The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1932, Page 1

N In the Day’s News. FRENCH FARMERS PROTEST PARIS, Oct. 6—¥Four hundred wheat farmers held a mass demon- stration at the Commodity Bourse here, denouncing the parasitic specu- Jators who fattened on the farmers by the decline in wheat prices. Emer- gency police squads attacked the farmers and arrested some of them. 75 ARRESTED FOR SLEEPING NEW YORK.—Seventy-five home- less, unemployed workers were ar- rested by police between 2 and 3 a.m. yesterday in a raid upon men sleeping in an arcade cf the Fifth Ave. station of the Queensborough subway at 52nd St. The men were} trying to sleep on the concrete floor with pillows made of newspapers. ens THOMAS SAYS HOOVER IS SIN- CERE FOR HIS POSITION OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 6.—Playing the capitalist game of presenting the capitalist politicains as being “sin- cere.” Norman Thomas, socialist candidate for President, declared that Hoover's Iowa speech was “an able, tolerably consistent, and some- times eloquent defense of the capi- ta’-* ro-‘tion which he undoubtedly holds with much sincerity.” THEY’RE PROBABLY LOADED GENEVA, Oct. 6—A shining ex- ample of the cynicism of the im- perialist luminaries in the League of Nations was presented here today when they laughingly accepted a pair ‘of dice from the International Asso- ciation of Journalists offered them “with the view to settling peaceably and economically international ques- tions concerning which there is too much to be said on both sides.” AMERICAN IN VITAL POST IN US .S.S.R. MOSCOW, Oct. 6.—A civil engineer from San Francisco— Zara Witkin, 32-years of age, has been engaged by the Sovict Government as consultant to the Soyuztroi, the department which has charge of all construction in the U.S.S.R. and assigned to draw up a program for the building in- dustry for the second Five-Year Plan. BRITISH JOBLESS CLASH WITH POLICE = LONDON, Oct. 6.—A clash between ‘police and unemployed workers who congregated in the factory district following a vain search for work re- sulted in two policemen being hurt. Five of the workers were arrested. STORM KILLS 6 IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY, Oct. 6. — High winds, lightning, rains, hail and flood caused the death of four in Guadalajara, one in San Geronimo, Oaxaca, with a child killed by winds ‘at Tampico, Farm Strikers Start Militant Picketing On Many Highways DES MOINES, Iowa., Oct. 6—A general revival of-Militany picketing by farm strikers is taking place in » the Middle West. This seems to be \ \ " the practical answer of the farmers to Hoover's boastful speech, full of pro- mises either vague or trivial, made here Tuesday. Mass picketing is in line with the program of struggle urged by James W. Ford, Communist candidate for vice-president, when he spoke in Des Moines at ‘the same time and in the same city with Hoover. Ford called for united picketing and united demonstrations by city jobless and farm strikers, for broadening the strike demands for higher prices to the farmers to include lower prices to the workers, no taxes or tax sales for poor farmers, no forced collection of farm debts, East Side Unemployed Council Wins Relief NEW YORK.—The East Side Un- employed Council, with headquarters at 317 E. 31st St., led a committee of workers to the Home Relief Bu- reau, 51st St. and 8th Ave., on Tues- day morning, and won immediate re- lief for an unemployed family threat- ened with eviction. The Home Relief Bureau was forced to promise to pay rent and food checks for Mrs, Rose Lasky and her two year old baby girl, living at 349 E. 32nd St. This same family has been trying in vain to obtain relief since Sept. 1st and only an organized effort on the part of the workers won their demand. BAKERS MEET TODAY Rank and file bakery workers in New York on strike in five shops have elected a committee of 15 rank and filers at a general meeting who were given full power to conduct the fight for the eight-hour day. All bakery workers are urged to a the general meeting today, Friday, at 151 Clinton Street at 1 ‘o'clock, VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Unemployment and Social Insurance at the expense of the state and em- ployers. Against Hoover's wage-cutting policy. Emergency relief for the poor farm- ers without restrictions by the govern. ment and banks; exemption of poor farmers from taxes, and no forced collection of rent or debts : (Section of the Communist International) VOTE COMMUNIST ‘FOR? Equal rights for the Negroes and self* determination for the Black Belt, Against capitalist. terrc all forms of suppression rights of workers. r against for the de« fense of the Chinese people