The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1931, Page 3

ii } if Page Three DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1931 ee a — CRANBERRY STRIKERS TO ANSWER TERROR BY ORGANIZATIONA LDRIVE Bryantville Strike Ends After Bitter Fight With State Police and Armed Thugs Agricultural Workers Organizational Driv League Lauriches Big e Against Pay Cuts (By a Worker Correspondent) BRYANTVILLE, Mass.—The strikes that took place re- cently in Urann Bogs in Bryantville, Monponsitt and Plympton for 65 cents an hour ended after the most vicious police terror was used against the strikers. On the Bryantville Bog alone, over 15 state troopers heavily armed with Thompson machine guns kept anyone from reaching the workers. All roads were closely watched. Police Terror. When the gang committee at Monponsitt presented their demands to the company boss, Pratt who came with the state troopers and police, Pratt ordered the cops to “force them to work or get off the company property.” All night long the troopers guarded the roads, In Plympton the same thing took place. A worker, John Sassato, an active member of the Agricultural Workers League, was arrested and framed up on a charge of “trespassing.” The bosses worked the scheme of telling all workers who worked all year round to go to work or they would not be; hired any more. Most of the work- ers who live here depend on the cranberry industry for a living. How Strike Spread The strike was prepared and cailed by a united front committee of the Agricultural Workers League. It started with 50 Portuguese 4nd Finn- ish workers on the Bryantville-Urann | Bogs and was immediately spread over to Monponsitt and Plympton by the AWL who brought over a delega- tion of strikers to these places for a solidarity strike. The bosses told the workers that they could get plenty of pickers tor 50 cents an hour, but it took them ten days to get eight scabs. The AWL SRL RENEE RTA I SNES DFO the late berries, not to scab on the | Bryantville strikers. Every means possible was used by the bosses to trick the workers back to work. Although \the strike was smashed by the company thugs, it proved to us that the colored and| white workers will join in common struggle. This was the first strike in this section and therefore was the first time the workers came in contact | with the bosses’ trickery, machine | guns, terror. Must Build AWL The need for a strong union of | cranberry workers becomes all the} more necessary now. The AWL 1s} here to| stay, to build for future struggles. Fellow workers, men, wom- en and youth, line up into your) union, Prepare against the coming wage cuts. Fill out the application below and mail it to the Agricultural | Workers League, 751 Washington St.,| Boston, Mass. | immediately called on the pickers in that section who were waiting for State .. Bank of U.S. Refuses to Pay Depositor New York. Daily Worker: T’ve been a depositor of the defunct bank, the Bank of United States, pars of it, they wrote me several times that they are looking up the records for me. That is supposed to take weeks, it’s hard work. which has failed because of its crooked officers. As you know, all depositors were quieted with a 30 per cent pay-off several weeks ago. For some dirty reasons, the Brod- erick gang forgot about me and left me without any dividend at all. They call it a dividend, but I call it a donation to the starvation army. ‘The sum of money has been de- posited Dec. 4, that is a week before it closed its doors to the victims. Since the officers of the Southern Blvd. branch had a vivid idea of its failure, the officers found it wasn’t necessary to record the amount de- posited in the ledger to cover all clues that would be held against them. The money has been taken by Mr. Samuel H. Cohen himself, who gave me a receipt for it. That is the bank book. Since they cannot find it I had to come to this sudden conclusion that the money has been actually stolen by Mr. Samuel H. Cohen himself and the bank is not willing to make good for it. Mr. R. Finkelstein advised me that the case will soon be expedited, and that was weeks ago, so I wrote him that I'll expose the whole situation before the public eye and make clear to them that the bank was handled by crooks, I'm only demanding that which I'm entitled to, even if I have to go the limit. Since it turned out to be this way, I’m demanding the entire sum depos- ited and not any part of it, since it wasn’t a clear savings account. Thanking you in advance for your least effort to assist me, I remain, And when I recently inquired. at| comradely yours. the head offices of the bank for the William T. Heller. Metland Linseed Co. Fires Old Truckers Minneapolis, Minn. Dear Comrade: In going into the residential dis- trict selling the “Daily Worker” I met a number of men that have been