The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED‘E 23, 1932 Page Three ) \ | ab UNITED EUROPEAN BE HELD IN BERLIN BERLIN—T he Miners’ Interna- | tional Committee in order to strengthen the struggles of the min- ers against mining capital and the betrayal maneouvers of the Amster- dam Miners International, has issued @ call for a United European Mine Workers Conference to be held at an early date in Berlin, Germany. | ‘The Miners’ International Congress publishes for the Congress of the European Miners the following agenda: (1) The crisis in the mining in- dustry. The offensive ain coal barons, The struggle of the miners. (2) The organization of the struggle for the seven hours shift and the guarantee wage. (3.) The miners’ struggle against the pit accidents, increased danger of accidents as a consequence of the capitalist rationalization, ‘The agenda shows that the Euro- peari Congress of Miners will deal with all important questions which meet the miners. The extraordinary situation of the miners, the attempts of the mining capital of all countries which tries te worsen the working conditions and is going to impose a still greater mis- ery to the working class in order to find the way out of the crisis, and equally the betrayal manoeuvres of NEWARK CARPEN NEWARK, N. J.—In spite of the threats of the burocratic officialdom. of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, over one hundred rank and file mem- bers responded to a mass meeting called by the rank and file opposition | groups here in Newark March 5, to discuss the miserable conditions in the trade and the coming wage cut. being planned by the bosses. Delegates of the District Council, | henchmen ‘of the official machine were there to check up and put a damper on the meeting. In spite of the repeated attempts to frighten the Rank and File carpenters into submission, good, enthusiastic discus- sion took place on the floor by the members present, and the Council delegates were forced to lay low and take things easy when they saw the determined spirit of the carpenters. The mass meeting adopted the fol- lowing resolution which was to be carried into every local in the District Council by the Rank and File com- mittees of action: Whereas; the greatest majority .of the carpenters are today totally un- employed, and those that are fortun- ate enough to work are only working | part time and many of our brother carpenters and their families are to- day facing actual starvation, and, Whereas; the bosses have taken advantage of this tremendous amount of unemployment and have cut our wages down to as low as 50 to 60 per cent below the stipulated union scale of wages, and the speed-up that we are forced to endure, makes us go home after a day’s work physically exhausted and, Whereas; many diseases (have found their way into the trade, such as sub-contracting and corporations which have become a weapon in the hands of the bosses to further lower our standards of living, arid, Whereas; our officials in the Dist~ rict Council, have not made the slightest ayfempts to enforce union conditions on the job, but on the other hand, have done all in their power to work hand in hand with the employers against the membership, and at the same time drawing sala- MINE WORKERS TO the reformist bureaucracy of the Am sterdam Miners’ International con- cerning. the so-called coal lagree- |ment and plan-economy make t! |Buropean mine workers’ congress to ® struggle congress against the Am- |sterdam Miners’ International and Nis mining capital. The struggle for the 7 hours’ shift which has been introduced into Eng- land in the beginning of July will |give the foundament of a struggle | alliance between the British comrades jand those of the Continent. A programme will be given at this | Congress for the struggle for a bet- | jter safeguard of the miners. No pit should stand aside facing the im- |portance of this Congress. Every pit jelects a delegate. The Disaster Pit Mid-Rhondda Elects Delegates. The workers of the South Wales pit Mid Rhondda where the terrible pit disaster happened the 25th of January at which 11 miners were killed and many were wounded dealt with the European Mine Workers’ Congress in a mass meeting and elected a delegate. The miners of disaster pits in other countries and mining areas should folow this ex- ample to organize the common fight against the pit catasrophes. TERS’ OPPOSITION ries far above the prevailing rate of wages, and, Whereas; many hundreds of our brother carpenters have been dropped from the membership lists because they could not pay dues due to u-n employment, therefore be it resolved: That we the organized carpenters | of Essex County in mass meeting as- |sembled on this 5th day of March, | 1932, go on record to organize our- selves to fight for the folowing de- mands: 1, Equal division of work through a rotation system conducted and supervised by a rank and file com- mittee elected from the various lo- cals. “2. A general fegistration of all members, employed and wunem- ployed. This registration to be con- ducted by the same rank and file committee, ‘Ihis registration list and names of those sent out on jobs shall be openly exposed where members of the union can sce it. 3. That the officials of the union on account of the existing financial difficulties, receive the prevailing rate of wages in the trade. 