The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1933, Page 3

International Notes | By ROBERT HAMILTON € MORE SOCIALIST PACIFISM. q Resolution of the Tours Congress } of the French Socialist Party: “All the resolutions regarding the refusal of the Party’s deputies to vote for budgets specially allotted to the | Maintenance and operation of the militarist establishment are hereby expressly reaffirmed.” Renaudel, Socialist leader, speak- ing in the Chamber of Deputies: “We must know what is coming out of these factories. ,,. We must fight against those who make profits out of disarmament,” (from “Populaire,” Jan, 30, 1932). What the Socialists actually did about it: Their deputies voted for the Twelfth Provisional Supplementary Budget in the French Chamber of Deuties at the end of December, in- cluding 107,000,000 franes for military aviation jand 56,000,000 francs for artillery. Words against armaments—mil- lions thrown to Schneider-Creusot, the French armament trust. oi eles ew HOW TO BECOME PREMIER OF FRANCE, “In spite of all assertions to the contrary, the Socialist Party feels no resentment towards the Prime Min- ister, whose sincerity I admit. Paul- Boncour today joins the government- al heads who received their training in statesmanship with the Socialists. The Socialists are proud of him, rather than bitter about it.” (Speech of Leon Blum, Socialist leader, in the French Chamber of Deputies, De- cember 22nd.) The Socialist deputies voted as a unit for the Boncour cabinet, which received 379 yotes against 166 cast in opposition, Millerand, Briand, Painleve, Cle- menceau, and now Paul-Boncour, A long and “illustrious” list of former Socialists who adorn the rolls of honor of the French capitalist class. Millerand and Clemenceau, the war- makers, Briand the strike-breaker, and Paul-Boncour the oppressor of the Indo-Chinese masses—truly their records suggest that being a Social- ist is a necessary condition for be- coming head of a capitalist govern- ment in France, THE PILLARS OF JAPANESE RULE, TOKIO, Dec, 25 (By mail)—The Japanese review “Kaiso” paints an edifying portrait of the officials who represent Japanese imperialism in the Manchukuo government. The review reports that the Chief of the Manchurian police, the Japan- ese army captain Amakazu, played an abominable role after the great earthquake of 1923, Amakadzgu order- ed the assassination of the Socialist Osugi Sakao and his wife. When Sadao, noted Japanese Soc- falist, was arrested and taken with his wife and his seven-year-old nephew to the police station, Ama- kadzu gave orders to kill Sadao, Then he went into the adjoining room and had Sadao’s wife and little nephew strangled to death. ; At first the Japanese authorities tried to conceal this crime. Later, under the pressure of mass indigna- tion, Amakadzu was condemned to { ten years imprisonment in a fort- ress, But he was soon released and sent to Manchuria as Chief of Police. This degraded criminal is in his element playing an active part in suppressing the movement for the emancipation of the Manchu masses. MILLIONS DENIED REAL SCHOOLING Reveal U.S.Conditions; Contrast with U.S.S.R. NEW YORK.—More than one-third or about 9,410,000 school children in the United { Sates, are being deprived of proper ir truction, it was admit- ted by Dr. Paul R. Mort, head of the National Survey of School Finance, in making public the report of the survey... ‘The report states that educational facilities are worst in the rural sec- tions of the country. While admit- ting that “scores of thousands of youths of high school age are wand- ering about the country,” and that “an even Jarger number, including hosts of younger children, are suffer- ing from malnutrition (fancy name for starvation—Edit,) and inadequate care in both rural and urban sec- tions,” Dr. Mort makes no demand for free food, clothing, books and * transportation for the children, but simply appeals to the state legisla- tures to do something to prevent the situation from getting worse. We, Ta Education Adyances in U.S.S. » MOSCOW, USSR. (By Mail).— ‘Tremendous advances have been made in the field of education in the Soviet Union under the Five-Year Plan. Primary school education has been made compulsory and there are now . 24,700,000 children attending primary and secondary schools, as compared the Five-Year Plan in 1928-20, and 7,800,000 before the war. In 1932, 991,000 students were attending 645 universities and other institutions of higher learning, seven times the pre- war number, There are 6,000 factory schools, with an attendance of 1,085,- , 090. ' More than 58,000,000 illiterate adults nave learned to read and write dur- ing the four years of the Five-Year Plan. a tos Angeles IWO to Build New Branches LOS ANGELES, Cal.