The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1931 Page Yhree ALL OUT TO POLLS! VOTE COMMUNIST IN DETROIT ELECTIONS! Defeat Hunger Program of Murphy, Emmons, Hanna. and Nagel Demand Real Relief for Unemployed; Vote As You Strike DETROIT, Mich.—Now that election has come around again, these political fakers are dropping around and prom- ising the workers everything except jobs. It is the only time that these chislers come around to the district where the workers live; giving them a lot of boloney. Murphy has been the mayor for the lost year and a half, has just started his campaign for re-election. Since he was last elected he didn’t know how he was going to start to ap- peal to the workers of Detroit to vote for him, since he didn’t carry out all his fake promises from his last campaign. He must have men working three shifts ¢————- —_—— thinking up new promises and ex-|sounds funny when he says “jobs, not ‘ sters, although in more than one .Weizenburg during the last year planations why his last promises fell through. His-first speech said that he has restored the confidence of the people. He has also bought 10,000 quarts of tomatoes to feed the hun- gry unemployed this winter. Picture yourself in your home or on the wel- fare or soup line trying to get some relief and these welfare fakers of Murphy’s come along with a tea spoon and a quart of tomato sauce and give you a spoon full. Anti-Working Class Candidates Then along comes Hanna, a big shot road gohtractor for Detroit. He got all the city contracts. His com- pany went bankrupt. Probably he did not get enough graft, so he’s going in for mayor, where the stakes are bigger. He ex- pects to get in on his reputation of meeting Mayor Cermak of Chicago during the American Legion Conyen- tion. Emmons, who was the star po- lice commissioner during the March 6 demonstration for unemployment insurance, also is running. Only he’s running on a straight American Le- gion ticket. He was on the reception committee during the convention. Nagel, who is also running, is a two-faced proposition, and is a big official-of the Detroit Edison. His company turns off the electric light of unemployed workers that can’t pay, and he’s still got crust to ask the workers to vote for him because they need somebody who is “capable” to run the city. Nagel was president of the council before he decided to run for mayor. His platform is “jobs not doles and common sense.” It doles” and the company he-is a big official of, is laying off the workers. Workers Demand Relief! ‘The trouble is that there isn’t any difference between these fakers, they all have the same line of talk. John Schmies, who is running on the Com- munist tieket, is the only candidate who has a platform for the immediate issuance of unemployment insurance! 1. No evictions, no shutting off of gas or electric of unemployed workers. f 2. No discrimination against Ne- groes, women, foreign-born, and young workers in the administra- tion of relief. 3. Free car fare, meals, clothing and school supplies for children of unemployed workers, 4. Adequate supply of milk for children of unemployed. 5. The practice of turning over the list of names from the welfare department to the immigration au- thorities for the purpose of terror- izing the foreign-born workers must be stopped immediately. These are only a few of the demands of the Communist candidates. On October 5, the day before elec- tion, there is goitig to be a youth demonstration at the city hall, to expose the fake promises of Murphy and the rest of the political fakeérs, in giving young workers relief. The Communist candidates support. this demonstration! Support this demon- stration by being at the city’ hall at 3 p. m. on Monday, October 5. Force the bosses to give us’ relief immediately! re ¥ School Kids Lack Clothes In Montana (By a Worker Correspondent.) PLENTYWOOD, Mont.—In this county and in the drouth stricken area generally, winter is being looked forward to with extreme dread. Many families have had to keep their chil- dren home from school because they could not properly clothe the young- case children have gone to school barefooted gh. cold rain and sleet because not have shoes. It is expected ,: j the professors and principals’*jn charge, that schools will have to close at Christ- mas time because of the threatened lack of funds through heavily de- creased tax receipts. Federal Férm Loan aid which was womised as far back as last July and August has not come in yet and is being postponed from week to week. Surplus farm stock which previously was being sold because of the lack of feed for them during the winter is not even finding a sale with the cattle buyer in this territory because of the utterly low pricés on the market for it. United Farmers League Gains ‘The United Farmers League, and the Y. C. L. are making great head- way in this county. Miss Lillian Ftusa, who is to be asssisted by her sister, Mabel, is expected to be in this.county soon to organize units of the Y. C. L. and Young Pioneers. An active organization of the Pidn- eers has already been organized in Plentywood with dozens ‘of other groups in prospect. War Vet Scores Legion Strikebreakers - (By an Ex-Serviceman) NEW YORK, N. Y.