The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1933, Page 1

Reminder For today! tions. Wire, air-mail, bring funds to: Daily Worker, 35 York. The drive is on. friends and shopmates. Bring up the ation in your organization. See Begin collec- “Daily’s” situ- East 12th St., New (Read Opposite Corner.) a Dail Central Vol. X, No. 14 <q»: Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., ander the Act of March %, 1s7e Orga (Section of the Communist International) Norker —ESxfrymict Party U.S.A. Troopers to answer working class. Name Address ...... Amount In the Vanguard i I want to be one of the first Shock the call of the Daily Worker, most necessary weapon of the Tear off, mail immediately to Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St., New York NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents RENT STRIKE WAVE POURS | ' | ONWARD; ORGANIZING FOR Must Save “Daily”, Our The capitalist press and the press of the “socialists” MASS STRIKE NEXT MONTH Battle for 25 Per Cent Reduction Aids Prepara- tions for Albany Conference Rent strike victories have led to new rent strikes in neighboring houses. Mass picket lines today at: 1377 Franklin, 1392 Franklin, 1045 Bryant, 2027 Monterey Ave., and 481 East 171 St., all in Bronx. Pickets also at 226 Barrett St., Brownsville and 340 Watkins St., Browns- wille. Picket also at 11th St. and Ave. A, Manhattan. NEW YORK.—Determined that they are going to fight for their demands until they win them, several hundred mil- itant workers elected a strike committee of 50 and called for & mass tenants’ strike for the absolute reduction of rent by 25 IHE DAILY WORKER, the staunch fighter for the working class must raise $35,000 or suspend. The Daily Worker, the yoice f the work- ers in the struggles against the bosses’ at- tacks, that speaks for the members of the revolutionary trade union, for the American Federation of Labor rank and file and for the unorganized workers as well, in their fight against wage cuts, for unemployment insurance and relief, against the bosses’ terror and against the treachery of the reformist union misleaders—that voice must never be silenced. The members of the revolutionary trade unions and leagues and all those interested in building them must be in the forefront of the fight to save the Daily Worker. (N the great miners’ strikes of 1931; in the Lawrence strikes; in the dressmakers strike of 1932; in the slandered the workers who were fighting for their very lives and the lives of their families. Worker stood and stands now like a bulwark against the lies of the capitalist and social-fascist press. 'HE suspension of the Daily Worker would mean that in the coming big strike struggles the capitalist press would have free sway to spread its vicious poison against the workers engaged in struggle, without any voice of the workers to counteract that poison. It would mean that the unemployed workers in their fight for relief and unemployment insurance at the expense of the bosses and the government would lose one of their main weapons in that struggle. The fight of the A. F. of L. rank and file workers against the corruption and treachery of the bureau- cracy would be seriously hampered with Worker to ald ahd lead them. We cannot therefore stand by without doing every- thing in our power to put the Daily Worker drive for $35,000 over the top. The Trade Union Unity League urges that in every local, shop and unemployed section of the revolu- per cent. Plans for the strike were today being pushed as an FEEDER ER A aOR agree SS immediate result of the call, which was:made at a confer- ence at 1400 Boston Rd., the Bronx. The strike will be declared in February. A leaflet pointing out the many | victories of workers who have fought | high rents and evictions, and against miserable housing conditions is to be issued shortly, it was announced by the strike committee today. If the conference which issued the | call for the strike was an example of militancy which will be refiected in the strike, then the strike will be one of the most successful ever held in this city. The hundreds of en- thusiastic delegates took each report made by workers into serious consid- eration. Frank and Chasanoff, of Charlotte St., where one victory has just been won, was received with applause. As each report was made the delegates became more convinced than ever that immediate ‘action was necessary. Weisman Suggest Mass Strike ‘When Sam Weisman, the organ- izer of the Unemployed Councils of Greater New York, put forth his suggestion for the mass rent strike, the idea was received with thunder- ous ation. A strike commit- tee of fifty workers was elected, re- presenting the block and house com- mittees of Franklin St. 170th St., Stebbins St., Charlotte, the Women’s Councils, the Bronx and Prospect Workers Clubs, the American Club, WESL., and the Workers Interna- tional Relief. Carl Winter, secretary of the Un- employed Council of Greater New York, pointed out that several years ago the workers forced the legislat- ure to pass a law against high rents. “Surely now,” he declared, “we can (CONTINUED FROM: PAGE ONE) NEEDLE WORKERS STRIKE 4 SHOPS Begin United Drive; Cutters Elect Board BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of dressmakers will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 18, right after work, at Webster Hall. ‘The Industrial Union has issued a statement calling upon the necdle workers to throw out visiting agents of the Metropolitan and I.L.G.W.U. who tell the workers that if they join, their shops will become auto- matically International shops. The Unions emphatically warns the workers against these, elements. NEW YORK.