The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1932, Page 3

International Notes “A JAPANESE SERVANT OF MANCHUKUO” TOKYO.—The Japanese Captain Amakazu has been appointed leader of the police in the Manchukuo State. Amakazu is a good man for the job and there is no doubt that he will perform. |the “work” awaiting him to the satisfaction of his su- periors who have their quarters in Tokyo and not in Harbin. Amakazu has made what is known in bourgeois circles as “a brilliant career.” A few years ago he was & simple police officer in Japan, but his chance came when the Japanese socialist leader Sakao Osugi fell into his hands during the period of mar- tial Jaw. proclaimed after the great earthquake which the Japanese au~ thorities used as an excuse for a vi- cious attack on the Japanese working class moverent. Amakazu is “a leader of men” and reminiscent in many respect of some of the Kip- lingesque figures which helped to build the British Empire. Amakazu doesn’t do the “work” himself, he directs the activities of his subor- dinates. He therefore ordered a Subordinate to strangle Sakao Osugi and his order was carried out whilst Amakazu looked on. He then led the throttler to the next cell where Amakazu’s wife and his young ne- phew were also held. At Amakazu’s orders and in his presence the old jJady and her nephew were then also throttled. The Japanese authorities tried to hush up the affair at the time, but it was impossible and in view of the fierce wave of anger which swept oyer the country Amakazu was re- moved from his post and tried. He was convicted and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in a fortress, but he had not miscalculated. Imperial- ism whether Japanese or British has work for his sort to do and before jong he was free and well Jaunched on a career profitable in “honors” and emoluments. CZECH COMMUNIST SENATOR SENTENCED. PRAGUE—The Communist Sen- ator Lokota and 24 workers have been convicted in Munkatch (Slova- kia) in connection with a collision which took place between workers and police in Chust whereby one worker was killed and a number of others wounded by police bullets. Senator Lokota was sentenced to 14 months hard labor and to the loss of all civil rights which means the loss of his seat in the Senate. The other aceussed received terms varying from 2 to 10 months hard labor. TWO COMMUNIST DEPUTIES HUNGER-STRIKING ATHENS—The two Communist deputies, Nefeludis and Sklavenas who were arrested in connection with the strike of the tramway workers in Athens have been on hunger strfke against their imprisonment, ‘The well-known Professor Bensis has examined them and declare that their Sindition gives rise to anxiety. Both of them are now subject to attacks of weakness in which they Jose consciousness. The protest movement demanding their release is rapidly growing. The Communist deputy Klidonaris who was arrested in connection with a demonstration of revolutionary peasants in Larissa has now been reledsed. GERMAN PEASANTS COMMITTEE MEETS BERLIN.—A plenary session of the ‘National German Peasants Commit- tee has just taken place and 30 del- egates were present from all parts of the country. The reports of the del- egates showed that the peasants committees movement is steadily growing and gaining influence, that it is carrying on an increasing num- ber of aetions on behalf of the poor peasants and that it is carrying a clear class struggle note into the struggles of the German peasantry. However, the session recognized with- out reservation that the movement is still not as strong as it should be in ‘sview of the desperate situation of the ‘peasantry and measures were dis- } cussed to bring about an alliance of the poor peasantry with the lavd- workers and the industrial proletariat. The session adopted a series of de- mands on behalf of the peasants such as the distribution of seed- grain, artificia’ fertilizers, fuel, etc. » The Communist Deputy Florin spoke ‘\ in the name of the Central Commit- - tee of the Communist Party and development of the collectivist move- ment in agriculture in the Soviet man peasantry. BIG DEMONSTRATION DUNKIRK PARIS.