The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1931, Page 3

HLe DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, Page Three eaten CARPENTERS URGED TO|Warm Weather, Starvation and American Mayors in France BRITISH LABOR GOV'T KILLS 500 VOTE FOR RANK & FILE) ® 1 wscexsson LOCAL UNION LEADERS Corrupt Officials Expell Militant Workers Who Oppose Reactionary Rule Carpenters Now At the Mercy of Bosses; No Wnion Conditions—Wage Scale -Lowered (By a Worker Correspondent) ‘NEW YORK, N. Y.—This coming June, we union car- penjrs will be called upon to nominate and elect union officials and &lso deelgates to the district council. Dany rank and file members have not realized in the past the itaportance of electing officials. Their idifference created a clique of job seekers as the elected and thy secured the rule of thi) union easily. These job seeking reactionary officials, from {ihe local unions to the Hutchinson machine rule has kept up the general policy of supporting each other. Those who had the giits to oppose them were terrorized into silence or ex- pelled. The result is complete de-#- moraliatition. No Wage Scale. Because the union is demoralized by corrupt officialdom—we carpen- ters are now completely at the mercy of the Hosses—there is no semblance of any union conditions—no wage scale; 4-7-8 dollars a day, this is what wé are actually getting. ‘The oarpenters district council of New Ydtk and vicinity worked hand in hand with their bosses and sold out the interest: of the membership. Agreemants were “signed behind closed @bors. We have a clause in our agriément to the following: “That there should be no limita- tion as to the amount of work a man is lo perform during his work day.” The bwsses were given the right to hire find fire at will, the business agents @pntrolled the jobs and the shops fat the sole purpose of taking graft frm the bosses. Instead of organizing the unorganized, @ pro- posal for higher initiation fees was installed, instead of supporting so- ¢ial unemployment insurance bill, a joke proposal for a dollar a week tax on those members who are em- ployed was perpetrated—instead of fighting the unofficial wage cuts, these fakers were paving the way for official wage slashes. In the local unions the reactionary clique are singing “hallelulah” to all these betrayals. The fake progres- sives are trying to impress the dis- contented union members that re- form is possible for the Hutchinson machine rule. In local union 2090, the Morrell group is using revolu- tionary phrases in order to mislead the discontented members. The lo- cal carpenters demonstrated and re- quested the heads of the district councils to take action. They were greeted by a stern refusal. Thus the thembers of these locals were con- vinced that what the carpenters section of the Trade Union Unity League told them was correct; that the district council will not do any- thing and that it is up to the local members them selves to take matters into their own hands. The local members must, at the next election of local officials in June, give a smashing blow to the reactionary clique rule and to all the fake progressive job seekers. The members should elect a mil: itant rank and file local leadership —those who will stand for a fight- ing program of action. Workers and Farmers in Northwest Hold Meeting of Protest Against Fierce Conditions Sedro-Woolley, Wash. Daily Warker: With the burden of the economic depression thru wage cuts, unemploy- ment, low price for fatm products taxation, ‘ttc., being shifted more and more ‘on ithe backs of the producers, about 400 workers gathered here to express their determination to fight for the right to live. Alex Nobral reported on his two years stay in the Soviet Union, con trasing the conditions there where tha wages are rising and conditions geting better for the workers with the cxtremly low prices the farmers are getting here. Much interest was shown by the assembled farmers and workers. The Lumber Workers Union and the United Farmers are growing fast in this locality. Another meeting for workers of two counties is being ad- vertised to be held at Lake Samish June 14th, Relief Stopped in Clinton; Bakers Get Pay Cut Clinton, Ind. Daily Worker: ‘The conditions are very bad around here. The miners are working part time—as Jow as one day a week. The charity hes been cut off and the workers fre now threatened with evictions. Also the bosses are fore- closing lonns. We are actually starving to death here. But we are organizing the workers into the Unemployed Council in order that it will be able to fight against such conditions. Our Unemployed Council meets every Tuesday night at 7.30 P.M. at 326 North Eight Street. Our mem- bership is increasing every meeting night. The workers realize