The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1931, Page 3

os . .. Plants DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, » WEDNESDAY, YCTOBER 21, 1931 JOBLESS IN MISSOURI PREPARE BIG MARCH ON STATE CAPITOL Workers in “Benevolent Association” Give Support to March As Leaders Protest Mass Pressure Forces the Release of Hunger March Leaders (By a Worker Correspondent) INDEPENDENCE, Mo—Several weeks ago, speakers from the Unemployed Council of Kansas City demanded and secured the floor at a regular membership meeting of the “Labor Benevolent Labor Association” of Independence, Mo. This Association was rapidly degenerating due to the bureau- cratic misleadership of three or four fakers who were namely, President, Vice President, Business Agent and Secretary of the Organization. These fakers made -every effort to keep the Unemployed Council speakers off the floor and two weeks ago they called the chief of police and ¢- his armed thugs. The membership rallied to the support of the speakers and the meeting continued despite the intervention of the fasers and their cronies, the police. At two subsequent meetings there was no interference by the police and the fakers were heckled until they were forced to grant the Unemployed Council the floor and finally the organization as a whole by the rank and file vote decided to indorse the Unemployed Council and to partici- pate in the Missouri State Hunger March. Drive Fakers From Hall Thursday, October the 15th, two speakers for the Hunger March again demanded the floor from the rank and file and by unanimous vote had it granted to them. The rank and file then demanded the dissolution of the “Labor Benevolent Association,” At the close of the meeting one of the fakers started an argument on the basis of “the grand old flag” and | “God our Savior.” Failing to secure any support from the rank and file | membership, he then pulled his coat off and announced he was going to whip the “godless Reds.” The god- less Red he was referring too, re- | fused to be intimidated and offered | to accomodate him with physical, mental or any other form of combat so he tore madly away from the building and called his friends, the | police. Speakers Jailed The solidarity of the crowd was too strong for the police so they waited on the outside and arrested the two Hunger March speakers as | they left the Hall. The two speakers | were, Herbert March, district YCL| organizer and W. C. McCuistion, dis- trict Unemployed Council director. While motorcycle police cleared the street and other police stood by with riot guns the two speakers were put into the police car. The crowd ga- thered around the car heckling the/ police and demanding the release of MeCuistion and March and a Salva- tion army captain slezed the oppor- tunity to show his demogogy by spouting a lot of phrases about free speech, etc.. and added his voice to the general demand for the release | of the prisoners. Force Workers’ Release At the police station, however, it was a different story. About fifty workers. mostly young workers | crowded in the police desk sergeant’s | office while about fifty mdére waited on the outside. This show of solidar- ity although unorganized visibly cowed the police, and March and MeCuistion were released with the admonishment not to come back to Imdependance. The two speakers countered this admonition by an- mouncing a mass meeting Saturday, two days from then, and with the statement that they would continue ‘40 speak and organize in Independ- ynce, Missouri, and anywhere else the workers could be organized. Oakland Speedway Oakland, Cal. Daily Worker: I am a carpenter and have been unemployed either entirely or in part for a period of about 10 months. The other day I noticed that they were putting up a speedway near San Lean- dro, a suburb of Oakland. I applied for a job. The foreman. told me I could go to work. The wages was $7 per day, but each worker had to buy stock for which he would have to pay half his wages. There could not be ‘any more than 24 days work. Paying for stock at the rate of $3.50 a day would mean at the most $84. Call Western Steel Workers to Organize (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURG, Cal.