The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1931, Page 3

BOSSES FAIL TO COUNT COMMUNIST BALLOTS IN LITTLE ROCK ELECTION Police Terror Used to Keep Negro Workers From Voting; Workers Indignant Boss Press Fears Expense of Feeding Jobless Are the capitalist papers wor- vied because more and more thousands of workers are joining the ranks of the unemployed? | They are not. Are the capitalist papers worried because more and more workers are starving? They are not. What are they worried about? They are worried that the starving workers may force the) capitalists to give up some of their swolien gains for unemployment insurance. ‘The New York Evening Post is running a series of articles by the former governor of Kansas, Henry Allen, who pretends to be giving an “Impartial” description of the British “dole” system. He is “afraid” that $4 a week will undermine the character of the British worker. He thinks $4 a week is too much, Why, he writes, he saw some unemployed worker “dangerously near content- tentment.” It hurts a capitalist hireling Over A Thousand Men “Fired From Missouri Pacific Shops Dear Comrades: North Little Rock, Ark. I always notice in the Daily Worker an appeal for worker correspondence- While I am not a newspaper writer, I will try to report conditions as they are here. Our election campaign is just over and was a great success. The bosses allowed Comrade Zini only five votes which was an out®age against common honesty but we were not surprised. For instance, the ward I voted in, I know for a positive cer- tainty of 10 or 12 votes that were cast for Zini along with my own. % No votes at all were registered in| ‘© spread the doctrine of Communism this ward for Zini. Carloads of uni-|'0 @ great mass of people we were formed police drove through the Ne- | Unable to reach before and they are} gro districts warning and threaten-| ll the more ready for struggle. ing the Negroes against voting for Zini. They were also around the polls using the same tactics, and in} several instances where a Negro en- tered the polling place whom they thought would vote for Zini, he was told his poll tax was no good. one instance this was done to a white acquaintance of mine. He ap- pealed to the sheriff with no result. Some of these tactics were also used against the opposing bosses candid- ate who was beaten by almost a 3 to 1 vote. Many people are indignant over the results, and I havéheard several who are not even Party sympathizers ex- claim “the idea of Zini only getting five votes, any body knows better than that.” It is estimated that between 300 and 500 votes were cast | for Zini, and many claim that they were counted for the administration vandidate. Many who would have voted for Zini didn’t have poll tax receipts. So much for democratic government. It wasn’t really on elec- tion at all, only an expensive pro- | In} Mass Misery Now, conditions here are rapidly | growing worse, The Missouri Pac. | | North Little Rock shops shut down |Sept. 10, throwing over a thousand men out of work. Some of them expect to go back to work the first of the month with their wages cut. | Monday, Sept. 13, 85 men in the car | |repair departments were fired. The} Big Rock Stone and Construction Co. has just shut down its large crusher | here until after the first of the year and maybe longer, throwing over 200 men out of work, | The yard switching forces of the| |Mo. Pac. here have been reduced | |from time to time until now only 20 engines are working, where in nor-| mal times 35 were used. I myself) like Allen te see an unemployed workers “dangerously near con- ment.” He wants to see such a worker starving. That is because he is a capitalist writing for a capitalist paper. Workers, the capitalist paper: are no friends of yours, They are the friends of your enemies, the | bosses, who have stirred up a wave | of propaganda to sweep you off | your feet when you stand up for unémployment insurance. scribe to the Daily’ Worker, your | own paper, the paper that exposes | the capitalist posion, the paper | that fights for real unemployment insurance, the Daily Worker. Get was cut off the 14th, when two more esd ie ara BS Ae wi lengines were pulled off. All switch-| | ‘uth about MS ig gas propaganda. men are looking for a wage-cut and) | I don’t think they will be disappoint- | 7 | ed. Now, conditions in the cotton- | growing sections are getting steadily worse, as news-Cclippings yey FINE KINGSTON |mailed to’ you indicate. The oad EDITOR AS “RED” Sub- | | STREET FIGHTS AT HAMBURG ELECTIONS Leaders of ‘Left So- cialists’ Join Com- munist Party (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Sept. 27. —-Hamburg elections today were fairly calm. Last night a large body of fascists am- bushed seven worker cyclists spread- ing Communist propaganda. Three workers were seriously injured. The Police arrived too late and no sr- rests were made, ..Early in the morning a fierce col- lison occurred before the fascist local which was wrecked. At noon over one hundred Reichsbanner members attacked twenty-five workers. In the fierce fight four workers and several Reichsbanner members were injured. The police raided the