The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1932, Page 3

| | | Correspondence Briefs eae eras a | HOW FARMERS AND WORKERS STARVE (By a Worker Correspondent) LAS VEGAS, N. M.—The plight of the farmer is becoming more desper- ate. Here are some commodity prices for consumers advertised in the Los Angeles Examiner, which shows that the farmer is receiving nothing for his work: Milk, 3 cents a quart; potatoes, 110 pounds for 39 cents; tomatoes and peaches, 1 cent a pound; onions, 8 cents a bag of 5 pounds; beans, 2 to 2% cents a pound. But what good is this to the work- ers who have no income? FORCED LABOR ON COAST (By a Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Cal—iIn this city the itinerant work is picked up for “loitering” or panhandling and sent to the “river bottom” or to the state fire-patrol road-building camps in the mountains for 60 days. In either case he works four hours daily for six days in the week and receives in ex- change three prison camp meals of beans and coffee, and sleeps on dirty blankets thrown over discarded jail- hous, iron-bottomed cots. There is no cash allowance or other benefits whatever. If one is a registered votcr and “makes application” for work, cne spends two or three days in going from offic2 to office to learn where he must “register.” He must prove his residenceship, give references, etc., as to character before h? is privileged to} receive one of these jobs at the same} amd under the same condi-| -tions as “pay” accorded the itinerant work- A Worker. eRe es FIGET HUNGER PLAN (By a Wo: Correspondent.) BERKELEY, Mission, through the papers, warned the uncmployed that after January 1) they would ‘have to go back to the) old homes towns or starve. The Un-| employed Council sent a committce headed by Arend Wickerts, the Com- mun’s! Party candidate for sheriff, to notify them that he would not stand ers. for it, and demanded that they take) stops immediately and force the state | or Reconstruction Finance Corpora- | tion to provide the necessary funds. ' Thoy agreed to do as we demanded.) HEARD IN THE SUBWAY (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK.—Riding home in the ted subway, I overheard two discussing Mayor Walker's ze Governor Roosevelt, “I can't be be: plea wherein Walker says: driven this way without an oppor- tunity to look into the faces of my aceucers. I haven't been transporici to Russia.” “Damn right he ain't,” said one of the workers. “They'd a shot the god-damn grafter there.” Most of the people in the car laughed in evident approval, while one shouted back: “Say, a guy like Walker would not even have a chance to get started there. There ain't and can’t be a Tammany Hall in Moscow.” Hide Addresses of Jersey City Evictions (By a Worker Correspondent) JERSEY CITY, N. J.—As a result of the growing resistance of the! workers against evictions, courts here are keeping secret the addresses of those against whom dispossess papers are issued. About ten days agol saw the marshal and the police smash down the locked door of one unem- ployed worker whom they were evict- ing. The worker, with a family of} six children, was thrown out into the street. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the state | and employers, Bungalows and Rooms to Rent for Summer Season Several very nice rooms for rent for the summer se: ful farm in Eastern Peni miles from Philadelphia. Ren electricity, swimming, fishii sonable rates, Communicate with Tom Jessor, April Farm, Coopersburg, Pa. bungalows n.—The city com-/ Baldwin Says Sov (Above) The housewives of the fa: town near Moscow, read a letter from correspondents in the United States. (Below) Scene of Portland, Ore., for the defense of the U.S.S.R. These actions of International solidarity are described in the letters of U. S. CANADIAN BOSSES DEMAND ANTI- SOVIET TRADE PLEDGE IN OTTAWA et Trade Is Means for React for Reaching “Higher Goal” Hinting at Attack Upon Soviet Union ® A Message from the U.S. A. etory workers in Dubrowski, a factory parade against imperialist war and workers to workers in the U.S.S.R. Social Activities of USSR Women in Factory Town Workers Hail Social, Sanitary Organiza- tions in our Town, Say Soviet Housewives Urge American Housewives to Write About | Conditions and Struggles In American Towns The following is a letter from the Housewives of the werkers’ factory social activities. gles—Ed. Note. . Dear Comrades: The housewives of the workers’ | factory town of Dubrovki want to tell jyou about their social activities, | j which consist in controlling the dif- rayon. Many of us are performing dif- ferent tasks in the rayon Soviet, others in the Sanitation Department, jroom, co-operative organizations, co- operative stores, laundry, ambula- torium. Everywhere we watch after cleanliness and order. We see to it |that the food products in the