The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1932, Page 3

| — U.T.W. EXPOSED AS | ASSABET MILL OPENS | WITH NEW WAGE-CUT Fake Trial Called After Lockout to Fool the) Workers; U. T. W. Helps Blacklist | National Textile Workers Union Calls for| Strong United Front to Hit Slash (By a Worker Correspondent) MAYNARD, Mass.—The Assabet Mill of the American Woolen Company in this town officially opened Monday, Jan. 11, after a shutdown of ten weeks. The closing down of the mill came as a result of the strike in Lawrence when 18 girls in the draw-in room refused to.do scab work, which had been brought in from Lawrence, and as a result of this refusal, were summarily discharged. When the company through their spies and the U. T. W. fakers found out that the workers in other departments were going to stand closed the mill. To regain their lost prestige with the workers the U. T. W. fakers de- the workers the U. T. W. fakers de- clared a strike, two days after the mill was closéd, but following many Meetings with the mill officials and incidentally many cigars, declared the |, strike off again. All this was done inside of one week. Why the U. T. W. called off the strike so soon should be clear to everyone. It was done in order to give the bosses a free hand to cut the wages and discriminate against the most militant workers. When Mr. McMahon, president and head, misleader of the United Textile Workers, came to Maynard last Feb- ryary to help the bosses put over a wage cut, in which he and his local Heutenants, Messrs. Punch, Johnson & Co?, worked hand in hand with the bosses, by threatening to close the mill for good. They suceeded in scaring the workers into accepting a 12% percent pay cut. The locai misleaders with the bosses started an extensive blacklisting cam- paign against the most militant work~ ers, and National Textile Workers Uris. members, thereby succeeding in terrorizing some of the workers to join their wage cut union. Citizens Committee. In December the bosses with the help of the Citizens Committee, cal- Jed the workers to meet them in the mill. Coming to this meeting the workers had to go through the main office where all the most militant members were told that their hame was not on the “list” and were fur- ther told to keep away from the mill, At this meeting the workers wer® in- formed by Mr. Templeton, the agent, that in order to be rehired they must not belong to any union or fight SCOTTSBORO BOYS VISITED IN JAIL BY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) catch blurs of human beings, prowl+ ing back and forth like captive ant- mals. ‘The heaviness presses on your lungs, 2 sickness gnaws in your stomach. ‘The warden swings open a door. “andy Wright,” he says. Tt {8 hard to think of anything to sey as you stare at this gangling young black boy with his white uni- form and his sad-eyed stony face. ‘Yes, he remembers Joseph Brodsky, the lawyer, and Irving Schwab, both of whom had talked to him about his case before. He smiles as we tell him we have seen his mother end sister in Chattanooga, and his brother's dog, and the new litter of pups. “De you smoke, Andy?” He takes the package of cigarettes eagerly. ‘Then the door fs slammed in his face and you have only the checkered blur of his body against the bers. One by one, quickly, you are taken around. For a moment the cells are flung open. For a moment you stare inte a young boy's face. He listens TERMINAL MINERS PLAN STRIKE FEB. Ist SCONTINUEN FROM PAGE ONED paaniancianaaaachon behind these 18 girls, they against wage-cuts or speed-ups. Be-~- cause all the militant workers were turned away at the office there was no one to talk against him. Mr. Templeton declared through the local press that his proposition was unani- mously accepted. Wages Cut. Following the above meeting and many secret meetings with the “Cit~- izens Committee”, notices were put up that the mill will re-open, but the wages will be “re-adjustéd”. How much the wages were “re-adjusted” was found out last week. Notice was given that the spinners pay will be cut from 40 to 50 percent, dressers 40 percent and the pay in all the other departments were cut to 33 cents per hour. This wage cut will bring pay down in every department to $15 a week. The pay of the female help in some departments was cut down to $10 per week. The weavers will be forced to run six looms in- stead of four. Also in other depart- ments the workers will be forced to do twice as much work. As a result of this extra speed-up approximately one third of the workers will be laid off. ‘This is the sad result of the U. T. W. misleadership in Maynard. Thus the workers’ trade union movement has been broken in Maynard entirely and militant workers and misleaders are blacklisted by the company. The rank and file workers in May- nard should not and must not accept these starvation wages offered by the mill bosses. - We must organize a strong united front committee and under the leadership of the National ‘Textile Workers Union prepare to fight for decent living wages and against all speed-ups and discrimi- nations, I. L. D. ATTORNEYS sharply as Brodsky tells him about the hearing