The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1932, Page 3

if \ \\ | | ) fis e \ “s (a firm of Mitsui, which handles tf ’ ' ‘ | which built the Big Berthas that [ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDA International Notes | SPANISH SOCIALISTS VOTE FOR | ARMAMENTS MADRID (By Mail). — Defending | the huge expenditures planned or al- | ready made by his department, Navy Minister Jose Giral declared in the Cortes (the Spanish Congress) today that Spain needed a powerful navy due to its geographical situation and for that reason it had been neces- sary to increase the naval construc- tion budget considerably over the previous year. The Socialist deputies in he Cortes stated that they felt it ought to sup- port the increased budget. They feel “THAT IT WOULD BE IMPRUD- ENT TO REDUCE THE ARMY OR NAVY FORCES IN THE PRESENT CTRCUMSTANCES.” The “present circumstances” refer- red to, mean, of course, the general strike of revolutionary nature called by the United Front of Communist | and Syndicalist workers, which | threatens to overthrow the present | Socialist-bourgeois coalition govern- ment of Spain. Naturally the So- cialist leaders refuse to take part in the strike, although their rank and file supporters are deserting them by tens of thousands. Their support of the increased armament budget clearly shows that they are merely the tools of the militarist-capitalist regime in Spain. For that matter, where have Socialists voted against armament increases in any country since the World War, in spite of their perpetual talk about “paci- fism”? PROGRESS OF THE SPANISH GENERAL STRIKE MADRID. — The great general strike continued to spread through- out Spain according to recent re- ports, despite a reign of terror by) the “local police, the Civil Guard, the Assault Guard, and the army. | In Gijon all industry and tran- Sportation is at a standstill. In Oviedo commerce and industry is completely paralyzed, although the strike is not yet 100 per cent effec- tive there. The governor of the pro- vince of Oviedo has closed the head- quarters of the Communist and other labor organizations, arresting all known leaders of the strike without succeeding in breaking the workers’ spirit. There have been several lashes between the troops and the strikers and numerous casualties are reported. ’ In Sama the Assault Guard is try- ing to suppress the strike by use of military force, many strikers be- ing shot and clubbed. At Huesca, a group of workers succeeded in capturing the central electric power station but were forced to retire after a two-hour battle | with several thousand Assault Guard troops. Many were killed or wounded. ‘The governor of the province of Salamanca admitted today that the strike was almost 100 per cent effec- tive in Salamanca itself and in some | 200 towns throughout the province. Forty thousand workers are now out on general strike in the Salamanca area. In a@ clash between strikers and the Civil Guard in the city of Ubeda a worker, Antonio Fernandez, was killed. As usual, the Socialist leaders, af- ter trying to prevent the strike, and witnessing thousands of their work- er-followers joining he united front of Communists and other labor or- ganizations, are now claiming credit for the strike. Their efforts at breaking the strike are too vivid in the workers’ minds, however, for this maneuver to succeed. | | | WHERE DID “NATIONAL SECUR- ITY” ORIGINATE? The dominant role played by the French armament trust, Schneider- Crevsot, in French foreign politics is disclosed in a series of articles in the lialian paper “Stampa”. The paper claims that the French motto “National Security before Dis- armament” was coined by this giant firm, which in 1930 bought up the two Paris papers “Echo de Paris” and “Journal des Debats” as chan- nels for its militaristic propaganda, (“Periinax,” the foreign expert of the “Echo de Paris,” has for years been known as the most virulent jingo in French journalism.) The Schneider-Creusot group, says “Stampa,” has been particularly ac- tive in the anti-Soviet campaign. France’s sympathy for Japan in the Sino-Japanese conflict in Manchuria d by the fact, according .” that the Japanese arm- nearly all Japan's munitions orders, is controlled, or at least closely con- nected with the Franco-Japanese Bank controiled by Schneider-Creu- sot, Moreover, Schneider-Creusot is closely connected with the Czecho- slovakian munitions firm of Skoda, shelled Paris in the World War, and with the British armament firm of Vickers-Armstrong. thieves fall out, the truth asinplace for all anti-Soviet agit- ation throughout Europe. FREEZING UNEMPLOYED STORM COAL FIELD BERLIN, (By Mail).