The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1931, Page 3

SETI TS, eg MUST SPEED SIGNATURE DRIVE; PUT CANDIDATES ON BALLOT Worker Relates Experiences in Collecting Signatures Collected 225 Signatures, Sold $8 Worth of Working Class Literature NEW YORK.—The task of collecting signatures to place the Communist Party on the ballot is one of the schemes of the capitalist politicians to repress and silence opposition and particularly when it is expressed by revolutionary organiza- tions, At this time, when a great number of workers are being thrown out into the ranks of more are working part time and not earning enough to support themselves and families, the politicians, through fake prom- ises, are again trying to lure votes for teh bosses. The hundred: of thousands of workers who for years have voted the democrat, re- publican and socialist tickets in New York are steadily and surely losing their illusions that these bosses’ par- ties will ever improve their working conditions and are turning their faces away, seeking salvation else- where, The Communist Party, through its Program and militancy, is showing that it will stand by the workers in spite of all the efforts of the bosses to destroy it. The workers, regard- less of their affiliations, are willing to give us an interested ear. It is up to us to bring them our message. Let us turn the task imposed upon us to collect signatures into rally- ing the workers to place the Com; munist Party on the ballot. During my experience in collecting signatures I have found the workers ready and willing not only to listen to my message, but eager to sign the petitions when properly presented. Of course, not all the workers that we approach are Communists or sympathetic to our movement. Many workers vote democrat, republican or socialist. The first thing I do when approaching a house is to knock on the door or ring the bell. The an- swer comes, “Who is there?” Ans.—“A committee from the elec- tion campaign!” “What do you wish?” “Just @ little information. you a citizen?” “Yes!” “We must get a charter from the city in order that we may be able to place our candidates on the bal- Are lot. The city requests 30,000 signa- | tures from citizens of voting age in order to issue this charter.” “What party do you represent?” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1931 Page Three COMMUNIST in Section 5 the unemployed, when millions the workers into casting their | “Well, there are over 800,000 un- }employed workers in New York. | The Communist Party says that if a | worker wants to work he should be {given a job. If there are no jobs, | the government should provide $15 a week for each unemployed worker | and $3 for each one of his dependent | ones, so that they should not starva. | Don’t you agree with our program?” “Yes!” “The Communist Party also points }out that the government spends | $700,000,000 a year to prepart for war |and not a cent for unemployment relief, Surely you do not wish to shed your; blood and that of your| fellow-workers the way they made us kill each other in 1917, etc.” “No, but I am a democrat!” “Well, you believe in the Constitu- tion of the United States. You be- lieve that a party has the constitu- tional right to bring its program be- | fore the voters:” “Yes!” “Just sign this petition so we can | receive our charter. Thank you. I {have here some literature which will | give you fudther information regard- j ing the Communist Party and after | you read it you may decide to vote for the only working-class organiza- tion, ete. Take it, it is only 5 cents.” Collects 225 Signatures. “Are there any” other citizens in | the house? No, well, thank you, | | good day.” Of course there are many methods | to approach workers, but I have found | | teh above very successful. With an- | other comrade in 11 times, 2 hours each time, we collected 225 signa- ures and sold $8 worth of literature. Try it, you will not fail. Shiller, Unit 3, Section 5. Boss Press Shouts For Starving Miners ‘ New York, N. ¥. The Daily Worker: Our local newspapers gallantly offer thousands of dollars for apprehen- sion of the gangsters who recently killed a child with a stray bullet. No one condones this wantoness either, but these newspapers’ odor of justice, niceness, etc, would give a sewer-rat hysterics. How about the deliberate, whole- sale of promiscuous slaughter of tens of thousands of delicate mothers and innocent children through the pair-ful ordeal of starvation and ex- posure in the coalfields? Not only do they refrain from offering as- sistance but even refuse to acquaint 2,000 Seamen Starving On Phila. Waterfront (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—There are nearly 2,000 seamen on the beach here. Most of them are broke and many of them do not average one meal a day, yet the Seamen’s Chest at 211 Walnut St. throws away food enough each day to feed several hun- dred men. At night, along the riverfront, one can see tired and hungry men dart- ing into boxcars and empty piers to get a few winks of sleep to gain enough strength to go out another day in search for work. While these men are forced to sleep in boxcars and on piers the Seamen's Church Institute has hundreds of beds it is Mine Owners Prepare New Wage-Cuts In Ky. (By a Workers Correspondent) GARRETT, Ky.