The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1931, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1931 iil Page Five _ Advise. Workers Against ‘Mass Picketing and| Militant Action ———S srw (By a Worker, OAKLAND, Cal.—The Cooks, Waiters and Waitresses Local 31, after about a foritli’s ‘previous propaganda by the officials, voted on special assessment of 50 cents monthly for one year. In other words they stagger systems and unemploy: ment. Union officials claim that “at” orié of the best attended meetings in“th’ history of the local, it was empha‘ cally decided to continue the prés ent’ campaign against certain concerns until they concede to give their em- ployees the standard wages,” ete. This is the propaganda that’ fooled + about 100 present at the meeting «100 out of about 700 members in~the union. Many were working ort’ that day and could not come to’’the meeting). re Fawn-and Wilson restaurants are stationed with a dummy. Theré-was s a time when the whole Central: aber Council used to do picket duty: at’ some concentrated non-union house; but now a human dummy replaces the pickets and he is paid for. so) many hours for holding a paper, in front of him, What a fight! “Tb is + unlawful for many to picket,’..says, Spooner and other officials. That is, why mass picketing is taboo and such }} a method of fight has no resulis,. Only. these two restaurants are-being. “fought” now. Hence a cry for. as= zjthose opposed) are squeaking for a _A. F. of L. INCREASES TAX ON-WAITERS AND COOKS IN OAKLAND Fakers Hoodwink -Werkers to Vote for New 50 Cents Special Assessment Correspondent) raised their dues in the face of theneed of assessment because it syould be @ good cause (assuring him | of. wakes, “Just think, you (meaning tmere 30c. We need money to fight | wage cuts for culinary workers. As | Jong. as I have a drop of red blood in my yeins, I pledge to fight the wage cuts. The next place we will call unfair will be the Oakland Hotel , etc,” This was given to make things | look. big. Oakland Hotel has been } ‘a non-union house for a while and, | what is more, the National Assoscia- | | tion of Letter Carriers (affiliated | with A. F. of L.) who were having * convention in this city patronized | 4his.same hotel and Spooner and the rest not saying a word about its| unfairness. This long speech of Spooners was an effort by him to| Make the lies stick and he was} sweating all over—but this sweat we | Hoticed did not look red—but very much yellow. Nail the lie! How ‘about a week previous to'this meet- ing, when the waiters slashed their wages 25 per cent or $6 per week? Spooner himself was a chairman of that meeting and never opened his Their Parents Denied Relief, Babies of Un- employed Are Starving (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to feed hooey to the starving unem- ployed workers, quotes the labor be- trayer, William Green, to the effect | that “Business at last realizes high wages are an investment in the sta- bilization of prosperity.” The “pros- perity” that is starving to death over 11,000,000 unemployed and their families and additional millions of workers on part time jobs and} Slashed wages. Porat Seer Jobless Worker Inhales Gas. BROCKTON, Mass., Sept. 16.—The | Brockton ‘Enterprise, boss paper, | published the following dispatch from North Abington of the suicide of a destitute worker: “NORTH ABINGTON, Sept. 14.— Despondent over lack of employ- ment, Edward T. Boryce of Har- rison Ave., took his own life Sat- urday night by gas. Boyce, who was 48 years of age, had been en- gaged for many years as a shoe cutter, but for the past several months had been out of work.” The boss dered by the capitalist system, has been seriously ill in the hospital for several weeks—no doubt as a result of starvation. 250,000 Steel Werk: ‘ers to Get Pay Cut. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE? ized that it would be better to put it into effect after this preliminary | preparatory manoeuvering. *The sec- | ond reason is that the Steel Corp- | paper further admits | that the wife of this worker, mur- | {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED day evening the crews refused to turn |in when the lights were sounded out. When the order was given to weigh anchor and proceed to manoeuvers. the men refused to obey, whereupon |the manoeuvres were abandoned. On ‘Tuesday and Wednesday the _dis- obedience continued. The authorities are doing their utmost to minimize | | the importance of the happenings. | ‘hey announce that the disturbances are confined to Invergordon. How- | jever, all leave has stopped at other | | ports and naval shore patrols have been strengthened. |Lord of the Admiralty will make a | statement in the House of Commons | this evening. ao ieee Altho a strict censorship has been |established by the MacDonald gov- | ernment, the latest capitalist press reports indicate that the resentment | of the sailors over the wage cuts on a\militant character, The New York Times reports the news of the strict censorship as follows: “Unofficial