—200 to 300 CHILDREN MARCH TOWARD TRENTON i} Norfolk Unemployed | Win Some Relief (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) HUNGER MARCHERS AND $1.50 A WEEK IN KENT, OHIO of March the schools; no discrimination against Negro children. | 2. Abolition of child labor under 14; state support for all children un- | der 14 now working. | 3. Support by Governor Moore of Delegate \the Workers Unemployment Insur-| Writes on Conditions ance Bill for Federal Unemployment | Insurance and the other demands of 4 the National Hunger Marchers to| KENT, O.—Since I returned from Washington. that prison in Washington which In Trenton a public hearing will| Mr. Hoover had so carefully planned be held on December 23 at which a| for the starving workers and after committee will be elected to present | Suffering for a drink of water and the demands to the governor the| having to sleep in those unsanitary same day. | surroundings, after housing had This march should have the back-| been secured, after all the terrorism ing of every workers’ organization in| Of those thugs and plug-uglies that the state of New Jersey. All who/| were hired by the Hoover hunger gov- can aid in any way should get in| ernment, I am ready to carry on the touch with the Marchers at any of| Struggle of the workers with more the following adresses: Newark, 7| determination than ever. WORKER CORRESPONDENCE workers broke through the fence surrounding the coal piles of the Schlaegel-Bisen coal mine in Scher- Jebeck, taking away coal that lay weathering on the pile. Police reserves were’ called, but could do nothing about it. Again they called out, shoot!” face to face with this reso- jute determination, he poeketed his gun and left them alone. ‘This act of desperation illustrates the starvation and misery of the Charlton St. or 385 Springfield Ave.; Paterson, 51 Bridge St. Sears Stop Norfolk Evictions NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 21—The mil- itant struggle of nearly one thousand tenants against evictions has actually resulted in stopping the mduring the last three weeks. Mass arrests brutal terror, the untiring work of stool- pigeons and ministers failed to smash the ranks of the strikers. During the struggle, more than twenty workers | were arrested and many jailed. Six-| teen of the strikers and leaders come up for trial on appeal in the Corpor- ation Court, on January 16, The widespread and militant resistance to evictions and the terror of the land- lords and their courts have roused the masses, both white and Negro throughout the city. Hunger Marchers Lec? The return of the Hunger i. .rch- ers, the huge demonstrations preced- ing the march to Washington, and supporting the Hunger March de- mands on Dec. 6 the organic linking | up of the Tenants’ Strike against | evictions with the fight for immedi- ate relief, has brought about a new| and higher wave of struggle. The| rent strike is now spreading to new | and more important proletarian sec- tions, | At all meetings where the Hunger Marchers appear, the demands for immediate cash relief and the de- mands of the rent strikers are en- thusiastically endorsed. The rent strike is expected soon to spread in| ch places as Portsmouth, Lam- | bert’s Point and Norfolk proper, all key centers of marine and war in- dustry. ' Broaden Organization At its meeting the Tenant Strike Committee of Berkley, Campostella and South Norfolk voted to consti- tute itself as a Tenants’ Council of Action,” whose immediate task -would be tolink the rent strike with the | fight for relief. Section block committees have al- ready been formed in many neigh- borhoods with each members of the Strike Committee acting as a section captain under whom committees per- form various functions such as draw- ing in non-rent strikers into the | fight, investigating conditions of re- lief, stopping evictions and taking famjlies down to the relief agencies, This struggle has already forced! the city authorities and relief agen-| cies to open up for the first time in Norfolk, relief kitchens, also food and iscrimination However, the authorities are trying by favoring the white workers over | the Negroes to split their ranks, Without substantial food, clothing and shelter, death and diseases are rampant and taking the lives, espe- | cially of Negro workers and their| permit. Hundreds of workers waited | In one day alone, it was|for hours to see the marchers, and children. Several hundred families are on relief throughout this county and five delegates were elected to march to Washington. They have re- turned ‘now and will tell he workers and farmers of this section their ex- periences while on the march and in ‘Washington. A dress factory in Kent, employ- ing mostly women and girls, is work- ing three to four days per week, pay- ing starvation wages, @ speed-up system is in force, the highest paid worker or skilled worker receives six to eight dollars per week, whilst the unskilled worker receives on an aver- age of 65c per day for 9 hours work. Loeblein, Inc., furniture factory, located in Kent, Ohio, employing about 30 workers part time, operated by a piece work system also a few day laborers, these