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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, yest x MINERS IN MILLSTONE, KY., REFUSE TO VOTE FOR BOSS CANDIDATES No Communist Candidates on on Ballot; Miners Poll Lightest Vote in History Boss Terorr Reigns Throughout Coal Fields; | Miners Call for Su pport « of Struggles (By a Worker r Correspondent) CARRETH, Ky.—A nice new day at Millstoae, Ky. mines are silent; all is serene; a representative from Letcher and Perry Counties, to represent | |what this money is taken out for. them in the next legislature at The for ain’t the peple choosing Frankfort, Ky. But, before we fool ourselves with all this peace and quiet let us go back a few months at least, After the coal companies elected A. J. May from the Tenth District to| succeed Mrs. Catherine Langley in the U. S. Congress, along came the’ coal companies with a eandidate in nearly every district and sub-district. May is a coal operator, Hatcher of Pikeville, Ky., another coal operator and hotel owner. Now the South- east Coal Co. was running their com- pany doctor in the district composed of Letcher and Perry Counties, and now we pick up our story. Coal to Candidates ‘The writer has consistently believed that according to all the rules of mathematics a coal company should mine and produce coal. Therefore he organizes considerable opposition to this coal company candidate and gets orders to resign and get out. But not before he has sowed the seed of opposition among the men. So on this bright election morning we find the officials of the coal com- pany running from house to house trying to muster votes for their man. (We recommended that workers stay at home, as they had no one on their ticket that represented them). Previously on August Ist the man- agement let all the men know that they ought to come out and vote ® for somebody, just so he were a re- publican or democrat. |return for Letcher County the vote showed the lightest ever, and prac- tically all for the coal company man. Terrorize Miners Such is the way of this capitalist system. The coal companies grind the fear of hell into their men in the mines—out of the mines, and they only have to “hint” their wishes to get them done. There is no other recourse for them, if they fail to take the hint—they are moved out very rapidly. It may be dirty coal, or it may be a thousand and one different things, yet really he is fired simply because he has shown opposition to the wishes of the employer. And no wonder they own the courts, the law and everything else that goes with it. Boys, we have a great consolation in the faclt that we have them on the go. They know that we are get- ting ready for the one great fight. The one that really counts. Build your Red unions, your party and rush your aid and sympathy to the big and little strikes now going on all all over the nation, as they are the vanguard of your battle front. Act today in a mighty protest against unemployment and starvation. Must Organize More Efficient Election Meetings New York. Comrades: During the election campaign, in particular, and as a medium of bringing our message to the work- ers at all times, the open-air meet- ings are of primary importance. It is therefore imperative that our meetings should be conducted in a manner that will not only reflect our ability to convey our message ta the workers, but will also show a dis- cipline that will impress them with the true meaning of organization of which we speak so much. So far, although my experience as a public speaker on the platform of the Communist Party covers less than three months, the few incidents noticed during the meetings have proven to me that unless more effi- cient methods are used a great deal of the benefits supposed to be de- rived from such meetings will be lost. ‘The meetings seldom start before 9 pm., although the speaker’s as- signment reads 8 p.m. Most chair- men have little, if any, experience in introducing the organization or speakers. Often they spend 10 to 30 minutes on the platform while the speaker waits to be introduced. While the crairman is speaking there is no comrade to see that the meet- ing is orderly. Seldom, if ever, are there sufficient comrades ‘with lit- erature to sell. Some of the com- rades stand with the literature in one place, hoping that some workers would go over to buy it. At no time have I seen the chairman or a speaker offer literature from the platform or membership cards for workers to sign, althoygh they always speak of organization and for them to join. In order to overcome these many shortcomings until the speaker can take a course in public speaking, the District should demand that each Section