The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- pense of the state and employers. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rents or debts. Dail ‘(Section of the Communist International) ker the Chinese people VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Equal rights for the Negroes and self-deterrmin- Against capitalist terror; against all forms of political rights of workers. 4. ation for the Black Belt. 5. suppression of the 6. Against imperialist war; for the defense of and of the Soviet Union, ye 2. 3. i} Vol. IX, No. 159. Ss Entered as sccomd-clans matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 3, 1977 "NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1932 j= HOOVERTOWN TURNS OUT TO HEAR FORD Unemployed Negroes Come In A Body from Chopsey Hill HAIL CANDIDATE ) Pledge to” Support | Communists BULLETIN PORT CHESTER, N. J., July 4.— One hundred fifty workers gathered in Aschman’s Hall Sunday after- noon to hear James W. Ford, can- didate for vice president on the Communist t icket. This unusual turnout for this little city of 25,000; most of these workers had never heard of the Communist Program before, * § ‘These workers came to Chopsey Hill because of unemployment and low ’ wages. They bought the rocky lots on the hill with their life’s savings— fifty to sixty dollars in all. Their little gardens are not enough to feed the whole family and they are forced to scour the dumps to “balance” their “diets.” Most of the workers are unemployed, but some of them have had the good fortune of securing city ‘jobs” where they get a few dollars @ week, Chopsey Hillis. organized solid into the International Labor Defense and when Ford came to town to speak on the platform of the Com- munigst Party, they mobilized almost to @ man to hear the candidate of the working people, There are 15,000 unemployed in the city of Bridgeport. The few factories .. that are still working have treated their employes to one wage cut after Eats BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 4. (By Mail)—All Chopsey Hill marched down in a body to Odd Fellows Hall Friday night to hear James W. Ford, candidate for Vice President on the Communist ticket. Chopsey Hill is a miniature Hooverville, consisting of less than a score of Negro families interspersed with a few whites. Their “homes” are one or two room shacks and shanties patched up out of scrap tin and pieces of lumber picked up here and there. As many as ten live in a single “house,” which is lit up at night by dingy kerosene lamps. (CCNTINUED ON PAGE THREE) RITLER REVIEWS cin Seek to Provoke New) Clashes (By Inprecorr Cable was an | Exports Fell 36 P.C.|| While Production) Declined 46 P. C. | | | United States exports during | | the period from 1929 to 1932 de- | ereased by 36 per cent, the Na- | | tional Foreign Trade Council | disclosed in its report just issued. | | The report reveals that manu- | facturing, minng and industrial | production declined about 46 per | cent between 1929 and 1931. United States exports to China and Japan were 6 per cent above the exports for the year before. The report does not reveal to what extent the increased exports to these two countries are due to shipment of arms and ammuni- tions against the Chinese masses of workers and peasants, HOOVER OBJECTS | TO PUBLIC WORKS Will Veto “Relief” Bill, Senator Says WASHINGTON, July 4.—The “re- lief” bill agreed upon by Senators and Representatives designated to confer on the Wagner and Garner bills in order to harmonize them, faces a veto by the President, Senator Wat- son declared here today. When asked whether the President would sign the bill, he said: “No. The bill contains objectionable features and I feel confident the President | would veto it, unless these objections are removed.’ rm As it stands the bill provides for additional relief to bankers and in- dustrialists through the Finance Re- construction Corporation. One of its provision calls, however, for the fin- ancing of public works of “unpro- ductive or non-profit yielding char- acter” which in the distant future would give employment to a handful of workers while providing building contractors, producers of building material and grafting politicians with more funds to grab. Hoover is opposed to this provision, although it was so modified as to call for only a reduced amount of the public works which the Wagner and Garner bills provided for through their common feature. ‘The Hunger President is said to be firmly determined to sign the bill only if such a provision is striken out. He is bent upon having his hunger and war program realized in full with not even a promise of relief to the starving and unemployed workers, NEGRO. TRIED ON GURMAN FASCISTS FRAMEUP CHARGE Gets Suspended Sentence STAMFORD, Conn,, July 4—A Ne- BERLIN, July 4—Attempting to | 80 worker, Cereal Willis, was given provoke further conflicts, 8,000 uni- formed fascists yesterday paraded