The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1932, Page 3

Wages Cut, But Dividends Remain the Same in the National Biscuit Company 3,000 Workers Compelled to Do the Same Work Previously Done by 8,000 (By a Worker Correspondent) rf NEW YORK.—In the Baking Department where 90 work- \ers worked, they put out a certain amount of crackers in a week. Now in this department with the help of the conveyor system, they produce just as many crackers with 60 workers, and the other 30 workers are out of a job. In the icing department the®= girls are not even allowed one minute to take a drink. In the shipping department the men have to pull 600 pound trucks across the floor with no help. Often they get ruptured. In all departments wé have to work sometimes 10 to 15 minutes on our lunch hour in order to finish up some work, but wé must bé back on time when the bell rings. Take Chairs Away. In other departments they take away our chaits so that we can work faster at the machines. In the cake department work starts at 5:30 in the morning and finishes 8 o'clock at night. We used to have a $28 a week guarantee, They cut us down to $19. Th nearly all departments we are now working only three days a week and producing just as much as when we worked a full week, but We are only gétting paid for three days work. Besides this, we had a $2 4 week wage cut. There used to be 8 thousand work- ers in Uneéda, now there are about 3 thousand. Have the profits of the N.B.C. decreased since there ate fewer workers there? They have not. ‘The New York Times last week car- ried an item stating that the com- pany is still paying the same $3 divi- dend to stockholders that it paid in 1927. VET HEAD CALLS __ FOR SHARP FIGHT Struggle “Looms Over ’ Food Stoppage (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) marchers. Only 17 dollars remained in the mess fund this morning and practically nothing but bread in the bonus army larder. The Provisional Bonus March Com- mittee, 905 “I” Street N. W. issued @ statémént today in which the com- mittee in the name of the masses of hungry, unemployed worker veterans demanded that the government supply food at once for the encamped marchers. Emiariuel Levin, chairman of the conimittee, in an interview with the Press today, pointed out that the veterans can not only make the gov- ernment feed them, but that they can win the fight for the bonus pro- viding they close their ranks and organize as a section of the working- clas§ to carry on their struggle on @ militant class basis. “If we fight only as veterans,” said Levin, “we cannot win. “Our fight must bé a fight of workér veterans against the rich and the Wail Street government, against the Republican, Democratic, So- c‘alist atid so-called progressive parties. “We must break from the military traditions and establish wofking- class ofganization, Milltary tradi- on means military dictatorship. Military tradition means military police, suppression of free speech and the stifling of working-class democracy. It means ‘keép your mouth shut’ To follow it wilt de- feat our struggle. To follow it would play into the hands of the war makers and the enemies of the bonus. “The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen's League fights for the abolition of the military police; - self ap- pointed leadership and for rank » and file. control. The presence of masses in Washington forced Con- gress again to take up the bonus question. Organized mass action of the worker veterans ‘under the leadership of rank and file commit- tees will compel Congress to pass the bonus bill.” “The worker veterans are consolidat- ing their forces in and around the 14th Regiment on 12th Street which is commanded by 4 rank and file committee of which George Pace of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League is the leader. It was this group which started the movement for the ouster of Waters following his refusal to sipply food to the men on 12th Street. ‘The strength of the bonus army increased today following the arrival of mew contingents. The dread dis- ease dyentery is spreading through * thé ranks dué to the poor food. Thé sick list in all camps and billets has _ increased, but medical attention has béén practically nill. ‘ af ¢ bs / International Notes GRAFTERS GET DEATH IN U.S.S.R. MOSCOW.