and of Against imperialist war the Soviet Union. Vol. IX, No. 240 EB 2 Entered as second-class matter at New York, N.Y, ander the Act of March 3, 1879. the Post Office at local demonstrations against the 50 Monday by Governor Emmerson’s killed Joseph Sbosab, and shot and shot. Many police were beat up, and windshields of police cars smashed. This first demonstration started in front of the Stanford Park Relief Station at 1701 South Spring St. As soon as speaking began, police squad’ cars charged into the crowd and the police then began to club and shoot. The workers, men and women, swarmed around their speakers to protect them, and fought back against the police with fists and stones. Six workers were arrested. Relief to Only One-Fifth. Relief already being given in Chi- jobless here. When the Emmerson Relief Commission announced Mon- day that this would be cut one half, the Unemployed Councils immedi- ately issued a call to all ployed workers to fight the cut. City Wide Struggle. The unemployed councils decided today to arouse the entire mass of unemployed workers in Chicago to demonstrations to force the retrac- tion of the cut. Offer United Front. They sent a letter to the Borders Committee for Unemployment Relief and to the Workers League of Amer- ica, both having considerable num- bers of jobless workers under reform- ist leadership.. The Unemployed Council letter urged united action against. the relief cut, with a meet- ing of the rank and file delegates as. well as the leaders of all three or- ganizations to take place Friday af- ternoon, to plan the struggle. ‘The letter of the Unemployed Coun- cil was printed as a leaflet and 50,000 copies are being distributed. It em- phasizes the need of uniting all un- employed workers, and workers who stil Ihave jobs, on the basis of a fighting policy, demonstrations, and delegations to the city and county authorities to demand the relief cut be stopped and more relief given. The central issue today is to stop the slash in relief, such as it was. Cook County Conference. The. letter refers to the October 16 Cook County Conference of delegates from worker organizations, and all organizations of the jobless including united front block, relief station, flop house and other committees, and urges that discussion of this confer- ence take place in all organizations and delegates be elected. But it points out also that the jobless of Chicago can not wait for the confer- ence must begin to struggle at once, and that these struggles can be used to build up the conference. Also the United Front Conference Friday can lead to and strengthen the Oct. 16 conference. The Borders Committee has just answered the letter and accepts the call to the united front conference Friday. The other organization has not been heard from yet. To City Hall. Friday the Unemployed Councils will send a mass delegation to the city hall and will mobilize demon- strations in support of the delegation throughout the city. The delegates will demand release of the six work- ers arrested at today’s demonstration, and no cut in relief, as well as plac- ing demands for more adequate re- lief, no evictions ,etc. Benjamin Speaks Sunday. A part of the city-wide campaign launched by these events is the mass meeting Oct. 11 at German House, 1536 Clybourne St., where Herbert Red Press Bazaar Opens at Madison Square Garden “Musical Concert, Dancing on Program Tonight; basis of Booths Offer Many Bargains; Pioneers Perform Saturday Afternoon Last night the Sixth Annual Bazaar of the Daily Worker, Freileit, Youn; ‘The review of the many booths merchandise for all workers’ Worker, opened at Madison Square Garden, 8th Avenue and 49th St. of workers who attended the first night witnessed a colorful construct : sar ag by workers organizations filled with Tonight’s program calls for a mu- sical concert as well as dancing. On Saturday there will be a special band for dancing as well as Sunday. ‘The Young Pioneers have prepared special features for Saturday after- noon: These include “Prize Fight,” a skit; acrobatic pyramids; stunts, and songs. Bring your children to the bazaar, (Tickets for tray and Monday, 25 cents; for Savuid', and Sunday. 50 cents; combination $1, obtainable at ‘ox office.) Pp tective John Fried fired the fatale —. cago was on a starvation basis, and! reached only 150,000 of the 750,000)! their | branches to urge workers and unem-} CHICAGO MASSES PROTEST OQ PER CENT RELIEF CUT; POLICE MURDER WORKER 1,000 in First of City Wide Struggle of Unem- | ployed, Battle Police; Smash Cars Unemployed Council Calls for Wider United | Front Struggles; Conference Oct. 16 _CHICAGO, iL, Oct. 6.