intimations have been coriveyed to the British newspapers that the government hopes they will content themselves tomorrow | morning with’ the bare statement of the case by the Admiralty and not run the risk of making serious trouble by elaborating the matter before a careful investigation is | made. It is very evident that there | is fear of trouble with the police and soldiers, even the school teach- ers, because of the pay cuts ordered It was announced that the First | the fleet are widespread and are of | GERMAN SAILORS SEND GREETINGS; WARN OF TREACHERY OF MacDONALD; ; ADVISE FORMATION OF SHIP COUNCILS syth base already protested last Fri- day against the wage slashes. The reeson the ships did not con- | tinue with the maneuvers was in the first place because the sailors re- fused to go on and in the second | place the officers feared that once on the high seas they might have to face a mutiny on the part of the | sailors. This was reported in the New York Times as follows: “The admiralty evidently thinks that the men have complaints worthy of investigation, but the inttmation | is thet the grievances have been ex- | pressed in a dicorderly manner, wh suggests the, danger of potential mutiny chould the ships put to ea before an understanding is reached.” In his week-end visit to Ports- | mouth Ramsay MacDonald tried to | prevent the sailors from rebelling against the wage-cuts. He will now try sharper methods aga | sailors. In the naval bases already | affected the naval officers have abol- jished shore leave for the sailors. Even after the stopping of ae | leave the Times reports from Inver- gordon that “it is possible from the shore, to observe meetings on board the ships, and sounds of cheering have come across the water.” In addition to the actions of the sailors, workers throughout the coun- try are demonstrating against the MacDonald program in huge mass meetings. At the same time that the sailors of the navy have demonstrated against the wage cuts of the Mac~- | Donald government all parties in the House of Commons agreed that even the present cuts in that hunger ployed Council on West Side, Chi., Fighting Evictions Unemployed CHICAGO. Branch at | fought | much so worke Side lock to the Unemp!c ir leader in the fi m—tTl |has also demanded f from the Iccal charities. The branch has put up such fights at the cha ties, that now when the commit and the workers from the br: come to the c! neh taken care of im- that if workers come 1 and in an demands their d bein to preps 3 in the Block Committees hiployed Branch and have organized Member of Branch organi: of the U. every Ne. 3. (MONESSEN MILL VO! THER DEMANDS Organi izing Figat On age Cuts | 16.—The Pa., Sept reet Metal Workers’ Industrial League has put a leaflet in the hot y demanding rent | ‘DAILY WORKER CLUB GETS REPS PUT UP Around then 14, and Tin Plate STOUP | house to house and cautioned with | mill calling upon the workers to or-} nize and fight for the following > withdrawal of the recent | | ALL MEMBERS OUT FOR SUBS, Last week Houston, Texas “ine ganisational work to housewives. creased their bundle order from | Some of them are deeply rested fifty to. seve -five copies; but | in Communism. There are some of their street sales have increased so | them that say I don’t dare for any much tkat seventy-five copies are inadejuate to meet the demand. They now want their bund!e order and when I talk to them, then they get interested and say they will take one, I am also gaining more increased to one hundred o sympathizers for-the movement.” | daily with fifty extra fer sp _This is encouraging tevotion to the editions, Wor It is a difficult thing They have formed a Daily Work- | to tramp om house to house er Club which meets on Friday | with nothing under your belt but an night at the Workers Center, They | occasional coffes and @ doughnut. such guts are wide- spread, the Daily won't have a thing to worry about A lot of comrades would be sur- prised—and pleasantly— if they should go from house to house, and find how many elements that are expected to be “100 per cent are going to start a stbscription th elub members soliciting Those This is the & r. When e orker Club ge member of a Daily ve: on the move for subs and new mem-| Americans” are very interested and bers things begin to happen quickly sympathetic workers. The whcle country is now a very | 1% 80 buoys one up that one is fertile field to sow the seeds of cely tired after arduous tramping. Communism and organization and | Marx once that the working man 2 very greet and far-reaching {as no cow ‘This, the workings everywhere is beginning to re are becoming disil- lusioned about the boss lies and no yield is to be had with a minimum ount ef effort. Ail that a great many people need is some one to start them going and to organize |longer swallow spread—eagle pa- dhieni. triotic bunk quite so easil: Comrade A, S, writes in from Sau A Fertile Field Awaits the Diggers We received the following letter from a Western comrade Francisco that our advice concerning the combining of