The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1931, Page 3

L \ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, _ NOVEMBER 26, 1901 THUGS TAKE M FURNITURE; DRIVE HIS FAMILY FkOM HOME Family of Four Forced to Live in a Garage; Children Barefooted and Undernourished Fathev Works Hard in Mine, But Cannot Make Living for Family Dear Friends: You should come here and see the conditions in Harlan. My husband was fired from the Harlan Gas Coal Co. for join- ing a labor union and we were forced by the company to move. They made us move on the 8th of June, 1931. not have all our furniture paid for, so the thugs made it their business to go to the furniture company and tell them to come and get the furniture because they were going to throw it out The furniture people came with a truck and while the thugs were watching they took the furniture out and left me nothing to keep house with. of the house. Lived in Garage. We were forced to move into a garage where we stayed with my hus- band until the law got after him so bad that he had to leave. He stayed away about two weeks and finally slipped back, for he could get work nowhere. He had to leave us to the mercy of the world when he was gone, and when he came back we had no place to stay for two weeks. No Milk for Children. He finally got a job in a place cal- led Elcomb, but he can’t make a liy- ing for his family—there are four of us. We have two boys, one 10 years old and one 13 who is very delicate. They don't get enough to eat—nothing but beans and potatoes once in a while and corn bread. No soup, milk, stews or anything like that. We have nothing left now but a little bit of a stove and a bed that is wired up and no mattress. The four of us have to sleep on it. The people who lent us the bed are likely to need GET THE DAILY WORKER INTO THE HANDS OF MILLIONS READY TO ENTER REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE The Notional Hunger March, tl war in a, the capitalist wer viet China and the united front of the workers agains Subserintons to the Dail © a powerinl factor in ed front and making | at is why we have “yn ested on all comrade activities in spread- » Worker and in getting Our arpcel is bearing fruit. The letter fio Coimrade E. C. of Kokomo, | | ‘ed the Daily Worker,” writes the comrade from Kokomo, U. §. SENATORS GET BRIBES FROM SUGAR COMPANY Davis, Foe of Jobless, Got Graft WEW YORK.—Former Secretary of Labor Davis, now United States Sen- stor from Pennsylvania, and Senator ‘Wi tson received bribes from the B. G. Dahlberg Co., head of a number of ete sugar corporations in the United tutes, testimony before the Senate bobby investigation committee shows. ‘The bribes were paid to the sena- tors for getting higher tariffs on sugar for the sugar bosses. Davis made a special trip to the A. F. L. ponvention at Vancouver in October to denounce unemployment insurance as a menace to the American spirit. While Davis was attacking unem- Ployed insurance, helping the leaders @f the American Federation of Labor, and the wage cut drive, he was get~ ting stocks from the Dahlberg Co. because he aided them in getting higher tariffs. The big sugar barons, the testi- mony showed, were donating for the campaign fund of Herbert Hoover as well as for Al Smith. These facts were brought out in the testimony of Jonn Holland, special investigator for the committee. In previous investigations on the same subject it developed that Presi- dent Hoover was closely allied with | the big suzar interests, and that he helped his personal attorney graft $75,000. While he was getting money from the sugar barons, Senator Davis was leading the attack against the Com- munist Party. He supported Mathew Woll and William Green in their tirades aaginst the Soviet Union. HUNGER MARCH MASS MEET IN NEW HAMPSHIRE The Daily Worker Club of Lebanon, N. H,, calls upon all employed and un- omployed workers to attend a mass meeting at the Parker Hall, this Fri- day, November 27, at 7:30 p.m. Workers of Lebanon will discuss wage-cuts, speed-up and the present crisis, A delegate will be clecied to go to Northern New Hempshire in prep- Siem tor the National Hunger ¢——_— it soon themselves and if they do we INER’S » Harlan, Ky. We did will be left to sleep on the floor. Starves While Working. Tam nearly down with the rheuma- tism and can’t buy any medicine. It isn’t because my husband does not work; he works hard enough to make big money. We are starving because the bosses cut the wages. My hus- band must work himself to death, but can’t make a living. I don’t know what to do. Some- times I get disheartened, for they have