The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1931, Page 3

" — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1931 (CONTINUED FROM PAGH ONE) that fully fifty per cent of the work- ers were white, For two days preceding the funeral a continuous stream of workers pas- sed before the bodies where they lay in Spiro Hall, guarded day and night by 25 Negro and white workers who teok turns in mounting guard. Day and night the workers, men and wo- men, some with children in their arms, passed in silence through the hall to pay a last tribute to these murdered fighters of the working- class. For days thousands of workers gathered in protest meetings to ex- press their indignation against the murderous hoss policy of answering the demands of the unemployed workers with bullets and gas. Workers Mareh To Funeral Hall .Marching columns of thousands of workers from five different sections ef the city converged on the funeral hall at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon. In front of the hall they were joined by fresh thousands who had arrived individyally or in small groups. In grim silence the workers massed around the huge red-draped platform erected in the center of the street. The city government, whose police had shot down Raymond and Jack- son, had been forced to cut off all traffic in the street where the fun- eral was held. All police had been withdrawn from the area of the funeral in face of the evident deter- mination of the workers to stand for no interference. The meeting was opened at one o'clock by the chairman, Herbert Newton, a Negro leader of, the work- ing class, who represented the ar- rangements committee. Representa- tives of the International Labor De- fense, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, spoke briefly, pledging the support of their organizations for the strug- gle in which Rayford and Jackson lost their lives. Maggie Jones, leader of the Number 8 Unemployed Branch te which Rayford and Jackson he- longed, called on the workers to join the Unemployed Council in mass and to stop every eviction in the city of Cleveland as a tribute tg the slain workers. She called for the inten- sification of the struggle for unem- ployment relief and for social insur- ance, to be paid for by the bosses and to be administered by commit- tees of workers. A Fight Against Starvation “This meeting today is more than a proletarian funeral,” de- clared Tom Johnson, representing Communist Party. “It is aboye. all a fighting demonstration against starvation and pauperization of the workers, against police terror- ism, and for the unbreakable soli- darity of the Negro and white workers in the struggle against the system which teok the lives of our comrades.” Phil Bart, district organize of the Communist Party, called.for a mass recruitment of thousands of Cleve- land workers into the Communist Party as a living monument to the memory of our martyred comrades, “The city government hopes to smash the militant fight of the un- employed and beat them into accept- ing starvation quietly by the shoot- ing down of unarmed workers,” Bart pointed out, further declaring, “but this brutal murder, as this meeting shows, Will not terrorize the Negro and white workers. On the contrary it has aroused the deepest indigna- tion in the hearts of tens of thou- sands of workers and inspired them to greater struggle.” For Unity Jobless and Employed Bart called for the unity of unem- ployed and employed workers in the fight against the wage slashing cam paign of the bosses, against their wa: preparations, directed especially a: the Soviet Union, and for a united fight for unemployment insurancc and for the unconditional equal rights of the Negra masses, including the right of self-determination for the Negro majorities of the Southern Black Belt, with confiscation of the land for the Negro and white work- ers who work the land. Grimly and silently the massed workers stood until the speakers con- cluded. 'Then Comrade Newton slow- ly read an impressive working class pledge to continue, until final vic- tory is won, the struggle in which Rayford and Jackson lost their lives. Thirty thousand clenched fists shot inte the air as Newton concluded and 30,000 throats roared out the words of the pledge in unison. Pledge To Continue Struggle With the mass recitation of the pledge the meeting ended, and under direction of scores of captains the workers fell into line, four abreast, for the long march to the cemetery. First came a picked guard of white and Negro workers, followed by the hearse with the hodies of the heroic dead. Behind the hearse marched tens of workers laden with the flow- ers sent by working class organiza- tions and individual workers. Then block after block the long line strung out, a sea of placards and banners with many organizations marching under their own banners. Behind the marchers came 147 cars and trucks carrying women and children. All traffic was stopped in the main