The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1931, Page 3

——— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1931 = Page Three THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN TOLEDO FOLLOWING MANY BANK FAILURES Overland Plant Fails to Pay Workers; Many ~ Concerns Close: Thousands Jobless 300-Homes Confiseated to Meet Demands of Bankers; Workers Salvage Garbage Dear Friends: Toledo, Ohio. Just a few lines to let you know how Toledo is getting along. About two and a half about 17 branches crashed and has not opened yet. months ago a large bank with On the week of Aug. 16 four other larger banks, with 54 branches, closed their doors, Militia Parades You can just about imagine condi- tions here. Last week we had the whole state militia parading our city, but the boss papers tell us to keep up hopes. Thousands of workers have lost their life savings and over 300 homes have been confiscated to méet the demands of the bankers. Last week I saw a group of colored people fol- lowing a garbage wagon, trying to see what they could salvage out of it for food. We were told at the Overland Plant that we could work as long as we wanted to, but would have to wait until further notice for our pay. That means we are supposed to slave for nothing. Over a hundred small concerns have closed down, throwing a few more thousand out into the streets without jobs; we have no means here of helping the unemployed, not even a welfare outfit, as all the money went with the banks. Raise Taxes. Now the politicians want to raise taxes $1.50 per $1,000 to “take care of the unemployed.” Last week we had our primary election and our present mayor was defeated by 21,000 yotes. Now they are trying to use all kinds of methods, bribery and what not, to get the people to ee vote for him next fall. Last week, while talking to two neighbors in the evening, a car drove up to us and a man got out and came over to us and asked the neigh- bor if he was working. He said, “No.” “Well,” said the man, “if you vote for our present mayor I'll see that you get a basket of food every week and three days’ work.” This is heard wherever you go in the town. The way it looks everybody will be starving this winter. Every morn- ing one can see over a thousand men fighting to get into the county em- ployment bureau. Garbage for Jobless. The baskets of so-called food that the city is giving away are made up with left-overs from the grocery stores. The bread is as hard as a tock, the potatoes are worthless and there is no milk and sugar in them. They are really baskets of garbage, all the leaving scraped out of the cars that are shipped here. What is not fit to put in cold storage is given to the jobless—this they call relief! Every day they have suicides of workers here. Hope the workers will get behind the Communist Party with all their strength, so that. they will soon have a Soviet government in America, —A Worker. CHILDREN NEED 3READ AND SHOES _ NOT TEARS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED tancy to fight for a better life! The problem of “town life” that Hoover ..says. imposes.‘‘such problems as milk-and-food supplies,” is nothi: compared to the problem of mass starvation in the coal fields, a star- vation that these children’s fathers are striking against. Milk? Almost unknown. Food supplies? Just what the Penn-Ohio-West Virginia-~-Ken- tucky Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee sends into the strike camps. The affection with which “we ap- proach ali problems of childhood” has turned into a callous disregard for the deepest problems of all, the problem of whether the children shall have anything at all to eat, or to wear, or whether they shall have a roof over their heads. THat is why these children and their parents turn to you, to workers like themselves, to help them now while they are fighting against star- vation. That is why they ask you to send them a little food to keep the spark of life in their bodies while they fight their batle through. ‘These children need shoes desper- ately, now that the rains are turning the streets of mining towns into rivers of mud, and the cold weather ig coming upon them. They need clothing to keep warm, to avoid get- ting sick and stop their colds from turning into serious diseases. But most of all they need bread! Babies are wasting away from want of milk. You must help! Send every penny you cag scrape together, then go out among your friends and shopmates to collect more money, to buy food, ! and collect food and clothing, and. rush it.to the Penn-Ohio-West Vir-. ginia-Kentucky Striking Miners Re- . lief Committee, Room 205, 611 Penn! Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. REPEL AMERICAN LEGION ATTACK FERNDALE, Mich, Aug. 10—A meeting called under the auspices of the Unemployed Councils in Fern- dale, a town where many ex-service- men live and have built their homes, had an attendance of over one thou- sand workers. After the meeting had ' been in process half an hour, a num- | ber of: uniformed legionnaires at- tempted to drag the speaker from the box, but the workers quickly hustled | them out of the crowd with shouts of, “If there is any lynching to be done, it will be you that will be lynched”; “If you don’t keep away from here, we will take you for a ide”. The meeting continued with- “out further interruption and a good collection was made. Another successful meeting was _ held in Royal Oak on Friday, August 21, with over a thousand workers Present although the police were out -in full force and the Legion crowd was present, The meeting was called for the purpose of rallying the unem- Ployed for the demand which will be made on the Royal Oak city commis- .sion on September 8 for more relief, Bimilar meetings are to be held in Bevkely, Clawson, Birmingham and Wher cities as part of the prepara- \ SLASH WAGES TO INCREASE _. BOSS PROFITS (CUNTINUED FROM PAGE ONED vestment as scon as confidence in the, bend market is restored.” A more brazen demand. for in- ereased —profitsfor the “bosses” “by restoring confidenee in the bond market” as the cost of the workers by cutting wages in all basic gndus- tries has never been made, Along with this comes pronounce- ment in the New York Evening Post of Sattrday that wage-cuts in the steel mills are certain soon. This Hoover-Green supporting paper says: “Reports seem to have substan- tial foundation that (steel) mills contemplate reducing wage rates in the not very distant future.” While this is the fact, as shown by the New York Post, the Annalist, and hundreds of other official ex- pressions of the capitalists and bank- ers, William Green of the American Federation of Labor, while voicing lying phrases about “opposing wage- cuts," in the midst of this very process of wage slashing tells the workers to have confidence in the big bosses like the United States Steel Corporation, In a statement madé by Green, answering B. C. Forbes, a financial writer who said he knows Green is in favor of wage- euts and has so told the leading bosses, Green replies with his usual phrases, at the same time protecting the leading steel company in its wage-cutting drive. Green says: “If the predietion of the writer (Forbes) that the United States Steel Corporation is to réadjust wages (Green hates the open term cut wages) is av unfounded as is the prediction that I will ulti- mately favor reductions in wages, there will be no reductions in wages imposed upon the employes of the United States Steel Corpora- tion.” This is how Green and tne strike-breaking leaders of the A. F. of L. “oppose wage-cuts.” They try to disarm the workers while the gigantic corporations prepare whole- sale pay slashes. More proof of wage-cuts comes from the government itself. The latest report on wage-cuts by the department of labor—information in no way accurate or complete—ad- mits that at least 238 plants in 46 industries cut the wages of 33,238 workers in the month ended July 15. These reports are voluntary. That is, a boss who cuts wages does not have to say anything about it, and the majority of them never do say anything. There is little doubt, in view of this situation, that wage- cuts undoubtedly cover over 2,000 plants involving millions of workers, and from the facts we have given here will soon spread to every basic industry, leaving few untouched. Against this united action of the bosses and the A. F. of L, leaders, the workers must prepare to resist wage-cuts. Organize shop commit- tees, ‘build the revolutionary trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Organize and strike against ‘wage-cuts! tions for the Hunger March to Pon-~ tlac on September 19 when a demand will be made on the county for more relief for the unemployed. Pickets Attacked at General Fabrics; Burlak Is Slugged PAWTUCKET, R. 1. Aug. 30.—The Police viciously attacked the General Fabrics picket line on Friday, bru- tally clubbing many workers. Anne Burlak who was leading the picket line, was thrown to the ground and clubbed by @ group of cops and ar- rested, The fighting between the entire Central Falls police force and the strikers raged for almost an hour around the mill, The total number of arrests so far known is ten, including several women. A demonstration fol- lowed at the police station, where women tore the badges off the police. N. Y. GOVERNOR ISSUES HIS FAKE “RELIEF” PLAN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED this appropriation. But Roosevelt’s estimate is shown to be a lie by the figures of Rybiciki, the director of the New York City Free Employ- ment Agency, who estimates that there are now a million unemployed. in New York city alone. Rybiciki stated that “the United States Cen- sus Bureau has told you that there are 254,000 jobless in our city. I tell you that the figure is nearer a mil- lion.” The appropriation of $20,000,- 000 will, therefore, even on the basis of their own figures, mean practi- cally nothing to the 1,600,000 of job- Jess in the state and their wives and children. The workers, however, will not get