The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1932, Page 3

| \ é \ 2 Mary | Women’s group in the march, “And FORD RECRUITS NEW THUGS AND SPIES TO TERRORIZE WORKERS Witho Forces Workers to Work 15 Minutes Overtime ut Pay Ex-Ford Worker’s Child Sent to Detention Home Because Parent Asked Relief Henry Ford, the internationally known billionaire and ex- pert super-exploiter of the working class, uses a variety of methods in robbing the workers. forms by which Ford robs the The following is one of the workers: A Ford worker who is taking medical treatment at the Ford Hospital since 1930, and for which he pays several hun- dred dollars by installments, ($10 every two weeks) was laid off six months. His wages were $7.60 per day; but when he returned to work a few weeks ago, his wages were cut to $6.00 per day. This worker, like the rest, is working only two days a@ week; but worked only two days: in the last two weeks, and should have received $12; but he actually received $2. The ten dollars were taken out as usual for the hospital bill. This worker does not know how he is going to exist for the next two ‘weeks, Plant An Armed Camp ¥ Since the bloody massacre fo the Hunger Marchers, March 7, the Ford plant is becoming an armed camp. Ford is actually recruiting more thugs, because he has armed all his lackeys, foremen and superintend- ents against the workers. The spy system is much more vicious. The workers are being watched and searched from the time they enter he gate up to the time they go out. Even their lunch boxes and pockets are searched before they go in and out of the plant. Conditions Unbearable The conditions under which the workers work at the Ford plant are unbearable, They are supposed to work eight hours, but really work from eight hours and fifteen min- utes to eight hours and twenty min- utes, In some departments they get fifteen minutes for lunch, When the whistle blows to go to lunch at 11 a.m, the workcrs rush to the lunch wazcns where they buy their lunch and form a long line. When they are all served it is near time to go back to work and consequently. they get about five minutes to eat. He must eat his meal very fast if he wants to have anything in his stom- ach, because he must be on the job again when the whistle blows. The same applies to workers who get twenty minutes for lunch. The work- ers must make up for this fifteen or twenty minutes he had for lunch by working fifteen or twenty min- utes longer. In other words, if he starts to. work at 6 am. he must work until 2:15 or 2:20 p.m. John Jeftazek, another ex-Ford worker has been unemployed three years. He has a wife and six chil- dren. He asked the Welfare Depart- ment for clothes for hsi sixteen year old son, Nick, so that he could go to school. As a result he was arrest- ed by the school inspector and was thrown in the detention home. Af- ter two months he was dsicharged and was put on six months proba- tion. He was later re-arrested, taken before the juvenile pudge, and was sentenced Monday, March 21, to one year in the Lansing Juvenile Refor- matory. His father is now working 22 hours a week for the city, for which he gets $8.60 to support his family of seven. —A Workre. We're Starving to Death, Says Miners Wife By a Worker Correspondent MIDDLUSBORO, Ky.— Will just say a few words about the conditions of the miners in Kentucky and Ten- nessee, Miners and their families are simply starving to death. They are in need of much in the line of food and clothing. We are thankful for what our friends sent us, but we need more to carry on a good fight against the mine owners. 2 Many of the miners can’t get a job because they have been striking. The blacklisted miners cannot get , work anywhere. My man has been | blacklisted for over a year. I don’t know what would become of us if the National Miners Union failed in this country. We are all solid down here and |veady to keep up a good fight. We hog? our friends everywhere to help us. A MINER'S WIFE. Note—Food, clothing and funds for the Kentucky miners is being received at the headquarters of the Workers International Relief, 16 West 21st Street, New York City. 5,000 WORKERS FIND FORD, MURPHY. BENNETT, THUGS GUILTY OF MURDER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) biting cold and of the bitter struggles against tear gas, clubs, and guns which terminated in the killing by Dearborn and Detroit police and Ford private gunmen, of four, and ‘he wounding of scores of workers. “I know they were machine guns because of two years’ experience in the U. S. Marines,” said Tom Jones, three-quarter Indian and one-quarter Irish blood, as he bared his body to show the jury where two bullets had ployed their course. Jones, an auto worker who lost his right hand on a shaper at Murray Body Works, had come looking for work. He got Ford’s answer and found the workingclass . movement. “I am a