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, | Party Member Active FRENCH SOCIALISTS HELP TO SPUR WAR ON SOVIET UNION Trotsky Stands As Leader of Bourgeois Counter Revolution Against Workers Millerand at Wit’s End Trying to Explain That Assassin Is Communist Editor of the Daily Worker: Brooklyn, N. Y. j like these faking institutions work in | Charity Appeal in Hammond Proves to Be Obvious Fake} (By a Worker Correspondent) | HAMMOND, Ind. — The relief; agencies in Hammond are working | other parts of the country. This is Shown when the local press made an} appeal for an unfortunate family of | four. children and their mother deserted by the father and who were evicted from their home. } «The local press makes an appeal for a house for the family, but care- | fully néglects to mention the welfare} agencies and relief organizations| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 193. WALL STREET INVADES FAR EAST ri Page Three rs MUST VOTE DOWN THE | MISLEADERS IN THE COUNTERMAN’S UNION !Members Taxed $5 for Banquet; | Call Workers to Form Group to Fight Bosses Over Heads of Corrupt Leadership 1 Forced to 3uy Car.for Officials (By a Worker Fae * 5 Ps ty Correspondent) The French socialists in union with their Japanese | nich are supposed to handle such| - rai ee ; counterparts are busy in manufacturing clumsy lies about the | cases. | YORK.—I ama member of local 302 of the Counter+ “red menace”; Millerand is at his wit’s end in financing a| This mother should join the Unem- men’s union. I always thought that this organization was one way of “explaining” how Gougolov is not an inciting White Leethen Counet ot aera a that would protect us on the job. But I understand different A i ‘1 astlin Street and all others like her, Siero = $s is Se Guard who could not control his spleen, but really a terrible where militant class conscious workers now. The union is not ours. It is the bosses’ union. The boss Communist; in short all the “friends” of the workers are busy in creating a war Psychology in the masses for an attack on the Soviet Union. know how to handle such cases. CHILDREN TAUGHT ean fire anyone he fells like at any time nine time out of ten. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves to let the two fakers, , 2 3 | Mr. Pincus and Mr. Epstein run our union. A couple of weeks Here Trotsky appears in consonance with the other friends |ago we had a very serious meeting in which the new contracts Sart, ©to point out in undated article in the ce x Pe toca os 2 me # ‘ ; ae A pas opts 0 most imperialistic paper in the Uni- MILITARY GAMES ee 4 with the bosses had to be discussed. The officials on the L ” U. S. Troops marching into Tiensin, China. nese soldiers were sent to the Far East to shoot down |) 4 Pala Stee daliiemalo 5 inion Gaeta aaa UNTOLD MISERY teg “States “The New ns Gear Chinese workers and peasants and are part of the general war preparations against the Soviet Union. jae did a DS of talking about the union hours and wages. that: “The workers are discontent + Workers! Demand the withdrawal of these troops from China! Organize and stop the shipment of arms | How many of us get union hours or > Sigler NTR. not with the Soviet regime, but with z a wages? In most of the stores we| and munitions to Japan! | the fact that a bureaucracy is re- h-ve to work 12 hours insiead of 10} I Placing the Soviets!” | and get paid ne: $28.00 thar | What has Trotsky in mind? What MEN IN ABO Sere Srarees. we /tade ot Ue Toe WASHINGTON OK'S otic sscterescewramt, PAY-CUT 40P. Cy Soviet regime? Workers! how friendly can this Organizing Rail Men egotistical maniac be to the workers of the Soviet Union when our bitter- Through Play Tamilton, N. Y. [PASSED A DOORMAN I KNOW, CHE MASSACRE for more pay and beter conditions | this coming year. And in this meet- ing they told us that they are going | | to bring the girls into the union who STRUGGLES LOOM (By a Worker Correspondent) | est enemy gives him his organs of|'To the Daily Worker: for Struggle ,| Will get $18.00 a week what that! Marine Workers Union propaganda? Does he not serve the} It was my good fortune today to be NEW YORK.