The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1931, Page 3

a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 CITY OF BALTIMORE HELPS RAILWAY CO. SLASH WORKER’S PAY United Railways Use Park Tax Issue to Put Over Cut; Workers Aroused ‘Communist Party Calls on Workers to Build Carbarn Committees to Fight: Slash BALTIMORE, Md.—On Monday, October 12, the local boss newspapers new and editorial about a numberof letters received by the councilmen calling upon them to vote against the park tax. These letters are termed by the papers here as a “powerful lobby” against the park tax instigated by the United Railways. The truth of the matter is that the United Railways owners are trying to give the workers a wage cut, but in view of the fact that they have no basis for it they are trying to use this Park Tax issue. ‘ Speed-up ™ the past two years the company¢ has been introducing steadily, speed- | up schemes. The one man car has | been introduced on some of the lines | passing the central part of the city. | ‘This taxes the entire energy of the | men; during rush hours they have | to tend to getting the fares and at) DENVER, Col——Pat Hanreck, war- the gaime time running the care, THEY | den of the Denver Jail, talled t8 apltt also have to make a certain number. the graft to suit the politicians | of trips daily. In other words Lasso EC d hogged all for himself. / He got strength is taxed to capacity. AS ON€/r24 He is the one who led the| worker wrote “if this wage cut comes | seapenare of tha eeiien aha cusaten | it will mean almost starvation to me | in Ludlow, Obie. He was hadlataris | And any Jamily. | warden of the Colorado State Prison | Dave Not Increase Fare |and also head of the State Industrial The company knows that they can | Gommission several years ago. Watch not inerease their profits by raising | him fall into another soft job. The the fare, which is alreday high | posses take care of their hired as- enough, this being ten cents, because | cacsins, that would make the whole popula- | —A Worker, tion rise up against it. But the greed | e Py é of the public utilities barons here does | not stop them so in order to fatten TREE FOOD AND CLOTHES IN their profits, which last year amount- | ed to millions of dollars, they have} KHARKOV.—Our children receive | chosen this trick to do it. |frge schooling, something we never ‘The councilmen to whom the work-| haq pefore. At the present time our ers have appealed.to vote against the | children are obliged to go through park tax in order to have them from| gt jeast seven years schooling. In a wage cut do not pretend to under- | school they get hotsbreakfasts as well stand that this was a scheme cooked jas shoes and clothing, all of which Correspondence Briefs LUDLOW ASSASSIN CAUGHT GRAFTING : Scottsboro Parents Again Denounce NAACP Leaders (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) entirely ethical and legitimate and he entered the case at our request in April of this year and has been in its ever since and our boys have on many occasions ratified his em- Ployment and they are minors and under the law incapable of making contracts or employing attorneys under the Alabama laws” | The statement, which is an answer | to the lies of the N. A. A. C. P. lead- ers that they were in the case, is signed by Mr, Claude Patterson, Mrs. Janie Patterson, Mrs. Viola Mont- | gomery; Mrs. Josephine Powell, Mrs. | Lulu B, Jackson, Mr. L. M. Cox and | Mrs. Mamie Williams, | A similar statement is signed by Mrs Ada Wright, and Mrs. Ida Nor- tis, two of the mothers at present on, tour under the auspices of the 1} L. D. Recognizing the falsity of the N. A. A. C. P. claims to be in the case, the firm of Fort, Beddow &’nd Ray, pre- viously ‘hired by the Ni A, A. C. P. has, withdrawn from the case Gen- eral Chamlee today reported: “Fort, Beddow and Ray, attor- neys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, have filed a letter in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Ala, stating that they withdraw from the ease and requesting that their names be marked off of all papers in the ease. If any newspapers want to know whether or not Bed- dow has quit the case, challenge them to wife C. A. Wann, clerk of the Circuit Court at Scottsboro, for a verification of this letter. “All the beys say they want us to go ahead with their case and we haye a contract signed by all the boys and all the parents or next of kin and acknowledged before a notary public at Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama.” 25,000 FIGHT up by the United Railways together | is provided by the government. (From | with the City Council to put this wage|» Jetter from a group of housing cut over. These tricks are used in- | workers at Kharkov.) variably by the different