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, largely to my efforts.” -, ployed fellow-workers. ) 4 | The west side and south side col- DAILY WORKER, NitW YORK, TUBSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1932 International Notes By PETER HENRY PRUSSION SOCIALISTS AS WARD- HEELERS OF REACTION LEIPZIG.—In. the recent suit of the ousted Prussian Government against the Von Papen Reichs Government before the German Su- preme Court, the attorneys for the Socialist ex-ministers Braun and Ser tried to prove that the So- cialist cabinet had done as much as anyone to fight the Communists, thus “proving their fitness for office.” Otto Braun, ousted Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, in a letter to the court, wrote: For tem years I supported the policies of the Federal Government, irrespective of the composition of the Reich Cabinet, often to the injury of ™my own party's propaganda, which in the Reichstag opposed measures for which I voted in the Federal Coun~- cil to further close cooperation be- tween the Reich and- Prussia. And it is bitter to be kicked out of office now like a servsnt accused of stealing who isn’t allowed to enter the house any more. It is all the more bitter, since it is done at the order of a man (Hindenburg), for whose loyalty to the Constitution I vouched with all my reputation and who owes his re- election as President of Germany Could cne want a clearer statement of the part played by the Socialists in betraying the German working- class since the 1918 Revolution than this brief of one of the oustanding Jeaders of German socialism, who today heads the Socialist ticket in every election district in the coming Reichstag election? The role of so- cialists is the same, all over the world mas, Hillquit and their gang. 50,000 CHICAGO JOBLESS MARCH Win Important Gains in Mass Fight (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) with a tremendous roar to ~support the National Hunger March to Wash- ington, and to prepare for it with hunger hearings, with united front ‘organization in th? neighborhoods and breadlines, and by increasing the struggle for relief in Chicago. “Vote Communist!” Over 1,000 police were sent to over- awe the marchers. So far from being cowed were they that they swarmed up to the riot wagons and on one of them painted in big red letters: “Vete Communist!” Ragg2d ang lezen unemployed work- ers, men, women and children, and women with babies in. their arms, surged along in step, shouting denun- ciation of the Hoover-Roosevelt hun- ger programs, demanding winter re- lief. Mingled with them were heartier forms, workers who still have jobs but who came out to fight the Hoover stagger system, the wage-cuts, and to demand relief for their unem- “Don’t Starve; Fight!” umns merged just outside the loop at noon, and a few minutes later the north side column joined them. The whole mass of hunger march- ers then swept through the Loop to the city hall, chanting: “We want work or relief; Don't Starve! Fight!” They marched past the city hall, 25 abreast, booing Mayor Cermak, who had tried to prevent their en- tratce into the Loop and only issued @ permit at the last moment. “Murderer!” they shouted at the) mayor whose police killed the unem- ployed council member, Sbosob, a couple of weeks ago for demonstrat- ing against the 50 per cent relief cut which Cermak has now been forced to promise to abolish. The marchers raised their fists against the city hall and the Democratic administra- tion there. March Past Aimed Pistols. When the great parade poured into Michigan Boulevard, the street of the millionaires’ shops, the heart of the financial and luxurious part of Chi- cago, the police tried to crowd them )Jonto the sidewalk, Polic2 with drawn istols stood in the street, pointing \ heir guns at the marchers and yell ing at them to get out of the street, But with red flags waving and a thunder of denunciation for the po- lice, the parade rolled by them and down the middle of Michigan Boule- vard. Leaders of the Borders Committee _and Workers League tried to get the masses to agree to the police de- mand, but leaders of the unemployed council, with the masses behind them, disregarded the police order. i Scowling proprietors of shops whose iron grated windows were full of jewels and thousand-dollar dresscs shivered in the doorways. Red Flag Waves. A red fleg was placed on a traffic light at Michigan and Monroe, and it waved there all during the march, with the rich residents and out-of- ‘town commercial men Jooking in hor- vor at it and at the mighty demon- stration of the jobless. The windows of the fashionable hotels: Blackstone, Conarees, Stevens, were crowded, and so were the windows and doors of ‘ye University Club, The marchers jeoan to sing songs against Hoover's od Reosevelt’s starvation policy. ‘She parade went on to Grant Park, romit to