The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1932, Page 3

ECEMB! International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON A little sidelight on the Socialists’ “opposition” to imperialist war. A toast by Baron, the French So- cialist leader, at a banquet of the French National Automobile Cham~ ber of Commerce: “I drink to im- mortal France, which rules us all, to its glory and its progress!” (From the “Official de l’Automobile,” of Nov. 18, 1932.) When talking before workers, So- cialists protest against chauvinism, and talk of their international sym~- pathies, But in the inner circles of capitalism, at the same table with Renault, Citroen, Peugeot, Cabinet ministers and generals of the French Army, they drop the mask and dis- close theif true loves—country and patriotism. GERMAN WOMEN USE NEW TACTICS TO OBTAIN WINTER RELIEF SALZUNGEN, Dec. 2. (By Mail) — | This morning 20 women marched to the Town Hall with their children to demand special winter relief. The | Mayor refused all their demands, whereupon the women igft their children in the Town Hall and marched home. This stratagem was so successful that the authorities immediately agreed to the issue of 100 loaves of bread and 100 quarts of milk, In their battle for-winter relief the unemployed must exhibit the great- est resourcefulness to compel the unwilling authorities to do something for them, FARMERS’ DISCONTENT IN ENGLAND A dispatch to the “New York Times,” hidden away on an inside page, throws light on the growing discontent of farmers in Great Brit- ain, They are beginning to refuse to pay taxes, in this case a tithe due a college of Oxford University. Sixty policemen, some of them dis- guised as farm laborers, set out be- fore dawn hidden in moving vans to seize the farmers’ live stock for taxes due, The solidarity of the farmers’ neighbors defeated this endeavor, however, for all the live stock, cows, sheep, pigs, and poultry had been hidden on neighboring farms. The police expedition returned to head- quarters with two chickens as the net bag for the day. Discontent among the farming class is world-wide today—it re- mains for the farmers to awaken from the illusion that the capitalist h gtvernment will or can do anything to relieve their plight. They must i fight side by side with the working i class for the overthrow of the profit system that is ruining them both. DISARMAMENT AND FIGHTING SHIPS Every year a famous handbook listing the navies of the world is published in London. The 1932 is- } sue of this book “Jane's “Fighting y Ships,” is just out, and to quote the lame dispatch to the “New York “Despite nearly a year’s talk on it, the new “Jane's” is eleven pages larger than ever and contains more photographs of newly completed warships than have ap- qd in a single volume for many This does not hinder the “Times” editers frem spreading pious sermons on naval disarmament all over the editorial page week after week. The Disarmament Conference is still dragging along at Geneva. Are the Communists wrong in saying that capitalist countries will never dis- arm? MORE GERMAN SOCIAL DEMO- CRACY In the district executive conference of the Frankfurt-on-Main Social De- moeratic Party, various minor offi- cials rebelled against the reactionary policies of the Party's leaders. A Dr. Ewald said: “In the November 6th elections, if We deduct all those deriving a living trom the party, and their dependents, we find that the German Communist Party already has many more workers than we have.’ a Alderman Kirchner: “Our policy of toleration has brought Hitler to the top. I have here the district execu- __ tive's fighting program against the Communist Party; in it they are mak- ing propaganda again for bourgeois democracy. Do you believe that you can fool anybedy with that any more? Paxticularly, since democracy isn’t followed in our ewn Party!” Alderman Else Bauer: ‘If the policy & mining the membership of the Social ‘Demoeracy. . A CAPITALIST’S PAPER'S : COMMENTS a newspaper controlled. by bie @ newspaper con’ in Berlin, Commenting on German trede unions’ demands \ presented to von Schleicher, the new Chancellor, it says: are demands that bear all the earmarks of competition with the Communists’ agitation ... In judging demands it should not be for- Ao unions’ difficult tactical posi and that therefore they are really little more than mat hg ‘Thus the ruling powers don’t seem to be afraid of Socialist “ position.” As for the Nazi opposition, the paper writes: As we see, even “ i papa can be a torm of collaboration! | | | | | “High Hat” Car | Logo 3 | | | Postmaster General Brown, Hoo- ver pal, who spent much of his ef- forts cutting postal workers’ pay, is shown entering his car paid for | by government money, He recently testified before a Congressional Committee that he bought the car so he could wear his high silk hat on formal occasions. LYNCH PRESS IN PRAISE OF SUDAS’ “Proud of Reformist Negro Leaders” BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 27.