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| F + ‘this conference, however, was not the | y YORK, WEDNE g 2 i Page Three MARCH 9, 1932 S COMMUNE AN ERSARY--SPREAD F HUNGER AND TERROR! PREPARE FOR MAR. 18th, PARI League Conference in N. Y. By JOHN STEUBEN | Over four hundred active workers | participated in the conference of the | Trade Union Unity League on Feb- | ruary 27-28. The delegates came from local unjons, leagues, factories and minority groups inside the reformist unions. Tt was the strongest—politi- cally and organizationally—T.U.U.L. conference ever held, even though the political preparations for the con- ference were weak. ~ ‘The keynote of the whole confer- ence was: “How to become better or- ganizers among the masses,” which | means above all, how to strengthen | ourselves in the “decisive sections of the industry.” Because of the serious war situa- | | tion on the one hand, and our fail~ ure to put into effect the decisions of the Red International of Labor Unions to develop a base in the war industries, the conference was forced, | by the nature of circumstances, to | seriously take up for the first time this major task and how to accom- plish it. This explains why the con- ference devoted considerable time to the problem of building the Marine | Workers Union, the Metal Workers League, and on how to make an in- | road into the large metal and chemi- cal plants in New Jersey and up- state. Toward Basic Industries. ‘The most outstanding feature of | fact that the problem of shifting all our work towards the basic indus-| tries was taken up, but that this most | important work was taken up in a) very concrete fashion. The type of factories each union shall concen- | trate on; how to make concentrated activity in important factories not a} point for resolutions or discussion, | but the major part of the every day work of each union and league and | its leadership; how to organize the | apparatus of the unions and of the | TUUC in such manner that will fit in with the policy of the union to make shop work the main work; how to shift our opposition work on a shop, 72b and factory basis; how to wreate united front movements on @ Yactory basis; how to broaden out the anion leadership on the basis of “rawing the most active shop work- ers in; how our.shop groups.shall. prepare for strike struggles; the kind of leadership the union must give its thop organizations; how to develop rhop politics; the various stages in sur shop work, etc.—these in brief were the major questions raised in the reports and discussion through- out the ccaference. Negro Work. A very outstanding point in the dis- cussion was our position among the ‘Negro workers. On this question the conference recorded that practically no headway was made for the past year. This is due mainly to the fact that the TUUL unions in practice do not conduct as yet their activities among the most exploited and op- pressed sections of the working class. To this we must also add the lack of understanding of the specific Negro problems that exist and therefore re- quire a special approach and special demands for the Negro workers, be- cause they are being exploited both as workers and as an oppressed National minority. Lack of decisive struggle against white qhauvinism in the ranks of the unions is also responsible for the reason that we have so few Negro workers in our ranks, The task of drawing in Negro workers into our ranks is mainly a task for the white workers. This has not yet been clearly understood by us. Even in the draft resolution of the Bureau of the TUUC the tendency of shifting responsibility of drawing in Negro workers into the ‘ions upon the shoulders of the Ne~ gro comrades themselves was ex- pressed, which was an impermissible error and was sharply criticized by the delegates. The conference also took up at great length the functioning of the Trade Union Unity Council. It was pointed out that the TUUC, while helping the unions politically to develop programs, to solve problems in connection with strike strategy and opposition work, did not, however, sufficiently direct the unions organizationally, checking up to what degree these programs were put into effect. The conference also recorded that the leadership of the council was narrow, consisting only of the office staff and that the rest of the Council members were not drawn into the daily work of the TUUC. / Unemployment. The weakest link in the conference, as well as in our work up to the confer- ence, was unemployment, The unions as well as the TUUC adopted the po- sition in practice, that the