vse which had been ob- t: ned only after a sharp struggle with the Cermak administration. e they cheered the Communist c udidates who addressed them, and toab off a big delegation with roars cf apvroval to demand no reduction ia relisf, no evictions, more relief, fcod and clothing for school children, eee, Against capitalist terror; (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) home. With the cloudless skies and tropic sun it would be an early season. The speckled bolls of cot- ton were cracking open and dotting the fields with heads as white as his mother's counterpane; cotton to be picked under a friendly sky, with the black, shiny faces of his mother and father near ang the dry drone of field insect: fo> music while he and Henrietta followed the furrows and stuffed the sacks hang- ing from their shoulders. Henrietta would be joyous at her brother’s return and little Zebulon, scamper- ing barefooted in patched overalls, would do a jig in sheer delight. David wondered as he had won- dered so often in the long months on the chain gang whether it had been wise to reject Mr. Jim Deer- ing’s offer to pay the ‘twenty-five dollar fine as an advance on a thirty-dollar a month job on the JOHN L. SPIVAK’S “GEORGIA NIGGER” rector in the Southern Cotton Bank where the whites kept their money and lived in a big house in a re- mote end of Ocklockobee County. But the boy’s father had advised against the planter's offer. I ain’ specially«keen. 'bout hit, he had said. “Deys bringin’ yo’ up tuh-morrer'n’ de co't 0’ ginral ju'sdiction ain’ s'posed tuh set fo’ t'ree months yet.” ‘To the old man wise in the ways of the white mans south the has was an ominous sign. He h heard of other Negroes whom M Deering had befriended. The: were said to be men working for him whose fines he had advanced years ago, men never seen even on a Saturday evening in town. Mr. Deering always said the eigh- teen miles to the county seat at Live Oak was too long for the tired help. A few of the planter’s trusted men did come to town once in a while. He brought them in his Mre William W.Weinstone, Editor,The Daily Worker, 50 East 15th Street, New York,NeYs Dear Mr Weinster.er mente JOHN L. SPIVAK Sea Cliff,L.I., 0ot028,1932 Enclosed please find your signed copy of the contract sent me regarding the serial- ization of "Georgia Nigger" per our telephone conversation of the 26th inste Urider separate cover I am mailing you about 75 addi tional photographs and doouments relating to the lives and torture of Negroes in Georgia,as per agree= in The Daily Worker as May I express my appreciation of the manner in which The Daily Worker has been play= ing the news elements in the book? I certainly hope that The Daily Worker's serialising the book and printing the mass of dooumentary and photographic evidence will help to end the intolerable conditions under which so many Negroes and whites live not only in Georgia but in the whole Black Belt. Sineerely yours, Liha Photostatic copy of the letter sent by John L. Spivak, author of “Georgia Nigger”, in connection with the purchase by the Daily Worker of the reprint rights of this remarkable exposure of chain gang tor- tures and Negro peonage in the Black Belt, Deering plantation. There were ugly rumors about the white man. Those for whom he advanced fines some- how never quite succeeded in work- ing them off. Sometimes they were never heard of again after they went to work for him. ee was Mr. Jim Deering whenever the boy thought of him. Deering was a power, an important figure in county politicsa wealthy man with three or four thousand acres of cotton and corn, pecan groves and peanut farms. He was a di- Ford, and when these found a bottle of white mule they some- times whispered tales black men do not repeat too often, even among themselves, (TO BE CONTINUED) eo ee WHAT ARE THESE TALES THAT THE NEGROES DO NOT DARE TO REPEAT TOO OFTEN? WHAT IS HAPPENING ON JIM DEERING’S PLANTATION THAT TERRIFIES THE WHOLE SOUTH? ONLY THE DAILY WORKER HAS DARED TO BRING THIS STORY TO YOU. DON’T MISS TOMORROW'S ISSUE. PORTLAND VETS PREPARE MARCH Rank and File Hold Bonus Conference PORTLAND, Ore. Oct. 27 (By Mail).