streets of the south side of Cleveland through which the proces- sion passed, The marchers walked in closed ranks in silence. The best expression of the solidarity between the marchers and the tens of thou- sands of the workers who watched from the sidewalks took place as the march passed E. 55th St. and Wood- land. There a street car tried to break through the line. Immediately some 200 workers rushed from the sidewalk and surrounded the car, preventing it from moving until the procession, a mile and a half long, had passed. The same thing occur- red af another point to a police squad car which tried to break thru the procession, For More Intensive Fight! The funeral concluded with a short speech by Sandberg, secretary of the Gleveland Unemployed Councils, and a stirring appeal for the workers to join the Communist Party by Her- bert Newton, as the bodies were low- ered into the grave. Hundreds of workers filled out applications for membership in the Party. Still in silence, grim and deter- mined, the workers returned to their homes to take up on the morrow a more intense and better organized struggle against hunger and police terrorism. MINNEAPOLIS WORKERS FIGHT FOR JOBLESS RELIEF, MOONEY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED Building Trades Council has also called off its Mooney Defense Con- ference, and endorsed the I. L. D. Mooney-Harlan Defense Conference called for October 30, because they feared the rank-and-file workers would denounce them for eputting the campaign for the release Mooney and pther class war pris- oners. On Qctober 16, Friday evening, # United Front Unemployment Confer- ence will be held at 124% 8. Fourth St. to map out plans for @ City Hunger March to be held in “4 b die of November. Many A. F. of L. local unions, especially trades and railway unions, have ready endorsed the Conference voted to send delegates. al- and demanding that speakers from the Unemployed Coun- cil and the International Labor De- Tengeibe given the Cameos Wee eee e Munict) ut jum. ie Unemployed Covel and te L, D. ‘are calling upon those worke: carry banners with militant slogans, denouncing the treachery of the re- actionary A. F. of L. bureaucracy, calling for mass action as the onl, means to get bign avrg! ers, and warning them not to depend on the “militant” phrases of the “Jeft” leaders in the Building Trades Council who are trimming their sails to tie radicallization of the masses. Mass Meetings On Sunday evening, at 7 p.m., the Communist Party is celling three Mass Rallies; one at Bridge Square, Minneapolis the role that the A. 18 d nisleaders hai i d in be- hee ers hae pla against wage-cuts and unemploy- ment, and in the betrayal. of Mooney’s fight for freedom. The speakers of the Communist Party will also show the part that the “left” leaders like Walter Prank have played to keep the workers tied to the A. F, of L. and his attempt to event them from fighting under mmmunist leadership for their im- mediate demands. The role of the Trade Union Unity League, whose unions are the only ones organizing strikes against wage-cuts, will be dealt with. The rank-and-file work- ers in the A. F. of L, will have to demand an accounting from leaders like Walter Prank, to explain how he can reconcile his reyolutionary phraseology with his part in keeping the workers tied to the A. F. of L. machine. wil! Arkansas Governor Endorses Forced Labor to Pick Cotton (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEL many of these do not realize the se- tousness of the need for laborers in the fields to pick cotton and the opportunity they have of not only se- curing work, but of rendering a serv- ice to their state. Again there are those who do not care and are loiter- ing, idle, hoping that they will be supported.” ‘More than a living can be made by gathering, this splendid crop and employment offered for many weeks, and TI am appealing to the officials of the various communities to make @ complete survey, ascertain the names of those who are able and should be in the fields, and to organize and make it possible for the unemployed at this time to be busily engaged. {This crop must be gathered before stors “There is danger tn delay. “There should be no idlers, no lott- orers in the towns,” What ] Carloads of Potatees /Wait Cash for Freight Before Miners Can Eat MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 12.