work among the unemployed is the task of the Unemployed Council. With the exception of a few unions, the bulk of the TUUL organizations haye com- pletely wiped their hands of the un- employed. Unfortunately the confer- ence was not in a position to solve this burning problem and it still re- mains an immediate task of the newly elected Council. While the representation and the conference itself was a reflection of the growth of the militant trade union movement in New York, the Une of discussion, however, was of a ( critical nature, bringing to the fore- front our weaknesses and shortcom- ings, and not so much harping on achievements. The active participa- tion of Comrade Foster in the confer- ence, and the appearance of Mother Mooney and various delegations of strikers gave additional and weight to the conference. Decisions of Conference, Not only did the conference ex- worked out a program for the coming six months. The most important decl~ {stons of the conference were as fol- iows: 1. To proceed immediately to strengthen our organizations in the marine, metal and transport indus- tries, and the formation of a league of chemical workers. The TUUC must give concrete political and or- ganizational guidance and leader- ship in order to accomplish this task. 2.'To develop the whole work of the unions and leagues on shop, ship, factory and job basis. To treble the number of shop groups in large factories, especially in the metal plants in New York and New Jer- sey. To improve the functioning of our present shop groups. 3. To immediately improve our organizing activities among the un- employed, the setting up of unem- ployed organizations in the building trades, marine, shoe, food and metal industries. 4. To develop and organize a broad united front movement against injunctions. 5..In order to still further clarify our policies in the reformist unions, the TUUC should call in the very near future a special con- WORLD CONGRESS OF WATER TRANSPORT WORKERS IN MAY The International of Seamen and Harbor Workers (1S.H.) in Hamburg, has taken the initiative for the convention of a Unity Congress of the Water Transport Proletariat of the World. Session of this Congress — to which all organized and unorgan- ized seamen, harbor workers, river boatmen and fishermen will send their delegates—will commence on May 20, 1932, in Hamburg. The following points appear on the agenda of the Congress: 1) Economic Crisis of Capit- alism; the situation of the sea- men, harbor workers, river boat- men and fishermen; Interna- tional United-Struggle Front of the Water Transport Proletariat against the offensive of capital; 2) Struggle against imperialist war; 3) Organization of the strug- gles of the Water Transport Workers of the colonial coun- tries. The 1.S.H. has invited all unions of the Water Transport Proleta~ riat standing on the platform of class struggle to take part in the Congress. Already resolutions have been adopted—among others by bran- ches (locals) of reformist unions— to the effect that representatives will be delegated to the Congress. ference on opposition work. 6. To establish a TUUL center in New Jersey, to be located in New- ark, N. J. Some of our best forces to be assigned to New Jersey. This to be carried out within the coming few weeks. Our main work in New Jersey to be devoted to the metal and chemical plants, 1. The Trade Union Unity Coun- cil to be organized on the basis of making the Council IN PRACTICE —THE CENTRAL BODY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADE UNION MOVEMENT. To establish an organization department that will improve the apparatus of each union, that will regulate and im- prove our dues system, etc. To es- tablish functioning educational, de- fense, relief, finance, Negro, wo- men’s and youth departments. These departments will be in con- stant touch with the respective ac- tivities of the unions and not re- main just committees that meet to decide when the next meeting shall take place, 8. As a result of developing ow work in the factories, in the reform- ist unions, among the unemployed, and in the fraternal organizations, we should increase our membership to 25,000 by the end of May. 9, In order to put the above men- tioned proposals into effect, indus- try conferences should be organized by our unions, where the line and decisions of the TUUL conference will be still farther concretizéd and the membership mobilize for car- rying through these decisions, Spread Daily Worker fund drive into every working class neighborhood to save workers’, paper. Mass organizations, get into revolutionary competition