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

: 4 rane DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 198 ~ Page Three LOGGERS IN CANADA ORGANIZE TO FIGHT SPEED-UP, WAGE-CUTS Many Camps Line Up Solid in the Lumber Workers Ind ustrial Union Spirit of Struggle Spreading Throughout the (By a Worker Northwest Correspondent) PORT ALBERNI, B. C—A strong attempt is being made by organizers going from camp to camp to sign up the loggers into the Lumber Workers’ Ind The response is ver slowly, but still they are comi encouraging so far. camps line up a hundred per cent. ever, using mainly local marri ustrial Union. Some of the The smaller camps, how- ied men are coming in a little ng in, ig Failure of Wobblies. Let us step to 1917 and 1921. The old Lumber Workers’ Union through a militant policy got fairly good conditions for Joggers in the camps. But the Union was not strong enough to stand the economic slump in 1921. and soon ceased to have much influence in the camps. Though several attempts were made to revive it, the I.W.W. @eveloped a sectarian and reaction- ary policy which killed them for- ever up here. T.U.U.L. Gets Results’ This spring things are beginning to wake up. A policy has been work- ed out by the Lumber Workers In- dustrial Union of the Trade Union Unity League that is getting results. Already pessimism has been rooted out of the camps. Just how many workers have been signed up in the past weeks is not clear over here— probably over 200 and the crust has only been broken. The background and base for this 1s of course the ruthless speed up and several wage cuts which in the past year total up to as high as 50 per cent. Wages Cut ‘The mad drive for profits has es- pecially hit the fallers and buckers— ‘in fact, all contract workers. When -this contract work was first introd- uced into camp a few years ago the price for falling and bucking went to $1 and up to $1.50 a thousand. Now it is down to 40 and 50 cents. But the camp commissaries still charge from $17 to $18 for logger’s shoes, and waterproof clothing is $11 | to $12 a suit. Board and blankets | sti stand up to $1.50 a day. We have a good base struggle in the near future as there is much unrest here. To prepare for the struggle the lumber workers are forming camp companies. Organization on the job—and centrally directed—that’s the way we are going about it. Our demands are for free transporta- tion, board at cost, free bedding and laundry, hot dinners in camp and in the woods, shoes and cloth- ing at cost, free hospital care, double time for overtime, wages paid twice a month in cash, aboli- tion of contract work and a mini- mum wage of $5 a day. To fight for these and more far reaching demands as they develop will root the Lumber Workers In- dustrial Union among the loggers in Canada. Building Maintenance Worker Criticizes Bronx Shop Fraction — New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade: A special number of Labor Unity on the Scottsboro case was issued the week ending May 30. The organizer of the Building Maintenance Work- ers’ Union brought 50 copies of said issue to the shop of the Coop. at 2800 Bronx Park East, and notified the shop chairman and the shop fraction secretary to attange @ shop. meeting and to work out plans to distribute Labor Unity. A meeting was artanged for Friday, May 29, at, 4:15 p.m Due to some important work that hed to be done in the shop by the workers the meeting was postponed for next day, May 30. at 12:30 p. m. As the organizer of \the union, in the same shop, I ap- proached the shop chairman andthe shop fraction secretary at 12 o'clock, noon. and inquired whether they had made arrangements for the meeting, to which they replied in the affirma~ tive. ‘The meeting started with the shop chairman and the shop fraction sec- retary absent. I had to work on the hot water boilers till 1 p. m. and I could not attend the meeting. There are about 20 workers employed in the maintenance of the building, out of which 10 belong to the Party. About half of the workers are Ne- groes. At 12:30 the meeting opened, with two white and nine Negro workers \ Present. The shop committee did not \ work out any plan how to distribute the papers in the neighborhood and those that led the meeting did not know what to do. Yet they belong to the Trade Union Unity League. So on advice of the organizer is was de- cided that everyone in the shop should take three copies and dis- tribute them as good as they could. With the white members of the shop absent, and only the Negro workers present, creates the feeling amongst them that they are the ones who have to