The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1933, Page 1

be fe) Stepping Technoeracy is tryi ism. It’s got about a man would have trying to stop the rush The Daily Worker is series of Technoeracy and showing what lies be- hind its radical phrases. of Niagara Falls. printing a Niagara ing to save capital- Ss much chance as a articles exposing No, capitalism can’t be saved, by the Daily Worker can and must: Rush your contribution today! Dail Central Vol. X, No. 21 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at GEB>2. New York, N.Y, under the Aet of March 3, 1879. of (Section of the Communist International) y, Worker One W A total of pledges was t a recent professional people program and appe; prepared. Rees ties, ete., ay gathering in This is one means of to help keep th to Do It in contributions and Daily Worker intellectual New raising x of s and York ( funds. care The fully par- should tertainm “Dail DEMONSTRATE ON FEB. 4th AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR American Committee for Struggle Against | War Issues Call | Defend Soviet Union! |; 30,000 Casualties in So. America NEW YORK.—The Amer- ican Committee for Struggle Against War calls all New York workers to rally for an Anti-War Demonstration, Sat- urday, Feb. 4, at twelve noon, on Wall Street and for a march along Wall Street and Broad St. to South St., where a huge protest demon- svration will be held. The American Committee's office is at 104 Fifth Ave., Room 1811. It’s; — call to the New York Workers is in| full as follows: | Against the Japanese Invasion of | China! | Against the. Wars in South Am- | erica! | “To all opponents of war:— The | brutal invasion of Jehol by the Jap- anese government brings us closer to a new world war. The milita imperialistic government of Japan, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) | BUILDING SOVIETS THRUOUT N. CHINA’ 4th Red ~ Army Now Has 50,000 Men BULLETIN (Cable by Inprecorr) BERLIN, Jan. 24.—Reports from Shanghai state that Paul and Ger- tude Ruegg have gone on a hunger strike in order to secure better food, removal from solitary confine- ment and for humane treatment. SHANGHAI, Dec. 15 (By Mail).—} New Soviets are being established throughout North China as a result of increasing partisan struggles by the impoverished peasants, new vic- tories by the Chinese Red Army and a rapid growth in the Red Army forces. During November, the 4th Red ; the crowd, they put off evicting un- |W: orkerKilled by Cop| As He Lies Dying of Starvation on Street: | NEW YORK—While Wagner, William unemployed worker and father of three children, lay dying in the street, of starvation, yes- terday, afternoon, a policeman brought to the scene hour search, savagely in the side, killing him at once. The worker lay in | Bowery, a few doors } the Salvation Army, | The police, after murdering the | worker, tried to find someone to| say that front of 17) away from| Wagner died of poison | liquor, despite the insistence of an_| acquaintance, wi identified the | body, that the worker never drank. | , Wagner, who was a mass of skin | and bones, liad been starving, said | his friend. The dying m: n as lying on the {street two hours before assistance ,could be found. After he died the| police left the body there for an| hour before it was removed, -At the same time Commissioner | Taylor, who is directly responsible | for this worker and others thru- | out. the city dying of starvation, | ‘has his wages raised in the new city budget. PICKETS SMASH EPSTEIN THREAT Brownsville Evictions Halted; Picket Today NEW YORK. —Two hundr ers from the r red work- held open | cir meetings and mass picketing yr Street | terday in front ) sarrett where a rent strike is going on. The landlord was there, with the police and with an official of the Land- lords’ Association to carry out two evictions, but seeing the militancy of til_ today. This landlords’ Association is head- ed by the Socialist Epstein, who ih conference with the workers two day ago threatened to “split their heads” if they interferred with the evictions yesterday. Epstein also told them that he would rather “nail up the house | and leave all the tenants on the! street” than settle the strike. The neighborhood is aroused and| there will be a big mass picket de- monstration this morning at 8.30 to which every. one