—It is common Tumor around here that the Wells Elkhorn Coal Co, intends to reduce ‘wages again. Of course that will be followed by @ general wage-cut up and down the river. With thousands of miners in this field with only empty pey envelopes to show for their last year or so’'s labor no one @an predict the outcome of the next @ege-cut. For, by no means, will be miners be “buffaloed” into this reduction, for they know positively it is the last straw. Miners of Eastern Kentucky, surely Workers Starve While Bootleggers Profit In Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska. Comrades: Got here a few days ago; the same old story. The bosses have no jobs for us. The workers can’t find work and the few nickels they have | foul, filthy, old capitalist horror, scraped together won last long as | With its a ; the price of living is very high here, |¢Ven in thinly populated places ‘ike ‘There are two or three dredges work- | A ing about 20 miles from here, a few |involved in the booze racket (nat he men are working on the highway and | had to let the ® few working on the railroad. ‘As I understand, all this work will | duerading with badges, this vermin lose down about a month from now. | beasts of what they can drink and ‘There is a Uttle farming. Next week | “Justice”; Ignores the the public with the horrible circum- stance existing there. The reason is, of course, obvious is: They dare to neither offend their masters (the coal-mine operator, gangster) nor hamper their profits, the latter in particular, Shamelessness we know, is a natural adjunct to greed. They meke a big noise about com- paratively small gangsters, but place premium on the big ones. The cries for food from the coal miners’ babies cannot penetrate the calloused heart especially when the element of profit enters in, All the news that’s fit to print eh? For people who think, what? An Observer. not using. A flame of light came out of the clouds last week when the water- front Unemployed Council came out on Dock St., near the Seamen's In- stitute. The council exposed the in- stitute to the sailors. A call was is- sued to the seamen to organize, The demands of the unemployed were read to the men gathered at the meeting and were accepted, The waterfront Unemployed Coun- cil is fighting for the right to live. ‘The seamen are learning this and are lining up under. the banner of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union to fight for better conditions on the ships, docks and on the faterfront. by now you have your minds made | up, you few that have been “hoping.” See to it-that you begin preparations today to wage a militant battle for your rights, for a decent living for your family, for social, insurance in times of sickness and depression. Your low station is primarily your fault, You have neglected your duty and have been living on hopes “that. the wage-cutting” would: end some time. But, remember, that as long as you take them they will continue. Organize a grievance committee to- | day—see or get in touch with an cr- ganizer now. There is one near you. the trains will be further reduced from three trips to one trip a week. The biggest business in all the places we have been to is bootlegging. ‘The dope and graft, is stinking Alaska, One judge becam? so des’ 'y he bootlegger go out of court; voluntary stool-pigeons, mas- Christian Socialists Turn Loose Fascists Arrested In “Putsch” VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 18.—The most shameless co-operation between the Christian Socialist party govern- ment here and the fascists has again become apparent by the release of the leaders of the Austrian Heim- wehr (fascists) taken in open insur- rection a few days ago. The failure of the fascist “putsch” was due not to government action, fascists’ own bad planning and the certainty that the Austrian workers would smash it tomorrow unless the government pretended to do some- thing. So the leaders were arrested, and now, with the Christian socialist papers clamoring for amnesty |for them, the two principal ones, Prince Rudiger Starhemberg, the big land- lord, and Major General Puchmayer have been simply turned loose to go where they please. ‘The fascist party has shown such ineompetency that the government can not now give them power, but the fascists are to be preserved to be used as murderers of the workers whenever they are needed. TALK “PEACE” T0 HIDE WAR MANEUVERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) plans for strengthening their eco- nomic supremacy. “Jananese authorities have wink- ed at anti-Chinese pogroms in Manchuria, and meanwhile are sending in whole divisions there. “Japanese imperialists are util- izing the Nakamura incident to urge the seizure of Manchuria at least the railway competing with the South Manchurian Railway.” Japanese troops now occupy twelve | strategic points in the Mukden re- | gion, having seized all railroad and telegraph lines and are advancing in a southernly direction as far as Changchun, Little resistance is being shown by the troops of Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria after he issued a statement ordering his troops to lay down their arms. According to the New York Times | report the Japanese movement was very rapid: “The Japanese occupied and dis- armed Chinese troops at Mukden, Newchwang, Fushun, Antung and other points and captured a Chin- ese gunboat at Antung. Peitaying, the Mukden suburb where the fighting started, is now reported in flames. Japanese troops have been moved to the affected areas from Port Arthur and Changchun and reinforcements have been ordered to stand in readiness to move from Korea.” Japanese military headquarters have been established at Mukden. The American dominated Nanking government through its foreign min- ister, Wang, issued the following statement tantamount to a declara- tion of its immediate impotence: “That the military element in Japan has for months been plah- ning aggressive action in Man- churia is a fact that even the Japanese militarists have not at- tempted to conceal. “They have sought to provoke China in many incidents. The Ko- Tean massacres of Chinese brought no retaliation, and in desperation they tried to fan the country into war madness over the death of Shintaro Nakamura (who was exe- cuted by Manchurian troops re- cently as a spy). “Now they wish the world to be- lieve that Chinese troops were or- dered to destroy their railway and they are only fighting to protect their property. “In my opinion the absurdity of their charge is so patent that it would reflect more credit on Jap- anese candor if they simply took the Chinese territory without of- fering any justification other than that they want it and are strong enough to take it.” The Japanese imperialist govern- ment has issued statements trying to minimize the occupation of Southern Manchuria as a “local” matter.’ The Japanese member of the League of Nations stated that “his government had taken all possible measures to insure that this local incident should not lead to any more serious com- plications” and that Japan would do all it could to “settle” the incident. However, the tenor of all Japanese government communiques are to the effect that the occupied sectors would not be evacuated, even preliminary t oany negotiations. “The declaration of the Japanese imperialists merely is intended to leave them free for tuture annexations. Their talk about “Jocalizing the incident” means only that they want to be able to “regu- late” the whole affair with China alone and on their own terms. Indizative of the depth of imper- ‘alist friction is the scant reference made to the Kellogg anti-war pact by the Japanese government that the Chinese fired first and they, the Japanese, acted in self defense and that the Kellogg pact permits this. That both American and British imperialist governments were some- what taken by surprise by the swift- ness of Japan’s action and are feel ing out the situation before taking definite action in furtherance? of their imperialist interes’ 3 snown by the action 7 (> 3 nilu- enced J--~"> Of Naiiors and the statement of tne Washington gov- ernment, The Leegue of Nations hurriedly and almost unaiimously “dropped” sel) A Worker, the question when the Chinese and] but to the’ Workers Reje Holderman, AFFFHW NEW YORK.—Reporting the over- whelming rejection of the wage cut agreement of the American Federa- tion of Full Fashioned Hosiery work- ers special convention, the Daily News Record, textile trade journal, says that the Milwaukee local of the union defeated the proposal by a vote of 503 to 12, Carl Holderman, leading member of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action (Muste group) and Paterson. leader of the wage cut proposal was shouted down at the Milwaukee lo- |cal as he sought the floor to speak in |favor of the wage slashes, The workers insisted on voting on the proposition first, the Daily News Re- cord goes on to say. ‘The Milwaukee leader reports the reason the men gave for rejection the wage cut agreement as follows: “Members of the local union as well as Steele (a national vice pre- sident) oppose the reduction on the ground that in the past Year and half they have already accepted wage reductions amounting to 40 per cent and that each one of these reductions was followed by even greater reduction by the non-union mills and that it is almost certain that the reduction now asked for will also be followed by a further reduction by non-union mills.” A statement by Samuel Rubin, pre- |sident of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Solidarity (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) into view.” “The Collapse of London jas the world money market can only | follow the already ten year continu- ing collapse of British industry.” It is the Communist Party that has pointed out the development of the crisis. It is the Communist Party that is rallying the workers of Great | Britain for the struggle against Brit- isn imperialism in this crisis, | The break in the foreign exchange |markets was so severe that unless |additional foreign credits are imme- |diately brought to support the Brit- \ish pound immediate shipments of |gold must follow which will further weaken the entire credit structure of Great Britain and of the best of the world as a tirect consequenie, ‘The break on the stock exchange was not confined to British issues and to British markets but had im- mediate reverberations in all of the | markets of the world. German and ;South American bonds