member of the Auto Workers Union and the Communist a Party,” testified Latamorie Dudley, Negro worker, amid thunderous ap- Plause, “I was in the front of the march and was shot twice by ma- chine gun fire. A,white Ford worker took me in his car from the scene of the massacre and then hurried back to work lest he get fired. ‘The Inter- national Labor Defense took me to a doctor, so I escaped Murphy’s police.” Shot Three Times Eugene Macks, member of the Young Communist League, shot three times, testified that he was chained to a bed in Murphy's Detroit Receiving Hospital for three days, turned over to Dearborn police and forced to ride in a Ford taxi to Detroit b ecause company-owned Dearborn allows none other than Henry's taxis in the city. “I am organizer of the Young Communist League s1 Joe York, murdered by Ford,” stated Nydia Barker, “We marched and fought on March 7th, Our dead testify to that.” “Xes, I get 20 cents a day relief from the city of Detroit,” said Gosman, leader of the does Mr. Murphy think 20 cents a day for food is enough for a work- er?” asked the prosecutor. “He thinks it is too much, for he has cut it down to 15 cents a day this week.” Mary accompanied the wounded Joe York and Joe DeBlasio to the hospital. “They were dead when we arrived,” she stated, Bullets Do Not End Mass Hunger. “Yes,” said R. Baker, District Or- ganizer o fthe Communist Party, “the Communist Party will participate in future Hunger Marches. Bullets will re not end hunger, the workers must Struggle, and the Communist Party will lead these struggles. Until the capitalist system with its exploita- tion and hunger is swept from the face of the earth, there will be in- jcreasing wage-cuts and speed-up, greater misery and starvation, and the working class will march forward through greater struggles to fina] victory under the leadership of the Communist Party and the revoltf- tonary unions, The testimony of eight participants were endorsed by over a thousand eye-witnesses and participants pres- ent, who for the lack o ftime could not testify, but listened and affirmed the testimony by a show of hands. This trial affirmed the verdict of the Arena Gardens meeting, of the mass funeral, and of the thousands of protests against the massacre which have been thundering in the ears of the murderers from all over the world, The verdict of the judy follows: VERDICT, “The workers’ jury selected by working class organizations of De- troit, after hearing further detailed evidence of the Ford massacre frfom hunger marchers and eye-witnesses, reaffirms the verdict of ten thousand workers at the Arena. Gardens on March 11th; of 70,000 workers who marched behind the coffins of York, Bussell, Leny and DeBlasio on March 12th; of thousandsof tvorkers’ protest meetings held throughout the world. “The workers judy places the guilt of the Ford massacre on Bloody Monday, March ‘th, directly on the shoulders of Henry Ford and his private thugs and police. The work- ers tjury further holds Mayor Mur- phy responsible for the massacre, | beeause his administration sent Police © Dearborn to assist in the cold- | blooded murder of the Hunger Maxchers, and assisted in the atrest | and prosecution of workers after and before the massacre, The workers’ jury holds the Mayor of Dearborn, Clyde Ford, responsille for the mass- acre, because his pclice were used to attack the Hunger March with tear Bas, clubs, streams of cold water, revolver fire and machine guns. “The workers’ jury has further es- tablished the conspiracy to murder and main workers participating in the Ford Hunger March, with the object of crushing the workers’ grow- ing resistance to hunger, wage-cuts, terror and war. “The Ford-Murphy murder con- spiracy aims to drive tens of thou- sands of workers to death by starva- Litvinoff’s Geneva Disarmament Speech In Pamphlet Form “The Soviet Union Stands for Peace” “The Soviet Union Stands for Peace” is the title of the new pam- phlet in English just published by the Workers Library Publishers, giv- ing Comrade Litvinov’s electrifying speech at the Geneva “Disarmament” Conference in February. This six- teen-page pamphlet sells for one cent per copy, Particularly at this time, when war in the Far East has already begun, when the borders of the Soviet Union have been attacked by the capitalist world, and when the war threatened at any moment to burst into flame throughout the entire world, this urgent plea for peace on the part of the spokesman of the only work- ers’ and farmers’ government in the world should have a particular appeal to the workers, who are inevitably the victims of all wars. Comrade Litvinov, representing the Soviet Union at the conference which was supposed to bring about disarm- ament, clearly demonstrated that the Soviet Union wants peace, clearly demnostrated that the workers of the world want peace, and just as clearly demonstrated that the capitalist gov- ernments are not striving for peace, but are planning for war. Read Comrade Litvinov’s clear an- alysis of the forces which bring about. war, nad the forces of the interna- tional proletariat which are strug- gling for peace. “The Soviet Union Stands for Peace,” by Maxim Litvinov, one cent per copy. Organizations ordering quantities will receive generous dis- counts. This pamphlet should have @ particularly large sale during anti- war week, March 31 to April 6. Send all orders to Workers Library Pub- lishers, P. O. Box 148, Station D., New York Sity. WORLD CONGRESS OF SEAMEN IN HAMBURG, APR. 1 U. S. Marine Workers to Meet, March 27; Speak on Congress NEW YORK.