—The six-day trial of dishonest employees of the State R2- tail Trading Trust ended. The ac~- cused wete found guilty of having sold goods above state prices, pock- eting the differenc2, having sold goods to speculators intended for mafkets and pocketing hundreds of thousands of rubles. The cotirt. took a serious view of the ctimes which endangeféd th2 reuptation of the Soviet Trading in- stitutions. The chief accused, Kriut- choy, Nosokin, Smirnov, Shubin and Pankratov, were sentenced to death. Others were given various terms of imptisonment, ranging from five to ten years. Three were acquitted. lig: HaSuet 2 FASCIST REIGN OF TERROR IN WESTEND BERLIN BERLIN, Juné 28.—Collisions which became a feature of German life since the withdrawal of prohibition of fas- cist uniformed detachments contin- ued yesterday evening. In Westend Betlin fascists established a reign of terror, beating, stabbing and shooting workers. Thanks to the police pas- sivity scores were injured. At Silesia, Brunswick, hundreds of uniformed fascists attacked workers’ locals. Ten workers were injured. Twenty were injured during colli- sions between fastista and Reichs- bannermen at Chemnitz. The police intervened in Leipzig collisions When the workers repulsed the fascists. The police shot a worker dead, to Vote in Chicago GHICGAGO, Il—The fegular elec- tion for business agent of Painter's Local 147 of the A. F. of L., known amongst the decorators and painters of this city as the “sluggers local,” was to have been held on Saturday, June 25th. A notice to this affect ‘was serif out to all members to attend the meeting and vote. But the fol- lowing day a special notice was sent saying that the election wouldn't take place “because there were no opposition candidates.” As a matter of fact there were a couple of candidates, but btisiness agent Luébbe knows how to protect hhis jobvin these hard times. He “éli. minated” the opposition candidates, which automatically insures his job for another year. This is the same sluggers- local which insured the re-election of the local’s burocratic machine, 2 years ago, by attacking a group of workers who were distributing leaflets, with demands from the rang and file. The attack resulted in the beating and death of a painter Weisénberg and the injurifig of several others. No action was taken by the police against the sluggers who are still active in the union. Leipzis Workers Block Suburbs; RepulseNazis 1 Dead; Many Injured One man was killed and several hurt in a fight between fascists and Com- munist workers yesterday at Liepzig, a dispatch ftom Berlin states, The fight occurred when the Na- tion Socialists (fascists) attemptéd to parade through the suburbs Barri- cades of tricks and bartels were erected and the street lights demol- ished to darken the streets through which the Nazis marched. Members Denied Right | AFL, Painters Union| Poverty, Terror \.sgortse0R9 f NEODA arare DAWES SAVES OWN BANK WITH “AID” OF FINANCE CORP. Goads Unemployed to} Sharper Fight (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Accordihg to an official announce- ment, made in an effort to forestall “unfavorable” comment, Dawes ad- mitted that of the total sum obtained to save the bank, $10,000,000 came from a group of Chicago bankers, $5,000,000 was pledged by several New York financiers, and the balance— $80,000,000 came from the Finance Corporation, Incidentally, in the fall of 1929, there were 225 banks in Chicago. At the present time there aré about 60, with a number of them on the brink of failure. x Huge Steal. The huge contribution to Dates’ bank by his friends in the Recon- struction Finance Corporation is in line with its aims and policy to turn lover the two billion dollars appro- priated to the railroads and banks. One instance recently revealed the fact that the Northern Pacific Rail- road received a large sum from the Corporation which went directly to pay off indebtedness on a bond issue due to J. P. Motgan and the Guar- antee Trust Co. In fact so raw was this transaction that the Interstate Commerce Commission was forced to make a gesture of “protest.” Dawes An Old Hand. This is not the first bank scandal that Dawes, former ambassador to Great Britain and ex-vice-president of the U. S. has been involved in. Several years ago he got into a slimey mess ,by helping his friend Lorimer in Chicago swindle his de- positors. This affair has become known historically as the “Lorimer Scandal.” At a time when the banks and rail. roads continue to swallow up the $2,000,000,000 appropriated for the pur- pose by the Reconstruction Finance Company, the fifteen million unem- ployed workers of the country con- tinue to starve, with the Hoover gov. jernment refusing one cent for real relief. TEACHER DESPERATE AT- TEMPTS SUICIDE OHICAGO, Il—Driven desperate because for over four months shé had been unpaid by the school board, and with her husband unemployed, Mrs. Viola Johnson, a Negro school tea- cher attempted to commit suicide by | gas. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 19: Is Background for New “Rape” Frame-Up While the struggle grows to sav the southern ruling class is making ctite two more young Negroes on the usual “rape” charge. in Chattanooga are the most recent targets for the southern lynchers. NTop photo shows typical group of starving children of unemployed Ne- gro worker in the south who are denied even the meagrest relief by the Barefoot and ragged, they Photo right shows leaky bosses. possess, piles in which a Negro family lives. white children itt recent New York Hungef March, typ’ solidarity against boss sabae ip [Electric Chair Faces Two Young Negroes in New“Rape” Frame-Up Chattanooga, Tenn., Is Scene of New Court Lynching; “Evidence” Usual Perjury | |New Frame-Up As Struggle Advances to Save | Innocent Scottsboro Boys | CHATTANOOGA, June 28.—Two young Negro workers, | Oscar Bivens and Andrew Wilcox, both aged twenty-four, have been sentenced to the electric chait on the usual rape frame-up Their crime was that Bivens had defeated Roy Clinton, local cop, in an attempt to railroad Bivens to the chain gang here. on @ minor offense. Since that time¢ this cop has been out to “get” Bivens | fo and his friends. A few weeks ago Biyens and a group of young Negro boys and girls were sitting on the front porch of a friend's home at 10 o'clock on a Saturday night when Clinton picked them up and rode them around in a car until after 1 o'clock in the morning and then brought them all to jail and had them booked for “late hours.” Fishy Story. Last March May Brown and Mil- lard Prince, both white, claimed they were going home at 3 o'clock on a Sunday morning. They said they were coming from the home of a friend, where they had gone to at- tend a party, but the party didn’t take place on account of sickness in the house. Yet they didn’t leave this house until 3 o'clock in the morfing. They claim that as they were coming through the Negro neighborhood at 23m St. and Rossville Boulevard two Negroes attacked them, one of them dragging fhe white woman down the hill and the othér running the white man off. Negro witneeses, among them a reputable old woman, testified that they were wakeheq by the sounds of a drunken fight and saw this white man beating up the white woman and heard them shouting and cursing at one another. Chattanooga is a town in which any worker, especially a Negro, walking on the street after 10 o'clock at night is liable to be sent fo the chain gang for “late hours,” “prowling” or “loitering.” Yet thése white people walked through fhe Negro neighborhood fighting and shouting at 3 o'clock in the morning, when so-called re- speetable people are home asleep. Cop Fixed Story. Roy Clinton, the cop who fixed the frame-up, got the assistance of an ex-sweethéart of Bivens, who at the time was going with another gifl, to give testimony against him. This girl was jealous of Bivens and in a fight with his new sweetheart had threatened to “get” both of them. She testified to his general character and said he had “raped” her while they were sweethearts. A white doctor from the Erlanger | city hospital testified he had per- bad | e the nine irinocent Scottsboro boys, an attempt to frame up and electro- TWo youths are dfessed in all the clothes they shack built of fragments from junk Photo lower left shows Negro and al of the growing >. Page Three PINCHOT AND VARE AGREE ON HUNGER PROGRAM AS LEGISLATURE OPENS BULLETIN HARRISBURG, Pa., June 28— The legislature opened last night. Pinchot proposed a plan he said would give 11 conts a day for each of the unemployed. He admits 1,115,000 jobless in the state. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 28.— Unemployment in Philadelphia has increased 13 per cent during the months of April and May. Add this to the number of unemployed ad- mitted by various industrial agencies; the number of unemployed in Phila~ delphia is now close to one half mil- lion. There is no doubt but what the Same situation exists in other parts of the state. The Vare-controlled city and state administrations have continuously the burden for the feeding of the the workers. The famous Lloyd Com- mittee was formed some two weeks ago. During the first year of its activities this so-called “Committee for Unemployment Relief’ openly acted aS a scab agency of the em- Ployers, utilizing the unemployed to cut down the union seale of wages especially in the building trades, through so-called “made” jobs which meant employers laying off workers and