The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1931, Page 3

“workers who were exercising their beans and rotten spuds to live a week on. valLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER | i, 1931 Page! — 700 STEEL WORKERS FACE NEW IN BLAW WAGE-CUT NOX PLANT Wages Slashed Two Months Ago 10 to 15 Per| Cent; Further Cut Threatened Many Steel Workers Say They Will Vote for} Communist Candidates (By a Worker Correspondent) ARNOLD, Pa.—There are ent time in the Blawnox Steel Mill. three to four days a week, but 700 men working at the pres- We are working only from sometimes when the company | gets a big order many of us are forced to slave from nine up to fifteen hours a day. The conditions under which we have.to. slave are unbear- able. New machines have been introduced in many depart- ments and the workers are forced to work like machines. Two months ago we received a wage cut from 10 to 15 per cent; now the company is plan- ning to give us another wage-cut, but I am sure the workers will not stand for this any longer. The company used all kinds of methods to terrorize the workers. Most of the workers are living in the company stables. They are forced to Pay from $16 to $35 rent, besides they must pay for the gas, water and electric. Many of the workers can not only pay rent for their homes, but they do not earn enough money to pay for food for their chil- dren. About fifteen families have been thrown out of their houses be- cause they can’t pay rent, although they are working. Ready to Organize. ‘The workers are ready to be or- ganized and fight against the un- bearable conditions that prevail in the steel mills. The other day one of my fellow-workers handed me an election program of the Communist Party, which states that all the Pittsburgh industries can be turned into war industries without much | trouble. The Blawnox Steel Mill is producing material today for war purposes—mostly gas tanks for the navy. Company Candidates. .. All the Blawnox Borough candi- dates, such as council, constable, in- spector, etc., are men who are work- ing for the company. The company bosses told us that we must vote for the company candidates, otherwise we will be fired from the job. Many of these candidates are bosses in dif- ferent departments of the mill, But I am sure that in spite of, the terror many of the workers in this mill will vote for the candidate of the Com- munist Party. Must Build Union. The only way we can fight these conditions in the mill is to organize into a big, strong union and strike against the wage-cuts and the rotten conditions. The Metal Workers’ In- dustrial League is the only organ- ization for the steel workers. Soviet Steel Workers Write to Workers in the American Mills Maklevka, U.S.S.R. Dear Comrades: We metal workers are sending you our hearty greetings. | You know well that the capitalists | of the old Russia had pressed and mocked us. We, by our own forces and technical knowledge, have gained and shall gain results which the bourgeoisie did never dream of. We have constructed and are still constructing hundreds of new fac- tories and mills. Thanks to collec- tive, tightly-bound proletarian or- ganization, we have been able to de- velop the socialistic construction work. We proletarians of the U. S. S. R. have proved to the bourgeoisie of the whole world by facts that we can live by collectively constructing more and more new, gigantic plants. Comrades, it is well known to you that the bourgeoisie of the capitalist countries are making preparations for a new slaughter, in order to take away from the proletarians of the U. S. S. R. the attainments of the Red October. Comrades of the whole world, we are sure that you will not allow the world bourgeoisie to destroy the at- ments of the Red October and to fall upon the U. S. S. R, Keep in mind that we, by our wo-"sers’ and peasants’ organizations, un the guidance of our Commu- nist Party, are able to render re- sistance to the insolent sally of the bourgeoisie, which is preparing a new slaughter to tnslave our proletarian country. We workers and peasants of the U. 8S. 8S. R. rely on you, comrades, proletarians of the whole world, that you will not allow the capitalists and bourgecisie to fall upon our prole- tarian country. We hope that, hav- ing concentrated around the Com- munist Party, we shall go with you, comrades, to new victories, to new attainments on the socialist front. Long live the Red Revolution! Long live its leader, the Central Committee of the Communist Party! Signed by nine workers of the metal plants, Maketka, Donbas, US. 8. R Boss Holds Back Wage’ Force Him to Pay New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade: A comrade of ours, May Sherman, was working in a restaurant named _the