The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932 Wage Three GRAIN HARVESTING IN USSR MOVES UP| TO RECORDS ESTABLISHED LAST YEAR NEARLY FINISHED IN MAIN REGIONS Strict Laws to Deal With Sabotagers A total area of 165 million acres, or over 80 per cent of the total win- ter and spring grain sowings, had been harvested by September 5 in the Soviet Union, according to the Jatest reports. While this is less than the area harvested by the same date last year (which amounted to about 169 mil- lion acres), the rate of harvesting has shown a marked upward trend from week to week, resulting into a considerable reduction in the differ- ence between this and. last year's harvested area. » Thus while in August 10 the har- vested area was of about 29 million acres, by September 5 the difference had been reduced by nearly 40 per cong to 18 million acres. Harvest Nearly Completed on Aug. 25 In the principal grain growing regions the harvesting was nearly completed by August 25. The state and collective farms to- gether accounted for 79 per cent of the area harvested, as against 71 per cent on the same date last year. Slow Progress in Threshing By August 25 the Crimea had threshed over 70 per cent ofits har- vested area, while the Middle Volga and the Central Black Soil Regions had threshed nearly half. However threshing for the country as a whole was progressing unsatis- factorily, especially in such impor- tant grain regions as the Ukraine, the North Caucasus and the Lower Volga Regions. The same three regions last men- tioned have also been the most back- werd in the matter of grain delivery to the State, Exceptional good deliveries were made by the Tartar and Bashkir Re- publics and the Ural Region. Activities of Kulaks and Speculators i The slow rate of threshing and ee Workers’ Child With Broken Arm Left to Die of Blood Poison (By a Worker oCrrespondent) TURTLE CREEK, Pa.—“Tetanus re- suiting from a broken arm caused the death of Quinto Pertinaci, aged 15, of 526 Negley Ave., Turtle Creek in the McKeesport Hospital. “Pertinaci received the fatal injury while playing in the Larimer Avenue playground.” Thus runs a note in @ local paper. ‘What are the facts? Quinto Per- tinaci, the son of Guy Pertinaci, an unemployed revolutionary... worker, while playing in the playground on Aug. 19, 1932, fell and broke his arm. He was taken to a doctor and the doctor, knowing that the parents of this boy are unable to pay for his services, instead of setting the broken arm, simply bandaged the arm and sent the boy home. After three days at home the boy got worse, he was then taken to the hospital, where two days later he died. | Many working class children are | erippled for life; many die as Quinto | Pertinaci did; many are dying slowly leyery day of starvation And the greedy master class, what are they doing to alleviate the miseries and suffering of the unemployed and part time workers and their families? Nothing. They are preoccupied with the problem of solving this crisis by placing the burden on the backs of the workers ang by preparing a new war for more profits. The workers must join and build the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union in the Turtle Creek ‘Val- ley. The unemployed workers must organize into Unemployed Councils. We must all join the Communist Party, the only political party that fights for the interests of the workers. QUARRY PAY CUTS Worker Correspondence grain delivery, while due largely to the pocr otganization of labor and ~ the inadequate utilization of avail- able machinery, equipment and draft power, may to some extent be as- cribed to the renewed activities of the kulaks trying to disrupt the col- lective farms, Thes? activities have expressed ihemselves both in sabotaging the state grain deliveries and in damag- ing, thrcugh thefts ahd violence, the colitctive farm property. In view of the reiterated thefts by the kulaks it became necessary to institute stricter measures to safe- guard socialized property and to this end the- Central “Executive “Commiit- tee and the Council of People’s Com- migsars issued & sp@cial decree on August 7 making the theft of social- ized