working for the Metland Linseed Co., & big corporation having shops all over teh country, employing a large army of men. One of these men that I met has worked ten years for this company and now he is laid off for good. He asked the managers when he would be called back to work again, and he was told that the company is busy installing new ma- chinery and cutting out a lot of man power. ‘This company has been using a large number of men for trucking— that is, small two-wheel hand trucks used for loading cars and conveying freight. Now a conveyor is installed and all the truckers will be out of job, and so after ten years of faithful labor for this corporation the wage Slaves find themselves out of a job and no prospect to get one. ‘The mechanical process is hére to stay and unemployment is going to increase and starvation and misery for the workers will increase more and more in all capitalist countries. Soviet Russia is the only country where installment of mechanical effi- ciency in production gives increased Pay and better living standards for the workers. In the U.S.S.R. the workers’ standard of living is going up and getting bette revery day. In the United States of America and all capitalist countries the workers’ standards of living are going down and will continue to go down until the workers organi¢ and do as the workers in Soviet Russia have done, A Worker. A Crippled Laundry Worker’s Story New Haven, Conn. Daily Worker: On Saturday evening, Oct. 3, the Look at my condition.” She extended her arm. What a @ruesome sight. There was her mangled hand, or what was left of it. Every finger torn off. “How did that happen?” I asked. “I was working at the Monarch Laundry,” she replied. “I was iron- ing sheets and my hand got caught in the machine. They took me to the hospital, where they amputated all my fingers. They took a piece off my body and sewed it on my hand. That is all that is left of it.” The woman broke down. “Just think,” she sobbed, “thousands of women in New Haven with two vhands can’t get jobs. What chance have I got with one hand? Who wants me? No one, They gave me @ few hundred dollars. That is gone long ago. “I have been to all the charity organiations. They refuse to help me on some pretext or other. ‘The only relief that I can think of a agicay and I hate to think of “Say, mister, I heard that they take care of cases such as mine in Russia. Is that true?” I assured her that things were al- together different in the Soviet Union, I told her of the Communist Party of America—of its program. Her face brightened. She had some- thing to live for. A Worker, RAILROAD WAGES LESS WHILE PRODUCTION INCREASES 48% ‘While the hourly wages of the rail- road worker is the same as in 1920, the seped up on freight trains has increased shis productive capacity 48 Per cent. Though hourly wage re- mains the same, accumulated wage Per week or month is less than 1920, since the railroad companies with the approval of the Railroad Brother- hoods have put the burden of un- em] mt on the workers and the men the train and card service are losing $30 @ month each in car- tying out the stagger system of work- ing two and three days a week. ‘+ Convict 19-Year Old Miner’s Daughter For Picketing In Strike BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, Oct. 13.—Ag- nes Tankovich, 19-year-old miner’s daughter, has been convicted of “as- sault in a menacing manner.” She | was found guilty by a hand-picked | jury. She was one of the most ac- | tive on the picket lines, etc., in the | Fairpoint section, The deputy that | arersted her, who was also the star witness, when asked why he left the mines to take the job of a deputy, answered that there was more money in it. Agnes will be sentenced by Judge H, Tyler in St. Clairsville, Ohio, to- morrow morning, and the Interna- tional Labor Defense files for a new trial. Her sister, Anna, 17 years old, will be tried tomorrow morning for calling somebody a “scahg STATE POLICE ATTACK JOBLESS IN KENSINGTON ' Hunger Demonstration Broken Up; Promise of Food Broken (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ing beaten up, was clubbed over the | head by the police. He was tem-| porarily rescued by his fellow-work- ers, but later arrested along with his son, ‘The parade was led by young chil- dren, but the Pinchot cossacks at- tacked these, too, ‘Three workers are arrested and held on $5,000 bail each. They are Frank Albert, Nick Samer and Fred Lubrisky. | In the conference in the council chambers Burgess Bruns had a reso- lution passed for immediate func- tioning of his Emergency Relief Com- mittee and releasing $10,000 voted for relief but held up to date. Last week the unemployed work- ers, under the leadership of the Un- employed Council, marched on the City Council and sent in a commit- tee to present their demands, Peter