Red Builder's Club and Reader's Clubs was O. K. with “When L was in M—I sold 12 copies|gan Frencisco Red Builders Club of the Daily Worker the first day, | Formerly to this advice, the Daily t day 9, the third day 5, then| Worker agent was scratching his the drop being due to the large | brains over the problem of organizing {increase of unemployment. The chief | two clubs: this way out simplified jof police threatened to scare me, matters very much. ‘ when he failed to do so he went from} we hope that all the Datly Worker Clubs will write to us about their problems. Their problems are our problems and we are more than anxious to help. We also want to keep abreast of everything that {s happening all over the fear or arrest every house wife that would buy or have any radical paper | in their \possession. Just then I| could not sell but two copies a day, | |not enough commission to get coffee | and doughnuts. Just now I am} sessment to carry on the work,. but, ‘the "the real fact remaining, whic! oration wanted the workers to real-| as part of the plan of balancing ize that the crisis is getting we*se | wage-cut (10-29 per cent). country, It benefits us as much cannot hide from us is this: “This union pays the most per capita tax, to the Central Labor Council. Other unions are even in a worse shape as} _ far as membership and employment, of workers are concerned. ‘Spooner, who is the chief leader in the ass¢ss- ment campaign, being the secretaty of the Central Labor Council and also being the president of our wi ‘ior worried that if this per capita went’ down with the unemployment. and loss of membership, he may not..get his salary (which by the way he does. not offer to have cut). ryeict Spooner Sweats Blood + ~ Spooner bulldozed those oppésed to assessment and scared others into voting for it. In his masterfur| speech (no deubt practiced before)" he pointed ovt what HE has’ done’ for the nosh acaer aac’ and__ stressing mouth to oppose of putting this wage cut’ through. [Did you have red blood then, Mr. Spooner? _Spooner for Snydicalist Law Our Local 31 refuses to enter into the Crimnal Syndicalist Repeal Campaign. A committee was sent “to the meeting to take up the ques- ttion; Here again Spooner takes it upon himself to ridicule the committee with @ result of rejection to enter the campaign, though many unions of the A. F. of L. in Oakland are work- Ang. for this campaign. Spooner has been throwing bull Tong enough and we cooks, together Lwith the class..conscious waiters and [waitresses are getting disgusted with sith” leadership. We are bidding ftinre-and will in the meantime expose ‘more of the leadership and draw the CYas$ “conscious members in a united ‘front: Bridgeport Protective Association Sells Young Girls Into Slavery sometimes cooking. 4 b-up at 6 in the morning and stay (By a Worker Correspondent) BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—In » town there is an organization. as the Bridgeport Protective Assoei tion, which is supposed to protect 4 young and wayward girls between the ages of 12 and 18. The girlsare | brought to this home througl.the’ court and are made to thinkethat the people of the home are) thelr friends and are there to help*them. ‘They first teach the girls tog t0| church. Then after a while when they think the girls are properly doped with religious hokum., th send them out to work for rich pt ple who pay them for their labor in cast off clothes or $4 a week, which the home generally gets the git'ls “to” contribute to the church. ° Sold Into Slavery. .. - ‘The girls who are thus sold into slavery has to do all the housework.| ruined and they are not able to work —washing, froning, scrubbing. -and- poemuet OtNDES Wy ae ae Bonuses for Bankers; ... (By 2 Worker Ca gee Hae said FRANCISCO, ‘Calif. — dent Hoover’s unemployment ‘com missioners are beginning to’ strut’ their stuff. Quoting from Cart: E> Grunsky of San Francisco, president; of the American Engineering Council, and @ member of Hoover's commis- sion, the San Francisco “News” Se Sept. 8 says: ; When the Panama Canal. constructed, bonds for nearly $400,- 000,000 were issued. These boris) went into the hands of the bankers who deposited them in the United ” States Treasury for the privilege of .| Zovaxitnent’s way of telling the ex- * issuing bank notes secured by thé bonds. The bank notes which have ‘| approximated 90 per cent of the amount of the outstanding bonds jbiech the immediate payment of the full. went into circulation as currency, te os er veer sa Employed Must Help (By a Worker Correspondent.) Y.