property a capital offense. In the event of extenuating circumstan- cés, the sentence may be commutted to ten yeats in jail and confiscation of all property. No amnesty will be granted to criminals convicted under this decree. Punishing the Speculators Another decree issued by Central Executive Committee and the Coun- cil of People’s Comntissars on Au- 22 makes speculation an offense punishable with 5 to 10 years in jail. The speculators engage in criminal activity designated to stem the tide of socialization. They often act as accomplices to the kulaks in thefts, ete, marketing the goods stolen from the state wharehouses, colléctive farms, and 80 forth. Widow and 5 Children Get Relief Only After Struggle by Council (By Cleveland U. C.) MEET RESISTANCE Slate Workers Show Signs of Struggle By WALTER PRIESTLY BANGOR, Me.—Recently after long months of idisness the Columbia Bangor Slate Co. resumed operation, recalling about 30 “bank-men” work- ers at a shameful wage rate slash. A group of workers from Bangor and East Bangor bitterly denounced the action. The slaters are all unor- Sanized, and, of course, have no def- inite plan of cofibined action. A number were heard to openly declare for a strike. One worker from each “shanty” unit formed the committee to meet Boss Ditchett at the quarry office. Here, despite the fact that the com- mittee proved by the company price- list that certain slate for which the men get only $1.50 per square for producing, the company charges the consumer $8 per square, Ditchett “explained” that his company soms- times sold blow the price list. Fake Phone Call. During the conference’ the phone conveniently rang in ths next room and Ditchett reported that “to prove his explanation here was an inquiry from Belvidere about slate and to get the order he would have to underbid Old Bangor quarry, who quoted this party $6.25 per square. This was so obviously a framed-up phone call that few of the committee failed to |ARMOUR GIRLS GET 2 PAY CUTS | Eliminate 15 Minute | Rest Period (By an Armour Worker) CHICAGO, Ill. — Women workers in the hair curling department of the |Armour é Co. have recsived two |wage-cuts in the past few months. |One cut amounted to 4c per hour and another 24%¢ per hour, a total of $2.60 per week. ‘The rest periods of 15 minutes each have been cut off so that now women workers must work right up to the last minute before they are allowed to have their lunch. The terrific speed up is increasing daily. Twelve girls must do the work now for 60 girls that were doing the same work before. The thing that we girls in the hair curling department must do ig to or- ganize ourselves into a Stock Yards Workers’ Industrial Union. We must otganize every girl in our department. This is the only way we can improve our conditions. Rayon Workers Work 4 to 8 Times as Much For 40 P. C.-Less Pay ( By a Rayon Worker.) ELIZABETHTON, Tenn.—We have heard Hoover's lies about prosperity until we are nauseated. In 1928, when Hoover made his appearance here, a manager, B. R. Lingerfelt give Hoo- ver the key to the city. Hoover must have taken the key away with him, because the city has been locked up ever since. There is nothing here but the rayon mills and a few barber shops. ‘The barbers spend their time pitch- ing horse-shoes because the rayon mills don’t pay enough for the work- ers to take a shave. Three months ago the rayon mills closed down for a few weeks, and _|then started up with a 40 per cent cut in wages. At present one man is doing what 4 to 8 men did before the shutdown, and for 40 per cent less. DONATIONS FOR ~ TUESDAY $280 Good Response From Mass Organizations Total contributions for Thursday, Sept. 15 (including Iate Wednesday afternoon) came to $367.08. New York donated $121.82. Day's outstanding donations: Aéme The- atre eollection, $12.82: Mapleton Workers’ Club, $12; Russian National Mutnal Aid, sanch 28. A. Olean pnd Bee. 5. $10 each: Sec. 5 icnie (Philaderpnia Wistriet) of W. E. Cle Fstonion Workers’ Club, $10; District 18, Wis. Workers and Farmers, Co-op, Unity AlWianee, $43.84. w how soon I'l see any more mi makes no matter, I'll fieht like Mt. you know) to save our Dally