The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1931 Page Districts! Rush All With Funds at Once! 100 P.C. Quota for . All Districts Will End “Daily” Drive Units Should Hold Inexpensive Affairs for the » “Daily;” Levin in Phila. Wed. and Thurs. ’e Detroit Unemployed Stop Eviction While the call for Coupon Books as sent out nearly two weeks ago, ery few have been returned to this office. This irresponsibility on the Part of comrades has created an glarming situation. It means that hundreds of dollars belonging to the Daily Worker are still outstanding in the districts. This is all the more important in view of the fact that the Daily needs every dollar that it can lay its hands on to prolong its Nife during the autumn and winter months. Districts and Sections must take immediate action to sea that all coupon books are immediately sent in to the National Office of the Daily Worker, together with the proper funds’ collected on them. Every book is numbered and must. be accounted for, before we can say the campaign is closed. Emphasize this fact in all Unit letters, so that in the next few days the Daily Worker will be met with a barrage of books and funds. This is the most important item on your Daily Worker ‘Agenda, so don’t fail to men- tion it adequately at meetings. Im- mediate return of all coupon books with accompanying funds will hoost percentages of weaker districts in the campaign. The drive for funds will not be over until every district in the coun- try has attained 100 per cent of its quota. To date 13 districts are be- low the 80 per cent mark. Districts 9, 10, 11 and 16 are even below the 50 per cent mark. Districts 3, 4, 5, 7, 13 and 19 are below 70 per! cent. Districts 15 and 18 have attained 78 Coupon Books | | | special August Ist edition orders are included in the figures. District 10, Kansas City, shows the only large decrease, due to a loss of 50 inCoun- cil Bluffs, 80 in Kansas City, slightly alleviated by a gain of 35 from Okla- homa City. All of the other di tricts, with the exception of Aer: cultural and Connecticut, show gains, most of them of good size, Chicago Increases 2,215, Due to Extra Aug. t Orders! District 8, Chicago, lends the list with a gain of 2,215; Harlan, Ky. deeply involved in the coal strike, comes in for a good share of this figure, having increased its order by 600; Chicago gained 1.200 dur- ing the week; Moline, 50; Spring Valley, 50; a8 well as other smaller increases. Quite a surprise after inst week’s loss of 23. District 2, New York, is next, with 4n increase of 2,067. Of this amount, Paterson, N. J. is responsible for 1,167, gained on aceount of demand for the Daily in the sfik strike region. Newark added 98 to its fig- ure Perth Amboy, 23 w York City, 740. Extra ord: 33 from Detroit helped District 7 increase its circulation by 1.663; increases from Grand Rapids, Hancock and Stam- baugh make up the balance of the figure. District 9, Minnesota, is rep- resented with a gain of 898 on the strength of extra orders from Minne- apolis of 200; 166 from Duluth, 166 from Virginia, 83 from Ironwood, other smaller ones. Negaunee and and 70 per cent, respectively. Dis- tricts 1, 6 and 8 are on the way to the 100 per cent goal. Before the campaign can be called a success every distriet must achieve 100 per sent. While $37,012.48 has been tarned im as of July 27th, more than half of this has come from District 2, New York. During the past week St was sent in by all Philadelphia, Detroit, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and California of the larger cities have a long way to go. We again repeat that all funds collected on coupon books in all districts must be mailed im- mediately with funds to cover. ‘The sooner the books are returned the quicker the Drive will close. Rush all funds withont delay. The smallest Unit can easily af- ford to hold an affair or an outing for the benefit of the Daily Worker. Regular weekly or monthly Unit benefits will earn amply sums for the Daily, especially during the sum- mer months. During August Units should hold these get-togethers as often as possible. The smaller the Unit the less the expenses will be; a backyard, a parlor, the country. anywhere will provide the necessary background for simple entertain- ment, speakers, conversation and ap- peals for. the Daily Worker. Let’s see ‘what can be done, comrades. Send notices to Workers’ Calendar an detailed report to Business Of- ice. Circulation Figures Include Special Editions. ‘The tables this week show a gain District 12, Seattle, is shown with §31—Seattle having increased by 333; Bellingham, 83; Aberdeen, 83; Tacoma, 166. District 5, Pittsburgh, increased $32 over the week in spite of loss of 250 from Avella Pa. Can- nonsburg, Pa., scene of the coal strike, added 900 to its regular or- der; Penowa, 200. Cleveland shows a gain of 391— 333 from Cleveland and 66 from