—Twenty thousand workers demonstrated in the streets of Dun- kirk under the leadership of the re- sailors, railwaymen, tramwaymen and other workers took part. Many », workers organized in the reformist ¢ re also in the ranks, IN Fl lahl’s Mother to “Speak at Minneapolis Memorial Meeting MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Mrs. A. L, Ingdahl, 74 year-old.mother of J. will participate to- , Wright and ‘Mother Mooney in sting to be held here Friday, Dec, 30, at Che A.O.U.W, Hall, 19 South si A preparatory conference held here Dec, 22nd, where delgates from s, fraternal and other s participated, made extensive tions for the purpose of build- Memorial meeting on the immediate ey, and the Scottsboro boys, the same time wot paid to tribute that could P| Mrs. Katherine Burns, mother of Robert E. Burns, the chain-gang fugitive, said that mass pressure saved Burns from a return to the tortures of the whip and the stocks on Georgia chain-gang. DNIEPROSTROY IS: MAJOR 1932 FEAT Gets First Place in List of Achievements WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. — The Dneiprostioy Dam across the Dnieper river in the Soviet Union, which has been completed this year together with a number of similar projects under the Five Year Plan, was given first place by the National Geo- graphic Society, as the outstanding engineering achievement of the year. ‘The dam is a monument to the self-sacrifice and Socialist enthu- siasm of the workers of the Soviet Union who overcame enormous ob- stacles in the construction of this project over the dangerous Dnieper rapids, and carried the .«k out ahead of schedule. The Dnieprostroy Dam is 43.350 feet long and 146 feet high. Its maximum capacity is 900,000 horse- power, as compared with 600,000 at Muscle Shoals. In the second Five Year Plan the Soviet workers are preparing to build still greater power dams. SECURE VICTORY IN FORECLOSURE, Cleveland Small Home Owners Organize CLEVELAND, O.—Recently in Cleveland there was organized the Small Home and Land Owners’ Fed- eration for the purpose of gaining moratoriums on the principle and interest of .all mortgages an con- tracts for small owners who are fac- ing foreclosures. ‘The organization won its first vic- tory in the case of E. Karshansky, 2459 West 7th St., who was facing foreclosure. A delegation represent- ing fhe small home and land owners presented their demands at the bank for immediate withdrawal of these foreclosure proceedings. A conces- sion was gained and the foreclosure was withdrawn until the future board meeting of the bank. Ben Gold Speaks at Phila. Meet Jan. 1 to Be Tried Jan. 4 PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Ben Gold, leader of the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union, facing a long prison term in Wilmington, Del., will be the principal speaker at a mass protest meeting arranged by the In- ternational Labor Defense, to be held in Philadelphia on Sunday, Jan. 1, at 3 p.m. at Germania Hall, 806 W. Girard Ave. Other speakers will in- clude John Parkers, one of the lead- ers of the unemployed in Philadel- phia; William Powell, militant Ne- gro worker, and Jennie Cooper, dis- trict organizer of the I. L. D. Gold and the two other workers are out on bail, charged with assault and battery. They were arrested and beaten during the attack on the Hunger Marchers by the Wilmington Police’ On Jan. 3, one day before the trial is to be held, there will be a mass meeting in Wilmington, in the Labor Lyceum, 412 Du Pont St., and the same night a mass meeting will be held in Chester, Pa. The I. L. D. and Unemployed Councils are also mobilizing the workers of Wilmington to fill the court room on Wednesday morning, Jan. 4, to demand the release of the three arrested workers, Milw. Workers Win Pardon for Burback MILWAUKEE, ‘Wis.—Fred Burback was given a pardon by Governor Phil LaFollette, Saturday, Dec, 17th, and the Superintendent of the House of Corection was notified to release the prisoner. Governor LaFollette on Jan. 1st leaves his office as Governor of the State of Wisconsin, for Governor- elect Schmedeman, (Democrat), Fred Burback’s sentence was thus commuted from two years to two months, Joe Hawkins, another class-war pris- oner, sentenced on two counts each, 1 to 3 years, will be assisted through mass pressure by the I.L.D. in also securing a pardon, when Governor Schmedeman takes his seat, Both cases were the outcome of a demonstration staged by the Unem- ployed Council at the Fond du Lac Ave. Outdoor Relief Station, “The struggle against militarism must not be poxtponed until the moment when war breaks out. Then it will be too late. The struggle against war must be ear- ried on now, daily, hourly.” LENIN. Send greetings to the special Ninth Anniversary-Lenin Memorial Son Is Saved || $5 AND $2.50 A MONTH RELIEF Jobless in Old Forge Called to Organize OLD FORGE, Pa.