The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1931, Page 3

ry DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931 Page Three DEFEND SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION AGAINST IMPERIALIST INTERVENTION! ATTEND NOVEMBER 7TH CELEBRATIONS OF 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.SS.R.! MULE SPINNER TELLS OF STRIKER’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON MILL 10 Per Cent Wage-C ut Means Starvation; Pledge to Fight Cut Till They Win Police Guard A. F. of L. Fakers, Beat and Arrest Nation: al Textile Leaders Daily Worker: The strike had been planned weeks before the bosses put up the announcement of wage ci uts in all the textile mills. The strike occurred on October 5th, a week before the wage cut was to go into effect. This strike happened in the city of Lawrence, the biggest textile industry in New England. It started in the Wood Mill Spinning Room and spread like a forest on fire, to the Ayer Mill. The workers broke through iron gates and into the fac- tory. guarded by the police who were no- tified by somebody who works in the office of the Wood Mill. Just the same the workers marched through the police and got into the plant and brought out with them some de- partments. While all this was happening a| few strikers had been arrested by) some 240-pound detectives. Later) they were followed by the other tex- tile mills of the American Woolen Co. This strike was against a 10 per cent out which, in other words, means starvation wages, less food for the children, less clothes and no comforts of life. We have demon- strated that we do not want a 10 per cent cut and will fight until we win. Z Hard Fighters. The organizers of the N.T.W.U. are hard and steady fighters, fighting for the benefit of the working-class. Just to show you fellow-workers that the N.T.W.U. District No. 1 of Law- rence are for the workers I will point out some facts about the A. F. of L. fakers. 1 They are the bosses’ agents From there they marched by the thousands to the Washington Mill which had been and are trying to break the strike. 2. They are guarded by the po- lice when they speak, while our comrades are arrested and are beaten up by the police. 3. The A, F. of L, leaders sleep in the best hotels and get the best foods and luxury, while our or- ganizers barely eat and sleep in some workers’ homes, The fakers are dressed up very smart, smoke the best cigars and cigarettes, guarded every place they go. We have quite a large number of textile workers all organized and ready to fight any schemes of the bosses. They even use Governor Ely to betray us. Since when has a | governor mingled with the workers and know what's good for them. They use every power to demoralize the strikers. They put a scare into them, such as “Well, if you join the Red Union you will lose your jobs.” If that’s what they call a job, I don’t know what a job is. The meaning of a@ job is steady work and vacations getting paid for it. This is all Ihave to say. A Mule Spinner. A New Comrade Underestimates War Danger New York, N. Y¥. Editor of the Daily Worker: Being a traveling salesman for a farge corporation, with lots of time to read periodicals of all kinds, I re- tently bought a copy of your paper for curiosity sake. After reading it through I became interested and tince then I purchase a copy of the Daily Worker whenever the oppor- tunity presents itself. There is one thing, however, thatt 1 can’t agree with—that is the war anger against the Soviet Union. During my travels in every state in the U. S, A. I come in contact with tll classes of people and from my ex- periences I can truthfully say that, with the exceptions of a few poli- ticians and the clergy, there prevails & sympathy throughout for the Soviet Union. Times being as they are, ine sees especially the working peoples in fa- vor of Russia as it is today. Should war be declared against the U. there are no reasons to believe that the European countries could men- kee the Russians. Peoples of all na- tions will defend the Soviet Union, In my opinion to the last. European tapitalism with the backing of Hoo- ver and Mellon will never succeed in leading the peoples into another war to defend capitalism. The first coun- try dering a war against Russia will find itself in a state of revolution. No nation will be foolish eniugh. There are millions of workers in every land to fight against starvation for a So- viet Republic rather than for capi- talism. D.M.B. Editorial Note:—We are glad to get this sympathetic letter from our ~ comrade, We welcome him into v.. ranks. But we wish to point out that the war danger against the Soviet Union is becoming sharper every day. True, the work- ers do not want war; the workers do not declare wars. The industri- alists and finance capitalists and their lackeys, the politicions, want war and they are bending all effort to mould the minds of the workers so as to rally them to fight for capitalism. It is the role of the Communist Party to dispell the boss poison frim the minds of the workers and to organize them so that we can be successful in our struggle against war and the de- fense of the Soviet Union. A Worker Learns Through Experience , (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT. Mich.