The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1932, Page 3

Jobless Woman Railroaded to Wards Island Mad House Becters Declawe Her Sane. Yet Officials Keen Her There ¢ & Werkse Correspondent) YORK.—Another method of the capitalist state for “solving” un- employment 1's to send the jobless ‘te the so-called hospitals for Dr. Fagan and Dr. Spring say Mrs. Katz is normal it is impossible for her husband to secure her release, due to the fact that the relations have arranged with the corrupt 'Tam- many politicians to keep her there. The following letter was sent by Mrs. Kats to a friend: “Tt was put inte this place for being wnemployed. 1 was put here by my sister who signed an ap- plication at the Bellerne Hospital withont reading It, “Dr. Spring says that ¥ am not ferane. T want to get out of here.” Turns Salvation Army Meet Into Red Rally TURNS SALVATION--8— A Salvation Army meeting was turned into s Red meeting and the ‘Holy Band” forced to slink away when a worker called the attention of the crowd to the dope-peddling and pan-hancling activities of the Salvation Army, last Sunday evening on 14th St. opposite Union Square The band stood in a semi-circle on the street facing the sidewalk and were in the midst of a little number exhorting some bystanders to “Come to Jesus,” when a tall, strongly built worker, apparently of German birth, scantily clad and whose face showed signs of hunger and suffering, ap- pealed to the workers not to support the panhandlers who, in the name of the “lord,” were collecting money that went to their pockets and was being used to keep the workers and poor people blind to the evils of the system, by advising them to look for joy in heaven when they die. of General Booth’s death two years ago, $92,000,000 was in the hands of the Salvation Army and that a battle took place among the “heirs,” as to who should continue the looting. He showed that the only way to counter- act their activities is to expose them wherever they appeared. He urged the people to read, to study, to open their eyes to the fake activities of the church and the system which fosters it. He urged the workers to follow the example of the workers of Russia and under the leadership of the “Reds” to establish a new sivil- ization. While this worker spoke the Salva- tion Army band tried to regain the attention of the crowd by staging a prayer. When they spread the drum for the collection, they got only a few cents and hurriedly gathered themselves together for a march to some other street, while the crowd He pointed out that at the time grew larger. Mattress Workers Adopt Rank and File Plan (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The conditions of the matress and spring makers are reduced to the lowest level. ‘The Matress and Spring Makers Union was a large and strong organ- ization, but it was ruined by having an incapable leadership. The last strike, in which we lost a few shops, proved the neglect of such a leadership and convinced the work- To begin an agitational and edu- cational campaign among the mat- ress and spring makers to show them the importance in building a stronger union. To begin a mem- bership drive among the mattress a spring makers of all nationlaities. to make all efforts to gain back all those shops which we lost under the previous leadership who were not interested in the workers. The ers that they must drive out such leaders. Now the misleaders have been gicked out and the workers themselves have the situation in their own hands and only faithful workers are in the leadership. The union called a shop delegate conference of matress and spring makers Sunday, December 20, 1931. The conference was very enthu- siastic and adopted many concrete plans will help build a strong union. Nineteen delegates volunteered to join the organization committee. ‘The plan of work consists of the following points: organization committee should im- mediately concentrate on some as- signed shops to be organized in quick order. The union reduces the initiation for members to one dollar and dues to one dollar 2 month. The slogan of the union is to carry through all these plans. Only under a rank and file leadership as at pres- ent and with the activization of the members will we be able to build a strong and powerful union which shall serve the interests of the work- ers. Thrashes School Kids Who Ask About U.S.S.R. Avella, Pa. Dear Comrades :— T have discovered, upon my visit to Avella, the kind of “relief” that the hungry miners are getting. Only those who go to church and Sunday school get the barest few things after begging and pleading Tor it. If the children who go to the Avella. Heights school ask the teach- er in the geography class to tell them something about Russia they are given a whipping. The teacher then tells them that they should go there and stay if they are so inter- ested. One of the children who wm whipped demanded of the teacher an explanation of why she did not stay in the class where she belonged instead of being a tool of the bosses, —Dewey Armstrong. PICKENS WRIGGLES OUT OF DEBATE ON SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE POLICIES (CONTINUED FROM PAGH ONE) lic officials, gave him a banquet be- fore he left. He is now on his way to Chatanooga, where he will com- plete the brief of his argument to be made in Montgomery, Ala., on Jan- uary 21. Hevea ane BALTIMORE, Jan. 13.