The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1932, Page 1

hErunt At COLUM MbOLING LUMURKOW DIKKCL PKUOM A Daily, aWorker Central Onforea ite ee unist Porty U.S.A. p) (Section of the Communist International) " Wntered as second-class matter at the Post Office a1 acehsashs 4 New York, N.Y., under the Act of Mareh % 3877, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 U. S. SHIPS WAR ARMS TALKS PEACE FL CONVENTION ON INSURANCE TRICK DECISIVE WEEK FOR SUP- PORT OF HUNGER MARCH Collect Foodstuffs in Bulk and Bring to Nearest Food Station, PREPARE MASS-SEND OFF IN YOUR CITY New York Hunger Marchers Greet New 1. England Marchers, Bronx Coliseum, November 29th. Buy Your Tickets Spur Efforts for Funds for National at Once. Hunger March, CITY EDITION 8, 1932 MORE KHAKI Entire National Hunger SHIRTS JOIN March on Way Today to Vol. IX, No. 284 Price 3 Cents One 1 In the Day’s News | | ' | | | | | | NO CRIME TO KILL A POOR VET. AUGUSTA, Ga., Noy. 27. — Leroy Brown, U. S. Veterans Hospital at- | tendant, who brutally beat and mur- | dered Charles K. Dickinson, a patient at the hospital, was white-washed b; the federal jury yesterday. The beat- ing which caused Dickinson’s death was so brutal as to result in 16 frac- | tured ribs, one of which punctured & lung. f ALLIANCE. TRENTON, N, J., Nov. 27.—Charges of alliance and cooperation between ‘the underworld and the city police, were made by John J. Kelly who has Served on the police department for twenty-five years. Kelly, who is wil- ling to testify before a public hear- ing, charged that the underworld en- joyed police protection in the opera- tion of gambling houses, speakeasys nd other revenue producing rackets. TWO DIE IN FIRE TRAP, CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 27. Louis Pickard, and old man of 73, and Anna Stewart, 40, were burned to death in a small wooden house which was devoured by flames before firemen could offer assistance. WIRELESS PHONE INTENDED FOR WAR. ROME, Nov. 27.—Senator Marconi has announced the success of his latest invention, the first ultra-short- jWave wireless telephone, which is now operating successfully oyer a tance of 170 miles. Marconi re- tds the invention, which is being pt secret, as particularly well lapted for military purposes, ‘COMPANY AGENTS SUSPECTED OF BOMB EXPLOSIONS , TAYLORVILLE, Ill, Nov. 27.—A bomb explosion near @ boarding \house occupied by about 50 U.M.W.A. |Strikebreakers, and similar explosions |before the homes of others working im the mines notwithstanding the Strike against a wage cut being led by the Progressive Miners of America, ‘are believed to be part of a provoca- tion campaign calculated to justify {Police terror against the striking mminers, ‘The strikers despite their \reactionary- offieiais -have carried CHARGES POLICE THUG means of mass picketing which re- sulted in threats by the coal opera- tor to call for troops. Oey ONE ENGINE MADE THIS YEAR NEW YORK.—The crisis in Amer- ica reaches classic heights in the report of the American Locomotive Co, They stopped their annual pre- erred dividend for the first time, ‘reporting an order for one locomotive this year, Trotsky Slander of USSR On Radio Capitalists Give Him ‘World. Wide Hook Up An international radio hook-up was *\the medium for the renegade, Leon ‘Trotsky, to further help the imper- jalists in their provocations against the Soviet Union. .. From Copenhagen, where he is de- jlvering “lectures” on his -counter- ‘revolutionary theories, Trotsky, spoke through the broaticasting system in “the United States. Belittles Soviet Growth. . Russia, said Trotsky, is a backward . pountry, and a part of the world sys- item and subject to the world crisis. deliberately tried to. cover ip the fact that the revolution wrested the realms of the former irs out of the capitalist world sys- "tem and that today the Soviet Union _ 4s the one place in the world that ‘is advancing while the rest of the world is sinking in decay. He said _ not one word about the fact that, - eapitalist stabilization has come to end and that ‘there is arising a 1ew wave of wars and revolutions. *, Nor did he say one word about the imperialist war conspiracies against - the Soviet Union. Travesty on Party. . Speaking of the Bolshevik Party this propagandist of counter-revolu- . tion said it ‘should be based upon _/ unity of doctrines. In other words Trotsky's counter-revolutionary doc- - trines should be “unified” with revo- lutionary theory, as the foundation tan ideal Trotskyist party. This is attempt to justify Trotsky’s ad- Yocacy of anti-working class factions inside the Bolshevik Party and com- pletely at variance with Lenin's in- tistance upen the party being of one piece “one monolithic whole.” | His final slander’ wes that the sit- Wy netion in Russia “bears little re- iblance to the realm of well-be- ” Then he proceeds to “explain” y saying that although there was isery now, it would be historically justified in the long run. This is the arest counter-revolutionary proa- anda, just the kind the capitalists | pay him well for on the eve of _ thighty revolutionary struggles. _ Would Sabotage Hunger March - While their political leader was de- . fivering his counter - revolutionary waddle from Copenhagen, the local iskyites were busy distributing . paflets trying to split the ranks of the ie dunger’ marchers. a ¥ 4 ‘the struggle against the wage cut by Shown in Franti Drive for War FRANCE AIDS JAPAN |Tokio in New Threat Against U.S.S. R. Renewed Japanese war [provoca- | tions against the Soviet Union, yes- | terday gave additional sinister em- | phi to the war moves of the im- perialist bandit powers in the sev- eral undeclared. wars {now raging over large areas of the crisis-torn capitalist world. Ignoring their admission during the past few months that the Sov- 1et government Was pursumg 1s traditional policy of peace and was in no way inyolved in the upris- ings in Manchuria, "fhe Japanese | ki down, yesterday renewed their slanders and attacks on the U. S. S. RB. because the Soviet govern- ment objects to the prolonged pres- ance of the Japanese military mi: sion on Soviet soil. U. S. Ships War Material. Tt was also revealed yesterday that U. S. and French imperialists are shipping huge quantities of war ma- terial and munitions to the regions of the undeclared wars in Manchuria and South America, while engaging in sham “peace” moves at Geneva. Chilean dispatches repor; the arrival at Arika of a shipment of 650 boxes of high explosive bombs sent by U. S. government for the undeclared war between Bolivia and Paraguay. The Shipment also contained 10,000 con- tainers of airplane gasoline. It was shipped from San Francisco of board the S. S. Leikanger. Officials of the Western Cartridge Company, at New Haven (formerly the Winchester Arms Company, last night admil cartridges “from a South American company.” This same company a few weeks ago filled a large order for arms for the Cuban fascist. dictator, Machado, American firms have also made huge shipments of arms to Japan. U. S.-Japanese Rivalry. Japan's undeclared war in Man- churia and her attempt to strengthen’ her position on the Asiatic mainland has greatly sharpened the antago- nisms between U. S. and Japanese imperialisms. War In South America. The undeclared wars in the Chaco and Putumayo regions in South America are direct outcomes, both of the collapse of capitalist economy in these countries and of the bitter | trade and economic rivalry between | U. S. and British imperialisms. The present fierce struggle over debts also reflects. this antagonism. South American dispatches report increased war activities in. both the Gran Chaco region where 30,000 Bo- livian and Paraguayan troops are mobilized for a new major battle, and in the Putumayo, where large bodies of Peruvian troops are reported to be facing Colombian troops at Leticia. The Argentine government has en- gaged a British adviser, thus further strengthening the influence of the British imperialists in the bitter struggle between U. S. and British imperialists for control of the markets and resources of South America, U.S. TRIES SPLIT FRANCE, ENGLAND “es Debs Question for War Manouver The struggle of the imperialist powers over the war debts has been further sharpened by the Hoover notes to the European powers re- Jecting their proposals for an exten- sion of the moratorium. The Washington government de- mands that all the debtor powers pay the installments due in Decem- ber, But while flatly rejecting the French attempt to connect the war debt question with that of repara- -tions, it carefully leaves the door open for further British proposals, in an attempt to drive a wedge be- tween England and France. U. 8. imperialism wants to break up the united front of England, France, Belgium, Czecho-sloyakia ang Poland on the debt question. This attempt is further supplemented by appeals in the U. S. imperialist press to the British to consider what effect a wholesale debt repudiation drive would have on their own position as the second largest creditor nation, next to the United States. The British government is reported to be preparing a new note to “pay” the December installment but still keep the money, that is, to earmark the amount in gold to the credit of the U. S. government, but to keep the gold in the British treasury in an effort to peg the collapsing pound sterling. militarists, from War Minister Ara- | imperialists to their puppet Bolivign | that they had “atttpted an “order for Imperialist Powers | | | BONUS FIGHT) Demand Job Laura Mayer, Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt, million- aire and wife cf a millionaire, as she appeared at the opening of the opera. She wears an elaborate vel- vet gown and carries an ostrich plume sweated out from the toil of the workers, unemployed wo- man worker, evicted from her home and deported hungry to a shack without walls in the woods, piereced. by winter storms, The Hunger March Fights Serfdom for Women Workers UPPORT the National Hunger March! Why? One answer is: To fight against serfdom