The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1933, Page 3

25, Page Three - ‘CRAWFORD CASE SHOWS HORRORS | Workers Must Smash Chain Gang (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ON®) THOMAS PRAISES ONLY OPERATOR-OWNED ILL. GOVERNOR 352 Delegates From 40 Towns Meet in Anti- 3.6 P.C. RAISED IN FIRST: DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1933 BUILDING SOVIETS Revolt Grows in the TEN DAYS OF “DAILY” DRIVERUOUIN.CHINA) — Inv’l Longshore Assn. \4th Red Army Now ES Ee ; Ryan and Company Force Philadelphia Men The fate of the Daily is in your | Fa Men hands. Broaden the drive! Collect | Has 50,000 Mer Into Newly Created Local 7 .& 3B. The analysis printed below of the contributions received up_to Monday inclusive in the campaign to save the among your friends, your shop- | REAR Ca Coarse age A JE mates, in your organizations. Ar- | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Daily Worker should sound a danger| airs and tag days for the SCA By G. ther chain at the foot of the coe a signal. In the first ten days of the Demand action in your | Governor, Yang Fu-chen, the troops There are over ten thousand longshoremen employed in Philadelphia. | Where the prisoner sleeps. In addi- Hunger Conference drive only a 242.85, or 3.6 ‘per cent districts and SHOW ACTION. | Of the latter were defeated by the) Ont of these only about 40 percent are members of the I. L. A. The re- tion, th were the chains around SPRINGFIELD, Il., Jan. 24—The Tlinois Anti-Hunger Conference opened at Labor Temple this morn- ing. Carpenters Hall was rented but it was too small to accomodate the delegates. Reports show that the delegates are coming from 70 towns and number 500 elected by local un- ions of the Progressive miners of America, United Mine Workers of America, A. F, of L. Railroad Broth- erhoods, Negro organizations, Churches, Fraternal Organizations, Unemployed Councils, Women’s Aux- iliaries, 4 Pian April Hunger M =reh. The conference will elec. a delega- tion to the State Legisl=t we to pre- sent the Unemployme:.; and Social Insurance Bill. The delegation will appear before the Legislature's Sub- Commission against the Sales Tax. The main reporter will be, Karl Lockner, Secretary of the Cook County Council who led the demon- stration against the murderous at- tack on the pickets in Christian County. The Conference will elect a State Committee and will decide on the Hunger March the first week in April. The largest single delegations come from the miners and railroad workers, There is also a large repre- sentation of farmer delegates. Norman Thomas came to Spring- field, Saturday, and was met officially by representatives of Governor Hor- ner and with his official escorts was brought to the Horner Mansion. Ac- cording to the press, he discussed with Horner how to “most effectively settle the struggle” in Christian County, which means how best to crush the strike. On the speech of Thomas, the Springfield Journal re- ports that “Thomas spoke in praise of Governor Horner for initiating his administration with a determined ef- fort to restore tranquility in the mine area.” Horner's action was to send troops to Christian County closing the relief station kitchen which was opened only through pressure of the masses. Martial law actually exists in Christian County, preventing mass meetings, and local unions from picketing. However the National Guards permitted Thomas to speak at Taylorville. On the twenty-two miners indicted for murder at Tay- lorville, Thomas has only the follow- ing to say: “He proposes to the Governor, the removal of the Prose- cuting Attorney of Christian County,” and to hire another attorney not so much hated by the miners and by these means pave the road for rail- roading the miners to jail for life. DEMONSTRATE IN CHICAGO ON SAT. Against War’ Makers of U. S. and Japan BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 24.—Fifteen hundred demonstrated yesterday at the Chinese Consul- ate here protesting the arrest of Huang-Ping. One thousand work- ers’ took part in the march, in- cluding many Filipino. Chinese and Japanese carrying banners in strik- ing solidarity of all workers, On finding that the consulate was out, the workers served notice of a return demonstration. papsae aie rs CHICAGO, Jan. 24—Chicago work- ers will demonstrate their opposition to imperialist war and their firm soli- darity with the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union in a tremendous anti-war action this Saturday. The demonstration will take place in front of the Japanese Consulate in the Tribune Tower, 435 North Michigan Avenue, beginning at 1 o'clock sharp. The Communist Party, which is or- ganizing the demonstration, has is- sued a call to the workers of Chicago, in which it clearly points out the increasing danger of a rapid transi- tion into world imperialist war of the present invasion of China. It points out the role of the U. S. as the chief instigator of the wars in South America and its present frantic war preparations in its ins creasingly bitter rivalry with Japan for mastery of the Pacific and con- trol over China, and calls for a re- lentless struggle against the war- makers at Washington and Tokio. DENVER TOILERS WIN VICTORY DENVER, Jan. 24—Workers of Co- lorado today won a tremendous poli- tical victory when a demonstration five thousand strong at 23rd and Wel- ton Streets, forced the city and state officials to grant them permission to demonstrate on the capitol grounds and to present