—The Balti- more Afro-American reports the re- fusal of William Pickens to debate defense policy in the Scottsboro case with Bernard Ades, attorney of the International Labor Defense now en- gaged in the fight to smash the lynch frame-up against Orphan Jones, 60- year old Negro farm hand. Pickens had been challenged to de- fend the traitorous activities of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People Against the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. Fear- ing the exposure before the Negro and white workers of the disruptive Workers! Do the places where you spend your money advertise in the Worker? ASK THEM TO DO IT SEND US THEIR NAMES! Drily, qlorker 50 E. 13th St., N. Y. e activities of his organization and its collection and retaining of huge sums of money on the pretense of ‘‘de- fending” the boys, Pickens turned down the challenge. The Afro-American states that the debate was being arranged by friends of the NAACP who thought that charges made by Attorney Ades against the NAACP leadership de- serves serious consideration. Attorney Ades accused the NAACP reformists of helping the white ruling class in their plans to legally lynch Orphan Jones on the Eastern Shore of Mary- land, and the Scottsboro boys in Ala~ bama. The Scottsboro boys and their parents and other kin have repeated- ly charged the NAACP with attempt- ing to betray the fight to save and free the boys. Recently the parents of the boys sent a telegram to Walter White, national secretary of the NAACP, demanding that he refund all monies collected by, his organiza~ tion on “he false pretense that the NAACP was in any way representing the Scottsboro boys, White has admitted that his organ- ization has been forced out of the case by the protests of the boys and their parents. The latter declare it was never in the case. White and his fellow misleaders, Negro and white, continue to hold on to the large sums of money they have col- lected in the name of the Scottsboro boys. The honest rank and file of the NAACP must demand that their traitorous leaders refund this money or turn jt over to the Scottsboro De- fense Committee. Workers every- where should raise this demand in their meetings. The appeal against the lynch ver- dicts comes up before the Alabama Supreme Court on Jan, 21. The workers, Negro and white, must leave no doubt in the minds of this in- strument of the Alabama landlords | NEE! 2¢ benkers a2 to the vigorous re- |Wide Mobilization For Demonstrations On February 4th (OONTINUED FROM PAGE @NS) ers will present immediate relief de- mands to this fake bosses’ charity outfit. ‘The City Hall demonstration will be preceded by demonstrationsat 15th and ‘Tompkins Sauere and the. Philadelphia waterfront. Ths work+ ers at these demonstzations will march through the principal streets of the city on the way to the mai: demonstration at the City Hall. A city wide tag day has been ay ranged for Saturday and Sunday, January 30th and 3ist. The pro ceeds of this tag day will be utilized toward further organizational work in the campaign for immediate relief, against evictions and the enactment of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill All workers are urged to partici- pate in this tag day by registering at the headquarters of the Unem- ployed Councils at 929 Arch St. The City Committee of the Un- employed Councils will meet this Thursday, Jan. 14th, 8 p. m. sharp at 929 Arch St. to consider further organizational plans. All working class organizations are urged to send representatives to this committee. o # 8 26 Organizations in Youngstown. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. 