to save Daily Worker. i stimulance | +I || Young Communist League. In May of that year, the Y.C.L. amine our past activities, but also | |by the General Motors Corp. ue HOE York -... Communist League, is dead. He was cold-bloodedly shot | b¥ Henry Ford’s gunmen, while acting as a leader in the Ford | Hunger March Monday. This is the same Henry Ford} who has been acclaimed as the “Saviour of the American| | Youth,” for his Trade School. | | Comrade York was born in a mining town in Ohio, the} | son of a miner, today a member of the National Miners | |Union, He went to work in the mines when he was 15. After the 1928 strike, he left for Detroit, the “city of pros- perity,” to work in the auto shops there, and take respon- sibility, as the oldest of 5 children, to support the family | back home, which was blacklisted and starving. For two years he worked in the auto plants. In March 1930, after the March 6th demonstration, he joined the | decided to break the terror in Hamtramck, a city controlled A street meeting was held which \as brutally smashed by the police. Comrade York was beaten up and jailed for putting up a militant fight to | defend the speaker. § When the Flint strike broke out in Flint, Michigan, | | | though a new member in the Young Communist League, | York went to Flint in spite of the terror. The same night! |that he arrived he was arrested and spent some time in jail. During the next year he was very active in the Y.C.L. At the Sixth Convention of the Y.C.L. (July, 1931) he ;was elected to the National Executive Committee of the League. In August, 1931 he was elected as District Or- ganizer of the Detroit League. In this winter's fight for | bread in Detroit, York took a leading part. In the unem- | ployed protest demonstration, he was atrested together with | other leading comrades of the Y.C.L. in the city. | A young auto worker himself, he took his place in the) front ranks of the Ford Auto workers who marched on the plant to demand relief from the millionaire Ford who got | rich on the toil of the sweat of 12 year old boys in his Trade | School. For this act, York was murdered. Organize and Defeat the Ford Plan, Mass Production of Mass Murder! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Legion and all other agencies of Wall Street government. The Communist Party, through this attack upon un- armed but heroic workers who defended themselves cour- ageously, in this drive to jail wholesale its leaders and most active members, has been shown to be the militant leader of the struggles of the unemployed and employed workers against the Wall Street program of hunger and imperialism, the leader of ‘the mass-struggle against the. capitalist offensive. Workers! Organize mass meetings, mass demon- strations and protests by the score throughout the country. Workers and their leaders who faced the bloody on- slaught of Ford’s hired gunmen and Murphy's Police, “ workers who are now dying and suffering in hospitals, have been arrested and charged with murder and crim- inal syndicalism. Expose Ford the murderer, and the capitalist class of which he is part, in the biggest factories, mines and mills. Support the Unemployed Councils and the Auto Workers’ Union. Bring the issue of organization, struggle and mass defense against the new wave of murder terror and legal suppression into every union and fraternal society. Widen the struggle for Unemployment Insurance! | We indict Ford before the whole working class as the murderer of our comrades. We indict the capitalists and their government before the working class for the murder, maiming, and jailing of our comrades in Michigan and Kentucky. We indict the capitalist class, of which Ford is an out- standing figure, and its government, for the hundreds of shootings, kidnappings, clubbings, gassings and arrests which have occurred in the whole period of the crisis. We indict them for the special terror against Negroes. We call upon the working class to convict not only Ford but the capitalist system which produced both Ford and the policy of hunger, war, mass murders, deportations and _ imprisonment of the best fighters of the work- ing class. Smash the whole terror and suppression campaign! Massacre Before (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED after a determined struggle was the meeting temporarily dispersed. An- other worker got up at the opposite BLADDER ON FIRE? When the biog Winds Gegie 10 Blow You will find it warm and cozy ‘| Camp Nitgedaiget proletari: comradel: ovii many other The food is clean empectally well SPECIAL HATES FOR WEEK. ENDS 5. 