even this misarable bit. The appro- priationgis not to be given to the un- employed in cash. It is to be devot~ ed to as great an extent as possible for the construction of public works —which means that the greater part of it will go as graft to contractors. ‘The appropriation of this $20,000,000 for relief will go primarily to the political grafters and to the capital- ist class which is supposed to pay for this relief. Instead of being a “relief fund”, it is therefore a shame- less graft fund. The demagogy in the bill is car- ried also into the methods by which the relief is to be raised. The bill provides that the funds shall be raised by an increase in the income tax on the rich. That the rich who aresupposed to pay for this relief will hardly be hit at all in their in- comes is shown by the fact that the greatest tax, that on incomes of over $100,000, will be only slightly over one per cent. The rich will pay just what the jobless will get—practically nothing. tet ° ret While the bill gives the unem- ployed practically nothing it is in tself a means for cutting the wages of these workers who are still em- ployed. In addition to the original bill providing the relief section, six other bills were proposed at the same time by the governor. These relate mostly to the way in which the main bill will be carried out. One of them provides for the cutting of hours on all state public works contracts to a five day week. In pro- posing this bill Roosevelt said: “I recommend that for all future contraets on public works by the State or in a municipality thereof, to be let between October 1, 1931, and June 30, 1932, there be inserted a elause providing for a five-day week for all labor. In this way the benefits of employment on public works may be spread somewhat more thinly, but certainly more widely.” In this’ way instead of relieving the suffering of those who are un- employed the governor proposes to follow the stagger plan of Hoover and the American Federation of La- bor and cut wages by cutting the working week to five days—with a corresponding cut in wages. In an attempt to divide the ranks’ of the working class Roosevelt’s bill provides that the “benefits” in the bill are to go only to those workers who have been living in the state for over two years. Against this at- tempt of the bosses and the capi- 364 DELEGATES AT WIR MEET VOTE TO PUSH RELIEF FOR MINERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tion of the W. I. R. contemplates: 1, Membership branches in work- ers’ neighborhoods, of individual dues paying members. 2. Workers’ International Relief committees in all. workers’ organiza~ tions. 3. Workers’ International Relief committees in factories, shops, etc. 4. Sympathizers who will not join as active relief workers, to be or- ganized in professional branches pledged to a definite donation yearly and to work among the members of their own profession only. 5. Farmers’ branches. This means that the Pennsylvania- Ohio-West Virginia-Kentucky Strik- ing Miners’ Relief Committee in the various cities will be turned, as soon as possible without interrupting their work, into permanent branches of the w.lR The strike relief committees set up by the National Miners’ Union and Central Rank and File Strike Com- mittee, of course, continue their work as before, and there is no con- flict between their work and the W. I, R, with which the Penn-Ohio is affiliated. Opening with greetings from the Trade Union Unity League, through William Z. Foster, general secretary, the conference heard successively greetings from the National Miners’ Union, through Frank Borich; the Paterson textile strikers and the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union, through Elias; the Kentucky strikers, through a miner delegate from Har- Jan County; the International Work- ers’ Order, the Ukrainian benefit or- ganization; the Daily Worker, through Vern Smith, and the Com- munist Party, through Carl Price, district organizer at Pittsburgh, and from other organizations. All sounded the keynote of “a big, permanent Workers’ International Relief” as a dues paying organization continuing its work during and between strikes, and preparing between strikes for quick action in the next struggle. Foster pointed out that the tex- tile and mine strikes are only the first skirmishes in the great struggle developing this fall and winter. Borich stated that the miners know best of all workers the tramendous importance of a powerful relief or- ganization, and prophesied that out of this conference would come a mechanism that would help make the great mine strikes victorious. Elias . described the Paterson strikes, the determination of the sworkers -and--their hopes inthe W. IR, ‘The Kentucky delegate outlined the situation in Harlan County, with the talist politicians te divide the workers there must be set up a@ united frent of all workers for real, adequate un- employment relief and social insur- ance. ‘The capitalist class is united in its attack on the working