The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1933, Page 3

\ | | ll VPage Three International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON GERMANS SELL SOVIET 12 SHIPS BREMEN, Jan. 12.—During the last few weeks the North German Lloyd has sold the Soviet government 12 vessels, totalling 50,000 tons, occa- sioning much comment in German shipping quarters. Twelve ships totalling 50,000 tons are equal to the entire fleet of a medium-sized shipping company in Germany. The whole transaction shows up the capitalist principle that the precarious situation of shipping due to surplus tonnage in the world crisis can be remedied only by a methodical dismantling of ships. According to a stipulation in the sales contract, the Soviet Union will employ the vessels exclusively in Black Sea shipping. The Soviet Union is the only coun- try in the world building and buy- ing freight vessels. While the capi- talist world is scrapping its shipping by millions of tons, Socialist recon- struction is going ahead with its ex- pansion of all productive facilities. ae ee COMMUNISTS SENTENCED IN HUNGARY BUDAPEST, Dec. 27 (By Mail) — The 32 Communists on trial in Raab have been sentenced to long prison terms on charges of membership in the Cummunist Party and carrying on Communist propaganda. Two of the accused were sentenced to two years and six months at hard labor, two others to three years at hard labor, one to 2 years hard labor, while 15 others received short terms of im- prisonment. The others were ac- quitted. Enter these prison sentences in the long, long reckoning that the Hun- garian workers and peasants will present to the Horthy executioners when the gong of the revolution again sounds in Hungary. U.S. IN FLEET MANEUVORS As Danger of War With Japan Grows (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the movement is that the imperialist handits will agree to temporarily settle their differences at the expense of the Soviet Union. By actually commencing the long prepared in- vasion of the U. S. S. R. The first effect of this influence is seen in the action of the League of Nations ata secret meeting on Monday in making a demand on Japan to submit a “conciliation” plan within 48 hours in respect to its un- declared war against China. Obvi- ously the League has in mind the “conciliation” plan proposed by the Lytton Commission. This plan of- fered Japan a basis for achieving co-operation with the Nanking tools of world imperialism for the purpose of (1) effecting the pacification of Manchuria, thus enhancing the value of that territory as a military base against the Soviet Union, (2) achiev- ing unified control of the Manchurian railway system under Japanese hege- mony to facilitate the movement of troops toward the Soviet borders; (3) strengthening the counter-revo- lutionary Nanking government as an imperialist~ instrument against the Chinese Soviet Republic and the Sov~ iet Union and for the crushing of the resistance of the Chinese masses to imperialist exploitation and the proceeding partition of China. The League's move, while apparently di- rected against Japan, is in reality directed against the Soviet Union and, with its demand for “concili- ation” with Nanking, is aimed to drive Japan toward the Soviet bor- ders and away from the U. S. and British spheres of influence in China. People’s War Imminent. The League's move is also moti- vated by a growing fear on the part of the white imperialists of the loss of prestige or “face” in the Orient as a result of Japan's unchallenged advance into China. In addition, there is the growing fear on the part of U. S. and European imperialists that Nanking will not be able to con- trol the indignant masses, that a people's war is imminent, and will be directed against all the imperial- ist bandits. The British admit that the anti-Japanese boycott is already spreading to include British as well as Japanese goods. Moreover, the feeling is growing in the capitalist camps that their conciliatory attitude to Japan’s robber aims in China has encouraged Japan to raid more deep- ly into the U, 8. and British spheres of influence and has not had the in- tended effect of throwing Japan into immediate action against the Soviet Union, The present League's move also aims to re-establish the shattered prestige of the League and to con- tinue the swindle that the League of Nations is an instrument of peace. Whitney Insults R. R. Men, Saying They Ask for the Cut in Wages DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 16,—Rail- road workers were called to a mect- ing here recently, addressed by A. F. Whitney, president of the Train- men and chief negotiator in Chicago where he accepted a continuation for nine