The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1932, Page 3

| \ Page Phe | TAKE LABOR DAY OUT OUT OF HANDS OF A. F. L. OFFICIALDOM! as “TURN LABOR DAY INTO A DAY OF CLASS STRUGGLE!” CALL OF T.U.U.L. At All Meetings Raise Demands for Unemployment Insurance, For Fight Against Wage Cuts, For Votes for Foster and Ford! NEW YORK.—“All workers, brothers, let us make Labor Day a day of class struggle against our enemies. Let us use this day to increase our united strenth. Let us devote} this day to the forging of the, unity of the employed and un- employed, the native, foreign-' born, the Negro and white, the } unity of all workers against the pres- ent conditions. Let us make Labor Day a day of struggle against wace | cuts, for the shorter workday with- cut reduction in pay; for unemploy- ment relief and for unemployment insurance; against the bosses’ terror; azainst deportations; for the equal rights to the Negro masses; against verlalist war and for the defense fatherland, the Soviet Union. eon 49 this by taking up these iesues at al! workers’ gatherings, by turniny the boss-A. F. of L. leaders’ Lebor Day programs devoted to fast- ening chains around our necks into mecting devoted to a fight to expose this A. F. of L. policy, to unmask the A. F, of L, leaders and to unite evr ranks for the fight” This is the conclusion of a state- rent med, by the National Executive oard of the Trade Union Unity gue, on Labor Day. Class Collaboration . The statement points out that Labor Day (Sept. 5 this year( is a Ivgal holiday established for the A. 3. of L, and railroad brotherhood uerats to appear on the plat_ Li and along with wage-cutting yers, and join in a chorus of praise fer the present capitalist sys- tem. On this day they praise espe- cially class colaboration—the part- nership of workers and employer, by which struggle is prevented and wage cuts, speed-up and \ unemployment increase. It is a day set up to divert the attention of the workers from May Day, the real international labor day. This is done, even though, and even especially because, May Day es the day of the workers’ class struggle had its origin in the great eight-hour day strike movement in the United States in 1886. Fruits of Collaboration Workers can see the frufts of the class collaboration which Green and ‘Woll preach, These fruits are 15,000,- 000 jobless, and millions more on part time, with wage cuts everywhere. Where workers fought as a class, -and established the Soviet Union, there is now no unemployment, there is social insurance for any unemploy- ment that might exist temporarily, there is old age and sickness and accident insurance, there are vaca- tions with pay, there is the seven- hour day with increased wages. This is all because the path of class strug- gle led to the abolition of the capi- talist system, led to a workers’ and farmers’ government which rules in the interests of the toiling masses, The T. U. U. L. statement points out: “It 1s against this workers’ govern- ment that the A. F. of L., assisted by the Socialists and the slanders of the Musteites and renegades, ts calling fer war,because this workers’ govern. ment is showing the road to the ex- pleited millions of this country. Conditions Worsen The T. U. U. L. statement sum- marizes the cutting off of relief, and the attempt of Lewis and Walker to fasten wage cuts on the miners, while the government refuses relief to starving millions, and gives billions ONEAL LAMENTS RACKET EXPOSE Says McGrady Is “Man of High Ideals” BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 26.—James Oneal, the Socialist Party leader, writes in the Baltimore Sun on rack- eteering in the A. F. of L. unions. Oneal regrets ther2 has been so much publicity about it, for it “hurts the A, F.,of L.” He hopes that every- thing will come out all right because “Edward F. McGrady, legislative agent of the A. F. of L. and a man of high ideals, has been investigating charges of racketeering in the unions.” Fur workers who remember how this same McGrady was sent in in 1926 and 1927 to smash their union and crush them down to low wages, a condition they are just now getting out of by defeating McGrady’s gang, will like to know that McGrady’s work is significant of what a Socialist leader calls “high ideals.” Oneal has no other cure for loot-| ,, ing of union treasures and blackjack- ing the militant membership than an inerease in power of the A. F. of L. executive council—the Green-Woll machine which is the