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——_ — — LANNE ANIA AOSTA" POM RTE be Neon ete EA HANAATEN SMEAR | HENRY FORD'S THE FORD THUG AND SPY SYSTEM ‘The work of bullying the workers and spying on them is carried out by the so-called Ford Ser- vice Department which is a pretty name to use for a police and spy agency! It is also described in Labor and “Automobiles, as follows: “Perhaps one other Ford organization will be missed by those who are acquainted with Ford Plants— the Service Department. This could scarecly be classified ae related in any way to workers’ welfare. In spite of its name this de- partment, in the opinion of many Ford work- ers, may perform some eervice for the com- pany, BUT IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT SERVE THE MEN EXCEPT TO DRIVE THEM AND, IN LIEU OF PIECE RATES, TO SPEED THEM UP, One student-worker con- tends that it is probably tthe cause of more ir- ritation and antagonism toward the company than any other Tord institution. ‘I could find no workmen,’ he says, ‘who would say a word in its favor. SERVICE DEPARTMENT AGENTS ARE SCATTERED AT THE GATES AND ABOUT THE PLANTS TO CHECK AND CONTROL THE MOVEMENTS OF THE WORKERS, WHO NATURALLY REFER TO THEM AS ‘SPOTTERS’ AND ‘HUNTING DOGS. FOR THEY OFTEN POUNCE UPON WORKERS WHEN THEY THINK THEY THINK THEY ARE PERFORMING THEIR TASKS IMPROPERLY. THEY MAY PUN- ISH THE WORKER BY REPRIMAND, BY ‘CKRANSFER TO ANOTHER DEPARTMENT, Os BY DISCHARGE. WHEN WORK IS SLACK AND THE COMPANY WANTS TO GET RID OF WORKERS THE SERVICE MEN ARE PARTICULARLY VIGILANT, PICKING THEIR VICTIMS RIGHT AND LEFT. Service Department men have also interfered with newsboys and newsgirls selling workers’ papers, destroyed these papers and had their sellers arrested by the Fordson po- lice. They have testified in court that they were responsible for the arrest of persons dis- tributing workers’ leaflets in front of Ford plants. Wherever Ford employees gather after work these spies are on the job reporting acts and conversations to the company. This sys- tem of spying and intimidation is continually growing more ruthless.” ATTACKS ON ORGANIZERS ‘Those who have attempted to organize the workers have invariably been met with the attacks of the Ford private police assisted by the Dearborn police. How one group of organ- izers was treated is described in Labor and Auto- mobiles: “When workers tried to-sell copies of The Ford Worker in front of the Ford plants the distributors were arrested and copies of the paper seized and destroyed. At other times when this paper was sold near, but not on, the Ford property, the police of the town of Ford- son were used to drive the newsboys from the streets, while the selling of the regular capi- talist papers went on quite undisturbed. The police toid those selling the workers’ paper that Ford did not approve of their activity! “Not only have the distributors of the shop papers, interested in giving the workers their first taste of union pfopaganda, been driven away and arrested by the police of the com- panies. Organizers for the Auto Workers’ Un- ion have been similarly treated.” FORD POLICE TERROR This is not the first time that Ford has used his police to smash the heads of unemployed workers after misleading announcements had aitracted large numbers of workers to his plants. On April 2, 1930, # press dispatche yeported that 20,000 unemployed men gathered at the gates of the River Rouge plant looking for jobs. WHEN THEY REFUSED TO MOVE AWAY THEY WERE BRUTALLY DISPERSED BY Part of the Militant demonstration which aroused New York workers, staged Wednesday before Ford’s New York headquarters in protest against the brutal massacre of Ford workers in Dearborn, Michigan, last Monday. POLICE WHO HURLED TEAR GAS BOMBS AND LAID ABOUT THEM WITH CLUBS. EYE WITNESSES REPORTED SCORES IN- JURED AND THREE ARRESTED. “MOUN- TED POLICE,” SAID OBSERVERS, “RODE RUTHLESSLY THROUGH THE RANKS OF ‘THE UNEMPLOYED, BEATING THEM WITH ‘THEIR CLUBS AND HURLING GAS BOMBS.” A few weeks later, on April 24, 1930, a press dispatch reported that 12,000 workers were on the line waiting for jobs with armed cops walk- ing up and down the line. “Where they could- not find trouble, they tried to start it. They dis- played their guns and clubs arrogantly and abused the jobless without provocation.” FORD POLICE BRUTALITY ‘The press report continues quoting eye wit- nesses: “It so happened that one worker was slightly out of line