The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1932, Page 1

| ‘In the Day’s News ‘oor WHITE PLAINS SALARIES PLAINS, N. Y., Sept. 13.— .total of $266,000 is to he taken out % the salaries of 2,500 county em- Ployees, it was announced by the Board of Supervisors. Only $300,000 ‘was appropriated by the board for (. welief. if Fi * 3 SHARKEY PLEADS FOR MADDEN * VOTE COMMUNIST 1, Unemployment and Social Insurance » at the expense of the state and em- ployers. ers without restrictions by the ment and banks; exemption farmers ffom taxes, collection of rent or debts Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farm- FOR: govern. of poor and no forced Dail Central Orga ee, | Norker unist Party (Section of the Communist , International) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: ~ 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self determination for the Black Belt, 8. Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the teal U G A rights of workers. _—* sd 5. Against imperialist war; for the de= fense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., under the Act of March 3, 1879. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ALBANY, N. Y¥., Sept. 13—Jack Sharkey, boxing heavyweight, and other celebreties are said to have petitioned the State Parole Board to release Owen Madden, well known New York racketeer, from Sing Sing Prison. CHILE ELECTIONS OCT. 30 SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 13—The fascist president, Carlos Davilla, made several changes in his cabinet today im preparation for legislative elec- tions Oct. 30. Fidel Estay was made the new minister of labor. BE od .SILK STRIKE PARLEY TODAY PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 13—Mayor Hinchcliffe and his concilliation com- mittee, who helped to break the last | strike here, now report they may} succeed in blocking a new strike. They say they have gotten the work- | ers to promise to meet the silk bosses’ | representatives tomorrow. EASTMAN ESTATE | ROCHESTER, N. Y., Sept. 13—An woestate of $25,561,641.60 was left by George Eastman, Kodak magnate, ac- cording to transfer tax affidavit filed today. GORGOULOFF TO DIE TODAY | PARIS, Sept. 13—Dr. Paul Gor- gouloff, white guard assassin of Paul | Doumer, late president of France, will die in the guillotine tomorrow. TO RUSH OTTAWA PACT LONDON, Sept. 13.— Parliament will meet October 18 instead of Oct. 27 to rush approval of the agreement reached at Ottawa Imperial Confer- ence which is directed against U. S. trade. GANDHI ANNOUNCES HUNGER STRIKE “LONDON, Sept. 13—Mahatma Gandhi announced his intention to go on a hunger strike unless British | imperialism, of “its own motion” or through the pressure See ublic op- inion,” reverses its deciSion to grant separate political representation to the “untouchable,” or oppressed class- es of India. He is afraid that this provision may weaken his hold on the masses which aims to prevent their revolutionary struggle against British imperialism. yaar wee 9 “THREATEN REVOLT IN CHILE SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 13—Led Colonel Merino Benitez, supporter former Pres “2nt Tbanez the army igir force threatened to bomb the pal- where President Davila is staying ‘gmless he resigned at once. . 8 AND FORCED TO LET UNEMPLOYED USE WATER ‘CLEVELAND, Sept. 13.—Mass pres- ure today forced the City Council ‘to stop the shutting off of water to families who are unable to pay their pills. The Unemployed Council has been active here. * * PLAYWRIGHTS HAIL RUSSIAN THEATRE LENINGRAD, U.S.SR., Sept. 13— The cultural revolution was hailed here today in a jubilee commemorat- ing the 100th anniversary of the Al- exandrinsky Theatre. Fifty play- wrights, critics and actors from for- eign countries attended the festiv- ities, including Professor H. W. L. Dana of Boston College. . 24 DROWN IN JAPAN KURE, Japan, Sept. 13—Twenty- four workers of the Kure naval ar- senal, including several women, were drowned today when a ferry boat taking them to work capsized. ee) Ce MURPHY SAYS NO RELIEF DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 13.—Mayor Murphy stated today that after Jan- uary 1, the city will have no more money for welfare relief. In order to + wash his hands of the job of giving relief to the starving workers the mayor has passed the buck to the county. He said that the county and not the city should take over the task of relief. . * DISCOVER EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT AMERICAN TRIBE ELRAMA, Pa., Sept. 13.