The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932 Page Three EYNON MINERS WIN STRIKE AGAINST PAY CUT; READY T0 FIGHT NEW SLASH Had Desperate Struggle, 3 Miners Shot, Deputies. Driven Off With Stones; Example to All As Operators, Boylan, Plan New 20 P. C. Cut Worker Correspondence Alabama Farmers Get $7.50 Per Month When They Work Must Lay By Savings Out of This to Live During Long Season of Unemployment (By a Worker Correspondent) TAMPA, Fla.—In passing through Alabama (looking for a job), I had occasion to stop with farmers who work for wages. from sun to sun. They come back These farmers work to what they call home about dark. ‘Their wives have their suppers ready. Sometimes they have lamps with broken shades, most times they have their children have sweet milk to drink, as they have to let it sour to get a little butter, When the season is right, the eat pears until the season’ is out, and then they eat some kind cf greens until the season for them is out. After the farmers eat supper, they wash their,feet and sit there long enough for them to dry. Then they go to bed. They get only 50 cents a day for this kind of life. Most of them work without shoes. On Sunday they put on a clean pair of overalls, and five out of seven go to church, where they hear a preacher tell them to be true and faithful servants, and God will give them a crown of glory after they are dead. About $8 a Month Some of the farmers work by the month, that is, sight or nine months out of the year. ‘The rest of the Infantile Paralysis f no shade. Neither they nor any of year they have to live off what they have saved. They get from $7.50 to $8 a month, and one bushel of corn meal and 12 pounds of white meat while working. ‘They all like to hear you talk about the good time in Russia, where the workers rule. But some of them fiy off the handle when you talk about the Negroes. But after you explain that the Communist Party is a work- ers party, and is only for the workers, and that the Negroes are workers, and that the workers will be boss when the white and black and all other colors get together as workers and fight their common foe—the capitalist system—which keeps. us fighting among ourselves so that it can rule us—then, after talking and explaining all -this, they begin to understand why the capitalists try to keep us apart. FRED C. rom Eating Garbage — (By a Worker Correspondert) BETHLEHEM, Pa.—As a result of eating food collected from the garbage dump, John Mitchell, 13-year old son of Reuben Gross, is a patient in the isolation ward of St. Luke’s Hospital, a victim of the dread isease of working class children, infantile paralysis. The Gross family, which was in dreadful need because of unem- ployment, was forced to visit the city’s garbage dump in order to find some “relief.” Some of the material collected was disposed of for money and some was used as food, and it was through these “relief” expedi- tions that John caught the infection, which has already succeeded in paralyzing the muscles of one of his thighs. . ‘The capitalist health authorities immediately issued warnings against contraction of this dreadful disease; but so far they have failed to offer any practical solution as to how those who have to live on gar- bage pickings can care for their health. Districts Slow in Reporting News of Subscription Drive Calumet and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana, Set miss. Example for Other Sections ' News from the various districts participating in the drive for 1,000 new subscriptions to the Daily Worker continues to lag. In the last week only three of the districts have reported drive activities—Cali- fornia, Chicago and Milwaukee—and of these three reports only one shows definite activity in full swing. The best showing is made by the cities of Calumet and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana. According to a leter from Leona Johnson, Daily Worker agent in the section, a con- ference of all activists in the cities of Hammond, Gary, South Bend, In- diana Harbor and smaller towns in these two counties will be held very shortly to plan sub drive work. An example is being set by Com- rade Johnson both in the amount and accuracy of her section's work. Her report states that a systematic canvass of workers in these coun- ties is being carried on, and that a ‘The Moscow Pravda recently pub- lished brief descriptions of the more important of the socialist cities de- veloping in