The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1931, Page 3

| { DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK THURSDAY, AUGUST, 20, 1931 A.F.L. AIDS NEW YORK CENTRAL CUT WAGES | OF TRACK WORKERS Hourly Wage Rate Under Old Brotherhood | Agreement Discontinued By Fakers | Camps Filthy Beyond Description; , Workers Desert Old Union, Look to T. U. U. L. (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Y.—In agreement with the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, affiliated with the A. F. of L., the New York Central Railroad cut the wages of the track workers and track foremen. Under the old agreement a track worker after one year’s employment received a 3 cent increase in pay. This hourly increase has been discontinued regardless of the time of employment. This new ruling went into effect June 1, 1981. The Grand Lodge and system fakers made this agreement with the company without telling the workers anything. Lodge 1075 knew@———————- nothing of the sell-out until the company issued the order to the foremen not to raise the pay of the workers after one year of service. The extra gang foremen received $175 a month, but lately the com- pany is paying some of them $151. ‘What the Brotherhood has done nobody knows. The foremen know one, thing—that the supervisors offer them extra gang jobs at $151 a month. Desert Fake Union. Harlem-Hudson ‘Lodge 1075 had 250 members last year. Now only a dozen track workers remain in the union. The Negro and white work- ers found out that the fakers were working hand in hand with the com- pany and not for the protection of the workers’ rights. They have deserted the fake union and are waiting for the T. U. U. L. to organ- ize them for struggle against the worsening conditions. J. Tonnich, secretary of the Har- lem-Hudson Lodge, when he found out that the Grand Lodge officials were cheating the workers and tak- ing their hard earned dollars, was blaclslisted because be fought for the rivhts of the workers against the ee lodge fakers. Camps Filthy. ‘The track workers who work in the camps live in box cars. These cars are filthy and full of bedbugs. The food is so rotten that eveh the starved out workers cannot eat it. Many complaints were made without any results. Men signed the com- plaints and sent them to the super- ‘isor, but they were thrown in the waste basket. Working conditions of the track workers of the Harlem-Hudson divi- sion are beyond description. Men are driven at a terrific speed and if anyone slacks down for a second he is fired on the spot. A foreman calling a worker a “son of a bitch” is common in the camps. When a worker complains to the union he is reprimanded because he is in the eyes of the officials a “nigger” or a “bum.” Welcome T. U. U. L. The track workers of Harlem and Hudson are ready to be organized again—not by the Brotherhood, but by a real workers’ union. They wel- come the T. U. U. L. and will join and bring in other workers. Soviet Railroad Workers Request Letters from U. S. Workers (Special to the Daily Worker.) We, worker-correspondents of the station Crasnoyarsk of the Tomsky Railroad in Siberia, send you our fraternal greetings. Since May 25, 1931, we declared our- selves shock brigaders and pledged ourselves to become actual partakers in the struggle for the dictatorship of the proletariat. We send you our first letter and hope that, upon receiving the same, you will write us the reply and be in connection with us. We are working in our transport organizations at full speed and try our best to fulfill the third year of the Five-Year Plan. We will soon put into action the 7-hour working day. We have shock departments and shock brigades which received premiums for good work. In our newspapers are writing not vonly educated people, but also workers who can hardly write. We have now reconstructed the work of the newspapers; articles are written not by individual workers, but by worker-correspondents’ shock bri- gades. We use new methods in organiza- tion of production. For instance, in @n 8-hour working day four men uced to wash three locomotives. Now the same quantity of men wash three locomotives in a 7-hour working day. Comrades who do not want to fulfill the plan, no matter who they are, administration, clerks or work~ ers, are being reasoned with by fellow workers. We write the names of such comrades on the blackboards under special heading of loafers, drunkards and so on. Finishing our short letter, we will wait for your answer, being sure to get it very soon. Ask us things that would be of interest to you. We shall always be glad to reply. Write us about your working and living conditions, about your shop papers that help the Party to be in touch with the working class. Workers of the world, brothers in class and toil, fight under the ban- ners of Lenin’s International. Down with imperialists and their helpers from the Second Interna- tional organizing the intervention against the