Communist local arresting everyone present. steady rain dampened street activity. Walter Oettinghaus, a member of the Reichstag and chairman of the Metal Workers Union, and Hagen, | one of the leaders of the left wing | | Opposition, abandoned the social | | democrats and joined the Com- | munists. They issued an appeal to) | all the workers to follow their ex- | ample declaring there was no room | for the formation of a third party | between the Social Democratic Party | and the Communist Party. ew A (Cable by Inprecorr) | BERLIN, Sept. 25—The elections | in Hamburg will occur on Sunday. The late Reichstag elections were held in September, 1930. Thus Sun- day's elections are important as in the interim the relation of the class | forces in Germany has changed. In | the last senate elections in 1928 when thhe socialists topped the polls with | 246,685 votes, the Communists were second with 114,257 votes. In the Reichstag elections the socialists DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2s 1931 FRISCO CHINESE HEAR PROGRAM OF COMMUNISTS Deadlock “Meeting On Manchurian Crisis SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 27.) —A mass meetnig under the auspices of the Chinese Six Companies, in their own headquarters, with four- hundred _ present, as held last Thursday night to discuss the Man-| Four groups were | churian situation. present representing the constitution- alists combining the monarchists and | War Lord Wupeifu, the Kuomintang, the Communists and the Cantonese supporters. The latter were silent throughout the meeting. All he capitalist parties proposed that a cable be sent to the League of Notions and to Hoover. The Con- | stituvionalists also proposed that Wu- peifu be recalled to lead the united front against Japa. The Nationalists called for support of Chiang Kai- shek, Communists Sueak. Odin Lee and Fred Woo, who rep- | resented the Communists, denounced | the Chinese betrayers and the League of Nations as agents of the imperi- alists and demanded support of the workers’ and peasants’ Soviets, the unity of Japanese and American workers in defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese Soviets and the solidarity of all ma: antee for a successful struggle to de- feat the Japanese and American im- perialists, A sharp discussion threw the mee’ ing into a turmoil. Officials of on Chinese Six Companies called the po- lice to remove the Communist speak- ers. The meeting dispersed without any decision. The Chinese branch of the Anti-Imperialist League is call- ing a meeting in support of the work- ers’ and peasants’ revolution. , especially | the colonial peoples as the only guar- | |World Tourist nnn |\Sail Oct. 15 for Nov. 7 Celebration in USSR | NEW YORK. — The November Seventh Revolution Celebration, with | the marching thousands passing the Kremlin and the Lenin mausoleum, | C@l. d by the large num- |3 will be witn ber of tourists who will sail Oct. 15, |e spend fourteen eventful days in the Soiet Union, visiting collective | prisi farms, Red Army clubs, workers’ and | | peasants’ clubs, factories and many other places of historical and cul- tural interest. The Five-Year Plan in the only in the world governed by the now at the end of its third year—a plan made and put into op- eration by | will be brought before these tourists who will see with their gwn eyes the gigantic growth of a new society practically lifting itself by its own | bootstraps onto a level of the highest | * industrial and social system of the age. A shortage of skilled labor— | directly in contrast with the rest of the nations of the warld. The Soviet Union—a workers’ and peasants’ | country where every able bodied men and women is helping whole- | heartedly in the reconstruction of their fatherland. The solidarity of the numerous nationalities and races within the Union of Socialist Soviet | Republics—the wonders wrought by | the Revolution—all this will be taken in by the World Tourist groups, pod fo rthe Soviet Unon on Oc- tobeir 15. | Work nity to visit the Soviet Union at vertisement. _ RAID “DAILY | WORKER” IN | LON : ON (CONTINUE) ) FROM PAGE ONED lturbance here and in the United | workers and peasants— | IMPERIAL VALLEY ARE BEING SENTE (CONTINUED FROM PA PAGE ONED prisoners sente years for org workers, were ser board me these cases. The imprisoned work rence Emery, Braulio O: Erickson, Carl Sklar, Dann ji Horiuchi, Edward ra En eighth Spector, has been re Juentin prison t of the Internatio: and is now on tour m ers for defense in cas up to ‘o the obilizing s “And Makes Own Argument. One of the prisoners, C serving one to 14 years, has pre peal to his own brief for an U. S. Supreme Court. With the a: of the International Labor Defense | he is demanding the right to be hould take ths opportu- | the low rates quoted in our ad-| outs, the bosses regard the pr | more coming. (feitene patties can smash the Page Three PRISONERS = CED NOW the country to e his own oral ap- alley prison- 1 Centro when tuce and e chained in ail in trucks. follows Prison Board, Imperial Val- Erickson, He- 0, Roxas, Sklar, to long prison terms for ‘al workers must ly. In the name jousands of workers rs, we