— | The Southern lynch bosses and their | press are unanimous in heaping praise upon the Judas heads of Tus- kegee Institute for their vicious at- | tacks on the struggles of the Negro croppers in Tallapoosa County and | the turning over to the police of | Cliff James and another wounded | cropper who sought med'srl aid at | the Tuskegee Hospital. ‘The Montgomery Advertiser n= | ted the following headline a few days ago: | Lead Negro Upaag Jailed rit By Officials Of Tus egee Institute) TUSKEGEE, ALA, Dec. 22—(Spe- lai) Cutt James, the negro st whose home the Tallapoosa County disorder of last Manday originated, is being held in (segoe-tastitute® "Tonight he expressed | Sheriff Golden County, one of the leaders in the | of Montgomery outrageous landlord-police attacks on the Negro cropers of Tallapoosa | County and their Sharecroppers Un- | jon, advanced the traitorous action of the Tuskegee officials as an “ex- ample” to other Negro leaders, de- claring: | “We are proud that we haye the same intelligent leadership here in Montgomery that is exemplified at ‘Tuskegee Institute...” The Memphis (Tennessee) Appeal called for an intensified attack on the efforts of Negro croppers to or- ganize to better their conditions and for a united front of Negro leaders | with the white ruling class authori- | ties to combat the rising struggles | of the Negro toilers. Tt said: | “Race ‘leaders among Negroes have one of the greatest opportun- ities to do good for their people if they choose, to recognize it.” “There is no secret that Commu- nist agents are making a mighty ef- fort to convert Negroes to radicalism. It is going to take leadership of the most intelligent and courageous type from Negro leaders and from white authorities to counteract it.” | (It is to be noted that even in the | moment of its appeal to the Negro reformist leaders, the boss paper can | not conceal its chauvinist hatred of Negroes, but continues the lynch- boss custom of using Negro without @ capital N.) The boss paper then calls for the suppression by the Alabama authori- ties of the Communist Party: “Alabama authorities blame Com- | munist propaganda among ignor- ant negroes as the underlying cause of the tragedy. They are Probably correct. If they are, then they themselves are to blame for permitting Communistic activities in the community.” | MILITANT GROUP AT VW. MEET BULLETIN | WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Rep- _ resentative Black, democrat, of New York today urged the House of Representatives to investigate the bloody eviction by police and troops of the first bonus march~- ers last July 28. This move re- flects the pressure of the rank and file veterans of New York who have compeied Black to make this ges- NEW YORK.—At the first county convention held by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Richmond County, a committee of rank and file members of Post 174, Workers Ex-Servicemen's League, appeared to present a reso- lution demanding local relief for un- employed vets and their families. The W.ES.L. Post has decided to appeal to the membership of the American Legion, Veterans of For- eign Wars, etc., to join in a united front struggle, for relief. The chairman of the convention, however, refused to read the resolu- ton The V.F.W. misleaders are con- stantly entertaining local politicians with post funds, but refuse to fight for relief for the rank and file. All Staten Island ex-servicemen | your rugged individualism? | ORGANIZE ON THE J ORGANIZATION 10 WAGE CUTS Shoe Workers Call on Shop Mates to Fight Bosses NEW YORK —The workers in H. Jacobs & Sons Stitchdown Factory are finding it impossible to earn @ | decent livelihood since the bosses are | using many vicious schemes to ex- ploit us to the limit. Besides getting wage-cuts we are forced to work un- der actual prison conditions. The bosses have installed an up- to-date spying system which makes it impossible for us to speak to each other in the factory, especially since they cut the lunch hour to a half an hour. No leaflets can reach us, explaining ho wto organize against speed-up and long hours. They ter- rorize us whenever we protest against the bad conditions and remind us that there are many unemployed waiting outside anxious to get work. Some of us realize that the only way to fight wage-cuts and speed-up is to organize groups in the shop and getting more workers to support our fight. The young workers especially feel the exploitation because of the lcw wages we get on piece-work rates. Sometimes we make as low as $1.50 to $3 a week after putting in i0 to 12 hours a day. Another profit-making scheme is the charge system, which robs us weekly from 50 cents to $3 for dam- aged shoes that can be fixed, and for lost shoes that fall off the broken racks. On top of these conditions we ex- | pect to be laid off shortly, since the slack period is approaching and the workers who remain can expect more wage-cuts and more terror. Fellow workers of Jacob's! We must organize now and show the bosses that we are ready to defend our interests despite the spy sys- tem and terrorization. Organize into groups and join the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, which is the only union that will help us improve our conditions! —A Worker From H. Jacob. . 