—Despite obvious attempts on the part of local anti-bonus elements, subsidized and controlled by capital- ist politicians,,to prevent the rank and file veterans’ conferenc2 here, the rank and file veterans met and Jaid out plans for a march on Wash- ington, D. C. A rank and file com- mittee was formed and unanimously resolved to swing into action at once. As proof that the misleaders are still busy in Portland, the city from which the vest-pocket dictator, Wa- ters, sprang, ® free supper, dance and political speech wes suddenly an- nounced for all veterans with the “rank and file” worker-veterans stres- sed, at the hour of the conference. Free feeds are a novelty to the rank and file veterans. As a consequence, many hungry working class veterans, to whom the bonus issue is a vital one, were side- tracked from the conference by the prospect of an immediate meal and free entertainment. The free supper and dance was planned, called, and given wide publicity among the work- ers within twenty-four hours of the rank and file conference. Local Marches But a wide representation of vet- erans responded to the call to plan a struggle for payment of the bonus, and agdinst the bosses’ hunger pro- gram for the winter. The committees are beginning activity at once. Among the plans enthusiastically adopted were for a local demonstration and march to protest the gradual curtail- ment of veteran relief which will be held Nov. 3, and a state march to Salem to demand of Governor Meier, millionaire department store owner, endorsement and support of the bo- nus march. The state march will take place on November 7th. By MYRA PAGE. (European Correspondent for the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 31.—Just return- ed to Moscow after a 30-day trip thru Central Asia and the Caucasia Re- public, 12 American Negroes, mem- bers of the “Black and White” film group, give an enthusiastic picture of the complete emancipation of the colored peoples of Uzbekistan, Turk- menistan, Azerbeidjan and Georgia as a result of the proletarian revolu- tion and the dictatorship of the pro- letariat. | They found these peoples, once as bitterly oppressed as the American tive culture and taking full part in transforming the Soviet Union into @ lang of Socialism, Loren Miller, well-known journalist expressed the sentiments of the en- tire group when he said: au forms suppresston of tne politiont =~" = 0¢ mnevene “We cannot help but be moved by the changes taking place in Boviet vr «atymolty taal a close kin- ret Murdered Miner, Milit strike area. Also militia who flouri: Photo shows funeral of Ganes, killed by militia in the Taylorville, and below, members of the women’s auxiliary, supporters of the strike, ja, and Miners’ Wives |. ished their weapons at his funeral, the city, etc. The following headline and article was published in a New York paper on October 17: “Hundreds of home owners op- pressed by overdue and called mort- gages, and buoyed until now by op- timistic propaganda which indicat- ed that foreclosures would be halted by the opening of home loan banks, today had their hopes wrecked....” Well, saps, including myself, what. are we going to do about it? A cer- tain mortgage company has informed me that they intend calling my mort- gage which shall be due shortly. If I cannot get a renewal and no help from an institution established by the government to save its citizens from being thrown on the streets, j also to keep them sitting by the fire- side this coming winter listening to the radio and anticipating the chick- en dinner to be served (a chicken in every pot)—what are we going to do about it? Now is the opportune time for ev- ery small home owner, every tenant living in fear of eviction, to band together with the other. Let us form a Home Defense League, to fight for our families, demand a moratorium until conditions get better, according to the newspapers they are getting better every day. ? ? ? So the loan sharks won’t have to wait very long to receive their hard earned principal which they have in- vested in mortgaged and firetraps. Comrades, awake! Fight for your families and homes. —World War Veteran. Threaten to Throw ' Farm Laborers from Shacks This Winter, LAUREL, Del.—The usual influx of farm laborers, mostiy Negroes, for harvesting the sweet potato crop, is facing rough handling this fall in Laurel. There is not enough work and the city authorities are looking upon this influx as an “invasion of undesirables.” The men are erecting shacks and naming the lanes, pre- paring to shelter themselves for the winter. The attitude of the officials toward this homeless army of unemployed is best expressed by “The Baltimore News” of Oct. 21: . “The end of the potato harvest is expected to take a few of these un- desirables from the town, but firm and drastic orders will be issued to those remaining, as the town can- not tolerate this class during the winter.” So what the heck is an unemployed man going to do during the winter— just when he needs shelter most? During the summer, when the town and surrounding countryside needs their labor, “this class” of undesir- ables can be tolerated—as long as they can be of use. Then, after the work is over, they can be thrown out. Chats with Our Worcorrs Suggestions for Home Owners. The World War veteran, who faces| the loss of his home in Long Island, is naturally seeking some organiza- tion which can protect him. This worker, already deeply in sympathy with the aims of the Unemployed Councils, should not be thinking about a separate organization, but some form of home defense group] under the Unemployed