chicago—Forum Hall, 43rd St. New Orleans, La.—At Marine Workers’ Hall, 308 Charles St. Charlotte, N. C. Hall to be an- nounced. Rockford, Ill. nounced. Youngstown, O., at 334 E. Fed- eral St., at 2.30 p. m. Rockford. Ill, at Viking Hall. 104-Tth St at 2 p. m. Milwaukee—At Labor Temple, 808 Walnut St., at 2:30 p. m. May 25. Philadelphia, Pa. At the Knights of Pythias Hall, 19th and Lom- bard Sts. 333 «=: Hall to be an- May 26. Washington. D. C., Fishermen’s Hall, 320 F. 8t., W. at 8:30 p. m. May 27. Pittsburg, Pa—At the Pythian Temple, 2011 Center Ave. So. Norwalk, Conn, at 12 So. Main St. Galilean 8. May 28 Minneapolis, Minn. Hall to be announced. Boston, Mass. Hall to be an- tounced, May 29. Cleveland, Ohio, at Spiro Hall, 3804 Scoville Ave. St. Paul, Minn. Hall to be an- nounced. Duluth-Superior, Minn. Hall to 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. St Louis, Mo., at Hibernian Hall, 3619 Finney Ave., at 2 p. m. June 2 Hartford, Conn., at 27 Albany Ave, June 4 Stamford, Conn., at 49 Pacific St. Tune 5. Springfield, Conn. New Brunswick, N. J.—At the Workers’ Home, 11 Plum S&t., at 2:30 p. m. Indianapolis, Ind—At Odd Fel- Jows Hall, 530!2 Indiana Ave., at 7:30 p. m. Baltimore, Md.—At Galilean Fishermen's Hall, 411 W. Biddle St. at 8 p.m. Gary, Ind—At 2 p.m. Hall to be announced. June 6 Chester, Pa, at Li:thuanian Hall, 4th and Upland Streets, June 7 Danbury, Conn., at 14 Ives St. Gary, Ind, at Croatian Hall, 23rd and Washington St., at 2 p.m, June 12 New Haven, Conn., at 36 Howe St. Jane 13 New Britain, Conn. June 15 Bridgeport, Conn., at 57 Cannon St. June 17 Gary, Ind.—At Croatian Hail. WORKER DELEGATIONS FROM MANY . CAPITALIST LANDS SEE SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION SWEEP ON IN USSR Make Complete Tour of Country and Talk to Workers in Their Own Language; Inter- view Soviet Heads MOSCOW.—The workers’ delegation from Germany, France, Great Britain, the United States, Austria, Czecho- Slovakia, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Bulgaria, who arrived in the Soviet Union to take part in the May Day celebrations, have since studied wages and working conditions in a number of factories in Moscow and neighborhood. ‘They were present at factory meetings and have visited workers’ houses, schools, day nurser- jes, the night sanatoria, recreation homes and so on. The delegates showed particular interest in the shock group movement and the so- cialist competition, and, of course, in the work for the carrying out of the Five-Year Plan, Almost in all the factories the delegates met workmen from their own country and were able to talk in their own language about the sit- uation. The May Day demonstration in Moscow, the parade of the Red Army and the march of the million masses made a tremendous impres- sion on the delegates. On May 2 they were the guests of the Red Army men in the various barracks of the Moscow garrison. The condi- tions in the Red Army, the relations between officers and men, and the cultura] work performed in the army, astounded the delegates, most of whom had had experience in the cap- italist armies. These delegates also visited the Moscow prisons and reformatories (very different institutions from those of the same name in the capi- talist countries!). They also visited the Palace of La- bor, where the General Secretary of the Central Council of Soviet Labor Unions, Comrade Shvernik, ex- thee- plained to them the work of the unions, labor laws, the abolition of unemployment, the training of skilled workers, etc In an interview with the Vice- Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars and, the Chairman of the State Planning Commission, Comrades Kuibichev and Kritzmann the delegates informed themselves of the stand of the work for the carry- ing out of the first Five Years’ Plan The delegates also spent an eve- ning together with the veterans of the revolution, the society of old Bolshevists. Comrade Kalinin was present and addressed the delegates The delegates described their first impressions of the Soviet Union and promised to do their utmost to coun- teract the lies of the bourgeois and social democratic press on their re- turn. The delegates also visited the Mos- cow Soviet, where they were in- formed in detail concerning the work of the municipal administration of the red capital. They inquired into housing problems, public food sup- plies, the work of the militia, taxa- tion, etc. Last night the delegations/all left Moscow for various’ destinations, Caucasia, the Don Basin, the Urals. the Volga district, Central Asia, the Soviet textile districts, ete. They will all visit Soviet and collective farms ‘Hoever, Green and Woll Hiding Facts of Bosses’ Big Wage Slashing Drive (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) story from Washington, D. C., to the New York Daily News. . The present Hoover-Mellon-Green- Woll campaign on the wage issue is reminiscent of the Wilson slogan of “he kept us out of war!” while Wil- son was preparing to plunge the American workers into war. Hoover, Green, Melion and Woll Jead the present wage-cutting drive and attempt to make the workers think that “wage standards are be- ing kept up.” They hope to direct the fury and indignation of the workers against a few mythical “bankers,” while the real drive against wages goes on under the leadership of Hoover himself, backed by Mellon, Farrell of the U. S. Steel, Owen D. Young of the General Elec- tric Co., Morgan & Co., as well as the entire officialdom of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, ‘That this wage-cut drive is pro- ceeding at a fast pace, under the knowledge and direction of the White House, Wall Street and the A. F. OHIO MARCHERS FORCE STATE TO GIVE TRANSPORTATION From capitalist press dispatches and from workers who were in Co- lumbus shortly after the state hunger marchers made their demands on the legislature and governor of Ohio, May 12, it seems that there was an excellent demonstration of the jobless and employed workers out- side the state house, while a delega- tion of 15 vigorously exposed the cap~ Italist starvation system and de~ manded unemployment insurance, etc, In the legislature. A delegation of five also made the same demand on Governor White, who gave only evasive answers, and promised to “investigate the merits of unemploy~ ment insurance.” White tried to soft-soap the del- egation with the statement that he had once been a pick and shovel man himself, and they told him it did not matter, he was an agent of the capitalists now. One of the demands of the hunger marchers was free transportation back home again, and this they won; the state government providing trucks and food to take them back. Cost $10,000 Capitalist spokesmen are reported to be bitterly complaining that the food in Columbus and the gasoline to take the hunger marchers back amounted to $10,000. The state gov- ernment tried to save its face by issuing an order to the police to “arrest any who remained in Cleve- land,” which is meaningless as the delegates were all under instructions from those who sent them to report back, No news on these events was re- ceived by the Daily Worker directly from the hunger march leaders. The “Cleveland Press” reports the incidents at the state house as fol- ‘ows: Ask 7-Hour Day “Their demands included a com- yvehensive system of unemployment insurance, a seven-hour day with no wage cut, cancellation of back taxes and a debt moratorium for poor farmers and the utilization of un- used land for the benefit of the un- “The five selected as spokesmen began their outline while their com- rades, all but 10 of them excluded from the gallery, held a loud and joyful rally just outside the State house. “C. B. Cowan of Cleveland, out- lined their plans in general. Herbert Newton, a Negro delegate from Cleve- land, addressing the legislators as ‘Gentlemen of the bosses’ executive committee’ laid out the demands for unemployment insurance and aboli- tion of ‘Jim Crowism’. “The unemployment insurance plan he outlined included a $15 weekly payment to jobless workers with $3 extra for each dependent. Asks Farm Relief “He concluded his speech with a threat. ‘If you don't. pass this legis- lation’, he said, ‘we will return hun- dreds of thousands strong, and we will smash and abolish this system of unemployment, Jim Crowism and capitalism, and set up a system of our own, for the workers and by the workers’, “John Marshall, Leetonia farmer, presented the demand for farm re- lief. He asked for a cancellation of back taxes on every farmer until the farmer's income passed $500 a year, for seed and fertilizer loans and for a moratorium on agrarian mortgages. “Paul Bohus, Cincinnati miner, made a plea for the seven-hour day. Minny Johnson, Negro, from Cin- cinnati, talked on unemployment in- surance and nursery insurance.” Collections inNJ NEWARK, N. J., May 21.—Work- ers of New Jersey are being mobil- ized by the International Labor De- fense for a General House-to-House collection and canvassing Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24, for the defense of the Paterson and Scotts- boro prisoners. Collections will take place in the following cities and stations: Newark —90 Ferry St. 5 Belmont Ave,, 52 West St; Blizabeth—105 E. Jersey Bt Naw Beuprckeit Plan 6 of L. officialdom, whose bluff about “striking” is intended to mislead the workers, is admitted by the financial editor of the New York American, who a few days ago wrote: “While tremendous publicity sur- rounds the discussion of railroad wages and wages in other great in- dustries, THE PROCESS OF DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT PRO- CEEDS AT AN ACCELERATED PACE BUT WITHOUT PUB- LICITY.” In other words, pay is being slashed heavily. Hoover, Green and Mellon Khow it. Green's talk about striking is a deliberate lie to keep the work- ers from ation at this moment when the bosses admit wages are being cut. An example of how heavily wages are being cut and what it means to a wide section of the American working class is graphically shown in the following letter sent to the New York Times: “To the Editor of the N. Y. Times: “The article ‘Washington Warns Against Wage Cuts,’ published in the New York Times, prompis me to place my case before the public. It probably is one of very many. “I am an American citizen, father of eight children and have been in the employ of a large firm in New York far the last seven and a half years. I have been compelled to accept two important salary cuts, from $50 a week to $35 and now to $25. “Under the circumstances it will be well-nigh impossible for me to maintain a decent home and a good education for my children, and to pay taxes besides interest on mortgage against the premises in which I place my life earnings for the protection of my family. “What are we doing for the fu- ture generation? c.3.8, “Brooklyn, May 19, 1931.” ‘This worker, who suffered # 5¢ per cent wage-cut, still has faith in capitalism and wonders what it will do “for the future generation.” The capitalists, in their drive for profits, have starvation and war in store for the present, as well as the future gen- eration, unless it is overthrown, The immediate task is not to accent wage- cuts meekly, or to believe in the lying talk of Green and Woll, but, to unite on the job, and under revolutionary leadership, for a militant battle to smash the wage-cutting drive. Wages Cut In Wheeling. WHEELING, W. Va., May 21.—The Wheeling Sttel Corporation yesterday announced another 10 per cent wage- cut, to affect all workers in their plant. Despite the brave talk of Green, nothing is being done about it by the Metal Department of the A. F. of L, —and nothing will be done, as this wage-cut is put over with the ap- proval of the A. F. of L. leadership. The 10 per cent cut just handed out is the second since December. Last December all workers in the Wheeling Steel Corporation were given a 10 per cent cut, This company is a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, which Green praised for “keeping its wages up.” Perth Amboy—308 . Patersor, 205 Paterson St., Passaic—39 Mon roe St All branches of the LL.D. and sympathetic organizations are urged to mobilize their membership 100 Be cont foe hh ee