— Three carloads of potatoes have al- ready been shipped from here to the striking miners of Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia. The potatoes are donated by farmers, but money for freight must be raised by vorkers’ contributions. Letters and telegrams come daily snto the office here of the Workers’ international Relief, asking what to do with potatoes already collected out not shipped for lack of money for the freight. Mesaba Range work- ars report that two carloads are eady to go. They offer to supply a total of seven carloads. The W.LR. district offices at Baraga, Iron River, and Virginia, Minn., each have a car- load ready to go. Send all the money you can, all you have on hand and all you can collect, to the Workers’ International Relief, 12412 S. Fourth St., Minneap- olis, to ship these potatoes to the miners. RYAN EXPELS DOCK STRIKERS Boston Longshoremen Fight Wage Cut The capitalist press yesterday re- ported that Joseph P. Ryan, presi- dent of the International Longshore- men’s Union and Tammany politician in New York, had canceled the char- ter of Local 800 of the L.L.A. in Bos- ton, in an effort to smash the Bos- ton dock strike, Ryan gaye 2 technical excuse, that per capita had not been paid Promptly, but his lifting of the char- (er follows threats he made in Bos- ton when strikers jeered him and his orders to go back to work and accept the wage cutting. Ryan signed the union up for a wage-cut just before Oct. 1, the Bos- ton strike is in defiance of his con- tract with the employers, and his order, expelling the local, demanded that it accept the contract. ‘ Ryan also demands that his hench- man, John P, Mullen, be returned to his office as president qf Local 800. The longshoremen had kicked Mullen out when they found him betraying them. , ‘The Boston police marched in their annual parade yesterday, armed and under orders to rush to the docks if needed to attack the picket lines. : e s BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 12.—In the face of machine guns mounted on the roofs of the Commonwealth Pier, and the mobilization of hundreds of Police, Boston longshoremen have again stoned truckloads of scabs herded by the shipowners in an ef- fort to break this strike. One week ago, in another encounter with scabs, the striking longshoremen sent two Policemen and seven scabs to the hospital. ‘The members of the union are or- genizing thei picketing without the assistance of the officials. Joseph P. Ryan, president of the ILA, was practically run out of town by the workers when he backed up the pro- posals of the shipowners that the men accept @ reduction in their gangs, an unlimited draft and straight time for the dinner hour. ‘These were the same terms by which he sold out the longshoremen in New York. The renk and file mem- bers of the L.A. haye already gone to the extent at a recent member- ship meeting of calling for a disasso- ciation from the national body upon which Ryan and his henchmen haye a strangle hold, Scabs who haye been working ships at the Army Base haye already had their wages cut from $1.06 to 80 cents per hour, The Marine Workers Industrial Union has called upon all seamen to give every co-operation possible to the striking longshoremen by refus- ing to run winches or handle and check cargo, even to the extent of tying up the ship if necessary. Leaf- lets were also issued, warning the workers against allowing their de- mands to be brought up before the State Board of Arbitration and Con- cjliation ky their officials, but rather to elect @ rank and file strike com- mittee from among the workers themselves at @ general membership meeting to deal directly with the shipowners. COCKROACHES STARVE QUT BUFFALO, WN. ¥., Oct, 12—Weill over half of the small business men in certain lines fajl even in @ - perous year it was indicated by Julius Klein, sgsistant se of commerce, in @ speech to the Nat'l So Mabeia Ass'n convention at Buf- lo. One way to help the Soviet Union ts to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 19 cents per arguments against forced labor in the Soviet Union, where it does not exist, when they have to admit forced labor in the harvest fields of America! ‘ ‘The unemployed, {f they permit it, are to be used merely as slaves, help- ing to cut wages further. ‘The un- employed must organize and de- mand the right to live; must demend unemployment insurance so that the hypporlay in the capitalist | demands to Gongress at Washington. ° The Workers Can Win! THE NEXT STEP IN CLEVELAND | HE great gathering of 30,000 Negro and white workers at the grave of their murdered comrades in Cleveland Saturday was much more than a proletarian funeral. It was a concrete demonstration of the reyolu- | tionary determination of the Cleveland workers to continue the struggle | against evictions and for immediate relief in the course of which Rayford and Jackson were murdered. At the same time it was a mighty dem- | onstration against police terror and in defense of the most elementary rights of the workers—freedom of speech and assemblage. In the face of the despicable lies which filled the capitalist press that “the white Cammunists led the Negro workers into slaughter.” 