The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1932, Page 1

"In the Day’s News 7 HURT IN NAZI FIGHT BRESLAU, Germany, Sept. 30- Fighting between Nationalists and National Socialists landed seven per. sons in the hospital here tod: Twenty-nine Hitlerites were arrested. Se € YANKS WIN OPENER NEW YORK.—The world series opened to a small crowd because the owners are forcing the workers to buy tickets for these three games at one time in order # see the series. Pia icone REPORT OF “FOOD RIOTS” IN USSR RIDICULOUS MOSCOW, Sept. 28. —-The Soviet government today characterized the report of “food riots” in which 100 workers were reported killed as ridic- ulous. The Soviet Government Pointed out that the reports origi- nated in Riga, the seat of a group of counter-revolutionary journalists who earn their living by selling lying stories about the Soviet Union to anti-working class organzations all ever the world. Wi Sy 8 MARTIAL LAW IN HAVANA HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 28.—Martial Jaw was invoked here today after four capitalist political leaders were murdered yesterday and a fifth was seriously wounded. The shootings are the reflection of a bitter struggle being waged by two capitalist groups for control of the government, ee caer DEATH TOLL IN PUERTO RICO MOUNTS TO 200 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept. 26. ployers. Against Hoov collection of rent or debts VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the expense of the state and em- 's wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the govern. ment and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced Dail Central Orga (Section of the Communist International) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Equal rights for the Negroes and self- determination for the Black Belt, Against capitalist terror; against all forms of suppression of the politcal U S A rights of workers, tod ° bd 5. Against imperialist war; for the de- fense of the Chinese people and of the Soviet Union. Vol. IX, No. 233 Entered as second-class matter a “GRP New York, N.¥., under the Act t the Post Office at of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1932 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents LOCAL RELIEF STRUGGLES — WILL PAVE THE WAY FOR VETERAN'S BONUS MARCH SU. BORN Minneapolis, Minn. What Are Mass Organizations Doing for the ‘Daily’ Fund? SCRIBER SINCE DAILY WAS THIRD DONATION IN 2 WEEKS Battle Creek, Mich. Dear Comrades: OREGON MAN STATES HE PLACED BOMB FOR WHICH MOONEY IS IN PRISON Ex-Servicemen Will Visit Grave of Hushka and | Present Bonus Bill to Congress United Front Committees Will Be Set Up In Cities to Lead Fight DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 28.—Plans will be speeded up at once in cities and towns in every state to draw in masses of veterans to local united front rank and file conferences to pave the way for the bonus march to the capital December 5, according to John T. Pace, chairman of the Veterans National Rank and File Committee, who arrived here from the National Rank and Deaths from the hurricane which swept Puerto Rico yesterday have mounted to over 200. More than 1,000 were injured and additional thousands were made homeless. Suffering is widespread among the workers, many of whom have lost all their meagre belongings. so 8 oe U. S. ARMY CHIEF IN TURKEY ISTABUL, Sept. 28—Chief of Staff of the United States Army MacAr- thur was received by President Mus- tapah Kemal today. MacArthur is touring a number of countries study- ing war preparations in the interests of U.S. imperialism. eet te ROUMANIAN WAR VETS MARCH. ON CAPITAL BNCHAREST, Rumania, Sept. 28.— Following the example set by the American war vets a group of non- cormmissioned officers arrived here and pitched camp. But instead of struggle they announce they will not eat until the government gives them what is due. + * 8 BRITAIN FLAUNTS YANKEE IMPERIALISM WASHINGTON,” Sept. 28—The government of El Salvador has been recognized by Great Britain it was stated here today. The recognition is counter to the wishes of American imperialism which has “advised” the powers to ignore the new government. Ae ice GARNER SILENT ON BONUS NEW YORK—John N. Garner, democratic candidate for vice-pres- ident. stated Tuesday that he would remain silent of the veterans’ bonus issue throughout the election cgm- paign. “I have made no statement on the bonus,” he said, “and I don’t intend to make any.” * JAILED IN LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING Io RRISBURG, Ill, Sept. 28—On the basis of an anonymous letter mailed to Col. Charles Lindbergh, state highway police today arrested Dennis Lawrence and held him on a charge of kidnapping. Lawrence was arrested in the city of Marion, ese * DINOSAUR SKELETON FOUND BILLINGS, Mont., Sept. 28—The discovery of the most complete skele- ton of a horlitoraurus, a branch of the dinosaur family, at the Cow In- dian Reservation was announced to- day by Barnum Brown, curator of the American Museum of Natural His- tory. Children on Fast Side To Demand Free Food And Clothes from City NEW YORK.