call a meeting of all speak- ers, chairmen, agit-prop. A capable Speake, such as Carl Brodsky, shoule be assigned to address these meetings on how to conduct an open- air meeting, the duty of the chair- man, speakers, literature, agents, etc. A leaflet should be issued there- after containing all the instructions given by the comrade. Only thus will our meetings reap the benefits for which they are ar- ranged. Shiller, Unit 3, Section 5. South Bend Bosses Pay Workers In Stale Groce (By a Worker Correspondent) SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The city government here has put over a real forced labor schemes and they have the nerve to call it unemployment relief. The scheme is that the city puts workers to work for 35 cents an hour but they do not get cash for their labor. After the workers have work- ed a week the city gives them a slip of paper, which they call a substitute for money. The workman is then assigned to a grocery store where the grocer gives him the oldest and eries stalest groceries and charges him more for them than they are worth— more than he would pay for them in another store for fresh groceries. These workers who work one, two and three days a week and are rob- bed by the city and the grocer have only one course and that is to or- ganize. Build strong Unemployed Councils to demand real and ade- quate relief for the unemployed. Wages Cut, Workers Fired in Terre Haute Fnameling Plant (By a Worker Correspondent.) ‘TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—The latest move in the Hooyer wage-cutting campaign took effeet here in Terre Haute this week, It happened in the Columbia Enameling and Stamp- ing Mill, the largest of its kind in the United States, New machines were installed to make the pots and pans and all the workers got a 10 per cent wage-cut. Many of the workers were laid off altogether, i Against this attack of the bosses we are distributing leaflets among the workers in the factory, calling on them to organize into the Metal Workers’ Industrial League. We also held a successful meeting in front of the Louden Canning Co., where girls work under the most ter- rible conditions. Three hundred or more of the workers cheered the speaker, Don Wilson, who made an open statement that he left the yel- Jow socialist party and joined the Communist Party. At the meeting the bosses called the cops, who came, but appeared afraid to do anything. This is the beginning of the end of the social- ist party in Terre Haute. The work- ers are looking to the Communists to lead them in their struggles. Former U,M.W.A. Secretary Banquets With Mine Superintendent (By a Worker Correspondent.) PITTSBURGH, Pa—A miner nemed Ben Neff, who worked for the Ocean Mine No. 5 of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., was ruptured while work- ing en a cutting machine, This woiltev reported three days later, not ipowing what was wrong with him. Te reported to the superintendent acd the company doctor and neither of them gaye him any assistance or cornpensation. 2 miners at work in this mine eo “ct get paid for dead work. The "23 now average from nothing to (2 a day. ‘Tom Clarky, the superintendent, was promising everything to the Ne- goces. He gave them cigars to try to win them as strike-breakers. Trcachard was hauling the min i d from the mine for two w ahs */, (no cxpease of the company, Now ‘ the miners have to pay 10 cents to ride in this bus, Charley Makoko, the former secre- tary of the U, M. W. A.; Bob War- den, assistant superintendent of the Warden Mine, and the rest of the stool-pigeons of Blythedale, Pa., re- cently held an expensive banquet at the home of one of the stool- pigeons, They were discussing how to terrorize the miners and break the strike. The miners in Blythe- dale are working three days a week and the company keeps sending more miners home to terrorize them more. Most of the members of the National Miners’ Union are blacklisted. Workers, yes the bosses and their stoal-pigeons will try to terrorize you. Why? Because you are unor- genized, Notro and white’ miners mutt og 2 togu and stop this terror of the bosses, In the final | j local of the N. M. U. Demand unemployment insuranc2. Demand all war funds for the} unemployed. Talebpank Bogihess Off; Operators On CHICAGO, Til—It is possible to get an accurate guage of existing business conditions through the traf- fic handled by a telegraph company. At the postal telegraph things have fallen off alarmingly. Operators eom- ing down to work at nine in the | morning are told to report back to work at ten. Then if they are put on at ten a, m. they are most likely sent home at noon. Often at nine o'clock at night there