The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MUNDAY, ie APR 38, LE faze three Federal Reserve Head Says | U.S. Capitalism Declining WASHINGTON—Behind a cloud , assets. of talk concerning immigration and} More than half of the $238,740,000 slower birth rates and the “possibil- | advanced to Wall Street has been | | en to the banks. The rest of the money was given to railroads, insur- ance companies and credit and mort- ge companies. controlling the forces of | of capitalism, Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, openly | dmitted that the future perspective | American capitalism was one of | The futility of the whole scheme by means of which the government thought to “revitalize” the railroad: was exposed by the Commercial and Ina mittee on Finances concerning the | operation of the Reconstruction Fi- | pinancial Chronicle, leading Wall nance Corporation, Meyer made the) street organ, nI the April 9th issue, following admission: it states: tatement to the House oo “I think that as we are more ma- ture our growth will be less rapid. With less immigration and a lower | birth rate, and those violent charac- | teristics of rapid growth out of the | way, our future growth should be | mere controlled, and should lie in} the direction of greater stability, “I think that the growth we have | considered as normal in the past| has been at the rate of 3 per cent} compounded. I think that it may be | “This does not escape attention on the part of the general public, whieh is inclined to magnify such incidents beyond their due, thereby creating the impression that the whole scheme of extending aid to the carriers is about to fall to pieces, leaving the carriers once more in an utterly hopeless po- sition. | In the meantime, the banks are | Need Funds for Scottsboro - Mooney | Defense Fight} 2% days left before May 13, the date set by the Alabama lynch | courts for the legal lynching of | seven of the nine innocent Scotts- boro Negro boys All workers and their organiza- ions, all sympathetic groups, are urged to hold nation-wide demon- |strations against the white terror against the Negro masses. Rush protests to Governor B, M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala, Demand the | immediate, unconditional release of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys! Rush contributions to the| Scottsboro Defense Fund, Room 111, 80 East 11th Street, New York City, to enable the International |Labor Defense attorneys to push | the fight against the lynch ver- dicts to the U. S, Supreme Court. MOONEY! Three days remain before the date set, Tuesday, April 19, by| jovernor Rolph of California for) ‘a decision on the demand of the | | | | | less in the future.” The report of the activity of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation revealed the billions in loans that the Hoover government, supported by the Democrats, has made to the bankers and railroads. It fully exposed the hypocrisy behind the cry which the bankers are raising in connection with the payment of the tombstone bonus to the veterans as “payment to a privi- leged group.” Meyer reported that more than 1,319 banks had received loans on practically no, or worthless, | reaping the harvest of the two billion | | dollar gift which the Wall Street | working-class for the release of government made, They not only receive direct loans but also force the railroads, which they control, to make loans in order to pay back their debts to the banks. At the same time that he defended the Reconstruction Corporation Act as an inflationary act that would in a very short time show its effect by a wholesale raising of prices and increase in the cost of living, Meyer used the “scare” argument of infla- tion to attack the bonus payment, Militant Negro Woman Framed in Canton, Ohio (By a Worker Correspondent) CANTON, Ohio.<Ida Brazenton, militant Negro working woman, who has been active in the working-class movement here, has been a victim of unemployment for many months. She was laid off from her job as janitress in City Hall and a white woman given her job. She was forced to go toe the city “charities” for relief. Comrade Bra- zelton is a widow with a daughter to support who is ging to school. Because she was a militant worker and a Negro, too, the charities re- fused to give her relief. The Unemployed Council selected @ committee of three to go with this comrade to demand relief from the charities. As a@ result of their resistance to the bosses’ starvation scheme they were arrested. Denounces Charities. At the trial Comrade Brazelton de- nounced the city charities’ ‘(Family Service Society” (which was Service in name, only). The judge was forced to free the comrades on trial and in addition was forced to in- struct the charities to give Comrade Brazelton shoes, a grocery order and a load of coal, This is quite a contrast to what happened to an American widow in the Soviet Union. The boss press here itself reports a United Press telegram which states that one