—I passed a doorman I know today. He nds Telegram of |means ought to be clear to all of us: Holden é (By 4 Workers Correspondent) | Purpose of helping to mislead the| working in the vincinity of some|works under the awning of a swanky apartment house on Park | Consranalan In a year there won't be any of us| olds i feetings to | POCATELLO, Idaho—I have been}Masses of those countries where the} young children, boys and girls, fine] Avenue right above 42nd Street. His job is to help the lovely | ongratulation left on the jobs. ‘The bosses will put | Prepare Fight | in the transportation department of | Tuling classes see the death of their} healthy specimens. The oldest was ladies in and out of their limousines. He has to suck around! ara in girls who they will pay less wages various railroads for over twenty | System in the success of the Soviet|seven, the youngest four or five. Pinger k thi i nie th err ace nd Witte | fey. & Worker Correspondent) than they now have to pay the men. | (By a Worker Correspondent) years so that I know railroad men,|Union? Isn't this half-maniac help- | Among their playthings were a num-|for tips to make anything. He carries their handbags, and lifts| cxrcaco, 1l—I talked to a citi-| Workers Want Union Seale. BUFFALO, N. ¥.—The ‘activity of I am using my time trying to edu-|ing to befog the masses that will be} ber of toy guns. : them up by the elbow, and he shuts the door, he opens the} zen who was a witness of the Melrose} 1 am not against girls, but these| revolutionary workers along the lake cate other railrocd men in the pro-| Used in attacking the only country} “What are you going to be when| door. He does that 14 hours a day. Park Massacre. He told me that Dr.|fakers if they were really for us could} front ports has been greatly stim- gram of the Party. I put in, on the | Where the workers are the rulers? you grow up,” I asked one of them. He was sure sore today Brust, Village President and Director take girls into the union at the reg-| ulated as a result of the organization average, seven hours a day working ‘Trotaky's . Role. pe cae 8 ee eet eae ‘ , fe of the Westlake Hospital told him|ular union rate. The reason they do|of the Buffalo local of the Marine for. the good of the cause. 1 also} 1s ‘he Riad ati! to bps eeteiew they were teas cane hag in their “What's the matter with you”? I asked. | that he had received a telegram from | not do this is that by t aking in girls| Workers Industrial Union. On Sun- gather up all the Daily Workers 1|/0f the workers away from - | games. “Let’s play soldier.” bert x ” oid 6 z > help | Washington congratulating = he| they get their $10.00 initial payment| day, May 8th, in the hal Z can aad, dab them out again and in| Pending war danger on the Soviet} “And who are you going to fight| Firat ap ancle ae said, “is that the house help method in which the Reds ware dealt | and then get well paid from the boss |liott Street a Tie Ge tele Ge that way let men find out the truth.| Union, so that they can be led easier | against?” “Oh, Japan.” They couldn't! “anese Park Avenue dumps | matter!” with. levery time they send him a girl to|held with a large attendance of lake - So far I have met with god results| to the slaughter on ¢heir own van-| tell me why. “And what are you going} °° raking in the dough. We| “Hey,” I said, “You see that red| This statement describes in all its|replace a man. seamen. The program of the Marine ‘The present condition of this town | Suard, when he says: “It is needless) to do, Alice.” “I’m going to be a) o1o4 oot an empty apartment. And | ight down there on the N. Y. Central | nakedness the pclicy of the Hoover Forced to Buy Car. | Workers Industral Union was out- is certainly making fertile ground for |to say that at the moment of danger) nurse and nurse the soldiers.” Noj 1. Cr ine tenants has got a redue- | Building?” Hunger government which gives us| They forced us to buy a car for a|lined and a rank and file committee our teachings and we of the Party|to the Soviets the Trotskyists would hesitancy in that reply, either. tion in'rent yet. But they.got to cut|. “Yeah,” he . / instead of bread. Christmas present