15,000 white workers marched into the heart of the Negro section of Gleveland to join hands with their Negro fellow workers oyer the graves of their fatien comrades—a fighting demonstration of the unbreakable solidarity ped Negro and white workers in the sttuggle against starvation and police error. Not less important than the demonstration itself, by far the greatest that Cleveland has seen since May 1, 1917, were the events immediately preceding it. On Priday a delegation of representatives of working class organizations visited the City Hall to demand, (1) immediate release of those workers, first wounded and then arrested in the fight which cost the lives of Rayford and Jackson; (2) the withdrawal of the police sent inte the Negro section; (3) the release of all workers arrested during the day distributing leaflets calling for the mass funeral meeting; (4) an im- mediate end to the regime of police terrorism in the Negro section; (5) the right of the workers to the streets for the funeral meeting, and for the procession to the cemetery. Such was the temper of the workers, such was the extent of the mass movement, that the city government, was forced to grant these demands, wholly or in part. The wounded workers were removed from the jail to hospitals. All workers arrested for distribution of leaflets were imme- diately released. ‘Fhe Cleveland working class won the right to hold their funeral meeting for their fallen comrades on a principal thoroughfare in the Negro section and the right te a mass procession through the streets of Cleveland to the graves of their comrades. Further, at the meeting itself on Saturday, the workers forced the withdrawal of all police from an area of severgl blocks surrounding the meeting. The events in Cleveland show: (1) That through the development of a powerful mass moyement the working class can today wring political concessions from their class enemies; and (2) that in the struggle against | police terrorism it is possible by correct policies to mobilize the widest sections of the working class for militant struggle. : The workers of Cleveland must not rest content with this partial victory. It is necessary to continue on a mass scale the struggle against police terrorism, for the right of the workers to the streets, for an end to evictions of unemployed families, for immediate cash winter relief, againgt all Jim-Crow practices and against the special police terrorism directed against the Negroes. It is above all ne ta consolidate organizationally this tremen- dous elementary movement of the masses and to establish organizational as well as political leadership over these 30,000 Cleveland workers who have already shown in unmistakable terms their determination to carry on the struggle in which Rayford and Jackson lost their lives. Out of this forward movement of the Cleveland working class last Saturday must come a whole network of Block Committees of the un- | employed, uniting the Negro and white unemployed in the neighborhoods for stubhern day to day struggles for relief. The revolutionary trade unions which threw their whole support into Saturday's fighting answer to the murderous city government must, through the contacts gained at the demonstration on Saturday, penetrate the biggest shops in the Cleve- land area, particularly in the steel industry, The whole struggle against | police terrorism must be put on a firmer organizational basis. Mass de- | fense corps of Negro and white workers must be set up which will be able to protect working class meetings and demonstrations. This whole movement of 30,000 workers must be embraced organizationally by the | reyolutionary movement and the fight lifted to a higher leyel. | This now becomes the’ central task of the revolutionary moyement in Cleyeland. LINE UP WAR ALLIES IN _— MANCHURIAN WAR CRISIS sOO) TED PROM PAGE OMB of South China are cooperating with the Chinese capitalists to keep down + To Starve At Home; Doak Tells Jobless ot Go To The Cities WASHINGTON, D. ©., Oct. 12 “Do your starving at home, there are no jobs anywhere,” is the calloys ad- vice given the unemployed by Sec- | |retary of Labor Doak, i made here yesterday. Doak adds to this the lie that the cities are to care for their own un- employed, but can not take over the care of outsiders. BANK CRIS NEAR ADMITS SCHACHT M PAGE ONE> (CONTINUED F) Harzburg on Sunday. At this meet- ing the leaders of the nationalists, the national socialists (Nazis) and of the Stahl Helm (Steel Helmet) or- | ganized a united fascist front against | the German working class. This united front took the form of the organization of the “national opposi- tion.” In addition to teh leaders of these | organizetions, Hitler, | Hubenberg, | Duesterberg, Seldte and the former | Kaiser's sons, there were present “a score or more of West German in- dustrialis tleaders” (capitalists), the real chiefs o fteh fascist moyement. Hitler, in his speech, stated that | the meeting was for the purpose of | organizing the fascist hordes against | the Communisis. _ “Either Communism or national- ism must rule Germany and we are entering upon a period in which we are resolved that this chronic state must be conyerted inte an acute condition.” ‘The leaders of the fascist organ- ization used the same lies about the | role of the Bruening