isn't a tele- gram to be sent in the place. The Postal continues to dock each em- ployed $2.50 a month and refuses to answer the workers’ queries as to Workers! .We should demand an im- mediate stop to this robbery! ‘PUSH DEFENSE OF MINERS IN COUNTY JAIL OM PAGE ONE) demonstration of the kind ever seen in this part of the country, and after serving demands on the county com- missioners will march back to the fair grounds for another meeting. ‘The members of the conference elected a defense committee repre- sentative of every local in Washing- ton County to carry on the prepara- tions for the demonstration, and this defense committee elected an executive of seven, with the Negro worker, Griffith, of the LL.D. branch in Washington, as chairman of the whole defense committee and of its executive. The executive is to apply for a permit from the Washington city government, but the demonstra- tion will be held anyway, whether they get the permit or not. It was voted to bring before each the question of its affiliation to the I.L.D., and also of electing a defense committee in each local to work with the Wash- ington County Defense Committee elected here Sunday, The same was decided upon for the various work- ers’ fraternal organizatoins. Many of the speeches had to do with the task of building the LL.D. branches. The conference sent greetings to all class-war prisoners, particularly to the miners in jail in this county, the miners in other county jails, the Harlan miners facing murder and other charges, and the Scottsboro, Camp Hill and Imperial Valley work- ers facing prison sentences or death. The conference sent greetings to Mooney and Billings. It sent tele- grams of protest to Governor Pin- chot over the miners’ jailing, and to Governor Sampson of Kentucky, and the governor of Alabama. ‘The campaign to secure thousands of signatures and donations on the lists now being circulated through- out the county for that purpose. Speakers before the conference were, among others, Rae Green, dis- trict organizer of the I.L.D., who re- viewed the situation and outlined the strategy of the defense for uniting the best possible legal defense in the courts with mass demonstrations and wide-flung organization; George Maurer, bringing greetings from the National Board of the LL.D, and what its particular tasks were, and Attorney Drucker of New York, who told of the necessity and success of workers defending themselves through mass organization and demonstra- tions, Mills, organization secretary of the Communist Party, Pittsburgh Dis- trict, and Mary Heimoff, organizer for the Young Communist League, greeted the conference for their or- ganizations; Mills tracing the les- sons of the strike and showing how the republican, democratic and so- (CONTINUED Part Time Every Day | JURY It Day rolls around, the “nation will be | dislodged.” | ele hk WELLSBURG, West Va., Sept. The following miners have been ar- raigned and held for the grand jury | by Squire Howard of Brooke County: | Alex Dorsey (Negro leader of the National Miners’ Union), Alex Fur-| bee, Ed Dennis, Charles Hill, Mike Mare, Joe Vansnick, Matt Turki, Mike Spular, Felix ‘Trent, Gene | Hauck, Steve Garnock, Mike Koseocc, George Fokar, Ben Murray, Allen Greenlee, Ralph Long, Matt Badnach, | Ed Alexander, John Jonas, Walter | Miller, Angelo Nuch ahd Fred Berry. The charge against them all is| based on the “Red Men Act.” 7 This quaint statute gets its name from the opening clause of Section 7, of Article 6 of Chapter 61 of the | Code of West Virginia, as follows: “If two or more persons under the name of “Red Men,” “Regulators,” “Vigilance Committee,” or any other name or without a name, combine and conspire together for the purpose of inflicting any punishment or bodily injury upon any other perso or persons, or for the purpose of destroying, injuring, defacing or tak- ing away any property, real or per- sonal, not their own...” and so on for most any offense any person could think of. The Red Men act practically duplicates the whole code, forbidding murder, theft, arson, may- hem, etc. You might wonder why all this duplication, since these crimes @ll have their own part of the code, until you come to that part of the “Red Men Act” which reads: “Tf upon the trial of an indictment hereunder, it be proved that two or more persons, the defendant being one, were present, aiding and abet- ting in the commission of the offense charged therein, it shall be presumed that such offense was committed in pursuance of such combination or conspiracy in the absence of satis- factory proof to the contrary. And all persons who were present, aiding and abetting, at the commission of any offense herein