8 (8 Note: The Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union is located at 96 Fifth Ave., New York City. Telephone Al- gonquin. 4-9641, What Price Rugged Individualism? ANDERSON, Ind.—Workers in the Guide-Lamp, one of the units of General Motors, are. treated worse than slaves by the boss flunkies. They are denied even the privilege of getting a drink of water during work hours. The foremen tell them to stick right on the job or get the hell out. Workers of Guide Lamps, how does this kind of treatment appeal to Your only way out of such miserable | slavery is to join the Steel and Metal | Workers Industrial Union. —J. A.W. | No Overtime Pay for Counter Girls, STAMFORD, Conn, — Girls at Montgomery Ward & Co. are work- ing overtime for chocolates and grapes. They have some slave- driver there. Most of the girls are near @ nervous breakdown. There is not one girl in the city of Stamford in a department store that gets paid for overtime. She may get a pair of stockings or a pair of pajamas, or make good marks for promotion, —0, C. Unorganized Drug Clerks Starving Trained Men Compete | for Unskilled Jobs — NEW YORK.—The condition of the professional man in the drug stores is very bad. These workers, belonging to the white collar element, have been misled in the belief that professional ethics would help main- tain for them their standard of wages. This belief, fostered by drug store owners as well as the large chain stores, has been instrumental in breaking up previous protests among the workers. ‘What the dignity of the profes- sional ethics amounts to is plainly illustrated in the present crisis, During the wartime boom a drug clerk could command an average of fifty or sixty dollars a week, with hours ‘from eight to six or six to midnight. Today the graduate with 2 years apprenticeship may receive anywhere from fifteen to twenty-five ouee a week if he could find the Jeb. The older members of the trade, with families to support, who had once owned little stores, have joined the recent graduates in competing for a job that is non-existent. They hang around offices, or the counters of friendly business acquaintances, beg- ging for a lunch or a bite to eat for their families. There are thousands of them. For the $15 or $25 a week, a drug clerk will be expected to mop communicate starvation with Post 174, Ex-Servicemen’s f ' ) i should 40. Clove Aaplension pay Road, West New Brighton, Staten | of his clean shelves, serve behind soda fountain and put in hours en Foe: good. natura WORKER CORRESPONDENCE OB, WRITE WORKERS Telephone Girls Must Sell Service TS ONLY ANSWER. on Own Time, No Pay BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The operators | of the N. Y. Telephone Co. are forced | to become saleswomen after hours on | their own time, without pay. They | receive frequent lectures on increas- ing their sales on other items, besides the installation of extra public tele- phone booths in the stores, exchange of present type phones for “French” Phones, which adds 25 cents to the phone bills, and increased advertis- Donellys Red Book. Girls are being |laid off right along and many are working only three and four days @ week, —E: F. BAD CONDITIONS | Worker Cites Victory by Left Wing (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK.—The other day a | call came in to our shop about 10 |am., for a repairman and we sent | out @ carpenter who had been wait- | ing for two hours on the chance that something would turn up. When he returned aftef three in the afternoon | the boss looked up from his news- | paper and asked him his time. ‘Well,’ said the man, after hesitating for a | few seconds’ “it was a rotten job | and I had a lot of trouble with it. |I really worked three hours, but make it one." “Write down one | hour,” said the boss, returning to his | newspaper. | That afternoon TI sent out a bill for $4, but when Saturday came | around the man was handed a pay | envelope containing eighty-one cents. | Taking off carfare (lunches are not | considered because the men are eco- nomizing on them now) this nets | him seventy one cents for five hours | of his time. | Later that day I heard the bosses discussing plans for a new wage cut. Though this is an A. F. of L. shop, calling for an $11.20 wage, one man of the four gets $6.50 and the others $5.50 a day. “We've got to cut down to $3,” said the boss, “nobody gets more now.” “Suppose they won't take it,’ his partner remarked. ‘Theh we'll throw them out,” answered the brains of the organization, ‘there are plenty of men come around here begging for work at $1 a