connection with the new industrial projects. We quote a few of them below as an example of what is going on in all parts of the Soviet Union. « . . . Out of the Steppe Novoe-Zaporozhe, Ukraine. — Five years ago nothing but empty steppe and rustling grasses. Now a city has grown up, Novoe-Zaporozhe. Next to the largest hydroelectric station and the plants of the Dnieper com- binat being constructed around it; fifteen large workers’ settlements have been built. These settlements are called “temporary,” but their houses are strongly built, they are supplied with water systems, sewer- , electricity and central heating. «about a hundred thousand persons ‘fre now living in these settlements: Planned Growth According to the plan, the city of “Bolshoye Zaporozhe 1s to grow until it can accommodate a population of This plan is already being realized. The first settlement, he- ginning at the dam, has already a solid foundation of many storied stone houses. A Palace of Soviets, a hospital, a polyclinic, a People’s | House, a hotel, a school, a technical | school with mecnanical, electro-tech- nical and construction departments are all in operation Under coastruction are ceniral baths and laundries, children’s estab- lishinents for every quarter, govern- ment stores, a theater. Precio Prodolny, a broad, wide leading, straight to Staroye Zaporozhe, o— raffle has been held to pay off all old debts to the Daily Worker. This last point should be taken up and followed by all districts. The report from California states that a conference of Daily Worker agents is in preparation. Milwaukee district’s report so far is merely hope- ful. The comrades here are getting after workers whose subs have ex- pired and plan to extend their can- vassing to sections where the Daily Worker has as yet made few inroads. Calumet alone, of all the reports received, seems to be whole-heartedly bending its efforts toward a success- ful completion of its part of the drive. Alone of all the districts, it is assigning active comrades to cover five subscribers each month, getting workers’ reactions to the Daily by personal contact and discussion, and stimulating an interest in the paper that will not disappear with the ex- piration of subscriptions. MUST NOW ELECT COMMITTEES! Prepare for. Struggle Thruout Anthracite SCRANTON, Pai, Aug-' 31—The Penn Anthracite Coal Company was compelled to withdraw the wage cut which they intended to put through the Eynon strikers of District No. 1 anthracite. This followed a very sharp battle on the part of the strikers in the course of which three miners were shot by state troopers and deputies and a number of state troopers were stoned by the strikers. The Eynon miners, however, are aware of the fact that this with- drawal of the wage cut may only be stalling on the part of the company | in preparation for the general 20 per cent wage cut which they intend to put through for the three anthracite districts. Will Fight New Out The Eynon miners are ready to come cut should the operators and the Lewis machine put this through. The strike against the general 20 per cent winning of this strike is very im- portant from the point of view that while the miners were engaged in a bitter struggle against the company, the Boylan machine of District 1 of| the United Mine Workers announcad that the charter of this local would be taken away, thus trying to intimi- date the miners and trying to destroy any strike movement in order to prevent them from organizing their forces against the coming wage cut- The example of this mine putting up a stubborn fight against the wage cut should be followed by other miners. Not only should a rank and file mine committse be organized in order to safe guard their victories, | but miners committees should be set up in order to prepare for the com~- ing wage cut. Oregon Farmers and Workers Unite to Open Water Gates PORTLAND, Ore. Aug. 31— Cent- ral Oregon formers, under the leader- ship of the United Farmers’ League and the Unemployed Council, with legal guidance of Irvin Goodman, I. L.D. attorney for Oregon, waged a successful battle against the water trust recently. The project near Bend, Ore. is in absolute control of the irrigation supply for hundreds of poor farmers. The board of directors refused to turn on the water bectuse of bills due from the farmers. A mass meeting was held on August Ist by the farmers and they heard a _ report by an Unemployed Council representa- tive who told them to open the gates and repel the ditch riders if they try to close them. ‘The meeting unanimously adopted the program offered and carried out the decision. 