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

Tal DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1932 Page Three VET TELLS WHY HE IS GOING TO JOIN COMMU Outraged at Brutal Clubbing of Jobless Work- ers, He Pledges to Join Party Dear Sir :— I wish you would give your valuable paper a space for contents of this letter on atrocities to the working class: I am not a Communist, but I will be after what I saw with IT am an Exserviceman, an American-born, of Irish-American parentage, having a honorable discharge from my own eyes. the early type C-submarines. I graduated from submarines to “charity soup lines”. I enlisted in the submarines for 60 dollars a month and My body #8 disfig-@ a dollar a dive. ured from the service. Now on the real subject, of what made me (and hundreds of others at the same time) Communist, and at fit, I was at the demonstration held} at 13 Thompson street of the unem- ployed workers and was talking to some police and these four V.F.W. men, We understand that something should be done to do away with the | prevailing conditions, the horrors of unemployment, evictions of families, graft in politics, band‘ry all over the country, organized kidnaping, organ- ized religion, stock markets cathed- rals, etc. ‘The almighty dollar, capitalism, un- limited private ownership, not the land of the free anymore, but of those who own the land and the capital. The Communist Party dared to de- mand free speech, justice, and equal- ity and to protest aga%ast unemploy- ment and war. Brave it was to utter the truth about police brutality, frame-ups, getting clubs instead of bread, and the threats of using us starved American workers in another war, directed at the Soviet Union. The wholesome bravery, nobleness, and ideals of these protesters, now unemployed, was wonderful. This na- tion could never again summon such workers into war again. Yet in spite of the humane and desperate urgency of the meetiag, they were terrorized. Only the desperate need for the demonstration brought them there. Without a moments notice the police were upon them. Some went to the attack with un- wholesome glee. I, heard one say, “This is my meat” (refering to a sign least four others from the V.F.W. out-| NIST PARTY New York. ing the women’s head by an inch, the sign went down and the police- man went into further action with! his club, It was horrible beyond} words. These defenseless men, women and | children ran terrified for their lives. | |It was beastly inhuman.. Here was| colored man with a ghastly wound on | his right temple. Gore seemed to be | | abundant. | Screams of women, shouts of men, MASSACHUSETTS HUNGER MARCHERS BEFORE THE STATE HOUSE IN BOSTON | AFTER PRESENTING THEIR DEMANDS | Vets Quit Legion by, | Thousands; Rally to | | Ex-Service League BOSTON, Mass.—Between 9,000 and 10,000 members of the American |Legion in this section have quit? the organization as a result of National Commander Stephens’ statement lagainst cash payment of the bonus. Revere Post is expected to close; the | Back Bay and Chelsea posts have} been reduced to shells, with practi- | cally all the workers deserting the | ranks. ‘The Workers Ex - Servicemen’s | League, which is preparing to lead a mass deleg&te march to Washington | to demand the immediate cash pay- |ment of the bonus, is drawing into its ranks many old Legion members. New posts are springing up all over |the country like mushrooms, Send-Off for Frank | | Spector in ‘Frisco for Needle Trade harsh inhuman command shouted by | the police which were well fed, rent the air. Swinging of black-jaks, striking all who were not faster run- ners than they., Coming for a peace- | ful. meetifag, and protest, they get misery, desolation and terror. Instead of a promised help for better, they get clubed. I stood still a moment as a wom-| an’s unearthly cry rang out, I started | in her direction to assist her in spite | of the terror. Two of the V.F.W.| boys caught me by the arm. No use | buddy, we can do nothing. He was right, policeman was upon us club swinging. Women and men in his/| path. I cried, “Please don’t hit them, We'll move on.” One said, “I've seen enough, too much. This is awful. No wonder the people speak of revolt. I am with them from now on. So are the other fellows. This cannot be a civilized land.” While leaving we saw a tall mid- die age man observing the demon-} stration, He said, “War is hell, but| Board in Phila. |General Board Opens Plenary Session on Thurs. May 5 PHILADELPHIA.