—A terrific battle resulted this morning when | police opened fire on 1,000 unemployed workers in the first of the many | per cent cut in’ relief ordered here | Xeliet Committee, Yollee shot and | wounded another demonstrator. De- | Benjamin, national. secretary of the Unemployed Councils, will report on the nation wide struggle against starvation. The Cook County Unemployed Conference is to be at Sokol Hall, 193 South Racine Street. Honored By Workers | | | | One of the latest photos of Maxim Gorky, Soviet writer, whom the workers of the U. S. S. R. have honored, on the 40th anniversary of the publication of his first book, by Novgorod to Gorkygrad.- NINE ON TRIAL IN BERLIN FREED Huge Crowds Greet Their Acquittal (Cable by Imprecorr. ) BERLIN, Oct. 6.—Following upon the speech by the defense shatter- ing to pieces the case built by the prosecution against the nine work- ers accused of haying murdered a fascist, the Court of today’s session acquitted all the accused. luge crowds greeted the freed workers singing the International and shouting communist slogans. The police did not succeed in dis- persing the demonstrations. British Laborites Increase Demagogy to Choke Struggle LEICESTER, England, Oct. 6—An outright demagogic manouver to re- store the “political virginity” of the Labor Party was engineered here when, against the opposition of Ar- thur Henderson, the Labor Party Conference adopted a resolution in- structing the leaders of the next Labor Government to stand only on a “definite socialist” policy or fall. That the resolution was merely de- signated to prevent the masses from abandoning the Labor Party and turning to the Communist Party for leadership in the struggle against misery and starvation, is clear from the kind of “socialist” policy advo- cated The conference called for national- ization of railways and electric .in- dustries, which in a capitalist society is not a socialist measure but a mea- sure designated to -strengthen the capitalist rule and ext‘oifation, in- creasing the misery of the working masses. It means capitalist state ownership of the above industries. The conference further advo- cated “effective cooperation” with United States imperialism on the Hoover's proposal for the reduction of other countries’ arms. SCOTTSBORO BENEFIT TONIGHT NEW YORK—Thousands of work- ers are expected at the huge Harlem Show and Dance to be given Friday, Oct. 7, for the benefit of the Scotts- boro boys, at Rockland Palace, 280 W. 155th Street, near Eight Avenue. Practically every Harlem and Broadway performer of note has been lined up is ie oho kth for ap- pearance ai ow. Among them will be such favorites as Duke El- lington and his orchestra, Monette Moore of “Flying Colots,” etc. Bennie Carter's Band, known as the “hottest orchestra in town,” will furnish the music for the dancing, which will last until dawn, Sign up for National Daily Worker Tag Days, Oct. 14, 15, 16. Tag Days, Oct. 14, 15, 16. Tag Day Stations an- nounced later. changing the name of Nizhni- | EW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1932 _ CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Demonstrate Saturday to Free Scottsboro Negro Boys, Mooney! Smash the Frameup! Wettie International Red Aid, Wri Dear Comrades: save the “Daily.” voices raised on behalf of class struggle. masses. Send in your donation 18th St., New York, Harts Island Prisoners Make Stirring Plea to Save the Daily Worker ROM Harts Island, one of the New York prisons in which militant workers are jailed for their cour- ageous participation in the day-to-day struggle of la- bor, comes a collective voice in support of the fight of the Daily Worker for its existence. “To the Editor of the Daily Worker, “A group of political prisoners and sympathizers, many who became readers of the “Daily” while in | prison—read your appeal for 40,000 dollars, a sum to | “Though iron bars isolate us. from taking active part in the class struggle we feel confident that our heard outside of prison walls. “The Daily Worker is of utmost importance insthe It is an organizer of tens of thousands of workers, a powerful weapon in our everyday strug- gle against the hunger and war program of the bosses’ _ government. It gives guidance and leadership to the “Workers be on guard! The voice of sixteen mil- lion unemployed workers and the millions of employed workers suffering wage cuts and speed up must not be strangled. Individuals or in groups come to the res- cue of the Daily Worker. Contribute your last pennies to the Daily Worker Fund. “Long live the Daily Worker. for a Soviet United States. . * IHESE workers.are calling for support of the “Daily” not only because of its unceasing fight for the class-war prisoners of which they are a part—for its unrelenting