—At the first full meeting of the District Commit- \ ‘ce of the International Workers Order, representatives of adult and vouth branches laid out plans for ex- tending the organization throughout : the city and the surrounding towns. The work was sub-divided in three YW croups: Cultural, Organizational and Youth, Printed literature and a reg- ular bulletin are to be to cover all phases of the new activities, N with 12,074,000 at the beginning of | East, PROTEST GROWING AGAINST GEORGIA CHAIN GANG RULE NEW YORK.—The United Workers Club of Brooklyn yesterday sent the following protest to Gov. Eugene Tal- madge of Georgia, denouncing the vicious chain gang sentence of 18 to 20 years against Angelo Herndon, Ne- WORKER CORRESPONDENCE RAILROAD WORKERS WRITE OF JOB CONDITIONS gro organizer of Atlanta unemployed workers: ! “Goy, Eugene Talmadge, Atlanta, Georgia. United Workers Club of Brooklyn protests brutal chain gang sentence of Herndon, Demand his immediate, unconditional release. Demand abo- lition of murderous chain gang sys- tem of Georgia. Demand right of Negro and white workers to unite and organize in struggle against | starvation and oppression, We de- mand the immediate unconditional dismissal of charges against the At- Janta Six,” [aig Similar protests are pouring in on the governor of the chain gang state from workers’ organizations and many intellectuals in all parts of the coun- | try, Thousand Killed Many 14 Year Old Lads Among the Dead (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) gas and gas masks with the inten- tion of adding gas war-fare to the horrors of the undeclared war. The war already has converted the “dis- puted” oil-bearing region of Gran Chaco into a huge slaughter house as a result of the fierce rivalry be- tween U, S. and British imperialists and the attempts of the “national” out” of the crisis at the expense of the life blood of the toiling masses. Meanwhile, the Argentina govern- ment continues to mobilize troops on the Bolivian border and_ is -closely watching the results of the present decisive battle with a view of aiding the British puppet Paraguayan gov- ernment in the event of further Bolivian victories. A new outbreak of the armed conflict between Colombia and Peru is momentarily expected, as warships and troops of Peru, Co- lombia, Ecuador and Brazil con- tinue to converge on the “disputed” Leticia region. Prepare Anti-War Congress. The workers and anti-imperialist fighters.of South America are an- wering these war activities with in- creased anti-war struggles and in- tensive preparation for the South American Anti-War Congress, to be held Feb. 28 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The socialist leaders are sabotag- ing the anti-war congress, and con- ducting a campaign of deception on the aims of the two undeclared wars and endeavoring to persuade the masses that the danger of war is not acute for the countries of South and Caribbean America. Socialist Leaders for War. In Argentina, Alfredo Palacious, socialist leader, attempts to cover up the preparations of the Argentina government to enter the war, de- claring that the war will be “local- ized” and that the Americans are outside of the “disturbances” which have seized the crisis-torn capitalist world. E. Dickman, leider of the Ar- gentina socialist party peddies the pretense of the Argentina bourge- oisie that they are “struggling” for peace. Yn Uruguay, the soci- alist leaders not only clonk the war preparations of their own govern- ment but openly side with Para- guay and accuse Bolivia of having provoked the war. What's To Be Done. In the International Press Cor- respondence of Jan, 12, it is correctly pointed out: “As a matter of fact, the gov- ernment of Paraguay, under the pressure of its English masters, and the Bolivian government, which is closely connected with United States imperialism, are equally re- sponsible for the barbarous slaugh- ter of thousands of workers and peasants in soldiers tunics. The war in Chaco is in fact only the con- tinuation in a new form of the old policy of the landowners and the bourgeoisie—the policy of ruthless exploitation of the working people, which is the basis of the existence both of the Bolivian and the Para- guayan ruling class and their im- perialist masters. The working masses of both belligerent coun- tries must fight for the defeat of their own goyernment, for their revolutionary overthrow.” The Wall Street imperialists are the main instigators of the wars in South America. The U. 8S. toiling masses are faced with the class duty of supporting the South American anti-war congress, and of mobiliz- ing their forces in the munition in- dustries and on the docks to stop the production and shipment of war ma~ terial to South America