class. The demagogues of both parties unite in the attempt to prevent the workers from gaining federal relief for the unemployed, As soon as the b¥l was announced the Republican leaders at Albany stated that they were in com- plete accord with the Roosevelt bill with only minor exceptions. The Roosevelt bill is an integral part of the Hoover-Gifford-A. F, of L. plans on a national scale for an absolute refusal to provide any adequate re- lief for the jobless this coming win- ter of hunger and misery, and is, in addition, part of the general attack on the standards of the working class. The demagogy of the Roosevelt bill must be exposed to\the employed and jobless workers throughout the coun- try. The bill itself was the result of the militant struggle of the workers throughout the country. Only by a mueh more determined, much great- er struggle can the workers force the capitalists to grant real coneessions of adequate relief. Employed and unemployed workers, mobilize for the fight against hunger. * union growing in the fac® of the greatest terror. This delegate is him- self being hunted by the coal op- erators’ deputies and had not slept under a roof for a week before com- ing to this conference. Price indicated the importance to the strikers and relief collectors of the present election campaign, among other things, as a chance to strike back at those squires and burgesses who jail the pickets and arrest and prohibit relief collectors. ‘The other speakers pledged full support of their organizations in the campaign of the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief. The two main reports were made by Marcel Scherer, of the national office of the Workers’ International Relief, and by Director Wagen- knecht, of the Pennsylvania-Ohio- West Virginia-Kentucky Striking Miners’ Relief Committee, Scherer told of the organization of the Workers’ International Relief in 1921, under the leadership of Lenin, and of the many campaigns in which it has taken part in the United States, including Passaic, Gastonia, the unemployed hunger marches and the present miners’ strike. He outlined the tactics for collecting during hunger marches, for turning temporary collection committees into permanent W. I. R. branches, for intensifying the relief in the present strike. “The central task of the W. I. R. is to increase the collections and solidarity movement to support the present miners’ strike,” said Scherer. He also outlined the cultural work of the W. I. R., its movies and work- ers’ theatres, its rehabilitation work, including camps for children and strikers sickened or wounded in the struggle, etc. Scherer also described the organ- izational and propaganda work of the W. I. R,, which, first approach- ing unorganized workers on the basis of relief collections, draws them into the revolutionary unions. Wagenknecht spoke sharply on the contract between the very good re- sults obtained in this miners’ strike by the miners’ own local relief com- mittees, Which labored under every Possible obstacle, in some cases col- Jecting food in sacks, on foot and walking many miles without shoe soles to get it, with the relatively small collections made under more favorable circumstances in“ the big cities. He stated that this was not because there was a less well organ- ized national relief collection in this strike than there was in previous strikes, but because the circum- stances required even better organ- ization. “Because of the crisis, you can only get ten cents from a worker who in former years would give a dollar,” said Wagenknecht, “but now youcan find ten workers who will give some- thing where in former years you could find only one.” ‘The way out is to greatly increase the number of collectors. Wagen- knecht gave many practical instrue- tions for developing new corps of collectors, especially by taking the names of sympathizers found in the collection campaign, He emphasized the necessity of setting up headquar- ters with the name of the W. I. R. on them and an appeal to bring food collections there. He related instances of rank and file pressure in the most reactionary organiza- tions of workers, even semi-fascist organizations, which forced dona- tions from the organization treasury when relief collectors came to speak to the meeting. All workers’ organ- | izations must be visited by relief | speakers. | He outlined the organizational forms of the W. I. R. which must , be establisher through hard work by | the delegates returning from this conference. A tremendous ovation was given the delegates from Kentucky, a striking miner who told about the vicious terror of the “law” and the great strides the union is making there in membership. Another striking miner from Scotts Run, W. + Virginia, told about the impending | Murphy-Socialist Relief Plan in DETROIT, Aug. 30.