14— Sixty delegates representing twenty six organizations met at Youngstown, Ohio on Sunday, Jan. 10th to make plans for Feb, 4th and the campaign for immediate relief for the unem- ployed in the Mahoning Valley. Reports from the delegates showed mass starvation among the steel workers of the Mahoning Valley. One delegate told of the scene at “Hoover City,” a city garbage dump on the outskirts of Youngstown where workers—some with families— have dug holes into the ground to keep warm. Others have set up houses from boxes and other rubbish. While this report was given two delegates, a Negro and white worker, came from Wellsville, Ohio to report that a youth of 17 years had died of starvation. The conference in- structed the delegates to return at once and prepare a mass funeral and elected a delegation of five to go to the funeral to extend a message of sympathy and solidarity to the un- employed of Wellsville. The delegates delivered a sharp criticism of the neglect of building the Unemployed Council. All de- clared that a stop must be made to paper plans and ballyhoo and the unemployed must be organized into fighting Councils for immediate re- lief. wee Plans were made for marches of unemployed to the big steel mills demanding that the mill owners tak: care of the unemployed. Open hearings and reports of the National Hunger March were part of the plans as well as preliminary demonstrations before city councils and charities for immediate relief. In Youngstown a fight will be con- ducted for the right of the unem- ployed to assemble on the Public Square on February 4th. Sy es Signatures for Feb. 4th in Lockland, Ohio. LOCKLAND, Ohio, Jan. 14—A worker here writes: “We are still - orking and getting many signa- ures for the Feb. 4th demonstration, and we are arranging a mass meet- ing for Jan. 14 to mobilize.” ee © YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. 14.— Steel workers, employed and unem~- ployed throughout this territory are preparing for the February 4th Na- tional Unemployment Day demon- strations, Workers in Warren, Ohio, are planning a huge demonstration against the Hoover stagger system and for unemployment insurance. * e:8 Michigan Workers Active. ESCANABA, Mich. Jan. 14.—In this small town of 17,000 with 1,150 registered as unemployed, the Un- Jobless workers was organized. Three committees have been organized to carry on activity throughout the city. There will be a demonstration here on February 4th, MEET IN ILLINOIS FOR PRISONERS Hold Conference to Fight Crim. Syn. Law SPRINGFIELD, Il.—The local con- ferences for the repeal of the Crim- inal Syndicalist law, to support the defense of the Kentucky miners, for the release of Mooney and Billings and other class war prisoners will be held on January 17, at 2 p. m., at Hoffercamp Hajj, 6271; E. Adams St., Springfield, Mlinois. A similar con+ ference is to be held in Collinsville in Miners Temple at 2 p. m., and in Chicago on January 17 at 10 a. m. at the People’s Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. Working class or- ganizations are urged to send their delegates to these conferences, which are the primary conferences of mob- ilization of the masses for a state conference to be held on January 31 in Springfield at Redman Hall, 419% E. Monroe, at 10 a, m. sistance of the entire working class against the hideous lynch terror which the bosses are carrying out, through lynch gangs and through their courts, against the suppressed Negro national minority. The Daily Worker As a Collective WM. SCHNEIDERMANN. Organizer tite The role of the Dafly Worker in the present Netional Recruiting Drive of the Party must be brought home to every Party class conscious worker. ber and In order to understand the power of the press, we have only to look at the importance which the capttalist political parties attach to the building of their newspapers. In District No. 9, for example, the sectal- fascist Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota has no less than 35 newspapers carrying thelr polsonons properenda and demagzory to the workers and farmers. During every election campaign, they [get out special newspapers which ere distributed in tens of thousands of copies. The Farmer-Lebor fakers know very minds of the munist Party with Tt is high time how class, and to we the press to spread illusions in the to theory of the “lesser evil.” revolutionary worker should look upon the combat the influence of the Com- revolutionary press and especially the Daily Worker as our most power- ful instrument of agitation, propeganda, and organization. If the im- portance of the Daily were not underestimated by the Party membership, the quotas for the subscription drive would have been reached in every district, instead of lagging behind, as it is. With the beginning of the National Recruiting Drive, the Daily Worker must be looked upon 2s an indispenseble part of our recruiting activity. As a means of interesting « worker for the first time, penetrat~ ing the shops and mines and, following up every contact with. constant agitation and propaganda, the Daily js invaluable. The trouble is, the most comrades will admit this, the Party from the District Commit- tee down to the unit is not taking sufficiently energetic measures to translate this conviction into action. The Recruiting Drive, no matter how many members are recruited, will be a failure if at the same time it does not serve to build a greater mass circulation for the Daily as an indispensable part of the rapidly developing struggles of the employed and unemployed workers against the bosses’ starvation program. District No. 9 pledges to fulfill this task. Japanese Stir Up Puppet Governor to Attack the Chinese Eastern Ry. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) as the dispatch would intimate. He protested against the provocative ac- tivities of the Chinese tools of Japan- ese imperialism. In connection with the attempt by a Czech diplomat to arrange the as- sassination of the Japanese ambassa- dor to Moscow, thus affording Japan @ pretext to declare war on the Soviet Union, Investia carried on December 30 the following Tass cable from Tokyo: “The representative of the Minis- try of Foreign Affairs, this evening stated that Hirota (Japanese ambas- sador to Moscow) has fully substan- tiated the newspaper communications ° in connection with the attempt upon his life. The representative added ‘the Japanese government appreciates the sincere measures adopted by the So- viet government. The Japanese gov- ernment considers the question ¢closed.’” Red partisan troops yesterday routed a Japanese force which had occupied the railway junction at Ta- hushan. Two hundred Japanese sol- diers were killed in the engagement and many others wounded. Red partisan troops near Tungliao were forced to retreat yesterday after an attack by reinforced Japanese units which reoccupied the town of Ihsien after shelling the population. ° Kuomintang China is reported in the grip of a terrific fin- ancial crisis, with the fall of the new counter-revolutionary Nanking government momentarily expected. Huang Han-liang, Nanking Finance Minister, has resigned “because of the mount- ing difficulties of the government.” dropped in value to only 20 to 30 per cent of the face value. The do- mestic bond market was closed yes- terday in a futile attempt to stop the fall in values. Admission of tremen- dous inflation. and the resultant worthlessness of the currency is made by the Bank of China. The Nanking government faces a monthly deficit of over $4,000,000. In many provinces, thé peasants are refusing to pay the unfair and excessive taxes and have engaged In armed resistance against the Nan- king tax collectors and their armies. ‘The agrarian revolt is spreading throughout all Quomintang China, as the peasants of the hunger-ridden villages turn to the revolutionary way as the only road out of their present miseries. The Chinese So- viet Power is rapidly spreading, both territorially and in influence in the Soviet Republic is today the only stable force in all China. Japanese Donbtful of Usefulness of Chen. So desperate is the situation of the Nanking government that the plans of Eugene Chen for a complete sell- out of Manchuria to the Japanese have been delayed by the Japanese themselves. As pointed out in the Daily Worker, the traitor Chen was planning to open direct negotiations with the Japanese looking towards the signing away of all rights of China in Manchuria, The Japanese accuse the United States of blocking these negotiations by theidentic notes sent by Stimson to Japan and China a week ago. ‘They now declare they are in no hurry to push for these negotiations in view of the expected fal of the Nanking government. A Tokyo dis- patch quotes Japanese official opin-~ ion as follows: “As the Nanking Government appears already moribund, Japan is not inclined to rush to the open- ing of negotiations.” ‘ Red Partisans Win More Battles. Repudiating the traitorous aid of the Kuomintang to the Japanese and other imperialists engaged in the dismemberment of China, the Chin- ese masses are rallying in increasing numbers to the mass fight against imperialism and its Kuomintang tools. Red partisan troops again defeated the Japanese invaders in several sharp battles yesterday. Kuomintang newspapers in Tientsin admit the growing extent of this re- sistance. A Tientsin dispatch to the New York Times reports: “Chinese volunteer militia, bands all over Manchuria were renewing warfare against the Japanese and the situation around the Japan- ese-occupied city of Chinchow was growing acute, Chinese newspapers sald “Several small Japanese garri- sons had been practically wiped out recently by the militiamen, the Papers declared.” Japanese Drive in Inner Mongolia Threat at the Soviet Union. Red partisan troos are putting up the sharpest resistance to the Jap- anese advance on Jehol. The Jan- anese advance is being carried out in three directions. The Japanese drive is mainly directed at penetrat- ing Inner Mongolia and so far coin- eldes with the tacit understanding Domestic bonds have oe under which the imperialist powers and the United States in particular are