my husband blacklisted. He would not have a job where he is working if they knew he was a mem- ber of the National Miners Union, which he joined after the officials of the U. M. W. A. sold the miners out. Well, dear friends, I guess I had better close, I could tell lots more, but I guess I won't need to today. I am destitute for clothes and houss- hold goods. —A Miner's Wife. wv my answer to the appeal is subceripétons, listed below, and to do my best in the piers) fight. A. fev subscription Wfanks would be appreciated.” We are sending the blanks and we urge all other comredes to get sub- seription blanks if they haven't al- veadysdone so, and get them filled out. And be cure to order your extra bundles to be prepared for crowds ‘hat take part in or gather to greet the Hunger Marchers. Get together 5 much money as you can and send ‘6 in for extra bundle orders. You arc 0 to sell extra copies of the Daily vorler in the crowd. There will be wn by the Hunger March norsirations who will want to ‘aio. what this is all about. The demonstration will teach them that the workers’ struggle is their struggle, and that the paper that tells them all about the Hunger March is the work- ers’ paper, Daily Worker. You will be sure to sell many Daily Workers if you have many copies on hand for the demonstrations and if you point out clearly in the crowd why the workers should buy the Daily Worker. More efforts should be made to bring the Daily Worker to the masses. Once the workers learn what the Daily Worker stands for they are eager to buy it. We get many letters showing that this is so. Theodore Dreiser, in his report on the reign of. terror in the Kentucky coal mines, states that the coal miners think of the Daily Worker as their best friend. We have a letter, for instance, from the wife of a miner in Harlan that illustrates what Dreiser means. “Will you please send me a Daily Worker,” she writes. “Since I left Harlan, Ky., I haven't seen a paper. I would appreciate the paper very much, as me and my husband are very much interested in this work and if you would send me 10 or 15 copies I would try very much to sell them. I have quite a few friends who are doing great work for this organization, and £ sure would like very much to get in touch with the Paper.” And here's another letter, from Bloomfield, N. J.,that also shows how eager the workers are to get the Daily Worker. “Enclosed you will find a lonesome dollar,” writes Comrade J. H., “which I have at last gathered together to- wards my copy of the paper of our class. I shall always try to spend you ell I can. Keep up the good work and do not feel discouraged, because I can sssure you that the working-class, more than is discernible, is fast rec- ognizing that the Communist Party is the real party of their class. Every- where, wherever the bosses are to be fought, they are finding the militant comrades in the forefront of the battle. The growth of Communism must not be gauged by the numerical strength of the Party, for there are millions such as I who are willing and ready for anything for the cause, now or later. “Long live the Communist Party of the United States. “Long live the Soviet Union.” «The comrade is right. There are millions who are ready to enter the revolutionary struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party. Get your subscription blanks and order your oxtra bungies and reach Page Three ee lass Pacis ke National Marchers Waits in Cincinnati CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 25.— | The Unemployed Councils and the branch of the Workers Interna- tional Relief here are arranging a Mass welcome for the 55 del- egates on the National Hunger March who arrive in this city on Dec. 1. The meeting will be in Workers Center, 310 East 8 St., at 6 p. m., Dec, 1, Admission will be by dona- tion of canned goods, to be used on the march, JAPANESE SOLD ARMS T0 GENERAL MA (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) view of the provocative lies of the Japanese imperialists that the Soviet Union was giving aid to the Chinese militarists. The report is published under the sensational captions: “International Smuggling Gang Selling Arms In North- ern Manchuria.” “Artest Dairen Customs officials ‘The newspaper says that on Nov. 18 “Darien police arrested two offi- cials of the Darien custom house and several employees of a certain big firm. This gang engaged in opera- tions of selling arms through Harbin and Heilukiang (Tsitsihar). The po- lice raided the offices of Nagaishioten on Kiimachi Street. The ringleader who is a European escaped arrest. This gang took advantage