co- joperative stores are of good quality, ‘that the physicians, nurses and or- derlies treat the patients attentively jin the ambulatorium. We make re- ports to different organizations and gee to it that all shortcomings are |quickly eliminated. We aslo visit | patients at their homes in order to | investigate their living conditions and to see to it that they follow all the| |instructions of the physicians. All these social activities we carry on | voluntarily, Our ambulatorium is equipped \!atest apparatus and works very well e have ultra-violet ray treatment, lectric bath, etc. We also have ‘a| children’s departmen; with an iso- contagious diseases. | Luckily, we very seldom have pa- jtients with contagious diseases, “On certain days, one of the best Moscow | children specialists, a professor from the Morozov’s Hospital for Children’s Dis2ases, works in our ambulatorium. At the ambulatorium there are physi- cians on duty who visit patients at home. All treatment and medicine is free of charge. As you sec, comrades, we, our- ferent organizations of the town and) still others in the communal dining | |Jation department for patients with | town of Dubrosky in the Soviet Union, describing their conditions and their In compliance with the request contained in the letter, American house- wives from, let's scy, some of the bosses’ company towns of the United States ‘should write to them and tell them about their conditions and strug- ganizations and take care that they are conducted properly. This gives | wonderful results. Many of us are so inspired with our social activities |that they devote all their leisure time to it. For instance, Comrade Ivanova E. and Comrade Musenko are very often on duty in the am- |bulatorium, dining room, co-opera- | tive, etc. Musenko is 65 years of age, nevertheless she is a very active social worker. Comrade Ivanova learned to read and write, thanks to provisions for eyery worker to study. She received premiums (prizes) many limes for her good social work. It is important to note that the workers themselves watch, control |and actively help those workers’ or- ganizations which serve to satisfy the | immediate necds of the workers. The workers also control the work of higher and also of the highest eco- nomic and political organizations. Please, corfrades, write about your \life. What are your social activities, |how are your ambulatoriums con- ducted and do your workers and their families receive medical treat- |ment free of charge. We will gladly answer all questions of interest to you. By the way, our Social Insurance |Fund is subsidized solely by the fac- tories and plants. Nothing for this fund is deducted out of the workers’ pay. The workers get full pay, not only in case of their own sickness, but also in case they have to take care of any sick member of the fam- lily. Do you have such laws in your country? Please write to the following ad- dress: ‘Tverskaya 48, Room 13, Moscow. For the Housewives of Dubrovki, Ivanova, Abrosimova, Kotchetkova, ; Selves, control the work of our or-Laptukhova, Samarina, the Soviet Government, which made} WORKERS OF U. S. AND CANADA MUST ANSWER Build United Action to Defend the Soviet Union OTTAWA, Aug. 16—British and Canadian delegates to the Imperial Economie Conference here failed to reach an agreement on the question of Soviet trade, according to dis- patches from Canada. Bennet demanded from the British delegates that they commit them- selves more definitely on the question of barring Soviet goods from the British market to the benefit of Canadian products, and especially lumber and wheat. Baldwin, however, stated that the unity of the Empire does not exclude trade with the “world at large.” Moved by economic and political reasons, Baldwin resisted politely Bennett’s efforts to force the British delegates into pledging that Soviet goods would be completely excluded from their market. “Unity” in Interest of British Bosses First of all Baldwin wants to make sure that “the number of workers who would be put out of work as a result of closing the British market to Soviet trade would be offset by the number of workers who will be em- ployed as a result of the new trade that Bennett offers.” This clearly indicates that one of the main con- cerns of the British delegates at Ottawa is to cement the “unity of the Empire,” which is undergoing a disintegrating process, in the interests of British capitalists and not the Canadian industrialists, The Different Goal Secondly, if Baldwin is reluctant to close the British market to Soviet jtrade it is not because British im- verialism is undergoing a change of heart toward the Soviets. In a speech delivered at the conference Baldwin clearly indicated that Soviet trade is not an end in itself and that it should be considered only as a means for reaching a different goal. Look Towards War Baldwin, the British chief delegate |to the Ottawa Conference, declared that: “The Empire can only be main- tained permanently by not forgetting |the ultimate goal.” As to this ultimate goal, there is no doubt that it is hte imperialist armed attack on the Soviet Union. Bald- win’s statement is the statement of British imperialism, which regards Soviet trade as a step toward that goal, 2,000 IN CONN. DEMAND RELIEF Bridgeport Workers’ Meet at City Hail BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Aug. 16.