day.” It is with the greatest difficulty that you get the men to talk of their grievances though it is plain to see | that they are pretty nearly desperate. Fach one is afraid of the other and the competition for the small quan- tity of work that comes in increases | the hostility, The men tell me that if onyone tries to protest at a meet- ing, there are two husky gorillas at his side yelling to him to sit down. If he don't sit down, he is laid down, none too gently, on the pavement outside. The constant pressure from the bosses and the betrayal of the union has taken a lot of fight out of the men, “What can you do about it,” they ask, “the workingman always gets the dirty end.” ‘The Daily Worker recently carried the answer in the announcement of the victory won by the left wing union at the Garfinkel & Steinberg shop. I know the history of these workers. They were exactly in the same boat that our men are floun~- dering in now. .They decided to fight, and in this fight they found militant leadership and won, Their stubborn battle has shown the work- ing class the road to victory. Month’s Pay for Unemployed, or Lose Your Job NEW YORK.—In Wellevue Hos- pital, all unskilled workers were call- ed to the office recently to sign up for 1933. They had to sign that they will contribute one month of their salary to the unemployed. In the Mount Sinai Hospital, unskilled workers have to give $2 per month for the unempolyed. ‘The workers don’t want to do it, but they say: “What does $2 mean when you compare it to losing your job.” Hospital workers are underpaid and worked to exhaustion because they are divided. With a strong organiza- tion we could resist such attempts to make employed workers give from their small pay for the unemployed, and could force the bosses them- selyes to provide for the unemployed. Every worker who is employed in a hospital, whether it is a kitehen worker, a porter, or professional worker, such as nurses, graduates, under-graduates and orderlies, are eligible to membership in the Medical Workers League. New York hispital workers, we ask you to join us. Our office is at 114 West 2ist St. Together we will struggle for better conditions. A Medical Worker, Machine Displaces 48 Fisher Body Girls CLEVELAND, O.—In the Fisher Body here, the girls in the Upholster- ing Department will be acutely af- fected by the installation of a new machine in the salvage room in the basement. This machine un- rools, marks, stamps, cuts, folds, and sews upholstering materials, all in one operation, Two girls run this machine. The bosses tell us the machine costs the company 2 lot of money, but anybody can figure out why the machine was installed. Forty to fifty girls used to do the work that this machine does—so Fisher-Body is saving the wages of 38 to 48 girls each day, and 38 to 48 girls who used to work here will never come back—they have received permanent A Fisher Body Worker. i DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY ing in one or more places in the | ON ALF. L. JOBS D 1 r at Unt-Teilma, (F. P. Pictures.) ER 28, 1932 As part of the program of educating all children the Soviet govern- ment is taking kindergartens, day nurseries and children’s dining halls to the far north. This group of tots are out walking from a kindergarten Jage Three School Days in Far North | | ‘COMMISSIONER TAKEN TO TASK | 300 Duluth Jobless | Hale Him to Meeting | % | DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 27.—Three | hundred workers jammed Oddfellow’s | Hall in West Duluth to hear the an- | swer given their demands by Com- | missioner Newman. They had pre-| viously marched, 300 strong, in sub- | zero weather to see Newman, but the | commissioner “wasn't at home.” They | then elected a committee to hunt him | up, and report to them in the hall. | The committee brought Newman | along to answer. Newman is chair- man of the county board and is head | of the Emergency Relief Committee. Caught Lying Newman said that the cost of wood for fuel had never been deducted from the relief payments. The work- ers proved it had. He promised free fuel in the future. He first refused to do anything about having Red Cross flour deliver- ed in W. Duluth, “because I haven’t any control over the Red Cross,” but. later in the meeting one of his hench- men promised this. He pleaded the need of the special grocers assigned to cash relief checks jin answer to the demand of the un- employed for cash relief and the right to buy food anywhere. He refused the demand that there be no waiting in line for relief orders, and refused to have them made out before hand. He evaded the demands for tax exemption or relief to single men. “Use Lamps” | When workers denounced cutting off of light, water and gas, Newman gave them advise to “use kerosene lamps, borrow the use of a kitchen, and take up individually the question of water.” | Workers freezy accused Newman of making difficulties for them to break their morale and keep them