The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1932, Page 3

METAL WO" “RS (. THE WORLD LOOK TO PITTSBURGH iODAY “ORMING NEW UNION Credentials Pour in Along With . Up in Steel To. MAN NOW DOES TEN TIMES WORK OF 5 FORMERLY Communist Election Meeting Will Hear | Convention Reports PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 12.—Credentials for the swarm of delegates from work- ers in steel mills and metal manufacturing plants are pouring into the national office here of the Metal Workers In- lustrial League. The dele- zates wil open a three day ses- sion tomorrow here to form the Steel and Metal workers Indus- trial Union. The latest credentials received were from Birmingham, Ala. While this is going on, news comes in of the bitter life of the steel workers. James Kirk, 60 years old, committed suicide in hunger and Gesperation in the town made famous by the great Homestead strike years ago. He did it as his fellow workers were energetically planning the or- ganization for the next great strug- gle. <A local of the proposed Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union is already functicning in Homestead. The Pitisburga Steel Foundry at Pittsburch has just annortuced a new system in its sheet mill, by which ene men produces 80 to 90 tons daily as com} with five men producing eieht to nine tons daily under the old style. The meetings of James W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice-presi- t, in the nearby steel towns will be made rallies also for organization of the metal workers. Reports of the convention will be made in Ford's Monday meeting, and his meeting Tuesday at Bluthedale. atts ld Thriling Days 14 in the SOVIET UNION "See the November 7 CELEBRATIONS at the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution $215.00 up Exclusive World Tourists, trary includes Leningrad-Moscow- Ivanoyo Vosnesensk and 2 collective farm Sailing Oct. 20th on the §.S. Bremen—Berengaria Stuttgart also includes rn third trans-Atlantic passage in com- fortable cabins with running water, three meals per day en route and in the U.S.S.R., sleepers, sightseeing, and Soviet valid for 80 days. Ine. itin- Shorter tours as low as $185.00 World Tourists, Inc 175 Fifth Avenue New York City Phone AL 4-6656-7-8 SOVIET TOURS CAN ALSO BE PUR- CHASED AT THE FOLLOWING BRANCHES 6 N. Clark St. _.107 Clifford St. Engineers Bldg. 175 Washington St, Phila.629 Chestnut St., Rm. 406 | Wash., D.C...409 Columbian Bldg. Avanta Farm ULSTER PARK, NEW YORK WORKERS RECREATION PLACE RATES: $12.00 and $10.00 tah milk, Tegproved bathings 200 spri0g Fresh milk, + 700 8p chickens ‘and all kinds of vegetables growing for guests. DIRECTIONS:—West Shore train. Greneana Bus Termit jus Termi fo Kingston to Ulster Park 22¢ by train. Bungalows and Rooms to Rent for Summer Season Several very nice ros for rent for the summ ful farm in Eastern miles from Philade electricity, swimmin) rates. Com: ; of Hunger, Suicide and Speed- \re Already Being Organized “TINTERNATIONAL ‘COMMITTEE HAILS ‘NEW METAL UNION \“Must Be United Front of All Races for Class Struggle” PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 10.—The C2 New Lo Foster In Call To Action Te Miners, Railroad Workers (CONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE) lied for a while on the open and undisguised treachery of the Rail- road Brotherhood officials,” said Foster, refering to the agreement of the officials to a ten per cent cut beginning Feb. Ist, of this year. This, Foster pointed out, was in line with the wage cutting plan of all indus- try up to the middle of this year. It proceeded from a departmental to} direct assistance by the Hoover gov-| Metal Rubies Te cea bagehas Han ernment. But now when nation-wide| just received a cablegram from the slashes in the railroaq workers’ pay, | Metal Workers ae Com- and the second cut in the same) mittee in Berlin. It reads: year, is intended, the Brotherhood! «pellow Workers: —'The United and A. F. of L, officials want to'states of North America, the most pretend a little more than usual/highly developed industrial country to be “for thé workers.” President | in the world, held up for praise by Green of the A. F. of L. has pub- | the reformist leaders of all countries lished a statement “against the wage|as a model country of advanced de- cut,” and the lesser officials of the| velopment to the workers of the A. F. of L. and the heads of the| world, has been