—A wave of suicides of unemployed workers is sweeping Detroit, directly traceable to the fact that Mayor Murphy, act- ing in harmony with Ford and Wall Street bankers is rapidly cutting down on the measly jobless relief heretofore given. In one case a mother with seven children on the verge of starvation, turned down by Murphy contemplated suicide, but instead broke a store window and took food for her starving family, Among the suicides reported by the Detroit capitalist press a few are as follows: John Jubiak, 24 years old( 4838 St. Aubin Ave., hungry, tired, despering killed himself: The Detroit Times of Aug. 27 dismisses Woman Takes Food to Keep 7 Children . From Death — to find work” and he could not bear to see his family starve. Many of these workers before they killed themselves and been to the Welfare Bureau asking fos relief. They were flatly refused. The Daily Worker™ has in the past few weeks reported at icast a dozen workers who kifled themselves because Mur- phy'’s promises of relief didn’t pan out, Now we haye one of the most Box, a widow out of work, , , , damnable cases ever to come to the the case by saying that before dying: attention of workers. Mrs, Mary Box, “He told police that he was despond-|a widow out of work, with seven ent because he lost his job.” children to feed was rapidly reaching The Detroit News of Aug. 25, de-'death by starvation. Her gas, light votes a few lines to this instance of and water had been cut off. Her desparation of a worker: “Unable to!rent was unpaid and Murphy’s city obtain employment, Edward Sanders, 'court’s threatened an eviction. Her father of four small chil and killed himself in the yard of his home Sunday night.” | On the same day the/same news- paper wrote of Ottie Brewer, of Cen- ter Line, who shot himself in the head Friday night because “he was dren, shot! children were hungry pleading for food. She went to the Welfare Bu- reau and was turned down, \ She contemplated death, but instead went to a grocery store, smashed the window and took some food for her children. despondent because he was unable| In the police station she told her ,) P) Detroit Drives Many to Suicides story as follows: wo wentana “The Welfare Department told two days ago. ‘us we couldn’t get any relief. When I left the welfare office three weeks ago I threatened to kill myself and my children but neigh- bors gave us enough to eat until “We haven't had a thing to eat fortwo days. My babies were starving and decided to go and take the food.” Here is the action of the dema- gogic rule of Mayor Murphy, hero of the Socialists, the man who promised to “relieve the un¢mployed.” Dozens of unemployed turned down by the Murphy-Socialist-Ford government threaten to kill themselyes—and scores do. This pleases the bosses. But this woman took food. The workers cannot solve their problems individually, by smashing store windows alone and taking food. Mass action of the workers against the Murphy's and his followers, de- manding food and by fighting for it will force unemployment relief, will develop ® struggle that ultimately will overthrow the rotten capitalist system that force workers to suicide and their children to slow death by MeMrve OO la Kentucky Lawyer to Defend the Harlan Miners at the Trial (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) hat also destroyed his corn and beans. This was all the Kimbler family had to live on. A good share of these greens were meant for the relief kitchen, Writing about this new outrage, the local miner said, “and one other thing, if you remain in Pittsburgh, don’t forget that there are a lot of starving kids down in Harlan sec- tion and that one of the things that will hold up the morale is some groceries, flour or something coming in, that shows them real solidarity.” The Penn-Ohio-West Virginia- Kentucky Striking Miners Relief Committee is doing its utmost to send a substantial supply of food to the six relief kitchens in the Har- lan sector this week, and the dona- tions brought by delegates to the Workers International Relief con- ference opening in Pittsburgh, Sat- urday, will make it possible to do this without starving the other sec- tions. More donations are needed though, to cope with tomorrow's local demands. Send what you can to the relief headquarters, Room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. The Harlan Kiwanis Club is all agog about the extremely mild ver-| sion about what is going on in Har- | jan County which was written by a Scripps-Howard reporter, That civil | liberties are completely unknown in this feudal kingdom, is the principle | point he makes. Consequently this | club, many of whose members live in | the local hotel that bears a sign over | its doorway, “Welcome Coal Opera- tors,” is issuing statements and re-| solutions condemning the reporter, | and all papers printing his stories. | The powers of Harlan County} openly threatened to boycott all} firms in Knoxville, Tenn., unless the News-Sentinel, a mildly liberal cap- italist sheet, ceases publishing these stories that expose a fraction of the Jawlessness of the “law” in Harlan. Practically all of the papers here- abouts are directly controlled by the Harlan coal operators, The story