bosses espe- . * . cially by the public utilities to lower WORKERS’ PAY LOOTED IN the wages and living standards of BIRMINGHAM | the workers, pes | Exposed by Communists BIRMINGHAM, Ala—The dirty | ‘The Communist Party has exposed }0sses are trying to hide their greed these politicians in the last city elec- | by taking workers’ wages in the name | tions. We exposed them as the rep-,0! the Community Chest and giving resentatives of the capitalist class and| them a pin to wear on their coal their interests against the interests |!apcls. The pin, say the bosses, rep- of the workers. Now this comes to/Tesents loyal service rendered. At light and the workers can see for | the same time these workers are con- themselves that the promises that paapng to the chest they are also these politicians make to the workers’ Setting their wages slashed in the are fake and they are forgotten as Mills. Let’s organize and strike! soon as these people get into stice, | 5 —R. M. Organize for Strike Against c program of starvation LAUNDRY WORKERS GET FROM of the bosses the Communist Party) $3.50 TO $10.50 A WEEK has called upon the workers to strug-| paypa, Fla—Many of the work- gle. We warn the workers of the 4; in the steam laundries here get United Railways against their com-/ only $3.50 to $10.50 a week and they pany union, the so-called Employees | 145+ work 10 to 12 hours a day. They Cooperative Association, which is be-| pay no overtiose hare: ing used today as it has been in) the past, by the company to put over ~ 7 * all their wage cuts and speed-up FLIMFLAM JOURNALISM. scheines. | | The Communist Party points to the) SEATTLE, Wash—Some time ago) workers to the fact that this is a #n Eastern publicity and newspaper trick used by the bosses as an ex- | man, Deweese by name, at a meeting cuse to cut their kages. Against this| of his craft said; attack upon our living standards we; “The readers of newspapers must propose a working class program of) be filmflammed with the idea that organization for a strike action | the publisher is really publishing —A. M. B. | street car and pulled a scab off. The against it. Organize into the revo- lutionary Trade Union Unity League. Organize groups in each power house and in each carbarn for a fight to stop this wage cut. Get in touch with the Trade Union Unity League organizer at 133 S. Broadway. | the newspapers and magazines for | him.” | Leave it to a publicity man to get the correct word; “Flimflam.” This | applies to the stories they are writing about the Soviet Union. —J. F. Jobless Father Kills Self in Milwaukee (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis.—On October 9 Vincent Cibik, father of five small children, hanged himself in a\garage behind his house because he was un- able to find a Job and had no money to buy food for his starving family, ‘The father had just given the chil- dren the last three cents he had. In the socialist city of Milwaukee, where the socialist mayor boasts that Cal. Governor Makes Hypocritical Gesture (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN DIEGO, Cal—It was an- ail the jobless workers are taken care of, there are thousands of workers in the same fix that Cibik was in. ,_ We are organizing a strong Unem- ployed Couneil to force thé city. to give real relief to the jobless work- ers. We are beginning to prepart for the big Hunger March to Washing- ton. The socialists here stand ex- posed before all the working class as enemies of the workers and friends of the bosses. the hypocritical gesture of “relieving” the unemployed by handing out 3,800 STUBBORNLY AGAINST CUTS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ers Union misleaders, are beginning a reign of terror in an effort to foree the 25,000 strikers back into the mills. Ten thousand workers were on the Arlington picket line yesterday eve- ning at 4:30 p.m., after a similar number had militantly picketed the mills in the morning. Harrass Scabs. When the scabs emerged they were harrassed by the strikers. The cops were brutal in their attack on the strikers. When the cops stationed at the mill found they could not bréak up the picket lines, they sent in a call for two riot squads. When thesé arrived, they rushed right and left, beating up strikers, Women were roughly handled, Men and women alike were beaten. Still the workers kept marching. A crowd of young workers ran after a fighting spirit of the workers is be- ing aroused and they refuse to budge. The regular police and the riot squads were unable to smash the Picket lines for over an hour. Two workers were arrested. The strikers are more and more turning to the policies of the United Front Rank and File Strike Commit- tee, which has the full support of the National Textile Workers Union. Demand Right of Free