4. In order to eliminate the pre- sent speed-up, we propose the abo- lition of the system of hire and fire and the establishment of shop committees instead of the present stewards, 5. That we organize ourselves to fight, against the Wage cut pro- posed by the bosses’ association, and that the union is to fight for the daily wage-rate of %15.20 as stipulated in the present agreement. 6. Rank and file committees of three to five workers to be formed in every shop and on every job to mobilize the carpenters for the fight against the lock-out being prepared by the boss and to fight the further wage-cuts. 7. Unconditiona) reinstatement of all members, either dropped for the non-payment of dues or for acts of discrimination on the part of the officials. Exemption from dues payment for all members totally unemployed, HALF DOLLAR CAMPAIGN The half dollars come rolling in! Just 5,813 since March 16, the first announcement of the half-dollar campaign. The half dollars come rolling in from the districts! New York is ahead with 3,763 half dollars, over 20 per cent of its quota! Connecticut is next, with a decided jump in tempo. Philadelphia and Chicago are behind, and the western districts are slack, except for the Butte, Mon- tant, district, which is fighting ahead with real zeal! Of the middle-west- ern districts, Cleveland has.sent in more in proportion than has Detroit, although both these proletarian dis- tricts are behind New York and Connecticut in their quotas. Thehalf dollars come rolling in— but they have only just started! This is a good beginning. Steady—and rally! Every worker: jump into the socialist competition to save the Daily Worker! Send in your half dollars! Following is the daily report. Watch it daily. % : ; f ‘ : ote i b Oe eee | Moto yao BRR a La & 3 $ 636.21 1. Boston 1,851. 123 1,728 66 10,980.87 2. New York 18,803 3,763 15,039 20. 823.0) 3, Philadelphia 6,437 a3 6,354 13 191.74 4. Buffalo 2,181 65 2,116 29 255.18 5, Pittsburgh 2,057 67 1,990 3.2 1,092.54 6 Cleveland 6,273 457 5,816 73 1,038.09 7. Detroit. 6,221 297 5,924 48 1,215.19 8. Chicago 11,232 662 10,570 59 380.89 9. Minneapolis 3,273 34. 3,239 i 59.02 10. Kansas City | 1,485 3 1,482 02 10.51 U.N, & S, Dakota 279 ae 279 0. 230.54 12, Seattle 2,351 12 2,339 05 647.46 13 San Francisco 2,708 3 2,705 OL 408.38 15. Connecticut 1,896 213 1,683 112 15.40 16. N.&& Carolina 269 ne 269 0. 89.75 17. Chattanooga 125 4 121 32 63.25 18. Butte 292 8 274 62 158.55 19. Dencer 492 9 483 19 $18,296.59 68,225 5,813 62,411 a5 146.01 = Miseellaneous sieciigieets 1844200 | X i ° * i By CYRIL BRIGGS. | Japan’s prede.tory and mur- derous war on China is brazen-| ly justified as a noble act of imperialist “self-defense” against the growing Soviet Sys- tem in the pamphlet “Present- | ing Japan’s Side of the Case,” | just published by the Japanese Association in China and being privately distributed among business men in this country. The pamphlet presents the| seizure of Manchuria, the bes-| tial butchery of tens of thou- sands of revolutionary Chinese workers in Manchuria and at Shanghai as an act of “self-de- | fense,” a “war to save civiliza- | tion,” a “war to destroy the} threat of Bolshevism” to capi- talist “civilization.” For, have} not the Chinese masses impu- dently challenged the right of the imperialist plunderers to rob, oppress and murder them? Must not this callenge be met with new blood baths? Are not the Chinese masses turning to the Chinese masses, turning to the new world system of working class and national emancipation, of revolu- tionary dictatorship against the im- perialist enemy? Is not the Soviet System growing at the expense of the dying capitalist system? Are not. the Soviet districts in China growing daily more powerful? And is not the “infection” spreading not only over all China but over all Asia and to Africa as well, as. the frightfully op- | attack .. pressed colonial masses learn from the example of the Soviet Union of the new non-capitalist road of devel- opment? And is not, therefore, all the loot of imperialism threatened? And must not imperialism make war on the Soviet system |in “self-de- fense”? Already here we see raised sham slogans of “war in self-defense,” “war to save civilization,” for the planned armed intervention of world imper- ialism against successful, flourishing Socialist construction in the Soviet Union. “The menace of Russia is draw- ing closer'to Japan and unless she moves and moves auicker to protect herself, neither the League, the World Court, the Kellogg t, the Four or the Nine Power Treaties can ward off the inevitable clash. For, make no mistake about this, Russia is at war with all the world. The war was begun through the Five-Year Plan and the economic ” (Page 38.) ‘The pamphlet sees @ great “menace anchuri Not the menace of Japanese bayonets and bombi planes against a peaceful population, but the menace of growing mass re- volts against starvation and misery imposed by imperialist exploitation and backed up by imperialist armed force. “Another year of decline in de- mand and low prices for the soya bean, will open the way for Soviet domination in North Manchuria. The stage is set there for another calamity.” (Page 2.) “The pressure of the Slav is slow- ly converting the outlying prov- inces of Chiha into Soviet republics. The Mongols have asserted their right to self-determination. . . ” in Butchery and Robbery in Self-Defer: se’ [ua ik "aerefore the sympathies of the Manchurian masses for hte Soviet! vystem must be drowned in blood. Manchuria must be saved for capi- | talist exploitation. | “Manchuria will be saved from the Soviet, opened to foreign ca tal and development and created | into a strong buffer state between | Japan and the Soviet or between the Soviet and North China.” (Page “The Manchurian problem will be | settled on the field of battle China will lose Manchuria.” (Page 9.) | “Japan sees the handwr the wall and her military have apvealed to the right of sclf- defense.” Moreover, Japanese imperialism points to the crimes of the other im- perialists 2s sufficient. justification | for its own robbe 1 plunder. | “What is just and good for Great Britain in Intlia, in Exypt and Me- sopotamia; for Trance in Alzeria and Morocco; fo: 1 the Med- itterrancan and the United | for States in the Caribbean, must also he just and good for Japan in Man- churia, And with much greater | Thus openly a stated the robber aims and counter revolutionary pur- pose of the Japanese attack on China, of the increasing Japanese war provo- cations on the Siberian frontiers of the Soviet Union. And even while the imperialist plans to dismember China and make war against the So- viet Union are boldly stated, the writers of the pamphlet continue the | effort to deceive the masses as to} the true role of the League of Na-| tions and the various pacts and treat- ies created under the protectorate of the League as direct means for cam- ouflaging war preparations, directed (Page 6.) especially against the Soviet Union. WELFARE AGENCY ACTS ON RITCHIE HUNGER PROGRAM Mother Has “Job” But ‘Family Starves BALTIMORE, Md.— James Dixon living at 304 West Bilmor Street, a laborer has been out of a job since August 9, 1930, almost two years. Up till October 1931 he was able to se- cure odd and end jobs now and then but since that time, he has not been able to get one day’s work. Even though, he is a powerful built man, his wife, the mother of three small children must go out and be the bread winner for the family. Her wages is eight dollars a week and from this starvation pay, she has been paying steadily every week, five dollars for rent. From this small wage, they were determined to stay in their house rather than live on the streets like dogs. The food supply in the house will last only till today so as prevention against starvation tomorrow, he ap- plied to the Welfare Agency for re- lief. The answer of the Welfare Agen- cy was “no” Ritchie says the Wel- fare Agency is taking care of the starving people. The workers of Bal- timore know that it’s a lie. All, workers out to the City Hall demonstration on Friday, March 25, 1 p. m. Back up the demands of the committée for immediate relief to the needy cases that will be presented. Waukegan Legion Balked in Attack On Unemployed WAUKEGAN, IllL—One thousand workers demonstrated last Saturday, at the Waukegan Court House against starvation, shutting off local relief and demanding real relief and Unem- ployment Insurance. The Chairman, Mr. Blech, of the Chamber of Com- merce Relief Committee was forced to go to Chicago and secure the meas- ly sum of $20,000 from the Mlinois Emergency Relief Committee to feed the unemployed in Waukegan and No. Chicago. Comrade W. M. Good from Chicago was the main speaker and when in his speech he mentioned that the workers will “defend themselves everywhere in the demonstrations” Canton Army to Aid Chiang in New Drive on Soviet Districts Cantonese Commander of Communist Propaganda in Uniting Behind the smoke-screen of paci- fist phrases and sham “peace” maneuvers, the Japanese yesterday continued to dig in on the new war front northwest of Shanghai. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York Post cynically states: “New parleys for peace and new tranches for war were under way simultaneously here today.” The Koumintang leaders who be- trayed the heroic struggles of the revolutionary Shanghai workers and soldiers are making no preparations to resist the Japanese. A Shanghai dispatch to the New York American reports the Kuomintang in traitorous agreement with the Japanese to crush the mass anti-Japanese boycott. It reports a furious mass protest de- veloping. In the meantime, the Kuomintang betrayers of China are pushing prep- arations to carry out the bidding of the imperialists for a new “Commu- nist extermination” campaign against the revolutionary workers and peas- ants in the Chinese Soviet districas. Bearing in mind the experience with other Kuomintang expeditions against the Soviet districts, Chen Chia-tang, Cantonese commander, yesterday ad- dressed a warning to his 140,000 mer- cenary soldiers, urging them “to avoid the snares of Communist propa- Tries to Combat Effect Masses ganda.” In the previous three major campaigns of the Kuomintang mili- tarists against the Chinese Soviet districts, most of the Kuomintang troops either refused to fight against their fellow workers and peasants or went over in large bodies to the Chi- | nese Red Army. The League of Nations Commis- sion, now in Shanghai, has instructed the Kuomintang lackeys of imperial- ism to negotiate directly with the Japanese over Manchuria. This ac- tion, which is the net results of the League's “deliberations” over Man- churia, is tantamount to handing Manchuria to the Japanese. A Shang- hai dispatch to the New York Times expresses the opinion that Chiang Kai-shek now considers “his position 4s strong enough” to carry out this new betrayal of China. ‘The dis- patch admits that “sixty days ago” Chiang would have been forced to pretend opposition to this move. The Japanese forces in Manchuria, while continuing thefiction of Man- churian “independence,” are carrying out a policy of barring immigrants from other parts of China. A Diarien dispatch reports: “In contrast to this, cables from Tokyo indicate that there is a well- financed movement in Japanese of- ficlaldom to assist in financing Japanese settlers in Manchuria.” Maryland Jury Whitewashes Lynchers ot Negro Worker “Can’t Find Anyone With Lynching, Says All-White Jury Reporting on Unmasked Lynch Mob BALTIMORE, Md., March 22,.— A report completely whitewashing the mob of big businessmen who lynched Matthew Williams, a Ne- gro worker, on Dec. 4, has been re- turned by the Wicomico County Grand Jury, which met last week ostensibly to investigate lynching. After listening in secret sessions to a list of over 100 hand-; Haat witnesses, the grand jury of w! this brought a show of enthusiasm from the workers and was a final blow against any attempts of the Legionaires from interfering. One Le- gionaire was going around, trying to get the others to make some trouble, but nobody dared to support his pro- vocations. When the Chairman Lauk~ konen annuonced that Good is an x-serviceman, this put a long face on the Legion heads, Comrades Kling and Bill Caldwell spoke on the local conditions, pointing out to the workers that only thru organizing into strong Unemployed Councils will the workers get real relief and this would be their guaran- tee in securing Unemployment In- surance. After the meeting, over 100 workers paraded one mile to the Workers Hall and there Comrade Good ex- plained how block committees should be organized, how they function, etc. This method of organization brought enthusiasm from the workers and they decided to begin building a real unemployed movement here in Wau- ‘regan. diate = Eo j businessmen re reported that ound no one remotely connected with the lynching.” The brazenness of this whitewashing is shown by the fact that the lynchers were unmasked, that the ymade no effort to con- ceal their identity, that they walked to the very door of the General Hospital in which Williams lay dying to drag his wounded body to the court house square and burn it, The appointment of a new grand jury of por farmers and Negroes will be demanded of Governor Ritchie of Maryland by the Balti- more International Labor Defense. They will also demand an investi- gation into the death of Jacob ne eee ee eee | on Rea a Remotely Connected cials to have occurred in Maryland since 1885. Not a single indict- ment has been returned against the lynchers. The Salisbury grand jury is continuing the traditions of for- mer juries of being hand-in-glove | with the TREES: Cards Protesting Foreign-Born Bills Issued in New York The Committee for the Protection of Foreign-Born requests all workers’ organizations to get protest cards against persecution and deportation of foreign-born. The cards are is- sued by the Protection of Foreign- born. and International Labor De- fense. These cards should be addressed to the Immigration and Naturalization Committee, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., Cards should also be addressed to Secretary of Labor Doak, White House, Washington, D. ©., also to the congressman of your district. | All workers should carry along post cards with them which should be distributed among native and foreign-born residents all over the country. Organizations are asked to send telegrams to the Imimgration Com- | mittee to register their protest against the anti-foreign born bills. Get your post cards at 32 Union Square, Room | 505, send in your order today. on | | M.W.A. "Officials wo uld Bar Coal from th e Soviet Union’ | O against coal] from They have revived the old forced labor in Sovie’ the impo for a to amour rabl > day production of the ate: anthracite . mines the | | |imports of anthracite from al) | countries amount to 6-10 of 1 per jcent of the total nited S$ production, and the Sovict Union | | accounts for ut wth of this 6-10 of 1 per cent | Some bac ope al s including a bill pro-| a tariff of 15 cents or every 100 pounds of imported coal | Jand coke has been introduced by | Represcniative Turpin. Other op- | erators fear a retaliatory tariff from Canada and oppose this | measure. 