months of the 10 per cent wage cut, The audience was ordered to stand in respect for President Coolidge, just dead, and at that mo- ment the B. of L. E, Journal was in the mails with a story of how Coolidge headed the National Trans- portation Committee hearings in New York, which resulted in the committee starting & campaign to influence publi opinion for reduc- ‘ion of railroad wages. - Whitney in his speech insulted the ‘silroad men by a charge that they, ,ot he, demanded the wage cut. This took place while the news- papers carry articles showing how rail wage cuts were smashed by strike action and threat of strike in Tyeland and Mexico, ‘is one of the worst attacks on the TRY 10 DEPORT | FOUR WORKERS. Must ‘Act to Smash! Anti-Alien Drive | | BULLETIN TAMPA, Fia., Jan. 17.—Homer Barton, active in the struggles of the tobacco workers, has been ar- rested by federal agents and is be- ing held incommunicado, The | charges against him are not known. The International Labor Defense is trying to secure his release on a writ of habeas corpus. | e. c4 Four workers, active in the strug- gles of the unemployed, are now facing deportation in the govern- ment’s campaign against the for- eign-born. This Friday, Jan. 20, the case of Joe Rosich, 63-year-old mil- itant jobless worker of Duluth, Minn., who is being held for deportation to fascist Jugo-Slavia, will come up be- fore Judge Gunnar H. Nordby, in Duluth. Last Friday Oscar Larsen, leader of the Utah state hunger march, who is being threatened with | deportation to Sweden, was released | from jail on a $1,000 bond. The} cases of A. W. Mills and Anna Block, | leaders in the National Hunger} March, are still. pending. In Florida, Secretary of Labor) Doak is continuing his persecution of the Latin-American workers ar- rested in connection with the Tampa} cigar strike last year. Only a few) days ago Ismael Cruz, a leading fig-| ure in the strike, and Jose Campos, were taken from Raiford jail and deported to Cuba, ruled by the not- orious tool of American imperialism, Butcher Machado, who has murdered thousands of miitant workers and peasants. This makes a total of ten of the Tampa prisoners deported within” the last few months. Berkman Still Faces Deportation Before he bids farewell to office, Doak is also expected to make a last effort to deport to fascist Poland Edith Berkman, one of the leaders of the Lawrence, Mass. textile strike of 1930, who is now in a sanitarium suffering from tuberculosis contract- ed as a result of imprisonment and persecution by the immigration au-/ thorities. Berkman’s deportation was) temporarily halted and her release| on bail secured as a result of the mighty protest movement organized by the International Labor Defense. These are only a few of the out- standing cases. During-the past year no less than 18,000 workers were de- ported, a large proportion of them unemployed. These deportees are, according to law, supposed to be | “guests of the U. S. government” un-| til they are landed in their native| countries, but actually they are in most cases treated like criminals. The Daily Worker has received -a) letter from a worker who was de- ported with several others on the S.S. Dressden. He writes that all the deportees were held under guard in the dining room, where many of} them became ill from the suffocating | air. Foreign-born workers who are arrested in connection with de- monstrations, strikes, etc., should refuse to answer all questions and to sign any papers, urges the Inter- national Labor Defense. They should write or ask friends to noti- | fy the local LL.D. office and ask for a lawyer. While @eportation Doak’s dragnet sweeps the country, the infamous Dies bill, which was passed by the last session of the House and re- ported on favorably by the Senate Immigration Committee, may come up in the Senate at any time. This foreign-born ever launched in this country. It provides for the deport- ation of all “alien Communists” and makes the interpretation of the word, “Communist,” so broad that any foreign-born worker who merely believes in collective ownership can be grabbed and deported. This bill, one of whose chief sponsors is Con- gressman Fish, is intended to smash all revolutionary and militant organ- izations and to terrorize the foreign- born into tamely accepting starva- tion, wage-cuts and every blow at their living standards. ‘The attack on the foreign-born is part of the general offensive of the bosses and their government against the toilers of this country, Only a powerful mass movement of native and foreign-born, built up behind the campaign of the International Labor Defense, can halt the attempts to deport Joe Rosich, Larsen, Mills, Bloch, Berkman and thousands™ of other workers, and force the defeat of the criminal Dies Bill. rset Shae Mass Meeting and Fight for Relief Lead to Pennsylvania March PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan, 16.