The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1932, Page 3

The Man-A-Block Plan; Charity’s New Scheme to Get Cheap Labor Workers Asked to Scab on to Seab on Painters and Window Cleaners by Society Dames Saint. Bernard Dog in Rich Man’s Home East More Than Average Poor Family CLEVELAND.—I was sent out to the Block Captain’s residence which was located in the aristocratic part of town, | Managed to escape REFUGEES VAINLY HUNT FOR HOMES IN RUINED CHAPEL Japanese ~ Butchered | 10,000, Maimed Many More Homeless Chiriese_ refugees who } the murderous Japanese bombardment of the dense- | ly populated Chapei proletarian dis- | trict of Shanghai, South China City, | are reported straggling back to their | ruined homes. | on Ford’s munist Full Eq itors are normally tied up with the are being forced by the intense inte: to take real notice of the candidacy ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, Negro Papers Wnite Capitalist Editors Admit Big Vote for Com- | Negto newspapers throughout the United States, even where their ed-| for vicepresident of the United States on the Communist ticket. you know, where they employ maids, butlers, chauffeurs, deners, etc. was introduced to the lady of Correspondence Briefs ||| ———————————— The Daily Worker for some weeks conducted an open forum of d’s- cuction on the proposed Commu- nist eleeti¢n campaign platform. The discussion undoubtedly helpsd to clarify the issues, but the plat- form has now been adopted at the National Convention and that, dis- cussion is closed, There étill re- mains, however, the important ques- tion of tactics and issues, even local igsués, of concréte application of the general program in the platform in the campaign, and the Daily Worker invites all workers to send letters expressing their views. WIN WORKERS TO COMMUNISM Comrades: It seems to be that some of the comrades who are gathering signa- tures for the election are unaware of the seriousness of their work. True, | signatures are welcome. But our aim} must not only be to get signatures, but also to show to those who are willing to listen, the blind alley they are being led linto by the enemies of the working class. One old woman, hardly able to walk from exhaustion, vows to support the Communist cause when she hears of its demands. Another, this time a man, reproaches himself bitterly: for 25 years, as democratic captain of his district, he misled people, work- ing people like himself. But now he swears hatred. No more will be fool and be fooled. He is with us now, heart and soul, It would be a very good idea if| we could hand out literature. It would facilitate much and rally more workers to our banner. Comradely yours, RUBIN KAY. . ° so HOW TAMMANY STEALS VOTES Dear Comrades: Time and time again on my signa-/ ture collecting rounds I have’ been informed of a favorite device used by ‘Tammany to steal votes—especially of those who are voting for the first few times. A week before election they (the Tammany Club of the neighborhood) send out cards inviting the voters down to the club for in- strucffon in the use of the voting machine. When the workers get down there, they are taught how to vote q@emocrat only. They are particu- larly successful in their scheme in the sections of foreign born workers. Couldn’t we secure a machine for demonstration purposes a week or so before election, and send out cards to all those whose signatures we se- cured for putting the Party on the ballot? ISABEL WALTERS. eae | HOW TO BUN MEETINGS Dear Comrades: In my recent experiences in attend- ing Communist agitational meetings, speakers succeeding each other shout- _ @d stereotyped phrases in parrotlike manner, referring to a multiple of subjects instead of attempting to con- eretely treat a single subject for the purpose of clarity. For better results in this election campaign I would suggest that our open-air meetings be arranged in the |following manner: There shall be a chairman who in a very brief man- _|mer will introduce the speakers, at- tend to the immediate tasks of an- \mouncements, sale of literature, etc.; @ preliminary brief speaker on a eurrent topic and one speaker who will speak on the main announced topic in its entirety in such a way that will arouse the interest of his audiénce to the end of a discussion by questions and answers. Yours for immediate unemployment Telief, —AF.L. WORKER. ——————E————— To the Readers of, The DAILY WORKER | ithe pully Crechoslovak working class @aily the U. S. and sy! for the