The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1932, Page 3

\ | \ \ | i ' wm! j uy DAILY WURDE, Now VOW, MONDAY, ARCs zi, lus Page Three Woman Weaver in USSR Hits at Bosses’ Forced Labor Lies Dear Comrades:—I am a worker from the City of Ivanovo- Vosnesensk (called the Red Manchester) and I want to share with you my impressions about how a the Soviet Union. I work at the Dzerzhinsky ’ ifsc they prepare hot lunches for ‘them. This is true of the entire Soviet Union. My wages are 85-90 rubles a month. For this money it is possible to dress myself and my two children and we have enough for food. We women workers are completely free. There are laundries for us. If a woman worker has children under 10 years of age they can leave them in the nurseries and children’s homes which are built near each and every factory and work peacefully'7 hours a day. ‘We women workers participate col- lectively in the construction of so- cialist industry and a socialist so- ciety. We are victoriously complet~ ing the first Five-Year Plan in four years. At present we are consider- ing the regulations of the 17th Party Conference and the control figures of the second Five-Year Plan. You write that you have unem- \, ployment. Here there is no unem- ‘ployment and the social cultural onditions of the women workers are improving from year to year. We vouild large apartment houses which ‘have light, warm rooms. Each one \ of our factories has a lunch room. After 31% hours of work the factory stops and we have hot lunches, after which we cheerfully return to work. ‘en, two of whom are at school, womanweaver lives in factory No. 1. I have three chil- I would ask you, comrades from abroad, to discuss this letter among your women workers and to tell them the whole truth about the Soviet Union and about how well we live and how frecly we breathe in the Soviet Union. Your problem, dear comrades, 1s, first of all, to arm yourself with the Marxist-Leninist theory, to mobilize the masses of workers and peasants for a struggle against the oppressors in order to free yourself of the cap- itflist yoke. TATYANA KOROBOVA. Editorial Note:—The Friends of the Soviet Union, 799 Broadway, New York City, hase received an invitation to send 50 delegates from the American shops and factories to the Soviet Union May 1, These workers will make an extensive tour of the U.S.S.R.; they will inspect the shops and factories, the living conditions and the homes of the Soviet workers, The F-.S.U. calls on all workers to discuss this invitation in the shops and unions, in order to secure the endorsement of hundreds of thou- sands of workers for the May Day delegation. Dressmaker Exposes Role of Company Union (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I, the worker of the Crown Frocks, 138 W. 25th St., have first been convinced that the I. L. G. W. U., is a real company union for the following reason: When the United Front called the strike our bass got scared to death and tried all means, including force, t ostop us from joining the strike. (By a Worker Correspondent) '. CHESTER, Pa.—I have been unem- loyed a long time and decided to let a mortgage on my house. I went pt a@ real estate office which is run by Mr. Rutcowsky on Third St., near Highland Ave., Chester Pa., and asked him if I could get a mortgage on my house through his office. He answer- ed me “we lend any amount.” How- ever, he told me that before he can do anything he must have my deed and $5. I borrowed $5 and gave it to him together with my deed, but when he failed to give me a receipt I asked him for it but he told me that I did not need any, ‘but instead told me that he would give me a receipt when. He even put police inside and outside the shop. But when the company union called their so-called strike the same boss was so happy that he even took the workers with his automobile to the strike hall. Of course, after they registered they went back to the shop to finish their work. Mortgage Shark Robs: Chester Worker I will get the mortgage. But nobody came to investigate as he said they would so I came back and he gave me some excuse for not getting me a mortgage. He refused to give me my $5 back. fice on Third St., by the name of Sieleci. He assured me that if I gave him $3 he would get me the mortgage. He also gave me a receipt for the $3 and sent an investigator but gave me an excuse that he could not get me the mortgage. All these real estate sharks simply collect money on applications for mortgages although they know that they cannot get them; in this way they clean the workers up some more. The Sun Ship Yard By a Worker Correspondent. CHESTER, Pa.