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Cpraieiaraoeae one International Notes By PETER HENRY. 130 ON HUNGER STRIKE BELGRADE, Nov. 22 (By Mail).— One hundred thirty political prison- ers in the notorious Mitrovitza Prison have been on hunger strike since November 14th. Most of the pris- oners are Communists, the rest being Croat, Slovakian, Macedonian, and Magyar national-revolutionaries. The strikers demand binding guarantees | against the murder and torture of political prisoners, the abolition. of corporal punishment, permission to read books and other reading mater- ial, heated cells and decent food. The | Jugoslay censorship has suppressed | all news of the hunger strike. This is the fourth hunger strike in the Mitrovitza Prison since 1929. GENERAL STAFF CONFERENCE IN BELGRADE VIENNA, Noy. 20 (By Mail).—The SOVIET PLANTS GIVE WOMEN EQUAL RIGHTS How One Rolling Mill Solved the Problem (By the Special Correspondent of * the Inprecorr) There are 5,715,000 women work- ing in the enterprises and institu- tions of the U.S.S.R. Of the women working in indusry 71 per cent are taking part in the shock brigade movement, er eeiall, Se MOSCOW, U.S. S. R. (By Mail). — It goes without saying that in the legislation and in the policy of the CPSU and the Soviet Government all | the demands for complete equality of | vornen and men which the Commu- nists in all countries have been con- tinually fighting for, are being effec- general staff of the Czechoslovakian, Roumanian, and Jugoslavian armies tively carried out. “Equal pay for equal work” is a principal which is f course in all are holding a conference in Belgrade. | accepted as a matter o: | Among the conferees are the heads | Soviet undertakings. The legal posi-| of the scouting and intelligence (spy) | tion of women in the family in the services, according to information re- | enterprises and in the government is ceived here from Belgrade. | absolutely equal to that of men.| The meeting of the general stafis; When a woman gets married—just of three of the most militarist na-| Ome small example—not only is she | tions in Europe can have but one| Ot compelled to adopt the name of significance—plans for war against | the man if she does not wish to, but the Soviet Union. This is borne out it 1s also possible to have the man by the fact that this conference co- | incides with Roumania’s sabotage of | the Soviet’s efforts for the negotia-| non-aggression pact with | adopt the name of the women. Equal- ity of women with men is guaranteed even to such minute details. Struggle- Still Going On | But the women must: still carry on| TRON DISCIPLINE OF MARCHERS IN Worcorrs WASHINGTON First Hand Account of Police Provocations WASHINGTON, D. C.—The police of Washington have become hyster- ically affected by their. own terror- ism and the hunger marchers, against whom it has been directed, have full control of themselves. Just as federal provocateurs and dicks at- tacked the marchers at Cumberland, Md., and cities like Philadelphia or Baltimore, where thousands of work- ers would have risen in protest had the marchers been attacked there, so the Washington police today molested the marchers in sneaky ways, and after they had passed through the busy parts of the town, where the sidewalks were crowded with spec- tators to see what was going on. Kick Marchers. As the marchers were returning and getting close to their camp, the Police who escorted them began to stick out their feet to trip the march- Chats with Our The Daily Worker appreciates the assistance fiven by the Worker Cor- respondence in reporting on the pro- gress of the various columns of the hunger march. It was impossible to publish everything in full because of lack of space, but the gist of all news was incoroporated in the general re- ports of the hunger march day by day. The section today is devoted to re- ports which came too late to be used in this way. The accounts of the activities of the workers along the line of march, make valuable reading at any time, Now that the march has come to such a successful conclusion, we urge our Worker Correspondence to con- tinue sending reports on activities along the way thhck; and on how the delegates’ reports are being received by the workers who eletced them. Mock Trials Expose Capitalist Justice DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1932 Page Three WORKER CORRESPONDENCE HUNGER MARCHERS REPORT CONDITIONS ALONG LINE OF MARCH MARCHER REPORT ON FORCED LABOR IN GLASSPORT Exposes A. F. of L’ Official, Now Mayor, in Relief Cutting GLASSPORT, Pa.