very same as THE DAILY WORKER ubscription $6, tor 6 mo. $3 Write for free sample copy today Is your neighbor at home, ahop, mine or farm a Slovak or Czech worker! Tf he is, have him subscribe to the Daily Rovnost Ludu Loe ges ara Oy, oF 28 of Ag E> By U.S.A. My block captain was a lady and very nice indeed. After asking numerous questions as to the nationality, religion, | and places I had worked as reference we walked out to a Pac ard limousine and her chauffeur drove us different homes where I was to work the next ten weeks providing my work proved satisfactory, I —me many |@ foremost topic of conversation at gar- around to the ten| two hours weekly for | the house who in turn asked more qu2stions as to the various things I could do and where I had learned to do them, When} they got through talking to me i lhad the feeling of an. ant looking jup at an elephant. I finally con- | vinced them I was eager to work and) | would try to do. any task set before | |me and do it well. | A Dollar a Day | The following morning I reported | j to the first address on my list. 1| | presented my card of introduction to | the maid and after an interval of | | fifteen minutes the lady of the house | came into the reception hall to give| me my instructions. She really was} |puzzled as to what my first task| should be as they had three maids, a butler, a cook and a gardener, and| had of course never employed any} outside help. Well, I felt quite hu- | |miliated as though I had come to} ‘the door begging for a dollar. She | | finally decided to have a billiard room | cleaned which had not been used in | | years. After washing woodwork and | painting walls for the next two hours | |I at last was convinced that I had| earned my dollar, | Washing Windows The next place I washed all the windows on the second floor and side | and figuring each window at a win- | dow washer’s price of ten cents each | it would have amounted to $2.30 so| again I was convinced I had earned my dollay. ~ hen went out to the {garage and ate my lunch. I then! went to the next place and was asked if I could whitewash and was set to work in » five-car garage and later | white-washed the entire basement in- | cluding two gas furnaces and all the | pipes. I had completed my first day | ] as a man-a-block worker. The next morning at 8:30 I ré- ported to the fourth address on my list which was an elderly lady and | although she undoubtedly was equally | as rich as any of the others on the | avenue, she was just like a mother | to me. She insisted I must have | breakfast. which I did eating in the kitchen with the maid and cook. | Each task I was set to do I was told | to take my time and do it well and I believe my work was satisfactory | as later she gave me several io work extra each week. From there I went to the next | house and the lady there was the exact opposite. She certainly made | me feel that I was an unwanted ob- | ject and was only given the work be- | cause it was her duty to do as the| neighbors were doing. They all dis-| played their man-a-block posters in a prominent place in their front win- dows and their duty to charity was) their afternoon bridge parties, I later found out. Dogs Fare Well One family had a St. Bernard dog which received his three pounds of meat, also three quarts of mjlk daily, while my two children had one glass of milk once daily and a cheap. cut | of meat once weekly. After I had completed my ten weeks each family signed up again for another ten weeks and I do not be-| lieve it was for duty’s sake but be-| cause they found me quite useful. | 1.000 in Minneapolis Solidarity Day Meet MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 16.— More than 1,000 workers celebrated International Solidarity Day here in a militant demonstration at Bridge Square under the auspices wf the Workers International Relief. Speak- ers included Fine, Tagelow, Karson, Alma Foley and Miki. Vote Communist BUTTONS Are Ready for MASS SALE and Distribution Order Now—$20 a Thousand Send Check With Order— Or Will Send C. O. D. Order trom your District or trom— Communist Party, U.S.A. P, O. Box 87,Station D, The New York Sun correspondent at Shanghai reports that “but few solid walls remain” of this once teeming district of human life. Over ten thousand ynarmed civilians, men, women and children, were cold-blocdediy murdered by the Japanese militarists in oné of the most shameful, deliberate cam- paigns of frightfulness in the bloody history of capitalism. In addition tens