Happy Lunch, run by a man named Pimpao. This man owns a meat market and a restaurant. He employs six workers and exploits them to the fullest extent. This comrade was hired one month ago with the understanding that she work 8 hours a day and 6 days a week. After she worked about a week they told her that she would have to work 12 hours a day and 7 days a week. She worked this way for a time, until-the boss made ad- vances to her, to which she objected, saying that his money meant noth- ing to her, for she is a Communist and above the poison of the boss class, For this she was fired. After working under these miser- able conditions for a period of three weeks she felt so rundown that she had to stay in bed one day to re- cuperate, She was receiving $10 a week and when the boss fired her he attempted to hold back half a week’s pay. She refused to take the money and came to the Young Com- munist League headquarters and in- formed them of what happened. The Y. C. L. mobilized its forces and went. down to this restaurant and de- manded full payment for her week's work, We, the Y. C. L., went into the restaurant and did not find the boss there. When he was informed that we demanded to see him he came from his house and went across the street to three detectives who hap- pened to be there, as it is their habitual hangout. Their advice to him was that he should not pay her. But, due to the militant way we de- manded her pay, and seeing that other workers who gathered around us were also interested in seeing that. she got her pay, he thought it ad- visable to concede to our demands, although the detectives were advis- ing him not to pay. Comradely yours, A Young Communist. Woman Faints from Hunger and Labor Pains in Public Park (By a Worker Correspondent.) STOCKTON, Cal.—A young couple who had come from Frisco to try and get work and had met with the usual luck that workers meet in these days when the big packing com- panies are letting 50 per cent of the crop rot, tried to pass the night in the park last evening. Around mid- night the woman fainted from hun- ger and when revived was seized with the pains of childbirth. Her shrieks of pain awoke the other rights as American citizens by allow- ing themselves the luxury of sleep- ing in the park and slowly starving to death, A woman from one of the neigh- boring houses came out and had the woman brought into the house, where she gave birth to a baby, Directly opposite the park where this child of the working class was born stands a citadel of that noble army of the Lord, the Salvation Army, the same people who gave a family with a year old baby a mess of uncooked _ The next morning the police loaded up three truckloads of workers who had been sleeping in this park and ,escorted them out of town, after a kangaroo court,. thereby showing them some more advantages of this wonderful Serre aes, we are enjoy- ing. In a country where parasites spend thousands of dollars to keep some useless lapdog, a child of the work- ing class is born under such inhu- man conditions, Workers are chased from town to town, because they are no longer needed to produce wealth. How different in the Soviet Union, where workers rule. There an ex- pectant mother is taken full care of and all modern conveniences are provided for her comfort, as well as being allowed full wages for four weeks before and after birth of the child. There is no unemployment in that workers’ land and the police are for the protection of workers, Let's not spend too much time lamenting over conditions. Let’s all organize in the Communist Party, the Party of our class, and set up a workers’ and farmers’ government here in this country, 4 Young Communists | |Beidel Tours South, Central Indiana to Speak on the USSR INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Lydia Bei- del, secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union of Chicago will speak on “What I saw in Soviet Russia” in southern and central Indiana. The following is her schedule of meetings: Anderson, Circuit Ct. room, Sunday, September 13 at 2:30 p. m. Indianapolis, Workers Center,, | 93214 So. Meridan St., Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 8 p. m. Terre Haute, Kofp Hall, 121 S. 8th St., Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 8 p. m. Clinton, Picto Mecca Hall, Thurs- day, Sept. 17 at 8 p. m. Meetings at Casey, Ill. on Friday, | Sept. 18 and Evansville on Saturday, Sept. 19. These meetings will be used to mo- bilize support and delegates from the middle west for the delegation to the Soviet Union. FEAR COLLAPSE IN EUROPE Correspondent Warns of Immediate Danger “Europe regards the hour of reck- oning as postponed for six or eight months,” was the warning given to the capitalist class of the United