Mrs. Williams, whose husband died while in the employ of the Soviet Govern- ment and was left with two chil- dren, was immediately taken care of by the Soviet state, The Soviet Government gave them a free rest for one month in a resort in the Crimea, to recover from the blow, and 250 rubles a month for one year, which amounts to about $125 per month. The widow, Mrs. Wil- liams, was also offered employment. Salesman Job Nets Worker 50 Cents Cleveland, Ohio. Oear Comrades: Last week I was given a job by a social worker selling Kleen from house te house for the Rolew Co, This is the worst job I ever had, I sold $2.75 worth and at the end of the day I was paid 50 cents. I told the social worker about it and she had the nerve to tell me that I was jJazy and I didn’t want to work and that I should be jailed for being a Bolshevik. With all this abuse she cut off my family from further relief. But I answered I would steal from chain stores before I would starve with my tamily. I warn you workers against being mislead by these social workers and the so-called Co-operative Employ- ment Buying Plan of the Rolew Co. In Cleveland this plan is known as the Racket Plan. If a worker goes out he is made into a house to house beggar selling these small cans of cleanser, Most of the money the un- employed worker receives goes to blood sucking racketeers. I was promised $1.00 per day and I only received 50 cents. There never was a workers’ victory without a fight and those workers who are afraid to fight are not wor- thy of the workers’ victory Don’t starve-—Fight! Cops, A. F. of L. Give Miners Raw Deal Scranton, Pa, Daily Worker: We, the miners in the anthracite region, are at present getting a very bad deal. Malony called a strike that was not organized. He did not have the confidence of the majority of the miners, Yet, despite this fact, he called a strike, using the unem- ployed and ‘locked-out miners to picket and call out the miners who are working. This action is doomed to failure, because the state police will not allow any kind of picketing. ‘They beat up miners in Archbald who were not even picketing. - These same state police beat up ‘miners in Jessup even when they were on porches of private homes. ‘They will not allow us miners to have meetings of any kind. The only difference I can see in Kentucky and Pennsylvania is the fact that . they did not kidnap any miners or organizers, but we have the same police terror, The majority of the miners here want to strike, but they want leader- ship and a program. The rank and file committee were organizing to give the miners leadership and a pro- gram for all miners, both unem- ployed and employed, but Maloney and Shuster and a few others in- \ sisted on a premature strike, despite the fact that they were warned by the rank and file representatives that the strike would be a failure. The Maloney gang used such tactics as this. The local officers of many collieries are opposed to the strike because they are hooked up with the Boylin machine. Maloney’s pickets called out these men from the collieries, but they did not elect a strike committee, The re- sults are that when they stop pick- eting these same officers call the men together and vote to go back to work, Most of the miners do not even know what they are striking for. Everything is in confusion, so I guess the results will be the same as the last two strikes Maloney led. He is getting famous for failures, but this will be his last. The miners will not stand for any more of him. The capitalist-papers here are giv- ing the miners a bad break. Ever since the strike started they make it look as though the miners should strike. Also, they do not print any- thing about the terror of the police and the local Burgesses of the Bor- oughs visiting the miners’ homes to persuade them to go to work. J.D. Hurt On “Relief” Job, Worker Is Jailed , Kansas City, Mo. Daily Worker: Peter Berger, who was employed for a short time on the Kansas City relief job, paying 30 cents an hour, is now at the Leeds Farm. This worker, who worked hard mov- ing rocks, had the misfortune of get- ting burt. | gave themselves the name of relief agents, swore out a warrant and tes- tified against this worker in court. After they got through telling a lot of lies Berger was sentenced to a $500 fine or a year in jail, after which these charity agents thanked the agents very much. Tom Mooney! Rush protests, by | wire and letters, to Gov. James | Rolph, Jr., Sacramento, Calif., de- | manding the~ immediate, ‘uncon- | ditional release of Tom Mooney. | POLICE SUPPRESS ORGAN OF GERMAN COMMUNISTPARTY Fascist Who Murdered Communist Acquitted BERLIN, April 15.