—The Downtown Un- employed Council will lead a dem- ‘onstration of school children tomor- row afternoon before P. S. 60 in a demand for free hot lunches and elothing for the children. All working class parents are urged ; ‘to attend a meeting tonight( Thurs- day) at the headquarters of the Council, 134 E. Seventh St., at which ‘the full list of demands will be drawn up. ‘The Downtown Unemployed Coun- cil yesterday forced one of the milk trusts on the east side to contribute 120 quarts of milk for the children of unemployed workers. ‘The Council also forced the Home Relief Bureau.on Spring and Eliz- abeth Sts. to promise relief to seven families of unemployed workers. Slipper Workers to Meet Tonight at 6:30, NEW YORK.—“Do not let the boss keep you from going to this meeting by asking you to work late! Stop on time!” says a leaflet issued by the Slipper Section of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union, calling a mass meeting Thursday night at 6:30 p.m., at Manhattan Ly- ceum, for the organization of a drive to improve conditions in the industry. I. Rosenberg and J. Magliacano will speak, Admit Great Suffering Among Workers’ Kids "NEW YORK—That the entire ef- fects of the under-feeding that mil- lions of working class children are suffering now will not be apparent for years to come, has been admitted by the chairman of executive com- mittee of the Children’s Welfare Fed- eration, 3 VOTE COMMUNIST _Fqual righis fer the Negroes and determination i the Black File Veterans’ Conference in Cleve- Jand. Te The conferences, which will be held during the last week in October, will set up City Rank and File Commit- tees. These committees will lead the march to Washington. “The march,” said Pace, “will be a mass march, passing as many points as possible—picking up new con- tingents along the line and arriving in Washington Dec. 5. Will Honor Dead. “Following our arrival in the cap- ital we will visit the graves of Hushka and Carlson and pay them fitting tribute that was denied them when they were killed by the Hoover Wall Street government. Backed by masses of veterans, a committee elected by the rank and file will then present a bill for immediate payment of the bonus to Congress and the Senate. We will demand immediate action on this bill.” Pace described how the city con- ferences will be organized. “Rank and file rule will be the method,” he said. “Delegates will be elected from posts of the Work- Hoover Victim WILLIAM HUSHKA—War vet, murdered by Hoover government, Dear Comrades: Enclosed is one dollar bill—all I can. send at present. I have been a subscriber for the Daily since the first day of its appearance, first as a weekly and then as a daily. And every time our Daily sent the S.O.S. call, I was always there with my con- tribution, considerably -better than the present one. But if many comrades and readers will fol- low me, our Daily will be saved. : I must say that the present-day Daily is much better, more interesting, more news from the main lines of struggle: marches, strikes, fac- tories, ete. Our Daily is more important today than ever before: I am glad that “Red Sparks” is with us again, With the Daily for Foster and Ford, L. G. W. “NO OTHER PAPER LIKE THE DAILY” St. Paul, Minn, Comrades: I haye learned to read English since I have begun to get the Daily Worker I cannot under- stand all the words. But I can understand at least that there is no other newspaper like the Daily Worker. I am 71 years old. I can get no work. I have a daughter and her three children living with me. She earns $9 a week. In spite of this I must send $1 to the Daily Worker, I wish I could send more. Maybe soon when I can spare the pennies, I can save another dollar. FB. . . JOBLESS FIVE YEARS; SENDS $1 Greensburg, Pa. Dear Co:nrades: I have been out of work for five years. I had a hard time to scratch up this dollar to send in. T like your paper very well but I’ve got 8 in the'family to keep and no support from any- Here is my third donation in two weeks, and it's not the last one. As soon as I make a few cents I'll send it to D.W. again. Damn this capitalist system! It has ruined thousands of workers’ families, but it is not going to ruin the Daily! We workers will not permit that. We will save and build the Daily Worker to a pow- erful weapon against capitalist exploitation and final emancipation from capitalist slavery Yours for a Soviet World! Vis. “TO HELL WITH BOURGEOIS DEBTS, BUT SAVE DAILY!” Haverhill, Mass. Dear Comrades: Although I have been out of work for three years and owe more than I'll ever be able to pay, I say “To hell with bourgeois debts! and save the