—A bunch of drunken sons of the master class and those » > never had any more action tin in a saloon or brothel, haye the unadulterated guts to go to Detroit in the name of veterans and wantonly, kill what little relief the bonus would give us needy veterans. The American Legion never was a representative organization of |real front-line soldiers. They are com- posed of pencil-pushers, staff-offi- cers, Congress might just as well listen to a Wall Street legation as to take heed to this gang of camou- flagers. 4 5 Commander O'Neil and his high- brow gang now stand with Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold when it comes to arch traitors. This De- troit affair clearly classifies the Strikebreakers The Legion has always been known as a strikebreaking, scab-herding layout, and jist recently lost the greater part of its membership in New Orleans after they attempted to ship men into the northern coal fields to shoot down ‘starving, strik- ing miners, and this under the pre- tense of their going on a labor job. The crowd first smelled a rat when expert riflemen were asked for. When the real facts were revealed the vet- erans threatened tearing apart the entire Legion headquarters. The solution of the problems of us buck-privates is obvious: Join the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League—79 East 10th St. New York city, a mi- litant organization formed of the rank and file to DEMAND payment. of the balance of the bonus before Legion leaders and qualifies their cause. U. 8. Rubber (By a Worker Correspondent) NAUGATUCH, Conn. — The one Rubber Co, here gave the off workers a 10 per cent wage-cut “and yhas forced them to work jonger hours, Workers are forced to the limit to keep up production and are threatened continually with the loss of their Jobs. "Spel There was also a new pensior the interest has eaten up what is left of it. c Cuts Pay; Workers. Organizing scheme introduced, through which 2 per cent of the workers’ pay is taken away from them. This they are sup- posed to get back in the form of a pension if they do not starve to death in the meantime. ‘ We have organized a new unit of the Party here and expect to show some organizational results very soon. | A. F, of L. Expells Two Militant Workers / ‘ey" @ Worker Correspondent), GALESBURG, Ul.—At a recent conference of the A. F. of L. painters) union two delegates, Hecker and Vogel, were not scated and thrown out of the convention hall by thugs in the pay of the union fake leaders. and Vogel represented Lo- cal 275 Painters Union of Chicago, which ‘has a membership of ‘1,400. workers are known as the most militant fighters in the local. A. Wallace, secretary of the Phila- delphia Painters’ Council, which is responsible for the murder of Hasel elections and the kidnaping and ex- of the conference that brought about the explusions. No right of ‘defense was permitted) They were merely told to “get the hell ed of here.” JAMESTOWN, N. ¥., Oct. 4—The Jamestown Worsted Mills posted a sign declaring that wages of all workers would be cut 12 per cent. When the workers did not respond immediately, the boss ordered an 18 per cent cut instead of a 12 per cent cut. One worker who is employed at very dangerous work whose pay formerly was around $20 to $25 week- ly, worked one day last week for $1.00. pulsion from the union of John Heinrichson, vice president of Local 275, was the main gorrilla gangster|are in store, Unless a struggle is developed, there is little doubt that more wage cuts Workers Raise Money to Send +armers’ Gift ot Potatoes to Miners MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Oct. 4—| Answering the appeal. printed last week in the Daily Worker, the Min- | nesota ‘district of the Workers in- ternational. Relief and the Miners steliel Committee has donated $200 | to pay the freight for a carload of | potatoes to be shipped to Pittsburgh tor |miners’ relief from Ironwood, Mich, | . The farmers and workers of the | Ironwood section and other sections | of northern Michigan gathered -a| carload of potatoes, but did not have the money’ to ship it. As a result of successful Tag Days held in Min- neapolis, Duluth, Superior and St. Paul and the activities for raising money in other parts of Minnesota, | Wisconsin and Michigan, the Dis- trict Office was able to send the $200. Additional carloads of potatoes | are now being gathered in Minnesota and Wisconsin, In connection gvith the Tag Day} held recently in Superior, Wfs., Wal- | ter Harju, secretary of the Workers and Farmers