The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1931, Page 3

n> .”. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931 - —— Organization Plan of the National Hunger March to Washington, Dec. 7,1931 H bee task of the National Hunger March is to mobilize masses of un- employed and part-time workers in the struggle against unemploy- ment, to expose the misery and starvation in the United States, and to link up the struggle of the unemployed with the employed for their mutual demands. The Hunger Marchers will present to Congress de- mands for unemployment insurance and immediate winter relief and other demands, as stated in the Call for the National Hunger March issued by the Unemployed Councils. It will present to the government the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, sponsored by the Unemployed Councils and the TUUL, and will organize mass support behind this Bill. The Hunger March must be carried through on the basis of de- veloping the struggles for local demands through local Hunger Marches, demonstrations for immediate relief and unemployment insurance, against evictions, etc. The Hunger March and the preliminary preparations shall serve as a stimulus for the building and strengthening of the Unem- ployed Councils, in the cities where the delegations start from, the cities along the routes, and in other parts of the country. Into the Hunger March and its attendant demonstrations must be drawn especially AFL unions, workers’ fraternal organizations, ex-servicemen’s leagues, organ- izations of poor farmers, etc. The preparations for the Hunger March must be utilized to make an organized exposure of the starvation condi- tions of the workers and poor farmers, and to unmask the fake relief measures of the government, the employers, the Pinchots and Murphys, the AFL leaders and the Socialist Party. Preparations of the National Hunger March. The preparations for the National Hunger March must be based upon the following mass activities led by the Unemployed Councils. 1. The organization of local, city and county Hunger Marches and demonstrations for local relief. 2. Public hearings to expose the starvation conditions among the workers. These shall be organized in the principal cities during the week of Noyember 1st to the 7th, according to the directives previously sent cut and published in the press. These hearings and their findings shall be utilized to develop the local struggles all over the country. The Hunger Marchers shall present this material to the government. 3. Intensification of the struggle against evictions, ete, the organ- ization of rent strikes and struggles against the high cost of living. 4. Mass meetings, open air demonstrations, etc., in front of shops and factories, expressing the solidarity of the unemployed workers with the employed workers in the struggle against wage cuts, lay-offs and speed-up, and drawing the employed workers into supporting the de- mands of the unemployed. 5. Organized activities in the AFL and other reformist unions, set- ting up of “Support the Hunger March” Committees in these unions and the initiation of mass activities to draw these organizations into the Hunger March and all its activities. 6 6. Increased activity among the unemployed workers in the flop houses, soup kitchens, employment agencies, etc. with special programs of demands for these categories, 7. Special attention to drawnig in the ex-servicemen, linking up their demands for full payment of the bonus and penetrating into the rank and file of the veterans’ organizations for the support of our program. \ 8. Organization of mass activities to compel respective Congressmen and other government officials to expose their stand on unemployment and upon the workers’ demands. §. Special efforts to draw in women, youth and Negro workers, and organizing the fight for their demands, paying special attention to the struggle against Jim Crowism, discrimination in relief, for the re- lease of the Scottsboro boys, etc. 10. In view of the activities of the WIR in supporting the struggles of the unemployed workers, all workers and workers’ organizations are called upon to build the W. I. R. In all these activities and preparations for the Hunger March, there must be systematically compared the starvation conditions of the workers in the U. 8. with the rising standards of the workers in the Soviet Union, and the workers mobilized in defense of the Soviet Union, Organized campaign for building unemployed councils, based upon neighborhood branches, block committees, breadline committees, flop house committees, etc. in all industrial communities, Composition of the Hunger March. ‘The National Hunger March shall be composed of approximately 1,200 