U. 8S. S. R. Workers of the world! Defend the Soviet Union! Long live the world revolution! On behalf of the worker-corre- spondents of the newspaper “Social- istic Storm” (10 signatures). International Letter Exchange, Salyansa, 12 Moscow, U. S. S. R. Young Worker Defends “Daily” in Phila. (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The charge that the “Daily Worker” is an or- dinary newspaper was repudiated to- day before a group of workers. Our grocer’s son, a young worker, left his “Daily” in the store when he went out for an hour or so, On his return he noticed that parts of the paper were lying around torn. His father had used the paper to make paper boats for a customer's child. Rather vexed, the young worker asked who had destroyed the “Daily Worker.” When the grocer replied that it was just a newspaper and nothing to make a fuss about, his son delivered a talk on the virtues and superiority of the “Daily” as compared to any other newspaper. By this time there were about half a dozen persons in the store and the fact that they were in a hurry to make their purchases was quite for- gotten, as they asked each other, “Where do you buy this paper?” “Can you get it around here?” and other such questions. Among other things, the young worker had stated that every worker should read the paper, that it was the only paper giving any facts about workers and the only paper that told the truth about economic conditions and how the workers can solve them. He insisted that the paper be passed on to other workers and not de- stroyed. Child Slave Labor at Brentwood, Cal. (By a Worker Correspondent.) BRENTWOOD, Cal. Balfour- Guthrie Marsh fruit camp is opera- ted as @ prison camp—or rather the same as one, Minor children are employed. The children of 12-16 years of age are working unlimited hours for their food and sleeping space. They owe the camp owners for transportation and so receive no pay, until they earn that. They do not earn it for a long time, (or so says the boss) therefore recetve no pay, working for their food( if we can call it so) and their shack space to sleep. They are kept under strict surveillance by the bosses. There is no sanitation and the water is polluted. Workers have protested and the assistant manager Bankroft has denied the charges. State examination of conditions has been appealed by the workers, but by the time they get ready to investi- gate the fruit season will be over and so the bosses will profit without interference. Workers must take the situation into their own hands and fight these slave conditions in the fruit camps, Organize into the Agricultural Work- ers Industrial Union. Los Angeles “Relief” Scheme Fails (By a Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Cal.—A fresh ap- peal has come from Commissioner of Public Works, Carl B. Wirshing, ex- plaining lay-offs of those formerly receiving relief here under the un- employment relief bond program. Pointing out that they have 35,000 listed and 15,000 waiting have large families to support, the Commissioner comes out Auily, and says there are to be able to extend our present pro- gram through the winter months, It seems a Hopeless task, but we are go- ing to have to do it somehow as conditions are not improving.” Equally hopeless was the attempted solution of the unemployment “prob- lem” made the same‘day that Wir- ching’s statement was issued, when Thomas Kennedy, 29 years old, un- Loh cook at 322 Keith Street, August 22, Sacco- Vanzetti Day Demonstrations NEW YORK Bronx—Parade beginning at 18th St. and Prospect Ave. at 6 p.m. and ending up at Washing- ton Ave, and Claremont Parkway, with a demonstration at that point. Harlem—One parade will begin at 100th St. and Second Ave., marching through a number of working-class streets, down to Fifth Ave. and 113th St., and then to Morris Park at East 125th St. The other parade will begin with a meeting at 140th St. and 8th Ave, extending for 33 blocks through working-class sections and then marching to Mount Morris Park at East 125th St. Both pa- rades will end up in the central— Mount Morris Park at East 125th St. Manhattan—In mid-town Man- hattan a parade will start with a meeting at 12:30 at Bryant Park, 40th St. and Sixth Ave. and march to 40th St. and Sixth Ave. and march to Madison Square. In downtown Manhattan a mass meeting will be held at Seventh St. and Ave. B at 2:30 p.m, with a-parade of 27 blocks through the working-class sections, ending at Rutgers Square at 4 o'clock with a demonstration. Brownsville—A parade begin- ning with a meeting at Pennsyl- vania and Sutter Aves, at 2:30 p.m. and ending at Saratoga and Pitkin Aves. at 4 o'clock. South Brooklyn—A demonstra- tion will take place at Court and Carroll Sts., beginning at 2 p.m. NEW JERSEY Newark—The demonstration will take place in the Military Park at 2 p.m. Paterson—A demonstration at the City Hall at 5 o'clock. Passaic—Two demonstrations in opposite sections of the town. Trenton—Open-air demonstra- tion at City Hall Plaza at 1 p.m. Vineland—Indoor demonstration Friday, Aug. 21, at 8 p.m. Elizabeth—N. J.