The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1931, Page 3

} ‘ i casemate \LY WORKER, NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, JOURNEYMEN TAILORS SUFFER PAY SLASHES IN FIFTH AVE. SHOPS Merchant Tailor Bosses Reap Big Profits on . Custom. Made Clothes for Rich Rank ‘and File Committee of Needle Trades Union Calls Tailors to Organize ‘ _ {By a Worker Correspondent) NEW. YORK.—The. journeymen tailors, who are the best mechanics in the men’s clothing industry anti who make the most” expensive clothes for the rich people, are compelled to work under the.worst sweat shop conditions and for very poor Merchant. tailors of Fifth Avenue, & achieve better conditions providing vegardiless of thie crisis are getting he sarie prices “Gs in “prosperity reare’100. to $200 for a sult of dothes—while the wages of the work- ws-ate- continually eut,- 'These_work- we are” unorganized and-the-bosses | are taking-advantage-of their de~ moralized~ “condition by --exploiting them to the ufmost. Although the ‘custom tailors are moving their shops out of the city order tokeep them from becoming orgatined,- the merchant tailors must stay in the city beeause-they depend upon customers who live in. the city. ‘The workers ini these shops, there- fore, . have.. every. opportunity to ) DAY SENTENCES EMPLOYED IS WASHINGTON PROGRAM {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) émployed or “striking workers to prove that he is“not-a vagrant, the Prosecution does nob have to prove that-he is one. * And all cases are to be tried in po- lice. courts, without jury. All Jobless ‘Ate. Vagrants. ‘The definition of “vagrant” in the bill is: “All persons over the age of 17% who do not have sufficient means to support themselves or their fami- lies, Who live idly and without em- ployment aid who aré able to work and refuse to work.” | + “All- persons who have fo lawful ‘oécupation, nor sufficient property lawfully aequited from which to ob- tain support, who wander in or about ‘any public park or. open places.” Bride boasts that his measure, “has ‘teeth in it.” ‘Under this law every jobless per- Son, without a place to sleep, and forced to “wander about parks and open places” is guilty. Under this law every striker is guilty because he is “able to work (that is, to scab!) and refuses to work.” Under this law, any person who is offered a city or government relief of “make-work” job at 12 hours a ‘day in return for @ basket of gro- eeries worth a dollat-or so, must take . Yesterday Columns 2, 8 and 4, of the great National Hunger March reached Buffalo, Chi- eago and St. Louis, respectively. These were the points at which the oclumns were made up ‘and from which they started their historic March on Washington on Nov. 29. Column 1 returned to its they organize into @ solid union, a unified union, instead of two isolated unions of said branch of the trade, where workers of each union scab against thé others, as in 1920 when the journeymen tailors after three months of struggle for better condi-~ tions lost their strike due to the strike breaking activities of the Amalga- mated Custom Tailors. } The results of the present craft and fake unions are misery and star- vation for the workers and more prof- its for the bosses.. The tailors must unite and fight for a real solid union and shop control. Join the rank and file- committee of the Needle Trades * Workers Industrial Union, FOR STRIKERS, UN- it, Must do this forced labor, no mat- tet what the conditions, no matter What -slave-driving speed-up tactics | are used by the bosses on the Job, no thatter what the dangers to life and | health—or he gets ninety days. Wage Cutting Law. Under this law, any factory or of- fice manager can fire the man or woman he has working at the pre- vailing wages, and go down to the employment agency and pick out an- other to do the same work for half the wages, or a quarter of the wages, and force that person to take the job, or serve ninety days for being “able to work but refusing to work.” Fight this proposition to impose forced labor and strike-breaking on the workers of the District of Colum- bia, Fight this brazen enslavement ,of the Washington workers by the | Hoover administration! Build unem- ployed councils and the militant in- dustrial unions. ‘The Bride measure will be reported into Congress, which has to pass on all ordinances of the District of Col- umbia. Usually, the Congressional action is merely to automatically ap- prove whatever decisions the Com- missioners of the District of Colum- bia have decided upon. Make Con- gtess feel its responsibility in this case! Demand that the forced labor bill shall not pass! . INSANITY INTHE MONTANA __ Detroit, Mich.