—The united cam- paign of the dressmakers has started this week and is spreading under the lead of the Joint Unity Committee. Shop strikes have been called and are being directed against the jobbers, the real bosses in the trade. Last Friday, four shops of the To- paz Dress Company were struck. Thése include International and open shops in which members of the In- dustrial Union are employed. The shops involved are: The F. and G. 114 W. 26th St., F. and 8., 282 7th Ave., Goldberg Dress Shop, 253 W. 26th St. and Finkelstein Dress Shop at the last address. ‘The Joint Committee is working to extend the strike to other shops of the same jobbers, and at the same time urges all workers to assist the strikes on the picket line. At noon, today, all dressmakers are called to meet at 36th St. and 8th Ave. where the unity committee has arranged a demonstration in order to, further the united struggle of the dressmakers for union conditions. Cutters to Install Board On the following day, Wednesday, Jenuary 18, the dress cutters branch organized by the Industrial Union wil] have elections from 12 noon to 7:80 p. m., and will install the newly elected board at the meeting to be State-Wide Conference on Unemployment and LaborLegislation The state wide conference on un- employment insurance and labor legislation, for which such strug- gles as this rent strike mobilize the workers, was called Jan. 10 by the AFL Committee for Unemploy- ment Loewirance and Relief. In- vitations to a preliminary confer- ence Jan. 22 at 2 p. m. in Irving Plaza Hall were sent by the AFL Committee to all workers’ organ- izations of every affiliation and every shade of political opinion. The preliminary conferense will make all arrangements for the state conference, which is to meet in Albany, in February, work out Specific bills on labor legislation and present them to the legisla- ture, Needle Trades Jobless Council Wins More Relief for Hungry NEW YORK.—The following cases were taken up by the Needle Trades Unemployed Council with the Home Relief Bureau at 125th St. and 2nd Ave.: Mary Buchanan, a Negro work- er, of 12 W. 115th St. She was given a food ticket immediately, her rent, gas and electric bills w paid. Cat- alina Watson, 245 W. 135th St., food ticket. ‘Ruth Linzer, 2825 8th Ave., was placed on the emergency regis- tration list. At the Home Relief Bu- reau at 149th St., three cases taken up were placed on the emergency in- vestigation list and they will receive immediate relief. Broom Strikers Win All Demands After | 13 Weeks Struggle NEW YORK.—The broom makers are preparing to celebrate the victori- ous outcome of their 13 weeks of strike struggle which has been car- ried on under the leadership of the broom workers section of the Furni- ture Workers Industrial Union. Sixteen out of a total of 18 shops have been settled on tgrms giving recognition to the Union, increasirg; wages by ten per cent and reducing hours for week workers from 60 hours per week to a standard 44 hour week. One shop still refuses to settle with the strikers, while the other recal- citrant has gone bankrupt. The celebration will take place at the headquarters of the FWIU, 818 Broadway, on Feb. 4, 8:30 p,m. All workers are invited to join in the good time being arranged. Galesia Painters Win 35 P.C.Wage Increase After 3 Day Strike NEW YORK.—Winning an increase in wages of 35 per cent, recognition of their union and recognition of the Shop Committee, the painters of the Galesia shop went back to work with a full victory after a three-day strike. ‘The workers went out on strike un- der the leadership of the Alteration Painters Union, fighting for and win- rei higher wages and better condi- ions. Bosses’ Figures Show Lower Living Standard NEW YORK.