—I was reeently'| tionaries. When the chairman called out the last order of business one of2 the? state of affairs is a clear indication active functionaries stood upocarid' -that from the 50 cents'@#}exists on the part of the still em- complained day that he receives he cannot afford: to have a steady place to sleeprand ‘that many nights he is compelled’! to sleep on a park bench. He:also’ told how physically exhausted he is ‘in the morning. He said that there was plenty of work in the Council-jline, but the employed workers re- every day an indoor meeting, cases of eviction to be attended to; cevery! evening a street meeting to be atr tended to and other activities,; He, urged that ways and means be ‘found to provide the functionaries nepliee, to sleep. + “After being on these jobs a short re} ,|the treasury of the Council must be workers who are still employed a They have to up until 2 the next morning until ‘her mistress comes home. time the girls are so overworked that -the¥ want to leave. When they ask, they are refused permission. Some- fimes the girls take it upon them- Lsélves to leave. and for this they -are sent to the Long Lane Farm as being unreliable. Here they have to work in gardens and milk cows until _they_ are twenty years old and then they are placed out at work again for a year.’ But generally before the year is up they are framed to the “Women’s State Farm, where they | must serve five or six years. When ~{thegirls leave this place they are so -everworked that their health is any more, ‘Hot Air for War Vets ‘y >the banks being thus permitted to borrow from the public at a small ‘cost of engraving and a moderate * tax, receiving several hundred mil- lions of dollars without paying in- ‘terest,—an indirect bonus.” -: He failed to reveal that the banks after getting their money back, minus the-cost of printing, still own the ‘bonds and collected the interest from <|them; that it was this same money ..jthat. they- used to buy the bonds with and which they lent out and ;collected interest on a second time. Be .does not call this graft—but a ‘/Honis—a present. Perhaps this is the 'sérviéemen what it thinks of them— that those who went into the army were only suckers. Organize and de- ‘Struggles of Jobless Wilized to help starving families. “Employed Must Unite with Jobless .Toam writing this to give the pictiire of the difficulties and sacri- fices gone through in doing work in ‘of how little interest there as yet ‘ployed workers for the relief of the unemployed. Employed workers ex- ‘pect''the solidarity of the unemployed ‘iif time of strike and in many cases ‘the ‘urlemployed workers fight.side by side. with the strikers on the. picket spond to the struggle for relief for the jobless who are starving and ex- pect every day to be thrown out of \their homes. Relief for the unem~ ‘ployed committees should be or- ganized in the shops and factories. ‘The: employed must work hand in Other functionaries in the -:same position objected to proposition | to. Jay out mensy for func‘tonaries hey orsued that what little moneys; ih 1301 ei hand in the fight against hunger and evictions, wage-cuts, speed-up sys- tems. .end for unemployment in- surance, and that there are no prospects for | improvement in the near future. The | steel bosses think that in this way | they can prevent the workers from resisting this wage cut militantly. The Daily Worker pointed out pre- viously that the wage cuts in the steel industry would be followed, as the capitalist press admitted, by a general attack on the wages of the workers thruout the country. The date of the steel wage cut has been set for September 29. The wage cuts for the workers thruout the coun- try will follow in the. immediately succeeding weeks. The steamship corporations are also preparing to slash wages of the Jongshoremen. Preparations are un- | der way on both the North Atlantic and the Gulf coasts to slash wages on October, when the agreements with the International . Longshore- men’s Association expire. The ship- owners of the North Atlantic com- panies, who are united in the North Atlantic Passenger Conference, have already given the wage cut and speed up proposals to the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association, which is now “considering” them. ‘They demand wage cuts on straight time from 85 cents an hour to 75 cents and hour and overtime wages from $1.30 an hour to $1.05 an hour. In addition Saturday afternoon, ex- cept in June, July and August are to paid straight time instead of on an overtime basis. Wages for Sat- urday afternoon will be thus paid at the rate of 75 cents an hour in- stead of the $1.30 rate at present. The steamship companies have previ- ously guaranteed four hours work. In the future they will only guaran- tee two hours work on Sunday when the workers are called in to work. “The ship lines also propose to as- sume a greater control of the volume of labor to be employed in the un- loading of their shops. This propo- sa] means reducing the size of the gangs and intensifying the work thru speed up. The ship owners have al- ready cut the gangs with the agree- ment of the ILA business agents, but now they plan a general reduction of the gangs as an open practice. On the gulf coast the ship-owners plan to cut the wages of the long- shoremen in the Houston, Galveston, Texas City, and Corpus Christi dis- tricts to the level of the Sabine dis- trict and at New Orleans, This will mean a wage cut from 80 cents to 65 cents an hour, Time and a half is now paid for overtime