The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1933, Page 3

Fr ——— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1933 STRUGGLE AGAINST PROVOCATION Workers’ Enemies Exposed All workers and workers’ organiza~ tions are warned against the follow- ing individuals: MARTHA CASTRO of Cambridge, Mass,, a housewife of Finnish nation- ality, who was the financial secretary of the Pioneer Camp in Holmes Park last summer, has been expelled from the Communist Party by its Boston District. organization for misappro- priation of organization funds and for misuse of Party name in obtain- ing, personal loans. She failed to account for about $600 of the Pioneer Camp funds (eaving unpaid bills amounting to about $380), and refused to appear for a hearing, disregarding repeated cells of the District Office. It is also reported that she used the name of the Party fraction to obtain per- sonal loans from comrades and sym~ pathizers (totalling also several hun- dred dollars). u Such misuse of funds and financial dishonesty throws discredit upon the revolutionary movement, sows distrust among the workers, increases many~- fold the financial difficulties of our revolutionary organizations and plays directly into the hands of the worst enemies of our movement, the social tascists. By her actions, Martha Castro has betrayed the interests of the working class, and has put herself in the camp of its worst enemies, MICHAEL SASKAGANSKY, known as Shatsky and Michael York, has been exposed by the Seattle dis- trict organization of the Communist Party as a sabotager, swindler and thief, An intellectual of Russian nation- ality, he was in the Young Commu- nist. League in New York about five years ago, from which he was ex- pelled for inactivity and financial ir- responsibility. In Seattle he managed to join the Party and got himself even into a responsible post on the election cam- psign, which work he sabotaged by suddenly leaving the city, Then it was discovered that he had taken with him also some organization jfunds, besides obtaining bus fare from a sympathizer on the pretext that he was leaving suddenly on a secret mission. Afterwards it was reported from Pocatello, Idaho, that he was staying with a worker there under the mis- representation that he was called to New York by. the John Reed Club. He is about 5 ft, 11 in. tall and conspicuously fat. . & MARSHALL (alias Carey), of Los Angeles, has been exposed by the San Francisco district organization of the Communist Party as a swindler, who absconded with organization funds ($9 of Western Worker funds, $7 from the T.U.U.L., forged check, etc.). He is rather tall and blond, and it appears that he was previously in Seattle, under the name of Carey, where he also misappropriated Labor Defender money and disappeared. The Party as well as other workers’ organizations should beware of these \leeches and petty swindlers. GERMAN JOBLESS IN BIG INCREASE (Cable By Inprecorr) BERLIN, Jan. 11.—Official Ger- man figures show unemployment in- creased by 170,000 during the second half of December, now totalling 5,700,000 plus about 1,000,000 unre- gistered unemployed. The speech of the labor provision minister yesterday before the Reich- stag Committee shows that the gov- ernment work provision plan will provide, at the utmost, 250,000 with temporary work. Bury Victim of Fascist. Erich Hermann, Communist work- er murdered by Fascist Osthof, was buried yesterday. The murderer has been arrested and has confessed the crime. Tens of thousands of workers, in- cluding thousands of disciplined de- fense detachments of the Anti- Fascist League, and a large detach- ment of uniformed Reichsbanner, followed the coffin. The coffin was lowered into the grave following the speeches of rep- sentatives of workers. Flags of " various organizations, wreathed with crepe, were lowe! and the Inter- national sung as the coffin was placed into the grave. New Fascist Terror. . Yester-eve new Fascist terrorist acts broke out. About 300 attacked an anti-Fascist meeting in Pried- richshain, but were energetically repulsed, although the attackers used tear-gas bombs, corrosive sub- | also EXPOSE BLACK 30-HR. BILL AS STAGGER PLAN A.F.L. Group Scores Green’s Report of Measure NEW YORK.