caught up in the Brotherhoods will follow suit. The] whirlpool! of the capitalist interna- Musteites and Socialists are in the|tional economic crisis, and has been same class, for they approved of the| drawn deepest of all into it. In the action of the Brotherhood officials early this year while the latter were still pretening to oppose the February wage cut on the railroads. - Foster brands all this as “fake show of resistance,” and points to casos, as in the mines and textile strikes, where A. F. of L. officials even lead strikes, in order to mis- lead and betray them, and use very “radical” and “militant” phrases meanwhile, Tho Watson Parker law is ideal for their purpose now. Hiding be- hind it, Green erd the Brotherhood chiefs can shexi to the skies against the wage-cut. Meanwhile, the inex- oribl2 government machinery will grind along, month after month, and produce the wage cut with all the authority of the Hoover government and the federal courts behind it. They Framed The Law And the A. F. of L. officials and the Brotherhood chiefs are respons- ible for the law. They got it passed. “Labor,” official organ of the rail- road shop crafts, went into ecstasies over the law when it came before Congress in May, 1926. The law was framed, by their own admission, by the labor bureaucrats in session with the employers. . The 1926 A. F. of L, convention lauded the Watson-Parker law as “perhaps the most pronounced progress made this year.” The law itself (its official name is “Railroad Labor Act”) is an anti- Strike law. Strikes are absolutely il- legal until the machinery of the law has run down, and any strike against the decision is illegal after that. Prepare To Fight The railroad workers must move at once to avoid another wage-cut. They must build their National Bro- therhood Unity Committee movement in eyery division and shop and on every railroad system. There must be mass organization of the rank and file for strike, against the will of the A. F. of L. and Brotherhood officals, against the wage cut. And a big Communist vote during the progress of the Watson-Parker ar- bitration will have a powerful ef- fect. The slogan of the railroad workers must be “Against this fake arbitration! No wage-cut! Strike against a wage cut!” HOOVER SILENT ON BLOODY ACTS Reports Program of Starving Jobless (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) imperialist war. U. S.-Japanese Conflict. Stressing the “virtues” of the Bri- and-Kellogg Pact “outlawing” war, Hoover revealed the rivalry existing between United States and Japanese imperialism. Without referring speci- fically to the Japanese adventure in North China where it came into con- flict with United States’ imperialist positions and aspirations, Hoover said so-called free America, “more free than any other country in the world,” the workers are abandoned to the greatest want and misery. “The leaders of the American Fed- eration of Labor trade unions, in al- liance with the yelisw fascist of the Cox type, know no other way out of the crisis beyond attempts to save the accursed capitalist system, and therefore they support all the work- ing conditions, In order to aid in the maintenance of the brutal capitalist dictatorship, these deliberate betray- ers of the working class promote by every possible means the sowing of dissension among the exploited, and do their utmost to incite the em- ployed against the unemployed, the native against the foreign born work- ers, the white against the colored. “The first National Convention of the M.W.LL. in Pittsburgh, the dele- gates of the exploited workers, are faced by the great task of creating the united front of all exploited iron and steel workers, colored and white, American and foreign, employed and unemployed, for the struggle against the impoverishment of the working class “This same object must be served by the organization which the Pitts- burgh Convention is going to found for the metal workers. This must be- come the most energetic and pur- poseful organizer and leader of the struggle, “Therefore, the Metal Workers In- tercom welcomes your Unity Conven- tion for the founding of an iron, steel and metal workers union, and hopes that you will be successful in welding together all iron, steel and metal workers, irrespective of race, in one organization, which will be able to lead the struggle against the employers, against the reformist and yellow unions, and against the threatening