Speech. On the other hand, to crush the strike the bosses are resorting to all sorts of measures to terrorize the workers. Bill Murdoch and Edith Berkman, two of the leading or- ganizers of the N. T. W. U., were jailed. Every worker should demand their release. Meetings are being prohibited and pickete lines attacked viciously. Every worker should raise tae demand not only of the release of the arrested workers, but for the right te’ assemble, picket and hold mass meetings, and the right of free speech, Z Ely and Terror, Indicative of the increased terror is the statement of Geovernor Ely, made at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston a few days ago. Governor Ely is taking a hand in smashing the strike and on this occasion said: “The labor troubles in Lawrence will jecution. He telegraphed to Judge PITTSBURGH DISTRICT STEEL CONFERENCE PLANS STRUGGLE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) city local will have its “local head- quarters, A district executive committee of 27 members and a resident board of RUSH THRU INDICTMENT OF NEGRO (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) BALTIMORE, Oct. 21—State and Worcester County officials continued yesterday to deny the right of coun- | sel to Orphan Jones, 60-year-old Ne- gro farm hand facing a death sen- tence on a murderous frame-up. Shortly after his arrest on Sun | picion of murdering a rich farmer | who had robbed him of his wages, Jones was subjected to a savage third | degree torture in the county jail at| Snow Hill. He was then removed} to the Baltimore city jai] where he| has been held incommunicado and| refused permission to consult with the attorney engaged for him by the Internationa] Labor Defense, the or- | ganization of Negro and white work- ers which is defending the niné Scottsboro boys. The ILD attorney tried severa] times to consult with Jones in the prison, but was each | time denied permission to see Jones. | Last week the ILD sued out » writ | of habeas corpus demanding that Jones be produced in court in order | to consult with his attorney. A writ was secured returnable yesterday at one o'clock. State and Worcester County authorities at once moved to block the writ. State’s Attorney Child countered with a demand that Jones be deliver- | ed in Snow Hill Monday (yesterday) | morning for an arraignment. The ILD attorney then requested permis- sion to interview the prisoner Sunday | morning. This was also detiied. The boss authorities ware determined that | Jones should not have the benefit of | counsel when he faces their frame-up | indictment. Judge Joseph E. Baijey. who has! to pass on the questions in the case, | pterefered on the side of the pros- | Frank, demanding that Jones be pro- duced in Snow Hijl without being permitter to see counse]. Judge Frank, who had signed the writ of habeas! corpus, then cancelled his instructions | that Jones be permitted to see coun- | sel before being taken to Snow Hill, and postponed the writ. In trying to explain his demand for the immediate indictment of Jones while denying him the right to see counsel, State’s Attorney Childs gave the reason that he already had dif- fieulty in controlling the mob spirit in Worcester County. That mob spirit is being deliberately stirred up by the county officials and the rich | farmers who are using foreed Negro Jabor, as was exposed two weeks ago in the Daily Worker. RegardJess of the innocence or guilt of Jones, these rich farmers are determined to make of him an example to terrorize and crush the resistance of other Negro farm hands. Governor Ritchie of Maryland has | refused to interfere to protect the| constitutional rights of this Negro| worker. In answer to a protest tele- | gram from the ILD, the boss-class governor takes the position that Jones | is guilty although he has not yet had a trial. Ritchie says: | “Your second telegram of Oct. 14, I received this morning, as 1 was in Pittsburgh yesterday. I have no information which justified me in interesting myself in this man who murdered four people under circumstances as deliberate and so bruta] as to almost pass belief. “The court can be relied on to see that all the rights to which he is entitled to are observed.” Evidently, in the view of this boss class governor, Jones is not entitled to even the benefit of counsel. While Jones has been held inccm- tnunicado in the city jail, the police have been grilhng him as to his past Ife in an effort to pin a criminal re- cord on him in order to buister up the forced confession extortsi from him after 16 hours of terrific torture. Workers everywhere must. protest this outragucns frame-up of a Negro | employment. nounced in the newspapers the other day that governor Rolph is to give 3,800 men work on public roads, Mayor Auston of