of thousands were maimed for life, Chapei was bombarded from the air, from Japanese battleships and land artillery, ‘ne densely populated district was turned into a reeking place of horror and death. The Sun's correspondent reports that the streets are being cleared of debris “and life is struggling back slowly with wonder in its eyes and pain in its heart. “North Station, once the ‘hottest’ spot of conflict in China, once a} Place of death, is now vibrant with | life. As all depots in China, this pre- | sents a cross section of Asiatic life, its hopes, its despairs. “Shell craters, once ‘deep enough to bury a New York taxi,’ have been filled in and tracks laid across them. | A-train is in, having brought refugees returning to the homes they had evacuated.” In line with their shameless sell- out to the Japanese invaders, the Kuomintang authorities have torn down the numerous anti-Japanese imperialism signs posted by Chinese workers all over the ruined walls of | Chapei. “Policemen from North China have been imported into Shanghai for use against the revolutionary sol- diers and workers who heroically de- | fended the city from the Japanese | in defiance of the orders of the trai- tor Nanking Kuomintang government. Czarist White Guards are utilized as police by the foreign imperialists con- | trolling the “International Settle- | ment” and the “French Concession.” American, Japanese, French troops and marines prowl everywhere. iat. NEW FORD MEETS IN NEW ENGLAND Ballam Proposed for Mass. Governor BOSTON, Mass., June 16.—During the week beginning June 19, James W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice-president, will tour the industrial towns of New England. An active {struggle has been found necessary in some of the mill centers to get per- mits for the Ford meetings. Ford starts the week with an ad- dress Sunday at 10 a. m., to the Massachusetts State Nominating Con- vention of the Communist Election campaign, held in Municipal Auditor- ium, Brooklyn and Shawmut. On Monday, Jue 20, at 8 p. m, case, mont St., Boiston. ment, and discussion. Hall, in Providence, R. I. Struggle in Lawrence On Thursday the first Negro vice- presidential nominee will be in Law- rence, Mass. Taking the advice of the United Textile Workers Union, which said in a leaflet signed and distributed by them in last years’ elections, “Gath- erings Can Be Dispersed Without Clubbing” the hall owners have been terrorized by the mill owners into refusing militant working class or- ganizations their halls. After a week's efforts the commit- tee finally located a hall in the Ital- jan and Syrian neighborhood, the Syrian National Hall on Oak St. near White. So many workers are expect- ed to turn out to hear Ford on the Communist Election program against starvation and wage cuts that over- flow meetings are being prepared for Italian Hall or Russian Hall or both. Sam Bramhall, Communist candid- ate for mayor of Lawrence last year, will be the Party’s candidate this year for the aldermanic post which carries with it control of relief work, Adding a Meeting Workers of Worcester, Mass., have arranged a meeting not previously contemplated. Ford will speak there June 24, at Washburne Hall. From Worcester, Ford goes to speak at State House Plaza, Concord, New Hampshire, on June 25. The next day he speaks at Lasters’ Hall, 34 Andrew St., Lynn, Mass. His next meetings will be: New Bedford, | Bristom Arena, June 27; Springfield, Mass., June 29; New Haven, Conn., Music Hall, June 30; Bridgeport, Conn., July 2. From New England Ford then goes to New York City to meetings there. This is ® re- New York}N. Y. list of Ford’s New England tour, British, and Foreign warships are | still anchored in the Whangpoo River, threatening new blood baths against. the reyolutionary Shanghai proletar- Ford will speak on the Scottsboro at L’Overture Hall, 1065 Tre- At this meeting there will also be musical entertain- ‘Then, on June 22, Ford will address a meeting in Armenian Democratic | ist program .for complete Negro | equality. Following are a few quo- tations: Afro-American, Baltimore: “This will go down is the first serious ges- ture of any political party of world- wide importance to place a colored man on the ticket as vice president And if you believe the Commun. ists are not making a dent in the political thought of this country, think of the significant fact that these 1,000 delegates comprised about 50-50 white and colored and that | hundreds of them, whité and black, {came from