The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1932, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, _ TANUARY 21, 1932 AMALGAMATED AIDS GOLDMAN FOR NEW WAGE-CUT Blumberg, Amalgamated Head, Advises Work- ers to.Take Another Cut Rank and. File Committee Calls All Shops to Organize to (By: a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Mr. Rosenberg, manager of the Wm. P. Goldman clothing. shop, with the officials of our union, the Amalgamated, has once more made an announcement to us workers. The annouricement was not that the boss would give us a raise in wages to make up for the 40 per cent wage cut we have received during the year of 1931, Wage cut was necessary.” Mr. Blumberg, manager of the union, told us (confiden- tially); Everybody. (meaning the bosses) got reductions. got to give it to the Wm. P. Goldman ¢ too.” Of course Mr,. Blumberg in his sincere effort to force’ the wotkers to accept the 7 1-2 per cent wage cut in wages for the coat shop,15 per cent for the Model Coat shop, 15 per cent for the Vest and Pants mak- ers and 30 per cent for the Canvas makers shop workers *.xted, “Those ssseeeee (Meaning. the bos- ses. Howvers, he was-kidding us along). Last week I settled: with J. Freedman, and this week he came back for mofe reductions. I gave 15 per cent reduction ‘fo ‘the Sirota Shop and yet they are’ not satisfied.” | Mr. Blumberg wanted, the- workers to know that, which is; tht only answer workers get from every Amalgamated official. “It is depression, bad-time and we are compelled to cut. ‘your wages,” says the boss—‘“it’s ‘depression now and we are compelled to accept wage cuts,” says Mr, Bluniberg’ ‘and Hill- man, And we the workers of the Wm, P, Goldman keep getting one wage cut after another. 2 Can Win By Striking. Jackson, Monatt, Blumberg, Sala and Co., are trying to make us work- ers believe that in time of depression all we workers are to do“is‘to accept | wage cuts or take the gaS’pipe. Why is it then that the furriers in the strike they declared in «more than 500 shops this last summer forced the bosses to increase thelr wages from $5.00 up to $35.00 for each worker per week? This Mr, Blumberg Won't tell us, but it is because the furriers formed a rank and file movement and made a united’ front’ with the ‘adustrial union and did not listen %o Kaufman, the Hillman of the Fur- tiers International. « It’s: because the furriers under a militant rank and file leadership fought against the bosses, against the gangsters, against thte police and against. all.elements and agents of the bosses who-got in their way to win better. conditions. The theory of Mr., Blumberg and Asks Indiar (By a Worker Correspondent) HIBBING, Minn.—The Indians of Minnesota are siarving..At the same time there are thousands of dollars in the U. S. treasury which they are deprived of-in order that the politicians in the Indian depart- ment at Washington can draw fat salaries. While the officials. of the. Indian department are living-in fine houses the Indians are forced to jive in sha: ts that are not fit for cattle and at ihe same time starve and freeze for lack of food and clothes, The big ciy of the government ig that the Indians are. net. able to take care of their money, .Qn No- vember 8 the Indians. received from the government $8,50, They. are ex- eo yw: * Western Union Girls (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—We work for the Western Union at 60 Hudson St. Our wages were recentlygut, 10 per cent without any notice’ whatsover, And now our Employes AsSdciation, which we are compelled to belong to, has decided that we must-work:« days a week. We have already” been cut down to five. The company has. also” cancelled 500 girls’ vacations. - ‘They: were sup- posed to receive a two weeks’ vaca- CO. MOVE Resist Cuts | but that “another We ‘to Live On $8.50 A Year Hillman that in time of depression “either we accept wage cuts or we take the gas pipe,” is only advanced to get us workers to accept wage cuts, Why is it that Mr. Monatt forced the workers of the vast shop to take a reduction of 15 per cent, prior to the general reduction (on the 1,000 vests) without calling a shop meet- ing or taking it up at © ‘2cal meet- ing? It is because Monatt, Jackson, Blumberg and.Co., are today openly representing the interests of the bos- ses and want to employ Mussolini's methods of subjugating the workers under a fascist iron rule in the shop. Must Build a Rank and File Movement, The Rank ahd File Committee which is the only organized move- ment among the workers of the Amalgamated has many times warned us workers, to organize a: fight against wage cuts. It has many times pointed out the necessity of building a shop group which is to be the leading nucleus within the fac- tory, the committee of action in the