—While the standard of living in the Soviet Union shoots upward, workers in the richest (for the capitalists) country in hte world may find it interesting to note some of the admissions which slip into the bosses press, of the swiftly flaling standard of living under capitalism, Quoting from the New York Times of last Sunday referring to a gov- held Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. at 131 West 28th St. “Ben Gold, Secretary of the Indus- trial Union will install the newly elected executive of the branch. “The Industrial Union has issued a special manifesto to the cutters per- miitting the cutters to join the union at the low initial fee of $1.35. Mavv of the cutters have already joined and it is expected that at this meet- ing many others will join. = / ernment census of manufactures: “In 1931 there were 33,922,875 dress- es made to retatl for less than $1, as compared with 22,865,972 in 1929. But the production of dresses retail- ing $10 and $25 decreased from 31,- 212,284 in 1929 to 19,821,934 in 1931,” Then followed a long list of de- creases in production of all branches of clothing including a drop of 24.2 per cent ue ee vand children’s fur strike of 1932; in the recent P; of L, bureaucrats, the Daily Worker blow against the bosses and led the gle. Audit Bureau, the struggles waged in New York by painters and the housewreckers against—both the bosses and the A. F. aterson strike; in fullest extent to TRADE WILLIAM Z. > . * struck blow after workers in strug- A total of $49.25 was received in the Daily Worker drive yesterday—all from New York. Included in this was $25 raised at an affair given by Units 6, 9 and 11 of Section 11, Brooklyn, of the Communist Party, $10 from Branch 82 of the Slovak Workers’ Society, Little Neck, L. I., and $10 from the Central Since the campaign started Saturday, $72.75 has been received. Workers and friends of the “Daily” do not yet realize the seriousness of the situation. They should net keep collection lists till they are full, but bring them or send them in as soon as there are a couple of names on them. Collect in your shops and organizations, arrange affairs, rush funds by wire or air mail to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. But the Daily | Staunch F ighter-TUUL no Daily tionary trade unions and leagues the fight to save the Daily Worker—our Daily Worker—be taken up. It urges all revolutionary workers to contribute to the the Daily Worker drive. | UNION UNITY LEAGUE, | FOSTER, National Secretary. It is clear that the East Side Council Force Actual Relief from ‘Reiief’ Bureau two single workers went to the Hine Relief Bureau, First Avenue and 5ist St, with the 16th St. Block Commit- tee of the East Side Unemployed Council, on Friday, Jan. 13th. The Committee, backed by the workers, broke through the habitual Ted tape and bullying methods this bureau has used on individual ap- plicants, and forced Supervisor Fa~ gan to personally negotiate with their chairman. In the three most urgent cases Fa- gan promised immediate investigation and relief. One application had been lost, and this. worker filled out.a new vestigation Monday. ferred to this bureau from the Bronx and an investigator had promised to pay his room rent and supply food checks. while the committee was in the office. His rent will be paid on Monday. “Under the leadership of ‘the East Side Unemployed Council we intend to keep hammering away at the 5ist Street Home Relief Bureau on the Single Worker Question until they will be forced to grant these workers, together with the childless couples relief as well as to workers with fam- ilies.” Dressmakers Unity Committee today at noon at 36th Street and * workers-at Arcadia Hall. Needle trades to picket the Perfect Negligee Co. this morning. 18, at 7 p.m., at Stuyvesant Casino. Ave., Brownsville. NEW YORK—Five families and| application which was marked for in-’|* A worker’s record had been trans- | Arrives Home ee Mother Mary Mooney, 84, was snapped as she arrived in San Francisco after her recent trip to the Soviet Union and other Europ- ean countries in behalf of her son, Tom Mooney, and the nine Scotts- boro boys. RUMANIAN CLUB SCORES HUANG’S IMPRISONMENT NEW YORK.—The Roumanian Workers Club at its meeting Jan. 12, 1933 adopted a resolution of protest against the torture and imprisonment of Huang Ping and a telegram of this protest meeting was sent to the Chi- nese Legation at Washington. “| tatives of (PAY CUTS, NO AID TO JOBLESS IS AIM OF BLACK BILL A. F.L. Officials for It to Stifle Revolt of Rank and File 4 By BILL DUNNE. “Unless we do something broadly constructive not only will our people be stricken with misery but our civ- ; lization is bound.to crash.” This statement is typical of those | being made by employers, represen- employers’ associations such as the Manufacturers Associa- tion, and ‘by officials of the American Federation of Labor and its affiliated unions before the Sub-Committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee now holding hearings on the Black Bill which proposes to prohibit. interstate commerce in commodities produced by workers required to labor more than 30 hours per week. Substitute for Jobless Aid. As the hearings continue it be- comes clearer that the analysis of the purpose of the Black Bill made by the Daily Worker, the Trade Un- jon Unity League and the Communist | Party was correct in all its details. Around the Black Bill have been ral- iit (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE: calls all dressmakers to demonstrate