The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1932, Page 3

‘ WAGES IN SAN PEDRO CANNERIES DOWN TO | STARVATION LEVEL Women Forced to Work at High Speed; Many, Receive Only 60 Cents a Day Ps a SAN PEDRO—The one time so- called prosperity of the port of San Pedro is no more, Throughout the} port you can see bare masts of ships, “tied up,” left to rot. Why? After repeated wage-cuts the can- | hery workers’ standard of living has sure reached starvation level. The few men left who were geting fifty cents an hour, who haven't fired out and rehired at the new rate of 35 sents an hour, are now geting forty. If the machinery stops five minutes, | they are docked from half an how to a our, not to mention blowi: of the whistle eight to ten minut early Sixty Cents a Day ixperieneed women, packers and ate forced, to maintain @ high output, that only those women often work make 50 or 65 cents told to their get, mone, their mg conditions are the ver. During most of must wear rubber $ Owing to the ent speed-up and stink of rotten it is not uncommon to see the from exhaustion. At no poor workers average tore ‘They must week, every di Whether they pt waiting all das 1¢ back tomorrow | vhen they get in two or three ork. At other times they may | xleen or eighteen hours in | one day. Tn the F¥ench Sardine Cannery, sperienced can equal, to make | Otherwise they are | the conditions are worse than in other canneries. In this cannery the women who cannot maintain a cer- tain output, that allows them 35 cents an hour, are given 25 cents an hour. Byer at this rate they have to work very fast or they are discharged. ‘The manager and secretary, Bog- danovich and Jackish, a couple of Troops Press East and West 0 Chinese Eastern and Down (OGNTINDED FROM PAGE ONE) of the crisis beneficial to the masses; each will freely prom- ise jobs and plenty to the! workers if elected. But behind | alt! their fase promises and all the Sungari Valley. DANGEROUS SITUATION SEEN Tokyo Denies Seeking to Buy Share 6 the Raliroad—Briten Wounded model slave-drivers, along with their flunkeys, the foremen, are trying to install a King Alexander regime. Tf | they succeed, they will be shooting | the workers’ down. in the street for | not being able to pay their taxes. | Pascist Club | The cannery bosses actually force | these poor women who are trying to| to participate in its activities where they are taught that their first duty is to the kings of industries. | Here in San Pedro hundreds of | families are left destitute. Hundreds ‘s are living on what fish get from their friends and fishermen. | Workers, the bosses are organizing, even the churches are banding to- gether, the shipowners are merging, large corporations are drawing to- gether to freeze the small can out The rich are getting richer, the poot poorer. This later class should bt their plight and support the Com- munist Party, the Party of theitelass Organize into the revolutionary unions, the usions of the Trade Unton Union League. Join the Marine Workers Industrial Union.—Delegate No. 436, A. F. of L. Helps Cut Lathers’ Wages (By a Worker Correspondent) SHEBOYGAN, Wis.—Lathers In- ternational Union No. 299 of the A. F. of L., took a sccond cut in wages which now amounts to a 331-3 per cent cut within six months. On Oc- tober 1, 1931, their wages were cut frora $12 per day of eight hours to $10 and on May 1, 1932, another cut of $2 per day bringing the wage down to $8 por day of eight hours. Militant workers of the organiza- | ‘ion fought during 1930 to bring the | wage up to $12 per day for metal work. The local officers called spe- meetings and kept slicing the wages without the militant workers’ Garbage for Work (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn., At the Wel- ton St. public dumps here men can be seén at work with knives on rot- ten potatoes, lettuces, carrots and other refuse that is dumped here. They work diligently all day cutting out the bad parts and putting the better parts in bags. This they bring home to feed the litle children. i knowledge: They even went to the extreme of violating their local con- stitution to gain their ends. The lather as a tradesman re- ceives less work days per job than any other craftsman, and yet they cut wages saying that it will stimu- late building. There are over 