that seems to have drawn most fire, ig headed “Two kinds of Harlan Weleome” and com- ments on the “‘Welcome Coal Opera- tors” sign over the leading hotel and tells,how the County Jail is the stopping place of all leaders of the workers. In the last article of his series, the reporter tells how’ the jailer, Dillard Ball refused to let him look. over the jail register because “we get some big fellows in here, drunk or something like that, once in-@ while—you understand. I never let the newspaper boys use the ledger.” MacOonald Gov't Prepares Fascist Attack on Workers (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) goes on to say that there is little doubt the bankers are splendid “be- cause it fell to me to be hourly in touch with those splendid men who hourly are shaping the destinies of the nation at this juncture through the great national institution, the Bank of Enkland | “They make no speeches and very few of you even know their names. They are indifferent to praise or blame, but their object is the wel- fare of their country, and they have | impressed me very deeply with the conviction that they have no foolish interest to serve.” So speaks Sir Donald MacLean and so speaks Ramsay MacDonaid and other Socialists who thus pro- tect the profits ofthe bankers who rule British capitalist at the ex- pense of the British workers, strike there of 77,000 miners. Com- menting on the great need for food and shoes in the coal field, he held up his foot, showing the bottom of his foot through the remnants of a shoe and laughed, “Look at my feet —but you don’t see-me quittin’ yet!” He pointed out that the miners in his section, like elsewhere, are prac- tically starving and will need relief desperately almost immediately after they strike to keep alive. From every strike field in the eountry, delegates came—Allentown, Pa.; Paterson, N.J—from far away Kentucky coal fields, Connecticut, Rhode Island textile mills, as well as the nearby Pennsylvania, Ohie anl West Virginia strike camps. » Delcgate Kuffler from Allentown summe! up the attitude of the striker delegates when he said: “We found out what W. I. R. stands for, through expcrience. First thing we knew, we got fie truckloads of food from the W. I. R. W. I. R. means help coming from one workingman to another working man. We have already started a branch of the W. I. R. in Allentown and we hope, in the very near future, to be able to show our brothers, the striking min- ers, that we know: what solidarity means!” And from the delegates outside the strike sectors every speech was a pledge to intensify efforts for miners’ relief a thousandfold, See- ing conditions in the strike camps, sitting side by side with strikers, the desperate need for relief struck home. The best methods for relief work were discussed in detail. From be- ginning to end, although the hall was overcrowded and about two- seore delegates were forced to stand all through the proceedings that laste from 10 a, m. until 9:15, with short adjournments for meals, the delegates were extremely attentive. Tt was an unusually spirited, colorful SOUTH BEND AND TO HAVE DAILY NEW ORLEANS WORKER CLUBS SOON; WILL HOLD D. W. AFFAIRS “I have received your letters and bulletins regularly,’ writes a com- rade from South Bend, Ind. “I have used the instructions on how to prop- agandize and organize workers. I have worn out a pair of shoes walk- ing the streets selling the Daily Worker, every copy of which is read by the workers. I am unemployed over one year. I have also done my best to spread the Daily Worker in bread lines.” The above comrade also promises to organize a Daily Worker Club in South Bend, This is good news. A Daily Worker Club in South Bend will help a great deal to bring to- gether Polish and American workers and clarify them on the social and political. problems of the day. At meetings of the elub both the con- tents of the Daily Worker and the Trybuna Robotniczy should be read, discussed and criticizea. Every Daily Worker Club should be able to maintain a Red Builders For Te Working Woman group composed of unemployed workers who want*to devote most of their time to the selling of the Paper at factory gates, on the street, at mines, mills, and wher- ever workers gather. Unemployed workers will find that they can make some of their expenses in this way. Also contacts. To sell a worker a paper, or get his sub, and then depart is not the correct pro- cedure, Every worker must be fol- lowed up day by day until of his own accord he becomes an active element in the movement. Subscriptions to the Daily Worker is one of the simplest ways of bring- ing workers nearer to the movement, Through teading the Daily day by day and following the experiences of other workers, they will be able to better understand their own experi- ences of other workers, they will be able to better understand their own experiences and thereby learn how to struggle against their own condi- tions. By subscribing to the Daily Worker, workers begin to participate more