day laborers re- ceive 12%¢ per hour. On piece work a cutter for Mus- lin, Cambric, or Burlap receives 33¢ for a job which last year paid 50c. One worker received $2.60 on pay day for two weeks piece work. Conditions are growing steadily worse and the workers are awaken- ing to the need of organizing to de- mand their rights. In Ravenna the county seat, a family receives only $1.50 per week regardless of the number in the family. ‘They are also discriminated against and can only get certain items on their grocery list. Farmers are pouring milk to their hogs but the starving children must live on canned milk. So, as you see, the march to Wash- ington doesn’t mean that we will re- lax in our efforts to secure better | conditions in the factories and more and better relief for the starving workers and farmers of this country. —M.- RC, "Another Town Learned from the Marchers of Workers Power LANCASTER, Pa.—One of our lo- cal delegates returned from the capi- tal seriously ill, with a high fever runnig, and was forced to go to the hospital as a result of the treatment dealt. the Hunger Marchers by the brutal Washington police. Notwith- | standing the hardships endured he} clothing commissaries. |came back a confirmed Red, having | Di | seen with his own eyes how the right of petition is denied the workers in this glorious “democracy.” When Column Seven passed thru Lancaster they held a demonstration on the courthouse steps, although the authorities had refused to grant a reported that twenty funerals took | a dense crowd surged abou tthe court place of these victims of hunger and poverty. The Unemployed Councils are now making plans for a huge relief march to demand immediate cash relief of $5 weekly for each unemployed work- er and $1 for each dependent. In preparation for this a mass united front conference will soon be held. The Norfolk and Richmond Unem- ployed Councils are also planning to) organize a State Hunger March, Sig- nificant class battles are looming in the state of Virginia. Demand Cash Pay DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 21.—Faced with the prospect of a cold and hun- gty winter ,about 300 who work for the Relief for their groceries only attended a meeting of the Relief Committee here and demanded that they be paid partly in cash. The workers were accompanied by local A-F.L. and Socialist leaders who cringed before the authorities and defeated the purpose of the delega- tion by bujlding up confidence in the “sincerity of the capitalist politictans who shed crocodile tears over the plight of the unemployed, but did nothing for their relief. The poli- ticlans are all democrats. A taste of what Roosevelt will do. Four thousand workers are forced to work for groceries here. triinart ia Delegate Found With Frozen Foot COLUMBUS, 0, Dec. 21.—James C. Cotton, Negro unemployed worker and delegate on the National Hunger March, is in this city, under a doc- tor’s care for a frozen foot. He got it in the mountains of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, where the marchers were menaced by police and denied the right to enter the larger cities. The Daily Worker published a notice that he was miss- ing and his friends were worried about him. He will go to Indian- apolis as soon as he can get trans- portation. EMPLOYMENT DROPS IN CAL. SAN FRANCISCO.—Employment in California manufacturing indus- tries dropped 8 per cent between October and November, payrolls fell 94 per cent and average weekly earnings went down 1,5 per cent. MOVIE DAREDEVILS ORGANIZE HOLLYWOOD, Cal.—‘Stunt men” house when the caravan at last came through. Speakers addressed the gathering and a good sum was collected for the march. Local workers provided sandwiches and coffee, besides ar- ranging for a hot meal which was served at the Water Street Mission. Newsreels of the Hunger Marchers are being shown here, with accom- panying flippant comment by the boss-controlled announcer. The marchers are seen (barely seen!) parading the streets of the capital, surrounded by hundreds of police BONUS MARCHERS WRITE ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES vs ~ | | The number of worker correspond- ents of the Daily Worker is con- stantly increasing. The workers have | realized that literary talent is not/ the condition for becoming a corres- pondent. Rather it is a worker’s con- | nection with the struggles of the/ working class. Every class conscious working man or woman in a shop, in a mass or- ganization, or in a working class neighborhood is involved in the} struggles of that particular section of | the working class, and is therefore | equipped to be a worker correspond- ent. By reporting to the Daily Worker | his experiences in connection with) these struggles, he contributes a great | deal to the collective experience of | the workers. Especially if he reports | the methods of struggle and organ- | ization, can workers elsewhere learn a great deal from his correspondence. | Thus mistakes can be avoided, and) achievements can be repeated, and | working class solidarity is developed. | Become a worker correspondent! | Contrasts in D. C. Written by a Bonus Marcher to “Daily” | WASHINGTON, D. C.