Councils. He should get in touch with the New York headquarters of the Council at 10 E. 17th St., and talk the matter over with the comrades there. No doubt resistance can be organ- ized against the eviction of this worker from his home. As to the legal transfer of his property from himself to the mortgagee, some form of struggle must also be evolved there, depending on the situation in this particular case. The Unemployed} Council will find some means of com- batting this swiftly growing menace of robbery of workers who are home- owners, under the slogan: “No taxa- tion of small home owners”; no fore- closures.” In Detroit the “Worker Home Own- ers’ Protective Association” is grow- ing rapidly, and as soon as we are able to gather more material on its activities, how it intends to struggle and how it is linked up with the gen- eral labor movement, the Daily} Worker will explain the form of or- ganization ang its demands to the workers throughout the country. NO RELIEF FOR HOME OWNERS. Even If They Starve in Their Houses | EDWARDSVILLE, Pa—The Poor Board here is, suing Marjorie Bankus of Wilkes-Barre b2cause she received | relief from them while she owned) some measly little property, and they | want the money returned. This brings to light a mean practice of the Poor Board. The workers’ fam- ilies here, who have properties and jare unemployed, cannot receive poor! board relief of any kind, because they will be told by the agent from the Poor District to sign their prop- erties over to them. ‘This is meant that the relief or-| ders given out will be strictly checked | up. When a certain period of time has gone by in giving out relief or- der, the total amount is figured out to what the property is really worth, | ic then it is taken away from them, PREPARING NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH DETROIT HUNGER MARCH PRECEDES NATIONAL MARCH \Struggle Against Pay Cuts and Evictions Rousing Masses DETROIT, Mich. Oct. 31.—Over 500 ..delegates .from .all .kinds ..of workers’ organizations met here and laid plans for two great movements of the unemployed for relief. One-is the Detroit Hunger March, Nov. 5, and the other is the state- wide mobilization of the Michigan sections of the National Hunger March. The conference elected a committee | and sent it with demands to the city Worker Correspondents Write| of Homes Confiscated War Veteran Calls Small HomeOwnerstoOrganize About to Lose His Home As Company Calls | His Mortgage I am not a member of the Communist Party but I am in sympathy with the humane principles advocated by you, for instance, no evictions, gas and electricity to be furnished the unemployed, and other aid for the unemployed in the way of unemployment insurance, more direct relief from — ee administration for no more evictions and for increased winter relief. Mayor Murphy met the committee, and sneeringly rejected all their demands. ‘The conference had forseen this, and had made plans for the city hunger march to bring pressure on the city government. The march will start its main section from Ferry Hall, Ferry and Russell, Saturday, at 1 pm., and other sections will join at Grand Circus Park at 2 pm. Com- munist candidate swill lead the vari- ous columns. Fight Auto Co, Wage Cuts Besides the demands of the un- employed, the Detroit Hunger March will protest the wage cutting program of Ford Motor Co. and other automo- bile companies and will help organize the workers for strike against wage cuts. In preparation for the National Hunger March, public hearings, mass meetings, and local struggles are in- creasing, and delegates for the Na- tional Hunger March are being elected. Columns of national hunger march- ers, concentrating on Detroit to join Column 1 of the National Hunger March there on November 27, are to start from four main points in the state. One is the main route through southern Michigan of the National Hunger March column itself, which reaches Kalamazoo from South Bend, Ind., on November 26 and goes on !through Jackson and Ann Arbor to Detroit. Another column starts from Holland. Two other columns start from Kal- amazoo ang Holland on November 25, join at Grand Rapids, and go on through Lansing to Detroit. From the north a column leaves Saginaw on Noy. 26, and comes down through Flint and Pontiac to Detroit. Rritish Fear For Capitalism in Japan LONDON, Oct. 31—British im- perialist circles, sympathetic to Ja- pan’s robber aims in Manchuria, are expressing grave concern over the in- creasing catastrophic nature of the crisis in Japan. It is admitted in the imperialist press here that the Japa- nese yen is steadily losing in value, having fallen further during the past few weeks and that both the security and commodity markets in Japan are showing signs of “considerable un- easittess.” Since workers also read the im- perialist press, that press is careful to add the