—Preparations for the World Unity Congress, being called by the International of Sea- men and Harbor Workers in Ham- burg on May 20, is rapidly going ahead and the Marine Workers’ In- dusirial Union called a meeting for Sunday, March 27, where R. B. Hud- son was to speak on the Congress. Thousands of calls for the Con- gress have ben distributed on the ships and docks and also aboard for- eign ships. Meetings have been held where the rank and file have pointed out the necessity of organizing inter- nationally in order to resist the at- tacks of the shipowners and smash their war plans. Everywhere the call for the Con- gress is meeting with a warm re- spohse, especially amongst the I.L.A. Jongshoremen, whom the shipowners, with the aid of Ryan and the other fakers, have asked ta accept a’ “vol- untary” wage reduction April 1. The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union has exposed this maneuver of the fakers and in many locals of the coast the longshoremen have re- belled and voted the proposals down, and are preparing to fight if the shipowners try to go through with their schemes, ‘The marine workers and other sympathetic workers are mobilizing to give the Congress a warm and salty greeting at the International Shinding. Although many workers do not know what “shinding” is, the sailors agreed that a shinding is the only adequate greeting that can be given the congress and invite all hands to attend. tion and wage-cuts and speed-up. Its aim is to deprive the workers of all rights to organize and fight starva- tion, wagecuts and terror. Its aim is to terrorize the workers into meek acceptance of the war prepartions. ‘The object of this murder conspiracy is to destroy and crush the Auto Workers Union, the Unemployed Councils, the Young Communist League and the Communist Party, “In carrying out this murder con- spiracy, the Ford-Murphy machine had mobilized all the forces of cap- italism to achieve its end: the Ford police, Dearborn police, Detroit po- lice, Hamtramck police, state police, ‘Wayne County prosecuting machine, capitalist press, Father Coughlin, American Federation of Labor lead- ers, the Socialist Party, the Proletar- ian Party, and Roger Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union. “While branding Ford, Murphy, Clyde Ford and Bennett as the mur- derers of Joe York, District Organ- izer of the Young Communist League, Coleman Leny, unemployed Ford worker, and Joe DeBlasio, active member of the Communist Party, the workers’ jury brands the various po- lice departments, Mr. Toy, the Wayne County prosecutor, the leaders of the A. F. of L., the Socialist Party, the Proletayian Party, Father Coughlin and Roger Baldwin, as part and par- cel of the Ford-Murphy murder con- spiracy, 1 “The workers’ jury calls upon the working class to make this yerdict effective through the following ac- tion: 1. Inform the widest masses of workers of the verdict and the actual facts and causes of the Ford mase- acre, 2, Hold protest and memorial musa. ings and pass resolutions condemuatng | enn DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, | RCH 28, 1932 While the toiling masses mass defense which alone can save the boys. In a statement designed to cover up the joint responsibility of the N.A.A.C.P. with the Southern bosses for the decision of the Ala- bama Supreme Court, and to spread among the Negro masses the illusion of “fairness” and “impartiality” on the part of the boss courts, Walter White declared: “The N. A. A. C. P. is terribly shocked to learn that the Alabama Supreme Court yesterday affirmed the convictions and death sen- tences imposed upon seven of the helpless Negro boys in a mob-dom- inated town.” In the same state of Alabama, two unemployed Negro workers were re- cently electrocuted at Kilby Prison for the theft of 50 cents. Nebro croppers were ruthlessly shot down at Camp Hill when they attempted to organize themselves against the tobbery of the rich landowners. Sev- enty-five Negro workers were lynched last year in the period of a few months, according to the admissions of the anti-working-class, anti-Ne- gro Fellowship of Reconciliation. And yet Mr> White pretends to be “shocked” at a decision