States Saturday by Leland Stowe, head of the Paris Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune in a radio speech from Geneva. The Hoover moratorium, the conferences, the credits have at the most, admits this capitalist correspondent, postponed the collapse of capitalism for a brief period. “It is still possible,” he said, “within a year for Communism to be on the Rhine.” The capitalist system in Europe is in a critical state and only by. the support of American capitalism can it be saver, warns Stowe. “I cannot help believing that it is up to the American people (capitalists) to save capitalism in Europe if it is to be saved,” were his words. This is a warning that in the attempt to crush the revolutionary upsurge | of the masses in Europe the United States must play a leading role. The attack will not only be against work- ing masses of these coumtries but primarily against the Soviet Union. He is forced to admit in his speech that the Soviet Union is one of the two most stable governments in Eu- rope today. The other stable power which he picks is, however, France, which is itself in the throes of the crisis covering the capitalist world. It is the Soviet Union which is the only stable power in the world. This stability of the Soviet Union and the crisis in the capitalist world is the difference between socialist construc- tion and capitalist chaos. In the So- viet Union the workers provide their own economic security; in the capi- talist countries the workers have only the insecurity of hunger, wage cuts, unemployment. The workers of the world must rally to defend their fatherland against the attacks of the Communist Party Holds Election Picnic In Slovan, Pa. SLOVAN, Pa.—The Communist Party of District Five of the Avella Section is preparing a Section Elec- |tion Picnic this coming Sunday, Sep- tember 13, at Bailey’s Farm, Slovan, Pa. The Communist Party participates this year in county and local elec- tions in this district, therefore, this pienic is the beginning of further and intensified campaign through (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED of Negro workers have had their pay slashed; some of the leading rail- roads that run into Chicago. Be- sides, Strawn has taken a leading part in fastening the imperialist bonds tighter on the Chinese masses through the Extraterritoriality Com- mission. Speaking of the necessity of hiding the fact that a few rich exploiters control the major portion of the wealth in the United States, while the great mass of workers and farm- ers face starvation, Strawn declared: “Talk about the few rich owning the country or failing to do their duty as citizens is, generally speak- ing, bolshevistic propaganda.” ‘What are the facts? Here is some data from government and other capitalist sources, that even Strawn could not call “bolshevistic propa- ganda,” According to the Federal Trade Commission, a government body, in its “Report on National Wealth and Income,” published in 1926, the rich- est 1 per cent of the population in the United States owns at least 59 per cent of the wealth; the small MILLIONAIRE LAWYER STRAWN IN DEMAND THAT WAGES BE SLASHED capitalists (12 per cent of the popu- lation) own at least 31 per cent of the wealth, while 87 per cent of the population, the workers, small busi- ness men and farmers own 10 per cent. What is more a_ greater and greater portion of the wealth is fall- | ing into the hands of the 1 per cent, | especially during the crisis with the bankruptcy of is of small} business men and the extension of | the big banks and corporations. At the same time, the workers are being impoverished. Strawn talks about “growth of savings deposits,” forgetting to add that hundreds of thousands of small depositors are being wiped out while the rich bankers increase their profits. In the Bank of United States alone over 450,000 small de- positors’ savings thous were wiped out | through the crisis and by grafting politicians. | Strawn is trying to defend his} wealth and the wealth of the other | with, rich exploiters which the Communist | Party demands be levied on for un-| employment insurance. In this he has the help of the American Fed- eration of Labor leadership. | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the International Labor Defense and the Share Croppers Union forced the release of most of the croppers. Sev- eral are still being held on various charges, however. In California, Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings are still held in prison after 15 years in spite of the thorough exposure of the frame-up against them, engineered by the Cali- fornia bosses and courts and the traitorous misleaders of the A. F. of L, The Imperial Valley strike leaders are still in jail. In