—A mass meeting with 300 workers of Glassport was held as the Hunger Marchers passed through to Washington. A scheme of forcing the unemployed to work for the charity they are getting has two weeks. Although the unemploy- ed are told that this work is volun- tarly for the unemployed to serve their community, the threat of cut- ting out the relief given to the un- employed now is being applied. In addition to the relief given out now those working for the city will — R. R. COMMITTEES! Boston Workers Meet on | maa vhLiey Common; Demonstrate in | Solidarity With March Officials Help the Cut; | a Se | Members Resist | Demand Release of Anna Block, Captain of | CHICAGO, Dec. 8—The General | Marchers, from Deportation Charges | Committees of the Railway Brother- hoods—engineers, firemen, trainmen| Q,,», Noe oe hos aces . . 7 os lpeat AMnGRneAtIC or the’ color pats ex a? e - he aa ee Wage | affiliated to the American Federa- | Ss Jew Enola ¢ x > ills |tion of Labor, telegraphers, switch- | uts in I oN ae an extule 4 |men and the shop craft unions, are) ; meeting here today to report to the union officials on the attitude of the | | railway workers toward the con-| tinuance of the 10 per cent wage) reduction of last February and the} additioneg 10 per cent cut now de- manded by the railway executives. | Attitude, Toward Wage Cut | The agreement for the 10 per cent | BOSTON, Mass., Dee. 8—The New England delegation on the Na+ tional Hunger March, will be given a mass welcome when they come into Boston Common Saturday at 6 p. m. Boston workers will assemble to greet them at the Charles St. mall. The main speakers will be Brucke Reline, secretary of the New England Unemployed Councils and Anns Block, leader of the Boston jobless. The Unemployed Council has prepared a welcoming reception and banquet for them, after the mass meeting on the Common. The bane been applied in this town for the last | | wage scale. This would result in the jail companies serving formal notice | for a 20 per cent reduction The “Temporary” Slash The position of the union offi- cials, who have made no preparation tically, at least, to go Sack to the old | get additional 19 cents a week per} member in family. The labor will] this way, cost the city only about} three cents an hour, while previously | the city laborers were getting 45 cents | for the organization of strike action or stoppages if the roads refuse to return to the pre-reduction wage, is that the companies will be content an hour. to continue the present 10 per cent | Wage slash now in force expires Feb.| quet will be at 8 p. m., in New International Hall, 42 Wenonah St., Rox- |1. The issue to be decided is whether | fury. All workers are urged to attend and hear the reports of the negotiations shall be re-opened with} marchers. the representatives of the rail com- . + . anies or to allow the present agree- Laecag y lapse and thereby, theore-| BOSTON, Mass., Dec, 8.—Fifteen hundred workers demonstrated on Boston Common while the National Hunger Marchers were presenting their demands to Congress in Washington. The Boston demonstration stood firm azainst all provocations by fas- cist elements here, who had the support of the police. | "The demonstrators adopted resolutions supporting the demands for $5 winter relief and unemployment i surance which the National Marcl Jers were campaigning for Steel Workers Mobilize | A sharp t elegram was sent to Gor- ty Vj : RTE emnor Ely of Massachusetts, > pro- | It Z oungstown to Back No Permit testing Ely’s “challenge to the South”; Marchers in which the governor calls for wage | reduction for the time being and will not insist on the additional 10 per YOUNGSTOW | Five hundred steel Ohio, 8— workers demon- Dee. ers, women as well as men, A num- ber of the men were kicked by the | many struggles against the vestiges | cutting in all textile mills through- | MOSCOW PUBLIC LIBRARY SEC-| of man’s prejudice, and finds in these | KOKOMO, Ind.—The \ Unemployed out New England. Council Branch 2 had public hearings This slavery has been exposed to} the limit and along with it the city . na : | ols eel cent slash. ae. ' ceed’ sae bay sig f OND LARGEST IN WORLD {struggles complete support trom the| police, who moved Close, slightly be-!on hunger at the Monday night meet- | mayor who is an A. F. of L. official) ‘This complacent attitude, which| ae RevaaE berate gees yen) ee ee a A new building to hold 11,000,000] projetarian state and proletarian} hind, then quickly jammed their| ings ‘They also had two mock trials, | of the Glassworkers Union. |Suiountis- to surtender to the frat out| arc as nes cea caterer an | acti en ce at ae volumes will soon be