— The Columbia teel Corporation, a subsidiary of United States’ Steel, which employs 1,800 workers, in line with ethar steel throughout the country, has cut our wages 10 per cent. ‘We have been working only part time. The whole plant has been running only 35 per cent of capacity b ‘This cut is bringing us greater stervation than ever. A. T. De Forest, president of the company, comes out with a statement that the plant will be put now on 50 per cent capacity basis and this will offset the wage cut. How kind! We will probably put in another half day or day of work, wiih a little change in our pay envelope. ‘We workers must organize griev- ‘ance committees on the joks. Or- ganice our 1° *>! Workers Industrial ‘League and pz. or a fight against wage cuts, as jc workers are doing aroughout other steel plants, tee | streets of Portland on Oct. 3, de- | the bonus.— J. Me. | ST. JOE, Mich.—The farmers here | | buyers pay less for the farm produce | fired. But not for long. He is back | Write us about your life, your work. Correspondence Briefs ene eeamensencnenrmececrnempuin crane omonei! Doughnuts And Soup: Vets’ Reward PORTLAND, Ore.—Right here in Oregon thousands of unemployed | veterans are getting their reward for | past loyalty to their country in the form of weak coffee, stale doughnuts and soup. The ex-servicemen of Oregon in various meetings expressed their loyalty to organized labor and their disgust toward a system that allows millions of people starve amid plenty.—J. L. C. $host, © Insull Slashes Pay CHICAGO, Tl.—Sam Insull’s com- | panies have been cutting wages of various groups of workers. Yet Insull and other utility companies still charge the same rates in spite of the lower cost of materials.—J. F. Veterans Demand Bonus Payment PORTLAND. Ore, — About 2,000) unemployed war vets marched the/| manding relief and full payment of | . Farmers Let Food Rot 8 are compelled to let their products | rot due to the fact that the capitalist than it costs for baskets to pack it in. E. D. * BOSSES NEED KILLERS CIZICAGO, Ill.—It was recently sed that Captain Stege of the Chicago police force served time in New York for killing a man. He was in harness again. The business men asked to have him returned to the force. They need killers. —C.K.E. er na. Write To The U.S.S.R. Dear Comrades: I would like to hear from some, American comrades. How do you live? Do you fight your bosses? Do | you have a “free press” that your | bourgeoisie boast so much about? We will answer you. Alexander Kudrayzew International Letter Exchange Moscow, USSR cleat WR All Have Jobs In Soviet Union MOSCOW, USSR. — Here in the Soviet Union we have liquidated un- employment completely. Any mem- ber of our great workers family who wants a jgb can always have one.) Our chief difficulty is shortage of labor, —Alymov —A Railway Worker. NO SCHOOL FOR NEGRO CHIL-| DREN | CHARLOTTE, N. C.—The Negro} working people have no school to} send their children to in the third Ward of this town. The children “have to walk five miles a day to go to school. The parents have no Jobs and the children have to walk that distance hungry. —A Worker, a Flim-Flam Job ‘The other sixteen would have to be paid by the worker or else he would lose the whole share. The stock was also assessible which might mean more payments from the workers. Laborers at $4 a day would be even worse off. The capitalist class is taking every advantage of the econ- omic crisis to put over their jip plans. It is damn near time we got wise and organized in the Building Trades Industrial Union. Our craft unions of the AFL are so damnably rotten that they have lost their last function as a job ticket.—A Carpenter. Read the Daily Worker where the program of the steel workers is given and Jearn of the organization. Read and‘ support our shop paper issued by the Communist Party nucelus in the steel plant. Let's hear from you at the address given in the Steel Worker bulletin. TAX COLLECTOR KIDNAPS CHILD AS HOSTAGE FOR TAXES BUCHAREST, Oct. 20.—The ten- year-old son of a peasant in the vil- lage of Patrulsa, Bessarabia was kid- napped by the tax collector of the town and is being held until the peasant pays his taxes. The collector entered the peasant’s house while he and his wife were out, looking for some cjsc! 0 value to take for the taxes. But the peas- ant was so impoverished that h2 could not find anytaing worth taking, and | Hunger Marchers were there not just | marchers, STRENGTHEN 2, 000 Piemensawke In Cleveland During Cold And Storm (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) want and starvation in the ranks of the unemployed, to secure 25,000 sig- natures to the petition for = referen- dum for Unemployment Insurance, and to participate in the National Hunger March to reach Washington, D. C., on December 7th. Had To See Them. When the County Commissioners were