—I arrived here with the Hunger Marchers. | ‘Thanks to a timely traffic signal and | a convenient alley our driver suc- | ceeded in eluding the police escort. | I am still in Washington, this time with the hungry veterans. | As a far westerner, I find many | strange things here. I find the vets) in Washington, the men who fought | to make the world “safe for demo- cracy,” housed in a miserable billet | over on I St. N. W. | I find the men who are fighting to} make the country safe for plutocracy | housed in a large magnificent gran- ite building on F St. N. W.. On one} | of the grand staircases is a sign) | “Tariff Commission.” A casual observer would thing that the I St. N. W. building was a sub- treasury building, judging by the po- lice squad that is being furnished it. | Three of us went with letters to! present to “our” representatives in | congress. (Messengers are more plentiful than stamps around our headquarters). We got as far as the | door of the house and were met by | five burly cops. They informed us) the letters would have to be sent by mail if the post-office: would accept them. | ‘I hope they were mistaken about that. How would the postmaster know that they didn’t contain sales talks of Sam Insull or some other 1 . - We held @ mass meeting on G St. N. W. The hall was filled and many vets had to stand. They didn’t seem to mind this because stending was probably less painful than sitting after jogging across the country in box oars for several days. At the meeting we were told that the only thing that will hasten granting | of our demands and that is the whole | hearted co-operation of every group directly concerned, These talks are interesting and heartening. As an afterthought I suggest a/ sequel to that pre-war song, “I didn’t | raise my boy to be a soldier.” It! should be, “I don’t want my boy to| be an ex-soldier always kept on the run.” —Vet. armed to the teeth. One wonders why all this show of armament? Is it to lead the public to believe that | these unarmed delegates are a blood- thirsty crew, not to be trusted on the | streets unless under a powerful police escort? The same newsreel, by the way, shows Nelson Rockefeller speaking for the share-the-work campaign. He tells how Standard Oil of New York and ‘New England has put a thou- sand additional men to work, “with- ” he boasts, “any increase in the payroll.” —E. AL, Capitalism— Sn! Here are two homes under cai by Jack “Legs” Diamond criminal him off; » DECEMBER “Protctor of Homes” 22, 1932 Page Tiree ed pitalism (left) Palatial home owned chief until his former pals bumped (right) Jobless worker in Oakland, California, forced to live in a wind-swept sewer pipe. SCOTTSBORO AIDS Precedent Gets New Trial for Negro MACON, Ga., Dec. 21—The direct connection between the granting of a new trial to John Downer, Negro worker framed on rape charges in Georgia, this week, and the decision wrung out of the U. S. Supreme Court by the workers of the world and the International Labor Defense, is clearly brought out in the text of the decision in the Downer case, now published. “In view of all the facts”, the de- cision says, “considered in the light of the decision of the circuit court of appeals in this case, Downer vs, Dunaway, 53 F. 2nd, 586, and one of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Moore vs. Dempsey, 261 U.S. 86, and the cases of Ozie Powell et al vs. State of Alabama, ywood Patterson v. State of Alabama, and Charley Weems et al v. State of Ala- i] bama, consolidated and decided as) one case by the court on Nov. 7, 1932 (not yet published), there can scarcely be any doubt that the peti- tioner was denied due process of law in violation of the fourteenth amend- ment of the constitution.” In May, 1931, six Negro workers were arrested, charged with the rape of a white woman, in Elberton, Ga Mobs gathered around the jail, but} National | were dispersed by the Guard officials had promised an im~- mediate trial and a lynch verdict. Downer, one of those arrested, was indicted on May 25. On May 26, he was called to trial, in a courtroom surrounded and lined with national guardsmen. The court appointed a lawyer who did not even take the trouble to talk with Downer. No effort to defend him was made by | this lawyer, nor any attempt to ob- tain a new trial. Downer was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in & few hours. A. T. Walden, a Negro attorney of Atlanta, was the first lawyer to take | up Downer's case. He presented a petition for # writ of habeas corpus to the federal district court, on the ground that Downer was deprived | of the right of counsel, two days be- fore the date set for the executon, June 