in the court. He says, “Yes, sir,” and smiles, and the door is flung to again. Ozie Powell, Olen Montgomery, Charlie Weems, Clarence Norris, Willie Robertson, Haywood Patter- son, Eugene Williams—a flash of white uniform, a pair of large child’s eyes staring out of the tiny cell, the look of a hunted animal that makes it hard for you to talk— then the clatter of the door and the rattle of the key. ‘You feel a wild impulse to rip the doors down. ‘The warden and guars march you down the concrete halls. They are clean and bare and new, with a re- lentless ferocity of whitewash. ‘We drive away back to town, every lawyer determined in tomorrow's argument to fight harder than ever to set the Scottsboro boys free! And —backing the efense in the court, the thunderous roar of millions and millions throughout the world, milt- tantly demanding the liberation of these innocent victims of a ferocious Tuling-class justice. Mr. Fagan spoke to the press HE i s REVOLUTIONARY COMPE- TITION MARKS YCL RECRUITING DRIVE NEW YORK.— The Recruiting Drive of the Young Communist League which began on January 15 and will last until April 22nd, the tenth anniversary of the Young Communist League, is getting under | way at full steam. Revolutionary competition between icts of the Young Com- munist League is spurring the drive on toward successful completion. Among the first challenges to be is- sued are those of the Philadelphia and Charlotte districts. Philadel- phia challenges both New York and Minnesota to get not only the quota of 225 new members set by the Na~ tional Office but 300, It further bases its challenge on the alteration of the composition of its membership so that a greater per centage of its members will be organized in shop units than either in New York or in Minnesota. Setting itself a quota of 50 miners by the end of the drive, it challenges New York and Minne- sota to recruit a similar number of metal workers and Minnesota an equal number of metal miners. Philadelphia also declares at it will recruit as many young Negro work~ ers into the League as either New York or Minnesota. Southern District No. 16 with the district headquarters at Charlotte, N. C. challenges Boston and sets for itself the goal of recruiting 200 new members over and above its present membership of 65. The challenge ex- tends to the shops, and sets as a high mark, for Boston to aim at, the building of 5 shop units where there are at present one in the textile in- dustry, the issuing of three shop pap- ers and the building of two units in the farming areas of the Black Belt. The 200 new members to be recruited 125 will be young Negro qworkers, 80 textile workers and 25 share croppers. How about it New York, Minne~ sota and Boston? YOUNG WORKER ON TOUR AGAINST THE C. S. LAWS Zip Koshinski, organizer of the Young Communist League and in- dicted in Franklin County on charges of criminal syndicalism, is touring the Illinois district of the International Labor Defense as part of the campaign for the release of all class-war prisoners and for the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law. The Youth Department of the I. L. D. is arranging meetings for Zip in the following cities: Milwaukee—Jan. 25 and 26. Hammond—Jan. 27, Gary—Jan. 28. Chicago—Jan. 29 and 30. ‘With the nine unemployed Scotts- boro boys still in jail, with many young workers in jail in Chicago, with Shantzek and Greenberg facing 20 years’ imprisonment, the Interna- tional Uabor Defense calls upon all workers to attend these meetings and show their determination to fight for the release of all class-war prison~ ers. In Chicago there will be a mass meeting on Jan. 29 at the Movement Hall, 226 E. 43rd St., with Zip as the main speaker. On Saturday, Jan. 30, there will be a meeting followed by a dance at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 W. Hirsch Blvd. with an admission feé of only 10 cents. All workers, young and adult, sre urged to attend. the distri ent goes into effect.” ‘The miners are struggling not only against the wage cut but against the yoke of the check-off. The straw bosses are individually talking to every miner in the Terminal mines threatening them with blacklist un- less they sign an agreement to ac- cept the wage cut. The miners are in no mood to accept another wage cut as they are starving already and they declare they will organize their yank and file strike committees and under the leadership of the N.M.U. will strike on February Ist, when the wage cut is to take place. T™ the Vesta Mines of the Veste Coal Co. in the Brownsville, Pa. sec- tion a wage cut is also announced. In the Curtisville mines in the Alle- gheny Valley 2 wage cut ts also tak- ing place. In Casandra, Central Pennsylvania, 650 members of the UMWA ate on strike against 2 wage cut and against the lay off of 102 miners from the night shift, in spite of the réluctance of their officials. Struggles are developing also in such mines as the Piney Fork mine in East Ohio, the NMU at the request Tridelphie, West Virginia. In the Hocking Valley in South Ohio, the NMU at the request of the miners have sent organizers into the field to organize the workers to