8.00 For further information cal! the— TIVE Siaaes | N. Y. Workers Demonstrate Against Ford Headquarters corner, and he doggedly stuck while the cops surged around trying tc | knock him down, Thousands of workers and specta- tors began to flood the streets. Two riot squads, with sirens shrieking, ar- rived. The cops jumped off wielding their clubs, hitting at a number of workers, pushing the demonstrators. The banners were torn up by the po- lice, but the workers shouted their slo- gans and protests against the murder of hungry workers by Ford private gunmen, Later a mass demonstration was held at Columbus Ci in which the workers were urged {o build up their ranks, to organize a larger mass movement of the unemployed to make impossible such unprovoked and bloody attacks against hungry workers when they demand work or food. Here, too, after several speakers had addressed the audience, one of the riot wagons, sirens screaming, drove directly through the crowd at 20 miles per hour. The workers, how- eVer, reformed their ranks and marched back to the Ford offices for a final demonstration. ! One worker was arrested defending himself against a police attack, ——_— ANY $1.50 OR $1 INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS BOOK WITH ONE _ THE DAILY WORKER Murdered in the Class War PROPAGANDA AGAINST SOVIET UNION) || JOE york, 19-year old Detroit Organizer of the Young BULLETI Inprecorr reports a demonstration by 600 Japanese sol- diers at Shanghai against the robber war on China. Rallying to the revolutionary struggle against imperialist war, these Japanese soldiers refused to obey the orders of their officers to shoot down fellow Chinese workers. A soldiers’ committee was formed in the Japanese army at Shanghai. In their brutal effort to stamp out the revolutionary movement among the soldiers, the | 100 of the soldiers shot. to Japan to face trial. In their attempt to crush the revolutionary movement in their home country, the Japanese authorities have ar- rested over 600 revolutionary Japa apanese generals had The other 500 were shipped back lese workers, including Yoshida, the candidate of the workers’ and peasants’ bloc ni the recent elections. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE oOxED it has strengthened its garrisons on the Siberian frontier as a result of the Japanese war provocations against the Soviet Union, and the plans of high Japanese military officers for an early attack on the Soviet Union, as revealed in Jap- anese documents which have been @—- exposed by the world revolutionary press. Washington dispatches two days ago reported that a Japanese fleet was off Vladivostok, Soviet port on the | Pacific. The Japanese Rengo News Agency has admitted that the Jap- anese have built several air bases only 150 miles from the Soviet frontier. Imperialists Plotted Murder of Ger- man Ambassador to Moscow. Walter Duranty, Moscow correspon- dent of the New York Times, reports that the recent attempt on the life of a German consular agent in Mos- cow was really aimed at the German therland, to the defense of the Soviet |Union and its successful Soctalist | construction Workers! Smash the war plots of the imperialist brigands! Stop the robber war against China! Stop the war moves and provocation against the Soviet Union! Prevent the transport of troops and munitions! Demand the withdrawal of United States warships and troops from China! Demand the removal of Japanese treops from Manchuria and South China! Drive out the diplomatic agents of Japanese im- jto the defense of their Socialist fa- | ambassador. He admits that the at- tempted assassination was directed by enemies of the Soviet Union toward perialism which is butchering the Chinese masses and acting as the spearhead of world imperialism for the attack against the Soviet Union. Defend the Chinese revolution! Show your solidarity with the revo- lutionary masses of Japan and China! Demand all war funds for rupturing the relations between the Soviet Union and Germany. In his | dispatch to his paper, Duranty states, in part: “That the attempt on the life of the counsel of the German Embassy, | the unemployed! Dr. Fritz von Twardofsky, last Satur-| Armed Peoples Fight Grows In day, was really aimed at his chief, | Manchuria Ambassador von Dirksen, is now ac-| The Japanese yesterday inaugurat- cepted in well-informed circles here, |¢4 With great pomp and ceremony “Had the ambassador been killed | Henry Pu Yi as Japanese puppet |the effects in Germany might have |President of the “independent” Man- | been incalculable on the eve of the |Churlan state set up by Japanese