—Leon Brysiak, 115 South 15th St. Saginaw, Mich., worked for the Sun Ship Yard in ‘Chester for one year. On May 22d, 1931, he was laid off and given a etter of recommendation by the Su- rintendent of the Engineering De- | artment, George D. Carney, in which | they show that he was a very faith- ful worker. On January 24, 1932, the head of the employment department, Wicker, came to this worker's son and told him to send his father a telegram to come to work immediately. Receiv- ing the telegram, ‘he came to Chester from Saginaw and immediately ap- plied for work. When he reported to Wicker he told him to wait. He waited some time and then he ap- pealed to a higher official, who told Wicker to give him a job, and the Jatter answered that when he has | something he will give it to him. | Finally he went down and told him that he spent fare coming here and has no money to go back and that he can’t stay here, so he told Y him that he does not live in Chester and therefore he cannot give him any work, This is part of the Sun Ship policy terrorize the workers who are still ‘king into greater speed-up and epare them for accepting more fe cuts. | A few weeks before the New Year, | the Chester Times, local capitalist sheet, came out with a statement that the Sun Ship Yard was going to hire _ hundreds of workers. Thousands of _ workers came and waited from early Morning, day after day, only to be told that they don’t need any. Now, when they cannot fool so /many Chester workers into coming up to the gates so that they could use them as a whip over the heads of those working, they call in work~ ers from outside of Chester, like they did with this worker’ Instead of going to the Sun Ship Yards begging for a job which they are sure not to get, workers should e USMO sss iulalere is aha Creates Job Illusions come up to the headquarters of the Unemployed Council at 120 West 3rd St., Chester, Pa.,. where they will get information about what the Unem- ployed Council intends to do i norder to get jobs or relief from the Sun Ship Yards. The headquarters is open every day at 9 in the morning. State Kills Two for 50 Cent Theft LSNR Denounce Legal Murder As Attempt Terrorize Negroes MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 20.-- The first death penalty for larceny in the history of the state of Ala~ bama was carried through here on March 11, when Percy Irvin and Isaac Mims,‘two Negro workers, were burned in the electric chair for the theft of 50 cents. The execution occurred shortly after midnight in Kilby Prison, where the nine young Scottsboro boys are also held in the death cells. ‘The League of Struggle for Negro Rights, which has been active in fighting for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys, yesterday branded the legal murder of Irvin and Mims as an effort on the part of the white ruling class to strike terror into the hearts of the Negro workers. The sentence against these two workers recalls the death sentence meted out, some months ago to John Moore, a jobless Negro worker of Winston- Salem, N. C., for the theft of a pair of wornout shoes. The death sentence in the case of Moore was later commuted to life imprisonment. Every shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- scriptions. YOUR FIFTY CENTS WIL", HELP SAVE THE DAILY WO? <ER! WRAP THIS COUPON WITH YOUR 50 CENTS Send to a 70,000 Half Dollars by April 1st “Soviet Philosophy Has Permeated Central Asia” (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) people have espou espoused a case that holds out some promise of escape from their enforced enslavement; we have witnessed this movement grow to such proportions that it now menaces the very existence of the nation (sic!). We call it ‘com- munism’ in order to rally world opinion to the support of the Na- tional Government in its desperate struggle to preserve the fiction of its power and carry out its inter- national obligations. ...” “Japan sees the handwriting on the wall and her military leaders have appealed to the right of self- defense.” Calls for More Terror Against Chi- nese Masses. The present armed intervention must be extended, China must be partitioned, the pamphlet declares, at the same time peddling the hy- pocrisy that dismemberment of China will achieve “unity”: “Intervention, by recognition of the realities may be the only way left open to save China from splitting up into a congery of small Soviet republics tied to Moscow's leading strings. The battle ground of Com- munism for control of the world is definitely fixed in China... . Only by the creation of at least four or five distinct compact states can the danger be now averted. Recognition of the realities is not intervention!” ger,Kuomintang Tools Failed—Di- rect Intervention Now Necessary But even with the full bacing of imperialism, its Kuomintang tools have found it impossible to crush the national revolutionary struggles of the toiling masses. Direct armed in- tervention by the imperialists is now necessary to save the loot of the im- perlalists in China, to “effect” the salvation of dying world capitalism. Japan has recognized this necessity, has begun the “good work” of butch- ering the revolutionary Chinese mass- es in Manchuria where, warns the pamphlet: “... The nucleus of communist armies are everywhere in evidence. «++ The material is all there in Mnchuria for a first-class upheay- al.” “A prolongation of the present depression with its attendant hun- ger, cold, and privation may drive these people to desperation; to the point where, like their fellow-coun- | trymen in the Yangtze Valley, they I went to another real estate of-| also will take to the field