is called; to stop the evictions. At 3 p. m. today an open air mass meeting at 226 Bar- rett Street will march to an open| air mass meeting before the land- lord’s house at 338 Newport Street, Brownsville. ‘Tomorrow at 2 p. m. there will be a mass demonstration before the of- fice of the Landlords’ Association | | |] Support for Albany | > AVE. A. TENANTS at Saratoga and Pitkin Aves. 500 Step Evictions Army of the Honan-Anwei-Hup2h borders Soviet District successfully smashed through the Kuomintang forces to join the 24th Red Army which was already operating in Shensi Province, or the borders of Mner Mongolia. The 26th Red Army already had captured a number of cities in the heart of Shensi Proy- ince: Fuping, Sanyuan, Yaochow, etc. The workers and peasants of these districts aided in the overthrow of the power of the Kuomintang land- lord interests and begun dividing the Jands among themselves, promoting the agrarian revolution. Nanking Soldiers Join Reds. On Nov. 26, th e26th Red Army fol- lowed up these victories by occupy- ing Lungehunchai, Shanyang, Shang- thow and Lonen. ‘In a fierce battle with the crmy of the Kuomintang {CONTINUED UN PAGE THREE? At Monterey Avenue; Need Big Crowd Today NEW YORK- ive hundred pick- ets massed in front of the rent strike at 2027 Monterey Avenue from 8 a. m. yesterday to late in the afternoon. The marshall came down twice in his car to make evictions, but passed up the job each time when he saw the militant crowd. The open air meeting was attacked by police, who tried to break it up and divide the crowd, but it con- tinued successfully. Today is the critical day, as with- out doubt another attempt will be made to evict. All out to picket 2027 Monterey Avenue this morning at 8 a, m, CITY EVENTS MASS MEETING ON FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE Mass meeting Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Stuyvesant Casino to present the true demands of the Filipinos on independence and analyze the so-called Philippine Independence Bill passed by congress. Speakers: William Simons, national secretary Anti-Imperialist League; H. M. Wicks, asso- ciate editor Daily Worker; John Ballam, district secretary LL.D.; M. Publico, of Filipino Anti-Imperialist League and M, M. Abulance, organ- izer Anti-Imperialist League. . SOUTH BROOKLYN UNEMPLOYED MARCH Marchers form at 192 President St. and 201 Bond St. at 9:30 Friday morning and proceed to Home Relief Bureau at 69 Schermerhorn St. to present demands formulated by conference of unemployed councils and block committees, * DEMONSTRATION BEFORE FOLTIS-FISCHER Mass demonstration before Foltis office, 530 West 27th St., at 2 p.m. ‘Thursday, to demand reinstatement of discharged workers, withdrawal of wage cut and no discrimination. 3 * . HACKER TO REPORT ON FIFTH LL.D. WORLD CONGRESS Carl Hacker, national organizer of the International Labor Defense, will report to an open meeting at 2 p.m., Jan. 29, at Irving Plaza Hall, on the Fifth World Congress of the LL.D. to which he was a delegate, . . * SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE PARADE AND MEETING Scottsboro Defense Committee will lead a parade Jan. 30 from Union Sq. mass meeting at 7 p.m. to another meeting in Hennington Hall, 214 E. Second St., at 8 p.m. Richard B. Moore will speak for the committee and Carl Hacker for the LL.D. . MASS PROTEST ON HARLEM HOSPITAL HORKORS James W. Ford and John J. Ballam will speak at St. Lukes Hall, 125 West 130th St., Thursday, at 8 p.m. at a meeting of Negro and white workers to demand an end to discrimination and butchering of Negro sarcietis in Harlem Hospital, . , . MOBILIZE AT CONEY ISLAND COURT Case of 11 unemployed workers arrested at Home Relief Bureau comes up in Coney Island Court, W. Eighth St., at 9 a.m., Thursday, Workers of Coney Island, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst and Flatbush, fill the court! ee i ke CELEBRATE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF N.T.W.LU. » Celebration of Fourth Anniversary of founding of Needle Trades Workers Indus-rial Union, Saturday, at 8:20 p.m. in New Star Casino. All other militant unions, workers clubs am LW.O., branches urge their "members to participatr NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents PRANKLIN AVE. "KEY RENT STRIKE | STRUGGLE TODAY Widening Scope; Gets Conference NEW YORK.