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

¢ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO JULY 4, 1932 Worker Tells How Ryan Walker Drew Cartoons of the Class Struggle ers Offered Walker Was Picased When Weri ) Criticism of His Work NEW YORK.— I had opportunity to know Ryan Walker at close range since 1930. As one of a group of worker cor- respondents for the Daily Worker, I came up quite often to the Daily Worker Worcorr department which was in the same \ room where Ryan Walker was saw him at his board drawing line after line exposing the bru-| talities of capitalism in practice. rs To him the drawing board was no holy of holies yhere the chosen few are permitted to come near. He gladly invited non- artist workers to criticize his work before putting the finish-| rs ing touches to it. Asked Workers For Ideas. I will never forget the moment when Ryan Walker turned to me with his smile and said “Worker correspondents should not only inter. est themselves in writing of condi- tions among the workers but also should send in ideas on cartoons.” “Whenever you have a chance, he told me, sit down and write a few words from your shop or union about | the life of the workers and put in my desk, I will use whatever I can in my strip in the Daily Worker.” “I know you are not an artist,” he continued, “and the technique of car- toon drawing is unknown to you but you are always in contact with the workers, you live and struggle with them and jn a few words you can give an idea for a cartoon that will be understood by them, and from which they will learn. The artist thust live through what the workers be able to translate their struggles themselves do and only then will he into pictures.” Close Contact With Workers. The best monument for Comrade Walker will be if every militant and class conscious worker keeps alive his close personal contact with the work~ ers, his confidence in them, his ear- nestness in fighting with them, his simplicity of approach and make them an example and quide in their every cay activities. DOAK DRIVE ON IN STEEL MILLS Protests On Dies Bill Flood Senate (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) protests to Senator Wagner demand- ing that he “speak against and help @efeat the proposed Dies Bill.” . # 8 Frotests Increase, NEW YORK, N. Y.—Scores of pro- test telegrams and letters are reach- infi the senators and vice-president Curtis from all over the country re= questing action against the proposed Dies Bill. Several senators have as a Tesult expressed views of opposition to the bill, a Federated Press dis- patch reports. * 8 8 Natl. Committee In Fight. The National Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, New York, calls upon hundreds of its af- filiated labor and fraternal organiza- tions to “unite under the leadership of the International Labor Defense in a vigorous mass movement to de- feat the anti-labor Dies Bill.” In a statement it says: “In this critical hour, when the foes of labor make a drastic attempt to ‘institute a fed- eral law whereby labor spying and splitting the militant unity of labor action is legally rewarded, open shop employers and underworld stool pig- eons are organized together against all labor organizations, all sincere people must unite and stop the en- actment of the Dies Bill.” iret ig ne Wisconsin Active. WEST ALLIS, Wis., July 3—More an 1,000 workers gathered Friday it Central Park at the call of the nternational Labor Defense and Un- /? mployed Councils in protest against */ the Fish-Dies Bill. In West Allis, which is predominantly foreign born, the “Socialist” administration did not wait for the passage of this bill, but already are testing it out by holding for deportation three workers ar- rested June 7 at the Relief Station, Al Smith, John Perkovich and P. Ve-~ lich, Mayor Baxter, Socialist, worked hand in glove with the police and immigration authorities. S. P. Defends Bosses. In addition to this, the S. P., which claims “there are more civil liberties in the U.S. than in the foviet Union” (Milwaukee Leader)— in its permit to the ILD. for Central Park, West Allis, under Socialist Mayor Baxter, stated: “This permit Is granted with | the following stipulations that no of- ficial of the U. S. nor government of % the U. S. is to be mentioned or slan- “ypred....thé police are to take action the event that these cgnditions are ited....” Speakers at the meet- # ing/were: Allan Ward; Russell, 1.L.D.; Fred Basset Blair, Communist Party candidate for governor of Wisconsin; Grace Brown, candidate for assembly, and M. one cian es Over 50 meetings in Milwaukee County and other cities in Wisconsin, have passed resolutions against the Dies Bill, sending their protest to the U. 8. Senate. * 8 6 Fight On In Canada. MONTREAL, July 3.