Worker.” R. E. J., Portland, Ore. Sent. 1% list follows: Total rec'd Thutsday, 1. Total to Sept. oi 8. Epstetn Dis. 1, Boston 5.00 Mrs, Nathan So, Bosti big crowd marched out to see the city |_ see through it. Dupk | The committee reporte back to the | ; other workers. By a baré majority, | ;, , Wehauer | however, it was decided to continue | Koltousky for two months. Morrison Be The formation of the committee | pS a er * showed that the workers were be- <M, CLEVELAND, O—Membsts of the | inning to realize that some sort of Unemployed Council, while picketing the office of the Associated Char- ities, saw @ small boy going into the Aszociated Charities on several oc- eesions. They found that the boy's father had been dead for nine years, that he was one of five children. that 1 the children were practically ked, and that the mother was sick. On Sept, 8th our comrades saw the yy again near the charities cryine. and they found out that they still had not received any help. Our com- mittee took this case up and won some concessions such as getting food struggle was necessary against in-| tolerable conditions. long before more workers realiz> that merely a conference with the boss it hot enough, but that a strike under Tt will not. be| * Total Dis. 1. °3t.ah ‘TH to @ate $718.75 Dis. 2. New York Total Dis. 2 8191.82 TH to Ants 85,881.55 Dic, % Philadelphis A Priend 1.09 rate U 3 rank and file leadership is the only Camp Unity ‘2 Fee, he i” way to fight wage-cuts. A. Olen 09 Free Olnd ua ., fis : _ Valentine Hop- R. Waldman EJ kins .00 feo. 8. Warren 1.00 Crotona Park 8, Benjamin 10,00 Chorus 1.00 F, Grossenbacher 3.00 Acme Theatre WJ. Riddle 5.00 collection 12.0% 7. M, Hartis 10.00 4. Schneider 1.00 See, 8, Phenie, an National Sept. Mi 20.88 Mutha Aid —— ‘aedoads 18 10.00 ‘Total Dis. % $49.89 8. & Ge Whe. 50 International Notes HUNGER DEMONSTRATION IN JAPAN TOKIO.—The rapid deepening of the economic crisis in Japan and the equally rapid increase of unemploy- ment have already led to numerous expressions of discontent and hunger demonstrations. One of the biggest of these dem- | onstrations took place in front of the | Ministry of Agriculture when great} masses of workers, including old men | and women with babies on their) backs, demanded the distribution fo) free rice, | The Minister of Agriculture refused | to receive a delegation of workers and | the police dispersed the demonstra- tion with great brutality. The situation in the provinces is still more strained. The Japanese press reports that in April and May | Mass arrests were made, including | over a hundred in Hirosima alone for Communist propaganda. SOVIET FILM INDUSTRY PRE- PARING NEW FILMS MOSCOW.—The Soviet industry is engaged in the production of nu- merous films dealing with the history of the revolution and the Five-Year Plan of socialist construction. The “Meshrabpom” film company jis producing a film entitled “Lenin,” ‘The middle point of the film will be the Dnieprostroi power station and the culminating point will be the Opening of the Dnieper dam. | | | | the Soyus film company is engaged in the production of a West Front film (Bast Front for Western Europe) showing the transformation of the imperialist war against Austria and Germany into the civil war against ie Russian bourgeoisie and Czar- om, OVER 5 MILLION UNEMPLOYED IN GERMANY BERLIN—According to a report just published by the Reich’s Unem- ployment Insurance Institution there were 5,225,000 workers registered as unemployed at the labor exchange throughout Germany on the 3ist of August. With this the lowest unemploy- ment figure for the summer has prob- ably been reached and the figure will now rise throughout the winter to reach what will in all probability be @ new high record in February. It is interesting to note: that of these five million workers who are unemployed at the height of the sum- mer unemployment. season, only 700,. 