—Evidence of the roaming near here of a pre- historic American tribe 10,000 to 25,- 000 years ago, was accidently dis- , covered by a party of campers. * HUTCHINSON FLYERS SAFE AMGMAGSALIK, Greenland, Sept. 13. — Feared lost, George Hutchin- fon and the seven who were flying with him from New York to London were rescued today by the British ‘Trawler Lord Talbot. His plane was wrecked on the beach about 40 miles from here, ve DEMOCRATS WIN MAINE, PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 13, — For the first time in 18 years Democrats elected a governor of this state, at the same time winning two of the three seats in congress. eat MINERS FIGHT POLICE. WILKES BARRE, Pa., Sept, 13. — When police attacked a crowd of 400 miners at Dorrance Colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co, to arrest Jo- seph Gibbons, a miner, there was a sharp battle in which several were injured, Further -details are lacking. 5,000 HEAR ILD _ SPEAKER IN S.C. _ LANCASTER, S. ©, Sept. 13— Speaking ‘mn the name of the Inter- national Labor Defense, Dr. Strong took the floor at the annual camp meeting of the Lancaster County con- gregation and addressed 5,000 Negroes and whites on the Scottsboro case. ‘Those assembled heard of the world wide fight to free the boys and of the tour of Mrs. Wright, one of the thers of the convicted. Dr. Strong ained how the case of the nine gro boys was part of the bosses’ eager nenvare ir eer ware WRITERS IN SUPPORT OF COMMUNISTS Biggest Names in Art) Literature and Education SCORE BOSS PARTIES Pledge Support to Foster and Ford NEW YORK.—A group of educa- tors, writers, architects and artists issued a call today for the formation of committees throughout the coun- try in “support in the national elec- tions of the Communist Party and its candidates, Wm. Z. Foster and James W. Ford.” The call signed by the group including Lincoln Steffens, Winifred L. Chappell, Executive Sec- retary, Methodist Federation of So- cial Service; Prof. Newton Arvin, Smith College; Sidney Howard, author of “They Knew What They Wanted.” Pulitzer Prize winner; Prof. Frederick L, Schuman, Univer- sity of Chicago; Bruce Crawford, editor, “Crawford’s Weekly, Norton, Va.; Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, novelists; Adolf Dehn, Alfred Frueh, artists, and Maxwell Hyde, architect, stated, “that the only effective way to pro- test against the chaos, the appalling wastefulness, and the indescribable misery inherent in the present eco- nomic system is to vote for the Com- munist candidates.” The statement in full reads: “We are convinced that both the Republican and Democratic Parties represent the interests of the mon- eyed cla: that is, of the big man- ufacturers, capitalists, and bankers, and not the interests of the people at large; that there is no way out of the crisis through either of them. Both parties are hopelessly corrupt, and both will try to save the profits of the rich at the expense of the rest of the population, “The socialists aim, in theory, to abolish the present system, but are doing nothing to organize a labor movement by which this may be ac- eomplished. They have no con- vineing plan. And the example of the British and German socialists is far from reassuring. In Great Bri- tain and Germany, the socialists went to the side of the rich as soon as the capitalist state seemed in dan- ger. Vote Communist. “We believe that the only effective way to protest against the chaos, the appalling wastefulness, and the in- describable misery inherent in the present economic system is to vote for the Communist candidates. “The Communist Party alone is working to educate and organize the classes dispossessed by the present system, so as to make them an -effi- cient instrument for establishing a new society based on equal oppor- tunity to work, equable distribution of income, and ownership by the people of the national resources, Form Committees, “We therefore pledge our support in the national elections to the Com- munist Party and its candidates, Wm. Z. Foster and James W. Ford and call upon all educators, writers, engineers, social workers, artists, ar- chitects and intellectuals in general to join us in this move and form Foster and Ford Committees thru- out the country,” (Signed) Sherwood Anderson, Newton Arvin, Emjo Basshe, Slater Brown, Erskine Caldwell, Robert, Cantwell, Winifred L. Chapell, Lester Cohen, Louis Col- man, Lewis Corey, Henry Cowell, Malcolm Cowley, Bruce Crawford, H. W. L. Dana, Adolph Dehn, Alfred Frueh, Miriam Allen De Ford, How- ard N, Doughty, Jr., John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, Waldo Frank, Murray Godwin, Horace Gregory, Louis Grudin, John Hermann, Gran- ville Hicks, Sidney Hook, Sidney Howard, Langston. Hughes, Maxwell Hyde, Orrick Johns, Matthew Jos- ephson, Alfred Kreymborg, Louis Lozowick, Grace Lumpkin, Felix Mor- row, Samuel Ornitz, James Rorty, Is- idor Schneider, Edwin Seaver, Fred- erick L. Schuman, Norman Simpson, Lincoln Steffens, Charles R. Walker, Edmund Wilson, Ella May Winter, Robert Witaker. FIVE PATERSON WORKERS FREED, Murder Indictments Dismissed PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 13.