Paris presented the demands to the council. Burgess Burns made @ demagogic speech, pleading that there be “no violence,” and asked: “What would you do if you were in my place?” Carl Price replied that he would tax the operators, the owners of, the big aluminum plant, take all the money in the Comunity Chest and the Red Cross treasiries and grant the demands the unemployed were making. These demands include cash relief of $10 a week for every unmarried worker, $15 for married men and additional for each de- pendent, Hit Forced Labor. Another demand hits the practice of making unemployed put in two days’ labor in payment for a basket of food that is worth 75 cents. The unemployed attacked this forced la- bor scheme and demanded the union scale for all work done. Attacks from the councilmen followed, but they finally asked the unemployed to send @ committee of three to meet with @ committee of the council and the “welfare organizations” in town. When Paris brought the council's reply to those waiting outside, coun- cilmen, burgess, police and firemen made every attempt to break up the meeting, by suddely shouting “Fire! Fire!” but it didn’t work,and nobody left the meeting. Outrageous Lying. ‘The following morning, at the con- ference of the various organizations in town, together With the unem- ployed committee and the council's committee, the Red Cross refused “to make a statement” as to whether they would help the unemployed. Finally it was agreed by the Welfare Department that the money on hand be used to give immediate relief. It was agreed that the unem- Ployed’s own committee register workers for relief and administer dis- tribution. But immediately after the meeting the Burgess hurried to the newspaper with a statement that the Unemployed Council agreed that the police register and investigate the applicants for relief. The next morning a committee from the unemployed demanded a correction. The editor refused. Soon After a larger committee called upon him and threatened that 2,000 un- employed would picket his paper. ‘The correction appeared. When the Welfare station opened that day, the committee elected by the unemployed were on hand and registered hundreds upon hundreds of unemployed. But not a nickel’s worth of relief was forthcoming. Yes- terday’s demonstration followed, de- manding food. Sickening Hypocrisy. While the Burgess pleaded for “no violence,” he had state troopers gas and attack unemployed workers. The unemployed movement here has become the recognized leader of the city’s unemployed. They are de- termined to force the city to grant their demands. Today's attack by Governor Pinchot’s state police in- dicates very clearly that Pinchot’s call uon the national guard and state constaublary to be ready to deal with “riots” of unemployed, means more than all of his statements about “be- ing in favor of unemployment insur- ance” and “against evictions.” JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS MOVE FOR TIGHTER HOLD ON COLOLNIES IN CHINA (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONF) Wall Street, at the same time, is hard put to hide its war maneuvers in Chinese waters, “Gravest Anxiety.” Degpite the “peace” propaganda that the League of Nations, aided by the socialists, tries to caat the war moves with, the New York Times correspondent in Geneva was forced to admit that: “The Council met today in an atmosphere of the gravest anxiety, not only for the outcome of the struggle in the Orient, but for the future of world peace and the dis- armament movement.” To help Chiang Kai Shek in his war preparations against Japan on behalf of Wall Street as well as against the Chinese masses, Nelson T. Johnson, American minister to China, made a special trip from Pei- ping to Nanking. Japanese imperialism, both in Geneva and through special appeals to the “American people,” are offer- ing a basis to Wall Street for com- mon plunder by attacking the Soviet Union, Want War On Soviets. ‘The most crude expression of this war alliance against the Soviet Union as a “solution” of the present Man- churian crisis comes from Count Kozui Otani, former Lord Abbot (equivalent to Pope) of the largest Buddhist temple at Kyoto. The ex- Lord Abbot calls on Wall Street to unite its military forces in the pres- ent situation to overthrow the Soviet Union and to prevent a Communist uprising throughout the colonial lands. Count Otani said: “If America’s moral support is refused to Japan in the present crisis the world may see Asia go red. Therefore, American people, do not add to the confusion of the situation, Manchuria is the key of stability or disruption of the Far East. Give Japan a free hand to fight against chaos and disor- der.” Jailing Communists, A special report from Pieping to the Daily Worker tells of wholesale arrests of Communists in Japan