in arms against their oppressors.” The masses throughout China are turning to the revolutionary way out of their misery. “The Soviet philoso- phy has permeated all of Central Asia.” The glorious victories and achievements of the working class in the Soviet Union are showing the oppressed masses of China the new non-capitalist road of development. “Under tbe old regime, the peas- ants of Russia were slaves of the landowners, toiling from cradle to the; grave to maintain in idleness and luxury a ruling caste that op- posed any and every program for reform. When the opportunity came, the serfs rose against their oppressors and re-enacted the trag- edy of the French Revolution. The old system has disappeared. Pri- vate property is abolished. The land is parcelled out in co-operative farms held in common for the com- mon good. The Soviet philosophy has permeated all of Central Asia. Mongolia is now part of the Soviet system. Chinese Turkestan is wholly dependent upon the Soviet for its economic existence. Communist propaganda fs undermining the al- legiance of the people to their Chi- nese overlords, and with the strengthening of Soviet trade ties, this region with its immense min- eral and oil deposits, will slip au- tomatically into the Soviet system, “Chine’s inability to assert her authority over these distant bor- der provinces, coupled with the graft, . corruption, ineptitude and tyranny of the Chinese (Kuomin- tang) officials, is paving the way for the triumph of Communism, Mongolia, Sinkiang, the Barga Re~ gion, a large part of Tibet and a slice out of Kirin in the Ussuri dis- trict are practically lost to (Kuo- mintang) China. No treaty of peace and commerce; no understanding between Moscow and Mukden can check the relentless march of the Soviet in these regions.” “Chinese officialdom may delude itself and the world into believing that Moscow is responsible for the present tragedy (the growth of the powerful Soviet districts which is a tragedy—to imperialism.—C: B.) in the Yangtze Valley, but those who have an intimate knowledge of China’s internal affairs know this to false. The truth about conditions in China is eloquently revealed in Chiang Kai-shek’s Wrathful and denunciatory ar- raignment of the system he him- self is responsible for fastening upon the people by force of arms.” And who but the imperialists are responsible for Chiang Kaishek? Te Ane cUpy +s State. ccvecsevee A Correction A typographical error appeared in Saturday's editorial, “Chicago Police Bullets Defend Japanese Imperialism. Two lines were dropped and a sen- tence was connected with the following paragraph, obscuring their mean- ing. The following should have appeared as a separate sentence: Broun made his approval of Negro now attempts to head off the mass hatred of Japanese imperialism by appeals not to ‘provoke Japan to war’.” The next paragraph should have “The Japanese Socialist Party is now openly supporting the war of ‘its’ imperialism. And this treacherous, murderous support is read as follows: given with the excuse that the war Chinese people is a war in the cause of ‘civilization and peace’. The Jap- anese and American Socialist Parties are one in the support of the war policies of their respective imperialisms.” Militancy of The session was opened with the reading of greetings from the revolu- tionary miners’ union of Scotland, Germany an drFnaeshe.c eTketaoin Germany and France. These espe- cially hailed the Kentucky strike. Stone, a young West Vieginia miner reported that the wage scale in his section is even less than 221, a ton, due ot cheating on weight, In expos- ing the UMWA official he told of one case in whcih they turned back the scale 250 pounds on every ton. There are over 10,000 unemployed miners in Scotts Run section. The National Miners Union is not yet sufficiently entrenched in the’ mines, and has a tendency to depend too muchon the spontaniety of |the workers. Over 3,000 in this field applied to join the National Miners Union in the last six months. Mrs. Howart, a Negro woman from Brownsville, Pa., stressed the import- anie of building womens’ auxiliaries and told how they had forced relief from the city charities. Wakner, a young miner from West- ern Pennsylvania, told of cheating on scales in the Langeloth mine. He stressed the importance of youth work and showed how the bosses try to play them against the older miners. On his motion, the convention sent a telegram to the Governor of Ken- tucky protesting the terror and de- manding the release of the imprison- ed leaders and miners. Joe Tash of Southern Illinois told how the opposition groups are being built in the UMWA in Illinois; how the miners in the UMWA are for militant struggle against the fakers and the bosses. "He told of 16 UMWA locals holding mass meetings and pro- tested the,arrest of 7 NMU membérs in Illinois and demanded the repeal of the criminal syndicalism laws. The UMWA agreement, expires on April ist. and that with the aid of the Walker fake opposition and Lewis, a 30 to 50 per cent wage cut is ex- pected. The main task of the union is to prepare a united front strike against this wage cut. Mass