The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1932, Page 3

\ —_— (Inprecorr Press Service) WORLD ANTI-WAR COMMITTEE MEETS IN STRASSBURG PARIS.—The secretariat of International Anti-War Committee elected by the recent anti-war con- gress in Amsterdam has decided to | hold the first. meeting of the com- | mittee from the 17th to the 19th of December in Strassburg. The Mayor of Strassburg has placed the big hall in the Strassburg Town Hall at the disposal of the committee for its ses- | sions. Apart from the members of | the committee numerous represen- | tatives of the anti-war committees in | the various countries will be present | at the meeting which is being looked | . = forward to with increasing interest. eo + 8 | JAPANESE SAILORS WIN THEIR | STRIKE } TOKIO.—The crews of the ocean- | going vessels of the Japanese line | “Amagasaki Kisen Kaishai” have just | won a strike. The company has | just granted all the demands of the men after having completely failed to carry on with scab labor and work has now been resumed. tec alte FINE RED T. U. VICTORY IN CZECH FACTORY PRAGUE.—The factory council election in the well-known textile | works Loew-Beer in Zwittau near Brunn brought a fine victory for the list of the revolutionary textile work- ers union which received 328 vo'es and 5 seats as compared with 274 votes and 4 seats at the election in 1931. The list of the reformist trade union received 178 votes as against 294 votes at the last election. This election is typical of almost all the factory council elections which have taken place recently. The revolu- tionary trade union movement is in- creasing its influence over the work- ers in the factory whilst the influ- ence of the reformist unions is cor- respondingly decreasing. Show Corruption in Hotel Union Give Lie to Claims of Bureaucrats , ‘CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ternational at the head. T™ 1928 Michael Wolf and his gang sold out the three weeks strike at Pitkins Ave. Brooklyn, and charged Local Two $15,000. and local 325, $5,000, In the 1931 elections of Local 2, Wolf stole the ballot box in order to main- tain himself and his gang in of- fice. In order to pay those who did the job, he created a strike at the Dubrows Rest, Brooklyn, and charged Local Two $8,000. Mr. Flore, are these actions of your local officials “honest” busi- ness? Two hundred members peti- tioned the General President. What actions did you take? Noth- ing! In fact election for another term has just been put over. See ee T this time, after four years of unemployment, what are the salaries of local No, 1 officials, with a membership of less than 1,000 in good standing? ‘The June 30th, 1932, financial report for three months shows the following six highest paid officials. Salaries Org. Expenses L. Rubenfeld. .$979.00 $160.40 J. Silberstein . $780.00 $130,00 - 3780.00 $122.40 $780.00 $367.95, $780.00 $340.00 , $780.00 $245.80 These are the salaries for 91 days and organizational expenses (7). Above that they are selling jobs “honestly” as high as $300. per job!, Mr. Flore’s salary is $450 &@ month and $250.00 expenses. NOT FIGHTING RACKETEERS. Mr. Flore is not fighting racke. teers and grafters. He is working hand and hand with them. He needs them and uses them against those “who because of unemploy- ment are ready to lay their dis- tress at the door of their organi- zation and leaders.” (Quotation from the “Catering Industry Em- ployee” Sept. issue 1932, the monthly organ of the Interna- tional, President’s Page (Flore’s). And against those who are fight- ing against wage. cuts. The only way to fight and get rid of the gangsters, racketeers and grafters is to organize a strong rank and file opposition, and demand from the International and Local of. ficials. 1, Exempt dues for all unem- ployed members with voice and vote at the membership meetings. 2. No favoritism. 3. Against wage cuts and for maintain union conditions, 4. Reduce the salaries of the In- ternational and loeal officials to the average wages of the workers. 5. Immediate Relief and Unem- ployment Insurance at the expense “of the Federal and State Govern- ment and the 6. Organize on the job together with the unskilled and force the posses to stop wage cuts and for better conditions. 