—Being out of work for a Jong time, I accepted the first job I could find. It was in one nf the most explotted factories in De- teoif. the Murray Body Corporation. Yhere they haye a straw boss at every bench. This rotten element, they try to develon among the workers. ‘Yorkers do this dirty work in order fo keep their jobs. I started to talk fo one of these straw bosses. I asked him if he realized what he was doing ind if be thourht he coul4 better his tondition by doing this. He told me he has a family of five children hun- try. I said, “Don’t you see that there is areal way to better conditions? ' You should organize with the rest of the workers in a union nad fight for better conditions.” He wenld not listen to reason. He jaid. “T have a iob and I’m goin to beep it.” And sure enouch, in three favs he was fired. The reason was because he covld not keen up with! the pace of speed-up. With his head cil now. Doctor Robs Workers New London, Wis. Deity Worker: A short time aco a hosnital was fe't for 9 Dr, Pachard and hie son. Tha wrense creme 29 and 95 cents per tos= (This toh was given te Shien fonts Broz "he older of thees broth- ro tan hte avererawn bully and \ Biker who worked his men wheeling Prerete 24 hours et a stretch and tot them wattine for 7 and 8 hours rithout pay until the fob started. Linked vn with this are the gyp telles of Dr. Rorchard. When hired rm Shienrock the workers. after work- rt a half dav, would be forced by te crafting doctor to sien a bond or about a hundred dollars. This; pnd money came out of the workers’ fv at the rate of 20 per cent on the pilar and it had to be paid for in specified time or it was void and ¢ worker was the loser. The job, owever, did not last long enough for great number of the workers to pay the bond in full, ‘If a worker was luc’ enough to by it all up he had something on down he rushed through the same workers he had squealed on. He did not say a word. We understood per- fectly that there is no such thing as friendship between a worker and a boss, and must never permit our- selves to be fooled by the boss or the agents of the bosses whom they use to fool the workers. A couple of weeks later, a call came to the unemployed council that an eviction was to take place. A num- ber of comrades gathered together in order to put the things back into the house. The family being evicted was the same one that I had met in the factory, and for the first time I came face to face with him. When the furniture was put back, he at once joined the unemployed council. Now he is an active member. He has learned his lesson—that there can be no friendship between workers and bosses. Why wait for a bitter experience like this. Join the Unemployed Coun- Through Bond Scheme his hands. It would not give any cash surrender whatsoever. It was merely good for board and room in *he hosnital—doctor bill not included. At the some time the officials stand for such robbery of the workers, it supports a Inrce scale bhotleeser by the name of Hiernie Weiner, who rets the best of police protection. He runs trucks without license and real- ly is the mayor of the town. What- ever Weiner says goes. The mayor has nothing to say. The ex-chief of polics, Beacher, retired on m-sry he made from graft received from Weiner’s gangsters. ‘These wage cuts and skin games that the bosses use to gyp us workers must be stopped. Let us build strong Unemloyed Councils and a strong Communist Party and fight for our rights. Abolish police protection for gangsters and the jailing and robbing of workers. We must demand real relief for the unemployed workers ‘and prepare for a real Hunger March ‘ashington, Ne eerie tea id thea the: masa. of to Wi Increase in War Rumors Aims at USSR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Japan's recent reaction in Man- churia will be found, when the truth of the situation becomes known, to have been not only in- offensive to the United States but, rather, highly, conducive to the promotion of her interests and ideals.” He points out further that the ex- ploitation of Manchuria by Japan is not basically different from the ex- ploitation of Latin America by the United States under the Monroe doctrine. If the United States covers her imperialist exploitation in Latin America by a Monroe doctrine, “sup- pose Japan says she has her own Monroe Doctrine, what then?” The agreement of the United States and Japan in China is for the further exploitation of the Chinese masses, to rob Great Britain of some of her spheres of exploitation and to spread the area of exploitation by war against the Soviet’ Union. LAVAL SAILS AFTER TALK WITH