meetings throughout the field are being called in connection with this, Dorsey, a young Negro delegate from the Panhandle of West Virginia, reported a cut on March 15 from 38 to 34¢ a ton. “The terror won't halt the NMU.” ‘The main danger in West Virginia is the West Virginia Miners Union. George Wagner, @ young miner from Powhatan Point, Ohio, describe" an interesting development in conducting of local struggles, tellir of the chalk system (whenever there is a grievance in the mine, such as loose timber, loose rock, etc., the NMU members chalk it up in the mines as a demand to fight for.) On his mo- tion the convention sent a telegram to the Governor of Michigan, protest- ing the murder of four unemployed workers at the Ford plant, Mahan, a delegate from the Brush Creek section of Kentucky electrified the convention by his splendid mili- tant speech. He told how he was “taken for a ride” and thrown into jail at two o'clock one morning. “This don’t stop me from staying 100 per cent for the NMU.” He told how womtn and children are living in tents with big NMU signs stretched: across the front of them. “While machine-loads of thugs were riding up and down, our children said, ‘Papa, you stick to the NMU!’ Nt’s not very pleasant to watch the thugs throw our food to the winds. But tht time is ‘near at hanr when these cars will take a back seat. The time is near at hand when the NMU will go over the top in the hills of old Kentucky.” A delegate from Illinois, not an NMU member, but a reprtsentative of the opposing group in the UMWA, told how Lewis used the fake Ed- munson opposition and the IWW to confuse the miners. The Iinois min- ers are 75 per cent for the NMU but art kept in the UMWA by the check- off. Robinson, a young Negro miner of West Virginia, told of the role of the UMWA which cut down the miners’ time, limited them to three cers a day, and cut the wages in the UMWA in West Virginia mines below those in the non-union mines. “We are go- ing to build the NMU in West Vir- ginia or die trying. We have to break down the lack of confidence among ;the Negroes.” These delegates pro- posed telegrams to the Governor of California demanding the release of tht Scottskoro boys. These were sent o the convention. Makki, from the metal mining dis- , trict, is describing the misery of the |metal miners, reported that they are only working eight days a month, averaging $3.60 a day. Hickman, a Kentucky delegatt told of 7 warrants for his arrest and a death warrant against] him. Only starvation and terror is forcing the miners back to work. “Tf it takes a Rooshian Red to fight,, I'm as red Marks N.M. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 20.—The second day of the National Miners Union convention devoted largely to spirited discussion by the rank and file delegation from the pits and strike areas, was marked by even a greater militancy and de- termination to struggle than the first day. CIE ENS ae eS as hell!” The UMWA officials ride “Just as lynching in the name of ‘peace’, he of Japanese imperialism against the Delegates U. Convention around with the thugs spotting NMU members. Winnegar, an Indiana miner, said that in 1922 tht UMWA had 27,000 members in Indiana. They now have | under 2,500 members in six months. The Indiana miners face a big wage cut in April, He scored the tenrency to hide the face of tht NMU and its political program in Indiana. Jack Stachel, Assistant National |Giant Soviet Machine | Plant Begins Work MOSCOW.—In significant con- trast to the shutting down of ever} larger numbers of factories in the | capitalist countries, all depart- ments of the Stankostroy shop, largest machine producing plant of its kind in the world located in the district near Moscow, have started operation. The manage- ment of the factory announced that this year’s production of turning lathes under the Five Year Plan would reach the total of 6,800. Equipped with the latest me- chanical devices and safety ap- pliances, this giant Socialist plant will also produce semi-automatic wil also produce semi-automatic lathes. Stankostroy has left Ger- man and English far behind in point of production, MORE VICTORIES FOR UNEMPLOYED Downtown Council Gets Aid for Two On Thursday Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, brought TUUL greetings to| the convention. He explained the | role of tht TUUL as collective or- | ganizer. He exposed the role of the A. F. of L. and the Musteites in all industries. “While the NMU led the biggest mine struggle in 1931, still the majority of miners on strike were not led by us. We did not win de- mands in the Pa.