struggle against wage cuts and re- organization. | We have remained too passive. We have allowed the bosses and the ouucials of our union to do what ever they damned pleased with us and our | conditions, It is about time we wake up. Let us organize a rank and file movement in our shop. Let us build | a shop group of sincere, and militant workers, do not fear, we have noth- ing to lose. We have lost everything already. Let us organize and under @ militant rank and file united front movement which will include every element, rights and lefts, Commun- ists and socialists, republicans and democrats, catholic and religious Jews, we will be able to tell the boss and the officials of the union who are the representatives of the bosses to go plumb to hell, and we will strike to better our conditions. pected to live on this until nexe November. ‘The Indians are also forced to pay @ certain sum out of the Indian fund | in order to send their children to school, T recently received a letter from a faker in Washington named Harold Knutsen. He stated that there was a bill introduced in Congress calling for a $50 per capita payment to the Indians. He stated that the in- terests of the Indians will get care and consideration. We know that this faker as well as all the rest of the robbers in the Indian Department will consider more than ever how to continue to rob and starve the Indians. Ready to Hit Pay-cut steady without a'vacation and receive the sum of $10 a week for our work. How can a girl live on $10 a week? The above facts affect about 1200 workers, We are ready for anything. ws) EDITORIAL NOTE;—The work- ers of the Western Union should get in touch with the Office Work- ers Union, 799 Broadway, at once. The comrades in the union will give the girls leadership in form- ‘ion every year. Now we must work Expose Socialists at Sheboygan Mass Meet (By a Worker Correspondent) SHEBOYGAN, Wis.—The largest mass meeting in Sheboygan was at- vended by over three Iiindred work- ers and farmers on January 5. This meeting showed many xrpsitits. ‘The way the meeting was’ dtivertised was by signs. We made two signs about the size of a placard-inethe use of demonstrations. Two comrades took Work ers! Do the places. where you spend your money advertise in. the | Worker? ASK THEM TO-DO IT! Dail Lda Paty DLA. 50 E. 13th St, Nv. ing committees and preparing for strike action for better conditions. these signs on the main street or the place where workers were found the most. Also three thousand leaflets came out. We didn’t have enough chairs to seat the workers, many Standing. The weather was bad, but the workers came nevertheless to hear our program. We have estab- lished an Unemployed Council and one unit of the Party. ‘This city, as the rest of the cities | in Wisconsin, has these yellow “so- cialists.” We intend toexpose these betrayers to the workers, A short time ago the “socialists” had a meeting. They talk about everything but don’t do anything. So the floor was open for discussion, The writer asked the speakers why workers were arrested on March 6 in “socialist” Milwaukee, why Al Benson evicted workers, why Mac- Donald in England sent soldiers to shoot down the Indian workers and farmers, etc.? ‘This thé “socialist” speaker couldn't answer, but one said that a worker who interrupted “mass meetings” was @ betrayer to the working-class. And soon the meeting ended. ‘The workers applauded whem the writer was through asking these questions. The workers see the role of the “socialist” party and are willing to Manager of London Daily Worker Gets 3 Year Jail Sentence (Cable By Inprecorr.) LONDON, Jan. 20.—Frank Priestly, business manager of the Daily Work- er, was sentenced to three years penal servitude today on the charge of incitement to mutiny in connec- tion with the Invergordon articles which appéared in the Daily Worker. Priestly declared that the charge | Was political persecution and was un- | suported by any evidence establish- ing his personal responsibilty, The essence of the charge was that the Daily Worker supported the sailors. Priestly declared that the Daily Worker, the Communist Party and Communists would continue to support all such movements whole- heartedly. After the sentence, Priest- ly appealed to the workers present | in the court room to redouble their activities. 3000 JOBLESS IN TOLEDO DEMAND RELIEF FROM CITY (CONTINUED FROM swear to god by a notary public who puts his stamp on the questionnaire. If you are not a voter, you don’t get any food. ‘The workers have to stand in line for hours at a time after walking from one to two miles before they got a bag which contains at most garbage and canned milk, the amount of which costs about $1.75 for a fam- ily of three to five to live on for a week, The demands of the Unemployed Councils, handed to the mayor, were as follows: 1. Appropriate the necessary funds to provide adequate relief for the unemployed of Toltdo. Cash relief sufficient to provide food, clothing and shelter from all unemployed workers, Families ac- cording to thenr needs, determined by number in family, and for all single men, women and youth. 