—Pointing out that the rank and file of the American Federation of Labor do not sup- port President William Green’s un- qualified endorsement of the Black Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, bill as another form of the stagger and “share-the-work plan” plans unless it is amended to include pro- visions for no wagecuts and minimum wage scales, The statement, issued by Louis Weinstock, secretary, de- clares: Open hearings are being held be- fore the judiciary committee of the Senate on Senator Black's bill to make the 5-day weeksand -hour day mandatory in industry by means of federal statutes. According to a statement by the American Federa- tion of Labor, this bill have the unqualified endorsement of organ- ized labor. William Green, phe- sident of the A. F. of L,, testified before this Committee on Jan. 5, and gave his unqualified enqdorsement to Black's Bill. He went so far as to threaten a general strike if the 30- hour week is not aecepted by indus- try. He made no criticism of the | bill itgelf. “The rank and file of the A. F. of L. is in full disagreement with Mr. Green. Up to the present Mr. Green and the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. supported every action of the bankers and owners of industry in their schemes to put the burden of the crisis upon the workers. “The A. F, of L, Trade’ Union Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, which is carrying on a fight for federal unemployment in- surance, to be paid by the govern- ment and the employers, and has the full support of 100,000 members of the A, F. of L. and railroad brotherhoods, will support any movement by or- ganized labor or any bill before the Senate or Congress for the shorten- ing of working hours as long as the bill provides that no wage cut in any form shall be imposed upon the workers, and furthermore, includes in the same bill the establishment of a minimum scale of wages. Without these important points, the bill is nothing else but the legalization of the Hoover stagger plan and the W. C. Teagle “share-the-work’ plan (commonly known as the “share-the- poverty’ plan), which has the en- dorsement of William Green and probably some of the other leaders of the Executive Council, but not the membership of the A. F. of L. “It is no accident that William | Green gives his unqualified endorse- | ment to the bill. It is consistent with his previous policies. In the Sept. 3, 1932, issue of the A. F. of L. Weekly News Service, the official organ of the A. F. of L., the following state- ment of William Green was printed: “Green Endorses the Action of Hoover's Business Conference.” “Mr W. C. Teagle, who has the full support of William Green in his “share-the-work” plan, had an ar- ticle in the Weekly News Service on Sept. 24, 1932, boosting his “share- the-work” plan, which would drasti- cally cut the earnings of the em- Wered workers. “At the preesnt time, when there are 13,000,000 workers unemployed, to the estimate of the American Fed- eration of Labor (the actual figures are about 16,000,000), and when 60 per cent of the employed workers are put on the stagger plan and working even less than 30 hours a week, with earnings cut below the minimum needed to buy the necessities of everyday life, to support a bill like Senator Black’s means nothing else than further lowering of the living standards. of the workers. Just one argument for the necessity of es- tablishing a minimum wage scale, We have facts and figures that the workers in the United States are working 50 and 60 hours a week for A) oe A i cents, which would ve for urs an aver: hs 10 ee erage of $8 “The present crisis with so m: millions of workers unemployed, oe not be solved with legislative action to reduce the hours to 30 a week. Even if the proposed amendments are accepted, namely, no further reduc- tion in pay, and the establishment of a lum wage scale, unemploy- ment insurance to be paid by the federal government and employers, must be provided for the unemployed workers. Only by a militant struggle of organized and unorganized work- ers for federal unemployment in- surance and a stubborn fight against any form of wage cuts, for higher wages, and for better conditions, will the workers be able to abolish the Hoover-Teagle~Bill Green stagger system, the “share-the-work” plan, and establish the 30-hour week and 6-hour day with a decent living limate and other dangerous chemi- cals. Fascists waylayed workers on the streets, seriously stabbing two Com- munist brothers Hillerduss. The police finally batoned the Fascists, but received revolver fire, which was returned, but none were wounded, Fascist ambushes took in other parts of the city resulting with several workers being seriously wounded. TWO NEGROES -GET LIFE TERMS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) gang which terrorized them with lynch-threats, m tae ae Ee e raid by Th , Sept, 14, Constable Ben Northern pe boy by the name of Ernest Smith got into a fight in which the white boy was worsted. On the afternoon of Si arm cnen ee naa a bucket of water. They met Ernest Smith, white, and a girl named Brown. “We spoke to them and they got sassy.” Maude Moore said later. ‘Some rocks were thrown, and then We went