Daily Worker.” You'll find enclosed 50 cents for same which I had to borrow and will send you 50 cents more next week. I wish I could do more. Comradely yours, J.D. Workers, you have read the letters from mass and fraternal organizations which were printed yesterday, and today you read the above letters from individual workers in many states. They teach two lessons which are particularly im- portant now. The last two reports on daily do- nations show that the totals hit the lowest points since August on Monday and Tuesday of this week. On Monday the Daily received $191.15 and on Tuesday only $239.45. ‘The two ways of raising funds at this time collections in branches of mass organizations, which must be stressed are: (1) activity and collections in branches of mass organizations and (2) the speeding up of the campaign for 50,000 half-dollars, Rush all funds, and letters telling how you collected them, to the Daily |Frame-Up Against Mooney and Billings Al- ready Totally Discredited by Confessions of Perjury Masses Demonstrate October 8 in Every City In the World to Free Mooney, Scottsboro Boys BULLETIN PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 28.—The International Labor Defense here has a signed confession from Callicotte, and the Mooney Defense Committee will issue a statement on it. ’ . PORTLAND, Ore., Sept, 28.—Paul M. Callicote, a mountain guide, con- fessed here yesterday that he placed the bomb which killed a number of paraders on “Preparedness Day” 1916, and for which Billings and Mooney were framed and are serving life sentences. This confession brings again to the attention of the millions of workers ®who know Mooney and Billings are Free! innocent the necessity for intensified ° struggle to bring them out of the liv- ing death they have already endured for 19 years It gives wide impetus to the In- ternational Mooney-Scottsboro demonstrations, in every city of the world, Oct 8. Masses of workers demonstrating before the American embassy in Leningrad, then Petro- grad, in 1917 Saved Mooney’s life and turned his death sentence into a life sentence. ‘The frame-up against: Mooney hag collapsed as no frame-up ever wat smashed before Every single mater ial witness against the two worker! has either confessed he or she wa: | lying, like Jack MacDonald, Nellie jand Sadie Edeau, Estell Smith, o1 has, like Oxman, also from Oregon, Set Mooney His grave will be visited by the Bonus Marchers in. Washington Dec. 5. Secret Letter Proves Faking of ‘Prosperity’ Further proof that the “Prosperity Talk,” now so comma@n in the capital- ‘ist press, is false propaganda directed by government oficials, including Hoover himself in America and by government officials in England, is contained in secret information sent out to “Clients Only” by the Whaley- Eaton Service, Whaley-Eaton is a private fact-finding bureau for big business to provide the real rulers of the country with actual information of what is going on, which informa- tion they do not hand over to the workers. However, the Daily Worker has possession of this letter: “WHALEY-EATON SERVICE “American Letter, ‘September 24, 1932. “For Clients Only. “In regards to ‘coercion of writers,’ it is a fact that government and banking officials,. in Great Britain and other countries, have, on occa- sion, called some important writers into consultation and have said to them, in substance: ‘The depression constitutes a form of war. It is quite an dangerous 4s war. The usé of some propaganda, therefore, to build up morale is not. only justifiable but is positively essential. We ask your co-operation, accordingly.’ None of the writers has regarded this as coercion. Many of them, however, have somewhat modified their view- points. So far as the United States is concerned, the only event of this character was the President’s confer- ence with newspaper men of both parties. ‘That was publicly an- nounced, and the public has been told what happened there. Since then, there has been a tendency on the part of the press to mass con- structive items, and perhaps, to un- derplay unfavorable news.” | |tion for the march to Washington. ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, posts or minority groups of the Ameri- can Legion, V. F. W., D. A. V., B. E. F., etc. Contingents and parts of contingents who participated in the march to Washington, veterans in soldiers’ homes and hospitals, groups of veterans n shops, factor- ies, mines and ships are invited to send delegates. Women who-served in. the-.war must also.be repre sented.” Local Struggles. From now and up until the date of the city conferences the rank and file committees will lead struggles for veterans’ relief in all sections of the country. Demands will be made on city and state authorities for this relief. The program as adopted at the Cleveland conference calls for the organization of debates to be held