The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1931, Page 4

: at 60 Rast SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Pare Four t Cable By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; twe months, $1; excepting Boroughs ef Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: one year, $8; six months, $4.50. OPEN HEARINGS ON | gn dence toes Daily, Worker STARVATION Duluth Workers Hear Jobless ine; Dencunce “Bethel” Where Unemployed Sleep On the | Concrete Floor and Do Forced Labor: Nov 23.—At the very gate plant on the South a hundred workers > Unmployed Councils. In the ha n the plant, police arrived just about, to prefer charges responsible for white men and women. d was Negro ati id old were there to testify about their hold this meeting without a per- mit!” the police lieutenant said. Bernard was he station house “to find out.” A r inclothesm: obviously in ueree of 2 0 he's a Com- munist e? Let me get at him! The lieutenant dragged the drunk into a small roc I ck and bust their up!” the slow! You'll get yourself in other voices could be heard you. nutes later, a “black maria” drew up he hall, would be no meeting because no permit ed, and five additional workers carried off in the wagon. They were charged with violating a city ordinance, but were re- leased the next morning. s is the first meeting of this size ever at- he steel district of Pittsburgh proper. oor meetings are unattacked in the trict and the North Side where a tre- support has already been clearly indi- n demonstrations and meetings, every at- to distribute leaflets, hold meetings, etc., The temp! near the mills is met by extreme terror. bosses are taking no chances. the workers have learned that there is e@ way to smash the terror—through mass ation and mass protest. This they are along with preparations for the Na- tional Hunger March. Hundreds in Duluth. DULUTH, Minn., Noy. 23.—Despite a tremen- dous dofnpour of rain, several hundred workers filled Camels Hall, in Duluth, to participate in the Open Hearing called by the Unemployed Councils. Many workers who had signified their intention of coming to the hearing in order to testify, along with their families, could not be present due to the inclement weather. The fact that they did not have the necessary clothing to withstand the stormy weather, kept them at home in order to avoid illness. Added to this was the fact that lack of fuel at home, and lack of nourishment would have brought illness. When J. Cogan, chairman of the meeting, called upon the workers to testify, worker after worker rose and told of the misery and suffer- ing that they have to undergo daily, and of the treatment that they receive at the hands of the so-called relief bodies. When the statement was made that the un- employed and starving workers have no desires More Support to the Marine Workers! By JOHN STEUBEN. Ww TH the developing war situation, the marine industry must be considered one of the most important for our penetration: If we will be able during the coming few months to spread our influence and crystallize it organizationally, we will be performing a great task that has been sadly neglected up to now. The marine workers are ready for organiza- tion. During the last two weeks only, a 10 and per cent e-cut. was introduced on the rd Line, Munson Line and Bar- F. of L. and other unions in the ma- rine industry are being rapidly discredited. On the other hand, the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, is growing, slowly but surely. One of the chief reasons for the slow growth of the marine union is lack of support from our movement, This must be openly recognized in a spirit of proletarian self-criticism and rectified not; only in words but in action. Perhaps if our other unions and fraternal organizations had been aware of the tremendous difficulties our mnarine ers have to buck up against in their the comrades would. have appreci- re and given the Marine Workers’ In- dustrial Union more heip. Next Steps. However, because we have neglected, up to now, the comr s in the marine industry, ang the waterfront 2s a whole, we must make up for it by immediate and speedy action. Concretely, The Bureau of the Trade Union Unity Council makes the following suggestions to the various organizations and individual comrades: 1+ Each organization shall donate weekly a small sum of money to the Marine Workers’ In- dustrial Union for organization work. 2. To supply the M. W. I. U. with sufficient literature. 3. Arrange affairs and parties for the support of the union 4. To help to distribute systematically “Marine Workers’ Voice.” 