—The unem- ployed workers here just received their relief checks from the relief stations. This time they only ceived $5 and the single w $2.50. This is after such great prom- ises which the local relief agent, Mr. Garfield Lewi: made, that for Christmas he was sure the workers would get $10. Since this relief is given only once @ month or so, you can see what this means, He also said that after this relief distribution, every case will be per- sonally investigated and only one member of each family will be .al- lowed to get the relief check and the bag of cheap flour. I myself went to the Rev. Free- man, who works together with Mr. Lewis. After describing my case to him, he promised that he would do his best to get me a relief check. But after I came for the relief check I was told they still didn’t go through my case thoroughly. | Three youths were injured here as they were digging for coal on the company dumps, and the hole caved in on them. Also sometime ago a youth was instantly killed in the| same manner, That’s,the future the young workers got under capitalism. The workers struggle like this day after day, while the giant coal pro- ducers stand idle, just because the bosses can’t make profit. Misery. is increasing, more soup} lines are forming, and many workers here are without any lighes. | This Thursday we are going out house to house to get in personal contact with the workers, in order to start an Unemployed Council, which is so necessary here. There are only four active workers here, and the movement is very weak, but we ex- pect some good results. Child With Abscess in Tonsils Given Some Pills by City Relief CICERO, Il.—A Hawthorne | neighborhood committee of the Un- employed Council of Cicero found out that.a child ill from an abscess on the tonsils had received some pills as treatment from the doctar sent down by the Cicero Relief Station. The child got worse. A committee of 10 was elected in the neighborhood, and demanded that Mr. Macijewsky, the Town sup- ervisor, send Dr. Hood, the Health Commissioner of Cicero, to care for the child. Mr. Macijewsky said it was impossible, but when the com- mittee militantly insisted, Dr. Hood was forthcoming within one hour. The child is now recovering and Dr. Hood has also promised to remove her tonsils, The Polish Daily Zgoda, a Chicago Fascist paper, is against the Unemp- loyed Council and the Soviet Union. This paper and the local politicians are trying in every way to keep the unemployed workers of Hawthorne from organizing in the Unemployed Council, It is in this section, with its predominantly Polish population, that the Western Electric Company's huge plant is located, the second largest in the world. The neighborhood and block com- mittees are repeatedly winning more | Telief for families than the local fam- ily budget specifies and are rallying | more and more workers around their militant slogans. P. T. 83 Year Old Hungry. Woman A Suicide INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Last Tues- day there occured in this city one of the saddest suicides of which I have ever heard. A poor old woman, years old, alone in the world, desti- tute and forlorn, killed herself. She didn’t have acrust of bread or a lump of coal in the miserable hovel she called her home. ‘The neighbors had helped her what they could, but they too had been rendered penniless and couldn’t help her more. There is only but one government that will do away with conditions that drive workers to such tragedies. Let us strive to here set up that form —the dictatorship of the proletariat, —0. P. Jobless Guardsmen Defeat Pay Cut of Their Officers NEW YORK CITY—Men of a,New York National Guard Company, who are being systematicaly trained to fight workers in the present criiss, were expecting their pay checks on Thursday nist. After drill, when the pay was due, the checks were or- dered withheld by the commanding officer until 50 cents per man was given to the emergency relief fund. As over 50 percent of these guards- men are unemployed, and a great percentage are “guests” of the city in the Municipal Lodging Houes, and are absolutely without funds, this propos- ae was not received enthusiastic- Ly: After a few of the more militant workers in the company had suffic- ient courage to protest against this imposition, the balance of the com- pany backed them up in their de- mands for the pay check without a forced contributon to fake charity. A deputation, with fixed bayonets, was elected, and demanded their checks. The determination of these men won out and their pay was given to them without any deduction. » A Worker in the National Guard Workers Turn to Left Wing in Busted Lakewood | LAKEWOOD, N. J—This winter | resort township of Lakewood is| bankrupt. All its employees, begin- ning with the policemen down the line to street cleaners, get no cash | as their pay. They get paid in| script. At present the shopkeepers still have good hopes of recovery and | they still accept the script. The unemployed get one day’s| work each week. The pay is $3 per | day. They clean the streets and | collect garbage, and get paid‘ in| script. | The militant labor movement is beginning to take roots. There is a unit of the Communist Party here, also a branch of the I. L. D. The latter has some Negro comrades. The branch does good work. There | is also a Women’s Council and an Icor branch. The Daily Worker is sold at two news stands in town. Three hunger marchers left from here to Wash- ington—a Negro and two white work- ers, @ man and two women—J.A.R. HARD LABOR IN CITY FLOPHOUSE |Past 70 But Kept at| Sweating Toil (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHLADELPHIA, Pa.