marchers, organized and disciplined, elected as delegates by big masses of unemployed and employed workers. The election of the Marchers shall be preceded by a whole series of local activities and struggles. The Hunger March organization. will assume responsibility for road accommo- dations only for the regularly elected Marchers. Because of distance and weather, the Hunger March will proceed. by trucks, or autos where trucks are unavailable. The Marchers will go afoot through all important towns along the routes. The following table will show the approximate quotas of Marchers assigned to the various localities. Changes in these quotas may be ar- ranged in consultation with the Unemployed Councils Committee for the National Hunger March. ‘The quotas assigned to the various cities shall include Marchers from the surrounding small towns not here specified. Seattle, Portland 5 “1 auto Columbus 10.1 truck Dakotas 5 Lauto Johnstown 10 1 truck Los Angeles 5 1 auto Rochester 101 truck San Francisco 5 1 auto Syracuse 101 truck | Upper Michigan 5 Lauto Binghamton 10 1 truck Denver 5 1 auto Akron-Canton~- Oklahoma 5 1 auto Youngstown 20 2 trucks Greensboro, N. C. 5 1 auto Anthracite 20 = 2 trucks Birmingham 5 1 auto East Ohio-W. Va. 30 3 trucks Charlotte 5 lauto-| New Haven 30 = (3 trucks Kansas City-Omaha 10 1 truck Buffalo 40 = 3 trucks Kentucky 10 1 truck Detroit 4004 trucks Minneapolis-St. Chicago 50 4 trucks Paul 10 1 truck Cleveland 50 4 trucks Milwaukee 101 truck Pittsburgh 50 4 trucks St. Louis-So. Boston. 50 4 trucks Tilinois 101 truck Baltimore 100-7 trucks Indianapolis 10 1 truck Philadelphia, 200 «15 trucks Cincinnati 10 1 truck New York 300 = 20 trucks DIRECTIVES ISSUED BY THE UNEM THE NATIONAL PLOYED COUNCILS COMMITTEE FOR HUNGER MARCH PREPARATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH— COMPOSITION OF THE HUNGER MARCH—ELECTION OF —MEETINGS AND DEMONSTRATIONS DISCIPLINE OF THE MARCH—FEEDIN THE MARCHERS— FACILITIES FOR T ING AND FEEDING ACCOMMODATION TURN JOURNEY OF THE HUNGER MARCHERS— AGITATIONAL MATERIAL MARCHERS—ROUTES OF THE MARCH ON THE ROAD—ORGANIZATIONS AND G OF THE MARCHERS—HOUSING OF HE MARCHERS—NUMBER OF SLEEP- S FOR NIGHT STOP-OVER POINTS—RE- FINANCING THE MARCH Election of Marchers. ‘The marchers shall be regularly elected from broad local confernces of Unemployed Councils, revolutionary unions and shop groups, A. F. of L, unions, fraternal organizations, ex-servicemen’s leagues, etc., called by the local Unemployed Councils, The marchers so elected shall be ratified by mass meetings of workers in the neighborhoods and centers. We must aim to draw in the greatest possible masses of workers in the election of the marchers: 1, The Unemployed Councils shall call the local conferences to elect the marchers not later than Nov. 22, with the’conferences in the far western points organized correspondingly earlier to permit of earlier start- ing dates, 2. At these conferences the participating organizations shall present, their nominees for the march, approved at the meetings of the organiza- tions, out of whom the local conference shall elect the quota for the particular locality. The selection of these nominees by the various Un- employed Councils, trade unions, ete., should be made the occasion of big mass meetings in the various organizations and localities for the support of the Hunger March and the unemployed struggles generally. 3. Following these conferences, and before the starting dates, neigh- borhood and general mass meetings shall be called to ratify the eletcion of the marchers, In electing marchers to the National Hunger March to Washington, special attention must be given to (a) the drawing in of Negro, women and youth, (b) the activity of the respective marchers in the struggle of the unemployed, (c) the age and ability of the marchers to stand the strain of the march, (d) the inclusion of part-time workers among the marchers, (e) special attention shall be paid to securing workers from the basic industries, Routes of the Mareh. The National Hunger March shall proceed in four main columns. Column 1: Starting at Boston and proceeding via New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Column 2: Starting from Buffalo and proceeding via Rochester, Syracuse, Binghamton, Scranton, Allentown and joining with Colunmn 1 at Philadelphia. Column 3: Starting from Chicago and proceeding via Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Youngstown and Pittsburgh to Washington. Column 4; Starting at St. Louis and proceeding via Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Wheeling and joining Column 3 at Pittsburgh. Marchers from points west of St, Louis and Chicago will leave their respective cities in due time to arrive