mentioned, shall be deemed conspirators within the meaning hereof.” And since in the code of West Virginia it is particularly specified that all persons in such a group shall be tried separately, it will be cialist parties had supported the em- ployers, the first two actually shoot- ing down the workers on the picket lines and the socialists clubbing un- employed in Milwaukee and helping to starve the striking miners by driv- ing relief workers from the streets in Reading. He called for support of the Communist candidates in the mine fields on election day. Mary Heimoff pointed out that Leo Thompson was a member of the Young Communist League and en- dorsed his declaration while on trial in Washington: “The duty of a Com- munist is to be in the front ranks in every fight of the workers against the employers.” A resolution presented by the Wash- ington branch of the I.L.D. was read by Griffith and adopted by the con- ference. It calls for each miner to be responsible for raising 50 cents to create a fund to be used for noth- ing else but bail and legal defense. The resolution also urged that Ne- gro, counsel be added to the defense staff, and that a fight be made to have Negro workers included on all juries trying miners in this county. A strong resolution was passed unanimously demanding the release of the worker prisoners, and this resolution was ordered sent to the governor, the judges, prosecutors and press. The defense committee met imme diately after the adjournment of the conference and organized itself and assiened tasks, and voted to meet again in the Relief Kitchen at Tyler- dale on Sunday at 10 a.m, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | seen that the “Red Men Act” is mere- | face of a revolutionary working class. Worker phcierlieiahamets 4 | Ker 22 MINERS HELD FOR GRAND /BROOKE COUNTY, W. VA. comm es jis from one month to a year in jail, with a fine of from $50 to $500. Pen- alty for actually committing any of the acts forbidden in the “F Men Act” is up to ten years in prison, or, in case some one has been killed, the same penalty as would be inf d on conviction of a charge of first degree murder. The whole w ing class must rally to the defense of these West V ginia miners, for the tracks are |; to shunt them right into prison for ten years each. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 7.—It is reported here how the Leets Fa Coal Co. manager resumed work. When the men came to him asking to go back to work, the jovial man- it.” They did, but then when, after two weeks, no pay was forthcoming, the men made inquiries. The man- ager pretended great surprise: “What arfe you squawking about now?” he $2.50 Per Week, Wages For Father of Seven Gary, Ina. Daily Worker: I work hard all week and at the end of the week I receive $2.50, I have seven in the family and all of the children are in school. What can I do with $2.50? Unless some- thing turns up for me I will not be able to send my children back to school this month, It is not because I am lazy, or it is not be- cause I don’t want them to go to school, I want them te go, but I can’t send them on what little I earn. I work hard from morning to night for what little I get. I was so pressed that I went to the city for help and they turned me away, telling me that they were not helping any more. A WORKER. ager said: “There's the mine, hop to} said. “You asked for work and you got it. Who said anything about | pay?” Chile Navy Revolt ane Jail Many} | OM PAGE ONE) | | stituting the blackest reaction in the jly the finest kind of railroad ma-| Original plans for the surrender of | chinery. All you have to do is to|the fleet provided the convict the first one, or have one|should put in at Valr 0, ¢ |stool pigeon arrested and let him | the leadir 1 olties, ‘but yh plead guilty and take a light sen-| doubtedly due to of a mass tence or suspended sentence, and the | demonstrs on behalf ofthe sai- rest are automatically convicted, or | iors, the government at the last min- jat least the burden of proof is thrown | ute changed plans and ordered the | upon them, not on the prosecutor. | navy to put in at Port Tongoy, a port The statute was passed shortly |owned by the Bethlehem Steel Co. |after the civil war to stop lynching.