— Two thousand workers demonstrated here yesterday for immediate relief in front of the City Hall under the leadership of the Bridgeport Unem- ployed Council. Mayor Buckingham, after sending word through police that he would see a delegation of three workers providing no women workers were on the committee, later refused to see the committee but sent his secretary jto see them instead. The secretary noted the demands of the workers for immediate relief for the starving unemployed of Bridgeport but refus- ed to give an answer. Women workers in the demonstra- tion then denounced the mayor for discriminating against them. After the demonstration the workers pa- raded to the Workers’ Center, where speakers from the Unemployed Coun- cil outlined the next steps to be taken in the struggle for immediate relief at the expense of the bosses and city government. The workers voted to continue the struggle for relief and expressed their determination to force Mayor Buck- inham to listen to their demands, especially those of the women work- ers. GET BEHIND THE SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE “In order to achieve « clear ae and out of the shop, It fights with spective in the present drive of the Daily Worker for 7,000 new yearly subs and 7,000 new bundle orders, we must at the beginning realize the importance of the revolutionary press in the class struggle,” declared Mar- cel Scherer, National Secretary of. the Friends of the Soviet Union. “Lenin attributed the greatest im- portance to a newspaper fighting day by day the battles of the working class. In ‘What Is to Be Done’ Lenin newspaper is not merely a col- lective propegandist and collective agitator. It is also a collective crvaniner .... \ *....A newspaper ......will sum- maize the resuits of all the di- vorse forms cf activity and thereby simeleie our people to march forward untiringly along ALL the fnrrmoreble paths which lead to the revolution .. “The Daily Worker alone, of all the English daily newspapers in émerica, catries into effect Lenin's dictum of what a working class aewspaper should be, It enters into ‘very phase of the workers’ strug- him when he is on strike. It fights against wage cuts, unemployment, and the whole capitalist war-breed- ing system. Get keen the sub drive!” . * * SUGGESTS WE STRESS BARGAIN FEATURE IN DRIVE Hammond, Ind. Daily Worker: I am writing to make a few sug- gestions relative to the subscription drive now in progress, I believe that better results could be achieved if the ily Worker stressed the facts about the special inducements for subscribing to it now. For instance, a worker reading the Daily Worker who is not a Party member and therefore not as much interested in the welfare of the Daily, can be con- vinced more easily to subscribe if he can be made to see that he is get- ting a special bargain offer. Therefore, I believe that this bargain feature of the drive should be played up more. No single issue of the paper should appear without some mention of the premiums given with the yearly and smaller subs, showing how this effects a sav- gies, and discvsses his daily interests ing for the prospective reader. LG. CONTRIBUTIONS T0 “DAILY” FUND DISTRICT 1—BOSTON A. Halpern and comrades, Franklin, Mass, — Daniel Harta Young Cente, Tears, $10.00 1.00 Ipswich, NE et 8D 8, My Leable sia eS IET 2) Springfield Unit, Chicopee Falls, Mass, 1.00 DISTRICT 2—NEW YORK Seegert & Grand, ew York. 2.00 W. Fenoter, New York. 1.00 Sidney Sinmer, New York. 8.25 Fanny Glotzer, New York 1.00 Kay Epstein, New York. 1.00 irving, New ‘York 1.00 M, Cohen, New York 1.00 D. Wein, New York 8.50 Sub, 2Q9, New York 2.50 Sub. 8, New York _____ sine Brighton Beach Workers’ Club, B’kiyn 8.00 M. Hyman 100 Manhattan Bed Co. pecans Usrninian Women's Gouncll, Brookiyn 10.00 Sympathizer, New York... 1.00 Jennie Zamas, New York. 1.00 M. A. Manners, Sea Gate, N.Y. 1.00 Nick Seltig, Floral Park, L. 1, 1.00 Gus Kalen, Hicksville, L. Lo" "* 50 Golden Bridge Colony, Golden Bridge, N.Y. ao 3.00 G. Welsh, N.Y. 25.00 Long Beach Workers 27.00 Prien bk acces SOO, ISTRICT %—PHILADELPHIA Mt. zat, Philadelphia... 40.00 £. Hall, Philadelphia... DISTRICT 4—1 M. Gephart, Buffalo .__ J. Wajeht, Bi J. Lorenz, Buffalo. 