of Man- churian events to supply arms through Dairen and Harbin to the Chinese Generals of North Man- churia. “The work of the gang was so well organized that its activities were un- discovered until the last moment, Despite strong police guard, the gang transported arms and ammunition almost openly. It is believed the gang has members throughout Man- churia.” The big office mentioned by the Parien newspaper is that of “Ko- husel Unyu,” a great Japanese Trans- port and Loan Comapny in Man- ehuria, te, RSE The Soviet press yesterday pub- ‘red 2 dispatch from Peiping, China, voporting that the Japanese planned io use the Tsarist White Guards in Manchuria to seize the Chinese Tastern Railway and set up @ buffer state in Northern Manchuria. The Peiping dispatch quotes a trustworthy source in Osaka, Japan, to the effect that an official Japanese military mission at Harbin had gone to Mukden to arrange with the Ja- panese command an agreement with the White Guards to seize the rail- road, which 1s jointly owned by China and the Soviet Union. } The report quotes a representative of the Japanese Military Mission as telling General Kosmin, leader of the White Guards’ organization, that al- though war with the Soviet Union might not take place immediately, Japan intended to set up a buffer state in the Far East and that “nat- urally in realization of this plan the Whites must play a principal role.” Tsitsihar Section of Railway Now Occupied. The dispatch reports that the Ja- panese do not deny that Harbin would be occupied by the Japanese and that they would “partly occupy” the Chinese Eastern Railway. The Tsitsihar section of the railway is now ocupied by the Japanese. The plan to seize the railroad is prepared by the White Guards and is reported in a dispatch from Mos- cow to the New York Times as fol- lows: “One detachment of ‘whites’ would occupy the Harbin station, issuing an order for the immedi- ate suspension of traffic; a second detachment would occupy the shops and take over management of the line, and a third would occupy the Harbin commissary. “Present employes of the rail- road, beginning with the telegraph operators, would be beaten and then replaced by new men previously trained for the work, the report added.” Semenoff Helping Japanese. In this connection, the New York Evening Journal on Nov. 13 published the following dispatch from Shang- hai: “General Gregorie Mikhailovitch Semenoff, the ‘Butcher of Siberia, is directing the raising of a White Russian army of 5,000 men in Man- churia to co-operate with Japanese if the partly Soviet Chinese East- ern Railway is to be seized, it was said here today.” Coincident with this latest effort to push the Soviet Union into war, the Japanese are continuing their at- tacks on the Chinese masses, with growing frankness as to their aims to crush the Chinese Soviets, the Chinese Red Army and the growing resistance of the Chinese masses as @ prerequisite for the re-division of China among the imperialist plun- derers, The New York Herald Tri- bune yesterday carried a Tokio dis- patch, thecontents of which were summerized in the following head- line: “JAPAN MAPS NEW DRIVE; PLANS TO PASS GREAT WALL IF CHINESE DO NOT RETIRE.” ‘The New York Daily News carried the headline: “JAPANESE SOLDIERS ROUT 12,000 FOES NEAR MUKDEN.” ry Kentucky Mine Bosses Try to) Make Communism Trial Issue MT. STERLING, Ky., Nov. 25.— After two days of examining, the jury is completed to try the framed-up charge of murder against W. B. Jones, the first of 11 miners from Evarts, Ky., who were sent to this Blue Grass county by the Harlan coal operators. The first trial of Bill Burnett on the same charge ended in a victory for the miners, The trial grows out of the killing of & miner by deputy sheriffs, and the alleged death of three deputy sheriffs. Jones was sec- retary of the United Mine Workers Union local in Evarts. Prosecutor Says NMU Members Should Be Shot Tn their anxiety to “get” Jones, and the remainder of the miners yet to be tried, the coal operators have re- tained a special attorney, R. L. Pope of Tennessee; they have also sent down F. M. Jones, a special prosecu- tor in the office of Commonwealth Attorney Brock’s office. Jones thinks that all members of the National Miners Union should be shot. RAIL UNION HEADS MEET TO HELP PUT THRU WAGE CUTS Bosses Insist Pay Be Cut 10 P. C. NEW YORK.