first requested to meet in spe- cial session to receive the hunger march delegation, they flatly refused. Later as the plans for the march were well under way, the chief of Police stated that the commissioners would meet but that only a com- mittee of five would be admitted to the chamber. A committee from the Unemployed Council then saw the Commissioners and insisted that 26 delegates be admitted, one from each branch and starting point and that five be spokesmen. Two of the com- missioners assented to this, but the third, the chairman, couldn't stand to see 26 hungry men and women at one time, so like a spoiled child he petulantly left the chamber and re- fused to take part laaetter in the special session. ‘When the Marchers reached the Court House they found it manned like an arsenal. Fifty police were inside the building, 150 across the street in the Annex, 20 mounted po- lice on the street. All doors of the court house but one were locked and every loose nickle had been gathered | from all departments and locked up) in the big treasury safe. While the cold and wind and rain | outside was enough to make the| marchers shiver, the delegation found the commissioners and the bosses’) “yes men” inside were actually shiv- ering more, but for another reason. | Evidently they thought that the| to demand relief but to take relief. The police also seemed to have) learned a lesson by the Rayford and | Jackson killing nad the mass funeral. | |The Unemployed Council had recog- | nition, and the police did not inter- | fere with the marchers. Orders to} the marchers were given only through the committee in charge. The committee of 26 presented the demands to the commissioners for: $150 cash bonus for each family so that it could get coal, clothing, blan- kets and other necessities with which to face the coming winter was the main demand. Cash weekly relief, no evictions, and special demands for the youth and school children and for | homeless men and women were made, At the conclusion the commissioners merely announced that a steno- graphic record had been made of what had been said and that the de- mands would be considered. When they were asked when an answer would be given, they would not set a time, The commissioners were then told that the Unemployed work- ers would insist on every demand being granted and that before long | they would be down again to see ciel they are, Fight Goes On. When the delegation reported back to the marchers outside, every work- er present resolved that they would | | carry on their struggle through the | Unemployed Councils and that they ‘bers to enforce their demands. ‘The Workers International Relief! served milk and sandwiches to the UNITED FRONT LEADERSHIP (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and File Strike Committee, which is the militant leadership of the strike and is made up of workers elected from mills and departments without reference to whether they belong to a union’ or not. Rescue Man Arrested pickets cheered and sang strike songs. No. A. F. L. leaders were present. Marshal O’Brien, in charge of police concentrated on this particular picket line and was pre- sent himself. The police arrested one Picket for stopping a scab and put him behind a gate. The strikers smashed through the gate and res- cued him. The police stood ready with their clubs, but were afraid to face the militancy of the pickets. Over a thousand picketed at the Ayer mill and booed the few scabs who came. Two workers wearing American Federation of Labor signs were’ told by women pickets “Take those signs off and look like us!” A. F. L, Head Looks On ‘The strikers saw Robert Watt, sec- retary of the Central Labor Council standing by and looking: on. ‘The pickets marched to the Pros- pect Hall, where a hundred are still working. Two A. F. L. pickets left their signs and ran to the head of the line while the workers laughed. Over a thousand picketed the Washington mill. There were only eight A. F. L. union members there and they stood aside. Two thousand picketed the Arling- ton mills. Four pickets were arrested today and charged with assault and tntimi- dation of scabs. The immigration au- thorities are investigating their cit- izenship and trying to deport them. Build Leadership After the sa pice line, the Wood The \Cleveland Mass Trial Oct. 22 for Murder of Jobless Negroes Foster and Newton to Conduct Prosecution; City Government Invited to Defend Action CLEVELAND, Oct. 20.