LAMONT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) victorv over canitalist exploitation by recording daily new stupendous achievements in the Five-Year Plan. The imperialists realize that it is the German masses in the first place who are preparing to follow the path laid by the Russian proletariat to overcome the capitalist misery which crushes the working millions to hun- ger and misery. ‘The French capitalist press is point- ing very sharply to the dangers to capitalism in Germany. The capital- ist press in France warns of “a new German bankruptcy and all its mis- fortunes and evil effects” and states the imperialists must be prepared “to prevent what is regarded as likely to be almost a catastrophic crisis.” This means war on the German masses— armed force in an attempt to crush the rising militancy of the proletariat in Germany. This is the path for the attack on the Soviet Union from the Western front. ‘The revision of the reparations and the war debts, which France and the United States bankers have agreed is absolutely essential, will not be to re- lieve the German masses but to pre- vent thee ecollapse of the German capitalist system and in order to per- mit the American bankers to get back their investments in Germany. The cut in the reparations and the war debt payments mean sharp decrease in the revenues of the imperialist government which the bankers intend to press out of the masses by in- creased taxes. ‘The capitalist political demagogs are already declaring that the can- cellation of the war debts will mean more taxes on the masses. is is being done in order to misledi the masses about the real meaning of the reparations. The Communist Parties of all the imperialist countries de- mand cancellation of the reparations payments which mean the super ex- ploitation of the German toiling masses. ‘ The entire procedure adopted for the conferences of Hoover and Laval indicate clearly the secret agreements which took place behind the official statements of the conference. The capitalist press tries to explain the long conference on Sunday by stating that it was due to the time necessary to get the official statement of the conference into “literary” French and English. The “literary” endeavors lay in trying to keep out of the offi- cial statement any of the real conclu- stons that had been arrived at for the attack on the Soviet Union, for the struggle to reduce Great Britain to a second rate power, for the attack on the German masses, and on the agreement for the support of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The capitalist press is pointing repeatedly to these agreements which have not been made public. The New York Times puts this first in its editorial ‘Tuesday on the conferences. “There are obvior aspects and results of M. Laval's Visit to Amer- ica which cannot be expressed in official language. Things of the , Spirit cannot be crystallized into formulas, It may well prove to be true that, in this case also, the intangibles, the imponderables, will be of more importance and of more lasting value than the specific un- » The real substance behind these imperialist “things of the spirit” is the attack on the Soviet Union and the redivision of the world colonial areas. These “things of the spirit” | are imperialist war. The Times correspondent from Paris points this out also, He states that these secret agreements were made because of the “political situa- tion in both countries.” “In reality, however, it is sus- pected that behind yesterday's communique a larger measure of agreement has been obtained than could he revealed in view of the politica] situation in both coun- tries. For instance, here it is be- Heved that more than any other question it was the situation in Germany which occupied the at- tention of President Hoover and Premier Laval. Official phrases de- scribing the procedure which must be followed conceal as much as they Teveal of what was proposed.” The reason for the secret agree- “ “SPREAD AND WIN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) he did then in a month we do now in a week.” Bosses and U. T. W. It was brought out that United ‘Textile Workers’ organizers were brought in just a few months before the wage-cut and as part of the wage-cutting program. Even now Riviere of the U..T. W. is trying to cripple the picket lines by selecting the best fighters and giving them jobs in American Woolen mills in other cities. In some mills the “white collar” staff has joined the U. T. W. in a block, and evidently under orders. A discussion took place on the necessity of raising departmental de- mands at meetings of all the work- ers in each department, the case of the Bloom Mill strike, which ended with workers meeting in the hall and deciding who was to go back being cited as one case in which organiza- tion is preserved through the de- partmental meetings. A full discus- sion of organization and tactics on the picket lines took place. There was a drawing of more of the rank and file strikers into leadership of the strike. 