-Ohio strike, because of loose organization: Mistakes in this strike included insufficitnt or- ganizational preparation; few dues payments, the demands at the be- | ginning of the strike remained the | same throughout the strike. We must know our strugglt before entering a struggle. The TUUL is also to be criticized for insufficient mobilization | of workers in other unions in support of the miners. The Kentucky strike was not well prepared and was based too much on thegblacklisted and un- employed miners, This latter mis- take is also seer in the anthracite. The unemployed cannot strike; we should mobilize them to fight for re lief. “If we learn from these lessons this convention will be the beginning of transforming the NMU from a loose boty to a powerful organization and will bring the UMWA members closer to us.” Ross, a Negro mnier from Jellicoe, ‘Tennessee,told how the boss promised the Negroes $1 a day extra to keep out of the NMU. Ninety per cent of th Tennessee miners approached join- ed the NMU immediately. Tre Red Cross threatened to cut off $1.50 a week “relief” if they joined the NMU. He said the women in the auxiliaries play a big part. A delegate from Central Pennsyl- vania told how the UMWA officials outlawed a recent strike there of UM WA members, Bell, a young Western Pennsylvania miner showed the role of Father Cox, who in a speech in Uniontown called or the United States to declare war on Japan. district secretary, stressed the neces- sity to bring fforward rank and file minrs into the leadership. Bob Sivert, district secretary of Eastern Ohio, said after the 1931 strike a spirit of pessimism developed among the leadership which is not entirely smashed yet. “We failed to follow up our gains in the strike and to entrench ourselves inside the mines by leading struggles on the basis of local demands.” Frank Borich’'s. summary of the discussion concluded the session. He said the discussion at this conven- tion showed a tremendous adyance over previous conventions. “Before we simply made agitational speeches; now we discuss how to build the union and to lead struggles. Weakness of the convention are that only one-half of the locals are represented; only 23 Negro delegates, ‘The first step after the convention must be to begin preparation for strikes by developing immediate local struggles of the miners, not only on wage cuts, but also on conditions and grievances in- side themines. We must also develop struggles of the unemployed miners for relief and insuranc: soit PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Th greetings of the Communist Party of the USA were brought to the Third National Convention of the National Miners Union by WilliamW. Weinstone, on behalf of the secretariat. The dele- gates, most of them not members of the Communist Party, enthusiastically cheered him when he pledged the support of the Communist Party to the miners’ struggle and told of the role of the Communist Party as the vanguard of the working class. Ben Bernard, organizational secre- tary of the National Miners Union reported on organization. As was done by Borich,secretary of the union, and many of the delegates, he stress- ed the necessity of the NMU en- trenchnig itself in the mines. He pointed out that “though we are based mostly on the unemployed, yet our unton does not give sufficient leader- ship to the masses of the unemploy- ed.” He pointed out as a weakness that “we carry on the work from the top.” The NMU must develop big crops of volunteer organizers which Bernard pointed out was the almost complete iack of dues payments to the national office of the National jal committee of w Fred Seiders, Western Pennsylvania | © NEW YORK. — When the Daily | stated yesterday that not a day pas- ses without relief being won for un- employed workers through the mass pressure of the Downtown Unem- ployed Council it was not exaggerat- | ing. Yesterday Daily gave reports of Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday, the council marked up two more victories for the work- ing-class against the fake charities. This day a committee from the Council went to the Home Relief Bu- reau with A. Weisberg, 114 Lewis St. This worker had been registered with the bureau for three weeks. Aat that time he told him how urgent his case was, there was no food in the house even then. Three weeks pas- sed without so much as an investi- gation, At the bureau, the officials tried to evade the matter with an excuse used often now “we have no record.” But they found a record, when the workers began to exert some pres- sure and raised a “little hell” as the workers put it. The bureau promised to give the worker relief by today. Again on the same day, a commit- | tee went to the bureau with D. Neu- man, 386 E. 3rd. This worker has been | unemployed for some time and has | five children to feed. He also was registered at the burtau, but as in hundreds of cases no investigation | was made or any effort to give him | relief. n addition to being hungry the worker received a dispossess no~ tict telling him to get out. The com- mittee marched into the bureau, and before leaving extracted a promise of immediate investigation and relief. May Day Conference in Phila, on April 8th at Girard Manor PHILADELPHIA, Pa,—A provision- ng class organ- izations of Philadelphia is calling a mass conference for April 8 at 8 p.m at Girard Manor Hall to arrange the May 1 celebrations. All working class organizations which have not received a call to this conference are asked to select two delegates and have their organizations represented at the con- ference. is growing, but we have been neglect ing the question of dues. This is not only a financial