—Police Chief Grzesinski © ordered the suppres- sion of the Rote Fahne, central or- gan of the Communist Party of Ger- many, for April 15th to 17th inclu- sive. He alleges an attempt to ridi- cule Hindenburg and Noske. Although officially “dissolved,” the fascist storm detachments festerday demonstrated in many towns. There were many Collisions with the police, and numerous arrests in many towns, including Hindenburg, Chemnitz, Brunswick, Crefeld, Cassel and Karls- ruhe. In Chemnitz, Brunswick and Cas- sel, the fascists attacked ‘the work- ers’ newspaper offices, smashing the windows. The police were extremely “reserved.” Three members of the Reichsban- ner (bourgeois republican organiza- tion) were seriously wounded in coi- sions with the fascists in Hinden- burg and Deutcheylau yesterday. The Potsdam court has acquitted the fascist Guestrau of murdering the\young Communist, Ritter, in No- vaves last November. He was sen~ tenced to six months for having an unlicensed weapon. Help Build the - Central Comm. Library Comrades can help a great deal in building up the reference library of the Central Committee by bringing pamphlets and books and back numbers of periodicals, particularly the Inprecorr and the Communist International, to Room 903, Work- ers Center. Pamphlets and books which are out of print are partic- ularly needed. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN- AGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETG., RE- QUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS 4 me AUGUST 24, 1912, 4 the Daily Worker, published dail; New York, N. ¥., for April 1, 1983. s State of New (York, County of New York, 5s, Wetore me, a notary public, n and for the state and county aforesaid, personally sppeared Emanuel Levin, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Managing Editor of the Daily Worker and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, true statement of the ownership, man: ment (and if a daily paper, the circu- ion), etc. of the aforesaid’ publication for the date shown in the above caption, vequired by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied ix, section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. “That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor and business ‘manager’ are: Publisher, Compro- daily Publishing Co., Inc., 50 E.’ 13th 8t.: Editor, none; Managing ‘Editor, Emanuel Levin, 50 E, 13th St.; Business’ Managers, none. 2. 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That the average number of copies of Because the workers are speeded| The worker did not get a chance tBu "rough the mali of terse, up it so happened that a big rock |to say a word in his own defense, | 9bild, sunseribers during the six months dropped on his foot, crushing some | The Provident Association previously i of his toes and crippling him for| tried to break up the family, which ae aoacigg walle the time being. This worker re-| Berger opposed. The wife of this| Sworn to and subscribed before mo this fused to starve and demanded relief | worker was told that her tuisband |!" %¥ of April 1953) | from the Provident Association. For | was in hospital. Instead he was in (Seal) Notary | Public, this three tools of the hosses, who | jail with a broken foot Bronx County, N, NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The Confer- | ence of Connecticut Mayors called! by Mayor Buckingham of Bridgeport | and held last Friday, was forced to listen to a delegation of the Unem- ployed Council of Connecticut. The delegation, headed by John Weber, Secretary, who read a statement condemning the lack of relief, pre- sented the following demands: 1—That the Conference demand @ special session of the State Legis. lature to establish Unemployment’ Insurance at the expense of the State and the bosses, and that such Conference be held on May 16th when the State Hunger March takes place. 2—That the State provide 000,000 for emergency relief. 3-—That the city administrations immediately stop cutting relief and make additional appropriations through taxation on wealthy 4.—Abolition of the Scriy System. Payment in cash for all work at union rates of wages 5.—That Negro workers be given special consideration in distribution of relief, because they are the worst sufferers from the crisis That dis- criminations against foreign born and single workers be immediately stopped. 6—That the city administrations of Waterbury, $10,- Bridgeport, New| ‘Force Connecticut Mayors '3000 ON and lodging for Marchers State the Hung The demands of the unemployed threw consternation into the ranks of the Mayors of over 50 cities and | towns. Mayor Murphy of New Ha- yen, leader of the American Feder- ation of Labor, made a bitter attack on the Unemployed Councils accus ing them of ing ce against race. - When ask what was being| done for the unemployed workers in |New Haven, he said he did not want | |to talk about the present but about | the future. All Mayors agreed that only aj} jsmall number of the unemployed | were receiving relief. They all agreed |that the number of unemployed | workers was continuing to increase, | that the crisis is deepening and that Jno change for the better could be/| jexpected for the winter of 1932-33. | | All Mayors expressed fear as to} {what the unemployed would do.