—The five Paterson textile workers framed for murder by the courts and the Socialist Party in the death of Max Urban, mill owner and_bootlegger, were dismissed in county court here yesterday. The five workers are Ben- jamin Lieb, Helen Gershanowitz, Al- bert Katzubuk, Louis Harris and Louis Barth. They were framed be- cause they are active members of the EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1932 Drop in Donations Imperils “Daily”! YESTERDAY’S GREAT DECLINE IN DONATIONS AGAIN THREATENS THE LIFE OF THE DAILY WORKER. WE CALLED FOR $1,200 DAILY, BUT UNTIL NOON CON: TRIBUTIONS TOTALLED ONLY $657.80, FAR FROM THIS WEER’S $7,500 NECESSARY BY TOMORROW NIGHT. WORKERS IN ALL DISTRICTS AND ORGANIZA- TIONS MUST SPRING INTO ACTION! OUR RECEIPTS DO NOT WARRANT A FOUR-PAGE DAILY WORKER. WE ARE RAPIDLY USING UP OUR PAPER. THERE MUST BE NO F ALS E CONFIDENCE! 4 PAGES DO NOT MEAN THAT THE DAILY IS SAFE! IT MEANS THAT WE MUST WORK TEN TIMES AS HARD . TO KEEP IT GOING! BOOST DONATIONS TO $1,200 A DAY! READERS, THIS IS YOUR CONCERN! RUSH EVERY PENNY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13TH ST.,. NEW YORK CITY, NOW! SCARCE SUPPLY OF Glassford Admits He Asked Hoover Government for Troops VETS BOO HURLEY AT LEGION MEED Leader in Attempt to Halt Hoover Censure PORTLAND, Ore,, Sept, 13, — A large section of the rank and file delegates at the American Legion Convention greeted Secretary of War Patrick Hurley with prolonged boo- ing when he stepped up to deliver a speech in which he attempted to jus- tify the calling of troops against the bonus marchers, Hurley, who was one of the main instigators in calling out the troops in Washington last July, in order to win the good graces of the unsus- pecting veterans hypocritically stated that he too is for the bonus. Although groups of veterans are pressing hard to introduce resolu- tions condemning Hoover for his armed attack on the bonus army, the leadership have thus far been suc- cessful in keeping the resolutions from the floor, It is highly possible that the Legion leadership by the use of steam roller tactics will suc- ceed in smothering the growing movement to censure Hoover, All during the opening days of the convention the Workers Ex-Service- men’s League has carried out a stren- uous campaign to rally masses of vets to support the Rank and File Conference to be held in Cleveland Sept, 23, 24, 25, It is expected that Portland will send a large delegation to this conference which will launch a broad united front struggle for the bonus, including members of the American Legion, Veterans of For- eign Wars and unorganized vets, MOVE TO SUMMON THE REICHSTAG Communists Demand Body Be Convened BERLIN, Sept, 13. — Without any warrant the police broke into the of- fice of the Communist deputies in the Reichstag and carried out a thorough but ineffective search for “proofs” that a Communist “plot” to dynamite the Parliament was under way. A strong protest against the un- warranted and illegal action of the police was filled today. The Communist deputies, motion of non-confidence in Von Papen’s Junker Government was adopted at the opening session of the parliament by a vote of 513 against 32, demanded that President Goering call upon the Council of El- ders to convene the Reichstag to- morrow, Chancellor Von Papen wrote a let- ter to the fascist President of the Reichstag warning him not to con- vene the dissolved legislative body. He threatened to have the building occupied by the army if any attempt to disregard the “emergency” decree made public yesterday would be made, The socialists and the fascists stated that the Reichstag was legally dissolved and that no attempt would whose National Textile Workers Union. ation policy used against all} The workers were defended by the be made by them to defy the emerg- ency decree. The Centrists took the same stand, Rs After the Hoover government murdered Wm. Hushka, a war vet- eran and member of the bonus army, government officials snatch- ed his body and gave it a military funeral with “full honors.” Now Hoover in an attempt to justify the murder states that Hushka was a “criminal element.” Veterans thru- out the country are preparing to answer this slanderous attack by rallying masses of ex-servicemen to the rank and file veterans confer- ence in Cleveland, Sept, 23. Hoover Statement on Vets Lied About John Pace, Records Show DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 13.—The statement of Attorney-General Mit- chell that John Pace, leader of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, had a criminal record was proven to be a lie here yesterday. Records show that Pace was ar- rested three times for leading unem- ployed demonstrations demanding re- lief and unemployment insurance. He was convicted once for demanding re- lief for starving workers, but the Cir- cuit Court under the pressure of masses of aroused worke-9 was forced to reverse the decision. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 13,— John Pace, leader of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League who led the picket demonstration to the White House, will speak here on the bonus march and the next steps in the fight for the veterans’ back wages Thurs- day, Sept. 15. Smith Against Bonus; Says He'll Campaign For Gov. Roosevelt NEW YORK, Sept. 13. — Alfred E. Smith in an article published today in the Saturday Evening Post re- vealed the fact that he was against the payment of the veterans’ bonus, He said he will campaign for Roo- sevelt, LEGION RACKETEERS IRONTON, O.—The American Le- gion of this town and the Soldiers’ Relief Commission collect money here for the relief of ex-servicemen but When an ex-navy man applied recently for relief all they did was to send him to the Union Mission, where slop is fed, -—JI, POSES AS FRIEND OF WAR VETERANS But His Cops Shot the | Vet, Hushka WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 13 — General Pelham D. Glassford, the very man who ordered the police out against the veterans in Wash- ington and shares along with Her- bert Hoover the responsibility for the murder of three ex-servicemen and two children now issues a state- ment trying to hypocritically crawl out of his responsibility, After attempting to prove that he had no part in calling the: troops, Glassford proceeced to blurt out the damning truth. “I recommended that should fur- ther evictions be required that day the federal troops should be called upon to do it,” said the general. The policy of Glassford, which was exposed time and time again in the Daily Worker, was a policy of split- ting the ranks of the bonus marchers by organizing a spy system in their ranks and launching a vicious attack against the militant vanguard, the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League and the Rank and File Committee. “The attempts of the Communists and radicals to circulate and incite disorder in the loyal camps were completely frustrated by the veter- ans’ military police, an organization sponsored by the police department for that purpose,” admits the state- ment of Glassford. Assails Hoover Statement CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 13—C B. Cowan, outstanding leader of the bonus march on Washington, who led the Cleveland contingent to Pitts- burgh where he was arrested on trumped up charges, urged the vet- erans to answer the lying Hoover- Mitchell statement by increased agit- ation and organization and by or- ganizing a successful united front conference in Cleveland September 23-24-25, which will renew the fight for the bonus. “We will answer this statement of Hoover by increased agitation and organization and by organizing a successful conference in Cleveland September 23-24-25 and will issue a nation-wide call to the veterans and the workers to mobilize for united struggle for the bonus and unem- ployment insurance,” said Cowan. Cowan will speak on the next steps in the fight for the bonus in Marion, Ohio, September 18, and in Mans- field, Sept. 19. Rumor of Plot Against Stalin Branded False MOSCOW, Sept. 13.—Reports em- anating from London to the effect | that 120 persons had been arrested | in the Soviet Union after discovery of a plot to assassinate comrade Joseph Stalin, were called nonsense today by the Foreign Office of the USSR, W.ES.L, MEET THURSDAY. Post 2 WESL will hold a meeting for election of additional delegates to Cleveland convention, Thursday nigh! (at 127 W, 125th St, ¥ } | of the Soviet Union, 1 UNITED FRONT FOR FIGHT ON WAGE CUTS \Forms Basis of Sharp Struggle for Relief; Front Against Starvation in Action; Must Build Committees Foster’s Call for United wherever the: of William Z seum Saturday flop house, breadline and age mill and factory and on the r: exist and the nee Foster, Communist united front s food from chain stores. In action, TOLEDO JOBLESS SEIZE GROCERIES {March on Grocery Af- \ter County Cuts Relief | TOLEDO, Ohio, | dreds of starving work perate at the cutting off of relief by equnty officials and at their refusal to see a committee of workers, yester- day marched in a body to an A, and P. grocery store and took the food they needed. Police who were on the scene were prevented from interfering by the militancy of the workers and their wives and children. Before the march on the grocery store, the workers had attended a at which they elected a committee to present their demands for immedi- ate relief to the County Commission- ers, After the commissioners announced their refusal to see the committee, the workers held a meeting in front of the Court House and voted to march to the grocery store. They held another meeting at the Court House after they left the gro- cery store and enthusiastically passed a resolution condemning the Lorain, Ohio officials.for brutally smashing a meeting calleq by the International Labor Defense of the workers’ rights to free speech and a FRISCO WORKERS DEMAND RELIEF 6,000 Unemployed Pre- sent Demands to City SAN FRANCISCO, C Sept. 13.