before Hitler at the Nazi headquar- a suspended sentence by Judge Fen- nel last Saturday on a framed-up charge of threatening to kill two la- ters in Munich, -A similar parade | P0rers if they did not go on strike. also took place in Dessau. A group of fascists in an auto, in Munich, today drove into a workers’ @oup, seriously injuring two. Police rescued the occupants from attack at the hands of the infuriated workers. Week-end clashes between fascists and Communist workers cost four lives in various parts of Germany. Many Clashes. A number of clashes took place in Dessau, where fascists in an auto shot and seriously wounded a child. ‘The occupants of the car were badly beaten and two of them had to be taken to a hospital. Police succeeded in rescuing the remaining ones. * A sharp collision also took place in Essen, in the Ruhr district, where worker-sportsmen clashed with fas- cists. Police fired, killing the worker Sohneider, as well as Karpinski, a fascist detachment leader. Many others were wounded at the same Police in Eschwege fired upon work- ers, killing one and wounding others. Earlier three fascists had been sent to the hospital. In Schleswig fascists ‘» ambushed the Communist worker, f Krempél, shooting him in the stomach ‘4 .,@nd wounding others. ‘| sMembers of the social-democratic Reichsbanner collided with fascists in Neureppin, and two socialists. five Nazi were, as a result, taken in a clash with fascists and police. e in other towns also. in the Lustgarten. — soelal-democratic Willis was arrested last Friday in court while attending a trial of three other workers, arrested the day before during a strike called by the labor- ers employed in the construction of the Long Ridge road here. ‘These laborers were brought in from out of town about a month ago to work for 30 cents an hour for ten hours a day. The union scale for laborers is $6 for an eight-hour day. When the Unemployed Council heard of this, some workers were sent to speak to the laborers, who elected their own committee and declared a strike. Twelve of the 50 or 60 work- ers employed answered the call to strike. At this trial, Comrade Willis ex- posed the frame-up nature of the charge leveled against him. He turned the whole affair into a trial of the Democratic state administra- tion exploiting the workers and brought to the attention of the la- borers who packed the court the role of the Unemployed Council in sup- porting their fight for a $6 wage and an 8-hour day, When the judge saw that if the trial continued the miserable wages paid by the Democratic state admin-| istration would be exposed, he rushed to give Willis a suspended sentence. socialist “Iron Front,” which| sections where man; Hindenburg, today demon- | cratic workers live, and is increasing MASSES LEAVING RELIGION HARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Speak- ing at the Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia, Dr. ©) John A. Mackay, Secretary of the Board of the Presbyterian Foreign Missions, admitted a growing anti- 4 : Kiel, police fired, ding four religious sentiment in Latin America, Numerous collisions took|nist workers, wearing anti-fascist badges, This is pi ularly true in social-demo- HITLER FOR PAYING MORE WAR TRIBUTE Backs Von Papen Plan | to Sweat Half Billion Out of German Masses) SEEK LOST COLONIES Industrialists Bargaining for The Lausanne reparations and war debt conference yesterday proposed that Germany pay an additional bil- lion dollars in war tribute to the vic- tor Powers in the last World War. The amount would be payable three years hence “if conditions permitted. The German Junker Chancellor von Papen opposed the sum as too large but offered to help the Powers col- lect $500,000,000 out of the hides of} the German masses, The proposal and counter-proposal brought the conference no nearer to a solution of the war debt tangle. The French refused to consider either plan | unless it was made contingent upon the wiping out of the French war debts to’the United States. The Germans insisted upon a final de- cision, Further Robbery of Masses The proposal of von Papen to have Germany pay $500,000,000 and his evident readiness to concede to the payment of one Dillion dollars if pressed, met with sharp attack in the German Communist press which ex- posed both proposals as aimed at the further robbery of the impoverished | German masses. Adolf Hitler's “Voelkischer Beo- bachter” declared a “modest con- tribution” to a “reconstruction fund” ; may well be accepted as “the lesser evil.” % Bargain for Colonics The press of the German indus- trialists demanded that von Papen secure concessions from the» Powers before agreeing to further repara- tions payments. This press consid- ered payment of-one billion dollars “quite possible” if the Powers would return the former German colonies. By further bleeding of the German masses and an intensive exploitation of the populations of the former German colonies calculated they could not only squeeze out another billion dollars but make a handsome profit for themselves. . Betray Irish Peasants In Fight on Annuities LONDON, July 3.