2,500 unemployed in Sheboygan, any one with a little | foresight can se¢ that there will not be a biulding boom for some time to come. The little money that some workers have saved up. they are hanging on to because they do not know whether they will be the next ones to be laid off. ‘The lathers of Local No. 299 have not ¢arned enough in the past two years to pay a year’s rent, and yet the officers of that local, through the would create more building. ‘When militant workers try to pre- insurance they call them “Reds” but things are now taking a new turn since the last wage cut and already the members are secking advice from their Red members. ers in New Haven The government expects these little children to grow up and do the dirty work for the capitalists. There should be no need of anybody eating garbage at this time. If the food was handled right this would not happen. But under the capitalist system it will never be any other way. Only Com- munism will bring to the workers food and a beter life—W. L. Underwear Not in Style, Says Relief Head Woodbridge, N. J. Daily Worker: I want to express my opinion on & few things I heard in reference to” the New Jersey relief. I am out of a job and have to live on charity. First I went to the relicf station today and o% course, we hay? a very wealthy woman by the name of Boynton at the head of the relief station, Many of the workers asked for stockings and underwear. She said that she was not going to hand out any more underwear and stock- ings. She said it is the style to go without these items of clothing now. Factories and Homes (By a Worker Correspondent) MCKENNA, Wash.— Fine homes and factories are being destroyed here by the capitalists because they are no longer profitable to the owners. At McKenna, Wash., the owners are tearing down a very large com- bination Saw Mill and Shingle Mill which was in good condition and plenty of timber all in close proximity tothe plant, by this method they say they will save taxes and insurance, ete, In’ Grays Harbor County property owners are tearing down nice homes TERROR IN ST. JOSEPH (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—We had our lo- cal election conference here May 15. ‘The police attacked the meeting and did their best to antagonize the work- ers, On May 13 the police arrested a local comrade for speaking to a mass meeting of workers, We are having some terror here. But we are organ- When I came up to get my food ticket I asked for a suit of under- wear. Mrs. Boynton got up and made another specch. I told her that we workers were tired of joking and asked her if she practiced what she preached, She admitted that she had on underwear and did not intend to go without any. This also gave me a chance to explain the capitalist styles—wage-cuts, starvation, ete for the workers, ‘The workers here are iddignant over the way we are treated —J. ©, Destroyed by Owners as they say they are no renters, so by doing so they save taxes and other expenses, - Many others in other lines are doing likewise, some who own large store buildings state they will never pay another cent of taxes. For many years the criminal prop- ery owners of this country have been “7 SAVING Texes/* Sassi elite ener crying, the reds will destroy society and its institutions, and today you see them tearing down the things that society will need, when it is or- ganized to create wealth for the good of all, instead of a few parasites. A United States of Soviets under the aledership of the Communist ining to fight against it. The local| party is the only way to stop the LV. Mi {witch the people need. “ | by Spy Near Harbin, Spscisl Cal SHANGHAI, received here from Herbin hat a dramatic climax 19, appre even to THe Now Yoru Trees May 36.—Di support families, to buy tickets to the ge » ey, Jugo-slav club dan This Jugo-|, DAs clipping from the N. Y. slay club is a very strong fascist or- | Times, of May 27 speaks for ganization. ‘The workers are forced | itself, It shows that the ad- vance of the Japanese imper- talists toward the Soviet bor- der has been so steady and ra- pid that press can no longer deny it, the capitalist 14 MISSING - soft soap talk of the Chamber of Commerce decided that wage cuts sent a démand for unemployment being | IN KENTUCKY Delegates Started to Chicago; 2 Got Thru (By Special Correspondent.) CHICAGO, Ill, May 29.