do the work, instead of working together, white and colored. On May 23 a shop meeting was called to raise funds for the Daily Worker. One hundred and sixty-five dollars were lected by the main- tenance workers in the shop. The organizer of Section 5. who works in the building as a fireman, took the money to the Daily Worker and next day we saw in the Daily Worker that the money was collected by the work- ers in the Coop. Which workers? ‘The Coop. is full of workers. Every tenant is a worker. There are two kinds of workers employed in the Coop. That is, the food workers and the maintenance workers. In our unit meeting we are told that one member of Section 5 collected $300 in the Coop. Well, you could have sent a pioneer to make the appeal for funds and he would have done just as good as this one member. Who is this one member? The sec- tion organizer? I should say not. The maintenance workers collected this money and no one else. The $135 were collected by the food workers, and credit should be given where it belongs. How can we other- wise activize and stimulate those that gave the money to further ac- tivity. Party members should work in the unions and mass organizations and stimulate their activities. and, if through their activities, the mass or- ganization accomplish certain things, then credit should be given to them. ‘We must build our unions. If the unions arid mass organizations are going to be the lever and the re- serve of our Party, then this particu- Jar shop has failed in its purpose. Comradely yours, DAN. RICKERT, B. M. W. Union, Wage Cuts In Federal Knitting Mill; New Cuts Threaten CLEVELAND, Ohio—I am an em- In order to make but while it has hhaven’t had {work sel ayie laid off during the ed to work on Sat- we are only sup- ‘k half a day the boss 3 5 2 ut i comes around and says we have to work 2 and 3 hours overtime for which we do not receive no pay for our work. New Cut Now the factory officials, tell us that in order to keep the factory going our wages will be cut to $9 a week, and piece work will be cut off, and every one will receive, $3 & week. We realize that we should organize and fight against this wage cut. ‘The only way we cam make con- ditions better is by organizing into one big union, the Trade Union Uni- ty League. —A Worker, Ford Plant Fires 11 Thousand Workers; Other Plants Detroit, Mich. Dear Comrade: “Indians beat Tigers” headlines of the local press, and one vainly looks for the news of the fact that eleven thousand work- ers have lost their jobs at the Ford Layoff ® according to their way of making the workers tame and ignorant, But that is not all yet, sixteen hunudred got laid off at the Hud- son shops, six hundred at the Mur- ray Body and a few hundred at the Chevrolet local plant. That's what Hoover calls prosperity. Let's hope that the capitalist politicians are fooling the auto-workers for the last time. Come on, Ford workers— nent and ey for your rights, PROTEST CLOSING CHESTER ‘RELIEF Big Layoffs All Last Week in Ches ster, P: (Special to the the Daily Worker:) CHESTER, Pa., June 8.—The un- employed army in Chester is grow- ing larger daily. Every day more workers are being laid off. ‘This week the Ford Co. laid off about 700 men, the Sun Ship Yard laid off about 200 and the Federal Steel Co. has closed down completely, with 130 more men thrown out of work. A wage-slashing campaign been instituted in every factory; the Standard Oil Co. has recently cut the pay of their workers 15 per cent and now they are preparing to give them another wage-cut, In the Sun Ship Co, workers are only working two and three days a wetk and are averaging from $7 to $10 a week in District 13, San Francisco, has | raised $26 in the $35,000 Campaign as of June 5. $26 in 15 days! What a record of the largest district in the Far West! Partly responsible for this Situation is the lack of cooperation on the part of functionaries in this district, A letter from W. B., Daily Worker Agent for District 13, makes clear why the drive in California is progressing at snails pace. “No co- operation to distribute old copies of the “Daily” to acquaint workers with their paper. No. D. W. agent meet- ings held in spite of the fact that two were called and no comraaes came. No co-operation from Agitprop or Org. Dept. Comrades of District 13, this condi- tion must be immediately corrected. The Daily Worker cannot be saved has wages, : by New York alone! It is up to ev- Misery Spreads. ery district in the country to deter- Misery, starvation and evictions is| mine whether thé Daily shall go up the lot of the workers of Chcster-)or under! The quota for