protest their onment. The world’s r is watching California. d) George Maurer, for the In- 1 Labor Defense.” STEEL, TEXTILE WORKERS ACT f (CONTINUE! for organization ‘and strike a wage cuts. While the present w at least 5,000,000 workers, and it will be followed by other v tion of the workers as of vast im- portance. The average 10 to 20 per} cent cut is just a “feeler.” There is What comes der on the action of the work PAY CUTS SWEEP | ON;R.R. BOSSES T AGAINST PAY SLASHES the A. F. of L. to make the wage cuts. cy of in a shop where a is pending or has come lize that organiza- imperative. Every behind the steel cut nould nould now in the first trenches on the workers’ battle front wage cuts! Support and to the action of the steel worke 423 Delegates From 48 Steel Towns Draw Demands | for Fight (CONTINUED FRoM PAGE ONED WORKUPTACTICS «CONTINUED FROM VAGE ONED The Nicholson File Co. polled 240,984, although a bigger ganizational sec- onal Miners’ Union, of his union up to the national teel workers’ fight The “Six Companies” are the un- | States grows daily.” percentage of the electorate was/ official rulers of the San Francisco | The masses of the British eras | Polled. The fascists took second) Chinatown. They are the clan organ-|are beginning to offer militant re- place, with 144,684 whilst the Com- | izations of the six families to which | sistance to the hunger program of the mauniets wero third with 135,278, most of the early Chinese settlers in | MacDonald National government. In | boss government. The Communist | penly rebel this winter. Party won any way, as we were able —A Worker Correspondent. port cedure carried through at public ex-| Workers and share croppers are ready pense to satisfy the adherence of | for struggle and I look for them to | : ‘Reprinted Articles From Daily Worker local: of this city in the he Worker Exposes Slavery in Hotel Kitchens Chicago, Ill. Daily Worker I want to write to you about my hard work. I am a kitchen man. I do fry cooking and vegetable work. When I worked in Indianapolis at the Claypool for 17 years I was the head dishwasher and was forced to work 12 hours a day as hard as I could work. I got hell almost all the time. Then a new chef came and he talked to the woman who owned the hotel and they fired the steward and the chef took over both jobs. The chef then told me that he wanted me to do better work and more work. There was a party of 900 and the chef got stuck because he had no steward. He called on me and demanded special silver right away, and when I couldn’ get it socn enough he said, “God damn you, get that silver right away or I will throw pepper on you.” He threw the pepper on me because he could not handle his job and I told him to take his job and go to hell. want to fight with him. Imagine how I felt after 17 years of work to have someone treat me like that. Another place I worker was the Orrington Hotel at Evanston, Ill. I wanted to make me work three ex- tra hours for no pay. They would not pay me for overtime. The bosses the workers $15 a week, and they and all kinds of names. I haven't very much money, but I always help the Communist move- ment and read your excellent paper, the Daily Worker. A Sympathizer. Freight Trains Crowded With Jobless (By a Worker Correspondent) SPOKANE, Wash.—The “Spokes- men-Review” carried an article re- cently telling how “hundreds of men and women are riding the freight trains.” The capitalist reporter ex- pressed surprise that women were riding. He could not imagine that there are working-women who have to follow their husbands in search of a job probably. He admitted that the single women who travelled alone were not molested, in fact that they were “protected” by the workers rid- ing the trains, if anyone tried to annoy them. Did he think that the workers were the ones who enforced prostitution on the women of their class? One young woman worker, who had lost a job as stenographer a few months ago, said that she felt more safe on the train among the workers than in an office working for the boss. There is one thing noticeable in the migration on the trains now. Some of the workers have earned a fruit. They have been hi-jacked by gunmen. Of course the boss law is not even trying to catch these thugs. It is up to the workers themselves thugs. the railroad ccompanies workers ride because they “might re- taliate” if forbidden. nice of the railroad bosses, we are sure. Jut a word. Workers stop rid- ing now, this is winter, there are no jobs. Stay where you are and or- ganize fighting unemployment coun- cils, The bosses are glad to have you riding around instead of staying in the towns. It cost them nothing. Organize. Oklahoma Students Revolt ‘Apaitie Military Training (By a Worker Correspondent.) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—Capi- talism is no longer able to foist its imperialist program of militarism even upon its chosen sons, the stu- dents of the bourgeois universities. A petition has been signed by four hundred students in the University of Oklahoma protesting against mili- tary training. Protests against com- pulsory military training have been made several times in the past, but this is the first time the protests have reached the mass stage of re- volt. In true capitalist fashion an “in- vestigation” is being made, headed by Major Harry Malony, U. S, Army cificer assigned to the university. Imperialist educators and militarists again combine their forces to make “The world safe for capitalism.” The far reaching influence of the mass protests of the workers against imperialist war is shown by, the mutinies in the Chilean and British navies and is reflected in the action of these students in the University of Oklahoma. The role of the bourgeois educa- tional institutions in the prepara- tions for war against the U.S.S.R. is clearly portrayed by this incident. The working class must defend the Soviet Union,. the Workers’ Father- land, against the attacks of the im- perialists, Indiana Runs Slave Camp for Unemployed Indianapolis, Ind. Dear Editor: em trying to tell you something about the Indiana State Farm. I ecved five days on the farm for ‘ancy before I was bailc1 cvt by International Labor Well, we have one good man, Theo- cove Luesse, serving one year and $500 fine and they refuse to accept his bond. ‘They starve you and then work you to death, then whip you if you don’t keep your end of the work up on this farm. Some people sy this country is fine, but I cell it slavery. They put you in those buildings and they keep you wet. Any time it rains you might as well be outdoors, Then they make all work in the stone quarry and make you wade in water up to your knees end then feed you hog slop. Anyone ‘3 a fool that-will stand for that kind of treatment. Let's get organized and stop that kind of treatment. Join the International Labor De- fense and fight for the release of all class-war prisoners. Demand the repeal of the vagrancy law and the criminal syndicalism law. Free the working-class fighters from the cap- ilalist jails, H. McCey, I didn’t quit there yesterday because they here are getting rich and they pay call the workers bums and trash few dollars fighting fire or picking who ride on the trains to prepare themselves for defense against these Four workers were beaten up on one train last week by gunmen. ‘The Spokesmen-Review states that let the That is real (By a Worker Correspondent.) KINGSTON, Jamaica, B. W. I. (By Mail)—For reprinting in his news- paper articles from the Daily Worker, Communist paper published in the United States, Herbert Barnes, a nat- ive Jamaica worker, is being perse- cuted by local boss government as “a Red agent.” “Barnes has been forced into hiding following a fine of $50 in the local courts, which he was unable to pay. The local bosses and imperialist agents are afraid that the savagely oppressed native masses would draw inspiration from the story of the struggles against starvation of mili- tant Negro and white workers-in the United States. The native masses are suffering frightfully as a result of the growth of mass unemployment, starv- ation and wage cuts with which the colonial bosses and the absentee land- lords are trying to shift the full bur- den of the crisis on the backs of the workers and peasants, Barnes’ paper was of recent origin, and printed as a one sheet newspaper. Most of its material was quoted from the Daily Worker. The paper was eagerly read by Jamaican workers. The heavy fine against him represents a brutal attempt by the bosses to kill the paper. ‘WORKING WOMAN’ IN DRIVE FOR SUBS Part of Campaign to Organize Women NEW YORK.—In a drive to or- ganize working women and draw more thousands of working-class women into the struggles of the workers, the Working Woman has launched a drive for 1,000 new sub- scribers,.the formation of 15 circles of woman worker correspondents, and a sustaining fund of $1,000. Started on Sept. 15 the drive will come to a close the last week of November, Stressing the increasingly important role of working women who now total fully 11,000,000, in industry and in war, the Working Woman will com- mence a series of articles “Women in Industry” showing conditions, wages, hours, and social conditions of work- ing women, beginning with the Oc- tober issue. Quotas for the .subscription and sustaining drive has been issued as follws: by districts: Boston, 50. New York, 300; Philadelphia, 75; Pitts- burgh, 10; Cleveland, 100; Detroit, 75; Chicago, 75; Minnesota, 25; Kansas City, 10; South Dakota, 10; Seattle, 50; San Francisco, 75; Connecticut, 5e. Besides the correspondence from working women, miners’ wives and others, new features will be intro- duced in the Working Woman be- ginning with the October issue, Comrade Pauline Rogers who has just returned from an extensive stay in the Soviet Union, will go on a tour at the beginning of October in con- nection with the Working Woman drive. Mass meetings will be held in all important industrial centers where greetings from the working women in the U. S. S. R. will be given to the masses of exploited women workers in the U.S. A. One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among th workers “Sovict ‘Forced Labor,’ by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. The forecast is that the socialists will lose heavily and the Communists