5. Marine workers that belong to clubs and other fraternal organizations should be induced to join the Marine Workeys’, Industrial Union. ‘The building up of a strong Marine Workers’ Union is one of the best ways how to struggle against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union: Working-¢lass organizations and individual workers must take up the task of organizing the marine workers AS THEIR OWN ‘TASK and help in this very important field of activity of the T.U.U.L. Get immediately in touch with the office of the Trade Union Unjty League, or directly with the Marine Workers’ &t., New York. the the workers were told that | the intense hunger | Perth Amboy Un- for war.and that the war funds be turned over for the use of the, starving workers and. their families, there was a great. burst.of applause. No Milk For Child. One worker's wife, the mother of four chil- dren, testified that her husband had been un- ployed for two years, and that the Catholic | Charities had turned a deaf ear to her countless appeals for clothing for her children, so that they might be able to go to school, She also testified that her four year old child, had not had a drop of milk in his mouth for the past tvyo months. This in a city where the Mayor boasted that, “The City of Duluth will take ¢ of its unemployed this Winter!” Another stated the “Bethel,” a flop house run a local mission and supported by the Com- by munity Chest, teok the last 25 cents in his pos- ssion,.before he could get a night’: ledging, in. s vermin infested hole. He also t: ‘ied that after one night’s sleep in this dump he set out | to build a shack on the city dump, whéfe quite | a colony of workers established themselves rath- er than sleep at the “Bethel.” These workers were soon ordered to vacate their miserable hov- els by the city authorities on the basis that it was a very unsanitary mode of living. One work- } er at the hering raised the question whether it was sanitary to sleep at the disease and ver- min infested Bethel, which is overcrowded, and where workers are forced to sleep on the con- te floor; and where. workers are forced to aw wood for many hours for a bowl of thin blue soup.. Another unemployed worker testified that he was refused a pair of mittens, on a raw cold mofning, to prevent his fingers from freez- ing, while @wing wood. This “Bethel” is supposed to be a “Home for homeless men.” One Ivegro worker, who being unable to take the floor was told through a spokesmen of the discriminatory measures used against Negro workers and their families. During the discussion, one worker, speaking of a Negro woman who could not be present, told how her ten year old son was set upon and beaten by his teacher on the flimsy excuse that he had slapped her. Later without even informing the mother, the boy was kidnapped and taken to a reform school. Stories were told of aged men who were re- fused their pensions on the shabbiest of excusés. One worker even testified to a question that was asked by a charity worker as to why he was born. One worker related how his soh, uporl séeing that there was no fuel in the house, upon a par- ticularly cold night, stole a bag of coal from a neighboring dealer. For this ofense both he and his mother are threatened with severe punish- ment. Great enthusiasm greeted the announcement of the National Hunger March on December 7th. ‘The following demands were raised: That all wealthy incomes be taxed and funds raised to be turned over to the unemployed. ‘That all salaries over two thousand dollers per year be cut and the residue ‘be turned over to the unemployed. That if the law does not allow this a system of compulsory contribution should be inaugurated. That immediate and sufficient cash winter relief be provided for the unem- ployed. ‘Tweet no discrimination of any kind to be used against any worker in the need of relief. That the proceeds of the bond issue of $250,000 be turned over to the unemployed instead of throwing additional profits into the pockets of the contractors. % That the unemployed workers get free light, fuel and heat. ‘ That no evictions take place. ‘That decent living quarters be provided for all homeless and unemployed workers. That. the children of the starving and unem- ployed workers be provided with shoes and cloth- ing; and that they be provided with milk and hot lunches right in school. ei Hearing Gets Results. PERTH AMBOY, N. J. Nov. 25.—A Public Hearing and trial of city officials was held on Friday in Columbia Hall, 385 State St. here, at which 300 workers were present. Mr. Dorsey, a banker and Mayor of the city failed to show up to answer charges of the Unemployed Council, neither did any other city official show up. Wit- nesses testified proving that the city is not giving relief to all unemployed, that the unemployed are. being registered: like criminals; they are asked what church they go to, how long they live in the city, where they lived before, etc. ‘The employed workers are having 1 per cent of their wages taken off, “to help the unemployed.” the hand full of unemployed workers that are given jobs by the city, get work only for a few days. The 16-year old daughter of a widowed woman (Mrs. Mraz) testified. She explcined they lived in the city nine months, have sixe children in the family, dwell in two rooms and kitchen for which they pay $10 a.month rent but are 3 months behind in