—The opening of the plenary sesions of the general excutive board of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union will be celebrated by the Philadelphia Needle ‘Trades workers at a mass reception organized by the Philadelphia local of the union, at the Boslower Hall, 701 Pine Street, Philadelphia. This meeting will eonsider a num- ber of important problems of the needle trades workers throughout the country, The strikes of the dress- makers of New York and Boston, and the many shop strikes carried on in the other cities will be evaluated at this meeting. The question of the recent betrayals of the Amalgamated machine, the new wage cuts for the workers of Chicago and Rochester, in »|¢ious terror Sheriff Robinson, Ties Gaver aden this wetave.’ | the men’s clothing industry will take ‘And before us he tore off an Amer-| UP considerable time in this meeting ican Legion button from his lapel of Of the nedle trades workers. his coat. We were outraged at what| Reports from the centers—the we saw in these five minutes, and are | 24} JeAO [[e sSi9jU90 Sapel} spas determined to assist in any way pos- | CountTy will be renderd by the CEB members. The question of shop work, ‘Mass Reception . [Smash May Ist Meets in Mid- CHICAGO, Til, May 3—May Day reports received from other cities in the Chicago district are as follows: In Ziegler, a mining town, six hundred miners demonstrated, break- ing through the terror of the vi- This demonstration is of tremendous im- | portance as no mass meetings were | allowed in Franklin County for a/ long period of time and this is the first mass demonstration of the min- | ers which was not broken up by me sheriff in Franklin County. In Benld, another mining bei | | ;two hundred and fifty miners par- ticipated in the demonstration. In Gary, Indiana, fifteen hundred | steel workers were attacked by two| hundred police and twelve workers | were arrested, with over twenty | workers severely beaten up. After breaking up the meeting, three hun- dred workers assembled in a hall, In Indiana Harbor, five hundred steel workers demonstrated and | when the police attempted to arrest | the speaker, the workers defended him. Additional police forces were brought and -broke up the demon- stration, arresting seven workers and beating up ten. | After breaking up the demonstra- | tion the police attacked the workers Center and smashed everything. In Elkhart, one hundred and fifty | West; Coal Town Demonstrate SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—Workers of San Francisco will give a send-off jto Frank Spector, former district. or- |ganizer of the International Labor Defense at a farewell banquet this] May 6 at the Labor Lyceum, hundred workerg in a parade which | 1740 O'Farrell St. at 8 p.m. Spector, consisted of a large number of Jew-| one of the Imperial Valley prisoners, | ish organizations and about two/ recently released from San Quentin, hundred unemployed workers led by! has been called to work in the na- Karl Borders and the Chicago Work- ' tional office of the ILD, An enter-| ers Committee on Unemployment. | taining program is arranged for the| About two thousand were in the hall| banquet, including dances, and | of the socialist. meeting. | musical numbers. Admission is 35c. | PLANS 10 ENSLAVE THE | WORKING CLASS IN WAR TIME) called to the flag. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | REELS IO | "Mr. Collins: Suppose you get ist conflict. It must be fought to the| them to realize that, what would | hilt | you propose that this commission The gist of the theory runs as fol-| do? | lows: At the outbreak of war mil-| « I think that the de- | lions of workers will be drawn into tails of this are matters that are | the army, navy and air forces; other| almost endless, | millions will be drawn directly into en war work; munitions, airplane and| 0" Couns: rel see ee | ‘Universal Conscription.’ Let us tank manufacture; the general in-| crease in demand will ensure a short-| ‘Md out what is meant by that. | demonstrations | May Day Celebrated in Big and Small Tomns in the United States Demonstrations Held in Centers Where No May Day Celebration Ever Took Place Reports, still pouring in, show that May Day this year was celebrated not only in the big centers with huge demon- strations that outshined all previous ones, but in the small | towns as well, in many of which demonstrations were never held before. In small industrial and agricultural centers workers came out on May Day to protest and fight against the starvation and war program of the bosses. All over the United States the slogans “Defend the Soviet Union,” “‘We Demand Bread,” “We Want Relief,” etc., were raised by hundreds of thousands participating in militant May Dayé tempt to break up the demonstra- tion. This job was delegated to some 5,000 Out In Toledo. thugs, who attacked Joe Bertaux, the TOLEDO, Ohio.