imperialist war on the Soviet Union. “The Metal Workers Intercom ex- pects that the new organization, the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, will establish firm interna- tional contact with the Metal Work- ers Intercém and with all revolu- tionary metal workers’ organizations in other countries. In order that the results of experiences may be ex- changed, gained in the struggle in different countries, and in order that mutual support may be given in the struggles, this contact is an impera- tive necessity at the present juncture. “Long live the struggle of the American metal workers in the revo- lutionary united front against the exploiters. “Long live the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union of the USA. “Long live the struggle of the met- al workers against imperialist war. “Long live international solidarity with the metal workers of all coun- tries, Metal Workers International Committee New Jacksonville, Fla. Branch of I.W.O. First to Contribute to Daily The newly organized branch of the that he supplemented the Kellogg Pact by transforming it into an in- strument for mobilizing public opin- ion against any aggressor. The efforts of United States im- perialism to encourage the Japanes® military preparations for war against the Soviet Union while discouraging the occupation of North China, were indirectly indicated by Hoover when he praised the principle that acqui- sitions made through war could not be recognized by the United States. This principle did not commit United States imperialism to any ac- tion which called for the use of force to maintain peace, declared Hoover showing quite clearly that United States imperialism is not concerned about maintaining peace and pre- pares for war. Against this program of hunger and war as outlined by Hoover, the Communist Party offers to the work- RUSSIAN ART SHOP PEASANTS’ HANDICRAFTS 100 East 14th St., N. Y. C. Imports from U.S.8.1t. (Rusain) ‘Tem, Candy, Clearettes, Smocks, Toys, Shawls, Cn aed Wo Work Phone Algonquin 4-0004 ers the program of revolutionary struggle for social insurance, at the expenses of the government and the bosses, for defense of the Soviet Union and China, against imperialist war, The workers muyt rally around International Workers Order is the first of the branches to answer the call issued by the National Executive Committee of the I. W. O. for the support of the election campaign fund and the $40,000 Save the “Daily” drive. At its very first meeting, the branch raised $25, of which $10 was sent to the Daily Worker and $15 to national election campaign fhnd. Which branch of the International Workers Order will be the first to folow the example of the newly- formed Jacksonville branch? the Communist Party and its can- didates to defeat the further attacks which Hoover is planning to launch on the workers. The way to defeat Hoover and his hunger and war, pro- gram is not by supporting Roosevelt, candidate of the Democratic Party which stands on the same platform as the Republican Party, or Norman Thomas, candidate of the “socialist” third party of the bosses, Only a vote for Foster and Ford will constitute a blow against the war and starvation plans ot the capital- ists, Communist Party of Hungary, who DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1932 { Comrades Emmerich Sallai and Alexander Furst, leaders of the were executed in Budapest on July 29, two hours after a farcical trial before a court matial. Victims of Hungarian Fascism | Comrade Friedrich Karikas who came up before the Hungarian ex- traordinary court on August 10 on the charge of “crime.” Following Comrades Sallali and Furst Hun- garian fascism wants to legally murder also this courageous fight- er for Communism. International : Notes PROTESTS AGAINST BUDAPEST DOUBLE MURDER YIENNA—Short protest strikes took place in Budapest against the murder of Imre Sallai and Alexander Fuerst, Hungarian Communist leaders executed on July 29th. Prior to the trial of the two Com- munists, large numbers of leaflets were distributed in Budapest despite the extraordinary precautions taken by the police to prevent this. The police succeeded in arresting only two of the numerous distributors who wore uniforms of the post office em- ployees. Owing to the threateing attitude of a large crowd which immediately collected, the two were able to make their escape amidst the cheers of the crowd who prevented the Police from chasing them. After our comrades Lassai and Fuerst were executed the Central Committee of the Hungarian Demo- cratic Party issued a statement con- demning the hanging as “not being in accordance with humanitarian principles.” The main significance of the statement was however the appeal to the workers “not to take any action in order not to endanger the unity of the working class.” eran THE STRIKE SITUATION IN BELGIUM BRUSSELS.