—A move -to set- tle the Anglo-Irish dispute over the question of the land annuities at the expense of the Irish masses, pro- mising “good will on both sides* was made here today by George Lands- bury, Parliamentary Laborite leader, and William Norton, Labor “leader” in the Irish Dail, Under the pressure of the workers and peasants of Irland, De Valera was forced to discontinue the pay- ment of land annuities to Great Bri- tain. These land annuities consti- tuted veritable levies on the Irish peasants’ incomes. Following upon the “good will” talk of Lansbury and Norton, J. H. Thomas, the Dominions Secretary, disclosed that a note from Ireland signed by De Valera opens the way to “arbitration.”. This is another word for indicating that the cause of Irish peasants will be betrayed. It was not disclosed whether the “arbitration” will take place now or after the Imperial Economic Confer- ence will meet at Ottawa. De Valera will be present at that conference. BRITISH FOR ARMS. CUTS, FOR OTHERS Proposals Match Ui 83 Hypocrisy Meeting the Hoover “arms cut” proposal: with equal hypocrisy, the} British yesterday announced they would present a counter-proposal calling for an even greater “arms cnt” than proposed in the sham partial disarmament plan of Hoover. The main difference between the two proposals is that Heover’s plan seeks to strengthen American imper- jalism at the expense of its imper- ialist rivals, while the British seek to deprive their imperialist rivals of those weapons to which British im-| perialism is most vulnerable. Both plans are for war at cheaper costs. The British plan includes the abo- lition of long-range and heavy land artillery, scrapping of bombing planes and of battleships over 10,000 tons, prohibition of submarines or a 150- ton limit on undersea craft, abolition of aircraft carriers, a 50 per cent re- duction in Continental armies (no re- duction in the British army), elimi- nation of poison gas and scrapping of heavy tanks, British imperialism was shown, during the last World War, to ‘be especially vulnerable to the attack of German submarines, Zeppelins and bombing planes. British shipping was threatened by German submarines which struck many heavy blows against the flow of war material and food supplies to England. The Brit- ish seek to abolish these. weapons. |German long-range guns also con- stituted a threat against the British ;during the German drive for Calais from which they planned to bombard the British coast towns. The Brit- ish want long range guns scrapped. Since the war, the British have found it.more and more impossible to com- pete with the United States in the building of big battleships. They want these abolished. In a word, the British proposals are aimed to en- {able the British to maintain their naval supremacy at a cost reduction, and to disarm their rivals of those weapons most effective against Brit- ish imperialism, The British proposals will most likely be supported by the Japanese who also aim to maintain their pre- sent naval strength but would favor a reduction in cost. The French will vigorously oppose any reduction in cost. The French will vigorously op- pose any reduction in their huge ar- my, and will fight the abolition of submarines and bombing planes which they consider two of their most effective weapons aaginst their Brit- ish rivals should the latter challenge French hegemony on the continent. The patent desire of the imperial- ist to disarm only their rivals thor- oughly exposes the hypocrisy and sham of the so-called “disarmament” conference. The only proposals for actual disarmament have been made by the Soviet delegation. These pro- posals were rejected by the imperial. ists who are using the “disarmament” conference to cover up their frantic war preparations. MILK FOR T HARTFORD, Conn., July 4.—This New England city has its share of un- employment—with hunger and mis- ery for thousands of jobless workers and their families, But Thomas F, Flannagan, chief food and milk inspector, says that in Hartford every day for the past year at least 20,000 quarts of skimmed milk have been poured down the sewers because it could not be sold. The destruction: of skimmed milk seems to be the special contribution of Hartford, while in numerous other cites thousands of crates of fruits and vegetables are dumped in order to maintain artificial price levels. . 