Greenville, 8. C., the National Textile Workers Union is being at- tacked by the bosses for its activities in organizing white and Negro work- ers against wage cuts, starvation, and the efforts of the bosses to divide the working-class with the vicious boss poison of race hatred, Clara Holden, local organizer of the union, was kid- napped a few days ago by mill bosses and the KKK agents, taken a few miles out of town and brutally whipped. In the same city, a few days ago, @ young Negro worker was handed the brutal sentence of 25 years im~ prisonment on the framed-up charge of setting fire to a barn on the prop- erty of a white boss farmer. In the fight against this terror and for the release of Tom Mooney, Bill- ings, the Scottsboro boys, the Harlan miners and all other class war pris- oners, the International Labor De- fense has designated the ten days of September 13 to 24 for nation-wide demonstrations. These demonstra~ tions will be followed by United Front Mooney-Harlan Defense Con- our section for party candidates. The purpose of the picnic is, to raise the finances in order to mobil- ize hundreds and thousands of work- ers in the section to vote for the party program. At the picnic there will be refresh- ments and good music. Also there will be a good speaker. We call upon the workers of the entire section to come to the picnic and to make it successful. Prepare trucks and come in masses. Admission 10 cents. FURIOUS BOSS TERROR RAGING AGAINST NEGRO, WHITE WORKERS imperialists. Defend the Soviet Union! ferences, drawing in Scottsboro, which will be held not later than October 10. In turn the conferences will be followed by a nation-wide day of protest and demand for amnesty on October 24. — All workers are urged to take up the question of these demonstra- tions. All working-class and sympa- thetic organizations are urged to rally to the fight against the growing boss terror and for the immediate, unconditional release of Tom Mooney, the Harlan mine strikers, the Scottsboro boys and all other class war prisoners. | tried to force him to go to the kit- | | chen | concerned. Salvation Army Tries | Forced Labor Scheme | | STOCKTON, Cal. — The holy | grafters of the Salvation Army make | | a pretense of feeding unemployed in | this town. They collect considerable in money, food and clothes in order to feed the “lord’s beloved poor.” Of course, they follow the practise of selling the best. clothes and giving | | as little as possible because most of | the money must go to Jesus who not- withstanding the fact that he has | been dead for 2,000 years is always | in need of money. They feed between 150 and 200 | some sweepings from the bean ware~ houses and something that passes for | coffee. I was going to say there was | no meat in the beans, but I would | have been mistaken. There is plen- | ty of meat, This meat is composed | of worms which are in the beans. The Unemployed Council has thoroly | exposed their wormy diet with which | they are sl6wly poisoning the unem- ployed. One of the big officers went to the | park in order to conscript workers | to prepare this sumtuous repast | which they regale the unemployed He gpproached a worker and | and work (for nothing, of course, the Lord only pays wages to a select few), The worker refused. This officer of the gospel then showed a police badge and told him | he would have him arrested. The} worker told him what disposition to | make of the badge as far as he was | This disciple of peace | then called the wagon and had the | worker pinched. He was not held, | however, because the police knew we | would have filled the courtroom with | workers nad the ILD would have de- fended him. And they talk about “forced labor in the Soviet Union.” YOUNG AND OLD! | Many new songs were heard on the picket lines of the coal and | | textile strikers. .Many more were | | heard at the meetings and dem- | | |onstrations. .What new songs have you to offer for the new song book that is being prepared now? Send your songs in imme- | diately to Workers’ Library Pub- | lishers, Box 148, Station D, New York City. | BOSSES DELAY TRIALS TO STOP MASS PROTEST; MUST RU ONE) (CONTINUED FROM PAGE coal operators in this struggle. Bur- nett, one of the miners, is charged with first degree murder because he is one of a group of white strikers who defended a Negro miner when attacked by a gang of deputies near Evarts. Burnett’s trial was postponed till November because the mine owners’ courts hope to deaden the mass pro- test by delay. Among the large num- ber of imprisoned miners many are Negroes. The operators have been unsuccessful in their attempts to in- ject race hatred among the strug- | gling miners. The International Labor Defense points out the significance of this fact—‘that