—Mass meetings of employed and part time workers prepare for the state hun- ger march on Harrisburg, March 1. In Hazelwood, 300 met, in Wilkens- burg 150, in Glassport 75 and on the South Side in Pittsburgh, 125 steel workers met. The unemployed coun- cils, the Steel and Metal Workers Union co-operate in Mobilizing these workers. Other meetings were 75 in ‘Wilmerding, 60 in Pitcairn. All these meetings also endorsed the Feb. 12 Western Pennsylvania conference to prepare the march, Hundreds of unemployed workers packed the City Hall to hear a dis- cussion on feeding children of the unemployed. A, F. of L., Socialist Party and Musgzite leaders spoke, pleading for relief for the children. Jack Johnstone, district organizer of the Communist Party; Edith Bris- coe of the S.M.W.LU. and Ben Ca- reathers, Negro unemployed leader, assailed the city council for passing, the buck and the right wing speak- ers for helping them pass it. John- stone, Briscoe and Careathers re- peated the demand of the Unem- ployed Council for free hot lunches, milk, shoes clothing and transporta- tion for school children and no forced contributions from the teach- ers. WEAPON—“I congratulate you for the success with which you handle the weapon of the working class.” S. Ebbins, N.Y.C—Save the Daily Worker. | f Pushing War Moves we SECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON Who, with the sanction of both President Hoover and President- Roosevelt, is directing preparations for war over supremacy of Pacific and U. 8. loot in China. DANGER OF SALES TAX IS GROWING Masses Must Defeat Higher Living Cost WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.— Under the continual pressure of the big bankers the question of balanc- ing the budget now overshadows all other issues with the exception of foreign relations and the wars in the Far East and South America. The sales tax as the main means of raising revenue is brought more openly before Congress by both Dem- ocrats and Republican Party leaders. A Two-Party Effort. The speech of Secretary of the ‘Treasury Ogden Mills in which he came out definitely for a sales tax affecting practically all articles of mass consumption has the approval of the incoming Roosevelt admin- istration and such influential lead- ers as William McAdoo, backed by Hearst, and secretary of the treasury under the Wilson regime. Governor Horner of Illinois, Democrat, came out for the sales tax in his inaugural address Jan. 9. It is estimated that the one cent per gallon tax on gasoline and other proposed sales taxes will bring in something like $500,000,000. This would mean approximately a levy of $20 per year on each wage earner in the United States. The Hearst Campaign. The most active supporters of the | Roosevelt slate like the New York Times and the Hearst newspaper chain have all come out for a sales tax. The Herald Tribune, Republi- can Wall Street organ, stated on Dec. 9 that “a sales tax should be en- acted.” The mounting treasury deficit which the sales tax is supposed to overcome is one of the principal evi- dences of the acute form the crisis .has developed. The deficit for 1931 was, according to treasury figures, $902,700,000. For 1932 the deficit was $2,885,000,000. For 1933 it is esti- mated that the excess of expendi- tures over receipts will be $1,150,000,- 0. Where the Money Goes. The extent to which federal gov- ernment finances is dominated by the Wall Street banks is shown by the treasury reports that out of every $100 received in taxes and other forms of revenue $19.20 goes to pay interest; $14.15 additional goes to the reduction of the government debt. $43.15 goes for war purposes—pen- sions and other payments for past wars, and appropriations for the army and navy—preparations for fu- ture wars. The proposed sales tax, therefore, is simply a method of guaranteeing the payments of interest and prinei- pal to Wall Street concerns, and for war purposes, at the expense of thé masses of the working population, A Concrete Example. For example: The price of @ five+ cent cake of soap would be raised at least one cent by the sales tax. This is an increase of 20 per cent to the buyers although the sales tax calls for a two and one-quarter per cent tax to be paid by the manufacturer. ‘The wholesalers and retailers will all add certain percentages to prices in order to avoid expense to themselves. No Food Exemption. The supposed exemption of food- stuffs from the sales tax is only bait to fool the masses. The tax if put in force will be reflected