elections, Adolf Hitler is running in | bayonets. a strong anti-Bolshevist and anti-| While the Japanese and the Man- |Semitic campaign and the murder of |ChU princes and other Chinese tools |the German ambassador by what the [Of the Japanese were celebrating the Hitlerites would certainly have de- |!nauguration of the new state, the |Seribed as a ‘Bolshevist Jew’, would |Chinese and Korean masses of Man- have been exploited to the utmost, |Churia were intensifying the armed “Without suggesting that Herr |‘‘Tusgle against the Japanese invad- Hitler or his partisans were privy | TS and their Chinese tools, A Muk- to the attempted assassination, two | “len dispatch reports: facts are undeniable—first, Ger- | “More than 2,000 Kirin rebels many at present is the chief im- | ™ided Hailin yesterday. The fight- pediment to schemes of a ‘united | img is said to be still going on. A anti-Bolshevist crusade’ which ex- | Small Japanese force was surround- ists in certain quarters abroad, and | ©4 and its communications were | second, those quarters include a | ‘Ut off. terrorist, section which would not | “The regime established in East- stick at murder to attain its ends, | ¢™ Kirin with Japanese assistance “From the Bolshevist angle this af- | is declared in danger of collapsing. fair is parallel, in fact, to the charges | Chinese soldiers aré said to be de- made against Karl Vanek, secretary serting the new government to join |of the Czechoslovakia Legation here, the insurgents, attacking towns and a few months ago of trying to suborn | Japanese garrisons at many points. |@ Russian to attack the Japanese The situation at Tunhua is serious. |ambassador. Foreigners were mostly | Reinforcements have been request- |inclined to regard these charges as, ¢d- A large force of irregulars is | exaggerated, but the present case | hovering near Harbin.” offers a good measure of confirma-| A Tokyo dispatch reports that tion.” angry Chinese workers in Mukden , Imperialists Determined to Push set fire last night to nine buildings | Soviet Union Into War. oceupied by the Japanese, including | In their efforts to push the Soviet \the Japanese clothing and provision | | Union into war the imperialist mur- | depots. Chinese workers kept up a | ders will not stop at any crime. The | constant sniping at the Japanese in- | workers of the whole world must rally | vaders during the night. HENRY FORD PERSONALLY DIRECTS _FRAME-UP TO COVER UP HIS MURDERS Plan Immediate Revival Of 10 Year Old Bridgeman Cases; Labor Dep’t Prepares To Deport Militant Workers The capitalist ‘JAPANESE PRESS PUSHES ITS WAR Keep Ranks Solid Against Boss Terror; Save Daily Worker press is trying to whitewash Ford and Mayor Murphy! The bosses fear the united pow r of the work- ers and hope to crush the workers’ demonstrations and revolutionary unions before the workers grow any stronger. . This is the reason for the Detroit massacre. This is the reason for the increased jailing and murdering in Kentucky. This is the reason for the gangster in\ n of the New York office of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, This is the reason for the police attack on yesterday's demonstration in front of the Ford offices in New York. The Daily Worker exposes the capitalist lige rallies the workers into bigger mass demon- ons, into stronger revolutionary unions. The Daily Work leads the workers to fight the bosses’ terror and starvation nancial difficulties are crippling the Daily | Worker, are threatening to suspend the Daily Worker altogether. Suspension of the Daily | Worker would mean a weakening of the workers’ struggles. Suspension of the Daily Worker would mean a better chance for the bosses to carry through their program of crushing the workers’ | ggles through nation-wide terror. Save the Daily Worker. Enlist tomorrow morning at 10 a. m. in the Daily Worker Tag Day Army. Rush funds today to the Daily Worker of- fice, Fast 13th Street, New York C. Saturday’s issu cut to four pages four pages. Rush Jobless Councils, | | Auto Union Score Ford Murder of 4 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONB) | |that “a gigantic mass funeral will take place on Saturday, March 12 at }2pm., from Ferry Hall,” gives the | real facts of the Ford hunger march: | “The cold-blooded murder of Joe | York, district organizer of the Young Communist League, and Joe Bussell, |@ member of the District Committee of the Young Communist League, and | two other hungry unemployed work- ers by the Dearborn police and hired | | thugs of the Ford Motor Co. on Mon- day afternoon, March 7, at the Ford River