to the governor and the state legislature their demands for Unemployment Insurance and relief. Until Saturday afternoon, officials refused permission to the workers to meet at all in a hunger demonstra- tion. Resolutions of protest from workers’ meetings in all sections of the state and then the demonstration yesterday, forced the officials to grant them permission to assemble at a place specified by the workers’ dele- gates of the United Front Confer- ence, Defeat Police Intimidation. These forced concessions mean overwhelming political defeat for the city and state government. The en- tire Denver Police Department, armed to the teeth attended the meeting and surrounded the speakers proletarian dlgcipine of the masses ipline of the masses defeated all attempted intimidation. ee | 4 of the $35,000 that is needed, has been raised. Only District 2 (New York) has been doing any kind of work, and that is nothing to brag about, Of its quota of $12,000, the New York! District has raised 7.6 per cent, and! is a little ahead of District 1 (Boston) and District 7 @etroit), which have, raised 6.8 and 6.7 per cent respect-| ively of their quotas. Chicago, with the second largest quota, $4,000, has contributed exact- ly $2, or one-twentieth of one per cent of its total! Philadelphia and Cleveland are badly behind. Readers, friends of the Daily Worker, your paper is in danger. He announced You need the “Daily sloated it when faced the “Daily” suspension. to get rid of this pest forever. Save the Daily Workers. Contribute generously USSR. POSITION STRONGER NOW Molotov in Address at Soviet Session (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ceeds from the interests of both coun- tries.” Molotov pointed out a number of features in the development of for- eign relations. Speaking of the re- sumption of diplomatic relations be- tween the Soviet Union and China, he said: “As is known, these relations were ruptured at the initiative of the Nan- king government. It need oxly be pointed out that the initiative /-r re- storing these relations was also taken by that government and met with our full support. We think a mistake was thus corrected.” Reaffirms Peace Policy. In a ‘passage of his speech dealing with Japan, Molotoy again referred to the resumption of Chinese-Soviet relations: “As to the resumption of relations between the U.S.S.R. and China, the Soviet Union decides such questions irrespective of whether the decision is agreeable or disagreeable to anybody. The Soviet Union pro- ceeds in such cases from the inter- ests of general peace and from the basic principles of its peace policy.” Molotov ridiculed the position of the “sages” of countries which do not yet have diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. and think preliminary “study” is necessary as a prerequisite to recognition. He referred particu- larly to Czecho-Slovakia, where “cer- tain ministers” have been “profound- ly ‘studying’ the U.S.S.R.” “About Time”! This procedure, Molotov pointed out, is outdated. “Soviet Rule,” he said, “has existed for 15 years. Ten years have passed since the forma- tion of the Union of Socialist Soviet ministers of such countries as the United States follow in the footsteps of Ozecho-Slovakia. It is about time that they understood what the Sov- iet Union represents, especially after the successful fulfilment of the Five- Year Plan.” He then added: “The absence of diplomatic rela- tions has proved a loss first of all to those who occupy themselves with empty, useless talk about a special ‘study’ of the U.S.S.R. in the absence of diplomatic relations.” On Relations With England. Referring to England's recent de- nunciation of the trade treaty with the Soviet Union, Molotoy said: “We still do not know the real purpose of this act; we can only guess at it. If by the rupture of the trade treaty, someone wanted to frighten the Soviet Union, it is simply not serious. We have never been afraid of such things.” “We are certain of one thing,” Molotov added, “that the countries that maintain normal diplomatic and trade relations with the Soviet Un- ion unquestionably have the advan- tage over other countries. Especially since the Soviet Union, unlike some capitalist countries, is exact and punctual in carrying out all its obli- gations.” (The rest of Molotov'’s speech will be published tomorrow.) STEEL WORKERS PROTEST CUTS CHICAGO, Jan. 24—Three thous- and unemployed and part-time work- ers demonstrated yesterday in front of the Illinois Steel Company mil in South Chicago as a protest against a new wage-cut and the proposed reduction in relief by the city ad- ministration, The militancy of the workers pre- vented the breaking up of the dem- onstration, although police and drunken gangsters of the Illinois Steel tried to provoke a fight by taking away the banners of the work- ers and halting the committee of 15 elected by the denionstrators to pre- sent their demands to the bosses. ‘The workers, who included Negro, white and Mexican, adopted resolu- tions protesting against the police provocations and demanding the im- ™mediate release of Angelo Herndon, Negro worker whom the Atlanta, Ga., courts have just sentenced to 18 to 20 years on the chain gang for organizing the struggles of the Negro and white workers. The demonstration was held as a resulfof the conference held in South Chicago January 15 to organize the united front fight against wage-cuts. Another demonstration will be held this Friday, January 27, at 1.30 p. m. in front of the