The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1932, Page 3

y a 28 Se a - DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MOND AY, APRIL 4, 1932 Page Three ChineseRed Army Battles 8 Days Near Hankow The Chinese Red Ar Ar-| my is engaging troops) of the traitor Nanking regime in a fierce bat- tle near Hankow. ‘The battle is now in its eighth day, although news of it only leaked out on Saturday past the strict censorship maintained by the Kuomintang military authori-) ties at Hankow. A Shanghai dis- patch to the New York Times on Saturday gave only the most meager account of the battle, merely stating: “Near Hankow, whither the League commissioners are proceed- ing from Nanking, the Forty- fourth Chinese (Nanking) Division engaged in the sixth day of battle ith Communists near Tsaoshi. Air- planes are bombing the Reds daily.” Latest dispatches from the Chinese Workers Press Correspondence report that over 100,000 Red troops are op- erating in Hupeh Province, steadily forging an iron ring around Hankow, the most important city of Central China. The League of Nations com- mission is ostensibly in China to “in- vestigate” Japanese military activ- ities in Shanghai and Manchuria. It is now clearly revealed that the real purpose of the commission is to prepare the extension of the present armed intervention against the na- tional revolutionary struggle in China, and at thé same time to in- vestigate the possibilities of the tot- tering Nanking regime for further attacks against the revolutionary Chinese masses. The Nanking government, which is no wusing bombing planes against the worker-peasant army, refused to send either planes or troops to Shanghai and Manchuria to fight the Japanese invaders. A few Sun- days ago, George Sokolsky, feature writer of the New York Times, ad- mitted that the Nanking government was holding its troops and planes for | | ) use against the revolutionary Chinese workers and peasants. The Nanking government is actively supporting the imperialist move to partition China. Clashes between Chinese troops and the Japanese invaders are daily occurring on the Shanghai front, admittedly “in spite of the efforts of the Nanking authorities to prevent GREAT ADVANCE FOD LITHUANIANS UNDER SOVIETS Teninist Poliey Brings Economie, Cultural Gains Student Editor NEW YORK.—The Columbia So- cial Problems Club and the National Student League has called a mass meeting on the steps of the Colum. bia University library today at 12) |o’clock to protest the expulsion of Reed Harris, editor of the Columbia | “Spectator.” | | By MYRA PAGE. any resistance to the Japanese. The latter are attempting to hold a large | territory around Shanghai as a milil | tary base against the national revo- | lutionary struggle. A Hongkong dispatch reports large | scale revolts of Kuomintang Canton troops in Northern Kwangtun Prov ince. Two platoons of “Red suppres: sion” troops at Tsuimun have joined | the Red Army of the Central Chinese | Soviet Government, which controls most of the Province of Kiangsi, parts of Fukien and other provinces The mutinying troops occupied the towns of Lofau and Yenfa, where | they executed 80 Kuomintang offi- cials and merchants. They have also jailed 150 rich Kuomintang sup~'| porters, In an attempt to save his face and exploit the heroic resistance of the | Manchurian masses to the Japanese and their puppet Chinese rulers, Chiang Kai-shek yesterday gave out a demagogic statement that ‘he would resist with arms any further attacks of the Japanese.” Bourgeois reporters who at first took Chiang’s statement seriously were quickly put wise by Chiang. A Nanking dispatch to the New York Post, reporting Chiang’s latest “resistance to the death” statement, adds significantly: “Asked about the Chinese Gov- ernment’s future policy and whether she was preparing for war, his answer was an emphatic “No!”. The dispatch further quotes him as giving thanks to the imperialists, and especially his masters in Wall Street, for their support of the Nan- king government and its policy, which is a policy of non-resistance to the imperialists and shameless betrayal of the Chinese people. Labor Fakers Graft On “Relief” Job By a Worker Correspondent) OMAHA, Neb. — There is a ditch diging job for the Gas Company that runs from the county line to the Packing Houses. Being out of work for a long time, I applied for a job ditch digging. After being down there at six o'clock every morning for five mornings straight, I saw that no one was hired on the job, but all had tickets. I found out in a round about way that the tickets were being is- sued by City officials, the County Commissioners. Evidently, they are making a campaign issue out of the Job. You have to be a politician in order to get a ticket to go to work. Besides, there is a wnion faker on the job that providing that you pay $3 fees. The will give you a ticket to go to work, beauty part of it is that you only get to work four days, and get laid off so that somebody else can go to work four days, enabling them to collect another $3. In other