— Unemployment Kincreases in Detroit and hundreds ot children fail to attend school for lack of clothes. Insanity is in- sing at.an alarming rate with | SUICIDES HERE ROSE 100 IN LAST DEGAD o Exceed 1930 Ragotd of 1,477 —Blames Complex Living. LEAGUE MARKS 25TH YEA Save-a-Life Group Gounsels With 1,000 Persons a Year—Dr. @rilt Says Al} Feel Urge. An iiiegease in suicides in this city] jast_ year to neatly twice the nimber| JAIL FOR WARMT 408 ANGELES, Nov..24—J8- Gladys Ward, 25,-wished' for seg lar meals and & werm place Ir ich to live this Winter and yes- he pleaded gul ae jworthles $03. cheb dows PANIC SPREADS STARVATION AND | CITY OF DETROIT neva and signee \that day. hospitals in Wayne Gruber, Within the last month 200, in- admitted ' to county. Dr. general superintendent of, Hospital said: STARVED BAE DIES; FATHER JOBLESS VET NY WORL-2=TELE.) 11-Month-Old Infant Removed Malnutrition Aid PARENT HUNTS WORK Aeighbors Cail Physician After Condition of Child Grows Worse By RAY WILLIAMS, There were only five in- Found by Relative Bringing | Thanksgiving Gifts {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ‘The boss press conveniently “for- got” that these 1,670 delegates rep- resenting hundreds of thousands of workers in all parts of the U. S. dis- cussed and unanimously adopted the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. They made only the most cas- ual mention of the fact that a copy of this bill, together with a lengthy document which made a masterful argument for this bill, was placed in the hands of every member of the House of Representatives and the Senate. They deliberately withheld the information that the Hunger March through its elected delegation, presented this document to each and every individual official who met them when they attempted to’ enter starting point, Boston, on Dec. 18. This does not end the dem- onstrations at which delegates of the march report to the masses which sent them, for many of these delegates came from as far away as the Pacific coast and all points this side. They goon back to their home towns to report. But the return of the columns to their-official starting points brings to successful completion the most cg and dramatic dem- onstration of thé determination of te ahd unemployed-.workers: of country “to win unemployment insur: that has ever been at- For nearly ‘three weeks these col- umns have swept across the country, to Washington and. back, keeping to thelr schedule, finding always masses ot workers-to- meet them, finding food and lodging at the Aight stop over places ~ Selected. Some- times the food and lodging was wrelictied from a reluctant city gov- ernment by mass pressure of. the lo- cat.-morkers; “arid” Sometimes it was provided by the workers of..the city themselves: . : In storm and in the face of police attacks, the dates were kept, the cole umns joined as previously determined they shoubt~and=:placed their de- mands in such fashion thatthe whote world. heard -about: oe at spite of everyattempt.on thé part of the Hoover’ daministéation, to avoid such a tag ae Pe, stash thé March. appeals of Woll Fries, the U,8 Secret Maia: National Clyi¢. Federation .and- innumerable’ petty tyrants, chiefsof police, mayors, ete,,*to'the working class to break up absolute “railuirés, “One of the out- | standing things “about “the © March’ was the unanimous support given by and hundreds of thousands of ers along the Way. upport” vatied from ‘intense but lial interest in'the Match to open With. the polite who tried in ral places to break the March. Neg ek ‘oniph, inate Apel the aut les could National Unemployment Demon- stration of Feb, 4, to fight evictions and expose every attack on the un- employed, has just begun. Pra a ae BOSTON, Mass., Dec, 15.