| | Mayor Maloney of Meridan said that | something must be done or else} something will happen. He referred to the statement of the Ur Councils, saiying that it was voice of the unemployed in the State and that it could not be ignored. | The Unemployed Councils of, Conn. | are going ahead with the prepara-| ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND cop'es of the May Day issue of the Daily Worker have advanced so far that we may have to print more than that number to satisfy the demand. Bundle orders, paid for in advance, must be sent in immediately, so that we can know how many copies above the original one hundred thousand we may need. Comrades, it is vital to the work- ers’ struggles to spread this May Day issue to the greatest possible extent. are getting nearer every day to the Soviet border. Any day now war may break out, with the capitalist imperi- New Mass Ter (By a Worker Correspondent) CUBA.—During the last four days forty-two workers have been arrested by butcher Machado’s police and thrown into the Cabana and Prince prisons, where the threat of death hangs over them. Recently a meeting was being he!d in a worker’s house and several workers were arrested; the same day the local Trade Union of the restau- rant workers and bakers and other local unions were raided and 21 workers arrested. Some of these workers are foreign and will be de- ported. Families of Workers Being Arrested. When the police fails to arrest a Suspected worker the whole family is arrested. The mother, two sons and sister in law of a worker the police was seeking, have been arrested and tortured to force them to declare where this worker could be found. Borah Is Hiding Machado’s Crimes. While all sorts of crimes and perse- cutions are being committed against the working class, when hundreds of workers are being held incomunicado, deported and tortured, Senator Borah is trying to hide the real crimes of Machado by doubtfully accepting a report that three students are being held incomunicado and promising that “if” such things are taking place “Soviet industries showed a con- si€erable increase in production dur- ing the first quarter of 1932 over the corresponding quarter of last year,” Says @ news release of the Amtorg, Soviet trade organization in America. Especially is this so in the basic in- dustries on which the first Five- Year Plan laid main stress. So, pig iron production totaled 1,398,000 metric tons, or 27.5 per cent more than during the first quarter of 1931, “| Steel output amounted to 1,468,000 tons, a gain of 16 per cent. ‘This at a time when the United States steel industry is operating at 23 per cent of capacity, the lowest in history. These figures will jump higher soon, since the giant Magnitogorsk steel ind mills in the Urals, which was put into operation two months*ago, has not yet reached capacity. And at the Kuznetz steel mill the first blast furnace has been blown in. Oil showed a 10 per cent gain over 1931. The newly-built “Stalin” auto Plant in Moscow produced 2,959 2%4- “| ton trucks in the first quarter, 9 per cent more than was called for in the plan. The Stalingrad Tractor Works which the capitalists pointed to last year as an example of Soviet inabil- ity to operate large factories turned out 140 machines on March 31, four less than capacity. On April 4 the Plant produced its 5,000th tractor, Also lighter industries, to which the Soviet Union has not devoted much time to previously, are shooting higher. The output of leather shoes amounted to 18,116,000 pairs, an av- (My commission expires “March 9, #934.) Tage daily increase of 145 per cert. Soldiers of the Japanese capitalists | the Soviet Union. The May Day issue is an important instrument in uniting the workers’ solid front to defend the workers’) | fatherland. We have no time to lose. Send in your bundle orders now. | And send your May Day contrib- jutions at once to the Daily Worker | so we can have enough funds for wide mass circulation of the May! Day issue and for wide mass circul- | ation of every issue to fight the war | program and the bosses’ police ter- ror. Send in your May Day contribu-| tion and enroll in the Daily Worker May Day Honor Roll. ror in Cuba; Borah Shielding Machado in Cuba, they should be investigated. All these arrests are aimed at de- stroying the revolutionary movement and preventing the preparations for the Unity Congress of the Revolu- tionary National Confederation of Cuba, and preventing the May Day preparations and demonstrations. Reformists Support Machado’s Terror The leaders of the tobacco workers are taking active part in support of Machado's terror, in fact, they have personally handed revolutionary workers to the police during the two. months strike of the workers, which is still on sgainst their will and in spite of their manouver to betray the strike. Their latest betrayal was in the occasion of the general strike called by the revolutionary Confede- ration in solidarity with the tobacco workers which they condemned two days before it took place, the Con- federation calling off