although he had been there since five the night before. He was tired, hungry and cold. A cop got nasty with him and tried to pull him out of the line. The worker re- fused to get out of line. He said he had been there for many nights and wasn’t going to get out just because the cop told him to. The po- liceman raised his club and brought it down kith smashing force behind the man’s ear. The man fell like a log. He didn’t make a move, hae looked surprised and called for ® wagon. ey threw the dead man in and drove off while cops began breaking up the line.” The same story stated that the “cops had been assiduously and brutally breaking up small gatherings of men looking for jobs in the Ford plant. Workers congregated inside the fence around the employment office, had been driverr out daily by hundreds of slick cops armed with guns and clubs. Even workers who had stood for twelve hours or more are being shown no mercy now.” FORD'S RUTHLESS UNEMPLOYMENT POLICY Throwing tens of thousands of workers out of jobs at a moment's notice has long been the practice of the Ford Motor Co. The company has been most ruthless and autocratic in this respect. The fluctuations in employment and unem- ployment are indicated in the figures given out by the company from time to time. For ex- ~ ample, on November 1, 1925, some 122,000 workers were reported employed at the Highland Park and River Rouge plants of the company near Detroit. But in the first half of 1927 employ- ment at these plants averaged only 75,000, and most of the workers were on part-time. By September, 1927, the payrolls had declined 62,000 below the 1927 figure. In the early part of 1929 some 122,000 were again employed, but by January, 1931, the offi- cial figure gave only 76,000 on the payroll, and by August, 1931, the figure had dropped to at least 37,000 or more than 85,000 below the num- ber employed in 1929. It is believed that these figures for the low points are exaggerated and that at least a hundred thousand Ford workers have been unemployed in the vicinty of Detroit. RELIEF FOR UNEMPLOYED Henry Ford has refused to contribute a nickel for unemployment relief and is a bitter enemy of any kind of governmental unemployment in- surance. Even the charity workers of Detroit have protested frequently against the hard- boiled attitude of Ford towards the unemployed. This complaint of the Detroit charity workers was Caused by the fact that tens of thousands of Ford workers are residents of Detroit, yet Ford gave nothing to charity and, of course, paid & negligible amount in taxes, as his plants are outside the city Umits. FORD ALWAYS FOUGHT UNIONS Ford’s hatred for militant unions is well known, As discussed in Labor and Automobiles (international Publishers) : “One who worked closely with Ford for sev- eral years says: “Ford does not tolerate unions in his plants, and while he usually has the sup- port of union labor (A. F. of L.) he now re- joices every time the unions get a blow...... He rejoices too when the courts decide against labor’ Another confidant of Ford says: ‘If you ask him about labor unions he won't an- swer you. He’s likely to reply by asking you how you like the new Ford car. And a Ford Personnel official has explained that ‘mere membership’ in a union would not be suffi- cinet cause for discrimination and discharge, bpt that ‘propagandizing’ certainly would. THIS IS THE CONVENTIONAL NON-UNION SHOP POSITION IDENTICAL WITH THAT OF ALL AUTOMOBILE EMPLOYERS AS WELL AS THE U. 8. ST CoRP., THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO., THE STANDARD OIL CO., AND HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN COMPANIES WHO CONTINU: ALLY FIGHT ANY SEMBLANCE OF REAL ORGANIZATION AMONG THEIR WORK- ERS, The same Ford personnel man boasted openly that he had discovered a nest of ‘Bol~ sheviki? propaganda in the plant and had promptly fired the ‘conspirators,’ as he called them, for having suggested organization to their fellow workers.” WAGES Wages were cut from a minimum of $7 to a minimum of $6 a day in October, 1931, so they were then back to the 1920 basis. Tens of thous- ands of workers, employed at higher rates, were gradually discharged, and later a few of them rehired but all at the new rates, Wages have thus been cut from 20% to 30% for the workers, depending upon what they were getting before, although the public was led to believe, time and again by the Ford publicity agents that Ford was opposed to wage