Rouge Plant, was Ford’s an- swer to the cry for bread and shelter by the 5,000 hungry and starving workers. More than 5,000 hungry workers marching in bitter cold, de- manding relief or work, were march- ing unarmed and orderly, when sud- denly attacked by the combined forces |of Dearborn and Detroit police and Ford's private thugs under the direc- tion of Mayor Clyde Ford of Dear- | born, who opened a vicious and mur- \derous attack by means of police clubs, teargas bombs, pistol and ma- chinegun fire, The hunger marchers heroically de- fending themselves, under the leader- |ship of the Unemployed Council and |the Auto Workers Union proceeded \to the employment office of the Ford Motor Co. with their banners and placards in order to present the fol- |lowing demands for relief from the Ford Motor Co. out of the millions of dollars of profit Ford has ground out of their lives in the past years: | 1) Jobs for all laid-off Ford work- jens. 2) Immediate payment of 50 per cent of full wages to all laid off Ford | workers, 3)A 6-hour day without re- | e of the Daily Worker will he if increased funds are not re- ceived. Soon we will not be able to afford even funds, comrades, every pos- sible penny, and save your paper. workers, Ford to assume responsibility for all mortgages, land contracts and back taxes on homes until six months after regular full-time re-employ- ment. 11) Immediate payment of a lump sum of $50 winter relief. 12) Full wages for part-time workers. 13) Abolition of graft system in hiring workers. 14) The right to organize. | Realizing that Ford’s attitude had been expressed by this murderous and unprovoked attack the leaders of the | hunger march advised the workers |that nothing more could be accom- | plished at this time and called upon them to begin their return march. At this point, when the workers were {leaving on Miller Rd. in mass forma- | tion @ murderous machine gun fire was directed upon them, killing four and wounding scores of other unem- ployed men and women. Contrary to newspaper accounts not |a single shot was fired by the workers | who were entirely unarmed. | Mr. Cameron of the Ford Motor Co. stated to the press that: 1) Tht plant | police took no part in the riot. 2) That Harry Bennett, Ford's chief ser- | Vice man, was there “only for pur- | pose of investigation”. 3) That “the Ford Motor Co. felt no responsibility inasmuch as none of its men were in- volved. ‘That this statement is an utter and deliberate falsehood is known to thou- sands of eye-witnesses and here is proof. An eye-witness quoted at length by the Detroit Free Press, stated that “one of the dead men was shot by 2 Ford peliceman while trying to wrest a gun from another Ford policeman. 2) Bennett’s car was stoned by angry | workers only AFTER he shot a tear gas bomb from his car, 3) The state- ment that Ford was not responsible for this deliberate and cold-blooded | murder is known to be a damnable lie | by every worker, | Thousands of unemployed Ford workers and their wives were in thir march demanding work or relief and Ford had them shot down in cold- | blood rather than give hearing to de- mands presented by a small commit- jduction in pay. 9) Slowing down of tee of nine unemployed Ford workers |deadly speed-up. 5) Two 15-minute | representing a peaceful march. Ford |rest periods. 6) Free medical aid in| would like to wash his hands of re- (CONTINUED FRUM PAGE ONED | tivity of Harry S. Toy, Wayne County | | prosecutor: “The wholesale arrest of every known Communist in Wayne County was ordered by Toy, who declared no mercy will be shown | those responsible for the riot. He threatened manslaughter or murder Prosecution for them.” | This same Toy whitewashed the| gangsters who killed Buckley, a radio) announcer who was shot by Detroit | gunmen on the night of the election of Mayor Murphy. This same Toy who in the midst of the trial against the gangsters asks that the case be dropped because facts were coming out that involved the whole Murphy | regime in graft and corruption, now | says he will order wholesale arrests and persecutions of Communists be- cause some of them led hungry work- ers in the demand for work or bread. One of the pieces of evidence that the Ford officials are manufacturing with the help of Mayor Murphy's police and Toy is the lie that the) workers fired shots, Not a single) worker had a gun. Not a shot was fired from the ranks of the démon- | beyond question by the capitalist re- | porters who were present. Not one says the workers fired a single shot. On the contrary, Ray Pillsbury, cam- eraman for the gutter sheet, the