from asking for more. One said, “They want us to starve to death so we won't bother them,” Workers present who had voted Newman into office left declaring they had made a big mistake. The meeting voted to elect a permanent committee for the neighborhood to press the demands, COLOMBIA GUN BOATS AT LETICIA U. S. Arms Used in| Bosses’ War Colombian gunboats Cordoba and ‘Mosquera are reported at Para, a Bra- zilian port on the Amazon River. On the arrival of two other Colombian warships, the squadron of four ves- sels will proceed up the Amazon, to Leticia, scene of the undeclared war between Colombia and Peru. They are awaited by a Peruvian squadron already at Leticia. Five additional Colombian naval ships, including two transports carry- ing troops, are also reported on their way to Para. 60,000 Bolivian Troops in Chaco. The Bolivian government is mobil- izing 20,000 additional troops for the undeclared war between Bolivia and Paraguay, making a total of 60,000 men mobilized in Bolivia and sent to the Gran Chaca war front. The Bo- livian troops are plentifully supplied with arms and munitions recently re- ceived from the United States. With this aid from the U. S. imperialists, the Bolivians have seized the offen- sive and are now advancing in the Gran Chaca. The government has declared its intentions to seize not only the disputed Gran Chaca terri- tory but to push its offensive beyond the Paraguay River into the heart of iy. Civilians Bombarded The civilian population of the Paraguayan town of Bahia Negra hay been under constant aerial bombard- ment for the past five days. Large numbers have been killed and wound- e The war is threatening to spread rapidly to include Argentina, Brazil \and other South American states, The Paraguayan Foreign Office yesterday charged the Brazilian Government with aiding Bolivia by facilitating the operation of Bolivian planes which were permitted to cross Brazilian ter- ritory to reach Puerto Suarez. A South American dispatch to the New York Times comments significantly: “This development is being closely watched here in view of the more or Jess persistent reports for some time sees Brazil is inclined to favor Bo- via.” The two undeclared wars in South America reflect the fierce rivalry be- tween U. S. and British imperialists. Get greetings from your friends and sympathetic organizations for the special Ninth Anniversary- UTAH HUNGER MARCH, JAN. 10 Unemployed of More! States Plan Struggle (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ditions. The marchers will present the fol- lowing demands: Demands. 1. The appropriation of sufficient funds out of the state budget to give every unemployed worker and im- poverished farmer $50 and $10 to each dependent for cash winter re- lief. 2. That the State Social Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill presented by the State Hunger March Committee be passed by the Legislature imme- diately. 3. That the present policy of evic- tions, gas, water, and electric shut- offs due to non-payment of bills by unemployed workers be abolished. 4, That all forced labor camps in California for unemployed workers be abolished and that the union scale of wages be paid on all state, coun-~ ty and municipal relief work. 5. That all funds raised by Com- munity Chest drives and bond issues and being handled by so-called re- lief associations be given over to the unemployed and employed workers to administer through their own elected committees. 6. That all armories, war memorial buildings and barracks be adequately equipped for sleeping quarters and turned over for the use of unem- ployed single veterans and workers. 7. an immediate moratorium. on all farm mortgages and taxes held against the small farmers. 8, That all vagrancy laws and the Criminal Syndicalist Law be imme- diately repealed. 9. That Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings be given an immediate and unconditional pardon. 10. The establishment of State Children’s Relief Stations to furnish adequate food, clothing and shelter for homeless children and children of unemployed and part-time work- ers. These stations to be admin- istered by committees elected by the workers and small farmers. 11. That no discrimination be used because of race, color, creed, age, na- tionality, sex, length of residence or political beliefs in the administra~ tion of the above demands, and that no discrimination be used against any worker who owns a home or automo- bile. taper Saree) Colorado March Jan. 23. DENVER, Oolo., Dec. 27. — The Colorado State Hunger March has been definitely set for Jan. 23. That is the date the delegations from all over the state will come before the legislature in Denver. Organization of the march was given a great im- petus by the return here of the Na- tional Hunger Marchers. They are scattering to all localities of the state, and mobilizing the workers and farmers for the march on Denver. The United Front Conference of Denver, which has affiliated with it now 39 workers’ organizations, in- cluding local unions, is issuing 25,000 copies of a call for organization of the march and for local struggles for relief, throughout the state. 