—seven- teen delegates from Harlan and Lell Counties were selected by the Ken- tucky coal miners to represent them at the National Nominating Conven- tion called by the Communist Party. @Three of them are Negro workers. Seventeen délegates departed from cheir homes to meeting places near Pineville last evening. Iwo of them arrived, one attr spending twelve Lours in the Kaoxville jail, Frank Burns, mire leader. is still in the Knoxville prison, held on $50¢- bond. Foufteen miners, who got into cars near Pineville et out toward Chicago, are missing. A detailed search by Bijé Wilson, delegate from Middlésboro, Bell County, and Paul Wilson of the National Miners’ Union, have failed to reveal their where- abouts. The fourteen missing men have not returned to their homes. Their wives and families have had no word from them since their de- parture. They have not come tothe meeting places. “Not Intimidated.” This is the story told by the two delegates who succeeded in breaking through the Kentucky terror. They were asked what, in their opinion, had become of the other delegates. “Were they kidnapped, do you think?” “We don’t know. We wouldn't like to say that.” “Perhaps, then, they were intimi- dated.” “No,” said Bige Wilson, Kentucky miner. “No, they weren’t intimi- dated. You kaint intimidate these Kentucky people as long as they is one alive. “And you can depend on it that if them fourteen men come through at the point of a gun they will be here at this Convention if it’s human possibility.” A. F. L. THREATENS CLEANERS WITH STRIKE - BREAKING Pittsburgh _ Strikers | Firm; Militant Picketing PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 2.— Julius Weisberg, of the Jewish Daily Forward, yellow socialist: paper, was | proposed Saturday by the employers as acceptable to them as “impartial” chairman in the settlement of the cleaning and dyers strike here in four of the largest plants of the city. ‘The strikers are led by the Cleaners and Dyers Industrial Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, and will undoubtedly reject Weisberg. A. F. of UL, Threatens At the height of the struggle, the American Federation of Labor has attemtped to step in. Friday, Harry Teris, assistant business manager of the Teamsters Union announcéd that he was out to yet the drivers into his union, and that he “could” put on members of his union to drive the trucks of the struck plants. Friday night, @ joint meeting of the executive committee of the two or- union, the workers from the Teams- ters Union were visibly swayed, and were undoubtedly responsible for the position taken py the business agents that they would not atempt to break the strike at the present time. Saturday the executive mittee of the Cleaners and Dyersh"| stryick plant—the Liberty, Paulson & out. Already 1500 men have been fired | ganized 250,000 steel workers. . Industrial Union were: called once|Duteh. Cohaolidated and Iron City. sizice the-cut went into effect. “Foster was the leader in the, the bosaes to lacus y : \ GiB: Gs _ jetep siete, of-1919 sae 409.090 work ).& black eye finally. ‘he cleaners and jof their apparent differences, | |the workers must see their re- jactionary actions while in of- ‘fice, their brutal attacks on | the workers and their protec- jtion of the rich, The workers must seé that these parties UNEMPLOYED INSURANCE FOR JOBLESS; END EXPLOITATION gressives” and reactionari in order to further confuse and divide the working cl decks itself out in “v: like the socalled ant tion law, which fastens injune tions and “yellow tracts” eer more firmly upon the workers than ever before, The reactionary official- dom of the American Feder- ation of Labor is an agency dog con- have been and are now the de- fenders: of the ¢ the bitter enemies of the Work-| ers Leading the attack agains |the workers is the Hoovet government, with ite bi-parti-| jsan coalition of Republican- | Democratic parties. Composed | jof rapacious profit-seekers, jioyal agents of Wall Street, | corporation promoters, and the biggest capitalists themselves | (Mellon-Hoover-Smith-Raskdb- | Young ét al), these partners lin the robbery of the masses |seek in the coming elections |to again ensnare the masses {in the age-old swindle of “turn- ing out the