hiring others through the Lloyd Committee at half-pay. Workers Provided Cash At the beginning of 1932 the Lioyd Committee initiated a drive in which over $10,000,00 was raised. This money {came mostly from thé pockets of the |employed workers. Pressure meth- ods and threats to workers were used | by the employers to collect as much as 2 and 3 days off the workers’ pay. By May 1 thé $10,000,000 was ex- hausted. An additional appropriation of $2,500,000 from state loans has been used up since May 1. Then the Lloyd Committee announced that all relief will be cut off by June 25 and in a ‘med ah abortion on May Brown for a two months’ pregnancy and} that the “baby” was Negro. Every- onewho knows anything at all about | doctor. Unable to Identify. When the case first came up in police court, May Brown that it was so dark at the time of the attack that she couldn't identify anybody. In the intervening time betwéen the police court hearing and the jury trial the men had been kept in the county jail. When May Brown was taken there to view the line-up of prisoners for indentification, she left the room the first time without being able to identify anybody. Three prisoriers, who testified at the trial, heard the cop, Roy Clinton, tell her that Oscar Biven was the man in the Coca Cola cap and give her the means of identifying Andrew Wil- cox, She went back to the line-up and immediately identified the two men. that Andrew Wileox attacked her | while Millard Prince, the white man, | said that both men attacked her al-| though at first he said that he had been “run off” by Biven and had} spent a long time trying to find the “law.” It is on the above frame-up and perjured evidence that these two men were sentenced to the electric chair by a Negro-hating white jury. | So clear was the frame-up that the judge was forced to tell the defense attorneys that if the case comes up before him on appeal for a new trial he will grant it. Pee eee WATCH! AUGUST 21st DAILY WORKER | | PICNIC | (Pleasant Bay Park) ILLINOIS COMMUNIST CONVENTION DECLARES WAR ON PAY SLASHES IN COAL FIELDS 267 Delegates With Masses Support Force City to Grant Park Pavillion DECATUR, Ul, June 28Pressure of the masses here forced the city authorities at the last minute to grant the use of the pavillion in Fairview Park for thé Communist State Convention, Sunday. The 267 delegates, men and women, Negro and white, farmers, miners, ex- service men, factory workers and unemployed, representing 33 cities and inéluding representatives of ten United Mine Worker opposition '|groups, 38 unemployed councils and 12 Trade Union Unity Groups, marched to the new mééting place. ‘The procession went two miles from the Workers Ceriter to Fairview Park, 15-DAY-OLD BABY ON BOUNS ‘ MARCH TOLEDO, Ohio, June 28—Séven- | with the Red Flag before it with banners and with a large crowd fol- lowing. tary, and John Williamson delivering the keynote speech. Williamson declared the situation of the farmers losing their land and the workers, wage cut and unem- ployed in greater numbers daily, to justify the most intense campaign. He spoke on and explained the six main demands in the Communist na- tional platform, and showed could be won only by developing the daily struggle for them, Tremendous enthusiasm greeted the speech. A delegate from the Rockland ar- senal workers exposed the bad work- ing conditions there, and told of the rush of war preparations. Win on Negro Demands A large number of Negro delegates For Hitenstve Cheapatg ‘The convention got under way with Bill Gebert elected chairman, Arthur Herchy, 4 Springfield “pine, secre- t { P \ } spoke, among them Laura Osby, Communist candidate for congress. She proved, in what is considered the best speech at the convention, that Communists can be elected on the basis of the fight for complete Negro equality and self. determination in the “Black Belt,” and in the fight for unemployment insurance and against wage cuts. Former Socialists Speak A number of the delegates from “down state” Socialist Party and pledged their support. Two-thirds of the delegates were from the central and southern parts of the state. The convention adopted a special resolution on mining calling, for a fight against the wage cuts put over with the aid of the U. M. W. A. of- ficials. Other resolutfons were passed; | demanding $100,000,000 for relief in Tilinois, $500,000,000 for public works, and greeting the Chilean Commu- nists, Kjar and Poindexter in Chi- cago, protesting the Waukegan terror, the criminal syndicalism laws, etc. formerly Socialists, | they | exposed fhe treacherous role of the Herbert