in the South white work- ers have come to the defense of Negro workers in their common ‘The Operators Association that im- struggle for living conditions.” ported the gunmen and that controls Judge “Baby-Face” Jones, whose wife owns extensive coal interests in Ken- tuoky, consists of thé following com- panies: Insull, Paisley (Mellon) mines, Commonwealth Edison, United States Steel, Peabody Coal Corpora- tion and other smaller concerns. The miners say that U. S. Ambassador to National Government, composed of the leading British exploiters and led by socialists, will slash the standard of living of the workers, employed and unemployed, will be read in the House of Commons by the socialist, Snowden. MacDonald, acting with Churchill, legder of the conservative party, will drive through measures providing for a virtual dic- tatorship atid will clamp down on discussion. Arthur Henderson, leader of the “opposition,” made a hurried trip to Bristol, where the Trade Union Con- gress is discussing how to avoid a sharper class struggle, and how best to save capitalism without too openly slashing wages and unemployment insurance, Henderson, in his speech, offered a way out through a 10 per cent tariff. Henderson declared he was for free trade, but that in the present emergency he would favor a 10 per cent tariff to avoid a cut in unemployment insurance, The tactics of MacDonald and the trade union misleaders, who are more and more favoring a tariff, is very evident. By this means they hope to increase the cost of living by 10 per cent, which for the unem- ployed would amount to the same thing as a 10 per cent cut in pay- ments, and for the unemployed would be a 10 per.cent wage-cut, At the same time, Henderson and his cronies reason, since the cut 1s in- direct it would help to lessen the sharp class battles which Henderson fears will arise out of the direct at- tack that MacDonald is making for the bankers. ‘The tariff proposal by Henderson _' bas even surprised American journal- Britain Leads Resistance e PRCT US TICKLE ERG St ists. Morris Gilbert, correspondent of the N. ¥, Evening Post in Lon- don, writes: “A large element of the labor party is turning to this most unsocialistic recourse (the tariff), and thus lines up beside the conservatives.” The Communist Party of Great Britain is gaining wider support in its leadership of the fight against British capitalism and its socialist defenders both in and out of the labor party. The latest issue of the British Daily Worker reaching here declares: “From all over Britain reports of determined opposition to the ‘na- tional’ government are flowing into the Daily Worker. The Communist Party and Minority Movement (in the trade unions) are to the.fore in building up the workers’ united front around the fighting slogans of: “Not one penny off the dole! Not one worker off benefit! Not a penny off the wages of the workers! “Not one penny off the teachers’ salaries! Not a penny more tax on the people’s food! Down with the bankers’ government.” ‘Then a long list of mass meetings held throughout the country endor- sing these slogans are printed. ‘The New York Times reports that many of the wnemployed who’ dem- onstrated before parliament build- ing on Tuesday were given stiff jail sentences, The report states: “A crowd of unemployed was dis- persed by the police today in front of the Bow St. police court, where MacDonald Wants Wage and Dole Slashes Rushed; Teachers March NEW YORK.—Details of how Riel Peace ~ Party oft charges were being heard against seventeen persons arrested as a re- sult of a demonstration outside the doors of parliament last night. “Sixteen men and one woman were charged with assault and disorderly conduct. Fines for obstructing the police were imposed in some cases. Other prisoners were sentenced to a month at hard labor. The woman, Muriel Guest, received a suspended sentence of twelve months.” The teachers, whose wages are be- ing slashed by the “socialist” lead- ers in the interest of the parasites, are breaking “all traditions,” as the capitalist papers put it, and are pre- paring for a demonstration on Friday against wage-cuts. The Associated Press reorts this event as follows: “Three thousand London school teachers, scrapping professional tra- ditions, will march through the city Friday as a protest against a pro- posed 15 per cent salary cut in the interest of national economy. The police are planning a similar dem- onstration Sunday. “In the past there have been such demonstrations in the interest of al- most everything, from disarmament to Communism, but the school teach- ers are the first professional group to break with tradition and parade as the unemployed have done.” As the national government pre- pares to slash wages and