supporting the Japanese seizure of Manchuria. That understanding is for the conversion of Manchuria and Inner Mongolia into an armed base in the Far East against the Soviet Union, thus extending the ring of steel which the imperialists have been erecting around work- ers’ Russia. The Japanese drive may, however, take then to Peiping in Inner China. That the invasion of Inner Man- churia is mainly directed against the Soviet Union, however, ts borne out by the renewa lof the Japanese ad- vance in Manchuria towards Harbin and the Soviet frontier. Additional proof of the anti-Soviet nature of the Japanese advance toward Harbin and in Inner Mongolia is seen in the conference between the notorious White Guard leader, Semenoff, with the Japanese military leaders in Manchuria. The Wall Street gov- ernment which is watching these ne- gotiations with the greatest interest and hope estimates that “with the proper financial backing,” Semenoft can mobilize 50,000 White Guards in Manchuria within 30 days. France to Spend Huge Sum On Bombing Planes. French imperialism, which is fran- tically rushing preparations for war against the Soviet Union and armed intervention against the German proletarian revolution, yesterday provided for an expenditure of 1,500,- 000,000 francs (about $60,000,000) for bombing planes. ‘The Japanese have assured the British imperialists that the Open Door policy will be maintained in Manchuria. A similar assurance is to be given to the United States, it is reported. This is another way of saying that the Japanese will per- mit equal facilities to the other im- perialists for the looting of the Man- churian masses. ‘This is the assur- ance that French, British and Uni- ted States imperialisin have been seeking. The Japanese consul in Tsingtao yesterday admitted that the landing of Japanese marines in that city on Wednesday was carried out with the permission and at the invitation of the Kuomintang mayor of the city. ‘This is another instance of the trai- torous aid given by the Kuomintang to the imperialists in their attack on the Chinese masses and in their moves for the dismemberment of China and armed intervention against the Chinese revolution and the powerful Chinese Soviet Repub- lic. Childs Fires Worker Off Through Illness (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.--I worked for Childs for seven years at the Spanish Gar- den, in the Hotel Plaza at 112 E. 59th Street. TI took sick and col- lapsed on the floor and was out for three weeks. When I came back (here was a man in my place re- ceiving $2.50 per day. I received $4.00 per day when I worked. ‘The boss informed me that I was no longer needed. He said: “You couldn’t do your work, so we got a fan in your place.” Pilots’ Strike Halts Guayaquil Shipping; Shee Workers Strike QUAYAQUIL.—A strike of 30 pilots has virtually tled up the ehip- ping in this harbor. Although the Drees reports that the pilots are striking because they were trans- ferred from the naval to the customs Jurisdiction, the real reason for the strike is that the pilots have not re- ceived their last salaries, the director of customs declaring that no pro~ visions have been made on the bud- get for their pay. union and, according to reports, are striking 100 per cent. The govern- ment cam find no pilots with know!l- edge of the deep water channels in the thirty miles of tedious sailing from the bar on the mouth of the Guayas River to the city of Guaya- quil. Shoe Workers Strike. Over 300 shoe workers are striking against 2 20 per cent wage-cut in this city. This is the third cut to be imposed on the shoe workers within a year. The shoe factory workers number the largest body of workers in the city. RENEW YOUR LD SUBSCRIP- TION TO THE DAILY WORKER Miners’ Pressure Forces Release of Taub, Def. Lawyer {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE? 13 years. Arrest Defense Witness The prosecutor fought hard to rule out all this testimony. After the women testified, the first miner on the stanr was W. W. Goodman, a native Anglo-Sexon Harlan miner who testified that one of his children died of flux, a starvation disease. The prosecutor jeered, saying, “You ran away from home and left your child to die.” Goodman answered: ‘“T didn’t run away. Five car loads of Harlan law (gun thugs) ran me out of the county.” When Goodman left the stand, Prosecutor Smith had him arrested in open court to be turned over to the Harlan coal company deputies The defense then refused to place any more miners on the stand un- less the court would guarantee they would not be molested by the gun thugs. The court refused and the testimony ended. Demand Exhorbitant Bail The case of Dorothy Weber was taken under “advisement.” The pros- ecutor asks $5,000 “peace bond” for Norma Martin, Clarina Michaelson, Julia