—Enraged ‘at the police murder on Oct. 6 of the two unemployed Negro workers, John Rayford and Edward Jackson, the| workers of Cleveland are holding a mass trial next Thursday evening, Oct. 22, to convict the boss city gov- ernment on whose orders the brutal attack on the unemployed was car- tied out. In addition to the murder of Jackson and Rayford, several white and Negro workers were crit- ically wounded when police fired into workers demonstrating against the eviction of an unemployed Negro worker, William Z. Foster, nationally known labor leader, and Herbert Newton, a Negro leader of the working class, will conduct the prosecution. The trial, which will take place Oct. 22 at the Slovenian Auditorium, 6417 St. Clair, will be open to the public. The members of the city council have been notified they will be placed on trial. A letter sent to them by Herbert Newton, as chairman of the United Front Committee of workers’ | organizations calling the trial, states, in part: “Thirty thousand Negro and white workers of Cleveland, who Pledged themselves to carry on the struggle for which John Rayford and Edward Jackson died, have called for a Workers’ Mass Trial to try the City Government as re- sponsible for the death of these two Negro workers, killed by the police at an eviction scene on E. 47th St. on the night of Oct. 6.” The following have also been noti- fied: Herman Finkle, “as the repub- lican ‘whip’ in the city council and as one out of whose headuarters the policemen came on the night of the killings”; Councilmen Payne, L. Bundy and Claybourne George, as Negro councilmen who “failed ut- terly to raise a voice of protest in the city council or elsewhere against the killing of Rayford and Jackson.” Notice has also been sent to the socialist party, the National Associa- | tion for the Advancement of Colored People, the Negro churches and the | Universal Negro Improvement Asso- | ciation, all of which are charged with | failure to protest the shooting of the unemployed Negro workers. NEW KENSINGTON UNEMPLOYED HOLD PROHIBITED MASS MEET (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Workers’ Industrial League. Machine Gun Ready. Thirty state troopers were mob- ilized for action with a machine gun mounted before the door of the hall. Police tried their utmost to break | up the throngs outside the building, throngs who could not get in because the hall was full. But the meeting was so militant and the enthusiasm so great, the cheers and applause re- sounding down the streets, that the police did not dare to break it up. This use of the state police against the mass meeting of the jobless is the practical carrying out of the threat made several weeks ago by Governor Pinchot in a speech to the officers of the National Guard of Pennsylvania. Pinchot called on the militia to “ready to suppress disor- ders that may arise this winter in Western Pennsylvania.” Ben Carreathers spoke for the Metal Workers’ Industrial League, Charles Guynn for the National Miners Union and the District Coun- cil of the Unemployed, Rebecca Grecht for the Communist Party, and Bell for the International La- bor Defense. Other speakers were Walter Yost, Communist candidate for county commissioner, and Wil- kins, a Negro worker and Communist candidate for constable. ‘The meeting laid plans to continue the struggle for relief and to mob- | ilize Westmoreland County unem-!| ployed and part time workers for the | march on the county seat at Greens- | burg. This march will take place al few days before Pinchot’s special | legislative session “on unemploy- ment” convenes. Announcement of the National Hunger March, Dec. 7, drew pro-| longed pisses . Meet nbesie Burgess. ARNOLD, Pa., Oct. 20.—Burgess | Hunfer in this city, adjacent to New} Kensington, refuses to permit the/| Communist Party election rally scheduled for Friday evening at 1350 ‘Third Ave. He threatens to use po- lice and state troopers to break up any attempt of the Communist Party to hold a meeting in Arnold. ‘The meeting will be held at the above address, regardless of his threats. “They Can’t Break Us With Their Guns,” Say Harlan Miners “By the first of the year, our Nati- | would be back again in greater num- jonal Miners’ Union will be solld, bud- dy. Then, we will talk turkey to the coal bosses. If they think they can break the Harlan miners with ma- chine guns and thugs: well, buddy, them coal operators just don’t know Kentucky miners, that’s all.” These words came almost in chorus from two Kentucky miners brought to New York by the International Labor Defense to help organize de- fense and relief for strike prisoners