in a rise in prices of all commodities as well as rent, electric light, etc, The first effort to put over the sales tax failed because of mass re- sentment. The present attempt is being organized better by the joint action of Democrat and Republican leaders. Energetic protest of work- ers and working class organizations can defeat the sales tax proposal and its main purpose of putting still more of the burden of the crisis on work- ers, farmers and the whole toiling section of the American poulation. Prompt action is necessary, The forces behind the sales tax are the most powerful group of capitalists in the United States. I1’S THAT 5 DAY WEEK AGAIN PHILADELPHIA, Pa—Ever hear about the 5 day week, the one that’s going to bring back prosperity from its hiding place around the corner? Well it is already here and located at no less a place than John Wana- maker's depattment store. But the SAVE THE DAILY WORKER seenescoveceees+ fOr the Daily Worker Tam enclosing $.... Financial Drive’ for $35, Name BL i) ene re Rate) CREM ACRE R TE COR ee Mores FARM SEIZURES | DOUBLE IN YEAR Militancy in Court Wins Cal. Case BULLETIN GARY, Ind., Jan. 17.—Embittered by mounting debts, Mike Lantare, 67-year-old farmer barricaded him- self in his farmhouse when police came to arrest him following a clash over the ownership of a tree, and with shotgun and revolver stood off scores of cops for hours before they succeeded in slaying Lantare. When the battle was over the casualties included, in addition to the aged farmer, Sheriff Roy Holley of Lake County and Louis Boettner of Ross who were killed and one cop, one sheriff and one deputy who were wounded. as € p48 Farm Foreclosures Double WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Statistics which startlingly reveal the depth of the capitalist crisis as it has affected the farmers of the U. S. are contained in the five year report just issued by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Nine and one-half per cent of the farmers lost their farms during this period as a result of forced sales aris- ing from foreclosures of mortgages, bankruptcy, default of contract, sales to avoid foreclosures, surrender of title or other transfers to avoid fore- closure. An average of 13 farmers out of every 1,000 were driven off the land because of inability to pay taxes dur- ing the past year, it is revealed. This is double the number of the previous year. The sharp decline in farmers’ in- come is the basis for the continued ruination of thousands of farmers, particularly ine New England and in the Mountain states. The index of farm prices as of Dec. 15 was 52 per cent of the 1910-1914 average. 6c) ie 4 Stop More Sheriff's Sales OMAHA, Jan. 17.—Militant, action on the part of farmers was once more displayed when farmers mobilized at two points today and forced sheriffs to postpone mortgage foreclosure | sales. At Dakota City, Neb., 500 de- termined farmers appeared at the farm of Thomas Sullivan and served notice that there would be no bidding. The sheriff offered the land for sale three times, but the response was stony silence, and the sale had to be Postponed indefinitely. * Militia Against Strikers BISMARK, N. D,, Jan. 17.—In an effort to justify the use of the state militia to smash farm strikes, Sen- ator W. E. Martin today introduced @ measure to “legalize farm strikes and to empower the governor to call out the militia to maintain order should riots ensue.” reer nee) Amends Fake Farm Bill. NEW YORK.—Senator Ellison D. Smith, of. So Carolina, ranking Democratic. member on the Senate Agricultural Committee yesterday urged amendment of the “farm par- ity” bill to include only wheat and cotton instead of the seven products originally d—wheat, cotton, tobacco, peanuts, rice, butter fat and hops. ‘This bill proposes that farmers re- duce their crops on these items, re- ceiving @ subsidy if proof is offered that 20 per cent less was grown than the previous year. It is an attempt to cut down acreage so that those who are holding large supplies of wheat and other products can get higher prices. es 8 8 Cal. Strikers Win Victory. VACAVILLE, Cal, Jan. 17—The second trial of the three Melgar brothers and A. Espinosa resulted in @ second victory for the striking Va- caville agricultural workers. A jury whose selection took one and one- half days brought in a verdict of “not guilty” for John Melgar and A. Espinosa and could not agree on a verdict for Robert and James Melgar after five hours of deliberation, The militant atmosphere which had prevailed at the court room dur- ing the first trial was intensified during this trial by the presence of 100 hunger marchers who had just returned from Sacramento. The jurors were clearly