Eighth Avenue for united struggle for higher prices and for more jobs for unemployed needle workers. * ° LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS, JANUARY 21 Huge Mass Memorial Meetings at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, for Bronx and Manhattan workers at Bronx Coliseum, for Brooklyn and Long Island PICKET STRIKE AT 16 EAST 34TH STREET TODAY workers, and white goods workers especially, are called strike at 16 East 34th Street early . * oe SOUTH RIVER STRIKERS DEFENSE MEETING Mass protest meeting againgt jailing of South River strikers, January Speakers: Richard B. Moore of the I. L. D.; Louis Hyman of N. T. W. I. U.; Louis B. Scott, personal repre- sentative of Tom Mooney. Admission 10 cents, y . * DEMAND RELEASE OF BROWNSVILLE WORKERS Mass demonstration tomorrow at 1 p.m. for release of unemployed leaders and for relief. Mobilize at nearest unemployed council: 48: Jersey Ave., East New York; 1964 Atlantic Ave., Crown Heights; 646 Stone New YED DRESSMAKERS MEET TOMORROW ressmakers 36th St. Report by Organizer Hoffman of Needle Trades Unemployed Council on activities and gains won from Gibson Committee; Report by Fanny Golos, manager of Dress Dept., N.T.W. in needle trades struggle. ee Ae HELP DEFEND SAM WEINSTEIN Sam Weinstein trial is Jan. 19, Ave. court. Weinstein will speak on the frame up tomorrow night at 9:30 ain. in Tremont and p.m, at mass meeting at 2075 Clinton Ave., near 180th St. * ae) ATTEND TRIAL OF 5 IN BRIDGE PLAZA COURT We in with Workers of Williamsburg especially filled the Bridge Plaza Court solidarity ‘ednesday bs Tobe and Sam Sternberg, framed up at Home Relief é j Mark, Bey Steele, Eli Simms, Bureau, “Big Six” Officials, Arbitrator and Socialist Start War on Members CITY EVENTS DRESSMAKERS DEMONSTRATE TODAY NEW YORK.—In a streamer head across its front page the Typograph- ical Forum, the subsidized mouth- piece of the Hewson administration of “Big Six”, is furthering the cam- paign against the militants in the union.. A campaign which, accord- ing to it, ultimately means the elim- ination of all the militant members of the dpposition. Hewson is presi- dent of Loeal 6, New York, of the International Typographical Union. Then follows the report of the “An- ti-Communist Meeting” organized by one of the four organizers of Typo- graphical Union No. 6, one James Dahm, and called for January 8, at the Hotel Pierrepont, Brooklyn. “Pro- tect your union!” was the preface to the call for the meeting. 4 This is the second attack upon the opposition group in the union, the Amalgamation Party. On Christmas day there appeared in the New York “Times” a reprint of a four-page cir- cular issued by Hewson containing veiled threats |of reprisals against those who would question his policy of sell-out and co-operation with the employers. In spite of the fact that the Amalgamation Party had sub- mitted and fought for constructive proposals through which to resist the employers’ drive for wage cuts and worse working conditions, {Hewson accused the opposition of having con- tributed nothing but criticism and attacks upon the official family. $90 A Week for Dahm. Organizer Dahm gets $90 a week— for organizing anti-Communist meet- ings and compiling a list of “Reds to be dealt with in the future”. It was he who opened the meeting in the Brooklyn hotel to, as the Forum puts it, “devise ways and means to bring an end to the rule of Moscow within the ranks of Big Six”. There was also “produced documentary evidence (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO). ‘ U. | | | Captain Frank Hay, American, shown with a machine gun getting into the plane he is using to recruit pilots for the puppets of U. S. im- perialism in the South American Wars. The Kellogg Pact in prac- tice. HCW THE “DAILY” DEFICIT HAS BEEN CUT BY ONE-THIRD | Economies Effected ; | Action Now Will Save Fighting Paper { What has the Daily Worker done to cut down its deficit—the gap be- tween income and expenditure? When workers, inthe midst of the greatest. ecor are being asked to ntribute their pennies, to. make what in many cases are big personal secrifices to prevent their paper from going out of ex- isience, they have a right to ask for an accounting. They have a right to say: We know that the Daily Worker, with its present circulation, is run ata loss. But what has the “Daily” done. to cut down this deficit to as low a figure as possible? For years the weekly deficit of the But recently th’s has been cut to about $1,200—a one-third reduction. How? Subs, Bundles Reorganized. The whole system of subscriptions and bundle orders has been reor- < pend Wor HOOVER TELLS CONGRESS U.S. __ MUST MAINTAIN PHILIPPINES AS WAR BASE AGAINSTJAPAN War Threats Flare on Both Sides of Pacific As | Japan Accuses U.S. of Arming Marshal Chang Two Rival Imperialist Powers Push Struggle for Supremacy of Pacific, Control Over China BULLETIN LONDON, Jan. 16—U. S. Ambassador Mellon was in secret conter~ ence today with Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, over the situ- ation in China, where a tense situation is developing between U. S. and Japanese imperialisms as a result of Wall Street’s resentment to Japan's | threat against U. S. spheres of influence in China. | War threats flared fiercely on both sides of the Atlantic | yesterday with Hoover using the war situation in the Far East to oppose any weakening of the U. S. military control over the Philippines and the Japanese war office openly accusing the Daily Worker has been about $1,800. / | Washington government of ad Nanking government and of shipping munitions to Chang Hsio-liang. | AS | The Japanese intimated that the U. S. government 5 ; armed stryggle with Chang Hsiao-liang, N n North China aa | | | t of the Wail Street imperialists. \s neither Marshal Chang nor the Nanking government has engaged in any serious resistance to: |the | | Japanese invasion of North China | and Jehol Province. | Bitterness of Struggle. These developments emphasize the |tween U. S. and Japanese imperial- | ists for supremacy in the Pacific and 1 over which atening an explosion in the imperialists camps, despite their attempts to solve their growing dif- ferences at the expense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese people Ina new message to congress, Hoover demanded a re-consideration of the vote in congress Monday over- riding his veto on the so-called nilippine Independence Bill. The bill seeks to set up a U. S. puppet “independent” state in the Philip- pines similar to that in Cuba. Hoover | opposes even this fake independence‘, |declaring that the gesture itself | would weaken U. S. pravctige in the | Orient, and hinting at the character tof the Philippines as a base against | Japan. Secretary of State Stimson ganized so that it now rests on a firm financial basis. Districts and cities have been made strictly ac- countable for all orders they place; expired subscriptions are to si e renewals. How real this reorganization has | been mey be séen from the fact that |in the past, bundle orders and sub- scriptions were only 50 per cent paid for. Now bundle orders are about 90. per cent paid up and subs about 95. per cent. This has been the greatest factor in cutting down the deficit. Office Expenses Cut. Expenses have also. been reduced about $75 a week by reorganizing the Daily Worker business office and placing it on a more efficient basis. As a result, instead of the 18 people who formerly worked in the business office, it was possible to release six tire functioning of the offize has been greatly improved. Additional improvements are be- ing planned which may cut the de- ficit still more, but essentially the loss involved in getting out the Daily Worker, which, unlike the capitalist papers, has no big advertisers to sup- port it, can be wiped out only by increasing the circulation and sub- scriptions, Need Action. Right now the emergency situation demands immediate uction to save the “Daily.” The great struggles facing the American toilers demands it.. The fight for relief and unem- ployment insurance, against evic- tions, against the wage-cuts looming tries, the fight for the release of the Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney, the fight to free the Philippines from Wall Street domination, the strug- gles against the new war which threatens the world’s workers and the country of the world’s workers, the Soviet Union—all these great strugeles declare with one miehtv voice: THE DAILY WORKER MUST LIVE! It’s up to you, fellow-workers, to you and your friends. We have done everything possible to reduce the de- ficit and keep the paver going be- fore turning to vou. Now it’s life or death for the “Daily.” Your answer must come quick and strong! March from Colony to Lenin Memorial. Meet NEW YORK.—Seventeen organiza- tions will march from the Cooperative Colony at 2800 Bronx Park East thru the industrial workers neighborhoods to the Leain Memorial Meeting at the Coliseam on Saturday, Jan. 21. ‘The marchers will meet in the auditorium of the Colony at 6:30 p.m, that night. This is the fitst march from the Cooperatives and a large turnout is expected " being | checked up and serious efforts made | for work in other fields, and the en- | in steel, railroads and other indus- | and three other members of Hoover's | | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) RED ARMY TROOPS IN FRESH VICTORY Recapture 4 Mountain Passes from Japan | Chinese Red Army forces in Man- churia, supported by peasant par- | tisan troops continue to hold up the | Japanese advance into Jehol Prov- |ince. Yesterday they recaptured | from the Japanese four mountain | passes commanding the western ap- | proachces to the great trading city | of Cheng-Teh-Fu. The actions were | carried out with a series of brilliant cavalry raids against the Japanese positions. The Japanese have been forced to entrench themselves at Tungliao, temporarily abandoning the advance, while waiting for reinforcements. Peiping dispatches report that the Japanese advance has been held up at least a week as a result of the heroic actions of the Red Army and peasant partisan troops. Meanwhile thousands of additional | Japanese troops are being rushed up from Chinchow and Suichung, and from Mukden, as well. All along its 260 miles, the Mukden-Shanhaikwan | Railway is alive with the movements of troops and war material. All | freight and passenger traffic has been | stopped to permit the rapid move- | ment of the troops. |22 Students Face Expulsion Today in Johnson Case NEW YORK.