30 A. Arent, Buffalo —_ 25 M. Minskiewiez, Buffalo 10 F. Zlotnik, Buffal Unit No. %, Buffalo - Buffalo District Offic R. Bryers, Louise, We Va——— 1.5 Pittsburgh Workers —_. DISTRICT 6—CI Russian Mutual Aid, No. 2, Cleveland Iithuanian L.D.S., Br. 5, Cleveland i. R. Freideman, Cincinnatt. DISTRICT %—DETROIT U. Wafer, Kalamazoo, Mich... DISTRICT 9—MINNEAPOLIS Knute Tollefson, Lewisville, Minn. DISTRICT 10—KANSAS CITY Dallas, tdi L, R. Martinet, Los An; DISTRICT 18—WISCONSIN ©. Kirkpatrick, Beles, Wire STRICT 19—DENVER Granada, Colo. SCORE WAR PLOTS DESPITE THE TERROR. SHANGHAI (By Mail).—Despite police prohibition and terror, power- ful demonstrations against imperial- ist war and for the defense of China and the Soviet Union took place here on August 1, International Fighting | Dally Worker to keep going. There 202 Japanese Reds; Heavy Terms, Make Trial a One Sentenced to Die, Years tAttack onWar-Makers Rest to Total of 1.113 in Jail Terror is Part of War Preparations, Says Party| Secretary TOKYO (By Mail).—The 202 "Japanese Communists who were recently sentenced by the boss courts here, one to death and the others to heavy terms in prison, militantly turned the courtroom into a tribunal to denounce the crimes of the imperialist bandits, Comrade Sano, who is Secretary of the Communist Party of Japan, and | was sentenced to life imprisonment,- made the following statement after his sentence had been announced: Terror Part of War Preparations “Who are the criminals? We are fighting for the oppressed working- class, struggling for the building of the new society which will bring real human happiness by abolish- ing the exploitation of man py | man, by the overthrow of capital- ism. We are not criminals, but the bourgeoisie who oppress and ex- ploit the workers and peasants are the real criminals. They started an imperialist war in a desperate efort to prevent the collapse of the capitalist system. The terror against the Communist Party of Japan is part of the preparation to rush into this robber war. But we will never give up the struggle. The roots of the Communist Party of cases. The entire trial showed that the fascist government is afraid to prosecute the revolutionary workers without the greatest protection of the courts by armed guards. In addition to Comrade Sano, two others of the defendants were sen- tenced to life imprisonment, with long terms for the others, excepting Comrade Mitamura who has been sentenced to death. The prison sen- tence aggregate one thousand and thirteen years. International Notes WAGE-CUTS IN GERMANY BERLIN.—The Saxon Textile Em- Japan will never be destroyed by the bourgeoisie terror. | ployers’ Association announced its de- Working Class Will Avenge Deaths| termination to end the existing wage The mases of workers and peasants|and working agreements in Western are rising for the fight against their oppressors, against capitalism, against | imperialist war. The working-cla: will execute the bourgeoisie and| landowners who execute us today.” | Comrade Sano then turned to the) prosecutor and declared: “The prosecutor is trying to pre- | tend that he does not represent any | class, but in reality he is a loyal servant of the bourgeoisie and landowners.” The court room was filled with police and militia during the trial. The prosecutor demanded the death sentence for Comrade Mitamura, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Japan, and leader of the great Hamamatsu! strike in 1927. Workers were barred | from the trial, even the relatives of | the accused being barred in a COURT OBSTRUCTS RUEGG DEFENSE Admit Prosecutors As} “Witnesses” (Cable by Inprecorr) SHANGHAI, Aug. 16.—Today’s pro- | ceedings in the Ruegg case, after examination of the witnesses, rep- | resented an all-around obstruction of the self-defense of the accused, the judge and the translator cooperating | in interruptions and distortions of | the statements by the accused and otherwise preventing the Rueggs| from speaking. The judge refused | to make the police witnesses stay for | questioning, ‘declaring it impossible | to make them wait until the accused “says everything.” Paul Ruegg re- torted to this action of the court: “You kept us 14 months in jail with- out trial, but you cannot keep police- men ancther hour.” ‘The judge’s remarks that the court | was acting on the basis of the law) met with a sarcastic exclamation on | the part of the accused, enraged by | today’s proceedings. The persistent | refusal of the court to produce evi- dence and t6 comply with the ac- cused lawful applications continued today as before. The refusal to en large the South American photograph | made the accused remind the court | that the’ Nanking government h published - all photos and documents during the supposedly preliminary in- vestigations. Replying to the protest by the ac- cused against police witnessess ap- pearing in the role of prosecuto the judge admitted they