for the fakers so|was appointed to launch organiza- certainly wish we could obtain the|Pe found in the first lne of de-) “But why do you want to be sol-| |" wages ten per cent. They know|. “That’s.the color we'll all be soon,”| ‘This attack on the workers was the | they could enjoy themselves. They| tional activities along the waterfront. services of a good speaker. I guess| fense......” implying of course that|diers and kill people?” “Oh, we're they're taking advantage of us. They | Js2id. most outrageous attack I have ever, @% us $5.00 for a banquet. What| The seamen and longshoremen here we are on the average. there is no suche danger. TE NO Sa ee ener en SUETe FOL they. can gab ORRIN ho ake |T Li eave. nee THEN nok lheard of. We must answer this}@f they going to do with all this|zre now suffering from the result of Our relief agencies are a joke and|. When even a bourgeois enonomist, | kill the enemy in war, isn’t it?”. And our places for the lousy ioeey. Every| “Yeah,” he says lowly npheters (statement we must answer the bos- | ™0ney—the least they will collect will| the sell-out and betrayal by the In- ¥ there is untold distress among the} Babson, who is paid for his advise,|then out of a clear sky, from Joan,| ) bellboy leaves they hire an-|plenty of us ‘thinking about that |ses and their lackeys, by intensifying |e $3500. And this from the mem-| ternational Seamen's Union. Wage / Union Pacific shop workers, as they) in a circular to his clients (excerpts | “My daddy was a soldier, and so ide other for five dollars less, ‘They been | tight now.” our struggle for unemployment in-| ers only, I don’t count the money|cut after wage cut has convinced?” are working part time. The Com-|of which were printed in’ the N, ¥.|Mr, Brown, next door.” And they doing that right along. But now they| “Well, I says, “Quit thinkin’ about |Strance and immediate relief. We they get from the tickets sold to the|them that the Marine Workers In- pany makes so many deductions from} World-Telegram) says that his cli-}ran on about their play. cut us all ten per cent. The rich |it. Ain, es Bi ‘ld ? Mal fe aningt recruit hundreds of workers |0sses. I understand that many of | dustrial Union offers a solid basis thelr scant earnings that there is lt-Jents should organize their business} ‘They told the boys they wereliums are cutting out the tips, and| Workers Union” e * |into our ranks, Organization must|the bosses bought as many as ten|for the fight against the ship owners, te or nothing left to feed their fami-| with the inevitability of Japan’s at-| fighting a war to “end war” and 4/inat means me and the wife have a} “What's that?” he says. So I told|be the answer. —E. H._ | tickets. Much has been learned during the ies with. tack on Soviet Russia taken into con-| war to ‘make the world safe for|nirg time eatin’ ‘Thats whats the | bin . pian elie Ld a We can see for ourselves that|past few years by the seamen and: Comrades: What we certainly need | sideration. Here Trotsky steps in to democracy.” But they taught these . everything is crooked. We must fight|the Buffalo jlocal of the Marine here is a good solid front backed by! say if there was any danger.” boys, now men, to fight, and they TOIL 1? HOURS ; against these sellouts. We must fight] Workers Industrial Union carrying ) pe National Railroad Industrial) 5 there any question “of Trotsky’s|teach their sons and daughters rel |in the meetings. Pincus and Epstein | the fight with vigor along the water- ; gue. motiv Does he not fall in line| play soldier and nurse, and give them R d C O t F ad | know that they wont be elected again|front and to the men engaged alo eae Sons of oe Nae ig ane ate sod editorial policy of the Times | imitation fire arms. And they re e Toss pera es orce | A D AY IN W VA so they are trying to.get all they can|the docks, the ccgursipies the aaae ation are sure ing up. er minimize: danger preparing them to go against th sak. 4 } £ * ° °| before they ‘get out: We must watch} the support of all Buffalo working- words we of the West will be ready uct of ject in hy ea new enemy, the Japanese. And these Labor Racket in Kentuek ' out-and go to our méetings and vote | class crpasiiations i to meet the capitalist and his gun- for a redivision of| Were children of workers and, of y . 