—Railway wage cuts of 10 per cent affecting 1,200,000 will be put over, information reaching the Daily Worker shows, unless the men prepare to strike and defeat the plots of the leaders of the 21 railroad brotherhoods. The railroad brother- hood officials are in favor of wage cuts, but find it difficult to carry out their strategy of putting the wage cuts over. ‘The New York Sun on Tuesday declared that the railroad executives say they have the assurance of the railroad union leaders that they favor wage cuts, but the difficulty is to get the men to accept. Meanwhile, the railroads are going ahead with the wage cutting drive while the leaders of the 21 railroad brotherhoods try to get the men to have faith in the bosses and in the Watson-Parker Law instead of in strikes as & way to ward off wage cuts. ‘The wage cutting on the railroads is beginning. in the East and West simultaneously. In the East the De- laware & Hudson Railway has issued an ultimatum declaring it would cut pay. The powerful Chicago & North- western and several affiliated roads have taken the same steps. A meeting of railroad labor unions officials will be held soon in Chicago where plans will be discussed on how to get the men to accept wage cuts. The railroad bosses knowing this are waiting until Dec, 6 before they carry through the wage cut drive. Manchuria, and is threatening to in- crease her armed forces in Central China. A Shanghst dispatch reports the arrival of a Japanese cruiser with troops and munitions at Chingwatao, just south of the Great Wall of China. MacDonald Defends Sale of War Supplies to Japan. A Paris dispatch to the New York Times contains further proof of |‘ United States leadership in the anti- Soviet front and in the war on the Chinese masses. The dispatch is headed: “OUR ACTION IN CHINA DOUBTED BY LEAGUE. BOTH WASHINGTON AND COUUNCIL REGARDED AS IMPORTANT WHILE JAPAN MOVES ON-” A London dispatch reports the Japanese are buying large numbers of naval aircraft engines in Britain. Prime Minister MacDonald, ques- tioned in parliament, admitted the purchases but opposed placing an embargo on such orders. ‘The United States, in rushing its wart preparations, have restored to active service 15 destroyers which were decommissioned in October. Two of these destroyers are to be at once assigned to the Asiatic Squad- ron, Chinese Red Army Defeats Im- perialist Tools. The Chinese Red Army has won several victories in Kiangsi against the troops of the Nanking tools of the imperialists. A Shanghai dis- patch reports that the initiative has been taken out of the hands of the Nanking troops and the Red Army is now advancing in a smashing of- fensive. The 11th and 14th Divisions of the Nanking armies have suffered continual reverses at the hands of the Red Army, which has captured 15,000 rifles, 200 machine guns and many pieces of artillery, with the necessary supplies of ammunition and shells. The Nenking troops are demoralized and are afraid to venture again into Soviet territory, owing to the maul- ing they have received. Students Demand Defense of China. ‘Thousands of students are de- scending on Nanking in_ protest against the traitorous policy of the Kuomintang of non-resistance to the Japanese seizure of Manchuria. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times reports: “The student agitation, demand- ‘The questions asked by the prose- ¢cution attorneys shows that every Means is going to be used to get the jury of Blue Grass County land- owners to convict the miners. They are asked time and again about their views on Communism. ‘The lawyers of the General Defense Committee who are not carrying on @ working-class defense, are permit- ting the prosecution to use this sort of propaganda against the miners. Former U. 5S. Senator John M. Robsion, the chief lawyer for the de- fense is a capitalist politician who is working for his own ends. He is a “hundred percenter,” closely -linked up with the Ku Klux Klan. W. B. White, a local attorney for the de- fense, is even worse. He is the mouth- piece for the leading capitalist in- terests in this section of Kentucky. He is especially connected with the big power interests who own mines in Kentucky. The International Labor Defense has exposed and branded White a6 a “plant” of the coal op- erators, William Turnblazer, district organ- izer of the United Mine Workers here, in order to ingratlate himself with the bosses said: “The UMW is an American institution. We are not connected with the General Defense or the International Labor Defense.” On being questioned about union membership one of the jurors said: | “There are some foreign agitators working up there,” meaning Harlan, “and I am against them.” One juror was excused because he was found to be a union member, one of the very few in Mt. Sterling. FEED CHILDREN Demonstration on Sat. of Women, Childen DETROIT Mich., Nov. 25.