the strike. The American workers, particularly those in New York, which have spe- -cial revolutionary duties because they have pledged themselves to help us, must show their help, not in words, but in revolutionary solidarity, as we curselves have done by supporting the struggle to free the innocent Scottsboro boys and by demonstra- ting in front of the Ford plant in Cuba. Soviet Industry Reports Gains: During First Quarter of Year And none of the shoes are hiding in boxes in fancy stores. Workers are wearing them. During the spring sowing cam- paign, which is now under way, the state and collective farms are sched- uled to put into. the fields 150,000 tractors, or one and a half times as many as last year. The deficiencies in seed, due to drought last year in | have been made up by loans from the state seed fund and an adequate quantity is now assured. Read Stalin’s article on the national question in the April issue of “The Communist.” Price 20 cents. HARLAN MINERS SPEAK The whole story of terrorism in the Kentucky coal fields, toldby the miners themselves, byTheo- dore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Anna Rochester, Melvin Levy, Sherwood Andersonandothers. All profits from the sale of this book weit ies over by the publishers for relief of miners and their families, $2.00 | workers | the eastern section of the country, | CASH RELIEF Workers In New Castle, Ohio, Storm County Court House YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 17 Over three thou d and farmers of Lawrence County on a hung at the County ‘ourt Hous demands for imma the County Commissioners, The w state police and constables and scores of small-fry police from many small towns in the cgunty. A special group of stool-pigeons, headed by Police Chief Archie Shoup, came from Bessemer where 90 per cent of the workers are unemployed due to complete shutdown of the brick and cement work: The whole gathering massed 02 the of 3,000 “sacred” grounds of the County Court House voted separately with raised hands on the following issues: 1) Immediate cash relief of $10 per fami and $2 additional for de- tions for the State Hunger March | Pendents; free rent, stipe baste Haven and Hartford provide food! which is to take place on May 16th.| Wate rto all unemployed and part- Spread the May Day Edition of Daily Worker Broadcast time workers of the county. 2) For federal @unemployment in- surance equal to full wages, 3) Immediate unconditional free- dom for the Scottsboro boys. | 4) Against imper' war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. 5) To mobilie ever greater masses Plans for the distribution of the alist butchers in a solid front against} of both employed and unemployed | into a mighty Maq Ist démonstration | against hunger; terror; and bosses’ | war. LOWELL JOBLESS FOR STATE MARCH Demand Relief from City Government LOWELL, Mass.—Today in Lowell there are over 15,000 unemployed. Thousands of the unemployed are being turned down by the City Wel- fare Board when they ask for relief. Mayor Slowey of Lowell is worried about getting a loan of $1,000,000 from the state for the city, but not a cent for the unemployed of Lowell, |The ‘ain purpose of the loan is to pay the city politicians, And at the same time Mayor Slowey proposes a plan to cut out the e es of the city bu cutting the wages of the city employees. Not a word does he say about cutting the big salaries of the city officials. While 1s is going on, the unemployed are gradually starving. The unemployed workers of Lowell will give their answer on May 1st and 2nd, when they will send dele- gates to the State Hunger March. Conditions in mills and shops are Getting worse every day. Wage-cuts are taking place and speed-up is resulting in the lay-off of hundreds of workers. In many of the smalb shops the young workers ere getting as low as $3 a week, especially in the needle trade and shoe shops. In tho textile mills the same conditions are prevailing. The unemployed and _ part-time workers will take active part in the preparations for the State Hunger March, On Suatrday, April 23rd, at pm,, there will be an open-air meeting on Rodgers Square by the Unemployed Council, There will be a@ United Conference for the Hunger March on Sunday, April 24th, at p.m, at the Wérkers Center, 338 Cen- tral Street, Lowell. Seven organiza- tions are electing their delegates for this conference, letters are being sent to all other mass organizations. Plans are being worked to form a hig committee of the unemployed to march to the City Hall and demand from the city government immediate cash relief for the unemployed. | ORDER YOUR MAY 2. pay “a Buttons Through your District Office Send Money With Order 2 i $20.00 Per Thousand COMMUNIST PARZY, U. S. AJ! P-O, BOX 87, STATION D. NEW YORK, N. ¥. When the Wintec? Winds Begin You will find it warm and cozy Camp Nitgedaiget it well heated with jenm hh bot wr P ater and many other ents, The food ts clean frenh and especially well For further Information cal) the— COOPERATIVE OFFICH Bronx Park Mast ‘Tel.