60 Day Truce Proposal Rejected By Paraguay WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—The government of Paraguay rejected the proposal of the “neutral” commis- sion sitting here for a suspension of the warfare in the Grand Chaco on the basis of the statu kuo, it was disclosed yesterday. The proposal was accepted, how- ever, by the government of Bolivia, a dispatch from La Paz indicated. The government of livia decided to aceept the propos&l, provided the suspension of warfare in the Grand Chaco does not involve the return of the forts seized from Paraguay after June 15. The Growth of Soviet Cities 1 in All Corners of Soviet Union factories around wuich they center. tramway line is being rapidly con- stracted, Grass and shruboery and trees are being planted in the new boulevards aud squares, Paven-ents are heing laid. Electriz lamps burn brightly all night. Within the Arctic Circle Photo shows Nizhni Novgorod. New, modern cities like this are springing up all over the Sovict Union, They are built together with the gigantic there is a ‘permanent lation of uses go tack and ‘crth.|over 40,000. Houses of all kinds are going up, home-built and standavd- ized types. the loal s' birite, being used for many of them. Mod- ore ease ee are i la us Jines ar. operating. In the Coal Basin Kemerove, Western Siberia—Kem- ‘hibinogorsk, Leningrad Oblast —j|eroyo is one of the new industrial In 1929 there were simply a few tents |centers of the Kuanetsk Basin. The of the nomadic Lopars in the place where today a city ‘is rising in con- nection with the development of the Khibinsk tite deposits. A new city is rapic Arctic Circle. In Jam were alt coal industry is here supplemented ba: powerful chemical industry. In 1923 there were 11,000 inhabitants in Kemerovo; last year about 48,000, | 5th. and by January Ist of, the present year, over 90,000. is going forward rapidly and 2,000,000 rubles is being spent on public utilities this en The U. Pacific will be no obstacle to the rain of death with which it terrorizes the oppressed colonial masses, This is an essential part of the U. 8. war preparations, US. AGENT HEADS WAR ON CHINESE Rush Military Attache to Honan To strengthen direct armed inter- vention against the victorious Red Army in the provinces of Soviet China, the Wall Street government has sent its military attache in Pei- ping to the fighting front in Honan. His duty will be to-coordniate the attack against the Chinese masses being prepared by strong American, British and French naval forces at Hankow and along the Yangtze River, with the army of the Nanking tools of the American government. At the same time the entire Third Squadron of the Japanese Navy has Shipping Board Gathers Reserve for Coming War NEW YORK.—The U. S. Ship- ping Board, which up to now has been junking the ships built on the notorious grafting “cost plus” basis during the war, announced yesterday that hereafter none will be destroyed, but will be “retired” to await use “in an emergency”, when they might be needed for transport of troops, or similar service. Sixty ships now lie at Prails Island, New Harbor, and 12 more are in the vicinity of Philadelphia. Included in the later number are the ships taken from the Germans as war loot. been sent to Shanghai. Transports are also rushing large numbers of Japanese bluejackets to Shanghai, in addition to the 1,900 already there, as compared with 1,400 last January when the Japanese laun- ched their murderous bombard- ment on the unfortified proletarian district of Shanghai, slaughtering over 10,000 unarmed men, women and children, and maiming many additional thousands. For the past week, also, large numbers of Jap- anese gunmen and _plainclothes- men haye been secretly landed in Shanghai. The Third Squadron is the same naval force which carried out the savage attack last January. At the opening of the attack, this squadron was commanded by the butcher Vice Admiral Nomura, whom the Wall St. Government is now preparing to wel- come on the “good-will tour” on which the Japanese fascist govern- ment is sending him to the United States.. The squadron is at present commanded by Admiral Sakonji. The flagship Idzuma will again anchor beside the Japanese Consulate in the so-called neutral International Settle- ment, which was used by the Jap- anese