rent. Her mother is home sick in bed. When she asked for relief from the city, she was told, “You have to live sevén years in the city to get relief.” Committee Elected. A committee was elected at the Public Hearing to go the following morning, Saturday, to the Citizen's. Relief Committee and demand relief for the family of Mrs. Mraz. She had nothing to eat except what Unemployed Council collected for her the day before. Next morning the committee representing the Unemployed Council and those elected at the Public Hearing the night before, went to the Citizen’s Relief Committee, together with Mrs. Mraz's 14-year old son George, to demand relief for the family. George was asked all kinds of questions by the woman in charge, such questions | as: “Was your fe‘her a citizen; is your mother a citizen; do you co to church; what church? (The question about the church was asked 2 or 3 times). The Unemployed Council committee insisted on getting relief immediately for the family ‘of Mrs, Mraz, and finally the Citizen’s Relief Com- mittee reluctantly gave a slip of paper on which $4.59 worth of food could be gotten, amounting of 5.. The Citi- made known the Tepresentative | PARTY LIFE. | crate by the Org. Dept. Central Com- mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A. Face to the Shops—The Best other Tell of Children Stary-/ Elements in the Ranks of the Communist Party By J. L. P. TE can not speak of really carrying on an ef- fective struggle against wage-cuts without building the guiding force of these struggles— the Communist Party. Ideologically our Party has tremendous -influence among broad sec- tions of the working class, but this is not re- | flected organizationally. We have learned how to organize demonstrative formis of activities, but have not yet found the link of how to draw these messes of workers into the revolutionary move- ment, particularly the Communist Party. In the strike struggles conducted by the revolutionary unions, the workers accepted the leadership and guidance of the Communists who participated in and led these struggles. The revolutionary | trade unions havé shown a marked growth in the campaigns conducted by the revolutionary trade unions, but this growth is not reflected in the Communist Party. What is wrong? One of the main reasoris for the lack of growth is the fact that we haven't up to today made the turn to the shops and we haven't learned how to systematically recruit the best elements in the shops and trade unions into the ranks of the Communist Party. Our former methods of recruiting at street corners only and at mass meetings must be changed to Jay the emphasis upon recruiting in the shop where the comrades work and from the shop where the section or unit is concentrating. In- stead of collecting application cards, we must draw in new fighting elements that will ener- getically carry through the line and campaigns of our Party: ‘The Party recruiting drive for which tre pre- parations ate now being made,must be a stimulus for drawing in new fresh proletarian elements into the ranks. The whole machinery of our Party must be mobilied to close the gap be- tween the influence and the organizational strength of our Party. What is our basic task? Our basic task is to entrench ourselves in the heavy industries which play an important role in the economic life of the country. This means that with our forces we must attack this problem in such a manner that new nuclei are built and Party members are recruited from these large shops. We must also overcome one of the major shortcomings that few Negro proletarians are in the ranks of the Communist Party. Our problem is to draw these elements primarily from the shops and trade unions into the ranks of our Party... We must overcome the fear of showing the face of the Party in the campaigns conducted by our revo- jutionary organizations and by the Party itself. Ih Addition, oné of our central tasks is the ques- tion of building the Young Communist League alongside the Communist Party. Our Party, through various organizations, trade unions, through the election campaign, unem- ployment campaign, etc., has contact with thou- sands of workers whose place is in the ranks of thé Party, bit it sldom dawns upon our Party membership to draw these workers into the Party. Why? We set too high a standard for membership in our Party. There is a concep- tion that unless a worker has a thorough un- derstanding of Marxism-Leninism and approves (without any enlightenment on our part) the 21 points for admission to the Comintern, in spite of the fact that a worker has shown his metal in struggle, he is not eligible for admission’ to the Communist Party. Such a line is the crass- est form of sectarianism and must be bitterly Tought. This teadency can be found in a very sharp form when we consider the fact that over 3,000 members were recruited by the Needle Trades Union among the furriers and only three joined the Party: A large séction of these splendid fighters have their place