that they have organize. Bakers Get Cut The bakers are having their wages cut 50 per cent. The mines are in- stalling new machinery, which means that the unemployed army will in- crease, We are sending two delegates to the protest conference to’ be held in Indianapolis on June 5th and 6th for the defense of the nine Negro boys who are sentenced to die in Scottsboro, Ala. —Workers Correpondence League, Clinton, Ind. Seattle Stores Make Big Cut in Working Force (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash. — This last week the three largest stoves in Seattle have made further larga reductions in the working force.The Bon Marche, Frederick & Nelson (the Seattle Marshal Field store), and Rhodes store all laid off large numbers of clerks. The Bon Marche in normal times has employed from 1,500 to 2,000 workers, but now has less than a thousand. Many of them are on part time. Several stores have al- ready closed own, and many others \ that have been here for many years are about to close. Sears Roebuck has had further lay-offs, tho there are so few working there it is hard to see how they can lay off any more. Clerking, office work, and factory work are on a decrease. Altho the lumber industry is sup- posed to be picking up and reaching its best season, the mills are all run- ning part time or still closed down. Nettleton Mill has been closed for three weeks, for instance, and Seattle Cedar runs the saw mill three days and the shingle mill five days a week. There is some increase in the number of jobs going thru the em- ployment agencies, but they are mostly jobs for a few hours fixing gardens, waiting table at banquets, etc. “Real, steady jobs” are almost non-existent. Tho there may be a little seasonal improvement in some lines, workers are beginning to talk about what is going to happen next winter. Ex-Serviceman Jailed for Reading Bishop Brown’s Book Albany, N. Y. Daily Worker: Time was, and not so long ago, when @ Communist was necessarily a foreigner, and told to “go back where he came from.” Now, when ‘our own’ have taken to follow the red flag, His Honor can’t tell “em to go where they came from, but just to “go.” An ex-serviceman, honorably dis- charged, is found reading “red liter- ature,” Bishop Brown’s Book—on the streets, He is sent to jail, told to be ashamed of himself, and when he comes Out of jail,to “go.” Where to? tin fhe next war which you and yours are preparing, Your Honor, you must see to it that “our dough- boys” don’t come back at all, so you ‘will be saved the bother of later jail- ing and deporting them). At an open air meeting held to Protest this outrage, the cop had his orders. “Why don’t you go back to your own country?” And the speaker, like ® regular Bolshevik, has the to admit: “But that’s where now! Or has Albany moved out, the chairman, @ red-haired copper miner, who “My dad was born in Utah, and I fought in 3 the Spanish American War.” The cop looks around at the defense corps, and recognizes workeers who | ©: & went to school with him. Turned Bolshevik! “What the hell, is this the United States or Russia?” From the platform, the speaker is| 2 waving a book. “Fellow workers, for reading this book a worker was jailed here in Albany. Yes, in this great, democratic land of sweet liberty, a worker is jailed for daring to read what he wants to. the bosses can scare us that way. We are offering this book for sale—| A. y. ten cents; but be careful, you might. get jailed if you buy it! Who wants a copy? Who's got the courage to| J¢ take a copy of this same book, and read it, and tell the bosses and their tools where to get off at?” Now lets see it A number of hands dart up. Work- By the grace of god! here comes warm weather, City governments and employers that carry them in their vest pockets have struck an alliance with god and warm weath- er, so everything indicates, to slash relief to the unemployed workers and families, to take away the few dry crusts they handed out all winter. Now that the sun shines warmly, bread is superflous. Eat the sun! Eat the grass the sun encourages to grow! nimm Mm fim And maybe, while the summer lasts, the unemployed will comfort themselves with the wordy sugges- tions that flow out of the poison gas bags of the rich and greasy upper strata. This edvice to the unemployed on what to eat, when to eat, not to eat, this demagogy. is sufficiently sickening to compel any worker to vomit the mess of spuds, the loaf of stale bread, which the kind city fath~ ers last threw at them. From Chicago comes a grand idea from the well manured brain of a big judge. Let’s organize “nickel clubs” he advises. Give nickels to feed the unemployed. Encourage those work- ers who have nothing to give to those who have less! A nice fat lady in the east also wins a