this city was asked by Rolph to select 60 men, who must be able bodied men, heads of fami- jobs, which will really be used to fur= ther the political ambitions of Rolph and the mayors who are allied with him. This is brazen, downright mockery to the half-starved jobless in this country. soon be over.” He means the bosses | worker ani the brazen denial of his hope to sitash the strike soon, thanks | constitutiona! right to consult »n at- to their suppressive measures andthe | torney. All organizations are urged aid of the U. T. W. betrayers. At/ to at once telegraph their protests to the same time, Robert J. Watt, of the | Gov. Albert C, Ritchie at Annapolis, U. T. W., holds continuous confer-| Maryland, and to State’t Attorney ences with Governor Ely on the best | Childs at Snow Hill, Maryland, Stop lies, citizens of the United States and who have been residents of Cali- fornia at least one year. These men wil! be worked in three day shifts eng will be paid $4 a day. t aye over 10,000 unemployed tity alone ahd over 600,000 entire staté and Rolph makes 4 fa the ‘Workers! Join the Unemployed Councils and fight for immediate and adequate relief! Demand unemploy- {ment insurance! Prepare for the | giant hunger march to Washington! |Poree the rich bosies to fed the starving unemployed! Workers With Jobs Go Hungry in Chicago (8y a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ijl—We have sure got forced labor in the Guldbrauser Co. Iceated here in Chicago, Ill, Four- ten hours a day is nothing unusual. ‘We work every day in the week in- cluding Sunday. Every day workers faint by the benches and machines half dead from overwork and starv- ation, Some may ask, how is it possible to starve when you have a job? Well it is possible when you work in Guld- . auser’ ‘We get starvation wages bd have to work 60 to 100 hours ® week to get that. ... Say te Six weeks ago the workers on two floors walked out. But where the workers are unorganized one can tell the results beforehand. The com- pany got the workers back with “good” promises and “good” talks and so far that is all they got. There used to be 2,500 workers in this plant. But now that the speed- up has been increased 1,000 workers are walking the street. The only way we can get anywhere In this fac- tory is bY organizing into the TU UL, every man and woman, to fight the terrible conditions and the wage- cuts, aes aa \ i methods to enforce a wage-cut, Many workers are being arrested and immediately threatened with de- portation. The International Labor Defense is taking a leading part in the strike, fighting against the ter- ror and for the right of the workers to assertie Beat Arrested Workers. Arte. wolkeis are being beaten | 1m. 'The strikes, E, Consuello, was brutally beaten when he was ar- vested. Another striker, Peter Bor- rick, was beaten in his cell after be- ing arrested. The National Textile Workers Union has issued « stirring leaflet to the strikers, calling on them to stif- fen their ranks and increase their fighting spirit. Strikers’ Demands. ‘The leaflet prints the demands of the strikers as follows: “‘We demand: ‘The immediate return of the 10 per cent cut, No discrimination against strikers. Recognition of the mill committees. We fight for: Pree speech—the use of the Common, ‘The “Aid to the Lawrence strikers. Alfred the hideous legal lynching of this worker! tight to organize, picket and strike. The release of Berkman and Mur- doch and all strike prisoners.” Organize Strike Relief. The Workers’ International Relief ‘08 cartied its offer of solidarity and Wagenknecht, national secretary of this organization, spoke at mass meetings of the strikers Sunday and Monday. At the last meeting of the strike committee ® relief committee of fifteen was elected to begin the campaign for the collection of funds and food throughout the Néw Eng- Jand states.” Halls and storerooms are being rented by the strikers in the neigh- borhood of the various Mills. Here the W. I. R, will establish coffee and bread kitchens for the picket lines. A relief store has been secured, from 13 members was elected, which will meet each week Pete Chappa, who was recently ar- rested in Monesson for his activities, was elected district organizer, and Edith Briscoe was elected youth or- ganizer. The next day following the conference Edith Briscoe was ar- rested in New Kensington for lead- ing a march of steel workers from Verona to demand relief and was sentenced to 30 days in jail without a | trial. | The conference decided that steps | must be take nto establish city locals |in Steubenville, McKeesport, New | Kensington and Pittsburgh. Addi tional city locals are to be set up as soon as the mill branch bases are laid. Each city local will have its unemployed branch. The conference | | stressed the necessity of activizing| Ny all locals in the sub-distriets within | the next month to special specific tasks. | McKeesport will carry on a mass free speech campaign which will draw in the blacklisted miners. Ohio Val- ley sub-district will mobilize the workers for huge demonstrations against unemployment and wage- cuts. The Pittsburgh sub-district will be the base for the state hun- ger march, which will take place the third week in November, and also | the Western Pennsylvania base for the National Hunger March to Wash- ington Dec. 7. The conference reflected a grow- ing strike sentiment among the steel workers and increased discontent over the mass misery caused by un- Day by day the readi- ness to fight is increasing and this conference has given the workers an organizational basis for their strug-} gles. Foster to Speak At Red Rally Friday In Youngstown, Ohio YOUNGSTOWN, O., Oct. 21.—The Duca Degli Abruzzi Hall at 346 Sum- mit Ave., Youngstown, ©., has been secured for the Communist Election Rally and Mass Meeting for Friday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m., where Wil- | liam Z. Foster, the leader of the great 1919 steel strike, and general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League will speak about the program of the Communist Party in this elec- tion campaign. | Other speakers will be Donato Piergiovagni for Mayor, Joma Turek, candidate for 2nd Ward Councilman, |Dave Dixon, Councilman for 3rd | Ward, and Hannah R. Blumenthal for 5th Ward councilman. ‘UNEMPLOYED STARVATION DR No job and only $20 left to support! six people for the wi and yet] Comrade J.C., of Mom lll, has| $2 to send for a four months’ sub- | | scription to the Daily Worker. “I cannot send $6,” writes Comrade J. ©., “because Hoover's prosperity | has got me on the rocks at last. I have about $20 on which six of us| must live all winter. The farmers | here are almost penniless. This is| my first year on the farm. I spent all the money I had to put in a crop. | TEXTILE WORKERS FROM N. C. BOSSES 1500 Workers in Mass) Meeting Keep Police And Fakers Away CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 19—As| a result of the militancy of the Bur- lington, N. C., mill workers, the Holt, Smith and Love mills have been| forced to grant some concessions to | the workers. Rent in the company | houses has been reduced 10 per cent. | Notices have been put up in the six mills stating: “Although we are obliged to reduce wages 10 per cent, we are at the same time re@ucing house rent 10 per cent.”» Also no docking has taken place since the mass meeting of 1,500 workers on DETROIT JOBLESS YOUTH TO MEET | Call Conference to Plan for Relief DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 21.—The Young Communist League and youth groups of the Unemployed Councils have issued a call for a Mass Unem- ployed Youth Conference to take up the struggle for relief for the un- employed youth and food for under- | nourished school children, to be held | Monday, Noy. 9, at the new Trade| Union Center, 317 Frederick St., near Brush, at 8 p.m. Investigation by the Young Com- munist League has brought to light many cases of the inability of chil- dren to go to school because of lack of food, clothing, shoes and other necessities. Even Murphy was com- pelled to admit that 6,850 such cases are known to the city authorities. Youth Organizations Invited. Invitations for representation at this conference has ben sent to sports clubs, educational youth clubs, so-/ cial clubs and other youth organiza. | tions. Two delegates from each or-| ganization have been inyited. Out-/ of-town representation has also been | invited. Further information on the con-| ference may be obtained from the) Unemployed Youth Conference Com- | mittee, 817 Frederick St., phone Co- Sunday, called by the National Tex- | tile Workers’ Union. Workers’ had | previously been docked daily, some- times their low wages being cut in| this way $3 and $4 a week. To protest this, the high rent and especially the 10 per cent wage-cut, | the third in six months, 1,500 work- | ers attended an open-air meeting and listened enthusiastically for two hours to speakers from the T.U.U.L. and N.T.W.U. They shouted down and ran off the lot a company petty bossman, a preacher and a booster for the A, F. of L., who attempted to speak. The company bossman | was later beaten up by a group of angry workers, Police who openly stated they had eome to arrest the | speakers and break up the meeting did not dare to do so. In spite of the presence of the cops and mill deputies many workers spoke, de- nouncing the wage-cut and their | other grievances. Many also joined the union. Mill Bosses Scared. The mill owners were so scared of a strike that they called over