7. Trade Union democracy. « MARCH REPORT AT CHICAGO MEETS 10,000 Workers Pledge Local Struggles ICONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) would be given, he was threatened with arrest by a whole row of plain- Ylothes coppers sitting behind the lelegation. After plainly stating that failure jo get prompt action on the demands tould mean that the Unemployed Jouncil and the S.M.W.LU. would wing hundreds, if not thousands, ‘@ City Council in support of the it the delegation, which in- the | | Sonal a dia ao Bnd Miners’ homes in Davidson, Tenn. The miners who live in these | shacks have joined the strike of others in the adjoining town of | Wilder, fighting a 20 per cent wage | ut, The governar has sent mill- CONGRESS PLANS TO CUT ACREAGE Propose Less Food and Higher Prices (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) bushel, on cotton five cents a pound, on tobacco four cents a pound, on hogs two cents a pound. These taxes would fall on the miller, for wheat, on the tobacco factory, on the spinning company for cotton, on the packer for hogs to be passed on. to the masses in the form of increased prices. | Once paid, the fund is established, | and there isn’t any more money. If | the miller and spinning ec -»eny can |}eut the price of farm prods: they | will pay to zero, their tax pay. all the farmer gets. And they will cer- | tainly try to cut it pretty low. There | is no “come back” at least until the | next year, if then. Cutting Production. 3 But there is another feature, and a most dangerous one to worker and farmer. No farmer will be paid the differential provided for in the bill, unless he can show that he has cut bis production one-fifth. He has to show that in 1933 he planted one- fifth less acreage or produced one- fifth less pounds of live pork. This provision for cutting down the amount of food in existence is flung in the face of 16,000,000 unemployed workers, many of them hunery, and listening daily to the eyes of their hungry children. e higher prices and less quantity of food provisions are the United States government’s answer, so far, to the demands of another 16,000,- 000 part time, wage cut, workers for the right to live. : The united leadership of the farm organizations, except for the United Farmers League, proposed this cut- ting of production apply to 1933; the original draft of the Jones bill set- ting it for 1934. What Farmers Say. ‘The United Farmers League whole heartedly supported the National Farmers Conference, held in Wash- ington, Dec. 7 to 10, with nearly 300 delegates from over 30 states. The conference stated emphatically in its demands handed to congress: | “In the face of social calamity “Farm Leaders” and politicians dare to talk of ‘Surplus’; dare to base legislation on a theory of re- duction of acreage that will fit the present starvation markets. While millions of our population are un- | dernorished through loss of their purchasing power, the acceptance | of the surplus theory is a crime against society.” The National Farm conference de- manded relief to the farmers, and moratorium on farm debts, mortgage payments and on taxes. ‘The United Farmers League, in united front with the rank and file of the various other farm organiza- tions, unites also with the city un- employed and city workers to fight for higher prices to the farmers, and lower prices for the consumers. of farm products. “PRICE REDUCTION CAMPAIGN” IN POLAND WARSAW.—The Polish bourgeois press reports that the government is engaged in drawing up a new “price reduction campaign.” This an- nouncement contains another attack on the’masses, because it is in effect nothing but the preliminary to a new wage-cutting campaign. Up to the present all “price-cutting schemes” have brought into effect new wage-cuts whereby the price- reduction campaign has failed whilst | the wage cutting has been signally | successful, j ¢ who presented the demands, and several Negro workers, left the hall. ‘The six Warren delegates on the National Hunger March, 2 of them elected by the Local of the Steel and Meta! Workers Industrial Union, will report ata mass meeting here to- morrow. The heavy snow-fall and failure of the column to come through on time prevented the ex- pected fight in Warren last Friday. The city, alarmed at the mass sup- port given the marchers when they came throueh last time, and_the crowd of 2,000 in Courthouse Park, had again tried to prevent the meet- ing with threat to smash it. But old man weather did what the boss class could not do, and the meeting was postponed, ihe ~ Blaine Sees Dangers. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 15.