immediately broke sharply and sharp recessions reference that the Japanese delegates made to it. This merely means imperialist League wished to post- |pone the matter in order to allow | each imperialist power the possibility lof acting independently in its own | interest. The president of the League |of Nation’s Council attempted to {conceal the actual state of war by | stating that the Council expected to jhear “with satisfaction thet the dspanese Government will take nec- essary measures to lead to an ap- peasement of the situation.” The action of the Council was iinme- diately hailed as an achievement in the interest o: peace. “Supporcers of the League,” according to the Gereva reporter of the N. Y. Times, “were highly pleased by the far- reaching pre.edent set.” The speech }/ the president of we T.cague Council, however, is an exam- ple of rotten diplomacy in the best imverialist style. It is the very same diplomacy that led to the world war in 1914. A statement by the state depart- ment at Washington asserted that the Japanese «tack was merely “a mutiny of soldiers” and that the Kellogg pact was not violated and that not util easuing events indi- cated the course of Japan’s move would the American imperialist pol- icy be formulated. This statement, however, is an exceptionally hypo- critical and stupid formulation, which contradicted the versions of Tokyo and of the League and which no one tried to support. While the official figures for Amer- ican banking investments in Man- | churia are given at $3,811,000 imports | at $5,000,000 and exports to Man- | | probably higher than that now. Eu | it is precisely because of the richex- ploitive possibilities of Manchuria that American imperialism, as doits British imperialism, find a conflict of | imperialst interest there. | Berln papers, according to an As- | sociated Press report say that the | conflict in Manchuria “assume j~o- portions endangering the peace of t* world.” The “Iccalizaticn” of Manchurian warfare is shown :s * le by showing that the attentic c all leading imperialist powers is a the moment centered in Manchuria. Songs! More of | | Them! | Many workers, both young and | _ old, have sent in songs, but many | | more ave necded for the new song | |book that is now being prepared. | Let vs hear from the workers in| iy the Nogro | wkers who soruztling for | Necro rivhts, What song have you to offer? Send it in immediately | to the Workers Library Publish- ers, P.O, Box 148, Station D, New York City. Milwaukee, New York Hosiery Not Permited Floor of Local jover in the industry, 5,000 New York Workers Demonstrate churia at $12,009000 in 1929 it is |) ct Paycut Pact Official and Musteite, Manufacturers of America at Phila- delphia declared that wage cuts fror 35 to 45 per cent would be in effect Monday, September 21, according to &@ report in the Daily News Record This applies to the “union” mills. Further wage cuts in the “non- union” Reading (Berks County) mills were indicated in the Daily News Record quoting Edward F. Callaghan, AFFFHW organizer in Reading. “We have been informed by Berk- shire employes that knitters on footing machines were cut last week | and loopers and seamers were cut the week before. Other plants in Reading, such as the Princess Royal made wage reductions im- mediately after we called off a strike in this city.” oe 6 NEW YORK.—In a spirited meet- | ing on Tuesday night the hosi workers of Brooklyn, Island and New York, locals 5 and 19, AFFFHW, were unanimous in repulsing the wage cut agreement the officials of | the Federation are seeking to put If these cuts should go into effect the workers of | all New York hosiery mills are de- termined to walk out in spite of the strikebreaking threats of the offi- clals. In such a case the locals of New York district are considering breaking away from the national Federation, as is the Paterson local. With British Sailors were also recorded in the rest of the | foreign bonds on the stock markets. | Both Argentinian and Cecho-Slovak | bonds broke more than Argentine | bonds broke more than 20 per cent in one day. The break in the entire bond market is probably the worst that has been seen since the World War. In order to save the situation the bankers of England called a confer- | ence at 10 Downing St. in London, | the government headquarters, which was attended by Ramsay MacDonald who was called back to London hur- riedly in view of the seriousness of *he crisis. The conference lasted an | hour but no report has yet been is- sued as to the policy MacDonald will now pursue at the orders of the bank~- ers in order to prevent the collapse of the entire credit structure of im- perialist Britain and the imperial- ist world. Every possible step is be- ing taken to prevent the further col- lapse of teh pound. The New York Times reports that “In the face of renewed difficul- ties, British newspapers are bom- barding their readers with appeals not to convert sterling into foreign echange and not to regard the france or the dollar safer refuges.” The immediate crisis in London on Saturday was occasioned by the with- drawal of 1,000,000 pounds by the capitalists of Holland. The big banks in Amsterdam which are among the most important on the continent of Europe found themselves in need of