8 6 Misery In St. Louis. evidence of the recognition of the ite repeated warnings of its| necessity of united front action by| five percent of the families of the workers | Communist and social-democratic agains, Jascieuy * we Met Le ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 4—Seventy- unemployed are living in “‘less desir- able” quarters than they occupied a Hartford Destroys 20,000 Qts. a Day HE SEWERS year ago, according to a survey just completed here by the Community Council, which has good reasons for under-estimating the seriousness of the situation. “Improper ventilation, lack of screens, lack of bath, toilet and re- frigeration facilities, inadequate sleep- ing quarters, excessive heat and poor , cooking facilities,” the report says, “are the outstanding physical dsad- vantages of overcrowding it the poorer living quarters now being oc- cupied by families of the unem- ployed.” Twelve In One Room. Twelve persons living in one small room is one instance cited in the ro- port, while infectious diseases find a fertile field, especially among chil- dren who are crowded together in the miserable hovels of the families of the unemployed, Three “outstanding” Tammany grafters at the Democratic convention which nominated Reosevelt, after deals with Garner and McAdoo removed the “opposition” to the New York governor. John McCooey, Brooklyn Tammany boss; John Curry (in center), bead of Tammany Hall, which has charge of the grafting rights on the city; and James J. Walker. back Roosevelt, despite their opposition to his nomination at the convention, Roosevelt to Get Tammany Hall Support NEW ‘YORK.—Complete for Franklin D.- Roosevelt, cratic candidate for president, ‘Tommany Haii -is now by taken for granted despite the f uilure of Tam- many’s original candidate, Al Smith, to get the nomination. Thus Tammany, which includes prominently Jimmy Walker, revealed in recent investigations as one of the most “active” of the grafting gang. are linked hand in hand with Roosevelt in the campaign for na- tional control. The New York Mirfor’s financial editor today comes forward with this illuminating bit: “The business-like manner in which the Democratic candidate proceeded after his nomination has made him more respected in the fi- nancial district. The betting odds in his favor have been raised a point.” Thus is the Wall Street lawyer, now governor, greeted as his demagogic campaign for the presidency opens up with the support of the Tammany gang. Just how the final move for Roose- velt. was accomplished was let out of the bag by returning delegates who battled for Smith. They charged that William G. McAdoo, Wilson's son-in-law and Secretary of the Treasury in his cabinet, traded the support of the California and Texas delegates, in return for a promise of a cabinet seat in the event of Roose- velt’s election. “NEW SPY ARMY THRU DIES BILL” Dunn Telly What Law Would Bring By ROBERT W. DUNN 'HE Dies bill would increase the already wide powers of the Fed- eral government to spy on the working class. At present we already have the Department of Justice, the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, the “Conciliation Ser- vice” of the Department of Labor, and the Immigration Bureau of the Department of Labor, all empow- ered to spy on the workers in con- nection with their “routine duty” of defending the class interests of the capitalists. Would Increase Spying ‘The Dies bill would open the way for a tremendous increase in these spying operations, especially on the part of the immigration bureau. In order to establish the fact that striking workers and workers who protest against their conditions are “Communists,” this bureau would be empowered to add scores of spies and stool-pigeons to its staff. An army of underworld characters would be employed to frame work- ers and to put words into their mouths which would automatically lead to their indictment under the new law. Wholesale arrests would follow of both native and foreign-born work- ers; workers would be jailed and held incommunic” Jo without access to friends or co’’asel. Homes would be entered v’chout warrants and workers seiz.d and given the third degree to ort confessions from them. Agents of the Department of Labor would be injected i nto labor organizations to provoke acts and wo:ds which would facilitate sub- requent raids and arrests, In short the whole story of the Burns-Daugherty end the A. Mitch- ell Palmer regimes would be re- enacted, only with double force against the workers. Would Frame Workers And not only federal b ut all sorts of local officials would be called upon to help in the spying and framing cperations required in the enforcement of the act. Charity officials and work burcaus, block aid drives, and other devices would be used to spy on the workers and to terrorize them, wie Tammany has announced that it will CITY EDITION | Price (F, P. Pictures) Photo shews (left) 1,000 VETS WANT | MILITANT MARCH \H it Waters’ White| Horse Scheme | BULLETIN | WASHINGTON, D. C., Juiy 4— A sieady downpour of halted @ mass march of the veterans to- day to the White House. pected, however, that worker veterans will demons front of the Capitol tomorroy ¢ food and an extra ses ngress to pass the bonus b It is ex- of C | Walter W. Waters’ plans to | a white horse at the head of a | parade of veterans in a patriotic demonstrat‘on today fell flat. Wat- ers had his demonstration, but he | had to march on foot and was fol- lowed by only thirty men, mostly military police, to the tomb of the unknown sold Waters made no mention of the fight for the bonus in h!s speech at the tomb, He merely repeated the old stock speech made by every demazogic politician who visited the tomb before him. “We came here to pi idea's for wh'ch he mured Waters. as as WASHINGTON, D> G July -4.