question (although this aspect is important) but also an organizational and political question.” In speaking of defense, Bernard said that the union must build Inter- national Labor Defense committees in every local union. Great attention must be devoted to building miners’ defense groups, especially in Ken~- tucky. (The Kentucky delegates raised this question as an important one.) He pointed out that concrete prob- lems raised in the mines will build the union. He tdescribed the new organs of struggle making up the union. First, the mine branch, made up of the miners employed in the mine. The next organ of the union is the local union. The local can organize the unemployed miners into unemployed groups. The local unites unemployed and employed. The em- ployed miners carry on struggles against wage cuts, etc., by participat- ing in picketing, distributing leafiets before the mine, etc. Also the un- employed group must develop the struggle for relief and insurance, aided by the employed miner. The local is representative of mine branches, women's auxiliaries, youth | sections, the unemployed groups, etc. The miners discussed Bernard's report from their own experiences. Wilson, a Negro miner, delivered the report on Negro work. He stressed the necessity of a sharp fight on white chauvinism, Committees were sent by the con- vention to Blawnox and Alleghenly County prisons, where miners are held for their activities in the Penn.- Ohio—West Virginia strike. The Allegheny delegation was refused ad- mittance, and the Blawnox commit- tee reported it was arrested at Sharpsburg, by dicks who followed them from outside the convention hall, The committees were sent to demand the right of the prisoners to read working class literature. A mass meeting was held Saturday night by the District Committee of Miners Union. “The per centage of members we have inside the mines the Communist Party in honor of the convention and the delegates. ON EAST SIDE, WASHINGTON. — Resorting to the most subtle form of demagogy in an attempt to offset growing mass sentiment against the extortionate, robber provisions of the new revenue a series of amendments to the tax bill and “comptiled” the house speak- er to declare a weekend adjournment of the house of representatives. the original revtnue act brought for- ward by the Ways and Means C mittee of the house were carried un- der the fake banner of “placing the burdens of the tax on the shoulders of the millionaires and the swollen treasuries of the corporations. items of mass consumption were ex- These three changes, throughout the country as a the eopeum aay and their do: tions, are nothing but the form ie damouflage to cover brazen highway robbtry that is now being planned in the house of con- gress, The taxes placed on goods hanu- | factured of those countries will only | serve to greatly increase the tax bur- | den to bt born by the masses. The | tax that will be passed on to the | final buyer, will be a double one — tax. The “exemption” of the articles | of mass consumption are equally a Joke since the taxes that are placed on machinery and other articles necessary to produce them will be transferred to the articles of mass consumption. The amendment introduced by the faker La Guardia is the purest form | of demagogy. The millionaires and | corporations can very easily avoid) paying the tax by investing their| money ins Federal and state tax | exempt securXies. The “threat”| made by LaGuardia that unless the CLIFTON, N. J., March 20 (C.N.A.). —~A struggle against the spread of Jim-Crow practices in this city, aris- ing out of the efforts of local police to ban inter-racial dances and social affairs, will be planned at a broad conference of many working-class or- ganizations on Sunday afternoon, March 27, at Delekta’s Hall, High- land and Hope Aves. A dance held at Delekta’s Hall on Feb. 21 by the Rambler Sports Club, a group affiliated to the Labor Sports Union, a national organization, of Negro and white workers, was at- tended by about 300 Negro and white workers. A few days later, the owner of the hall was arrested and fined $27 for renting his hall for a mixed dance. Chief of Police Holster made a statement to local newspapers that “we don't tolerate mixed dances in Clifton.” On the same day that the owner of Delekta’s Hall was arrested, Frankie The two amendments pinned on to | act now before the house of represen- | “safeguarding” }on the shoulders of the rich.” Robber Tax B Being Pushed _ Behind Cloud of Demagogy (he would | introduce a motion to tax transfers of stock is part of the hypo- | critical demogogy now being resorted to by the capitalist politicians. They are trying to create the impression of the interests of the tatives a whole group of “insurgent” | masses. The joker contained in this democrats and republicans, led by the | threat” made by LaGuardia was arch-hypocrite and ex-“socialist” rep- | exposed by Representative Crisp, who resentative La Guardia, forced thru | said “St will probably have the effeot of forcing the Stock Exchange to move to Canada. You know they can do their business by wire.” This maneuver by means of which the