300 WORERS aT SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNE MEET SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 22.—A Paris Commune and Ford protest meeting was held last night and over 300 workers adopted res- olutions against the war prepara~ tions, condemning Ford and Mur- phy, and demanding the immediate release of Mooney and Billings, the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law and requesting the Prison Board to change the parole con- ditions for Sklar, Horiuchi and Herrera, Imperial Valley prisoners threatened with deportation to un- conditional release in the United States, The John Reed Club presented a powerful Paris Commune play. The San Francisco workers are being mobilized for the Saturday, March 26 parade and demonstration at Governor Rolph’s residence to de-~ mand the freedom of Mooney, Bill- ings and the Imperial Valley pris- | oners, GENER AL STRIKE CALL ISSUED IN CUBA FOR THURS. NEW YORK—The National Workers Confederation of Cuba, the revolutionary workers organization, is preparing a general strike all over Cuba for this Thursday, March 24th, in support of 15,000 tobacco workers out on strike for several months against a wage cut. The butcher goy- ernment of Machado in order to stop the general strike preparations, is keeping close watch on all union halls. On Sunday, March 19th, over sixty workers were arrested on sus- picion of organizing the genera] strike and locked up in the Principe Port. The government has announced that all foreign born workers involved in organizing strikes and demonstrations will be expelled. The Anti-Imperialist League of the United States calls on all workers organizations, particularly the tobac- co-workers of Tampa, to collect funds for the tobacco workers strike and send them through us to the strikers directly. Protests against the arrests and annuonced deportations should be made, sending telegrams to Presi- dent Machado, Havana, Cuba. Tel- egrams of solidarity with the Na- tional Workers Confederation of Cuba should be sent through the Anti-Im- perialist League. TAMPA, Fla. March 20,—Sending its greetings to the 15,000 striking tobacco workers in Havana, Cuba, the Tobacco Workers’ Industrial Union here in a telegram states they “pledge full support to our heroic comrades of Havana Province in their resistance to the vicious wage-cut at- tack of the American Tobacco Trust.” We will stand solid against any at- tempt of the manufacturers to weaken your strike by carrying out their threat to shift factories to here and to Key West,” the telegram says. “Forward to the strengthening of the strike through mass activity for- ward to victory! Forward to the building of a strong revolutionary trade union center in Cuba! For- ward to the Unity Congress of the Confederacion Nacional Obrera de Cuba! Long live the international solidarity of the working class! “(Sgd.) VALDEZ, Secretary.” | | Japanese to Cite Soviet Union As Menac Ji apanese military e the sham ‘disarmament” e at Geneva xperts and delegates to conference of the League of Nations at Geneva are reported to have formulated proposals opposing any reduc- tion or limitation whatever of Japan’s to be put forward under the hypo- forec The prot critical pretext t of Russie s. als are apan mu and China.” the hat menace eh their empt by tial butchery of bes their present robber war China and their plans of war a the Soviet Union under the texts of “self dof nd “security.” A Geneva dispa ie ports “Japen wil ask the disarmament contetence to consider a special security in the Far East in view of the unusual umstances ex- i tussia and China, his situation involves the fact Japan's two ‘neighbors and China. The first ha al, social and military organ- at are a politic ization which is different from sim- ilar organizations in other coun- tries, the Japanese point out, while the second is unable to maintain order in her own domain, they in- sist. “The Japanese will demand that the conference consider these cir- cumstances when discussing dis- armament or limitation of arms of Far Eastern nations, thus im Plying that Japan wil not be in a Position to reduce her military ma- chine unless she receives a guar- anty of security. In some ways this proposition is similar to the French disarmament theseis, which | places guarantees of national se- | curity before limitation of arms.” A Moscow dispatch to the New York Tribune reports that the Jap- anese Ambassador at Moscow yester- day answered the protests of the Soviet Union on the concentration of armed st have “security” againnt the Japanese wibby ate, to justify , to camouflage Japanese troops on the Soviet