—Men at 18th and Hamilton Municipal Flophouse were ready to work snow but were in no condition. Over half of them were barefooted, and most of them were thinly clothed. They were weak from the rotten food that they get, what little they get. If a man doesn’t work eight hours a day, he doesn’t get any dinner, which is a dipper of bean soup and four slices of mouldy bread, and some coffee chaff that gives you a pain in the small of your back, and keeps one going all night at least 4 or 5 times a night. It is a shame for old men to drink that stuff called coffee. Two old men of that shelter home for homeless men that are past 70, are forced to work in the wood house and floor gang. It is more than they can do as they both had to have med- ical service. The so-called doctors of that house take no interest at all when one applies to them for aid. They seem to hate you as soon as you enter their office. They don’t know what a pleasant word is. If one stays in all day on account of sickness, he don’t get dinner because he didn’t work for it. They don’t turn on any steam til 5 p. m., the windows are open all day and it is like being ouv in the city park for these men that are under the so-called doctor's care. If it was not for what they get from the bread lines, théy would starve to death. ‘They would be treated better in most any prison. The Unemployed Council here is organizing a committee inside this place and have already won one vict~ otry by leading 300 workers over to City Hall when they were driven out at 7 a.m. into the snow. They are now allowed to stay in the recreation room. STARVING RAID BAKERY WAGON Minnesota, New Jersey Jobless to March (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) in 1921. This law has been upheld by the state supreme court and means actually that the mining com- panies are getting $150,000 handed to them. Five mining companies, In- terstate Mining Co., Hanna Ore Min- ing Co., Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Com~- ‘pany, Republic Steel Corp., and the Snyder Mining Co., who have been paying a big portion of the taxes here are the ones that joined with the County Auditor in this case. This decision is a very important one for the Whole Iron Range as the | case sets a precedent through which the mining companies can cut their taxes at once. In these small mining towns the schools provide a great deal of work and especially have they beew used for the relief jobs the boss- es are so fond of dishing out. With the cutting of the taxes the work will be cut also. Workers who have been getting a few days a month from the school board will now be faced with still less. Buhl is the town where the new County Commissioner was elected this fall because he was a “good man.” The next step the School Board will take will be to cut the length of the school year. eae mor | There are now eleven state hunger marches being prepared, in New Jer- sey, Minnesota, Montana, Utah, Con- necticut, Oregon, Colorado, Pennsyl- vania, Illinois, Washington and Cal- ifornia. Soviet State Farms Increase Production MOSCOW, Dec. 29.—A substantial rise in the production of Soviet state dairy farms makes possible consi- derable increases in the quotas under the latest government decision re- gulating deliveries by the state farms, collective farms and individ- ual peasants. Qutoas for state forms have been increased by 40 per cent as com- pared with the past year. While quotas for the collective farms range 50 to 280 liters per milk cow annually, the state dairy farms will supply from 350 to 580 liters per cow. The average yield per cow in the state dairies 1s 800 liters, while in single instances over 1600 liters have been’ procured. Page Three Some of the rese again to of the 54 mi scheme” at Shafer Mine, Moweaqu: ture was taken, 23 of these rescue ped underground and entombed fo alive. 23 Just Miss Fate of 54 Murdered in Forced Labor Mine MOWEAQUA, Ill., Dec. 29.—An- other 23 narrowly missed the fate of the 54 min illed in the Shafer mine here last Saturday because of criminal negligence of the local au- thorities. All 23 were imprisoned for two hours last night as the; find the last seven bodies of their fellow workers. Others had to dig out the rescue squad. Hope of recovering alive any of the 54 is now gone. They went into the mine to “dig” their unempl ment relief, because the bo: Moweaqua forced them to do it, or starve. Local officials knew very well that the mine was a death trap. Daniel Harrington, chief of the safety division of the Federal Bu- reau of Mines on Wednesday issued a statement declaring that the Shafer mine was completely lacking in safety provisions. The bosses of Moweaqua are now wiggling out as best they can from the duty of help- ing the widows and children of the murdered 54, They tell the workers to contribute. OPEN DRIVE JAN. 9 FOR RECOGNITION FSU in Campaign to Aid Soviet Union NEW YORK.