campaign for the freedom of the Scotts- boro boys, Tom Mooney, and the scores of other vic- tims of capitalist class persecution. Finding the “Daily” as vital to themselves inside the prison walls as outside—their call emphasizes once agai» the urgent need of the “Daily.” from your friends and fellow-workers—half-dollars and more, and rush it to the Daily Worker, 50 East the Daily Worker will be On with the fight at once! Gather donations The conference will be held Sun- day, October 16, at 2 p.m, in the Manhattan Lyceum, 64th East 4th Street. At this ccnference a united front action for the release of the Italian political prisoners will be taken up. A telegram of protest was sent to the Italian Ambassador in Washing- ton. * 6 By J. B. The fascist government of Italy is silent in the face of the heroic hunger strike of 200 Communists in the prison of Civitavecchia, where three of the most outstanding leaders of the Communist Party of Italy— Terracini, Li Causi and Pianezza re- cently met the fate of Gastone Sozzi and others who were murdered by the fascist jailers. The fascist government, which boasts of having “eliminated” the class struggle and destroyed the Communist Party of Italy is not an- xious to let the outside world know that the Communist Party is alive and active throughout the country and that the anti-fascist struggle reaches even the most secluded fas- cist fortress, storms even the most ey. guarded prison of Civitavec- chia. Strike in Pallanza Also Another hunger strike is already on in the prison of Pallanza where the treatment of political prisoners is equally inhumtan, according to In- ternational Press Correspondence. The anti-fascist hostages held by Mussolini in his prison chambers are on their feet, fighting not only for themselves, but for the workers and peasants of Italy. In view of the fact that a st all the political prisoners of OBitavee. 200 CONTINUE HUNGER STRIKE IN ITALY JAILS Strike Spreads ae Pallanza Prison; Growing Fight Against Fascist Hunger Regime Lives of Communists in Danger; U. S. Workers Demand Release by Demonstrating Oct. 8 NEW YORK.—At a preliminary united front conference, called by the International Labor Defense, the delegates of 21 workers’ organizations de- cided to call an enlarged conference to protest the murder of Terracini, Li Causi and Pianezza in the fascist dungeon of Civitavecchia and demand the unconditional release of all the other political prisoners on hunger strike. o. chia have already spent six years in prison, they are physically weak and the hunger strike may be fatal to many more of them. Aid From U. S. Workers Imperative It is imperative that the workers of the United States support the hunger strikers of Italy. This hunger strike of politieal prisoners in Italy is.of tremendous significance. It oc- curs at a time when the class strug- gle in Italy is being intensified and thousands of workers and peasants drawn into it. The crisis is continuing to deepen. Hoover's press agent in Europe, the infamous Knickerboker, boasts that fascism succeeded in bringing abdut “economic recovery.” He states that the “financial geniys” of Mussolini averted the collapse of the financial ‘structure some time last year, and concludes that as a result the finan- cial crisis in Italy was avoid-" Under fascism, the indusu,. nd egrarian crisis is grinding on. Far From “Recovery” That the situation in Italy is far from indicating anything like a “re- covery” is proven by the very fact that fascism, in an effort to stem the struggle of the workers by the use of demagogic gestures recently included in the cabinet Edmondo Rossoni, a former syndicalist whom the Italian workers of New York and ether cities learned to know as a corrupt demagogue. This ministerial change was a sign of the critical situ- ation existing in Italy; and the ter- ror now being intensified along with the increased use of demagogic ex- pedients, shows that fascism is afraid CONVENTION OF LABOR DEFENSE AND THE LSNR. Will Send Delegation To Washington in Scottsboro Case BULLETIN NEW YORK.—One hundred and ninety delegates, _ representing 10,000 ind'vidual members of the International Labor Defense and affiliated groups with a total mem- bership of 127,000, have already presented their credentials to the credentials committee of the Fifth National Convention of the Inter- national Labor Defense wh’ch will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 8 and 9. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 6.