— Senator Blaine of Wisconsin called the attention of the Senate, Dec. 9, to the “veritable army of police with revolvers and batons” who surround- ed the National Hunger Marchers. He told of the “insulting and ob- scene language” used by police to- ward both men and women marchers, and warned that ‘such violence and arrogance and abusive language is ts = Ssing disaster on the coun- natant Ate a D ATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1932 Page Three WORKER CORRESPONDENCE | MINERS WRITE RUSSIAN WHITE ® if | GUARDS DRIVE ALASKA MINERS) Military Regime Gold Mine; Men Terrorized JUNEAU, Alaska. — I would call work in the Alaska Juneau Gold Mines underground war, because this mine is operated like a military re- gime. Many hundreds of Russian White Guards came during the last ten years. Many are foremen and they bulldoze and drive the workers here just as they drove the Russian workers during the Czar’s time. The mine operates on three shifts, each one working underground a full eight hours at a stretch without rest, and no time out for lunch. The workers are way behind the class-conscious workers, They don’t even ask to have a road built. They have to walk half a mile up a 99 degree slope to get to the mine. This results in many accidents, especially in winter. There are a few Party members in this mine, all working very secretly, because there are many stoolpigeons in this mine. I don’t know how to organize these workers. Some are) not interested. Some are very ‘good | but they mistrust, they are too scar- ed of the bosses. Once in a while the mine bosses collect money from the miners for the unemployed. They get thous- ands of dollars and give it to the Salvation Army. But the Salvation don’t give any help to the Juneau poor people. Anytime the men ask for something to eat, the Salvation. tells them to “chop wood and then | we will give you food.” But this collection money is used only for graft and to feed the husky Salva- tion gang. in —Longview. Editor's Note;—The demand for a road to the mine seems in this case a very good rallying point around which the workers might be ap- proached. The local Party organiza- tion should give assistance to the few Party members im the mine, to flood the place with a good leaflet on just this immediate demand of a road. This might break the ice to get a worker's committee organ- ized secretly which will eventually | develop into union organization. Miners Combine Wage - Cut and | Relief Struggle | JEANNETTE, Pa—On Dec. 1 the miners of the Hillman Coal Co. got a 15 per cent wage-cut, lowering the tonnage rate from 40 cents to 34) cents a ton. They are beginning to organize against the wage-cuts and also for immediate winter relief. The Red Cross recently cut off the flour, in order to put over the wage-cut. A committee was elected and took a | registration of all the families to the County Red Cross organization, with the result that the flour was again to be given on Dec. 14, H. ©. Frick Co. is disbanding all its mines in Westmoreland County, tak~- | ing out all of the machinery, tearing | down the tipples, iearing down the} houses, abandoning the mines, in or- der to escape paying taxes. This is| a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Co. Thousands of miners are starving, being out of work for the last three years, without any place to get work | and nothing to go with. With a his- toric tradition of struggle they are again beginning to organize in the demand for immediate relief and un- employment insurance. The Unem- ployed Council, together with the National Miners’ Union, leading this fight against starvation, has won some immediate increased relief in the county and other small demands. ‘Wailey. Hold an Open Hearing on Hunger in your neighborhood; invite all jobless and part time workers and keep a record of their evidence Blacklisted and Unemployed Miners Force Through Relief Bentleyville Worker Calls Unemployed to Build Strong Unemployed Council BENTLEYVILLE, Pa.