added to the public opinion. We are not speaking) Knees up, all done so that others) One of them was a workers’ trial, the| A drive to organize those workers| which was represented to the mem. | condemned the pap hnesaiae ead Rate ae one ae Lenin Public Library in Moscow. The| here of the women of the Soviet | could not see. other was a capitalist trial, in which | is now on hand. It's expected that bership of the unions as “a temporary | 2!00h captain of the Boston s | ranted Ss meeting, bhi Lenin Public Library is now the sec-| Orient, whose struggles for her free- | dom, against the veil and against the | arbitrary domination of father and ond largest in the world, with over! 6,000,000 books. It is outranked only | A cop said of a white girl and a Negro girl marching side by side: “They must be sisters.” The white funds of the commissary. John Doe was on trial for juggling | In_ this | the Glassport workers will strike this Slavery work and demand union |of the National Hunger March, and | authorities learned a lesson from the measure” in return for which the | thousands of men on the extra lists |a telegram was sent to U. S. Immi-| stern defense made for the marchers | gration Bureau Inspector Tillinghast y Youngstown el workers Wed- trial the capitalist was acquitted, but | wages for their work. 7 2 giv | husband constitute a special chapter} | would be given regular employment— by the British Museum in London, girl comrade had a strong impluse to} but the latter surpasses the Lenin} Library in the rarity of many of its | of revolutionary herdism. Here in the cable factory there were cases reply as such a sneer should be re- plied to, but kept up the fine dis- the worker received six months and $5. fine for store breaking. Everybody was interested and came —Hunger Marcher. N. Dak. Farmers |an arrangement which never ma-| | terialized, some 100,000 more being j laid off in the last nine months— in Boston, demanding attempts to|nesday last week, and there was no railroad Anna Bloch out of the/| attack on this demonstration country shall cease, and all charges | Monday a large delegation of the i books, | such as the following: cipline shown by the marchers all) back for the next meeting, and the In the rolling mill there are a- | chines which are run by two workers each, and the payment for tending | these machines is estimated for the The growth of the Moscow Public | Library is a striking Instance of the | unprecedented diffusion of culture! throughout: the Soviet Union. The| most valuable material in the library | - | has been added since the Russian Revolution. The project for the new building includes a number of read- ing rooms, rooms for scientific work, and special quarters for the research work of the Library Institute. HUGE COMMUNIST VOTE IN WINNIPEG WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov. 29 (By Mail) —The municipal election, just held, showed increasing strength be- the time they've been here, and did not allow herself to be provoked. The cop continued his Southern chivalry by more insulting remarks. Others of “Washington's finest” made very obscene remarks to the girls in the march. & When a marcher shouted: be back!” a cop said: “If you do we'll shoot you down like dogs.” The marcher repeated: “We'll be back.” A Swinging Nizghtstick. Monday ‘night Washington com- rades and sympathizers came to the camp with seventeen taxis to take to their homes as many as possible of the women and sick comrades. / | “We'll Council is growing with leaps’ and bounds. We also made 4 strong effort to have our delegation in Washington | December 5. Marcher Pledges Plenty Activity on Returning Home PHILADELPHIA—We are getting along fine up to now, in spite of all the difficulties that are placed before us. But it is our determination to get Appreciate Workers ; Support on March SYRACUSE, Ind.—The caravan of farm delegates stayed over in Chicago as we were one day ahead of schedule on the march to Washington. We |spent the day in going to different parts of Chicago and talking with the different people and finding out conditions for ourselves. ‘We were also to Hooversville, at the city dump grounds, and saw how the poor people lived in houses made of old tin and boards, and how they lived on the garbage of the dump |and lays the basis for a second re- | duction, is arousing great resentment among the rank and file. To Reopen Negotiations | Nevertheless, the union officials have called a joint meeting with the company representative for Dec. 12 in the Palmer House here where it is presumed that wage cut negotiations will be reopened. Pay