—At ‘front and Livingston Sts., at 1:30 p.m. PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia—Open-air demon- stration at the City Hall Plaza on Aug. 22 at 1 p.m. Erie—Perry Square. CONNECTICUT Hartford—Corner Windsor and Main Sts. at 7 p.m. Springfield—At Post Office; al- so indoor mass meeting at 8 p.m. at 675 Dwight St. Waterbury—Washington and Bank Sts. at 10:30 a.m. New London—Williams Memo- rial Park at 4 p.m. Saturday. New Britain—Aug. 25, corner High and Broad Sts., 7 p.m., Tues- day. New Haven—Central Green, near Band Stand at 3 p.m. Torrington—Aug. 23 at the Lithuanian Hall (indoor meeting), 180 Central Ave. MASSACHUSETTS Boston—Charles St. Mall, Bos- ton Common. Worcester, Mass.—Salem Square, 2p.m, OHIO Cleveland—Public Square at 2 p. m. Akron, Ohio—Perkins Square at 2 pm. Toledo—Jackson and Summit Sts. at 7 p.m. Warren—Coutr House Square. Canton—Nimisilla Park at 7:30 pm, Other meetings at Cincinnati, Youngstown, Dennison, Alliance. MICHIGAN Ironwood—At 7 p.m. at North- western Park, corner Suffolk and Dyer St. Detroit—In front of City Hall at 7 p.m. INDIANA Indianapolis—Military Park at 3 p.m Anderson, Ind.—Court House at 3 p.m. Terre Haute—Court House at 3 p.m, MINNESOTA Minneapolis—Bridge Square at 4:30 p.m. WASHINGTON Seattle—At 3 pm. in Denny Regarde District, Fifth and Blan- chard, Bellingham, Wash.—At R. R. and Holly St, at 2:30 p.m. Everson, Wash.—At 8 p.m. CALIFORNIA San Francisco—Front of Ferry Building at 12:30. RHODE ISLAND Providence—Market Square on Saturday at 3 p.m. ILLINOIS Rockford, Ti, at Broadway and Eighth Sts., at 7.30 p. m. Chicago—Washington Sq., Clark and Walton and 3rd and Prairie. Demonstrations also in St. Louis, Waukegan, Rockford, Gary, Mil- waukee and Rock Island. MARYLAND Baltimore—Hopkins Square, Balti- more and Liberty Sts., at 7.30 p.m. All districts of the International Labor Defense should send in complete information as to time, place and speakers for all Sacco- Vanzetti Day demonstrations. SEARS PROFITS UP CHICAGO, creased. $650,000 larger than Socialists Helping British Bankers - Attack Workers’ Living Standard NEW YORK.—The financial crisis which grips Germany has spread to England, and is rapidly reaching a critical stage. The British Labor Party, acting in the interest of British imperialism, is preparmg to institute a tariff, which in effect, will be a 10 per cent wage cut for all the British workers. The New York Times states that MacDonald has agreed to a tariff of 10 per cent, and this, says the Times, will be equivalent to a 10 per cent wage cut as it will raise the price of food 10 per cent. Another attack being prepared by the MacDonald government against the workers is the cutting down of the unemployment insurance pay- ments of the government, Mac- Donald, and his cohorts, now de~ mand that the workers pay a greater share of the unemployment insur- Postpone Trial of 35 Funds and Relief Tl—The profits of Sears Roebuck and Company are greater in 1931 than 1930, despite the fact that the sales have de- ‘Thus profits for the first seven months of this year were last year, whereas the sales were $13,000,000 Jess. No small part of this saving was made at the expense of the em- Tariff in Crisis Is to Become 10 P.C. Wage Cut ance fund, thus further the wage slash. ‘The MacDonald Labor Government is seeking to wring $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 out of the impoverished British workers to make up the de- ficit of the British budget and te save British capitalism from col- lapse. The growing severity of the finan- cial crisis in Germany and England was taken up by the Wiggins Com- mittee of the Bank of International Settlements in Basle. This commit- tee, in its published statement, ad- mitted that capitalism the world over is faced with immediate danger and that the capitalists must act to save increasing x & pe Page Three? "7 their system. The significant para- graph in the Wiggin’s statement says: “The time is short. The body of the world’s commerce—whose vital- ity is already low—has suffered a severe shock in one of its chief members. This has resulted in a partial paralysis which can be cured only by restoring the free circulation of money and goods.” In this situation, the socialists of with the bankers and other exploit- backs of the working class. In England the crisis has reached such a severe extent that the unem-! ployed army has gone beyond all pre- | vious bounds, nearing the 3,000,000 figure. In one week over 50,000 lost | their jobs; and during the past year j 550,000 British workers were ea out on the streets. Ky. Miners, Defense Greatest Need Now (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) with reckless abandon at every known fighter for the miners in this Kentucky slave region. Every medium through which poi- séned opinion can be spread is be- ing