De- troit Mirrer, who carries a vile story | against the workers is forced to say ‘the following, as he stood right) alongside of the cops and viewed | 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO | the beginning of the slaughter: _ “Taw no member of the mob uze to blame for using their guns that | day, any firearms. All the shooting 1 saw was done by policemen and guards.” (Detroit Mirror, Tuesday, March 8, 1932, page 5). The Detroit News, also, is forced orderedly, disciplined and that the only purpose of the workers was to present their demand for work or relief. This sheet writes: “Just before the bridge was reached the marchers stopped. The man bn the truck—it was Albert | Goetz, a Detroit Communist leader | —raised his hands for silence and began to speak. “‘We don’t want any violence,’ he said sharply, ‘Remember, all we are going to do is to walk to the Ford employment office, No trouble, no fighting. Stay in line. Be orderly.” This action of the workers was met by the tear gas bombs, clubs, black- jacks, icy water and finally the bul- lets of the Ford gunmen, A large number of eye-witness whose statements were published by the capitalist press, declared that the police made the attack. Refer- ring to the statement of Peter Her- | strators. This fact is established | man, 36, who was shot in the leg, the | Detroit News quotes him as saying “I served 2 Ymonths in the Cana- dian Pourth talion during the world war, I was over in France and there were bullets all around me sometimes. I never was wounded there. Then I come hack here and get shot while looking for a job. "I don't belong to the Commu- nists, but T think the potice were the Ford Hospital for employed and unemployed Foxd workers and their families. 7) No discrimination against Negroes as to jobs, relief, medical ser- | vice, ete. 8) Five tons of coke or coal |to admit that the hunger march was | for the winter. 9) Abolition of service men (spies, police, etc.). 10) No fore- closures on homes of former Ford way,” |..The Detroit Evening Times gives | the statement of David Girey, 27 years old: “Iam not a red. I formerly | worked at Fords and was there at | 7,30 a. m. having been told a few | days previously that there might be work for me. ‘The police turned | three powerful fire hoses on us. We began to retreat when Doarb- born and Ford police opened fire.” The American Federation of La- bor, through Frank X. Martel, who supported the murderous Murphy regime, now seeks to help the frame-up drive by “deploring” the action of the unemployed. Mur- | phy said he was not in sympathy with the Hunger March because some Communists led it, but he was | afraid the massacre would “give Detroit a black eye”’—meaning, of course, that Murphy's pose as a [ptriend of the unemployed would. be posed, and besides, added Mar- ‘ “it would make more Com- | munists.” ‘The Unemployed Councils ant the | Auto Workers Union have issued | statements branding the murderous | action of the Murphy-Ford regime and calling on all workers to take | Part in the mass funeral on Satur sponsibility for this whole bloody af- | fair. But he will not be able to do it. |It was Ford who ordered Clyde Ford, his relative and henchman, as well as the whole Dearborn city administra- tion, known to be completely under Ford's domination, to break up t®e demonstration and shoot them down in cold blood. Henry Ford is simply transporting the murderous tactics used against strikers in his Kentucky mines to the auto workers in his River Rouge plant. The working people of Detroit will rise in mighty protest against this savage and unprecedented massacre of unarmed hungry workers, The criminal responsibility for the ‘ves end blood of these massacred workers lies directly on Henry Ford and the city of Dearborn, who ordered their uniformed and private police to fire on the hunger march, These criminals and their agents will try to evade re- sponsibility by blaming the unarmed workers for the shooting and will make attempts to frame up the lead- of the workers’ movement in the y of Detroit. The working people of Detroit will also understand. Mur= phy’s demagogic role in this bloody massacre, who while not intefering with this peaceful mareh while in Detroit, sent his police to Dearborn to help there in shooting the workers. The Unemployed Counell atid the Auto Workers Union are arranging « gigantic mass funeral on Saturday, March 12, at 2 p.m. from the Ferry Hall to be preceded by a huge protest meeting at the Arena Gardens on Fri- day, Mareh 11, at 7:30 pm. Unemployed Council of Detrott “a Bie Asto Wests’ Uniga: ”