—With an overcast| main speaker. He was saved by the sky and a cool wind, hundreds of | militancy of the workers. workers from every Unemployed} The workers pledged to defend the Council of the ci and county| Soviet Union and fight for social in- marched to City Park, where a mass | surance. demonstration was held with 5,000 * ‘pt Lo workers, employed and unemployed, | 1,000 Celebrate May Day in partitipating in it. Anderson, Ind. The demonstration was called bY) ,xpepson Ind—One thousand the United Front May Day Anti-War| Committee and was followed by a march through the downtown section to Court House Park. Thirty-two or- ganizations were represented wi ith | their banners in the mareh, which} Negro and white workers held a mili- tant demonstration here on May Day in front of the County House. They listened to the main speaker, overt Ware, and enthusiastically |pledged to continue, with increased ea By Abe ax SETVICEIAED'® vigor, the struggle against hunger and An indoor celebration took place} cp ged regret ° e after the march in the Roi. Davis Building. The Ex-Sery*cmen’s| League put up a show entitled “Why | Generals Die In Bed.” Here, as in} the demonstration and the march, the | workers were very enthusiastic ‘and! » |cheered the various speakers who called upon them to fight against | starvation and imperialist war, for the defense of China and the Sovi¢t Union, First May Day Demonstration In Johnstown, Pa. JOHNSTOWN, Pa.—An outdoor May Day demonstration was held here for the first time. Five hun- dred workers participated in it The pérmit for the demonstration was: granted only as a result of the mass pressure brought to bear upon the mayor, who at first had refused 7,500 Demonstrate In Canton, | CANTON, Ohio.—The best demon- | stration ever held 1 Canton took The police tried to scare away t workers who, however, remained 111! the demonstration was over. | place on May Day. Seven thousand 8 age ‘of labor, Workers will be free to sell their labor power to the high- est bidder and, due to the shortage, wages will inevitably rise. The ruling class is well aware of| this theory and deliberaetly fosters it | ALLY “MR. KIRBY: WELL, GENER- THE ANSWER IS THAT | WE SHOULD HAVE IT REALIZED THROUGH LAW THAT EVERY MAN AND WOMAN IN AMERICA HAS AN OBLIGATION TO TAKE HIS OR HER PART IN WINNING | | five hundred workers participated in this demonstration, which was fol- lowed by a mile and a half march from Nimisila Park to Public Square. | ‘Thirteen thousand five hundred leaf- | lets were distributed during the dem- | onstration and the march. The Ontonogon, Michigan, prelim- inary street meeting on Saturday, was attacked by the American Legion and county officials. Three workers were arrested. They were released on bai and will come up on trial on Tues- | day 2 i : : among the working class. At the The enth f thi ers | yegtip ss rotestin: lice brutality). It was,|sible to overcome these workers ee | THE WAR, JUST LIKE THE MAN | e enthusiasm o! worl nto ei nageaals oe Hie lb sales: | wllsertoa. | unemployment, the war danger will te participated eat a Police | s same time they haye laid the most IN UNIFORM. NOW WHETHER | P2tXipating in the demonstration | FLINT, Mich, May 2%.—Three 5 : |be evaluated, discussed during the |°Tder against the demonstration. | far-reaching Plans to prevent eany| quar CAN BE WORKE! OUT | was spectacular. They cheered the| hundred workers fought for the three day session of the meeting. In South Bend two hundred work- | rise in wages taking place during the “cack ag |speakers and pledged to fight ever! right to hold a May First meetins. All needle trades workers of the | Ts participated in the mass meeting; | war, Instead they intend to use the redsye A. F. of L. Taxes Plumbers Helpers $50 (By a Worker Correspondent.) jplan. Only whites and citizens will) city of Philadelphia are urged to come and greet the arrival of the general in Melrose Park the police and the American Legion attacked the dem- war as a means of worsening the condition of the entire working class | more for social insurance and against | imperialist war. An indoor celebration was held in “MR. COLLIN WOULD YOU THINK IT WOULD BE WISE TO | Three dicks were severely beaten | up and seven workers were arrested, three mn and four girls. NEW YORK.