Cin- cinnati. District 3, Philadelphia, shows surprisingly smal] gain, view of the imminent August Ist is- sue. Certainly the third largest dis- trict should be able to increase its order by a little more than 102. Keep Up Circulation. The circulation of the Daily. as will be noted, is growing steadily. Every effort must be made in the districts to keep this up. The rec- ord during the summer months has held up very well. In the next few months thousands of new readers must be attained. The response of the workers to their paper during the Campaign for Funds proved that interest in the Daily has been greatly inten- sified during the past weeks, In the forthcoming eireulation drive thelr interest must be sustained in this direction also until the de- sired goal is achieved—60,000 cir- culation. Workers! Build the cir- culation of the ly; build the Daily Worker Club; pledge weekly or monthly sums to the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund; send half dollars to support the Daily during the autumn months. Re- serve part of your time to he de- voted to the affairs of the Daily. Help us attain mass circulation of 9,749 over the past week. This and financial stability. Do your high increase is due to the fact that bit now! FINANCIAL—CIRCULATION i & xf ri i © af Ps s Py 3 i - a Rog 8 8 j i 3 # » Besse Bega 2 ay 5 Bas a8 ah 3h es kk ck EF 1. Bostes DIRT 2158 98 410 55RD 418 604 999 1022 23 2N. Y. ‘21,158.67 431.04 212 1308 6782 1328 SS28 8090 10157 2067 8. Phila. 1,61L73 62.75 64 1001 2303 1051 2525 3304 3556 102 4 Boftale 506.83 9.00 60 173 676 184 669 S48 S853 5 5. Pitts. 504.01 4.95 58 341 S401 348 9076 S742 9424 SIZ 6 Oleveland 2,001.19 43.25 93 S11 1721 810 2113 2532 292% 391 7 Detroit (3,122.18 7517 66 934 2113 941 3769 3047 4710 1663 S Chicago 3,759.58 127.03 90 1359 4453 1382 6645 SSi2 SO2T 2215 ® Mopls. 526.05 35.73 AK 401 S38 50L 1426 1028 1927 898 10 Kans.Cty. 174.50 825 2 28 768 255 69S 1627 953 —T4 12 Agric. 19.10 100 «18 a 62 40 62 103 1020 —1 12 Seattle 443.50 1835 44 276 772i 274 1554 997 1828 ASL 18 Caltt. 1,119.83 53.50 56 686 1742 693 2092 2428 2785 357 ‘15, Conn, 779.82 22.85 78 211 430 210 420 641 6389 —2 16 South 34.00 50 “” 74 45 ™4 118 119 1 11 Birming. 365.31 4.50 377 se 200 53 38T 25D 440181 18 Butte ., 102.00 10.00 = =70 3B co a7 40 128 127 4 19 Denver 183.95 10.60 61 128 «8236 «128 «63260 «6363 «(455 92 Unorg. 108 68 109 231 176 340° 164 87,012.28 1,010.35 106 871d 31920 8839 41548 40638 50387 9749 : : Following are the list of contribu- tions received Monday, July 27. Only $203.72 was received on this date; $164.92 of which comes from Dis- trict 2, District 8, Chicago, sent in $21.55; the combined total of the other districts is about $18. We again emphasize the importance of . F. Deno, 1.00) S. Salo, Buhl, , J. Svornic +50 |” Mini 25 : Col. by See. “87H. Hubtala, Zim, Anonymous, N.Y. .60| Col. by Sec. 6 3.10| “Minn. a Bk'lyn Proletariat, Tullius, Bronx S. Salmi, Kelly N. ¥. © 75 | Jos. Ly Harlem 50} “Lake, Minn. 26 New York City: —— Buhl, Minn, 25 ©. Pankevich 2.00 Total 8164.93 H. Boyke m4 DISTRICT 3 La ; Peters : a "25 | McAdoo, Pa.: y 25 ¥. Petrovich 30| §. Krensavage — 1.00) 5. Panker, Minneap- A. Panosik 1.00| A Grain -25 | “olis, Minn. W. Feingold 1.60| © Globich 1, Bs Asnaaw, Mtaak- . Weingart 50 apolis 4 S. Baelntein 50 ‘Total 0.J. Arness, Minne- 3. Edelstein 50 DISTRICT 8 apalis J. Edelstein +50 |S, Rochman, Chi- = I, Portny 25 | cago, Il, 1,00 Total $3.25 J, Edelstein 25 | E, Steiner, Chi- DISTRICT 10 J, Edelstein 125 | “cago, 1. 150 | Sioux City, Ame 6.75 J. Edelstein 125 | Livingston, TL: Tax Day: . 0. 50 ‘Totar $6.75 See. 1, Unit 1 2) HS. “50 DISTRICT 13 ec. 6 4. P, .50 | Saunders, Wilming. See. 8, Unit 5 2 ton, Calif. 1,00 Women's Coun, 4.50 —— Br. 47, LW.0, 1.36 Total $1.00 Sec. 6 Unit 7 1.84 Foretan Jobn, B’klyn H.C. Palmer, Sas. ‘Women’s Coun, 29.80 4 katoon, Canada 2.00 Sol by M. Tal- sPhdnec cts, Bx. 1.25 — Total $2.00 German Dist. Buro 2.00 ‘Total $21.55 coins trom affair ‘Total all dist. $ 203.72 held by f2 DISTRICT 9 Prev, recelved 37,018.79 Unit 9, for W. Narmi, Buhl, pleat ‘Worker 00! Minn, .26| Total to date $37,222.51 returning all coupon books with funds. No money owing to the Daily must be outstanding when the Drive finally closes. Fraternal organiza- tions can hold their books until called for. Fraternal organizations have raised only $6,218.04 on their quota of $10,000. Step on it, com- rades! Danville Workers Salvage Food From Garbage . Plant Danville, Til. Dear Comrades: Some time back I came across one of your Daily Workers and read it thoroughly; it sure is a wonderful paper. The copy was from the July issue and in {t I read an arti- cle about the unemployed of Wash- ington, D. C., eating on the garbage dumps. ‘This very thing exists right here in Danville, Ill. Anybody can go to ‘he garbage plant here and watch hen the trucks arrive and see wom- mn and men, black and white, fol- iow these trucks into the plant and ‘isk them as they are being shot own into the furnace to be burnt. ey miss nothing that 1s eatable. ts an unbelievable sight un!