prize for expert fakery. She fills a column in the bosses’ préss with a fond hope that the professional baseball magnates will give the unemployed free tickets to the games. It’s more manly to starve to death in the hot sun of @ baseball bleacher than in a filthy gutter. You've read about the sym- pathetic gent who advised all un- employed to get rowboats and go fishing. Or, adding to this, why not get a gun and go hunting? The implication is plain. If you catch no fish, drown yourself. If you shoot no game, shoot yourself. In line with these last two fake and capitalistically “humane” sug- gestions comes the suggestion from cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, Akron and others. They are telling the unemployed to turn over a little soil on a little land and plant a potatoe. For the many months it will take this little potato to make a few more little potatoes, the unemployed work- ers, with starving children are given the right to take a vacation on the little lot of land and watch and wait and starve. And while this reeking filthy ad- vice on how to live in the summer time without eating is being dumped upon the market for consumption by all fools, there are 25 little mayors from 25 cities in the United States, cavorting, dining and wining in France. With stomachs extended by the richest viands, reeling and trip- ping thru the streets of France's et Chandon champagne. they have just sent an SOS to the U. S, im- ploring their own press not to tell the “public” in their own cities that they have been lousy drunk for days. Mayor Baker of Portland, Ore., leads the delegation—Portland, where unemployed workers are given years in jail for fighting for food for their starving families. Mayor Porter of} Los Angeles cables to these shores that he is a dry. He raises his glass to his lips so as not to insult the French bourgeoisie, but never drinks a drop, But this mayor is extra fond of drinking the blood of workers, whom he clubs and terrorizezs mer- cilessly in his home town. Why drink wine in France when the blood of workers has France's richest claret wine beat a mile? In all the 25 towns these 25 little mayors come from, babies are d ing, no milk; suicides are increasing, no hope; sickness multiplies, mal- nutrition. Whole families are slow- ly starving to death, whole sections of the unemployed suffer hunger daily. And the mayors, in France, dance and gut themselves until dead igay, And if you will excuse us| for being a little concrete — they} dance in France on the sick bodies, the tubercular breasts, the empty stomachs, of all the unemployed in this richest country on god’s earth, the U. S, A. A baby holds out its cities with an over-capacity of Moet skeletoned hand for a swallow of milk, there is none—instead 25 may- ors step on this little hand—dancing and guzzling in France. ‘Will the workers, unemployed and employed, give these “hot mamma” mayors a hot reception when they return to their home towns? Is your mayor missing? If so, you can take it for granted that he’s in France or some place, stepping high, while at home thousands are with- out food. We are not sticklers for conventional things, etiquette and the like, but we do feel strongly that all these mayors should be “received” by the workers when they return. With Scottsboro, Paterson, wage cuts, deportation of foreign born, war danger, attack on the Soviet Union, the millions of unemployed and their misery in mind, to strengthen your city convention to fight unmployment and starvation, give these big boys a “welcome” they'll never forget. wis ‘This swordthrust at the “happy mayors” in France and this plea for action in behalf of the mil- ns of unemployed, sees the light day, is made available to you because we have a Daily Worker. We've got to keep on having our Daily, our fighter and organizer. Swell the $35,000 fund with every dollar and dime you can collect and give.—Ed.) Pope and Mussolini Fight For By VERN SMITH. Capitalist newspaper accounts yes- terday featured the dissolving of “Catholic Action” by direct order of Muséolini, and the retaliation of the Pope, who called off the Italian Eucharistic Congress which was to be held this year, and partly severed felations with the fascist government. This is the culmination so far of a sudden outburst of fascist mob at- tack on various Catholic institutions which followed charges made in the official fascist organ, ‘Lavoro Fas- cisti” that Catholic Action’s Rome conference recently planned an up- rising against fascist rule. ‘The article in the fascist news- paper and the last few day's fascist rage against the Catholic Church, with which, in February, 1929, a for- mal treaty had beer made. are to be. traced directly to the growing econ- omic crisis in Italy, the increasing misery