on up to the house.” asiault and battery agains Oldhasn, an against O01 and Constable Northern deputized Brown, Mount Smith, and his son Sam Smith and his own son Ben Northern, Jr. to form a raiding party. The Negroes defended them- selves. Northern and Brown were Killed in the fighting. Whips Up Lynch Sentiment. The posse retired for reinforce- ments, When these came, headed by Sheriff Ed Climer, Deputy C, S. Fort, Raymond Ligon, and Magis- trate Horace Ligon, the Negroes in- cluding the two women, Mrs, Mar- gery Moore and her daughter Maude, submitted quietly to arrest. ape eae whipped up lynch sen- timent lynch gang was organized. A hundred armed men took the two women out of jail, and 2,500 gathered. in the square, shouting and scream- ing for a lynching. . Feeling certain that the prisoners would be legally lynched later, the riff, Chief of Police Bob Gann, and others rescued the two women, and secretly removed all five pri- son to the county jail at Nash- le. 30-hour week, the A. F. of L. Trade} in a state-| ment issued yesterday, exposes this} pen sg ae , Li Peep Mayes Foreign Specialists Aid Building of Socialism age A group of foreign specialists at the Electrical Apparatus. Works at Leningrad, writing a reply to a speech by the Commissar of Labor of the Soviet Union, Many foreign specialists, after coming to the Soviet Unien skeptical of or indifferent te the Workers’ State, have been con- verted into enthusiastic supporters of the Soviet regime and leading workers in the gigantic tasks of the Five-Year Plan. CONDITIONS LIKE 3) YEARS AGO IN BETHLEHEM STEEL Time Clocks, No Over- time Pay, and Speed-Up SPARROWS POINT, Md.—Here in the Bethlehem Steel Company at Sparrows Point the company is bringing more bad conditions in the mill. For years we have never heard of a time clock and punch card system, but now we are forced to punch a time clock, although we still work on the tonnage system. Here is a lot more “new burdens” that is new to the tin mill, the catcher and screw boys have to clean the grease pots on the last turn, where formerly this was done by laborers in the tin mill. Who ever heard of working level hand on a small mill when its almost impossible to live on wages we get when working level hand on a big mill, Then in order to make matters worse, even though we are doubled up we got to stay in the mill on the last two heats. The screw boy piles 9 or 10 heats of thirty six wide or some other kind of pilin orders and doesn’t get any~ thing for doing this extra work, the pair heater does get a little crumb for piling three and four piles, usu- ally about 50 cents. There are some rollers here that are turning screw, now being forced back to where they were 20 or 30 years ago. PS.—I just heard that O'Brien bought a $5,000 car. I wonder where that money came from. er EDITOR'S NOTE:—With the com- ing wage cut in the steel industry this month, and the terrific worsen- ing of conditions not only in this mill but in all others, there is an imme- zation. Workers of all nationalities, the workers in the mill. PAINTER GETS 20¢ AN HOUR IN STEEL PLANT CHICAGO, Il.—The subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, recently received which gave a few men three weeks of work or so at measly wages, The painters, for instance, got 37 cents an cents an hour would be paid. pay. The workers, hour. The painters have been work- ing overtime from 2 to 4 hours on from time to time have to take hos- from lead poison entering their sys- it, to use safe methods from the mil- lions of dollars they have accumu- these workers. They are sucking the blood of WORKER CORRESPONDENCE JEL WAGE-CUTS ALREADY IN i these workers now by their proposal] ers are toward organization. FORCE “MAJESTIC HANDS QUT WAGE CUT IN PLACE OF RAISE United Defiance in Spraying Dep't Brings Pay NEW YORK CITY.—I am a worker in the Majestic Metal Shop and would like to give a picture of the situation there. It began to get busy a couple of months before Christmas. The older workers were promised a raise in the busy season. But when they saw the boss hire workers for $8 per week, they knew their hopes were blasted. Christmas week the workers re- ceived two gifts of gratitude from the boss.’ The gifts consisted of lay- offs and lipsticks to both men and women alike. Of course, these work~ ers could not eat the lipsticks for their Christmas dinner. Some thought they were more for- tunate than others. They were’ told to return to work Jan. 3, On this eventful day the workers pynched their cards, ready for work, but for many in the spray department to no avail. These workers were told to go home by the very sympathetic man- ager, Mr, Brodny. They insisted that they be given their back pay and carfare and were informed they would be paid at 12 o'clock. This meant waiting around for four hours until the Majestic could find timé to pay them, The patience of the workers was exhausted. They decided to act to- gether and demanded that they be paid immediately. This foreed the boss to respond differently. He paid them. The 200 workers who remain in the shop were put on the 40-hour week, with wages for that many hours. This means a wage-cut, since the boss diate necessity for all the workers|€xPects as much work in 40 hours as in the mill to intensify their organi-| he received before in 48 hours. Why is it possible for the Ma- color and political end union affili-| jestie to put over this wage-cut and ation should form united commit-| treat the workers in this cattle-like tees of action in every department to| fashion? The reason is lack of or- be prepared to fight against wage-| ganization! cuts and other bad conditions in the| sympathetic phrases of the manage- mill as 2 solid body. As to O'Brien,| ment. he undoubtedly gets his swag for|and better conditions for our labor. putting over the vicious system that|The only way we can gain these exists in the mill, but he gets only| things is by organizing ourselves into crumbs compared to the millions of| one strong body to fight for the fol- dollars of super profits that the Wall] lowing immediate demands: Street boys gets out of the toil of] laid-off men be given jobs before We cannot live on the We must get a decent wage 1, All new men are hired. 2. Division of work with a guaranteed minimum wage. The Metal Workers’ Industrial Union will assist us in every possible McClintic| way to organize and fight for our Marshall Corporation of Chicago @| just rights now. Worker From the Majestic. a pe elena tng small order for steel construction,| THEN AND NOW IN THE R. C. A, VICTOR CAMDEN, N. J.—The conditions in hour, The workers were notified} the R.C.A. Victor, were not 50 bad that a piece work progtam would be} till the General Electric got control put in place of the day work, andj Of it. The hours up to two years especially the painters will be paid] #80 were 47 1-2 for five days, 9 1-2 “by the ton which really means that] hours per day and extra time if we starvation wages of 20 cents or 25) worked Saturday. But when the General Electric Now in painting steel structures,| took hold, then started the cuts. bridges parts, etc. it is an almost| First Saturday was made straight- impossible thing to arrive at a cor- time; rect timing of work for plece-work| Straight-time; later came a bonus then overtime was made system, which was made to appear because of their] a5 a benefit to the workers. The needs, have not protested against the} bonus means that you get half of previous wage cuts from 75 cents an| Whatever you save. Not all jobs have a bonus price on them. Generally the price was so low we Sunday and holdidays with no in-| Could not do the job in the required crease in wages. The spray painters] time, but got paid our hourly rate the same. But nevertheless it pital treatment for sickness derived] is used as a whip for speed-up. Now I am speaking of the tool and tem, and ruining their health, and| model shops, where the greatest skill not due to other causes that they| is required, are led to believe by the paid scabs| quired to have more knowledge of the bosses. This lead poisoning] for their work than any other class is killing them. They don’t realize} of labor. That makes many of them And the bosses do’not attempt} conceited, The toolmakers are re- There are quite a few stool pigeons here. I am trying to find out. I lated from the sweat and health of] am gradually and cautiously trying to work among them. T can’t tell now how all the work- to pay by piece work, When the| are favorable. There is good mater- spray painters are unable to work, the hand painters are driven every | radical. ial for organization here. A few are I haven't been long with minute of the day in order to get the} the present group of workers so I same amount of work out as the] don’t know them all. spray machines, The hours at present are 9 1-2 These workers must be organized.| hours a day, four days a week, ex- they should protest against the use| cept when it sometimes happens | of the spray machines, because this} that a man is working on a job that work is done out in the open air| is needed sooner, then all extra time where no device can be used to vent the lead from entering is flat hourly rate. If Camden had @ Party unit it They should demand] would help some and I ‘thing it will whole body. that all material be s hand painted.| inthe course of time.” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) profitable, it is natural that the ma- jority of the new young, collectives can not yet be profitable. These, however, will undoubtedly become profitable within two or three years, Strengthen Collectives. The proposal to refuse support for the new collectives can only come from counter-revolutionaries, In promoting collectivization at an ac- celerated pace, the Communist Par- ty, said Stalin, certainly acted cor- rectly, “Profitableness must be judged from the general angle of the whole of national economy, and only in the course of several years. It would be futile to judge from the angle of one given moment. ‘The collectivization of the basic re- gions’ has already been completed. The vast majority of the peasants accept collectivization as the best form of farming. The question as to whether collectivization is to be or not to be, is already decided. The present question is that of strength- ening the collectives ,throwing out the wreckers, and making the collec- tives really Bolshevik. Improved Conditions. Turning to review the improve- ment in the material position of the workers and peasants resulting from the First-Five-Year-Plan, Stalin placed as first the abolition of un- employment. He gave second place to the eli- mination of poverty in the villages as a result of collectivization. This is an achievement of which no cap- italist country can dream. The workers of the Soviet Union long ago forgot unemployment, while the capitalist countries have no less than 30 to 40,000,000 unemployed. The number of industrial workers in the Soviet Union more than doubled as compared with 1928, Increased Income, The national income in 1932 was 45,000,000,000 roubles representing an 85 per cent increase over 1928, The average increase in the increase of workers’ wages was 67 per cent. The increase of the Social Insurance fund 292 per cent as compared with 1928. Communal feeding is now embracing over 70 per cent of the workers. These are the points mentioned by Stalin as indications of the improve- ment in conditions, He continued to state, however: ‘We failed as yet to achieve com- plete satisfaction of the material de- mands of the workers and peasants. ‘We shall hardly attain this in the immediate future, but, we have, un- doubtedly, attained the result that the material conditions of the work- ers and peasants is improving with every year. "This can be doubted only by sworn enemies of the Soviet Union or, perhaps, by some representatives of the bourgeois press, including part of the correspondents of that press in Moscow who understand about economics of nations and conditions of toilers hardly more than, let us say, the king of Abyssinia under- stands about higher mathematics.” Stalin presented facts of the mis- ery of the workers in capitalist coun- tries. Create Huge Reserve. Stalin then dwelt on the inter- linking of the cities with the country as expressed in the inter-connec- tion of production and Soviet State trade. He refuted the assertion that State Trade is similar to private trading in the NEP (New Economic Policy) period. The NEP admitted a certain re- vival of capitalisni and functioning of the private capitalist eleménts in the exchange of commodities, while Soviet Trade denies both. Speculation under the NEP is eli- minated under the present system of trade. At present, the Soviet Union has developed state industry and a whole system of collectives and State farms assuring the state huge reserves of agricultural and manu- factured goods. Answering the argument that without sound currency, trade de- velopment is impossible, Stalin pointed out the absurdity of the con- tention that Soviet currency has no value. “This is said by economists of the capitalist countries: I think that these esteemed economists under- stand about political economy no more than the Archbishop. of Can- terbury understands about anti-reli- gious propaganda. ts it not a fact that with this currency we have built Magnitostroy, Dnieprostroy, Kuznetskstroy, hundreds of thous- ands of collective farms, thousands of State farms?” Hits Damagers. Passing to the problem of strug- gle against the remnants of hostile classes, Stalin pointed out the fact that these anti-Soviet elements found their way into all branches of economy, particularly the collectives and state farms where they carry on damaging activities under the guise of ‘workers,” and “peasants.” , The most serious phase of this damaging consists in plundering the property of the state, cooperatives and collectives. Some Party mem- bers are inclined to belittle such facts of mass stealing and plunder. “These comrades,” stated Stalin, “are greatly mistaken. The basis of our system is public property, just as the basis of capitalism is private property.” Stalin then