—Column One, of the National Hunger March- ers, successfully completed the return trip from Washington, on the Boston Common at 4 p. m. on Sunday af- ternoon in a pouring rain. Despite the downpour workers had assembled for the welcoming: reception. ‘The meeting was opened at 3:30 p. m, and the welcoming speech made by ‘Harry Cantor, District Orgartizer of the International Labor Defense, just pfior to the arrival of the marchers, was greeted by entnusiastic Efforts by the police to intimidate were disregarded to the consterna- tion of the “bluecoats” present. Just at the psychological moment the two remaining truckloads of the weary but yet indomitable and cheering Mmarcheers officially greeted the tired but happy group in the name of the Unemployed Couricil of Metropolitan Boston. Fred Biedenkapp then fol- lowed With a rousing narration of the trip and the marchers’ experiences at Washington. ‘The meeting at this point reached such a high degree of enthusiasm that despite police orders it formed in line and marched from the Com- mons to 751 Washington St., head- quarters of the Unemployed Council. Whilly unprepared for such a dem- onstration the police stood by help- Jessly as the marchers sang their songs and cheered. In the evening, at the reception for Congress. They seck to create the impression that no such document ex- ists, that Congress has nothing before it in so far as the Hunger March is concerned. That this is so not be- cause the greatest military force ever assembled for action in Washington, barred the delegation of the Hunger March from the Capitol, but because we “came empty handed” and “re- fused to present a petition.” Our refusal to enter into personal neégotiations with the demagogic Sen- ator King at the moment when we were attempting to force the author- designate, on the question; “Un- employment Insurance Is in the Best Interest of the Unemployed.” Just prior to the arrival of the Hunger Marchersin Boston the work- ers of Norwood greeted the marchcers at an indoor meeting in a packed hall with over 200 present where a warm substantial dinner had been prepared, It was further announced that the present successes would be followed up at once with organizational forms for the continuance of work among the unemployed with even greater intensity and for greater victories than that which marked the termin- ation of the first cycle by the return of the Hunger Marchers, Oe os Hold Banned Meeting. PROVIDENCE, R. I, Dec, 15.— Workers of Providence gathered in jJarge numbers Saturday in front of the city hall to welocme the National Hunger Marchers of Column One when they came into Providence to stop over night on their way back to Boston. This meeting was held and was successful although tthe po- lice department, had announced through the newspapers that no more mectings called by thte Unemployed the Hunger Marchers, hundreds of workers had to be turned away for lack of space. Some 350 listened Spéll-bound to the*tales of the in- dividual marchers, and to their cap- tain, F. Biedenkapp, whose vivid Council or the Communist Party would be allowed in Providence, After the crowd at city hall cheered the speeches of Column One, Cap- tain Biedenkapp and the reports of the Providence delegates on the March, the Marchers were taken to supper and to @ meeting on Federal Hill at the headquarters of the Un- employed Council. The place was crowded to the doors, Cops, dicks, and federal immigration authorities were out in force, but did not dare to do anything. Another big crowd of workers were up early Sunday morning to see the Marchers off toward Boston. THE BILL PRESENTED TO CONGRESS BY THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH ities, through our mass demonstra- tion, to-admit our delegation te the floor of Congress, was deliberately distorted in order to ereate the im- pression that we didn’t really want to address Congress, Our declaration that we did not come to petition (that, is beg) but to place demands before Congress and Hoover, was with sim- ilar trickery represented as evidence that we “only wanted te demon- strate.” Facts Give Lie to Agents of the Hunger Government, Every action of the Hunger March and its leaders and spokesmen gives the lie to these claims of the agents of the Hunger Government. The Hun- ger March was not merely a demon- stration of protest, an expression of resentment, a manifestation of dis- content. The organization and dis- cipline shown in this march could not have been possible without # ¢con- scious leadership and 4 clear purpose. ‘This purpose was’ expressed in’ the program adopted and the Bill form- ulated and presented by the confer- ence of the Hunger March to the’ un- employed masses and to Congress. Real Unemployment Insurance vs. Fake Measures : The workers, employed and unem- ployed, are fighting for the right to live. The Workers’ Unemployment. Insurance Bill provides for insurance equal to full wages to be paid dur- ing the entire period of involuntary unemployment. Nothing less will provide the possibility for existence to the millions effected by unemploy- ment. Full wages, éven in the period of the peak of capitalist “prosperity” in 