whatever resources they could raise immediately. As a result they called Hungarian workers. ganizations are urged to enable their | in every immediately available re- source they could lay their hands on | either in gold or in securities. | On August 1 the United States and | France granted the Bank of England @ credit of $250,000,000 to stave off | the critical situation. THis credit was | | used up in less than a month and on August 28 both these capitalist pow- ers granted the Bank of England ad- ditional credits of $400,000,000. This sum, more than one and a half times the original has been practically used up in about two weeks. In addition to this the Bank of France has suv- ported the pound in the last few days. Fear Deficit In France. The British crisis is the result of the acute sharpening of the world economic crisis in the past several months. So severe has this become | that the French capitalist class, | which had long been boasting of the fact that France had been exempted from the worst effects of the crisis, now fear that France will soon face budgetary deficit for this year in| 26 Workers at Lecutre; U. S. Workers Protest NEW YORK.—Word has just re- eived by the Worers Cultural Fed- eration that on Aug. 15 the Uriburu dictatorship in Argentine, acting in collaboration with Hungarian fascists, raided a lecture in Buenos Aires ar- nged by the Hungarian Workers’ A sociation and arretsed 28 workers. The subject of the lecture was noth- ing more revolutionary than the Einstein theory of relativity. In ad- dition to raiding the lecture, the Uri- buru police ransacked the libr: 0 the Hungarian Workers Association, trying to find revolutionary litera- ture; they found none, Since their arrest the 28 workers, both men and women, have been kept jin dismal cells and are forced to sleep on the bare floor. They are being threatened with deportation to | Cape Horn, a disease-infested place where their lives will be in danger. It is believed that the raid was in- stigated by three Hungarian fascist newspapers in Argentine and by the Hungarian ambassador, a notorious white guard who took part in the counter-revolution that drowned in blood the Hungarian workers’ repub- lic in 1919. Fearing the anger of the | workers, the Uriburu government suppressed all news of the raid; it has finally reached the United States through underground channels, The Workers Cultural Federation has sent a protest cable in the name of the 30,000 members of its affi- liated organizations, demanding the immediate release of the imprisoned All workers’ or- protests to General Uriburu, Buenos Aires, Argentine, France is estimated at between $300,- 000,000 and $500,000,000. In addition to this the setting up of a high tariff which is now proposed by the Mac- Donald government will cut French exports to England sharply and thus weaken the entire French economy severely. “The alarming manner in which exports have beendeclining during the last six months is caus- in grave concern,” reports the New York Times. The Brazilian govern- ment decided Saturday that the fur- ther payment by Brazil of any inter- est on its foreign bonds was impos- sible and therefore these payments have been suspended totally. The crisis in New Zealand has as- sumed such severe proportions that it has been decided by the capital- ists that they must follow the path taken by the British capitalist class in its crisis. They have decided to form a National government on the lines laid down by the socialist, Mac- Donald. Pe ae While the workers of New York were demonstrating in solidarity with the struggle of the British workers, and especially with that of the sail- ors, ten thousand teachers gathered | in Westminster Hall in London to protest against the 15 per cent wage cut which the MacDonald govern- |ment is putting through against the teachers in the program of “econo- my”, “The meeting was extremely boisterous at times,” says the New York Times. Sir Ernest Grhamham- Little, an Independent in the House of Commons, tried to mislead the teachers into believing that their in- terests could be best taken care of by “reasonable arguments.” The teachers booed and hissed him dur- ing the course of the meeting. As the following report of the New York Times indicates the teachers are be- ginning to realize that “reasonable arguments” are in the interest of the bosses and that the working class must determine to use more militant methods, “But boos and derisive laughter greeted his statement that the po- sition was not as desperate as it was represented. Neitehr did the teachers take kindly to his argu- ment that the situation would not be saved by violence, but by rea- sonable argument.” Collapse of British Market. The break of the British bond mar- ket and the fall in the value of the | British pound was so severe on Satur- day that the capitalist press reports | that “at times selling of government stocks assumed panic proportions.” Certain of the British bonds, which are looked on in the stock markets of the world as the most stable of all |the same situation as England. The | bonds, fell more than 10 per cent in value on Friday and Saturday. Argentine Gov’t Jails Picnics, we suggested last week, are great for spreading interest in the Daily Worker, and so drawing more