last January as a base for their attacks on the defense of Shanghai conducted, in defiance of the traitor Nanking Government, by the revo- lutionary Shanghai workers and the Nineteenth Route Army. The Japanese imperialists also have about 20 warships on the Yangtze River, between Shanghai and Han- kow in Hupeh Province. VET LABOR DAY RALLY IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, Aug. 31. — A continual downrour of rain forced the postpon~ ment of the Bonus-Unemployment Insurance Conference until Monday, September 5th. More than eighty de- legates who had gathered at Sokol Hall, 1062 No. Ashland Avenue, under the auspices of the Rank and File Committee and Workers Ex-Service-. men’s League, held a brief session and then voted to hold the conference on Labor Dry morning. Sokol ha'l has been secured again for the coaference on September 5th and the enthusiasm shown by those present indicated that the meeting will be one of the most successful ever held in Chicago.. Adams, Grear and Kirkman, yet- erans of the “Battle of Washington,” arrived in Chicago this afternoon bearing credentials from the Nation- al headquarters of the Rank and File Committee and Workers x-Service- men’s League. They will speak every evening until the conference on Sept. 5th, cn Wednesday, August 31st, at Washington Park; Friday September 2nd., at Wilton and Belmont Aves. Other meetings will be also ar- ranged thru the regional headquar- ets of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League here. For State Bonus ‘The vets’ proposal for an 1i'.nois Emergnecy Bonus, providing “or the payment of fifty dollars rer month for each month spent ip the military service of the United Svates, is receiv- ing wide support. The drive for pass- _of this b'# will be formally launched at the conference on Sept. i i Another problem which the confer- ence will deal with is the question mf a immediate be oceanic or starving veterans on their families, \ SHIP OF U. S. IMPERIALISM CARRYING WI S. capitalist government has outfitted its warships to carry airplanes so that even the wide > NGS OF DEATH | > International |N. CHINA MASSES| FIGHT INVASION Notes Beat Back Japanese} Troops in Manchuria The anti-Japanese national revo- lutionary struggle has spread to all | parts of Manchuria. All South Man- |churia is aflame with rebellion against the Japanese invaders and their puppet Manchouko state. Par- tisan troops are still active in the vicinity of Mukden, on which they | carried out a daring raid last Sun- day night. Yesterday, the partisians attacked the city of Penhsihu, 35 miles from Mukden, inflicting heavy punish- ment on the Japanese garrison and burning the market building. A| partisan force disrupted train service on the Southern Manchuria Railway between Fenshuei and Tashan. Raids on the railway average forty a day. Railway service is disrupted through- cut Manchuria, THREE. F.LERS RESCUED IN NICARAGUA MANAGUA, Nicaragua—The three United States Marine Corps fliers who had been stranded in the jungle} on the east coast when their plane was forced down on Aug. 21, during| an “exploration flight,” were rescued by a patrol of Nicaraguan National Guardsmen. The fliers were found uninjured but suffering with fever. They had been supplied with food by airplanes. Two men were killeq in a previous} attempt to rescue the fliers by air-| plane. CMa cae | PERUVIAN WORKERS TO HOLD) CONGRESS CALLAO.—The Peruvian port} workers who have splendid fighting traditions are preparing a National) Port Workers’ Congress under the| leadership of the revolutionary }0~ sition. The Peruvian workers have lost| faith in the reformist leadership| that abandoned the workers in th ‘ |driven the workers off the streets, | last revolutionary upheavals and al-| fearing an uprising within the city | lowed hundreds of workers and 8 f. It has developed that in Sun- | sailors to get shot without voicing|day’s raid, almost the whole police | any protest, and even co-operating! force in the city joined the par-| hee ae government in crushing the|tisans. The remaining police have | been disarmed by the Japanese .The | Representatives to the Congress |partisians succeeded in paralyzing the have already been elected by the! waterworks, electric plant and other rank and file in the ports of Mol-| utilities, as well as burning one air- | londom, Paita, Salavery, Pimentel, | plane hangar and 15 Japanese planes, Sechura, Pacasmayi and last but not|The raid was carried out by 1,000 least in the central port of Callao.