Co-op Unity Allianée, made a speech on the radio, over one of the largest radio stations in | Superior, on behalf of the Miners Relief Committee. PITTSBURGH SESSION HAS BIG PROGRAM (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) employment and intensification of government terror against the work- ers, This means further mass starva- tion and misery. “The workers resent this deeply and want to fight. The basis is be- ing laid for a sharpening of the class struggle on every front. Thé coming montis will register still greater and more\militant strikes and unemploy- ment struggles. “To Lead Effectively” “It is the great task of the T.U.U.L. to lead effectively these growing mass struggles, in spite of the attempts of the government, the bosses, and their AF.L.-Musteite agents to defeat them. The A:F.L. is about to meet in convention with a program of sup- porting the bosses’ wage-cutting, starvation, war-making policy, as the T.U.UL. National Committee, the revolutionary trade union center meets to mobilize the masses to fight against this entire program of en- slavement.” %° ‘With improvement in its, methods of work, in accordance witlt the line of the Red International of Trade Union, the T-U.U.L. will, in the com- ing period of growing class struggle, make real progress through the revo- lutionary unions. The unions -will build themselves into mass organiza- tions.” “The tendency has been,” Foster reported, “to underestimate the ex- tent of radicalization of the workers.” Foster cited the strike of the hosiery workers as an example, and warned that such underestimation should be carefully guarded against. “Voluntary Wage Cuts.” Foster showed how the AF.L. and its more dangerous wing, the Muste- ites, were now being used by the bosses as &n open agency for strike breaking and strike prevention dur- ing the Wage cutting program. He cited the development of new strike breaking tactics, one of which ‘is the voluntary wage cut used in the Colo- tado coal mines, and against the hos- jery workers and West Virginia min- ers. The Musteites originated this tactic. “The bosses realize they must have the A.F.L. and the Musteites in or-— der to prevent the growth of the T.U.U.L. unions,” said Foster. “We can expect from the A.FL. conyen- tion a fight against unemployment insurance and against real relief. We can expect their official endorse- ment of the Hoover stagger plan as a “solution” for unemployment; they will express their support of the wage-cutting program, either directly or indirectly; they will prepare war against the Soviet Union.” A most relentless struggle against the Musteites must be waged, said Foster. He pointed out that the T.U. ULL. has become the only factor in ory the workers for struggle. It lead one third of the strikes in the recent period. Nevertheless, he pointed out, the T.U.U.L. strike lead- ership in no way conforms to the de- gree of radicalization of the workers. One of the greatest weaknesses of the T.U.ULL, has been its feeble partici-~ pation in strikes led by the A.F.Lé and its Musteite wing. “Win Strikes!” % “We must fight to win strikes, not | merely. to lead them,” Foster. said. In speaking of the lessons of the | strike of the 40,000 miners led by the | National Miners Union, Foster stated | that although the demands were not | won,-the strike was not lost, because it gave the miners a new tay of hape and laid the basis for the N.M.U. in the coal industry “The measure of success we have had in our strike struggles corre- sponds to the extent to which the | R.LLU, policies have been put into practice,” Foster stated. He pointed out the growth of the T.U.U.L. in membership from 8,000 to: 25,000 members in the recent struggles it has led, particularly in mining and textile industries “The T.U.U.L. is now orientated toward the heavy in- Gustries; the bulk of its membership is in the basic industries,” Foster A “Running Dog ” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED shek’s peasants, the prize “running dog” of American imperialism, and | servant of Wall Street and Stimson. This fake “socialist,” Thomas, knows full well that as between Nan- king and Japan, it is a question of a struggle between imperialist America and imperialist Japan—with war between them very near. And because Stimson acts slowly so far as open threats are concerned and pushes Nanking forward as the shock troop of Wall Street, this “socialist” re- bukes Stimson for “weakness” and demands direct war threats against Japan, “Peace must have teeth in it!” War is the logical extension of “diplomatic pressure” which Thomas demands. What is “diplomatic pressure,” if it does not mean first, a demand that Japan abide by the treaty which America itself violates in reality; a warning that unless Japan submits it will be an “unfriendly act;” the sending of warships and the placing of armed forces so that armed