the heart of the south.” Argus, St. Louis: “Something un- usual happened in the affairs of men at Chicago when a Negro, James W. Ford, was nominated and became |the Communist Party's candidate for vice-president of the United CStates. This, we think, is a pretty good start for a new order of things in jthis country......” Cincinnatti Bulletin (By “Reflex- us”) “Reflexus has been watching the activities of the Communist Party. He has been in close touch with the doings of their National Convention at Chicago last week. The results were that a Negro was named as the candidate on the ticket for the Vice-President of the United States. They named a Negro from the southern state, Alabama, as the candidate. What does all this mean? |comment generally on the Commun® JU Candidacy |The Communist Candidate for Vice- President | Rouses Workers’ Enthusiasm uality Demand Democratic and Kepublican machines, rest of their masses of worker readers of James W. Ford, Negro worker run They also VE 17, 1932 | Foster Wires Hopes | Mother Mooney Can | Carry On Struggle BUTTE, Mont. June 16—wil-| liam Z. Foster today sent frem | Butte a telegram to the Interna- tional Labor Defense as follows: “Convey to Mrs. Mooney heart- felt sympathy in her affliction and hopes of her quick recovery. (Ed- itor’s Note—Foster refers to Mrs. Mooney’s sudden blindness. The latest news is that she has recov- ered, at least, partially.) Her fight for Tom Mooney’s releise is one of the bravest things in the whole history of the American working class. We must redouble our ef- forts to force open the prison gates for Tom Mooney.” Foster also sent the following wire to Tom Mooney in San | JAMES W. FORD “When 15,000 persons from all over these Unitéd States meet in any one place there is a meaning....25 per ours. It shows that the Negro is ready to take hold of a lifeline to save them from starvation. It shows that the Negro is tired of “boss rule.’ It shows that the new think- ing Negro is willing to die if neces- sary to make it beter for his chii- dren in the future than he had it himself, | “Reflexus sees a big change in the votes in November.” 18,000,000 18,000,000 46 GROWTH. OF THE RUMBER OF WO- MTA WORKERS OCCUPIED ONLY 18 ‘THE HEAVY INDUSTRY. 19 INTHE CAPITALIST COUNTRIES TOTAL NUMBER OF UNEMDLOVED IN COUNTRIES AMOUNTS TO 48000000. THE GREATEST NUMBERS OF UNENDLOVED CAN BE 29 1031 1930 PRAISES HOOVER Republican _ Keynoter Gets Swift Answer CHICAGO, Ill, June 16.—Exactly while Keynoter Dickinson was boast- ing at the Republican National Con- vention here yesterday that Hoover's wise policies had caused “bank fail- ures to diminish thus preserving the savings of millions of depositors,” the United American Trust and Sav- ings Bank at 1,200 North Ashland Avenué closed its doors and another bank on Chicago and Ashland Aven- ues also crashed. The bank is in a working class neighborhood and thousands of worker depositors will lose their lives’ savings. Dickinson shouted loudly that made necessary by the local struggles for halls, and by the necessity of link- ing up Ford's powerful agitational speeches with local issues. Te NTS Ballam for Mass. Governor BOSTON, Mass, June 16—The Massachusetts State Nominatnig Con- vention of the Communist Election Campaign meets here at 10, a.m., on Sunday, at Municipal Auditorium, Brookline and Shawmut St. ‘The Communist Party will propose the following ticket as nominees: Governor, John Ballam. Lieutenant Governor, Alice Everett, a Negro worker, Secretary of State, Max Lerner, Treasurer, Eva Hoffman. Auditor, L. Babbitt. Attorney General, Maria Corries. U. S. Senator, Jafes W. Dawson, a Negro worker, AS BANKS CRASH Hoover's conference in Washington between the big corporation heads and Green and other A. F. of L. lead- jers had stopped wage cuts “as far as it might be possible,” and that re- electing Hoover would prevent them altogether. He also lauded the Hoover administration for “prevent- jing the panic” and saving the jobs of the workers 5 How Wage Cuts Stop. But this week the Chicago North- western Locomotive and car shop here was closed, throwing 1,000 men out of work, At the same time Ar- mour & Co. packers, announcing a ten per cent wage cut to take effect today. and to lower living standards Of over 10,000 stock yard workers. In regard to the veterans’ bonus, Representative Johnson of South Da- kota, a Hooverite, declared to the press: “Tt is ridiculous to think we could pay out $2,000,000 to these men at this time. We should take about $200,000 from the veterans’ fund for them.” Workers Cold to Hoover Plea. According to best reports, the cri- sis has hit the convention itself pretty hard. It holds 25,000, and there are no more than 6,000 seats taken. It was expected to be overs, flowing. Mayor Cermak of Chicago paid the Republican Party $150,000 to have the convention held here, and spent thousands of dollars of city money to decorate downtown Chicago and Madison St, He had money for this, though none for the jobless, not even enough to pay the school teachers. Every effort to persuade the work- ing class districts to decorate with flags of bunting failed. There are no decorations of any sort put up by the workers, VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: | Against Hooyer’s wage-cutting policy, cent were mémbers of this Race of | Quentin prison: “Deeply shocked to learn here of the misfortune to your mother. I hope she will soon recover and be able to continue her heroic struggle for your release. Her | brave fight is an inspiration to the whole working class. A meet- ing here today of 3,500 workers | demanded your freedom.” DEMAND RELEASE ‘OF 34 STRIKERS |Students and Miners United at Cambridge BULLETIN BRIDGEPORT, 0., June 16.—A sharp fight took place on the Pow- hattan, 0., Pursglove mine picket line this morning, and the scabs were beaten. Five strikers were ar- rested and will be rfamed either for the fight or because two houses were recently dynamited here. CAMBRIDGE, 0., June 16— When the Henrietta mine tried to re-open with scabs here a few days ago, 500 miners came uot to picket. The deputies were afraid to attack such a militant mass, ana called in the United Mine Workers officials to break up the picketing. All officials here of the UMWA were deputized, and put on the payroll of the coal operators. The UMWA deputies then decreed that only they would picket, :and that any other miner who tried to picket would be arrested, and be- 4 sides, would be expelled from the UMWA. local. ere CAMBRIDGE, ©. June 16.—A combined demonstration by 30 mem- bers ofthe National Students League and-hundreds of striking miners will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. before the Cambridge, O., court house to protest against the mistreatment of 3 strikers jailed on framed rioting charges and beating of the 62-year- old mother of a striker. This woman was seriously jnjured by deputy sheriffs while marching with her son on the picket line. ‘The demonstration plans came af- ter the students, who are from Pitts- burgh University, Western Reserve, Cleveland College, Ohio State and “Carnegie Tech”, had, in the course |of their investigation of living con- ditions and terror in the eastern Ohio Strike area, demanded to visit the prisoners in jail. Although it was visiting day, the students were denied entrance. When Samuel Levinger, a 16-year- old member of the National Students League at Columbus, tried to photo- graph Mrs. Sabo, the jailed striker's mother, from the courtyard, he was arrested and is held incommunicado, and his whereabouts are unknown. Miners Assemble. When the students went to the jail they found hundreds of strikers and their wives and children gath- ered before it, in protest against the imprisonment of the pickets. These strikers have met there every day sifice the arrest of the 34 a week ago. The National Students League del- egation charges that the United |Mine Workers officials 09-operate with the operators and city officials in concealing the outrageous treat- ment meted out to arrested strikers. Plane Menaces Pickets. ‘The whole Cambridge strike area is in the grip of terror by the local police and a private army of mine guards whose salaries are paid by the Cambridge Vigilante Committee. Armed force compels the pickets to march only in groups of thrée, and no closer to the mines than two miles away. The UMWA officials submit the names of all pickets to the sheriff. The United Mine Workers offi- cials refuse to send relief, and starva- tion is rampant. The Red Cross also refuses relief. The National Students League urges working class organizations and ‘sympathizers to rush food and funds ‘fro relief to the Workers Interna-~ tional Relief at No. 4 Fretter Bldg, Bridgeport, O. The NSL also calls on all its branches to wire Sheriff Gracy at Cambridge demanding re- lease of the strikers and protesting the arrest of the student. Returning Delegates Speak at Big Phila. Meeting Friday E PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 18.