District 13 The little relief that the charity cr- ganizations and the emergency relief committees (organized by the bosses and politicians of Chester) have been handing out to the unemployed has been cut off now. Those hundreds of famili¢s that have been depen- dent upon this miserable relief are now left without.any means of sub-| Sidies to starve from hunger. ‘The Unemployed Council of Ches- ter is rallying the workers in the| fight for immediate relief, to be paid for by the bosses, instead of it be- ing paid for by the workers as it was before. The Unemployed Coun- cil is calling a mass protest meeting on Monday evening, June 8 at 6 p. m. to be held at the Workers’ Center. at 120 W. Third St., Chester Pa. Workers, both employed and unem- ployed! Rally to this mass meeting. at which we will make plans for the relief of the unemployed, starving and hungry workers! Only through the organized protest of a strong group of workers can we make the bosses come across in this town! must be fulfilled as well as that of of District 2. Program for the cam- paign in District 13 should be drawn up at once ahd put into effect with- out delay. UPELPHIA AND DETROIT SLOW: District 2, New York, is still sending in over 70 per cent of all campaign funds received. Of the total of $8,192.70 raised as of June 5—$5,910.10 of this amount was credited to New York. District 8, Chicago has turned in $93.34 on its quota of $4,200. District 6, Cleve- land, with a quota of $2,250, has raised $361.24. The combined totals of the other 15 districts is less than a $1,000. District 3, Philadelphia, with a quota of $2,500 as sent in 233.50. District 7, Detroit, with a quota of $3,500, is recorded with $128.85. The following letter from a former advertising man who lost $40,000 in he is now serving a year in the peni- tentiary, gives a pretty clear idea of what the “Daily” is up against. “It the depression as a result of which | Funtionaries District 13 Not Cooperating In Drive! Phila. Very Slow! is impossible for me to convey in words,” he writes, “the interest and satisfaction which I derive from my ‘Daily Worker.’ I read it from begin- ning to end and when I finish it, it is passed on to at least one dozen more men who devour its contents. It is very plain to me that the readers of the ‘Daily’ must now come to its aid in these trying times of your finan- cial distress. As an advertising man I feel that I can more keenly appre- ciate better than many of your read- ers, the situation in which you are placed. can honestly tell you that great and mighty will be the rejoicings in the camps of the Morgans, Rockeféllers, Farrells, Swifts, Dollars and thou- sands of other capitalists if the ‘Daily Worker’ is forced to suspend opera- tion, The capitalist employer will of the laboring man and women ts obliged to stop! “Workers! the ‘Daily’ must not| stop! With no mouth piece as vitri- | olic and energetic as the ‘Worker’ in the field—the forces of comrades will be powerless in their far flung reaches to withstand further oppres- | sion and wage cuts. I ask you to come | to the aid of the most needed publi- cation in the U. today—The Daily Worker.” Build “Daily” Clubs, Red Builders News Clubs must now expand into Daily Worker Clubs ers of the “Daily.” Meetings everywhere should be held every week and doors thrown open to all who wish to come. No discipline or mechanical control! All duties voluntary. Entertainment can follow meetings. Prizes also. District 7, Detroit, is giving a copy of “Len- inism” by Stalin with every $25 worth of certificates sold. The D. W. Club must remain a permanent inst tution after campaign. Through this agency. it will be possible to spread the “Daily” should post office privi- leges be taken away. NEEDLE UNION IN GAINS IN BOSTON) ACW Crew Try Force! Strike on Wor kers . | June 8—Workers| omens 5 of the All America Garment who} organized and joined the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union were confronted with a discharge case the next day. The firm fired a worker, using all kinds of excuses, Wut actually making it a test case of how stronzly organized the workers are. Th workers of the shop re- plied to this arbitrary action, by de- claring a strike.” The firm’s action in firing the worker was instigated by the Amalgamated and by the For- ward, with the aim of provoking a strike which they consider favorable at the present time to the firm, due to the slack period prevailing in the trade. Amalgamated agents BOSTON, Mass contributions of $110. District 15 (Connecticut), up, while Districts 4 (Buffalo), 10 (California), 17 (Birmingham), 18 heard