Banks from Wage Cuts interest on railway bonds, more than 70 per cent of which are held by big banks and insurance companies, is being sought in “wage adjustments.” The fixed charges of the ra2ways— | The enormous sum required to pay | jbe dropped. Anna Bloch is out on| ynemployed Council visited the city bail. ‘council and demanded food and A telegram to Curtis was adopted | lodging for the marchers opming jand sent, demanding withdrawal of | back through here, The city coun- armed forces massed against the Na- | cil referred it to the steel trust may~- tional Marchers, and that they be | Or, Moore, who refused even to see allowed food and shelter and their | the committee. right to proceed in a body to the pe-| Local workers are preparing two tition congress. |meals and night’s lodging for the | BET eae pees marchers, and a mass meeting to ‘Manchurian Rebels Bene Heat Sener of lin New Clashes With Make Passaic Mayor Japanese Invaders promise Relief for Manchurian _ insurgents clashed | Cases of Starvation there, which, as you know, with the strength of this movement, we will get there and accomplish what we interes, and dividend—total now |yesterday with the Japanese invaders | about $845,000,000 per year, Of this|at Kwannenshan and several other | sum the railway workers by the 10! points. policeman drew the attention of all! by swinging his nightstick, calling | the marchers “rats,” and grounds. Families also lived there in small huts, living worse than un- | PASSAIIC, N. J., Dec. 8—A com- didatzs. In Ward 3, Leslie Morris, united front candidate for Alderman, was only 23 votes short of election. The workers are protesting the vote | tally and are demanding another re- count. The Communist Party of Canada faces the severest persecution and} terror in its fight for the working |- class. Fight of its foremost leaders| £ are in Kingston Prison, with 1540 days of their sentence still to serve. Hundreds of its members face de- portation. Nevertheless the militant work of the Party is lining up the Canadian working class behind it, as these election results show. More power to our Communist Party across the northern border! i hind the militant working class can- | j | j } | Thirty-one class war prisoners fhave been on trial for FOUR YEARS in Meerut, India,charged with sedition. Never before Yn the annals of im- perialist persecution has a trial been staged on so tremendous a scale. Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent by the British in engineering this gigantic frame-up, while the prisoners, three of them Englishmen, have been kept in an isolated jail in the hottest part of tropical India. Several have already died in jail. The trial is being pur- posely held in Meerut, as it is far | THE MEERUT PRISONERS Woman worker of a factory en-. joying water sports this last sum- mer ‘in the factory club, two workers jointly. The men here refused to work with the women. They claimed that the women work less and thus cut down the pay. The men fought for this stand in a deter- mined manner. No agitation, no ap- peal to the principles of Communism or to Party and Government resolu- tions was of any ava\l. saying: “This is a new club. If it don’t draw blood: the first time I use it, it’s no good.” . | When the marchers and their sym- pathizers turned around, they found the tires of the taxicabs had been } punctured with ice picks or screw | drivers. The only ones in the vicin- ity who could possibly have done this ratty job was a group of police. This evening, as the first depart- ing contingent of the marchers was | getting ready to leave, a policeman of the gas squad stationed on a cliff j overhanging the camp said to his , mate: “I'd like to throw this grenade into them before they go.” He took @ second glance at the other, kept | fingering his gas bomb, and con- tinued: “What do you say?” The second cop shrugged his shoulders and said: “You know what the regu- lations say about using your judg- ment.” His tone told the first cop: “Well, it might be fun—but—it might start too much.” Just then they were called away by a superior, Had they not been called, there would probably have been a repetition of the “accidental discharge of a gas bomb” that happened yes- terday. These are only a few of dozens of provocative acts and words with set out for. I hope that you all will do your best and build more block committees. I am going to do plenty to aid the movement when I get back. L. H. ‘Sallies” Have New Scheme for Graft | By a Worker Correspondent SAN ANTONIA, Texas.