5 = them down every time. The Marine Workers Industrial Vee atta Wie Noe Eee ney ied ara with ttack | teachers, not of the “higher-ups.” Miners Live Worse Union have a splendid meeting hall Now, workers, let's go! On with) #e world, beginning with en a We must spread our organization, Calloway, Ky. ) tucky to know that J. M. Robison, Thancwes Ry aRae at 161 Elliott Street, Buttalo, N. Y. the good work! Long live Commun- | O = ssa nee std ea ae reach out to these children and tell| Dear Comrades: who was elected candidate for presi- a gs Starvation in Center which is open every day. Regular ism! graphs he has not one word on the) 16m that thelr enemies are not the| I want to tell you about conditions! dent of the Coal Operator Association of New York City | seamen’s meetings lare held every reoeneitigat Liege but ee te tk , but |the bourgeoisie, the bea Keep growing worse in Ken-|was-the man who helped stop the Ee Be eee ws YS. i Thursday at 8 p. m. with an open * attem) estab! sincerit F they wdrk and ‘| tacky: ‘ub which was sent in to feed stary- | Dear Comrades: | 3 | y < Movement Spreading ae ag Gtes a bo soci ori tae Sieg the power. The charitable Red Cross forces ae children and organized SNe We have the most sfiriectaian| ld . Soe one a TROHDE SveER LO MUAAY at $90 in Small Northwest “cries agree the Govie Hes aie, A Comrade.|™en to work like convicts for flour churches against the working class,| living conditions that could belie. is no macvation in yemes Militant seamen of the Great Lakes Ti : Relief Cut Off is going ot put out by the government. If your/when all the religion in Kentucky| heaped upon a man and his family.| 571 4s one instance... Yesterd ;|are urged to visit our hall and helps ‘own; Relief Cut Off | soviets? : husband doesn’t work on the road,|wouldn’t take anybody to heaven. All| We miners work froth 10 to 12 hours|P0 ao 0 y a a ier cP lus to put the MWIU in @ strong j —— : What difference is there between WORKERS P ‘AID you don’t get any flour. The head|they are out for is the dollar they| day and when we come from work Fenty camiclat ann: | fighting. posltiod 4o.combek. wit es (By a Worker Correspondent) | Trotsky and the socialists in their of the Red Cross in Pineville, is run/can get out of a poor man. It is|We must go to the general manaber |* Tne! Wearing ® sandwich sign. | ee ons and to do our Williston, N. Dak.| effect on confusing and misleading by the American Legion. When you! getting close to election time now. All| and beg a dollar so that we can eat. mee roy share in the class war struggle. Daily Worker: F the masses? Would the Times give PER MONTH ask for flour, they will ask you, “Does|the men who are going to run for|We have the poorest grub, A dog HELP Some ship companies are Caving as Since May Day this year there are] its columns to any force inimical to your husband help build the county|any kind of office, throw up their| Would die if he has to eat it for a] | Unemployed family man low as $37 a month for deck hands Many new workers who joined with|the interests of the bankers for roads, or sweep the streets of Pine-|hands and say to you, “Hello there. long time. With four smail children who are and $35 a month for coal ee us who were not with before. We are/ which it stands? Isn’t the present area fe ville or clean out the big men’s toil-/Do you want a ride?” They don’t] The boss tells us tht we have to} Dying with starvation. which 1s a 40 per cent oot th ai test going to organize an unemployed! Trotsky an enemy of the Soviet Un-] Alabama WomenWor ets?” That's a poor way for a man|ask you now as they did along back| take it and if we don’t like it he tells} Children were crying for food | season. The fiisnsen were pig from @ouncil here. There are about 100} ion? Isn't this man a personifica- for Old Clothes to make a living for a family when|in the winter; “Are you a Red?” | us to get out. and mother has nothing to offer | 105 to $50, which is 55 per cent cut eee re ee ahaa e ae tion of the advance guard of the