emphasized the im- portance of the recent law protecting public property and the duty of every Communist worker and collev- ae farm member to enforce this Ww, A strong and mighty dictatorsnip of the proletariat—this is what we now need in order to reduce to dust the last remnants of the dying clas- ses and smash their thieving machin- ations.” On Building Socialism, In conclusion Stalin pointed out the presence of shortcomings and errors along with the accomplish- ments of the Five-Year-Plan. “But despite the shortcomings and mistakes,” he stated, “whose presence none of us denied, we achieved such serious gains as to arouse the en- thusiasm of the werking class of the have gained s1 vietory, whieh lyse indeed inter- USSR Production Rose 334 P.C. Says J. Stalin ithe past Saturday at 715 N. 6th St., national significance.” In his general conclusion Stalin pointed out the failure of the bour- geois, social-democratic prediction about the impracticability of the) Five-Year-Plan, the collapse of the) bourgeois ‘tenet” that the working| class is capable only to destroy the old but not build the new, the de- feat of the social-democratic thesis is about the impossibility of build- ing Socialism in one country. Capitalism Must Go. “The results of the Five-Year-Plan overthrew the assertion of bourgeois economists that the capitalist system is the best system, that any other system of economy is unstable and incapable to stand the test in the face of difficulties of economic de- velopment, The results of the Five- Year-Plan show that the capitalist economic system is unstable, is al- ready outliving its time and must yield its place to another, higher, Soviet Socialist system of economy, that the only system of economy not fearing crisis and capable of over- coming difficulties is the Soviet eco- nomic system, “Finally, the results of the Five- Year-Plan show that the Party is unconquerable if it knows in what direction to lead the work and is not afraid of difficulties.” A great ovation was given to Stalin upon the conclusion of his speech, the entire audience rising and cheering. STEEL WORKERS INVADE COUNCIL Demand Free Water No Pay Cut in Gary GARY, Ind., Jan. -11.—A delega- tion of unemployed yesterday in- vaded city council chambers with demands for free water and other public utility services. Last, Nov- ember similar action was taken by the unemployed, but the city admin- istration totally ignored these con- ditions. Press Admits Rotten Conditions. Even the boss press is eompelled to admit that thousands of families are deprived of water and other pub- lic services, thereby creating @ ser- ious menace to the health of the community. ‘The leader of the unemployed del- egation, Lee Chapa, outlined the conditions and placed before the council the demands of the unem- ployed and part-time steel workers. He pointed out the constant cutting down of relief, the wage cuts im- posed upon part-time steel workers and emphasized the fact that this month, relief is to be reduced in the city by $10,000. Attacks Steel Wage Cut. Chapa dealt with the impending wage cut in the steel industry which is the third general wage slash, the forcing of the stagger system upon workers, He demanded the cutting of police expenditures, the high sal- aries of city officials and by taxa- tion of the steel corporation, He also demanded that $26,000 which the utility companies stole from the city, causing a public scandal, be re- covered and used for unemployed, The councilmen for the second time in Gary history yielded the floor to spokesmen for workers because of the activity of the workers in de- manding relief. Socialist Faker Gets Busy. The city administration, lackeys of the steel trust fearing the growing organized action of the unemployed and part-time steel workers, called to their aid the socialist betrayer, Eugene Cooney, who appeared before the council with proposals calculated to restore faith of the workers in the council and defeat mass action. The Unemployed Council is exposing this ‘trickery of the socialist spokes- men and is developing greater mass organization. Ironton M 300 IRONTON MINERS 11.—300 here yoted agai Mining Company superintendent. 