of the masses and the attempt of the Catholic hierarchy to substi- tute itself for secular fascism in the job of crushing down the workers and peasants, whose resentment has reached a dangerous piteh. In this attempt the Pope has not hesitated to try and capitalize on the misery and resentment of the masses, who hold fascism responsible. ‘The now famous Papal encyclical letter, “Quadrigisimo Anno, after thousands of words of vague and not new soft soap for the working class, contained, towards the end, @ bold proposition which has ben curiously overlooked both by friends and ene- mies. The Pope in this proposition outlined a “perfect” future state to be based on “corporations,” of both workers and employers in each in- dustry. Compulsory Collaboration. ‘The advantages of such @ form of society are, in the words of the Papal encyclical, “Strikes and lockouts are forbidden,” and there is instituted, “peaceful collaboration of the classes, repression of Socialist organization and efforts, the moderating influence of a special ministry.” This is exactly the proposal of fas- ¢cism, never actually realized by the fascist regime in Italy. With this ‘The contributions follow: DISTRICT 1 A. Bello, Fall River, Mass..$ 2.00 Busan, Newport, R. 1. 2.00 Total 4.00 rhe STRICT 2 Kanner, 55.50 New Wenale Marie igs Section in! Seetion 5, Unit 15¢. 845 Workers of 8. Kolin hop o Right to Crush Masses For Boss went a challenge to fascism, in the form of a demand for unremitting hostility to the point of war against all commercial and other enterprises of the Soviet Union. It is well known that the Italian fascist gov- ernment has been forced, under pain of an otherwise terrific deepening of the economic crisis and probable re- volt of the masses, to conclude trade agreements with the Soviet Union commercial organizations, and to trade with the Soviet Union. The Pope here has also a direct interest in war on the Soviet Union. He is a heavy stockholder in Shell Oil, whose main head, Sir Henri Deterding, has within the last few years never ceased his vehement propaganda for such a war, and wants it for the same reason that the Pope wants it, in order to get the Russian oil fields. or at least get rid of their present successful competition. Connected directly with this ts the ‘papal crusade against the U. S. S. R. and the attempts made openly by international bankers to force Mus- solini into the united front of im- Pperialist nations for war against the Soviet Union. Building a Party. Then, a little later, in the same encyclical, the Pope proposed the establishment of a lay organization of both workers and business men, to be built up by the bishops and clergy, to bring about such a society. ‘The encyclical, as its sole new pro- posal; gave orders for a new fascist society and an organization to bring it about, which should be controlled by the Pope and Cotholic priests, and with Mussolini and the present fas- cist hiererchy obviously displaced by the Catholic clergy. It was a prop- osition to take fascism away from Mussolini, and the fascist attack on the Catholic Church followed within a few days. Catholic Action, an organization of some half million members, strong- est in Italy but with branches in Poland, Hungary, Argentine and re- cently established in Mexico, was ex- actly such an organization as indi- cated in the encyclical. It has sec- Friday Totals in Daily Worker Drive Drop; Need More Action Only $631.43 on Friday, a drop of nearly $200 from the previous day’s totals. Comrades, this is a dangerous trend. up, the campaign to save the Daily is going down. The unorganized South comes forward with a contribution of $5. And at last California is heard from—but it’s a whisper, only $1. District 9 (Minnesota) raises by $5 its previous contribution of $1. You'll have to work faster than that, comrades! with the third largest quota, is slowly waking up, but very slowly. Instead of going District 7 (Detroit), David Ri rey K’klyn 3.00 Arbeiter Bi 00 ‘Total 3 3 “ ped sew 333 332 ty a ers hands, holding a dime that was | meant for food. 1But the dirty skunk boss class must be answered. And i.e Detroit District DI 0. W. Finnen D J. Downt Stamford Nucleus, Conn. ...... Portchester, N.Y. Nucleus rT BA Pp. Ssenepingkt, New ‘Betale, 4. a F. Lehti, Fort Merers, Fie, .. ‘Total DISTRICT 7 DISTRICT § y. Lampt, Milwaukee, Wise. Its, Wine, 1OT 1 Los Anfeles, Cal... DISTRICT 15 ‘Total DISTRICT 16 pec Madison Helehts, va. UNORGANIZED SOUTH ‘Total, all districts Previously recetred tions of workers and sections of busi- ness men and students. Its avowed aims are to “reconstruct society on a Catholic basis.” May Compromise. The fight now going between the Pope and Mussolini is a struggle for the right to conduct the open dic- tatorship of capitalism