— More than 6,000 unemployed workers under the leadership of the Unem- ployed Council here assembled at the Civic Center today and elected a del- egation of 54 of their number to pre- sent their demands for immediate relief to the Board of Supervisors, which was in session. One of the demands was that the workers be given control over the ex- penditures of the $5,000,000 bond is- sue which was voted last week. Although Mayor Rossi had agreed last week to receive the committee elected by the unemployed workers, the Board of Supervisors tried in every way to keep the question of re- lief from being put on the order of busin going so far to consider such “important”? questions as the dog-pound. Three of the committee were ejec- | ted for militantly demanding the floor and the rest of the committee | then left in protest. At a mass meeting held imme- diately after, the workers voted to send another delegation to the Board on September 19. This committee will report to the meeting that will be addressed by James W. Ford, Communist candi- date for vice-president. Workers at the mass meeting en- thusiastically endorsed the Veterans’ Convention on Sept. 23-24-25, and demanded the immediate release of Tom Mooney, the Imperial Valley prisoners and the Los Angeles Olym- | pic prisoners. 400 High Point Sik Strikers Fight Cops; Throw Back Tear Bomb HIGH POINT, N. C., Sept. 13.— Four hundred strikers at the Stehli Silk Mill here fought highway police +. When they attempted to smash the picket line vesterday. Twenty police ne had thrown, A woman picked up the bomb and threw it back The pickets held their line intact, but the police managed to arrest for men and four women, who were charged with “obstructing a high- way.” Bonds were raised for them, VOTE COMMUNIST Against Imperialist War; for the defense of the Chinese people and Re roads. meeting of the Unemployed Council | charged behind a tear gas bomb they | A survey of the struggles now going on shows the successes of united front d for rapidly building this movement. candidate for president, read for him He called for 1,000 Rockingham Mill Strikers in Parade ROCKINGHAM, N. C.,_ Sept. 13 .| | Nearly a thousand Hannah and En-| thwistle men, women and children paraded Rockingham Sunday in what is said the largest strike dem- onstration ever seen here | | They are striking against wage cuts |and discharge of their leaders. The | | Strike started three weeks ago. | Their only organization is their strike committee, though the inde- | pendent union formed at High Point several months ago is trying to line} them up. | MINERS STRIKE | AT PINEVILLE Shut Coleman Mine;| Demand Wages, Food| PINEVILLE, Ky., Sept. 13.—Cole- |man mine, near Pineville, employing | one hundred or more men, struck | 100 per cent Friday. For more than | three weeks the miners have not re- | | ceived any pay at all. They were only | jalowed a smal amount of groceries | jfrom the company store for their | | work, Last week the company store | Was empty. The miners were unable | to secure any food at al. They struck demanding pay for their work and | that the store keep the necessary food for miners to live on. A few of the men are National | Miners Union members. These are | trying to organize the miners and form United Front Committees to} |spread the strike to Blanche, Arjay, | Kettle Island and other nearby mines |where similar conditions exist. All these mining towns are in Bell | County, where the strike of January. | |1932, was broken by a huge display jof terror. "The miners are still ready | to fight, in addition to this strike they | have placed on the ballot for sher- | |iff the Communist Party candidate, | Ed Garland. Downtown Jobless Council Forces City | Bureau to Give Relief | NEW YORK. — A committee of workers from the Dowtown Unem- ployed Council again broke through the ruling of the Home Relief Bureau on Elizabeth and Spring Streets that no delegation from the council] be permitted to enter, anq forced the Bureau to agree to provide immediate jrelief to two starving families and | to promise of speedy relief to other | | families, Despite the arrest and attacks of police on many workers from the Downtown Unemployed Council, the Council continues to mobilize the | workers in the downtown section for the struggle to force the city govern- ment to provide immediate relief for unemployed workers and their families, ‘PAINTERS WIN | NEW YORK, — Strike in Skaler Construction Co, is in full swing, Mil- itant picketing is going on all day. |The company called the police in an tempt to protect possible scabs that e sent by the employment agen- es and convinced them not to take | the jobs of the striking painters. The strike was called by the union because the company broke the |agreement with the union that they | must hire union men only. They are }now demanding an increase in the | wages of $1,00 per day, The union has organized the