in the Party. This example of the furriers is not an isolated inci- dent but can be repeated ten-fold. Our Party fractions in the mass ofganiza- tions and trade unions must set theselves quotas on the basis of possibilities of new recruits. These workers must be visited, acquainted with our Party literature and brought to open meet- ings of the Party units. Special meetings of these workers in various industries and mass or- ganizations should be arranged where a leading Party member in this mass organization shall raise the question of joining the Party. Individual recruiting by our comrades in their own shop must be an important feature of the campaign. It is there where the greatest possi- bilities present themselves. It is there where the (MASS STRUGGLE WILL FORCE THE GOV’T TO PROVIDE JOBLESS INSURANCE By HERBERT BENJAMIN ‘THE ruling class of the U. S. and its government. make no secret of their Mmtention to resist by all possible means the growing demand for un- employment insurance. During the first part of August, Hoover in announcing his so-called relief plans, again made clear that, his concern was not for the mass misery which prevails for the work- ers and poor farmers of this country. After con- ferences with the heads of the U. S: Chamber of Commerce, his plans were frankly announced in the New York Times under the headline “Hoover Seeks Plan for Averting the Dole.” This then is the problem with which Hoover, Gifford and Co. concern themselves. ‘Thousands of workers may starve to death. ‘Thousands may die of cold and exposure to dis- ease. ‘Thousands may be driven to suicide. The living standards of the whole working class may be reduced to the level of pauperism by wage cuts and part time employment. Millions of workers may be thrown into an army of per- manently unemployed. Hoover and his masters, the 59 rulers of the U- S. and all who serve them, will still continue to concern themselves with only how to prevent the desperate workers from forcing the enactment of a system of unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the bosses and government, But—When an aroused, united, militant work- ing class takes to the streets. When millions unite in an insistent, determined demand and struggle for unemployment insurance. When Mr. Hoover and his masters are faced with the alternative—Unemployment Insurance or the whole damn works!—The workers will win unem- ployment insurance, in spite of the unwillingness of the bosses and their government. Many capitalist politicians already see the handwriting on the wall. Prof. John Gray ex- presses the fears of these politicians when he declares that “Large masses of honest people have never consented to sit down and starve to death quietly.” The Tammany Senator Wagner; the fake progressive-republican LaFollete; the contemptible demagogues from Mayor Murphy to the Reverends Norman Thomas and A. J: Muste, are worrying whether the masses will consider it “worth while to continue the present organization of society, if we allow conditions of suffering such as we now witness, to occur.” These agents of the bosses are frantically ap- pealing to the capitalist class to hurry-up and enact some fake unemployment insurance mea- sure before the masses under revolutionary lead- ership force them to provide real unemployment insurance. This is the meaning of the “differ- ences” reported as between Senator Wagner and his fellow politicians in the Senate Committee. This is the meaning of the feverish activities of the treacherous “socialists” who are calling a conference in Washington in a vain effort to offset the effect of the National Hunger March. They are shouting to the bosses: “Now is the time to buy! Deal with us! We will give you a real bargain, something you can offer to the workers as a substitute for real unemployment insurance.” The millions of unemployed and part-time workers, the workers still in the shops whose wages are being slashed and who are threatened with the destitution which is the lot of the job- less, must tell Mr. Hoover that he cannot save the bosses from the obligation to disgorge their fat money bags for unemployment insurance. We must tell Wagner-Murphy-Thomas-Muste and Co. that we cannot be fooled with their “just-as- good” or “best-that-can be gotten” brand of un- employment insurance ‘The National Hunger March must be a mighty mobilization for, “Immediate Unemployment In- surance at full wages to be paid by the employers and the government to all workers; to be ad- ministered through organs elected by the work- ers!” Rally to the gupport of the National Hunger March! ” Forward to victorious struggle for real Unem- ployment Insurance! The Rich Manchurian Prize |ANCHURIA, the scene of the present war, has been a danger zone in world imperialism since the end of the last century. The Sino- Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the Chinese Eastern affair of two years ago have centered about this territory of 384,000 square miles. The reason for this