—The rent strikes get hotter, with the landlords’ associa- | tion using the police department to He fullest extent and whole neigh- | allying to the support of | the strikers. | Out of this rent strike s jon gre’ increased support for the State | Conference of all workers’ organiza- | tions .for unemployment insurance | and labor legislation, backed now by | 76 local unions and other organiza- | tions. The confe~ence will be in Al- | | bany, Feb. 25 to 27. This conference Graft a bill against evictions, to | | place before the legislature, but }meanwhile the tenants of New York. | |manv -* them jobless, are ga fight t @! vesierday stopped all ev tions fer the day. New picketing must develop today on a broader scale with larger ses, for evictions are threatened this | morning in nearly every strike. | Particularly is this true of the | ; Strike at 1392 Franklin Ave., Bronx, | | the strike of longest duration, and the center of the movement for a | Widespread general rent strike in many houses, for which a commit- | tee of 50 has already been elected. | In this Franklin Ay ike, eight i Yesterday | Police attacked open air mass meet- | | ings at 1392 Franklin Ave., but the strikers stood their rround. | All out to picket 1392 Franklin Ave. at 8 a.m, this morning! (Other rent strike news in nearby olumns.) will undoubtedly CALL TO PICKET ‘Attempt to Evict Is: Expected Today Declaring that he was out to “smash the reds,” the landlord of 503 East 11th St., served final notice through David Leef, city marshall on six of the striking ten- ants that if they did not pay the stipulated rent by the close of yester- day they would be definitely evicted this morning. Despite his threat the tenants re- fused to pay rent. Throughout the day and in the evening mass picket- jing and open air meetings were held |in front of the premises, The mili- \tant picketers defied a police order | against picketing two abreast, and replied to threats of several antag- | onistic cops by singing revolutionary songs. The Downtown Unemployed Coun- cil announced yesterday that it will) mobilize a large force @# workers to help resist the evictions this morning. | An open air demonstration will start at 11th St. and Avenue A at 8 o’clock this morning. The marshall is ex- pected to arrive about 8:30. A rumor was spread yesterday by the landlord that he had offered a compromise to the tenants earlier in the struggle. The tenants’ strike committee branded this rumor as a crude lie spread by the landlord in order to gain the good will of the | neighboring tenants. | The landlord, Abe Rosenblum, was | until the strike known as the “terror | of the Fist Side.” His cowardly con- duct during the strike and his will- ingness to give certain tenants rent reductions if they quit the strike has broken his intimidating power. An- ‘other, strike of tenants is now going on against him in one of his buildings on Easf 6th St. Workers, shall this landlord be able to say that he “smashed the reds?” All out this morning at 11th St. and | Avenue A, to demonstrate against the evictions. Workers and mass organ- |izations in the downtown area are | specially urged to attend this anti- | eviction demonstration, (Published as preparatory ma- terial for the State-wide Confer- ence on Unemployment Insurance and Labor Legislation, Feb. 25 to 27 in Albany), ee By JAMES CASEY. The stage has been set to throttle every move of the workers for Un- employment Insurance and relief at the expense of the government and) the employers. Democratic and Re- publican chiefs have given approval to a mass of bills at Albany, not one of which: offers aid, in the slightest degree, to the jobless and the des- titute. On the relief question, as on all other issues, President-elect Roosevelt and Governor Lehman have stepped briskly to obey the edicts of the Wall Street bankers, And the bankers have decreed that the men and women who still draw wages must be mulcted more and more, without seruples or reservations. A.E.L. Chiefs Used Finally, in the drive to compel the Drive; Rush Funds!) “We, the members of the Prospect Workers Center, have energetically conducted paign, winning the second pr the ‘Morning Freiheit’ cam- ize. Now we are challenging the workers’ clubs in the Daily Worker campaign. So far we have contributed $65. “Save the Daily Worker! “Save