—Wsterbrook 8-1400 ‘Ss marched through the | | main streets despite the dislpay of Coming di United State: eri be due Mellon admitted that the painful sp to work but ur | services {c cle e.” But he idea of how this tremendous contrad on which has thrown fifty million out of work in the capii world can be done he looks back forty years and says away with under capitalism. Instead there were crises then, and still w recovered. He refers to the fact that there have been cycle: and bad times and th he “has hopes.” The basis of his defense of nis sys- good times fore says that to past c $s is a reminder that this is the worst sis capitalism has yet faced, Instead of improving with ge, or with infancy, as Mellon would ave us belie ism is ob- viously getting ¥ worse. The very same day that Mellon spoke in Lond er with at least as great authc id now pro- | m of \memployment, hunger and is the supposed infancy of the apitalist system, Yet, his reference | nm —_— HUNGER | Mellon’sLondonS peech Blames To Hear Jobless’ Demands MARCH DEMAND System’s Infancy for Crisis ‘obber, ing bank y proved t an effort to k s In the was ve a How nore mature, our growth will k wit gration 4 lower birth rate, those fjolent movements that are_charac- eristic of rapid growth out of the our future growth should be » controlled and should lie in the ion of greater stability. I think at the growth we have considered normal in the past has been about at the rate of 3 per cent compounded. I think that may be less in the fu- ture.” Thus, while witch-doctor Mellon prattles about the “infancy”-of three hundred year old capitalism, as @ consolation to the starving, Meyer exposes his master’s talk by. telling truth about its stagnaney and wa mor dit this attempt to salve e stoma of the workers with empty hopes of a brighter and stop them fro mreyolt- touch upon @ point which is» téaring t world apart. Tipend- debts of the last war nment betwen the vari= all left for ‘secret Mellon did not were | | The extent of the wage cut to be forced upon th nds of steel we will be discussed “informally” the Board of Direct of th American Iron and Steel Institute next Thursday. The officials of practically every important steel Co. members of this board and the announcement that it is expected to make immediately after Thursday will be such as to aqect: all steel workers throughout the country Although it is estimated by a few financial “observers”, whose role is that of taking the edge off the work- ers’ discontentment, that the cut will be equal to the last one, which amounted to 10 per cent, the offic- ors | ers by lWage-Cut A } lectin ‘Steel | Workers to Be Decided Soon using the same system, applying it }to mill woi as well as to oace worke1 Some companies force the ials of many steel companies are inj favor of a more drastic cut amount-} not less than 15 per cent. Since the cut will be enforced by the individual companies, it is not ex- pected to be uniform throughout the ndustry, but that only means that in some sections it will amount to more then 15 per cent The United States Steel Compar in the meanwhile forced an indirect cut upon all office workers by com~- pelling them to take off three days | monthly. This is substantially equi-~ valent to a cut of 10 per cent. Mill workers of the steel corpora- tion and other leading steel compa~ | mies were already hit by a similar indirect wage cut, which came on top of the two direct ones enforced dur- ing last year. A year ago they were ing to off workers to take off one day a week and this practically reduces their wages to the extent of about 17 per cent. CALL LEGION T0 DISPERSE WORKERS’ ME" GARDNER, Mass., April 17.—Over three hundred workers came to the bus-stop Wednesday at 11 p.m. to bid farewell to a group of eleven workers leaving for the Soviet Union. ard Walsh, member of the Communist League opened well bid to these workers by ing greetings to the Soviet work- and pledging the support of the workers at the meeting to fight bosses’ war and defend the Soviet Union. Following a number of umsuccess- ; ful attempts on the part of the | preventing police to arrest Walsh, the_ police sounded the gong for the help of a large group of the 120 legioneers who were deputized last week in Gardner for the purpose of terrorizing and worké: rom organizing and fighting bosses’ war, The workers put up a marvelous fight against police terror, Even the | gat that one of the cops pulled out told “to help the unemployed workers” by submitting to the so-} called “stazger” system, under wh the activity of the steel industry. hich fell to 25 per cent of its capa city, it distributed among as many workers as possible. This is result- ing in an increase of part-time work- ers without a decrease of the totally unemployed workers | Other steel comp: nies are already only aroused a bigger protest. Shout- ing and singing, over 100 workers followed Walsh to the police station. 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