—| Over a thousand worker veterans, | representing every regiment in the Bonus Expeditionary Forces, attended ‘an enthusiastic mass meeting held under the auspices of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League last night at Pennsylvania Avenue and 8th Street. ‘|“No Adjournment Until Bonus Paid” The call of the Provisional Bonus March Committee for an organized and militant march’ to the Capitol Tuesday, where a broad elected rank:| and file“committee will present the| demand that Congress shall not ad-| jurn until the bonus is paid was given | the unanimous support of all the vet- erans present. A veteran from Pineville, Kent a coal miner who was active in the| recent strike, was among the spe: ers who urged real mass action and| the ousting of the Waters’ leadership. | Waters’ plan to ride a white horse jat the head of a parade of veterans was given the horse laugh by the worker veterans, | The demand for food was raised in | every section of the Bonus Expedi- tionary Forces today. Along with | demands for immediate cash payment of the bonus and unemployment in- surance, the rank and file will raise | the demand that the government ap- propriate funds at once for food for | the ‘starving veterans in the camps and billets around Washington. Count Uchida, Against China and HARBIN, Manchuria, July nition storehouse. to the town of Tubei. ialist action to “crush the Soviet armed in Soviet Union. The world working class is meeting this feverish speed- ing cp of the criminal drive to plunge the world growing anti-war agtions and intensive preparations for tremendous world-wide demon- strations on Aug. 1 against hun- ger and war. into a new slaughter with The move for official recognition of the forcible wresting of Manchuria from China is being pushed by the MINERS MEET TQ PREPARE RELIEF Stirring Events Told} at Conference | BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July 4.—Be- ning the fourtty month of the east- | ern Ohio strike, 55 delgates of the/ National Miners Union and other) labor organizations including the Uni- | ted Mine Workers of America met in Bridgeport on July 2, to discus$ the problem of relief for the striking | miners. | Th delegate brought forth tales of | brutal treatment of pickets by state guardsmn and interferenc with their) right to picket. They told a story of hunger and inadequate relief, al- though all of them praised the ef- forts of the Workers International Relief to bring aid to the miners. Describe Suffering Wilkerson of the Boydsville was elected to the chair. He told the delegates that this was the crucial moment of the strike, when every force of the miners must be cen: terd one the fight to win. The Ams- terdam local reported that they were feeding 99 twice a day. The only source of relief they had found was the W. I. R. and their own relisf com-| mitte of 15 which worked regularly. | Another Amsterdam speaker told of | the terror in the Wolf Run mine, | and how the miners were fighting | against the state as well as the op-) erators... Terror, beatings and_club- | bing were the lot of pickets thére he | said. The N. M, U. men are the) backbone of the picketing he reported, | The “law” actualy came into people's | homes at Wolf Run mine and beat up| the women and children. | SUSPEND ALLOWANCES FOR ENLISTED MEN | WASHINGTON, June 3.—Discharge | allowances for army enlisted men will | be suspended, according to a pro-} vision of the economy act just signed by the President, it was revealed here today. This provision does not affect offi- cers assigned this year to the Army War College in Washington and fhe Naval War College in Newport. These officers will receive transfer ex- Denounces U.M. W. A. ff | A delegate from the N. M. U. at Flushing told how he had been (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | “REVOLT” PARTY WINS MEXICO ELECTIONS MEXICO CITY, July 4—With no| opposition in 110 of the 117 electroral | district, the “National Revolutionary | Party” won practically all the seats in the Senate and in the Parlaiment, | penses, it was stated here. NEW YORK.