words, they are taking advantage of the unemploy- ment situation in which they hide their faces to build up their dirty fake unions. Fellow workers, expose these fakers and their fake stagger system! Join the Unemployed Council, and fight for WAGES, like a man. Refuse be- ing treated like slaves. N. Y. Troops Intensify War Training (By a Worker Correspondent) BUFFALO, N. Y. — The evidence of an immediate war being shown clearer every day. : The National Guard are being trained for gas warfare, which, this was seldom done in the past. They receive lectures on this kind of warfare, the use of gas masks, oil- skins, how to behave during gas at- tacks, what to do after gas attacks, and the effects the gas has on soldiers, During this period of training the soldiers are showing great signs of uneasiness and rebellion and many are asking themselves and talking to their buddies what will they do to protect themselves in time of war for they know’ that they have no coun- try to fight for, because they are being starved by their country now, and they see the result of the last wat. Even the non-commissioned officers are showing a rebellious mood after these lectures and training. What we need is more organization in armed forces. Soldiers! Organize yourself committees in your company! Defend yourself against murderers of the working class, into —Member of 106 Artillery RALLY THE WORKERS TO FIGHT BOSSES WAR AND TO DEFEND U.$.$.R. AND THE CHINESE MASSES WITH GREETINGS IN THE MAY_DAY Daily, Borker ALL THOSE WHO CONTRIB- UTED TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER WILL BE THERE! WILL YOUR NAME anD THE NAME OF YOUR ORGANIZATION BE LISTED IN THIS MOST IM- PORTANT ISSUE OF THE YEAR? SEND IN YOUR GREETINGS NOW 10 THE : Daily, qorker 50 EAST 13TH ST. NL. WC. (Daily Worker Correspondent) | MOSCOW, April 3.—The second conference of the toiling Lithuan- ians which opened in Minsk, marked great economic and cul- tural achievements amongst the the White Russian Soviet Republic. | Nine Lithuanian elementary schools are now functioning,also embracing 98 per cent of the chil- dren of school age. Seventy per cent of the Lithuanian villagers are now united on collective farms. The Minsk radio station issues fifteen times monthly a newspaper in the Lithuanian language. | Twenty-five thousand books in the Lithuanian language were published in 1930 while provisions are now being made for the publication of 132,000 volumes in 1932. In their speeches the delegates unanimously noted th emarked suc- cesses of the Bolshevist Party in realizing the Leninist national pol- icy of industrialization of the country in reconstruction and agri- culture. They are also paying great at- tention to the crisis situation in the white terror Lithuania which borders on the White Russian So- viet Republic. Send Delegates to Proletarian Writers Conference, Apr. 10 The Federation of Revolutionary Writers wlil hold their first annual |conference on April 10, at 10 a.m. lin the auditorium of the Workers |Center, 50 East 13th Street. One of the main purposes of the Federation, which has been recently organized, is to serve the workers’ press. All working class organiza- tions are asked to send two or three delegates to the conference. They are asked to send in the names and addresses immediately. Individual writers and all persons interested in revolutionary writing are welcome to the conference with the right of participating in the dis- cussion, Coolie Wages in Indianapolis, Indiana (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind—The Rex Paper Box Co. is working women ten hours a day for 96 cents a day. Men are paid 50 cents a day in this plant. men. say that no one is starving in the state of Indiana. to eat on? Why, they don’t get enough for bread and water. If we do not get together and organize strong against this kind of starva- tion the bosses will sure make even worse slaves out of us. Just think, if this keeps us, what kind of a living our children will have. Comrades, we must organize now against hunger. —H. Mc. 5,000 in Fla. Demand Jobless Insurance (By a Worker Correspondent) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Five thousand werkers both white and colored in Broward County, Florida, join in demanding unemployment in- surance and relief. The suffering is increasing daily in this land of sunshine. Croppers in many instances are not receiving enough to pay for crates for packing and shipping their vegetables. Char- ity organizations are helpless. The county is running a free bus to transport unemployed workers to the county line, where they are dumped. Miami now declaring unemployed vagrants and forcing them to labor on streets and other works of city. Fort, Lauderdale authorities are threatening to do likewise. Stop the robber war against the Chinese people. Demonstrate on APRIL 6th against im- perialist war. ° When the Winter Winds Begin to Blow You will find it pace hi and cosy Camp Nitgedaigt he rf and many other im- provements, The food clean and fresh and eapecially “well For further information