—On Monday, Jan. 9, the Friends of the Soviet Union is launching a nation-wide campaign to demand unconditional recognition of the Soviet Union by the govern- ment of the United States. The aims of the campaign are the collec- tion of 1,000,000 signatures by May 1, and the sending of an F. S. U. dele- gation to the White House early in May to present this mass demand for unconditional recognition and nor- mal trading relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Hundreds of meetings are being arranged throughout the country to rally support for this campaign. F. S. U. organizers are being sent out on tour for this purpose. In order to make the campaign possible, a special Recognition Dollar Bill Fund has been started. The New York District of the F. S. U. has pledged itself to collect $5,000 by Jan. 9, All friends of the Soviet Union are urged to send in donations to the Recognition Fund. Special collection sheets may be obtained at the F. U. District Office, 799 Broadway, Room 330. All workers and sympathizers will- ing to help in the collection of signa- tures should apply Jan. 9 at the same address, TEACHERS UNPAID IN BRIDGEPORT Firestone Cuts Wages But Not the Work BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec, 29. — School teachers here were given no- tice that they must return to the city treasury one week's pay out of every month. They held a meeting, and sent a committee to protest. The committee was told “All right, you get no pay at all.” The teachers were given their checks a few days ago, and were all notified that this was the last check they would see until April, 1933. They are ordered to report for duty as usual, how- ever. Firestone Cuts. Firestone Tire Co. recently cut everybody ten per cent on his wages. Then they put the men on five day's work a week, cutting them propor- tionally, This was tried for one month, then the men were told to work six days a week for five days’ pay. This is the present situation. Michigan Miners Plan Drive for Relief and Work ag emands HANCOCK, Mich., Dec. 29.—The Hancock Sub-District Board of the National Miners Union held its sub- district Conference on Dec. 25 which outlinea a program for the organiza- tion of the miners now partially em- ployed, into the N.M.U. for the pur- pose laying a basis for an extensive united front struggle for improved conditions. It was pointed out that there are around 8,000 miners in the copper country, but only 20 per cent of these are working two to three days ®& week. . workers are getting no > crew grabbing a cup of coffee before going down ners killed in the “emergency work a, I. A short time after this pic- crew workers were themselves trap- r two hours, Others rescued them $80,583,504 IS | GIVEN TO RICH | By Same Gov't “Too Poor” to Give Relief (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) it universal. It consists of levying tribute on the workers in each fac- tory, then cutting their pay to get another source of income for the insurance fund, this last coming ap- parently “from the company.” Then every individual who has worked for a certain considerable | length of time for the company, will, | if he is laid off, wait and starve for some fixed time more, and then will get some insurance, not for as long as he is jobless but for a certain | number of weeks. Distribution of insurance will be in the hands of the | factory managers. If one factory's |fund runs out, the workers just go hungry, they get nothing from any other factory nor from the state. Iv A Wage Cut. That is not insurance. It is com- pulsory savings, through wage cuts, for the workers already on a starva- tion standard. And the workers’ savings are not even handled by the worker who saves, they fall into the hands of the factory management. The 16,000,000 already unemployed | will get nothing from it, and those | still at work and doomed to be un- employed in the future, will get noth- ing for a long time to come yet, and then not much. But they get their wage cuts now. Swope is very proud of the plan, but it is nothing for the employed or unemployed workers to fight for Profits Up, Wages Down. They have something to fight jorets though. Dr. Walter Rautens- trauch, of the industrial engineering department of the University of Col- umbia, in the course of a lecture mentioned that the workers’ returns from industry are collapsing. He | showed that in wages drawn, in a | list of biggest industries by indus- trial wo amounted to $2,700,- 000,000; dividends paid were $282,- 000,000 and interest paid was $769,- 000,000. ‘The situation now is almost totally reversed. Wages paid in 1932 have fallen to $903,000,000; dividends paid have almost doubled and amount to | $524,000,000, and interest paid has gone up to $1,118,000,000. The trusts and big bankers are | getting theirs, more than ever before, | ‘but the workers are getting about a | third of what they used to get, only eight years ago. Sixteen million unemployed and that many more part time wage cut workers have to do something about this. The plea of the capitalists and their government that they can not find money for unemployment in- surance and wages is proven false, capitalists and government find what they want for themselves. If they are forced through mass pres- sure, they can find it for the work- ers, employed and unemployed. Form anti-wagé cut committees in every shop! Form neighborhood and block committees of employed and unemployed! Build the unem- ployed councils! On with the fight for unemployment insurance before being considered for a miser- able hand-out. On the basis of these issues the Conference outlined a program for a broad united front struggle which will win improved conditions for the employed and unemployed miners and will build a powerful organiza- tion of the National Miners Union, CUT, SPL | shop trict organizer of the shop, Wilson, is & J. A. for committees from the shop Jocals 2090, 1164 and 246 to meet and “discuss the present situation in the shops.” | The invitation was mailed too late | for meetings to be called to elect the committees, so in each local they were appointed by the chairmen. The rul- ing cliques in Locals 1164 and 246| saw to it that no militant members were on the committees. Only from Local 2090 was there a committee | that really represented the member- | ship. The conference took place Dec. 22 in the office of the district council, with the district council executive present, and also Rice, a representa- tive of the general office of the union, | Order a Wage Cut | Rice and these New York District | Council chiefs simply laid down the | law that “the only solution for the present unemployment situation and | the only way to keep work from going out of the city” is for mill men to have their official wages cut to $6 for eight hours and cabinet men to get $8 for 8 hours. When the representatives of Local | 2090 tried to bring forward their pro- posal for handling the unemployment problem without a wage cut they were cut short by the chiefs present. The scheme of these union chiefs is to use their henchmen in the shop locals and outside locals to agitate among the membership that the membership should take this wage cut as a voluntary wage cut. Their | main argument is, it will create more | work. | The membership of Local 2090 have already carried a motion at Thurs- day’s meeting against this wage cut- ting scheme. Dividing the Workers The previous agreement made be- tween the Master Carpenters’ Asso- ciation and the District Council of New York which expired on April 30, 1932 had a uniform wage scale* of $13.20 per day for eight hours work covering house carpenters, cabinet makers, stair builders, framers, ma- chine hands, parquet floor layers and millwrights. Since the expiration of this agree- ment the chiefs of the New York Dis- trict Council divide us union carpen- ters into different categories with different scales of wages, with a two card system of inside carpenters’ lo- cals and outside carpenters, locals, confining the members in the inside locals to the manufacturing of cab- inet fixtures only, with the setting of these fixtures to be done by the mem- | bers of the outside locals. Now comes this new proposal of further division of wage scales within the shops for those at the machine and for those at the bench. | Means More Wage Cuts | It is true that some big jobs for New York City such as that on the fixtures for Macy's and for the Radio City were given out in Rochester, New York and Beacon, New York But those out of town shops are also using a union label of the Brother- hood and having an agreement with the Brotherhood Carpenters Union. We may justly ask our so-called union organizers, union chiefs: “In whose interest did they sign and ap- prove the union agreements in these out of New York City union shops with a lower scale of wages than in New York City? In whose interest did they approve in thé Beacon local not only a lower scale of wages than in New York City, but also a clause in the agreement which gives the bosses in Beacon the power to auto- matically cut the wages in proportion to a wage cut in New York City?” In practice this agreement means that when the union chiefs succeed in carrying through their proposed wage cut in New York City to $6 a day the wages in Beacon will be By A. PETERSON. NEW YORK.