| partisans, from three directions. SMASH BAN ON ss pees FOSTER MEETING Soviet Union. Youngstown Workers Struggling for Weeks YOUNGSTOWN, ©O., Aug. 31— Weeks of protest against orders of the steel trust and the city authorities which barred all halls to Foster’s MOVE FOR VET BONUS .GROWS | | KALAMAZOO, Mich., Aug: 31. A new post of thé Workers ‘Ex- Servicemen’s League was organized} | here last week | age Seta eg SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 31—The Salt Lake Post of the W. E. 8. L., the first post to send bonus marchers | to Washington; announced today that its drive to elect delegates to the | National Convention in Cleveland is meeting here, have finally broken |well under way. Thirty-eight mem- through the obstruction. Foster,| bers of the Salt Lake Post were the Communist’ candidate for president, | first bonus marchers to arrive in will speak here in the heart of the | Washington. Ohio steel region, just a few miles _ down the Mahoning River from War- CORRECTION ren and Niles where strike action is} In yesterday's story on page 3, | |“Baltimore Rallies Workers to Speed | {Up Sub Campaign,” in the fifth paragraph it was incorrectly stated, Foster and Ford. | |through a printer’s error, that the *, J .. Baltimore section was awarding a Meeting During | [complete set of Lenin's “Collected the Next 2 Weeks | | Works” to workers who got two| | |subscriptions for the “Daily.” This NEW YUKK.—‘the Nattonat| |should have read TEN subscriptions. Communist Kiection Campaign In Mukden the Japanese have |™ WARREN STEEL WORKERS ~ VOTING ON STRIKE TO STOP SIX PER CENT CUT Mass Meetings of Unemployed Pledge Full Support to Strikers; New Union Leads A.F.L. Union Contract Basis of Wage Slash, But Members Ready to Walk Out WARREN, Ohio, Aug. 31.—The steel workers of Warren and Niles are moving rapidly toward a strike against the six per cent wage cut which goes into effect tomorrow. The cut is part of the contract between the companies and the Amal- gamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers of the AFL. Repuie Stet Co. met st the SPRED UP KILLS TIN MILL WORKER courthouse steps in Warren, at Scores: More Collapse; Union Plans Funeral the call of the Steel and Metal t Workers Industrial Union, to to take a strike vote. Meetings of the S.M.W.LU. bership and locals have been ¢ on during the last tw vote there is a hun strike on Sept, 1. Jobless Support Strike Five hundred unemployed workers met last ni WARREN, O., Aug. 31.—Grueling speed-up, b heat, and the bru- tal refusal the Republic Steel >, managers to replace sick and ex- |hausted men killed the Catcher on of ste ht in Niles, and thundered unanimous approval to a| peusted cea motion to support whatever action Bee juat uae ae pete ae the employed workers take today. |16: “tee! over the roll - ‘There was a similar vote in a mass |/0t steel over the rolls, when he_tot- meeting of the Liberty MIll unem-| ‘fed, Broaned, and fell back dead. Leea Gurkata: boca |,,This is murder, and the sort -of Si haga onal 11 {thing that can occur on a mass scale nieses Aor Fen Fens wl lit the company’s policy of insisting at men stay on the job until they rop is not smashed by tighting ac- tion of the workers. The Farrel steel wo ing a delegation to tonight's meetir at Warren, and also sending funds, for strike r . AF.L. Members Join Amongst the rank and file of the ns Amalgamated Association, there is|°Ut on stretchers. widespread strike sentiment. Many| The workets are aroused to the the Republic |need of a stru for better condi- he extreme heat |tions in the mills. The Steel and Metl Workers Industrial Union is ate tempting to ar a mass funeral |for this slain worker. | The Warren and Niles Steel Work. jers are holding mass meetings and Many workers are collapsing all the time in these mills from the intense heat and speed-up, and are carried mill yesterday and speed-up, and from undernour- ishment. me, a catcher in No. 9, tin mill, died on the job, and the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union plans a mass funeral for him, with the slogan, “Stop this murder- ing of the workers!” The company attempts to stop the | growing strike sentiment by mass dismissals, but this only drives the workers into a storm of inlignation. Fight Horrible Conditions “We had better be outside hungry on the streets than inside hungry and working ourselyes to death besid: say the