—The second session of the Cartier Division Con- busy drawing his cartoons. I The Jungle || By ABE MINTZER Living before on a barren lot, sit- uated on the northeast corner of West and Spring Sts. in miserable shanties and holes in the ground, the whole place being a.confusion of refuse, tin boxes rusty with age, broken boards, heaps of garbage, the two hundred and fifty workers de- scribed in a pervious article in the Daily Worker, have been driven even out of this primitive shelter by the police, the jungle now being enclosed | by a wire fence, barbed on the top. Very little remains of what was only a short time ago, a small city of the unemployed, and the whole place appears as if a steam-roller had gone over it, smashing the shacks and ruining the holes in the deserted cellars, Men Scattered. The men have scattered to all parts of New York City, the big industrial center, known throughout the world for its towering buildings, and im- mense wealth, have gone to starve more obscurely in the hallways, the breadlines, the parks, and the wretch. ed flop-houses. And this is the work of the police, the bribed thugs of the ruling class, who had been trying for) months to break up the colony, for fear that such a glaring eye-sore, would lead to protests on a mass scale. Many of the workers are still in} the vicinity, on the piers along West St., bordering on the Hudson River, and around the fruit market. Near the produce terminals of the Penn- sylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Lehigh Valley Railroads and all along the water front, are hun- dreds of unemployed, in the main, Negro workers, most of whom have not drawn any sort of wages for ex- tended periods of time and who eke out a bare existence, far below the most minimum standards. Forced “Vacations”. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the whole district hums with activi- ty: trucks filled to the top with farm preducts rattle through the streets, big muscled express men—lucky enough to have retained their jobs— handle huge crates with ease, while across the river the smoke belches forth, from big factory chimneys. This is in distinct contrast to the} men along the pier, lying in every imaginable posture, inactive in the midst of all this motion, toilers di- vided from the industries, from the trucks the factories, the freighters. And there is another contrast yet, @ more startling one, one of the chief contradictions of capitalism: Not far from West St. there is a huge ware- house, twenty or more stories high, bulging with food, with all the neces- saries of life, with all sorts of meats, fresh fruits, vegetables, with enough food to feed thousands. At the very foot of this warehouse, at the very entrance in fact, about ten workers are lying, practically prostrated by the heat and hunger, not having had a square meal in months. An Insane System. In other words we starve because there is too m uch food, we sleep in the parks and flop houses because there are too many buildings, and we! dress in rags because there is too much clothing. This is the insarie system we are fighting to change. Growing Resentment. Speaking to the men, we find there is a growing and bitter resentment against the fellows who control the jagainst deportations) will be held state, against the rich, against the police, and against the lousy charity slop. A couple of the men had been sailors on tramp steamers, others had been longshoremen, a few Negro workers had come from the South in the vain hope of finding work, quite a few had toiled for years in factories, and now they were all stranded without jobs and many of them without shelter. ‘When we mentioned the Unem- ployed Councils, and their work in organizing the jobless to struggle for unemployment insurance and for the bettering of their conditions, they expressed keen interest. They be- lieve something should be done about their miserable conditions, and in many cases are ready to join a revo- lutionary mass organization, stituency Conference (for Repeal of Section 98 of the Criminal Code and July 18, at Horn’s Hall, 4067 St. Law- rence Blvd., at 8:30. On the basis o. decisions adopted at the previous session, a signature campaign is being organized in this division over a petition demanding the repeal of all anti-labor legisla- tion, particularly Section 98, * A circular outlining the meaning of Section 98 of the Criminal Code, the laws of sedition as well as Sections FOSTER, CANDIDATE. OF WORKERS AND FARMERS AGAINST 3 CANDIDATES OF THE CAPITALISTS Foster Leader of Workers Fight Hoover Hunger, War President of the United States ERBERT HOOVER, President of the United States and standard bearer of the Republican Party in the election campaign, began his career as boom promoter at the age of 13 years, when he was already help- ing to sell now re- latively worthless real estate in the Salem, Oregon. Tie Coolie to “3 Stake . As an engineer HOOVER he — distinguished himself for his ruthless exploitation of foreign workers. “Once expound- ing his views on labor troubles to a friend, he told how he had always found that chaining a Chinese coolie to a stake for a day or two in the hot sun was conductive to good dis- cipline. and a minimum of strikes” | (Washington Merry-Go-Round, page 63). A Wall Street White Guard When he was head of the food ad- ministration during ang immediately after the last imperialist slaughter, he helped rich grain operators and | used food as a weapon to crush the Hungarian revolution. He tried it on the Russian Revolution but failed. For War on USSR Speaking to Benjamin Marsh, Pres- jident Hoover declared in assuming his office: “The greatest ambition of my life is to crush the Soviet Union.” Every time he made a new pros- perity prediction, the crisis sharpen- ed. To cope with it he gave banks ; and railroads millions of dollars thru the Finance Reconstruction Corpora- tion, Starve the Workers He is the most vigorous enemy of social insurance and opposes fiercely the payment of, back wages of ex- servicemen, He is an open supporter of wage cutting by the government anq by industrial employers. Together with his pal Bill Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, he supports the stagger plan, He is responsible for the legislative act of unloading the burden of the budget deficit on the workers through in- creased taxation. In attacking the provision of the Wagner fake relief bill for public works, President Hoo- ver declared that if monéy had to be appropriated it should be to addition- ally help banks and industrial en- terprises. Hoover is the man who sat in the Tea Pot Dome Cabinet and remained quiet. VETS CHEER GEORGE PACE Waters Man Exposed As Burns Dick (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Eicher. At the Friday meeting delegates from ten detachments of veterans were elected to form a committee to arrange a mass protest meeting against the Waters dictatorship. Oregon Group Hits Waters, A delegation of worker veterans from Waters’ own Oregon group re- ported that they would support the program of the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League against the Waters program. This group wanted to come over and join the Detroit con- tingent, but later decided to take up the program before all the men quartered in the 12th and “D” St. billets and thus win the whole group over to militant rank and file policy. Refuse to Obey Drill Order. Many groups of vets have refused to obey the drill orders issued Friday by the “High Command.” Five military police seized a worker vet who was distributing the program of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League Saturday.’ The attempt of the MP's to’ drive the vet out of camp was foiled by the militant pressure of the rank and file. The aroused vets demanded that the M. P’s turn the militant vet loose, Delegation to Question Wm. Green. A delegation of veterans elected at the mass meeting on Pennsylvania Ave. will proceed to the office of ‘Wm. Green, President of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, Monday, and demand that he state his posi- tion on the bonus. The committee will ask Mr. Green the following questions: 1, Are yqu in favor of immedi- ate cash payment of the bonus? % Will you support a mass movement of worker veterans to force Congress not to adjourn until the bonus bill is passed? = * 3. Why haye you made no state- ment on the question of the bonus? The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League has planned two mass open- air meetings for Sunday and Mon- day nights at Pennsylvania Ave. and Eighth St., where questions cohcern- ing the next steps in the fight for the bonus will be taken up. pt 41 and 42 of the Immigration Act, under which workers are being de- ported, is being circulated in the meantime to the workers in this constituency, All trade unions and labor organi- zations in the Cartier division are urged to elect delegates by ILLIAM Z. FOSTER, Communist candidate for president, has been all his life a fighter for the working class in the front ranks of struggle. As a seaman, a worker in many industries, a’ migratory work- er, a railroad worker and car- man, Foster is not only for the workers, he is a worker, ac- quainted with the problems and mis- erles of the working class by experi- ence. Led Stock Yard Workers The workers have always made him their leader. He led in the organiza- tion of the Chicago stock-yard work- ers and in their bitter struggle after,the war. Foster organ - ized and led the great steel strike of 1919, in which a quarter of a million mill workers fought until betrayal by the AFL, chief- tains, including F Samuel Gompers, NL ies broke their ranks, Foster led the amalgamation movement, particularly on the rail- roads, which brought . the Trade Union