4 Stachel outlined the three main tasks as being: (1) The winning of the Lawrance strike; (2) the mob- flization behind the strike of all tex- tile workers; (3) the mobilization of the support of all workers in all in- dustries. Stachel told of the 5,000,000 work- ers affected by the new wage-cuts started by the U. S. Steel Corpora- tion, and spreading in all industries, with the first organized resistance coming from Lawrence. The millions of workers facing or now enduring wage-cuts will regard this strike as their own fight, he predicted. He considered the strategy of the em- ployers in Lawrence to be to weaken the strikers by hunger, then to Jaunch a terror of arrests and smashed heads, coupled with promises issued by fake arbitration boards and with the co-operation of the United Textile Workers’ Union leaders, He analyzed the present tendency of the U. T. W. chiefs to use radical phrases as a recognition on their part of their slim hold on the workers, who de- mand strike activity. But the U. T. ‘W. has not yet delivered the goods, and-some Lawrence boss agncis, like the Sunday papers, are scared of the unity of the workers against the 10 per cent cut, and worried over the necessity the U. T. W. officials find themselves in of yielding at least in words to the militancy of the masses. “Build United Front.” “Our slogan,” said Stachel, “is for the struggle of all the workers against all those who stand for wage- cuts. We must build a United Front Rank and File Strike Committee that can speak in the name of all the strikers and actually lead the strike.” ‘The main things to bear in mind France and the United States and of the entire world the war prepara- toins that are going on behind the official statements of the conference. They want to hide from the toiling masses that this conference was part of the capitalist attempt to find a solution to the complete collapse of the system through war. This fol- lows faithfully the imperialist tradi- tion of secret agreements that flow- ered into the world blood bath in 1914, Le Temps in Paris points out that the “policy of close co-opera- tion” which was begun at Washing- ton “will take clearer form as prob- Jems arise which demand solution.” The secret agreements will come to light as accomplished facts in war moves against the Soviet Union and against the German masses, and as moves against British imperial power. ‘The British capitalist press re- alizes that the conference, far from providing a basis for disarmament in which British imperialism would be a factor recognized the political dom- inance of France in Europe. ‘The first open answer of the Brit- ish capitalist class to the Hoover- day. The attack ‘is published under statement: ‘The chief outcome of Laval’s mission to America is abandonment by President Hoover of the leader- ship of world affairs he assumed with his moratorium proposal last duly. “Having secured an agreement with Laval under which the franc and dollar will prop one another up, he is not willing to respect the ‘no trespassing’ sign the ‘French nailed to the Young Plan.” While this is an attack on both | United States and French imperial- | imperialists as part of the British at- tempt to break the joint program of both. statement of the determination of both France and the United States to push Great Britain into the posi- tion of a secondary power. ‘The Post correspondent writes that the official statement of the confer- ence states that the following re- sulted from the conference “as clearly as though they were in print.” “1, America recognizes France's role as the second most powerful economic Power on earth, politic- ly dominating Europe, and con- gents to treat on a basis of equality STRIKE! SAYS N.T.W. MEET Laval conferences is contained in the! London “News-Chronicle” on Tues- | the headline “Hoover's Surrender tO | ;, France” and contains the-following| the imperialists and the attempt of wot it is divected against the French | blems” was discussed, according to ‘The New York Evening Post Of] ultimate solution one way or an- ‘Tuesday contains a brutally frank other.” LAWRENCE in the actual conduct of the strike, Stachel stated, are, in addition to the above, development of local lead- ers, mill and departmental organiza- tion, mill demands, one picket line (defeat of U. T. W. attempts to split it), freezing out the U. T. W. leaders by making our militancy and activity on the picket line obvious, and thus exposing the A. F. of L. leaders who will try to hold the pickets back. Russak, erpresentative in Lawrence of the national board of the union, stated that the immediate task of the national board itself is to mob- ilize the whole union back of the strike. Both Russak and Stachel laid heavy emphasis on the holding of re- lief conferences in various sections and building of relief committees throughout the textile industry and throughout all industries. With