in line with the policy of the Alabama white ruling class of brutally suppressing the Negro masses! White then attempts to show that the decision might not have been the same had Darrow and Garfield “de- fended the boys.” He declares: “The N. A. A. C. P. profoundly regrets that its attorneys, the in- ternationally famous Clarence Dar- row and Arthur Garfield Hays were not enabled to take part in the defense befor the Alabama Su- Preme Court. We do not know whether the outcome would have been different had these attorneys appeared, but many people will feel that these famous lawyers might have achieved a different result,’ Darrow New Defending Lynchers. Walter White neglects to explain that Darrow and Hayes turned down the request of the Scottsboro boys and their parents to co-operate with the International Labor Defense at- torneys. He fails to explain that the boys and their parents resenting the consistent betrayal of their cause by the N. A. A. C. P, refused to permit the N. A. A. C. P. misleaders to have anything to do with the defense He fails to explain that “the interna- tionally famous” Darrow is now in Hawaii defending several white Americans who cold-bloodedly lynched a Hawaiian youth. What he does explain, however, is that the NAACP., anxious to prevent the exposure of the murderous system of Negro oppression, will not co-operate with the International Labor De- fense in defense of the boys. He says? “But the N. A. A. C. P. even yet stands ready to throw the weight of its entire legal resources into the case to aid the defendants if the de- fendants will permit it to act un- hampered by outside interference.” “Negro and white workers! Rally to the mass fight which alone can save and free the Scottsboro boys! Organize protest demonstrations everywhere, Have your organiza- tions and meetings send protest telegrams to the Alabama Supreme Court and to Governor B. M. Miller at Montgomery, Ala. Rush funds for the appeal to the Scottsboro Defense Fund, Room 411,80 E. 11th St, New York City. the bloody Ford massacrewys. 3. Build a powerful Auto Workers Union in the shops. * 4. Build powerful Unemployed Councils in the neighborhoods. 5. Develop an effective campaign for Unemployment Insurance and the 14 demands of the Ford Hunger March. 6. Build the International Labor Defense, to defend the working class from frame-up attacks of capitalist courts, 7. Support the Young Communist. League and the Communist Party. 8. Endorse the Daily Worker as the only paper of the working class. 9. Collect funds to erect a monu- ment in memory of the fallen com- vades at the Ford massacre, 10. Issue a pamphlet on the Ford massacre. 11, Mobilize the widest masses of workers for the Anti-War Ford Massacre demonstration on April 6th. 12. Mobilize the masses of workers into the mighty demonstration on May First.” The meeting stood in silence for a brief period in respect for our mar- tyred dead at the opening, and closed with the singing of “The Interna- tional.” A new World War is being launched by weed imperialism. On “APRIL 6 demorstrate | -against imperialist war Workers Correspeadenve ts the buckbone of the revyintionary press, Baild your press hy writing for N.A.A.C.P. Rallies to Aid of Bosses in New Effort to Disrupt Scottsboro Defer.z Walter White, Ignoring 75 Lynchings in Ala- bama Last Year, Says He is “Shocked” By Lynch Decision of Supreme Court in all countries are rallying to |the world-wide mass fight against the Scottsboro lynch ver- | dicts and the national oppression of the Negro masses, the leaders of the National Association for the Advancement o: Colored People yesterday renewed its attempt to disrupt hte RMED BAND TURNS BACK STUDENTS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) unless they posted bonds of $1,000 each. In the meantime, the first delega- tion which had been forced back into Tennessee Saturday, reported that four students who had been sent to Pineville to protest the outrageous violation of their “rights as students and citizens” had not been heard from. They had left Knoxville at 4:30 o'clock and were expected back within a few hours. When at 11 o'clock that night no word was heard, the delegation, fearing that the committee had been attacked, sent the following telegram to Gov. Laffoon at Frankfort, Ky.: ‘Elinor Curtis, Herbert Robins, Willard Spence and Margaret Bai- ley, students of gur group sent to Pineville late this afternoon to in- terview Pineville officials are re- ported missing. The Pineville United Press correspondent has re- ported seeing the group there. Of- ficials say no students are in jail and claim the delegation did not come there. We demand immed- ‘iate investigation by state and safety of students assured.” In spite of official refusal of the United States government to take any steps to insure the safety of the students as stated in the answer sent the telegram