paint- |ers of the Pincus Cohen Realty Cor- |poration and after two days strike, | the company was forced to sign with |the union and grant all demands, al- |so the boss was forced to give an in- |crease of wages of from $1 to $2 a |day to all men, The union also conducted a strike at’ the Monoson Painting Co, and forced the boss to grant all demands of the union and a wage increase of $2,00 per day. Following a strike in the — PLEDGE UNITY | 3 MORE STRIKES committees of action This is in line with the speech to 12,000 workers in Chicago Coli- Foster called for broad united front committees of unemployed in every city block, every y, anti-wage cut united front committees in each mine, He called for united front committees of farmers, organized locally. All these committees will lead the sharpest possible local struggles, and extend their activities un- til national conferences will provide rank and file leadership for national struggles in all these fields. Examples today of such struggles are seen in the Anthracite and southern Illinois coal fields where ike committees alone will block wage cuts of 18 to 25 per cent. United Front committees are being built in the Bell County Kentucky coal mines to extend the pre- sent Coleman Mine strike to other pits. A united front committee of starving Toledo jobless workers was refused the right to place de- mands for relief before the city council, and the crowd demonstrated its support of the demands by taking A united front committee representing block and breadline organizations and workers’ organizations led 6,000 workers in San Francisco in a demand on the board of supervisors for relief. he united front justifies itself; what is needed now is systematic building of the com- mittees in all industries and of jobless, to prepare for greater actions MINERS BUILDING A UNITED FRONT Rank and File Has to Lead Big Struggles NEW YORK.—The co wage-cut for 140,000 A: t miners was resumed in the A’ cite Institute here toda Int tiona IPresident Lewis of the Mine Workers and the rer tives of the Anthracite compar meeting. The sessions are secr it is reported that Lewis proj yesterday more rationalization, ing of lower profit Ines and anti-labor “efficiency” in gen a substitute for an open c which the rank and file is strike. The formation of United Committees of Action in the egal mines is already going on. Illinois Strike Committees. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 13— The Rank and File Opposition co tinues to call for united front sti committees in all mines, to be fed- erated on a sub-district and distr basis and to have complete cont of the strike and of all negotiations with the employers. It is increasingly apparent the leadership of the new Pro; sive Miners of America is intent 0: on getting itself firmly seated in con- trol, and is willing to let the s e against the wage-cut of 18 per ce go into defeat meanwhile. lying on legalistic methods, and it is not leading any picketing of the big mines or marches into Fra County, the big coal producer. success of the strike depen rank and file strike committees formed, and their taking co control of the struggle. It is re- SOUTH CHICAGO Dunne Speaks to 1,200 At Communist Rally CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 13—A South Chicago hall jammed full of part time and unemployed Illinois Steel Co. and Wisconsin Steel worl s many of them Negroes and young workers, and with many women pres- ent, voted unanimously last night the following resolution: “We South Chicago workers as- sembled by the call to action of the Communist Party of the United | States of America for the unity of |all working class forces in a joint struggle against starvation, against |the war program of the capitalists, |pledge our support to the program |of united struggle and to the Com- | munist candidates, Foster for presi- dent and James W. Ford for vice- president.” The resolution continued, “We send greetings of solidarity and sup- port to Comrade Foster with the hope for his cpeedy recovery, and we in- vite him to speak to us in South Chi- leago at the earliest moment possible for him to come.” There were 1,200 at the meeting Bill Dunne spoke, substituting for Foster on the lessons of the Warren Steel str'e and the movement for the vets’ bonus. Not a single person left the hall when Chairman Andy Newhoc ex- plained that Foster was critically ill and proposed the resolution, which was adopted unanimously. The au- djence showed breathless attention and cheered enthusiastically. 75 Workers Strike at La Presta Shop NEW YORK. — About 75 workers |employed by the La Presti Shoe Co., which manufactures high class bench made shoes ,went on strike yesterday under the leadership of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union for recognition of the union and shop committee and against discrimina- tion, Plotkin and Son Shop the workers brig wae z ear eee ee