government that the socialists have used in their at- | tempts to deceive the German work- | ers, They tried, like the socialists, | to make the toiling masses of Ger- | ‘many belieye that there is a basic | difference between the fascist gov- ernment of Bruening and the open fascist dictatorship. While the so- cialists demagogically state that the German workers must support the | Bruening “democratic” government against fascism, the fascisti stated | that the Bruening government must} be supplanted by a government of the national opposition. ‘The German workers realize that both are conscious liars for the pur~ pose of aiding the fascist dictatorship and that the struggle is not between | the open fascist dictatorship and the | Bruening government, but between | the masses led by the Communist Party and fascism, led by Bruening, | Hitler or any other agent of the capi- talist class and supported by the so- a statement | RED BUILDERS SHOULD JOIN 4°" Page Three WITH DAILY WORKER CLUBS We~ haye received some suggestions from Red Builders’ Club. It follow "Groups of four, five or Red Builders can be formed and located in working-class distri eater New York “First, find a ‘lat. Next, locate enot 1 ‘© start with. Comra will help you if you ask them. Then get your zas stove in and get it conne: Get your dishes and food and Daily Workers and you are function. “Our group started in exactly this way, with the co-operation of just a few friends and comrades “One comrade gets the papers for the group every night, thus carfare, and also having our pape reasc (Game On Joi OuR Shocic _/ TROOP TSE DAiLy WORKERS | j —. [Com = eady for early morning delivery “Bach member of the group con- tributes equally to the expenses ar shares equally in the work. “We distribute hundreds of lets, without any extra effort folding them inside the Worker. “We hold a study circle eyery Sun- day afternoon. “Every morning we adopt slogans for the sale of the Daily Worker. As an example, our slogan for today was: “Five hundred million dollars lea simply Daily the workers.” HERE HOW. “The following is a report of sales | for the past week: Papers Received Sold Returned | Mon. - 200 200 - Tues. 250 197 53 Wed 250 176 4 Thurs. .. 250 194 56 193 By 264 36 Total... .1,500 1,224 276 This is a good plan by which the Red Builders can “get by.” BOOST | ving | But it MASS CIRCULATION 1 to the to house can- vassir e important part of the enables us to reach 1 ses who are not Further portant that the Red Bu isolate them- be members of Readers Club, assing they can actu- | D. W. Reader Clubs. It | is ary that not only Red Build- but that large functioning around a Dai orker Club, are utilized to spread the Daily and to help build up mass ¢ on. and sections should neir everyday ac- the masses with the id the Daily Worker he shows large number of sales reported x workers throughout the |country who haye been despondent | about selling the Daily Worker that it can be sold successfully if workers go about it in a determined way. Go From House to House. The fact that house-to-house sales are a very successful method of seli- |ing the Daily is shown by the fol- | lowing letter Comrade C. R. B. of Michigan | instructs us to increase his bundle | of 10 to 50 copies daily as a result | of his going from house to house. | Daily Fights for Foreign Born. | Another comrade, P. B. of Albany. N. ¥., writes that he is building up |the sales of the Daily Worker in a |for the bankers and wage-cuts for| big shop where many foreign-born workers are employed Here is a comrade who realizes that the Daily Worker, the central | organ of the Communist Party, ts | the paper which best unites all workers, both native and foreign born, in the fights of the working class—especially against the for- | eign born persecution. It is the best means of getting home to all workers that the persecution of | the foreign born, of the Negroes, | are an attack upon the working | class as a whole, and can only be combatted successfully by the re- sistance of the entire working class. KENTUCKY GOVERNOR PLANS. HUNGER; MINERS STARVE NOW (CONTINUED FROM AGE ONE) and before he struck, my husband real intent_is shown by the following in the same A. P.gdispatch: “Secretary Stimson said the American note of last Friday to the League was not at all to be inter- preted as inferring that the United policy pending action the States has adopted a hands-off League.” In Japan a war atmosphere is be- ing created, with the Japenese bosses jaring their immediate readiness to go to war to maintain their plun- der. A United Press cable from Tokyo states: ig indications that Ja- pan is pre to defy Wash- ington and the League of Nations were evident today after the pub- liegtion of Tokio's reply to the tanger note on Manchuria. tensest atmosphere was created in Government circles as the reaction of the United States and the League was awaited. ,. i “As the hour for the meeting | drew near, it appeared evident that Japan will stand her ground should active intervention in Manchuria he attempted.” : : cole Fakery Breaks Down NEW YORK.