this goes a spread of the strike itself, par- ticularl ythrough the mills which the American Woolen Co. has had closed down in other cities, but is now try- ing to re-open. President Reid reported that or- ganizers were already on the way to the American Woolen Co, mill in Utica, which the company has an- nounced it will re-open. He opened the question of registration of the strikers, and of providing plenty of meeting places. Ann Burlak, Blackstone Valley or- ganizer, reported that wage-cuts are sweeping the Blackstone Valley, that there is a preliminary conference of delegates from six mills prepared, and that strike action is probable in the near future, A motion was passed unanimously to have the National Bureau of the union prepare and publish, to be discussed in Lawrence, a resolution embodying decisions along the line of Stachel’s and Russak’s reports. A mition to get especially French and | Syrian organizers for Lawrence was adopted. Letters and telegrams of greetings to Pat Devine, William Murdoch and Edith Berkman, with | demands for their release, and re- lease of all other class-war prison- ers, was adopted. Berkman and Murdoch sent written greetings and retorts to the convention. A leaflet is to be issued, calling on all textile workers to support the Lawrence strike. ‘The National Bureau was ordered to prepare new cards and to issue the official newspaper of the union. ‘There were two interruptions of the session Sunday. One was when Im- migration Inspector Chase and an- other detective walked in, showed their badges and stated they were looking for someone. “Let’s hope you don’t find him!” said Chairman Reid, and the inspectors did not. They left. Theother was for an excellent beef stew and coffee, bread and cookies spread provided by the General Fab- rics Strike Committee and brought in from Central Falls. with her, “to the relative exclusion of Great Britain.” “2. America recognizes France's right to judge for herself her arm- ament needs in exchange for France's use of her financial power to help European political and eco~ nomic pacification.” He adds that the discussion around the question of monetary stability was directed against the British im- perialists. . “The meaning is clear. There is no word about continuing this study with the direct co-operation of London there is no mention of a further talk in which the British might also play a role. There is no indication that Lord Reading's visit to Paris had anything to do with this week's conversations. In short, New York and Paris will do the stabilizing, not New York, London and Paris.” ‘The conclusion is that, “Yesterday’s communique indic- ates clearly that Mr. Hoover has surrendered, reluctantly but fully, to the idea that from now on the bargains must be between America and France, with our old beloved Anglo-Saxon friend on the side- lines.” The visit of Grandi to Bruening part of the entire realignment of Italy to win.as favorable a position as possible within the dominant im- perlalist grouping that has been es- tablished thru the conferences be- tween Wall Street and the French imperialists. Grandi realizes that British imperialism is on the “side lines” and has been put there by France and the United States draw- ing the political conclusions of the weakened position of the British im- perialist economy. At the conference Monday between Grandi and Bruen- | ing in Berlin, “the whole rang ot political and economic world pro- a New York Timees dispatch, prob- lems “which both statesmen were agreed were driving fast toward an The absence of any mention of the Manchurian situation in the official statement of Hoover and Laval means that in their secret agree- ments there is joint support for the redivision of China and for the car- rying of this redivision to the British empire. The Soviet Union spends billions on social insurance, The Wall CALL 10,000 TO DEMAND STRIKE AID (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ternational Labor Defense. is now out on bail. . * Capuani LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct, 27.—De- spite the cold winds blowing Monday afternoon, the meeting called by the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee on Lincoln Court lot at 2 pm. was better attended than usual. Hundreds of strikers gathered there, disregarding Marshal O'Brien, who was scouting around in a car with his usual body guard. The mass meeting voted unani- mously at the conclusion of Bieden- Kapp’s speech on the city council’s absolute refusal to see the committee of the strikers to instruct the United Front Rank and File Strike Commit- tee to prepare to bring 10,000 for the next demand for relief for the hun- gry and for the use of the city Com~ mon for meetings. It was reported in the Lawrence Evening Tribune that a long argu- ment in the city council resulted when the city messenger, Murphy, reported there was a big crowd outside asking to see the council. It gives elaborate attempts