|a Wall Street corporation. There is no record that it was ever | used against lynchers, but it has been | The Associated Press which credits |very handy against strikers ever | the bombardment of the fleet by the aivias: air service for the end of the up- The penalty for merely conspiring |Tising tells with great pride how the javiators were trained by Yankee and British © imperialism, omitting to |}menton, of course. that many of them are American and British army officers, The Associated Press says: | “The air force, to which credit for suppressing the revolt is being given, is directly under the control of the President and no con- nection with either the army or navy. gest in Latin | Ame! onally well trained. Its pilots have all received training in the United States or in Vergara, ir corps, is a cousin of the commander-in-chief of the na- tional defense. Ueneral Vergara.” In order to draw a sharp division Between the leaders of the mutiny | and the sailors who supported it, the | Chilean government capitalist news- | papers in the United States are try- | ing to make it appear that only a small group of Communists “forced” | the sailors to revolt and that a large | | part of the navy was “loyal”. This | canard is being spread by the navy | | officers to cover up the fact that the great majority of the sailors were wholeheartedly in back of the upris- ling. and that they endorsed the reyo- lutionary demands put forward by | the navy. There is little doubt that hundreds | of sailors will be executed in an ef- | fort to terrorize the rest and to wipe out the tradition of this working |class uprising in Chile. However, | with the growing crisis, driving ever more thousands to starvation in| |Chile, with, the greater pressure ot| |the imperialist bandits, the Chilean masses learning from the events of | |the past week will be able to carry forward the struggle for the success- ful overthrow of imperialist domi- | nation and its system of hunger and misery. Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ | | series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED union mines and mines where the UMWA has its scab contracts. More and more relief will be needed as autumn comes and winter ap- proaches. Families now housed in tents will have to be moved to save the lives of the children and the health of their parents. The weight carried by the Workers International Relief and the strikers relief com- mittees will become heavier as time goes on. Two steel ‘strikes broke out in the Pittsburgh djstrict in one day last week. About 800 workers came out in protest against wage cuts and speed-up, In one case the men were working one or two turns a week. In the other men were making from 20 to 36 cents an hour. Girls were be- ing paid from 15 to 19 cents an hour. They struck against a 5 per NEW YORK—As 8 signal for a mass wage cutting drive against the British workers, King George, and the rest of the royal house, go through the mockery of voluntarily giving up 50,000 pounds ($250,000) out of their swollen purses, A letter written by F. Ponsonby, Keepex’ of the Privy Purse, or the king's treasurer, to Ram- say MacDonald states ‘hat the royal family believes the naticnal crisis de- mands sacrifices. This stage play is an e.fort to get the British unemployed. and the workers to forget about th. drastic cut in the unemployed insurai %¢ pay- ments and the forthcoming wage slashes. What the Keeper of the Privy Purse fails to mention is the fact that the king draws $2,350,000 yearly from the public treasury, and that the “self-denial” still leaves him oyer $2,000,000 from this source, as well as $350,000 from revenues from the Ducky of Lancaster, not counting the hundreds of millions of dollars that the royal house has invested in vari- ous industries. Thus the cut in pay for the workers will bring back the King’s $250,000 manyfold by squeezing down the workers’ living standard. The step taken by the royal para- site is an attempt to add weight to the hypocritical declaration of Ram- say 4MacDonald that “sacrifices” should be squeezed. The royal family which is maintained as a symbol of canitalist rule in England is now be- ing brought into play as a pageant Jor wage cujling as Uae smoakesarean Fe Socalist” “MacDonald Praises Royalty's War Deeds to hide the hypocricy of the “social- ist” fakers, An example of the “equality of bur- dens” is shown by an, interview with a representative of the British Daily Worker and unemployed workers at the Labor Exchanges. The following is how the unemployed feel about having their meagre unemployment insurance eut: One of them said: “I'd pour petrol over MacDonald and Thomas and burn the bastards, traitors that they are.” Another showed what a cut meant for him. “Out of $3.75 a week,” he said, “I have to pay $1.85 for rent and 30 cents for insurance, so you see I have the magnificent sum of $1.60 to feed and clothe myself. “If they do cut this sum, I’d knock something off and go to jail. Some- body would have to keep me then.” (The British moneyhas been trans- lated into American dollars.