—The Sal- vation Army has discovered a new way of making money in the name of helping the unemployed. Tick- ets which are supposed to provide for 10 meals aer sold to merchants for $1. These tickets are then given by the businessmen in return for work done by the jobless, actually a form of forced labor. After three or four meals, con- sisting of bread and milk, the Sal- vation Army throws the holders of the tickets out, telling them they've been back too often. Of course, the old trick of offering food first to those who pray is still adhered to. ropolitan police, park police, capital police and White House police) have been goading the hunger marchers. Only the fine, the splendid discip- civilized people. That evening the Unemployed Counnicl got us the auditorium to hold a mass meeting. The delegates all lined up double file and marched about ten blocks up the street to the auditorium, where we were cheered by an audience of ‘nine hundred, the crowd, all nationalities and colors. Songs were sung and we were enter- young lady of Chicago. ‘The farmer delegates of the North- west highly appreciated the hearty welcome we had to their city and the arrangements that were made for meals and the people that took the delegates into their homes to sleep. And the arrangements for the Colise- um meeting. ‘We left the city'this morning, go- ing to Indiana, where we held a meet- ing. ,Mr. Oge of Montana, Al Sundby of Ruso, N. D., member of the N. D. Legislature, and Charles Taylor of Montana spoke. Charley Mosely the true American Indian from Montana, a delegate representing 2,000 Indians, talked on their conditions. We also thank the Indiana farmers for the preparations they have made for us, And will continue our journey ‘to Ohio. Many speakers were there to address Meanwhile Japanese troops) mittee of 15, elected by over 200 | Per cent reduction have been forced |in Manchuli held a provocation par-| workers at a mass Hunger Hearing to contribute $215,000,000. jade ve aes of re ey. bay | Nov. 29, presented the following de- The addition: r .|the insurgent Gen. ing-wen.| mands to the Board of Commission- |manded, and pea Nas pteites |Manchult is directly across the bor- lees of Passaic: |necessary by the union officiais, in |Get from the Soviet Union. Tt was) | 4. sie welief for single and | spite of their public denuications of |CccupIed by the Japanese two days) | om Net yon workers: ity to it; would. put--a. further ‘burden of|*€:" Continuation of fighting: over | Tote eee ee i eeine fon tow approximately $210,000,00 on the: rail| Wide sections f Manchuria refutes | Mi vanes i Regi : ’ the Japanese claims that they have | Workers who need it. tained by the young folks, the string band and @ piano duet played by a workers, This does not take into account the loss in wages caused by total and part time unemployment— both of which are increasing. Banks and Government The proposals of the railway com- panies mean that more than half of their fixed charges are to be covered by wage reductions, The struggle of the railworkers is a struggle against the big banks and financial concerns of Wall Street and the gov- ernment whose huge loans to the companies through the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation place it more solidly than ever behind the | wage cut plans of the railway bond | and stockholders, The Brotherhoods Unity Committees The organization of the rank and file of the railway unions for resist- j ance to the wage cut is being car- jrled-on by the Brotherhoods Unity Committee in a number of the im- portant rail terminals including Chi- cago and vicinity. crushed the natinal revolutionary jstruggle with their defeat of Gen. Su. The Japanese military are reported | to have renewed their demand on} the Soviet Government for the sur- | jtender of Gen. Su Ping-wen and} jother insurgent refugees who crossed | |the Soviet border following Su’s de- feat. At the same time Japanese | sources sent out the unconfirmed re- | port that the Soviet Government had {surrendered Su and 40 of his officers. | wide sections of Manchuria refutes |¢crushed the national revolutionary jarmy is continuing its advance to Manchuli on the Soviet border. Fight Ban Put on “Labor Defender” Sales in the Capitol NEW YORK.—The Washington boss terror against the workers and 2—No evictions of unemployed families; city to pay rent, gas and electric bills of the workers; city to provide every unemployed family with 1 1-2 tons of coal for immediate use. 3.