very adminis- tration of the racketeers! Militant workers in the A. F. of L. should build rank and file committees in every local to run the union and Jead strikes against the will of the |SCOTTDALE—N. A. recketeer officials, and get in touch with the Trade Union Unity League for help. . “The struggle against militarism must not be postponed until the moment when war hreaks out. of dollars to bankers and employers. Sales taxes and inflation of the cur- rency are further attacks on the standard of living of the workers. New wage cuts are coming in the building trades, among railroad work- Foster and Ford, the workers’ candidates, ers and the printing traics. “The government with violence the demand for |rrad,” says the statement, and gives <he attack on the bonus marchers as an exam- ple. A. F. of L. Leaders Support Terror ‘Then it points out that the A. F. of L. Council and the other labor bu- reaucrats have not said one word against the terror against the bonus marchers, against shooting down of jobless workers in Detroit, St. Louis, yetam of wage cuts, no relief, imperi- The A. F. of L, helps to put through wage cuts and break strikes, and therefore supports the terror against workers who resist cuts or demand food for the jobless. And the Socialist Party and Muste elements support the A. F. of L. The logical result of this policy is seen in Germany, where it brought about the Von Papen government of terror, and new attacks on the work- ers’ standards of living, and paves the way for Hitler and still more vicious attacks. Vote for Foster and Ford And the T. U. U. L. calls: “Let us refuse to hear the boss politicians, who stand for the pro- alist war, Let us, instead, resolve to support and participate in the elec- tions on the: side of the only party that fights against the above pro- gram—the Communist Party, whose whole history is one of devotion, loy- alty and uncompromising struggle in our interests. A party whose stand- ard bearers, the candidates for Pres- ident and Vice-Presidynt, are the two well-known leaders of the strug- William Z. Foster, gles of the workers, General Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, and James W. Ford, militant Negro leader of the struggles of the Negro and white workers, who is also one of the national leaders of Chicago, Cleveland and other cities. the Trade Union Unity League, CHICAGO, Ill—The workers of Chicago will have the opportunity to hear Comrade William Z. Foster, candidate for president of the U.S.A. on the Communist Party ticket, on Saturday, September 10, at 8 pm., in the large hall of the Chicago Coli- seum, 15th and Wabash Comrade Faster challenged the candidate of the Socialist Party, Norman Thomas, to discuss the elec- tion campaign issues of both parties.. Mr. Thomas refused to accept this challenge. To this Coliseum meeting we are challenging again the presi- Challenge Thomas to Debate Foster Sept. 10 in Chicago dential candidate of the Socialist Party to discuss with Comrade Fos- ter the election campaign issues at the big Chicago Coliseum on Sep- tember 10. All workers should spread the news about this monster meeting all over the city. Tens of thousands of work~ ers are expected. Comr@tie Foster will also speak in South Chicago, September 12, at the Croatian Hall, 9616 Commercial Ave., 8 pm. The workers of South Chicago are mobilizing to come down in mass- es and hear the presidential candi- date. CONTRIBUTIONS TO “DAILY” FUND DISTRICT 1, BOSTON BOSTON—Olgin Conference 5.00 PEABODY—J. Pihol -10 N. Denisuk 325 8. Lawehuk 25 Penttila, 50 Prank Lehtiner 25 Carlson 25 Deliinen 3 Kauppinen 25 Humonens 10 Mosiychuk 8 Pasey Jr. 20 Leon Renis 35 Willis 25 J. Malanchuk 25 Grickow 3 Karneiruk 25 Dienersky 10 ‘Howzich 10 J. Haliot 10 J. Letko 35 8. Babachal 10 I, Sukach 15 Joe Royal 15 H. Sogolott 15 Kamber 10 Gruntkosha 1.00 Rabchenuk 1.00 SALEM—J. Hood 20 ‘M. Kaski 50 DISTRICT 2, NEW YORK NEW YORK CITY—Sol Brookman 1.00 Frank Pavia 1.00 A Worker i A)Sympathizer 1 Harry Halpern 1 Friends of Soviet Union 5 L Goldat 2. Long Beach Workers+Collection by Carl Brodsky 29, Mohican Colony—affair District 2, C.P. Section 2, Unit 35 Union @. Workers Club LW.O. Youth Br. 407 Na Heq., W-E.S.L. Council No. Women's Council No. 4 P. Tarviti 2.00 Sec. 2, collection at Columbus Cir. 3.50 P. Beston 1.00 J. Lewis 2.00 A Worker 50 Camp Kinderland, Daily Worker affair 100. mm Friend M. throw Section 4 Section 15, Unit 22 Health Center Comrades of Relief Committee for Political Prisoners in Poland BROOKLYN—A. Kozulich Boro Park Workers Club L. Gordon B. Brathwaite Grossman E. Flatbush 1.W.0. & Jarein v. 4.00 1.00 10.00 2.00 1.00 50 00 00 .00 .00 Shule Bees Larsen X P. Farber SARATOGA SPRINGS—Sidney Hook Kulmatzyki PHILADE! ASTORIA, L. I.