workers in to be subscribers or members of Daily Worker Clubs, and getting some money for the Daily. From Los Angeles comes the news of how it can be done. The | Lithuanian organization of Los | Angeles held a Press Picnic recent- ly, and now sends $30 to the Daily Worker and also $30 to Vilnis, the Lithuanian Communist daily. | Then from Kulpmont, Pa, comes | $10 for the Daily, also brought in | by a plenic. The picnic was held for the benefit of the miners’ re- lief and the Daily Worker, and $23.90 was sent to the miners’ re- | lief fund. This brings out another point. Drives for the Daily are an | important part of the workers’ | struggle against the bosses. Let the | Daily be the banner to rally around in strikes and demonstrations, Eevery-Day Sales Backbone of D. W. So much for picnics, But every |day is no picnic, not for workers, |anyway, and the backbone of the Daily Worker is every-day sales. Car- riers’ routes, for instance, |for a bundle of 85 papers a day. “I jam making this increase of 75 a day,” | he writes, “as I have a route worked |up on @ daily basis.” This increase shows what pegging away ata single route can do. Make a route for your- self, keep at it, and you'll make it easier for yourself and you'll see the subscriptions mount up. And so we are confident we'll be hearing good news pretty soon from Comrade F. W. L. of New Orleans. “I am trying to build a good paper route, so I am enclosing $1 for Daily Worker papers. I would like to have 15 copies for each day and 10 others, which would make 100 in all, so I can deliver them each day.” That's a spirited beginning and a yood ex- ample for other workers to take to heart. Talking of spirit, here’s a worker whose spirit can't be shaken by the bosses’ starvation drive. “Enclosed please find $1 to renew sub,” writes Comrade R.EJ., from Portland, Ore. “A narrow escape. I nearly thought I had to lose the Daily, but I win again. But what kind of struggle. I earned $10.50 in three weeks and had to pay out $8.50 for rent and adver- tize for a job.” Imagine, less than $2 to eat on in three weeks, and he has $1 for a Daily Worker subscrip- tion. That’s the kind of spirit that will inspire the workers to resist wage cuts and denial of relief to starving workers and make them stronger and more determined to throw off the bosses stranglehold on the working class. The bosses are try- ing to starve the unemployed into scabbing so wages can ge cut, but even starvation cant stop |them from buying the Daily. All Not Quiet Western Front And here’s a report of the activi- ties of the Red Builders’ Club in San Francisco to show that all is not quiet on the western front. The following methods of getting new readers for the Communist press Comrade | E. T. writes in from Denver, asking DAILY SALES “DAILY’S” BULWARK: PICNICS IN CALIF. AND PENN, COLLECT FUNDS FOR DAILY Were agreed on! 1, To concentrate on particular |corners for definite periods and to | ask the Unemployed Council to assign |forces to assist, 2. To read the Daily Worker at | least one half hour every day. | 3. To send a delegate to the West- ern Worker confernce. Newsboys to |take out sub blanks. It was agreed |both the Daily Worker and the | Western Worker must be paid | vigorously. 4. To locate a newsboy perman- ently at the Western sugar refinery. 5. To meet again in a week. Plenty og good ideas there for other Red Builders Clubs, we awalt | good sales reports from San Pran- | cisco, especially if you build a Daily | Worker Club around the Red Bulld~ ers’ Club. Workers, send in snapshots of | comrades active in selling the Daily | Worker who are willing to have thetr | pictures in our columns. ‘TO MOBILIZE LEGION IN WAR ON WORKERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Treasury, Henry L. Stimson, Sec- retary of State, and Robert P. La- mont, Secretary of Commerce. The decision also followed by a few days @ secret conference of Hoover with the leading bankers of the country. It is also an outcome and follow-up of the fake unemployment “relief” conference called by Mr. O'Neil, na- tional commander of the Legion, with representatives of state governors, the A. F. of L. and other forces op- posed to adequate relief and the pay- ment of social insurance for the unemployed workers. Just as Hoover's conference with industrial leaders and A F. of L. traitors started the nation-wide wage slashing campaign against the work- ers still in the ship, so Hoover's ap- pearance at the Legion conference is designed to mobilize all fascist forces for the attack on the starving unemployed and part time workers this winter and to prevent the rank and file members from uniting with the mass of unemployed for a fight for relief. While the war veterans are to be told that they must stop the agitation for an immediate cash payment of the bonus, other methods to placate the delegates at Detroit have been worked out by the city authorities, who have prepared a wide open town for the visit of the Legionnaires. The New York Sunday Daily News car- ries the following headline: “RUM BATH WAITS LEGION IN DETROJT.” The story declares, in part, “On this, the eve of the. annual conven- tion of the American Legion, whiskey, rum, and gin are easier to buy than apples. 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