warfare becomes inevitable? In this “socialis’s” statement there 1s no one word of the struggle of the Chinese masses to really free China by driving out ALL imper- ialisms and their native militarist lackeys. No word of the duty of American WORKERS to demand that both America and Japan get out | of China! Only advice’to U. 8. bandits to threaten the Japanese bandits! | And in one place, Thomas writes with concern that Jajan is “stirring up ambitious generals in Manchuria.” But when.Amercia “stirred up ambitious generals in Manchuria” in 1929, to attack the Soviet frontier, THOSE generals were noble patriots to Mr. Thomas and his ilk, who then demanded that all imperialists make war to back up these “ambitious generals!” ~ For war against the Soviet Union, for the oppression and division WIR Bazaar Central . Falls for Relief of the Textile Workers) PROVIDENCE, R. I—Plans are well under way for the big bazaar and dance to be held in Central | Falls, R. I, Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 26,:27, and 28,by the Workers BE ONE> the demonstrations in Glasgow in (UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS LEAD BRITISH WORKERS IN STRUGGGLE order to fool the workers into be- | ey pressed out of the British working class fo: he bond holders, Snowden comes out openly ang International Relief. Many organizations are preparing booths, bearing their own placards, haying their own selling committees ete. The Young Communist League | of Providence has informed the W. I. °€- | says that at this time there must bq WAS! no attack on the capitalist system, | He demands that the workers accept The London correspondent of the| the attack on them by the British New York Post writes that the Un-| capitalists class without any resiste émployed Movement has 200,000! ance. He stated this in the Hous¢ members who pay @ penny, or two} of Commons as*follows: lieving that the Labor Party with them in their struggle. R. that their booth will seek books | cents a week dues. The headquart- and literature. Organzations already | ers is in Bloomsbury and there are busy preparing booths are the Pro-| 48 districts thruout, Great Britain vidence Unit, Pawtucket Unit of the | primarily in the. industrial centers. Communist Party; the Y. C. L. units| The Post writes that Hannington in Central Falls, Pawtucket and Pr8- | one of the leaders of the Unemploy- vidence; the Providence Branch I.|ed Movement, has been a Commu- W. ©.; the strike and organizations | nist for many years, and a militant committee of the General Fabrcis| trade unionist ever since the war) Mill; the Russian Workers Club; the | days when he was a shop steward. “T’m sorry to say that I cannot put into this finance bill proposals for the abolition of capitalism. Vl leave that to somebody else, but I will tell you now that any cata- strophic attempt to abolish capi- talism will bring far greater dis- aster to the people than that un- der which they are suffering now.” The capitalist class itself points | Union and the W. I. R. | neglected.” of (hina, for robbery of the Chinese masses, for war on all enemies of Wall Street, the American “socialist” party is the “running dog” of American imperialism! REVIEW ANTI-SOVIET FORCE; "LAVAL SEEKS ALLTANCES CCONTINE HOM PAGH ONE) crisis, The robber powers are faced with growing sharp conflicts that bring war on the order of the day. They are getting together with a view of postponing their own armed clash by uniting to attack the com- mon enemy, the Soviet Union. That the imperialist powers, after these visits in Paris, and later with loose organizational methods; incor- rect united front policies; insuffi- | cient work in the old unions; failure | to link the struggles of the employed and unemployed; insufficient work among the Negro workers, youth and women, “We are emerging from the purely agitational stage to the building of mass unions for struggles against the attacks on the“workers. We must sys- tematically begin a real orientation | towards the shops; we must conduct | a militant recruitment campaign; we must devote real attention to our concentrations; we must not relax our efforts in the coal industry; we! must lay the basis for a powerful | Steel Workers Industrial Union; the | railroad -workers must no longer be Good Partiah Demands. Jack Stachel, assistant secretary of the T.U.ULL.,..reported on.the organ- izational problems. ‘“‘We must over- come our Weakness in the formulas tion of partial demands,” he said. “Whatever success we had in our strike struggles came only where this was done. It is necessary for us to lay our basis in the shops. Be- cause of failure to do this, we could not €all the steel workers on strike when the wage cuts were made. “The reason for the lack of work fn the sohps is because we have only spoken of it in a genefal way.. We havé not told the workers how to organize in the