Warren and Niles work Many, even members of the Amal- gamated, are joining the Stecl and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Workers throughout the ccuntry should hail this first big blow | struck by the steel workers against the wage cutting campaign which the steel trust leads, Organize a mass relief campaign! Send strike relief to the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union, 331 Main Ave., Warren, 0. Steel workers elsewhere should organize similar struggles! AMERICAN STUDENT ARRESTED IN CUBA taking a strike vote against the wage cut ordered by the operators under their contract with the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers. RELIEF FIGHT IN _ OHIO STEEL TOWN To Present Demands to Niles Gov't NILES, Ohio, August 30.—Led by | the Steel and Metal Workers Indust- jtial Union and the Unemployed | Council, single workers of Niles are organizing to demand increased re- | Het and improved conditions from eae City government. The present |food is miserably insufficient—con- | sisting of oatmeal, bread and coffee for breakfast, and only soup for sup- HAVANA, Cuba.—The 19-year-old | per. For this, men have to work one son of John T. Wilford, editor of the| day a month free for the city. Havana American News, was al-| A meeting of workers from thé tested here a few minutes after the| Municipal Soup Kitchen worked out explosion of a bomb at the rear of/and unanimously adopted the fol- the house of Major Massip, hated| lowing demands to be placed before police chief of Marianao, a suburb of the city by a large committee with- Havana. jin a few days: The police said that the young; 3 square meals a day; soap for student was found hiding in a nearby| washing; overalls for those working house and accused him of having} on city jobs; underwear (almost all thrown the bomb. need underwear;) a place to stay Wilford is reported to have been| this winter; medical and dental aid asscciated with Cuban students fight-| free; packs of tobacco and matches Committee announces the next meetings to be addressed by Will- iam Z. Foster, Communist can- | didate for president of the United States, and James W. Ford, Com- mun’st candidate for vice presi- dent, as follows: | FOSTER.—Zeigier, Wl, Liberty Hall, 7 p. m., Sept. 1; Gillespie, | Ii, City Park, Sept 3; Spring-| field, II, Reservoir Park, Sept. 4; Rock Island, Ill, Sept. 6; Moline, Rock Island, Ill, Sept. 6; Moline, Il, Prospect Park Pavillion, also Sept. 6; Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 7; Kenosha, Wis-, Sept. 8; Chicago, Ii, The Coliseum at 15th and Wabash, 7 p. m., Sept. 10; South Chicago, Ill, Sept. 12; Gary, Ind.,| Sept 13 and Youngstown, Ohio,) Sept. 15, FORD.—Madison, Wis., Sept. 1;} Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 2; St.) Paul, Minn, Sept. 3; Brush Lake, Mont., Sept. 5; Great Falls, Mont., Sept. 8; Bute, Mont., Sept 9; Spokane, Wash, Sept. 11; Seattle, Wach., Sept. 13; Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 15 and on the same date in Aberdeen, Wash being voted on today. He will bring his message of solidarity with the strikers, and of organization into the new Steel and Metal Workers Indus- Build a workers correspondence | group in your factory, shop or | neighborhood, Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. jing against the terror reigning in| Cuba. | His father requested the American | Consulate to obtain the release of the American student. Raise Youth Demands in Pittburgh Hunger Marvch in Preparation for I.Y.D *| | ‘Youth Strike, Struggle for Negro Rights in| Phila. Widen Basis for 200 Anti-War Meets | |Many Parades to Be Held in U.S. on Sept 9; First Conference Held in Brooklyn NEW YORK.—With the approach of the 18th International Youth Day demorstration avainst hunger and war struggles of young workers against wage outs, discrimination against Negroes and for unemployment relief is being intensified. The struggles led by the Young Communist League are | being used as an additional rallying point for hundreds of thousands of jyoung workers for the 200 anti-war@ meetings and parades that will take | workers, wlio are involved in the two weekly, Out of a population of about 16,000, it is estimated that no less than 4,000 are completely unemployed here, with about 1,500 on part time. The Welfare claims that it has 900 fami- lies on its relief lists—but it is .cer- tain that at least twice that number are in urgent need of relief. The “relief” averages