8 * Another Victim The National Committee of the Unemployed Councils has just re- ceived notice that Joe Potcheko, a National Hunger Marcher and mili- tant fighter from Denver, Colorado, has died in Columbus, Ohio. When Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania state police attacked the returning columns and scattered NANTY-GLO, Pa., Dec., 27 is an example of how the United ing. Three hundred miners at Springfield No. 3 mine of the Peal Peacock & Kerr Co. had the wages cut without notice hey knew nothing of it untill the night shift went to work, Dec. 15. The result. was a spontaneous strike | with pick g on the roads to the | mine, Dec. 16. A meeting was called, and 1,000 miners from this mine and from | Heisley Coal Co., 300 men; Lincoln ; Coal Co., 200 men; Webster Mine, {250 men and other mines. There throughout the whole district. Even Ex-burgess Carnahan admitted that. But then International organizer Ghizzoni of the U. M. W. got up. The miners asked him: “Will the was every indication of a strike| Mine Workers does its strike break- | Smooth Talk by UMW Agent Breaks Nanty-Glo MineStrike Not Warned of Wage Cut; Took Real Action U. M. W. A. give us relief?” He ned into a speech on their chances to help themselves, told them that the state government and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation would give them help, and so on. is an agent of Governor Then Ghizzoni talked them into delaying action, sending a small com=- nittee of 3 to go to the company, d when this was agreed to, the g ended without the commitee being given a single demand to take to the company. ‘That ended the strike. The National Miners Union in Johnstown did not learn of the struggle in time to be of any effect it, which shows they were not in good contact with the situa- tion. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. An open call for inflation of the cur- 27.— Bailey of North Carolina. immediately congratulated and sup- ley and George. The democrats among them had just come from a conference of Senators and Repre- sentatives with personal representa- tives of President-elect. Roosevelt. Farmers Against Inflation. The National Farm Relief Con- ference in Washington, representing the wishes of the actual farmers, did not call for any inflation. It called for farm relief and moratorium on farm debts and taxes. Bailey and his group saw fit to ignore these de- mands. Bailey did make some admissions: “Amerian Standard.” “Our boasted American standard of living and wages has disappeared with the civilization which created it,” Baley said. “It no longer ex- ists. Our farmers owe $11,000,000,000 and have no money with which to clothe their families. We cannot call civilization a condition such as this, in which there is no security against the loss of their homes and their employment by the people. No gov- ernment can tolerate this of thing and expect to last. This is de- generation,” he admitted. “The harvests of 1931 and 1932 have been reaped in tears and des- them in the wintry hill roads, Pot- cheko contracted pneumonia, which caused his death. Another victim of Hoover's instructions to “discourage” the marchers. ° Win Use of City Hall HAYERHILL, Mass., Dec. 27.—The returned Hunger Marchers reported in the Haverhill City Hall to an en- thusiastic crowd of Haverhill won the right to use the City Hall for a mass meeting. : A number of workers joined the Unemployed Committee, and pledged their determination to follow up the Hunger March, by continuing the fight for Unemployment Insurance and relief, in Haverhill, where there are about 5,000 unemployed shoe workers. . 8 Hunger March Film Ready NEW YORK.—The first showing of a full length motion picture of the Hunger March, is announced by the Workers Film and Photo League and the League of Professional Groups, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, 28th St. and Broadway, on Jan. 2, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. CELEBRATE CANTON COMUNE MEXICO CITY.—Thousands of workers here attended meetings all over the city in celebration of the Canton Commune, under the leader- ship of the Soccorro Rojo Interna- tionale, sister organization of the International Labor Defense. Work- ers painted protests against imper- jalist war, the wars now going on in South America and Manchuria, and the imprisonment, murder and tor- tures of Japanese and Chinese work- ers on the walls of the American, Chinese and Japanese embassies. \ | and student SENATOR CALLS |SCHOOL STRIKERS FOR INFLATION. AT CHICAGO MEET Calls It “Farm Relief” |200 Delegates Attend Means More Hunger | AntiWar Congress CHICAGO, Dec. 27,—The 34 strik- ing students who were expelled from | rency, with no word of what it means | Commonwealth