-ss one sees it himself. ‘The big railroad shop of the C. E. I. R. R. is working twelve days per month with the smallest force of em- ployees in years. Another big indus- try called the Cornstalk Products Co. went into bankruptcy also. The As- phalt Company closed also. The mi- ners in this vicinity work from two to three days a week at the best. We also have the Malleable Works here. They have slashed wages on three different occasions until r en are getting twenty-seven cents per hour. There is only one thing for the workers to do now, and that is to organize and fight with the Com- munists to do away with the misery. —A WORKER. EXPOSE A. F. L, FAKERS IN SILK STRIKE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | come out under the banner of the| united front general strike commit- | tee, and members of the National| Textile Workers’ Union were in front | of the hall, having accompanied the | delegation to the meeting. For more than an hour the officials of the U. T. W. and Associated refused to ad- mit the strike delegation, but the de- | mands of the workers in the street, | as well as those in the hall, forced | Mathews, Cohen and Holderman of | the Hosiery Workers’ Union and chairman of the action committee of the Associated and U. T. W. to admit the delegation, not, however, | before it was cut to 10. Given 10 Minutes. J. Rubin, secretary of the local of the National Textile Workers’ Union and spokesman for the delegation, was allowed only 10 minutes to| speak. In the speech he made a| plea for one strike under one strike committee. When he exposed the leadership of the Associated and U. T. W. as preventing the unity of the rank and file of the general strike of the silk and die workers, Holder- man stopped him and would not let him continue. Fellow delegate, Por- tica, was granted the floor for afew minutes, in which he made the same demand, wereupon the delegation was thrown out of the hall. Expose Strikebreaker. After the meeting the strikers went to Turn Hall, where a report was given and where the Paterson silk nd dye workers learned definitely that the Associated and U. T. W. leaders are open strike-breakers and in negotiation with the bosses to sell out the strike. Nina Chernenko, who is well known in Paterson from the strike of 1928, spoke at the meet- ing and was enthusiastically ap- plauded by the workers, who are glad of her return. “1928 is not 1931,” she said, “we have learned many les- sons in these three years.” Dissension in A.F.L. Ranks. Information has been received that Louis Budenz of the Conference of the Progressive Labor Action sent a telegram to Mathews, demanding that the Associated and U. T. W. promote the united front policy of the N. T. W. U. This point of view of Budenz lasted only for a short time and he was whipped into line by Muste and Renegade Gitlow. At the meeting of the Associated and U. T. W. the Ribbon and Hat Band Makers were for the strike, and Holdermand said to the meeting: “If you don’t go out on strik> the N. T. W. U. will drag you out. The N, T. W. U. is a union and a real force in Paterson.” A “strike” call of the Associated is clearly a call to betray the work- ers.” It states we must prepare the way for an ofganization drive and an organization strike. This clearly is merely a bait for the workers to join the Associated, pay their dues and then the trouble will be over. The call also calls for “co-operation in this crisis.” Co-operation with whom? we ask. Naturally, co-opera- tion of the Associated and U. T. W. leaders with the silk and dye manu- facturers for the purpose of break- ing the strike. The appeal of the United Front General Strike Com- mittee to the Associated and U. T. ‘W. membership meeing pointed out the following: “Unity of teh rank and file work- ers for continued struggle is the need of the hour.” It goes on to show that the United Front General Strike | Committee called the strike on July 22, “Now the Associated and the U. 'T. W. and the A. F. of L. leadership have issued a strike call after the United Front General Strike Com- mittee called the general strike and thousands of workers were already on the picket line.” It calls the members of the U. T. W. and the A. S. W. to unite with the National ‘Textile Workers’ Union members to unite in a militant struggle to win) the strike, The result of the call of the As- sociated and U. T. W. was that more and more shops came down to be lined up by the N. T. W, U. The dye workers are demanding picket lines. The workers of Weidman have sent a delegation to the N. T. W. U., asking to be taken out of the mill. This will be taken care of in a day or so and all the dye shops will be out together with teh workers from the silk mills. BS ow Renegades Know No Limits. PATERSON, N. J.