Unity League to the front in 1924 and the years following. Page Three Foster took a leading part in the formation of the Trade Union Unity League in 3929, and has been its general secfetary ever since, leading the fight against wage cuts, and against the Hoover hunger program. He was arrested and placed on trial for criminal syndicalism after the Bridgeman raids on the Com- munist convention in 1922. He has been a leader of the Communist Party and before that of the Work- ers Party, since the formation of Insurance. Foster served six months and is still on probation, for leading the great March 6 demonstration of 100,- 000 jobless and employed workers in New York. It was this day of dem- onstrations that smashed the con~- spiracy of silence in the capitalist press about unemployment and raised on a national scale the demand for unemployment insurance. Foster, now on his election cam- paign tour, was arrested last week for leading a demonstration of thou- sands of Los Angeles Workers against the shooting by police of an unem- ployed worker. For Workers’, Farmers’ Gov't. He is the author of “Toward So- viet America” which proposes a workers’ and farmers’ government, with the factories, mine, mills and railroads placed in the hands of the workers, and used for them and by them, with no payment to those who have always exploited the masses. [ORMAN THOMAS, a Presbyterian minister, former assistant pastor church, made his of a Fifth Avenu> plea for political power through the Socialist Party by posing as a left winger within it. He has pretended, in words, to be more friendly to the Soviet Union, in favor of less graft and gang- ‘ster rule in theA. F. L, and “more for the workers” than the party heads, such as Hil- quit. On this basis he runs as So- cialist Party nominee for president. Collects Funds for Mensheviks But in every actual situation, Thomas@akes a stand that supports the yellow “Forward’s” yell for smash- ing of the Soviet Union. Thomas was present at the socialist conference in | THOMAS and counter-revolution plans in the Soviet Union. He demands release of the sabotagers and spies arrested in the USSR. Against Vets’ Back Pay Thomas opposes the soldiers’ bonus, claiming in asigned article in the great a bond issue and tax program creat certain financial difficulties” for capitalism. ‘Thomas testified before the U. S. War Policies Commission, May 14-22, 1931, and proposed that the next war be well planned, and paid for as it goes along. He said: “If we were on the verge of war, I should probably be for it.”. He was publicly thanked for his testimony, by Secretary of War Pat Hurley. Thomas, when running for mayor the open support of the capitalist New York Times and of the Scripps- Howard papers, who made it plain he was “no revolutionist” nor would he “do anything radical’ if elected. Socialist Cops Thomas has many times supported the Milwaukee socialist city adminis- tration, which sends the police to JAPANESE GRAB CHINA CUSTOMS Kick Out Us . Officer; Take Over ; Papers The Japanese yesterday seized the Chinese customs revenues at Antung, Manchuria, entering the private resi- dence of the American head of the customs office and compelling him to surrender his archives and documents at the point of a gun, The American Commissioner, Rob. ert M. Talbot, threatened the Japan- ese with “international tions.” His threats were ignored, the Japanese replying thefe would be no compromise on their determination to seize the revenues. The Japanese Consul was conveniently absent, and the vice consul refused to act. Several Chinese members of the Antung customs staff were arrested and the whole force is reported to be in panic. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Against Hoover’s wage-cutting Thomas, Fake Progressive, for War and Against Bonus Nw York which arranged collection | of funds for the Menshevik sabotage , New Leader, Feb. 7, 1932, that “so/ as this sum (bonus payment) would, of New York in the last election had | lution and the partition of China as} | Ministration, which arrested miners | for the jobless. contplica- ‘as an act of hostility against the Jap- | fascist press. smash demonstrations of the unem- ployed, and has just had passed a plan of forced labor for the jobless. ‘Thomas has as running mate, Mau- rer, of the Socialist Reading city ad- for collecting strike funds on the street. ‘Thomas, in his speeches supports the Farmer-Labor city and adminis- tration| in Minnesota, which smash unemployed demonstrations, deny re- lief and set up forced labor schemes He is the author of “America’s Way Out of the Trisis,” which proposes the workers should buy out capitalism. OPEN CALL TO CRUSH USSR. Issued by Japan War Mongers in Manchuria (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Japanese army, followed by the mur. derous bombardment by air, sea and