—Ever since the first betrayal of the U. M. W. A. fakers, the miners here have been living in mass misery and starvation, Many mines have since been” shut down in the vicinity because of the crisis and there have been mass lay~ offs, The coal barons have chalked the blacklist heavily with active miners in the 1931 strike. Organization has forced concession after concession from the local au- thorities in the matter of relief. A committee of unemployed and black- listed miners compelled the town of- ficials to keep the soup kitchen go- ing after strike relief gave out. The committee grew stronger and forced one day's work a week on the roads for $1.50 groceries, which was later increased to $2.50 by more mass pressure, On top of that we won the right to trade in private stores in- stead of in the town’s ‘commissary, and single workers also began get- ting relief. ‘One of the directors of the poor from Charleroi, Mr. Ferry, tries to evade our local committee with jokes, and has a habit of running away without settlement of our commit- tee's demands. Another official, who has his hands sunk deep in the relief, is Burgess South. He is a tool of the Bethle- hem Steel Co, and the very one who | conditions, and how they react to- | employment and hunger. Chats with Our Worcorrs When we get letters like these from miners, we have something very basic and valuable for the working class. And when these letters describe not only conditions, but also how the workers are struggling against these ward our efforts to help them organ~ ize, then we come near what real Worker Correspondence should be. Here we have some letters, however, which could have been much more valuable, had the writers given some note of organization and struggle in them. The letters from Madrid, Shenandoah, Old Forge, and Paines- dale, give only a description of con- ditions. Contrast these with the let- from Hentleysville and Jeanette, which breathe an atmosphere of struggle and achievements—and you see how much the comrades from the former towns could have im- proved their letters. We ask all these comrades to write again, giving a story of activity on the basis of the descriptions they have now sent. If there is no organizational activity or struggle, the comrades should give their opinions on why this is, as the miner from Alaska did. Shenandoah Miners Killed and Maimed; No Compensation SHENANDOAH, Pa.—In the Brook- side Mine of the Redding Coal Co., two miners lost their lives, G. Bigart and 8. Sudberg. The Redding Co. gave no directions to the miners. As a consequence they mined their way under water. When coal was blasted, the entire top fell in and after it the water, under which the two miners perished. Some time ago there appeared in a local paper an announcement by this company that in the Hammond Mine there had not been a single accident during the entire month. At a meeting of the miners it was exposed that the employers concealed the injuries of workers in order to avoid payment of compansation. The method of the company has been to send the workers home to recover as best they may. The miners toler- ated this, fearing loss of the job. Here we had this case: A Rus- sian miner crippled his finger. Fear- ing loss of his job, he kept quiet. In the meantime the finger rotted right off his hand till the flesh completely rotted away and fell off the bone. A 15-minute walk east of the Shen- dos Mine the company put up a new breaker, in accordance with the last word in technique. It produces 13,000 tons of coal, resulting in discharge of 1,000 men by the company. The Redding Coal Co. employs around 2,000 workers in Shenandoah. It was closed down since January, 1932, Before the elections the mines began to work. The miners breathed easier, but not for long. And just then the mine boss informed the miners that each miner should also be a salesman, and should sell coal, declaring that whoever takes the most will get a big turkey, A date was set for Nov. 24. Some-| what afraid, the miners took coal in order to please the bosses, and sold | it at a loss. Some took the coal and gave it away at half the price. The mines worked three weeks, and closed again. The bosses got the turkey, while the workers were left with un- Community Chest _ Skins Miners OLD FORGE, Pa,—The miners are asked by the crooked Community Chest outfit to give $20 each, a great sum to give for the miners, who when they are working, earn only about $22 a week. But, if they want to keep their jobs, they must come across. The Blue Goose Mine, which is in operation ov three months, has not paid its workers yet, but heavy prom- ises are made in order to keep the workers at work, Ss. M. helped to break our strike with police terror and reduce us to the state that we exist in today. He says that the more meetings the unemployed hold, the less relief they will receive. And, when he is approached by our committee, he says he has nothing to do about relief, although he prom- ised to run the affairs of the town. Why did Rey. Carr turn in only 65 