as part of the Japanese imperialist drive against the Soviet Union. The latest number of the illegal newspaper of the Communist Party of Japan, “Musiansin Simbun,” re- Ports @ wave of repression against the working class movement in Ja- pan unequalled since the arrests in April, 1929, Over 1,000 revolutionary workers were arrested in the towns of P64 Kobe and Kioto recently. Four hundred were arrested in Osaka alone, of whom 150 are still impris- | oned. Amongst the arrested are the most active leaders of the revolu- tionary trade unions “Rodo Kumiai Senkoku Kiokikai.” A number of the leaders of the centerist unions “Sen- koku Rodo Kumiai Domei” have also been arrested. Leaders of the newly formed peasant party “Senkoku No- min Kymai are also among the ar- rested. Raids were made on the hguses of members of legal working- class organizations, such a sthe Ja- panese section of the International Red Aid, the League for Proletarian Enlightenment, etc, Here also many arrests were made. However, most of the persons arrested in these or- Banizations were later on released, Six hundred persons were arrested in Kobe, ineluding leaders of the re- yolutionary trade unions, the Com- munist Party and the Young Com- munist League. Arrests are still be- ing made in Kobe. Two-hundred and sixty persons were arrested in Kioto. Mass arrests began in Tokio on the Paramount Publix Co. profit for six months ‘ending June 27 was $5,- 743,255. This company recently put through a wage cut. PREPARE LEGAL LYNCHING | AS PRESS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ©: ing, however, the local boss press boast that @ “confession” has been forced out of the tortured worker. Godfrey Child, State’s attorney, also announced that he would rush thru an indictment of Jones and place him on trial next month. Quite plain- ly, the same tactics are being pur- sued by the Maryland authorities as them an opportunity to arrange de- fense, 4 The Baltimore District of the In- ternational Labor Defense is protest- ing against this frame-up and* at- tempt at legal murder and his sent telegrams to the sheriff of the county and to Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland demanding the release of Jones and his protection against the lynch mobs being organized by the rich farmers. Together with the Communist Par- ty and the League of Strugfle for Negro Rights, the ILD is proceeding ; to mobilize the workers of Baltimore for the most vigorous protest against this latest frame-up of a Negro work- er and for the demand for his rclease. Baltimore workers will at the same One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. i time protest the brutal treatment of Negro workers in this city by the Police Cossacks. The ILD has sent an investigator to Snow Hill to get 15th of September and are still be- ing continued. The Communist Par- ty has issued an appeal to the work-,| ing masses warning them that the | arrests represent an important step | in the preparations for imperialist | war, and exposing the treacherous | attitude of the socialist parties, | CONCENTRATING FOR STRIKE IN KENTUCKY MINES, Undaunted By Threat) to Bring Scabs to Cary CARY, Ky., Oct. 14.—Threats that the Gary mine in Straight Creek, Kentucky, will be opened with scabs | unless the strikers return to work, hasn't made a dent in the ranks. | Cary, an independent operator, says | he will bring in scabs tomorrow. The | strikers say they will meet any such | attempt with the first, mass picket | line this section has known. It will include women and children, A conference of miners from Straight Creek mines, where all 5 mines are struck, from the 2 mines on Old Straight Creek where there is strong possibility of spreading the | mine, Wallins Creek, Mingo Hollow, Pansy, Black Star, Harlan Gas, Har- | lan, and several other independent | mines, was held last week. Three Concentrations ‘The meeting laid plans to spread the strike and 3 key centers were | decided upon for concentration of forces. ‘The Harlan Miners report that in | spite of the new raids, the relief kit- chen at the Harlan swimming pool |is in operation. The kitchen was raided Wednegday and it reopened ‘Thursday morning, on time, and beans were served. There is nothing but beans in all the kitchens, and more of that is needed. A strong plea for more food was sent to the Penn-Ohio-W. Va.-Ky. Striking Miners Relief Committee. Funds sent to their headquarters at Room 205, 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., is immediately converted into | food and rushed into struck camps | where starving strikers’ families need | it desperately. A new pay cut of 12% was jam- med down the throats of the miners at the Verda and Lynch mines. “Well, they will have to give us something soon, because there’s noth- ing left for them to take away from Rial as ok Myerscough Trial, 20th PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct, 14.