eal! the— COOPERATIVE OFFICE 2800 Broox Park Tel—Bsterbrook 8-14 Yet thebosses have the nerve to} After these workers pay $10 a/ monht for rent what have they left | The expulsion follows the support |Harris gave the student delegation to Kentucky and clearly illustrates the class character of the capitalist | colleges. So long as Harris kept his protest within the confines of purely student affairs, the college authori-| ties took no steps against him, As 7,000 toiling Lithuanians living in | soon as he bézan openly to give sup- | gation from Kentucky. |port to the students who partici- |pated in the class struggle on the | side of the working class, the million- | | | | one collective farmers’ youth school, | aire college trustees and their lick-|tty to Dr. Butler protesting the ac- | |tion and demanding Harris’ | spittle, Buttler, became frightened | and expelled him. | | The expulsion is but one of a ser- | ies of attempts to stem the ferment in the ranks of the students who} jhavebecom e disillusioned with he| |class characer of educaion and who |are mor and more coming ou in sup- | |port of the struggles of the working | class. | Harris was expelled after a “trial” | |at which Deane Hawkes announced |that the expulsion had already been jordered by the liberal President |Nicholas Murray Butler, and that |the trial was being held merely “to | give Harris the semblance of a hear- | ing.” The Columbia “Spectator” has car- itied on a steady campaign against the professionalism of “amateur” college football. Harris charged that theColumbi a football team was sub- sidized by alumni. He further charged college authorities who turned football into a commercial | proposition with responsibility for |the murder of forty students who were killed during the past season. In addition Harris attacked the \quality of food and the prices |charged the students in the Cafe- teria. When the National Student | |League delegation went to Kentucky, | Harris, through the columns of the | “Spectator” supported it and con- demned the professors who fought against such studentactivity. The “Spectator” unider Reed’s editorship hit the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution in addition to the other patriotic societies, In a joint statement with the ex- ecutive committee of the Columbia Social Problems Club, and with the endorsement of Reed Harris, the Na- | tional Student League issued the fol- lowing statement yesterday: “As students we protest the ex- pulsion of Reed Harris, editor-in- chief of the Columbia Spectator, and demand his reinstatement. | “Since no specific charges are |lodged against Harris in Dean | Hawke’s statement, it is clear that for hiseditorials during the present academic year. “We recognize the expulsion of | Harris as unwarranted interference To Elect Textile Worker to May Ist In Phila. Friday PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The textile delegate to the Soviet Union from Philadelphia, was nominated at a mass meeting of the workers from various shops. His nomination is to be placed before the workers in his shop Friday, at a special meeting in Kensington, and their endorsement is expected. This worker was one of those msi- led by Muste during the last strike, and after the sell-out he turned away from the Muste group and took up the fight as a class-conscious worker. He is very popular amongst the tex- tile workers in Philadelphia, and is an open-minded, honest rank and file worker, and will be able to give to the textile workers a clear picture of conditions in the First Workers’ Republic. ‘The nomination and election by his shop workers is to be followed by the visiting of the A. F. of L. locals of the textile industry for endorse- ments. Bloomington Unem ployed Council Grows (By a Worker Correspondent) BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Our Un- employed Council which was organ- ized a short while ago is growing by leaps and bounds. It was organized spontaneously by the workers here | who were tired of the starvation | program of the bosses. These workers knew very little about the Communist Party, Last week two Conimunists from Decatur came to us and explained the program of the Communist Party. The applause was big and all the workers at the meeting pledged to carry out the program of the Party. We workers realize now that we must be linked up with the struggles of the workers in all countries, that we must stick together shoulder to shoulder and fight against our com- mon enemy, the capitalists. Our Council now has a membership of 600. We demand, along with our demands of unemployment insurance, that the U. S. keep hands off China. We are all pledged to defend the So- viet Union against any attacks of the robber nations. We are going to try to increase the sales of the Daily Worker, This is a railroad town and | we are going to do some organization among the railroad workers against the wage-cut. If we organize we can Support to ‘Ky. Delegation || In marked contrast to the rapid | | |and characterized his action as a con- | | tinuation of