—-Mayor Murphy had to admit that there are over 8,000 children starving in the schools of Detroit. In the Garfield and Moore schools where there are @ majority of Negro children attend- ing there have been five cases of children fainting from hunger at their desks. The two successful demonstrations recently in front of the Board of Education has proven thru organized mass protest that result can be ob- tained. On these occasions everyone of the fifty needy cases presented re- ceived shoes and clothing. Mayor Murphy is having a tag day on the 24th to raise funds to supply milk and crackers to needy school children. On Sat., Noy. 28th, at 10 a. m. a demonstration of women and children will be held in Grand Circus Park to demand that all Murphy Tag Day funds be handed over to the Unem- ployed Councils and the Workers In- ternational Relief to feed and clothe the children of the unemployed and part-time workers. Demands also will be presented to Murphy for two hot meals a day for each school child, also free clothing and school supplies. SOVIET LUMBER SHIPMENT DUE ‘onvict Charge Falls Flat, No Evidence The Customs Department of the Treasury will not contest the entry. of 3,000,000 feet of Soviet lumber, due to arrive at the port of New York No- vember 25, it was reported in Wash- ington, yesterday. This action was forced on the Trea- sury department by the flimsiness of all the lies about convict labor in Soviet lumber cutting and finishing areas. Amtorg Trading Corp. officials served official proof that the lumber was not produced by any kind of con- vict labor. The Washington report continues that the Hoover government after seeking frantically for evidence of the convict charge were forced to drop it despite their anxiety to bar the present shipment of lumber. ‘The lumber was cut in the Arch- angel district. Run Affair Noy. 28 For ‘Liberator’ and the ‘Working Womar’ NEW YORK.—The Liberator and the Working Woman are presenting a proletarian cabaret Saturday eve- ning, Nov. 28, 8 p. m., at the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St. All the fea- tures of a cabaret will be given a working class color—including the prices. There will be dancing, var- iety of entertainment and good food. Admission is 25 cents. ‘This social affaiz is offered as part of the drives for new subscribers now being carried on both by the Working Woman and the Liberator. The ob- jective of these drives is to spread these organs to new masses of Negro and white workers, and to bring to them the message of organization and solidarity. This affair is also in- tended to provide a social |meeting place where many workers can meet in an atmosphere of working class play and comradeship. White and Negro workers, support your press, while you play, by attend- ing the Proletarian Cabaret to be given jointly by the {Liberator and the Working Woman—Saturday, Nov. 28, 8 p. m. at the Workers Center, 35 [Police Kill Seven Socialist Mayor Refuses to Feed, Lodge Marchers | READING, Pa, Nov. ni-aiger|| Stump of the Socialist Party, today positively refused to have the city government provide lodg- | Hunger marchers when they go to| | through here. The “Socialist” | | mayor sent the delegation of the | | Unemployed Councils and National Hunger March Committee to the Poor Board, When the committee told him | | this was no case for relief, but a struggle of the masses of unem- Ployed workers for unemployment insurance, and reminded him that the Socialist Party pretends it is in favor of some sort of insurance, the Mayor merely declared, “I won't do anything.” The Unemployed Council is issuing a leaflet exposing this policy of the Socialist Party, as shown through its Mayor here, calling for a demonstration Fri- day, Dec. 4, when the National Hunger Marchers atrive in Read- ing. The leaflet calls on workers to support the march and its de- mands for unemployment insur- ance and relief for the jobless by collecting food and funds to pro- vide lodgings. A local committee is arranging the housing and feeding of 90 marchers, Tells Why Walker Went to California |AFL Official, Morgan| DEMAND DETROIT) Partner Confer NEW YORK—Mayor Walker is now in conference with Governor Rolph of California, determining how best to defeat the mass struggles for the release of Tom Mooney, and how to use the Mooney case against the growing struggle of the unem- ployed. That the sudden entrance of Walker into the Mooney case is based on the sharp struggles of the workers, not only for the release of Mooney but for the freedom of all class war prisoners, as well as for unemploy- ment relief for