unemploy- ment insurance, the last official re- ports show that the jobless army is increasing. The latest figures for the past week are 2,762,219 registered without jobs. This is 28,437 over last week and 101,775 above the same week of last year. Meanwhile, the economic crisis is growing worse, with foreign trade decreasing sharply, SH AID TO MINERS, Germany Sackett, is one of the lead- ing coal operators in Kentucky. | ‘The miners have counted an army of 240 gunmen, led by an Al Capone | lieutenant, imported from Chicago. | Their orders have been to “shoot and shoot to kill’—whether by ambush or direct attacks on the miners’ set- | tlements. The gunmen travel in fleets of ten cars, armed with Lewis machine | guns that can sweep to all points of the horizon. These gangsters, fight- ing in Chicago fashion, are dressed in vests of steel that extend from their necks to their thighs. Miners say all the gunmen can be imme- diately recognized because they wear the best of clothes, swagger about | with expensive cigars in their | mouths, “and are smooth-looking as | if they just come from a beauty par- lor.” “The sheriff and the gangsters | work in complete unity, mingle, eat together, both taking their orders from the Operators’ Association. The police always protect the gangsters regardless of what murder they have recently committed against the miners. These gunmen are the direct agents of the coal operators in starv- ing the wives and children of the striking miners by blowing up the food kitchens established by the min- ers’ relief. These gunmen dynamited the Ford car of the ILD representa- tive, Jessie Wakefield, who was car- rying food and clothes to strikers’ families. Mrs, Vincent Bilotta, one of the most active workers in the relief kitchen in Evarts, who sacrificed her own meals so that some little child did not suffer the pangs of hunger, has been stricken with the starva- tion disease, flux. She is the wife of Vincent Bilotta, who is in Harlan County jail on four charges, Crim- inal Syndicalism, Possession of Pro- hibited Literature, Obstructing Jus- tice, and Breach of Peace. She has no money for a doctor, medicine, or food, Her little son is starving, and | so are the hundreds of other pris- | oners’ children. Starvation is claiming Mrs. Bilotta as one of its victims. Starvation is also widespread among the prisoners in jail. According to the statement of Sheriff John Henry Blair, he wants the militant miners to rot in jail. Starve and rot, because what the prisoners get to eat is barely enough to keep them alive. Immediate mass demonstrations throughout the country, for the re- lease of the Harlan miners, and against the coal operators’ terror, have been called by the Interna- tional Labor Defense. The fight for the Harlan miners, imprisoned by the Kentucky millionaire mine owners, is also the fight for Tom Mooney buried alive by the California millionaires. Mass united front conferences for Mooney and Harlan as well as all class war prisoners, will be held throughout the country the week of October 11-18, ‘The International Labor Defense is calling upon all workers and their organizations to immediately rush funds for the defense of the strug- gling miners and for aid to the pris- oners’ families and the prisoners themselves. Speed funds to the \registration lines and fighting broke jout at frequent intervals. |iffs were rushed to both the regis- CHICAGO DAILY CLUB BEGINNING = ~ WORK OF BUILDING UP INNER LIFE ACTION FOR NEW CLUBS NEEDED Comrade P. P. writes in to inform , us of the exact nature of his club and its activities, and for criticism and suggestions for the betterment | of their future program. First of all the club has a peculiar aspect. The majority of the club consists of physically handicapped | boys and girls of senior in high | school and junior college age. The | difficulty of these comrades to get around prevents distribution of the Daily Worker to the degree which they desire. This disability neces- | sarily confines their actions along | certain lines, and, consequently their | scope is not as large as it might be. Their activities, however, are ef- | fective in their way. ‘They have two meetings a week. The first, known as “The class meeting,” is devoted | to a systematic study at the present of Marx's Capital and Communist | Manifesto under the supervision of a comrade educated in this, besides discussion of the Daily Worker. As far as advancement is con- cerned, they are making headway. Some of the members joinde with the idea in mind: “I'll show them how foolish ‘red’ ideas are” or “When I become an author I'll be able to write about this Commu- nism, probably showing where it's wrong.” Now we can safely say that these indifferent and opposition elements have