—The strike of the coal miners in the Linburg district is continuing. Intense pressure is being exerted by the authorities on the foreign born workers in order to force them back to work. The efforts of the reformist lead- ership to persuade the coal miners in the Liege sector to return to work met with no noteworthy success, The Communists are working hard for the election of pit strike commit- tees and district strike committees were already elected in a number of districts including Charleroy and Liege. The police received reinforcements in the districts affected by strikes. The German Communist member of the Reichstag, Sobotka, one of the revolutionary miners’ leaders, was ar- rested together with an editor of “L’_ Humanite.” A number of prominent communists were arrested in Brus- sels. HOW BUFFALO WORKERS RAISE FUNDS FOR “DAILY” A comrade in Buffalo tells how Buffalo workers are mobilizing for the Save the “Daily” Drive. “At one of our Buffalo unit meetings the ap- peal for the “Daily” was read. We realized ¢he danger in which our paper is and the dire need for rais- ing funds immediately. After a dis- cussion of the possible ways of help- ing to save our paper, we concluded that each member of the unit should raise $1 by the next meeting in the following manner. “Sach member takes a block, He gives out back copies of the “Daily” to the workers on the block and tells them that he will be back the next day at the same time. The next day he discusses the paper with the workers and appeals to them to con- tribute their pennies, nickels and dimes to Save the “Daily” Fund. we believe that it is far more important for 1,000 workers to give a nickel each than for 100 workers to give $1 a piece.” * 8 6 YOKINEN CONTRIBUTES August Yokinen, once expelled from the Communist Party for white chauvinism but later readmitted upon his changed attitude as ex- emplified by his activity among the Negro workers, has contributed $5 to the Save the Daily Fund with the folowing note: “Dear Comrades: Enclosed you will find $5 for the $40,000 Save the ‘Daily’ Fund. In the fight for equal rights for Negro work. ers, the Daily Worker stands in the forefront. We cannot let the ‘Daily’ suspend.” I want to take the op- portunity to say that I am glad our Party has nominated James W. Ford, a Negro worker, for yice- president of the United States. Pa a A BENEFIT AFFAIR Unit 5, Section 15, District 2 of the Communist Party will hold an affair at 1013 Tremont Ave., at 177th St., on August 27th at 8 p. m. for the benefit of the $40,000 Save the ‘Daily’ Drive. Entertainment will be pre- vided by the Workers Laboratory Theatre, a section of the Freiheit Washington Bosses Pushing Murder Frame -Up of Negroes Nine of Ten Held by Police Indicted, Jury Or- ders Arrest o f Two Others LL.D. Attorney Arrives in Behalf of Workers Held Or Charge of Killing Cop B WASHINGTON, D. LLETIN Aug. 12.—Bernard Ades and William L. Pat- terson, representing the International Labor Defense, were today denied the right to see the Washington prisoners in the Kennedy case despite authorization by the relatives of 1 minors. he Negro boys, some of whom are Col. Peake, prison superintendent, and the district attorney demand proof of admission to the bar of the two I. L. D. attorneys, in an effort to prevent their seeing the prisoners. “Mass sentiment is growing ar ‘ound the case,” Patterson declared. “The death of Kennedy is an act of self-defense, and is the climax of a sustained campaign of terror aga ae ease} WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Ten Negro workers were ordered held for the grand jury yesterday in an at- tempt to frame them for the death of Milo J. Kennedy, park policeman, who died last Sunday of a fractured skull after attacking a group of Ne- gro workers on the street. The at- tack was part of a general terrorizing drive launched against the Negro workers of this city as an_after- math of the murderous attack by the Hoover government on the war vetreans. The jury of white