appeared “not exactly as witnesses.” He de- clared their statements will be used only “for reference.” By this sham retreat the court actually permits a dual relation with policemen acting both as subordinates of the prosecu- tion (British police) and as Shanghai participants in the searches and con. fiscations as well as witnesses anc even experts, without the court draw- ing the practical conclusions there- from. This sham retreat is plainly a maneuver prompted by the mass pro- tests sweeping the entire world against the frame-up and attempt to railroad the Rueggs to death. With admission of the unlawfulness of the dual role of the police, the court must be forced to reject the police evidence, which will wipe out even the shaky grounds on which the case of the prosecution is based. Farmer Who Can’t Pay Taxes Contributes to $40,000 “Daily” Drive A farmer from Rickreall, Oregon writes that even though he is so peor he can’t pay either taxes or the interest on his mortgag wants to contribute to the Save the “Daily” drive. His letter follows: Dear Comrades:— I am unable to pay taxes or in- terest, but that is the lot of most of the farmers now; still I want the are three farmers here: we each chip in $2.00 for a sub a year, read it and then pass it on to some of the neighbors. I don’t know of a person around here who could hand out a dollar who is at all sympathetic to the workers, I tried to collect some money for the paper but could not find any just now. Enclosed find what I can contribute—not much but all I can spare, —H. D.” Saxony on Sept. 1, in order to put through wage-cuts and alter the working conditions against the inter- ests of the workers. Over 200,000 workers are affected. Twenty-five thousand textile workers in Eastern Saxony were also notified that the existing agreement would be ended. The wage agreement in Due- ren-Euskirchen is also to be termin- ated at the end of August. oe Cs PROTEST AGA BUDAPEST MURDERS. BERLIN.—Thomas Mann, famous German author and Nobel prize holder, expressed his deep indigna- tion at the execution of the Hun- garian Communists, Sallai and Fuerst in Budapest. The well-known author sent a tele- gram of protest to the Prime Min- ister of Hungary, appealing at the me time on behalf of the Commu- | nist, Karikas, who is threatened with a similar death sentence. SE ee | concREss OF BULGARIAN COM- MUNIST PARTY SOFIA—The organ of the Bul- garian Communist Party, “Rabotnit- chesko Delo,” annountes that the Central Committee decided to call the) Party congress for ei 2nd and 3rd in Sofia. The agenda of Sep Congress con- tains points referring to the world situation, the situation in Bulgaria, the internal situation of the Party, the war danger and the election of a new Central Committee. “Rabotnitchesko Delo” announces that the Central Committee is making arrangements to hold the Congress as usual, prohibition or no prohibition eS WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR PARIS.—At the suggestion of the various National Committees the Preparatory Committee decided to) hold the Congress Against Imperialist | War on the 27th and 28th of August. New promises of support are reaming in daily from trade union, clal-democrat, Communist and other organizations. Well known fig-| ures in the field of science, art, etc., promise their whole-hearted support. rae Saha: ITALIAN WAR MANEUVERS A huge joint navy and aerial man- euver is being carried out by the Ital- ian fascist dictatorship as one of the latest “evidences” of the “desire” of the imperialist war-mongers for “peace” and “disarmament.” An Ital- ian and a Frenchman have been ar- rested by the Italian secret police as French spies seeking information “for the French government on the strength of the Italian war machine. The Italian maneuvers follow closcly on the heels of the statement by M solini, fascist head, that war is “en- nobling.” Kinloch Miners On Strike Against 20 Per Cent Wage Cut KINLOCH, Pa., Aug. 15—All min- ers in the Kinloch mine walked out during the latter part of last week on strike against an indirect wage cut of 20 per cent. The company was afraid of announcing a flat reduc- tion on the loaders, so it got the same results by declaring ‘that here- after the men would be paid 60 cents a car instead of 36 cents a ton for machine coal and 38 cents for pick coal. The cargé are big enough to make a wage cut of one fifth through this new way of figuring. Day men were cut directly from $2.80 to $2.60, motormen from $3 to $2.80 and machine runners to a flat ten cents a car, divided among four men on a shift, which means two and a half cents a car per man. Out of these wages, the company checks off $8 a month for house rent, a dollar for house coal, 75 cents for doctor, 50 cents for blacksmith, and charges 7 cents for powder and 8 cents egch for caps. Kinléth was the center