and their families. They are Asa Cusick, ex-chief of police and miner from Evarts, Ky., and Jim Grace, adopted a motion made by a striker to elect a committee to go to the city authorities and demahd the use of Lawrence Common for strike meet- ings. So far during the strike, the police have permitted the U. T. W. fakers to meet on the Common, the best meeting place, and address a mixed assemblage of workers and business men and police with dema- gogic patriotic pleas. But the meet- ings called, by the National Textile Workers Union and the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee haye been barred. Permit Denied The committee of 25, headed by Fred *Biedenkap saw Commissioner verhard at noon today and demanded @ permit to use the Common. Byver- hard admitted the strikers had the same right as any one else to meet on the Common, but said he must consult the Citizens’ Committee first. Biedenkapp informed Everhard that the strikers’ committee repre- senter working-class citizens. Everhard then said he would not issue a permit until he saw the city council. ‘The strikers’ committee left in indignation, shouting: ““We use our Common, permit or no permit!” ‘The strikers demand: Abolition of the ten per cent wage cut no arbi- tration sell out for the strike the tight to hold meetings on Lawrence Common or anywhere else release of the strikers arrested no discrimina- tion and recognition of the mill com- mittees. Jim Reed president of the N. T. W.; Martin Russak organizer for Rhode Island are here and addressing big mass meetings of the strikers. Harry Canter I. L. D. organizer is in jail charged with contempt of court. Mill strikers packed into a hall and| Murdoch and Edith Berkman are still elected 15 members on a department; held by the immigration authorities, basis to the United Front Rank and! their bail on old charges dating from File Strike Committee. | the strike ‘this, spring having been seeing the ten-year-old boy seized him instead. The mass meeting of all strikers! in Kéneoln, Park yesterday afternoon cipro he gs agence afternoon | this local organizer for the National Min- ers’ Union from Walkins Creek. Taken To Be Shot And, theirs is no easy optimism, either. Cusick, has just been released form Harlan county jail where he spent 5 months in a hot, yermin-in- fested cell on a framed charge of murder. As for Grace, two weeks ago, he was taken by thugs to the top of @ mountain in the middle of the night. Here he was beaten, kicked and pursued by a hail of bullets when he went ripping through the moun- | tainside underbrush to make his es- cape. For almost a week Harlan miners, hearing no news from Grace, gave him up for dead. “I guess they're going to kill us,” said Grace to Tom Myerscough, when the deputies stoped their car on the top of the Black Mountain and or- dered them out. “If they are, we're up against it,” whispered Myerscough in reply. Then, while several of the deputies started hammering away at Myer- scough, two others, with a gun against his ribs, broke Grace cheekbone and battered his face into a bloody pulp. Myerscough leaped over an embark- | _ ment, slid down the mountainside amid a rain of bullets and got away | ; in the dark. In the excitement Grace followed his lead. His clothes were torn by bullets. “The same man who locked us up in Jenkins jail opened our cells and turned us over to the thugs,” says Grace. “It is a company jai]. Like everything else in Jenkins, it belongs to the Consolidated Coal Company. Baby Starves Cusick, sitting beside Grace, tells in a dispassionate voice how the sheriff in Harlan jail refused to re- lay to him even the news that his baby was dying of the hunger disy flux; how they, surrounded with armed deputies when he went to the funeral; how the coal operators of- fered him $375 a month to “thug against the miners;” and how the miners’ government in Evarts had4 made it.so hot for thugs, they did not dare’ appear onthe streets except in mobs of four or five carloads, each car mounted with a machine gun. “When Carr Richmond was killed by the thugs in the ‘battle of Evarts,’ 9000 mining folks at a man’s funeral. Jim Daniels, the leading thug in Har- lan county, they had to hire men to bury him. I'm telling you, buddy, them miners can be licked! By spring every miner in Harlan County will belong to the union.” On Tour s-w-eenmme ’ Genco and another Kentucky miner, | | | | Duluth Hunger "Mich October. 