from at all. District 13, with The contributions follow: already at- DISTRICT 1 tempted to get scabs in a number! , 4 Cnase, Hillaboro, N of men’s clothing shops. This morn-| 1, A Baily, Hillsboro, N. ing Amalgamated agents visited Tri- PS A bo Bee rere B 22 mount Clothing Shop with the aim : DISTRICT 2 of rounding up some scabs, but were wy W.. New York City _ $ 5.00 “dy Royce, New rk City.. 50,00 threatened by the workers to be} Nine Della Moniea, Utica, N.Y. 5.00 thrown out of the shop and they| &. Kereanin, Bronx, N, Y. 2.00 were compelled to leave without ac-| AM Wellin, Wetervlige Ny; 3.8 complishing their purpose. K,. Martyniuk, cere City... 5.00 5 M. Melnyk, Atlantic City, NJ. 1.00 Shapiro of the All America Gar-| jonn Malasyer, Atlantic City 2.00 ment and Lefkowitz of the Neptune} Anthony Strok : 50 Garment, where a strike is on, for about a week, also due to a discharge of several workers for joining the union, are both Poli-Zionists and very close friends of the Interna- tional, Amalgamated and Forward % +e r sakes. Chax. Sanfilippo, Bronx, N.Y. 1.00 : Oxcar Rosenbloom, Bklyn, N.Y. 2.00 Strikes which were forced upon ee Wetnbera . bred the Industrial Union at the Neptune 4.00 and Ali America Garment are an sa attempt of the Forward gang t0| peter Happen, New York ots 2.00 smash the organization campaign] Felix Coo, New York City. . 3.50 carried on by the Industrial Union : pe among the Sheepskin, Leather and _ Raincoat makers of Boston. Texsie Minak, Weatbury, pad ‘The sentiment of the workers in big ar my Mh oe, onkers 1,00 both trades is very good. Industrial] ‘ciub, New York City..... 5. * 5.00 Union is confident of developing the organization campaign, of conduct- ing successfully both strikes and calls upon workers of every shop, both sheepskin, leather and raincoat trades, to strike against any attempt of their employers to fire them from. their jobs and to cut their wages. Beet Workers Pay At Starvation Level WASHINGTON.—Wage reductions in the Colorado sugar beet industry is creating an appalling situation, admits Thomas F. Mahoney, of Long- mont, Colorado, writing to William Green, president. of the A. F. of L. Green keeps quiet about these wage cuts, however. There are more than 30,000 men, women and children working in the beet fields. Their wages are so low that despite them Senja Niema, Warren, Ohio... Mary Drarich, Steubenville, 0. 800 Book No. 2001, ‘tro! No. 2268, Detroit, Mi A Worker, Detroit, they must resort to charity to keep ere ace i beg % Kon, from starving. i Ton, Gent Chicago, Son The Great Western Sugar Company | Nuctens No. 8, See. 6, which dominates the industry here is] ©™eage 1 Jue reaping heavy profits, nad sinve 1905 on an investment of less than $13,- 600,000 has paid out $93,000,000 in dividends, Totar .. DISTRICT F. Meyer, Minnenpolis, Minn... DISTRICT 12 ‘W. Farr, Weacham, Oregon... Pavol Munter ‘Total 560 GIVE ‘YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- SATURDAY RECEIPTS DECLINE its shameful indifference to the fate of the Daily Worker. from all the districts will be necessary to save our fighting Daily! “in the lists of previous contributions we omitted including $110 from the workers of the Bronx Cooperative Stores, New York City. 13.00 | most interesting evening entertain- }mect, Admission free, | AGAIN; DISTRICT 3 SHOWS LIFE Note.—Workers who do not wish their names published because of the possibility of persecution should indicate this in sending in their . e Saturday's totals (up till 3 p. m.) took another drop—only $366.21. Contributions from the New York district showed a slackening of efforts and for the first time New York contributed less than half the totals. Of the other districts, District 3 (Philadelphia) finally came to life with Keep it up, District 3! one of the smallest in the country, con- tinued its spurt of the previous day with a $22 contribution. (Detroit) showed a little more activity than usual, but $29.75 is still far below the pace that should be set by a district with a $3,500 quota. District 8 (Chicago) slowed down considerably instead of speeding District 7 (Kansas City), 11 (Agricultural), 13 (Butte) and 19 (Denver) were not & quota of $2,000, is thus continuing More activity DISTRICT 16 R.M. Nicholas, Richmond, Va. Total all districts Previously received . = SS558.01 Free Barnett for “6 Months Only” Fight On to Free All Centralia Boys SEATTLE, Wash., June 5.