1929, averaged far less than that set by even government bureaus as that “necessary for the minimum level of health and decency.” Whoever de- mands less, sanctions the slave own- ers’ theory (and practice) which compels the workers to starve to death whenever the bosses choose to deny them the opportunity to work and earn a livelihood. tI is on the basis of this theory that Hoover, who piled up a fortune by selling Chinese coolies into slavery, denounces unemployment insurance. It {s on the basis that the first and only concern of the government must be for the profits of bankers, manu- facturers, speculators and-other par- asites, that all these individually and through their associations fight so bitterly against unemployment insur- ance, It is on the basis of this vici- ous theory that Matthew Woll and Bill Green denounce the demands of the workers as “unreasonable.” ‘The same theory determines the character of the various fake unem- ployment insurance schemes proposed by the “progressives” in Congress; by the social fascists of the, socialist par- ty; the CPPA; and all other social- demagogues who attempt to defeat the struggle for unemployment in- surance from the inside, . Mass unemployment is the product of the capitalist, profit-system which benefits the few and keeps many in poverty and ‘constant fear of unse- curity. "The governinent is the. or-) ss unem- | ployment. The workers have no rea-| son to want to mai in a system which enriches a few and impoy- erishes the many. Those who insist on maintaining such a system and who profit from} it, must pay the cost. The c ists and government must pay unem- | ployment insurance. The wo. not, haven’t the means to pay. proposal that the workers sh tribute to unemployment ins funds, simply means that the wo. are to transfer their few pennies from | one pocket to the other. It does not | add to the income of the workers. | Insurance to All Workers, Regardless | of Race, Sex, Age, Ete. Hoover-Woll and Co. reg provision as unreasonable. ‘The system they support exists with the help of a policy which divides the this workers. One small section is bribed with a small concession, This bribe, when given or promised, is & reward for treachery. In return, those who receive it are required to desert and betray the large body of workers. Those discriminated against, the most oppressed: and exploited are the large and basic sections of the working class. The Negro masses, the young workers, the women and foreign born workers, the unskilled workers of all age, sex, race and nationality. No bill that is drawn in the interest of the working class can fail to provide against discrimination. All proposals that ignore this basic issue thereby expose the treacherous character of the sponsors of these fake measures. ‘The provisions in so far as refusal to scab etc., are self-evident Workers’ Administration Aside from the notoriously corrupt handling of public funds, in all branches and division of the govern- ment, the workers have another very good reason for demanding workers administration of unemployment in- surance funds. The very facts that the bosses con- Sider that they are giving a dole to ‘the worker who is supported by pub- lic funds, is sufficient to indicate what kind of treatment would be ac- corded to workers who become de- pendant upon unemployment insur- ance, if this insurance is administer- ed by agents of the bosses. The mil- lions of workers who have been com- pelled to stand with hat in hand, in Yong Wines before the relief agencies, know well the humiliation they are compelled to suffer at the hands of “social Workers” and other bureau- crats who administer these funds. Workers’ administration is the only guarantee that all the vital provisions of our bill will be put into effect. It is @ cardinal point fo rwhich we must fight with all the power at our command, Can Our Demands Be Realized? ‘Those who fight against every measure that {mproves the conditions Of the working ciass say no. They speak with assurance and seeming au- thority, But they are expressing a wash, rather than a fact. Matthew Woll does not want the workers to wni unemployment insurance. Mat- thew Woll knows that his masters have no intention of granting this basic demand of the workers. For Matthew Woll, Bill Green, Norman Thomas, Murphy, Muste, etal. the word of the multi-millionaire rulers of the U. S. is final. Each in his own way directs himself and the or- ganizations under his control to the task of helping the ruling class carry out its announced policy