the samepolicy of ter- | |this is an attempt to penalize him | This means $3 a week for able bodied | Expelled for with freedom of study and freedom of press. “We not only protest against the xpulsion and demand immediate re- instatement but we call on al) stu-| dents and teachers to jain and sup- port his fight for advancement of his editorial policies in Columbia and all ‘other universities throughout the | country.” The statement further hit the “lib- eralism” of Nicholas Murray Butler rorism responsible for the expulsion of the National Student League dele- Telegrams have been sent from all college clubs in the city and from | |lcubs in colleges throughout the coun- | rein- statement. Cultural Standards of Soviet Masses On | Rapid Rise! } decline in the cultural standards | of the American workers through | |mass povert te and federal | bankruptcy, the jet workers are | rats their cultural level at a tremendous speed. Not only is the contrast between \the building of new schools, uni- |versities, libraries, laboratories in | | |the Soviet Union and the closing | of schools, non-payment of teach- | ers, but also in the lighter features | | of culture. While the bankrupt treasury of | the United States taxes admission of all sorts, the Soviet government | continually increases the cultura) facilities open to the workers and | farm In 1930 the attendance at Soviet | theatres was 30,000,000 and in 1931 this number more than doubled it- A petition is also being circulated | in all colleges demanding that there be no discrimination against any of the students or teachers who took part in or were connected with the | |students’ delegation to Kentucky. self to 70,000,000. Figures for mo- | | ‘i | tion picture attendance increased | | from 473,000,000 in 1930 to 817,-| | 000,000 in 1931. Circus attendance jincreased from 5,000,000 in 1930 to | 8,000,000 in 1931. Senate Pushes Workers and Smail Owner NEW YORK, April 3—The revenue bill passed by the House of Repre- sentatives now comes into the hands of the Senate. All signs show that | the Senate will add further burdens upon the workers, farmers and mid- dle class in balancing the huge na- tional deficit, on the plea of the Sec- retary of Treasury, Mills, that the budget is not balancing. The question of the sales tax will undoubtedly be re-opened. The bill, as passed by the House of Represen- | tatives last week, exposes the fraud of the slogan “soak the rich” raised by the progressive coalition headed | by Representative LaGuardia of New | York. In the bill the sales tax was virtu- | ally adopted. The final bill is prac- tically identical with the administra- tion measures originally proposed by Representative Crisp. Walter Lippman, writer for the} Republican administration organ, the | New Qork Herald-Tribune, shows in | Saturday’s issue that the “soak the | rich” cry was only talk, and says | “that the progressive coalition has | not made any important change in| shifting the burden of taxation to| the rich.” Under the original bill the income | not cut a cent from the war appro- Bill to Tax | to cove’ the deficit was to be as | follows: | From income taxes.....32 per cent From estate taxes....., 1percent From customs ..... .-12 per cent From excise (sales taxes, ete.) sonecas Hamanesniss 55 percent | The bill as finally passed will raise the reevenue as follows: From income taxes From estate tayes. From customs .... From excise taxes (sales, ... ... ... taxes, etc.) 48 per cent The bill as passed after the so- | |of the Morning Fretheit; 115,000 Hail 10th Birthday of the Morning Freiheit NEW YORK, April 3—Pledging to defend the Soviet Union against any jand every robber imperialist attack and to intensify the struggle against | capitalism in America, over 15,000 workers jammed the huge Madison Square Garden Saturday night to the Morning Freiheit should see not one. Soviet Republic, but Soviet Re- | publics blossoming all over the world. “Capitalism will not die of its own | volition, however. It must be killed by the workers,” concluded Foster. The celebration was closed with a celebrate the Tenth Anniversary Ju-| bilee of the Morning Freiheit, the only Communist Jewish daily news- paper published in America. Cheers and thunderous applause echoed and re-echoed throughout the t building affirming the declara- jon of the speake: the Scotts- boro boys must not die, that Mooney and all class-war prisoners must be freed from the capitalist jails and that this tenth anniversary of the Freiheit must be a mobilization point |for building a stronger and more powerful Communist press reaching millions of American working men and women. The Freiheit Gesangs Verain (the Freedom Singing Society), a chorus of over 400 voices, opened the cele- bration by presenting a program of five revolutionary songs in Jewish and English. The meeting was addressed by Wm. Z. Foster, Sultan, from the Morning Freiheit; I. Amter, M. Olgin, editor Jacobson, of the Marine Workers Industrial Union; Elizabeth Baldwin, the wife of a Kentucky miner who was killed by the gun thugs; Williams, a Negro miner from Pennsylvania; Lapidus, |of the Jewish Buro of the Communist of | |the Needle Trades Workers Indus- Party of Canada; Barochowich, | trial Union and Zaltzman, general | secretary of the International Work- ers Order. The biggest ovation of the evening greeted Wm. Z. Foster, who greeted \the celebration in the name of the Trade Union Unity League. “I do not doubt,” said Foster, anyone who is familiar with the his- tory of the Morning Freiheit will “that | colorful and powerful anti-war pa- geant presented by the Artef Play- ers, Red Dancers and the Freiheit Gesangs Verain. A collection amount- ing to $3,885 was taken from the floor ot support the Fretheit. Complete Communist Slate in Elections in Farming Towns MASS, Mich.