with American Legion officials, V. F. W. and leaders of other vet organiza- tions. Committees are being organ- ized to handle the details of prepara- Committees on organization, educa- tion, finance, transportation, com- missary and publicity will be set up in each town where the marchery will gather. Negro Demands. “In our march to the capital we will raise special demands for the! Negro veterans who are being dis- criminated against and jim crowed in the veterans’ hospitals,” declared Pace. We had one delegate to our conference who objected to special Negro demands, but the rank and file rebuked him and overwhelmed his objection in a most vigorous manner. There will be no jim crowism in this march.” Headquarters In Detroit. It was announced today that the headquarters of the National Rank and File Committee, which will lead the march, will be set up within a few days in the city of Detroit. A large number of the delegates who attended the Cleveland confer- ence are reported nearing their home towns. The New York delegation was last reported outside of Buffalo. This group is traveling in a large truck and is expected to arrive in New York Friday. LONDON, Sept. 28—More than 5,000 unemployed workers demon- Hall yesterday against a cut in re- lief recently pushed through by the Town Council, which is controlled by the British Labor Party, the sister party of the American Socialist Party. The demonstration was led by the local Unemployed Council and is one of a series of giant open air meetings being held all over England in pro- test against the cut in the relief “doles” being, introduced by the Brit- ish socialists wherever they are in power, Five hundred police were called by the socialist officials to smash the demonstration and a clash took place which lasted for several hours. Many of the workers and four ‘policemen “cco Iniured, the workers demending themselves with COLLEAGUES OF NORMAN THOMAS IN ACTION 5,000 BRITISH JOBLESS HIT SOCIALIST DOLE CUT Leader of Socialists Calls 500 Cops to Club Workers While the police were charging the workers with upraised clubs, they were egged on by the Alderman, Will Thorne, a wel®known socialist mem~- ber of the, Town Council ‘The cuts in relief for the already starving unemployed is the result of the “findings” of the Royal Commis- sion on Unemployment which was set up by the Labor (Socialist) Gov- ernment. “Task” work, similar to the forced labor which has been introduced in many American cities, is being insti- tuted here by the socialist misleaders. Although unemployment is steadily mounting all over England, unem- ployment. relief is being cut under various pretexts, especially under the notorious Means Test, which forces the burden of relief of the unem- an the shoulders of thelr em- ‘ al ay where. Comradely yours, Dear Comrades: no other paper like it. . FROM A NEGRO WORKER I will do all I can to help the paper. There is for the Negro workers....Here.is a dollar, I wish I could send a thousand dollars!” Worker, 50 E. S. Z. the Los Angeles, Calif. Worker, dere is a dollar, I wisi OBI oe tes M. HH. Address 13th St, New York City. * 2 * Comrades:—Here is my share toward raising $40,000 Emergency Fund of the Daily 5 A. F. of L. Officials Endorse Both Hoover and Roosevelt ; Workers! Vote Communist! Green’s Own Figures Show Anti-Labor Record of Democratic and Re- publican Parties So Much Alike He Dare Not Choose Between Does not List Real Record of Starvation of Jobless, Wage Cutting | and Murder of Negroes; Communists Alone Fight These Crimes | > WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 28.— The AFL national office yesterday came out in support of the repub- lican and democratic capitalist can- didates in this election This is what the AFL “non-partisan,” “elect your friends and defeat your enemies” policy mean. The difference between republican and democratic nominees for president and vice president is so little, even according to the AFL officials’ count of their deeds and misdeeds, that the AFL makes no difference between them either. The committee issuing the state- ment was made up of President Wil- liam Green, Secretary Frank Mor- rison, Vice President Matthew Woll, and Thomas Rickert and Martin Ryan Both Are Bad ‘The committee's signed statement, released tothe press, finds that “President Hoover signed 31 bills fa- vorable (!) to labor and vetoed two” and appointed three notorious en- emies of labor to high office. These appointees were “Yellow Dog Con- tract” Judge Parker, “Injunction” Judge Wilkerson, and Judge Mac- Kintosh. Roosevelt while governor of New York has signed 19 measures “favor- able” to labor. As for the vice- presidential candidates, Carner has supported 11 labor bills and Curtis has supported 16. Garner has sup- ported 16 unfavorable to labor and Curtis 12. Putting Hoover and Curtis, Roose- velt and Garner together, one party is