cuts! But even before these wages had dropped for workers who had any pobs at all at Ford plants. Prof. S. M. Levin of the College of the City of Detroit, recently estimated that wages of Ford workers in December, 1930, had declined by an amount equivalent to 13% cents an hour below even the pre-war year 1914. HOURS Ford won great fame for his five-day week but this was nothing but a scheme which ac- tually cut wages from $36 to $32 and $30 a week even in days of “prosperity.” As Ford told the reported of the Chicago Daily News at the time “the five-day weeks is a cold business proposi- tion with not the slightest pretence of philan- thropy.” SPEED-UP 98 FORD PLANTS Labor Research Association recently made a detailed study of Ford workers, showing the amount of work that has been squeezed out of them during the hours that they have been on the job, when they had any work at all. But perhaps the most typical example of the in- creased speed-up, told in the workers’ ¢own words, is given in a report made by a worker in April, 1931. He says in part: “Ford says that he has made no wage cuts, In hourly rates that is probably correct. (Un- til October, 1931—L.R.A.) But I am now doing 64,200 pices in three days for which I receive $24, I was paid $32. In August my daily rate of work was 12,500 pieces, it’s now 21,400 pieces DAILY. Since last August my pay has been cut 25 per cent; my work increased 28.4 per cent, I am being forced to do just as much work in three days now as formerly I did in five. The boss came to me last Wednesday and told me that I had done enough work to filll the week's requirement. I'd have to stay home till Monday.” WORKERS | PAR’ 1. The effects of the worlc transport industry of the U felt from day to day. Al are laid up, throwing harbor workers out of jobs. creased as the months pass by. Besides unemployment, the dy (Adopted by the Bureau of the National Committee) Resolution on Situation in the Marine Industry and Stregthening M.W.I.U. 4 his s i economic crisis on the marine A. are becoming msre acutely 33 per cent of American ships over 180,000 seamen, longshoremen and This number is being further in- marine workers in other ways |are vitally affected by the general attack on their standard of living. In an endeavor to maintain dividends, while theeting the sharply increasing competition, the American shipowners |and stevedore bosses are resorting to® intense rationalization measures at ‘the expense of the workers. Besides | the general campaign of systematic | wage cuts which are adroitly effected | by a probe and feeler method, this at- tack on the seamen is in the form of undermanning, logging, the further introduction of the two watch tems, also the cing of overtim without pay; and for the longshore- imen, the reduction of gangs, in@reas- |ing of sling loads and further speed- jing up se’ rationalization meas- }ures only add ‘to the still further in- | tensification of the economic crisis by throwing more men out of employ- ment. Mobilize Against War. 2) With the deepening of the crisis the danger of war grows sharper, and |intensive preparations are being made the government overruled the policy of the “open shop” favored by the Grace Line and forced them to ac- cept the governmentecontrolled In- ternational Longshoremen’s Associa- tion. he present attempt of the impe- st powers to crush the Chinese ets and revolutionary movement, the seizure of Manchuria for a mili- base to attack the Soviet Union, the growing capitalist contradictions which can only culminate in war, de~ mand that the M.W.LU. fulfill its revolutionary duty to clarify the role of the marine workers in time of war, | for all members to build ships com- mittees, the main tasks of which | committees should be to conduct an anti-war campaign, and for the vari- ous port branches to form united |in this dirertion. U. S. imperialism | front anti-war committees which has developed its merdantile marine | should be closely linked up with the as an effidient war auxiliary. This has | crews on ships. We must intensify our been accomplished by the government | activities in mobilizing the masses of | Subsidizing the maintenance and | building under naval supervision of | @ modern fleet of auxiliary cruisers under the terms of the Merchant Ma- | rine Act of 1928 (Jones-White Act) | and the Act of 1920. Steps for the militarizing of the} personnel have been taken by the/ | passing of the Naval Reserve Act and | other