is thé wealth that the country contains and the desire of the im- perialist nations to control it. The total production of cereals in Manchuria was 786,789,338 bushels in 1927. Of this about half was exported. The percentage of exports holds true in other years. And yet only about half of the arable lands are cultivated. In China at least a hundred million people are starving. If Manchuria were developed 300,000,000 people could be fed on its agricultural products. Japan has a shortage of agricultural products and imports a great quantity of its food from Manchuria. The most important Manchurian crop is the Soya bean of which over five and a quarter million tons were grown in 1929, But more important to the imperialist nations than the agriculture in Manchuria are the vast natural resources of coal, iron, gold, forests and soda. The coal fields of Fushun, east of Mukden, cover an area of 15 square miles. It is estimated that within this small area there is a deposit of one billion, two hundred million tons of bitumin- comrades are daily in contact with the workers and where in many instances good functioning shop nuclei can be organized. Special emphasis must be placed on drawing in workers in the existing shop nuclet and build- ing new shop nuclei where the possibilities ex- ist. In the last recruiting drive this was one of our weakest points. A real campaign must be made to bring back those proletarians who dropped out of the Party due to mishandling and bad inner life of the Party units. Special committees must be set up in the sec- tions to handle the applicants and assign them to units without delay. If the proper attention is given to the drive our Party will really be rooted in the shops and factories, ous coal. The chief seam of this coal is covered with an immense quantity of oil shale having an average thickness of 459 feet and estimated at 5 million tons. From this shale oil is produced. At present only a little of it is used, to supply the Japanese Navy with fuel. ‘The amount of iron ore in southern Manchuria alone is estimated at 772 million metric tons, It is not known how much lies unused in northern Manchuria. The estimated amount of gold is 123 million ounces. And the forests are so huge that they have not yet been measured. The pres- ent estimate is 30.5 million acres. It can easily be seen that Manchuria is a mint for which the imperialist nations will send mil- lions of workers to die, in order to control it. The largest enterprise in Manchuria is the South Manchuria Railway. The railway is a Japanese monopoly amd has been one since the Russo- Japanese War. The railway employs 20,000 Jap- anese and ~3,000 Chinese. Besides these, about 60,000 Chinese laborers are in the employ of the railroad. The annual budget of the road is about $150,000,009. It owns enormous storehouses, workshops, one of the biggest locomotive works in Asia, a fleet of ships and harbors, coal mines and land to the extent of 55-60 thousand acres. (The territory on both sides of the line are Jap- anese property.) Also hospitals, chemical works, oil pressing works and all sorts of factories. Even the schools in the territory surrounding the railroad are owned by Japan and the children are not taught their native language, Chinese, but Japanese. ‘The discrimination practiced against Chinese in Manchuria is exposed by the differences in the wages paid Japanese and Chinese workers. Whereas a Japanese carpenter in the city of Dairen receives an average of $2 a day, the Chinese carpenter only gets 70 cents. A Japan- ese mason earns $2.25 a day and a Chinese 90 cents, A Japanese painter earns $1.65 a day and a Chinese painter is given 65 cents for the same work, And so in every industry. The low- est paid workers are the Chinese coolies who get 25 cents a day in Dairen. Japanese don’t even take these jobs. “HARLAN REMEMBERS ITS DEAD” By HARRY GANNES RINGING out the truth about the starvation conditions in the Harlan coal fields is con- sidered by the coal operators’ government “crime” enough to warrant a 20-year jail sentence. The whole Dreiser committee, along with several In- ternational Labor Defense members and repre- sentatives of the Nationa] Miners’ Union, have been indicted for criminal syndicalism, Judge Jones, the operators’ office boy in the Harlan and Bell county court hotise, merely writes out the indictments and his hand-picked grand jury signs them. ‘What infuriated the Kentucky coal operators most was the enthusiastic meetings of the miners in Straight Creek, on Nov. 7, and the mass meet- ing at Wallens Creek, the next day, Nov. 8. The Dreiser Committee had announced that the meetings would be “a test of free speech,” as Commonwealth Attorney Brock had declared free speech existed in the Kentucky coal fields. ‘The meetings were called undér the auspices of the National Miners’ Union and the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Most of the speakers at both meetings were miners and their wives. In eloquent language, born of struggles and long suffering, they told of years of hunger, betrayal by the United Mine Workers, and then of the hopeful organization of the National Miners’ Union which was carry- ing on a militant fight against starvation: Several members of the Dreiser Committee then told of their investigation and the desire to get at the truth so that it could be,published ahd ‘broadcast, George Maurer for the. Inter- national Labor Defense spoke of the interna- tional solidarity of the workers in the fight against terror and hunger. I spoke for the labor i . ioasd ‘of the significance of Nov. 7 as the Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, when the workers had ended hunger by establishing @ workers’ and peasants’ government. Next day, at Wallens Creek, the stage was all set for the frame-up. An official court stenog- rapher was present to manufacture a record. ‘The sex frame-p against Dreiser had already been prepared. But that was not enough for the furious coal officials. ‘The coal operators ree sented the defiance of the miners, who came & thousands to the mass meetings, vigorously 25- Plauding and cheering the speeches for working- class solidarity, for strike and for a mass cam~- paign against terror. , The entire force of the Kentucky coal oper- ators is now howling with fury because the miners show renewed strcngth in their struggles. The Straight Creek miners are now out again, 100 per cent, under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union. A general strike is in prepara- tion throughout the Harlan coal fields with every chance of bringing out 18,000 miners in a vic- torious fight against hunger. A New Wave of Terror. A new wave of terror is preparing in Harlan because the coal operators have been stung to the quick by the exposure of the miserable con- ditions, They hate still worse the new life that has been infused into the National Miners’ Union. ‘The latest instrument of terror is the trial against the 30 Evarts, Ky., miners on framed-up murder charges now pending in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky. Here the rich landowners, descendants of the Kentucky slave-owners, ex- Ploiters of Negro tenant farmers and close asso- ciates of the Kentucky coal barons, will sit In “judgment” of the framed-up treatment the jailed miners can miners. What expect is indi- cated by the Mt, Sterling, Ky., “Courier-Gazette,” one of the leading sheets in the Blue Grass county of Montgomery, “All Communists should be shot without benefit of trial,” wrote this paper, preparing to give the miners a “fair hear- ing.” In New York, the “New York Daily News,” which associated with Insul, the big utility mag: nate who owns mine property in Harlan county, is now printing a series of articles attacking the National Miners’ Union in Harlan and asking for the electrocution of the 30 Evarts defen- dants. A more vicious series of lying articles has seldom appeared in the capitalist press. A threat of zenewed murder of miners is contained in the following from the “News” story: “The Harlan field is quiet now. It has been so for three months. But the tension is very real beneath the surface. Harlan is on guard. An aroused community, backed by the Ameri- can Legion, has crushed Communism and driven it to cover. “But there is many a little Red nucleus scat- tered about these hills, and the authorities do not intend to let the trials inflame them to new action. Harlan vemembers its dead.” ‘The same story admits things which Sheriff Blair failed to mention, namely, that “Sheriff John H, Blair, himself a war veteran, enrolled additional deputies (coal operators’ thugs, ad- mitted by Blair himself—H.G.) and ordered his men to shoot!” “The United Mine Workers, the American Federation of Labor, joined the campaign” to shoot down striking miners, the New York Dally ‘News also informs the New York workers. The renewed terror in Harlan county will not stop the advance of the National Miners’ Union, The strike in Straight Creek will spread Rife | By JORGR eee No Man’s Land A comrade of Section 5, Unit 2, in New York has discovered something. Perhaps it is a hith- erto ungrabbed colony, that place called Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Anyhow, a year and a half ago, the YCL and the Party made some explorations among the wilds of Mt. Vernon (which appears to lay a couple of points N.N.E. of the Bronx Zoo, and is visible to the eye on a clear day from Mt. Coop.). ‘Fhe exploratory expedition, being ac- companied by a brass band, alarmed the savage rulers of that unknown land, and after fierce battles was driven back. Now, after this time has gone by, it appears that the tracts left there by the missionaries of the expedition had some effect on the oppres- sed section of the population. Indeed, there is one applicant to the Y.C.L. and several appli- cants to the Party who have been waiting all this time for the “second coming” as it were, of their redeemer—all Negroes, But their re- deemer is in no hurry, this century or