will gain. The fascists gain further votes from the continued decline of the other bourgeoisie parties which suffered catastrophic losses in the Reichstag elections. The magnificent Communist elec- tion campaign justifies high hopes. Eight Socialist deputies, including Seydewitz and Rosenfeld decided to disobey the decision of the party, or- dering them to cease fractional ac- tivity and cease the publication of the oppositional organ, “Fackel.” In case the Socialist Party ex xzI$n case the socialist party expels them, the rebels planned to form a new party named the Socialist Workers Party. The rebels openly declare that their reason for the formation of a new party is to prevent the ‘ELECTION RALLY = OCT. 5 IN DETROIT, Y.G.L. Exposes Misery | of Youth DETROIT, Sept. 27. — With the Communist Party having five can- didates on the ballot and conducting an energetic election campaign, more and more it can be seen that our exposure of the graft and corruption of the Murphy administration is hav- ing its effect on the working class. At the open air and indoor meetings the candidates and speakers are kept sometimes until midnight answering the questions of the workers present. In this task of rallying the work- ers and the starving unemployed masses around the Communist Par- ty platform of immediate relief, the Young Communist League is play- ing no small part, this in itself re- flecting that the youth of Detroit are also undergoing the same suffering and misery as the adult unemployed. ‘The Young Communist League is now preparing to give greater assistance in rallying the workers to vote for the Communist candidates in the primaries on October 6. On October 5 there will be a Final Election Rally and demonstration at the City Hall, which in addition to boosting the Communist candidates will be a real exposure of the hunger and misery | which exists amongst the working class youth and children in Detroit. In this demonstration the Y.C.L, will be supported by the Pioneers who will bring before Mayor Murphy's eyes the true conditions existing amongst the thousands of undernour- ished and poorly clothed children in Detroit. This demonstration also will be part of the preparations to arouse the youth thru their organizations to send delegates to the Youth Unem- ployed Conference which will be held on October 26 at 317 Frederick. Over 100 delegates are expected to be present. This Conference will take up specific demands of the youth and children, who are deprived of relief or suffering from undernourishment and lack of clothing, also lay plans | for forcing the boss class administra- tion thru struggle to give greater regard to Detroit's working class youth and children. Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents California belonged. They maintain a central body, composed of repre- sentatives of each “company” with a neutral chairman brought over from China, and combine the functions of a chamber of commerce, an arbitri tion court, and a governing bod: since in an emergency they have been known to levy fines or even sentence individuals to be assassinated. They maintain a beautiful and elaborate headquarters in Chinatown, run schools in the Chinese language, etc. | They represent primarily the com- | mercial class, and are both powerful | and extremely conservative. 3,500,000 NEVER WILL GET JOBS A. FL: ADMITS IMcGrady Pro oposes No Fight To Aid Them WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 17.— American Federation of Labor chiefs, facing the anger and revolt of the| rank and file; continue to make oc- casional pacifying admissions. The latest is from Edward McGrady, leg- islative representative of the A. F. L.| In a press interview yesterday Mc- Grady proposed the six hour day and five day week all over again, and again without the slightest hint of any plan for a struggle to win it. But in the course of the interview Mc- Grady made useful admissions. He expects a permanent unemployed army of 3,500,000 after the present crisis. This will be composed of a million and a half unemployed through sickness, changing jobs, temporarily out of work, etc., as in previous years. To these will be added 2,000,000 technological unem- ployed, thrown out of jobs by the rationalization and installation of labor-saving machinery. He admits that in the last five years, 900,000 have so lost their jobs in factories. 240,000 on railroads and 800,000 on farms, McGrady’s' figures are all too low. order to crush this militancy, the | | British capitalist class is preparing the introduction of the open capi- | talist dictatorship, fascsm. | The British capitalist class realizes that the crisis is becoming worse. It realizes that in this crisis t s gong to be faced with a militancy on the | part of the workers such as it has not known before. It is not the |tancy” of the “socialist” |is a mass movement led by the Un- |employed Councils and the Commu- nist Patty that they know even Hen- | |derson will not be able to mislead. They feel that the dictatorship must be prepared now without any delay. from London: “It will be war between capital- ism, making a last-ditch stand, and something not so ea labelled. The