—Twenty-two students from the City College today face the possible.expulsion, suspension or other disciplinary action by the Board of Higher Education. The charges pre- ferred against these students grow out of their participation in the mass trial of President Frederich B. Robin- son and other administrative officials of the City College, last October. The trial was to protest against the latest activity of the administration bringing the police on the Campus to break up a student meeting and caus- ing the arrest of sixteen students. Counsel for the accused students, Osmond K. Fraenkel, author of Sac- co-Vanzetti Case, has submitted to the Board the final argument for the defense. The National Student League has petitioned the Board of Higher Edu- cation to make amends for its earlier threats to punish the students who participated in the trial by dismissing unconditionally all charges against ‘he students now before tt visa. bitterness of the struggle raging be- | at. LN 5 SIRE i | SP vancing a military loan to the CHINA SOVIET FOR UNITED DEFENSE ®|Demand Nanking Stop | Anti-Soviet War | According to the Associated Press the provisional government of | Chinese Soviet Republic has just is- | sued a Manifesto ing fora united | front of all elements wiling to defend | China against the Japanese inyasion and imperialist partition The Manifesto, whi to the Chinese Pcoy the Japanese’ and o! imperialist yowers ate aiming at the complete nd subju ion “of le, warns thet RB | dismemberment China. Stop Anti-Soviet Drive! The Manifesto puts squarely up to j the Nanking Government the ques- | tion of disco tinuing its military | campaigns against the Chinese Sov- | jet. districts, halting its murderous | terror against the. anti-imperjalist | masses in Kuomintang China, and | joining forces with the Red Army | troops and peasant partisans now {holding up the Japanese advance into Jehol Province. The manifesto declares that the Chinese Soviet Re~ public and its Red Armies stand Teady to establish a truce in the armed warfare with the Nanking | Government in order to achieve a | united front of all elements for the {defense of the Chinese People | against the imperialist aggressions. It calls upon the Chinese People to en- force the following demands on the Nanking Government: 1—That the Nanking Govern- ment immediately discontinue its military campaigns against the Chinese Soviet Districts and its | attacks on the anti-imperialist | movements and on the boycott | movement of Japanese goods; rights 2.—that democratic be granted to the people; 3.—that the Nanking Govern ment recognize the right of the people to arm and organize them- selves into vyolunteer detach- ments” to struggle for the de- fense and independence and unity of China. The manifesto, which is causing @ | tremendous sensation throughout |China is signed by Mao Tse-tung, chairr-- of the Provisional Goy- | ernment of the Chinese Soviet Re- | public, and Cheu Peh, Chairman of | the Revolutionary Military Council of | Workers, Peasants and Red Armies of China. Hoboken Furniture | Strike Lost Through” Musteite Treachery ‘HOBOKEN, N. J.—The strike which had been militantly begun by the 300 workers of the Fergeson Furni- ture Factory, and which fell under the leadership of the Musteites, is now reported as definitely lost. Peck, one of the Musteite leaders, is reported to have proposed that @ letter be sent from the strikers rec- |ommending deportation of some of the German strikers. Many of the workers now realize that under the militant leadership of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union, such splitting tactics would have been im- possible and the strike could have been carried to a successful con= clusion. Striking Furriers Win Important Demands in Katofsky Shop Strike NEW YORK.—The fur dressers of the Katofsky Brothers won a sub- stantial victory as a result of a two- day strike. The settlement includes a 44-hour week without reduction in wages, 3 per cent unemployment in- surance, a $2 wage increase for all workers employed in the hoy, raising of all wages to a minimum of $15 per week within a period of three months, time and one half for over- time on Sundays and legal holidays, equal division of work and no discrim- ination, 4 This victory has served to stimulate the drive undertaken by the Fur Rab- bit Dressers and Dyers of other dye- lipg show a aad “ . nan HH wn - neeneeeaeegeeen =