The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1932, Page 3

A WORKER SEES RED BARRICADES RISE IN BERLIN Gives Vivid Account of Fascist Terror and Street Battle With Police Support the Red United Front Against t The following vivid account of fascist terror in Berlin appeared recently in the Daily Worker of Great Britain. The author isan English worker who was an eye witness to these events. ei aeca> ¢ | fret on Thursday afternoon 600 picked Fascists were stationed in a “Private Hotel” on the edge of the working-class quarter of Berlin. They had expressed their intention © of holding a ‘demonstrative parade through this red neighborhood in the hopes of intimidating the more back-/ yard workers into supporting Hitler the coming elections. By half-past five the msin shopping treet was seething with people, and the three car loads of police already protecting the Fascist base were -re- inforced by at least a dozen others. ‘The street is like any working-class shopping area on a Saturday night. On every corner spreading out into the road large groups of workers are arguing soberly and earnestly. In the road squads of Red Front Fighters march, accompanied, in many cases, by uniformed rank- and-file members of the Social- Democratic (Labor) military or- ganization, Every now and then a clear slogan rises above the market noises from some group of workers, “Forward the Red United Front,” and the reply, “Forward, Forward Forward,” roars out from thousands of threats, from the youngest chil- dren to the oldest housewife, who knows what capitalism has ‘done for her family. * A police wagon, driving rapidly ‘lalong the pavement almost touching he shop windows, suddenly stops and nd thirty or more policemen, armed with blackjacks and heavy revolvers, rush into the crowd yelling at the tops of their voices, beating at any- body and everybody with their weapons. A few workers are arrested, pre- sumably for the crime of being in the street, and having their heads broken by the police. But again and again the slogans go up—Down with Fas- cism—Down, Down, Down. Then an- other charge further off and mire slogans, the mased workers swaying from one side of the street tothe other, the struggle continuing hour after hour and all the time six hun- dred picked Fascists are waiting: to make their escape when the police have beaten the workers off the streets. — By ten o'clock the situation Had ecome extremely, tense—two long ets of working-class flats were_in mplete darkness and were barri- Yaded at each end with huge iron dustbins, old beds and mattresses, planks and rubbish. A police lorry was stationed at the end of Rostoker Strasse with a searchlight playing slowly up and down the sides of ‘the tall decaying houses and along the street; sometimes the light picked out @ dark group of workers in a door- way and remained still invariably stimulating the group into giving the Jead for a slogan—Down with Police and Fascist Terrorism; Down, Down, {Down—rings the reply from all the ‘windows and doorways of these six- wtc'y tenement houses. Bo wand again the police risk a “punitive expedition” and charge a {particular group. From one doorway the police can be seen manoeuvering ‘along the pavement over, the bar- ricade (which is to prevent the police cars patrolling up and down, andvat- tacking without warning), suddenly they charged silently in the dark txcet—the tallness of the houses ex- ggerated by the darknes and the flack forms of the police made smaller id more menacing. We melted through an archway into a pitch dark courtyard, while an elderly working woman waited stolidly until the last man was in before she slammed the huge door to and turned the key. The police must now smash in the door and fight us on our own ground in the dark, or give it up—they decided not to fight. Up to this time the workers had been purely on the defensive, fight- ing only for their rights to the streets. The efforts of the police’to cow the workers—to beat them off \their own streets so that 600 Fascists ‘from the bourgeois quarter could nave sole use of them had hardly shaken the good temper, much ‘less the spirit, of the workers. : \ But now the increasing brutality F attack resulted in a stiffening the determination of the workers, a police car that had broken STANDSTILL IN DALLAS (By a Worker Correspondent) DALLAS, Texas——Everywhere you look here you. see people vainly try- to sell their products, while oth- with socks and baskets are going hrough trash cans picking up old uts and left over. stuff. I myself hardly manage to get by through felling vegetables. Most of us are proke. Conditions do not look very fav for the coming fall and} Dietatorship through the Rostoker barricade was pelted from the windows, one of the big iron dustbins crashing like an explosion on to the top of the car; they retreated hurriedly, and the neighbors immediately poured out and began to strengthen the barri- cades with huge flagstones, picked up from the pavement. Now that the barricades’ were manned and impassable the police turned their attention to their main task—that of clearing Turm Strasse (the main street) for the Fascists. They proceeded to knock down and beat up every single person within sight. On the corner of Beussel Strasse and Turm Strasse an officer could be seen holding a worker's legs in the air, his head and shoulders resting on the ground, while a sec- ond policeman smashed bitterly over and over again at the worker’s face with his baton. By these means the police had cleared the street suffi- ciently by midnight for the Fascists to come out. From a cafe doorway we saw the police lined along both pavements, while 600 picked Fascists tore as fast as they could run along the middie of the road towards the bourgeois quarter. ‘We now made our way back {o the second barricaded street, where a red glow could be seen illuminating the high tenements and showing up the jagged outline of the black barricade, a straw mattress was burning fiercely. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it gives the police the excuse for bringing out their “Water Cannon” and deluging the workers, knocking them off their feet. By now the po- lice are armed with army rifles in addition to their revolvers, and the huge public wagons patrolling the neighborhood are accompanied by an armoured car with mounted machine guns, rumbling noisily through the lightening streets. As the dawn breaks the inhabi- tants retire into their flats and close the doors and windows, having fought a bitter hand-to-hand fight with the police for more than 12 hours on end. Soon it is light and only the gigantic armoured car can be. heard lumbering through the empty cobbled streets, backfiring ar- rogantly. But the barricades remain as a de- fiant symbol of the fighting deter- mination of the proletarians of Red Berlin. Vote Red (The Daily Worker publishes the following so that workers can or- ganize mass choruses at Red Elec- tion rallies). By VICTOR JEROME. On the 8th of November Vote Red—Vote Red mes ee For jobless insurance Vote Red—Vote Red * * @ Fer work, for bread We'll battle. We'll fight ee ie ie For right to the streets We'll battle—We'll fight Pony rod ‘Together all workers Black—white—White—black ie i ee The foreign, the native Close ranks—Close ranks eycene The workers, the farmers Class-linked—Class linked 9. ph: ote Stop deportations Workers all—Brothers all ne Dane | -| War lords—Hands off * Rights to the Negroes . Full rights—All rights ees 0 Self-rule for the Black-belt Self-rule—Self-rule ara | Death to the lynchers Blackwhite—Unite Pony ee For Scottsboro-Mooney Break chains—Break chains 8 Against the White terror Red Front—Red Front hile ‘The Social-Fascisti Our foes—Expose i Woll, Thomas and Hilquit And all those—and all those + 68 4 Out of our ranks Drive out—Drive out epee oe For defense of the Soviets Stand Guard—Stand Guard 8 eet) a From the people of China Against boss warfare Class war—Class war ee eg To the capitalist system Vote death—Vote death ie Uae) Our road is to Soviets. March left—March left nee vie | On the 8th of November Vote Red! Vote Red * Soviet Leaders in Workers’ Club Engage in Intense Chess Game in Moscow Vy Garsaauit, Wau vy us, SALUR DAY, JULY 2 BELGIAN Unusual photo showing Michael Kalinin, president of the Soviet Fed- . erated Socialist Re- Influence of Vandervelde a public and chair- man of its execu- tive committee, in a NEW YORK, July 20.—Although the striking metal Belgian workers are reported to have returned to th jobs yesterday, the miners are still} holding out against the wage-cut. The most Heitor es fact sine cane chess game with A. tl. Rykov, People’s Commissar of Com- This munications. A Veteran Answ ers | remarkable . study of them and their audience was made Against Bonus Army | Correspondent) ming Journal, a recently in Moscow. i ect Paper, a “sob sister,” Elsie Robinson, is spreading lies about our fellow workers and comrades in the B. E. F. at Washington. This is the stuff writes: “In this ragged army of vet: (F. P. Pictures) A DRESS WORKER URGES STRIKE Exposes Conditions in| Carnegie Shop (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Y—The firm of Hattie Carnegie is well known in the dress trade. It employs about 365 organized workers in two shops, wholesale and retail. These workers, after years of struggle have succeeded | in organizing and maintaining union | conditions. The strike of 1930-1 was | lost as @ result of the misleaders of Local 38. In order to stifle the growing dis- | content of the workers the Interna- | tional sent an ousider, Mr. Greenberg as @ supervisor. From the very first day that Greenberg came he began to undermine the conditions of the workers . The first manouver was to permit the boss of the Carnegie shop to car- ry through wage cuts and reorgani- | zation prior to the cxpiration of the agreement. It was only the militant and united action of the workers that prevented this sell out. This was fol- lowed by. many other treacherous moves. Last May 28th, Carnegie, through the secret agreements with the offi- cials, declared a lockout against the workers of the largest shop. The workers immediately came to the union and demanded a meeting. The administration deliberately —_post- poned the meeting for ten days. In- stead of organizing the shop to an- swer the lockout with a strike, Green- berg, without consulting the workers agreed to hand over the matters to the impartial chairman, who was quite partial The workers at the shop meeting by an overwhelining majority voted down Greenberg's report and de- manded action against the When Greenberg failed to force through his treacherous policy he tried to split the ranks of the work- ers and called upon his supporters to leave the meeting. Since then no; more meetings were called. ‘The Executive Board together with Greenberg and the International offi- firm. | “Liberal § By MATT PALMER The contr Come so evident that it is neces- sary for him to pull more wool over the eyes of the workers. Frank Mur- phy, Mayor of Detroit, who at the orders of-the motor magnates and the bankers has cut the relief ap- propriations for Detroit's unemployed, was at the Democratic Convention jin Chicago. When the newspapers |carried the story of 18,000 Detroit |families to be cut off the welfare rolls, Murphy stepped into his sup- reme dramatic role. A wild taxi ride |to the airport and a fast plane to Detroit made his appearance in De- troit “to save the people” very spec- tacular. The Detroit press ran head- lines to the effect that Murphy saved jthe cities needy and then hurried back to the convention in Chi¢ago. This action, however, is not as in- dependent as it appears on the sur- face; on the contrary, it is a logical step in the progressive character of Murphy’s demagogy. Human Interest In the municipal elections of 1931, Murphy campaigned on human in- terest. He repeatedly made speeches guarantecing ‘relief for the cities un- employed. He stated that his heart bled for the working class and was violently opposed to wage cuts. By such tactics, he managed to be elec- ted by a record vote. Then point by point, his promises, contrasted to his actions began to expose him in the ayes of the masses. False Promises Before elections, he promised no evictions, however, he sent his’ po- lice to club and fail workers resist- ing evictions. He promised free speech, but on November 25, 1931, and again on November 28, he sent cials openly declared that they arejhis police to smash the demonstra- ready to agree with Carnegie to| throw more than half of the workers out on the streets. What care they that the army of unemployed are starving on the streets, that a hun- dred more workers will become job- Tess. We the workers of Carnegie shop can defeat these schemes by uniting our ranks, by sticking together, by answering the lock-out and shameful betraay carried through jointly by Greenberg and the boss with a strike. The best way we can defeat this sell out and fight for our jobs is to come to the meeting and mobilize our ranks to fight for our jobs and our bread and butter. Paid 71/.Cents An Hour by County ‘ (By a Worker Correspondent) MUSCATINE, Ia., July 22—The only work a man can get here is a county job, at 15 cents an hour, which is not paid in cash, and there is no work every day either. One worker in my neighborhood who has a fam- ily of six works six days, nine hours a day, for which he gets three days’ credit, which is an order for $4.05. He has to take that to a store that they want him to, and get the things that they want him to. The other ‘three days they hold back on him. In other words he works for seven and a half cents an hour. The soldiers’ relief has been cut down to $2 a week, regardless of the size of the family. If you need a pair of overalls, that goes out of your grocery bill. So if you want to cover up some of your nakedness you have to miss a few meals. I myself was broke into it while I was overseas in 1917. I went for months with the seat of my pants out, bottoms of the feet on the ground, and @ slice of bread cut with a razor for a meal. Then they had guts enough to deduct $1.25 a day for board off of our compensation. tions of women and Grand Circus Park. The wages of city employees have been cut over 50 per cent. It has continually been necessary for Mur- phy to make more and more pro- mises to retard the growing milit- ancy of the workers. Bloody Monday In the historic Ford Hunger March culminating in the massacre on Bloody Monday, March 7, 1932, Mur- phy tried to shift the blame on to Ford and the Dearborn police, say- ing that the massacre could not have taken place in Detroit. The fact re- mains that he sent one hundred De- troit police to held Ford murder the workers; his police department fur- ther terrorized workers by wholesale arrests and raiding of workers head- quarters. The close connection be- tween Murphy and Ford, which Mur- phy, of course, denied, is shown again by his statement in the the “Detroit Free Press” of June 11, when Harry H. Mead, Murphy’s manager in his first campaign stated, “The Ford Motor Company agreed to underwrite the deficit in Murphy's campaign.” The harmony existing between Murphy and the Proletarian Party was also demonstrated by the state- ment of the Proletarian Party de- nouncing the Hunger March and clearing Murphy. Also, Murphy gave the Proletarian Party a permit for Grand Circus Park for May Day with the double purpose of rewarding his “friends” and sabotaging the work- ers’ May Day Celebration under the leadership of the Communist Party. At the Briggs Plant Later yet in the Briggs Hunger March on June 6, 1932. Murphy had his police tear gas, club and ride down workers. Machine guns were in readiness but their use was’ not necessary due to the number of cos- sacks\Murphy has mobilized to crush this demonstration, for which a per- mit had been grante:. It now became necessary for Mur- phy to make @ dramatic gesture to children at peeches Worn Thin by Continuous Cutting Off of Detroit Relief Cops’ Pistols Shots Against Unemployed Drown Out t Demagogic Speeches jTegain the prestige he had lost in between Mayor Biur- | the Ford Massacre and the /Briggs phy's promises and his acts has be- | Hunger March. He had already stop- Murphy Forced Into Open As Hunger Chief per all payment of welfare rents, he had closed Fisher Lodge, giving hte 1100 homeless men the choice of forced labor at the Eloise Insane Asy- lum or starvation on the streets. Eleven thousand wage workers for the welfare department were dis- charged without receiving their last pay, amounting to over $150,000. He had already approved the sales of workers’ homes for taxes, The re- | lief appropriations have steadily de- clined from $17,000,000 in 1930 to $7,- 000,000 in 1931, and the new budget effected July 1st, 1932, appropriated only $3,000,000 to feed the more than 300,000 unemployed and their families. Yet Murphy plays the role of the “Peoples” Mayor who opposes the Council, and the bankers, but is fin- ally “forced” to reduce welfare funds because of circumstances over which he supposedly has no control. Evictions Increasing His real policy is revealed when he Says we cannot throw 18,000 people off the welfare at “one time.” The method he is using is to deny them relief at the rate of 100 families per day off the roles. Evictions are in- creasing at an unparalleled tempo. The workers of Detroit are beginn- ing to see fore clearly the role of Murphy; and to understand the con- cessions can be won from the bosses only through mass struggle. Militant resistance to evictions, involving the masses of workers, in ever. larger numbers, to struggle for relief must be the answer of the workers to this outrageous policy of mass starvation. Murphy, in putting into effect the Hoover-Brucker program of hunger and wage-cuts has a double purpose. One is the unloading of the entire burden of the crisis on the shoulders of the workers; and the other is to reduce the resistance of the workers to more readily militarize them for the coming war. ‘The Hoover Hunger Government is planning another imperialist slaugh- ter to solve their crisis, This imper- ialist war is aimed at the Soviet Union —the Workers’ Fatherland — where there is no unemployment and the workers are making rapid strides in a@ program of Socialist Construction. By starvation and terror, the bosses are atempting to drive the workers into this war to slaughter off the un- employed. Under the leadership of the Unemployed: Councils and the Communist Party, the workers can effectively struggle against anq hin- der the war plans of the bosses. Mili- tant struggle by the workers, organ- ized into Unemployed Councils and committees, can force the bosses and their government to grant Unemploy- ment Insurance. Vote Communist In the coming elections, the Com- munist Party, fighting for the inter- ests of the working class, against the bosses, conducts an unrelenting cam- paign for “Unemployment Insurance” at the expense of the state and em- ployers. The Communist Party also rallies the workers to struggle “against Imperialist War—for the defense of the Soviet Union—for the defense of the Chinese people.” Demagogues like Murphy will. again make promises to fool the workers and avoid the real issues. The real issues in this election campaign are hunger, wage cuts and war. The Communist Party calls on the workers to struggle against the bosses’ hunger program and to VOTE COMMUNIST ON NO- VEMBER 8th. SHORTWEIGHT UNEMPLOYED CHICAGO, ‘Ill—The Great Atlan- tic & Pacific Tea co, has been taking advantage of the unemployed by short-weighing those who present grocery slips from the charities, |Calls to Build Union in —-| are other vets who are not so ragged and not so hungry, who point out t our vets that there is a omy where the Government does not let TEXTILE UNION MAPS STRUGG its soldiers starve or go ragged, whose | jGovernment has abolished unemploy- | ment, whose families and children are happy and well fed, and for the vets to do likewise in this country.” Now, fellow workers, in bold black the Shops letters this sob sister writes: “But |these well dressed, well fed men are The Third National Convention of |Communists, and are being paid by the National Textile Workers Union | hls other government, and food in was held in Boston July 2 to 4 with |New York and New Jersey is being 32 delegates from such important |faised to send to them.” textile centers as Lawrence, New Bed-| . In the name of all the thinking ford, Providence, Pawtucket, Center | Workers of America I denounce these Falls, Salem, Patterson and Allen-|®S @ damnable lie of the sob sister, town were present. Elsie Robinson, who uses her talents The main report of the convention | -o misinform the Am- was given by Martin Russak, Secre- | €Tican workers. tary of the Union. This report sharp- | Every man in that raged army who ly pointed out the weak organiza-| has been starved and is jobless was tional status of the union during this |/@¢ ™to that World Staughter ot time of tremendous mass unemploy- | 1914-1918 by such lying sob sisters as ment end sweeping general wage cuts, | Elsie Robinson. In 1917 they wrote, It further stressed the lessons of our | “Your country neds you.” strike struggles, laying down a clear We swallowed that bunk in 1917, line of preparing for struggle today |@nd in 1932 these same vets are no through struggles for partial demands | longer of any use to the capitalist in the different mills and depart- | Class, ments, among the unemployed. We vets are no longer blind, no Must Build in Shop. | longer deaf, no longer dumb. We are Ann Burlak reported on work in-| Class conscious, and our enemies are side the mills and the United Front. pues writers are Elsie Robinson, who This report clearly showed how the | is paid by Hearst to promote another success of every struggle conducted | World Slaughter, in an attack on the by our Union depends on building Workers’ World, the Soviet Union. our Union inside the mill, at the ma-| These men who Elsie Robinson chines, organizing the workers into| would have us believe are our en- ‘Sob Sister’s’ Slander Be ing Hearst Wall Street capitalist news- | ,|8overnment and the mining capital- 12 | this 5 small active groups which will take | up and struggle for every grievance of the workers, no matter how minute that grievance might seem. The ne- cessity of building the United Front of al workers for struggle, not only during strikes, but at all times, was stressed. The unemployment report was made by Bill Siroka, who stressed | particularly the necessity of our Un-| ion taking the initiative in organizing | | and leading struggles of unemployed | workers around their day to day grievances. Fight Against War. James Conroy made a report on the War Danger and tasks of our Union. | He stressed the necessity for our Un- ion to mobilize the masses of textile | workers for a relentless struggle against the preparations for war on the Soviet Union. He further pointed | out that in the dye houses and rayon plants which are war industries for the manufacture of war chemicals, | the N. T. W. has the special task of mobilizing these workers to struggle in their mills against imperialist war. On July 3rd a Woolen Conference | and Silk Conference took place. The | Woolen Conference was the first step toward organizing a broad United | Front Woolen Conference in Law-| rence especially based on delegates | from American Woolen Mills in New| England. This conference, which is | to be held in a few months, is to work toward the coordination of our struggle in different centers against the American Woolen Co. The Silk Conference also decided to work toward a Conference of Silk Workers to be held in three or four months in Paterson to work toward uniform wage scales and coordination in support of struggles in the differ- ent silk centers. Committees are to be organized to prepare these con- ferences. Th Convention adjourned July 4th with great enthusiasm to begin our task of organizing struggles in the different localities. Immediately af- ter adjournment the newly elected | National Executive Board met and elected a National Bureau of nine which is to function between Board meetings. James U. Reid was elected | President and Ann Burlak as Secre- tary of the National Executive Board. | On instruction from the National Convention, the National Board de- | cided to prepare immediately the | first issue of the National Textile Worker will carry all the main reports and resolutions of the Third National Convention, THAT HELPS A LOT! NEW YORK —Jean Sackrider, dietitian of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, gets a lot of publicity by announcing that a typical family of five can maintain “good health” in New York City on a dietary budget of | $7.55 a week. She does not announce | where this measly $7.55 is to come emies are all working men and ex- soldiers. They are raising food and money with the help of the Workers ExServicemen and with the help of Ex-Servicemen and with.the help of working men and women. Page iar MINERS OVERRIDE SCAB SOCIALIST PACT de and Other Reform- ists Shown on Wane Recognition refused to Deportation Agreement of Betrayers jfrom the great strike is the admit- ted k of influence of the reformist les including Emile Vander- velde, the socialist. A decided growth in the influence in the revolutionary opposition has been noted during the past few days. Letter from Belgium lowing letter from Belgium reformists’ attempts to split the ranks of the miners was re- jceiyed today by the Daily Worker. The reformist bureaucrats of the Belgian Miners Federation have con- cluded a shameful pact with the The fc Ss in order to the ‘uggle of the miner: The result of pact would be that the tens of thousands of miners who are not of | Belgian nationality will be turned out of Belgium. The miners hav2 re- | fused to agree to this pact, and have |replied to it by extending and in- tensifying the ‘strike. The col s of Borinage have been followed by those of Chorleroi and central Belgium. One hundred twenty thousand workers of this in- dustrial district are out on strike. The government and the reformist bureaucrats are anxious to crush the Strike by means of gendarmerie, soldiery and armoured cars. They demand that a state of siege be im- posed. But the miners and their wives are continuing the heroic struggle to the utmost of their pow- ers. They are erecting barricades and are defending themselves against the military forces. It is the duty of the miners of all countries to support this heroic struggle. Call or Solidarity Therefore the Miners International Committee calls once more upon all miners for the utmost solidarity. Comrades, organize collections at once in aid of the strikers. The re- formist bureaucrats are determined to starve out the strikers, especially the comrades who are not of Belgian nationality, by means of refusing them strike benefit. Prevent this; collect money, that the plans of the enemies of the miners may be frustrated. Protest against the use of solidarity against the striking comrades, exercise class solidarity. Help quickly and you help doubly. Long live international solidarity. Long live the strike of the Bele gian miners. International Committee of the Miners. Worker Correspondence Kansas City Workers Block Anti-Negro Film| (By a Worker Correspondent) KANSAS CITY, July 20.—A signal victory was achieved by the Commu- |} and children came in ragged clothes. Rags and hunger are all that the workers have to show for their years lot toil for the capitalist system. We were not permitted to have any speeches in the park but we held | Speeches at another place after the nist Party and Young Communist | | Picnic was finished. The police and League in Kansas City, through the| the American Legion tried to terrore driving out of the vicious Negro hat-| ize the merchants when we were cole ing picture, the “Birth of a Nation.” | lecting donations for the picnic, but This picture playing at the Pantages, jin spite of the teror the picnic was a downtown theatre, was scheduled to| success and more workers joined the be run until Thursday, but the Party} Unemployed Council. got out a leaflet denouncing the pic-| ture and calling on the workers, both | | Democrats at their convention. ; White and Negro, to demonstrate in| front of the theatre Wednesday, at Sp. m. Quite a number of preliminary | mobilization were held for this dem- onstration and ak a result the news spread throughout the Negro section. | The theatre owners, alarmed by the | prospect of a huge, militant demon-| stration in front of their place— pulled the picture off the screen on Monday night, or three days sooner than it was scheduled to leave. The Democrats Talk While People Starve Dear Comrade: Listening to the proceedings of the Republican Convention reminded me} of the old adage, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” The very same sort of cynicism was exhibited by the They talked of everything, but relief to the workers Was not even mentioned. I presume that to solve the relief | problem they have in mind hiring Thurston or Houdini to pull rabbits out of a cocked hat and then feed these to the unemployed workers, Well, at that, I believe it’s a better scheme than Hoover's 20-year plan. L, S. KINDROWSKI. Chicago, Mlinois, LANSING PICNIC. (By a Worker Correspondent) LANSING, Mich.—About 800 peo- ple, workers and their families, were guests of the Unemployed Council pienie on July 4th. donated by the International Labor Defense. R. B. Canfield and Roy Sprague, of the Unemployed Council, were in charge. Many workers were barefoot be- from. cause they had no shoes. Mothers The food was; Another 10 P.C. Cut at Chase Metal Works (By a Worker Correspondent) | WATERBURY, July 15.—A second {wage cut of 10 per cent, effective today, is facing the workers of the Chase Metal Works & Waterbury Manufacturing Co. |- About three weeks ago many work- jers were laid off and the remaining workers are working only part time. | $1 75 a day is big money now for 8 |hours work. Out of this miserable | Pay the workers are forced to give | one per cent to help the unemployed. | Two months ago, the mayor of ; Waterbury, Mr. Frank Hayes, and Mr, |Chase gave a leter to every worker | employed in the Chase Metal Works & Waterbury Mfg. Co., stating, “We thank you workers for supporting the unemployed.” But they did not give a penny out of their own fat salae ries to help the unemployed workes® “DAMN YOU, MR. WELLS.” Las Vegas, Nev, | Dear Editor: | In H. G, Wells’ double volume wek, “The Wealth, Work and Happiness of Mankind,” he speaks of a world revolution as a catasrophe and end of civilization. Mr. Wells has a soft bed to sleep in, and not a board, a park bench, or Mother Earth, he has a nice, steady income from the roy- alties of his book, yes, the present system is quite suitable for Mr, Wells. He does not want a revolution. But I do not nave a soft bed to sleep in. I have no income from books, in fact I have no income what- soever. So I say to you, Mr. Wells, Damn you, Mr. Wells, Damn your whole parasite class, I am hoping and praying for the revolution to liber« ate us from the tyranny of your rule, —A Worker.