1 being introduced by the company to c to a still lower starvation level, National Miners Union mem bers took the lead and pointed out to the miners how this wage-cut been introduced in Crystal F: 0 with a lot of sweet promises, which the miners never got and that the min- ing company was now trying to put it through also in the Ironton Mine Ironton Mine’ pointed o was only a means by whi ing companies were trying to pile up more profits from the sweat and toil of the miners. Slick Wage-Cut Scheme. The mining superintendent intro- duced the following slick wage-cut- ting scheme to the miners: You work 20 days a month at $2.00 a receive a “bonus” after di certain tonnage of ore. The tonnage was so high for the bonus, that the miners laughed at this ridiculous scheme by which t company was trying He stated that the s been done in Crystal Falls, Michige and besides this the miners had re- ceived free rent and coal from the company. The N. M. U. spe; mediately pointed out how this was not so, that instead the mining com- pany in Crystal Falls has fooled the miners. and that only a few sut of the company were receiving these measly promises of the company, while the majority of the miners were starving. One of the miners spoke up and pointed out how the present wage of $3.50 a day and 8 days a month was starvation wage eady and if the miners accepted this company seheme, the miners would be work- ing 12 days of the 20 days at the rate of 90 cents a day, and starving more than before. A miner called fer the vote and every miner an- swered in one voice against the wage- cut, despite the superintendent's anger and boiling machines. nited Front Committee: Through a leaflet distributed by the National Miners Union warning the miners of the wage cut; calling upon st them to organize committees aga the wage cut, a meeting of 30 m ers was held at the Swede-Finn Hall in Bessemer where a United Front Committee was formed to carry on the struggle against the companies attempts to carry through the wage cut. The fight will continue until victory is won, Crews of Two Ships at Marine Workers Affair in Baltimore BALTIMORE, Md.—The Workers Industrial Union that were in port. e fii time in Baltimore that an affair like this has taken place successfuly, The seamen were shown that they were welcome in the social life ashore and the 200 who attended the dance pledged their solidarity to the Mar- ine Workers Industrial Union, many promised to join the Union. the launching of an International Seamen’s Club in Baltimore, this affair being the opening gun. An- other affair is to be given that exists in Baltimore. rr 103 N. 46th St. Public officials have been chal- Jenged to appear at these meetings to defend their stand of refusing re- lief to the starving children. DEMAND CHILDREN BE FED IN PHILY Demonstration Called for This Saturday PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11,—Thou- sands of hungry children and their unemployed and part-time Phila- delphia, parents will march this Sat- urday, Jan. 14, to the Board of Edu- cation, 2lst and Parkway, and de- mand “free food in the schools and shoes and clothing.” The children and their parents will gather Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m, at Reyburn Plaza, where an open-air meeting will be held, and An indoor meeting has been ar- ranged for Saturday evening at 911 W. Girard, Ave., where the reply of the Board of Education and of Dr. Broome will be reported. yee Proposed Child March Scares Pinchot, In answer to a letter from the Conference to Governor Pinchot, re- questing him to receive a delegation of hungry children of unemployed parents in Harrisburg on Jan. 14, the tary that he “had a previous en- risburg.” The Conference condemned the governor's action and decided to send the children to Harrisburg the early part of February, to notify Pin- chot of the date weeks previously so he couldn't back out. BOSSES PLAN 7%% CUT IN STEEL THIS MONTH from there march to the Adminis- tration Building, where they will present the thousands of petitions they have collected to date. The demonstration is sponsored by the Conference for Free Food and Clothing for the Children of the Un- employed, with offices at 919 Locust St. The march was endorsed by the last meeting of the Conference, held at which over 20 organizations BALTIMORE, Md.—I got hold of N. Y¥., dated December 31, —B. cut that was t Marine held @ dance and entertained the crews of the $8. Georgian and Arizonian, mbers of crews of other ships pees This is the first The M.W.LU. has made @ bid for in Tom Mooney Hall Jan. 28. The dances and entertainments given by the M. W.LU. is smashing the Jim-Crowism governor replied through his secre- gagement and would not be in Har- a morning stock letter issued by the Redmond Company of Wall Street that states an approximate wage cut of seven and a half per cent will take place in steel the ary. middle of Janu- iners, Led by N.M.U., Vote . Down Cut Nine Super Meets Organized Resistance of Men Iron miners of the Ironton Mine near ing to be put through by the of the dryhouse echoed with he w the voices of the miners in one protest against the wage cut that was ut the living standards of the miners ILL. MINE UNION — LEADERS REJECT 1. LD. AID OFFER -| Would