— “What we saw in the Soviet Union” will’ be the subject discussed by three returning American delegates to the Soviet Union at a meeting at Girard tga Hall this Fridavevening. June ly Page Three Workers! Fight Hoover Federal Wage Cut Plan! For Jobless Relief! “Let Republican Admi Funds If It Must B istration Reduce War ince the Budget!” te | Foster, As Head of Trade Union Unity League, Issues Call for Str NEW YORK.—In a statement Trade Union Unity League over ¢ National Secretary, calls upon low impending wage cut now being debated in congress, right to strike, and urges all other workers to aid the federal employees in repelling the attack upon their li “Defeat the Attacks On the Living Standards of the Federal Employees. “To All Federal Employees—To Workers: “The Hoover government publican and Democratic Partie so-called progressives (La Fol La Guardia, elc.), are united attack on the living standards of low’paid federal employees “The leaders of the Federation of Labor are suppo! 4 the attdtk. There is still some ference as to what form this attack shall take, and how it shall: be put into effect. There are still some maneuvers by the various politician: with an eyé to the coming elections But there is complete unity in the attack on the living standards of the féderal employees. There are proposals for direct wage- cuts. There are proposals for a forced vacation without pay. There are proposals that mean the lengthening of the hours of work, non-payment for overtime, etc. THAT UNLESS THE FEDERAL EM- PLOYEES PUT UP A FIGHT AND RALLY THE SUPPORT OF THE REST OF THE WORKERS THEY | WILL HAVE THEIR WAGES CUT) AND THEIR WORKING CONDI- TIONS WORSENED CONSIDER- ABLY. It wjll mean new wage-culs for the whole, working class, on top of the already big slashes. “Economy”—For Whom “The Hoover government, t talists, the capitalist political pa and the leaders of the American Federation of Labor are telling the workers that this must be made in the interests of economy, in terests of balancing the budget. Mr, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, has joined the chorus of the other, the open capitalist par- | ties, for balancing the budget. What does it mean? “It means that all the capitalists, the politicians, the A. F. of L. lead- ets, the Socialist Party, want. the capitalists to solve the crisis and the problems that arise as a result of the crisis at the expense of the workers who already are getting starvation | wages. They fight against taxing the rich. They fight for the sales taxes that will place new burdens on the masses. “IN A WORD ISTS, THE CAPITALIST PARTIES, THE LEADERS OF THE A. F. OF L THE GREENS, THE WOLLS, ALL OF THEM WANT THAT THE WORKERS SHALL BEAR THE WHOLE BURDEN OF THE CRISIS. THEY LET US STARVE WHILE | All the Re the in an American THEY KEEP THEIR PROFITS IN-} TACT. And the Socialist Party and its leaders, like Norman Thomas, by making the issue the balancing of the budget, show that they, too, are for the workers bearing the burden of the crisis. Unity for Struggle. “Our concern is not the balancing | of the budget. Our concern is the starving millions of unemployed, the additional millions of part-time work- ers, the great masses of workers whose wages are being cut and living | Standards worsened. the federal employees and the fight of the rest of the workers is one fight. The fight of the employed workers and the unemployed is one fight. The fight of the veterans for thebonus and the fight for the unem- ployed generally is one fight A FIGHT MUST BE AGAINST WAGE-CUTS IN ANY FORM, FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF TO THE UN EMPLOYED, FOR UNEMPLOY MENT INSURANCE, FOR THE IM- | MEDIATE PAYMENT OF TH E} BONUS TO VETERANS, FOR THE FORTY-HOUR WEEK WITHOUT REDUCTION IN PAY Billions for Wer “If the government talks about balancing the budget, let us remind | the capitalists and their government} about the billions being spent yearly for war preparations, for an armed attack on the Soviet Union, where | there is no unemployment, no wage- euts, but where the workers rule. “Let us remind them of the mil- lions that are being spent to deport militant foreign-born workers and} for other attacks on the workers. Let usremind them of the billions that are being given to the bankers and other capitalist interests through Hoover's Finance Construction Cor- poration, while the masses are star- ving. Let us remind them of the huge army of high-salaried officials that are fastened on the