Newton, Communist can-| didate for congress in the First Dis- trict presented the platform commit- | tee’s report, which was adopted unanimously with small changes, and followed along the line of the key) note speech. Bill Gebert placed in nomination for the sfate ticket: Bill Browder for | U.S. Senator; Hurt and Pszczolkowski for congress men at large; Leonides McDonald for governor; Arthur Her- chy, for lieutenant governor, F. E. Stohr for secretary of state; Lydia | Bennett for auditor of public ac- counts, Samuel Hammersmark fos state treasurer, and John Rudin for attorney General. The convention was finished Mon- day with nomination of a full state ticket and presidential electors for Foster and Ford from all congres- these matters can see how ridiculous | is this sworn testimony by the white | receiving this so-called “relief? will! testified | At the trial May Brown only said | | hypocritical statement shedding croo- | codile tears about the starving uném- | ployed, the Lloyd Committee declared |itself dissolved. The 50,000 families who have been now be cut off from any support. Says Jobless Just “Lazy” The Vare-Moore administration, re- presenting the large contractors, un- |derworld and the bootlegging inter- |ests, has refused any relief whatever to the hundreds of thousands of |unethployed workers. | unemployed as merely “lazy” the | Mayor declared that “there is no | starvation in Philadelphia.” Police clubs and terror has been the answer of Mayor Moore to the demands of the unemployed workers for bréad and relief. The Moore administration through its Lloyd Committee, has tried to shift all responsibility for |relief upon Pinchot, demanding that Pinchot call an extra session for unemployment relief. A session of the state legislature held last Fall for the pufpose of ap- propriating funds for unemployment relief adjourned without appropriat- ing one cent for fhe whemployed. The session cost the state close to half a million dollars. Mr. Pinchot who is well known to the workers of Penn- |sylvania as a demagogue who talks about unemployment relief and even favors unemployment insurance (but not in Pennsylvania) was ablé to blame the Vate machine represénfa- tives for the failure of the state leg- islators to support Pinchot’s building program. However, Mr. Pinchot has now exposed his demagogy and his meaningless promises. Pinchot has come to an agreemnt with the Vare machine. A 14-point program has been adopted by the Varée-Pinchot gang fot fhe state legislattre session. “if Anything Is Left Over...” According to Goverrior Pinchot’s statement to newspapers one of the major tasks of the sessioti will be “raductions of appropriations already madeé will be laid before the extra session as a subject for its considera- tion, such reductions to go, first, to by thé Talbot Act, and secondly to balancing the budgét. If anything should be left over, it may be used fof unemployment relief.” Point one of the program reads “that a bill permitting all cities and other political sub-divisions to make in 1932 emergency loans against un- collected delinquerit taxes for unem- ployment relief and to pay the sdl- aries of the full-time employees.” This means that the first act pro- vides for relief not for the unem- ployed but for the “full-time em- ployees” meaning political job hold- ers, grafters, police, state troopers, ete. Point B, Section 2, provides for the appropriation of “Twenty five million dollars to meet the expenses of the State goverhmént during the two year pefiod beginning June 1, 1993.” This proves that the main object of the séssion is not to help the starv- ing women and children uf Pennsyl- vania but is rather for the purpose of supplying the state government with millions of dollars by means of loans from bankers, at high interest rates. Point 4 calis for ‘an act exiending he taxing power of Philadelphia” siving the right to the Philadelphia sity government to place additional axes upon the workers, taxing ar- icles of every-day consumption, a ourden which mainly will fall upon the shoulders of the workers. sional districts. A large amount of literature, particularly national plat- forms was sold, More Taxes Point 5 “An act giving all political “subdivisions of the state more effec- followed a straight policy of placing | unemployed upon the shotilders of| restoring the approptiation reduced | ‘|only this money, which the compan- | Branding the | i |Unemployed Delegation in Harrisourg to Demand Jobless Insurance & tive power to collect delinquent taxes.” | This means that evictions will be in-| tensified under the excuse which