—City to provide a bottle of milk for every two children of the unem- ployed. While Mayor Johnson, the flunkey of the textile barons of Passaic, and the rest of the Board of Commis- sioners evaded a definite answer to these demands of the unemployed workrs of Passaic, a partial victory was won. They were forced to con- cede that they will provide relief to any workers whom the Unemployed Council will prove needs it. Mass meetings are being arranged to hear the reports of the delegates to the National Hunger March, a Block Committee is being built on Fourth Street. ; against unity of Negro and white STeS Sheena away from the big industrial centers Socialist Lies | which the police ((all four of the|line of the marchers prevented Minot N. Dakota Delegates! The number of rail workers who ci ‘i 7: eae AEA dn tbe only town in| At this time I interrupted the| Washington departments—the Met-| trouble. IM. Walter Witty, Reporter. are coming to see that the policy of | Workers has struck out at the Labor/ TJ, §. Delegation Sails of } worker who was describing this case which trial by jury is not compulsory. | The Meerut defendants were ar- rested at the height of the big 1928-29 i strike wave in India in an effort to to me and asked how many workers in the rolling mill were arrested, fined or banished without trial on FARM DELEGATES man of Bagley, Minn.; Harry Lux of Lincoln, Nebr.; W. M. Hobbey of workers by the authorities in the negotiations adopted by the union officials is merely preparation for an- other wage cut is growing. Refusal of the companies to restore the wage Defender, fighting magazine of the International Labor Defense, The Washington police have ordered the magazine taken off the news stands, With Engdahl Ashes capital city and on the way to Wash- ! BREMERHAVEN, Germany, Dec. 8. |, permanently cripple the revolution-| this account. I was given a blank Templeton, Minn.; Louis Bentzley of | ington, and bitterly assailed the| Sale as of February, 1931, will meet| The International Labor Defense |_pearing the ashes of J. Louis Eng- ary.movement, The joint stand of|look. I pulled out of my pocket a Berkassie, Pa.; H. W. Springer of| treatment of the marchers by the| With resistance in various railway |S Organizing a strong fight against | the British and Indian prisoners at { Meerut is a living symbol of the in- § ternational solidarity of the British and Indian working classes. They are class war prisoners of international significance, ranking with Tom Moo- ney and the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The trial has ended, and the ver- is to be handed down soon. It the paramount duty of every work- alist oppression of the colonial peo- ples to protest against the railroad- ing of these leaders to prison. The International Day of Struggle Against Colonial Oppression, December 12th, the anniversary of the Canton Com- mune, must be marked by a world- wide protest against the Meerut copy of the Vienna “Arbeiterzeitung” (a Socialist Party paper) of October 23 and translated the following part of Otto Bauer's leading article: “When I see how every Russian worker, peasant and employe who dares an opinion objection to the governmpnt, can pe immediately arrested without court procedure and subjected to the severest pen- alty then I feel: “I can’t stomach this!” ‘ “Kakoy Durak! (What a fool), the workers cried, and I had to read the above quotation over again for their benefit. In this case it was a question of open opposition against the unanim- ous stand of the management as well case. Protest resolutions should be sent to the India Office, London, En- gland, and to the District Judge, Mee- Tut Court, Meerut, British India. Brazil Orders New Troops to Enter Peru, Colombia War The Brazilian yester- day ordered additional troops to the Peruvian border as part of its prep- erations to enter the undeclared war ‘Mean move is under ters practice on their machines, 1f| *8tTeed to receive the delegation today.| the American farmer is to be kept| and Stephen Stafford, Fla. to mobilize the workers in the struggle for the -auteeld States Fe pasta ht the earings are less, the loss will|~ Harris introduced the united front] on the American farm, the eviction| ‘The delegates were grouped in seven better living conditions, against wage cuts, AdATEES ie cp th évéceep Grhanae slate ‘American holders of Peruvian bonds | “remain in the family” and this is besa ad which called the confer-| sales must be stopped. main sections, representing the farm- for unemployment insurance and for the for joint action against the bank-|the way it was actually done, The|°N¢e. Tt consists of Harris himself, No Evictions! ers of that many different parts of | 4 support of the Hunger March. ‘i rupt Peruvian government through | women who worked in the enterprise | Secretary