unemployed to the county as eligible for government flour, even after 300 registered for flour? He and the rest tries to hide the actual figures of the unemployed. And it was the timely investigation of our commit- tee that not only brought flour for all, but also exposed this so-called Rey. Carr. Even milk now will be available to children not going to school—all be- cause of the activity of our commit- tee. Fellow-workers: Many of you are getting this relief today. You are getting flour. How long will these funds allotted for this purpose last? Sooner or later this relief that we get today will be cut. How will we be able to hold what we have unless OF STRUGGLES AND CONDITIONS MINERS MUST PAY PREIST FOR JOB IN MINE MADRID, Ia.—Here there is one large mine employing about 600 miners. ‘This mine belongs to the Scondia Coal Company, which is a Catholic company, Most of the miners live in company shacks These mine villaces look more like Hoovervilles on the banks of the Mississippi River at St. Louis than anything else. But the company col- lects high rent for them just the | same. Then there is the company | store where the miners have to trade | and they charge such high prices, | that the miners give back to the company everything they make. i} At the No. 6 mine, those that go | to church and give $5 or $10 to Father Flanagan every pay, get the | best jobs. About a year ago the Pope | broadcast his hocus-pocus all over | the world and this Catholic com- | pany gave him $50,000. So now the | miners have to pay this back. | Before the national elections, the | Communists had a meeting in Ma-| drid, so they were going to expel| everyone from the miner’s organi- | zation for attending the Communist | meeting. This is the condition) around Madrid. But some day this | chain will be broken. This can’t last much longer. —Iowa Miner. Miners on Benefit Lists Are Being PAINESDALE, Mich—In the Champion Copper Mine they have a club paying system. The trammer bosses play the men against each other, telling how this man and that got hurt, and saying: “I, don’t want to spoil your record. You have got so many non-accident shifts, it would be a shame to cut it down to nothing.” The bosses keep harping on that record, saying that a certain man is a good worker. He got hurt and came to work and saved the rec- ord (and assured himself of his job). The bosses give the workers a hint! that the man that gets hurt and| stops off work and draws compen-| sation for a month doesn’t work very | long. In this way the company is| saved thousands of dollars. | The same way with the work. If the party that comes to work on the | | Chinese Soviet Revolution and the Eased Out of Jobs | * Nanking Terror Le lf i i | é jo The young Communist women workers brought before one of the | exceptional courts of the Nanking | terror government which ordered | their execution, NANKING IN NEW | MASS ARRESTS | Intended ‘to Allay the Imperialist Alarm SHANGHAI, Dec. 15.—The Nan- | king Government, forced by mass | pressure to resume normal diplomatic | relations with the Soviet Union, yes- terday carried out a series of raids and arrests of Chinese revolutionists by way of assuring the imperialist | bandits of Nanking’s continued ad- | | herence to the schemes of world im- perialism for the crushing of the | looting and partition of China. | Three professors, attached to the | National University, Peiping Univer- | sity and Peiping Law School were ar- | rested for alleged Communist activi- | A large number of students | were arrested at the same time on | similar charges. Nanking New Anti-Soviet Drive | Nanking also announced a new military drive against the emanci- pated masses in the Chinese Soviet Districts. The Hupeh militarists pledged their imperialist masters a “vigorous anti-Communist campaign throughout the province, especially where discontented farmers are aid- | ing in the establishment of Soviets.” The Chinese Red Army controls a} large part of the province and, as the militarists themselves admit, the farmers are actively supporting the Red Army and setting up Soviets on} their own initiative. The Red Army | in the province has smashed all pre- | vious offensives. Red Army Near Inner Mongolia. A large Chinese Red Army is re- ported moving through Shensi and | | to be dozens of them, departm | by Billy Grupp himself from his New | Two Conventions in Cincinnati, and How* Different They Were! Rank and File Convention’s Delegation Had One Main Problem, to