bosses, sitting in an inquest into the death of the police thug, charged Joseph Jackson, Irving Murray and Ralph Holmes with first degree murder. It or- dered held as “accessories,” Lewis Murray, Henry Duvall, Leroy Robin- son, Leroy Brazier, Gaston Baylous and Walker Murray. It also named ins the Negro masses.” as “accessories,” two other workers who have not yet been arrested: William Wood and Stanley Clark. It | save orders for their arrest. All of those charged with the kil- ling of the policeman or .as acces- sories to the killing face the death penalty under local laws. They are being defended by the International Labor Defense whose attorney Ber- nard Ades arrived in the city yes- terday. Information obtained by the LL.D. shows that the dead policeman was regularly terrorizing Negro workers in the vicinity of the park at Logan and Circle where he was killed. The Washington Board of Trade has issued a lynch incitement call demanding a “clean up” of Negroes in the parks. Many homeless unem- ployed. Many homeless Negro work- ers have nowhere else to sleep but the parks. 2,000 New Readers Gained in Sub Drive Since July 15 But 953 Cancelled Subs Reveal Big Weakness in Drive Apparatus The Daily Worker herewith prints 11 sent Subscription Drive. Workers will see he first chart of its progress during the pre- at a glance that the Daily has gained 2,000 new readers since the drive began on July 15—958 through new subs and 1,011 through bundle orders. Most of these results, however, have able Inck of functioning apparatus on the been accomplished despite a definite, notice- part of every district involved. Many of the subs have come in from individual workers, reached haphazardly, mainly because their own conditions have arrived at the point where they themselves see the necessity for subscribing and reading the Daily Worker as an important part of their daily strug- gles. The failure of the districts to set up sufficient organizational apparatus can be seon in thé fact that while 2,000 NEW readers were reached in the last three weeks, 563 SUBSCRIPTIONS WERE CANCELLED never be allowed to happen under any cit continue to hold the readers that we hav! mediately set into motion a powerful, fun organization, every loeat militant union. reumstances! are carrying on our campaign for 7,000 new yearly subs, it is of equal ii DURING THE SAME PERIOD. This should We must realize that while we tance to ould fm- every mass e acquired in the past. Distri jetioning sub-group in every unit, It should be mentioned that our data is incomplete in the case of District 18 (Mil- waukee, Wisconsin). This district, formerly a part of District 8 (Chicago) has just re- oe best ereehess and expects to submit a more complete record of activities at am early ante, The chart follows: 3 z Pa 4 & a z Z Bo is (fee be SE 2 fev Boge Gee Bs gee gi EES pz clk Ge2 aay Se eee ae 7 s $32 BBE §E a & @ FES ge Beg 6 agS =85 “85 add 1 925 141, 89.00 41 39 300 3 26 3 2 750 31% 187.00 6 102 1000 2 Bog 1 3 550 14% 89.00 87 40 550 0 0 2 4 215 6% 38.50 24 ety 275 2 43 0 5 450 15 90.00 56 28 300 6 50 6 6 700 20 122.00, 65 34 700 sd 35 4 b 700 21% 128.50 16 65 700 2 16 3 8 950 57 341.80 193 102 1000 25, 435 13 9 315 16% 98.50 55 32 375 2 13 2 10 125 10 60.00 a4 15 125 3 80 2 i 125 4 26.50 24 3 125 1 35 o 12 225 7 41.00 20 16 225 1 25 oO 13 450 19 117.00 50 36 350 2 42 1 14 300 13 76.00 55 _— 325 13 92 1 15 275 1% 43.50 26 16 250 7 26 2 16 125 % 4.00 2 —~ 125 3 20 0 17 125 2% 15.50 1 10 125 3 23 3 18 200 * 4.00 3 - 250 o ° 1 19 115 4 24.00 19 Bb 150 4 40 0 Totals 226% 1595.50 953 563 86 1011 “4 District 1—Boston J D Demko Dameron Md. 50 E Urehus Roston $3.00 District 8 Chieago A G Priend Lynn .95 A Lorngren Chicago 1.00 District 2 New York A Abraham Tinley Park Ti 1.00 Lena Steinberg Mohegan Colony 15 District 11 North Dakota Pauline Brody 2.00 H R Crippen Aberdeen 8 D 1.00 C Bughwick 1.00 W G Pierce Fallon New 25 A Sabbath 1.25 Distriet 12 Seattle M Baemer 1.00 Ira Ball Seattle 2.50 N Norger 50 District 13 California M Stetson 60 D Vercettt Oakland 28 D Green 1,09 © D Monterey 100.00 © Goldenberg 1.00 District 15 Connecticnt Moris: -50 Philip Laracca E Norwalk 1.00 H Goldberg 50 District 18 Wisconsin: Sheffer 50 L Barnes Racine 50 M Keogh city 1.00 Barbato Madison District 8 Philadelphia Davidson Madison Singing Society and a Negro dance group. Comrade Sheppard, Commu- nist candidate for Lieutenant Gov- ernor of New York State, will be