used under the pretense of pro- tecting the church and America’s “free” institutions, against the Reds and Communists 4nd the bosses find the American Legion (made up of businessmen and gunmen) and the faking strike breakers of the U.M.W. A. to be their best agents. But the miners here who are planting deep the roots of the National Miners Un- ion are not being fooled by the stories they hear. First, it is because they are mindful that no fakers are tak- ing money from them as Turnblazer and Childers did under the name of the U.M.W.A. Second, because they themselves are the leaders, are plan- ning the work, mapping out the pol- icies and in this task have the full support and cooperation of the Na- tional Miners Union. And last but not least they met the leaders of every field at the July 15-16 United Front Conference in Pittsburgh which satisfied each of them as to what the National Miners Union is, ‘Therefore, all attempts of the agents of the Kentucky operators to smash their movement will go for naught. ‘This was made clear at a meeting yesterday of the General Committee of the N. M. U. Kentucky District, which agrees with the charge that they are against the government of the coal operators, whose Sheriff Blair and his deputized thugs try to run Harlan with guns and whose Judges Jones and Howard try to sa- tisfy the bosses’ demands for blood by holding thirty odd fighting min- ers for murder and a couple of hun- dred others for criminal syndicalism, banding and confederating and many other charges. In Secret Meeting After the meeting, as we emerged from the woods (this secret meeting was made necessary because warrants are out for most of the leaders and a price is on the heads of others) I noted the shattered windshield of one of the cars but it necesdtated inquiry to learn the cause of it all. Realizing this, I made the inquiry and learned that some of Sheriff Blair’s gunmen had used it for a target. The miners, however, are deter- mined that the blood shall not be on the coal they dig and as a guar- antee that it won’t they go right along building the National Miners Union. i as 18 , PINEVILLE, Ky., Aug. 19.—Tak- ing their victim right on the court house steps in Harlan, in full sight of the sheriff's office, where Sheriff John Blair, lord of the county for the coal operators, sat and made no motion to interfere, three coal company gunmen took Boris Israel, reporter for the Federated Press, for a ride Monday (Aug. 17). Israel was collecting news from visitors to the hearing of the first of the 30 Harlan miners slated for the electric chair, because striking miners defended themselves with rifles against deputies armed with machine guns at Black Mountain, near Evarts, several weeks ago. While Israel stood there the three gunmen walked up, shoved their guns against him and announced Pleasantly, “We're going to take you out for a little mountain air,” forcing him into a car, Unimpeded by any police or court officials or county deputies, they droye leisurely to the county line, threw Israel out, beat him up and ordered him to march down the road. As he went they opened fire on him. Israel luckily escaped with nothing more than a wound through the leg. After the gunmen had gone Israel limped onto the main highway, caught a taxi and rode into Pine- ville, Bell County, where he was taken to the hospital and the bullet extracted. Reports are that he will be in the hospital for some time. This is the second man shot for sending out news of the murderous terror prevailing in Harlan County, where coal company gunmen run riot through the mine towns. In the latter days of July, Bruce Crawford, editor of “Crawford's Weekly,” Virginia paper, came in, and, after his first story had appeared, was @mbushed by, operators’ thugs as he drove along the road near Wallins Creek. Crawford escaped the volley with nothing more serious than a wound in the foot. Saturday four thugs stopped Basil Rice with a volley of shots from the forested hillside of the road to Har- lan. Rice is active for the National Miners’ Union. He was going along the road in his car and the gunmen were ambushed waiting for him. ‘The thugs’ car was parked nearby. Rice was not hit, but several bul- lets hit the car, two going through the windshield near where he sat. He stopped his car as soon as pos- sible and slipped out the other side. The gunmen showed themselves, thinking they had killed him, and Rice got several shots at them be- fore they escaped in their own car. He does not know whether he hit any of them. Rice found in his car a threaten- ing note the day before the at- tempted assassination. It said: “This is a warning to Rice and Gibbs to get out and stop their work. We don’t want any Reds around here.” Gibbs is a miner who has been ac- tive in organization work. Both Rice and Gibbs are war veterans. Wednesday night operators’ gun- men caught a Negro miner named McKinney Baldwin, chairman of