Save Starving Workers By A DELEGATE wit A F of L. leaders, and h the from New York @ was being taken up the burn- - i stion t ncerned the en- On the night of Mor nid | Goeeor the t king s—Unemphlyment bettie ints ia ance and Immediate Relief, Orders of Business”. s Convention there were the Cincinnati Rank and File Con- ference for Fe Insurance and Relief arrived in what | being passed resolutions about beer, seemed a pri the Volstead Act, hypocritical en- ing quite a number of well dorsement of the anti-injunction ple. The next day we saw Cincin- | law, and the other “orders of busi- ness” of the labor fakers. Opposed to both beer and even nati by daylight the well-fed pe than the 330 delega’ Green's fake state unemployment in- L. Convention, visitors, in | Surance “proposal”, the president of archbishop, a Legion comm: the International Typographical Senator Davis, Deportation Doak, and | Union, Charles P. Howard, who wept all the rest who addressed what is|Ctocodile tears for the “25,000,000 laughingly called a tion. ‘There were some others who looked like delegates but they turned ou of | people who haven't been told by us here how they are going to get mo- ney for bread let alone beer..” On | unemployment insurance he uttered his startling piece of profundity: = employers would be delighted to pay unemployment insurance be- cause the responsibility for providing jobs would no longer be theirs” (1!) Therefore he opposes unemployment labor” conven- | justice agents, city and hotel “dicks” | and a collection of punch-drunk | “pugs” brought on for the occasion | | York City gymnasium. William Green's convention was | 77@"°e! et vention as | i" ? held in the Netherland Plaza, the| ,., Howard's Work, convention hall of which | This is the same Howard is sur- : rounded by mirrors, as well as the |’ New York and told the members other trimmings that go with this |°! Typographical Union No. 6: “This enniual farce, nad is & Scab hotel {8 Your bread and butter, not mine!” Some blocks away in the Labor |—®"d urged them to take a 17 per Temple, at 1318 Walnut Street, there |C°M’ Wage cut demanded by the was in session for two days the Rank |PTinters’ League. And the same and File Conference for Unemploy ,.| gentleman who provided the arbi- tient. Insurante and Relief. Here | trator, a personal friend of his and rank and file members of the A. F,|® Puilder from Indianapolis employ- of L. from Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleve- |" non-union labor to decide on a land, Minneapolis, Kalamazoo ,Michi- | 10 Per cent wage cut and introdue- |tion of the stagger system for the newspaper printers of New York | City, the struggle against which is |now going on. The local officials, as | well, were “disappointed” with the | “award” but “accepted it in good | faith”) | Howard exemplifigs the type of | delegate who sat at the 52nd Annual Convention of the American Federa~ | tion of Labor. While the type of delegate that sat at the Conference for Unemploy- ment Insurance and Relief, in Labor Temple, had at heart the interests of all the workers of this country. Here were passed no toothless reso- lutions. Our resolutions had guts, fighting words, and demands that will ring out over the world, Release Mooney! We endorsed a resolution demand= | ing the freedom of that courageous nd uncompromising working class gan, Cincinnati, Newark and New York, were seriously and courageous- ly, in view of the reign of terror that was sure to be directed against them by local and International of- ficials, discussing and acting on the problems that confronted unem- ployed and employed members of their respective local unions. Plasterer Talks. Take the case of the Plasterer’s Union No. 31, Pittsburgh, for in- stance. This is Delegate James Egan talking, former president of No. 31. “We went out on strike against the wage cut, and we were winning, when the International president, Mc- Donough, ordered us to call off the strike. We refused, He threatened us with revocation of the charter. We defied him. By his order some thugs and Pittsburg police broke in- to our office one night and removed charter, safe and everything else. But they can’t remove the militant | leader, last half of the month don’t. put out} Kansu Province, on the borders of | as much ore as the first half, the | Inner Mongolia and Sin Kiang. The bosses ain’t long in letting him know | westward advance of this force has Tom Mooney. “Uncondition- was the qualifying word used