the Daily Worker Committee. “Prospect Workers Center.” * MUIS is a challenge to the workers’ clubs in New York City. 2 But it is also a challenge to the clubs outside of New York too, in fact, to all the mass organizations of the work- ing cla: ity, little realization of the fact that into the drive for $35,000, the only di tions of the working class and ALL n: The International Workers Order has issued an appeal to i and set itself a quota of $8,000, but So far these organizations have shown little activ- unless they throw all their energies aily paper that speaks for ALL sec- ationalities will be forced to suspend. members has been so far none of this moni received. The same is true of most of the other mass organizations. Y only $2 since the drive started. Phil: ESTERDAY’S contributions toiall sum received since the drive started Jan. has been contributed by the New York something is radically wrong with the other: drawn up, but there has been little action. led $165.80, making $1,408.65 as the 14. Of this total, $1.037.26 district, which means tha Fine programs have been hicago’s record still holds— ladelphia and Cleveland, with quotas of $2,500 and $2,000 respectively, are not much better. a ee ELLOW-WORKERS, the situation would happen if the Daily Worker should go under? the Scottsboro boys, can we fre chain-gang sentence against Angelo for relief, for unemployment insurance and against evictions, organize our forces properly to smash the war plans of the imperiali: and defend the Soviet Union, can carry on with full effectiveness the 1 hunger, terror and war program of t Answer this question today—AT ONCE! dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels and alive! is crucial. Can you imagine what Can we save Tom Mooney, can we smash the Herndon, can we fight as we should can Ss the working masses of this country hundreds of daily battles against the he bosses without the Daily Worker? Answer it by sending in pennies to keep the Daily Worker Answer it by collecting among all those you come in contact with and by getting your organizations to follow the examplz of the Prospect Workers Center. Save the Daily Worker! Speed all possible funds today to the “Daily” office, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. Crawford Case Reveals Chain Gang Horrors Workers Must Build Huge Mass Defense for Herndon! Smash Chain Gang System! LANSING, Mich., Jan. 24.—The fnunderpes nature of the 18 to 20 year | chain gang sentence imposed by the courts of Georgia on Angelo Herndon, | | 19-year old Negro organizer of the unemployed, was vividly brought out here during the fight conducted by the International Labor Defense against the attempt of the State of Georgia to extradite Jesse Crawford, a neath old Negro youth who had escaped o—. - | trom the Georgia chain gangs, Story of Inhuman Torture The Negro and white workers who crowded the courtroom during the hearing on the extradition demand heard in simple words, from the lips of this lad, a terrible story of brutal and inhuman tortures inflicted on the |helpless victims of the chain gang! bosses. And to back up his story, young Crawford rolled up his trous- ers and showed the painful scars left by the steel cuffs which had been riveted around his ankles. Although he had been off the chain. gang for nine months, the scars were still deep and ugly. Under the questioning of the LL.D. attorney Maurice Sugar, Crawford told how he was arrested at the age of 17, and sentenced to one to three years on the Fulton County chain gang, the same county in which An- gelo Herndon has just been sen- tenced to a living death for the “crime” of organizing white and Ne- gro workers together to fight against starvation and the brutal national oppression of the Negroes. The “Trace Chain” How a two-inch chain had been riveted around his neck, from which dropped a heavy chain, 10 inches long and weighing 9 or 10 pounds, was/ vividly described by Crawford. This is called a “trace chain.” It is the same kind of chain used on work animals, At night it is attached in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) iStalin’s Full. Speech ‘in Enlarged Edition of “Daily,” Saturday NEW YORK.