transmitted to the U. S. Attorney General by Donald “Hen- deyson, president of the College League, the students delegation in- tends stopping at Washington on its way back to lodge protest against the brutla treatment accorded and to demand a congressional investiga- tion of the terror conditions in the Kentucky coal fields. A protest will also be lodged at the British embassy against an at- County sheriff when Carrit came to the rescue of a girl student whose arm had been twisted by a Bell County thug. Carrit is a British sub- ject. Donald Henderson, instructor in and president of the National Stu~- for Washington last night to demand an Official hearing before the At- torney General of the United States and various congressmen. ‘The United States government is attempting to pass the buck by claiming that it has no jurisdiction over the matte; and that it is purely @ matter of “state right.” ‘These actions should be enough to convince all students of the direct hook-up of the.“representative, dem- ocratic government” at Washington with the coal operators and other capitalist groups in the country. Notice of intention to take legal action against the high handed treatment of the student delegation wag given yesterday by Forest Bailey of the American Civil Liberties Union. Margaret Bailey, daughter of Forest Baily is one of the members of the student delegation. She was told that “she ought to be ashamed of having such @ father” by Walter B. Smith, Bell County attorney. The Civil Liberties Union in a statement released last night con-/| demned the “breach of law and com- mon sense,” the “affront to the au- thority of the state” and the out~- Tage of the rights of citizens.” While taking action againgt the} attack on the students, the Civil Lib- erties Union by the wording of its charge intimates that this action is a violation of the policy of the state rather than one more example of the class chayacter of the Wall St. government in Washington and the state of Kentucky. Protest telegrams have been sent to Washington by Social Problems and Liberal Clubs in many eagtern and midwestern colleges. Tremen- dous sentiment has been aroused and the students plan holding a number of mass protest meetings. \ Profiting by his experience Satur- day, when the first students group had made him look like a fool in the “investigation” carried on public- ly, the Bell County atto;ney “in- vegtigated” the political and religious beliefs of the students in the bus privately while it was being forced back into Tennessee. He told them that they were lucky they were not thrown in jail and put on the rock pile and hinted that if they had passed into Harlan they would have met with a lynchnig party. | ANY $1.50 OR $1 INTERNATIONAT PUBLISHERS BOOK WITH ONE 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORKER ’ dollar campaign? Committee of the National Students | tack upon Gabriel Carrit by a Bell! economics at Columbia University | dent League College Committee left | What have you done in the half- Hazelton Miners Aroused By Threat of Cut (By a Worker Correspondent) HAZLETON, Pa—The miners around. here are talking strike, They are getting mighty angry over the proposed 27 cents on a dollar cut and before long the miners in dis- against this cut, Two collieries are shut down in Hazleton, Pa. This shutdown effects working steady. —B. D. WORKERS FIGHT DEMONSTRATIONS {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | ber of students took part in the dem. jonstration, shouting slogans for the defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese masses. Among the signs carried weree “Hands off China!” “Hands off the Soviet Union—the | Workers Fathe: id!” “Withdraw the Japanese forces from China!” Recal. American warships and troops fro China!” Prevent the shipment of munitions against China and tht | Soviet Union!” “Drive out the dip- lomatic agents of Japanese imperial- ism!” “Hail the Revolutionary Strug- gles of the Chinese and Japanese | Masses!” “Students of Hunter College, New York, Protest Japanese Impe- rialism!” Signs were also carried de. manding the release of the 9 Scotts- boro boys, Tom Mooney, and Billings, the Harlan Miners, and other class- war prisoners in American dungeons. | In his dispatch to his paper, the | Washington correspondent of the New York Times admits that the police precipitated the fight by at- | | tacking a peaceful demonstration. He | | reports: | “The fight was ended in ten min- | utes after a police baton landed on | the head of one of the advancing | | marchers, precipitating the clash. | When the confusion subsided three policemen and six of the Commu- nists, two of them women, were unconscious on the pavements. They were quickly revived. Four other Police officers received minor in- juries. One was taken to a hosip- tal and five stitches sewed in a cut. | over his eye.” The Times correspondent