fron- ier and the encouragement by the panese of White Guard activities against the Soviet Union. The Japan- jese Ambassador is reported to have admitted the massing of Japanese ‘cops on the Sino-Siberian and Kor- jean -Siberian borders, but to have |argued that the mobilization was noi |directed against the Soviet Unien. er admitting that the Japanese |had concentrated troops along the | Chinese Eastern Railway, the Japan- |ese Ambassador gave the pretext that | this was done “to protect Japanese lives and property” and to “prevent bandit raids which would have men- aced the movement of traffic.” Although it is wel known that the Japanese concentration on the So- viet border forced the Soviet Union to strengthen its frontier garrison, the Japanese Ambassador attempted to make this an issue of his conver- sations with Soviet Acting Foreign Commissar, Karakhan. The dispatch states “He (the Japanese Ambassador) inquired in turn about a massing | of Russian troops reported in that region. M. Karakhan said such in- formation was without foundation. The Soviet, said the commissar, ‘is continuing Its peace policy, does not expect to violate the Ports- mouth Treaty, and hopes the Jap- anese government and its represen- tatives in Menchyrte wil do the Fake Opposition to Sales Tax Abandoned; Bill to Pass WASHINGTON—The result, eault of tiie ton the various secret conferences held by the Ways and Means Committee, to- gether with the demagogic opponents of the sales tax in the House of Rep- resentatives, has been announced as being a complete certainty that the sales tax will pass the House of Rep- resentatives when it comes up for vote Wednesday. The hypocritical fight put up against the sales tax, by means of which the capitalists intend to put the burden of the bankruptcy of the American government on the shoul- ders of the toiling masses to the tune Of $600,000,000, has disappeared. La Guardia, leading demagogue in the House and leader of the “opposi- tion” to the sales tax, is reported to haye dropped his opposition as soon ‘as announcement was made that cer- tain articles of mass consumption would be technically exempted from the sales tax, Later, in order to maintain his mask of being the “guardian of the interests of the workers,” La Guardia came out with a tardy statement that he would continue his fight “on prin- ciple.” That this fight and the so-called victory of the “insurgent group” means absolutely nothing as far as the actual levying of the sales tax on the masses is concerned, was made clear in the Kiplinger Wash- ington letter, a*document mailed privately to a limited number of mil- jionaires and corporation directoré, ‘This letter states: “Tax action is dictated largely by politics, group and sectional poli- tics more than party politics. You will see many strange votes shortly —Politics. Proposals and counter- Proposals will be confusing, When the smoke clears the bill will have been passed.” ‘The same letter also explodes the lame excuse that the sales stax, the jatest blow at the living standards of the masses, will be merely a tem- porary one. Behind diplomatic talk of abandoning the sales tax after one | year, the politicians and financiers | state frankly that the sales tax will, from now on, be a permanent feature in the campaign of reducing the con- ditions of life of the already starving millions. “SALES TAX WILL BE PER- MANENT, despite current assur- ances that it is only for a year or two, It is a major change in our past taxation practices, it is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depends on what substitutes can be devised, for there is no doubt that the treasury must have at least a billion a year addi- Whether | tional revenue, and even this amount probably will not balance the budget in the next fiscal year.” The pressure of mass resentment against this extortionate theft of their last remaining dollars by means of the sales tax is having its effect on the capitalist politicians in a wide- spread campaign of demagogy in the House of Representatives. Representative Long, after making a hypocritical plea for taxation of the rich rather than the masses, con- cluded, very significantly, with a note of fear and warning to the capita)- ists at the growing struggles of the working class against hunger and misery. He ended his speech with the following statement: “Take it from the profits! Mr. Morgan, Rockefeller and Baker would sleep considerably safer to- night with $100,000,000 under their pillows than they are going to sleep during the next ten years with a billion or two billion dollars ander their pillows.” You’ve Killed Four By ROSE ROSEN You've kept our stomachs empiy, Only to plug it full of lead. We asked for a little food, You sprayed us with a hose instead. Unite, you black and white, And workers of all races! How much lenger shall we endurc The bombs thrown in our faces* The fight for freedom goes on! Murderers, do you hear? You've killed wour and more and more But you can't kill us all; don’t jeer! 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