Parker, Margaret Fontaine, Vin- cent Kemenovich and Ann Barton. He requested $10,000 appearance bond nad $5,000 “peace bond” for Vern Smith, representative of the Daily Worker who exposed the judge’s connections with the coal operators, and a similar account for John Har- vey, one of the leaders of the Na- tional Miners Union. A $3,000 ap- pearance bond and no peace bond is acked for Dorothy Weber. Allen Taub, attorney for the Inter- national Defense, who also is jailed, | wsa not on trial with the nine held over to the grand jury. He was pres- ent as attorney for the defenders. His case comes up for hearing on Tuesday. DEMAND RIGHT TO ORGANIZE Prosecution Counsel Patterson made a speech declaring that the National Miners Union had a right to organize, but County Attorney Smith refused to allow the record to state that the National Miners Union was a legal organization. The literature seized in the rail was read in part, and the most vio- lent language was quotations from Jefferson, Lincoln and Woodrow Wil- son contained in the pamphlet on “Workers Self Defense,” issued by the International Labor Defense. Prosecutor Smith in his closing re- marks launched @ stream of bitter invective against the strike leaders and their attorneys. He called the defendants and Attorney SBentall “cattle, liars, sneaks, vile hypocrits,” etc., stating: “If that thar literature is as insidious as it looks on the face of the fellows who circulate it, it ought to be lined up along side of @ wall by officers of the law not wait~ ing for the electric chair.” At this point Attorney Bentall in- terrupted with a motion that the Judge restrain the prosecutor from advocating force and violence. Prosecutor Smith read extracts from the Fish Committee report placed in evidence by an immigration commissioner from Cincinnati who was present as a prosecution witness. The extracts state that the National Miners Union, the International La- bor Defense and the Workers Inter- national Relief were all parts of the Communist International. TRY INJUNCTION TO STOP STRIKE On Wednesday notice of appli- catino for a federal injunction was served on ail nine defendants and a long list of active strikers, The application was made by the Straight Creek Coal Co., and wes signed by Prosecuting Attorney Patterson. The hearing will be in Lexington, Ky., January 16. The Virginia Harlan Coal Co. served notice of evictions and sum~- mons to appear in court on 12 mem- bers of the National Miners Union District Board and three other min- ers’ families. Every shop, mine and factory @ fertile field for Daily Worker snb- H 8 Communists Demand New Trial in Canadian Court Call American Masses to Rally to Demand Their Immediate Release TORONTO, Ont.—The appeal of the convention and prison sentence of the Canadian Communists, Tim Buck, Tom Ewen, Malcolm Bruce, John Boychuck, Matthew Popovich, Sam Carr, Tom Cacic and Tom Hill | opened Thursday im the Ontari The pilots are organized into 4 © " e tario Appeals Court. The noted Canadian barrister, I. F, Hellmuch Hugh John McDonald are arguing the case for the defense before Justices Sir William Mulock, Orde, Middie- ton, Maston and Grant. In the appeal only the evidence | permitted: to be discussed. In ti first session Hellmuth argued that the indictment of the original trial should have been quashed on grounds of being bad in point of law the since the indictment merely had men- | tioned @ class of character of offense without specifying what actual of- fenses the prisoners were to be tried for. Melimuth pointed out that if the appeal coyrt found the bad from point of amended, but tl would have to be ferred ba the grand jury for drawing up a indictment and preparation of entirely new trial Hellmuth quoted several authori- ties to prove the necessity for speci- fic statements of the offense in an indictment. ind w it cou tment not be whole qui an Bey of the Communist leader face 2 five year term in prigem ame one a two-year term They were convicted Noy. 13 of unlawfal ergan- ization and seditious conspiraay” Sol- lowing a wholesale raid on the Cem- munist Party of Canada. The Cem- munist Party has since been outlawed. Free speech, freedom of assemblage has been destroyed throughout Can- ada by the ruling class The first attack against the Party took place on August 11, when a number of brutal raids on the offices and homes of leading members of the Communist Party, The whole at- tack grew out of the government's fear of the growing power of the Communist Party of Canada and the revolutionary organizations, whieh have been pufting up an intengs fight for the immediate neede of the starving masses of Canadian workers, Although all the convicted workers out on the crown attorney Somerville attempted to have them locked up again last Monday. The Labor Defense League of Gan- ada has mobilized a great magp pre- lest movement to demand the free- dom of the convicted comrades. The Labor Defense League calls on all American workers’ organization to send mass protests to the Ontario Appeals Court demanding the release are bail, of the Canadian Communists. Chicago A.F. of L. Covers Up Growth of Unemployment CHICAGO, Ul, Jan. 14.