—After Gitlow has clearly exposed the line of the renegades from Communism, which is a fight against the revolutionary unions and open support of the A. F. of L. leadership in Paterson, Lore, the editor of the Volks Zeitung, has become a part of the open strike machine of the Associated and U. T. W. in the A. F. of L. Lore was ad- vertised as one of the main speak- ers of the meeting called by the As- sociated and U. T. W. today at the lot of the Workmen's Circle. This renegade, open social-democrat, who closely associates with Gitlow and Lovestone, adds his njme to the names of the strike-breakers in Pat- erson, ‘ . . PATERSON, N. J.—A picket line at the Petlitz Silk Mill, who stopped some girls from going to work, was interfered with by the police, who tried to help the girls into the mill. The cop drew his blackjack, where- upon a Negro unemployed worker, who was on the picket line with the strikers, smashed the cop in the face and laid him out. Two strikers were arrested as the picket line continued. | ference, Sunday. ‘MINERS IN CENTRAL PENNA. BACK UNITED FRONT PROGRAM: JOHNSTOWN, Pa., July 28.—"This is the knid of leadership we want,” | Said one of the 78 delegates from 40 | mines, with 10,000 men in them, as he looked over the second Central Pennsylvania District miners’ con- looking miners, not the slick U.M.W. | officials who come and stick their chest out at us,” said the speaker, and his fellow delegatse cheered. The conference met in a hall lib- erally decorated with posters: “Min- ers, Organize and Fight against Starvation,” “Join the National Miners Union,” “Down with the Bosses’ Tool, the U.M.W.A.,” “No Discrimination against Negroes and Foreign Born Workers,” “Demon- Strate Against War on August 1.” A Ukrainian workers’ organization meets in this hall; there were pic- tures of Taras Schevchenko, a revo- lutionist of the middle of the last century. But the miners were there to dis- cuss the starvation and misery of America of today. The secretary of the National Miners Union, Frank Borich. made an opening address, reminding them of the spreading strike of the 40,000 already out, of the spirit of revolt against condi- tions al lover the coal fields of the government strike breaking; Sheriff Cain and his threats against women and children, the gunfire of the dep- utiesat Wildwood, the support of the U.M.W. by Governor Pinchot, and the Hoover strike-breaking confer- ence scheduled for the near. future at Washington. They voted to send a delegation to go with the delega- tions of other districts to that con- ference, and tell Hoover and the op- erators that they cannot trustify the industry at the expense of the workers in it, nor make the miners recongnize the U.M.W. “How will the minres of Central Pennsylvania act,” said Borich. “Will you continue to look on at the strike just a few miles away from you, or will you join it? Why are there no wage cuts just now in Cen- tral Pennsylvania? Because of the strike in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. If that strike should be lost, terror and wage cuts will come immediately to Central Pennsylvania.” “Let's have women on the lines right from the beginning,” said Mary Smith district secretary of the Wo- men’s Auxilliaries of the N.M.U. “If you delay to organize the women, it grows harder to organize them. If you don’t organize them so they are in the fight and understand what it is all about, the boss will use them against you.” This conference, representing 24 more mines than the first one held @ week ago, likewise endrosed the Program of Unity and Action of the National oCnference held July 15-16 in Pittsburgh. tI elected a scale committee of 17, which met imme- diately after the conference was over and drew up the following de- mands for Central Pennsylvania: Mchine coal—81 cents a ton; pick coal, $1.01 per ton; day work inside, $6 a day; outside, $5 a day; cutters 14 cents a yard, to be a®usted lo- cally for rock; payment for all dead work t obe based no day men’s pay; union checkweighmen at every mine; enforcement of the eight hour day; recognition of the N.M.U.; supplies to be delivered at the face in ade- quate quantity; safety measures; 5 cents extra per ton for pushing cars; abolition of thg dial scale and use of Fairbanks beam scale. It will be seen that certain de- mands not in the western Pennsyl- vania scale are included, because of “We want rough| special grievances. The central Pennsylvania companies have a trick of making miners do the work of mules, pushing cars. After the strike is won, if they wish to do that, they will have to pay for it. The Central Pennsylvania companies have some unusual facility for cheating on the scales, and the miners demand a special type of scale to make it har- der to cheat. The rates per ton are