the main speaker. All workers are in- vited. HATHAWAY IN DETROIT. DETROIT, Mich—A city wide Daily Worker conference in connec- tion with the subscription and finan- cial drives will be held Monday, Au gust 15, 7:30 p.m, at the Greek Work- ers Club, 337 Monroe. Clarence Hathaway, director of the National Election Campaign Com- mittee ,will address the ‘neeting. our Wane A celebration of the entire Com- munist press, in which all language newspapers will participate jointly with the Daily Worker, will be held Sunday, August 14, at the Workers Camp, Farmington, Mich. | Page Three |Attempt to 500 Negro Families in Newark to South Those Who Have Lived There Less Than Five Years Not Call Mass Conference Negro Against By RE Newark, New Jersey, has a new d THE TRUST-CONTROLLED CITY NEGRO WORKERS AND THEIR F. FROM NEWARK TO THE SOUTH. It cent is city are th an ap- per of in t unemployed, compared ¥ proximate estimate of unemployment for the whole, These figures proof of the dis cial oppression to w toilers are subjected. New Form of Discrimination. Now a new form of a new method of oppre: devised by the bosses’ cit al: who refusing to touch one cent the profits of the rich for unemploy ment relief, are busily sea: new ways of throwing the burd of the crisis more heavily upon the shoulders of the impoveris ses, particularly on the shoulders of the Negro workers, Negro workers, out of whose bitter toil and suffering huge profits have been piled up for the capitalists, are not “citizens” of this fair c’ if the; have lived here less than five y Negro workers who came to Newark, driven by hunger out of other states, in the vain hope of finding jobs, of finding protection from the race hatred and lynching terror of the South, only to find themselves here, as throughout the country, the ob- jects of severe persecution and op- pression, are now to be thrown out of the city like so much rubbish. It is said that there is a “law” of ejection of unemployed workers from any city or state; but according to Egan, Newark’s red-baiting director of public safety, “The police would do the work,” law or no law. The capitalist class anticipates sharp struggles of Negro and white workers for unemployment relief, as hunger and misery increase through- out New Jersey, Under the scheme of deportation, militant Negro work- ers can be singled out for attack, and the threat of ejection from the city held as a club over their heads to prevent militant action. It is significant that while the first \public statement of the policy indi- cated that Negro and white families would be evicted, now the principal emphasis rests upon Negro families, By this method the city government hopes to divide the ranks of Negro and white workers, set them agains one another, and thus place a ser- ious obstacle in the way of united struggle, Urban League Backs Move. To carry through this program, the city officials have enlisted the services of the New Jersey Urban League, through ‘ts Mr R. L. Puryear. This bos: agency, betrayer of the Negro people, known nationally for its strike-breaking ac- tivity, is now working hand in hand with the police and poor departments of the city to drive Negro families Interstate Commerce prohibiting the | Deport “Citizens” to Mobilize White and Boss Scheme depor' GOY AMILIE:! BY DECISION OF 500 UNEMPLOYED TO BE “DEPORTED” ‘The deepening crisis and increase in unemployment in Newark has hit ason” between the ci the is out to Mr. Puryear’s heart is touched by he suff of the Negro workers He does not like to see er poverty “in loneliness” North, so he is going to help y “among friends” “friends” of race lynching terror. Mr. is the one, through man- ‘ing and soft-spoken threats, to uade the Negro families to be |thrown out that it is better for them |to go luntarily,” than’ to go at |the point of a policeman's club or |gun. Thus, cover of “humanitarian- jism,” to carry through one of the |most atrocious policies against the Negro workers, | But Mr. Puryear is not alone. |There is now a group of Negro busle ness men, ministers, and politicians, who, under cover of attack upon Puryear for his “open” support of the |Negro deportation policy, are giving jindirect support to the government to enforte this policy. This group is not opposed to ejection of the Ne- groes “on principle” It is, presum- |ably, opposed to deportation “by, |force,” and deportation only to the South, instead of to all sections of |the