after eight hours work. The ship-owners demand overtime only after ten hours work and that should be paid only at the rate of $1 an hour. The mislead- ers of the ILA in Houston are re- ported to have accepted the cut, but have made a “counter proposal” for an increase in the overtime rate. They are doing this so that they can sell out the workers on the straight time wage scale thru a miserable concession on overtime which is very scarce anywhere on the coast now. In order to prevent these wage cuts the workers in the steel mills and on the docks must organize shop committees. The revolutionary or- ganizations affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League are preparing to lead the workers in strikes against this additional attack on their living standards. Steel workers! Join the Metal Workers Industrial League to fight the wage slash of the Steel ‘Trust... Longshoremen! Organize with | the budget.” The New York Telegram carries | the following “Note to Editors” which | was given out by the government in | lorder to stop any tal information | from coming out concerning the ac- tions that the sailors have already | taken, which made the naval officers fear a mutiny if they proceeded to sea. “The director of naval intelli- gence particularly ‘requests that pending. a further statement the press refrain from printing any- thing concerning alleged events in Invergordon other than the offi- cial statement.” ‘The MacDonald government fears not only the resentment among the sailors but fears that example of the sailors will be followed in the army and in the air forces. in the reports of the capitalist press that the sailors sang the Red Flag when they refused to continue to work. The New York World-Tele- gram reports the militant singing of the Red Flag in the following: “Sailors trained to honor the slogan, ‘Britannia Rules the Waves,’ held protest meetings ashore, sang the ‘Red Flag,’ Com- munist battle song, smashed can- teen windows, and returned to their ships to sit about the decks play- ing cards and singing and shouting in open defiance of discipline.” The latest reports of the capitalist press also show that the action of the sailors, far from being sporadic, fashion by the sailors of the various ships. According to the World- Telegram, the action started on the Rodney and the Valiant and then was taken up by the sailors of the other ships. “According to marines who came ashore at Invergordon today, the refusal of seamen to work followed @ prearranged plan. Enlisted men of the Rodne yand Valiant first re~ fused to work when they were called to duty at 6 a.m. yesterday and started cheering as a signal to men aboard the other ships, “At 8 oclock, when the white en- sign was raised in the usual man- ner and the band played ‘God Save » the King,’ the ratings of the other vessels of the fleet gave three cheers and then refused to work.” The actions of the sailors have re- sulted from the MacDonald wage- cuts to the navy, The MacDonald budget means sharp slashes for the lower ranks of the sailors, while the high pay of the higher officers has hardly been cut at all. This is the MacDonald program throughout— staving off the collafse of British capitalism at the expense of the great masses of the working class, in the shops and on the ships. While the able seamen have had their wages cut 25 per cent, the vice-admirals will have their wages cut only 10 per cent. In practice this means that while the pay of the able seamen has been cut from $1 a day to 75 cents, and of ordinary seamen from 68 to 50 cents a day, the pay of the vice-admiral has been “cut” from $27.50 a day to 24.75. The vice-admiral, who gets as much per day as thirty or forty sailors, has had his wages cut only 10 per cent, while they have received a 25 per cent cut, and the sailors understand this very clearly. In addition to the wage-cuts, the ‘The spirit. of the men is indicated | was carried out in an organized) the Marine Workers Industrial to | Sailors’ clothing allowance will be repeal the wage cut and speed up| cut 10 per cent, while the so-called attack of the ship-owners. Organize to strike. VOLUNTEERS WANTED To help in the Election Work every day in the afternoon, UNEMPLOYED COMRADES ARE URGED TO COME 35 East 12th St., fifth floor grog money, a quarterly allowance instead of liquor, has been scheduled to be cut on October 1, in amounts ranging from $1.45 to $3.65. This cut, too, is sharpest against the poorest paid of the sailors. The discontent among the sailors started first among the older sailors who were on shore leave in the can- teen at Invergordon, In addition to the resentment shown at the Inver- gordon base the saiwe ~ the Ro- budget would not stop the worsen- jing of the situation immediately and that more drastic steps must be tak- en at once. The correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune this as follows: “This discussion afforded the un- usual spectacle of Conservatives, Liberals and Laborites declariny (admittedly on different grounds) that fresh taxes and economies