and the Far FASCIST ATTACK FAILS PRAGUE, Jan, 23,—Fifty Fascists met with a severe defeat at the hands of the soldiers housed in the Brno army barracks. The Fascist made a surprise attack last night in the at- tempt to seize the barracks, but were subdued after a stiff struggle lasting an hour. One fascist was killed among a total list of nine wounded. REGIMENT MUTINY IN PORTUGAL The infantry regiment stationed at Benja in the province of Alemteio, Portugal, mutined yesterday. Benja is a garrison town of 10,000 popula tion. The government has sent an- other regiment to attack the rebels, SAILORS LOST IN FOG BOSTON, Jan. 23,—Two sailors in a dory of the fishing schooner, Vir- ginia, are reported missing and many vessels had to be aided by rescue crews as a result of a thick fog which enveloped the coast of Massachu- | setts, Share-the-Work Plan on Several Railroad Lines! | Enforced Layoff Days Called “Hoover Days;” | Losing Faith in Capitalism The present ten percent wage cut of the railroad workers has been renewed for nine months. A few weeks ago, the Signal Maintainers of the N. ¥. C. R. R. went on a four-day week, with a corresponding cut in wages. | Forhaps some few workers will benefit by the loss of many, but most of the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUA RY 24, I Page Three JOBLESS HEADS St. Louis Prepares Big | March 4th Action | ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. Savage Sentences are being met out to} workers arrested in connection with | the murderous police attack upon | the unemployed demonstration last | July 11th. George Benz, chairman | of the demonstration of 15,000 work- | ers who were fighting against hunger | last July was sentenced to six months in the workhouse. Yetta Becker and Orville were given jail sentences. | There are fifty other workers still | awaiting trials, with the outcome al- | most certain to be conviction for all | of them. The cases are being tried by | the recently elected democratic judge, Dickman, a brother of the present | democratic candidate for mayor. | During the trials this judge makes DEMOCRATS JAIL |First Week Shows Daily Worker Campaign Lagging Far Below Par The first week brought in approxi- matel 35 of the amount needed to save the Daily Worker from sus- pension. The Daily Worker cannot survive the 35 weeks it will take at this rate. One thousand dollars a A is the minimum needed if the Daily" is to live. Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boston and New Jersey are far behind in the drive, New York, while it is ahead of any other district, has not yet swung into real activity and is far behind the pace it set in the 1931 drive, when it raised 218 per cent of its quota. A more comprehensive analysis of the contributions by districts will ap- pear tomorrow. WHAT ARE I. W. 0, | BRANCHES DOING IN DRIVE? in Bolivia War. ruling classes to find a capitalist “way | | jobs will be unattended durin; FRISCO COPS AID JAPAN CONSUL | Japan Cops Protect U,) S. Exploiter-Singer SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 23.— Upon the request of the Japanese Consul General Kaname Wakasugi, San Francisco police today prepared to crush a protest demonstration | against the attempt by an employee ctionary Japanese news- i Shimbun” to murder utionary Japanese worker, C. Okitsu, one of the editors of “Rodo Shimbun,” a Communist newspaper published in the Japanese language. The demonstration will also ba pro- test against the murderous white ter- | ror raging in Japan and the robber | war of Japanese imperialism against | the Chinese people. The local representative of Jap- anese imperialism informed the po- | lice that he understood “that the Communists, composed of Japanese, Chinese and Negroes planned a dem- onstration.” Attack Singer Strikers. | While San Francisco police are pre- | paring to attack the anti-war workers | | Of this city, Japanese police are car- | rying out the demands of the Wall Street Government for a sharpening of the terror against the striking | workers of the U. S. Singer Sewing Machine Company's plants in Yoko- hama and cther Japanese cities. Strikers and sympathizers were bru- tally attacked on Monday while demonstrating before the U. S. Con- |} sulate in Yokohoma. 