at justification made by Alderman Car and Alderman Eber- hardt for the high-handed refusal to even consider the request. Carr is also police commissioner and Eber- hardt is commissioner of parks, The gist of their arguments is that when “these people” were denied the use of the Common before by Eber- hardt, they “brought up stuff at their Lincoln Court meeting against Alder- man Carr.” However, the Boston papers say newspaper men were told before the meeting took place that the request to see the city council would be de- nied. The Lawrence paper, telling of the strikers’ picketing back and forth in front of the city hall, says: “There was no semblance of disorder, but Ignazio Capuani was arrested on a charge of vagrancy and loitering.” Beat Up Capuani. It wasn’t just a decision to arrest somebody anyway. Strikers saw the notorious strike-breaking “Father” Milanese talking to O’Brien, police marshal, just before the arrest. Ca- puani was taken to the lockup, beaten up in the cell and bailed out by the Lawrence Strikers’ Defense Commit- tee and International Labor Defense within a few hours. The man who provided the $200 bail was jerked in front of Immigration Inspector Chase and put through a third degree. Chase assailed Harry Canter, repre- senting the defense, for telling ar- rested men they do not have to an- swer questions before their trial. Capuani had been out of jail only a couple of hours when O’Brien stopped. him again on the street for another quizzing. The case comes up at 9:30 Tuesday, and the defense will have witnesses, O'Brien has a habit of riding around to all picket lines in a car packed with tough-looking detectives. He calls this one and that one off the picket line, puts them through a round of questions, and assures them, “You are responsible for whatever happens here.” Monday morning he saw your reporter watching a picket line of 6,000 men and women at the ‘Wood Mill, and made him respon- sible for the conduct of the line. Pawtucket Mill Struck. PAWTUCKET, R. I., Oct. 27.—A small mill here is on strike since the evening of Oct. 23. When the sec- retary of the National Textile Work~- ers’ Union local was fired, all 34 of the others walked out. There are good prospects of winning the de- mand for reinstatement. In the Soviet Union wage in- creases and the universal introduc- tion of the seven-hour day. In cap- italist America wage cuts and the slave stagger plan. Attend the No- vember 7 celebration mass mect- ings. 1,800 IN DULUTH MARCH 10 DEMAND JOBLESS RELIEF (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tion of the jobless to be dealt with as a committee they backed down and gave lodging to 35 of the home- less. The committee declared that they would be back tomorrow to see if their demand that the other build- ing be opened for the homeless is enforced. Preparations for the Na- tional Hunger March are being taken up at the meetings of council Mon- days and Fridays, 2 p. m. at 751 Washington St., Wednesday, 8 p. m., 113 Dudley St., Roxbury, Mass. { os. 8 Teror Against Jobless Workers In Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 27— Seeing the increasing growth and ac- tivity of the Unemployed Council in fighting for relief for the jobless of this city, the city police have in- creased their terror against the workers. On October 21, an active member of the Unemploved Council was jailed for being a delerate that was going to see the head of the welfare board. Previous to this, a meeting had been held in front of the citv avency that rives out tickets for the workers to wet fond and lodeine. The chief faker there, ‘Dehorn Tony,” had re- fused a number of workers the ald they hed asked for and told them that they could go jump into the river for all he cared. At the citv hall where the workers | were sent the police were present and refused the group admission, and began to disperse the crowd. The committee stood firm and the cops tried to bodily throw the workers out. However, the workers resisted and when the cops saw that the workers meant business they finally allowed the committee to go in. Comrade Elioff was jailed because he protested against the cops and insisted that the committee be let in. In court the following morning the judge saw that it would be too ob- vious if he sentenced him to jail and was forced to leave him go on a sus- pended sentence. While the trial was going on, a protest demonstration was being held by the Unemployed Council and the International Labor Defense at Bridge Square. * e Organize New Unemployed Branch CHICAGO, Il, Oct. 27.