resist the wage that are taking place there. In all cases where wage cuts are taking place the NMU locals are is~ suing leaflets holding mass meetings of the miners and organizing them for resistance to the wage cuts. LONDON LIGHTERAGE STRIKE SPREADS, NEW YORK, Jan. 24. — Entering the third week, the strike of the light- ermen whose work constitutes the|ing most importartt mid-strearh activities of the Port of London, the strike against a 7 percent wage-cut may soon halt shipping on the Thames. according to a special cable to the x DAILY WORKER, NEW YORZ, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1952 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) cials of the Wall Street government as declaring that this time “Japan has gone too far.” “Japan Has Gone Too Far,” U. S. The cnocern with which the United States imperialists view the Japanese threat at Wall Street hegemony in Kuomintang China is clearly indi- cated by the fact that yesterday Hoo- ver held a secret conference with Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams and Admiral Pratt, chief of nival operations ‘The U. 8. has several warships and gunboats in Chinese waters and rivers. The destroyer Truxon is at Shanghai. The bulk of the U. 8. Asiatic fleet is at Manilla, only three days sail from Shanghai. The battle force of the U. S. fleet is now in the San Pedro-San Diego (California) area, in preparation for the joint army and navy maneuvers in the Pa~ cific. This force will be joined short- ly by units of the scouting force, now at Guantanamo, Cuba. The combined | force will leave on Feb. 1 for Hawaii. The joint army and navy maneuvers will bring together the largest naval force ever assembled in the Pacific. That the Japanese threat to seize Shanghai is interpreted by the Wall Street government as 2 direct threat against United States hegemony over Kuomintang China and as creating a changed situation in the Far East, bringing Japan into direct conflict with United States pretensions in China, is clearly stated in the follow- ing dispatch from Washington: “The developments at Shanghai were characterized in administra~ tion circles today as constituting a new and serious shift in the Sino- Japanese controversy and present- ing an entirely different aspect from the standpoint of the United States than did the Manchurian oc- cupation.” The United States and the League of Nations had approved and sup- ported the Japanese seizure of Man- churia on the basis that Japan would convert Manchuria into a military base against the Soviet Union and would act as a spearhead in the arm- ed attack against Workers’ Russia. ‘The Chinese Communist Party has pointed out that all the elements exist for a joint direct military in- tervention of the imperialists against the Chinese Revolution. While their gunboats stand silently by waiting for the signal to begin dealing death, the imperialists are engaged in diplomati¢e struggle which threatens at any mo- ment now to flare out into a bloody war of extermination against the rev- olutionary Chinese ‘masses. With the. crumbling of the Nan- king government and the tremendous growth of Communist nifluence thru- out China and the victories of the Chinese Red Army, the imperialists are more and more turning to direct attacks against the Chinese masses. Communists in Shanghai and other Chinese cities are energetically push- ing the work of organizing mass re- sistance to the imperialists and their Nanking tools. The Chinese comrades are warning the masses that theU. S., Great Britain and other imper- ijalist powers will not stand by idly while Japan is grabbing the Yangtze Valley, but will make every effort to carry out a joint intervention with the Japanese. William Philip Simms, foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard news- paper chain, warns the imperialists that the Chinese masses, betrayed by the Nanking government and the League of Nations, are turning to Communism. He pretends that the Chinese masses are still pinning their faith on the League of Nations, with the Tesult, he says, that China will go Communist. Helping Japan Attack Mass Movement The Nanking government and the Shangha! Chinese authorities are re~ ported to be acceding to the demands of the Japanese for the crushing of the anti-Japanese boycott and the breaking up of the anti-imperialist organizations of the Chinese workers. Nanking troops have bene sent to Shanghai not to defend the city against the Japanese but to attack the mass revolutionary organizations. In ths meantime, Eugene Chen, Sun Fo and other elements in the “4s tantamount tion to Japanese militarists to they please, since no resistance will offered.” ‘This is absolutely correct, also has betn Chen’s policy, policy of both the Canton Nanking ¢liques who have prepared the way for the imperialists Kuomintang movement. POWERS CLASH OVER SHANGHAL: | JOINT ARMED. INTERVENTION | MENACES CHINESE MASSES 300,000 destitute flood victims quar. - |tered in refugee camps in t | urbs of Hankow are being driven) from the city by the Nanking 1 tarists, who fear that these hun desperate masses will join the Chin- ese Red Army which is now nearing the city. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times reports a tremen- dous growth of the Communist move- ment in the provinces of Hupeh, in which Hankow is situated, Hunan and ngsi. The dispatch reports that “the desperate peasants have allied themselves with the Commu- nists.” Attempting to cover up the growing unrest among the worker- peasant soldiers of the Nanking armies, the dispatch tries to explain the wholesale desertions to the Chin- ese Red Army with the statement that the peasants ere sending their wives and daughters to offer them- selves to the Nanking soldiers in order to get them to desert and join the Chinese Red Army. League Council in New Fake Gestures. | The Japanese threat against| Shanghai is prominently featured in the press of the Soviet Union. Izvestia warns of the increasing dan- ger of war in Asia, and sees the whole Yangtze Valley under the threat of occupation by the Japanese imperialists. ‘The League of Nations Council which convened on Monday in Geneva has resumed its fake gestures of resisting the Japanese aggressions in China. Paul Boneur yesterday opened the debate on China with 2 statement on what had happened since the adjournment of the Coun- cil on Dec. 10. Jmperialist press dis- patches admit that from the state- ment “no one would have known that what he described as ‘the truce which had been realized in practice’ at Chinchow had ended in the Jap- anese capture of that city or that anything important had happened save the constitution of the commis- sion of inquiry.” He made ho reference to the ruth- less camaign of suppression carried on by the Japanese in Manchuria, the invasion of Inner Mongolia, the landing of troops in Tientsin, Foo- chow and other Chinese cities or the present Japanese threat to --seize Shanghai. Fierce fighting is continumg in Manchuria and Jehol Province be- tween Chinese Red partisan “troops and the Japanese invaders.: The Japanese claim to have bottled up 8,000 Red partisan troops near Taku- shan yesterday and subjected them to a concentrated fire from Japanese field guns and aircraft. Talingho station was for several hours in the hands of the Red par- tisans who killed two Japanese sol- diers and partly wrecked a bridge, cutting off communication with Chinchow. To Hold February Fourth Meeting In Spite of Ban (CONTINLED FROM PAGE ONE) yation in Philadelphia. We denounce Moore's t to be absolutely untrue and as an attempt to take off the responsibility for the pre sent starvation. The workers of Philadelphia will prove this by a|P™ mass demonstration of tens of th ands of unemployed at the City H Plaza on February the 4th. LAWRENCE, Mass De- claring that the 1 rally here for a greater demonstration on February 4th, Martha Stone, organ- izer of the National Textile Work Union, presented the ds to the City Council several With new elections com- italist politicians are all sorts of lying promises. spoke at the City 15 minutes and presen- Jan workers unemployed Stone for Council ted the demands of the unemployed. The officials looked after she got through. behalf of 15,000 ie presented the Demands, “At a conference on unemploy- ment held in this city on Jan, 17, delegates representing many or- ganizations decided to present to the city {council their demands. The conference elected delegates to present and speak before the City Council on the following de- mands: “$10 a week and $3 for eache de- pendent, “No shutting off of gas and the of bills. “Against taking workers’ homes away because of non-payment of taxes and interest. “Against discrimination in giving jobs because of strike activity. “For unconditional release of Edith Berkman, “Against discrimination of the young workers in distribution of relief.” “The Conference proposes that the money for immediate winter relief be raised by special taxes upon the mill owners, bankers, high salaried officials and poli- ticians of this city. The above demands were adopted at our con- ference. The Conference has gone on record to mobilize the masses of unemployed workers for these demands. We demand immediate action from the Sity Council.” uncomfortable jobless, Martha Ston: following Stor ITALYAN WORKERS FIGHT WAGE-CUT ROME, Jan. 24.—According to-as- sociated press..reports, @ -proposed ‘wage-cut of 8 per cent was met with organized protest on the part of bank clerks, who suffered from sup- pression by the Facist state, thirty of them being arrested and ten brought up on charges of subversive action against the state. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONES four-hour day. Malaga and Jerez, of the important Spanish wine pro- ducing industry are tied up with shops and factories closed down, street cars and busses running only when manned by scabs | under protection of Civil Guards. In Valencia, workers are openly clashing with the police. A severe struggle took place there yesterday when Civil Guards opened fire on @ group of strikers who had overturned @ street car operated by strikebreakers. All housetops in the industria! sec- tion of Seville are covered with gov- ernment snipers and machine gun Operators. In an effort to break the strike by terror, military planes are being flown over the working class section of Seville. In northern Spain, the six cities of Lerida, Aloriza, Terual, Abanto, Ciervana and San Sebastien are tied up by the effective carrying out of the strike. Costo de Cabra, near Ter- uel, was completely under the control of the strikers as they overpowered the Civil Guards and seized the rail- road company’s store of dynamite. Additional reinforcements have been rushed there with two companies of regular troops in addition to large force of Civil Guards on their way from Barcelona. ‘Town Hall of Mont Serrat, Valencia was seized by workers immediately destroyed all records burned the archives of the city government. In an effort to reassure the Span- ish landlords and capitalists, Premier Azahs declared that everything was 3 age “tranquall” in Spain. At the same | time the government was forced to admit that in spite of the daily ar- rests of hundreds of Communists and revolutionary workers the strike movement had not been checked. cities of Spain would be ineffective in checking the strike movement Socialists Defend Bosses. line with their whole policy of upporting the Spanish landlords capitalists by raising the slo- “Detense of the Republic,” “Socialists” of Spain are open- ly advocating bloody war on the 2g . STRIKES EFFECTIVE IN OVER THIRTEEN SPANISH CITIES ist Minister of Public Works, In- dalecio Prieto, announced last night that the “government must interfere to protect the owners, manufacturers and capitalists.” Thus even the fig leaf of defend- ing the republic against the mon- archists has been cast aside as the Spanish Socialists prepare to slaughter the Spanish proletariat and peasantry in the same man- ner as the German, Sritish So- cialists in open defense of the in- terests of the capitalist class Unable to far to break the mili- tency of the workers and peasants of Spain by brute force, the Coali- tion govétnment is attempting to split the ranks of the workers by circulating stories to the effect that the revolutionary mov financed by monarchist ci also trying to use the treacherouw anarchist and syndicalist leadership for the purpose of confusing the workers, Both syndicalist and social- ist leaders have issued directives, for the workers under their control not to come out on strike. In many places, however, the workers are acting over the heads of their reactionaty leader- ship and developing the struggle by themselves. The Communist Party of Spain by its militancy and correct policy is suc- ceeding in winning the workers and peasants eway fro mthe adventurist tactics of the Anarchists, Syndical- ists and Trotskyites, It si working for a unted front of the workers now under the cnotrol of the various groupings in order to di~ rect their main attack upon the Coal- tion government and its “Socialist” ‘PLAN MASS MARCHES ON | UNSTRUCK TENNESSEE MINES; ling today even i with machine ordered him to leave town and return, while the mayor of Pineville, anding nearby, nodded Section meetir this for Miles, | At be present. Several in the leadership of the re being nt to he demands of the strikers Plans were drawn up the | meeting for mass marches on the Eagan Mine and on the Wells in charge of the noxville office of the Workers’ In T n f, was. yesterday ng Kentucky mine of the Pineville Cen- the three had gone to urge the asesmbled dele- gates of the City Labor Unions to Tibute to the relief fund of the the coal rators list at Speaking on | Mine, both in Pruden, Tenn, N. M, U. locals have been established in both mines and the miners them- | selves have asked for picket | marches. The Strike Executive | Committee also took op the ques- tion of continuing the exposure of | the U.M.W.A, which the coal op- erators are desperately trying to revive and which is increasing its activity in several Kentucky | tions | Last Satu when | Braughton of Bell County called i the local strike leaders and told them to call off the demonstration on Sun: day or there would be killing in front of the court house, he urged the | strike leaders to join the U.M.W.A, which he called a good A. F. of L. union. The miners replied that is precisely why they preferred to re- main in the N.M.U. The Alabama delegation to the “Spread the Strike Conference,” com- prising two Negroes and two white miners, attended the meeting of the Strike Executive and pledged their support to the miners for a living wage under’ the leadership of the N.M.U. The delegation told the Executive that the conditions of the miners in Walker County, Alabama, owned by Senator Bankhead, were just as bad or worse than the con- ditions of the miners in Kentucky and Tennessee, and that they would return to Alabama to urge their fel- low miners to join the N.M.U. One of the delegates showed the members of the Executive a pay slip showing he had been paid $3 for working 28 continuous hours in one of Senator Bankhead’s mines. The $3 did not take into account various cuts. see. Sherif rving miners and their families. The officers of the Central Labor m told the delegation of three forcibly ejecting them that | they would have nothing to do with |the N. M. U. because