150 strike lead- | ers were arrested. Another 50 were arrested today. The Consulate has been placed under a heavy police guard. Strikers marching to the New | Grand Hotel to demand a conference with the manager of the Singer Co. were savagely assaulted by the police. Part of Anti-War Fight. The strike has completely shut down the six plants of the Singer Company in Japan. It is part of a rapidly spreading strike movement with which the Japanese workers are correctly linking up their anti-war activities for the defeat of their own bourgeoisie and for the conversion of | the war into civil war for the over- throw of the capitalist war-mongers, the establishment of the proletarian dictatorship and peace. Bosses Put On Ful Steam in Preparing Capitalist Wars By LABOR RESEARCH ASS’N On January 14, 1933, a Japanese boat with a capacity of 10,000 tons arrived at Hopewell, Va., docking at the wharf of the Atmospheric Nitro- gen Corp., Allied Chemical & Dye Co., | Subsidiary. Loading of nitrate to be j taken back to Japan followed all next day. “Exportation of the company’s nitrogen to all parts of the globe is going on regularly,” reports the Wall Street Journal, January 18. The traf- fic in this important raw material for war has been carried on from Hope- well for several months, the bulk of | the nitrates being shipped to Japan | and France. i ees “French Talk Arms Curb,” is a headline in the Wall Street Journal, in which is admitted that French ar- mament firms have been supplying “arms and munitions to nations at | war in the Far East and South America.” That the French govern- ment’s proposed committee to study the regulation of the manufacture and sale of war materials will get no further than talk, is indicated by the fact that it “will be supervised by the General War Council and several generals will be included in its membership.” (our emphasis.) .. aa, « While President Hoover also talks of curbing war shipments, the U, 8. Senate will shortly consider the $19,000,000 appropriation passed by the House for military planes, ac- cording to the Fortnightly Financial Digest, January 16. “Based on past experience,” continues the account, “It is estimated United Aircraft will get about $12,000,000 of this business,” a fact which accounts for the recent Ribk Street activity in this firm’s stock. A writer in the Nation for January 25, 1933, talks of the “unusual activity of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Remington Arms Company, and other munition firms, which have been taking on extra workers during a period of general depres- sion.” This company has recently made several shipments of war ma- terial to the Wall Street butcher, President Machado of Cuba. Cie ON (By a Worker Correspondent.) BROOKLYN, Jan, 23.-The U. S War Department has recently bought 1,000,000 steel helmets and 60,000 pounds of quinine, also great quanti- ties of silk (probably to be used in the manufacture of airplanes). This material has been delivered and is now stored at the Brooklyn Armory base, 59th St, and First Ave. the days of the enforced lay-off, | some Some of ~—® the workers call them “Hooyer Days,” But payless “Rooseyelt Days” after the inauguration of the capitalists’ new leader and protector, will prob- ably prove just as unpoular with the working class, and perhaps to their political enlightenment. This much heralded “Share-the- Work” scheme of the capitalists and their defenders has not accomplished what they claimed and perhaps hoped it would, where it has been put in effect, Each is endeavoring to better their own position; if at the expense of the whole, then to hell with the whole. This is amply demonstrated in the of the Telegraph Department of Buffalo Division of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad. The first of last July they went on a five day week “for the benefit of the unemployed workers.” The first of August they cut off seventeen jobs in the Tele- graph Department of this one divi- sion. The workers by their mis- guided sacrifices to the cause of cap- italism, had put about twelve men | back to work on part time. The cap- italists for the cause of profits cut off those twelye and five more, and left the rest on a part time basis, with a corresponding cut in wages. The “Share the Work” scheme finds its support among the unem- ployed and part time workers, espe- cially those who are politically un- educated. But more and more I find that the American working class is becoming class-conscious. The dif- ference between their position and the position of the capitalist is be- coming more noticeable every day. In discussing conomic questions with groups of workers, I have been sur- prised and delighted a number of times to find some in the group who by the support of my position and their knowledge of the people and factors involved, show that they are interested and alert, which is healthy for the growth of knowledge. Faith in capitalism dies hard in workers, They have been taught that Communism is bad, and that capitalism is “God’s scheme of things.” And without stopping to investigate the justice of reasonable- ness of the things they have been taught and are daily being taught, they are prepared to defend capital- ism until capitalism fails them. Then as we endeavor to