for women workers. There are thousands of women workers in the United States today compelled to work for nothing more than their keep. “Fortune”, the magazine for millionaires, $1 per copy, admits it! Women workers especially should support the National Hunger March to Washington for cash winter relief and federal unemployment in- surance at the expense of the employers and the government. ‘The local mass struggles against starvation which preceded the Hunger March and brought into action tens of thousands of workers led by the Communist Party and the Unemployed Councils, and which the Hunger March in turn stimulates and raises to a higher level are the chief method by which unity in the struggles of working men and women can be achieved NOW. “Fortune”, in its December issue, acclaims the solution of the “eternal domestic servant problem in America”, How has it been “solved”? It has been solved at the expense of the workers—in this case women workers—just as capitalism tries to solve all other problems created by the crisis at the expense of the working class. Women workers thrown out of the closed factories have to live. .“Hundreds of thousand of maids”, says “Fortune”, may be hired for as little as $4 per month. Nor are women workers the only ones affected. likewise forced to accept medieval conditions. “You can,” says “Fortune”, “have your garden taken cave of in Los. Angeles for $1 per week.” 7 = = This system of feudal payments is nation-wide: “A Negro”, says “Fortune”, “will fry your chicken and do your wash- ing for $8 a month in Virginia. Anywhere in the North you will find fairly well trained girls only too glad to work at $5 a week, and less trained but willing girls anx’ous to do any form of housework in exchange for their room and board. “There are vast numbers full of vigor if not polish,” says “Fortune.” “These are the thousands of women whom ,. . housewives pay $4 a month and beard.” These are not women whose usual occupation is domestic service. ‘They are women workers from stores, offices and factories. According to the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor there are 2,500,000 more women workers than there were ten years ago. Before the crisis their wages were only two-thirds and one-half those of men for the same work. They are unorganized. Hundreds of thousands of them are now preyed upon by families of the middle and capitalist class and forced into one of the worst forms of slavery under capitalism—domestic service—in order to escape starva~ tion or prostitution. Male workers are HIS is the prospect that Roosevelt and Hoover and their Wall Street masters place before great masses of women workers with their pro- gram of starvation charity in the fourth winter of the worst crisis in the history of the United States, This is the real meaning of “American !dealism” in terms of food, clothing and shelter for great masses of women workers. This is “American chivalry” in action. This is what all the preach- ing of the churches about “Christian brotherhood” amounts to. This is what “protection of American womanhood” means: Long hours of backbreaking labor for board and room or—if the employer is unusually generous—$4 per month. besides. This 1s what Community Chest charity under the Joint auspices of the Democrat and Republican Parties, and under the strict control of the bankers an* bosses, means for unemployed women workers—degradation to the economic anq social status of women under feudalism. Smash this system! Support the demand for $50 cash winter relief for, all unemployed workers and federal unemployment insurance at the expense of the government and employers for all workers! Support the National Hunger March to Washington! Organize and fight the hunger drive of Wall Street and its government at every point! Fight to force conditions where no worker, man, woman or child of the working class ,is without decent food, clothing and Housing this winter! Rally women workers for support of the National Hunger March and the program of the Unemployed Councils! SOME MORE ELECTION FRAUDS NEW YORK, Noy. 27.—New evi- dence of widespread election frauds is coming to light as Democratic and Republican officials continue their mutual accusations, Walter S. Mack, Jr., defeated Republican candidate for state senate, charges that organized thugs in the 17th Senatorial District made repeated raids on the polling places, throwing out the watchers, en- tering booths and “voting” for ten minutes at a time, “WON’T FIGHT MARCHERS!” WRITE SOLDIERS Answer Boss Call to Use Army Against Vets and Jobless Newark Unit Backs 2nd Big March; Pace Case Up Tod BUFFALO VETS ON WAY Expose New Attack on | Vets by Hines NEWARK, Newark unit Nov. —The of the Khaki oT entire | Shirts | jhas joined the fight for immediate | | Payment of the bonus and has de- |cided to back the National Bonus | | March to Washington 100 per cent. | | At a meeting Friday night of about | | 70 members of the unit, after an ap- peal by a representative of the New- ark Veterans’ Rank and File Com-| mittee, 41 volunteered to go to Wash- ington to demand immediate pay- ment of the bonus and no cuts in disability allowances. Following similar actions in other | cities a united front committee has | been set up, known as the Veterans’ Committee for the Second Bonus | March to Washington, consisting of | rank and file members of the Work- | ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, the | Khaki Shirts, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, to rally | as many recruits as possible for the march, . * Pace Appeal Up Today DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 27.