—On the day when, in every’ city in the world masses of workers demonstrate for the freedom of the eight inno- cent Negro Scottsboro boys, the In- ternational Labor Defense opens its national convention here, The I. L. D. has been the first defender of these framed Negro children, slated for death in the electric chair and betrayed by many of the Negro and white Capitalists, by the conservative labor movement and by the “liberal” “National Association for the Ad- vancement of the Colored People,” and by such legal lights as Darrow, who likes to call himself “liberal.” The I. L. D. still leads the struggle; it is. on the masses, raising their voices in mass demonstration all over the world, that it relies to snatch the victims of white landlord- ism from the electric chair. Convention Starts Oct. 8. International Scottsboro - Mooney Day is Oct. 8. The I. L. D. National Convention will be held here Oct. 8 and 9. The day before it meets, the National Convention of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights will take place, delegates registering at 1426 West Third St., and bling tomorrow in 3804 Scoville St The L. S. N. R., organization of militant white and Negro workers, will undoubtedly endorse the I.L.D. campaign for release of the Scotts- boro boys. There are only two days left in which to rally such a strong protest that the Supreme Court of the United States will have to reverse the death verdict of the Alabama frame-up courts. The case is before the Supreme Court Oct. 10. The Na- tional Convention of the I. L. D. will make it one of its first duties to elect from the delegates present a delegation to Washington on Oct. 10, and enter there the demands: of the workers, Negro and white alike, that this murder of Negroes cannot go through. Demand Freedom For the West Indies Masses from Britain NEW. YORK, N. Y.—“The Execu- tive Committee of the Negro Wel- fare Association of London protests against the commission which the British government has appointed to proceed to the West Indies to in- vestigate the question of the closer union of some of those colonies un- der the name of federation,” declares a resolution just received by the Anti-Imperialist League of the U. S. The Welfare Association points out that the intention of the British com- mission is to bind the people of the West Indies still closer to the yoke of British imperialism. “We believe that only by working for complete self government outside the British Empire will the masses in the West Indies be able to do away with their intolerable economic conditions.” The resolution is signed by Arnold Ward, secretary. peasants in Sicily, Sardinia and Southern Italy, of workers, soldiers and sailors against imperialist war. Solidarity Urgent Fascism tries to weaken the work- ing class by torturing its exponents who are held as hostages in the fas- cist prisons. But the political pri oners strike back, with the only weapon at their disposal — hunger strike. They need the workers’ soli- darity. The united protest action of the workers throughout the United of the workers’ struggle, of unem- ployed workers in Venice, Milan and other big industriah dss rs as Terracku, Li Caus and Planewta, pe ‘egations atthe Conference. States must save the anti-fascist prisoners and spare them the fate of ght Tour, Rallies ° % j sem- | ‘| Scottsboro Mother On Way to U.S.S.R. | y Inprecorr Cable) | BERLIN, Oct. 6. — Mrs. Ada Wright and Louis Engdahl returned to Berlin upon completing a stir- ring tour of 16 European countries in defense of the Scottsboro Boys. Reports received by Engdahi show the widest mobilization in All Eu ropean cities for the October 10th campaign. Mrs. Wright is undergoing a sur- gical operation of a latent stomach trouble, after which she and Eng- a will proceed to Moscow to participate in the 15th Anniversary Celebrations and attend the Inter- national Red Aid Congress. Ail Out Saturday at i Union Sq. for Mass | Scottsboro Struggle | The District Secretariat, District | |2, Communist Party, end: s the | | October 8th Scottsboro demon- | | } stration and calls upon the workers | of New York, Negro and white, to | | mobilize in vast umbers in a mighty demonstration for defense of the nine Negro Scottsboro boys. The District Secretariat calls to| e attention of the workers the | |need for raising the struggle for | j. | the defez of the Scottsboro boys 'limmediately to the highest level | on the broadest mass basis. | |} On Monday, October 10th, the | United States Supreme Court will | |review the appeal for these boys. | The workers must have no illu- | | sions as to the role of the United | States Supreme Court. The U. 5S. | Supreme Court is controlled by the {same gang of lynchers and mur- | |derers as the Alabama Supreme | Court which upheld the death ver- | | dict of the lower courts against the boys. ‘The District Secretariat | |points out that to rely upon the | | “fairness” of