13, 1931, This decision, forced from the Fed- eral Judge Bascom S. Deaver by the Scottsboro decision of the U. S. Su~ preme Court, is the first on record when a state sentence has been set aside by a U. S. District Court. The decision set December 23 as the date for signing a discharge of the sen- tence against Downer. But Solicitor General A. S. Skel- ton, of the Elberton Superior Court, has announced that he has prepared @ warrant for the re-arrest of Dow- ner, and will set an early date for a second trial, in which the instruc- tions of the U. S. Supreme Court on how to legally lynch Negroes with- out interference from higher courts will be followed out. Workers and. workers’ organiza- tions, Negro and white, throughout the country, are urged by the I. L, D. to immediately wire Skelton, at Elberton, Ga., demanding immediate unconditional release for Downer, pointing out the almost exact simi. larity between this and the Scotts- boro case. ‘MARCHERS MAKE ‘THE DOWNER CASE CITY GIVE GAS West’n Columns Reach Kansas City; Intact | KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 21. — | Columns 2, 3 and 5, now only 75 delegates of the National Hunger March, reached here Monday night. For the first time in weeks they slept jin beds provided by local workers, |'They reported they had forced the | city authorities of Columbia, Mo., to | provide their trucks with gasoline. Owen W. Penney, leader of the combined columns, was the candi- date for governor of Missouri on the Communist ticket in the last elec- | tion. He told how the bulk of the 1,300 delegates who reached Wash- ingnton in these columns had al- ready arrived at their homes, drop- ping out of the columns in each city they passed, and rousing the work. ers there to new struggles for relief with their reports of the march | All Enthusiastic. | declared this ‘an epic in the history of the | class struggle.” | Irene Robinson, worker from San | Francisco, said, “The march is do- | ing a lot of good. It will bring a lot | of good results in propaganda, edu- | cation, etc. Some business men | stated they would join us on the next | march. One California woman worker | was left in St. Louis ill. Many of the marchers still have colds but they are improving and the spirit is | fine. I am anxious to get back to | the workers who senf us, to report We have decided to go by way of Denver and expect to be home in | the first part of January.” Joe Salazar, worker from Denver, said there were now ten marchers from his section, including one from Wyoming and one from Nevada must of them travelling by routes. “In going over to Washing- ton”, he said, “the reception by the | workers on the way was excellent. The march was a success viewed from the working class standpoint. At Vincennes, Indiana, we were met by 200 Legionnaires who tried to in- timidate us but they didn’t scare us. ‘This march has given the workers a roader view of our demands, to see them more clearly from the work- ing class point of view.” Learned About the Government. Gladys Brown from Pittsburg, Kan- sas, interviewed by the Daily Worker representative, made the following statement: “The Hunger March went over bij and it will be historical. We didn't but we sure found out what kind of government we have. known of the movement long. I a new in it, but would go on a marc again. Wonderful discipline was shown by the marchers and the young people displayed lots of cou- rage.” None of these workers showed any signs of fatigue but were in good hu- mor and ready for other tests of endurance. If the police and the capitalist authorities think they have cowed and discouraged these fine working class elements, they are much mis- taken. The experience has only steeled them all the more in the struggles for the rights of their class. “THE LANDLORD TOOK EVERYTHING WE MADE THIS YEAR?”’--SAYS SHARE CROPPER and white share croppers in the South show the economic condi- ° LANDLORD TAKES EVERYTHING Farmer (By a Correspondent) CAMP HILL, Ala—I am writing out the state tax and the road tax. to vote. TOOK CROP, ENSLAVED CROPPER (By a Farmer Correspondent) STEELE, Ala.—I am a farmer. Made a share-crop this year. I plant- ed 30 acres in cotton. I made on barely enough to eat without any clothes, and on Aug. 31 my wife she died. So my landlord said he would not put one dime more on the crop. So I gave him the crop, It was all I THEFT BACKED BY TERROR (By a Farmer Correspondent) word!” and kicked this Negro in the , stretches of land after being deprived | stomach. However, his brother living | nearby ran to beat off the attack of this lily white lyncher. This devout Christian gentleman, enraged because he was unable to beat up the Negro, took his cow and is now trying to take away a piece land which this cropper has been for for four years, also with- out an accounting, . ONLY A WAGE SLAVE (By a Farmer Correspondent) HORSBY, Ala—I cannot describe myself