shops, Shop Branch Frist “What must be the form of or- ganization in the shops? The basic form of our unions is the shop/| branch, which must be the leader in developing the united front of the workers for struggle. In the critical stage, this united front takes the form of grievance committee. These lay the basis for the shop committees. In many cases a tran- sitional form on a territoriay basis may be necessary. The next higher form is the losal organization, re- presenting all the factories in the particular industry in that locality. Then comes the district organization and finally the national. “We must develop the system of delegates from the factories as-the link between the shop. organization and the local organization, We must raise demands which can mobilize the workers for struggle, We must use the local demands as a starting point for a general movement. We have had many weaknesses in the devolopment of the united front; we haya made the mistake of hiding the face of the union in the united front. The united front must be a means of developing struggles and through the struggles we build our unions. ‘We must properly combine the Unit- ed Front, our unions and the work in the old unions.” Autos’ and Railroads John Schmies reported for the | Auto Workers Union, telling of \ 3°) cuts and huge lay offs and the union’s work based on these. | Oito” Wangerin, secre! National *Rallroad Worl trial League told of the deve of its program beced on matio: To demands; of plans for céneen- tration'in the main railroad center: the bullding of 1dof1 grievance com~- mittees, etc. The railroad worke are facing wage cuts, and will Tigh them, Greorge Mink, reporting on the marine industry, told of the prepara- | tions for war there. The marine | workers have struck despite the In- | ternational Longshoremen's Associa- | tion. The Negroes have been in the forefront of the main struggle as in | New Orleans, The Marine Workers” Industrial Union led and won the | strike of the Stockton, Cal,, rivermen. Steel Situation | John Meldon, secretary of the ?fe- tal Workers Industrial Union, repor!- ed on the steel industry. The sicci workers are more receptive to # call” said. “The basic weaknesses are: in- for organization than at any time =~ Jutigent onentation. the abops; singe 3018, Our. conference last | will consider what can be‘done to | the Wall Street representatives in Washington, will endeavor to take a sweeping step such as war against the Soviet Union in an attempt to | overcome the capitalist crisis, is shown by the following quotation from the-New York Times: “Instead of concerning them- selves with the danger of the col- lapse of one country, the ministers | prevent a world collapse.” Though in this connection they talk about the question of “disarma- | recruiting booths for membership. A | | Main Street, Pawtucket, Oct. 10 to| | elect one member to this committee. | do this, they will institute the fascist Polish Sick & Death Benefit Society and many more. The National Textile Workers will have pageant will be given by the W. I. R. culture group, and many other in- teresting performantés, some novel- ties, dancing etc., are on the program for the three days of revelry. All workers’ organizations are urged to begin work immediately tq have their own booth. The Enlarged | Bazaar Committee will meet Sunday | morning 10 a. m., Room 109, 150 The fall of the Brinish pound in| out that the “opposition” of the La« the New York markets has been | bor Party is a hypocritical one. The ascribed directly, to the fear of the| free trade demands of the Labor United States capitalists of the| party are not sincere but are part spreading of the demonstrations of the masses in Great Britain. | ‘W. P. Simms, foreign editor of th Scripps-Howard papers, writes that of if the MacDonald is forced out power the capitalist class might @ “Blue shirt, or Fascist dictato ship” into power. | The plan of the present National government is to get open dictator- | ship authority through the coming elections if possible. If they cannot | dictatorship without benefit of Par- of the attack of the British capital- ist class on the working masses. The Labor Party is playing at opposition in order’ to let the fascist decrees-of the capitalist class go into efftv without any open resistance of the | workers. The New York Times re- ports this as follows: “So the only party with any strength now bearing the free- trade banner aloft is the Labor or- ganiaztion,. But that is a political accident. Labor is for free trade not, because it believes in it bat | All proceeds will go for the relief of | the textile strikers, | |the war machinery of Wall Stret has | 8&8 follows: aroused talk throughout Europe of | the preparations for a new war, has | just completed military reviews of | the leading armies being arrayed for | an attack against the Soviet Union. In