—On the initiative of the clique in control of ocal 246, local of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (A.F.L.) | and without even the knowledge or consent of the membership, a move has been started to cut the wages of mill men and cabinet shop men. The dis- automatically cut to $4 a day. CARPENTERS’ DISTRICT COUNCIL PROPOSES PAY IT IN RANKS | Without Consulting the Membership, Notifies Committee of 3 Locals of New Scales | Old False Argument Ti in the City; Members nat It Will Keep Work Plan Struggle a member of Local 246. The first result of the intrigue was a hurry-inyitation from the New York District Council of the B. of C.@—— of New York City to such an orj of wage cutting races as would im- mediately affect those carpenters who are working outside. A cut from the official rate of union wages means always a proportional cut for those who are not getting the union scale at all. Conference Needed It is now for our militant active members in New York istrict of the Brotherhood of Carpenters to ound the alarm and to organize the rank and file to a united action against the causes that make possible such betraying schemes. The first organizations step should be to call a carpenters rank and file conference in order to adopt methods and es- tablish a rank and file apparatus to fight this wage cut, for a uniform Scale of wages in New York City and out of town, to fight for immediate relief and for exemption from dues for unemployed members. It is surely worth while to men- tion here something that may serve us Brotherhood o Carpenters Union men as a good lesson. At a time when due to the treacherous role of our union misleaders our conditions jand wages are fast going down the hill, the Independent Carpenters Union of Greater New York has con- ducted successful strikes taking away from the bosses the right to hire and fire at will. It has won recog- nition of elected shop committees, equal distribution of work and 4 one wage scale of $7.50 per 8 hour day for machine and bench cabinet workers. (And they are getting this wage scale not on paper but in reality.). JAPAN SPEEDS-UP MANCHURIA WAR War Office Calls for Doubling Army Virtually declaring a state of emergency, the Japanese War Of- fice yesterday called for the doubling of the present huge Japanese army in Manchuria, the speeding up of war production and the mechaniza- tion of the Japanese Army. A War Office spokesman directly connected these war moves with the existence of the Soviet Union and the developing anti-imperialist struggles of the Chinese masses. He pointed to the fact that Japanese troops in their seizure of Manchuria had advanced to the borders of the Soviet Union as “justification” for the increased war preparations— thus attemping to use one imperial- ist crime to justify another. No Cut in War Fund. The War office gave notice to the Japanese Diet that no reduction can be made in the huge war appropri- ations demanded by the army and mavy heads and sponsored by the Japanese Cabinet of Premier Saito. ‘The Japanese boss press took their cue from these war moves for a new and greatly intensified campaign of war propaganda, and slander against the Soviet Union. Nanking Orders War Planes. ‘The Nanking Kuomintang Govern- ment has ordered 45 new military planes from German manufacturers and gas masks from Italy, in addi- tion to huge war supplies from the United States. But these supplies are not for the purpose of the robber aggressions of Japanese and other imperialists, but for use against the revolutionary Chinese masses and the powerful Chinese Soviet Districts. | DONATES LAMB TO COMMUNIST PARTY SCOTTS RUN, W. Va., Dec. 28— Mike Rendulich, a poor farmer, don- ated a lamb to the Communist unit here. Tt was sold at a dance at- | tended by miners and farmers and This wage cut would encourage the | brought $15 which will be used for bosses in New York City and outside ' organization expenses. 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- vluded 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 carried 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 greetings The relief at, al). who apr by sending to the only revo- lutionary Daily in the English language! ANNIVERSARY AND LENEN MEMORIAL EDITION ° . Our Greetings to the Daily Worker on its 9th Anniversary and on the occasion of Lenin’s Memorial Name Address We request space in the %h Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker for $............ Vasereceswecdaeesscaens YOUR GREETINGS MUST REACH THe DAILY WORKER, 50 EAST 13TH ST., NEW YORK, N. ¥.