—Ed). While McDonald, the “socialist” premier proposes to cut down the $1.60 that a worker is supposed to feed himself on for a week, the king, helping out the campaign of lies to befuddle workers, now tries to make the workers think that the royal family too will “suffer” along on over $2,000,000 a year. dhe king's olfer so lay as jo praise King of England's Gesture Mocks Slash in Jobless Workers’ Dole the king for his “sacrifices” during war when hundreds of thou- ba of British workers were being slaughtered to secure the royal and capitalist parasites’ profits. This stage play, along with the sham opposition of the Henderson-led labor party is put on to keep the workers from fighting. It is not ac- cidental that it takes place on the day that Parliament is set to open with MacDonald sponsornig the pro- gram of “sacrifices"—that is, sacri fices that slash the workers’ stand- ard of living and leave the capitalists’ profits intact. At the sessions ofthe Trade Union Congress in Briston, the union lead- ers, erstwhile close supporters of Ramsay MacDonald and now fol- lowing in the train of Arthur Hen- | derson, every effort was made to keep down indignant protests and ques- tions from the few workers who got by the strong guards and the careful sifting of visitors. The capitalist news reports admit that Arthus Hen- derzon faces a hard task defending his actions and that he will be forced to answer many questions. The Ni York Times report says about’ thi: “There was a disposition today to whom the general council was dis- posed to send into the wilderness, and when Arthur Henderson attends the congress later in the week he will be speaking partly in his own |defense against suspicions which Ramsay MacDonald in acoepting | were only half formulated today in| ers Relief Committee, room 205, 61 guickly stifled questions.” SCOTTS RUN MINERS RESTRIKE UNDER NMU; NEED RELIEF TO WIN: |to the broad masses, a life of ma- hunt for more scapegoats than those | cent wage cut. Practically every steel worker in the Pittsburgh and} Ohio Valley districts has had his wages cut. Many have had their wages cut three or four times in three months. Strike talk is in the air. The work- | ers are threatening to strike against further wage cuts, and the speed-up that is makigg one man do three | men’s work. They will be the next victims of the cossacks’ clubs, of in- | timidation by the courts, of tear gas, of evictions, Many steel mills are | already shut down. Their unemploy- | ed workers will join in the mass pro- test against hunger and against work at starvation wages, Workers relief organizations must begin now to store up & surplus | against these impending strikes. Re- lief based on the solidarity of the workers is one of the strongest wea- | | pons in the hands of the strikers. If | the steel workers are confident of | support from a united working class movement, they can carry on their battles against the barons of iron and steel with hope and success. Every worker is involved in these wage cuts whether they affect him now or not. Nearly all workers have had their wages cut and their work- ing conditions worsened by their bosses during the present attack on the working class, Those not yet cut are slated for early attacks. Rail- road men, so far affected only by slack work, are threatened with wage cuts as soon as the present effort to raise freight rates is settled. Build- ing trades workers have had their wages cut. Many have been forced to pay a rebate to the foreman to keep a job. From the highest to the lowest there have been attacks on wages and working conditions. The ‘bosses are trying to save their prof- its by taking the costs of the panic out of the hides of the workers, Every possible resistance to this at- tack on the workers slows down the attack. A strong working class move- ment ean stop the process entire! Workers must stand back of every strike against starvation, whether in | mines, mills, factories, on road jobs. or farms, The present strike in coe! and textiles are but skirmishes in the | general war on the workers. Strong | resistance now will slow down and maybe stop the attack entirely, Th: whole streneth of the workers mus! | be rallied back of each group om !/ strike | Relief must be, poured in from jevery corner of the country to the strike areas, to the WIR and th miners relief comimttees to suppa: these strikes. Show the bosses th: | the workers are behind any man w! goes on strike against starvation slave conditions. Send relief,ta | Penn-Ohio-W, Va.