capitalist courts, as | the leadership of the National As- | sociation for the Advancement of | | Colored People advises, is to help |send these boys to their death. | Only the mighty struggles of the | working-class, Negro and white, | and all the friends of the working- | class, can save these boys from | electrocution. All out on Saturday, at 2 p. m., to Union Square! | Demand the release o* the nine | Scottsboro boys, of Tc Mooney, and of all class war risoners, Organize, unite in the fight | against capitalist reaction, and | against all forms of suppression of | the political rights of the workers. | Build the united might and |power of the Negro and white | workers. ARRESTED RESISTING EVICTION NEW YORK.—Samuel Groushak and Arthur Scharfman, both young workers were arrested Wednesday for taking part in a demonstration against the eviction of. a family of an unemployed worker at 1721 Bath- |gate Ave., Bronx. They were com- | ing up yesterday in Morisania Court, | charged with “interfering with an officer.” || The determ to secure the \nocent Scottsboro Negro of All Europe RALLIES TONIGHT - THROUGHOUT N. Y. ON SCOTTSBORO Will Mobilize Workers for Union Sq. Meet Saturday A powerful last be made on Frid | workers all over the Scottsboro Mc tion on Union Square p. m,, October 8th, it wa by the New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defen again manifested at | demonstration held in nesday night. Hui | paraded up Lenox Ave over 145th Street to Fi where they held one of demonstrations ever held on corner. The spirit of the marchers at- j tracted tho is who d botl | sides of the street to watch the par. ade marching to the music f by the Req Front Band. Th was held by the Young mm League and the International Labor Defense: The following mee’ onstrations will be held ing in preparation for the Oc 8th demonstration: Manhattan Columbus Circle—Manhattan tion, ILD, 8 p. m Ith @treet and Avenue B.—Down- town Section ILD, 8 p. m Brooklyn. Kings Highway and 14th S Pp. m Dumont Yuoth Club. Pennsylvania Youth Branch Saratoga and Prospect, Shoc ers Genter. Hopkinson and Pitkin Branch. Sutter and Hinsdale, Branch. Herkimer and Schenectady, boro Branch. Alabama and Blake, munist League Riverdale and Powell Bronx 1157 Southern Boulevard m.—Prospect Workers Club. Claremont Parkway and W: ton Ave., at 8 p. m., a parade held under the auspices of § 15 of the Communist Party, the Negro section of the Yonkers. 27 Hudson Street, 3:30 p. m. sharp, Yonkers Branch, I. L. D. nd de 8 and Thatford, American arid Sutter, Resetar Brownsville Alfred Levy You IWO no. 121 p. ction through Bronx, BAZAAR FREE TO UNEMPLOYED All unemployed workers who wish to come to the bazaar of the Daily Worker, Morning Freiheit and Young Worker, and can’t afford the price of a ticket, will get one free at any Dn- employed Council. No one will be admitted without a ticket. held on November 8. the Communist City Election Con- ference which will be held at the Lido Ball Room, 146th Street and 7th Ave., on Monday, Oct. 10, at 8 p. m. The conference has been endorsed by cul- tural groups, including the John Reed Club, it was announced today by the New York State United Front Com- munist Election Campaign Commit- tee, under whose auspices the confer- | ence will be held. Needle Trade workers. attending a mass meeting at Bryant Hall Wed- nesday, pledged their support of the City Election Conference and issued a call to all workers in the Needle Trade industry to see to it that their | unions are represented by strong del- New York Elections Nov. 8! Workers! Support Patterson, Send Delegates to Mayoralty Conference, Monday! Will Plan Fight Against All _ Candidates of Big and Small Capitalists NEW YORK:—The Court of Appeals, in a decision rendered today from Albany, ruled that an election for Mayor of New York City should be Shop groups, unions, women’s groups, mass and fraternal organizations are rallying in support of the Communist candidates in the coming Mayor- alty election by electing delegates to#— The mobilization of workers to vote Communist on November 8th is a significant. part of the struggle against capitalist oppression, the Uni- ted Front Election Committee pointed out. * “Fearing a working-class united under Communist leadership, the capitalist press is doing its utmost to disorganize and misleaq the work- ers by giving friendly publicity to the Socialist Party,” the United Front | Election Commmittee stated. “The | Conference will expose the willingness of the Socialist Party to work with the other boss parties against the bonus, against immediate relief and for unemployment and social insur- ance at the expense of the employeis and the state,” : nam utile, \ enim am Hemme