in Chicago and St. Louis by the starting date from these points. Dates of departures and stopovers of the columns: Column 1, will leave Boston Dec, 1 at 7 a.m, making the following night stopovers: Betwen Boston and New Haven, town to be designated, Dec. 1; New Haven, Dec. 2; New York, Dec. 3; Philadelphia, Dec. 4; Baltimore, Dec. 5; arriving Washington, Dec. 6. Column 2 will leave Buffalo Nov, 29 at 7 a.m., making the following night stopovers: Rochester, Nov. 29; Byracuse, Nov. 30; Binghamton, Dec. 1; Scranton, Dec. 2; Allentown, Dec. 3; Philadelphia, Dec. 4; Baltimore, Dec. 5, arriving Washington, Dec. 6. Column 3 will leave Chicago Nov. 29 at 7 a.m., making the following night stopovers: Kalamazoo, Nov. 29; Detroit, Nov. 30; Toledo, Dec: 1; Cleveland, Dec. 2; Youngstown, Dec. 3; Pittsburgh, Dec. 4, and a point to be decided on between Pittsburgh and Washington, Dec. 5, arriving Washington, Dec. 6. Column 4 will leave St. Louis Nov. 20 at '7 a.m., making the following night stopovers: Between St. Louis and Indianapolis, point to be de- cided, Nov. 29; Indianapolis, Nov. 30; Cincinnati, Dec. 1; Columbus, Dec. 2; Wheeling, Dec. 3, arriving in Pittsburgh on Dec. 4, and proceeding with Column 3 to Washington. ‘The exact road routes will be furnished in special maps by the Na- tional Hunger March Committee. ; , Meetings and Demonstrations on the Road. The National Hunger March must be made the occasion for gigantic demonstrations of the workers, at the starting points, along the routes, other localities and in Washington. These demonstrations must be well prepared by the local organizations on the following basis: \ 1, At the main starting points of Boston, Buffalo, Chicago and St. Louis the send-off demonstrations shall be held the night previous to the departure of the marchers. 2. At the night stopover points along the routes, as established above, the mass meetings shall take place on the night of the stopover. 3. In the non-stopover cities, the workers shall be mobilized by the local Unemployed Councils and committees, through leaflets and prelim- inary mass meetings, to await the marchers at the main square, or at the city limits, and wherever possible short speeches shall be made with- out delaying the schedule of the march. In all these cities, resolutions should be presented in the name of the workers in support of the march and the demands, Wherever possible, the workers shall accompany the marchers to the city limits. 4, In Washington on the evening of Dec. 6 there shall be a National Unemployed Conference held, and a big mass meeting of the workers to welcome the marchers. 5. On Dec. 7 the marchers will present the demands of the unem- ployed to the President of the United States, the Senate and the House of Representatives, supported by a demonstration. 6. In all the demonstrations, and along the routes, there must be a widespread distribution of pamphlets, leaflets, Labor Unity, the Daily Worker, etc. Special preparations must be made by each delegation tor mass sale of the 2-cent pamphlet on Unemployment Insurance Relief. Organization and Discipline of the March. The National Hunger Marchers must be thoroughly organized and disciplined. For this purpose the following regulations shall be applied: 1. National Organization, The executive of the New York Unem- ployed Councils, as authorized by the signatories of the Hunger March Call, have elected a committee of 5, who, together with representatives of the Trade Union Unity League and Workers International Relief Na- tional Bureaus, shall compose the National Committee for the Hunger March and shall prepare all the general arrangements. The National Hunger March is carried out nationally and locally under the auspices ot the Unemployed Councils, in co-operation with the T.U.U.L. and W.LR. 2. Local Organization. United Front Hungar March Committees shall be organized in localities all over the country, under the general auspices of the Unemployed Councils. These shall consist of the Execu- tive Committee of the Unemployed Council, together with representatives of the T.U.U.L, and W.LR., A. F. of L. unions and other workers’ organ- izations. The functions of these committees shall be as follows: They will organize all preparations and local activities, such as con- ferences, demonstrations, etc. They shall supervise the election of march- ers from their locality, make all necessary arrangements regarding trucks, housing, feeding, etc. They shall initiate financal campaigns for the Hunger March. They shall systematically set up Unemployed Councils in their localities and do follow-up work at the conclusion of the march. These local committees shall elect the folowing sub-committees to carry on the different phases of the work: (a) finance committee, (b) feeding and housing committee (c) route committee. 