artillery of the densely populated proletarian Chapei district of Shang- hai with the killing and maiming of tens of thousands of unarmed Chi- nese civilians, men, women and chil- dren, Under “Peace” Slogan, The Japanese call for joint inter- vention of the imperialist powers against the Soviet Union describes the Japanese as the “guarantors of peace” in the Far East and the “bul- wark” of capitalism against the spread of Communism, against the growing Chinese Soviet Districts and the heroic Chinese Red Armies, It is @ call for the crushing of the Revo- well as war against the Soviet Union. The Japanese use their wholesale arrests and torture of Soviet citizens in Manchuria to peddle the lie that “confessions” were obtained from So- yiet citizens“ proving” that the blow- ing up of the Sungari River railway bridge by Tsarist White Guards was the work of the Soviet Union. They attempt to identify dynamite “seized” by the Japanese troops as “produced in the Soviet Union.” They unreel an imaginary picture of the “capture of Russians in the act” of installing wireless sets in Manchuria. Not only the resistance of the Man- churian masses to the murderous Japanese invasion, but the increasing revolts of the oppressed Korean masses against their Japanese op- pressors are attributed to “Soviet in- trigues” against Japan. Cover Up Plan to Seize Siberia. ‘The precaution of the Soviet Union in strengthening its Siberian forces following the advance of Japanese armies on the Soviet border is cited anese brigands whose robber aims fo; the seizure of Soviet Siberia are br: ] zénly outlined in the infamous a) naka Memorial and in the Japancse The Japanese slanders and call for joint intervention against the Soviet Union aré published broadcast in the imperialist press. The New York Times correspondent adds his con- tribution to the war-inciting call by reviving the lies of the New York Times that the Soviet Red Army was concentrating 260,000 troops “along the Siberian border". Roosevelt, Raper of Haiti and Wall St. Lawyer OVERNOR FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, the democratic can- didate for president of the United States, and tool of Wall Street calls for an “en- lighteneq interna- tional outlook.’ His record illus- trates vividly the kind of intrna- tional outlook he advocates, Raper of Haiti As Assistant fig Secretary of the Navy in the Wil- son cabinet from 1913 to 1920, Roosevelt showed him- self a ruthless imperialist. To in- sure the investment of the National | City Bank in Haiti am armed force | of United States marines landed at Port au Prince on December uth, | 1914, seized $500,000 from the Na-| tional Bank of Haiti and placed the island under martial law. Roosevelt | was the man who, with “enlightened | international outlook,” directed this | invasion and drafted the declaration whereby Haiti was deprived of her | basic rights. | ‘That his imperialist policy did not | change is proven by a letter which he sent to Representative Collins on May 12th of this year congratulating | him for not having reduced the Na- tional Guard’s activities in drafting the new war department appropria- tion bill. ROOCEVELT Grab the Loot This letter is in line with what Roosevelt wrote as far back as June, 1917 in the Ladies Home Journal. Un- der the title “What the Navy can} do for your boy,” the present demo- | cratic candidate for president of the | United States said. “!.. Our navy | is the first line of defense and we are coming to realize that the def- | inition of the word ‘defense’ does not ! mean alone the prevention of hostile | land forced from landing of our sea- board, but that in its broader sense | and in the light of modezn conditions | the word ‘defense’ means also the! keeping of our highways of commerce across the seas and along our coasts.” This is imperialist international out- look. Wage Cuts Under the Banner of Class Peace The standard bearer of the Demo. cratic Party pledges himself to new deal” for the American people. In answer to former Governor Smith who charged him with fomenting “class hatred” in defense of the “for- gotten man,” he stated recently at St. Paul: “I pledge not for class con- trol, but for a true concert of in- terests.” The new deal for the Amer- ican workers and poor farmers is more exploitation under the banner of class collaboration in preparation for a new slaughter. Wall Street Lawyer The champion of the “forgotten man,” the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, eulogized “as a country boy who ros2 to be the knight of the poor people against the exploitation of Mammon,” practiced law in the office of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn, a Morgan law firm. He is now the member of the law firm “Roosevelt and O’Connor” with its of- fice at 170 Broadway. His partner, Basil O'Connor, is director and vice- president of the Federal Internation- al Corporation and other financial concerns stri¢tly connected with Wall Street. 