—The ap- peal in the case of John Pace, chair- | man of the Veterans’ Rank and File | Committee, who has been sentenced | te 65 days in jail, comes up tomorrow (Monday). The International Labor | Deiense is defending him. Pace was sentenced about two weeks | ago 0 60 days, plus five days for con- tempt of court, by Judge Ferguson, of | the Wayne County Circuit Court, on :s new ot assault and battery oug! y Herman Rohn,. welfare ralhectarof ‘Lincoln Park, near. here. Pace, who has played a leading role | in the struggles of the unemployed, | as well as of the veterans, applied to Rohn for relief, as he is out of a job. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) WEINSTOCK WILL SPEAK, COLISEUM Report AFL Convent’n | to Marchers, Workers NEW YORK.—How William Green mobilized the police force of Cincin- | | | | | | Convention hall representatives of the | | rank and file who wanted to speak on | | unemployment insurance will be told | tomorrow night at the Hunger March send-off and ratification meeting in the Bronx Coliseum by. Weinstock, member of the National A. F. of L. Rank and File Conference in Cin- | cinnati, | The Rank and File Conference en- dorsed the Workers“ Unemployment Insurance Bill, The first public report of this con- ference and the A. F. of L. convention | will be made by Weinstock at tomor- | row night's meeting in the Bronx Coliseum. The Coliseum meeting, which is of | grave importance for the success of | the Hunger March, will also be ad- | dressed by Ben Gold, of the Needle , Trades Workers Industrial Union; | Israel Amter, District Organizer of the Communist Party; Carl Winter, of the Unemployed Councils of Greater | New York, as well as by spokesmen of | the Children’s Delegation to Hoover, | the Hunger March delegations from | New England, the Hudson River Val- ley and Long Island and New York | City, who will be present at the meet- ing in a body. \ }umn 8 is on its way. *turned—over ‘to ~immigra! nati to keep out of the A. F. of L. | ¢ | tences or released at a hearing the less Relief 100 Delegates Start Column 8 from Boston Despite Arrest of Leader Thousands Roused to Fight for 4 ‘Insurance; Hold Mass Demonstrations MARCH CAPTAIN | SEIZED BY U. S. Anna ‘Bloch Held by! Immigration Office | PROVIDENC One hundred and s Column 8 of the National Hunger | March were greeted with a demon- stration of 500 workers in Pawtuc- kett, and by another of 1,000 in Providence, They paraded without permit through the streets of Pro- vidence. The mass meetings passed resolutions endorsing the demands. of the National Hunger March and demanding the release of Anna Bloch, march captain, arrested in Boston and held by immigration authorities, * BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 27. — A hundred delegates to the Na- tional Hunger March from Massachusetts, Maine, N w| Hampshire and Vermont start-| ed off for Washington thi morning after a :nass meeting | on Boston Common, and Cc!l-|} * i] S| Just as the New England delega- tion was leaving Beston Common, its | captain, Anna Bloch, was arrested and n author- | ities to be held for de ‘This was an attempt, which failed, to halt the division from starting on its way to Washington. A mass mov ment will be roused in Boston to de- | the course of their (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE | SUSPENDED TERM FOR G. HAESSLER Continued Interfere ne With Collections WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov rude Haessler, ult arrested when acting as one of the spokesmen r; of the Children’s Delegation to de- mand relief from the government on | ‘Thanksgiving. Day, was con’ yesterday and given a suspended sen- tence. Others arrested at the same time were either given suspended sen- Gertrude Haessler was | opportunity to take a ce on a tacit plea Her trial fol- previous day. allowed the | suspended sente of guilty and refused. lowed. Fy Police witnesses at the trial flag- but rantly contradicted each other the court had in mind the orde the District of Columbia ci sioners to “discourage” r Washington, and paid no att the evidence. Discrimina le The four workers arrested here on Wednesday for soliciting funds for the National Hunger March were re- leased on suspended sentences in the | police court Thursday. Judge Givens who tried the case, anounced that anyone else arrested would get aj) jail sentence. ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.