they just allow one day per week to] Now they want the miners’ votes. Last month I was credited with| them. There is much revolt Hen sine the | aire a Sins Sa ae ager we paces rial Sa ee Nolasgula, Ala. faeries Boltaic ce eae Belore igs: sould all lie to a miner) $72.72. The charges against we was| If we don't get immediate help | seamen and they are strongly for the | ts aMab tata, » R. MBASAR. Dear Sir: r en-|coming out of town so that they | $67. I drew $5.72, Our store charges| we will have to face the end. Marine Workers Industrial Union. } I am the man that got beat up last tucky working class to wake up. The! shouldn't haye to accommodate him} the most outrageous prices and we < Our speakers are applauded by the Build s workers correspondence year. I got about all my crops taken county is supposed to give the chil-|with a ride; but now their eyes are| are actually forced to trade at this « ) Workers and the amount of literature] group in your factory, shop oF away from me. They didn't leave dren one pint of milk a day, but/opening It’s about time. They want] store or get out of the mine. If we $, we sell shows that we are making| neighborhood. Send regular letters ‘oe ea ough to pay my doctor bill, {Part of the time they get condensed|to run for something, but when they|¢o to the charity we are sent back Worker Tells Why He Is A Communist * headway. J. K.| to the Daily Worker. They told me that I could have my igen water, something they can a ee bes29 eae poee ee to on mine. They don’t hp issue (By a Worker Correspondent) the same way. ; . y ky.| scrip here. They giv> out what ‘irst: I believ ir play 1 x % A peak os i Hes Eaiksahn The Reds, as they call them, came} Looks as if it is time Kentucky wa ennguc Bills . tar sentinel ag POLESE Ais Seley 08 alt Ninth: I do not believe in felse Communist Party { Inits Papers fixed up. I went ahead and|@own to help the miners out. They| waking up and learning their dirty! MES Second: I am tired of teh capitai-| ™Ptsonment of anyone. | 4 had the papers fixed but I could not were all thrown in jail and shot down} way of doing things. Go by what “phe jab t will gain the | st. rule. 5 Tenth: I am tired of being hood- Poa! A get them signed and thus assure my-|>Y dirty gun thugs and teaten up by|they have done before because they! “fhe !abor movemen gain the | ‘Third: I believe in a living wage,|Winked by the republican, democrat | Report on Conditions in (S:'Fucev Son the thus waldo again, apps: band and show the way to} Fourth: I ove to be employed,” |*04 Yelow socialist | Eastern Penna. Coal Mines | Scranton, Pa, } Dear Comrade Editor: ‘The following reports are from the various units of the C. P, on the va- Pine Brook Colliery, Scranton, Pa. Jobs are scarce here and I can't get anything to do, Those who are working are getting only $. a month and that’s not enough to fed a family bread. Some of the women are working for $1.25 a week. Some are doing washing for milk and butter and 4 few old worn out ‘lothes. I want every working man in Ken-| ~A Kentucky Miner's Wife. | peace and socialism.” LENIN. Starvation in the Capital of “Our Country”, Washington, D. C. is the “Gospel Million.” They run Fifth: I believe in a solid govern- ment for the workers. Sixth: I do not believe in any lynch law, Seventh: I do not believe in being bulldozed by a boss. Eighth: I know that all are born has been waging a fight for pure Eleventh: Being a man of my own mind with free will and accord I hope I may die a Communist. Twelfth: To hell with the boss rule. HENRY GREEN, t é Auto Mechanie, rious locals and mines. child. When the miner told him that Went i 3 he had four children and the oldest ce ° . lliery, Mayflower, Pa, y Per ee vind the co-|OH®.38 11 years old, The boss said s Baltimore, M2. | Charity Institutes Send | Pui otten enoush, he can stay there Unemployed Council Demands Pure Food called union officials are now openly | nothing doine. He asked him tis te-| Police Gas and Wreck ee Wavlehe Gut. | indefinitely. (By a Worker Correspondent) evening, on 14th St, near Orbach’s speed-up syste: tl Oo descril ye con~ & | i < ‘ail y stor | prneriacaral a ae me jee tose mines