politically educate them, capitalism prepares new schemes for their enslavement, such as the proposed scheme of Sen- ator Couzens for the herding of the unemployed young men into fascist army camps, There are some 300,000 of these young men wandering about the country today. Is the big hearted Senator worrying about the welfare of these unfortunate youths? Yes, he is worrying for fear they will lose faith in capitalism and turn to Com- munism as the way out of their dfficulties. Demonstrations such as the Hunger March, the huge demonstrations of the Chicago unemployed, and the struggles of the miners and other workers against capitalist oppression, gives life to the words of Marx: “Let them (capitalists) tremble at the coming revolution, Workers of the world, unite.” REVOLT SPREADS IN NICARAGUA Government Arrests} 18; Siege Extended MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 23,— All of Nicaragua, with the exception of four south-western provinces con- tinues under a state of seige decreed by the government of Dr, Sacasa which had been established through the intervention of U. S. marines. The government, evidently, is mak ing frantic efforts to suppress the growing opposition of the toiling masses, as evidenced by reported breaches of discipline in the National Guard and the arrest of 13 workers accused as Communists and support- ers of Augusto Sandino. Managua dispatches report a bat- tle yesterday between gov't forces and an insurgent column Jed by Jose Leon Diaz, The government claims its troops defeated the insurgents. The battle ocourred near the border of Honduras where insurgent forces are also battling the government. Lawrence Youth Pack Lenin Anti-War Meet LAWRENCE, Mass.— Around 200, including some 30 adult workers, at~ tended the anti-war Lenin-Liebk- the most provocative attacks upon the unemployed of St. Louis and the | starving masses of the county gen- | erally. | These sentences are part of the new | campaign against the jobless, defin- | itely connecting with the cutting down of relief, the increase in dis- crimination. It is also a part of the | nation-wide attempt of the city and | state governments to try to prevent big outbursts of mass indignation | against the Roosevelt majority in| both houses of congress and against | Roosevelt who will be inaugurated on | March 4th to carry out Wall Street's | hunger and war program, The Un- | employed Councils have called for | nation-wide demonstrations on this | day to back up the local fights, for $50 winter relief and unemployment insurance. Appeals Filed by 1. L. D. ST. LOUIS, Mo., January 23.— The International Labor Defense is | taking appeals to appelate court against this decision, but the unem- | ployed realize that the only way | they will save these workers from | prison is by mass struggle and | strengthening of the Unemployed | Councils in the city. Because of the | widespread sentiment against the | conviction, the local capitalist pres: was forced to condemn the sentenc- | ing of these two workers, the “Star | and Times” editorial of January 21st states: | “Granting that these trials and | convictions are in accord with the | law and the evidence, do they rep- | resent Sound public policy or true justice? Consider the provocation offered these Communists? Thous- | ands of St. Louis unemployed— | 15,00" was it not—had just been turned off the relief rolls through the breakdown of organized char- | ity. For all they knew, they were | | doomed to immediate starvation. Led by Communists, they gathered in front of the City Hall to appeal to the Mayor for relief. The Mayor refused to see them. He would | not admit a committee of their | spokesmen to his office. For four hours he kept them waiting on the | lawn,” | The “Star and Times” know well | that they question “the sound public | policy” not because they are against | the vicious methods of the police courts and the whole city machine, but they see that the masses of work- | ers are on the move and the anger | and resentment of the masses is what these tools of the bosses fear the most. . * * | Break Jim-Crow Attempt. | EAST ST. LOUIS, Lil, Jan. 23.— Five hundred members who belonged | to a locally organized unemployed movement under the name of “Uni- versal Aid Society” held a joint meeting with the Unemployed Coun- | cil of East St. Louis yesterday and | unanimously passed a resolution uniting themselves under the lead~ ership of the Unemployed Council for a common struggle against the new attack of the city relief agencies, which are trying to institute various | forms of forced labor schemes. At | this meeting they elected 10 dele-| gates to the State Conference which | will be held in Springfield on Janu- | ary 24-25, Father Thought To Be. Communist, School Boy | Plagued By Principal NEW YORK.