word socialism as applied to what England has known for the last two and a half years as a labor regime does not accurately describe the forces that capitalism | now must fight. “The new Labor leader, the calm- ly bureaucratic Arthur Henderson, peacemaker of Geneva, cannot dominate this following.” Capitalists Recognize Snowden’s Services. All parties recognize the treacher- ous role that the “socialists” have played for British imperialism. The Liberal, Sir Donald Maclean, stated | that one of the chief objections to | the elections at this time was that the government would be deprived of the “services” of Snowden. This “‘so- cial is the “trusted guardian of the financial interests of the nation”, that is, of British imperialism. That is the reason for the hunger budget, the cuts in the dole and in wages and the attack on the living standards of the’ working class—the interests of British imperialism. The workers are beginning to real- ize that Aruthur Henderson, the lead- er of the “socialist opposition”, is playing the same traitor role as | Snowden or Ramsay MacDonald. Be- cause of mass pressure the “left wing” of the opposition has demand- ed that Henderson show greater op- position to the hunger program of the National government so that they The New York Times reports this } | | insults starving Chinese w “mili- jens from 2% Laborites. It | has ordered a 10 per cent wage slash The entire force is affected Air Line’ Cut Pay NEW YORK. — While Lindbergh peasal ‘Tra Inc., has slashed pay to 20 pi Boss Wants Bldg. Pay Cut NEW YORK. ling for a eral wage cut in the building tr Edward A. MacDougall, pre: the Quensboro Corporation, before the annual conventi New York State Ass greatly applauded by the ent. was ion bosses pres- * 8 es Steel ay Slash The Merteae Rolling Mill So. here cut wages from 10 per cent up. The | cut is effective October 4th Ryan Plans Sell Out on Docks NEW YORK.—Joseph P. Rya ient of the International I shoremen’s Union which is offering to take a wage cut, is now carry on negotiations with individual owners, to enforce a wage ct some docks, and call a few pr nip- on| small strikes on others, in order to divide | the workers and thus get over a g eral wage cut. Ryan issued a stat ment on Saturday saying that “sev- eral lines will be dealt with separate- ly.” can still continue to mislead the workers, The spirit of the workers is evi- dent from the monster demonstra- tions that have been held through- out Great Britain against the hunger budget. In the Glasgow demonst tions the workers carried bann which read “Down with the govern- ment”, “Down with the scab press’, “Not a son for the army”. In Dundee, Scotland, 30,000 workers burned a huge pile of papers of the scab press, the Daily Herald, the organ of the Labor Party. Class is demanding a fascist govern- ment and the “socialists” are prepar- ing the way for fascism. n- | It is to curb this rising | militancy that the British capitalist} Bill Dunne, Trade izer in this 1 report on pointed out the for bringing all who comprise a quar- ‘kers, into a lead- @ new united action of n, foreign born, employed layed workers; bringing en and even children. uling class depends ision,” he said, “as a ree of their strength. We m to abandon the { there can never be such He need ro workers, of all “This unity will become the source of strength for us towards winning | the fight against wage cuts.” | William Z. Foster will bring greet- ings from the Trade Union Unity eague next. Then discussion will open The conference will continue into the night. This is the most significant meet- jing of steel workers since 1919. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 27.—As the conference of the Metal Workers’ | Industrial League prepared to meet here on Saturday, reports from the | various steel centers showed that the bosses, fearing action of the workers, were intensifying their terror. Motor- le cops, and foot police were pa- |trolling the streets in Homestead, McKeesport, Monessen and Duquesne, The terror in Monessen is extreme. |The hall was surrounded by a cor- don of police on Saturday. The j whole town is on the main streets reading the conference calls. The police are confiscating all they can y lay their hands on. Three were arrested. al in Homestead, near the m, was flooded with leaf- ts exposing the wage cuts, and call- g on the workers to take action. Everybody is talking about the con- ference preparing plans for action in | Pittsburgh today. ‘The washroom at the police station was piled high | with leaflets, and not until a steady |stream going in and out got most of the leaflets, did the cops get wise, Pi irens can be heard screech< ing through the streets. Virtual mare | tial law is on in many of the United States Steel Corporation and Mellon= ‘controlled steel towns. Let us know at once what you have already done, or what you are planning to do for the Bazaar. Buy a combination ticket ($1.00) and get one of the following subscriptions free: 1 Mo. to the Daily Worker 1 Mo. to Morning Freiheit 3 Mos. to the Young Worker per copy. Read it—Spread it! Daily Worker Morning Freiheit Young Worker ALAA MADISON SQUARE GARDEN