—A: DIS@RIC’ San, Pace, Zagrewsky WASHINGTON, D. C.—Oigin Confer. ‘H. Hayes A. 8. Leitch }BALTIMORE, Md.—Olgin Confer. PHILADELPHIA—Greislers, Market Sympathizers Lurs DISTRICT 4, BUFFALO ELLENVILLE, N. Y.—S, Solomon ‘| DISTRICT 5, PITTSBURG eeB eSew BBEkESSE2 Bee 5 COOPERSBI . Howat DISTRICT 7, DETROIT GREENVILI Hansen DETROIT—0, Czepatk Mserneser DISTRICT 8, CHICAGO CHICAGO—H. Gerold A. Kowalehuk Dz Lovitt BS. sss Hen Then it ene against war must be car- now, daily, hourly.” be too late. The | 10s DISTRICT 13, CALIFORNIA ANGELES—H. Holtzer EB ss 855 Epstein, N. J—LW.0. Branch | Comrade Lee (List No. 2412), D NEWARK—J. Krugnik 1.00 F. Weinstein 1.00 Schwartz 1.00 PLEASANTVILLE—M. Pharo 50 En Route to U.S.8.R.—Workers 42.25 $6.199.83 DISTRICT 1—BOSTON Finnish Reading Club, Westerly, L$ 10 DISTRICT 2—NEW YOR} Ellen and Kaarlo Waisane, Niven =! 4 Dane Soric, New York City I. Flaumenbaum, New York City Zoe O, Schmidt, Jamaica —.______ 1.50 Lithuanian Literary Society, N. ¥. C. 37.00 DISTRICT 4—BUFFALO Unit 7, Buffalo Searer’s Collection List, B A Friend, Parisbi i Ukrainian Study of the World Masury DISTRIST 7—DETROIT Carol Czepnik, Detroit Unit C-1, Hamtramek — Unemployed Council, No. 1, Detroit Comrade Oleniuk (Lists 2675 and 2676 Detroit __. Charles Segal (List 37) Detroit Press Day Picnic, Detroit... Julius and Morris Ring, Detroit. 1.00 DISTRICT 8—CHICAG' Rudolph Kardun, Chicago__ DISTRICT 13—SAN FR John H. Atkins, San Bernardin: Dora, Los Angeles .._. Teor, Hollywood Branch, Hollywood. DISTRICT 14, NEWARK, N. J. Joe and Nat, Jeresy Cit; Threats Terror to Suppress Communism in Irish Free State DUBLIN, Aug. 26.—A reign of ter- ror was threatened in Ireland by the “United Irishman,” the organ of Cos- grave’s party, unless communism and its “disguised form’—the Irish Re- publican Army, are suppressed. Former President Cosgrave recent- ly organized a White Guard Army 0 fight the Irish Republican Army ind communism, that is to say the the Soviet Union, Worker-delegates elected from New York and New Jersey, now pre- sent at the World Congress Against War. S. J. Stember, of the Workers’ Ex-Serviceman’s League, elected Saturday’ to the presidium of the Congress; Joseph Brodsky, International Work- ers’ Order; Lloyd Westlaye, Newark Carpenters’ local; James McFarland, Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, also elected on the presidium; Joseph Roth, metal worker and member of the Ithaca branch of the Friends of Top row from left to right: The Agricultural Workers ‘Todues labere wa trial Union has issued the following statement on the Colorado beet strike: “On May 16, 1932, at 10 am., the beet workers of Colorado struck against the wage cut, for betterment of working conditions, for the guar- antee of their pay, and for the recog- nition of their*organs of struggle, the Beet Workers’ United Front Com- mittees. “At first, as general statements were made by the leading beet work- ers in different fields, we thought that the strike was going to last only two weeks. This was a wrong anal- ysis of the situation, as facts proved later. The landowners resisted and refused to have anything to do with the local strike committees; but the beet workers, too, had gone on strike with the firm determination to win their demands and wring concessions from the bosses. Like an Armed Camp “A sharp day to day struggle en- sued in different centers of the 500- mile striking area. On some occa- sions, the beet fields looked like an armed camp—thirty or forty cars loaded with beet workers, pulling out the scabs. The farmers, armed with their shot guns, and the sheriffs’ gun- men did not scare or terrorize the workers on the picket line. “Both fronts were resisting till the last. But this was not going to last long. The first word came from Greeley, the hottest spot of the struggle. “The farmers are willing to guarantee our pay. They want to pay. $7.50 for the thinning.” This was an increase of $2 per acre, Some Gains “But this was not in the whole beet striking area. This was among some individuals. These individual settle- ments started in the northern fields. From Trinidad came the same, more or less,*concession. As soon as the picket line started, the farmers of- fered an