—Tom | Myerscough, who just returned from | the Jelli¢o-Lafollette-Caryville sec- | tion of Tennessee, said that the min- | ers there earn from 40c to $2 a day, | and put in one, two or three days a| week. The $2 men are the few fav- ored daymen. The miners see very | little scrip, even, to say nothing about U, §. cash. The company | takes off back rent first, before they allow scrip to purchase food in the company store. Myerscough returned to Pittsburgh to face trial in connection with the | Wildwood shooting. Although it is definitely established that deputy sheriffs and mine guards shot into @ group of miners and their wives who gathered to picket the Wildwood mine, Myerscough 8 charged with manslaughter, on the basis that he advocated breaking the injunction | through mass picketing. | ‘The trial has been postponed un- | til October 20. Myerscough spoke at | |and Savings Bank with deposits of | $2,500,000 and the West Side Atlas | Can’t Pay Freight: Food For Miners’ Relief Is Rotting | : PITTSBURGH, Fa, Oct. 14.~ Sixteen carloads of food were col- lected by farmers in Michigan, | » And again we want to remind the comrades that they should be writ- ing more news from their shops Wisconsin, and Minnesota for | striking miners, BUT— and from their factories. What have This food will rot! It will not | | You been doing about starting cor- Tespondence with workers in Rus- |reach the striking miners and “ sia? We shall forward any letters to jtheir starving families unless the | Relief Committee can collect| | the Soviet Union that workers will enough money to pay the freight | | Write for this purpose. This is a charges! good chance to find out from the workers themselves about the No- vember 7th celebration in Russia. We want to urge you again, in this connection, that all should send in greetings to be published in our Daily Worker of November 7. In- dividual greetings cost 25c and up. Workers’ organization can send in greetings for $1 and up. Workers and farmers should go out and get as many workers whom they come in contact to contribute for this $5 will pay freight for 1,000 page. A big response financially pounds, to feed 200 for a week! to this issue will enable us all the $1 will pay freight for 200|| Sooner to start a daily six-page pounds to feed 40 for a week! Paper. Put it over in a big way. | Eleven mines struck in the Mor-| | During the sumer months, and in |gantown-Fairmont field of West | |the first part of September, many | Virginia, another mine in West-| | @ffairs were held for the bene- moreland, Pa, atid more coming || fit of the Daily Worker. Un- out! Six mines struck in the | | fortunately this practice has died out Straight Creek section of Ken-| |t0 @ large extent. Johnston City, tucky, with the strike against the |wage cut spreading! Everywhere | |the miners are fighting or pre- |paring for a strike against wage |cuts and starvation conditions. Don’t let that food rot! Help | | bring it here to feed the hungry | strikers’ families! Send your do- nation today! Six children died of starvation jin one week! And carloads of po- | tatoes are lying in the freight | yards, and the miners are unable | to get at them until freight can be raised and sent to the Penn- Ohio-W Va.-Ky. Striking Miners’ Relief Committee at 611 Penn | Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa., Room 205. $10 will pay the freight for 2,000 pounds of food that will feed 400 for a week! | |this line; for it held a Communist Party picnic and collected $9 for the Daily Worker. During the cold Weather dances or other indoor af- fairs should take the place of picnics. We have to take our hat off to | Florida once again. A comrade, M | A., of Ybor City, writes that he has |@ new wrinkle in the sales of the Daily Worker and it is bearing fruit, in places where the workers are not getting much wages.” He goes to a shop ‘where three or more workers are, try to sell them the paper. If they tell him they can’t afford the paper, he asked them if $56,000,000 LOST PHILA. DEPOSITS More Banks Thruout| : |paper for a week. If they still can’t Country Fail |aford the paper, he asked them if |they would get the paper if they could have it at one-third the regular price. When several assent to this, he gets | them to get one paper among them, |each contributing an equal share. He quickly got the workers to get the paper by this means; so he says— CHICAGO.