the next will do. Besides, the section leadership is afraid of being charged with “red imperialism.” So reports the comrade who ventured into this No Man's Land. It’s not without claimant, because the N.A.A.C.P. has been busy there, and the camrade says that he promised “quite a few contacts” he discovered, that he would “get the help of the Party.” But when he approached the Section 5 leadership, he says: “I was told I cannot do anything because this is not their territory.” Well, maybe it isn't. But after these Ne re workers have been waiting for a year and a hillf, it might not be amiss to find out WHOSE t» ritory it is and see that something is done abo™ it. . It Pays to Advertize Between the comrade who gets a job at 8 2. m. and has by 11:45 a. m. told everybody in sight and hearing that he is a Red, and the comrade who has been working twelve years in his shop and not a soul knows he is a Red—there is small choice; the one gets fired at 12 noon and the other might as well be, for all the good he does the Party. However, we started out to tell you about an Irish taxi driver, who is in somewhat different conditions, true, but knows how to put in his horn and, rather strangely, finds it pays. But of course, he is “only” a sympathizer and isn’t afraid to speak up for Communism as many Party members are. “Communism is coming like a house afire. It can’t be stopped. I told that to a Park, Avenue girl I drove home the other night. She began it by asking how things were. I said, not So hot and one thing went to another and we Sot to talking of Russia. So I told her Com- munism was the workers’ only salvation and nothing can stop it. “I looked back into the cab, and there she was over in one corner biting her nails. I be, she went up and told her rich papa about the terrible Red taxi driver. Anyway, she gave me a 65 cents tip.” Much the same thing happened, he tells at some length, with a regular Full Belly, “Bui,” says the taxi driver, “we parted the best of friends and also a 65 cents tip.” As a class measure, of course, we musi rec- commend that the only sure way for taxi driv- ers to better their conditions is to organize under leadership of the Trade Union Unity League and fight their bosses. But this story is funny, shor- ing how the capitalists feel themselves on tho defensive and apolgetically fork over 65 cont tips tothe “Red Menace.” We must make thon give Unemploymens Insurance. Sacre Providence Will not Provide The capitalists frequently get away with mur- der by killing you in a strictly polite way. And while we're no fan for etiquette, still it seems that sometime our comrades might. manage to be a little comradely, even when engaged in the gentle art of looting the Party for the Party's good. An outraged comrade of Providence, who un- derstands all about the need for trade union work and the necessity of helping the Textile Union, nevertheless objects at being subjected to a raid by the union organizers who descended in force on the Party and League office, used everything and everybody in sight and marched off with some dollars worth of stationery with- out as much as a “beg your pardon.” In fact, in a manner described as “bulldozing.” Why all this air of conquest? And in the same mail letters from three comrades of the seeming rude—to say the least—behavior of memtbers in the Providence branch of the International Workers’ Order, toward the unemployed whose headquarters in the Workers’ Center was de- sired for the evening by the I. W. O. Jewish banch for a banquet for the “Hammer.” How does it look when several of the unem- ployed about the place, after helping to arrange tables, chairs, etc, are spoken to insultingly by Prosperous matrons who arrive later and sniff at the unemployed and their poor clothes? Especially when some of these velvety ladies are known to be wives of Party members! What are these unemployed to think when they are affronted by someone they identify with the Party and then hear them sing the Inter- nationale? Well-fed Anna K. and Kate, you may feel uncomfortable in the presence of hun- gry, Tagged workers, but do you have to insult them? Do you think that you will get away with such things when you “go to the Soviet Union in the spring,” Kate, as ranting about “Grubbing off us, hey?” Not if we know Soviet workers, Another letter on the same incident, invites one and all who are cast out of the Workers’ Center at 71 Richmond St. to come to “the in- dustrial Kremlin” at 1755 Westminster St. But our idea is that the Workers’ Center must be made @ center for workers, banquet or no ban- quet and whether the workers be ragged or not. * 68 68 Of Vast Importance:—On the day after the British elections, Oct. 29, the London “Daily Mail” came out with a big section of “important” advices No, it wasn’t about wage cuts, or the trimming down of the dole, or the naval mutiny, the danger of war or the price of fish and chips. It was headed: “Keep Your Dog Warm—And There Will Be No Worries This Winter. vey, a) NO ae