increase of $1 per acre in the onion fields. From Las Animas, where the workers were doing 12 to 14 hours for 60 and 75 cents a day, they struck 100 per cent, and held firm for two days, They demanded 25 cents an hour. The farmers yielded to 15 and 20 cents per unit hour, giving $2 for ten hours’ work. “The Central Strike Committee 59|Called all members to a conference. Individual signing of contracts went on. All of these contracts signed were an increase over the former contract of $10 and $12 an acre. “All delegates to the Central Strike Rank and File Committee Conference, called to analyze and study the situ- ation in the striking area, brought they could not continue and hold the wanks united, Organized Retreat “There was no relief, and no tents. It was impossible to keep on with the struggle in-such a situation. The delegates reported that clearly. What must be done in such a situation? There was but one way out. “The comrades present proposed to Workers Revolutionary Groups. Jet everybody go back to work, if we could not provide relief for them. favorable reports to the meeting, but |; Beet Workers’ Strike Won Concessions Through Fight There was only one way out and this Was an organized retreat, with fur- ther preparations for the topping season, with the perspective of the organization of the Union, bringing all members of the United Front as a whole into the Agricultural Work- ers Industrial Union. “For this work conferences have been arranged.” New Terrer Gang Formed in Ohio. Communist Candidate Calls for Defense John Marshall, Communist candi- date for Governor of Ohio, write: “From Athens, Ohio, comes the news of the formation of a vigilante committee to combat violence in the coal region. Old timers in the labor movement will not be deceived by this statement. They know how Vig- ilantes in the past have been acti in smashing militant.labor unions and in terrorizing its members. “It was vigilantes which in 1917 hanged the organizer, Frank Little, to a railroad trestle at the time of the copper strike in Butte, Montana. Again in 1918 a vigilante mob armed with sawed-off shotguns herded 1,100 unarmed striking copper workers’ at Bizbee, Arizona, onto box cars and shipped them out into the dese: where they were left without water in the gruelling heat of the desert sun, “This revival of the infamous vigi- lantes is given an apologetic intro- duction, by the capitalist press, which claims that it will do no ‘night riding, make no raids.’ It will confine itself to ‘detecting crime.’ In other words, this modern vigilante gang will be used to frame-up militant miners who are now leading the struggle in the Hocking Valicy. “The capitalist newspapers state that Governor White and the she: of Athens County and the Com- all highly in favor of the new ization. “Athens is a college town and con- tains a large number of the sons of business men, who are the class mest frequently organized a: the workers. The National Student League should get on the job there. “The miners of the Hocking Val- ley must meet this n offensive of the operators with increased mass Picketing, more thorough organiza- creation ‘of special defense squads, and by voting for the Com- munist Party and its candidates, the only party which stands four-square against all forms of boss-class terror.” VOTE COMMUNIST Against Imperialist War; for the defense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Inquire About Treat- ment of War Victims in United States How do war invalids live in the U.S. 8. R.? In _ the following let- ter from the Soviet Union, the in- valid workers of the Bauman Re- gion, with 28 invalid cooperatives, answer this question and urge United States invalids, especially war invalids, to write about their life,—Editor, In the Soviet Union war invalids are being taken care of. We retain our pension even when we live in invalid homes (due to poor health), where we get everything free. In case we are able to work, we get our usual pension if our pay does not exceed 120 roubles a month. The majority of us do work according to our capacity, in invalid cooperatives and state enterprises. War Invalid Directs Work In the Bauman region alone there are 28 invalid cooperatives. Recent- ly the Bauman Social Insurance De- partment opened new shops f or in- valids: a shoe shop, a shop for re- pairing valises, briefcases, and so on. eo Under the direction of one of our comrades, a war invalid, Comrade Krovetz, a new shop was opened jor producing