—A complete Com- munist slate has been filed for the Township elections, and the Com- munist Party is mobilizing the small farmers to fight for relief and sup- port the following candidates: John Roya, Supervisor; Vieno Tap- per, Clerk; Emil Malenck, Justice of the Peace; Martin Kaurala, Treas- urer; Adolph Silta, Board of Re- view; Henry Isotalo, Highway Com- m! mer; John Heinonen, Overseer of Highways; John Wayrynen, Con- stable; John Perttunan, Jr., Con- stable; Charles Hoiska, Constable; Sam Tikkanen, Jr., Constable; Nels Hill, Poundmaster. The program of the Communist Party calls for tax exemption of small farmers, cancellation of all poor farmers’ debts, unemployment insurance and other immediate de- | mands of the workers and farmers. | The United Farmers’ League has en- | dorsed the Communist ticket. Five In Knox, Wis. BRANTWOOD, Wis.—Five candi- dates of the Communist Party have | filed to run in the elections for the | Town Board in the town of Knox, “58 called “revolt” of the progressives |doubt htat the struggle of this paper | taking place April 5, and an active will raise practically 50 per cent from |™Marks one of the brighest lights in| campaign is being conducted around the workers, farmers and middle class | |the history of the labor movement. | the Communist platform for their elements, from direct taxation upon |1f we travel as far in the next ten) ejection, the incomes of workers and from | higher tariffs, which will be paid for | by the toiling masses. The bill will priations, which are the highest in American history. The tax plans of the administra- | tion, assisted by the progressives of all stripes, is in line with the policy of the Hoover government to over- come the crisis by throwing the main burden on the toiling workers and by | @ policy of impoverishment of the middle classes, | Detroit, Mich. Dear Comrades: It will be worthwhile to expose the lies of the capitalist press at this time, that is, at the time of the opening of the auto show in New York. “Orders taken on the floor of the show, are 81 per cent above last year,” says the headlines of the dope sheets while right under their. own noses something entirely different is taking place. The Plymouth factory after the Christmas holiday period was sup- posed to start production on the 11th of January, but instead all the em- ployers were sending home till the 15th of February. ‘The Chrysler plants cut the wages of all the employes once more and forced the millwrights on the piece work basis, Two thirds of the mill- wrights quit their jobs and the re- and fining out that they could eran only 26 cents per hour, quit also. The new Rockney Corporation, (Studebaker) has the workers fooled Wellsville, Ohio. Dear Comrades: I am sending you a “Card of Revo- lutionary Thanks” from Mandy and | Andy Edwards, whose son, Asberry, | died on Jan. 9th from TB, the death | causes hastened by policy of starva- | tion and deplorable conditicns forced on the pour family. The Wellsville News, a biared, yel- low sheet, refused to print the “Card | of Thanks” because it did not con-| form to the “Traditions of the com- | munity” and because it condemned | the starvation policies of the bosses. | The note to the DW is as follows: | “Andy Edwards and wife and family wish to extend a few words | of thanks to the Wellsville Unem- ployment Council—to the workers of Wellsville, Negro, foreign-yorn and white, and to the visiting com- cades who gave us food, clothing and shelter during our trouble. Council Bluffs to COUNCIL BLUFFS, lIowa—The unemployment situation is growing worse here. The Griffin Wheel Works has posted a notice that they are closing down for an indefinite | period. The railroads are working with reduced forces and, these are only working two weeks out of the | month. The workers in Kimball's foundry are also only working one or two days a week. The Citizens Relief Committee take a day's pay from these workers | every month to help keep the unem- | ployed fro mstarving. The city is full of child food stations and yet they only supply the children two meals a day and are proposing to reduce this | to one meal every “day. Many families are refused aid from both the relief association and the county. With the city elections coming on Mary Larsen, county over- | seer of the poor, is becoming mo put