3. Column Organization. (a) Each marcher shall receive an arm band, issued by the National Committee, with the following inscription: “National Hunger March, Dec. 7, 1931.” This must be worn at all times during the march. (b) The unit of organization shall be the individual auto or truck. Each truck or auto shall elect its captain. (ce) The trucks shall be organized according to districts. Each truck shall be consecutively numbered, also indicating the district to which the truck belongs. The truck captains shall compose the leading committee of the district division. They shall elect a captain and an assistant, the assistant always to remain with the division. The captains, of the district divisions shall compose the leading committee of the column, This lead- ing committee shall in turn elect a captain of the column. These various committees shall hold daily meetings to consider the problems and trans- mit decisions to the units. (d) Where two columns merge (at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh) the leading committees become a joint committee and a captain for the com- bined columns shall be elected in the same manner. (e) Special scout cars shall be organized to work ahead of the col - umns and to pick up stragglers. (f) A medical squad shall accompany each column, the organization of these medical squads to be worked out by the local W. I. R., in con- Sultation with the center. 4 (g) St. Louis, Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Detroit are responsible to secure good automobile mechanics among the marchers for their respective columns. These mechanics shall see to it that all cars are in good condition before joining and during the march. (h) Complete registration shall be made of all marchers, the Na- tional Committee will furnish blanks and the respective district -division captains shall be responsible for the registration. @) Special attention must be given to the organization of defense squads in the Hunger March. Every district division shall organize a defense squad, which shall be under the leadership of the district division captain. Feeding of the Marchers. | 1, At the night stopover points the local committee is responsible to | provide hot meals for all the marchers in the evening and breakfast_in the morning, served in popular workers’ halls, 2, Betwen night stopover points the district divisions are responsibie March, under direction of the respective column committees. 3. The local committees shall carry on an intensive campaign for a a SS NCC of the Reichstag 50 police were as- sembled, with military tent telephone stations set up at strategic points. Inside the police were also regimented by the score. At each doorway there were @ dozen policemen. For three blocks around the Reichstag building the streéts were cut off and passerby were forced to go through three cor- PUSH FASCIST PROGRAM IN GERMANY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) clamored for an explanation of the joint secrets between Bruening and the Nationalists. Ignoring the inter- Tuptions, Bruening declared his aims were not fundamentally different from the National opposition, but that his methods, however, were dif- ferent. Bruening stated that he advanced gradually without catastrophe, whilst the National policy was calculated to forge the workers into a united front. “Was it not an extraordinary fact that despite the radical wage cuts, there had not been a single strike of any importance,” Bruening asked. The immediate cause of the German crisis, he said, was the lavish taking up of short term credits, He stated that it was impossible to raise the reparations question previously because this would have meant the dons of police. At the very opening of the session the Communist deputies interrupted the session to demand that the police forces of the Bruening government be withdrawn. The motion was voted down by the capitalist parties. Inflation Under Way ‘The Bruening government has been unable to deny the truth of the charges and has therefore gone to the extent of stating that they were already known but that their sum- ming up now was bad tactics. A statement “inspired” by Dr: Hans Luther, now president of the Reichs- bank, openly admits that “a certain | Proportion of the Reighsbank's dis- counts are not based on business transactions discounted by banks in order to obtain cash.” This means that the Bruening government has already started out on the policy of inflation. Betsy Ross, Great Granddaughter of Colonial Heroine, Starving in Canton {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONW> logs in Chattanooga, ‘Tenn. War