the) Danville, Va., chief of police and some Danyille cops, who had had ex- perience in beating up pickets, They paraded around all day in front of the mills with two machine guns in their car. Because of lack of or- ganization inside the mills, attempts to call a strike failed. However, the workers are now organizing into the National Textile Workers’ Union. With mill committees and locals of the N.T.W.U. inside the mills, the workers will be able to force a lot more concessions from the mill own- lumbia 0938. U. S. And Japan Agree On Looting (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. | ers. And it won't be long, either! One way to help the Soviet Union is t6 spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor’,” by Max | the newly created world peace ma- | chinery designed to protect the mil- itarily weak against the strong. “5. The creation of a “horible example” which may prove fatal to the coming world disarmament conference at Geneva.” In these five points there are two main results. The first is the estab- lishment of Manchuria as an area for attack against the Soviet Union and the admission by the capitalist class that the Kellogg pact, which Stim- son still invokes, was only a cloak to hide the “military aggression of the strong against the weak’—the imperialist attack in Manchuria. In Mukden and Kirin the Japanese have already set up their own pup- pet municipal governments for the exploitation of the working masses. The “independence” movement in Manchuria of General Ling In-ching is part of the Japanese imperialist invasion. The Nanking government under orders from its Wall Street masters is expected to reach an agreement with Japan for the sepa- ration of Manchuria from the rest of China. While this treachery against the Chinese masses for the imperialists is | being carried through by the Nanking | government the masses are protesting | in militant demonstrations against the imperialist attack. Twenty thou- sand students of 76 schools and col- leges protested in a mass demonstra- tion in Nanking against the treach- ery of the Chiang Kai-shek govern- ment and against the imperialist at- tacks. A resolution of the students to Chiang Kai-shek included the follow- ing seven demands. “The resoration of cordial diplo- matic relations between Nanking and Soviet Russia, the immediate furnishing of arms and munitions to student volunteers, the hastening of political unification, the increas- ing of China's military prepara- tions, the opposing of direct nego- tiations between Japan and China, the punishment of national traitors of all classes and the restoration of which these strikers’ families in dis- tress will be given food, | the general populace.” oa ee ‘onal % abit, the rights of mass movements to ‘prescribed for years for | become dangerous, Neglect may be Santal Midy Kidneys <> and Bladder | Back aches, night rising, burning pas- | sages should igh riting | before id “Tam going back to the city from | which I came to join the Unemployed Council and put in the winter fight- | ing. I haven't been out of the city | long enough to lose my residence “privilege” (to starve), so perhaps | the charities will take us into their WORKERS ANSWER IVE BY SENDING SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR DAILY WORKER others could follow with advan- F “The Communist press,” he writes, “is the strongest weapon in the hands of the workers toflay. A paper like the Daily Worker con-~ solidates and clarifies the strugglo so that every worker knows how to attack the capitalist system. “To increase the circulation of the Daily, I would suggest that at every treet corner meeting of the Com- munist Party or affiliated groups one speaker should point out the fol« lowing “Capitalist papers are mostly ad< vertising sheets and not newspapers. “The policy of capitalist news- Papers is to confuse and mislead the workers, especially in attacks against the Soviet Union. gentle arms. If they don't, it won’t | be because I didn’t raise plenty of “Scandals, murders, society pages are contained in capitalist papers, hell.” 9 and no workers’ news at all, Fighting Spirit Spreading. | “Workers will remain weak and Comrades, remember there are | disorganized if they read this capl- workers like that all through the talist “Daily Workers should be sold at | every meeting. Every paper sold is a worker won. Papers should be pushed at every election meeting.” I KNow A NICE PLACE OVER AT Tae Hurry Up! Factory aes The comrade mentioned the cap- WHERE J | italist newspapers’ attacks against CAN PLANT | the Soviet Union. This reminds us ‘THose Sees | again of the Nov. 7 special edition of the Daily Worker. We still await your greetings to be published in a special page of that edition, and the advance cash for advance or- ders