—On Saturday, Jan- uary 28, there will be a special edi- tion of the Daily Worker, with special | features of the utmost importance. ‘Thare will be a supplement of 4 pages containing the full speech of Comrade Stalin on the results of the Five Year Plan. This speech was delivered at a meeting of the joint Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the C. P. S. U. In addition, there will appear an article “Smash Sectarianism—Penet- rate the Factories” by Earl Browder. ‘This is a summary of a speech made at the Chicago shop conference. This edition of the Daily Worker should be given wide circulation among the broadest masses. All Units are requested to place their special order for this issue with their Section Daily Worker Rep. not later then Wednesday. DISTRICT ORG. DEPARTMENT NEW YORK—Thé Alteration | Painters Union Local 2 is leading strikes now in shops at 255 Bergen Ave., and 1848 Nostrand Ave., fight- ing for increase in pay and recog- nition. All members of Local 2 dre urged to report for picket duty at 7 a. m. workers to pay for the capitalist cri- sis, leaders of the American Fed- eration of Labor have been placed in key positions, both at the State Capi- tol and in New York City. Only the most vigorous and emphatic action on the part of the United Front Con- ference called by the A.F.L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment |” Insurance will cause the workers’ en- emies to back-step in their plans. Appointments of A. F. of L. leaders to state and city posts have been made for three major reasons. In the first place, they are to combat, with barrages of demagogic phrases, the shagpening demand for legislation in the ‘interests of the working class. Secondly, their recommendations as “labor” leaders are to serve as a smoke screen for the anti-working class maneuvers of the capitalist poli- ticians. Thirdly, and most significant of all, the A.F.L. leaders are to help in engineering the “retrenchment” program of new wage-cuts and more dismiscais of workers, A. F. L. Chiefs Are Spearpoint of Bankers’ Attack on Unemployed As a result of this alignment of re- actionary forces, John Sullivan, Pres- ident of the State Federation of La- bor, played a leading part in-the con- spiracy on the night of October 27, 1932 to deny relief funds to the starv- ing millions of New York State. Donkey and Elephant Sullivan’s chance to perform an important service for the bankers came after a persistent fight last fall by the Unemployed Councils for im- mediate and adequate relief for those in want. So powerful had become the mass pressure for a special ses- sion of the legislature to provide re- lief that Roosevelt, then seeking the presidency and fearing a bad reaction on Election Day, was obliged to pause and consider action. Roosevelt called a closed conference at the Executive Mansion in Albany. To this session, came George R Fearon, Republican leader of the State Senate; Joseph P. Leper Re- (CONTINUED ON” ON PAGE TWO) Challenge Worker|8,000 WORKERS OUT AS DETROIT AUTO Clubs in ie ‘Daily’ | STRIKE SPREADS 10 ANOTHER PLANT |Men in Two Briggs Factories Fight for Higher Wages; Militant Mass | dnaiiaeall Defeats Police Intimidation lSeek to Spread Struggle to pues Auto Plants Thruout City in Battle | Against Boss Wage- Cut Dri ive S. U. Poaion| Is Stronger, |Says Molotov (By Radio). MOSCOW, Jan. V. Molotov, 24. of People’s Commissars, speaking at | the opening session of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet | Union, | on inter! | ational affairs. He declared “There be no doubt that | pathy towards the U.S.S.R. on part of the toiling mas: the of all coun- tries during the period of the Year Plan has grown cor This cannot be viewed otherwis as a serious strengthening of the in- | ternational position of the Soviet | Union.” | Strongest Ties With Germany. Referring to the formal interna- tional relations, Molotoy character- | ized their development during past year as in these mutual relations. countries that have diplomatic rela- | tions with us, we have had the | strongest economic ties with Ger- | many. This is no accident. It pro- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DEMAND STOP TO 'Ford and Ballam Will Speak Tomorrow NEW YORK. mes Communist Party candidate president in the last elections, bert Glassford, of the Struggle for Negro Rishts, J. Ballam, orgar District of the International Labor Defense, will sveak at the mass pro- test meeting this Thursday, Jan. 26, | at 8 p.m. in St. Lukes Hall, 125 W. 135th St., against the Harlem Hos- pital butcherings of Negro patients and discriminations against Negro doctors and nurses. | Feeling against the hospital is so bitter, and the conditions at this Tammany controlled institution so and John | hospitals, that thousands of workers | are expected to attend the meeting. The recent attempt of the boss- | controlled National Association for | | the Advancement of Colored People exposed by the Daily Worker) against the heads of the hospital, Drs. Wright and Conner, has and white workers against these two N.AA.CP.