Republican, rascals” only to replace them with their Democratic twin brothers. In order to trick those workers and farmers who are! no longer foolled by two-party fakery, NEW demagogy and promises are being indulged in| to make the masses choose be- tween “Progressives” and “Re- actionaries” within the two open capitalist parties. But this is merely the divi-| sion of labor between two parts of the same gang of swindlers, who are working together on one platform, which is the cap- italist way out of the crisis. The so-called Progressives have exactly the same reac-| tionary program as Hoover, the program to lower the liv-! ing standards of the masses in order to raise the profits of the capitalists. The “pro- gressive Republican,” Pinchot, asg overnor of Pennsylvania, dries through the wage-cuts| against miners, steel workers and all others, with the same ruthlessness as Hooer does na- pitalists and | strikers and unemployed work- ers and smash labor unions just as effectively as his “re- actionary” brothers. The “pro- gressive Democrats,” +Roose- velt and Ritchie, starve the unemployed and club strikers, smile upon the lynching of Ne- groes and dispossession of bankrupt farmers, the same as any “reactionary.” The difference between Pro- gressive and Reactionaty is) merely on the surface, for pur- poses of demagogy, to hide the same basic program of the cap- italist way out of the crisis. Openly supporting the Hoov-; er program, is the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor. It fights against the workers and for the capitalists on every essential point. It fights against Unemployment Insurance, against the bonus | for the ex-soldiers, it prevents) strikes and signs agreements for broad wage-cuts, it fights for huge grants of money to the corporations and taxation laws to help build greater giant monopolies, it helps pre- pate imperialist wars, especi- ally the war against the Sovict Union. Through its deceitful “non-partisan” policy of ‘“re- ward friends and punish en- emies,” it delivers the workers gagged and bound to the Re- publicans and Democrats, “pro- ment. Militant picket lines are ef-| fectively stovping business from com- ing into the struck plants, as well as stopping scabs from working. Strip Scab Naked Of the 15 girls who worked in the Liberty Cleaning and Dyeing plant, Friday 12 stayed home Saturday, It is not definitely known whether the other three are actually working or not. Fifteen militant women pickets met the fifteen scabs a5 they aitempted to enter the plant. Gne woman scab was stripped naked—ihe escaped with dyers are determined to win their strike for union recognition, its right to hire and fire and better hours. Picketing continues at all the four erican Federation of Labor. Its| spécial task is to cover up the same program with the mask | of Socialist phrases, and thus Page Three Foster and Ford Nominated | |Ford’s Biography ‘Tells Now Nexto Ag 15,000 Workers Cheer | Worker Reyolted ee otaed ae — (CONTINUED FROM Face ONE) JAM FORD Internationale, “ $e i Bye AMES W. FORD, Communist Party Hathaway Names Ford candidate for Vice-President, of the C, Hathaway, Communist Blection Campaign manaiger* | United States and: former postal 20, Was born De-|then proposed Ford, a Negro worker, as nominee jor vice-pmer 1 Pratt Cily, Ala.,| dent, saying: = of working-class parents, Lyifior “The Communist Party is performing an act tonight never Ford, his father, Who died in 1925, done before by any political party. ft names as nominee for Iron and Railroad cv,,| Vice-president of the United States a militant Negro worker, ag c6el miter and in the steel mills.|'This is not a vote catching device. We do it because it corre | Hi mother, Naney Reynolds, helped) sponds. with the fundamental position of the Communist Party ae hy Ua See Weeks i) and of the workers supporting the Communist Party om the w.| Negro question. We stand for complete unconditional e¢pemlity |had worked 35 yeafs for the 'Ten- |nessee Coal of capitalism among the The earliest memory of James ‘ pests for putting over the | Ford ig the LYNC or His| for the Negroes-——not equality in some narrow sence, but eom- f 3 | GRANDFATHER, in Gainesville, Ga.