—Organiza- tion of a new branch of the Unem- ployed Council, (Branch 27) has just been completed in Woodlawn, at the South Side Workers Book Store, 558 E, 63rd St. The group which began organiza- tion about two weeks ago was or- ganized in behalf of the unemployed of the district. ‘The Council's activities are directed toward securing immediate jobless relief. ‘The meetings for now are held every Friday, 7.30 p. m., and all un- employed are requested to be there at meetings and all organizations in the vicinity are asked to participate in this work. Springtield, Wil, Organizing SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Oct. 27—In preparation for the National Hunger March, the Springfield Unemployed Council is calling a cnference of all organizations, A. F. of L. local unions, fraternal and sympathetic organiza- tions, etc. The conference is going to be held at Painters Hall on Monroe between Fourth and Fifth Streets, November 8, 2 p.m. At this confer- ence there will be organized an unemployed council that will be capable of leading of the 12,000 un- employed workers here as well as the workers who are still on the job re- reciving miserable wages. All organ- izations. should send delegates to this conference which will prepare a city- wide hunger march on Nov. 23, at city hall. Individual workers should raise this question at their local meetings or organizational meetings when the call is received. oi he Trenton Council Active TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 27.—An ac- tive unemployed council has been formed here that is carrying on wide- | spread agitation for unemployment relief, and for the National Hunger March on December 7. Over 5,000 leaflets were distributed calling on the workers to a demonstration at City Hall Plaza, Friday, Oct. 30, to demand unemployment relief. An eviction at 205 Fulton &t., where an unemployed woman and her seven children were being thrown onto the streets, was successfully re- sisted wei. se Minneapolis Active MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 27.— |The United Front Hunger March Committee of 26, elected at the Un- employment Conference Oct. 16, met Thursday night and mapped out plans for the City Hunger March Nov. 20. Another A. F. of L. union, the Railway Carmen's Local 229, de- cided to affiliate and support the Hunger March and sent a representa~ tive to the Hunger March Committee meeting. Five thousand preliminary leaflets will be issued immediately to popularize the November 20 demon- LONGSHOREMEN IN BOSTON DEFEAT RYAN BETRAYALS Industrial Union Is Issuing Program BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 27.—The strike of the 3,500 Boston longshore- men and freighthandlers took a more determined turn when Joseph Ryan, international president of the LL.A. addressed the three locals involved in the strike at separate meetings in an effort to obtain a split vote and thus divide the men. There was an unanimous reection on the part of the longshoremen of the shtpowners’ proposal and a vote for the conin- uation of the strike. It was not until Ryan was cornered that he “promised” to call out the members of the ILA in other ports where they were working ships han- dled by scab labor in the Port of Bos- ton. While the mass pressure of the rank and file forced Ryan into mak- ing this promise it remains to be seen to what extent he means to go thru with it, The ports of Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore should be out tomorrow if Ryan is sincere. Refuse City Relief In the meanwhile, the city relief has turned down the longshoremen who have been striking as well as the Soldiers’ relief who had been handing out a few morsals to the ex-service- men involved in the strike. The ILA has thus far refused to even discuss the question of relief. In view of the fact that Ryan was unsuccessful in his atempt to cause @ split it is now feared by the long shoremen that his next mowe will be to bring the matter up befyore the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration. Industrial Union Proposals The Marine Workers Industrial Union proposes to the rank and file of the ILA the folléwing: 1, To call for imimediate action in spreading the strike to as to force the hand of Ryan and the shipping In- terests, 2. ‘To demand strikers’ relief from the international body. 3. To organize real picket lines in- volving the entire membership. 4. To elect a rank and file strike committee to deal directly with the shipping interests, giving them spe- cific instructions to reject taking seats with the arbitration board. In the Soviet Union wage in- creases and the universal intre- duction of the seyen-hour day. In capitalist America wage cuts and the slave stagger plan. Attend the November 7 Celebration mass meet- ings. HONOR ROLL GREETINGS We, the undersigned through the 14th anniversary edition of the DAILY WORKER, greet the workers of th 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 fight. : NAME | ADDRESS AMOUNT Dollars Cents Cut this out, get busy, collect greetings from workers in your shop, or factory, mass organiza~- Street Government spends billions on war. Attend the November 7 Celebration mass meetings, tion, and everywhere. Twenty-five cents and up for individuals, $1 and up for organizations. Mail immediately to get into the November 7th edition of the Daily hihes a