—Here is an expose of | he registered, ‘The officials boast | executive board on Thursday, May 6,| Onstration of twelve hundred work |and riveting fast the shackles of| TORS AND CHANGE HIG SAG. |the evening. Seven workers joined| ‘The meeting was broken up with rvacket. The Plumbers’ Union (A. .| at Boslower Hall, 701 Pine St. Phila.|¢tS: ‘Fifteen workers were arrested | slavery on us. | 2 NGE iS STA- Mates 5 r of L.) having depleted their treas- miata workete Dale the 10D. Bue and beaten viciously in jail. In | TUS FROM THAT OF A LA- |the Communist Party, two of whom| tear gas bombs. ury and having a large and highly paid clique ($125 a week), has found a new source of revenue, The officials ever, many helpers registered, in-j} cluding myself, but we can’t raise the fifty. May Issue of “Labor Elmwood Park, on the eve of May Day five hundred Legionaires were mobilized in groups, marching thru What are their plans? In 1928 the following resolution, | known as the Capper-Johnson Bill, | were Negro we orkers. BORER TO THAT OF A MAN | WHO HAD BEEN CONSCRIPTED | 2,000 ‘In the Streets. INTO THE SERVICE OF THE | hadi led aes | Over one thousand workers dem- | onstrated im Kalamazoo for the first time under revolotionary lead- 499 * —Se ershi of the union have started a scheme; Our wages have never exceeded Unity Out; Contains the working class neighborhoods |¥- R- 8313 (Toth Congress, ist ses-) UNITED STATES? WOULD THAT | derma x cia ihe May Day ec undre; to plunder the plunmbers’ helpers. | the $5 limit in the best years. Now Important: Articles| tresses tA wocktrs aod warming |0), Mas prteenled) te the Howle| BR WHAT YOU WOULD FuU- | TOU RECT mth, will werkeee fee Ge anise osteo t : , : , of Representatives: POSE? c "The decided to organize the help-| We work for less—$4 down to any The May issue of LABOR UNTTy, | them to keep away from the streets 4 | a |2 r t cheer~ mare! through ers provided each one of them pays thing the boss is willing to pay. offisl organ of the ‘Trade Union /o" May Day. Despite this bundreds| A bill provide further for the | | “MR. KIRBY: 1 THINK THIS 7.0", Singing the Internetionals es | ofthe ety, sure ‘nanare ‘ag and singing the Internationals as of the city, surrounded by hundreds an initiation fee of $50 and $2 a| And then the seasonal unemploy-| Unity League, contains articles deal-|°! Workers attempted to break national security and defense. GOVERNMENT HAS JUST AS > , month dues. ‘The union promises|ment. we are subjected to layoffs | ing with the problems in building the| through the terror and held a dem-| _ “Be it enacted by the Senate and | MUCH RIGHT TO SAY TO THE ete apa i ae . Msgr Faget gia and that if the dues are forthcoming it|due to cold or hot weather, rain or| revolutionary unions and rank and|°nstration, Many were arrested and House of Representatives, that in | MAN IN THE FACTORY: ‘YOU r ee will plead with the bosses to help pay the helpers $6 a day. sriow, lack of material, etc. The plumbers themselves work for less file oppositions in such industries as steel, raidroad, mining, etc, beaten up. At a mass meeting in Hegewich the event of a declaration of war by Congress which in the judgment onstration, calling upon the workers to intensify the struggle against im- perialist war and for social insurance. SHALL WORK CERTAIN HOURS FOR CERTAIN PAY’ AS IT HAS Hold First May Day in Negasnes. ‘The scheme is also a jim-crow/ than $6, ‘The article by S. Wilner, “Toward |°Ver three hundred workers demon-| of the President demands the im- | TO SAY TO THE MAN IN THE ‘| NEGAUNBE, Mich, May 3— a ge Onin PETE mediate increase of the military | CIGAR STORE— Four new members of the Party! . sou, 30,000 workers attende@ the ® Fighting Steel Union,” deals with were recruited, and two of these are some of the tasks in connection with| The total number of meetings ar-| establishment, the President, and | “MR. COLLINS: 1 UNDER- lwegress, May First demonstration. Three Legion “Relief” Job Nets Vet 7 Cents Van Dyke, Mich. Waily Worker: IT am writing this letter to expose ie American Legion’s talk about re- Weving unemployment which is crys- talized in the slogan, “One million amount he spent 18 cents for carfare, leaving a balancen of 7 cents to live on for a whole week and also to get back to his Alma Mater, the Amer- ican Legion. Such is the kind of jobs that the this. Willner tells what the M. W. I. L must do in order to utilize the preparation for its coming conven- tion in the steel union William Z. Foster, in the article “Kept Trade Unions,” tells of the re- vival of the A. F. of L. unions, with ranged in the Chicago district were sixty-six, but all