IsolateStruggle; Workers Must Demand Strikers Be Freed (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) protest and defense | ng the offer of the orge- nizat whose world-wide campaign @ new trial for the Seotts- and is building up an in- mass movement for the release of Tom Mooney, the leader- ive Miners, demi Trotskyites and nts, hold true to nation to keep the Mli- olated from the rest n working class and the corrupt Lewis Mine Workers gang for the nisleading the Illinois miners. adership, whose policy of e cut agreements with in- mine, owners allowed the wd to gain a foothold in nois, also rejected the offer to or- i » united front struggle, made militant Miners has | has nated by | ship of the | n | United job of The National Union. “Ultimatum” te Governor. eddition to the telegram from y, the I. L. D. receiyed one Allard, renegade Commu- ow one ders of the P. of the Trotskyite M. A. Allard’s wire contains a copy of what he describes an “ultimatum” sent by the of- als of the union to Goyernor Hor- of Tilinois. The “ultimatum” s in part: trocities in Christian County coal fields have today reached the place where our people are suffering the most inhuman conditions ever known in Illinois Na- tional Guards and Sheriff Weinecke have this day denied them right to vote in miners’ election and have closed down relief stations in Kin- caid and Tovey. Even soup kitchen for hungry school children closed. Homes and stores destroyed by bomb- ings. Men, women and children dragged from homes and beaten. You cannot help but know the faets and unless’ the constitutional rights of our people are immediately re- stored, there is nothing left for us but our economic strength and ask all miners to join us in nation-wide strike and call upon all_ workers throughout the United States to cease work and take whatever action neces- sary to restore constitutional rights of American workers.” Exposes P. M. A. Leaders. This wire which admits the fright- ful conditions in Christian County, reveals the true role of the Progres- sive Miners officialdom. While iso- lating the miners by rejecting the offers of the I. L. D. and National Miners Union, these misleaders, puf- fing themselves up with wind, issue “general strike” slogans which can only be realized with the broadest united front of toilers throughout the country. At the same time their “ultima- tum” to the governor confines itself entirely to the question of “consti- tutional rights”: it makes no men- tion of the arrest on murder charges of 24 strikers and no demand for their release; there is also no de- mand for the withdrawal of the troops and the disarming of the Lewis gunmen deputized by the sher- iff. The heroic Illinois miners, who are members of the P. M. A., are warned against these tactics of their leaders. Demand a broadening of the de- fense struggle and the acceptance of the I. L, D. offer! Demand the spreading of the strike on a united front basis together with the National Miners Union! The only way to get a general strike is to spread the ex- isting strike and not accept any wage cut agreements, Workers throughout the country should give all possible aid to the great fight of the Illinois miners, should wire Governor Horner at Springfield, Ill., demanding the ¢m- mediate release of the arrested min- ers and the stopping of the terror. and should send funds, feed and clothing for the miners to the Work- ers International Relief, 2457 W. Chi- cago Ave., Chicago, TL “The struggle against militarism must not be postponed until the moment when war breaks out. Then it will be too late, The struggle Uh bag has, Bec be car ried on now, . . LENIN. as through their delegates demanded immediate action, Conference Exposes Child Misery. Facts were produced at the Con- ference proving to the gathering of delegates that about 250,000 school children in Philadelphia suffer from undernourishment. Governor Gifford Pinchot was quoted to this effect. Previous examinations by doctors revealed that in working- class neighborhoods over 60 per cent of the school children are suffering from malnutrition. Child Misery to Be Exposed At Hearings. A series of public hearings, to ex- pose child misery, will take place throughout the city on Thursday, Jan, 12, at 8 p.m., at 1331 N, Frank- uch | lin St., 2901 N. Orkney St,, 362 N. 65th Rhy We Mipstgr, Sk> 4208 Fyeker Sh THE WESTE RN WORKER A fighter to organize and lead our struggles in the West RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issues $2 NAMEC cocesernenceeennenennereneee City . BUILD IT! 26 Issues $1 SUBSCRIBE NOW! 13 Issues 50c sever BUCOL cecetreneeeneeeeaneren seseeeres SUALC cecateeroreeessnenee Western Worker Campaign Committee 1164 MARKET STREET, San Francisco, Calif. _