only 5 cents per day per person in the families cov- ered, for which the family head must work 8 hours free one day a week, The old Empire Mills and Falcon mills are completely down, the Ma- homing Vallet Steel Corp. Mill is down this week, and the sheet mills of "Republic Iron and Steel are bare- ly operating. ‘BRITISH TEXTILE STRIKE SPREADS Government ‘Mediator’ Tries to Break It MANCHESTER, England, Aug, 31. —The strike of the 200,000 textile workers is spreading throughout. the Lanashire area despite all attempts of the regoformist leaders to break place, In the Bronx, N. Y., 15 young work- ers employed at the Wilbert Products Company, a chemical place, have struck for better conditions. Instead of a 9% hour day and six days a week for $12.83 they are demanding a 9 hour day and a 5% day week with a minimum weekly wage of $15. Pign Hunger March In the Pitisburgh area a struggle | \around youth demands for unemploy- ment relief is being déveloped. Here in Homewood a country hunger march will be held, The demands include: (1) $1.50 cash for all unem- ployed and part time young and single workers; (2) Only girls of needy families be employed in Wel- fare Agencies, withoat reduction in wages and no discrimination against Negroes in the giving of relief. In Baltimore the. Young Pioneers are being drawn into activity to mo- bilize the workers’ children on im- mediate needs such as the opening of feeding stations. Here the central demonstration will be held at the foot of Broadway on the waterfront. Special efforts are being made to draw the young steel and marine trial Union. Foster’s speech will be in the larg- est hall in town, the Rayen-Wood Auditorium, on Rayen Ave., at 7:30 p.m, Sept. 15. i Thousands of mill workers from Warren, Niles, Farrell, and New Cas- tle will be at this Communist elec- tion camvaign rally. “Will Bring 25,000” The steel barons fear Foster, the leader of the great A919 strike of over 300,000 steel workers. Police de- partment officials turned down the application for an open air meeting with the words: “That man will bring 25,000 workers to the Public Squre.” For weeks hall owners refused to rent meeting places, saying: “We know Foster, and respectable citizens and the police do not want him in Youngstown.” Finally the. Communist Party in Youngstown called a great mass pro- test meeting against this blockade against the Communist candidate. The meeting is tonight, at Basin and Federal St., but just before the date of the meeting, the barriers were broken through and the Auditorium eased for the meeting. leading war industries, into the dem- onstration on the issues of strugles against wage cuts, speed-up and war, Fight for Negro Rights in. Phila. The Philadelphia young workers who were recently faced with an at- tempt at legal lynching of a young Negro, Willie Brown, and who bitterly fought against this frame-up gave of an example of white and Negro solidarity which drew in several hun. dred outside workers las Sunday. At a picnic held »y the Young Commu- nist League in Strawberry Mansion park defeated the attempt of the po- lice to throw a young Negro worker out of the Park. First Conference in Brooklyn NEW YORK.—The first of five United Front conferences to prepare International Youth Day in New York City was held Tuesday night in Brooklyn at 31 Atlantic Ave. The conference consisting of 40 delegates from 12 organizations ap- proved the proposal that a demon- stration be held on Columbia St., which is a block from the piers of the Japanese Lines on International Youth Day. it. It is expected that in a few the strike will affect all the tex industry. More men are joining in the strike every day. A special “mediator” of the Minis» ter of Labor arrived in the strike area and got immediately in touch with some of the reformist leaders for the obvious purpose of devising together the best method of selling out the strike. Heavy police reinforcements are continuing to arrive from neighbar- ing cities in the strike are to ter- rorize the workers. FASCIST SALUTE RESERVED TO MUSSOLINI ROME-—In an effort to “malitain the prestige of fascist customs,” which is going down, /#*hille Starace, Secretary of the Fascist Party,~ de- creed that the shoutef fascist salute must be reserved for Mussolini alone. Hereafter all r fascist officials must be satisfied with the silent Ro- man salute. Fascists are also forbid- den to sing other than fascist songs at public meetings and para \ fe