—An article under the title “Pro-Soviet Campaign” by Ji Lisitzim appears in today's issue of Nuvoye Russkoe Slovo—a white guard paper. Speaking in the name of the Rus- | sian National League, Lisitzim tells of the campaign carried on by his organization against the recognition of the Soviet Union at the time when the Scripps-Howard newspapers, The Nation and other publications came out for recognition. At that time the White Guardist organization acccrding to Lisitzim was sending “material” to prove that recognition would not act favorably ‘upon the improvement of the eco- nomic conditions in the United States. | This material was addressed to Sen- CZARIST PROPAGANDA Boast of Anti-Recognition Campaign ator Robinson, Congressman Rainey, Secretary Stimson and others. In May the White Guard League sent threats to “pro-Soviet men” that in “November we will vote anly for the enemies of recognition and will carry on agitation against those in favor of recognition.” The article by Lisitzim reveals that the White Guard League also made a campaign for the Dies-Fish bill by sending letters to the Senators re- questing them to support the bill and to speed its acceptance by the Senate. After the nomination of Hoover the White Guard League sent him its congratulations and declared that in Plans Aggressive Poli U. S. Workers W ‘ll Answer: Big Demonstra- tion August Ist November it would carry on a cam~- paign for his re-clection. Tee JAPAN 10 “RECOGNIZE” PUPPET STATE TO SPEED DRIVE ON SOVIET UNION the Soviet Union dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph agency today said that the whole town of Tubei on the Huhai Railroad ——| was wiped out with a tremendous loss of life by the explosion of an ammu- The Japanese Imperial Army, in laying a base for an attack against the Soviet Union, had shipped huge quantities of munitions The open call of the Japanese militarists for joint imper- Union” was foliowed yesterday by the intimation that Janan would extend early recognition to her puppet state in Manchuria. The move is directed toward strengthening Japan’s hold en Manchuria as a military base for rvention against the? Japanese War Minister Araki, with the support of Count Uchdia, new Japanese Foreign Minister, and the Japanese militarist and fascist ganizations. It received great impetus or- with the arrival in Tokio of the League of Nations Commi is supposed to be “investiga Japanese aggressions in Manch It is generally admitted in Japahese and foreign circles that the League Comm whitewash Japanese agg Manchuria and legalize the s that territory from Chi: Count Uchida is expected to arrive in Tokio today to take up his duties as Foreign Minister. This event being hailed by Japanese milita circles as ushering in a “more force ful” policy toward China and ° Soviet Union. As president cf the Southern Manchurian Railway, Count Uchida was closely connected with the Japanese military adventure in Manchuria and the war provocations against the Soviet Union A special session of the Japanese Diet'has been called for early Sep- tember. In ® special session about, five weeks ago, the Diet appr ted new war funds for the huge Jepan- ese forces operating in Manchuria, near the Soviet frontiers. The com- ing session is expected to appropriate additional war funds. Under the proposed terms of Jape an’s recognition of the “indepe ence” of her puppet state in M: churia, the Japanese would be mitted to maintain their 2 Manchuria—on the usual i pretext of “the preservati and order.” Ting Chen-hsu, Jar pointed Chinese Ministe munications in Manchuria rived in Tokio to “plead” recognition of the puppet Herald-Tribune correspondent interviewed him yesterd: that he was surrounded bj anese advisers “and one of th prompted his answers to quest whispering in his ear.” Carrying. out their policy of sup- porting the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the British have offered a “compromise plan” for the solution of the quarrel between the Nanking Government and Japan over the seizure of Chinese customs revenu in Manchuria. The position of Nanking Government is supported the United States Government which fears that the Japanese seizure of Chinese revenues collected in Man- churia would affect the ability of the bankrupt Nanking Government to pay its foreign debts. The British ‘compromise plan” would have the Japanese remit to Nanking enough of the Manchurian customs revenues to cover Manchuria’s quota of the forsign loan payments. \Shoe “Workers Call For Support Today Against Injunction NEW YORK.—A call to all unemployed workers, ex-service- men, and particularly shoe workers, to take part in a mas® demonstration this morning be- fore the I. Miller Shoe Co., was issued last night. ‘The workers will gather at 10 o'clock this morning at the strike headquarters, 75 Fourth St., Long Island City. (At Vernon and Jackson station of the LR.T.; take train at Grand Central or Times Square.) “Only with the assistance of all workers will the strikers, now out nine weeks in a struggle against wage-cuts and worsened conditions, win its fight,” the union statement declared At the same time the union appeals to workers to gather funds for urgent relief, and for- ward money collected to tho Shoe and Leather Workers’ In- dustrial Union, 5 E. 19th St, New York.