of mass starvation. But the workers, once they realize the power of their organized num- bers learn to have as much confidence in their power as the bosses and their agents have in the power of their money and their government. ‘We know well that the ruling class of. the U. S. has no intention of granting unemployment insurance. We know that in order to secure un- employment insurance we must de- velop the mass power of the workers. We know that this power can be de- veloped under militant, revolutionary leadership. And we know that when the ruling class is confronted by the power of the organized fighting masses, they will be compelled to pro- vide unemployment insurance that conforms witly the needs and demands of the masses. Organize! Fight On! For Real Unemployment Insurance! ‘The Workers’ Unemployment niI- surance Bill has been presented to Congress. All their tricks and all their Hes will be of no avail to the legislative agents of the ruling class. The million masses of unemployed and part-time workers will not per- mit them to forget the demands em- bodied in this bill. Millions of signatures; thousand of of collective endorsements in all unions, fraternal societies, veterans’ organizations and in the shops will serve to remind Hoover and Congress of our insistent demands. Demon- strations around the homes and of- fices of members of Congress will serve as further reminders. " ‘The National Unemployment In- surance Day demonstrations on Feb. 4th will concentrate the voices of millions of workers into one mighty demand raised by the Hunger March peal of thunder that will echo the in Washington. WE DEMAND UN- EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE! ———E——EE DECEMBER 16, 192 CHINESE STUDENTS WRECK = ~. NANKING FOREIGN OFFICE; ® |Works With Union ‘i SCORES ARE MASSACRED Heads for Wagecuts (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | threatening @n extension of the mur- tang mass movement. In their ef- | Premier Ki Inukai yesterday declared | forts to behead the mass movement,|the intention of Japan to occupy which is tending to become more and! Chinchow. General Honjo declared more a movement against all imper-|teh evacuation of Chinchow by Chi- ialist invasion in China, the Kuomin- | nese troops “imperative.” He has de- tang lackeys of imperialism are at- | clared a war of extermination against tempting to set up @ fake “left” gov-|the heroic workers and peasants of ernment under the leadership of the | Manchuria who are defending their Canton wing. | rights against the Japanese invaders. Storm Foreign Office and Kuomin-|In a statement broadcasted by the tang Headquarters. | international imperialist press, Honjo Workers and students yesterday | clearly states the Japanese intention wrecked the Foreign Office in Nank- | to crush mass resistance in Manchu- ing. They then stormed the Kuomin- | ria, derous war on the Chinese masses. |, WORKERS ORGANIZATION! BUY MOSSELPROM CANDY Imported from SOVIET UNION, Send for $5,00 Init! DISTRIBUTORS 318 Marcy Avenue tang headquarters where Nanking of- ficials were holding an emergency meeting. A Nanking dispatch to the | New York World Telegram reports | “the students sang Communist songs, | waved red flags, and shouted anti- government slogans.” The Nanking officials ordered a ferocious attack on the demonstra- tors. Troops with machine guns fired point blank into the crowds, | kdiling several scores and wounding | many others. Braving the murderous | machine gun fire of the Nanking the Kuomintang headquarters, smash- ing everything in sight and beating military, the demonstrators stormed up several Nanking officials, among them Gen. Chen Mingshu, chairman | of the Kwantung Provincial Govern- ment and new head of the legislative Yuan. The demonstrators disarmed scores of soldiers during the fighting, and turned their rifles on them. Foreign Minister Wellington Koo and his assistant, Vice-Minister Lee, had absented themselves from the emergency meeting of Nanking gov~ ernment officials. Their offices in the Foreign Office were wrecked. Admits Chiang Forced Out by Masses. A Nanking dispatch to the New York World-Telegram admits that Chiang was forced out by the mass Movemnet and growing revolutionary Spirit throughout Kuomintang China. The dispatch reports: “Chiang’s decision to step down followed weeks of demonstrations by students against the govern- ment’s non-aggressive policy in Manchuria.” The dispatch reflects the alarm of the imperialist bandits in face of the growing mass movement which con- stitutes, together