000 are still weceiving support under the unemployment insurance scheme. MEET SEPT. 25 ON RUEGG CASE Call Demonstration at Mott and Bayard NEW YORK, Sept. 20—The recent sentencing to life imprisonment of Paul Ruegg, Secretary of Pan-Pacific ‘Trade Union Secretariat and his wife Gertrude by the Nanking Govern- ment under the orders of the impe- Hialists has aroused a new wave of protest from working class organi- zations as well as writers, scientists ;|@nd other intellectuals throughout the world, The Chinese Minister in London, Quo Tai Chih, was recently com- pelied to receive a deputation from the British section of the League Against Imperialism in regard to the Ruegg case. After a statement of the point of view of British work- ets, the Chinesé Minister promised 's| to telegraph urgently to the Govern- ment at Nanking, conveying their protest and demand for immediate release. The Anti-Imperialist League of R|the United States and the Interna- tional Labor Defense are arranging @ joint open-air meeting in China- town on September 25 at Mott and Bayard Streets at 2 p.m. on behalf of the Rueggs. A demonstration be- fore the Chinese Consulate, 13 As- tor Place, will be held by the above two organizations on September 27 at 12 noon to demand the immediate release of the two working class anti- imperialist fighters. All workers should participate in the demonstra- tion to show their solidarity with the Rueggs in fighting against terror and imperialist war. ti . We ate going to con- . tt 1.0) pistriet 4, But- John Jeous Dis, 12, Seattle tue ith hs se wl get sut- Sheepskin Strikers De- eve "Vecera ‘34 ote, op pureenine | Homeone 4.00 ficient food and clothin: hem. Rec : % ‘dee sou" wil tina he nove; MANA Recognition | sister Buh corm |e writetn by @ sister of this boy. ‘This 2 23 Jeek Kriton eol- Arakian girl is only 13 years old; the boy is ation Le) ten years of age. 99 Paner ah ‘This happened at the and ” Fiase, og 18 t 00 a an Worker eon Wm. Getinden 8.00 feet A Danis, Unit 11.00) D.- the slip. Dis. 7, 1.00 cena, have A. W. Cramer works Grand Clreus week. We Marti nd rent. meg one help us.’ ‘3 e Pon 1T x Marien presi- 2.98 Fedrich Board of 3,00 ay Ponserane an- Kelos was Borisof Radune ins Onnelo Dis, 17 total.._..25 ever had. Center A10 N. Bork TH to date 640.15 Coney ©, Aneelote 2.00 Daughters of Be Dis. 18, Wisconsin yeats, ahd on the rite 108 via aime ans "Farmers Co-op. ee, Martin aia, ioe Bingole 1.00 Unity Alliance 23.64 seam Roos! tb Lame S| eneieen ft. sates ° ” , - 19, oF the . Katoror 1 N. Bagridigt eter ‘unani- | 1 . ie D. Mogehire Total Dis. 9....62.00 oy Boyinert 1.00 the worst | positions. . tos i +10] Te. to date.$51.15 Mayer 30 A Worker ‘25 | is 10. Kansas Clty Wim. Dietrich 1.00 oar of tikes gittie wei 3 open i" I-Gates 4.00, Glickman | The White-Russian department of U.S. Plane Carrier Joins Battle Fleet 4 ta Vad i The U. S. 8S. Saratoga, one of the huge American airplane carriers, squeezing its way through the Gatum locks of the Panama Canal, to joint the United States war fleet which is, concentrated in the Pacific in “readiness for any eventuality,” in the imperialist drive for war as | a capitalist “way out” of the crisis. | | | War Stocks Soar us Columbia and Peru Push Drive for War | Colombian Militarists Lead War-Incited Mob In Attack on Communist Press, Exposing War | Argentine, Brazil, Chile Manouver to Join Gran Chaco War Between Bolivia and Paraguay The joy of American munition makers and investors in the war | industries over the rapid spread of the war fever in South America was | reflected yesterday in a rapid rise on the Stock Exchange of the war stocks. Among the stocks affected are United Aircraft, Dupont Com- Pany, Union Carbide, Colombia Carbon, Bandix Aircraft, and copper | and steel stocks. | * . The offices of the Colombian Communist newspaper “Ticrra” w invaded and wrecked yesterday by a mob lead by militarists and incited by the propaganda in the bourgeois press for war against Peru. * Chiang Plans New the company 1 ‘The work under these conditions only bt cause they want to y on the A.C. Spark Plug Workers Forced to Toil tor Nothing Entire City of Flint Controlled by Gun Thugs of Gener: al Motors FLINT, Mich.