the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia- Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief station at Harlan, and took him out, tied him to a tree, stripped off his clothes and beat him up horribly. ‘The thugs used Sheriff Blair's auto to do the job. eee SOR PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 19—Dur- ing the last few weeks the coal com- panies in Armstrong County, Pa., have been forcing miners to load hard coal with coke forks, and all that slides between the tines of the fork goes into the “gob.” A coke fork is a huge affair with tines which are inches apart. The gob is the pile of waste material for which no payment is made to the miner. It is against the state law to put any coal in the gob, but the companies have been doing that for some time. Months ago these companies began to screen their coal. All the small pieces that went through the screen, which at first had a comparatively small mesh, were paid for at a lower rate. They they stopped paying for the small coal. Then they began to make the.mesh in the screen larger and larger, so that less of the coal was paid for. Now, with the loading with coke forks, only the very large pieces are paid for and the rest “doesn’t count.” This is only one of the indirect wage-cuts pit Put into effect, HARLAN, Ky. Ave. “19-—The As- sociated Press southern service joins the coal operators’ county officials in Harlan County, Kentucky, in excus~ ing the destruction by dynamite of the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Vir- ginia-Kentucky Striking Miners’ Re- lief Committee's relief station and kitchen at Evarts, Ky. This station was blown up by the gunmen of the coal operators in the dark of the night, Aug. 10. What chance there is of the “law” doing anything about it can be seen from the following As- sociated Press dispatch, dated April 11, and appearing in Tennessee and Kentucky papers: “An explosion early today de- stroyed a brick building at Evarts, used as a soup kitchen for the Na- tional Miners’ Union, and broke plate glass windows in the Blue Ribbon Restaurant and a hardware store nearby. Windows in several nearby homes were broken, but no one was reported injured. Sheriff J. H. Blair sent deputies to investigate the latest violence in the labor trouble and at his office the opinion was expressed that an accidental explosion of min- ers’ dynamite had caused the dam- WE POC Ne PRICEDALE, Pa. Aug. 19.—Mine pay slips turned over to the National Miners’ Union here by men working in the Pittsburgh Coal Company's Sommers Mine show $12 credited for two weeks’ work—and of course no wages actually paid, but all checked off for expenses to the company. world We PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 17— Scores of mass meetings of striking miners and those previously forced alback to work are taking place all over the coal fields of Western Penn- sylvania, West Virginia and Ohio as “My Babies Need Milk So Badly,” Pleads Miner’s Wife (CONTINUED FROM PAGE get a few stamps, so that my letters can be sent out, I’ll send you reports | of the situation here more often. “Please help me, for this is surely my hour of need and that is why I turn to you comrades.” All through the strike region, this miner’s wife is known for her mili-} tancy, women’s auxilliaries. She has worked | in the face of tremendgus difficul- | ties and hardships, as thousands of} other miners’ women are doing all} over the coal fields. She must have} @ doctor’s care within a very short time. The relief committee must) take care of this. And thousands of others are ap-| pealing for milk for their babies, | clothes, shoes, and, what is most | important, bread. A hard struggle against starvation | ONE) struggle by sending all the money you can spare or collect to Room 205, 611 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa., so that the Penn-Ohio-West Virginia- Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief Committee will be able to send more food ta hungry families of fighting miners, It is too early to tell the results, but it is safe to predict them. Out of these mass meetings will emerge in each case several demands on which the miners inside and outside of the various mines will unite for struggle. Committees will be elected to go to the company heads tomorrow, to lay these demands before them. Tomor- row will see great mass meetings again to consider the answer of the companies and decide next steps. In some cases the answers will be accepted, and. the strikers will go back to work, and also go back to the task of building the National Miners Union for a day coming soon when a still greater struggle will be waged for this time for twelve weeks. In other cases, the men now inside the mine will swarm out and the mine will shut down in a strike great- ly strengthened for the new de- mands. The quick decisions outlined above are mostly in the smaller com- panies. The miners in the great com- panies wil] move a little