affected by the spirit of the strikers, One prospec- tive jurywoman said in response to @ question by the attorney that she wished that the small farmers would have such a good union as the strik- ers have so that they! could sell their fruits and get something for their labor. Donald Bingham, one of the first arrested during this strike and now out on $5,000 bail furnished by the International Labor Defense, will go on trial in Fairfield on Jan, 19, PHILADELPHIA. — Another war industry, the Atlas Powder Company, declared the regular quarterly divi- dend of $1.50 @ share while thous- ands of workers are being slaugh- tered in North China and South America, and while the capitalist na- tions prepare new slaughters for the masses of workers, the American capitalists loll in luxury as they cash in on their shares, and await with eager anticipation the way out—for them—of the crisis—the wars for “democracy” or other bunk. real rub is that it is at a 5-day week pay (new schedule of $2.00 a week cut), In addition every girl has to work one week of the month for six days with 5 days pay. For, your convenience clip out coupon and forward with money to Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. Is something this Cirotian girl, from a far flung section of the USSR, is determined to master. Photo shows her pondering over the difficulties of a typewriter. HISTORIC PARADE OF WASH. JOBLESS’ Fishermen, Farmers, and Indians Join Move OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 17—Seven hundred and fifty regularly elected delegates representing thousands of organized unemployed from every par of the state jammed the old state legislative hall in enthusiastic con- ference. A committee of 52 was in the legislative chambers this after- noon presenting the demands of the conference. This followed the big- gest and most militant parade ever held in the history of this town. The conference embraced: many or- ganizations and was truly represen- tative of the toiling masses of the state. Delegates are’ here from United Producers; the Unemployed Councils, Unemployed Citizens’ League, rank and file united front | conferences, committees of action, en- | tire people’s council, from the Com- munist Party, the International La- bor Defense, the United Farmers’ League, Young Communist League, | fishermen’s conferences and Indian | tribes. All these convened a work- ers’ congress last night. Demands were adopted for emer- gency cash relief, enactment of un- employment and social insurance bill, no evictions, no turning off of water, lights or gas and turning on of these where they have been shut off; no foreclosures, seizures or forced sales against workers, farmers or fisher- Men's homes, no discrimination in administering relief which must be administered by workers, not by pri- vate, religious and other charity out- fits; abolition of employment agencies and collection agencies; re- versal of the convictions of the Ana- cortes unemployed, against eight Olympia unemployed; dismissal of riot charges; pardon for the Cen- tralia prisoners. A string protest was sent to the United States Congress demanding that action be taken toward grant- ing the demands of the National Hunger Marchers. Miller, the gov- ernor of the Alabama lynch gang, was sent a stern demand that terror against the share croppers cease and that the Scottsboro boys be immedi- ately released. Governor Rolfe of California received attention in the form of a demand, cheered by all present, for the release of Tom Mooney. The special demands, such as a bonus payment for the ex-ser- vicemen, were endorsed and the dele- gates pledged themselves to fight for them. One of the high lights of the “workers’ congress” was the demand for the right of 12,000 Indians to fish and hunt as provided for in Gov- efnor Isaac Stephen's treaty years ago. The governor of the state prom- ised food and housing for the dele- gates, but the sort of food is revealed considering the fact that four are in the hospital from poisoning as a re- sult of decaying food, and more than a dozen are sick. The housing con- SOCIALIST LOCAL|Columbia University Officials STRIKES A BLOW Cut Workers’ Meagre Wages AT THOMAS & CO. Atlanta, Ga. Members Endorse March and Jobless Councils SUPPORT HERNDON CASE} Call Socialist Workers of U. S. to Follow Example BULLETIN ATLANTA, Ga. Jan. 17.—The State of Georgia again postponed the trial of Angelo Herndon, Ne- sto organizer, over the protests of the International Labor Defense at- torneys. The trial is now set for Jan, 23. es ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 17.