the landlords and the real estate com- pabies will use that they are being préssed by the sub-divisions to pay their taxes. Point 6 “An act allowing the Coun- cil of Philadélphia to fix the number and compensation of employes of Philadelphia county.” In other words, | allowing the Vare machine in Phila- delphia to extent and consolidate its| rule over the county as well as giving them a free hand to probably put over another wage cut upon the lower civil service employees. Point 10 calls for “reductions of) state buliding appropriations.” This| exposes Pinchot’s demagogy and talk about giving jobs to the unemployed by adopting a state building pro- gram on a latge scale. Pinchot has| come to a complete agreément with/ the Vare machihe. Point 14 “A constitutinal amend- ment authorizing the state govern- ment to distribute in whole or in part among the political sub-divisions of the state taxes collected by it.” An ainendment of this kind actually placés the entire funds collected from at the disposal of the state poli- chine which will have the to make distributions as full pow they see fit. Delegation To Harrisburg These pdints show clearly that it is not the aim of the genéral assembly to appropriate any money for umem- ployment relief. The workers of Philadelphia and other parts of Pennsylvania, led by the Unemployed Councils, are sending @ mass delegation to Harrisburg re- presenting every industrial city in the state. This delegation will present a real relief program for the unem- ployed, a program which calls for relief at the expense of the bosses and the government. COMPANIES RISK INSURANCE FUND: Biggest Firms Totter; | Investments Fail; (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | | crisis, began to take their unearned | premium feserve, the money stored} up to pay the policy holders when! policies came due, and gambled with if. In many cases, they took not jes held in trust for the policy own-| ers, but they took also parts of the} capital stock, and gambled with that. | Capital stock is legally a guarantee of the payment of the insurance pol-} icies when they come due. The Republican committee states that 21 large insurance companies in New York have, at the end of 1930 an average of 57.2 per cent of their to- tal assets invested in stock—and stock was then going down and has been going down ever since. The Land Mortgage Gamble. From workers in the office of In- surance Companies, the Daily Worker learns more than the Republican committee admits. Official data available to these reporters shows that 28 large life insurance compan- ies hold $2,438,000,000 in railroad bonds. Now the 25 leading industrial stocks have fallen in 1932 to just 25 per cent of their price in 1929, ac- cording to the New York Times in- dex. But the 25 leading railroad stocks have fallen to 12 per cent of the 1929 level. As for mortgages on land, which is part of instifance assets consid- ered safe by the Republican com- mittee, and not even mentioned in their warning, $6,000,000 assets are invested in mortgages, according to the 17th Annual Convention of the Mortgage Barkers Association, 1930.) Forty lifé instance companies hold | $1,500,000,000 in farm motgages (US. official figures, Dept. of Agriculture report on conditions in April, 1932). But land values are collapsing, as is admitted in the Yearbook of Ag- riculture, 1932. And the Journal of Farm Economics says: (Jan., 1932) says: “It would seem that land val- ues had already been deflated, but if prices continue to decline....pro- duction to be restricted, and land to be thrown out of use, the end of the decline in land values is not yet in} sight. In areas where land is thrown} out of usé, farm values will disap-{ pear. In the less prodtictive areas, the decline will be very severe Lower land values may ‘prove of serious consequence to many invéstors in farm land mortgages. In case of some institutions, this may be suffi- cient to causé their insolvency.” Companies Are Lyifig.” Now what are the insurance com- pariiés doing, in the face of this ca- tastrophe? They have been trying to keép up profits, by gambling with the policy holders’ money, and they have been losing that gamble, and they have been lying about it, so as to draw still mote money in the shape of insurance premiums out of the suckers. July 1 will be a difficulé day for | ities. the directors of the insurance com- panies. On that date, the compan-/} jes are due to make their second an- nual statement of conditions. On Jan. Ist, the date of the last) statement, the companies suc-)| ceeded in covering up their real fin-} ancial