—About three years | ago, when Harry Kramar’s son was | eight years old, he was questioned at school as to what his religion was. Little Kramar didn’t ktfow. He was, furthermore, confused in answering | more questions and admitted what | was not true at the time, that is, | that his father was a Communist and | on strike. | From that time on, however, the | boy's marks fell to C’s and D's and | remained at that level, in spite of | the fact that formerly his marks had | been high. Monitors beat him con- | tinually, saying that Kramar's boy | was bad. Formerly this, too, had not been the case, When Kramar recently on one oc- easion visited the principal and in- dicated that there might be some connection between the low marks and the admission of Communism, she admitted the children had been questioned and said, “It may cause you a lot of trouble—but if you think this school is no good, they will transfer him to another,” Kramar realized tMat this would not change the situation, but the teacher had her way and the boy was transferred. Art Exhibit Opens At John Reed Club, necht-Luxemburg memorial meeting held here Monday under auspices of the Young Communist League. The workers took enthusiastic part in the extensive program and listened attentively to the speakers who pointed out the danger of a new world war and called upon the young ; | workers to defend the Chinese people and the Soviet Union against im- perialist intervention, FAVORS SOVIET RECOGNITION NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee for the Recognition of Soviet Russia today published a letter from Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Penn~ ‘The War Department is continuing ts buying operations at a feverish pace, sylvania, favoring recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States. Planned for Workers NEW YORK,—In announcing an art exhibition to open Thursday, January 26th at the gallery of the John Reed Club, 450 Sixth Ave,, the latter announce. include the work of Jacob Burk, the usual exhibit because it is planned primarily for workers instead‘of for art students and rich collectors,” The exhibition, under the title, “The Social Viewpoint in Art” will include the work of Jacob Burke, staff cartoonist of the Daily Worker, Gellert, Gropper, Quirt, Dorenz, Seigel, Becker, Rofrigier and Sarah Berman. The opening night will be marked by a special program. ‘Member of “Industrial | | organizers ‘The International Workers’ Order, through its National Executive Com- mittee, issued a stirring call to its membership to rush to the aid of the Daily Worker in its present acute| financial crisis. | Are the I, W, O. branches answer- ing this call? Are the I. W. O, mem- hers answering this call? If so, the} contributions received by the “Daily’} have not shown it, Workers in all mass organiza- tions; make the job of saving the Daily Worker, the paper that fights for the workers of all nationalities, the main order of business at your next meeting. CALL A SPECIAL MEETING FOR THE PURPOSE. Rouse to action in the fight to | keep the Daily Worker from sus- pending! N.Y. FREIHEIT GROUPS ISSUE CHALLENGE The New York Freiheit Singing So- ciety and the Freiheit Mandolin Or- chestra have issued a challenge to all the Freiheit groups in the United tates, At a proletarian banquet in honor of Conductor Jacob Schaefer, who has just returned from the Soviet Union, where he was the guest of ‘We'll ShowThose Japs’ Roosevelt and Hoover confer on the next war. Support the Daily Worker, the only English language daily that fights imperialist wars. the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, Schaefer made an appeal for the Daily Worker. This netted $22.15, which was turned over to the cam- | paign fund, | Freihelt Singing Socicties and! Mandolin Clubs in other cities, le see what you can do. Answer challenge of the New York organiza- tions! | ST, PAUL AFFAIR JAN. 28 ST, PAUL, Minn—The St. Paul section of the Communist Party is responding to the Daily Worker drive for $35,000, with the first of its af-| fairs to be held Saturday evening, | Jan, 28, at 184 W. Seventh St, ! Workers Tricked By Amalgamated Union Given Lead BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 23.