— In spite of the anti-working class attempts of Norman| Thomas and the socialist party | leadership to break the grow- ing unity of the toiling mas- ses in the struggle against the hunger, terror and war pro- gram of the capitalist class, the so- cialist local in Atlanta has gone on record in approval and support of the Hunger March, and in defense of Angelo Herndon, Negto worker held on a frame-up charge of vio- lation of the Geofgia “insurrection” law. Endorse Hunger March. In a statement issued after hear- ing the report of Edward Hill, dele- gate to the National Hunger March, from the unemployed councils of Atlanta, and for years a member of the Socialist Party, Edith M. Wash- burn, the secretary of the socialist local, in behalf of the membership de- clared “we hereby endorse the Na- tional Hunger March to Washington led by the Unemployed Councils of the U.S, A.” Continuing the statement she said: “We realize that this fight of the unemployed for winter relief and un- employment insurance at the ex- pense of the capitalists is of historic importance to the starving workers and farmers of America. “We realize the importance of un- employment insurance at the ex- pense of the capitalists to be one of life and death to over 16,000,000 workers now unemployed. We also realize that the only way for the workers to force the capitalist class to pass the Unemployed Insurance Bill carried to congress by the Na- tional Hunger March is unity of pur- pose and action behind this demand regardless of color, nationality, reli- gious or political belief. A Cali for United Action. “Therefore we call for all those honest and sincere in the fight for the working class to stand on the unity of the common interests of all unemployed and employed workers, regardless of other differences, for Unemployment Insurance at the ex- pense of the capitalist class. There- fore we resolve to support to the limit the last National Hunger March and the Unemployed Councils of the U. S. A. in the fight against starva- tion, and call on other locals of the Socialist Party nationally also to sup- port them in the fight for Unem- ployed Insurance. We appeal for unity for our common interests: Un- employment Insurance at the Ex- pense of the Capitalist Class.” The resolution which demands “the safe release of Herndon and the re- peal of the “insurrection” law of Organization of Students and Workers Has Won Some Concessions Furnald Hall Has Made Huge Profits in Last Few Years @ wage cut drive ranging from 8 to 1929 the administration has been carr; towards starvation levels. FOR THE WORKERS 1931—Regular summer wages stop- ped. 6 wks. vacation, one wks. pay. Dec. 1931-32—Xmas, holiday, no pay. Jan. 1932—5 to 10 percent wage cut. Summer '32—6 wks. vacation, 4 to 8 days pay Over $600,000 Net Profit for Three Years in Furnald Hall. When the Food Workers Industrial Union issued a leaflet to us exposing the wage cut and calling upon us to| organize, the authorities became | panic stricken. They issued state- | ments to the press and the Spectator, the student paper, that “no wage cut ‘was contemplated”. They called upon | us not to listen to “outsiders”. They | said that the Union “does not know | what it is talking about. The Union is lying!” | Exactly one month later they gave | us @ 15 to 20 percent wage cut. This happened because we trusted their | fake promises and statements. | Recently the authorities announced | that Purnald Hall was to be closed, | and every worker would be thrown | into the streets. As a result of the | appearance of the first issue of the “Campus Worker” and the immedi- | ate action of the Social Problems Club, this decision was changed and | Furnald Hall remains open for the | Yest of the year. To.every worker and student it remains clear that even the smallest concessions from | the bosses is achieved only through organization. At this “liberal” institution, Jim-} Crowism reigns. | A short time ago | @ Negro elevator operator was fired because he was found speaking to a white girl student. Although Negro | workers pay the same prices for food | as the white workers, they are not | allowed to eat this in the dining hall. | Instead they are forced to carry their food to their locker rooms and dine in these closed, dark places. | Stool pigeons have been placed in every department to find out the or- ganized workers and spy on them We have already recognized them by the way they act, and we have ex-/ posed them directly to thé Honest | workers. These stool pigeons never | work hard but are just after the NEW YORK CITY.