entirely disappeared. The first meeting of the club a month ago was attended by nine; now they have as many as twenty and many more on the way. They are about to get a mimeograph to print leaflets. ‘We do have a few suggestions to | make. Activize other workers who | can get out and sell the |Daily. | Workers’ correspondence can be de- | | tickets, | and strong after that. veloped all around you. Now and then social affairs can be held and workers invited. New clubs should be started, particularly in working- class districts. One very important aspect, that they are neglecting, is to discuss ways of raising money for the Daily, such as holding informal dances or gath- erings and concentrate the sale of etc, among the workers. Hold open-air meetings, where every- day problems are brought up, such as the unemployment situation, Ne- gro oppression in Chicago and in the North, and the right of the Ne- gro masses for self-determination in the Black Belt, deportations of for- eign-born workers, etc. All these | questions can be raised in relation to the Daily. The Pioneers Get On the Job. Comrade J. B. writes that he and his friend want to sell Dailies. They are Pioneers. They want five Dailies a day until they establish a route. Then they expect to send for more. Leave it to the Pioneers. S. B. writes that at last he has better news from their too slowly growing Daily Worker Club. They got two new members and two new subs. They are planning a dance about the 13th and are printing and planning to sell tickets. They hope for success and the club being rich We hope it goes over big. The affair can be ad- | vertised by means of mimeographed leaflets, which are very inexpensive. See that they reach as many work- ing-class sections as possible. Make personal contacts with workers and invite them down. Boost the sales of the Daily and try to draw new workers into your club. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | payment for all unemployed to pro- vide winter relief; no forced labor; unemployment insurance, in no case | of less than $15 per week, and $3 |for each dependent. The Cleveland Press, reporting the | rush of the unemployed says : that many bore cuts, bruises and scratch- es, and many others had their grimy clothing torn. Then they go on to| tell the details as follows: “Disorder occurreda t both the East | and West Side county storeyards to- day as thousands of unemployed men lined up to register their ap- plications for county ditch jobs. “Desperate for work, the men tried to push ahead of each other in the “Squads of police and deputy sher- tering offices to keep the crowds in| order, Windows were broken in the |melees, several men were slightly cut | and others fainted from hunger and | exhaustion after standing in line for | hours. “The crowd at the East Side store- yard, Miles Ave. near Warrensville Center Rd in Warrensville Heights, | was estimated at 8,000. About 5,000 men assembled at the West Side storeyard, Brook Park Rd. near State Rd. In Line All Night. “Several hundred men stood in line most of the night at the East Side storeyard, according to Fred C. Wilks, supervisor. The crowd had reached 3,000 before dawn and when registration opened at 7:45 it num- 13,000 Cleveland Jobless Fight for Jobs; Scores Drop of Starvation and Wounds to register the applicants. About 4,000 men assembled at the East Side storeyard yesterday and their names and addresses were taken, although registration was not scheduled to start until today. “In view of the number registered |yesterday, the size of today’s crowd came as a surprise. “As registration started the huge throng surged forward, crushing one of the doors to the warehouse. Fight- ing broke out and two windows and a large electric lamp were shattered. “The crowd was so unruly at the time, however, that employees on the scene decided it would be unwise to attempt to distribute food.” YOUTH WEEK AT CAMP From Sept. 7 (Labor Day) to Sept. 13 will be Youth Week at Camp Nitgedaiget and Camp Unity. A very interesting program for this week will take place at the camps. It will consist of volley ball, games, elim- lination races, discus and javelin throws, soccer game between two workers’ organizations, and many other such interesting features, Duff, | the young Negro worker who won two events in the recently held Spar- takiade in Berlin, will participate in the events at the camps. Other members of the Spartakiade delega- tion will participate also. VOLUNTEERS WANTED To help in the Election Work every day in the afternoon. UNEMPLOYED COMRADES ARE URGED TO COME bered about 8,000, Wilks reported. “Only nine men had been assigned Workers, Get Ready 4 Big Days BAZ Thursday, Friday, Buy a comb! 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