that I with my brothers and) “And do you know, my “friend” and the rising revolutionary masses ° jof China 4s bei dertaken, Fear China Masses): cx: x5 sere Will T N| h t New York Times and Manchester um aug er little doubt. From the League of ee | Nations itself comes proof that talk Into a Civil W @Y | 220% directing the fire against the Guardian already show this beyond Soviet Union runs through all the secret maneuvers. A New York} | for the feeding of their respective marchers throughout the entire Hunger | the collection of food supplies for the local meals and for the marchers while on the road. The W. I. R. will be directly in connection with the local ce Housing of the Marchers. charge of local feedir ees. arrangements, In each city where night stopovers are madé the local committees are responsible to provide sleeping accommodations for the entire body of marchers. These accommodations shall be secured by ) demands upon the city gove! nt to lodg to chers, with pro- visions that no jails shall be accepted s to be supported by mass pressure ahd mass demor of all nearby working-class halls giving these halls for lodging accommodations made on A. F. of L. halls. Full housing arrangements must be co leted two days in advance of the arrival of the marchers and a full list of the housing accommoda- tions presented to the captain of the column immediately upon the ar- rival of the marchers. No splitting of the marchers by Jim Crow prac- tices shall be permitted. Facilities for the Marchers. In organizing the district delegations of marchers, conditions of weather must be borne in mind. Each local committee is responsible to see to it that each delegate is supplied h sufficient clothes and blankets and that arrangements be made to protect the marchers against rain while in trucks. Number of Feeding and Sleeping Accommodations for Night Stopover Points, The local committees in the following cities shall start immediately | to prepare for feeding and sleeping accommodations for approximately | the following number of marchers for the specified dates, coming in from other points be made file for (c) special demands to be Column 1. Column 3. * New Haven, 50 marchers....Dec, 2 | Chicago, 50 marek . He eRe aiecia a “* | Kalamazoo, 100 marchers By New York, 80 marchers....Dec. 3 | netroit, 100 marchers......Nov. 30 Philadelphia, 475 marchers. .Dec. 4 | Toledo, 140 marchers..--....Dec. 1 | Baltimore, 675 marchers.....Dec. 5 | Cleveland, 150 marchers....Dec. 2 Youngstown, 200 marchers. ..Dec. 8 | Column 2. Pittsburgh, 350 marchers Dec. 4 Rochestgr, 40 marchers. ... .Noy. 29 Column 4. Syracuse, 50 marchers......Nov. 30 | i Houis. 05 marchers... Nov. 28 ee ¢ ndianapolis, marchers ; | Binghamton, 60 marchers....Dec.1 | Cincinnati, 45 marchers.....Dee. 1 | Scranton, 70 marchers Dec. 2 | Columbus, 55 marchers......Dec. 2 | Allentown, 90 marchers. Dec. 3 Wheeling, 65 marchers. Dec. 3 The night stopovers between Boston and New Haven and between St. | Louis and Indianapolis will be decided upon later. Return Journey of the Hunger Marchers. The Hunger Marchers will return to their respective localities in the same order and discipline as in the march to Washington. They shall make the same night stopover points all along the four routes and at the stopover points they shall speak at mass meetings of workers to report on the events in Washington. ‘The local committees are responsible for o ng these mass meet- ings and for arranging feeding and sleeping mmodations upon ex- actly the same basis as when the marchers passed through to Washing- ton. The marchers will organize to leave Washington on Dec. 7. The National Committee will work out the dates when they will arrive at the various stopover points Agitational Material. The National Hunger March must be made the occasion for the dis- tribution of many hundreds of thousands of pieces of working-class lit- erature among the masses of workers. This distribution must take place at all the mass demonstrations, the mar rs taki along the necessary | quantities of literature. Special pamphlets, etc., will be prepared by the National Committee. Financing the March. The National Hunger March shall be financed according to the fol- lowing general plan: 1, A national campaign for funds shall be initiated, under the aus- pices of the Unemployed Councils and the W. I. R. The respective local committees shall raise these funds by involving the unemployed and em- ployed workers, from trade unions and all other workers’ organizations, etc. 2. Each district must provide its delegation of marchers with suffi- | cient funds to cover the cost of gasoline, oil and auto repairs to and from Washington. 