slower. Joint meetings of the local mine strike committees for each company will have to be held, and common action for all the mines of the same com- pany formulated. One of these great- er companies, Pittsburgh Terminal, will require that local strike commit- tees come from Ohio and West Vir- ginia, where its owners, the Taplin interests, have many mines. The strike committee’s joint meeting for the Terminal mines will not be held until next Sunday, and meanwhile the strike goes on, full force. The situation in the Terminal mines is interesting. There is a Unit- ed Mine Workers of America contract there. That makes it difficult to keep the men from meeting, as a UMWA local. Mutiny and revolt against the official policies of the UMW are so common in these local meetings that the most extraordinary measures are taken by the companies and the UM WA district officials to keep the men in control. ‘The UMWA local at Mine No. 2 at Castle Shannon had been meeting in @ Catholic church. Under company pressure, the priest forbade this. The idea was to force them to meet on company property, which they did. The first meeting in the Patch was attended Saturday night, by three carloads of Pinchot's state troopers, by the mine superintendent and most of his bosses. A miner brought up the main grievance there, the check- off from th men’s wages to pay for building a bath house. The first man to raise the point was yelled down by the Fagan clique and the mine offi- cials: “You're gut of order.” Where- upon the meeting was thrown into confusion by most of the men rising and yelling back: “We're all out of order, we ought to be striking.” ‘The employers are wildly trying to keep things down by having the state police and deputies use more terror. Today a truck load of 16 men came to Coverdale (Pittsburgh Terminal Mine No. 8) from Bridgeville. They were going to join the picket line. They were met by carloads of troop- ers and deputies who arrested the truck driver end the man who sat England and Germany are acting| J ers to put heavier burdens on the} t and ability in organizing! t is being waged. Help support this! for the district demands they fought |, on the seat with him, then took the truck miles down the road one way, der them slugged and jailed, help — SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL PUT “DAILY” ON SOUND BASIS! MONTHLY SUBS 50 CENTS! KENSINGTON READERS CLUB IN ACTION Coupon Books and Funds Slow Coming In! Hold “Daily” + while wales are kee: ing up, subs are rather slow coming in. Only 68 new subs 2 renewals were received during the past week. Considering that subs are the financial backbone of the Daily Worker, this is not helping much to strengthen it, District 5, Pittsburgh, sent in 11 new s| and renewals during the w District Buffalo, turned in 1 District 2, New York, rained and District 18 Butte, ix cred with eight new subs and renewals. The other districts were not so od! Sales will help us attain 68 circulatoin, but subs will en- ie us to reach finan: stability. Sales without subs will not get us very far. Both should be taken into consideration, Coming back to the circulatio tables, District 2, New Yo the highest gain fi 147. O fthi responsible District 17, on two new fille and Coal a District 19, with a gain of of 25 in De Utah, some off until now! Coupon Books are sti field. is beyond us, Call wax sent out for them weeks ago and yet little at- tention has been paid to it! moneys collected on these books must be turned in immediately. he financial ca is making very little progr of $40,000. On} turned in during three districts quotas. Districts 6, 8, 15 and 18 are on the verge of completing their This for the benefit of the Daily Worker Ip weak districts boost their 2? The Daily Worker in New York City raised sev- had not beep taker in the week have fulfilled Picnics What they are doing there | to Boost Totals! pout half of cent mark. rs being held s for it! Kensington Daily Worker Readers Club Report. Pa,, Readers Club in he regular 2 club, Ot itherings Ww sketches drawn by an artist r of the club, lectures, re- This plan of work will be sub- mitted to the membership of the clut its meeting of Aug. 20 for discussion, approval, suggestions and comments, At thix meeting we will also try to get at least two worker correspondents especially for the Thursday Philadelphia edi- tion of the Daily. In preparation for the coming meeting, we are is- suing a leaflet inviting the work- ers to Join our elub or attend our meetings, The meeting will take place at 2802 Kensington Ave. “At one of our meetings a sugges- tion was made by a fellow-worker to have a fiction column in the Datly | Worker, a continued story, so that | the readers would also be given a chance to read revolutionary fiction alongside news of the class struggle, and maybe will feel the need of read- ing the Daily regularly, Can the Daily act on such @ suggestion? What is your opinion? If accepted, when may we expect such a story | to begin to run in the “Daily?” Th last point has also been re- ferred to the edi ial department. We wish the Kensington Club the best of luck. Its program sounds | mighty interesting! Other clubs in process of formation should be able | to get a good deal of profit out of | this report, FINA NCIAL—CIRCULATION ® g ) xt : 2 g aS. 2 8s a gn oe (8 s FE S a wb oe aa "4 ape gy, af Tf 28 78 98 28 cal MSckS od 24 84 Fe Fe § 1. Boston 5.00 101 425 428 425 361 853° «786 AT bf ee 153.32 9220 1854 7900 1365 8036 9254 9401 147 ve is . 