about as hostile or favorable to labor as the other, as far as the AFL record goes, and this record is misleading by calling such bills as the Muscle Shoals government operation bill a measure “favorable to labor.” Real Crimes Not Mentioned The AFL official declaration on the candidates does not say whether to vote republican or democrat, does not take into consideration the notorious anti-labor acts which outweigh all the petty bills both candidates have signed, It does not point to Hoo- ver’s refusal of unemployment relief or bonus and his wage cut stagger plan as attacks on the workers. It does not point to Rosoevelt’s sys- tematic starvation of the jobless in ‘New York, nor his slaughter while assistant secretary of the of 240 Haitians while looting them of their land and enslaving for It does not refer to the imperialist war program only partially hidden in the platforms and speeches of both Hoover and Roosevelt. The AFL. finds Hooyer and Roose- velt about equally bad for the work- ers, and doesn’t care which the worker votes for. But it endorses them both, at least by implication, against the Communist candidates, William Z. Foster and James W. Ferd, who are not mentioned at all, Vote Communist! It is only the Communists who run on a platform for unemployment in- surance at the expense of the em- ployers and the state, against wage cuts, against imperialist war, for complete Negro equality and self de- termination in the black belt, for payment of the veterans’ bonus, for real relief to the farmers, and the| other demands printed at the top of Page one of the Daily Worker. It is only the Communist candid- ates who lead strike struggles and} demonstrations for the relief of the jobless, who urge united front action of all workers against wage cuts, for insurance and relief, and against eviction for the soldiers’ bonus, for} farmers’ relief and exemption of poor | farmers from taxes and mortgage payments. AFL members who really want to vote for their friends and against their enemies will vote the Commu- nist ticket this year, against the boss- | es’ candidates, whether republican, | democratic or socialist. A. F. L. MEMBERS FOR INSURANCE Carpenters ( Call Mass Meeting, Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 28. — Carpenters Local 1180 here has ar- ranged a mass meeting at 2 p. m,, Saturday, in Painters Hall, 2030 Eu- clid Avenue, where Louis Weinstock, secretary of the AF.L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insur- ‘ance and the coming American Fed- eration of Labor Convention.” The local is urging all members of the A.F.L. to attend this impor- tant mass meeting. The AF.L. Trade Union Commit- tee has rallied some 800 local unions in the AFL. behind its demands for passage of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill by congress, and for the AF.L. to come out officially for the bill. President Green of the AFL, and his officials first launched @ campaign of threats of expulsion against those who support unem- ployment insurance, and then under the mass pressure made a gesture of proposing state unemployment in- surance for employed workers only with workers contributu¢ to the cost. The A.F.L. convention went on rec- ba Or alse, pase in the colipd compen eal rane, BUFFALO RELIEF CUT PROTESTED 200 A. F. L. Workers Urge More Protests BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 28.—Two hundred members of Local 41 of the International Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers, which is affiliated with the American Federation of La- bor, at a meeting Sept. 12, passed a resolution unanimously {nstructing the secretary to draft a letter to the Buffalo city council protesting against the recent drastic cut in local relief. The letter is to demand that the original weekly amounts be restored, | The membership also included the statement that they would not toler- ate the proposal of the welfare to, substitute the basket system of relief | distribution for the present check system. To Spread Movement. The unicn’s delegates to the Cen-| tral ‘Labor Council, and the Building | Trades Council were also instructed to bring the issue before those bodies | to be taken back to the various affili- ated unions, and a committee was elected to speak at other meetings of trades to bring the recent cuts and the general conditions locally to their attention and to similar action: a 4. sje Tom Mooney, serving life sen- tence for the Preparedness Day bomb explosion for which he was framed because he was a strike- leader, Demonstrate October 8 to set him free! FURTHER SLASH IN CITY RELIEF Harlem Families Cut Fifty Per Cent NEW YORK.