3. Detailed plans wil’ be sent to the various local committees re- garding the allocation <7 the funds collected, together with blanks, quotas and material for th« collection of the funds Uneraployed Councils Committee for the National Hunger March, 6 E. 19th St-. New York City. (Clip this and keep for further reference) HAMMOND LUMBER CO. SLASHES WAGES FOUR TIMES SINCE SPRING Company Hires Efficiency Expert to Speed Workers and Cut Pay Further LOS ANGELES, Cal—All the capitalist corporations cruelly exploit their workers, but the Hammond Lumber Co. of Cali- fornia is one of the most brutal of them all. It is the place where the saying is “anything can happen” to a worker—the bosses, big and little, are perfectly free in handing out wage cuts, firing, and treating the workers like dogs. Four Wage-Cuts Since Spring This great, rich company which owns ships, timber lands, ‘and sells finished and rough lumber thruout California, and employs nearly 600 men in Los Angeles yard alone (more | than that in nearby San Pedro), is now cutting and cutting the ; Wages of the Hammond workers to®———— starvation. At least four wage-cuts protected. mother were shoved into box cars like solely against the Communist Party of Germany and the masses led by it in struggle. Groener stated that, “In no country is such concen- tration of powers as necessary as it is in Germany. For none is so threatened by {he machinations of bolshevism, while on the other hand Germany has been dis- armed to an extent unparalleled in history, “I am now taking over the post of Minister of the Interior besides the Ministry of Defense. I do it with the firm intention to conduct jointly the Reich’s orgaris of en- forcement at the command of these two Ministries, to safeguard the unanimity and evenhanded justice of the executive within the whole Hoover, when he was running for president, camp to me and my hus- band personally to ask for our votes. I told him he'd get no votes from us and asked him if he hadn’t hoover- ized us to death in California. (She reefrred to the food shortage during the world war). ‘Mr. Hoover,’ I said to him, ‘I have not only patiently waited for the past sixty years for modifications in the government that never came but have carried with myself the motto, ‘Help, save my God, government and my flag.’ worked for the good of these three. ‘What have you done, Mr. Hoover, but made a lot of money stolen from the American people.’ ‘Furthermore,’ I told him, ‘I have asked you to help Mme and you refused to recognize me, did you not. But when you want votes, then you hunt me up” Times cable from Paris contains the Some of the workers have the at- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE: er following paragraph: “The rather ominous silence from Russia continues to be a source of further anxiety and there is an im- the next war, is reflected in the bickerings at the League of Nations | sessions Tuesday. The foremost capitalist politicians are taking a hand in the situation, | Briand of France assuming the chairmanship and Lerroux, the Span- ish chairman, stepping aside. Ps ‘The role of American imperialism in preparing for war is shown in its “particiation” in the League of Na- ing to see the extent of the League's intervention before taking its own decisions. If the Leaguc | finds itself sufficiently strong to | localize the conflict and eventually | bring about an evacuation of Man- | churia, it is the general opinion tion’s confab over Manchuria. The! that Russia will do nothing caleu- | Purpose ,is to lead the American | lated to aggravate the Far Eastern | workers to believe that Wall Street! situation.” desires “peace” and is using every! ‘This diplomatic language, trans- effort to maintain it. Since the! jated into everyday tanguage, means pression that Moscow is only wait- | jare going to fight have hit everyone in the place since the spring 1930, and the cuts have ranged up to 20 and even 40 percent. Some still make a little more than jhalf of what we used to get, some make less than half. Loaders who used to make $8 are down to barely $3, and were to get another cut We are desperate for organization and we aren't going to give up—we Small groups like a few of the stickermen walked out but we know we must get the workers into a strike thruout the place in or- der to paralyze the company and to win, They drive us to death in the heat | titude of looking down on the Mexz- ican workers, but of course this plays jinto the bosses’ hands in keeping us | divided. We know that all workers look alike to the boss, whether foreign born or native, old or young, so let’s act accordingly to build full solidar- ity. Most of us read a fittle sheet called |the “News.” This paper is calling for |a dictatorship in the United States as the way to