much-peddled lie of “an underlying feeling of confidence” in the condition of capitalism in Japan and elsewhere. and the relief order will be reduced. The single workers who are unem- ployed also don’t receive any. The different things the workers once bought and enjoyed, such as radio, automobil2 and good furni- ture, are also doomed. These work-! ers are told to sell them to support their families. Under the capitalist decaying sys- tem today, if unemployed workers’ families need relief, they will have to be in a ragged and starvation condition to get some miserable re- lief. And even this is at the expense of the employed mine workers in the anthracite, who are forced to give $1 every month from their pay to help the unemployed miners, but most of the funds goes in the pock- ets of the grafters in the locals. And then take a look at this clip- ping from the Times-Leader of Oct. 18. Talk about forced labor! “Beginning today and continuing each day this week, ten residents of West Pittston will receive work on the street force in connection with the relief plans formulated | recently by Wyoming Valley muni- cipalities, Instead of receiving money for the work, the men will get orders honored at any store.” . S. NEGROES HAIL LIBERATION OF COLORED PEOPLES IN Asia --- Guests of National Republics ship with the millions and millions of colored peoples oppressed and rob- bed by Americans, British, French and Japanese imperialisms in Africa, India, China, the Philippines, Latin America, etc. These people are all told by their oppressors that they are not fit to govern themselves, However, we saw with our own eyes how our brother peoples in the So- viet part of Asia and the Near East are making tremendous progress and proving before the whole world what the oppressed peoples can do once they have won their freedom and the right of self-government.” ‘The group expressed the unani- up| ™ous opinion that the Soviet Union is the one country where all races and nationalities enjoy full rights and opportunities . They expressed them- selves as much struck by the active support given the peoples of the na- tional republics by the entire work- ing-class of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party and the Soviet Government, Welcomed By Masses the members of the Ne- * , ‘U.SS.R. “Black and White” Film Group Welcomed by Emancipated Nationalities of Soviet - . gro Film Group went they were wel- comed by delegations at the railway stations and at meetings by the City Soviets, in workers’ clubs, factories, and on the huge collective farms. In Uzbekastan, they were the guests of the president of the republic, Ak- hum Babaev, a native of Uzbek and a former cotton tenant farmer whose Jot. under the rule of Czarist imper- ialism was similar to that of the Ne- gro share croppers in the Southern states of America today. They were also greeted by the \ve-president of Uzbekistan, a woman of Uzbek who was the second person in the country to have the courage to throw aside the veiled costume known as “paranja” and all the customs of the East that bound women for centuries. One thing especially interested all the group. Because of the bad con- ditions imposed upon women, and especially the Negro women, in the United States, they were especially sented Louise Thompson, whom they saw as a representative of the new American Negro woman, with a “pa- ranja” costume declaring it to be “a symbol of our former slavery.” In Tashkent and Samarkand, the} group visited the silk and textile mills | and the big agricultural works; also the new industries in Bukhara, Ash- kabad, Baku, and the Central Asian collsctive state cotton farms, talking with the workers and farmers. They saw the development of the economic basis of the new society. In Turkmenistan, the Negro group was given the same warm reception by the liberated people who were much affected by the visit from mem- bers.of the 13,000,000 Negroes still en- slaved by imperialism in the United States. As in Uzbekistan and Azer- baidjan, the president of the Turk- menistan Republic welcomed them as guests of the republic. The group attended the National Theatre, the Opera, and the public schools in the impressed by the liberation and new life among the women of these for- merly oppressed nationalities. A del- ewation of these freed women pre- various native languages and the Se- markand University, witnessing the big cultural advances made since the proletarian revolution, : s Tho latter part of their trip in- cludeq a visit to Tiflis and also to Dnieprostroi, mightiest power plant in the world, Return for Revolutionary Anniversary The whole tour was arranged at the suggestion and at the expense of the Mesrabpom film company who arranged it so that the group could return to Moscow for the huge No- vember celebrations of the 15th anni- versary of the Revolution. Langston Hughes, famous Negro poet, deeply impressed on how the Soviet Union is successfully solving the national problem, is remaining in Uzbekistan for several months to collect material for a book. Mean- while, he is contributing articles to “Izvestia” and the rest of the Soviet press, Loren Miller, who has already con- tributed a series of articles which has been well received by the American Negro press is now writing a pam- phlet giving the experiences and im- pressions of the group with the U. S. S. R. and its policy of national lib- eration for the peoples formerly op- pressed under Tsarist capitalism. | Newton Jobless | Fight Police; Support March j NEWTON, Mass., Oct. 30.