and the company could not| Workers Headquarters | qi:ions of an unemployed worker in P ahhctidte q stil i ic eee joints sider Sin ts ninth Bb ae thelaky and } ‘ s s : pas € 5 g 2 iy" * je ir ay ad ¢ 4 men ead two union men on a| 2% to have @ man in the mines/in Richmond, Indiana| the capital of the United states, nh BkY AG Delage, Sod Oe | ae ‘miners’ grievance committee and ‘where this committee is supposed to settle miners’ grievances. The trus- tee from this same local union got a job in a different mine in the Ash- ley: mines where the bosses are lay- ing men off every two weeks. \ . When a miner by the name of Bar- lay complained that it was not right for a man to be officer in a local ‘union and work in another mine he ‘was threatened to be expelled from ‘the so-called U.M.W.A, ‘The miners in the five foot vein got as low as $235 for eight yards pensation for the widow until the children were of age. Maxwell Colliery Similar lay-offs have been in etfect in this colliery as in the South Wilkes-Barre colliery;. up to date there has been several so-called un- profitable veins and about 300 min- ers have been laid off. The Maxwell colliery is also of the Glen Alden Coal Co. and has some of the most (By a Worker Correspondent) «¢ RICHMOND, Ind.—The police ter- ror is increasing in Richmond every day. The police have wrecked and gassed our building. We have over half the amount paid on it. Every day some one is arrested here. Usually the ones arrested are paper boys. The cops take our pap- ers and keep them if they are car- ried openly. In the past week men have been arrested on vagrancy charges. These men have lived in the town all their “Our Country.” T arrived in Washington late in the afternoon of May 2nd and went to the Salvation Army to secure lodg- ing for the night and after waiting in line for a couple of hours was given a ticket for a lousy cot to sleep I wanted to wash clothes but they didn’t allow that so I went to bed dirty dnd without anything to eat. They don’t even let you go out- side after you have registered and you are only allowed to stay there one night. The next morning I was given a cup of weak, black’ unsweet~- on, {both a soup line and a restayrant and the preacher hints that the best, way is for you to go out and bum two bits and give it to him for a might be secured and they said I would have to try to bum one from some merchant in town. They said to ask enough people and I would finally find someone who had one. They sell these tickets to people all over town and make a neat profit for themselves as the relief they gave me after I bummed a ticket was a thin bowl of soup and a cot to sleep on. There \was not even a clean place to wash up.- : The Wood Yard The city claims to maintain a mu- regular meal in the “Gospel” restau- vant. By the time I made the rounds in Washington I was pretty thoroughly disgusted and realized that an un- employed worker in Washington has no chance and is at the mercy of the charity parasites. I came over to Bal- timore and I find conditions even worse. In-fact everywhere I go I find conditions terrible, but at the same food for the unemployed in that breadline for the past two weeks. They maintain that the food is un-| fit for human consumption, to prove earth is the slogan of charity racke | eteers and the bosses. Workers on the bregdline mugt |Support the fight of the Breadline their statements, they have a piece} Unemployed Council for better food, of bread which will be exhibited to/ more of it, the abolishment of forced the workers about Union Sq. | labor and monthly registration on This piece of bread is mouldy, hav- inggreen Spots on it. The bread will be displayed at the street meeting of the Salvation Army next Sunday the premises instead of weekly regise tfation at South Ferry. Join the Breadline Unemployed Council, Call Police to Protec t Poor Commissioner ‘ . re |ened coffee and three slices of stale|nicipa! lodging house, but it also is Mi f coal and they should of got ten|reactionary leaders such as the EMralst tallied See eroksti sa (BER ROA GenP OLE on thamieneta =) fa. Deol makibe sander: or haa’ to (Hine tho GalVation