——A fas- | No, 9, will start from Miami, Florid cist program for meeting with bul- lets and tear gas the demands for relief of the Hunger Marchers and the war veterans now on their way to the capital was worked out here at a secret meeting last Wednesday night of Washington busines men and professional patriots. The pro- gram which can and will be defeated by mass action proposes the calling out of the army as on the occasion of the first Bonus March when war veterans and their families were ruthlessly shot down and gassed, It calls for the mobilization of all the fascist elements in and around the capital in an attempt to silence the de- mands of the veterans and the unem- ployed workers and crush their pro- tests against starvation. Masses Answer Terror A committee elected at’ the secret, meeting conferred with Attorney General Mitchell on Saturday, de- manding that the Hunger Govern- ment at once take over the policing of the city by the military, that is, declare martial law. It was an- nounced that a number of army and nayy officials had promised their aid to the fascist drive against the vet- erans and the representatives of the sixteen million starving unemployed workers in this country. As against these boss class preparations new masses of workers are rallying to the support of the marchers. News is being received here of increasing support for the marchers in the ranks of the armed forces, oe Soldiers Demonstrate Against Government (By a Sold'er Correspondent) FORT HOYLE, Md., Nov, 27—In vigorous protest against the govern- ment’s preparations for use of the armed forces against the Hunger Marchers and veterans on their way to present their demands to Con- gress, nearly 200 men of the 6th Are tillery and the First Gas Regiment, ; on an ideological campaign aimed at booed a newsreel of President Hoover | overcoming the resistance of the men for more than ten minutes at the; to the shooting down of unemployed post theatre here. | workers and war veterans. The Hun- The lieutenant-colonel jumped on ger Marchers are being described as | the platform and tried to check the | “reds,” “foreigners” and “niggers.” | demonstaation, but his appearance | The campaign is not very successful. merely served to increase the booing | Many men in this post will not be mislead again into slaughtering their | fellow workers. and the movie was finally stopped. | The demonstration was in direct | protest against the shipping of tear | gas bombs to Washington by the First Gas Regiment and the preparations to send the men to the capital for use against the marchers. So great is | Soldiers Refused To Fight Vets (By a Soldier Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Noy, 27.—I want) to tell the workers about a man, | jhere yesterday |against their food rations being cut | 50 Federal Re Force Lorain Mayor to Feed the Marchers BULLETIN, KALAMAZOO, M: : Governor Brucker launched a police and deputy force against the marchers to bar the't way in’a F>- lamazoo and force them off to the South. In spite of this, a group of 30 reached Kalamazoo, was wel- comed at a mass meeting and fed and housed over night. The rest of Column 1 proceeded on and reached Detroit ahead of schedule. LORAIN, Ohio, Nov. 27—The strug- le of the workers in this United States Steel Corporation owned city has wrenched from the city council a promise to provide food and supplies for the hundreds of National Hunger Marchers here when Column 1 comes through about noon tomorrow, The following provisions, etc., are promised at city expens 600 loaves of bre 60 pounds of meat, 40 pounds of sug: 30 pounds of coffee, 100 gallons of gas- oline and 25 gallons of oil for the marchers’ trucks, and a ton of coal for cooking and heating the lunch rooms. ‘The struggle to win this victory was led by an unemployed council active ly since June of this year. t for relief and against evictions tenced to six months. Whole March in Motion Three new columns of the National Hunger March started Saturday and j | Sunday and are now pounding down the roads to Washington, to join with the other six column: demanding $50 federal winter relief in addition to local relief and to demand unemploy- ment insurance at the se of the government 4 Already gle for local relief, and of resistance to the terror which the District of Columbia officials called for in tele- to the various Governors and rs. The columns just started are: No: 7, which left Buffalo urday and | tonight; No. 8, which rday and stops to- and izing to demand their and stop-over in these c . ‘Today the last of the main columr and plans to stop tonight in Daytona Beach, Fla. Column No. 1, which started from Seattle November 14, was last reported sing through southern Michigan, to During | one worker, M. | Stann, was beaten up in jail and sen- | ‘by Federal Gov’t; New Columns Leave Buffalo, New Orleans, Miami lief and Unemployment Dec. 6 to Back These Demands MANY NEGROES IN BUFFALO GROUPS 113 Year Old School Girl Is Delegate ROCHESTER, N. Y., Noy. 27. — Fifty-seven National Hunger