2 No discrimination in giving this relief. Equal relief regardless of color, race, nationality or polit- ical opinion. 3. That the practice of making workers swear to a lot of humiliat- ing questions in order to get relief be immediately stopped. 4. The immediate abolishing of all vagrancy and eviction laws. 5. Exemption of taxes and mort- gage payments for unemployed workers, Loan companies anit credit houses be forbidden to fore- close mortgage on furniture, prop- erty and other belongings of the unemployed. 6. Companies supplying gas and electricity be forbidden to shut off these necessities, 7. Water not to be shut off for non-payment of water bills. 8. Free dental and medical ser- vice. Hospital care for all work- ers in need of such service. 9%. Union wages for all public work, Mayor Thacher’s forced la- bor policy be stopped. 10, Free street car and bus ser- vice for school children, Hot break¥asts and lunches be served in school. 1. Buck-passing policy of city administration be stopped at once. CUTTERS STRIKE IN B. B. SHOE CO. Socialist “Mayor and Sheriff Protect Scabs MILWAUKEE, Wis. Jan, 20.— Fifteen cutters in the B, B. Shoe Co., 14th and Fond du Lac Ave., were locked out last week because they asked for a raise of a cent a pair on the shoes. Their wages averaged about eleven dolars a week for the year around. Twenty dollars is the most they could make. Even while working, most of the B. B. Shoe workers have to go to the County Outdoor Relief in order to live, PAGE ONE} pretends to be a philanthropist. He donates a few dollars to the Jewish Orphan Home, in order to make it appear that he is generous. Recently he hired two orphans out of this home for $6 a week. He hires wid- ows also, out of the goodness of his heart and pays them five to ten dollars a week, working the women overtime, Mayor Hoan, and Sheriff Benson, both socialists, haye repeatedly said workers should strike against such starvation conditions, arid the police and deputies would keep strike- breakers out of the factory. But on ‘Tuesday morning, when the picket line kept the scabs out, four cops came, and under their protection the scabs walked into the shop. Many more cops were held in readiness to | protect the scabs, ‘The strikers are demanding a raise of one cent a pair on all shoes cut, taking back of locked out workers, and no blacklisting, the recognition by the company of department com- mittees, elected by the workers, with which the company must consult be- fore any rates are set. ‘The main task now is to bring out other departments. ‘The strikers raise the demands of $20 minimum wage men, with time and a half for over- to} time for others. join the Communict Party, Brindis, the owner of the factory, | NEEDLE TRADES STRIKE IN CHICAGO. Yellow Union Openly Trying to Break Strike CHICAGO, Ill—On Thursday the 14th of January the workers of the | the Needle Trade Workers Industrial | Union went out on a militant strike workers against the rotten conditions starvation wage scale. The Flashy Maid Dress Shop is a typical needle trades shop in this city. The average’ wage scale is from $10 to $8 a week, The operators receive 18 and one quater cents per dress. The pressers receive 5 cents per pres- singn, The finishers get only 2% per finish, ‘The Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union has formed militant picket lines marching up and down in front of the dress shop. Every day more and more workers are joining them. The International Union, the reac- tionary company union of the bosses, has come out openly against the strike sending scabs in an effort to break the strike. On Monday, the 18th, as the picket line was parading down the sidewalks, the boss came out threatening the workers that if they did not leave off picketing there would be fighting and bloodshed. The workers refused to halt or stop their picketing. A few the joint efforts of the boss and his best friend, the International Union, attacked the workers. There was a fierce fight in which many of the unlooking unemployed workers joined. The workers fought back militantly and bravely. Several | of the gangsters were badly hurt and \a few of the workers injured. The police stood by, but seeing the gang- sters getting the worst of the battle, stepped in broke up the fight and ar- rested six of the strikers. Later the police visited the office of the Needle Trades Industrial Union but left after moments leaying the place unmo- lested, At the