-Tammany underlings. Dr. Conner recently resigned under fire from the hospital, but is stili the real head with Wright. | More and more ‘cases of unbe- lievable treatment of both Negro and white patients are coming to the at- tention of the Daily Worker every day. Negro patients are subjected to double mistreatment as part of the whole system of the white rul- ing class oppression of the Negro | people. Workers who have been patients at Harlem Hospital or at the hospital clinic should write about their e: periences in these places to the Daily Worker. 500 Jobless at City Cold Floor; One Dies NEW YORK—Five hundred un- employed workers sleeping on’ the floor without heat or cots in the Municipal Flop House at 25th St. and East River mutinied this morning and raised a shout for heat. A hungry man, starving on the slop issued as city charity, collapsed in the dining room of the Municipal Flop House yesterday chairman of the Council | HOSPITAL HORROR, League of | izer of the New York } LR.T. Workers! Stop Layoffs typical of the conditions forced on | Negro and white workers in all city | made important observations | the | “normal,” stating that | “Germany occupies a particular place | Of all} Last Call for Applicants to Speakers’ Class NEW YORK. — The District Agit-Prop Department announced that the district speakers class 28, will begin Saturday 3 p. m., at the Workers Center, 50 January East 13 Street, Room 204, In an- nouncing the beginning of the ss, howev the department stresses very strongly that unless those sections which have not ent in their applications dé so once, they will not be represented at in the ass, The district is de- ‘ous of getting the maximum ults from this speak and consequently will a close examination of plicant. To effect this, application blanks from each section must the commencement Wednesday, January lass. d announced in a previous s atement is the last day for applications to reach the district. Blanks coming n after that date will not be con- sidered. The district also wishes to call to the attention of the sections the slow starting of the section train- ing schoo 7 is undoubtedly due to the slow procedure in re- gistering the comrades in the sec- s. Such n must be overcome and d ps must be taken to effect the beginning of these schools by the end of the present month. All sections are urged to notify the district in ad- vance of the addr date and time of their schools so that the instructors can be notified and te present on the exact date the schools sta: Star Slipper Picket Line Spoils Boss’. Scabs-by-M a il Plot NEW YORK.- as Star Slipper 0. boss calles y il to work; | | | | to secretly squelch the charges (as | further | roused the anger of the Negro people | | 000 wage slash! t the strikers, i r second day of struggle, kept them out yesterday. Slipper workers are urged to come every day to picket this strike, 596 Broadw: Danner, the organizer of the Boot and Shoe Union, (A.F.L.) is trying to break the strike led by the Leather Workers Industrial Union at the Franklin Shoe Co. (also called Caro- | line Shoe Co.) by spreading rumors that the strike is over. All shoe workers are urged to sup- port the union, GRAND RAPIDS STRIKE SOLID Militant Union Leads Struggles DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 24. More than 8,000 auto workers | were out on strike today as the walkout in the Briggs Highland Park plant spread to | the Mack Avenue plant, which is the key factory. The strike | started as a fight for increased and workers are now also der ing no piece-work, no work, equal pay omen and rec~ ition of the shop committee. e two larg- follows, the splen- a t the. Motor which was Products Cory concluded Saturday. _A joint strike committee has been ing all