measrres for the maintenance of “politically reliable” crews inclsde | a national blacklist system ‘(Ameri- canization program), deck boy pro- gram, campaign of deportation and | terrorism, and the introduction of ca- | dets as a special cadre for officers. | Together with these measures and \'additional legislation for the purpose | of bringing the whole industry under | direct government control, is the pol- | icy of fostering the reactionary unions for the purpose of utilizing | | them for mobilizing marine workers | for imperialist war. They also serve as a means of combatting the organ- | \ization of the revolutionary union. | These reactionary unions further di- | vide the workers according to craft, nationality and race with the result that one section is played against the other, as was seen in the Boston strike, where the Negroes who were | refused admittance to the LL.A. were {utilized as scabs. The recent Grace | Line strike is a clear example of how natures this week and at a special special week for the collection of sig- ‘The Fight for Unemployment. {meeting of the District Committee | ‘Insurance eee meaner ST ea From the reports that come in from the districts it is evident that some improvement has ben made in starting the Ten-Week Signature Drive. Some districts and local or- ganizations have already sent in a substantial amount of signatures col- lected. Chicago, for example, reports that they had a special meeting of the city committee, at which Com- rade Benjamin was present, where a detailed program and directives: were worked out for this campaign. They have also ordered more signature lises and promise to send in reports regularly. We cannot report the wumber of signatures collected by Chicago, for they have not been sent im to our office. Peoria, Illinois, in the same dis- trict, sent in 425 signatures this week which, with the 1,150 previously sent in, make a total of 1,575 for Peoria. We have no reports yet on litera- ure and Figthing Fund Stamps sold. Peoria, let us know what you are do~ ing about literature and Fighting Fund Stamps, Van Dyke, Michigan, in the Detroit District, writes that they are con- stantly engaged in the signature drive, have already secured 200 names and promise to get many more. DETROIT A worker from Detroit writes to us: “Herewith 200 petition signatures and the donation from these total- ing $5. , “Excepting fourteen, these signa- tures were obtained by myself and wife by personalized individual can- vass among total strangers. The re- sponse indictes that comrades have only to try to get worthwhile re- sults.” New York City, 4,017 signatures were sent in this week by seven coun- cils only. There are, no doubt, many more signatures in the other coun- cils in the city. We urge that the councils send them in as quickly as possible to the district office so that they can be reported next week. The City Committee of the I.W.O, in New York sent in 3,000 signatures. What about the other mass organizations? Minneapolis in @ letter sent to its locals, Minneapolis District says: “The quota of signatures set by the ‘National Office for our District was Minneapolis has sent in 4483 sig- , U 150,000 individual signatures eal 100,000 collective endorsements. far we have received signatures eae the following sections: Minneapolis | 1883, Hancock 1024, women’s Section | Minn.-Wis. 785, Negaunee 246. All is quiet on the St. Paul, Duluth and Mesaba Range fronts! Only the Han- cock section so far accepted the in- creased quotas as set by the Na- tional Office. While it is quite pos- sible that the St. Paul, Duluth and Mesaba Range Sections are carrying | on work in this campaign we cannot however determine how the activities | are proceeding unless we see names and addresses on hundreds of peti- tion lists. The Daily Worker will publish a summary showing the standing of all she cities and districts (fn the drive. It will be published | every Friday. The only way the Na-/ tional @ffice will be able to credit our District in the drive will be through | the amount of signatures and repor' sent in. We must have your signa- | tures and reports in order to send ours to the National Office. Under | separate cover we are sending you a/ number of collective endorsement | lists, All forces behind the wheel. Let's see which section will go over | the top in their quota! From Superior:—“This branch is collecting signatures for the Unem- ployed Insurance Bill and is in com- petition with the Third Ward. Com- petition is good. Let us have com- petition in other sections. Superior also says: ‘we have sold the buttons endorsing Unemployed Insurance and some Labor Unities.’ That is fine. We would like to have some of that money for ‘some’ of those buttons, So does the National Office, From Hancock, ‘We still have quite | afew lists out which are having | names collected on them. ‘They) should be in by the middle of the month so we will be able to get them) into the District before the end of the month.’ We have alread collected over a thousand signatures from Hancock, but it is not enough yet. Keep on collecting and utilize this campaign for the building up of some it aoa committee in your sec~ | support. natures from March 13th to 20th, They also haye challenged the Cleve- | land district, The challenge follows: with Comrade Benjamin present Pd out a plam and assigned a | CHALLENGE TO THE CLEVELAND DISTRICT From | THE MINNEAPOLIS DISTRICT | | TO THE CLEVELAND DISTRICT Ox THE UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS | | | Dear Comrades: 1] Your district and ours have been assigned equal quotas for the signature campaign by the National Committee, individual signatures for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, Collective endorsements, | funds, ete. | Our district has set aside the week beginning March 13 for 4 intensified drive in this direction. | | | | We therefore challenge you to: Get as many individual signatures for our bill. Get as many collective endorsements. Sell as many “Fighting Fund Stamps” nad buttons, And set up as many block neighborhood, shop A. F. of L. local un- employed committees during the week of March 13 to 20 as we will. We propose that after the twentieth we should exchange reports on results as well as on experiences, With revolutionary greetings, | * M. KARSON, for the District Office. Let us hear from Cleveland. Do already? you accept this challenge? How}; We call on other districts and lo- many signatures have you collected | cals to issue similar challenges. MMARY OF SIGNATURES RECEIVED TO DATE FROM DISTRICTS: District 1 (Boston) seeees 1108) District 15 (Bridgeport) .....None District 2 (New York) ..s...7309| District 16 (Charlotte) . None District 3 (Philadelphia » None} District 17 (Knoxville) ......None District 4 (Buffalo) - 853) District 18 (Butte, Mont.) . 58 District 5 (Pittsburgh) .. None| Distriet 19 (Denver) None District 6 (Cleveland) 1568 Again we ask that all collective en Disirich 7 (Detroit) :. 231| dorsements be rushed in to the office District 8 (Chicago) .. 5113 | immediately, so that we can publish District 9 (Minneapolis) -5091/ them in our column next week, as District 10 (Kansas City) .....3071/ well as individual signatures. District 11 (Minot, N. D.) ..... 102} WHAT ARE THE FRATERNAL OR- District 12 (Seattle) None | GANIZATIONS & UNIONS DOING District 13 (San Francisco) ...None IN THIS DRIVE? {(CONTINUATION OF OBJECTIVES AND PLAN FOR THE WORKERS UNiMPLOYMiNT ENSURANCe BILL) | How the Delegation Shall Be Financed. The funds for filhancing the cam- paign and delegation shall be raised in the same, manner and in connec- tion with the mobailization of mass c) Each organization shall finance | } its delegation from the sale of these | stamps and {rom caentributions re- ceived through its own activity. d) Special affairs of a social and educational nature should be ar- -/ranged, the proceeds to go toward a) All committees that canvass | “ie financing of the campuign and for signatures shall be supplied with elegation, Disiribution of funds: books of Fighting Fund Stamps.| a) Thirty-five per cent of ail These are to be offered to workers | funds raised through sale of stamps, after they sign our lists, | contributions and affairs shall go to b) When securing collective en-| the National Committee of the Un-! dorsements in any organization, an cmployed Councils Ww defray the ua-" appeal shall be made for a financial | tional expenses, contribution toward the Aghting) ») Thirty-five per cent shall go to) fund, j= state, disiie er national orgasm | {iet port of Vladivostok. JAPAN HITS AT SOVIET R (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) looting of China and its war provoc- ations against the Soviet Union. A Tokyo dispatch to the New York Times reports that Japan has now answered all the questions which the | large concentration of Japanese | troops was taking place on