higher, because of the thin seams of coal in Central Pennsylvania. Some Central Pennsylvania mines are even paying higher than the 55 cents demanded by the miners in western Pennsylvania. ‘These demands will be circularized through Central Pennsylvania at mass meetings and local conferences, as the basis on which the National Miners Union is fightifg. Locals of the N.M.U. will be set up everywhere, during the next two weeks. Then, on August 9, another conference, with representation from the locals and from fine committees will meet in Hagar’s Hall, Woodvale, Johns- town and review them, in the light of discussions at the mine meetings. This conference of August 9 will set the date for strike in all Central Pennsylvania mines. ‘The reports of delegates from the various sections provided much in- formation of the conditions and the state of mind of the miners in this district. “I’m a U.M.W. scab from Portage,” said one delegate, “there’s a U.M.W. agreement there, but the miners have nothin gto say in the UM.W. meetings, and when the strike starts, we'll all drop our tools.” The rate in Portgage for pick coal which used to be $1.14 is down to 81 cents now. A delegate from Windber section told of working there for 13 years. He has never before even heard of such starvation as now. Miners get one day’s pay a week to load coal, and then put in a couple of days shooting rock, without pay. “We're feeling to come out,” said a man from Senior section, describing similar conditions. “We load twice as much coal as we are paid for,” said a man right from Johnstown. “We work from 5 a. m. to 8 p. m., and can’t make a living. It takes four mn to push a car. They bring us telephone poles for timbers, and we have to cut them to size, without pay.’ “The company store has 14 dik- ferent prices,” said one from Blough section. “If you manage to keep out of debt, they raise the price on you until you are in debt. Two men can not handle the timbers. The weigh- boss stands with his hands behind his back and his eyes closed, lettting the cars roll over the scales like greased lightening.” “You hunt spikes” said the re- porter from RalJson. “If you ask the boss for spikes, he tells you to go to town and buy them from the Cambria mills (The great Bethlehem steel plant at Johnstown). “You're lucky to make $1.50 a day when you work,” said the fellow from Hollsopple. “You have to hunt for your own rails in abandoned rooms.” “Men wear overalls all the time at Barnsborough,” said another. “Their families are half naked. They are starving. About six weeks ago they all joined the U.M.W. in desperation. But they get nothing through the UM.W They will strike.” And so it went for Blacklick, Sew- ard, Charles, Jrome, ete Some sec- tions sent word that they had no representtaion because they could not get gas for transportation— stark poverty prevented the commu- nity from raising even a few cents. CUT IN STEEL, RAILWAYS ‘CONTINUED FROM P before the meeting of th directors on Tuesday tried to get out of a direct admission of wage cuts, by saying this would come later, or in an indirect form. The World-Telegram commenting on wage cuis facing steel workers said: “A 10 per cent wage cut by the United States Steel Corporation would result in an annual saving of $39,000,000,or an amount equal to $4.50 are of the common stock capitalization of the company.” In short, the big steel bosses, propose to take out of the hides of the workers $39,000,000 and hand it over in divi- dends to the parasites who swill and loaf in the resorts. They propose to tear a few crumbs of bread from the mouths of the starving steel workres’ families and turn it over to the rich stockholdrers, These same stockholdrers in the last world war cleaned up billions, and now they are taking money from the workers, and preparing to clean up billions in the coming war. Wage cuts in the steel industry will effeq ultimately more than 450,000 as the Wall Street Journal says that the U.S. Steel Corporation wage slash will be followed by sim- ilar slashes in all steel plants. A special dispatch to this paper from Youngstown says: “Steel companies in this district expect to follow the United States Steel Corporation if and when @ general wage reduction is mad, mill managers state. “Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co,, Republic Steel Corp. Sharon Steel The police called reinforcements and the patrol wagon, in addition to mo- torcycles, were soon on the scene. The picket line continued more mili- tantly than ever and the mill closed down, Hoop Co., and the other producers here will, as usual, adhere to the standard set by the largest interest.” All of these companies have al- ready slashed wages from 10 to 30 per cent. On the day that the Steel Corpo- ration was expected to announce the steel wage cut, the misleader of the 21 railroad brotherhoods met in Washington, in an effort