of the Farm Research Bu-| “whether or not the farmers have| the country. ‘The sections are: New It fights against the oppression of the CHY reese ecensesee ness Stale... see Wall Street Government, which | were either employed for the first|@#u in Washington; Edward O. Bau-| q tegal right: to refuse to permit evic- | Fngland, Middle Atlentic and Middle | JB foreign-born ‘workers, against. deporia. secretly directing and actively sup-| time or were transferred to the tion sales of farms,” said Bentzley,| West, South, Southwest, Nebraska tions, for equal rights of the Negro mas- We request space in the 9th Anniversary Edition of the {ts Colombian puppets in the| rolling mill from less skilled jobs| ™ore than when two men wete work- | “they certainly have no moral right |and Kansas, the Dakotas, and the| $ ses, and for the freedom of all class war dwar, The is| which therefore brought in less pay,| ins together. ae to put their own wives and children|Far West which includes Montana, prisoners—Tom Mooney and the Nine Daily Worker for $ headed by A. CORisgs rf former S that Hie age they worked - kidd of the Kitchens bs vee bare road with no place os DC greece gaan Idaho, Wyoming Scottsboro Boys, etc, Anus bh Governor of Ken! 5 lower wi were practicing employment? The only idea that | go!’ ere was manifest approval of | an lorado. i ts Tn the other undeclared war in| they managed after a fashion to keep| the workers in the Soviet Union have| these sentiments from the whole| Each section nominated a repre-| Bay) workers’ We nak you in exrven yer YOUR GREETINGS MUST REACH TH. DAILY South America, oth Bolivia and|up earnings. They were taught|of unemployment is what they get| conference. sentative for the resolutions commit- solidarity and support the Daily Worker WORKER, 50 EAST 13TH ST., NEW YORK, N, ¥. ane @ vic-|by their husbands, their ie diced Eire foreign Raptess the papers. eaten delegate who Le bey be lee var eee, Mae by sending Greetings to the only Revo- BEFO: ANUARY FI at Fort Cuat ntos, Para-| their brothers, and within a few problem to provide ‘ashington with the Na-| them. The resolutions committee RE foe. the capture of the | weeks the astonishing fact came to| enough labor power for the increasing | tional Hunger March described in| the important task of formulating the | ‘tionary Dally im the English language, J RST, 1933 while the Bolivian claim the re- | light that the earnings not only were and for the| dramatic manner the attacks made | statement to congress, embodying the Dulse of o not less, but in many cases were still on the delegates of unemployed! demands for moratorium and relief | anything, as the factory committee and the Party nucleus. What was the reac- tion? Was the question settled with @ few strong commands? Ideological Guidance It isn’t by commands or barrack methods that the Commu- nist Party carries through its policy, not even when the fundamental issue involved is clear as it is in the above case, Party carries through its policy by means of political and ideological, guidance and convincing the masses on the basis of practice. The workers are told: “Alright, you don’t want to have it this way. But perhaps you will let us make an experiment which will not cost you will let their wives or their daugh- ARE IN SESSION Drawing Up Demands On Congress (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Each delegate was elected by at least 25 farmers back home, and some re- present directly 200 or 300 farmers. “It is fair to say,” Harris remarked, “that this conference is looked to by the 30,000,000 farmers in thfs country for a program—certainly all those who elected delegates or endorsed this confernce and many more are looking to us for a program, and farmers generally are thinking of getting together on a national farm program.” Farmers Formulate Demands Haryis advised that the farm del- egates here proceed to formulate a program themselves, around which the whole mass of farmers can rally. ‘The conference will do this today, and has made arrangements to send delegations to both the House of Representatives and to the Senate, with the proposed program for fed- eral action in the farm situation. Both Curtis and Garner in their of- ficial capacities, will be called on by the National Farm Conference Com- mittee, and it is reported Garner has huge new fuctores, Vineland, N. J.; and Stephen Staf- ford, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Harris especially comended Stafford to the conference. Stafford is a Negro share cropper, and Harris pointed out the terror conditions against Negro croppers in the South, making