actively in the class struggle. House to house canvasses should be made in every working class neigh- borhood, for subscriptions to the Daily Worker. Monthly subs are only 50 cents; every employed worker ean surely afford this small sum. Person- al calls will make lasting contacts. Thousands of workers throughout the country who are disgusted with the capitalist press will welcome the Daily Worker once they are ap- proached with it. Sample copies widely distributed are bound to re- sult in subs from these workers. “I have been here just about two weeks,” writes M.S.J. of Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, New Orleans, La. “I have been trying to build a Daily Worker Club and have had pretty fair results. But we haven't been able to send any money in yet. However, I am quite sure that if we continue as we have been doing, we will be able to pay for the papers we are getting seon.” We would like to hear more about the New Orleans Club. How many members in the club so far? Have leaflets been mim announcing meetings of the club? What is the attitude of the workers to the club? Let’s have a detailed report of next meeting, New Or- leans. In the meantime keep up the good work, comrade M.S.J. Providence, R. I, will also hold a Daily Worker Picnic on Sunday, Au- gust 30, at Buckluis Island, Phillips- dale. There will be good musi¢ sports, daneing and refreshments Admission 15 cents. GIFFORD LEADS IN FIRING MEN AND WOMEN AND SLASHING WAGES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED able funds for relief. The Federal Employment Service reporting on Saturday stated that “Operating schedules in many manufacturing éstablishments were cut still further and the number of part-time work- ers increased in July.” In short, mere thousands were thrown out of work, more thausonds are on part time, with less pay, besides the mil- lions who got wage cuts. Yet the charties which is the main source of garbage relief that the cap- italists offer promise less food to the inereased number of unemployed this coming winter. Lawson Purdy, for the past 13 years general secretary of the Charity Organization Society in New York, said “Public and private funds for re- lief are being stegiily depleted; in some of our largest centers the pri- vate emergency funds are gone en- tirely at the end of the half year... the problem is serious; more serious by far, indeed, than any that has confronted us since the war.” ‘This is a promise ef greater hun- ger for the unemployed whieh Gif- ford is suppesed to enfroce in tha interest of the Hoover government. © ‘The workers must organize now in a mighty movement for relief, which will come only as the result of mil- itant action on the part of the work- ers themselves in the Unemployed Councils of the Trade Union Unity League, and under the leadership of the Communist Party. ‘LYNCH 2 NEGRO WORKERS FOR DEFENDING SELVES IN SLAVE CAMP (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) a white man. The workers had no sooner stepped out of the jail than they were seized, thrown into auto- mobiles and whisked away. They were shot to death by a fusilade of rifle and pistol shots. The crime occurred 15 miles south of here. No effort was made by the capitalist authorities to rescue them. No ef- fort is being made to punish their lynchers. is A coroner's “investigation” held yesterday blandly brought in the usual verdict of death at the hands of “men unknown.” With this double lynching in Flor- ida, the brutal lynch terror of the white ruling class has now taken 26 known victims during the past eight months. This lynch terror is di- rected at crushing the struggles of the Negro masses against starvation and national depression. The at- tempt to legally lynch the nine in- nocent Scottsboro Negro boys, the police terror in Birmingham, the massacre of Alabama croppers and Chicago unemployed workers are all part of this murderous terror against the Negro masses, which is also part of the general terror against the entire working-class, the murder and arrest of coal and textile strikers, the deportation drive against the foreign born; the police attacks on the hunger marchers and countless other outrages against the working- class. Negro and white workers! Smash the boss terror against the working- class! Answer the attacks of the bosses by forging a united fighting front of Negro and white workers, of foreign and native born, of unem: ployed and employed! On with the fight against Negro oppression and for unconditional equal rights for the Negro masses, including the right of self-determination of the Negro majorities in the South with con- fiscation of the land of the rich landowners for the Negro and white workers whe till the land! 17th INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER Twenty-Five Cents for Two Months Subscription to the YOUNG WORKER (Published Weekly Address The only youth paper fighting for the every day needs of the young workers YOUNG WORKER : Post Office Box 28, Station D, New York City, N. Y.