admits | the savage attacks by the police on | both men and women in the demon- \stration. He admits that Marie Grossman and Dorothy Dear were brutally knocked unconscious by the | police: ior % “Another young woman, who said she was Dorothy Dear of Baltimore, and who was aiding the Grossman woman, was also knocked uncon- cious. She went down onder the | drive of a policeman’s fist to her | | jaw.” Japanese Offiicals Gleefully Watch Police Attack | While the fighting was going on, officials of the Japanese Embassy werewatching with gleeful approval of the police brutality from partly blinds of the Embassy building. The Japanese Ambassador Debuchi later sent his “thanks and gratitude” to the police, The capitalist newspapers re- ports that Ambassador Debuchi greatly enjoyed his luncheon “which was served while the police were in the act of carting people off to jail.” Among the injured and arrested workers are: John Hardy, of Bal- timore, knocked unconscious; Dorothy Dare, Elva Grayson, L. Williams, Ne- gro worker, Rose Smith of Philadel- phia, Ella Taylor, Negro worker, Wal- ter Johnson, William Dorsey, Negro Y. C. L. member of Baltimore, Albert Siskind, Stephen Rathajczak, Walter Woods, Negro worker, Kastrow, Will- iam Baragoss, Ivan Ignatoss, Charles Edwards, leader of the Unemployed Council of Baltimore; Bordett Brown, Negro worker and Albert Sylvester. Washington workers, furious at the police attack, are preparing to attend the court hearing which has been set for Monday. When the Winter Winds Begin to Blow ¥You will find it warm and cozy Camp Nitgedaiget You can rest tn the proletarian will also find It well heated with steam heat, hot water and many other tm- + The food is clean and fresh and especially well prepared. SPECIAL RATES FOR WEEK. ENDS 1 Day «.. 2 Days . 3 Days. For further information cal] the— COOPERATIVE OFFICE 2800 Bronx Park East Tel.—Esterbrook 8-1400 | trict 7 will no doubt be out on strike | Large numbers of Chinese |troops in the Peiping-Tientsin ed in the open revolt against the Kuomintant betrayers of China. Yesterday a detachment of Chinese troops clashed with French trops engaed in the transport of mi- French troops in Peiping. A French A |litary supplies from Tientsin to the " | BACK IN ANTI W. Re of the French Legation guard at Peiping was wounded in the fight. The coming National Emergency Conference called by Chiang Kai- shek and to be held at Loyang, will Umit itself mainly to the preparing of plans for a new counter-revolu- tionary attack on the revolutionary Chinese masses and for another “Communist suppression’ campaign against the growing Chinese Soviet Districts in Central and South China. In their efforts to deceive the Chin. ese masses, the Kuomintang traitors will also indulge in the gesture of |“considering” relief for the tens of |Millions of starving, destittue victims of the floods, whosé*devastating ef- \fects were mainly due to the crim- jarea, North China, are report-| 1,100 miners. Janesville has not been | Bare repore Page Three Chinese Troops in Revolt in Peiping Area, North China Nanking Arrests Students and Professors In Anti-Communist Raids On Schools and Colleges * inal negligence of the Kuomintang leaders who misused the taxes wrung out of the peasantry for repairs of the dykes and other flood control measures. The Kuomintang traitors | will also make a gesture of “resist- ance” to the Japanese invaders, |Chiang Kai-shek will no doubt an- nounce for the hundredth time his “willingness’ to give his life in “de- fense” of China, at the very time that he continues his support of the im- perialist plans to carve up China and crush the reyolutionary struggles of | the masses. The extent of the savage terror the | Kuomintang is already carying. out jagainst the revolutionary Chinese masses is indicated by advance of Kuomintang troops against the Chin- |ese Soviet districts and in the raids Friday on Tsian schools and colleges and the arrest of forty-nine students, jnine professors and two officials of |the Provincial Education Committee. |The arrested persons are charged with |being Communists. Among them are 12 girls. They all face death at the hands of the Nanking butcher-tools of the imperialists, Boss Press the Soviet Union. Appearing Treasury, Congressman Boland on the lying charge that there was “forced labor” in the Soviet Union. At the very moment when Pennsyl- vania miners on strike against star- vation conditions are being clubbed down by coal operator and State police these hypocrites dare to raise the lying issue of “forced labor” in the land where the emancipated workers and peasants are building Socialism! What are the facts On March 8, the Baltimore Sun published the results of an investigation by its special cor- respondent, Louis Fischer, into the conditions of the production of man. ganese in the Soviet Union. As a re- sult of the most