| plete economic and political and social equality ee, capitalist way out of the | in, gtandfather worked as a track] 5 ‘ ‘ Ps biota erisi | | Self-Determination for “Black Belt, f TIBIS. walker between that town and At . Paes ‘The Socialist Party, toge-|Janta. He was an olitspoken man Hathaway said the Communist Party demands the comniffs- \ther with itg self-styled “left | 20d bea many enemies amongst, the) cation of the land of southern white landlords which has for wing’=the Muste group — is foreneh nae us - Was ea years been tilled by Negro tenant farmers. Tt demands thie tand he zg 1 group of men, beaten an 2 feng cig enmeateagi ; ee a |the little brother of the Am own into @ pile of burning eross.|@ turned over to Negro farmers as the only way to ensure od of ‘familiar. |@conomic equality for the tenant farmers. The Communist the usuai| Party proposes to break up the present state boundaries and the establish a state unity of the territory known as the “Black =| Belt” in which Negroes are in the majority in the population, lies. He was a ity with a white woman excuse for lynching Negroes That, eft in outh an everlasting to prevent the awakening fies a bie oa) apne at the| The Communist Party demands that in this territory the Ne- workets from organizing for alese of 13 on a railroad track job at| 2roes be given complete right of self-determination, really effective struggle, It : hes ae eat ies Ford Gets Ovation, supports capitalist monopoly aie teks Sri ea cincsl Hathaway concluded his speech by proposing James W. and trustification under the} japorer in a blast { e side by side| Mord of Alabama for vice-president, and at this point the ¢a- hypocritical slogans of “na-| with his father. He worked his way| multuous demonstration of approval broke forth. Foster amd tionalization of banks, rail rng, ee ares ; hish| Ford were unanimously declared nominees for president and roads and mines” through the] i.e mat universe at Nechrille ree. | Vice-president of the United States in the Communist Bleotion It covers | | capitalist “nation.” the worst, capitalist robberie as “steps toward alism.” It fights against the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, and puts forth its own dema- gogical emasculated proposals to keep the workers from fighting for their demands. Against all these parties which openly or hiddenly at- tempt to force through the capitalist way out of the cri- sis, the Communist Party calls upon the workers and farmers of America, white and Negro, to rally for the struggle against starvation and war, for the immediate demands stated above. for the revolutionary way out of the crisis. These measures represent what a larga majority workers and farmers WISH TO HAVE NOW. These things ean only be gotten by fighting for them. They cut across the capitalist way out of the crisis, because they do not take into account capitalist profits, for which the capitalists and their Ss death. The Socialist Party is open- ly recognized by the capital-| ist press as the Third Capital- ist Party, which more and more becomes equally respect- able in capitalist society with the other parties, as the cap- italists more and more need it to fool and trick the awak- ening workers. Even to force concessions NOW from the three capital- ist parties, there is no weapon so powerful as a vote for Com: munism and participation in the daily struggles led by the Communist \Party. Every worker and workers’ organization which is ready to fight for the immediate de- mands is invited to be repre- sented in the Communist Cam: |paign Committees which wil!’ organize and conduct this campaign. } Support the Communist El- ection Campaign. Rally behind its platform and candidates. Make this the starting point of the masses, it supports new of a gigantic mass movement, against starvation, terror and war. Resist with all your energy and strength the brutal attack of the capitalists. Fight for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts, for relief for the farmers, for equality for the Negroes, against the murderous capitalist terror and against the plans for a new bloddy imperialist war. Resist the carrying through of the capitalist way out of the crisis. Fight for the workers’ way — for the revolutionary way out of the crisis—for the United States of Soviet Am- erica. a VOTE FOR THE WORK- ERS’ CANDIDATES — THE COMMUNIST CANDIDATES! VOTE COMMUNIST! MORK STEEL WORKERS FIRED (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md.