—A further cut in re- | lief for the starving unemployed in} this city has already taken place at the order of the McKee government, the Lower Harlem Unemployed Coun- cil proved yesterday. This has been done by keeping the relief budget stationary although the requests for relief are mounting daily. In consequence, each family receiving | relief find: elf getting less and less | relief every week. The Lower Harlem Unemployed | Council yesterday accompanied 19} workers’ families to the Home Relief | Bureau on East 125th St. and de-/| manded that the Bureau rescind the | 50 per cent cut in relief which had} recently been imposed on the families | by the Bureau. The Unemployed | Council also demanded that the Bu-| reau pay the rent of the unemployed | workers on W. 113th St. ‘The answer of Moore, Superintend- | ant of the Bureau, was: “I had a| meeting with the Welfare Commis-| sioner today and axed him to raise For weeks I have been yelling for more money, but while the budget of this office remains the same, we have been getting from 50 to 75 new applications for relief daily. I don’t been totally and hopelessly discredi- ted. The trial judge himself, and all the jurors still alive have repeatedly beseached the governor of California for a new trial or commutation of the two innocent men In May, 1931, a German ex-noble- man Karl Von Moltke, once con-’ nected with the German imperialist espionage service in America, headed by Von Papen, now dictator of Ger- many and run in San Francisco by Consul Von Ropp, who was convicted of many bombings, declared he had proof that the German Kaiser's spies | set the preparadeness day bomb. He stated the bomb was placed by a spy named Frederick Hinsh, alias Gran- bor The present confession of Callicote may or may not be true. He says he was hired to place the suitcase con- taining the bomb at Stuart and M: ket Streets, did not know it was bomb, and did not say anything abou it until now because his parents ’'were strictly Seventh Day Adventists wi would have objected to his “worki on Saturday.” It may have been o of the Kaiser's spies who hired Cal- licate His story is evidence at least bett than any the prosecution had to shi Mooney, Billing didn’t place bomb. Should it not be true,. it at least indicates the rising mass conviction that the two workers are innocent —their innocence being already proved beyond doubt. Callicoet is held under bond by the authorities here. A POPE'S BLESSING SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico.—The lat- est hurricane here has been named the San Eusebio, after the Pope who ruled in 310 A. D. and whose feast day fell on Sept. 26, the day of the hurricane. | it's about time that the Welfare De- the budget, but he refused to do so.| partment did something.” The Lower Harlem Unemployed Council will hold a meeting on Sat- urday at its headquarters at 23 East 115th St. to intensify the struggle to force the city to supply adequate care if I lose my job but I will say | relief. BY MAINE SHOE STRIKE BROKEN DEMOCRATS Lewiston Workers Must Organize LEWISTON, Maine, Sept. 28—Sid- few days, was discouraged by the urg- |ney Norton, the leader of the shoe |ing of Brann and Holmes that all | strike of 5,000 workers here and in|go back on the manufacturers’ bare Auburn, together with governor elect | promise to “take on whoever we can,” Brann and Senator elect Holmes, Norton in each case such an offer ‘both democrats, has succeeded in de- | was made first gave support to It, moralizing the strike and such work- |then, when several times the mass ers as can get jobs have streamed | meetings of strikers refused to ac- ack to work, |cept such a settlement, Norton would The struggle by the militants |excuse his own acceptance as a “mis- among the strikers for election of | take” and contrive to keep in the a broad rank and file strike com-/leadership. But days of such tactics mittee, and for complete denunci-|on the part of Norton, Brann, Hol- ation of the strike-breaking trick of|mes and a Catholic priest, wrecked Norton, Holmes and Brann, came to |the strike. late to save the situation. Blacklist. The strike started two weeks ago| There are already clear evidences with discharge of Norton and 12/|of blacklist against the more mili- other workers for organizing shop | tant strikers. The wages have been groups. Norton and his clique stead- | cut repeatedly, and are so low that ily refused the demands of the mil-jeven employed workers will face itant rank and filers for broadening | starvation this winter. the demands and more militant pick-| The Shoe and Leather Workers In- eting. The strike demands were va-|dustrial Union, which was not in the gue throughout, and the only defi-|strike until it was practically wreck- nite one was for return of the men /|ed, urges the shoe workers now to go discharged. ahead and force their departmental ‘The strikers rank and file, militant-|and factory committees, and prepare o wee them, 10 take ly mass picketing and marching thru |for a real struggle in the future un-« Sn i the streets by: thousands tn tha feet der their own leadership, 22m Ww.