—Two| | hundred jobless here, led by the new- | |ly organized unemployed Council, | demonstrated in front of the city hall | Wednesday for relief. They demand- j}ed Mayor Weeks see their delegation jof 25. a] | The mayor's secretary was just | making an evasive, stalling excuse, when the police came. Twenty cops | immediately charged the crowd. A| | hot battle resulted, but the armed police were able to arrest ten of the} jobless, including Alice Ward, repre- senting the International Labor De- fense, Boston District. Thursday the cases came up in court and Alice Ward was railroaded to a six months sentence, and others were given. five and three months’ probation and $10 fines. | The Ward sentence is being ap- pealed. A mass protest demonstration was arranged. | At all meetings and demonstrations | in Newton the National Hunger March is announced. ie | | | Fight Disfranchisement LEWISTON, Me., Oct. 31—The Un- employed Council here, 10 Lowell St., is circulating formal petitions for a change in the Maine law which bars those getting relief from the city or state from voting. The Unemployed Council is taking steps to fight evictions and rally mass support for the National Hunger March. The beginning of an Unemployed Council is made in Portland, Maine, i mee Relief Fight and National March NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Nov. 1— Tomorrow at 2 p.m. the New Britain jobless meet at city hall at the call of the Unemployed Council and de- mand relief, particularly for a list of needy cases which the authorities refuse to consider. The speaker will be I. Wofsey, Communist candidate for governor of Connecticut. The} Unemployed Council also calls a city | united front conference Nov. 3 to| prepare the National Hunger March. On October 19 Mayor Quigley sent @ letter to the German Women's Ed- ucational Club telling them they could not show the Soviet film, ‘The Road to Life,” because he had “in- formation that the proceeds would go to the Communist election campaign.” The proceeds were actually to go to the relief of jobless. The mayor said, “I will take care of any jobless.” On Oct, 25, a delegation of the Unem- ployed Council came to city hall with the names of starving jobless families and found Quigley and every other important official “out.” ee a Erie Prepares Action ERIE, Pa., Oct. 31.—Thirty-four del- egates, representing hundreds of workers met here Oct. 23 in a united front conference called by the Un- employed Council, endorsed the Na- tional Hunger March, and made plans for the fight against forced labor here. as The following plan was outlined: 1.—Demonsiration to be held Nov. 7th c, the county court house to pre- sent the demands to the county com- missioners. 2—The demand against forced la-| bor to be included in the list of de- mands. 3.—The petition against forced la-| | bor to be used to popularize the dem- | | onstration. 4—A mass mec:ing Noy. 3 on forced labor. 5.—Endorsement of the hunger and veterans march to Washington. A committee of 16 men and women} was elected to organize the Noy. 7 demonstration and prepar2 for the national hunger march. A protest resolution to be sent to| Mayor Sparks of Akron, The conference endorsed the Com- munist Election platform. | to be called | | Imperialist Lackeys | Butcher 25 Young Workers: in China Twenty-five Chinese young workers, including three girls in their teens, were executed in Canton, South China, yesterday in the campaign of bestial terror which both the Canton and the Nanking wings of the reactionary Kuomintang party are carrying on against the revolu- | tionary Chinese workers who are re- sisting the Kuomintang betrayal of China to the imperialist brigands. The young workers were charged with membership in the Communist Youth Corps, Chinese Workers correspondence from Shanghai and other cities re- | port that hundreds of executions of | revolutionary workers are taking place daily at Hankow and other Chi- nese cities, still under the rule of the Kuomintang lackeys of imper- ialism. The imperialist press, which supports the bloody Kuomintang op- pression of the Chinese masses, is generally silent on these airocities but make a great to-do when some missionary agent of the