—The Southwest Trust National Bank with deposits of $1,- 500,000 were the latest two banks to fail here. The affairs of both banks are now in the hands of the state |WORKERS SEND GREETINGS 10“ USSR FOR NOVEMBER 7th | however, did some good work along | monthly, he urges them to take the | if Red Builder ick up and follow his encouraging letters come from 1 over the ct t that show that workers ever standing back, of the Daily Worker, THEIR fighting organ. More and masses of workers and farmers are realizing that they must build the Daily up so hat their strugle n be carried on, B. C. writes from Chicago “I for a month are more ca two new subsc I am going to help in the work of getting 60,000 new readers for the Daily.” J. K. of Erie, Tilinois sends six dol- lars for a sub and four dollars don- jations. This is the first time he got @ job since Mareh 15 He now works |for a dollar a day on a farm, and tight away rushes money to us. Workers everywhere are making big sacrifices to get the Daily. Mrs, P. W of Los Angeles sends @ dollar for two months sub She is not able to send more now but wishes to help toward the time when better times will come into this world. It is so bad there as she never knew it to be before. She is going to send one dollar every two months—that is the best she can do. Comrade W B. out in Iowa sends in a r & bundle of ten rather sub for himself There are nine other men in his shop wha will all chip in after this start. Thig comrade will then extend his activi- ties throughout the neighborhood We think he ought to form a Daily Worker Readers’ Club as the best way of getting these new contacts firmly attached to the movement. By this method workers can build up a social life of their own around the Daily and at the time spread the Daily further into other shops. This is good work but remember that subs are the backbone of the Daily Worker. There are eight members of a Red Builders Club out in Oakland, Cal., |who are excited about increasing the sales of the Daily. They should form @ Daily Worker Club and as they make sales and contacts they should by means of their membeship draw | these workers into their club. The |more new members, the more mem- !bers out after subs, remember. and federal banking departments. aie New Jersey Bank Fails BELVIDERE, N, J—The Warren County Trust Co. closed its doors Fri- day when its affairs were taken over by the State Commissioner of Bank- | ing. Deposits are reported at $841,322. (CONTINUED FROM PA eae esr 2 ONE) Small Town Banks Fail |the Ohio Valley section is rapid The National Bank of Fayette | turning toward strike, and the County at Uniontown, Pa. and the | tional Committee is laying the b: Roane County Bank of Spencer at| for strike action in this section. Spencer, W. Va. closed Saturday, | Series of Meetings. October 10 because of the condition; This week, the whole section of their affairs. {be the scene of a series of mass i | meetings, both employed and jobless 16 Phila. Banks Fail in 11 Days | stee] workers in preparation for a big A worker correspondent of the indoor meeting, Sunday night, Oc- Daily Worker at Philadelphia writes: | tober 18th, in Steubenville, Ohio, to The féllowing is a list of bank | take a strike vote, if possible, against failures in Philadelphia the past 11) the wage cut. days, from September 26 to October! The District Conference which will 9: will Northern Central Trust Co. with |m., at the Workers Center, 2157 Cen- five branches and deposits of $2,309,-| ter Avenue, Will be a big step for- | 000; the Olney Bank and Trust Co.| ward in the steel campaign for or- with two branches and deposits of | ganization of a powerful union and $3,677,008; the Jefferson Title and/|for strike against the wage cut Trust Co. with deposits of $855,623; 2s . . the Manheim Trust Co, with de-| 100 Meet in Rain. Posts of $424,001; the Glenside Bank} sreyBENVILLE, Ohio, Oct and Trust Co, the Glenside Trust / One hundred steel workers stood in Co. and the Richmond Trust Co; the | qriving rain at an outdoor meet- 14.— |be held in Pittsburgh, starting 10 a. | United Security Trust Co, with three | branches and deposits of $6,454,570; the Willow Grove Trust Co with de- posits of $698,000; the Franklin Trust | ing, Sunday night in Steubenville to hear the reports for building the new union in the Steel Industry. Al- though the field where the meeting Co. with four branches and deposits | was held was in complete darkness of $22,990,000; the Central Trust Co. with deposits of $5,022,594; the Gir- ard Ave. Trust Co, the Hamilton Trust Co., the Haddington Trust Co, and the Wharton Title and Trust Co. |faces of the workers, they stood pa- | tiently for an hour to hear the or- |ganizers of the Steel Workers’ In- | dustrial Union who are active in the with the wind driving the rain in the | & demonstration in West Park today, | with total deposits of $6,393,216. The for the release of miners jailed in the | County Trust Co. closed October 9 strike. The other speakers include | with seven branches and deposits of Rebecca Grecht and Fred Bell. $7,180,153. “This makes 15 banks with 25/ Ohio Valley section among the steel workers. A whole series of meetings