—A militant strike of the Shirt and Boys’ Waist Workers employed at the R. & T. Shirt Company, 395 James Street, | last week, was turned into a shame- | less “bargain” scheme by so-called | for the Amalgamated | Clothing Workers who finally be-| | trayed the strike to the employer, | Steinberg It developed that the “organizers” made the workers victims of a quar- rel between the business partners, Steinberg and Schuter. Mr, Schuter, working through the foreman Tan- nenbaum, encouraged the strike so that when the workers went out he could employ them at a separate | plant of his own, The A.C.W. organizers, Lipsky and an expensively dressed woman, nego- tiated with both bosses, seeking promises from both, and finally de- | cided to back the old boss, Steinberg, | and through the foreman advised the | workers to go back to work under | the old conditions. | The Amalgamated organizers re- | fused to formulate any demands for the strikers and merely urged them to fill out applications for the union | on the promise that they would be told afterwards what the union scale and conditions are. The workers, in the meantime, got hold of Ray Masler, a dress operator | and member of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and despite | the opposition of a couple of Amalga- mated cuerillas, saw to it that she addressed the workers. | Masler thoroughly exposed the | treacherous game of Lipsky and his fashionable assistant with such ef- fectiveness that both were routed out of the hall by the jeers and cat- | calls of the strikers. Masler again addressed the workers | in front of the shop the following | morning advising the workers to/| draw up demands for higher wages, | better conditions on the job, and| urged them to stick together. The | workers are now looking towards the | N.T.W.LU., to organize them and lead them forward in militant strug- gle for better conditions, LONDON CARMEN JOIN BUS STRIKE 14,000 Picket Garages Fight Union Officials | (Cable by Inprecorr.) LONDON, Jan. 23.—The London bus strike is spreading steadily, des- pite the sabotage of the executive council of the Transport Workers Union and other officials. About 14,000 bus men are now on strike, carrying on heavy picketing at the garages more than half of which are closed, The strike began last Thursday with three thousand workers, A union meeting ended in disorder when the officials called for a return to work Saturday night. The work- ers answered this reformist treach- ery by extending the strike today, when 600 street car men joined in sympathy strike shutting several street car terminals. Officials Scab. The police are cooperating with the union officials in the effort to break the strike and obtain scab labor, While the union executive committee is issuing strike-breaking appeals urging the workers to return to work, the strikers are appealing to the sub- way and street car workers to extend the strike. Thoroughly disgusted with the treachery of the union officialdom, the strikers are determined to carry on and extend berthed Lage the company unconditionally draws its recent speed-up order, tage Cn 108 ARRESTED IN BERLIN BATTLES Communist Call for | Anti-Fascist Week | (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Jan. 23.—Over a hundred collisions took place in Berlin yes- | terday with 108 arrested. Official re- | ports refer to many tens of thousands | of hostile workers demonstrating against the Fascists who ran a ver- | All workers, readers and sympae thizers are asked to attend. An in- ing program has been arranged Refreshments will be served. Total received Saturday ao eae Previously received —-—-— 984.00 Total from all districts___.$1,036.71 DISTRICT & DISTRICT 6 New York) (Cleveland) Hii E. Taurent Noah Mitkin . Piket Herm. Bromberg F. Mangol | Jack Ross Avsberg | Jacob Fradin 14 ss Sec. 2, Unit 4 .97 F. Schmitt 1.00 M. Auns | Council, ere Total 32.10 A Comrade 1.00 DISTRICT 14 | Sec. #, Unit 10 2.60 (Newark) JV. Astria 50 Joe Goline 38 Mr.&Mrs.J, Doe 25,00 DISTRICT 18 | (Milwaukee) | Total st A. Milberg 1,00 G. Brink 5.00 Total 36.00 BORAH, MILLS FOR HITTING TOILERS | Both Want to Raise the Living Cost YGTON, Jan. 23.—Senator Willian E, Borah of Idaho has come out for inflation of currency, under he slogan of “reflationary adjust- n Borah opposes the sales tax, n is supported by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, but his inflation proposals are equally as vi- cious as far as the effect upon the Masses is concerned as a sales tax. Inflation of currency will immedi- t boost prices of all commodities. jally the necessities of life used vorkers and farmers—while ac- tual money s Will remain sta- tionary, or only advance so slow that there would be a steady fall in real Thus the workers and farm- be able to buy even less than they now buy. Inflation is advised to balance the government budget— that is the government will pay its obligations at home in depreciated currency All the talk about overcoming the crisis by currency juggling is an at- tempt to create illusions among the workers and farmers and cripple the nation-wide movement for immedi- ate relief and unemployment insur- ance at the expense of the govern- ment and the employers which will reach a high point with the nation- wide