standing by representing the value of the securities which they weré Holding not on the basis of the| stock market quotations of Jan. Ist, but on much higher level of the pre-| vious July. The permission to beau- tify their statement by quoting ficti- tious values was not given to the companies by the millions and mil- lions of policy holders who have a vital interést to know the truth but rather by the féderal authorities. But this device leads to still more difficulties for the directors of the companies. On July Ist, they must vive another statement of the pre- sent value of their holdings. Will they be brave enough to show the present valuation of their securities, which Will reveal a drop in these assets of about 60 per cent below their Janu- ary statement? Or will they once more utilize the special protection of the federal authorities in order to continue making fictitious statements (CHINESE STRIKE AGAINST LOW PAY New Yangtze Flood Threatens Millions The strike of the 6,000 Chinese silk spinners in Shanghai continued yes- terday despite the vicious attempts of thé Nanking authorities to break it. It is one hundred per cent effective with all of the silk mills closed down. The workers are striking against the 12 hour day anq starvation wages of 20 cents a day. They are de- manding a ten hour day and an increase of 7 cents a day. Support Soviet Districts The strike is part of a growing strike movement of city workers who are rallying to the anti-imperialist, anti-Kuomintang fight and for the Support of the Chinese Soviet dis- tricts and the Chinese Red Armies which are continuing their victorious advance in many provinces of China. Answering the attacks by Ameri- can gunboats on the workers and peasants Red Armies, a Red y torce yesterday raided Kikung: in southern Honan Province, and’ cap- tured five missionary agents of Am- erican imperialism. They are being held fpr ransom. The ransom money will be used to help finance the re- volutionary fight against the foreign imperialists and their Nanking tool&-—"-""" Kikungshan is a swell summer re- sort mucl frequented by the mis- sionary gentlemen. Gen, Tsai Tingkai has arrived at Hongkong on his way to Fukien Pro- vince to take command of the anti- Gommunist campaign in that pro- vince, which has been recently swept by a victorious Red Army. Gen. Tsai as commander of the Nineteenth Red Army helped the Nanking gove ernment to betray the heroic resis- tance of the rank and file of the Nineteenth Red Army and the re- volutionary workers of Shanghai against the Japanese invasion of the South China City. DETROIT CUTS RELIEF OF 18,000 DETROIT, Mich., June 28—In the most vicious relief cut in the his- tory's, the Welfare Commissioner to- day cut 18,000 families of unemployed workérs from the few cents miserable relief they were receiving. There were 24,000 on the relief lists. The Unemployed Councils of Detroit are | preparing to rally masses of workers {in a demonstration to demand that the relief be continued. of assets? Socialists Help Swindlers. Although the serious conditions of the insurance companiés has been $6 far concealed, it is breaking frito pol- The socialists as usual are doing the dirty work. What doés the program of Norman Thomas for “nationalization” of the roads mean to the means that they want the national government to guarantee their in- vestments. Of coursé there are other factors involved under government control ,the railroad companies could squeeze their workers éven Harder than the private companies, and 4@ | strike would become “treason.” Raile | road owners are involved, too, some |for and seme against. And somé bargaining as to recompense of the tailroad owners must go on. But the Socialist Party is conducting -the necessary préliminary propaganda— to make profits for railroad owners and insurance company owners at the expense of the railroad workers. Even now, though, it is very doubt. ful if the nationalization of railroads could save the insurance companies, it would come too late, and there are the mortgages and the holding of other railroad stock. For Social Insurance, What is our plan? The Commu- hist Party says the worker should not have to lose his policies; we fight for no profit payments, no dividends to the owners, until the policy holders are paid. We fight for a tax on the rich to pay depositors of banks and insurance companies that fail. But the Communists demand moré than that. We ate for full unem- ployment and social (old age, acci- dent, and support of dependénts in case of death) at the expense of the state and the employers insurance companies? It . }