a stop to the miserable conditions. Worker Scores Boss P: maining one third worked two days | Parents of Dead Boy Send Card of Thanks ress seit Sales Bunk once more. The capitalist local press | heralded this newcomer as a sign of returning prosperity. They an- nounced around the fifteenth of October that two thousand men will be put to work on November 2. On| Noy. 2, the shop on Piquette Ave. was | wage agreement dead except for the hungry masses of workers on the outside. The an-| nouncement was that the opening | date has been changed to Dec, 15. The same thing was repeated and the date changed to January 15. That is | today. And today hundreds of people spend their night in the line waiting to get hired. And today also is the date on which the patience of the workers seems to have been ex- hausted, They are ready to do some- thing. There are about ten thous- ands of them at times and at times even more, but no one is being hired. The date has been changed | again to February 15. The workers boo the cops and jeer them and before the day is over—maybe more news will be mailed by the writer. F. Ss. “We especially thank ou: com- rises for «+i ting the Red Faneral whreh grea:ly cxposed the rotten covditions w. workers are forced te endure. In @irect contrast to whot the preaeser said, w: want | health, freedom, sr @ happivess here on earth ard not in the sky. “We do not thark, but coademn the police for i.terfering wit ovr working class fvveral and trying to start trouble. We workers peed po such attendants «t our aft. “We brand the refusal of the | Wellsville News as anti-working | class, wheu it would not pr nt our "Card of Thanks.” “We pledgs qursclves to continue +s, the struggle against rotten condi- | tiers, staryatton and capitalist slavery. Comradely thanks, Signed: ANLY EDWARGLS. | MANDY EDWARDS. Cut Child Relief those belonging to the Unemployed | quired by the Act of August 24, 1912, e Council. Many store buildings are con-| tinuing to close and the town is| getting into a desperate state. years as we have traveled in the last | ten years, then world capitalism will |be in a damned worse shape than it is today. The next anniversary of What have you done in the half- dollar campaign? Militant Opposition Groups Call for Organized Fight on Wage Cuts in Illinois Coal Fields BENLD, Ill, March 31.— After three weeks of negotiations for a new for the Illinois |miners to replace the one which jexpired April Ist, the scale commit- tee of the U. M. W. of A. and the Illinois Coal Operators Association reached the following understanding: “Operators desiring to continue op- erations after March 3lst may do so, providing such operators sign an agreement with a representative of the U. M. W. A. to observe the wage scale and working conditions of the |present district contract, pending further negotiations of the joint scale conference.” Without a doubt, coal operators having market for coal will run their mines on this basis, while the operators who have been storing up coal in the event of “trouble” will suspend operations. This policy flows directly out of the three weeks maneuvering upon the part of the coal operators and the district machine of the U. M. W. A, headed by Walker, known to the miners as a faker. ‘The coal operators, seeking a a wage- cut of at least 30 per cent, know that | they cannot put it into effect in a direct, manner; they enlist the assis- tance of the U. M. W. A. officials, hence the policy of so-called suspen- sion, hoping to carry the miners through stages leading to exhaustion, who is | then putting a wage cut to a ref- erendum, and hoping to carry it through. All attempts of the miners to pre- pare themselves for a fight to defeat the wage cut is being ignored by the officialdom, motions made by mili- tant members of the U. M W A (op- position groups) to call mass meet- ings to organize against the wage cut are being sneered at by the little fakers in the local unions. In spite of this fact, motions for these mass | meetings to take place on April Ist have been adopted by several locals, at which the fight against the wage cut will be opened. The Illinois miners’ rank and file opposition is presenting a program of struggle based upon the following de- mands: (1) against the wage cut, (2) for a minimum three-day week in the operating mines, (3) for un- employment relief at the expense of the government and the coal oper- | ators. The program carries a struggle ) against the betraying leadership of |the UMWA, both Lewis and Walker seeking to unite the rank and file for a struggle to defeat the wage cut. The present wage scale of this Il- linois miner is based upon a day rate of $6.10 per day, while the coal operators would like to reduce it to from $3.90 to $4 per day, STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN- | AGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC, RE- QUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912. Of “DAILY WORKER,” published daily at New York, N. ¥., for April 1, 1932. 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