alone would not continue to pro- duce @ balanced budget, and unit ing in the declaration thet moze far-reaching steps would have to be taken.” the majority of the members of the House of Commons must be taken, |is the setting of high tariff barri This tariff will hit the working clas |in the increased price of every article |they buy. Not content with cutting | the dole, with forcing the workers to pay more towards the dole, and with reducing the taxes on the capitalist class the MacDonald government is now preparing to raise the workers’ cost of living through sharp tariff increases. Graham, a Laborite, warned the capitalist class of the dangers of the there was “very grave doubt in evety | honest financial mind as to whether the country could stay the pace and keep on the gold standard.” He add- jed that “If Germany has 7,000,000 | States more and Great Britain 3,000,- | 000 it is going to be remarkably dif- order to save the present capitalist |“situation”, the capitalist system, that the MacDonald government is carrying through these attacks against the working class. The ac- tions of the British sailors indicate that the British working class will | struggle against this attack of the capitalists and their MacDonald gov- ernment. The Young Communist League of the U.S.A. also sent revolutionary greetings to the British sailore ‘The Young Communist League of the U.S.A. sends its revolutionary | greetings to the hundréds of sailors | Donald pay-slashing starvation pol- icy. We recognize your struggle as of the efforts of all young workers to gram, which means increased mis- ery for all young workers and ser- vicemen, We call on the young to be used as tools of British imper- jialism for the slaughter of workers in the colonies, war on the Soviet Union, and at home, The Young Communist League of the United States is calling upon the American soldiers and sailors to or- ganize regimental committees to re- sist any attempt at lowering pay of servicemen. Long live the unity of the young Workers and servicemen! EVERYDAY NEW IMPROVEMENT FOR THE RUSSIAN WORKER Improvements in the living condi- tions of the Russian worker goes on constantly. Following a survey of Leningrad, many improvements are talism. The length of the water sup- ply system has been increased from 417 miles to 534 miles, the sweage system from 301 miles to over 550 | miles. There are 1,000 more street cars than under the Czar, running on tracks increased in area they cover from 774 miles to 255 miles. The streets are brighter, illumina- tion having been expended 70 per cent. They are now entirely lighted by electricity, whereas before the revolution only 19 per cent of the streets were lighted by electricity. Only the business streets and the streets of the rich had electricity. The Russian workers like baths, so by the end of the first Five-Year Plan Leningrad will have 35 bath reports | The chief of the “more far-reach- | ing steps”, which it is agreed among | approaching winter. He stated that | unemployed this winter, the United | ficult to save the situation. It is in| who are militantly resisting the Mac | resist MacDonald’s “economy” pro- | | sailors in the British fleet to refuse | noted since the overthrow of capi- | | seliing 41 copies. | 1 work hard selling from house to house from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. @) Ss t 8-hour shifts for all} (hot mill wo: | (3) No panalty for accidents on q | account of the speed-up. T also put in at least an hour or (® Any wo: ir in the mill | an Seer and a halt falking or- all be allowed to home with | full pay. (5) work done on 4 part system. | P; (6) rolled insteaa.| y for tonnag flet ~ concludes, “Fellow ‘The only way for us to win to join the Metal (CONTINU FROM PAGE ONE) | Warkers’ Indus | League. Join now!; get enough soldiers to protect |Don't wait for your fellow worker.| him,” Solicitor General Bailey Te is waiting for you. For furthc>) called for a postponement of the information, come to the local head-| case until the December session of |quarters of the M, W. I. L., 618 6th St., Monnesson.” peat his child i cers in the hot mill at Mon-| 2% ‘he sneantime, this ¢ | Dining away in jail, vainly trying to e jother grievances, but | these. demands hit-atthe most outé| | figure out what it’s all about and standing ones. why there are people in the world fe z Z | who are seeking his life. Too young the court, Organ sea Benwood | class and national-basis of his per- | BENWOOD, W.Va., Sept..16—Fot | secution he is totally at a loss to the second time in three weeks the | explain his terrible predicament local capitalist press announced the reopening this week of the Benwood| | Negro and white workers! Smash works of the Wheeling Steel Company | this brutal torture and peeeenneion |.and inexperienced to understand the | as our advice benefits any com- rades in the field. It makes the Daily to reflect the needs of hte workers from day to day. We don’t want to be static. va ws ca vn wv as ALA. BOSS COURT CONTINUES TO _ HOLD ROY WRIGHT WITHOUT TRIAL of this working-class child! Demand |the unconditional release of 14-year- jold Roy! Rally to the mass cam- paign to free the nine Scottsboro | boys! Support the demonstrations |called by the International Labor Defense in scores of cities for the release of Tom Mooney and Billings, | of the Harlan, Kentucky, Negro and | white miners who are facing the death sentence in the murderous | campaign of the coal operators to break the strike, of the Imperial Val- | ley prisoners, of the Scottsboro nine.