1,000 Hear Foster in Salt J Lake City PAGE tee Federation of Labor, are trying to expel Bales. Both Thompson and Yager constantly attack the cam- paign of the unemployed councils for relief for the Jobless. Expect to Triple Vote. At Foster’s meeting, Oscar W. Lar- son, section organizer of the Com- munist Party, declared: “On the basis of our activity since last yoar, when the Workers’ United Front Alliance (there was no Com- munist Party ticket) rolled up be- tween 5,000 and 6,000 votes, the Com- munist Party can expect 15,000 votes or more this year and a proportional strengthening of the Trade Union Unity League Unions and the Un- employed Councils.” All the leaders exposed the “Salt Lake Citizens Party” and its leaders, including the lawyer, John McKnight, 2 self-confessed gambler and candi- date of the “Citizens Party.” The Communist Party platform sold like wildfire at the meeting. Foster's tour now takes him to a meeting today in Denver; Omaha, July 6, Kansas City, Mo., July 8 (at 8 p.m. in International Arena); Pitts- burg, Kansas, July 9; Oklahoma City, July 11, and Waco, Texas, July 12. | (CONTINUED ‘,: VOTE COMMUNIST FUR: 1. Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the state and employers, 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collec- tion of rents or debts. 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt. Pittsburgh Firm Producing New Steel for War; Winchester Arms Installing New Machines; |Metal Workers Industrial League Calls for Organization and Struggle NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 3—The Winchester ammunition plant an- nounced on Wednesday the closing of their factory for two weeks for alters ations. This is done to install new machinery to speed up the production! of war supplies and at the same time to enable the bosses to put through further wage cuts against the employees of the plant. cena ions! PITTSBURGH, July 3—The Jones | doesn’t even renresent the orizinal | them. LABOR SPORTS OLYMPICS AND ARMY OFFICERS The Swedish Olympic team has ar- rived to the U. S. Who are the longshoremen, farmers, lumber work- ers? Hell, no! They're army officers! Lieutenant Bo Lindman, itenant Sven Thofelt, Lieutenant Lindstrom, Lieutenant Boltenstern, Lieutenant Bystrom, Lieutenant Francke, Cap- tain Sandstrom, Captain Hallberg || This st and, to top it off, two counts, Lieu-| jtenant Count Von Rosen and Count! Bonde. WORKERS BOYCOTT OLYMPICS But the above doesn’t te'l the whole story. This bunch of officers Olympic team. After Mooney issued his famous apneal for the boycott cf the Los Anzeles Olympics a number of great mass meetings were held in Sweden and manv of the Olympic athletes refused to come to the U.S.A. The te2m had to be very quickly re-assembled and | this is the new bunch. eS bee FOREIGN CONSULATES PAN- HANDLE Foreign-born workers should be | warned of attempts of foreign con- sulates in the U. S. to panhandle or their organizations for money for the foreien Olympic teams. ‘The Finnish Consulates in this coun- try have been conducting house-t0- | | house canvasses for funds for the, White Guard Finnish athletes. The Finnish Workers Federation put a spoke in their wheel by distributing 50,000 leaflets exvosing the Olvmvic Games and calling upon the Finnish | workers to sunvort the International Workers Athletic Meet. aaa aie | SHARKEY-SCHMTT INS ‘We said in the Daily Worker two weeks ago that the whole Sheri Schmeling thing was a pre-atranved affeir AND THAT JACORS, SCRMT- LING'S MANAGER, WAS “IN THE| KNOW” LONG BEFORE THE BOUT AND THE DECISION. Now listen to Paul Gallico. Daily News sport writ- er, on June 24: “The Squawk that Herr D'rektor Yacobs was emitting immediately after the battle was both Loud and Long. BUT IT WAS NOT A VERY SERIOUS ONE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE HERR DIREK- TOR WAS. EXPECTING TO BE ROBBED. HE TOLD ME SO TEN DAYS AGO....HIS BEEF WAS MORE FOR EFFECT THAN FROM THE HEART.” (Emphasis ours.) No comment necessary. ae oe ATTENTION, N. Y. WORKERS New York workers who happen to haye cars and went to take some athletes to the International Work- ers Athletic Meet at Chicago July 28 are asked to sce Arnold Ame, Room 229, 80 E. 11th St., immedi- ately. Gas and food will be taken care of by the committee. Workers On Southern Resds Must Pay Half Wages to Boss’ Store KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 3.—The fight of laborers working on state highway construction for a minimum of 15 cents an hour has brought to light an elaborate system of profi- teering on the workers despite this miserably low wages. Despite a “ruling” by Highway Commissioner Baker. contractors con- tinue to force their men to trade in company stores, where they are com- pelled to pay prices much higher than those prevailing in public markets. Workers who do not tie up at least half their wages in the commissaries are regularly fired. Hiring the unemployed at virtually slave rates, the contractors in turn make fortunes through state con- struction jobs. AGA™ AMERICAN WORKER DIES IN US.S.R. MOSCOW, July 3.