sewing machine sets ,and for mechanical mending of knitted goods, These sets have been invented by Commrade Krovetz. Soviet Invalids Describe Their Social Conditions and Activities Osarlat palace siaw: being used as We have special courses for in- valids. The courses are in drawing, electric smelting, agriculture, etc. As soon as we finish our courses we are given work according to our qualifi- cation. . Free Medical Treatment We get medical troat: charge, We are sent to s resorts and rest liomes. Those in- valids who need diet treatment eat in special dietetic dining rooms and are under the supervision of physi- cians. All this is free of charge. Recently a new model invalid h was completed in Udomlia. War in- valids live there all the time. Th get room and board free, besides the regular pension.. Kindergarten For Invalids Children In Udomlia there is also a rest home for invalids and a kindergarten for the children of invalids, The in- valid homes and the kindergarten aro located in a beautiful, healthy place. We are provided with yearly streot car tickets, free, Comrades, please write about your life. What provision does your gov- ernment make for war invalids. Write to the following address: ‘|Tverskaya 48, Room 13, Moscow. \ For the Invalids of Bauman Region. mander of the National Guard are | 20-DAY TERM FOR | LEADING JOBLESS | Schnapp, Comm unist Candidate, Jailed NEW YORK—Max Schnapp, Com- munist candidate for alderman from | the Ninth Assembly District, lyn, was sentenced yesterday to 20 ys in the work house for leading a demonstration of unemployed worke: to the Home Relief Bureau at Grave- send Ave. and Albermarle Road. Section 7 of the Communist Party calls on all workers to pro jailing of their candidates for to save the lives of starving ‘jobless workers, Schnapp put up a militant defense | for himself in court, and called on all to hit the boss terror by voting Communist. International Notes SIX MONTHS FOR EXPRESSING SOVIET SYMPATHIES PRAGUE.—The court meritz sentenced a worker named Bolomsky to six months’ hard labor for no other crime than that of de- claring at a meeting: “We shall de- fend the Soviet Union in case of. war!” No further charge against him was made than this, but the court de- clared that “taking into considera- m the standpoint of the Commu- nists this statement of the accus: must be taken to mean that in case of a war against the Soviet. Union, in | which Czechoslovakia participated, the Czechoslovakian military should refuse to ob@y orders to fight against the Soviet Army.” No one would dehy this interpreta- | tion, but if it is to be pursued logic- | ally by the courts then all the 5 }ons in the world will not be able to hold the guilty persons. Pate os ait | | TURKEY. STAMBUL — Numerous arrests the last few months of “persons su pected of communist sympathi Most of the arrests have been made in connection with Anti-War Day on the first of August. increase in the activity of the Com-} munist movement in Turkey. Most of the arrested persons are workers, but a number of intellectuals are -amongst the cadets of the Stambul| Military Academy on a similar charge. It is reported that the accused have been maltreated in prison and that in consequence protests and disurb- ances occurred which the prison warders were unable to cope with, so | that outside police were called in. > le ae | HEAVY SENTENCES FOR BEL- GIAN STRIKERS BRUSSELS——Two women strikers received heavy sentences-in Charle-| roi in connection with the recent collisions there. One of the women was sentenced to two years and two months imprisonment and the other to six months imprisonment. A for- | ten. months and two weeks imprison- | ment. A socialist, a Communist and a) Christian worker were each sentenced sels for their part in the recent un- |employment demonstration at which | disturbances took place. Two workers were injured by police bullets. DECLINE IN MEMBERSHIP OF GERMAN REFORMIST UNION BERLIN, Germnay, Aug. 28—The General Federation of Labor of Ger- many, the social-democrat trade center, lost 581,667 members in 1931. | The membership at the beginning of | 1932 was 4,134,902. The engineers and firemen on railroads lost most, about 24 per cent. The stoneworkers lost 21 per cent and the agricultural workers 20 per cent. aed Tae | BOLIVIA MASSING ARMY UNDER COVER IN GRAND CHACO BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 28.