14.60 70 1042 2068 1045 2063 3110 3108 _—2 . Buffalo 62 187 G44 199 642 S31 841 10 5. Pitte, #2 361 775i 3723 7408 8142 7841 —301 6 Cleveland 9% S16 2027 S18 2025 2843 2843 7 Detroit 70 48 2120 246 2158 3068 3104 a6 94 1399 8396 1402 6490 9795 7892—1908 42 505 708 SOS 782 1213 1287 23 (273 771 278 O72 1044 951 22 48 a 40 67 #110 «116 12 Beattle 49 276 7386 27 773 «1062 1050 13 Calif. 1,202.72 13.35, 65 Til 2131 714 1683 2) 2407 15, Conn. 856.82 0) 86 214 439 214 432 es 646 16 Bonth 34.00 45 58 a7 40 104 96 17 Birming, 54 237 6 332 201 388 18 Butte .. 87 71 O85 7 158 (166 19 Denver 132 343 134 400 «475 «(B34 Unorg. 114 124 «117 = 80288 38,509.60 352.68 8991 37005 9059 24594 40086 43653—2423 REPUBLICAN SENATOR YATES OF N J ROBBED OLD AGE PENSION AND JOBLESS FUNDS FOR ORGIES {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) relief.” Yates himself was worth millions, most of which he got in grafting out of state funds, in robbing workers, and doing what the big capitalists like Dwight W. Morrow of Morgan and Co. asked him to. Yates was a close friend of Morrow and a good supporter of President Hoover and his policy of starvation. The Yates case is not an isolated instance, The Daily Worker has pub- lished facts showing that in Phila- delphia out of $150,000 “collected” for relief for the unemployed, over $100,- 000 was stolen by boss politicians; in Detroit, one city official robbed the “relief” fund of over $200,000. The bill which Yates helped pass providing for the “Survey for Pen- sions and Relief Dependency,” called for $30 a month, “to needy citizens 65 while they drove the men on foot every inch of the way back along the road to Bridgeville. A carload of dep- uties and another carload of*troopers followed behind them, menacing them with guns and keeping them tramping along. These men had to walk over eight miles, with the jeering deputies, who had met them with threats to “shoot the tires off your truck” tagging them and prodding them to greater speed. The truck driver and his compan- ion in arrest were railroaded through @ squire’s court and fined $7.25 each for hauling the pickets to Coverdale, on the grounds they were “driving a bus without a bus driver's license.” Also at Coverdale today, deputies charged into the tent colony and with threats, “You won't get your coffee here today,” drove Sam Brown and his brother, young Negro miners, from the grounds. They sent other deputies ahead to catch them off the colony grounds, and arrest them. The boys were told they would be crip- pled by the time they got out of the police station. White and Negro min- ers united to march down and de- mand the release of the two Negro boys, and their attitude was such that both were released. themselves liberally, as Yates did, to} And t®y had coffee in the tent the meagre funds for “ ta bd “ aR ERT RN ERROR AP years of age or over.” Yates, who comes from Paterson, where his fel- low capitalist politicians beat up strikers, was making good use of this fund of over $1,000,000—not for un- employed or old age relief—but to pay off his friends and political sup- porters. Though this expenditure was not enough to handle even a few hundred of the thousands upon thou- sands of unemployed and aged work- ers, Yates was robbing this fund right and left. This Pension Bill, which allows capitalist politicians like Yates to take thousands for their private or- gies, was greeted by the American Association for Old Age Security as a wonderful model, to be followed by all capitalist legislatures. This or- ganization said, regarding this bill from which Yates took plenty: “The administration of the law represents a social contribution of great importance, as the provisions are to be applied by county welfare boards specially created for the purpose.” This shows up how the capitalists, when they do pass such bills, through their politicians keep the workers from getting any benefits, It stresses, more than ever, the demand for the Unemployment Insurance Bill put forward by the Communist Party, in- sisting that the workers control the funds set aside by the capitalist state for relief. Sufferers from. Bladder anu Kidney weakness should get rapid relief from their burn ing pains and discomforts i the use of Santal Midy. This a discovered by a doctor almost a cen- tury ago, has been used year in and, year out with great lame = over’ e worl Ask your £ ea druggist for some. Santal '