backs of the masses, the huge salaries of the Senators, Congressmen, Cabinet mem- bers, the President, the judges and all other big and small politicians. “WE MUST RESIST ANY AT-| TEMPT TO TAKE ONE CENT OF THE WAGES OF THE LOW PAID FEDERAL EMPLOYEES who slave} long hours for a mers pittance. “Federal Employees: meetings in your place of work and elect committees of action to fight against the wage-cut. Adopt protest resolutions. Bring this question on thefloor of your unions and other IT IS CERTAIN the in-| THE CAPITAL-| The fight of | SUCH | Organize | ug gle for Full Pay ta, given out for publication today, the } he signature of William Z. Foster, | paid federal employees to resist the | to fight for the » x ving standards, f | organiza the role of betra in your Take things Organize joint f representatives of the of the federal eme , and take steps wage-cuts through prose rations and other forms you can decide. Take up the question of the right to strikes MAKE THE FIGHT FOR IMMEDI«| ATE RELIEF TO THE UNEMe/ PLOYED, THE FIGHT FOR UNEM- PLOYMENT INSURANCE, YOUR! FIGHT. “Or own hands t the test demor Ss way, b ygaining the the rest of the workers, will you defeat the attack now made upon your w “ALL WORKERS: The fight of the federal employees is your fight. An attack against them is an attack inst Support them in the truggle against wage-cuts now be- fore Congress. Take action in your local union, in your shop, in your fraternal organization. Adopt reso- |lutions of protest and wire them to | the President and to Congress. Stand | by the federal employees. ‘AGAINST WAGE-CUTS IN ANY FORM! “FOR UNEMPLOYMENT, RELIEF AND FOR UNEMPLOYMENT IN- SURANCE. “FOR THE IMMEDIATE, FOLL PAYMENT OF THE VETERANS’ BONUS. “FOR THE FORTY-HOUR WEEK WITHOUT REDUCTION IN PAY, . “National Executive Board of the Trade Union Unity League t | “WILLIAM Z, FOSTER, 4 is “General cc OSL Bens a you. \ “SHARP CLASHES | IN PITTSBURGH EVICTION TRIAL | (CONTINUED ‘FROM PAGE ONE) | sues into the case in an effective | manner. Referring specifically to the eviction struggles of the unemploy- ment, he pointed out that writs are | always given to the landlords against the workers. “No writ to put furni- ture back into a home has ever been issued by a judge,” he declared. The star witnesses for the presecu- tion were two of the young finks hired to carry the evicted workers’ furni- turs to the street. They said that |the deputies had hired them off the street to do the work. The deputies jhad claimed that the men were hired by the proprietor. Other witnesses have been mostly, | deputy sheriffs and policemen, testi- tying that they threw the furniture ;of two workers’ households into the street and that the furniture was put back, | “Jobless? we You're Lazy!” | When defense witnesses took the |Stand, the “red” issue cropped out immediately, The prosecutor's first | line of question in each case was de= | signed to find out if the witness wag | working, how long he had been out of work, and why he was #0 lazy as to not have work rich country like th The first witnesses were police of- ficers called at the last minute te | bolster up the charge that Careathera had resisted arrest and to prove that he had been at the scene of the sece ond eviction after being arrested af thefirst. Their testimony was a dis« appointment to the prosecutor, Workers Flood Court The corridor of the court house was filled with workers eager to hear the testimony of defense witnesses, but the court restored to the old Penn- sylvania practice of barring the pub- lic as soon the state witnesses were through. Only witnesses were ad- mitted. * The real fireworks began when the prosecutor questioned Ben Careathers, secretary of the local Council of the | Unemployed. Careathers testified that he had been out of work for nine months. “What have you been do- ing all that time?” querried the state lawyer. “What 12,000,000 other work- ers in this country have been doing —looking for work and finding only hunger,” said Careathers. That’s Right, Says Worker ‘The prosecutor tried to show that Careathers “had been making speech- es all over Allegheny County, advocate | ing the overthrow of the governs ment.” “If you mean the government that |Hets 15,000 workers starve through un~- employment and puts poor familier out oft heir homes because the bosses haven't any jobs for them, I want | to overthrow it,” said Careathers, William L. Paterson, one of the defenders who has been de fense attorney, is ¢: the stand tomorrows: