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say : e DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1932 Fake Relief Plan Rebs Nurses of $1 Each Wk. Action Forced by Growing Unemployment Is Only Another Wage Cut Plot (By a Worker Correspondent) \ NEW YORK.—There are in the United States 300,000 graduate nurses, and many more hundreds of thousands of undergraduates, practical nurses, midwives and students. The students work in hospitals without any pay. According to the statistics of the American Nurses Association, we have at present, considering only the graduate nurses, four times more than tha hospitals could employ even at the ®- height of prosperity and during severe epidemics. This overproduction, as they call it, increases yearly by 5,000 full- fledged new graduates who can find no work at all, which is admitted by the A. N, A. officials, These young graduates are girls in their teens or in their early twenties, and work very hard for two and a half years just for their diploma. They take the places of two or three salaried nurses while studying. Their hopes were to get through with their training and become in- dependent economically! But what do they find? First, they must pay $10 in order to take the State Board examinations. Secondly, they have to pay $12 alumni dues and $21 regis- tration in order to get night duty for the first three years. And this means waiting on call for days and weeks with three or four days work & month. Is it any wonder that these girls accept positions at any small pay and in many instances even just for maintenance, by taking’ post-graduate courses? Knowing that there is general dis- content among the masses, the offi- cials of the A. N. A. recently became somewhat disturbed, and put up an- other fake relief pian, which resulted in a doltar a day wage cut. Distrjct 14 of the American Nurses Association called a special meeting ef private duty nurses only, but for- got to call the private duty nurses. Half of those present were superin- tendents, supervisors and other offi- clals of hespitals, whos? salaries were not reducéd, but most likely increased as a reward for their “efficient” work. At the meeting, the nurses were told vby the officials that instead of pro- testing and resenting this dollar a day wage cut, they should make a moticn “that we nurses graciotsly offer to reduce ovr fee by $1 a day in order to provide mote work for nurses.” ‘The nurses were told at that meet- ing that they were not to take any notes—these wage cuts must be kept out of the press. 1 Nurses, join the Médical Workers’ League! Build Hospital Grievance Commit- tees! Demand the Recognition of Hos- pital Rank and File Committees, _ made up of skilled and unskilled employees. Demand the dollar a day wage cut back! Oppose all wage cuts! Fight for the Unemployment Insufance Bill! pe NURSE. CONTRIBUTIONS TO “DAILY” FUND DISTRICT 7—DLTROIT Alfred Béckman, Roch, Mie Emil, Jyrkala, Rock, Mich. Vietor Freeman, Rock. Mich. . Lewiska, Rock, Mich Sanri, ry ae Rock, TRIOT 8—CHICAGO New(on Miller, Oss Ot, Thana name D. Radeni, Sten Chas. Telegar— mea’s ‘Council, “Elm- wood Park, I! DISTRICT 10—KANSAS CITY — Albert bar 2 Madrid, lows. DISTRICT 12--SEATTL Casev Boskatjan, Eastonvitle, Wash. A. G. Arness, Sedro Woolley, Wash sear Misstespp, Sedfo Wootley, Wash. DISTRICT 13—CALIFORNIA Bookshop, San Francisco. ‘Treey, Calit... Oakland, Calif. ‘iMowbrook, C: Worksts” W. Norman, | M. ML Jackson, Mrs. Pauli Sam Vedovia, San ie A. G, Johnson, Los DISTRICT ane Mitchell (collection), Newark. E. Pearson, Chester, N. J.. FOREIGN Toronto Geo. Matzas, i} | TUNGRY WORKER HELPS DAILY “It is needless to say,” writes in a | New York worker, “that the ‘Daily’ | is one of the most powsrful weapons | in the hands of the American work- ing class. It wottld be impossibie for the workers to wage their struggle against hunger and starvation, against a capitalist wat and for a | workers’ and farmers’ government, | without ths ald of the Daily Worker. | “For this reason, in spite of the | fact that I am not very far from starvation myself, I enclose $1 for | our fighting pay | Workers, match the self-sacrifice of | this writer. Prevent your newspaper | from suspanding in the midst of the | tremendous struggles now being waged by the workingelass and its vanguard, the Communist Party, against the hunger regime of Hoover, against the danger of another World War ,and for a workets’ and farm- KITCHENS CLOSE; FAST OHIO MINE KIDS STARVING Negro Secretary of the Miners Relief in Call for Help (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ing conditions. Stark denounced the brutal action of the State authorities, working hand in hand with the coal operators,» in closing down, last week, all the state childrens’ kitchens throughout the mining area, affectig on, their own reckoning, some 10,000 children. At the same time, government au- thorities are trying to force out the Workers International Relief, the one organization that stands between the miners and starvation today. For instance, the miners of Glen Robbin have been ordered to move out of their W. I. R. kitchen, built by the men themselves, by the local School Beard which owns the ground. The mine superintendent is a mem- ber of the School Board. Semi-Starvation to Starvation. The State aid was not much, a little thin cereal at morning, without sugar, mostly without milk; a little thin soup at night; but its cutting off méang utter starvation for thous- ands of children, already weak and ailing from months of hunger, unless the W.LR. steps into the breach, and sends much more relief into the field than is now coming in. “The miners fully realize, Stark said, that the chief method of getting bread for themselves and their chil- dren must be the method of forcing through relief from state, county and township by organized mass struggle, such as was carried through in the recent Jefferson County Hunger March. But while the fight is being organized and until it gets strength enough behind it to force through reHef, the miners must have imme- diate help. “Our children are hungry now.” said Stark, “We must have bread today.” If Children Eat, Adults Don't. “Things are getting worse every day,” said Stark. “People are going out and getting some kind of new weeds every day, and cooking them for greens. Take Old Lafferty, where I live. No bread with the soup in the soup kitchen, no meat, no grease to season the soup with — If the grownups eat at all, it’s once every 44 hours. Often the children are so hungry their dad has to go without a bite to let the kids eat.” “Many places there is no soup- kitchen, no relief of any kind since the State cut off relief last week. Then there’s the Red Cross flour meant to be sent in by the govern- ment to feed all the hungry people. But mighty little of it gets to the strikers—many places the families got only three sacks or less since April 1, muny places none. In my own camp, my family—five in it—got one sack since the strike started five months ago. And another family of o|Miné here got one sack in that time. Cut Off Light, “In many camps where the coal companies havé control over the lights, they cut off the strikers lights. | But Most places, the people have just lamps—and now there’s no kerosene to put in them. In my own home we have to sit in the dark that. way, FOSTER SCORES LAWRENCE BAN Speaks to 800 Workers In Nashua, N. H. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) thracite minefs are expected to hear him. The meeting will follow a brief radio broadcast from one of the local stations. PA ea Jailed for Ford Posters. BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, Aug. 10.— Sheriff Carpenter yesterday arrested two miners for putting up posters advertising the meeting of James W. Ford, Communist candidate for Vice-President, to be held tomorrow in Powhattan, at the largest mine in the Eastern Ohio field. Roman Mitzkeirtéh and John Jo- losorovitech put up the posters, call- ing atention to the election cam- paign speech by the Communist candidate for Vice-President of the United States. The sheriff came along and or- dered them to take down the plac- ards. When they refused, he jailed them and tore the posters down himself. Miners put them up again before morning. PSR Gar 3 In Coal and Steel Towns. WHEELING, W. Va. Aug. 10.— James W. Ford, Negro worker and candidate for vice-president on the Communist ticket, will speak here this Friday evening. On Saturday afternoon he speaks at Cover- dale, a mining town; the same evening he will address a meeting of steel workers at McKees Rocks at the Lithuanian Hall, 24 Locust St., at 7:30. Ford’s tour extends into the steel center of Western Pennsylvania. Sunday, Aug. 14, he will speak in the American Bridge Company con- trolled city of Ambridge, where he will address a picnic. On Monday Ford speaks at Clairton; Tuesday at Cannonsburg; Wednesday, Aug. 17, Ford will wind up his tour by lead- ing a hunger march of Fayette County in Uniontown at 1 p.m., and @ mass meeting the same evening in Brownsville at Cramer's Hall, at 6 p.m. after daylight goes. It is getting harder every, day. We are doing everything possible to carry on the struggle for relief ourselves, for the time being the workers must help us in our fight.” Director Tells of U.S.S.R. Film| Portraying Negroes in U.S.A. NEW YORK.—The story of the first steps in the making in Moscow of the sound film, “Black and White”, for whose production 26 Americans went to the Soviet Union in June, is told in a letter received here from Charles Ashleigh, British Communist writer, who is now in the Soviet Union, Ashleigh’s letter follows in part: “Carl Junghans, German film producer, told me about the film, ‘Black and White’, which he is go- ing to produce in Moscow under the auspices of the Meschrabpom Film Company, Made German Film, “Not so long ago, Junhans made a picture called ‘Strange Birds of Af- ers’ government. RENT STRIKE ACTIVE IN ; PANAMA Balboa, Aug. 9.—An American land. lord was booed by rent strikers when ‘he “attempted to enter a tenant housé which he owns in the Canal Zone, according to a report in the Evening Panama American, Two Americans were also booed and “attacked,” according to the same newspaper by striking news- boys, who prevented them from buy- ing copies of the Evening Panama- | American. A chauffeur's strike will be de- Bric next Monday. rica,’ which was far stranger to the directors of the German company which commissioned it than ite name would imply. “For Junghans had put into the film satire and acid protest against the exploitation of the black people of Africa by white imperialism, And so the film was drastically cut by his employers, and a sugary love- story grafted on to it, “So then Junghans came to the Soviet Union. Here for the Meschrab- pom he is to make the picture, ‘Black and White, which depicts the exploitation of the Negro people in America through the days of slavery to the present, “The principal section of the film shows the class struggle in America,” says Junghans, “But there is a pro- logue which gives a glimpse of the old slave trade: the Arab traders in Africa, the shipment of slaves to America—in which the missionaries appear, blindly to concur—and the auction scenes in New Orleans, Story of Slave in U. 8. “Then there is a swift impression of the Civil War—which changed the Negro’s status from that of chattel slave to that of wage-slave— and then ‘we unfold the princiual story, which concerns the class struggle in the United States today. There 1s a lynching, which is shown to be an attempt to alienate Negro and white workers. “The film, is of course, to be a sound film. But sound will be used not merely for dialogue, but also as a species of commentary, often in a satirical sense, thus revealing the hidden motives behind the acti the individuals as expressed in their motions on the screen, For instance, in the prologue, when the mission- ary—who has just witnessed a scene in which shackled slaves are driven with whips into the hold of a slave- vessel—reclines under a tree and reads aloud a text from the bible, the monkeys in the tree chatter de- risively and a parrot screams hoarsely as if with scorn, \ ) Page Three Workers Reading Their Fighting Paper Unemployed Workers in Union Square, New York, Reading the Daily Worker’s Call to Demonstrate Against Imperialist War on August First. Party Leaders to Speak at Daily Worker Meets Mass Meetings to Mobilize Workers for Fight to Save “Daily” City Committees to Be Set Up to Organize Mass Collections Mass meetings of Daily Worker readers, unit bureaus, secretaries of mass organizations and Party functionaries will be held soon in cities all over the country to. mobilize the working class in support of the $40,000 “Save the Daily” Fund, the Central announced today. Nationally-known working class leaders wil speak at the meetings, bringing home to the workers the desperate financial crisis in which the “Daily” finds itself and explain- ing the necessity of building and or- ganizing the paper at a time when the working class is faced with the greatest struggles in its history. The following immediate tasks will be proposed by the speakers: (1) The setting up of large city commit- tees, the tasks of which shall be as follows: (a) to guide the $40,000 Save the Daily Campaign Committee; (b) to mobilize Party units, mass organ- izations and general readers. They will further propose that shop nu- clei take up collections from workers in their shops, street units and take up collections on a neighborhood scale, mass organizations, make col- lections among their membership and alsg mobilize their membership to visit organizations led by reactionar- ies for collections. Collections will also be taken up in foreign language neighborhoods. Trade Unions and mass organizations are to be repre- sented on the city committees, it was announced, anq general readers of the “Daily” are to be drawn into the neighborhood collections. All money collected for the $40,000 Save the “Daily” drive is to be turned into the City Committees, which will in turn send it to the Daily Worker. A list of Daily Worker meetings and the national speakers assigned to speak at them, follows: WwW. W. Weinstone, New York, August 17, and Philadelphia, August 12; Jack Sta- chel, Pittsburgh, August 11 and in Cleveland, August 12; Clarenec Hath- away, Milwaukee, August 11, Chicago, August 12 and Detroit, August 13; I. Amter, Newark, August 10; A. Mark- off, Buffalo, August 11 and Roches- ter, August 12; M. Olgin, Washing- ton, August 11, Baltimore, August 12 and Boston, August 15; Harry Wicks, Bridgeport, August te je PROTEST HOOVER'S ACTION AGAINST VETS PORTAGE, Pa, Aug. 10—Four hundred workers in a mass demon- stration vigorously condemned the action of the Hoover government in sending troops to drive the veter- ans out of Washington. A copy of the resolution demanding unemploy- ment insurance and payment of the bonus was sent to President Hoover. Special Drive Offer—Wm. Z. Foster’s “Toward Soviet America” with yearly subscription, Avanta Farm ULSTER PARK, NEW YORK WORKE! RECREATION PLACE RATES: $12.00 and $10.00 nig, one-half mile from station Bungalows and Rooms to Rent for Summer Season Several very nige room: for rent for the summei gees mand of the Communist wri | Pilsudski Forced to Free Fifty Supporters of Anti-War Congress (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) city of Strassbourg, the city council ot that city endozsed the Congress, Mayors from Czechoslovakia have announced the intention of their ctive communities to send dele- gates to the Congress. Many war-veteran organizations will be represented at the Congress, among them the Federation National des Combattants Republicain, the largest. French war-veteran organi- zation with a membership of 100,000; The AssociationRepublicain des An- ciens Combattants; The Federation Cuvriers et Paysant, a Socialist war- veterans’ association; the Likue des Anciens Combattant Pacifistes; The Association National des Cheminots Anciens Combattant, a railroadmen’s veteran organization of France; the Anciens Combattants Socialistes of Belguim. In addition twenty other smaller war veteran organizations of France and Belguim have declared their affiliation with the World Con- gress, In Germany, the International Bund der Kreigsopfer elected dele- gates to the Congress. A farewell meeting for tne Amer- ican delegation to the World Con- gress will be held Monday, August 15th, 8 p. m., at the New School for Social fois earch, boB8 12th St., N.Y. ; | organized and unless the orientation NATIONAL CONVENTION TO FORM STEEL AND METAL UNION STARTS SATURDAY |Many Groups Already Formed In Ohio-Pennsylvania Mill Centers; 500 New Members Recently Secured Among Wage Cut Tin Workers PREPARE FIGHT | AGAINST HUGE | METAL TRUSTS 2,000 Attend Meetings In Warren; Starving Masses to Struggle PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 9.—The; First National Convention of the Me- tal Workers Industrial League, to be held in Pittsburgh August 13, 14 and 15, is being prepared through day to day work in the mill towns. The con- vention will organize the Steel and} Metal Workers Industrial Union. The best work of organization in the steel industry is being accomp- lished in Warren and Niles, Ohio, where the Republic Steel Co, holds sway. These towns are in the Ma- honing Valley, one of the most im- portant of all steel producing sec- tions. These mills are the tin mills, which are more closely connected with ar- ticles of immediate consumption, and therefore there is more employment in these molls. Recently a 15 percent cut was put through in these mills, It is in the tin mills that the Amal- gamated Association (A. F. of L.) has most of its organization. Tin Mill Workers Join. Until recently the M. W. I. L. had organization in only one of these mills, less than 100 workers being organized But recently a change has taken place and in the Warren and Niles mills 'the union has over 500 members, with a larger number hav- ing applied for membership. The native born workers form the bulk of the new members, The lead- ers of this movement were well- known Amalgamated member. Mass meetings are being held regularly, the coming convention and the forma- tion of the new Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union being stres- sed. Some of the Warren meetings are attended by over 2000 steel work- ers. The Amalgamated leaders come to these meetings. They are being more and more discredited. The workers, through their joining the M.W.LL., through their attending the mass meetings are showing they want to fight wage cuts, etc: These workers’ sentiment is for immediate strike, carrying with it greater danger that the movement will disintegrate if no strike can be can be changed for one of immediate organization for struggle inside the mill, based on local grievances. Work Rapidly. While being careful not to take immediate action, it is necessary to have a strike perspective here and to work very rapidly. Otherwise the Musteites, to whom the bosses have given leeway, will take hold of the movement. This requires the work- ing out of a correct mass policy. This is one of the big tasks of the Convention of the M.W.LL. 