extensive investi- gation, including interviews with workers at Chiaturi, principal Soviet manganese production center, Fischer was forced to admit: “IT can say quite categorically, without any fear of contradiction, that there is no forced labor and could be no foreed labor in Chia- turi, This proposition is capable of simple demonstration. ‘Furthermore, I was privileged to obtain access to the books of the Chiaturi Manganese Trust through the courtesy of its president, Karp Modibadze. These books were pre- pared as reports for the govern- ment. They show the cost of pro- duction per ton. J copied as many data from them as I pleased. The figures prove conclusively that there is no dumping of Soviet man- ganese.” Free Work Clothes, Free Rent, Vacations In addition, he declares the excel- lent working conditions in the Soviet manganese mines, the well-being of the workers, hospital and educational facilities, free working clothes and other supplies, annual vacation with pay. Ee reports: manded exclusion of Soviet products 4 Reporter Admits Giant Gains of Soviet Manganese Workers Through their tools in Congress, Pennsylvania coal op- erators yesterday joined the manganese and other industrial interests in the demand or a boycott against the products of before Secretary Mills of the and Burm of Pennsylvania de- “Every one of the nineteen hun- dred od workers employed by the Chiaturi Manganese Trust receives free working clothes from the man- agement. Once in six months each man gets @ blouse and a pair of trousers, which would cost nine rubles in a cheap co-operative store, and a pair of shoes every three and half months worth eight rubles. In addition, men working in wet parts of mines are prtsented with fine raincoats which cost the trast 23 rubles wholesale and also = pair of boots valued at twelve rubles. “The Trust has built a number of large workers’ houses up in the sun of the hills so that the men need no longer live in the ugly ram- shackled town....The miners in the new houses pay no rent, nor for light, nor heat. “Chiaturi has an excellent hos- pital with 100 beds, an operating theatre, X-ray cabinet with foreign equipment, clinics for special treat- ment by electricity and large dis- “The miners receive at least 2 fortnight’s vacation annually, and sometimes a month. They feed well | amd cheaplby in the communal res- taurants, and buy cheap food in closed coperatives. I examined both the restaurants and the coopera- tives. Most of the restaurants served meat every other day.... “...Every Soviet economic enter- prise includes in its cost budget many outlays which capitalist an- dertakings do not incur at all. Thus, the Chiaturi Trust this year paid for the training of new cadres in local schools.....Over and above wages, medical assistance, chrbs, amount equal to forty per cent of wages; moreover, the trust spends on education, insurance and vaca- ” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Millions of dollars in annuities by the Irish masses to Great, Britain. These annuities are levied as tribute by British imperialism under the guise of payment to it of interest on the Joans made for the reimbursement of | the Trish landlords after the estab- | lishment of the Irish Free State. | While the Republican movement is a nationalist one, there is a strong independent role being plpayed by the workers and peasants of Ire- land under the leadership of the Communist Party. The De Valera government, which came into power on the basis of its “concessions” to the republican maye- ment, is, however, but another form of suppression of the nationalist strivings of the Irish . . This was made clear by the state- ment f De Valera that, “We stand fer one army and one government.” By this he nigant that he stood for the IRISH REPUBLICANS PARADE; = CELEBRATE 1916 REBELLION Irish Pree State Army as against the Republican Army and for the smash- ing of toe republican struggle against British imperialism and foi national ?reedom. The Communit Party of Ireland, in npite of the continued attacks upon it, the raiding of its offices and the ning more and more of the Irish strict Censorship of its press is win- workers and peasants for the fight to end capitalist and landlord oppres- sion. Despite the election of De Valere who came forward as the champion |ef Irish freedom against the bloody Cosgrove regime, the Communist Party of Ireland is leading the work- ers and peasants in the fight for = ‘eomplete break with British imper- jalism, no payment of land tributes, no payment to the imperial navy, no payment of England’s war debt, eaginst wage cuts, salary reductions and for the abolition on the neces- sities of life. 50 EAST 13th ST. Name .. Address .,.. DAILY WORKER! Send to Daily, qWorker 70,000 Half Dollars by YOUR FIFTY CENTS WILL HELP SAVE THE WRAP THIS COUPON WITH YOUR 50 CENTS NEW YORK CITY sie State eae e pril ist J