-Ky. Striking } iPenn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa workers and of the worke Jone of the capit pow rope and also in the Unit his own he {In CAPITALISM *s Now Look To Soviet Union, |WARNS THAT THE COLLAPSE OF ° G Says IS APPROACHI German Economist Dr. H. von Beckerath of | Political Economy at ity of Bonn in Germany warned the American capital f the de- veloping collap and of the militar serman |out the rest of the capitalist at a meeting of the Board of | -Amer Commerce He the cap- list class that the continued op- ession and sharper exploitation of German workers would mean a revolutionary upsurge in Germany and the destruction of the capitalist system there. | He stated that the collaps of the tem in Ge y would nfined there but would ist system in ever: warning as f be can be he Central “This breakdown wiil not re- stricted to Germany. There |no doubt that in most of t | European countries in Italy and very probably also in England, the structure of the capitalistic system and its cultural and political impli- cations are so weakened by years of economic disturbance and by social unrest that it will not stand the shock of the annihilation of Ger lutionary circumstances. The reac- tion of such a sequel of revolution- | ary changes in the economic and so- cial field of Europe on America need not be explained. In such a case, the American banker will certainly not get anything and most probably the | American taxpayer will get as much or less than the bankers.” Beckerath points out to the cap- italist class that it is with the So- cialist system in the Soviet Union that they are competing. It is to the Soviet Union that the oppressed workers of the world are looking to show them the way out of the misery and terror of capitalist ex- | ploitation. “The political structure,” of capitalism, says Beckerath, “is constantly being undermined through the competing communism of Rus- sia.” The Soviet Union must be fought says this capitalist economist. cloaks this attack in peaceful phrases. “The only efficient way to combat Russian communism, or rather, the spread of communistic ideas out- side of Russia.” Dr. Beckerath said, “is to prove that the capitalistic |.world, in spite of all inner contests and struggles, is able to reconstruct itself in such a way that it gives, not only to the upper classes but also terial comfort and moral dignity to keep them within jhe ranks of the defenders of the present capitalistic world. This issue will be decided in He} nany and The workers in Germany and in and in the United s rning rapidly what the Cc m to offer the w They are learning crisis is an inseparable part nd that the only way he working class can be assured a decent life and be freed n and disease is through rthrow of the capitalist sys- ter that necessarily this breeds misery. apitalist sys- in Germany and it is the capitalist class to ertish y struggle of the German working-class. In this ng of the revolutionary strug- of the German workers “America render not only (capitalist) but all of (capitalist) Eu- rope a priceless service,” he says. | The capitalist class knows that it cannot prove to the working-class of the world that it has more to offer them than the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union are gaining under the dictatorship of the pro- letariat. The capitalist class is de- termined not to combat the Soviet Union by these means but by war. It is for the attack on the Soviet Union and on the revolutionary : i ~ | working-class of Germany under the many’s economic system under revo~- | leadership of the Communist Party |that Beckerath warns the capitalist class of the United States. The | American capitalist class is preparing |for this attack by building even greater armaments and war supplies. | The working class must defend their |fatherland in the Soviet Union and defend the revolutionary struggle of the German workers against the capitalist class. Unemployed Council of West Pullman Holds Large Meet CHICAGO, Ill.—At a meeting called by the Unemployed Council of West Pullman the hall was overflowed, and more than two hundred workers gathered outside, where all could par- ticipate. It is significant that many young workers were in the crowd, and they showed the greatest enthu- |Siasm... All the applications to the | Council were filled out, sixty new members being obtained, many of | these, too, being young and nef; c4- | ments. At the next meeting of the Council Jast Friday, two of these new mem- bers were added to the Executive Committee. Several young workers are asking to join the Young Com- munist League. They spoke with the greatest enthusiasm and this is an- | other instance of the masses getting ahead of our comrades. The Council is now planning another meeting in a large hall, as well as a series of open-air meetings. 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