reports have not yet been received. In Chicago a week before May Day orders were issued to the National Guards to be assembled in the ar- mories to be ready for an emergenoy. he is hereby, authorized to draft into the service of the United States such members of the unorganizd militia as he may deem necessary: Provided, that all persons drafted into service between the ages of 21 and 30, or such other limits as the STAND ALL THAT. WE ARE AS- SUMING WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THAT, IF WE HAVE NOT THAT WE ARE GOING TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION OF | THE UNITED STATES SO WE CAN DO IT. NOW THEN, WOULD 1,200 Negro and White Workers Demonstrate, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—One thou- sand two hundred Negro and white workers participated in a really en- thusiastic May Day demonstration at hundred workers participated in a militant parade to Market Street where the demonstration was held. ‘This was the biggest May Day demonstration in the history of Ne- gaunee. The speakers were enthuse iastically applauded. Resolutions of | m ; «| government help, in an attempt to|This was also an attempt to keep| President may fix, shall be drafted | YOU CHANGE HIS STATUS LE- | yy, ra, | Protest ageinst imperialist war and | bs in thirty days, Legio ; : ¢ National Guardsmen who are out. exemption on account of LY FRO} 1 ae |e Sere. Afar the demonstra. | irae ie arrest of Frank Borich A ter days pee talked to one dervicemen. ‘What the workers in the {halt the growing influence of the red |#h® National Guards " waviont Ls f'| GALLY FROM THAT OF A LA- |i, s march through the main cf thin ex Buuinecs GGT Was “tanky | Legion sntist a6 Ae 4 Began w gigs ions workers from participation in the| industrial occupation.” BORER TO THAT OF A MAN IN | seote took place and more than 500| Yee passed i Cpcabtaes Maude White, a Negro organizer | demonstrations. “Section 2. That in case of war | THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED |) i0 aes ee Spaeth fo set on ons of hese “prose Antic rank and Te moverien? foe the : % ‘The socialist party held its first| or when the President shall judge | STATES AND THEN REGULATE | “°T**!® Participated in it. An indoor | pority” jobs from the American | tombstone bonus over the heads of |Of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- ta Ga thse @ ‘The Fi a! th aT bk datiltiense nates | HE WAGER? mass celebration was held in the eve-| DAVENPORT, Iowa, May 3.—One |, Mggion. This man was sent to a|the corrupt officials. Rally behind | trial Union, raised an important is- bales pci Phere a is A Biss ff re a ef Beata e an STROM ENS (De thousand workers met in a May Day | yeetain home where he peinted the | the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s Lea-/sue in “Special Negro Demands.” |" Setter Toot Se ete | when, in, his opinion, such ones. | TION WOULD BE ALONG THAT | THe Police was mobilized for the| demonstration, with 110 parading to '|rooms. For this work he received |gue in thir mass delegate parade to |The article is based on her exper- eel eer cia [ides wegac) : ces i a ae sate occasion, but in view of the workers’}Rock Island where a mass meeting | 5 eents and his dinner, Out of this | Washington. iences in organizing work. Sency secure es eee fs ea militancy did not attack the demon-|was held in the Workers Hall with : hie struggle aman Wa ALP of Ls “(a) To determine and proclaim | “MR. COLLINS: THAT WOULD |?" an ae | Hoe atte Teele Workers’ Uoete. the material resources, industrial | BE JUST WHAT YOU WOULD |") "or nonaid of Chicago was the Owls ancy a a For d Thugs ‘Attack Daily Work er A gent ployment Insurance Bill is described | organizations and services over | PROPOSE. vane speaker, who stressed the neces- 500 Out in Hartford. i pines in an article by Louis Toth, “The A.| $6 99 which government control is neces- | “MR. KIRBY: A NON-MILI- |.) of » more intense struggle for| HARTFORD, Conn—Five hundred 4 (By a Worker Correspondent) I did not see why I had no right to |p of 1, Rand and File Fights for sary to the successful termination | TARY DEFENDER OF HIS COUN- | i endiate relief, for social insurance | workers celebrated May Dat t " DETROIT, Mich.