the 12,000,000 unem- ployed, is now being admitted in the capitalist press. The New York Evening Post, showing how the East- ern capitalists have entered the case (on the side of Walker and the So- cialist misleaders) says: “Mayor James J. Walker has come to California to plead the cause of ‘Tom Mooney in the hope of fore- stalling threatened unemployment riots in New York. “That frank explanation of the reason for the transcontinental: pri- yate-car trip was given by two mem- bers of his party, John A, Hastings, State Senator from Brooklyn, who is credited with getting the New York Mayor on Mooney’s, side, and James H. R. Cromwell, stepson of E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia banker. *“You have no idea,” Senator Hastings said while the party was crossing the Bay on the ferry today, “what intense interest the Bast has in the Mooney case. It is probably greater there than in California.” ‘“That interest—and it is not con- fined to the Communists, Labor or any other single class—is almost at the boiling point—it threatens to break out into discontent,” Mr. Has- tings went on. ‘*“Should that point be reached, we Easterners fear rioting unless Tom Mooney is freed... . “As evidence of his assertion that all classes in the East—“capitalists, business and professional men and workers” had joined together in insisting that Mooney be freed, Sen- ator Hastings pointed to Mr. Crom- well nearby. ‘“There is capital's representative,” the Senator said, “in Mr. Cromwell, a stepson of Edward T. Stotesbury and a member of the Morgan bank- ing firm.” “Mr. Stotesbury is head of the old and powerful banking concern of Drexel & Co. in Philadelphia and a member of Morgan & Co., too.” CZECH JOBLESS HIT RELIEF CUTS in Freiwildau March (Cable by Inprecorr) PRAGUE, Nov. 25.—In the past few days demonstrations have been held throughout the country pro- testing against the “Socialist” Wel- fare Minister depriving the revolu- tionary unions of the government's grant of unemployment support. A protest demonstration was held today at Freiwildau, Czechish Silesia. Several hundreds marched to the local authorities to lodge their pro- test. The police attacked the workers and collisions occurred, the police using weapons, Seven workers were | killed and twelve were taken to the hospital and scores injured. ‘The Czech Parliament opened to- day. When the Communist fraction received the news of the massacre, they interrupted the session, protest- ing loudly. The fraction is imme- diately sending a committee to make an investigation. Re ins | WARSAW, Nov, 25.—Following the failure of the tramwaymen’s strike, the municipality is victimizing over 800 men. Newspapers report that the authorities intend to thoroughly “clean” the tramway service, partic- ing and food for the National/ | ‘Attack Hunger March at Blawnox; and workers’ organizat march. When Fred. Bill, workhouse, over two hundred streets. Police attacked the driver, John Patsik, with blackjacks. Bell and Patsik were arrested, but 300 marched through Blawnox anyway with trucks laden with workers lead- jing. They came from Springdale, Verona, Creighton, Cheswick, Har- marville on this route. | Over two hundred marched from | Coverdale, the other side of Pitts- burgh, over seventeen miles. Many others are still coming. All locals of | roofers, painters, journeymen tailors, | bakers and many fraternal societies voted to participate in a body in, and to give funds to the National | 2,000 In Hamtramck Rain Storm HAMTRAMCK, Mich., Noy. 25.— | Two thousand workers and unem- ployed workers demonstrated at Hamtramck City Hall in the midst of a@ pouring rain yesterday. For two hours they showed by their mass TOLEDO, Ohio, Noy. 25,—Monday evening workers and unemployed workers marched at the call of the Councils of the Unemployed from all parts of the city, singing Solidarity and cheering as they came. They united their ranks in a mass demon- stration of 1,500 or more at the McKinley monument, and eletced committee to go into the city coun- cil chambers and demand food and} Jodging for the National Hunger | Marchers, 140 of whom will come through here and stop over the night of Dee. 1. PITTSBURGH, PA., written, hundreds of delegates of the jobless International Labor Defense opened the meeting from the truck, at the gates of the Blawnox guns were guarding the walls and® Machine Guns Line Prison Wall Smash Through Terror in Steubenville; Prepare for the Jefferson County Hunger March Nov. 25.