the Ko- rean Siberian frontier.” The dis- patch at the same time reports the admission of Japanese officials that Japan has sent “a force of gendar- merie toward border.” ‘The dispatch makes no mention of | the Washington report of the pre- sence of a Japanese fleet fof the Sov- more Sun of March 7 stated that this report had been confirmed by the U 5. Navy Department Stops Sale of Copper To U.S.S.K. In the meantime, Japan has stop~ ped the sale of copper to the Soviet Union, which formerly bought 5 to 12 hundred tons a month for the use of the rapidly developing Soviet industries. The Japanese give the pretext that the Soviet Union de- sires long term credits, The move is directed against the Five Year Plan and the> successful Socialist construction in the Soviet Union. It is in line with the other war | moves of Japanese imperialism a- | gainst the Soviet Union. As part of the world-wide mobil- ization of Tzarist White Guards a- gainst the Soviet Union nad the Chinese Revolution, a new force of White Guard troops has been or- ganized at Shanghai. This moviliza- tion of the counter-revolutionary White Guard scum is being carried out under the joint auspices of all zations to pay fur the expense of its delegates, c) The valance can be divided be- tween t'.e various local organizations of the unemployed. 4) nits of national organizations howl @end the funds raised through brie! PMycctive national offices, to be in accordance wiih the a Provisions. (This applies to Union lernal Societies, ete.) si r+ ‘Central Demand for Which Ford Workers Were panes seamen and longshoremen and har- bor workers around the slogans: | “Do not load or transport troops or munitions in an imperialist war! “Hands off the Soviet Union and | Soviet China!” | 3) In view of the possibilities, the |present situation of the Marine Workers Industrial Union is in no way satisfactory. There is a large | fluctuation of the membership, and | the growth of the union is very slow. The reason for this is that the union did not yet lead any major strikes, or get out of the stage of propaganda and agitation. One of the MW.LU. major weaknesses is the insufficient base amongst the longshoremen, whom a number of strikes have re- cently taken place. The failure to es- tablish @ longshore section, to carry on systematic work amongst long- shoremen, to develop a broad rank and file movement within the LL.A., has resulted in our failure to form the | united front and develop independent | Jeadership, This inability to go from | agitation to action is further illus- | trated by the failure to build the nee- | essary organizational forms—the ship and dock branches—as the basis of the union, instead of the port local. For Coneretization. — ‘The main causes for this are gen- eralization in methods of work, no separate sections for seamen, long- |shoremen or harbor workers, lack of clarity on points of concentration, and most important of all, no definite program for each of certain strategic ships or docks in preparation for 5-YEAR PLAN It} the Siberian-Korean | The Balti- | TO THE CONGRES We, the undersigned, demand House of Representatives, the enactment of al bill shall be based upon the following measures: | IMMEDIATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE 1, That a system of Federal government unemployment insurance be immediately established by an Act of Congress and made immedi- ately effective, guaranteeing full wages to all workers wholly or | arth oyed, thi sh any caus thatsoever, for the entirs Soviet Union addressed to Japanese | inl ai been ae mie ee et ee ee | Ambassador Hirota at Moscow. states ‘that Ambassador Hirota has | | been authorized to deny “that any | period of unemployment. | and all other categories of wage | rates of pay. INSURANCE sharply upward tayation mpon instance shall there he any contributions levied upon the workers in any form whatsoever for this ADMINISTRATION "That the unemployment insurance fund shail be administered and controlled by the workers, through committees elected by the work- ers themselves. 