Marchers launched Column 7 on its nine day trip to Washington yesterday. They started out in the highest spirits despite the cold weather. Forty percent of the delega- tion are all elet } mployed workers, nt women ani 8 Buffalo in two trucks and four ¢ The youngest marcher is a girl 13 father has been jobles two years, a she has no shoes to go to school in. The oldest delegate 7. Buffalo marchers re given a fine banquet Friday night and a crowd of Buffalo workers pledged them full | solidarity. y Provided Hall Column 7 reached over, here in Roch and found scout outside Rochester coldest day. ‘The jobléss of Rochester had forced for hours on the the city administration to provide Convention Hall for the marchers | reception last night. Rochester work- {ers cheered the delegates when they exposed the city administration’s grafting fake relief bill and called for united front struggles for real relief. The marchers had expected to sleep jin the hall, but Rochester insisted on taking them home and giving them | their own beds. Thirty elected delegates joined the | marchers in Rochester, and the total | delegation from the northwest York area will be 150. The leaders of the delegation of | poport, Hill and S | Tonight's “BIG 6” JOBLESS ARE ORGANIZING Rank and File Demand Action on Job Seale Column 7 are Rap- in Syracuse. mass meeting for nis meeting is issued nittee which was o in order stop in Toledo tonight. There are ete on on: of she: already over 600 in this column, Col- sloyed. The main planks of its umns 2 from San Francisco and 3 from | Oe ate r os Angeles merged W- in 5 x BE Me dara MBER ig Reais | 1 ued and additional relief, City, Saturday, by Column 5 from} 2—Recognition (by the Benefit Houston, Texas. Columns 2, 3 and 5| Board and the Union) of the unem- are to stop over tonight. in St. Louis, | ployed as part of the general mem- Missouri. * | bership. Column 4, which started a week ago{ 3,—Safeguarding rights of the exactly from Sioux Cit tonight in Dayton, Ohio. Thousands of miles of territory have been covered by these marching col- umns of delegates, speaking for mil- lions of jobless workers. The columns are now all in the e: country, marching through pcsulated sections, and gaining ar f recruits as they converge on Washington, They will [all reach Washington December 4, hold a national confer- ence December 5, and present de- mands to Cor oa December 6. Utah Prisoners Fight Ration Cut; I Shot by Guard Gun Fire, is to stop over SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. 27.— | Prisoners at the state penitentiary | protested ‘militantly to two meals a day, One convict was | shot by the guards, who fired promis- ern part of the | unemployed. ¢ up the unemployed in their efforts to maintain and im- prove their conditions, It is ex ed that at the mass meeting today a more elaborate pro- gram will be presented. It will prob- ably inciud2 endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and the demand for immediate local relief. Job Seale Still Not Settled. The Printers’ League (Employers) are so arrogant and determined to carry through their proposed wage= cut scale that they even refused arble tration which was proposed by the local officials. The employers seem , to depend on the capabilities of the | oficials to put over this wage-cut scale after some maneuvering, The Amalgamation Party, which has carted on a determined cam- paign against any betrayal of the interest of the rank and file, has come out in favor of strike as an answer to the employers’ ultimatum, which is equal to a lockout, The Amalgamation Party fully en- the hostility of the men to the gov- | ernment’s program of meeting de- mands for relief with bullets and gas bombs that the officers have removed the firing pins of all the field pieces, fearing the men would damage the equipment rather than obey orders to proceed to Washington. Officers Drive Not Sucessful All leaves of absence have been | in Company L of the 12th U. S. In-| fantry, First Class Private Me Carthy | who committed suicide after going out against the Bonus March>rs last July. This man grew tired of living as a result of the effect of having had to shoot down veterans and their fam- ilies, Very few of the men in my company wanted to go out against | ported to have set fire to the furniture | The officers are carrying (CONTINUED ON PAGE THRER) cuously into the dining room and | dorses the proposals of the informal kitchen which the convicts had seized. | chairmen’s conference, calling for The men overturned the furniture | the election of a new scale commit- in the dining room without any warn- | tee and proposing the six-hour day, ing to the prison keepers, and chased five-day week at the same hourly them out of the rooms. They are re- | Day. The rank and file of “Big Six” is in an effort to destroy the machine | generally in sympathy with these shop where they are forced to work. proposals and it is expected they will After an how! of siege. the men|be introduced at the next union surrendered, meeting,