wherever the “capitalist democracy” swindle has failed, and, naturally, whoever con- ducts the dictatorship reaps large re- wards from capitalism. Simultaneously with these develop- ments came a revival of the bour- geois liberal and “intellectualists” at- tack on fascism: the Toscanini inci- dent and others like it, and the ex- posure through the recent trial of a group of bourgeois opponents of fas- cism, of a fairly widespread and so far ineffectual liberal propaganda campaign by means of dropping leaf- lets from planes, ete, Some of those just tried and sentenced by fascist courts were linked up with Catholic Action. Te struggle is bitter. as yet unde- cided, and, naturally, not without the Possibility even yet of a compromise and rebuilding of the partnership be- tween the Catholic Church and fas- cism which has lasted several years and still continues in a modified form. 200 Negro, White Delegates In Chatta. Scottsboro Confer. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) he welcomed the delegates in the name of humanity. He quoted lynch- ing figures and said the Negroes were still enslaved. The expenses of the delegates were paid by pennies and nickels collected by local block committees and neighbors. Telegram greetings were received from many workers’ organizations, including the Communist Party, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, International Red Aid and 241 New York organizations. A cablegram from the mayor of Maurenne, Iviry, France, with fifty thousand popula- tion, demanded death to lynchers. A letter from Roy Wright was read to the conference, stating: “Fakers can't fool me. I'm for the I. L. D.” | Twenty-two Birmingham official delegates failed to arrive becaus> their truck broke down in Birming- ham. Delegates represent churches, Masonic Order, fraternal organiza- tions, trade unions, and Y.M.C.A.’s, workers clubs, etc. Reverend Bowen of Atlanta made last minute speech- es to the boys’ relatives and church congregations -threatening them if they attended the conference. As a result sixty per cent of the Atlanta delegation alone were coerced ‘away, although the boys’ relatives defied threats and arrived. Bowen is the Atlanta NAACP chief and leader in Ministers Alliance. J. Louis Engdahl exposed the Min- isters Alliance and the Chattanooga Veterans of Foreign Wars. He also put forward the record of the In- ternational Labor Defense in the south and showed that the 18 in- dicted in Gastonia, none electrocuted, for an example. He also said the conference proves the I, L. D, has He contrasted the polite treacherous n+ NAACP with the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights and the fearless 11] showed the role of the Party gener- fighting I, L. D. * Robert Minor, representing the New York Scottsboro Conference was wildly applauded for stating there can be no fair trial for a Negro. He stated only the power of the masses will sway the Court. He exposed the frame-up in detail and mention- ed the huge demonstration against the frame-up, He proved that the Communist Party was the first in the case, Comrade Heywood as the Com- munist Party representative briefly not been chased out of the south. | youth Day Parade. | delegations of. young " Worked to Help Her Sick Mother; Could Not Attend School YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—Because John Felicky, 1619 Florence Street, told Judge Frank L. Baldwin, that he refused to send his 16 year old daughter to school, the judge sent- enced him to five days in the county jail for contempt. Feligky was cited for keeping his daughter out of school. She told the judge that her mother was ill, and she had to help with the housework. For this crime the girl was sent to the detention home untill she agreed to attend school again, and the father was held for contempt. Youngstown Cops’ . Attack Marchers (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Ward Park, scheduled, Speakers from platforms covered with slogans explained the immediate danger of war, and the purpose of National Youth Day. One thousand young workers came in from New York on @ special train. Delegates from Massachusetts, Ver- mont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania‘ Maryland, Virginia. New Jersey and New York arrived in autos and in trucks, ‘The parade stretched for blocks. Young workers from Gonnecticut in blue and red uniforms, members of the Young Communist League in the khaki and red outfits, the Yeung Pioneers with their red kerchiefs, the Labor Sports Union in sport duds, banners, placards, slogans, cartoons and posters, all lent a colorful and eventful atmosphere. The Pioneer section of the parade where a meeting was | was headed by three buglers, fol- lowed by drummers who marched in a “Y” formation. In