—Boli- via is continuing to mass troops in the Grand Chaco region taking care not to let publicity interfere with puted area. Troops are instructed to move di- rectly to Tarja avoiding Villazon which is only half a mile from La Quiaca where Argentine correspon- dents have their base, The publicity given by these cor- respendents to the war Bolivia's war operations is greatly resonted at La Paz, according to dispatches from that city. en © OFFICIAL DESERTS NAZIS IN GERMANY BERLIN.—The leader of the Sil- esian district, Trachenburg Kurt Friebe, resigned from the Fascist Party and published a declaration in which he states that he was forced to resign having recognized that the Fascist Perty is an anti-working 's party. iors’—he said in the declaration—"I had to visit many employers in. my Gisrict, including many aristocratic and titled landowners and persuade them, to exert pressure on their em- y/oyees in order to make them join 2 Fascist Party. Later on the workers came to me in great numbe: and reproached me bitterly for hav. ployers, This caused me to consider my position. My conscience revolted against this repeated betrayal of the working people. In the Fascist Party the worker is a second class member only. On the other hand the party is full of carreerists.” Foster's “Toward Soviet America” is given free with a yearly subscription to be cain Worker. Brook- | in Leit-| | ARRESTS OF COMMUNISTS IN| nave been made in Stambul during} This campaign showed a noticeable | eign-born worker was sentenced to} to forty days imprisonment in Brus-| To quote: | “Trade Union News,” organ of the | union center, unions affiliated to this | her military operations in the dis-) At the instructions of my super- | ing abandoned them to their em-| [ Worker Correspondence | ‘Compensation Bureau Cheats Injured Worker going there will be a huge deme the employment re the compensation to demand immediate trials 5! ending, that compensation rom the first week of the that workers be given @ laws r of their own choice, at state ex- pense, to defend their interest, and \two landlords who were injured workers be sent to coun- Because of a lock that needed anitariums to recuperate, with pairs, a heavy door flew back and |€xPenses free. I was not ab! | Tr att ee Brooklyn Workers By a Worker Dorraepondant W YORK.—I, an workingman and ex-na’ |like you to print thi | readers can judge for t Justice” of the State Compen: Law of this state. | I am an alteration house painter. | My father and I were working |smashed my thumb. to work for five weck: My pay lo Jamourited to $210. | I filed nm caput er Defeat Hoodlums (By a Worker Correspondent) lhad a fee aa ae W YORK.—An open air meet- ter be id recently, under the auspices eae es Communist Party and the peer on Bere Communist League, at 50th ee aie sina and 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, was ked by large groups of hoodlums organized by the Democratic Party jand the American Legion, but due the militancy of the workers pres- |had to wait a few then I received a “check | for $20.81, eight months after the accident to The two bosses I worked for had |ont they did not succeed in attaining property worth at least $225,000. As | their aim. When one of the speakers, for me, I've been wor for ove |Comrade Blum, told the workers 14 years, 10 years at house painting. |that this is their meeting, held by Lately I took out my last dollar that | th, I had saved in the post-office to buy bread for the fam’ The gas and electricity had been shut off I know that other workers have | had similar experiences and should be gotten to write to the Daily Work- | quite a distance. The fascists er. I believe that once your paper |saw their chance to attack the com= |mittee and speakers and organized group’. to follow them. At Seventh Avenue and 40th Street, this brave Attempt by Bosses, |mob fnally decided to attack. Ale though the committee was small, they Saved By Worker | were abic to resist the attack, with oon the result that some of the mob were jalso beaten up. The police in the territory conve- niently disappeared during the at- tack. “Later they tried to arrest the eaker and the committee, but they didn’t dare to do so because of the attitude of the workers present, Election campaign meetings will be held on the same corner every ied night. r party, the Communist Party, 3 applauded and did not let the fascist carry out their dirty work. At the close of the meeting the r tee and the speakers had to \Forced to S uicide (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—John Makowski, of 1778 Park Place, Brooklyn, an unem ployed worker with three children, 9, |12 and 15 ‘years of age; attempted to commit suicide in the park at Leor.