—The rift between Japanese and American imperialism over the plunder of Manchuria is breaking through the diplomatic} screen. Stimson's latest note to the League of Nations, though crammed with words about ‘cooperation, con- tains a definite threat of military | action to gain for Wall Street its share of the colony which Japan is so rapidly : foreign office is y grabbing. Japanese blankly telling Wall Strect to keep its hands off. The response in Ji to what the American capitalist news-| Where is ie to a degree unfa-~ paners tried to make appear as ‘a miliar to students of Chinese af- “peaceful” and “mild” note to Japan| !#%” gives an indication of the bitterness beneath the surface and the alarm- ing rush to war, An Associated Press to the war danger between thesp two sions of the Chinese masses, Japan’s “Aims” Further light on the drive to war in Manchuria comes from a capitalist ; Magazine writer, Upton Close, an au- | thority on Far Eastern affairs who} has just arrived in Moscow after a| two-months trip through China and Manchuria. Mr. Close said that the | situation in Manchuria “may easily | lead to a world war.” He blasted the lies about Soviet military mobiliza- | tion, the New York Times reporting him as saying: “He saw no signs of troop concen- | trations or eyen movements—as ru- mored abroad on seergl occasions— anywhere in Soviet territory.” An insight into the imperialist methods of Japan is also given by Mr. Close as quoted by the Times: “Foreigners in Mukden, Mr. Close sald, agree that the Japanese attack was premediated, unprovoked and carried out with extreme ruthless- ness with the purpose of striking | terror among the Chinese forces | everywhere, with the result that an army of 16,000 men—now increased to from 20,000 to 23,000—disarmed | and dispersed forces totalling up- ward of 250,000 in two or three days almost without loss. G “Mr. Close’s information coinsides | with opinion here that the Japanese intend to ‘colonize’ Manchuria and Inner Mongolia by means of a ‘nup- pet government’ of subservien tChi- nese. He also supports the view of the Soviet press that the situation is far grayer than is realized in the Western world and may easily lead to ‘real war,’ as the temper and pa- trlotie spirit of the Chinese every- It is because Japanese imperialism is so determinedly advancing its war for colonies in China, blocking Amer- ican imperialism in Manchuria, that robber powers is growing. Each day brings an armed clash nearer, nor are these bandits waiting for the day of hostilities to break out by an act- ual declaration of war. Both the United States and Japan are concen- trating miiltary forces in China to put “teeth” into their diplomatic notes. The smooth words of Stim- son are intended to line up the Amer- ican masses behind the “peaceful” venture of Wall Street, which will then turn out to be a war for “Amer- ican interests.” The role of the socialists in helping the imperialists prepare war under the slogans of “peace” and “coop- eration” is seen in the support of the Socialist International to the League of Nations. The League of Nations which backs Japanese imper- jalism in the war for colonies has been held up by the socialists as an the growing anti-imperialist expres- cialists—the social fascists. The Bruening government knows that the nattonal opposition is pari of the same capitalist apparatus as | itself. The New York Times reported | | the attitude of Bruening as follows: | He has already once this year sent the militia into Harlan County to break the strike of the miners. EN ran the motor for $2.50 a day. “We had to pay $4 a month for house rent, $1 a month for coal, $2 for doctor, $1. for burial fund and Story of Starvation. lights, 40 cents a drop. {with Hindenberg and which had_ “The immediate effect of the | fusion of the Hitler and Hugen- | berg forces had been discounted and government and political quar- ters are now chiefly concerned with the attitude of the middle parties, | which were not identified with to- Be flected the meeting which he had} ’ COURT OK’S THE WAGE SLASHES (CONTINUED WROM PAGE ONE) | mittees, dump the labor fakers and spread the strike to other ports Fight Yonkers Wage Cuts. YONKERS, N. Y., Oct. 12.