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A fa bearing a bomb was killed ov its precipitate explosion. papers are trying to tw dent into a murder-attack or cists. | rat ae SEARCH WORKERS’ QUARTERS IN HAMBURG (Cable By Imprecorr) BERLIN, Aug. 10—One thousand five hundred uniformed policemer assisted by scores of detectives in| plain clothes searched the whole workers quarter of Hamburg. It is| reporteg that two pistols, three rifles | and two shotguns were found, which make a poor bag for such an immense effort. Policemen who searched hoyses of fascists in Cologne yesterday report- | ed that over one thousand revolvers, many rifles, much ammunition and hand grenades were found. Searchers of the anti-fascist quar- ters in Berlin produced practically no results. The bourgeois papers are be-| ginning to place the responsibility for | the terror rampant throughout Ger- many on the pectes oute tes shoulde: * DEMONSTRATION AT GRAVES OF MURDERED HUNGARIANS (Cable By Imprecorr) VIENNA, Aug. 10.—A surprise dem- onstration of many hundreds of work- ers was held on the graves of the murdered Communists Zallay and Fuerst, in Budapest. The police rushed to the cemetery in autos and with reckless brutality broke up the demonstration. Many were injured and over seventy work- ers were arrested. Se FOR REPEAL OF SECTION OF CANADIAN CODE MONTREAL.—A delegation elected} by the conference for the repeal of Section 98 of the Criminal Code, and against deportations in Cartier Di- vision, Montreal, exacted a promise from S, W. Jacobs, federal represen- tative in that division, to speak per- sonally for the repeal at the next ses- sion of Parliament. Owing to the mass pressure that has ben brought to bear from a large section of the working class, Mr. Ja- cobs was forced to promise that he will raise the demands outlined in a petition now being circulated at the coming session of the Parliament. 98 to house visits to workers; drawing in Negro and foreign-born workers to the union; assign forces for the increase activi inside [DEATH OF VETS’ Amalgamated locals; expos: A. of- ficialdom and the Musteites. CHILD AROUSES MASS ANGER Death a Direct Result of Gas Attack by Army in Wash. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ; nn., who won the distinguishe@ e cross in the Argonne for exe onal ery. In commenting action in driving out ns, Rorty said: hese men staged a spectable of ry and pathetic hope on the very doorstep o fthe government; a spectacle of helpless trust in an administration which, after nearly three years of cumulative miserf and starvation revealed itself to be bankrupt. . .” Others included in the delegatiog are: Waldo Frank, novelist; John Brooks Wheelwright, Professor Hen: Wadsworth Longfellow Dana; William Jones, editor; Quincy Howdy Editor, and Elliot E. Cohen. ee eae Waters Forced Labor Camps NEW YORK, Aug. 10.— While remnants of the bonus army were being driven, persecuted and sersor- ized by police in all sections @f the country and not even allowed to sleep in city parks, Walted W, Wa- ters, self-styled commander ¢f the BEF arrived here to carry af the work of organizing his forced labor camps and liquidating the bonus fight. Wearing expensive highly polished riding boots and carrying as much baggage as a far eastern potentate, the curley headed aspiring young fas- cist ensconced himself in the Times Square Hotel. Apeing generals, past and present, “General” Waters spent his first night in the big city participating in a voluptuous orgy staged for his benefit at the Hollywood Restaurant at 48th St. and Broadway. A radio announcer of the NTG Station was the master of ceremon- ies and Waters, playing well the role of a general, was the guest or honor. He was given a ringside seat, was introduced to all the girls in the show and was the centre of attraction, sitting among a group of gin-filled pansies until three a. m. Although Waters declared that he will tour the country telling the peo- ple what happened in Washington, he made clear today his role as a liquidator of the fight of the vets against starvation. 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