in the resolution demanding his release! spirit of our members—and we're | going to fight!” | The other delegates related their | tions for the demand of unemploy | March, about it, as much as saying that if| the same work isn't done, “we'll have | to change you around,” which means as good as a lay-off. A Young Champion Miner. Mihers Unemployed Meeting Applauds Communist Stand. GILLESPIE, Il—At our Unem-| ployed Council demonstration up| here a while ago we had some} speeches first of the Socialist Party | and a member of the Y.C. L. But when Comrade Bill Gebert took the floor he shook the whole crowd with his explanation to all the people around here of the Communist posi- | tion of class against class. So, after he finished speaking, the Socialist Party did not have much to say. So we passed some resolu ment insurance and more relief, and to endorse the National And we sent one to Sheriff Browne | Robison and State Attorney Marion | Hart of Franklin County, demand- | ing freedom of speech to the rank} and file miners and to establish their | own rank and file union. So we said | long live the united front of work- | ers with the Third International! | D. COMMUNST PARTY DAILY AGAIN APPEARS | | Union and the Mongolian People’s | Fifteenth Route Army, has been of- , Nanking for the session. HUNECT | neighborhood. Send regular letters | spread alarm among Nanking and Japanese militarists alike, both fegr- | ing the extension of the Soviet Dis- | tricts to the frontiers of the Soviet | Government. The Nanking General | Ma Hung-kwei, commanding the fered the position of war lord of Kansu Province as a reward if he | succeeds in blocking the westward | advance of the Red Army, which is reported commanded by Hsu Shang- | tsien, | Kuomintang Meets. | ‘The Kuomintang central executive conunittee Will begin its third plen- | ary session at Nanking tomorrow, with the northern militarists refrain- ing from attendance and the Canton lique represented only by Sun Fo. General Chiang Kai-shek, who | personally commanded the unsuc- | cessful anti-Communist campaign in | Hupeh Province has returned to; Build a workers correspondence group in your factory, shop oF to the Daily Worker. NEW JERSEY STREET LITTLE NEWARK BEGINNING THURSDAY Two Soviet Russian Talkies Both With English Titles 562 BROAD | Rump convention, indeed! | the real thing! experiences and the horrible internal conditions f otheir local unions, the reign of terror against the militant members, the officials commanding outrageously high salaries while the unemployed were starving and being suspended and expelled for non-pay- ment of dues. For Dues Exemption. There was more than indignation in the voices of these workers; there was the grim determination to re- sist the wage cuts, inspired by these officials in conjunction with the em- ployers, to fight for ducs-exemption sta with the provision that they remain in good standing in their unions while unemployed, and pledged them- selves to continue in the struggle for compulsory Federal Unemploy- ment Insurance at ‘the expense of the employers and the government. “Rump Convention,” the nati papers called our conference ‘This was Over at that sci hotel, Green’s Convention was cool ing up “proposals” and “suggested mps for the unemployed members | Cincin- | 54 And for the release of Warren K Billings. Resolutions were endorsed | amidst cheers and wild demonstra- | tion on the part of the delegates cal- |ling for the release of the Nine Scottsboro Boys; the Recognition of the Soviet Union: denouncing Im- | perialist War; Against Wage Cuts; Free Dues for the Unemployed Mem- bers of Unions; Against Injunctions | by Employers and Union Officials, jand a resolution endorsing the Na- tional Hunger March to Washing- ton on December 6. Six delegates were elected from our Conference to participate in the March, The Workers Unemployment In- Surance Bill as proposed by the A, | F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Re- Nef was, of course, endorsed and | immediately the question of Federal | Unemployment Insurance became one of national importance and af- fecting many locals in the A. F. of L. all over the country. Delegation Starts. | A delegation of 25 then marched | to the herland-Plaza to present | cott” while at the same time he a | his international officials and dele-| dreds of his kind inside and outside | gates were legislation” for Congress to enact—|the demands of the Rank and File in 1942! Green was talking