—With another) sell it. Unemployment Insurance.” | of such emergency and such con- | TRY. Vega austnat ereokeations Tee: eae oa lan anaes pode ll 4 preecting ¢ Worker I went to the Ford plant with) The cop tried to scare me by letting| One of the main articles is Borich’s | trol shall be exercised by him | “Mr. Collins: Your theory would ee eee ' copies of t® Daily Worker and the long before I was grabbed by Ford’s if police. ‘What are you trying to do around here?” growled the cop. “T've got some good literature for the workers. Don’t you want to buy a Daily Worker or a Abo De- fender?” I said. “You know damned well you can’t sell that stuff around here,” said the I told him it was printed here and New Wage-Cut at Johnson and Johnson Plant New Brunswick, N. J. Daily Worker: The workers of the Johnson and Johnson plant of this city have re- cently recelyed another wage cut, This is the third direct wage cut within the past year, each wage cut amounted to 5 per cent making a to- tal of 15 per cent for the year. Be- sides these direct wage cuts the bos- ses have cut wages in other ways ‘ labor” in the Soviet Union, a forced] Prince Rupert—3 e wood fresh a ecinl}; uM : r' ipert~-A. Seppahammer eT tines a tion Steel Plant Closes in Braddock, Pa. eh blogs weal May istue, ust out, Some of the| imminent i already on. Undér |iabor they themselves can easily im-| Varegarer vite Siewther 1) messherring, (2 pruientaaep PECTA! . |Jother features includ | y i hat la do with s y vt s 1.99 (By ® Worker Correspondent.) This is the Edgar Thompson Steel iM mageps Ot Robeioual the Ford HAA 8 cae, tear sea ru imeem I troughte smudge homens isu Testek Thera oe ion BRADDOCK, Pa—Distress among | Plant which employs trom 3,000 to|| 4 per aao0 || charity vs. solidarity, a new anti-war | t. Kirby: Twould endeavor by | We must inform the workers of| tema” ise 5 r r 5, x 3D: rs ‘onto—Nici holas T_ George ow UR MAPI s the poor hete is very severe here. PN Mariela ical nee ioe ‘oo |80ng with music, and many others, | some plan, which J said at the out- (he plans of teh fascist Hoover gov- TueaSENY Workale Bae. Civ PURE MAPLE SYRUP is working the “Workers Life” sells for ten cents| set is going to require some study | or t and show them t abo, Ff i Conditions are worse than they ever n going a rmment and show them the means] 4 Bord Novia Sedtia nl $2.50 9 Gallon—Nelivery Pete "i pa men were lucky to get a few days in |] |For further information eal! them| 1/4 copy, subscription $1.00 a year, fifty| by your men, to get the laboring |to fight it. Our fight aguinst the Readers of Laisve : int 7 c ie oo Medel cease Been eonene:, Duere._Are, 48 On Bee Benen Cee eae conts for six months, It can be ob-| clement to realize that it bas just | war-mongors’ plans must be carried | Raters of Ohrans 00 et ee , according to reliable re-| people living in this town and the el-—-Fsterbro tained at various newstands and| the same obligation to win the war As Prinad,, Baits ‘ 2.00) HILLARORO, euimatte on he was going to arrest me. Then ing for a street car, another Ford thug. He stood beside me and pre- tended to be waiting for the car. He asked for a Labor Defender. I sold it to him and he quickly disappeared. I noticed that the workers when they came out of the factory were all in, Some of them can hardly walk. It is the awful speed-up that makes them like that. They looked @ terrible sight—as though they had been worked to death, AO. such as speed-up and part-time work. The speed-up in the plant is ter- rific. Most of the workers have had their hours reduced from nine to seven hours a day and yet they are forced to produce much more than when they worked fulltime. This represents another wage cut of over 20 per cent. This increased produc- tion is also the reason why hundreds of workers have been laid off. facing ee. a Z on “What's Happening in Ohio—and sions.” Other articles are “The Food In- | dustry and War,” by L. Taffer. “The | Lumber Workers” by Roy Brown; “How Local Struggles Brought a Mass Strike,” by Edith Berkman, (based on the first Lawrence Strike); “The Second Five Year Plan.” ‘The issue is a real directive issue, of immense valffiue to all who are active or interested in the building of mass revolffiutionary trade unions. Subscriptions and bundle orders should be sent to LABOR UNITY, 2 W. 15th St., ‘New York, N. Y. SPEND YOUR SPRING VACATION Camp Nitgedaiget You can rest tn the proletarian ‘com atmosphere provided [in the Hotel—you will also find ‘it well with steam heat, jhet water and many ether tm- provements, ‘The food ts clean 'Sends Message to New |leader of the German working class, | has sent the following message to “Workers Life,” new popular cultural | magazine issued by the Cultural De- | partment of the Workers Interna-| tional Relief: | “Dear Comrades: | The publication of this new maga-| {zine of the WIR is for us an excep-| tionally meaningful, ‘mportant event. | The