departments. ing is going on at both men and women, Negro pating. At this ydia Barken, 1 other_w Russel Lane and sever ; ers were arrested on charges of “in- citing to s " but the police are | failing in their efforts to intimidate the strikers Led by Auto Workers Union, The strike is being led by the Auto | Workers Untott ecordance. with ited front action ng Auto Work- | the ‘program of 1 adopted at the ins: ts’ Conference lat stinda attended | by 560 delegates from a large num- of plants. Union groups . and ance committees, us departments, | ihe calling of the s set up in the made possible ike. distributed to uto plants, a spe- been issued for the seakers are being ory gates in an | effort to spread the strike into a general city-wide movement against the wage-cutting offer | bosses and for immed unemplo; at insurance employed auto workers Tonight a h rally will be held in the Arena Garden Grand Rapids Strikers Solid. GRAND RAPIDS, Michc., Jan. 24.— The workers in the Hayes Body plant it out on strike Satur- a wage-cut, after the dis- a leaflet issued by the ion, are 100 per cent They are determined to win, tribution of Auto Workers solid. Short Hours and Wage Cuts Workers! When you have read this, hand it to a motorman, con- ductor or other subway or elevated employee! NEW YORK.—The. Gr T. Workers, with headq at 799 Broadway, Room * | sued a call to the subw2y e of the Interborougt it Co. as follows: “I.R.T. | workers: Stop the lay-offs, short hours and wage cuts!” e call continues: “Short hours and lay-offs have al- | ready started on top of the $3,500,- Every department is erdered to cut down the pay-roll an extra 20 per cent by Feb. Ist! This means still lower wages, more hardships and starvation! The bank- ers and the company are squeezing the life-blood out of us! Our wives and children will suffer while the millionaires demand more! “We had nothing to say about the $110,000 taken out of our pockets for the Gibson Committee! Four of the LR.T. Board of Directors are on the Executive of the Gibson Relief Com- mittee. That's why these bankers were so generous with our money! and now these same hypocrites cut still deeper into our wages and throw men out of work! “The reduction of the working | force will resnit in Jess safety! When /accidents happen will the company Flop House Sleep on take the responsibility? The tricky company lawyers know how to shift the blame on us. “The Brotherhood officials are playing the dirty game of the Com- pany! The old agreement was sup- posed to guarantee wages and em- ployment up to April 30, 1933, With- out a vote of the men a new agree- ment was put over with a heavy | wage-cut together with a false pro- mise of the Company “to maintain the same working conditions” and “to employ each of the members of | the Brotherhood now in the employ | for the period of one year from the | 1st day of January, 1933.” What is this agreement but a fraud and a scrap of paper! “Hedley says a higher fare will | mean the return of the wage-cuts! | The scheming Hedley wants to stop cur protest against the company by switching us imto beosting for a higher fare, so that the company will rob the public as well as the LR.T, men. “Smooth talk and threats cannot stop the rising protest of the men! “DEMAND LOCAL MEETINGS: ASK THE DELEGATES ABOUT | THE VIOLATIONS OF THE COM- PANY AGREEMENT! “Demand a vote against lay-offs shert time and wage-cuts! Don’t let up! “The workers who ride the LR.T. are sympathetic to our demand for safety and are opposed to lay-offs wage-cuts and higher fare for the benefit of the millianaires! “Groups of the LR.T. men are get: ting together all over the system They are organizing to put up a better fight against the company and the company-controlled Brother- hood! “We must organize our power to stop lay-offs, short-time and wage- cuts!” Not Generous To Jobless This is the call issued by the ¥. R.T. group. As a matter of fact, of course, .the Gibson Committee generally finds some other use, for expenses, etc., for the money col- lected from workers, and is not gen- erous with it to the unemployed. The Gibson Committee has stopped re- gistering unemployed. Numerous workers’ organizations are passing resolutions of protest against exploitation of LR.T. work- ers and endangering of the lives of worker riders on the subway and elevated trair |