France, General MacArthur was | greeted with open arms, secret con- | ferences being held on military ques- | tions. Impressive “military parades | ment,” the matter of war debts, the | problems of an international finance | conference, an examination pf the | sharpening crisis of capitalism shows | that this talk cannot solve the basic | crisis, nor is there any question of | “disarmament” involved. Each capi- | talist power is arming against the | other. The aim is now to unite these arms against the main enemy, the Soviet Union. For this purpose, after | consulting with the British, Laval were staged for MacArthur's benefit | and in demonstration of the unity of | aims of French and American imper- | ialism against the Soviet Union. | A glance at the route of the head | of the United States army shows that he visited only those countries which form the ring of French imperialist buffer states against the Soviet Union. Even the capitalist press in | the United States, as well as in Europe, evinced surprise at the mili- will leave for a visit to Hoover. Coupled with the diplomatic bick- erings there are the actual military | steps. | The “supreme active head of the | United States army” has just left | France after one of the most open military preparations for war against the Soviet Union. General Douglas MacArthur, whose high position in | week showed a great militancy. It is probable that strikes will start against the wage cuts on the next | pay day. | “In Mansfield, Ohio, scene of the | first steel strige since 1919, the work- | ers are joining the,N. W. I. L. | “In the building of a Steel Work- | ers Industrial Union, the concen-| trations in the main steel districts | will be made. These are: Pittsburgh, | Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia and Buffalo. “We will immediately begin to or- ganize Committees of Action to carry the steel campaign into the mills. | Shock squads are playing a big role, with blacklisted miners helping. Our | chief weaknesses have been little work among the Negro steel work- ers and the unemployed. We are calling districts conferences as a follow up to our recent big Pitts- burgh conference.” The Miners Frank Borich, national secretary of the National Miners Union, report- ed: “The N.M.U. is now a national union in actuality. It has 8,000 mem- bers in Kentucky. It has 20 func- tioning locals in Western Pennsyl- vania and 90 per cent of the West Virginia miners are looking to the NM.U. for leadership.” Haywood reported on the Negro work, and Minerich on work among the Youth. Organization of the sessions and reports took up most of the first day of the National Execuftve Committee meeting. The delegatés had before them a lengthy draft resolution co- vering all the, more important tasks of the TUUL for discussion, amend- ment and final adoption. The deci- sions on this will be printed soon. | eons and banquets, have aroused | widespread comment as placing the tary significance of so high an of- ficer ‘taking what is considered a direct step for a war alliance. A cable from Paris to the “New York ‘Evening Post says: “While it is the accepted custom of governments to have military observers of friendly powers pres- ent at army maneuvers, these ob- servers invariably are military at- tacles of the embassies and not holders of such exalted positions as chief of staff. - “The attendance of Gencral Mac- Arthur at the French maneuvers, and also his going into the allied country of Jugoslavia and being shown in photographs along with their displays of military prowess, as well as his attending a succes- sion of exclusively military lunch- American people in. the wrong light in European eyes.” What the New York Evening Post complains about is the crudeness with which the pacifist phrases of Wall Street are exposed by the direct, military action of the responsible head of the United States army. MacArthur's trip, says the Post, “conveys the intimation by sugges- tion to the vast European audience that the United States is allied with the military adventure of Europe.” And this “military adventure,” they falf to add, is directed against the Soviet: Union. ’ Through all these means the capi- talists are preparing for a new| slaughter—to slaughter the workers | in the irhperialist lands in an effort | to crush the victorious workers of the | Soviet Union. * | Every worker here can see how the | capitalists direct their attacks against | the workers, not only in the Soviet Union, but on the job and on the bread line. Mass wage cuts, to save | theebosses’ profits, and mass hunger; | so that the rich will not have to) spend any of their wealth for un-| employment relief. Smash the hunger system which through war preparations now is seeking to crush the workers in 'the Soviet Union and to inflict *more misery upon the Américan’ workers! jrate from 5 percent to either 3 or | terest | mine). | contribute regularly from their wages Hament, The New York Times re- ports this.plan of the government mainly because the Conservatives are for protection. Trade unions 4which now dominate the Labor Party are very largely won over to a tariff. Arthur Henderson, new Labor leader, says himself he would rather balance the budget by means of a revenue tariff than by unem- ployment insurance euts.” | While Henderson states that he | woulr rather have a tariff than cuts in the dole, he agrees to these cuts when he was a member of the La- bor government with MacDonald. The National government, the Labor Party, and the left wing in the La- bor Party are united in the attack n the working class athrough they are playing theiy separate roles in this att: MacDonald, Henderson and McGovern are all enemies of the working class of Great Britain which showed its antagonism to the attack in militant street de: rations embracing tens of thousands of workers. “It is the plan of the Cabinet of Cooperation to plac ebefore the | voters a national union program, the success of which would\ mean pretty much carte blanche to a Cabinet similar to that new in pow- er to take measures to remedy the fiscal and economic situation in which Great Britain finds herself.” The latest news of the conversion plan of Snowden shows clearly that it means practically no cost to the capitalist class. The plan, when it goes into effect, will mean that to billion pounds’ of the British natio debt will be reduced in its interest 344 percent. The total debt of Great Britain, however, is thirty five bil- lions pounds, and on thirty three. million pounds of this there will be absolutely no reduction in the in- charges which are being Kentucky Miners Are Out; Fight Burial Swindle {CONTINUED FROM F Miners Union. Relief! Relief is an immediate problem. If these miners had not had truck gar- dens, they would be starved out now. “I have learned that many of the miners here are starving, but they are such a damned good bunch they don’t make a squack.” an organizer writes. “They aré driven to the ex- treme and they are willing to die |fighting— and these aren't mere words. “They have such an intense feeling about the union—they now in the National Miners Union is their only hope for life.” Relief must be sent into the strike zone tomorrow. There is an excellent chance of winning demands that they will present to Little and Son Mon- day. The Penn-Ohio-W. Virginia~-Ken- tucky Striking Miners Relief Com- mittee and the Workers International Relief pledges to stand behind these strikers and help them win by send- ing food—the most necessary ammu- nition. To do this the committee needs funds. Do your share! The need is immediate. Go out now and collect all you can and rush it, spe- cial delivery mail, to Room 205, 611 |Penn Ave., Pittsburgh,~Pa. GE UNED meeting to demonstrate their sym-_ pathy and encouragement. After ‘long months of starvation | wages, living in a prison-like min- ing camp and intensely difficult working conditions, it took only a spark for the strike to flame forth. | Burial Swindle The strike was precipitated when @ new burial committee was being elected at the Little and Son Caro- line mine (sometimes called the Boss The miners are forced to and the funds are supposed to be used to pay for the funerals for the members of their families. ‘The boss’s son was treasurer of the committee. Then the strike broke loose and soon broadened to includ? | everyone of the 200 miners in the pit. Strike Committee Immediately they elected a relief committee. At the Wednesday meet- ing, a strike committee of 15 was elected which was instructed to draw up a scale of wage demands. The | Coleman. miners requested and were | Bedacht to Speak in Omaha On ¢ October 6 OMAHA, Neb.—A mass meeting by | granted representation on this com-| the branch, No. 126 of the Inter- mittee since conditions in both mines | ational Workers Order will be held are very similar—the vein of coal is | when Comrade Max Bedacht will the same. ! lecture on the Five Year Plan of ‘The Coleman miners called a meet- | Socialism and the Chaos of Cap- ing where the wage scale was pre- | italism. ‘sented and adopted. The strike broke| The lecture will take place at the out. | Swedish Auditorium, 1611 Chicage It is very probable that ‘the strike | Street, Oct. 6, at 815 p.m. This @ will spread within the next few days | the first time in several years that to the Cary mine and then on to the | such a lecture has been delivered bY other mines on both sides of the fork.|@ leader of the working-class ft Already the Cary mine is about 70!Omaha. Admission is 25 cents. Ut per cent organized into the National ployed workers free. = ONLY ONE MORE WEEKS LEFT TO THE Daily Worker 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 Morning Freiheit Young Worker “3 ‘ ” SRO SRNR RUE INEE SNE NUNN MORIN EB