—Wage- | cuts in the factories in this territory | are a continuous process, the Metal Re lent | Workers Industrial League points him to avoid any undue trucwlent | in a series of leaflets to the ROWE Ear e Drececdlnet: | workers in the Anaconda Wire & Against this united fascist front) Gapje Co. at Hastings on Hydson from the socialists to the national | ang in the Otis Elevator Co. at Yon- opposition, the Communist Party of | kers. A wage-cut of 1 Sper cent was Germany is rallying the German | just handed out to the wire mill de- masses. for. a. decisive. struggle—| partment of the Anaconda Wire & against fascism and against the rob- | Gaple Co., and a 30 per cent cut in ber system of hunger and misery | wages in the garage and shipping de- Whose organ it ls and for a Soviet) partment. At the same time the Republic in Germany. | workers were put on the four-day | week, getting 35 cents an hour in- CANADIAN JOBLESS TN FORCED | ctogd.of 3 Scents. LABOR ‘To comba tthe wage-cuts and or- ‘Twenty five thousand workers in| ganize the workers for struggle, the Capada will be compelled to work | Metal Workers Industrial League of in the Far North this winter under| Yonkers (P. ©. Box 131) has ar- conditions almost, equivalent to free | ranged a mass meeting Saturday at or forced labor. “Men who never saw|8 p.m. at 252 Warburton Ave. Be- the North country,” says the Herald | fore this mass meeting, at 7 o'clock, Tribune, “who never swung an ax,| there will be an open-air demonstra- who have never felt the rigors of 50/| tion against wage-cuts at Larkin below zero, will be housed in canvas- | Plaza. covered buildings with boarded walls” | In the Anaconda Wire & Cable for work on road projects. They will Co. plant four department commit- be paid $4 a week for this bitter | tees have been organized to resist the work, for which will be deducted 80| wage-cuts. ‘Though the Hastings po- cents a day for board, which will/ lice refused a permit for an open-air leave them $8.40 a week. In addition, ! meeting the Metal Workers Indus- money will be deducted for their) trial League is planning to hold winter clothes, which will be of an} meetings anyway. expensive type for the northern re- . gions. The company will no doubt} gaANSAS CITY, Kans., Oct. 12. make profit on both the board and | purther reductions in wages are en- slothes. nounced in this district (Armourdale i Oe District). Cudahy Packing Oo. have of approving the “strongband” of | —_-—9 ‘Wall Street in Manchuria. ‘The dickering of Stimson with the League of Nations is an attempt to angle for a general unity on the question of directing the fire against the Soviet Union, thus hoping by bringing on the war situation to ex- tend the drive for colonies inte So- viet territory with the alm of ulti- mately overthrowing the workers’ re- public, =; waren ARJAY, Ky.,’ Oct, 12.—“I want to write to let you know of our condi- tions here,” writes the wife of a striking miner at the Garoline mine. “There are five of us in my family been arranged by Bruening. The| meeting at Bad Harzburg was guided | by the instructions which Hitler had received from Hindenberg and was | held with the co-operation of the ruening government. The Times} correspondent reports this in the following: “It is belieyed that Hitler was still under the spell of his hour and — a quarter audience with President yon Hindenberg yesterday, at the conclusion of which the president is reported to haye admonished a —— NEW 8 PAGES 15 Cents at all Workers Bookshops and all Newsstands “My son is old enough to work but Jack Smith, the boss, wouldn’t let him work unless he took another man’s job, “We had to trade at the company’s store, for we couldn't draw any money. They sold flour $1 @ sack Meal cost 70 cents, lard 20 cents a pound—and what you would buy for one pound wouldn't season one meal. “I would have to figure a half hour each morning what to get at the store in order to have food for sup- per and breakfast. Mostly, I had te do on pinto beans and white bacon (fatback with practically no meat in it), I have two orgwing children. but they don’t remember what milk jis like. “My husband wears size 6 shoes and this summer he traded a bed- stead for a pair of size 5 and he has worn them all summer, He has had to wear them for work shoes as well as outside the mine, hurting his feet bad, or else go barefoot and not be able to rk “[ had to put my son to bed until I could wash and iron his shirt. 1 have one little boy and one little girl—neither one has winter under- wear or clothing warm enough fet winter. I have no underwear my~ self or any clothing for winter. “We will starve and beg for clothed before we will work for such @ price? Please help us now so we can win!" Funds to help the Striking Ken- tucky miners, and clothing, should be sent to the Penn.-Ohio-W. Va.-Ky. Striking Miners Relief Committee, 611 Penn Aye., Room 205, Pittsburgh, Pa., from where it is distributed to | the struck camps. slashed their wages again 1 Oper cent. Proctor and Gambles, soap plant, have reduced their wages five cents on the hour also. Griffin Wheel Works, after operating only two days a week for two years, now announce a shutdown for two weeks. Some of the work ay that the plant will be closed for 9 Odays and that it will | put 150 men out of work. The Sin- [clair Oil plant has completely shut | down and this adds to th elist of un- employed 250 men. Th ecompany’s jexcuse for this shutdown was that too high, | the city taxes were i BEGINNING WITH THE NEW OCTOBER ISSUE MASSES —— LARGER cence geet ete sensonentnennstsnt nn esnienntr ninemsn