—Thomas Mead. an American Communist, who arrived in Moscow for the May Day ceiebra- tion, died here in the Second Clinical Hospital when a chronic illness from waich he was suffering suddenly be- came acute. As a representative of the american Association for the Aid of Russian Children, he visited the Soviet Union in 1927128, Vote Communist For 2. Against Hoover's wage-cutting Policy. Bungalows and Rooms to Rent for Summer Season & Laughlin Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa.,| has been producing special steel for) four months already.) 1, called Gatling steel is used! for high powered guns, cannons, ete. | The company has tried to cover up) the production of the Gatling steel. |The recent survey by Army College | of 3 did not reveal any of this) production. On the contrary, the in- estigators made statements that in, jorder to produce war material in the| | mill, many new changes will have to be made in machinery. | Another Wage Cut. _, While producing war materials andj ing it from the workers, the J. és! L Co. is now “preparing” the work-' ers for a new wage cut about the |beginning of August. The J. & L.| workers received a 10 per cent wage/ {cut on October 1 and a 15 per cent) ut on May 15, aside from the nu-} | merous cuts in tonnage. Many of the! workers get a few days work a week and then the company takes the en-! tire pay for company insurance and the company store. The workers are; talking about organization and strug.’ |wer material for The Metal Workers Industrial League in preparation for the Na- tional Convention to establish the ‘Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union is carrying on a campaign in| whe mill to organize the workers for! |immediate struggle against the wage- cut. The outstanding demand in the mill at present is immediate relief for all workers, part time and un- jemployed, for relief from the com- | pany. Leaflets have been issued, dé- nanding that the company give cash | rélief instead of groceries in the form jot $4 a week and $1 additional for every member of the family. |The Mill Branch of the MWIL is calling a big mass demonstration in mt of the shop gates for July 25 to demand relief from the company for all workers, and to organize the fight against the oncoming bloody war and against the shipments of ,War materials to Japan for use jagainst the Chniese people and the | Soviet Union. | ys |e See | Anti-War Conference Protests | TORONTO, Canada, July 2—The third meeting of the Toronto Anti- | War Conference was to be held Tues- jday, June 21, at the Spadina As- | sembly Hall. Due to police intimida- | tion the owner of the hall refused to allow the meeting, notwithstanding the fact that the first two meetings were previously held there. The ex- ecutive then arranged for the meet-. ing to be held at the Winchester Hall. On the day of the meeting the police visited this hall and intimi- dated the hall owner so that he too was compelled to refuse the use of the hall. In a release issued today, the Conference states: “The action of the police can only be interpreted as a vindication of the views of the conference that the Canadian government is an ac- tive force in the feverish war prep- arations now under way by the im- perialist powers as a “solution” to the present world crisis and par- icularly in the preparations for war against the Soviet Union. Our pro- test against the action of the police must become a part of our general anti-war agitation!” Mill Worker Crowds Grow Larger At Red Campaign Meetings SALEM, Mass., July 3—Three elec- tion campaign metings of the Com- munist Party in this manufacturing town show the rallying of the work- ers and jobless here to the Communist campaign for unemployment insur- ance and against wage cuts. The first meeting had an attend- ance of 50, the next of 150 and the third of 200, The Communist speak- ers turned their arguments particu- larly around the wage ‘out just order- ed in the Pequot mill. There was enthusiastic response, and after the meeting many crowded forward to shake hands with the speakers ahd assure them of support. e DEMAND McDUFFEY RELEASE. MINNIAPOLIS, Minn. — A letter was sent by the Communist Party to Ernest McDuffey, 19-year-old Negro boy of Anoka, Minn., who was rail- roaded to a 7-year jail sentence on frame-up charges pledging to fight for his release, Wherever You Are You Can Have the Only working class paper in English Send in Your Sub for the Summer $6 a year ($8 in N.Y.C.) 50c a month Daily, qlorker 50 E. 18th St, N. ¥. ¢.