- ard and Boerum Streets, but his life was saved by a member of the Italian Proletarian Club who rushed him to} |the hospital when he saw him drink | iodine. |Breakine Through Makowski was later brought to the | +. | Williamsburg Unemployed Counci,|} Mount Vernon Terra (By a Worker Correspondent) |where he stated he owed several months rent, there was no food or| electricity in his house, and he faced| Mount Vernon, N. ¥., is @ town eviction. Neighbors had prevented|Wwith a population of 50,000, the his wife from committing suicide the | mafority:of which are exploited work- previous night. He had registered at}ers, Negro and white, what have for the Brownsville Home Relief Bureau|the first time heard the message of but got only the usual fake promis2|0Ur workingclass organizations, that an investigator would be sent.) Two years ago our meetings were ‘The Brownsville Unemployed Coun-| broken up, workers were slugged and cil is now taking up his case to or-| arrested. We realized that in-ordeF ganize a fight at the home of relief | to make headway we would have to bureau to demang relief for this|T0ot ourselves amongst te Mt, Vernon | worker, workers, With the sharpening of the crisis, THE LYING TIMES the Negro workers, suffering the (By a Worker Correspondent.) | worst hardships, were ready to-listen An article appeared recently in the| to us and the results are one party Times which shows the crude at-| unit, one YCL unit, one ILD branch, | tempts of the capitalist pr ess to dis-| and’ a workers’ center. | miners quit work | in the Don Basin. | gantzea to intintidate the worksts sais | to keep them away from our meeting, |but they failed to do so. At this meeting, 8 new members joined the Joe York branch of the ILD, Many |contacts were made and literature was sold. | \“Unskilled workers have replaced| |traineq men and they receive 75 to 100 rubles per month while their| food costs them a minimum of from 70 to 120 rubles a month.” The article goes on to say that the workers couldn't earn enough to live on and so quit. The second half | of the piece, however, lists the prices various foods and gives the unt for one man for one month. when added , amounts te a | total cost to the worker of 59 rubles, | 77 kope This includes 14 pounds | of meat, pounds of fish, 5 dozen| | st eggs, and so on. | tions of the bosses to dope the work= Thus we see that workers can ex-|ers. She kept arguing with me and |pect nothing but lies from these|I found it hard to get rid of her. sheets and more and more it is mavee| Capitalism today, in this way, is sary for all workers to spread our | desperately trying to keep hold of own paper, the Daily Worker! | the workers, THE BOSSES’ NET (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK—I was sitting in the 14th St. Automat when a woman came over and handed me a, leaflet, and told me that there was a church |meeting near here ang asked me to go. I told her that I did not care to go, as the churches were institu- Austin, Tex., Bosses Play Socialist Trump: (By a Worker Cori , Jong.” AUSTIN, Socialist Teg cs Party. with the ‘connivance of local ie Ce i wteote Ie parr = and state authorities, is putting on| the Socialist nominee for Lieutenant an intensive campaign to mislead the Governor, continually uses that 3 workers of this city. The main city| sulting term, “a nigger in the woone park has ben turned over to them pile.” Lane also asserts that Social- for their public meetings, whereas the | ism i Soviet last Communist demonstration was Veen ee Cee broken up by militiamen, state ran- gers and policemen armed to th2|, The woman organizer of the Social- teath: ist local evaded an explanation ‘of — Morris Hillquit’s anti-Soviet legal Professor Frank L. Reed, bell- — wether of the Socialist local, a man|fo"uccHons when challenged publicly who has never done a day’s work in} amen ot torn then, the Socialists his life, threatened to have one of| iave Tot been thrown open for ques= oO stribut- ur comrades arrested for distribut Local comrades are waging an in« ing a leaflet entitled “The Truth] ,.. About the Socialist Party” at their|‘2asive fight against these mislead. meeting. The comrade refused to b frightened and continued to distri- bute the leaflet, telli Reed to call in his friends, 2. 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