spite of the sweltering heat the spirit was oyer- whelmingly high. The New York section marched from the station to the First Ward Park, where all delegations were to meet. The empty park soon became abuzz with life and color. Soon trucks began to enter from all side streets. Cheers rent the air with the arrival of each new delegation. After the march and the meeting, @ sports match of baseball and soc- cer games were held. In the evening a dance took place in Belmont Park. The delegates came into New York for the night. On Sunday an out- ing was held at Ulmer Park, where the finals for the international meets in Berlin were selected and given a send-off. RC cane Big Demonstration In Milwaukee. MILWAUKEE, Wis—Three thou- sand young workers concluded the Saturday evening events of National Youth Day here when the Pioneers were given an ovation as they marched into the park. The evening meeting was packed with more than 800 present and many turned away for lack of space. Many present joined the Young Communist League. Many members of the National Guard on the sidewalk expressed sympathy as the parade went past, while groups of Young Peoples So- cialist League members tried to pro- voke the marchers, The Milwaukee Press carried a provocative story, saying: “It is a disgrace that Reds be permitted to March.” Forty-two fascist organiza- tions ; protested against National The spirit of the young workers throughout the parade and indoor meeting was excellent. The young worker delegations from St. Louls and Waukegan, Wis., had not yet arrived Saturday night. The counter-demonstration ar- Tanged by the patriotic organizations was a flop, with the capitalist press claiming that 2,500 turned out. ees eed March In Duluth, Minn, DULUTH, Minn.—Despite the re- fusal of the city officials to grant a permit, 2.500 young workers partici- pated in a militant and succesful National Youth Day parade, with BURMESE PEASANTS IN EFFORT 10 Burma, report that the British ciated Press from Simla, India, also: reveals that martial law has been declared by the British Labor gov~ ernment in its effort to bolster up imperialist domination in Burma. The A.P. cable reports the mis- sionaries as saying: “They said the rebellion was much | more serious than earlier dispatches had indicated and that recently more than 100 rebels were killed by the government forces in the Theyetmo | district. Losses on the government's side were reported to be relatively small, “Martial law has not yet been de- clared, it was said, but business is in a serious condition, with rice, the national staple, selling at half what it formerly brought. “The revolt heretofore had been confined to Southern Burma, but the government is now proceeding to occupy important centres in Up- per Burma as well, to prevent the conflict spreading. Fresh battalions are being rushed from India and additional police are being recruited. “One of the government's greatest difficulties, it was said, is that it cannot discover who are the real Yeaders of the rebellion. Michigan Workers Rally Again; Score Governor’s Attack (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Placed in charge of the government raids on the Bridgeman convention of the Communist Party in Michigan, in 1922. He is now employed as the “red hunter” and chief of stool pig- eons, of the National Metal Trades Association, which is largely led by Michigan auto companies, General Motors, Chrysler, and others. The chairman of the advisory council of the United League is Charles B. Warren, former ambassa- dor to Japan, and so publicly involved in the best sugar industry’s graft scandals and lobbying that even the U. S, Senate did not dare to confirm his appointment for the post of at- torney general. Both Fisher, of General Motors, and Governor Wilbur M. Brucker, are members of this advisory council. John Schmies, district secretry of the TUUL and Alfred Goetz, secre- tary of the Unemployed Councils of Michigan, have issued in the name of these two organizations the fol- lowing statement on the hunger march and next steps. “Governor Brucker did not hesitate for a minute to show his part as the most outstanding agent of the auto- mobile manufacturers in the State of Michigan. “In spite of his fascist program the hunger marchers in the State of Michigan did not surrender, but ar- rived from Lansing to their respect- ive cities in the state with much greater determination and increased willingness to build up a much more powerful movement than ever before. “The attitude of Governor Brucker surely exposed many of the illusions of democracy, etc. which were in the minds of some of the marchers prior t othe Lansing March. “The full report on the result of the Hunger March will be given at an open air affair in the Workers