---As this is icns and mass meetings are streaming in from every part of Alleghany county to make demands on the county com- missioners for relief, etc. and to support the National Hunger organizer and fifty police with machitte Hunger March supporting the fight for unemployment insurance. William Z. Foster, Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, will speak at an unemployment rally at south side Pittsburgh where the polite last week broke up a meeting, tnsist- ing that no meetings be held in the steel section without a permit. A meeting will be held on Fridéy at the Polish Falcon Hall, 101 South 18th Street to break through this terror. He will speak again the same night at an anti-war meeting at the Workers Center, 2115 Center Aventie, Pittsburgh. Demonstrate During at City Hall presence that they were for the de- mands for immediate relief which a committee of the Unemployed Coun~ cils was presenting to the city gov- ernment. They cheered the National Hunger March, Toledo Demonstration Demands Food and Lodging for National Marchers When the committee got into the Safety Building, they found the council had vanished, locked the door and turned out the lights. It is evident they do not want to meet the delegates of the Toledo jobless. A mass meeting was held around the | Steps of the building, and many tiek- a|ets sold to the big mass meeting in the Coliseum, Ashland and Banéreft: | Streets, Nov. 29, at 230 p. m. This |mecting will ratify the Toledo del- egation to the National Munger March. WOMEN, CHILDREN MARCH ON FRIDAY IN CLEVELAND On City Hall With Placards and Signs CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 25.—A city hunger march of children, wo- men and young workers on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, will show up the hypocrisy of the com- mon capitalist talk now, of “No one hungry Thanksgiving Day.” Marchers wil start from three sec- tions of the city, and reach the city hall at 2 p.m. The mayor has al- ready agreed to see “a small delega- tion.” Marchers will start at 12:30 p. m. from: Rayford-Jackson Hall, 3104 Scoville; from Ukrainian Labor Temple, 1051 Auburn Ave., and from South Slav Hall, 5607 St. Clair Ave. At the city hall, the marchers will receive milk and sandwiches collected by the Workers International Relief. The committee which goes in to see the mayor will demand: 1. Five dollars a week cash relief for all unemployed workers, with free lodging for the homeless youth. 2, Free food, clothing, school sup- plies and carfare for children of the unemployed. 3. Opening of armories and other public buildings to young unemployed workers in order that they do not have to sleep outdoors. 4. Free use of gymns, in schools, YMCA's, ete. for unemployed worker sportsmen. At mass meetings during the march, the ten youth delegates from Cleve~ land to the National Hunger March will be ratified. Children who have been living on garbage fished out of cans or from market gutters, and housewives whose days and nights have been made hor- rible by cries of hungry children will have their chance Friday to demand real food and clothing from the gov- ernment of Cleveland. Workers’ Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle. Comes Out Three Lines Converge) THE WESTERN WORKER Australian Union To Join Red Int'l R.R, Men Prepare to | Strike Against Wage Cuts NEW YORK. — Australian railway workers, whose unions are reported to have applied for affiliation to the Red International of Labor Unions, are preparing for a general strike in the state of Queensland to fight back wage cuts. A cable dispatch t the New York Times reports that the railroad workers have refused to handle cars coming out of the Dob- byn mine where the miners are on strike against wage cuts. This, says the cable, may result in a strike in- volving all state rail serviee and coastal shipping. The dispateh gows on to say: “A meeting of extremists here under the auspices of the Red Inter- national has declared @ general radl strike from midnight Thursday.” Another cable from Melbourne Says: “The Australian Railways Union, which embraces a majority of rail men in five Australian States, has applied to Moscow for affiliation with the Red International Labor Unien, Part of its letter reads: ‘“The Australian working-clags | movement has hitherto been what insular in its outlook tivities and consequently the majority has not been brouglab contact with internatinal acttvittas.” * FIGHT FOR JOB WASHINGTON, Soviet “Forced Labor”- series in pamphlet form at 16 per copy. Read it—Spread it! JUST OUT SOVIET PICTORIAL Sixty Latest Soviet Phetes Bundles of 50 or over at. Single copy SEND YOUR ORDER Friends of Soviet Un! 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