as a farmer, but as a wage- slave. I have ten acres, half paid for, balance $85, but about seven and one-half acres are in sod, trees and brush. It goes too slow to break ground with a hazel hoe, and it is hard work, too, living on a scant ra- tion of rye bread, and sometimes water is scarce. ‘This past week I got a pair of pants that I needed, ut got no bread —as the pants took every penny. It is tough, with about four to six days work a month at 20 cents an hour. rar ae ROB NEGRO, WHITE CROPPERS of his share of the crop, and must | do these tasks in order to obtain food | for himself and family. This food he receives from the landowner, who is- sues food to the cropper little by little and at cost. The conditions of the white tenants are also terrible. They are the vic- tims of debt slavery like the Negro croppers and tenants, The landown- ers always see to it that the tenants and croppers are in debt to them, and their debts to the landowners |are in the form of back rents, ra- | tons, high interest on a little money borrowed during the farming season, and so on. The croppers are ‘at no time able to pay these debts. They are then thrown out of the houses when they are unable to pay the rent right away. Their stocks are taken from them and farm tools are taken by the landowners. Then the croppers can’t pay for feed, seed and medicine bills and are faced with back notes )stock or crop notes )and other debts which makes it possible for the landowner to take the crops or the stock. Both the white and the Negro ten- ants and share-croppers are denied the right to yote. Only the landown- ers vote and when one wants to be elected for some position they want the white and Negro croppers to en- dorse them but not to cast their) NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF MARINE WORKERS UNION Calls Second rational Convention to Meet in New York, July 15; To Recruit 2,000 Analyses Typical Successful Action by Ship | Committee; Sends Committeemen to Ship Out By W. C. MC CUISTION. NEW YORK.—The National Committee of the Marine Wotkers In- | dustrial Union met Saturday and Sunday, December 17 and 18, a6 the | M. W. I. U. headquarters, 140 Broad Street. The meeting was attended by thirty regular members of he National Committee, representing sever | Port Locals of the union on the Gulf, Atlantic and Pacific coasts. |, Jn addition to the ee | National Com 5| shoremen’s Association” (A. F. of &) attended b; have of late made a marked turn | and repre: rds the militant leadership of front Unc M.WIL.U. one hund ional Committee Members te HOLDS ENLARGED SESSION. national | ‘There were. 26 in all from Colorado, | other | exactly expect $50 relief immediately | I have not| ¢ men from the Port of tended the me Ship D The outstand: rt of the Com- | mittee meeting was made by man Clark, chairman of the Point Gorda sh told of the r mittee covering a period of seven weeks in which its consistent activit; forced concessions from the compan; ranging from improved sanitary con. ditions and better food to ig the ship to abandon the two watch (12 hour) system and return to the three watch (8 hour) The militant action of this ships’ committee which began in the Port of Seattle and end ]ed in a strike in New Orleans, was | discussed at, length by the Nationa’ Committee, bringing forth clearly the lessons and shortcomings of the ac-| tion. In the Ports of New Orleans, | La., and Oakland, Cal., the struggle aboard ship was supported by unem- | ployed picket lin re and in New Orleans the lor emen stopped work for a short time in support of the strike. Years’ Work Reviewed In the report of other ship dele- | gates, and secretaries and organizers from the lous locals, the fact was | brought forward time in seven y Ip committee. of the ships’ com. ers in the marine indust iggling | against the increasing attacks of the shipo’ and that the Marine Workers Industrial Union is the only | s participating in It was hat although established organization actively and leading these struggles brought out, however, the union has def itself as the lead nevertheless i date its influence org: with the result that the the marine workers are still unorgan- iged and that many m and! longshoremen are still under the in- fluence of and being misled by re- formist and reactionary organizations in the industry. failed to ¢ tionally jority of National Convention Called | It was decided to call a National Convention for July 15 to 18, 1933, and to set as a quota for a recruiting drive a minimum 2,000 members by the time of opening of the con- vention. To further elarate the recruiting drive, it decided to | place the union on an open charter | basis for a period of six months. The | convention will be held in New York | City and will be the Second Na- | tional Convention of the Union, the first having been held in April, 1930, | when the union was formed. Mem- | bership quotas for all locals were