time of this writing the workers arrested have been booked. Members of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union have called the station time and time again only to | be answered that the workers have not been booked. The strike is still on and picketing will continue. MASCOMA MILLS CUT PAY AGAIN Working “Hours Also Extended in Lebanon LEBANON, N. H. — The Mascoma Mills of the American Woolen Co., a unit of the octopus which is the pre- dominant factor in the American woolen textile industry, not content with another slash in wages of their workers are. putting into effect this date an extension of working hours from 48 to 54 hours per week, With three fourths of their weavers forever eliminated from the industry by the recent introduction of automatic looms and other employes eliminated proportionately as far as possible they now proceed to lengthen work- ing hours in a final effort to get the last possible ounce of energy out of already overworked wage slaves who are held to the grindstone of their jobs by the fear that recruts from the ever growing ranks of the unem- ployed will take their places, thereby depriving them of their last slim chance of getting a livelihood at all. It is reported that the recent slash in wages amounted to about a 30 per cent cut for weavers, except those who are on automatic looms who were cut about 17 1-2 percent. Loom- fixers were cut about 25 per cent and loomfixers helpers are working for | 30 cents per hour. Dressers were cut , 33 and one third per cent, spoolers were cut from $17 to $13 per week and common labor to 30 cents an hour. These drastic cuts following previous wage reductions have brought earning power down to a point where it is claimed that at least one of the employees who hes a large family cannot earn enough in a full weeks work to feed and clothe them and the already overburdened town poor department will have to make up the deficit. The extension in working, hours coming at a time when even the most far seeing of the capitalists and bos~ ses are admitting that a reduction from an eight to a six hour day is the only possible way by which we can ever re-employ the majority of those who now are unemployed, and when the heads of the great American railroad systems are negotiating with the railway labor union heads at Chi- cago over a reduction to a six hour day to take up the slack of unemploy- ment in that industry, shows the al- most incredible stupidity and short- sightedness of those who control our textile industries. are supported in their picketing by the unemployed branches in the for all workers, equal pay for equal | neighborhood. They are being helped work for women and youth, payment} in their work by the Trade Union of wages to piece workers while | Unity League, to which they look for waiting for work, better sanitary | leadership, There is great sympathy condtions, and no overtime for wo- | with the cutters amongst the other workers and with a wage cut an- nounced for Thursday. There is @ _ The strikers ese yevy militant, and | possibilty W pulling the whole shop, moments later the gangsters hired by | | | TU. U.L, LEADING RANK AND FILE Flashy Maid Dress Shop, at 327 West | was held here Adams St., under the leadership of | The meeting/ was advertised by signs against the discharge of several of the | eats, we starve,” { MOVEMENT GAINS | IN ANTHRACITE intern MNel Prcnare Big February 4 Demonstration in Kulpmont, Pa. KULPMONT, Pa 2 ar miners mass meeting with about 250 attending aturday afternoon. carried through the streets by miners’ children. ‘The signs read: “Hoover “We want unem- | ployment insurance.” In spite of the existing in the shop and against the | fact that the burgess and chief of police of this city snatched the signs from the children before they had a chance to go through the city, the hall was packed. A speaker from the Rank and Flie | Opposition was secured for this meet- ing.” The program of the Rank and File was enthusiastically adopted by the miners. Rank and file programs were distributed and the miners to go to the next local meetings and | fight for the election of Rank and | File Committees, | It was also decided to have a street, | parade for unemployment. Insurance | on February 4th and it is expected | that this will be the biggest parade | ever held in this city. | | Protest Attack Against Jobless » Negro Worker, 20.— NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. Yesterday several hundred workers | demonstrated at 154 Ashmuno Street | before the home of, D. Brisbane, an | unemployed Negro worker, and his | family. Due to long unemployment | he was at last forced to appeal to | local charity. After brief investiga | tion the state of Connecticut is now trying to extradite this worker and | his family to North Carolina. Already the state has viciously broken up this family by jailing some of the mem- bers in the poorhouse. | H. Kaplan, organizer of the Un- | employed Council, was arrested when he exposed the action of the state to unemployed workers and their race discrimination program. His bail has been set at $500. W. Taylor, International Labor Defense repre- | sentative, was also held by the police. He was released later when the po- lice could secure no witness to tes- tify against him. Truckmen hired to remove the be- longings from Brisbane's house re- | fused to carry out their tasks when | approached by a workers’ committee. Their response was a splendid ex- | ample of workers’ solidarity. | The block committee in the Dix- | well Avenue section decided that they | would hold a mass protest meeting {on Friday, Jan. 27 at Masonic Hall, 76 Webster Street, together with the | LL.D. POISONED WITH CHARITY SLOPS, ~~ Bemidji, Minn. | Dear Comrade: Here in Bemidji three of the work- | ers have landed in the hospital from | the rotten food they get from the| Salvation Army. The workers are | forced to eat and sleep in the same j room with no yentilation and only } one door in the building, so in case | of fire the workers have no chance to get out. The bosses of Bemidji are | using all kinds of tricks and schemes | on the workers in order to keep them from fighting against the system of starvation. The Unemployed Council of Bemidji must work all the harder and expose the Salvation Army, the | Welfare Board and the rest of the fakers in Bemidji. | The City has also cut the wages | from $2.50 to $1.50 per day for shov- | eling snow, which shows how they | are putting over the forced labor on the workers, But we do not hear a word from Mr, Kaplan, the friend of the workers against this, Kaplan, | who is the alderman here. has a big | store here in Hemidji where the | Welfaro Board sends the workers | what little relief they get, which goes to show that Kaplan is working hand in hand with the rest of the fakers. He also said that he was opposed to the Salvation Army or other chari- table organizations handling relief, but at the same time we do not hear a word froth this Socialist faker when | the Salvatior! Army is putting work- | ers in the hospital from the rotten _ slop they are feeding them. | Alabama | posters. ; the NAACP before the masses. | Chester, ?a., Workers |Cemmemorate Death! of Lenin Jan. 24th SCOTTSBORO CASE RAILROAD 16 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) R, Pa.— nm face of Alaharsad wage cuts and layoffs, workers here, will commemorate the death of Lenin at a memorial meet- | ing to be held on January 24th, at 731 C wel Ave., 2:30 p. m. This meeting will be @ point of mobiliza- tion for the great National Unem- ployment Day Demonstration, ruary 4th. No admission will be charged and this promises to be one of the big fest meetings yet held. There will be ing. speaking, and per- formance by the Young Pioneers of America. All workers are called upon to attend, APPEAL UP TODAY IN ALA. (CONTINUED FROM FAGE OND) Demonstrations are taking place all over the United States and in many European countries at which the demand for the immediate and unconditional release of the boys is militantly raised. These demon- strations must continue, and must increase a hundred hold as only the mass fight of the workers and tollers will force the release of the nine innocent boys. Every worker must | selw a committee of one to raise the | questino of the defense of the Scotts- | boro boys in his union, his lodge or Working class or- | other organization. ganizations, must rush wires to the Supreme Court denouncing the hideous frame-up of these in- |mocent working class children and demanding their release. Factory gate meetings and indoor protest | meetings must be held immediately. The Birmingham capitalist papers report that Governor of Alabama is being flooded with telegrams and resolutions from all over the world demanding the free- | dom of the boys. Thése protests must continue, and must increase, Boys Face Ordeal Bravely The eight boys in the death cells at Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Ala., are displaying the utmost courage and the fullest confidence in the In- ternational Labor Defense and the} mass fight of white and Negro work- ers to free them. In letters to Paul Peters, publicity | director of the ILD, who is now in| the South, the boys express full sup- | port for the militant defense policy | of the ILD and relief that the NACP has been finally forced to drop its pretense of “defending” them. Charlie Weems, one of the two boys whom the NAACP lyingly claim are urg- ing them to handle their defense, writes: “I wrote Mr. White but I did so because I thought he was going to join forces with