—On the Co! 1,000 workers and student workers are employed as office workers, teache; electricians, carpenters, painters, porters, food workers, chambermaids, etc.) speed-up, and threats are the daily acts of the bosses in an attempt to the militant sentiment shown by the lumbia University campus where ove 50 percent has taken place. Lay. workers. and student workers. S ‘ying on a policy of reducing the w Facts speak for themselves: workers. We even hear the manag- ers give them instructions how to do | the dirty. job, but we also know how |to act and many times they are | forced to shut their mouths. Under the guidance of Leo Wo man, Prof. of Economics at Colum} Noy. '32—15 to 20 percent wage cut. | U ‘sity, the Gibson Committee he. FOR HIGH OFFICIALS by set up on the campus to fi _ | efficient ways of robbing the Colum $12,500 Public Ceremonies, | bia University workers. As a r 20,000 President’s Fund. of the exposure of this commitic 2,668 President House Furnishings.| through our paper, The Cam 36,533 President's Reserve Fund. Worker, they have not dared to ask 5,000 Special Convocations. : for funds from those places where | wage-cuts have already taken place | But in the John Jay Dining Halls | where as a result of the exposure | given to the conditions there by the | Social Problems Club of Columbi+ University and the formation of an investigating committee, no wage cuts are present as yet. The Gib- son Committee has come here and squeezed the necessary money to re- duce the workers’ wages. The latest outrage is the recent death of one of our fellow workers Sick for four weeks, his wages re- duced 50 percent, with no help from the bosses, through lack of proper medical care and food, this worker died of pneumonia on December 25 1932, leaving four children and a wife destitute. We know that this comes as a result of the speed up enforced,upon us, burdening us with endless work and thereby weakening our whole health. Medical care is given free to stu dents and teachers, and we, the - lowest paid workers, must demand the same privileges and not be forced to scrape our meagre earnings for medical Care. For all these grievances our group has been on the job continually by issuing leaflets and publishing « * monthly bulletin. We, the wot ets and student workers, have raised the following demands: (1) No wage cuts in any form. () No lay-offs. (3) No speed-up. (4) Students to carry over unpunched part of meal ticket Students to be refunded money for meals not eaten. (6) No discrimination against Ne- groes (7) Pree medical treatment for all workers. Join the Columbia campus group, which fights for these demands! Herdquarters are at 4 W. 18th St. Worker Correspondent from the Columbia Campus Group. drive for $35,000, detailed reports started. Pledges to raise $1,000 for Georgia declares in part: “We know that the real reason for arresting Herndon was because of his action in helping to organize both white and Negro workers in @ pro- test against the attempt of the coun- ty commissioners to cut 23,000 starv- ing Atlanta workers off the already miserable charity relief. For win- ning this victory, they now attempt to stop the fight against hunger by trying to send Angelo Herndon to sisted of sleeping on a concrete floor. the electric chair.” sT SENT TO RELATIV ‘You can send merchandise orders enabling your relatives and friends residing in the U. S. S. R. to purchase goods in TORGSIN stores. Merchandise orders can be sent by anyone, in any amount. To do thw it will be sufficient for you to visit any of the companies listed below and to send a merchandise order to the U. S. S. R., addressed to TORG- SIN, giving the name and address of the person whom TORGSIN shall supply with merchandise. Immediately after receiving your order, TORGSIN requests the reci-- ient to call and select such merchan- dise as he chooses, to the limit of the amount remitted to the TORGSIN stores. Goods are of the very highest 3 250 TORGSIN SOVIET UNION THROUGH WHICH GIFTS MAY BE ORES IN THE ES AND FRIENDS export quality and reasonably priced. TORGSIN stores always contain a wide choice of the most varied goods: various food products, wearing ap- parel, shoes, cloth of all kinds, house- hold articles, novelties, perfumes and soaps, bicycles, cameras, musical in- struments, radios and supplies and accessories; departments for objects dart, antiques, handicraft goods and furs. Imported goods in large assort- ments are also on sale, TORGSIN is constantly expanding its chain of stores in Mostow and other cities and now has branches in over 250 cities and towns throughout the U. 8. 