de- | cided upon, the New York Port quota being 800 members by the time of | the convention. Support Pledged to Railway Workers A res ng full support railroad workers in their struggle inst the wage cutti the railway bo: passed. Other resol the immediate release of Tom Moo- ney and the Sc sro boys were | adopted and telegrams of greeting were sent to two members of the National Committee who are in pris- on for their activities. They are Law- rence Emery, former secretary of the | San Pedro local who t been in {San Quentin for three years for leading the Imperial Valley strike as }an organizer of the Trade Union | Unity League, and James Kennedy | who is in the Baltimore city jail, as |a result of his activities in the | Strike on the S.S. Walter D, Munson, | | last summer. | Stress Unity of Employed, Unemployed | The unity of employed and unem- | ployed marine workers and a joint | program of action was decided upon |'This program calls for the building }of strong water-front Unemployed Councils and dock and ship com- mittees, with joint action besed on \the slogans and demands: “Pull crews and full longshore gangs,” “Again#& the workaway system,” and | for immediate relief for all unem- ployed seamen.” Not a marine work- | er to be without food or shelter Longshore Work Improved In the report of the longshore sit~ | uation, it was pointed out that al-| though the M.W.I.U. is as yet basie- | ally a union of seamen, that at the | same time noticeable progress is be-| ing made in longshore work, par-| ticularly in Philadelphia and that the longshoremen who long since have lost faith in the “International Long- | New Jersey LITTLE THEA. 562 Broad St., Newark BEGINNING TODAY-% DAYS ONLY Soviet Russia's Greatest Picture THE SIBERIAN PATROL A Story of Russia in 1918 Dialogue itl English | | i On the Stage The Shirley-Lynch Studios of Stage Dancing resent “JUVENILE. FOLLIES” 50 Children Dafly--11 A.M. to tt P.M, Sunday—i P.M. to 11 P, My | | Work As Ship Delegates To strengthen the work aboard p and to develop functioning ship committees, it was decided that seme of the most active and capable mem- bers of the National Committee uld ship out and build the union ‘d ships. Fifteen members of the Nations! Sommittee were selected for this yori. LW.W. Attempts to Disrupt Meeting A committee from the TWW head- ed by the renegade, Johannsen ap- peared during the second session in | an. attempt to disrupt the meeting. Failing in their attempt, they re- treated to their “unemployed unien” and held a conference attended by 12 delegates where after much spitteon philosophy, they adopted a resolution. condemning unemployment ingur- ance. Adjourns by Singing International R. B. Hudson, national secretary of the M.W.LU., made the opening report and closing summary of the meeting. The report on the war @an- ger was made by George Mink, preas report by Jones, editor of the Marine Workers’ Voice; and unemployment report by McCuistion. In addition to the Point Gorda report by Olari, there were reports from other ships and locals. Comrades Stachel and Ford reported for the TU.UL. and marized the meeting as “Visible nce of growth and progress.” The meeting adjourned with th singing of the Internatignal. : STRUGGLE AGAINST PROVOCATION Workers’ Enemies Exposed By action of the respective organization of the Party, all workers and all class organizations are warned against the following indi- vidual 0. J. Jorgensen of New York City, sales clerk of Danish nationality, has also worked on ships as 3 Mesgimgn, and is known among the marine workers, as also in the WIR. arid LL.D., where he has been aotive since he came to the USA in the fall of 1931 He has been expelled from the Communist Party and from the LL.D. on receipt of information from Den- mark (and admitted by himsalf) that in December, 1929, he was ¢: from the C. P. of Denmark and licly exposed as a stool pigeom, stole Party documents and later, openly associated himself police agents, His protestation of innocence ane contradicted by the fact thai He concealed his record from the when making out his application, as also by disruptive and conduct when he learned the Party had received his and was taking steps to el him from all work of any bility. Description: Age, 38 yenea: Height, about 150 pounds: 4 blond; Eyes, blue; fair, Photo published above, Sham Debts Dispute Between Hoover and Roosevelt Continues WASHINGTON, Dec. 21~The sham ‘dispute between President Hoover and President-elect Roose~ velt over the exact method of stare ing re-examination of the European war debts continued today. Hoover having proposed that a joint repub- lican-democratic commission be pointed for this purpose, of course disagreed. Latest today are that the president ahead with the \ppointment of commission despite Roosevelt's s0- called objections. Roosevelt has, however, made it suf- ficiently clear that he is just as. in favor as Hoover is of