—Eugene Barnett, one of the Centralia pris- oners has been paroled for six months by Governor Roland Hartley, on recommendation of the state parole board. He is allowed to visit his wife, who is about to undergo a critical operation. and after the six months are up, is ordered to return the rest of his 25 to 40 years’ sentence. Barnett is one of the seven mem- bers of the IWW sentenced after a trial in which the jury now admits it was hoodwinked and terrorized into conviction. One other, Loren Roberts, was found insane by the jury, but was confined in the same prison with the others until his re- lease last year. One of the seven died last year. The other five are still in prison. The conviction was because workers inside their hall de- fended it, Noy. 11, 1919, against a murderous raid by the American Le- Total to date.. 300 gion. Every effort must be made to free the whole six Centralia boys, includ- ing Barnett, with whom the state government now seems trying to play ® “cat and mouse” game: Newark Tuul Farewell Banquet, Fri., June 12 NEWARK, N. J.—The Trade Union Unity League is holding a farewell affair Friday, June 12, 8 p. m., for & group of its mémbers who are leaving for the Soviet Union. ‘The Arrangement Committee invites everybody to come to 0 Ferry S8t., Newark, and assures those present a ‘. “Workers,” continues the appeal, “I | dance in his glee if this real friend | ; composed of readers as well as sell- | POLICE WOUND - GERMAN WORKERS Red Dail y “Suppressed For 3 Weeks | (Cable By Inprecor.) BERLIN.—Saturday and Sunday in Chemnitz a fascist parade took] place, Saturday night the it stormed the detachment and attacked the Communist book-| stores, Bruehl. The first attack at 2:30 was repulsed. The fascists re- turned later reinforced. The door was smashed and windows broken The fascists were again repulsed. A | pitched battle occurred with workers hurrying to defend the bookstore. ‘Two fascists were killed, and five \ W I PITTSBURGH, Pa is one , June 7.—Here on why the minets strike certain mine of the Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal Co. a huge concern that makes millions for its owners | he first slip (they come two weeks oart) shows tt the miner made 25.47. That is about $12.70 a week, but the miner didn’t get it, little} enough as it is. Instead the company | piled up a list of deductions ing smith- | doctor, 45 cents, explosives, near- insurance something over al bath house and board to equal $25.47. He didn’t see a cent were seriously wounded as a result.| The police arrived after the fascist | attack, and repulsed and a ata j seventy workers. Three workers| were wounded by police bullets, ‘The | ist; Chemnitz Daily, “Kaem-| was suppressed for three There were less serious jin other parts of the town Collisions between workers and| fascists on Saturday night occured | in two places of Berlin. Many in- jured, several arrested, In Seuthen on Saturday collisions between | Commun and fascists took place. | Nine fascists were injured. IFA GREETS CONF. CULTURAL WORK) German Body Tells of Cultural Activities NEW YORK.—The IFA, the fed- eration of proletarian cultural or- ganizations of Germany, has sent a fighting message of greetings to the conference that will federate the workers’ cultural groups in the New York area, The conference will. be held Sunday, June 14, at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. starting at 10:30 a. m. It is being called by the John Reed Club and every organization engaging in some form of proletarian cultural work is invited to send two delegates | The message from the IFA de- | clares in part “In the name of the EFA, the cul- | tural organizations are confronted | with great decisive tasks. The Ger- man bourgeoisie is conducting an} unheard-of campaign of terror | against Bolshevist culture. On the basis of the so-called state of emer- gency, the proletatian “cultural-‘or- ganizations have also been put, under the jurisdiction of exceptional law. The police break up meetings of the proletarian cultural organizations, arrest their functionaries, prohibit revolutionary songs, prohibit the or- ganization of radio listening—in eve- nings from Moscow, confiscate the pictures of revolutionary artists, con- fiscate the newspapers and pamph- lets of the proletarian cultural or- ganizations—in short, prohibit any move for freedom of the toiling peo- ple in general. “In spite of these measures the masses are joining the proletarian cultural organizations, and are tak- ing their places on the red cultural front. The German proletarian cul- tural organizations are marching in the same front with the fighting revolutionary proletariat and are joining the general fight of the proletariat for liberation. “Your conference, also, is con- fronted with the question of the planning of special forms