of hot struggles in the 1931 strike, and the men are for the National Miners Union, VOTE COMMUNIST Against Imperialist War; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, \and other class war prisoners. It en- STEEL AND METAL UNION and Chicago-Cal | on Class Struggle, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. |can’t stand this condition any more. |The union must show us the w out,” said a Negro delegate from Alabama at the national convention here which today formally launched the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union. And he expressed the spirit of the sessions, recognition of the terrific misery of wage cut after Wage cut, and enormous unemploy- ment, more than half the workers totally out of a job, and the others mostly part time. He showed, too, the growing, fierce resentment, the de- termination to struggle. The number of delegates by the last day had grown to 140, from all parts of the country, but mainly right | from the plants in the biggest steel and metal manufacturing companies | like U. 8, Steel and Western Electric. | Meldon, secretary of the Metal | Workers Industrial League, which |§ called the. three day convention, in his summarizing speech, outlined a plan for a recruiting campaign to double the membership by Novem- | ber. Quotas are assigned for 1,000 | new members each in the three con- centration districts: Pittsburgh, .Ma- honing Valley, and Chicago-Calumet, also one thousand more generally. Adopt Constitution The convention adopted a draft constitution, guaranteeing democratic control, no high paid officials, and efficiency of action. The draft con- Stitution, reported by Carl Bradley for a committee which had labored over it for ten hours, was thoroughly discussed and amended in details be- fore adoption by the convention. It will now be referred to the newly elected national committee, which in turn will send it to all locals, and these, after discussion and propos- ing of amendments will return it to the national committee for re-draft- ing. It will then be s ent out for a referendum of all members,. on its adoption. Endorse Communist Election Cam- paign. The convention discussed the ad- dress to it in the second session by Fraternal Delegate James W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice-p dent of the United States, and voted to endorse the platform and election campaign and candidates of the Communist Party in this election. The convention adopted resolutions demanding the release of the Scotts- boro boys, Tom Mooney and Billings, dorsed Labor Unity, official maga- zine of the Trade Union Unity League. The new union will affiliate with the TUUL as the center of class 15.—“We » STARTS DRIVE FOR 4,000 NEW MEMBERS IN MILLS | Concentrates on Pittsburgh, Mahoning Valley umet Territories. Convention Adopts Draft Constitution Based Negro-White Unity Today’s session was the last. The delegates will now go back to be- y|come organizers for the union they have created. Sunday night’s sessions were de« voted to meetings of the committees on constitution, resolutions and nom- inations, and to meetings of confer- ences on organization among Negro workers and young workers, The last two days sessions saw the discussion raised to a high, practi- cal level, with almost all delegates freely participating. Negro-White Unity. A white worker from Alabama cit- ed facts and figures showing how the employers split the workers’ ranks in the South aolng race lines, and how the white workers are beginning to realize the burning need of unity, of Negro and white. Coming from the lips of a white Southerner, this speech made a pro- found impression on the entire con~ vention. The delegation from Warren, 0, representing the section of the Metal Workers Industrial League (now e Steel and Metal Workers Induse 1 Union) which was most floure ishing even before this convention, told how the work was carried on there. He told of tactics and strategy thajpmay be useful in other fields. Many delegates agreed that it is necessary to concentrate activities in specially chosen points, rather than dissipate them too much over the whole country. Delegates from Chicago told of the Indiana hunger march when 5,000 steel workers struck terror into the hearts of their rulers with their de- mands for relief or jobs from the company. Through this act, the union gains prestige and becomes generally known to the workers in that sec- tion. Class Struggle. Stachel, reporting for the Trade Union Unity League national office, contrasted the tactics and objectives of the class struggle unions of which the TUUL is composed, with the class collaboration unions like most of those in the AFL. Stachel said that the logical cone clusion of the class collaboration (as- sistance to the employers by the unions) policy would be conditions like those in England