Mr. Chamlee and help us. After I learned what he did I am glad he withdrew from the case. White and Roddy should not try to make trouble for Cham- lee, but they can’t hurt him be- cause we know who we wanted to defend us, I have been in here | so long until I know being free will be like a new person. I trust in, the ILD to do all that can be done for us.” Scores NAACP Slander of Parents . White is national secretary of the NAACP. Roddy is the Klan at- | torney who betrayed the boys in ee original “trial” at Scottsboro. Roddy | has been claimed by the NAACP as| their attorney. Andy Wright, an- other of the boys, writes: “I'm very glad that Walter White withdrew. T lost all faith in him when my mother wrote me from New York she heard him say at an NAACP meeting that we boys were homeless, unknown, our par- ents were imposters. ¥ have always been with the ILD.” Answers Charge That Boys Are “Ignorant” Mrs. Wright is one of the Scotts- | boro mothers who was refused the floor at NAACP mass meetings un- der the pretext of ‘‘defending” the boys. The NAACP reformists brand- ed the parents of the boys as im- The real reason for re- fusing them the floor was theknowl- edge that the parents would expose Eu- gene Williams, another of the boys, writes: “IT never weote Walter White be- cause I can find other use for a two cent siamp. He never acted right frem the beginning.” | BLADDER WEAKNESS? sealing sensations, frequent pascage, back uickly ‘overconte, ‘and causo elecked by al Mids, Prescribed ‘by doctors for over 100 years. Sold by druy FILL OUT AND SEND WITH DONATION Answer the Hoover Hunger Program and! Build A $50,000 Fighting Name ‘Address Feb- | | consider him- B. M. Miller | and Fight” inscribed on a banner nat th epolice took from the Labor Temple and which Skinner is using to stir the race hatred of the white jur dozens of workers waiting to testify for the defendants were openly | threatened with being blacklisted on their jobs by Judge Pettiway yester- |day, When Armando Lopez, a young }local cigarmaker, was asked to state | where he is working, he answered | “I know where I am working, but if I stated it here, you will have me fired.” Judge Pettaway threatened him with contempt of court is he refused to tell what factory he worked in and said: “I do not guarantee any- | thing as to you about not losing your job.” Manuel Mercendez bacco worker, when asked by ner why he was not working, said |The manufacturers give us this kind |of vacation.” | One after the other tobacco w Jers are risking their jobs by testify- another to- ing in the court of the cigar manu- | | facturers eee the attack of the} Skin- | BROUGHTIN TO 4 TAMPA WORKERS pty meeting Temple f Nov a woman told how police be no on t head when sied thefr tality ta be who jselling the Daily Worker outside the hall In spite of the bullying by the prose the worker wit- | unhesitatingly, are giving a ndid pic the attack on the meeting The venomous “Pillina,” a Cuban provocateur ective, has been brought into the testimony When- ever his name is ioned in the court room there is & stir among the workers crowding the trial and thugs parading the court jump into ac- | tion. | ‘The collection of the locai workers’ Defense Committee have doubled during the past week and each night | inereasing hundreds of workers are | attending the report of the workers’ | jury at the Labor Temple. Rush | you upport of the en workers in funds to the International Labor Defense or the Cigar Workers’ In- | dustrial Union in Tampe! | ~ | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONR) ted within the past week and joined the Chinese Red Army. It is the} tremendous successes of the Chinese |Red Army which explain the recall | of Chiang Kai-shek by the Kuomin- tang and their imperialist masters, | and the new policy of the imperial- | ists in moving for direct armed in- | tervention against the Chinese mas- ses, . The possibilities of throwing the toiling masses of the world into an- other world slaughter are cold- bloodedly weighed in a confidential Service, a financial agency, The letter is marked “For Clients Only,“ and is dated Jan. 12, 1932. That the capitalists consider a new world war as the only road out of the world economic and financial crisis of de- caying capitalism is openly and bru- tally stated in thte letter, which folows:— “CONDITIONS: It is difficutt to find optimism in Europe. ‘The Principle of ‘self-determination’ written into the Versailles Treaty, has created economic barriers all over the map. The French are probably right in their contention | that a settlement of reparations | would merely mean an immediate | and equally vigorous attempt to overthrow the Versailles Treaty. Many diplomats bluntly say that | the situation can be cleared up only by another war, and