—Fearing the action of the members of the A. F. of L., the officialdom is send- ing out confidential reports on grow- ing unemployment to the local mis- leaders begging them not to publis! the information. A document mark- ed “Chicago, unemployment in- creased,” contains in capital letters the instruction of the A. F. of L. misleaders: “Not for publication.” The document itself reads: “Unemployment has increased 12 per cent since November and there was less part-time work, according to reports received from 243 Chicago trade unions. This makes two more unions than lost month. The in- crease is appreciated as it enables us to report conditions in your city more accurately, For the city as a whole, 35 per cent of the union mem- bership were entirely without work and 15 per cent on part time (com- pared with 16 per cent in November). Only two other cities reporting have as high unemployment as Chicago— {previously working part time New York and Jersey City “In December the largest increazes in unemployment were reported by the building trades and clothing tn- dustries (a very large number were in clothing). But the most serious eon- ditions exist in the following trades: In building, 69 per cent were entirely without work, 11 per cent om part time and only 20 per cent working full time; in clothing, 56 per cent were unemployed; 22 per cent on part time and only 22 per cent work- ing full time. In water transporta- tion, 57 per cent were without jobs, 16 per cent working short schedule and only 27 per cent fully employed “Unemployment increased in the metal, printing, service trades, gen- erally and among musicians and water transport. There were more out of work and on part time in manufacturing (boot, shoe and stone workers) and among chauffeurs and truck drivers.” AF. OF L. TYPO LOCAL JOINS IN” SUPPORT OF JOBLESS INSURANCE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) enough to maintain themselves and families and are tacing distress, hunger and extreme privations. “Whereas the workers are sub- ject to degrading and inadequate system of charity or “doles,” while the government is spending billions for war preparations, and is grant- ing millions of dollars in subsidies and back taxes to the bosses, bank- ers and railroads, but will not give any adequate relief to the unem- ployed. “Therefore be it resolved that this Journal-American-Mirror chapel go on record for a system of govern- ment memployment insurance to be administered by committees of the workers without discrimination to race, sex, color or to any body of wage earners, as presented by the National Unemployment Conncil and Honger Marchers. “Be it further resolved that we BUILD NEW W.LR. BRANCH CLEVELAND, O.-A branch with 19 members to start has been opened by the Workers International Relief in the Mayfield section of Cleveland. Tt meets at 1943 Coltman Road. new elect = delegation of three members of our chapel to present and speak for this resotrtion at the mest regular meeting of Typographice! -Local No. 6 at Stoyvesant Bigh School Sunday, Jan 17.” sla Corects Stery on Local 21tt NEW YORE.—A. Baskoff, ehair- man of the unemployed committee of local tmion of the Carpenters Wo, 2717 which passed a resolution faver- ing unemployment {nsurance, writer to the Daily Worker as follows: “Happened to read in the Daily Worker the news item about or Jocal union 2717 and as the chairman of the unemployment commtttee who introduced the resolution on mnem- ployment, I want to correct the fei- lowing in your paper: “1, Our meeting was 2 special meeting held on Jan. 11. 2. The re- solution takes in the hall which i+ Labor Temple, 8th St. 3. Yoeai union 2717 mstructed the committee to make all necessary arrangemers (and not as your paper stated, merebr to elect a committee of 5.) “The strnggte ageinst wrltteentzes iy an extreme form of the ease struggle against wer and agetest | the political power of canitelion:” —Liebknecish, and Industry series, 80 Hast 12th Street FREE PREMIUMS! Get Daily Worker Subs IN YOUR SHOP, IN YOUR FACTORY, IN YOUR MASS ORGA NIZATION WITH ONE YEAR SU! “Brusski” (Phe Soil Redeemed), By Panferov. Or any $1.50 or $1.00 book put out by International Publishes. WITH SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION “Red Villages,” which sells for 50 cents. Or any of the kebor which sells for #1, or the Tabor Pack Bosh, which sells for 85 cents. Deilpehorker BSCRIPTION Sells for $180 ~ ea eet New York, N.Y.