it was & Com- munist organization and because it had called the strike when the A F. Ts replied that, M.W.A. was ver ins ft tion because of its crooked leader- to help out anybody but the coal ators, | The Knoxville office of the W. & R, will hold a tag day for the bene- fit of the strikers this Saturday. Reports to the Strike Executive Committee show that the entire Tennessee coal mining field is Ute erally a famine-stricken areax Miners who work ten and twelve. hours a day are forced to grow corn among the rocks of the sur< rounding hills, eking out their meals of pinto beans, The miners are now hopefully awaiting the ap- pearance with spring of a wild grass called “poke greens,” which they cook and eat like spinach. Year in and year out their only diet is pinto beans and corn bread with the rare addition of wild ber- ries which they are unable to sweeten for the lack of sugar, The miners’ families share in the prep- aration of these bare meals, ‘The possibility of going to a movie 1s remote from their mind and the wspaper is an expensive luxury Without exception, every miner and | his family is half starved and sick, many of them in a dangerous stage. Death by starvation is only a mat- ter of months for many of them. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) feat the American tobacco trust which ts backed by the Machado regime. WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, Secretary. A special statement was also is- sued to all revolutionary workers, all unions of the Trade Union Unity League and locals of the American | Federation of Labor calling upon them to support the strike. The statement reads: Support the Havana Province Tohac- co Workers’ Strike. “Fifteen thousand tobacco workers are Now on strike in Havane Province against a wage cut of from 10 to 30 per cent. hey are carrying on a determined fight against this latest attempt to reduce to misery and starvation that small percentage of tobacco workers who still have a job. Their struggle is our struggle. The American tobacco trust is owner of the large factories in Cuba. The suc- cess of the present struggle will help the struggle of the tobacco workers in Tampa, and of other cities in the United States. All revolutionary worke: ions of the Trade U! League and ell locals of the Ameti- can Federation of Labor should give full support to the strike. Particu- larly collected, delega' np workers sent to Havana to pre- sent this money to the strikers i isaleemeaieaictnaptn-nininmiaaniatta Heutenants in the ranks of the work- ers. The strike wave in Spain is hav- ing its effect on the struggles of the workers in nearby Portugal. Already numerous solidarity demonstrations of employed and unemployed workers have taken place in Libson. In ad- dition to these special solidarity dem- onstrations, there are daily demon- strations of unemployed workers be- fore government buildings. Police and republican guards were issued rifles after a huge demonstra~ tion had been held in front of the government building here and after a delegation of unemployed workers had, been refused admission. ‘CALL FOR SUPPORT OF HAVANA | PROVINCE TOBACCO STRIKERS ‘hie through the National Workers Con- federation of Cuba. The delegation should recommend to the strikers to elect united front rank and file strike committees with the participation of the unemployed, to carry tthrough 2 militant struggle on the picket line, and to reject the arbitration policy of the cigarmakers’ union officials. At the same time, the revolutionary workers of the United States should support the Unity Congress to~be called by the National Workers Con- | federation of Labor and reject the |fake unity manouvers of the cigar- makers’ leadership, who are trying to convert the National Workers Con- federation of Labor into a reformist body. The strikes should be directed not only against the Tobacco Trust but also against the Machado gov- ernment, which crushes the working class organizations. | Pull support to the striking tobae- co workers of Havana Province, of |Cuba! Against the fake unity man- ouvers of the Cigarmakers’ leader- ship! For the Unity Congress of the National Workers Confederation of Cuba! Send all funds for the strike to the Trade Union Unity League, 2 W. 15th Street, New York, N. Y." —William Z. Foster, General Sec'y- Free Meals for Cops” While Jobless Starve ) | NEW YORK —I am 2 young lady worker at one of the many chai= | cafeteria. Many down and out men Jand women (mostly old and young men) come in and ask the boss for 2 bowl of soup or some little thing to | eat. | Some of them offer to work for |the above, But the boss will not ive them even a good answer. He chases them out with a “go to hell," or “get the hell out of here.” At the same time we feed = good many cops here four and five times 2 day FREE. There checks would average about 60 cents a day. This & Jone reason that workers get cracked on the head when they strike, For $50,000 Fighting Fund! FILL OUT AND SEND WITH DONATION NOW! Nam 50 EB. I Contribute $ ..... Street ... My Answer to the Bosses’ Hunger Program and Capitalist War! State Dots a AST 13th STREET USA NEW YORK CITY