help the bosses to beat down the workers. It tries to fool the |workers with stories about enslaying | China to “bring back prosperity” and stories about rich robbers turning over their fortunes of their free will to immediate withdrawal of all these credits and collapse. The solution of the economic crisis must come through an international conference at which reparations must be dis- cussed. He declared the coming win- ter would be severe but there was no immediate cause for anxiety be- cause the police were prepared for all emergencies and a sufficient sup- . Bly of potatoes, fuel and other ne- ‘The Reichstag opened today sur- seunded &e bordae af police. Oustide vontirmation of the Daily Worker's statement that the consolidation of the armed forces of Germany, the Police and the army, under the con- trol of Groener who occupies the post of Minister of the Interior and De- fense in the Bruening government, was in preparation for an open fas- cist dictatorship is contained in the statement of Groener. While the capitalist press tries to create the impression that Groener will try to suppress the fascist as well as the Communists, Groener’s own statement shows that the armed forces of Germany are to be used She tolé me that she and her hus- existing on charity and it their subsistence has recently $2.75 a week to $2.25 Bruening rations for the attack against the workers. The New York Times cor- Tespondent reports that the Socialists | about to be evicted Appeals to the can be relied on to back the Bruen-| Hoovers and others have been in ing capitalist government. vain, ' I asked her what she thought of the mutiny of the Chilean and Eng- heartily approved of them. She also asserted that if the imperialists were “The Socialists may again be ; counted on to give Dr. Bruening their support as the alternative to a dissolution and new elections.” League of Nations is lined up with Japanese imperialism, the Wall Street representatives will point to the “un- willingness” of the Wall Street com- petitors to “maintain peace” and then egg on their puppet, Chiang Kai-shek, to precipitate war, leading directly to a new world slaughter. Drive to War on Soviets. In the League of Nations an at- tempt to switch the entire conflict to an attack against the Soviet Union not afraid that their own men would turn against them, they would have long ago attacked the Soviet Union. Before we left she said, “You Com- munists are the only ones who will lead the poor to final victory. Stick to it! I'm voting Communist next month,” that the imperialists are eyeing the Soviet Union, which stands as a bul- wark against the imperialist looting, and that the exploiters realize the workers’ republic is the main ob- stacle in the path of a new world Slaughter for colonial plunder. | In Canton, China, the resentment of the Chinese masses against the murder of 12 workers and the wound- ing of 100 others who took part in an anti-imperialist demonstration is growing. There is a strike of bus workers, and many small shop keep- ers have closed up in protest, Japanese news reports tell of the feverish military activities in that country where the imperialists like- wise are determined to get their share of the booty, backing up their moves with all the military power at their command. stop the crisis. Many of us wo did not before are beginning to wake up and see, and we are learning from the stories of our striking and strug- of summer, and we stand around in cold winter whether we go to work or not. They have an “efficiency” expert (which is a nice name for a specialist in speedup and wage-cut- ting). He has been active in the mill lately and all the stickermen have been put on piece-work, along with many others. We are putting out more and getting paid less, The glue room is a hell-hole for killing men, but even outdoors, in the yard, we are worked like horses for barely over $3 a day. The young workers are put on the rottenest jobs and earn so very little that they cannot pos- sibly get married and live a natural life, so they will be some of the first to organize and fight the Hammond Co., which cuts us and bleeds us so ‘the rich owners and fat salaries are gling brother workers elsewhere, but we need the Daily Worker to give us the full facts and what they mean! We need to learn how to organize and struggle against our exploiters of the Hammond Lumber Company, Editorial Note: ~The Hammond Lumber workers should get in touch at once with the Trade Union Unity League at 755 S. Main St., Los An- geles and commence without delay to organize a broad mill committee representing the workers in the various departments to discuss the grievances, draw up demands and lay a base for struggle against the wage cuts,