—The terror against workers here is led by the “Litéle | Mussolini” of Flint, Scarvarda, who is Body Strike and against the Mi Here is an example of how put across forced labor. Ger Motors has organized an Indus! Mutual Association, for the purpose of aiding “citizens in distress. Workers at the A. C, Spark Plu work about eight hours every month at 15 cents an hour. Of the $1.20 ‘tal |earned each month, they must pay 65 cents to the I, M. A. for the “cau of humanity” and a $1.50 for in: ance, In. this way, not only do the girls work for nothing, but they owe roll so they can work when ti pick up. The average welfare dependent ir Flint receiv , and for this lou . work on city jobs. The youth receive nothing. They are beginning to r ize the nece: for mediate cash relief at the expe: the boss JOBLESS HALT WATER SHUT-OFF 8,000 Mass at City Hall In Cleveland CLEVELA: Ohio, Sept. 21.— Masses of w demonstrating be- fore the City Hall here forced the city council to rescind the order to shut off water in the homes of un- employed workers who are unable to pay their water bills. Over 8,000 workers, among whom were @ large number of war vater- ans, marched under the leadership of the Unemployed Council to the City Hall from the Public Square Monday to present demands to .the city government against the shutting of fof water in the homes of the jobless, immediate abolition of forced labor on city jobs and specific de- igan Hunger Marchers. rested and intimidated on the slightest pretense. trolled by General Motors gun thugs,¢——_______—_____ NATL B Fascist Attack. The anger of the Colombian bour- geoisie against the Communist news- paper was aroused by its effective ex ancial and landlord interests behind the frenzied war propaganda of the government. and bourgeois press. These exposures had made such a deep impression on the toiling mas- s¢s who are to furnish the cannon fodder that the government did not dare to suppress the paper, but re- sorted to fascist action instead. The Colombian bourgeoisie is not molest- ing the Socialist Party and its press wich are helping the moves for war. U. S. Imperialists Provoke War. The militarists later staged a par- ade of 3,000 women who demon- strated before the Colombian Senate demanding the immediate passage of @ measure authorizing the govern- ment to arange a foreign loan of $10,000,000 to finance the war against Peru. The frantic drive of the Col- ombian and Peruvian bourgeoisie and landowning class toward war is fos- tered and supported by foreign ifn- perialists, the continent of South America con- tinued yesterday between Bolivian and Paraguayan troops in the dis- puted Gran Chaco region, with Ar- gentina continuing her mobilization of troops on the Bolivian borders, an dthe Chilean and Brazilian gov- ernments refusing to declare neu- trality in the conflict. The Bolivian press continues to print charges that the Argentine Government is fur- nishing arms and imoney to Para- guay, while the Paraguayan press is exposing the active support being given Bolivia by the Standard. Oil Company and other American inter- ests which are helping to organize the Bolivian youth into Red Cross corps and fighting units. LENGTHEN TERM OF CARL SKLAR Date for Release of Prisoner Past Due NEW _ YORK,.—The International Labor Defense has received a letter from the Bureau of Immigration which states that Carl Sklar, one of the Imperial Valley prisoners who was sentenced to five years with a isco | Parole that was supposed to be ef- fective in July of this year, will be $0! kept in jail until January 18,1934. ‘The condition of parole stateq that Comrade Sklar was to be turned over to the deportation authorities in Fis. | July. The Bureau of Immigration has refused to take the case over because he is a Russian citizen and therefore 1.0 not deportable, It is clear that the Department of $238.81] Labor and the Prison Board of Cali- fornia, which was forced by huge protest to se‘ the date for release for so| this year, ate trying to sidestep the decision and keep him in jail for 13 mote months, Six of the original eight prisoners i have already been feleased through mass pressure. It is necessary not to renew the fight to get Sklar out of Jail immediately, Protests should be sent by all workers’ organizations to the State Board of Terms and Par- oles, Represa, California, TO FRIENDS OF J. H. LYK John H. Lyk, held in the federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as a prisoner on a five-year term, has asked the Daily Worker to get in touch with him. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR , Unemployment and Social In- surance at the expense of the state and employers, 5 rf Anti-Red Drive | mands for the workers in the Wood- known for his brutality in the Fisher Workers are ar- The entire city is con- ISCUIT CO. "| SPEED UP GIRLS Accidents Increased by Great Rush | NEW YORK.—Due to the present conditions of part time in the Na- tion Biscuit Co. we are forced to work in different departments. At present I do not know to which de- partment I belong, due to the shift- ing, but this gives me a chance to familiarize myself with the condi- tions in my regular department. 1—We have to come in 15 min- utes earlier and stay 15 minutes later (to fill in the time wasted from nning from one department to an- ot | —No matter what weather there is we have to cross the street just in our uniforms. 3.—The rush is so great that ae- cidents happen quite often. On the 6th floor facing 10th Ave. it is very hot. There is no ventilation. We and the men work very hard e, due to the fact, that there is not sufficient room to bring in the |trucks. Therefore the workers have to push the cases a distance till they put them on the truck. | Stand All Day. On the 8th floor facing 11th Ave. the girls stand a whole day on their feet, packhot cakes, and do five things at the same time. | In the sticking and dipping dep't the girls have to stick each cake on \stickers and they have their hands full of sores. The dipping process 1s still harder due to the fact that the chains are moving rapidly and you have to keep up with the ma- chine. When the company is very busy on a certain Kind of a product they don’t care at what time the workers have 4 posure of the foreign and local fin- | Fighting in the southern part of | publish an appeal to his friends to} | Nanking Tries to Stop | War Lords Clash | In a move to organize a united) front of the Chinese militarists for | its offensive against the Chinese Soviet Republic, the Nanking -govern- |ment yesterday engaged in a des-| | perate effort to halt the new Gen- jerals’ War in Shantung Provine>. It} |proposed to General Liu Chen-nien, | | war lord of the Chefoo area, that he send his army to the Shantung-Anh- wei border to fight the Chines: Red Armies. The move is inspired by )American imperialists who largely | | dominate the policies of the Nanking | butcher government and are actively organizing the new drive against the Chinese Soviet Republic. Bribed War Lords. General Liu has refused to trans- fer his army for fear of losing his control of the Chefoo region to Gov. Han Fu-chu of Shantung Province. Hen gives a nominal allegiance to the Nanking government in exchange |for a substantial monthly bribe pay- | ment. He is also a member of a| group of North China war lords who | |are co-operating with the Japanese | |enemy in exchange for cash bribes |and promises of greater power as a| reward for their aid to Japan’s ef-| forts to bring North China under its | control. While professing his Will- | ingness to obey the Nanking govern- | ment, Han is refusing to surrender | his newly won loot in the form of the Shaho-Pingtu railway and sev- eral towns. He is systematically loot- | ing the towns in the meantime. | Generals’ War May Spread. ‘The Generals’ War is threatening | to spread. Marshal Chang Hsueh- |liang, an ally of General Liu, is re- ported mobilizing his troops. His warships have already taken over |Chefoo, Tsingtao, Weihaiwei and /| | Lungkow in order to protect Liu’s | rear and permit the free movement of his troops. | Nanking’s attempts to mobilize the | | North China war lords for the “Com- | | munist Suppression” campai are | taking on a more and more frantic |character as a result of widespread |peasant uprisings and the growing | wave of strike struggles in the cities |as the toiling masses, inspired by the | victories of the Chinese Red Armies, | surge forward to the anti-imperialist, anti-Nanking mass struggle. French Socialist Party Heads