Camp of the Detroit Section of the Marchers on Sunday. June 7, 2 p.m “1. All Marchers are requested to be at the Ferry House on Sunday, June 7, at 9a. m,. Trucks will take them to the Workers Camp. “2. At the camp the Marchers will form into their respective companies and will give a demonstration of our State Hunger March to Lansing. “3. All the squad and company Office, 4864 Woodward, Room 12, on ‘Wednesday, June 3, at 2 p. m “4, All workers are urged to at- tend the regular weekly meeting of the Unemployed Council Branches in the various halls. “5. All unemployed workers are admitted free into the camp. “6, The Workers International Re- lief will feed the Hunger Marchers. “Report at the camp will include not only the tremendous success which we had accomplished through the Hunger March, but the delegates and the leading committee will also report on the immediate tasks in or- der to stabilize the state movement and build additional Unemployed Councils and Unemployed Branches all over Michigan.” captains are urged to be at the TUUL | CRUSH REVOLT AGAINST IMPERIALISM Missionaries Returning Say Uprising Is Much Wider Than Previously Reported; M’Donald Rushes More Troops to Kill Masses American missionaries, returning from the interior of labor government troops have slaughtered 500 Burmese revolutionary peasants, but that the revolt against British imperialism spreading. This news, contained in a dispatch of the As is unconquered and still GREEK PEASANTS FIGHT HUNGER Shout “Down With the Government!” VIENNA—As a result of the very severe weather in March and April, Greek agriculture suffered very cone siderably. The chief losers were of course the poor peasants who are practically destitute. In the current districts the peasants are ruined, In order to soothe the tour of the affected districts, He was received everywhere by embittered peasants bearing black flags. In Lechana the peasants collected at the railway station and demanded immediate relief measures and not talk. Similar scenes took place in Gartunis and Adravidas, In» Ama- liadia 10,000 peasants from the neighboring villages streamed in to meet the Minister. In Sturochoni the peasants halted the Ministrial train. In Pyrgos the Minister was met by tremendous masses of peasants car- rying black flags. Similar scene were witnessed at all stations along the line. On the way to Messina his motor-car was stopped by about 4,000 peasants who shouted, “Down with the government!” In order to avoid the indignant and rebellious peasants it was decided that the train should not stop at a number of stations, but peasant women and children forced it to halt by stand- ing on the track. In Diabolitzki 5,000 peasants demanded immediate relief measures and threatened to take it by armed force unless the govern- ment showed signs of effective action. The cynical comment of the finan- cial organ of the government, “Elef- theron Vima” is, “the state is not the partner of the peasants, and it is not an insurance company which is responsible for making geod the damage suffered by the peasants.” EAST BAY WATER CO. CUTS WAGES Shut Off Water of the Unemployed (By a Worker Correspondent.) OAKLAND, Cal.—East Bay Muni- cipal Utility (water company) who have been turning off water con- tinuously from the unemployed, that are not able to pay their bills, has a cunning way about cutting its em- ployes’ wages. The employes are being paid a sliding scale, dependant on their influence in some sections and varying as much as $1 to $1.50 per day on the same jobs. In many departments wages are paid below the set scale, yet we workers have nowhere to voice our grievances and are shut up upon mention of it, with a threat of being tired. Especially the foreign born workers are being intimidated more and more. Hit Foreign Born. ‘The city council of Oakland head~- ed by 100 percenter Commissioneer Wilhelm introduced a resolution de- manding abolition of employment of foreign born workers and a cry is raised to ‘hire a faithful citizen’. This diysion of working class is being done purposely to make the foreign born workers keep their mouths shut when they are handed a wage the boss feels like giving them. California has many foreign bern workers—a numerous cross section of the working class—and to keep them in subjection this cry is needed and practiced. NITGEDAIGET CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE, OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAB Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $174 WSK CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, §.T PHONE 731 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 We pledge to do all in our power to save our Daily by by July 1. Address ........44 ) raising $35,000 peresoravers MUST HAVE $1,900 4 past