of this edition of Nov. 7 that will celebrate the 14th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. Use the blanks below. Only about 10 days are left, as the special page must be ready by Oct. 13. All read- ers and agents of the Daily, get busy and act at once. BAY STATE SILK United States, Couneils, in Daily Worker Clubs, in Party units, A strong fighting in Unemployed spirit is spreading among the workers of America, and we must push our fight forward to spread the Daily Worker, knowing that there are so many comrades who WORKERS STOP A Teh Sais meee NEW WAGE CUT Comrade W. 8. has been out of work | for nine months, but he sends $3 to| Last April the National Textile renew his subscription for six months. | Workers Union led and won & Lanse The bosses’ starvation campaign has | i"! the Bay State Silk Mill In Central not killed his spirit. He writes that | Falls, R. I. However the local had not he has no work in sight, and yet he | been meeting regularly for the last does not forget that the only real | four months or so and we were put- way to fight against hunger, for him- | ting in overtime work trying to get self and for all workers, is to unite |the mill local to function continu- with the workers in an organized |0usly. The boss must have gotten a fight against the bosses and to sup- | little notice of this, and put out the port the workers’ only paper, |feeler of how the workers would re- Unemployment conditions "tind |Spond to the wage cut. He found Comrade W. H. of Robbins, Il, a| Out mighty quick. little discouraged, however. The| A rumor of a cut was spread among Daily Worker Club idea is a good|the workers—the Shop Committee plan, he thinks, but what holds them | imediatelly called a meeting of the back in that district is unemploy- ment and lack of funds to subseribe for the paper. Of course, that makes the task harder, but not impossible. Remember that unemployment is a concrete example to workers of the evils of the capitalist system, and that now is the time to push forward the fight against the capitalist enemy with all the energy available. Com- rade W. H., we know, is still fighting on, for he asksus to send him work- ers’ songs and other material, so per- haps he may start a Daily Worker Club after ail. Bronx Club Starts. The Bronx Daily Worker Club re- ports that at a recent meeting 12 were signed up for membership and } @ collection of $6.20 was taken to de- fray the first expenses. The club held a showing of a Russian movie recently, “The Village of Sin,” which was attended by over 100. At this gathering two members of the club spoke on the role of the Daily Worker and appealed for membership. We are glad to see the Bronx Club starting off with such activity, We expect to see the membership grow as the club expands its activities to include a greater variety of appeals. W. #. of Brooklyn sends us bis appreciations of the Daily and some suggestions on selling meth- serious Goatonce toyour: ist for | theoriginal Santa nnd rough | out the world for if a century. ods, which are pretty good and which the Brooklyn comrade and day shift and decided to send in a committee to see the boss. The boss |refused to see the committee. Im- |mediately the day and the night shifts held a meeting where action was prepared. A decided was made to send in a Joint Committee of day and night shift workers on Monday eve- |ning at 5.30. This Commitee marched linto the office at the scheduled time |and demanded a definite answer from | the boss. Meanwhile both the day and the |night workers waited for the ecom- mittee outside. The committee came |but of the office at 5 minutes to 6, and called upon the worker to march |to the Pulaski Hall to hear the re- port. The night shift worker noti- fied the boss that they were going to | the meeting despite the fact that they | were too start work at 6 o'clock. The boss threatened to close the mill if they were not back in ten minutes. However the meeting was held, the report of the Committee was heard |and the night workers went back to start the mill up at 6.15 p. m. The | workers responded very militantly at the meeting—-when the Committee re- | ported that the boss’ statement was |" shall not cut wages but I shall | have to close the mill in a couple of | weeks because I cannot get orders on such prices.” The worker's answer was “Shut your mill down, but we refuse to work under a wage cut.” HONOR ROLL GREETINGS We, the undersigned through the 1ith anniversary edition of the DAILY WORKER, greet the workers of th U.S.8.R. on the 14th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The success of the Five-Year Plan and the advance in the econom!c 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 fight. 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