international workers’ movement | stands before decisive struggles. The | ‘Misery’ offensive of the employers and their governments endures under the pressure of the crisis. The capi- talist system writhes in agony. The medicine of the ruling class is fascism and war. This reality must be ex- posed to the American working class with every conceivable energy and means. May the new magazine of the WIR be a standard bearer of this truth and a herald in the coming decisive struggles. One enemy alone we all hate, And one freedom makes us all free! Clara Zetkin.” | This greeting is published in the the WLR, 16 W, lst fcr as the man in through agencies then existing or | be necessary to stabilize prices of | services and of all commodities de- | clared to be essential whether such services and commodities are re- | quired by the government or by | the civilian population.” ‘The hearing on this bill took place | in 1928 and is set forth in 55 pages of a pamphlet which is of deepest! interest to the working class. We will skip over that, however, to a) discussion taking place in 1931 be-| fore the War Policies Commission, which clearly and exactly shows how the fascist ruling class expect to use this bill, or one like it, against the working class. Some Details of the Plan of Forced Labor. | It is reserved for Thomas Kirby,| na‘.onal legislative chairman of the Tusabled War Veterans, to show most clearly the plans for the next war. In a colloquy with Representative’) Collins at the HEARING BEFORE THE WAR POLICIES COMMIS- SION the following is said: “Mr. Collins: Mr. Kirby, let us assume that this war that is so | + naar be to take the flagman of the rail: |“ SOVle Union. bors fh cubteanageonmnet, (nla demonstration held here. This isthe “Sceretary Hurley: 1 would like . ¥ town where the workers participating bares Abi es Few ae wee (i the National Hunger March were 5 e ‘om of the ‘turned off the National Highway. In congressmen to the fact that Joint | ‘ | this terror-ridden town, where Clovis Resolution No. 98 provides: Said lLewis of the Young Communist Commission shall not consider and | League was arrested on a vagrancy not report upon the conscription chart " | ge and held under $7,000 bail, of forced labor.” (P.S.—Hearings | +16 workers held their first May Day | —Part 1.) ‘There are more than 900 pages, celebration. The police did not at | telling the proceedings at this hear- ing, but this colluquy between Mr. Collins and Mr, Kirby tells us all that we need to know regarding their plans for forced labor in the United States in the coming war. Mr. Hurley sharply cuts off this discussion which is too full of dyna- mite. But a corner of the veil is lifted and we see the operation of the fascist mind in all its nakedness: Conseription of all labor, both men and women, labor at home to do the work when and where ordered by the government at wages set by the gov- ernment. And these are the gentle- men who become horrified at “forced FRIEDMAN'S CLOTHES SHOP 7031 W. GREENFIELD AVE. WEST ALLIS, WIS. M. Misling Workeds on “SS Roosevelt” 8. Chermas—en_ route Pi Collection on L, B. Seney Group of Workers-—V: L. Callegarc, Alia, Canada Thos. ¥. Mountford, Wynnceil pCanada—J. M. Sinclair nd into every factory and workshop | 1 ape the % Tarn tee sgroaie workers attended the first May Day) ADDITIONAL MAY 3.00 stration Sunday. Workers from the i 4 7 Bl t abe, : | | war industries, unemployed workers, |, Tabor Defender. I went up to the| ne changed his mind. WIR Magazine | Which he may create for the pur- | road into service, but have him | > 999 In Richmond, Indiana. _| white and Negro workers, pledged to gate.to sell some of the literature to A rank and file railroad worker, | a | Pose. continue doing the same work, | RICHMOND, Ind—Two thousand |exert every effort to stop shipments the workers. I was not there very] On my way back I met, while wait-| 5 O'Neil, writes on “Railroad Pen-| Clara Zetkin, yeteran revolutionary, “(b) To take such steps as may | probably with pay according to | 4 of arms and munitions to the far east war zone, The meeting was addressed b¢ Harry Raymond of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker. The Lithuanian | Singing Society presented « program of revolutionary songs. Build a workers correspondenae sromp in your factory, shop oF neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. sees ee War Veterans Should Pre- pare for the Daily Worker Straw Vote! DAY GREETINGS Workers of the World Unite! Greetings from The Ukrainian Labor Temple Olevetand, Oblo Beautiful Aud jum for Concerts,