and Germany today, wage cuts with no struggle, and fascism as in Germany. The logical conclusion of the class strug- gle policy is shown in the Soviet Union, where the workers run both state and industry and there is no unemployment, and no millionaires, but constantly rising wages and struggle unions in America. shorter work days. Milwaukee Steel Wor MILWAUKEE, Wis—The Metal Unemployed Councils of Milwaukee Sixth and Mineral Streets. and workers from shops, particularly® Allis Chalmers workers, will be at/ the conference. There the demands |for the Hunger March will be dis- cussed and formulated and plans made to mobilize thousands for the march from all over the country. This Hunger |importance to the jand unemployed metal Milwaukee. ‘The Allis Chalmers factory is the largest and most important metal shop in Wisconsin. It employs over 7,000 workers in this unit at capacity. ; Now over 5,000 are laid off. Those working are on the stagger system, averaging a few hours a week, with pay checks running from $5 up for | two weks work. Most of the workers {earn no more than $10 for two weeks under the stagger system. Insurance costs are deducted from the checks. There are many accidents—and the workers are cheated out of compen- sation due to them through the connivance of the State Industrial Comission with the company. Workers laid off receive neither medical care nor relief from the company. The spy system is ex- tended to the unemployed—at the relief stations Allis Chalmers spies) take note of militant former em-) ployes in order to blacklist them.| Several West Alis dicks are sus-| pected of having connections with| the company: Politically, Allis Chalmers controls directly the West Allis city govern- ment. Four aldermen out of cight are A. C. faremen. The Socialist mayor carries out the orders of the) company. The main _ stockholder,! Gen. Falk is the leader in anti- March is. of greatest 75,000 employed workers of County kers Plan Huge Hunger March Workers Industrial League and the County are calling a conference to prepare for the Hunger March to the Allis Chalmers plant on Sept. 26th. This conference will be heid Friday, Sept. 2, 7 p.m., at Harmony Hall, South Delegates from mass workers’ organizations labor activities in Wisconsin, as his father was before him. Out of the $17,000,00 surplus of the company kept to pay dividends in “bad” years, it is openly known that $6,000,000 is a strike-breaking fund. Among the demands that will be discussed at, the conference on Sept. 2nd, will be a demand for cash relief from the company for all laid- off workers, with a minimum of $15 a week, the money to come from surplus funds. The question of more work for the employed workers under the stagger system will be another demand. The bearing of all in- |surance costs by the company and the extension of insurance benefits to laid-off workers will be a third. The abolition of the spy and black- list system, the right to organize in the shop, the question of the old vorkers, as well as the youth, and omen workers, also will be raised in the demands. Allis Chalmers is an important war factory — making everything from (small bullets to huge cannons dur- ing war time. The Hunger March will raise the question of a concrete struggle against war preparations. Ths Hunger March, uniting the Milwaukee unemployed and employed, comes at a time when the Milwaukee boses are trying, through cutting of relief, dodging taxes, introducing |forced labor, reducing wages and starting the Community Fund racket, to shift the burden of caring for the unemployed upon the workers, and small property holders. The Hunger March will be a very important part of the defensive of the workers against these attacks, and is therefore a major political event in Milwaukee County. Hoboken Decrees” Hunger for Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) HOBOKEN, N. J.—The city here does not even bother about relief, but lets the industrial boss charities do the dirty work of pretending to re- lieve the unemployed. Recently an unemployed worker and his family of six children were evicted by the city marshall and were is put into a moving van quickly, for which $6 is charged. An aged worker, E. Everson, was evicted last week in Union City. He worked as a street cleaner for the city up to 4 weeks ago. He and his wife and children had been living on coffee and stale bread for some time. County road work is refused to single persons and to married per- sons who have no children, Those who do get work are paid in food scrip worth $2 to $5 every two weeks, thrown with their furniture to stay overnight in the yard. In Hoboken eviction is supposed to be unknown. ‘The furniture of the evicted family Working for relief from the bosses’ government is to invite hunger into your home, Workers will only get what they fight for.