8. R, TORGSIN sends goods by parcel post to recipients in places that have no TORGSIN stores, 11,000 branches of the companies listed below will accept money and/or issued merchandise orders for transmission through TORGSIN to any person residing in the U.S.S.R. Amalgamated Bank of New York Am-Derutra Transport Corp. American Express Company Public National Bank \ Manufacturers’ Trust Company Postal Telegraph-Cable Company R. C. A. Communications, Inc. and Trust Company GENERAL REPRESENTATIVES OF TORGSIN IN THE U.S.A. 261 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. the Daily. Quotas for each sec- tion and unit and mass organiza- tions are assigned. Prizes of a set of Little Lenin Library and a year’s sub to the “Communist” are being offered. Affairs to be run in Wor- cester, Lynn, Norwood, Brockton and |Boston. | Two Red Sundays proposed. Collection lists distrib- uted. PHILA, PLEDGES $2,000 AS DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY. District 3, Philadelphia: District Committee calls conference of rep- resentatives of all party units, unions and fraternal organizations to be held Thursday Evening, January 19 at 918 Locust St. to work out plans for city-wide organization in the drive. Philadelphia pledges $2,000. Collection lists to be distributed, af- fairs and lectures to be arranged. DISTRICT 4, BUFFALO—Orga: zation under way. D. W. calls con- ference of all sympathizers January 18, 8 p. m., 476 William Street. Con- ferences Buffalo, Rochester, Bing- hampton, before January 21. Letter | sent all sympathizers. Units will hold discussion, visit mass organiza- tions, subscribers, canvass sections, | hold open unit meetings. Fractions | will call special meetings. Plan to form Daily committees in all organi- zations, ae ISTRICT 5, PITTSBURGH. — !A conference on the Daily Worker has been held. A committee of 12 was elected ‘and took up Daily Worker drive. Detailed plans were to be worked out at a later meeting. No reports have reached |the Daily on this meeting. Let's hear from Pitts- burgh. District decision that every organizer in field take up question of the Daily Worker. L. LEWIS TOUR AIDS OHIO ORGANIZATION DISTRICT 6, CLEVELAND.—Or- ganization started. L, Lewis of the Dally Worker management commit- tee spoke at four section conferences in Cleveland. In each case a Daily committee of five was appointed. These committees met later and mapped out plans for the financial campaign, Lewis recently reported he was to meet with the district com- Mittee to lay complete plans for the district. This program not yet re- ceived. District has reported receipt. of lists. Later reports from L, Lewis pro- mise campaign will be successful in this district, DISTRICT 9, MINNEAPOLIS — IONDAY, in the analysis of what has been done 8 were given. All remaining districts are considered today. pointed out that Districts 1 and 18, reported Monday as not heard from, ate included in today’s analysis, which follows: DISTRICT 1, BOSTON—Campaign @— More Districts Report Activity in Daily Drive in the Daily Worker of the activities of Districts 2, 7 and It should be Decision to hold conference for the / Daily Worker sometime in January. Date not |set. Plan to “carry on ve continuously after January 21.” after January 21? Why is date for conference not set? DISTRICT 11. So., No. Dakota, no replies to Daily Worker com- munications. 4 . ISTRICT 12—SEATTLE. — Latest reports from District 12 indicate complete inactivity for the Daily Worker without a functioning Daily Worker district committee. No re- ports have been received relative to the finance drive. Seattle in past years has done good work for the Daily. Let us hear what’s the mat- ter, Seattle. DISTRICT 13—No reports [from his important district in regards to the drive to save the Daily Worker. DISTRICT 14, NEWARK. — A conference has been held and a com- mittee elected but no program for conducting the campaign has been’ reported. DISTRICT 15, CONNECTICUT.— Organization of drive started. Let- ter on campaign sent to all cities in district. 1000 collection lists received and sent to sections and mass or- ganizations. Reports on further or- ganizations promised, not yet re- ceived. DISTRICT 16, NORFOLK, Va, ~ No activity reported. DISTRICT 17, Ala.—Ditto, DISTRICT 18, MILWAUKEE. — Milwaukee pledges itself to success- fully carry on drive. A committee of five elected. One thousand collection lists distributed. A city-wide drive conference planned. Quotas of party groups and mass organizations as- signed. Plans not only to fulfil quota but to exceed it. DISTRICT 19, DENVER. — No re- ports. Wilmington Workers Hold Mass Meeting in Ben Gold’s Defense WILMINGTON, Del. Jan, 17.—An indoor mass meeting to protest the brutal beatings and convictions of Ben Gold, Leon Saginov and Carl Carlson is being arranged for Wed- nesday, Jan. 18, at 8 p.m. at the Labor Lyceum, 412 N. DuPont 8t., under the auspices of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, ‘These workers were arrested during a vicious attack by oo BIRMINGHAM, ‘ss Police upon an open-air meeting $ by the Hunger Marchers oe od