grandly|Conference to William Green and and gloriously of “force — I mean|his hand-picked tools of the em- economic force, the strike, the boy-|ployers. The Sergeant-at-arms, we | were told by a dick (there were hun- having visions of new/|the hotel) was instructed by Green wage cuts, injunctions against strik-| not to accept our credentials. ing members, suspension and expul-| “What reason?” asked Louis Wein- sion of the unemployed—and how to| stock, newly elected National Secre~ perpetuate themselves in office at tary of the A. F. of L. Trade Union salaries of $10,000 to $25,000 per year | Committee for Unemployment In- —and expenses.” | surance and Relief. “None given,” Starvation—the Problem. At the Labor Temple thoughts and | said the dick Weinstock then addressed the del- MADRID.——Following a power- | “ ” ful mass campaign of protest during | S N I P E R which no less than 50,000 Pesetas | were collected for the workers’ press, | —AND— the Spanish government has now “ A L 0 N E ” withdrawn its suppression order | against the “Mundo Obrero” (‘The | Workers’ Voice”) the daily organ of the Spanish Communist Party which appeared again on Dec. Ist, to 11 p.m.—Sunday 1 p.m je till 12 noon exc, Sim. actions that projected the struggle | egation, “Green refuses to recognize of the 16,000,000 unemployed work-| the rank and file members of the ers of this country. Here great con-| American Federation of Labor, cern over the misery and the con-| Brothers, we came here to demand tinually worsening conditions of the | from Green and his Executive Coun- workers. Here was being mapped | cil that the unemployed members of plans to resist the further wage cuts| the local unions be exempt from of the employers in collaboration | paying dues and that they remain in | good standing in their unions. We To All Workers & Organizations! Dear Comrades: SUNDAY, JAN. 8, 1933, MARKS THE NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAILY WORKER. These were nine years of hard struggle in the life of our paper. During these years, the Daily Worker has made itself indispensable in the various struggles of the American working class, As the central organ of the Commu- nist Party, it has rallied the workers for the support and defense of the Sovict Union, It has constantly carried on the fight to mobilize the workers in the struggle for better living conditions, against wage cuts, for unemployment insurance and for the support of the Hunger March. It fights against the oppression of the foreign-born workers, against deporta~ tions, for equal rights of the Negro mas- ses, and for the freedom of all class war prisoners—-Tom Mooney and the Nine Scottsboro Boys, ete. Our Greetings to Name Address Cig. < We request space in the Daily Worker for §... we organize all the unemployed into @ powerful Unemployed Council? More mass misery and hunger is the workers This celebration is a great event for all workers. We ask you and support Boge WORKER, 50 EAST 1: ON ITS NINTH ANNIVERSARY ee Onward to A Bigger and More Powerful Daily Worker! On Its 9th Anniversary! YOUR GREETINGS MUST REACH THe DAILY BEFORE JANUARY FIRST, |came here to demand that this A. | F. of L. Convention go on record in | favor of Compulsory Federal Unem- | ployment Insurance at the expense of the employers and the govern- |ment. The working class of this | country... .” and then Weinstock was interrupted by the chief of city detectives. Hundreds of dicks came out of their rat holes and proceeded to jostle the crowd around him. Someone shouted, “Let's get out of this scab hotel! Green and his gang live in luxury while workers Satie starve!” Another shouted: “We de< = mand Unemployment Insurance! the Daily Worker And Immediate Relief. Down with the fakers!” Picket the Hotel. The delegation and hundreds of workers outside of the hotel then proceeded to an automobile filled with placards which contained de= mands for unemployment insurance, immediate relief, denouncing the A. F. of L. officials, against wage cuts, etc., and p icketed the scab hotel for a while and theg retired to the La~ bor Temple to he jr the report from Weinstock, who elected spokes~ man by the delegation. ‘The Conference elected a National Executive Committee, Walter Frank, Minneapolis, chairman and John Masso, New York, vice-chairman the Conference ended and nearly « hundred delegates departed for their homes, but they did not, depart from. thetr struggle, 9th Anniversary Edition of the 3TH ST. NEW YORK, N.Y. 1933 “nN ~