Arniles and. As-| (iy a: Worker Corsseponasui.” jen getting poor reliéf satisfactorily. s that much, When the miners | Campbells and the Mullins who have] +40. with arrest the other day when| There was quite a bit of govern-| work two hours in a wood yard for «| S0ciated Charities have nice buildings] HAMMOND, Ind—"A police guard| 4 doubt that if thus " mt to the boss he told them that|been robbing the miners’ dues and police ran us away from the vacant | Ment construction under way and I|plate of beans and a place to sleep, | 2d nice fat sums in their treasuries. | was posted around the home of John ae gy a : person bon ¢ Tey would have to take it or leave | until lately they have been ousted |Police van us away trom approached several superintendants| ‘The wood yard pays the lodging house |They advertise “Salvation for AUl”|1¢. Jennings, chairman of the Evans-| Delenged to the unemployed counell | ; aj» One miner worked for 20 years in| ut of the local and @ new crew got |" “re worst terrorists in the town|and labor foremen on the various|/25¢ an hour for that work. If your|@Dd then send destitute workers out! ville (Ind.) Poor Relief Organization, |2™¢ ue pu ic hengpelieinhetey awe nd 2 hie Stanton mine end was burned by in, but the boss would not recognize] 0° tne ehiet of police Herbert| Jobs but they would only walk away'|shoes ure completely worn out, they] on the streets to bum tickets sold by| ster Jennings received several | POOr Telet delegation, he would have § Bnd when he came back he got | Sacco, Shadrich and Kusakaviteh; | inns) Ray and Mayor Harris, | Without listening to me. There are, let you work four hours for a pair] ten. threats. After a rock wus hurled) Si ¢ va a ns aa ty eat Mal , ‘a job as watchman in the same mine,|the bosses demanded credentials —H. B, |a number of employment agencies in|of 65 cent second hand shoes, I have tried to describe conditions| through a window of his home, Jen-| on teealiv tor the pore ate H but when the Hollenback closed down | from the district officers for recog- : the city but they charge $2 in ad-| ‘There is another joint called the|in “Our National Capital” as found |nings found a sign on his garage| {1° leeally for the vase 1 “4 Same : ‘they laid him off and replaced him } nition. “The struggle against militarism | Vance for a job and it is not sure|“Central Union Mission” which al-|them. ‘The same things that con-|door, which read ‘J. K. Jennings—| (00 coun, poesets for himself on . with some fire boss from the Hollen-} At present they have provisional must not be postponed until the | that the wages will be that much. |lows a worker three nights lodging, | fronted me ave confronting every un-| Get Going.’ ” | y -pome . 5 ack and all the bosses are getting | officers in the local and they re-/ moment when war breaks out, | Another so-called charitable organ-|but they force him to listen to their | employed worker, not only in Wash-| It is evidently getting too hot tor) Only through organization and _ Jobs in that mine and laying off the | solved that they would tlean out all|'Then it will be too late. The |ization is named the “Volunteers of|services and they impress upon him| ington but all over this “Land of| these fakers supposed to be relief|mass pressure will the workers be | older men, and the union does not|the factions and one of the miners | struggle against war must be car- | America’ but they will not furnish|that if he takes a “nose-dive” and {| the free.” You have my permission to| agents. I don’t know of course who|able to secure their rights in poor f do anything but it compels its mem-| told him that it would be best if we] ried on now, daily, hourly.” any relief without you giving them ajbecomes “saved” he can stay there} publish all or any part »f this. did this, but it is very apparent that] relief matters and the struggle for ~ bership to pay the chgckoft, cleaned you out by not paying dur-. LENIN. ticket, I asked how these. tickets ten nights; and then if he prays in ~An Unemployed Worker, this worker overlooked his best bet ~~. better living conditions, generally.

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