demonstrations on March 4th. WORKED SUMMER: CHEATED OF PAY | itable gauntlet through Berlin ander | Resort Owner Resorts | the heaviest police guard ever scen. |.. Even the capitalist papers were | compelled to protest police brutali- | ties against pedestrians. Fascist pro- gress was made possible only through | the accompaniment of an endless | series of police baton charges. In the outlying districts where the po- lice were less numerous, many of the Fascists were injured. Anti-Fascist Week. The Communist Party has decided | to organize a special Anti-Fascist Week in answer to the Fascist prov cation, to begin with a mass demon- | stration Wednesday when thousands | ot workers will march past the Karl Liebknecht House. The police prohibited Communist demonstrations in Cologne, issuing | the order at the last minute so as to make it impossible to inform thous- ands of workers who were already in the streets. Police attacked the wo. volleys when met with resistance killing three workers. Eight othe were seriously wounded. Angry pro- test demonstrations lasted late into the night. TEAR GAS IN L. A. FOR THE JOBLESS 's, firing ie . LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23—Men, | Women and children, Negro and white, were brutally beaten and trampled on by the Los Angeles Red Squad in the offices of the county Supervisors of charities, 139 North | Broadway, when more than 100 of them, repr¢:enting about 15 families who are facing starvation, demanded immediate and adequate relief. Squads of police and detectives, using clubs and tear gas, tried to| evict the jobless men and women | from the office, but the workers stood their ground and fought back mili- tantly. Eight men, several women and two children were injured, one Mexican worker was so badly beaten over the head that blood spurted over | his face and clothing. Five workers were arrested and held on suspicion of criminal syndicalism. They are Bill Cooper, a young workers, Ezra Chase and John Hester, both mem- bers of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League; Bob Meyers and Jim Dan- iels, a Negro worker. Sam Jones, another Negro who was one of the spokesmen for the demonstrators, was also arrested, but later released, The arrested workers are being de- fended by the International Labor Defense, to Forced Labor NEW YORK.—Forced labor through which the workers are compelled to work in return for food and shelter j alone, is becoming so prevalent that the owner of a summer resort at Lake | Ronkonkoma did not hesitate to de- | Prive an entire family of their wages after they had worked for him all | summer, The owner, Charles Fikan, wrote |@ letter to Mary Marsh, wife of An- |thony Marsh offering $15 a week to work at the resort. Later, on the in- vitation of Fikan, Marsh quit his job and also went to work at the resort bringing with him his two sons. The entire family was forced to work for Fikan practically the entire summer, but received little more than. their board and room. Now the fam- ily claims around $350 in unpaid wages. | Commissioner Francis Perkins de- clined to do anything for Marsh when the later presented his grievances. As in the case of the Harlem armory workers the wage racket {s going on with with the full approval of the city | officials. | Marsh then reported his case to |the Daily Worker who directed him | to the Unemployed Council. This or- ganization is now developing a fight to compel payment to this worker and his family. Starved to Insanity, Imagines She Pleads Yet With Home Relief YORK. — Auguste Maria iseppe, 24 years old and mother of two starving children is today in the is of Bellevue Hospital where | she was taken when she finally went crazy from dodging the landlord and spending long hours waiting at the Home Relief Bureau for relief which she never got, Mr. Guiseppe, 40 years old and a member of the American Legion has not been able to find work for some time. The children, aged five and three were sick from malnutrition, and every day the landlord, Conso- nini and Magetti, came to Guiseppe’s house at 308 East 135th Street to demand the rent. Two days ago, when, as a result of having received no rent for ‘a few months, the land- lords served the family with a dis- posses, Auguste Maria went insane. Mrs, Guiseppe, in the insane ward at Bellevue, is continuall haunted by a vision of the landlord and imagines that she is pleading again and again with the Home Relief for the lives of her hungry children. SAVE THE DAILY WORKER Tam enclosing §.......... Finrneial Drive for $35,000. Name Address ...... For your conyenience clip out seeeeeeseeesess sf” the Daily Worker coupon and forward with money to Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City, id ae 1g Pnar we sewn ween: ewe