enor- mous difficulties for those holding meetings and electing delegates and sending their delegation, from that district. “Mr. Stafferd deserves more aplpause than any of the rest of us here,” said Harris. The conference had already showed their apprecia- tion of the efforts of Stafford by an enthusiastic greeting to him as he caine forward. Stafford wa sthe first speaker after Harris’ report. He told how the white landlords of the South fought both Negro and white share croppers ve- hemently, seeking to prevent both the election of delegates and the de- parture of the delegates from Florida. Moratorium It is practically certain that the farmers will include in their de- mands to be presented to congress today, one for a moratorium on farm debis, mortgage payments and taxes, as well as demands for real federal relief without restriction, to the poor farmers, Delegate Bentzley, in his address to the conference yesterday declared: “A moratorium is absolutely neces- sary for the American farmers, faced with foreclosures and evictions. If Police. “As a farmer, I had never known that such things were possible!” he declared. Many of the delegates told how farmers facing starvation and evic- tion were advised by the bankers who held their mortgages to accept lower living standards, scrimp and save and pay the bankers their interest. The bankers cheerfully propose to put the American farmers on the lowest pos- sible peasant economy scale with a very limited diet, but the farmers are aroused and will not accept such a proposal without a fight. The delegates brought out the fact that the same government authori- ties who are granting big funds, mil- lions of dollars, to the bankers, are issuing foreclosure writes to the farmers. Ella Reeve Bloor, representing the United Farmers League, herself the wife of a North Western faremr, re- ceived a great ovation as she spoke, describing with a wealth of detail the strike of the Iowa farmers. “Mother” Bloor spoke at the great demonstra- tion of fifteen thousand farmers in Sioux City, Sept. 9 and it was this mass meeting which first, proposed the National Farm Conference now in session here. The conference organized itself by electing Tony Rosenbrg, chairman, and three vice presidents; Louis Bentaley, Pa.; Strong of Nebraska | centers, it is indicated by the re- ports coming into the Chicago head- quarters of the Brotherhoods Unity Committee. and against evictions of farmers for debt or their inability to pay taxes. The resolutions committee consists of: Fred B. Chase, N. H.; Louis Bentzley, | this attack on the workers’ press. | An injunction against the Washing- j ton police will be sued out this week, it was announced by William L, Pat- terson, national secretary of the I. L. D., to force them to permit open sales of the Labor Defender. At the same time, mass pressure is being mobilized in Washington, and all over dahl, late national chairman of the International Labor Defense, the American delegation to the World Congress of the International Red Aid which was recently held in Mos- cow, U, S, S. R. set sail for New York on the Bremen. The delegation includes Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of Roy and Andy Wright, two of the Scottsboro boys,” Mrs. Mary Mooney, Pa.; James Flower, Minn.; Jess) Green, Nebr.; Andrew Ojy, Dakotas; Paul Dale, Orgeon. The representa- tive from the South will be nom- inated when the rest of the Southern delegation comes in this morning, the country, to back up this fight. | mother of Tom Mooney, Carl Hacker, | national organizer of the Interna Build a workers correspondence | ¢ional Labor Defense, William Taylor, froup {0 your factory, shop of | Negro delegate from New Haven, neighborhood. Send regular lettere | Conn, and Mariam Brooks, youth to the Dafly Worker. delegate from Californiia, ceil dete che ela a ae] GREET THE DAILY WORKER To All Workers & Organizations! IN ITS NINTH ANNIVERSARY Dear Comrades: And SUNDAY, JAN. 8, 1933, MARKS THE Onward to A Biever and NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAILY WORKER. These were nine years of More Powerful Daily Worker! * + hard struggle in the life of our paper. During these years, the Daily Worker has Our Greetings to the Daily Worker On Its 9th Anniversary! made itself indispensable in the various struggles of the American working cless. As the central organ of the Commu- nist Party, it has rallied the workers for the support and defense of the Soviet Union, It has constantly carried on the fight NGG oe den sdansr deen ivesseenen euspecn renee ‘

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