imperialists is captured and imprisoned by the Chinese Red Armies in their victori- ous advance against the Kuomintang troops, armed by the imperialists. Vote Against Lynch System By Voting Communist Nov. 8 Throughout the world, the Cam- munist parties carry on a relent- less revolutionary struggle for the liberation and national self-de- the U, S, A. leads the fight against lynching and national oppression of the Negro masses, as an ossen- tial part of the fight against capi- talist exploitation and starvation of Negro and white workers and farmers. Workers! Vote Commu- nist in the coming election. Vote for Foster and Ford for Bread NOW FOR THE HUNGER MARCH Joint Conferences to Come from Struggle, On Burning Issues NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee of the Unemployed Councils, 80 E. 1lth St., New York, asks these questions of all unemployed councils, branches, united front organizations for the National Hunger March, and workers’ organizations supporting the demands of the marchers for unem- ployment insurance and $50 winter relief: “Did you order sufficient quantities of the Manifesto (call for the Mareh) for distribution? “Did you order a bundle of bullet- ins? “Did you set up a joint finance committee? “Hold your United Front Confer- ence? “Arrange for open-hearings? “Set up a Speakers’ Committee to visit organizations? “Secure ads and greetings for the National Magazine? “Set up a committee to secure trucks and autos? “United Front Conferences, Let us know the date and place of all united front conferences, past, present and future, preparations, etc. What are| you doing to penetrate the unions, mass organizations, Unemployed Citi- zens Leagues. “The following weaknesses have been evident in connection with the conferences. Local struggles have been postponed until the united front conferences, instead of the united front conferences developing as a re- sult of these local actions in the neighborhoods and localities. The united front conferences should in- tensify and unify these actions on a larger scale. “United front conferences should not be called around too many de- mands. Chicago called a conference on a correct basis, raising the major issue confronting the workers in Chicago—the 50 per cent cut as the major demand. The conferences should be called on the most burn- ing issues. The approach is too nar- row in the development of united front with the workers on the imme- diate issues in the neighborhoods and localities. We do not involve our- selves sufficiently in the neighbor- hood struggles, the rank and file of, the Unemployed Citizens Leagues| and similar organizations, around the neighborhood demands. Neglect of the drawing in of A. F. of L. branches | in the struggle for immediate relief! and unemployment insurance and involving them in our united front | conferences. These shortcomings must. be overcome in order to carry through a real united front from below in the struggle against starvation and to prepare for the National Hunger March.” Dredge Crew Strikes for Wage INcrease (By a Worker Correspondent) SOO, Mich—The crew of a dredge went out on strike demanding an in- crease of wages from 35 and 50 cents an hour to 5¢ and 70 cents per hour. The dredge company has sent to Newberry for scabs in an attempt to break the strike, which involved 150 men. At this writing, the strike is still on. REPORT TOKIO CARMEN’S STRIKE SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31—The Japanese-American Daily of this city admits that Tokio street car men and women are conducting a general strike, demanding the retraction of a 15 per cent wage-cut and the rein- statement of discharged employees. TORGSIN All-Union Company For Trade with Foreigners MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. ANNOUNCES THAT Money remitted by mail, cable or radio, by residents of the U.S.A. and Canada, to beneficiaries. residing in U.S.S. R. (Soviet Russia), will be placed to the credit of the named beneficiary at any one of the Torg- sin stores located in more than 150 cities. The beneficiary in the U. S. S..R may select at the Torgsin stores any articles of food, clothing, or other commodities to the limit of his credit with Torgsin. In the event that the beneficiary resides in a town, where there is no branch of the Torgsin, desired com- modities will be mailed to him from Se ae shipping base of Torgsin. ices on all commodities are cone siderably lowered, ~& The following companies are authorized by Torgsin to re- ceive money and/or issue mere chandise orders for transmis- sion through Torgsin to persons residing in the USSR. Amalgamated Bank of New York Manufacturers Trust Company Postal Telegraph-Cable Company Public National Bank & Tres Company R.C.A, Communications, Ine, 1% General Representatives of TORGSIN in the U.S.A. 261 Fifth Avenue and Freedom! w York City, Y. ORDER MATERIAL, ,