College, a so-called in the form of higher prices of food, | bor school near Mena, Ark, run by clothing and rent for the workers, | liberals, “socialists” and sympathiz- and to the farmers was the measure | TS Of renegade Communists, have of so-called “farm-relief” proposed to| @ttived in Chicago wHere they will the Senate in a speech Dec. 22 by | Attend the Student Anti-War Con- He was| gress, to be held tomorrow and ‘Thursday. Delegates from 200 ported, by @ group of republican and | schools and colleges from all over the democratic senators including: Cap-| Country will attend the congress. per, Borah, Swanson, Watson, Bark- | Earl Browder, secretary of the Com- munist Party and Scott Nearing will address the congress. The strike resulted when two left- wing students, Henry Forblade and Jack Copenhaver. were expelled for leading a movement demanding the admission of Negroes to the school representation in the Commonwealth College Association. The strike pulled out the majority of the student body, only 16 remained behind. Oliver Carlson, renegade Commu- nist affiliated with the Trotsky group, has come out against the student strike and in support of the Jim- Crow policies of Commonwealth. The struggle against the students is being led by the acting director, David Englestein, who is a sympa- thizer of the Lovestone group of renegades from Communism. STRUGGLE AGAINST | PROVOCATION By action of the respective Dis- trict Organizations of the Commu- nist Party, all workers and all working class organizations are publicly warned against the follow- ing individuals: Frank Note of Houston, Pa. (neat Cannonsburg), known among the miners in Pernsylvania, Ohio and ‘West Virginia, until lately a leading member of the National Miners Union—has been exposed as a com- pletely demoralized and degenerated element, who spent his life in booze joints with bootleggers and other racketeers, and finally became a, stool Pigeon, a traitor to the working class. His complete exposure came about through an investigation of his réc- ord of rank white chauvinism and of disruptive activities (agitate ing against “Jewish leadership,”). Description—Native-born of Italian parents; five foot seven inches tall, dark complexioned, very hairy, has a thin and soft speaking voice. Walter Smorag of Avella, Pa, & miner, who joined the UMWA in 1913 and the National Miners Union in 1928, has been exposed as a dis- ruptive and totally unreliable element who has associated himself with known company stool pigeons, Nick Bardyn and John Bardyn. Upon repeated complaints from Party members against Smorag’s bu- reaucratic, disruptive and non-Com- munist actions and conduct, it was found that his activities in the Party and in other working class organiza- tions were very bad, and that he was very friendly with Nick Bardyn, a self-admitted stool pigeon, who was working for several industrial agen- cies headed by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. Smorag also knew that Nick Bardyn’s brother, John, who lives at Racoon, Pa., and works in the At- lasburg mine, was a stool pigecn, but he never reported this either to the Party or to the National Miners Union. He is of Polish birth, about 40 years of age. GREET THE DAILY WORKER COMBINED NINTH To All Workers & Organizations! Dear Comrades: ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, A COM- BINED LENIN MEMORIAL AND NINTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE DAILY WORKER WILL APPEAR. In- cluded in its pages will be special features and articles dealing with the life and writings of Lenin and with the high- lights of the history of the Daily Worker. As the central organ of the Communist Party, the Daily Worker has rallied the workers for the support and defense of the Soviet Union, It has constantly earried on the fight to mobilize the workers in the struggle for better living conditions, against wage cuts, for unemployment insurance! It fights against the oppression of the foreign-born workers, against deporta- tions, for equal rights of the Negro masses and for the freedom of all class-war pris. oners—Tom Mooney, the Nine Scottsboro boys, and many others. This combined Lenin Memorial and Ninth Anniversary edition is a great event for all workers, We ask you to express your solidarity and support the Daily Worker sending greetings to the only revo- Lenin Memorial edition of the Daily Worker January 14, All greetings must be in by Jan. 3. Nadenary ‘Daliy tn the English language! ANNIVERSARY AND LENIN MEMORIAL EDITION a ° Our Greetings to the Daily Worker on its 9th Anniversary and on the occasion of Lenin’s Memorial Name PPePerereTerrrrrrrrr rs ee Address POeererrrir Tier tier r errr ries CRY: a vcin'vvipintasingenwar sSECE sts vcue We request space in the 9th Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker for $,.......++.+.+ is ieee eg anes FY YOUR GREETINGS MUST REACH TH» DAILY WORKER, 50 EAST 13TH ST,, NEW YORK, N, Y. BEFORE JANUARY FIRST, 1933