5. That social insurance be paid ot maternity, etc, OF THE UNITED STATES UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AT FULL WAGES 2. That unemployment insurance be paid to every unemployed worker, adult and youth, whether industrial or agricultural, office employees, | or non-citizen, white and Negro, crimination against any race, color, age or political opinion. worker shall be deprived of unemployment insurance because of re- fusal to take the place of strikers or to work for less than union AT THE EXPENSE OF THE EMPLOYERS AND THE GOVERNMENT 3. That the full funds for unemployment insurance shall be raised by the government from funds now set aside for war preparations and by taxation upon the capital and profits and trusts and also by FOR OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL INSURANCE to cgmpensate for loss of wages through sickness, accident, old age, struggle. Further, there is no system- | atic checkup on the work. This can also be applied to unemployed work |in particular, and to the work within the reactionary unions. | Because of the generalization of the | Negro work, which resulted in the failure to establish a Negro depart- ment, draw up specific demands for | the Negro workers, we have failed to |smash through the Jim Crow policy |of the fakers and establish unity be- tween the Negro and white workers. during time of strikes. Generalization |has resulted in the problems of the | Negroes and youths beng neglected. Other weaknesses that add to the | general instability are lack of collec- | tive work and mass activity. The fi- |nancial question has become a vital | problem in the union which at times ‘has completely paralyzed our activle ties, preventing the issuance of the “Voive”, and resulted in inability te react quickly to urgent strike situa- tions. The Natignal Office has been unable to give sufficient personal guidance to the outlying branches, There is also insufficient education land development of new cadres, and efforts to ideologically combat the syndicalist tendencies of the marine workers has not been carried: out. 4) To strengthen the organization of the M.W.LL. amongst the Bearmen, longshoremen and harbor workers, te | prepare and lead strikes against the | attacks of the shipowners, the follow ing steps must be immediately taken: a. Concentrate on ships where there is already a basis; endeavor to have our members stay aboard, or- ganize and develop action around of the United States Senate and labor, native or foreign born, citizen men and women, and without dis- No all incomes over 85,000.00, In no insurance. BY THE WORKE workers to the amount of full wages | the imperialist powers. The inter- national center of the White Guards is located in Paris, under the protec- tion of the French Government. White Guard munition factories are in full operation in severat countries, including France and England, turn- ing out arms and munitions for the planned armed intervention against the Soviet Union. The White Guard paper “Novye Russk Slovo” admits the aid given to the White Guard by the foreign imperialisis in Sanghi Five years @go, according to this reactionary paper, the White Guard- ist General Gleboff was instructed by the Municipal Council of the Inter- national Settlement (contrloled by the United States and British impe- | talists) ih zai to from a troop sof White Guards. This gang of cut- the immediate grievances. b. Concentrate on ships where wage cuts, etc, have already oc- (to the Noy curred, try to ship members and | defense of Shanghai” | delegates aboard for the purpose of revolutionary Chinese masses. | lining up crews to strike against the The White Guardist paper further | wage cut, Ship delegates are the key reports that @ special reserve of| t9 the development of struggle White Guards has been formed under | apoard ships, and in this connection the command of the White Guardist! 5 cloge check-up must be ‘mains , Generel Major Bordzilovsky, and that! tamed on all delegates, special dt- senior representatives of the White |’ pectives given them, correspondence throats has since rendered to the imperialists, according Guard military organizations have from secretaries, and where possi- entered the troop. Among these the| 4 le, conference of ship delegates Novye Russoye Slovo includes Gen- rf should be held. ‘al of Artillery Hanjin, th | era: ry Hanjin, the head of (TO BE CONTINUED) the White Guard Marine School, | Rear Admiral Fedorovitch and others, also a number of White Guard doc- tors. The necessary means for the | upkeep of the troops, Novye Russoye Slovo reports, are provided by the French authorities at Shanghai. Workers’ Correspondence ts the backbone of the revolutionary grees. Build your prees by writing for # abot your day-to-fiay strageis. § $

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