to keep the railroad workers from striking if Morgan & Co. ordered a wage cut on all the railroads. The attack has al- ready begun on the Missouri Pacific, the Western Maryland, and the A.B. & A. in Alabama and Georgia. These wage cuts were put over wtih the help of the fakers in the railroad brotherhoods. Now they meet to put over a bigger and more wide- spread wage-cut, One of their cron- ies, Secretary of Labor Doak, for- merly of the Brotherhood of Rail- way Trainmen, is with the Hoover cabinet helping to slash wages. He will work with his fellow-fakers in the 21 railroad brotherhoods to strive to keep the 1,200,000 railroad workers from striking en masse against wage-cuts. Every worker 1s faced with new wage slashes, Every worker must echo and act on the slogan: Strike against wage-cuts! The immediate step {s to organize strike committees on the job! The wage-cuts, taking place along with war preparations of the bosses, must be fought together. Throughout the United States and throughout the world on August Ist, the revolutionary workers, who are leading the fight against wage-cuts, are calling for militant demonstra- tions against the war preparations and against wage-cuts and hunger! All_,out August Ist! Fight the bosses’ war preparations! Fight the wage slashes! Strike! Striking Miners. « Send Thanks For Solidarity. “We the striking miners of Cover- dale, Pa., want to thank you for the wonderful assistance in our struggle against starvation, which you have given us,” a letter from local No. 126, National Miners Union of Coverdale, Pa., declares. “Our Comrade Frank Koran who has just returned from New York, told us of the sacrifices you made in our behalf. “We hope you will continue to give us your assitance because we have a much bigger struggle now, and our strike is spreading. We have added Kentucky, West Virginia and Central Pennsylvania to our struggle, and we hope to spread it to every mine in the country. Because we must win this strike, and then nothing will keep us back from winning a national agree- ment for all the miners of this here United States. “Our slogan is: Fight to the end against starvation conditions.” The letter was adopted by the rank and file strike committee and signed by its chairman, Andrew Snyder, lo- cal union No. 126 president, Charles Sage and H. J. Arnold, secretary. a MCKEESPORT, Pa., July 23. — The steel workers of McKeesport held a big picnic in Oakwood Park last Sun- dya to raise funds to help feed the striking miners’ families. | Workers went from house to house to sell tick- ete. $250 was brought into the Penn- sylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee headquarters at 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, today. The remain- der of the proceeds will be turned in when all tickets are settled for. Frank Hill, young steel worker, told about the miners’ struggle against starvation. The workers responded liberally with a spontaneous collec- tion. Five young workers, members of the Solidarity Sports Club, brought a large truck, tightly packed with can- ned foods, bread and clothing from Farrell, Pa., to the Pittsburgh head- quarters of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Committee at 611 Penn Avenue. In addition, the young workers brought $6.30, collected among their members. They took back to Farrell | collection lists so that the entire club could organize and participate in a widespread collection for relief. . PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 23. — 12 truckloads of food and clothing were received here today from New York City. Another large truckload came from Detroit. The food was imme- diately divided and sent to dozens of strike camps, The clothing is being divided and within the next days will also be sent into a few mining towns. Food is needed by scores of other strike camps. All available funds are stretched to reach as many camps as Possible. Shoes, also, are greatly in demand. The need is still tremendous. Al- ready 45,000 families need relief. And with the spread of the strike, comes greater and greater demands for bread. The Relief Committee is ap- Pealing to all workers to coliect funds and rush them to the Pittsburgh headquarters, 611 Penn Ave. Women and children, as well as the menfolk, who are terrorized on picket lnes, ask for one meal a day. This must be supplied. Many Trade Union Unity League organizations, American Federation of Labor locals, Communist Party units, fraternal societies, as well as thou- sands of individual workers have al- ready responded and made it possible to supply bread to strike camps in four states. Today’s contributions, among oth- ers, come from the Cleveland branch of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Striking Miners’ Relief, $500 (tag day re- ceipts); Carpenters Local 257, N. Y. C., $10; German Beneficial Union of Baltimore, $10; of