have been arranged this week for the workers of the Wheeling Steel, Weir- HOWLS FOR BLOOD evidence for the defense of Jones. jal workers and their organizations throughout the country are urged to | at once send protest telegrams to Gov. Ritchie at Annapolis, Maryland, and to hold meetings to protest against the increasing terror by which the bosses throughout the country are trying to force the Negro masses to submit to their starvation program. branches that failed in eleven days/ton Steel, and LaBelle mills. The involving over $56,000,000 in deposits.” | wages of the workers have been cut The Communist Party of Philadel-| as low as 39 cents an hour for skilled phia has called a mass meeting for workers. Thursday, October 15 at the Kensing-! ‘The company town police of Weir- ton Labor Lyceum to explain the | ton, W. Va., arrested six workers last meaning of the bank crashes. {Friday night, on charges of dis- | tributing leaflets in the Cossdck con- OLD MAN DISCARDED BY CAPI- | trolled town of the National Steel TALISM DIES ON THE STREET | Corporation. Several were beaten in NEW YORK—Patrick Byrne, 55 | ————— recon nr wea a years old, penniless, without a home was found dead on the pavement in| front of 589 Third Avenue. This tells in brief the story of how capitalism as NEW uses workers in their younger years | a then discards them like work out automobiles when they get older. { | 8 PAGES {CONTINURD FROM ment that the ‘time had come to cut railway wages’ was regarded as significant. The Street interpreted it as an indication that railway of- ficials held out little hope of a rate increase and were preparing to co- operate in a move for reductions in labor cost.” When the “rate increase” request was made several months ago, the Daily Worker pointed out to the rail- road workers that this was a scheme leading to wage cuts. It was a suc- cessful effort to draw.in the mislead- ership of the unions behind “rate in- creases,” and then transfer their al- liance to the wage cutting campaign. GB ONED Sailors Here Strike to Support | Walk-Out In Germany Ship Ports, NEW YORK.—A wage cut of 10) per cent was announced Tuesday for 50,000 workers in the Western Union. | This cut effects operators, testers, linemen and other craftsmen The company said it did not effect mes- senger boys. The fact is that the Wages of messenger boys are so ex- tremely low that they will be cut through speed-up and lengthening of hours, instead of by a direct wage cut. The wage cut for the Western Union workers follows a similar cut given to the workers in the Postal Telegraph Co., the All American Ca~- bles, Mackay Radio, and the Inter- national Telephone and Telegraphic Corporation. tight. NAME 50,000 IN WESTERN UNION, {| This out will be followed by others. ete HONOR ROLL GREETINGS | We, the undersigned through the I{th anniversary edition of the DAILY WORKER, greet the workers and farmers of the U.S.S.R, on the 14th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The success of the Five-Year Plan and the advance in the economic and cultural fields have strengthened our determination to advance our own struggles against the growing attacks of the boss class. The DAILY WORKER, the Central Organ of the Communist Party, is the mass organizer of the American workers and farmers in this ADDRESS 35 STEEL MEETS PREPARE FOR #2 FIGHT AGAINST WAGE SLASHES the barracks of the fron police and one has been turned over to the | immigration offices for deportation. | ic ee Company Terror. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 14.—An outdoor organization meeting of fifty steel workers was held in Monessen, home of the Giant American Sheét and Tin Plate Company, &nd the Pittsburgh Steel Company last Fri- day night Many hundreds of work- ers would have attended, but the hall was closely watched by the company police and stools of the U. S. Steel Corporation. | The terror in this section has been rapidly increasing since the big Steel Conference that was held recently in Pittsburgh. Several active steel workers were victimized by the com- panies for their activities, and sev- eral arrests made. The workers of Monessen are going right ahead regardless of the at- | tempts of the Steel Trust to pre- were John Moldon, M. W. I. L. secre- union. The speakers at the meeting | vent them from building the new tary, and Pete Chapa, field organizer. Don’t Let Ailing Kidneys and Bladder <p Ruin Your Entire Bodily Health mee You'll be sorry if you don’t act at ones tocurb kidney and bladder troubles. A | Serious break-down in your health: occur. Take action at once. Get. Midy from your druggist. It has been prescribed for half century by doctors throughout the world. Santal Midy | BEGINNING WITH THE NEW OCTOBER ISSUE MASSES — LARGER 15 Cents at all Workers Bookshops and all Newsstands AMOUNT Dollars Cents