Vote to Expel Anti-War Fighters PARIS (By Mail),—With only one dissenting vote, the central commit: tee of the French Sociajist Party has adopted a resolution for strict organi- zational measures against those mem~- bers of the party, who took part in the International Anti-War Congress in Amsterdam. * The resolution points out that membership of the permanent anti- war committee of the congress moans expulsion from the Socialist Party, That the rank and file of the French Socialist Party think differ- ently is demonstrated by a resolution adopted by a membership meeting of the Socialist Party branch in the 17th Paris district with 43 against 2 votes expressing support of those socialist | officials who answered the anti-war appeal of Henri Barbusse and Romain | Rolland and co-operated in the prep- | arations for the congress, | | FOSTER-FORD CLUB IN PITTSBURGH | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 21—The Foster-Ford Booster Club of work- ers new in the movement has been organized here. It plans to get 1,000 votes for the Communist candidates. Tts next meeting will be Sept; 23, 8 p. m., at 1830 Center Ave., second fl, their. lunch. The regular time is from 12:30 to 1:20, but when they Marshall, president of the -city a . council, at once adjourned the coun-|#%¢_ very busy, loge é rc ee cll meeting, All of the councilmen |Sending some girls for lunch at 1, arose and walked out of the hall.|°ome at 12 and some time at 2 p. m. Onda, chairman of the unemployed ielegation, d Marshall, how-| ret ond’ dgnanted ar immeanrs|Ereacher Boasts of Being in Lynch Mobs yard (Wayfarers Lodge). answer to the workers’ demands. | Marshall was forced to meet the| workers’ delegation in his office. | The chairman of the council com- pletely exposed himself by stating: | PINEVILLE, Ky.—An attempt by “I can do nothing about the de-| preachers was made here to hide the mands.” jissue of hunger under the whiskey While the delegation Was in Mar-/| issue, at a recent meeting, They shall’s office the mayor and city | wanted the people to endorse a bunch council members sneaked out of the | of self-appointed preachers to organ- city hall. The councilmen, however, | ize a Vote Dry Association, were forced to rescind the order to} The main speaker was Dr. Tale, cut off water for a week. The Un-| pastor of the Baptist Church at Mid- employed Council will continue to|dlesboro, In the last part of his fight for a permanent ordtr for free | speech he boasted he had been in water service for the unemployed. | lynch mobs, (By a Worker Correspondent) Soviet Railwaymen Hail Striking Belgian Miners MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—The following expression of solidarity with the heroic striking miners of Belgium has been’ sent by the railwaymen of the Moscow repair shop: Dear Comrades! Having leatned about the enlarged meeting of the Secretariat of the | Railwaymen’s International Com- mittee and about the call issued for ; Committee: “Not even one ton ‘of coal to be shipped to Belgium!” In reply to the call of the Interna- tional committee we have decided to organize new shock brigades called solidarity with the Belgian miners, who are fighting heroically for their immediate interests and against the united front of the employers and social-fascist leaders; in connection after the International Railwaymen’s |Committee and the struggling Bel- |gian miners; we promise to set up | contacts with the railwaymen in the capitalist countries and to carry on with the call to the workers to refuse | regular correspondence with them, to load and ship coal to Belgium: We herewith request the Railway~ We, the failwaymen of the Moscow | men’s Internatioal Committee to help |Wagon Railway Shop, herewith ex-|us set up permanent contacts and press our proletarian class solidarity with the struggle of the Belgian min- ers, We are convinced that the pro- letarien of the ‘railway transport industry of all countries will carry out the slogan of the International correspondence with the railwaymen in the capitalist countries, Hail the heroic struggle of the Belgian miners! 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