Dilles Bottom, Ohio Branch, $5, and the Indianap- olis Branch, $5; the German Solvak Workers’ Society of Newark, N. J., $100; Westville, Ill., $43.17, and Yu- kon, Pa. Butchers’ Loca] 174, $25; Commu- nist Party Nucleus 21 of New York City, $25; National Croatian Home, Detroit, $50; Ukrainian Working- men’s Assn., Scranton, $25; George- town Lithuanian Citizens’ Club, $10; Finnish women’s organizations of a group of Rhode Island towns, $26.25. From the branches of the Penna- Ohio Relief Committees in Walker- ville, Montana, $12.20; Akron, Ohio, $125; St. Louis, $15; Cleveland, $500; Pittsburgh, $60; Houston, Texas, $14.33; McKeesport, $250. Additional donations came from the Red Build- ers’ Club, Los Angeles; Mill unit in North Carolina; International Labor Defense of Atlanta, Georgia, $5. Finnish Socialist Branch, West Paris, Maine, $11.35. Swift Cuts Packing House Workers Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) On July 18th, Swift and Co. (meat packers) notified their employees that wages would be cut $2.00 a week. If the Communist Party will inves- tigate this they will find the fight- ing attitude that the Swift workers is increasing over this cut. On Juls llth, Armour and Cudahy dis- charged all cellar help who were re- ceiving from $22.50 to $25.00 a weck. They notified the same workers that they could come back at $15.00 per on Monday July 13th. Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy, Read it—Spread itt | Decree: Show | Dear Comrades: of the starving masses, “Die to the meeting old and young sembly was extremely roused | Speakers were exclusively workers. Workers Speak On the platform stepped up a cath- olic worker, who renounced the part he played in the past and is today in the ranks of the working class. He told how the church is trying to befuddie the minds of the workers. After him on the platform there ap- peared a young stone worker, who was unemployed since 1929, and the | extraordinary decree left him without }a pfennig relief. A shocking impres- sion was made by an old worker, a | long time unemployed, who spoke not only of his own want, but of strug- gle, and he called on the youth -sit- ting in the hall to fight that they shall not reach his condition to be thrown out in the street with six children at his age. Paul Friedlander illustrated the ef- fect of the extraordinary decree with figures. He established the fact that 85 per cent of the whole youth of any are compelled from their early childhood to earn their liveli- hood and in the present moment they are destined to death and hunger. All youth speakers said, almost like one man, that in order to win for themselves the right to existence mass struggle. Communist Deputy Speaks And when in the course of the Detroit Unemplo (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—The Unemployed | Council of Hazel Park, a suburb of Detroit, Mich., is resisting another eviction case of one of its members. Constable Henry came with the usual “legal” papers to throw this unemployed worker and his wife and three children into the street. But Mr. Henry found # large crowd of men and women waiting for him. He gave us the line that he had done all he could and was sorry and now had nothing to do but to put the family out in the street. The spokesmen for the Council told Mr. Henry that one of their func- tions was to resist evictions, law or no law. Our brave constable then beat a hasty retreat, presumably to get reinforcements, guns, gas and other implements of war like they (MASS REVOLTIONUARY ACTION IS ONLY WAY OUT FOR GERMAN | MASSES, SAYS | YoungWorkers Meet to Discuss Extraordi | Immediately after the announcement of the ex |decree by the German government, cutting down the relief there is only one way—the way to} YOUNG FIGHTER nory Fighting Spirit Communist Deputy Gets Thunderous Ovation As He Reports Pr ogress of Struggle Berlin, Germany ‘aordinary Welt am Abend,” the organ of the Workers International Relief of Germany, organized a meeting to discuss the conditions of the German youth. The meeting room was packed to capacity. There came workers. The spirit of the as- and in a fighting mood. The et [meeting some s }out in acts, de rade of the way out Jacts, but an organized | the youth in the ranks of Jers’ fighting organiza | coni g speech he Jabsurdity of the capitalist system | which is destroying products of food |for the purpose of keeping up the |prices on the market. With unde- |Scribable enthusiasm, not interrupt- |ing the speaker once, with thunder- | Ous applause, the assembled workers | listened to the report of the progress jof the revolutionary movement in Germany. Victors of Tomorrow “You are victors of tomorrow,” he concluded amid thunderous applause. j“And you must not let yourself go on the road to individual action just as you must not take hold of a rope to commit suicide. Take hold of the rope and