and methods of agitation and propa- ganda, which will make it possible to extend the fighting base of the toiling masses and to win new masses for the revolutionary libera- tion struggle. In this spirit we greet your conference and wish it the best success.” JAMAICA KKK IN VICIOUS THREAT Try Stop Work of the Scottsboro Defense The Jamaica Scottsboro Defense Committee has been threatened by the Ku Klux Klan for its activity in connection with the Scottsboro nine and because the committee came to the defense of a Negro worker in Jamaica who was recently attacked by the Klan on the frame-up charge of rape. The Klan sent two of its members to the headquarters of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights at 109-26 Union Hall St., Jamaica, to Jook for the secretary who sends out the mail with the threat that if he continued to send letters to any Ne- groes calling them to mass meetings the headquarters would be raided, This threat was reported to the United Front Scottsboro Conference, which was held May 26, and resulted in @ unanimous decision to extend the work to build a broad movement of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and to hold another United Front Conference on a wider scale, Friday, June 19, All delegates were instructed and are herewith reminded to turn in al! contacts of organiza- tions and churches to whom the call will be sent and to mobilize all work- ers in the locality for a parade on duly 4, The conference also raised $60 for of the money he worked for. That first slip was for the last two | weeks in November, 1980 They let him make $26.79 for the| | $46.68, 41.44, and $46.42. | plies of the trade. first two weeks in December, and ch against him were exactly | The tale of Pecoaee con- | aaa MINERS STRIKE IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA tinues: $32.04 made, and $34.04 de- ducted; $17.71 made and $17.27 de- in Western Pennsylvania. In the} ducted by the compa: $20.51 made, National Miners Union office in| and $20.51 taken away; $22.24 made Pittsburgh is @ police of little pink| and $22.24 lost; $19.85 wages, and pay slips for a certain miner of a| $19.85 deducted; and so on for fort- nightly amounts of $24.40. $37.87 Six solid months of work for the Pittsburgh ‘Terminal Coal Co.-and not one cent made! The company got this man’s wages for assignments, smithing, the regular 40 cent charge for doctor, ex- Plosive, brass checks, miners lamps. insurance, bath house and board. Every one of these the company should have paid, particularly all but board. They were for the tools to be used for mining. This man worked aS & peon, as a slave, and they even made him pay for the tools and sup- That is one rea- son the miners strike. There are a not like this one, and they don’t Ike it conan Strike Spr eads Rapidly Despite Terror of Coal and [ron Police (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ON Several arrests were made. Police were clubbed unconscious. Smail children were hurled from trucks down on the concrete pavement by the police, Many miners have arms broken, eyes knocked out. Even students and business men protested at the brutality of the troopers. The Wildwood Mine is the most mechanized mine in the world. Three hundred men working there raise 5,000 tons of coal daily. At the Crescent mine the pickets disarmed the coal and iron cop. NEW YORK.— Firing machine guns at the mass picket lines of the 9,000 miners on strike against starvation in the Western Pennsyl- vania coal fields, state troopers and coal and iron police failed to break the militancy of the strikers. The United Press dispatch from Pittsburgh report states: “Hundreds of striking miners bat- tled coal and iron police and state troopers today in what was described the worst rioting in Western ania bituminous fields in as Pen: } nine years. “The disorders climaxed the strike of more than 10,000 miners which began 19 days ago. (The strike is under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union.) “Police hurled tear gas bombs. discharged machine guns and swupey groups in Washington County, "alt @ dozen persons, including two of- tice: were beaten severely, two min were reported wounded slightly, and scores were said to have been beaten down by the police. “Their tear gas exhausted, the po- lice fired several clips from a ma- chine gun to warn the aroused min- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) porations over $5,000 a year and on property or fortunes over $25,000, the fund fo be administered by the em- ployed and unemployed and poor farmers. 