~ | Raise militantly the demand for | amnesty for all class-war prisoners, for all the victims of capitalistic jus- tice now rotting in the bosses’ dungeons. with about 800 workers to be hired. cially doubtful as to the number that | will be taken back even if the woes | are opened up. | A steel worker from Benwood al the weekly Organizers Training | School conducted by , the Metal | Workers Industrial League to train | interest the membership of labor rank and file organizers for the fight | unions and working class social or- against wage cuts in the steel miills,| ganizations, and to fiet their mem- and the building of the Steel Work-| bers to act as collectors for the tag Jers Industrial Union, told how. it} days. 1 weed to be considered a good night’s| | pyery working class section of the | work to bundle 3000 one-half inch| cities is to be covered by the col-| | Pipe there, Today 16 times as many | tectors, and the doors of restaurants, are done and they're not enough. theatres, small stores, especially co- Years back the company used to| operatives, are to be scenes of tag | give. a box of stogies to the crew | day activity to collect for the strikers. plitting out the most production. ‘Meetis in at facto ates and Sometiines it was even a keg of beer.| treet corner meetings in workers’ | Hater’ on the stogies. were stopped | aistricts are being planned to an- jand prohibition came along and the|nounce the coming tak days, to im- company introduced the bonus sys- ig | he mi f ti york |tem, under which-the men keyed to{Pres 0% the minds of the workers d saves th the need of a great display of soli- @ more and more feverish pace with | qarity in backing the striking miners |the profits of the company con- sacle Wildes TRE Bouter at ico against the brutal oppression of the (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | bo FOOD FOR HUNGRY MINERS bosses. At these meetings it is being emphasized that. on the teg days, Sept. 26 and 27, collectors will visit | the homes and shop gates in all parts | of the cities, to collect. In many of the A. F. of L. organs izations left wing members are put- | ting up @ battle against the reaction- jary leadership, demanding that the |organization back the solidarity tag | days. In many cases, while this does |not bring the organization over as a body, it develops strong sympathetic |factions who will support the soli- |darity demonstrations despite the , leadership. All funds will ‘be forwarded to the Penn-Ohio-W. Va.-Ky. Striking Min- ers Relief Committee, room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa, from _ where food is sent to the strike camps, | was. cut, and later on done away | | with altogether. Today there is a | killing speed-up, NO bonus, and a} | little while back a general 10 per cent wage cut was introduced in this as/ well as all Wheeling Steel Co. mills. The Metal Workers Industrial | League is doing work here. Workers | | from the Benwood plant should get | in touch with the MWIL headquar- | ters at Room 4, Cilles Building | Bridgeport, O, Workers, Get Ready 4 Big Days Daily CITY EMPLOYED IN FORCED LABOR ATLANTA, Ga.—Mayor James L. Key, first making an empty gesture of equality by asking city officials to serve a month without pay, issued an order that the city employes are | to work a month without pay in re- | lief of city’s financial bankruptcy. The city officials don’t depend on pay they serve for graft and now the em- | ployees have to pay with their wages | for the graft that depleted the city treasury. These employes will have something to say hereafter to capital- | ist lies about “forced labor” in the | Soviet Union. houses each with 500 baths. To re- |lieve the women workers from AG A & we” AS BAZ Thursday, Friday, Big Days and Nights for the Fifth Annual 4 Big Days Worker Yay AAR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Saturday, Sunday drudgery twenty-five huge mechan- ical laundries are being installed. | And so it goes on and on, more and more improvements for the working class, no parasites to work for, every ounce of ehergy the Russian worker expends in common with his fellow- worker means greater benefits, bet- ter, sleaner, healthier life for all around him, 4 Big Nights 1 Mo. to the Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ 3 Mos. to the series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Gead it—Spread it! 1 Mo. to Morning Fretheit October 8, 9, 10, 11 Buy a combination ticket ($1.00) and get one of the following subscriptions free: Daily Worker Big Nights Young Worker