with the Chinese Soviet Power and the Red Army, a mighty threat to their plans to par- tition China and crush the Chinese Revolution. Lin Sen, chairman of the Legisia- tive Yuan, was appointed Acting President, following the fall of Chiang Kai-shek. Lin has threat ened the masses of Nanking and the students and workers converging} there from all parts of China with martial law. * Fear Rising Anger of Masses. Bighty thousand students are re ported moving on Nanking. The gov- ernment has ordered Kuomintang of- ficials in ‘other cities to break up the movement before it gets t6 Nanking. A Nanking dispatch reports: “The government immediately ordered precautions throughout the country as they feared serious repercussions when other students learned of the events at Nankine.” A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times admits: “There are 60.000 students in Nanking and another large deleva- tion is leavin¢ Shanghai today. The government is virtually powerless in the hands of the students, whose wrath has turned on the govern- ment, including Chiang Kai-shek, after driving out Dr. Wellington Koo and other officials for their alleged weak handling of the Sino- Japanese dispute.” Nanking-Canton Forming United Front Against Masses. A united front of the Nanking and Canton cliques against the Chinese Revolution is rapidly taking form. The discredited face of the Nanking Clique is being shoved into the back- ground and the Canton clique is tak- ing the leadership. This is a man- euver to deceive the Chinese masses. Canton’s dominance in the alliance indicates also a strengthening of the position of Japanese and British im- perialisms in China, at the expense of the hegemony of the United States imperialists which was exercised thru the Nanking clique. The imperialist international press is gravely con~ cerned lest this maneuver should fail in its purpose of deception and be unable to head off the mass anti- imperialist movement. ‘The resignation of Chiang Kai- shek, Wall Stret’s puppet, will spur American imperialist activity in China, and the U. S. armed forces will undoubtedly play a big role to maintain U. S. hegemorty and help combat the growing anti-imperialist movement, French In Attack In South China. ‘The imperialists do not intend to trust this task solely to the Canton clique. French troops from Indo- China have entered Southern China at several points. The Washington Star, in pinting the news of the French invasion, referred editorially to a secret agreement for the par- | tition of China. A Washington dis- patch to the New York Times says: “Reports from Canton that French troops had entered China, ostensibly in pursuit of bandits, led to the publication in an evening newspaper here of intimations that a secret Franco-Japanese pact might exist whereby Japan was to control Manchuria and France was te control parts of Soathern Chins | along the trade route from Tibet to | Burma, Jt was suggested the in - ternal difficulties of Great Britain made feasible euch s program.” _ The new depanase government ts Inakai In Cynical Statement. Premier Inukai, whose praises as “a ély fox” have been sung by the im- 7" Page Tasso ., {Willard of B. and 0. Keep Facts Secret from Railroad Workers (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ORK) were not told what went on between ‘Willard and the officials of the unter. Willard then came to New York where he got all the railroad offtcialy to agree to meet with the union mis-~ leaders to arrange 2 “satisfactory solution” for a voluntary wage ent. The wage cut, if it is put inte ef- fect, gives the railroad bosses around) $250,000,000 which they admit wilt bo! used to pay profits to stock and bond) perialist press, yesterday gave & jholders. The rafiroad workers Rave! sample of his “slyness.” In an in- terview with the imperiaiist press, Inukei states: “Why, we wouldn't take Man- ehwin as a gift,” he chuckled. “We'd have to look after and pro- tect all those 30,000,000 Chinese— and feed them.” With this cynical hypocrisy, Inukai attempts to cover up the role of im- perialism of robbihg and suppressing the masses under the guise of estab- Ushing “protection” and “law and order.” been getting wage cute through speed-| up and part-time work, Hundreds of thousands hare beet «unemployed. Now, in order to help the béllionafres: who own most of the railfoad stock, the union misieaders are meeting mn the Bankers Club, trying fo work out plans to prevent @ strike or how te smash it in the event the Tank ané file, who are for strike, enter into » struggle against wage cuts, RAILROAD WORKERS! ORGANIZE_AND STRIKE AGAINST THE WAGE CUT! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) $8,000 6 $20,000 = year. They are maintained in office by their toady- ing to the railroad companies and putting the latter’s policies into ef- fect. It is one of the main tasks of ‘these agents of the employers to en- force the present wage-cut on the workers. ‘The rank and file of the railroad workers have in no way been consulted regarding the policies adopted in Chicago. They are op- posed t6 the wage-cut and want to strike against it. Organize the Rail Workers for Struggle! ‘The fight of the railroad workers is the fight of the whole working class. The developing wage-cut on the railroads is part of the campaign to cut wages in every industry in the country. To struggle against this wage-cut the whole forces of the T.U.U.L. must be mobilized. Every ‘Trade Union Unity Council must tm- mediately put on its order of busi- ness the question of organizing the railroad workers for struggle. Active steps must be taken in all railroad centers to acquaint the workers, through leaflets, mass meetings, ete., with the treachery that is being per- petrated against them by their lead~ ers. Groups of the N. R. W. LL. must be formed in the old unions and among the unorganized workers. Build the Unemployed Councils in the railroad centers and draw the unem- Ployed into support of the fight against the wage-cut. Railroad workers, organize and strike against the wage-cut. Put no trust in your reactionary leaders. Take your fight into your own hands. Demand that all proposals made by Bufalo Youth Plan An Anti-Christmas Jubilee for 2 Days BUFFALO, N. ¥Y.—The Young Com- munist League here will hold a big two-day anti-Christmas Jubilee at the Valo Hall, 159 Grider St., Friday and Saturday, Dec, 25 and 26. The program for Friday night in- cludes two short plays and other features. There will be dancing and Finnish coffee served Saturday night. Tickets are 40 cents for both nights, or 25 cents for each night singly. Children are especially invited. EAST ST. LOUIS—The E. St. Louis and Suburban Railroad an- nounced that its employes “volun- tarily” agreed to a wage out of 10 per cent, beginning January 1. When the Winter Winds Regia ow You will find it warm and cozy ho Camp Nitgedaiget You can rest in ¥ comradely atmosphe: jotel—you wi ited with proletarian provided also find team heat, apd many other im- The food tx clean especially well mn fresh and prepared. SPECIAL RATES FOR. WEEK. ENDS 1 Day For further information cal! the— COOPERATIVE OFFICE 2800 Bronx Park East ‘Tel.—Esterbrook 8-1400 the 6-hour day with corresponding 3 tional Raflroad Workers’ Industria} League. WM. Z. FOSTER. POLICE STUNNED | BY HAMTRAMCK JOBLESS MARCH Hundreds Parade; City Forced to Promise Relief Measures HAMTRAMCK, Mich. Dec. 15.— On Thursday hundreds of workers and unemployed workers answer the call of the Couneil of the Unemployed and marched on the city hall ‘The parade started at 11 a. m from the Workers’ Home which is the center of the unemployed coun~ cils and other workers’ revolutionary activities. It marched four abreast through the main streets of this city and was enthusiastically applauded by thousands of onlookers, When the marchers reached City Hall they were faced by scores of uniformed and plainclothed police, Although, the Hamtramck police are known for their brutality against the work- ers they did not dare to attack the demonstrators, being stunned by the militancy and enthusiasm of the masses in the demonstration. A huge meeting assembled outside the City Hall while the committee went inside to a meeting with the City Council to present their de- mands including: Immediate relief to the unem- 3. No discrimination against tis: Negro workers and the youth and women in the distribution of relief. ‘The delegation was led by the Communist Candidate for Mayor, George Kristalsky, ‘ The city adminisivation was foresd to promise that fuel will be given to unemployed workers and that fami- lies with one or two dependents wil be put on the Welfare list. Tt also promised that the single unemployed workers will be taken care of by providing them with free hot meals. - The Unemployed Council will see to it that these promises are. carried out, ‘While the committes was present- ing the demands to the City Couneil, the masses of workers outside were addressed by the Communist Candi- date for City Council, R. 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