capitalists ean evade the tax is true of all forms of taxation “placed The capitalists can move their money to foreign countries. The masses of workers, farmers and middle class | must stay and bear the burdens of of the two amendments incl within the provisions of the tax American manuf-ctured goods im- ported from for 2 countries which had already been taxed by foreign | governments. The ‘other raised the income tax on the “higher incomt brackets”. In addition a few more the most crushing tax that the Amer- ican bosses have yet placed on their shoulders. In an attempt to frighten the dem, ugogues in the House of Representa- tives into allowing a more speedy passage of the tax bill, Representa- tive Rainey accused the “insurgents” of moving toward Communism. The reply of Representative Swing dis- closed the real demagogic nature of the “opposition.” He said: “On the contrary, the action of the House was the greatest assur- ance that bould be given against Communism, Communism thrives on grievances and the flagrant dis- crimination existing in the rates of the income surtax whereby those with net incomes above $100,000 a year were favored with a flat rate while those below $100,000 were required to pay the graduated in- come tax.” Further proof of the fake nature of one foreign tax and one American | LaGuardia’s opposition to the tax bill was given when he refused to offer any opposition, either alone or | together with the other so-called “revolting insurgents,” to a postpone- ment of hearing on the tax bill in order, as Representative Crisp de- clared to “give the House a chance to cool itself off.” “The labor movement will gain the apper hand and show the way to peace and socialism.” LENIN. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary pres. manufacturers sales tax is withdrawn! Build your press by writing for « To Fight Clifton Police Ban on Unity of Negro, White Toilers Working-Class Organizations Call Big Conter- ence for Sunday March 27 in N. J. Town Finkel, a young Negro worker and president of the Ramblers’ Athletic Club, was arrested in Passaic and beaten by the police, who warned him against “associating with the police.” A protest meeting against these ef- forts by the police to prevent the unity of Negro and white workers was held on March 11 at Delekta's Hall. Although the Ramblers’ Sports Club had rented the hall for the meeting, the police terrorized the owner into refusing its use. A vig- crous protest meeting was held on the street outside the hall. ‘The conference on March 27 has been endorsed by a large number of working-class organizations. It will consider steps to be taken in a de- termined fight against Jim-Crow practices and discrimination against Negro workers in whatever form these practices may. show themselves. {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) relief for their starving families and were massacred by the machine guns | of your private police and the police | of your lackeys in the government headed by Murphy, the mayor of the | city of Detroit. “The demand for work and relief for the unemployed was answered with the lead of your machine guns. | Four courageous and heroic workers were viciously assassinated and more than fifty wounded. “The Latin American workers con- sider this mew crime against our} brothers in the United States, in addition to your already known his- tory of exploitation and crimes. In Latin America thousands of workers are brutally exploited in your as-| sembling plants, shops and branches Themyth of your hypocritical “good- ness,” all the propaganda of the im- | perialist press about the “good” treat- | ment to your slaves, have been the lie | with your cruel methods of exploita- tion and with the blood of the heroic workers of Detroit. of thespress in Latin America, which together with the imperialist press of the United States, have endea ored to hide with lies and praise your crimes, but have not been able to on by your agents; they have not been able to eradicate the blood of our Negro comrades massacred in “The Latin-American tion of Labor, Salvador, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Cuba, Mexico, etc, by the same ma- chine guns in the hands of the na- The entire chorus | hide the vicious exploitation carried | the revolutionary struggle.” your concession in the Amazon River. | Confedera- | whose leaders are | jailed, tortured and massacred in| Unions in Latin America Protest Ford Murders; Call Demonstrations tionalist Jackeys of the Communist | Party of the United States and the Trade Union Unity League and de- | mands from all its sections and the proletariat of Latin American in general. “Organize meetings of protest in front of the Ford factories and all its agencies,” “Unite in the struggle against faq- cist terror and the struggle against imperialist war.” “The hunger and the exploitation imposed by machine guns and jail- ings will be defeated by the unity of And, we add, the union of the workers of Latin America and the United States will put an end to the system of exploitation and crimes of imperialist domination. 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