that it would be under way now were not the population war-weary and the | French armament over-powering.” | Further threatening the imperial- |ist system of looting and oppressing |the “home” and colonial masses is |the tremendous sweep of the revo- | lutionary movement in China, lead |by the Chinese Communist Party. It |is admitted the fear of Communism that is behind the frantic efforts of | | the imperialists to stabilize counter- 20,000 NANKING TROOPS GO OVER TO CHINESE RED ARMY letter sent out by. the Whaley Baton | ’ a |Shek is reported to be returning to Nanking “with greater power than lever The notorious “left” leader, | Wang Ching-wei of the Canton group has made an alliance with Chiang. The alliance was no doubt laseariged by their. imperialist mas- ters. N new and bloodier terror is | being prepared against the Chinese | masses and thelr Soviet Republic. Japanese Start Riot in Shanghal. Japanese national chauvinists re- siding in the Chinese city of Shang- | hai yesterday attack Chinese workers, |stoned tram-cats and burned two Chinese factor The attacks were carried out under the protection of | Japanese warship lying off the Bund. An extremely tense’ situation has been created. The mob action fol- {lowed a mass meeting of 2,000 Jap- ‘anese business men and other agents |of Japanese imperialism, who de- manded the caling off of the boycott against Japanese goods, cessation of the anti-Japanese demonstration of Chinese workers and students and |“respect for the Japanese flag and the Emperor.” Japanese marines were later landed | to protect the Japanese patriots from the wrath of the Chinese worke! | Chinese gendarmes aided the Japa- | nese marines in the Intimidation and | terror against the workers. ‘Two months after the Japanese | seized Manchuria and launched a murderous terror against its popula- tion the Kuomintang traitors are | “considering” the breaking off of | diplomatic relations with Japan, The severing of diplomatic relations is designed to usher in the return of Chiang Kai-shek and is an attempt | to deceive the Chinese masses as to | the real purpose’ for the recall by the imperialists and their Kuomin- tang lackeys o fthis murderer of hun- dreds of thousands of militant Chi- |nese workers and peasants. It is also an indication of an important victory for United States imperialism | revolutionary Nanking government. | over its rivals in Chi: Chiang is | The Wall Street Buigher Chiang Kai- ‘an agent of Wall Stre adie - JOBLESS ARMY TO GROW, : eS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE? talist newspopers. |, Under the heading of “unemploy- |'ment” the latest copy of this letter | “UNEMPLOYMENT—bad, grow- ing worse, but a local problem, and there are still plenty of local; stretchings of resources to be done. Ore reason that administration is strong against federal funds for direct relief is that unemploy- ment situation NEXT winter is ex- pected to be bad; states and cities must perfect their systems and they will not do so if they think the burden can be shifted to the federal government.” The reference to the local stretch- ing refers to the: fact. that all the al- so cities will stil further cut their ready meagre relief alotmentsl. So |far as the Federal governm is concerned, the Hoover policy is to grant no relief at any time, unless forced to do so by the growing pow erful strugles of the workers. Febru- ary 4th will be an important step in the direction of forcing immediate unemployment relief, and pressing on the struggle for unemployment SAYS SECRET REPORT insurance , Negro Workers in St. Paul for Feb. 4 | ST. PAUL, Mi Jan, 0.—On last | Friday, a. United Front Conference | to prepare fo: 4th dem- onstration we ie the three | branches of the Unemployed Council a@ number of other orgs ‘ations in- cluding a few locals of the A; F. of L. were represented. . Preparations | were made to raise funds, issue leaf- jlets and to 2 the workers for | the demonstratic The best result of the conference the presence of a number of representing organ< er another took the flocr and: pointed -out, how the city in tion is riminating Negroes. in giving relief, for the Feb- ion | The Unemployed “Council of St. Paul found good response amongst the workers, espeeially on the West | Side where Negroes. and Mexicans, the most oppressed groups amongst | the workers live. They plan a march |from the West side to the Court | House, the center of the February | 4th demonstration. | THE f WESTERN WORKER Comes Out January 1st A fighter to organize and lead our struggles in the West RAISE FUNDS! | 52 Issues $2 Name ...... ONY vicgerresvevveccererecerenes BUILD IT! 26 Issues $1 SUBSCRIBE NOW! 13: Issues 50c sarees State oscererersevoseseven Western Worker Campaign Committee 15 FOURTH STREET, San Francisco, Calif,