— The workers at the Bethlehem Steel plant sare very angry over the 15 per cent wage of | and within a few months of | Campaign (Acceptance speeches of Foster and Ford had not arrived U.S. army. Ford entered the signal! at the time of goining to press, but will be published soom im cor rvice, in charge of radio tnd) 44, Daily Worker.) . eo telegraph communication for the| | sot Brigade of the 92nd Division ih | Delegates Arrested. Sloss hitie Singha here in| Just as Browder finished his keynote speech in the miérm. latnconawain © hae satment ot | ing session of the Convention, held in People’s Auditorfum, | Negro . soldiers, espec frame-up| jammed with 1,200 delegates from all over the country, a tele | of rape against soldiers in] gram arrived stating that the Washington, D. C., delegation, | his outfit | consisting of four men and two women workers, had been aw When he received his discharge | rested in Bedford, Pa., on its way to Chicago. This delegation | from the army, and although expert) 4 released after spending a night in jail, and having ite-be- jas a raido operator and skilled in| @S Teleas : . , telephone communications, he could | longings searched for “seditious literature”. ae not find work. He finally found a Kentucky Miners’ Leader Reports. job in a mattress factory in Chicago ‘ mm s *, f A “ - land then in the post office of that] Bige Wilson, leader in the mine strike in Bell and “Havtiai jcity as a parcel post dispatcher. He | counties, Kentucky, reported that he was the first to aretvs | Joined the Postal Workers’ Union No.| of the Kentucky delegation of 15, and that the other 14 Were in RAMEE Route ORY ie ke | detained somewhere in Kentucky. Deputy sheriffs were known union. He was elected delegate “to: to be hunting for the Kentucky delegation, and the members | the Chicago* ‘éaeratio “of “Labor;) had not met him at the appointed place in Pineville to come where he carried ‘on many struggles | together to Chicago. They were probably under arrest. inthe ‘hiferests“of Negro workers and} By acclamation, Tom Mooney was elected an honorasy for a general propressive policy. He ancod a 1 Blection © i was finally fired from his job for his| Member of the National Election Campaign Committee, end | activities. é wired his acceptance from his cell in San Quentin prison. Ford participated in the formation.) At the first mention of Edith Berkman’s name, the oém- | tie American Negio Labor er vention broke into cheers. [gress in 1925, and finally joined the «i ry es | Communist Party in the early part | Peace, Jobs, Bread. |of 1926, He was elected delegate in| The demand for peace, jobs and bread was the center of | 1927 from the Trade Union Educa-) Byowder’s keynote speech in the morning session of the GOM- tional League to the Fourth World) vention Congress of the Red International of | % é Labor Unions meeting in Moscow. | “Only the Communist Party leads a struggle for the wérk- graduation, he enlisted in 1917 in the ar 1 tionally; his state troopers kill|lieutenants will fight to the|at the congress he took an active|ers’ demands for peace, jobs and bread”, Browder began, atid Pa eee ee rw ue eat was interrupted by a wave of cheéring éoinciding with the 0 if xecutive Board and General! waa} >, , A * Council, Se remained in Moscow | entrance into the People’s Auditorium of Foster. for about nine months, working in| Browder Brands Socialist Party Traitors. the Negro Bureau of Labor Unions “A huge vote for Foster and Ford and the Communist He also attended ag a delegate the} Party in th residential électi aign,” Browd t World Congress of the Communist |Party in the presidential election campaign,” Browder wen International in 1928. He was dele-| on, “will win many concessions from the capitalist class who gate in 1929 to the World Congress|are filled with deep terror when workers turn to Com- of the League Against Imperialism | yynigm.” i , Ger y, and is at pres- | w ae . ‘ x erouinies oe te Resi Rem The Socialist Party is the third party of the capitalist mittee. He was arrested in 1920 in | class,” said Browder. “The Socialist Party is no more the party, New York City for leading a demon-}of socialism than the Democratic Party is the party of de stration against the shooting of