on it the social order which i ig you into the abyss of w ting ended the International nembers Were gain- jon of the Work- The | —PAUL AULON. ved Step Eviction did when they evicted Comrade Mc- Ginnis some time ago. Then perhaps Mr. Henry expected to wait till night and come when there is no crowd So far the worker and his iamily is still in the hou: The workers here are very indig- nant about any attempts to evict workers from their homes. The cheap relief that they were giving the work- ers here has been cut and now there is talk about cutting it out altogether. They are learning that the capitalist government from Hoover down to the constable is against the workers in the interest of the bankers and manufacturers. They see Hoover rushing $500,000,000 to the capitalists in Germany, but not a cent mi ium for the debts of the wo Only unemployment, wage c tions and miser backed by the government Socialist Int'l Sham (Cable by Inprecorr) VIENNA.—Monday’s session of the Socialist (Second) International Con- gress began with a sentimental fra- man Chairman Wels and the French Delegate Brache. Afterwards Wels did his utmost to persuade Kirkwood of the British Independent Labor Party to refrain exercising his right to speak at the Congress as a representative of the minority on the Disarmament Com- mission which drafted the official resolution prior to the official report. Kirkwood insisted in declaring that the resolution was totally unsuitable; that it failed to take regard of the serious international situation, that it was based on faith in the League of Nations. Wels continually inter- rupted Kirkwood. Finally Friedrich Adler mounted the platform dissuading Kirkwood from proceeding and arguing that Kirkwood could present priticisms during the discussion following the report, ‘The official reporter DeBrouckere of Belgium dealt with the first point on the agenda, disarmament. His remarks were empty and unconvinc- adopt the disarmament program. However, he added, it must be mod- erate as a first step, and that radical solutions are inacceptable to Geneva and were no good. ean 8 At Tuesday's session Adler read various messages of greetings. He was compelled to express regret at the complete lack of colonial repre- sentatives. ‘The Japanese lawyer present was finally put forward to deliver a speech, expressing admiration for the constructive socialist work carried on in England! He made no reference whatever to the colonial problem. After two hours thus wasted Bacon of the British ILD rose and com- plained’ that rank and file delegates were given no opportunity. He de- manded a plenary session for the afternoon in order to deal thoroughly with disarmament instead of pro- posed Commission sessions. Adler advanced “technical reasons” for re- fusing to put the mation to a vote. Henderson’s parliamentary secre- ternization scene between the Ger-| ing. He requested that the Congress | Disarmament Resolution Aids the War Mongers tary, Professor Baker, spoke on be- |half of his master expressing com- | plete agreement with the official | armament resolution (ILP delegates | protested loudly). He recommended that the congress appeal to the sig- |natories of the pact outlawing war and calling on the signatories to keep peace. Turning reproachfully, the German | delegation declared that General | Seeckt's demand for German arma- jment in case other nations refused to disarm represented a misinterpret- ation of reaties. Greatest possible | disarmament was obtainable through |international agreement. Any at- |tempt to discredit the League of Na- tions was defeatism. British armaments couldn't drop below the general level of arma- ments. Kirkwood following Anderson of Denmark, spoke before a half empty hall. He again demanded the rele- gation of the resolution as unsuit- able and repeated his criticisms. He quoted thé “Labor” minister to the effect that British armaments today is a hundred fold more effec- tive than in pre-war time. The Labor government has done nothing but talk (applause-dissent) Disarm- ament is only possible by example. The Labor government had a great opportunity, but instead preferred to coalesce with Liberals and Conserva~- tives to maintain capitalism instead of overthrowing it. At the proposals of six delegations the congress agreed to vote on the disarmament resolution en bloc ac- cording to delegations, in other words the minority opposition is eliminated in delegation sessions and a prac- tically unanimous vote is obtained. The next plenary session will be held Thursday. 5,000 APPLY FOR A JOB CHICAGO, Ill.—A call by the South Park board for a few hun- dred common laborers, most for dig- ging jobs, brough more than 5,000 men to the employment offices. Po- lice reserves were necessary to con- trol them. The part jobs pay 60 cents an hour and they will be all given to those recommended by the politicians,