2. An emergency appropriation by the State Legislature of $200,000,000 for immediate relief for starving fam- ilies of the workers, miners and poor farmers throughout the state. This money to be raised by turning over all the funds appropriated for state police, military purposes. American Legion, by reducing salaries of all the state officials to average wage of the workers and by special tax on the large corporations and banks. This fund to be paid out to the unem- ployed as indicated above. 3, Cancellation of all debts and mortgages of poor farmers and ex- empt taxation of poor farmers. 4. No eviction of unemployed and no foreclosures on farmers for non- payment of taxes, mortgages or rent- als. No taxation on houses owned by unemployed workers and poor farm- ers. 5. No discrimination against Ne- groes or foreign-born or on the ground of residence. 6. A minimum of $5 a day on all government and.charity jobs and 7 hours a day on all the state and city jobs. 7. Abolition of child labor. Free milk, hot lunches, clothing for all school children of the workers and poor farmers. 8. Free use of gas, electricity and water, free medical aid to all unem- ployed and poor farmers, 9. Right of the unemployed and employed workers and farmers to or- ganize, assemble, strike and to voice their demands. 10. Opening of public buildings for ers. Arrival of additional troepers dispersed them “One trooper was knocked fem his horse by @ brick. Another troop- er was dragged from his horse “Eyewitnesses said the trodpers rode into the groups of men beating them down with clubs. “Over the entire battle scene hung ® gray cloud of tear gas.” Many arrests wet made, aceord- ing to this same U. P. report. At New Kensington scabs were stoned and eight men arrested. A coal and iron cop was beaten when he at- tacked & group of miners with his club. Arrests were made of strikers. The U. P. telegram from Pittsburgh goes on to state that the coal and iron police transported the scabs to the mine under the protection of machine guns. This did no stop the mass picket lines. More troopers ware called to Washington. Adem Getto, organizer for the Nationel Miners’ Union, was arrested and beaten. “At New Kensington,” the U. P. says, “the other extremity of the strike area, which extends to three counties in the western end of the State, strikebreakers were said to have been stoned as they went to work in the Kinloch mine of ths Valley Camp Goal Ca," Mass z toek place at the West! @Whe. Two grouns marched to the telne, ons from Burgettstown ehd tne other from Cecil. One greyp their riot sticks to dispgmse two} reached the mine and picketed. The other group was stopped by the pelics and a fight followed. Tear gas was shot at the strikers. The men an- swered with a volley of stones ac they retreated. Eight strikers were arrested in New Kensington. Over 800 miners are reported to have quit work at the Crescent mine and joined the strike MAYORS, POLICE CHIEFS TRY TO STOP ILLINOIS HUNGER MARCH free use of unemployed. Opening of empty apartments for the unem- ployed. 11. Abolition of State Police and injunction laws. 12. Abolition of the State Sedition laws and Vagrancy laws and imme- diate release of D. E. Early, arrested in Chicago Heights on charges of violation of the State Sedition law. 13. No discrimination against Ne- gro, women and young workers in the administratino of relief, equal rights for Negro workers. The state conference on unemploy- ment will take place in Springfield on June 14 1 p. m., at Oll Fellows Hall, 214 8. 14th St., Springfield, M1. Jobless St. Louis Worker a Suicide ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 8—A char- ity worker arrived at th ehome of the unemployed worker, William Vanderbilt, 52 years old; but only to find that he had attempted suitide and had killed his wife rather than see her starve to death. A clipping of an editorial was found near Vanderbilt entitled “ple- very.” It read: “Bo far as we are concerned we believe that death is better than slavery.” SENDS CABLEGRAM TO MUSSOLINI. CHICAGO, Ill.—Sending a cable- gram costing $175, Cetrillo, president of the Chicago Federation of Musi- cians, lodged protest with the fascist dictator, Mussolini, over the Italian Consul here. The Consul refuses to hire union bands, and this A. F. of L. misleader, Petrillo, is beseeching the fascist labor-hater, Mussolini, to. call him down for it! Union mem- bers paid on the $175 cablegram. Enclosed find We pledge to do all in our power by July L Name .. Address . the Datly Werke, - + Ctty MUST HAVE $1,000 a DAY! - SS 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. *. cents to save our Daily by raising 835,000