26; City Has) (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) starving masses! Threatens Jobless. But now, says the paper, since these hungry men have actually be- gun to invade public offices and de- mand relief, “they are not good citi- | zens,” and “they must beware.” ‘There is a limit to the patience of the | people, an end somewhere to patient toleration. People look with aversion | on persons carrying banners in praise | of violent Communism, backed up by machine guns, who beslaver good American institutions, symbolized and protected by the American flag.” ‘This reference to machine guns comes with bad grace from a city government that admits that it is training machine gunners to shoot) down the hungry jobless! “Do Not Want Food!” Elsewhere in the editorial, the job- less are called, “Communist outlaws who do not want either work or| food.” Meanwhile the jailing of the un- employed continues. Friday, Nels Vedo, secretary of the West Duluth Unemployed Councils, was railroaded through Judge Funck’s court and sentenced to 330 days on the county work farm. Vedo was arrested solely because he persisted in coming on committees demanding relief in specific cases from the Poor Com- | missioner’s office. The committees presented actual starvation facts and | forced granting of relief several times, and then Commissioner Cook had Vedo arrested. The trial lasted two days, with Vedo making a dra- matic exposure of starvation condi- tions to a court room full of work- ers and unemployed workers. The News Tribune editorial ap- peared the next day after 1,500 had met at the call of the Communist | Party for the fight against wage- cuts. | $e Youth Will March. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 20.—The | young workers of Missouri are being | rallied by the Young Communist | League especially to answer the call of the State Hunger March Commit- tee of the Unemployed Councils to join the march on Jefferson City, Oct. 24. The Y. C. L. points out that thou- | Sands of young workers in Missouri can either go to school or get jobs this year; they can not find work, | for there is none, and they can not go to school, for their clothing is in | rags. Most of these are trying first to find work, because their fathers are unemployed and the whole fam- | | ily is starving. The garment factories in Kansas City hire only xeperienced girls now, and are laying off more of these every day. Housework, absolute drudgery, has a few jobs open, but many times as many looking for it than there are jobs. Many factory and shop girls are being driven by actual starvation into prostitution—the number of prosti- | tutes in Kansas City is amazing. The boys are starving, too. Fac- tories and packing houses are laying | off all the time. The army and navy and marine corps recruiting offices are plying their trade, and many are driven by hunger to put on uniforms. | ‘The unemployed councils are grow- ing, however, and particularly Negro workers are rallying to the struggle | for the demands of the hunger} march. strong youth section. PULLMAN CUTS WAGES | CHICAGO, Tl.—Pullman Inc., di- rectors voted to reduce wages from ten to fifteen per cent, effective No- | vember 1. One way to help the Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. Bill Duncan, are now touring New York and New Jersey for the Inter- national Labor Defense. Their sched- ule is Albany, Oct. 28; Schenecday, Oct. 27; Troy, Oct. 28, Johnstown, October 29th. There is a certainty that | there will be many Negro workers | among the hunger marchers, and a | Soviet | | HOBOKEN D. W. CLUB REPORTS Huge Unemployment FURTHER PROGRESS The Hoboken Daily Workers’ Club | keeps forging ahead. We print the | minutes of a recent meeting of its »| executive committee, so other Daily Worker clubs can get ideas on how | to create a strong and active organ- ization: “1. The secretary gave a report on | the coming dance. The hall was rented for $30. A deposit of $5 was| paid. Tickets are printed and 100| were given out. Comrade H. volun-| teered to bring 30 tickets to the Eng- | lish speaking LL.D. branch of Union| City. A Ust of organizations with| Place and dates of meeting is to be Prepared, and comrades will be as- signed to visit them with tickets Comrade L. M. is to order the posters. | “2. Comrade K. was asked to rent the Center, and will lay out the first month’s rent himself. lay out the first month’s rent him- self. “3. The executive committee re- commended that membership meet- instead of Saturdays. At the next meeting a member of the editorial staff of the Daily will lead a discus- Sion on ‘Current Political Events.’ Members will be asked to write ar- ticles on conditions in the shops and in the neighborhood. platforms and with Daily Workers. “4. The financial report showed | $13.94 received for the month, with| 13.07 spent, leaving a balance of 87 cents.” What the comrades can do in Hoboken can be done in every city of the United States. that means to the Communist Par- ty. Donations from workers leaving for the Soviet Union are symbolical of the bond that unites the workers of America with the workers of the U.S. packing house workers going to Rus- sia have just donated a total of $20 to the Daily Worker. Comrade L. Kurmowski has donated $5, Comrade | Egan Micklash has donated $10, and Comrade Lawrukewich has donated $5. Remember Greetings This example of solidarity be- tween American and U. S. S. R. workers reminds us that only a few more days are left before the November 7 edition of the Daily will be out. Don’t slacken in your work to get greetings to the Soviet workers, to be published in a spe- cial page November 7, and don’t forget to send cash in advance for the extra orders for that day. individuals and $1 and up for or- ganizations. Use the blank form the place at 319 Willow Avenue for | ings be held every second Wednesday | It was also de- | cided to ask the members to help the | Party by canvassing with election| Think what | §.R., the workers’ fatherland. Three | Greetings are 25 cents and up for | Page Three se WORKERS ON » i WAY TO USSR GIVE DONATIONS we are & scuding out or use the blank at the bottom of this page. Comrade R.M.S. writes from In- dianapolis to describe his “workers’ news stand” there. The stand car- ries the Daily Worker, the Labor De- fender, the Pioneer, the Moscow News, the Freiheit, and Jewish and English Party literature. The Daily Worker, he tells us, is suspended on @ wooden pin so it can be seen by all workers passing by. Comrade ‘R.M.S. also writes an in- teresting note on how a story in the Daily Worker helped the workers. “I note,” he writes, “that your pub- lishing my report on the Sears Cab- net situation brought some results due to the fact that readers of the Daily started firing letters of inquiry at Bill Sears, which got his goat so that the workers were adle to hold their own against a further wage cut. Thanks for this help.” More workers and agents of the Daily should follow this comrade’s example. Storfes on local eondi- tions will not only help the work- ers in the fight against the bosses’ attacks, but they will also help to sell the paper when the workers realize what a powerful aid it is to them in their fight. All Daily Worker agents should follow in the footsteps of the Indianapolis com- rade. Write reports for the Daily, | get workers in your section to write | reports for the Daily, and make the workers know that the Daily is their only paper. | Jobless Face Bitter | Cold in Las Vegas | (By a Worker Correspondent) LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Although it gets hot enough here in the sum- mertime to shrivel a mummy, it gets cold enough in the winter to freeze @ polar bear. Immediately with the setting of the sun the cold descends | like a blanket and increases in in- | tensity until sunrise. Seven hours | desert cold is very deadly unless one | is adequately covered. Last year several “stiffs” were | picked up and there will be many | more this year, for the place is full of jobless workers who have no place | to sleep but outdoors. Many are now ransacking the city dump for old rags | and burlap to make coverings. The | supply, however, is but a small frac- | tion of the demand. I know personally several men who spent years in eastern textile mills | where they made thousands of blankets. Thousands of blankets now | fill the warehouses and these men | must freeze for the lack of a single one. Such is capitalism. INDIAN THE PRICES WELL-PREPARED PROLETARIAN | A WARM COMRADELY ATMOSPHERE SUMMER The Most Beautiful Time of the Year ‘At CAMP NITGEDAIGET All the necessary improvements for the Fall and the coming Winter months haye already been installed ARE THE SAME HEALTHY MEALS ENTERTAINMENTS Large Comfortable Rooms are Available in the Attractive To enjoy your vacation or week-end, go to Camp Nitgedalget The Only Fall and Winter Resort HOTEL NITGEDAIGET Lea jer tm the Fight for | For 10,000 NE READ! Rates—8t per year, Read he Fikemix 30 BAST 13th STREET, Room 201 Leader in the Struggle Against Negro Oppression Ge six months, copy. Order a bundle for your mectings—Ze each. 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