country. | Equally with Puryear, this group of petty-bourgeois reformists fight against any call to the workers for mass struggle, and thus serves the purpose of the capitalists just as well. It differs from the Puryears jonly in the methods to be used, and with its skillful demagogey is even more dangerous and must be the mere sharply fought, Communist Party Calls for Fight. Only the Communist Party and the Unemployed Council have raised the clear-cut issue of uncompromis- ing struggle against all forms of de- portation of unemployed workers from Newark, and mobilizes Negro and white workers to fight for un- employment relief, unemployment insurance, ‘against all forms of dis- crimination against the Negro works ers. A mass conference is now being called in Newark, to mobilize the Negro and white workers for united struggle against the new deportation scheme of the bankers’ government, a scheme, which can be defeated only by the mass action of the workers themselves, It is especially necessary to make this battle a part of the basic strug- gle against national oppression, for absolute equality for the Negro peo- ple—a struggle which will bring mas- |ss of Negro workers into the reyo- jutionary fight against the entire capitalist system. q J FORD MEET (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) G white workers, and of struggle for the veterans’ bonus. The crowds of part-time workers and jobless grect his words with cheers. Many of them join the Communist Party, the Na- tional Miners Union, and form new locals for the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union, which will be formed in a convention beginning tomorrow in Pittsburgh, Below are incidents from some of the towns recently visited by Ford. 0518 FOLLANSBEE, W. Va., Aug. 12.— Over 400 miners and steel workers Jobless Council Will Boycott Calif. Goods; Propose Other Tactics | LITTLE ROOK, Ark., Aug. 12 The Unemployed Council of Gre Little Rock at its meeting August voted to boycott all California pro- o 8 | ducts until Tom Mooney and the Imperial Valley prisoners are re- leased. iva aan (Editor's Note:—While the inten- tion back of this decision of the Un- employed Council is a good and mili- tant one, a local boycott is neces- sarily ineffective. The Unemployed Council would do better to use all its forces to rally mass demonstrations, to prepare meetings for the Moon campaign speakers, to sgnd telegram: demanding the release of prison and to build its own ranks for o action.) Spanish Workers Protest DENVER, Col. Aug. 12—The Denver Spanish Workers Club em- phatically protested against the action of Hoover calling the troops against the ex-servicemen in Washington and pledged to support the veterans in the struggle for the bonus and un- employment relief. A telegram of protest was sent to President Hoover. IN MINE TOWNS overflowed the hall here, and as many more wanted to get in and couldn't when Ford spoke, Aug. 10. Many came from miles aday. The town is dominated by a justice of the peace and a sheriff, who are trying their best to force the locked- out men of the Follansbee Steel Mill to go back with a wage cut when the mill re-opens Aug. 15. Ford and Jack Stuart, a local Com munist Party organizer, urged the steel workers to turn the lockout into a militant strike under rank and file leadership. He called on them ta build the Steel and Metal Workerg Industrial Union here. This was the first Communist |meeting ever held in Follansbee, and jwhen the sheriff saw the temper of |the crowd he did not attack the | meeting. Part of Fight for Relief FAIRPOIN , Ohio, Aug, 12. — Ford's meeting here yesterday bee came part of the local struggle against starvation. Gathered in the open air on a hillside, 150 miners heard the Communist candidate for Vice-President call for ceaseless struggle for that plank in the Come munist platform demanding un- employment insurance at the expense Jot the employers and their state. | Vets in Hibbing, Minn. Denounce Hoover And Build Bonus Committee HIBBING Minn, Aug. 12—Two hundred war veterans protested here against the murder and the attack lon the war veterans in Washington, |, When the speakers pointed out that the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League is the only leader of the war vets, and explained how they are fighting for the bonus many vets said this is the organization we want. Plans are now being laid to organe ize a Bonus Committee in Hibbing,