na-| mocracy. It is the third party of the betrayal of socialism.” tives in Haiti by marines. Ford was : a4 Worker and Farmer Delegates. secretary for.one year of the Inter-| national Trade Union Committee of The National Nominating Convention in Chicago was held Negro Workers and. editor of the) at the call of the Communist Party, and was made up of dele {“Negro Worker.” During 1931 he t fr fone loyed ny yorkers’ f: | toured Europe in behalf of the eight | 88 es from unions, unemployed councils, workers’ raternal, | Scottsboro boys, who have been sen-| defense, cultural, relief, ex-servicemen, Negro and language |tenced to death by an Alabama| organizations throughout the country, and of delegates from | Court. _ |united front conferences of these organizations held in the rae ve wie es Hit apipoua erent industrial cities. Farmer delegates came from united by the socialist chi Bp : iS RBA i ay SR Gr for speaking in defense of front conferences and f rmers organizations. colonial people, and is at present 2| The vast majority of the delegates are not members of member of the Political Bureau of|the Communist Party, but all are in favor of the election plat» j suo Central Committee of the Com-| form of the Party. | munist Party: of the, United States The convention will be followed immediately by a national | of America, sr ‘ ; ; ree ed | {tour by Foster and Ford, starting with Ford in Chicago toe | | Morrow, and Foster in Gary, tomorrow. Foster speaks in Mik | | waukee on June 5, and ord on the same date in Terre Havwbe, | | Indiana. | ae |Foster Biography || Shows Life Time | of Labor Struggle | BONUS BALLOT WM. Z, POSTER 'OSTER was born in Taunton, | Mass. February 25, 1861, His} father, a cab washer, was unable to| give him more than three years of| schooling before he was forced to go) MARS AN Tam in favor of cash payment of the bonus to all veterans T am in favor of a veteran's march to the capitol at Washington O to work at the age of 10, Young Fos- Name «.;sseeereeeeree Qe reneeen ren nnasanneeeeneeeseedenes see, ter worked as a type founder tao~ MODERNE eos Vina dics Vacs acatas nav ayayh i thvoksegecheatan bal eeeen) parma ma r vorker, steam engineer, sculp- apprentice, steamfitter, railroad) @yy oe, Rae rea ca ee ie worker, street car motorman, long- |shoreman, farmer rnd sailor, | He joined the socialist party in 1900 and was expelled in 1909 for his revolutionary activities. In the same year he was arrested in Spokane, Washington, for participation in a free speech fight. The . following year Foster was a delegate to the Budapest convention of the Trade Union Secretariat, but was excluded because of A. F. of L. bureaucratic tactics, He remained in Europe 13 months studying the labor movement. What outfit did von serve in? What organization are you in now? Send this to; Servicemen’s League, 1 Union Square, Room 715. Werkers “Exe ers laid down their tools, In 1921F oster went to Russia to attend various conventions, and upon returning joined the Communist Party of the United States of Amer- ica. He has twice before been a can- didate for President, the first time! vania ficlds, there. After his return to the U in 1924 and again in 1928. | He is the author of the recently | States he was instrumental in or-| He served six months on Welfare | published “Toward Soviet America,”* ganizing the Thade Union Wduce-| Island in New York in 1930 for er-| Other books writetn by him are “The tional League and served as secre-| ganizing and leading an unemployed | Revolutionary Crisis, 1918-20 in Ger- tary of a committee to gpganize the| demonstration in Union Square on| many, Italy and France,” “The \- packinghouse workers and as secre-|March 6, 1930, where 100,000 unems|roaders’ Next Step—Amalgamation,” tary of another committee which or-| ployed participated. “The Bankruptcy of the American .| An attempt to assassinate him ip} Labor Movement,” The Rasean Carmen's Hall in Chicago in 199% Revolution,” “The Great Steel Strike” ‘fgtied. - Fogter. waa tired upon and “Misisaders of Labor.” | gunmen while he was speaking. The attempt grew out of a fight between the Trade Union Educational League and the bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. Last year Foster was a leading spirit in the strike of 45,000 coal miners in the Ohio and Penngyle