Commercial Avenue relief station to demand more relief for the unemployed steel workers and recognition of their committees. All workers, including women, are urged to participate in this demonstration together with their children. Yesterday, 1,500 steel workers in Indiana Harbor also took part in a demonstration against wage-cuts and for more relief, : | | | | | owing to inability to secure the fur- KIDNAP ANTI-WAR. | automobile which then made off at a Republics, but despite this, even the |of the “technocrats” developed with Scab Tactics of. Union Heads Ends | ’ London Bus Strike| (Cable By Inprecorr) | LONDON, Jan. 24—The London | bus strike ended yesterday evening by decision of the Strike Committee ther extension of the strike in the face of the scabbing tactics of the reformist union leaders. The strike showed the depth of the workers’ resentment against the treacherous speed-up agreement | signed by the reformists, and com- | pelled the company to make various modifications of the schedule origi- nally proposed. The Strike Committee has issued a statement explaining the reason for calling off the strike so as to pre- | vent the threatening dribble back to | work that would result in mass vic- timization. The fighting spirit of the workers | remains unbroken and immediate} steps are being taken to strengthen the unofficial organization with the view of further action in the near future. Four hundred street car men are still out fighting for their own de- mands against the company. | SPEAKER IN IND. Ohio, Pa. Steel Toilers Commemorate Lenin WABASH, Ind., Jan. 24—A group of 40 American Legionaires invaded | a Lenin Memorial and anti-war | meeting here Monday night, and} dragged Comrade Lawson of Chicago from the platform, beating him up badly and rushing him to the street where they threw him aboard an high speed. . The Legionnaires made a flying group attack on the speaker and kid- napped him before workers in the hall could rally to his defense. No trace has yet been discovered of the kidnapped speaker. The police have refused to take any action to discover | his whereabouts or apprehend the kidnappers. ah ae Score Chain Gang Verdict. PROVIDENCE, R. I, Jans 24— Eugene Gordon, nationally famous| Negro writer, was the main speaker at a Lenin Memorial and anti-war | meeting here on Sunday at which | 250 workers were present. The meet- ing unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the Georgia chain gang Sentence against Angelo Herndon, Negro organizer of the Atlanta Un- employed Council, Se he Steel Toilers Commemorate Lenin. WARREN, O., Jan. 24.— Steel workers turned out in large numbers to hear the speakers at the Lenin Memorial on the vital question of the fight against the wage cut in the steel industry and the struggle against imperialist war. gear Re 400 in Youngstown, YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. 24.—Over 400 steel workers, a large proportion Negro and youth, attended the Lenin Memorial and anti-war meeting in this city, Huge banners decorated the hall with fighting slogans such as “Build the Party of Lenin,” “Free the Scottsboro Boys,” “Smash the Southern Terror Against the Ne- groes.” “TECHNOCRATS” SPLIT NEW YORK.—A split in the ranks the declaration made by Prof. Raut- enstrauch and three other members of the group that they dissassociated themselves from technocracy. “As/ 'To Aid Jobless Fight far as I am concerned,” said Raut- enstrauch,” technocracy ceases to ex- | ist.” Every reader of the Daily Worker a shock brigader in the campaign to save our fighting paper! District Rec'd in past half week Total as of Jan Quota Percentage of Quota —Boston 6.8% N.Y. 7.6 21 Le 1.0 6.7 05 13 1 0 i 0 1 6 1 - 1 12 1 o 1 15 1 0 1 8.0 L 0 ing is the list of contributions received Sunday and Monday: DISTRICT 1 Total received Sunday, Monday... Previously recorded $ 206.14 1,086.71 Total to date from all districts $1 B Dombrowski $a Y. Sernivski 1.00 Workers Club of Salem, Mass 10.00 G Owen 30 TOTAL $11.75} DISTRICT 2% | Concourse Wkrs MB s Club A Soloma H Karr : Golfarb J Anderson M Silver L Hoffman | M Mione } W Silien J Curtolo Bill Wally Lovler M Schweitzer Wokovite | F Enlu L Cohen Jack 1 Brook Ave. fer Wkrs. Club 3.00 Womens Council Blayers Shop 12.00 24 Bronx F Ocenasek 2.00] P Botsten 1.00 Fur Workers Cap ‘X, New York 1.00 Co. 301 G 8, Jami 5.00 F Figeae Coney Island jam Wkrs. Club 28.30 J Cohen American Youth S Rabchinsky Club 5.00 S Barjau Open Shop Shoe N Brown Workers 1 S Sivak C Alvaner Dimand Ht Schwartz Total PENNY FUND IS COUNCIL PLAN $149.34 Thruout Country Millions of workers contributing one cent each, will individually feel no| great burden, but collectively serve} to make possible the solution of the| serious problem involved in financ- ing the struggle, declared the Na- tional Committee of the Unemployed Councils yesterday. Accordingly, the National Commit- | tee is instituting the following sys- tem for providing the fighting funds | everywhere. The National Committee will issue an official Penny (voluntary) Con- tribution Ticket which is to be sold in the following manner: At all affairs, dances, entertain- ments, mass meetings, ete, ar- ranged by friendly organizations. At factories and mines, etc., on pay-days, At entrance to or within union | or lodge meetings, By regular house to house can- | vassing, These collections shall be carried | through regularly by committees ap- pointed for this purpose in all basic organizations of the unemployed and by all affiliated organizations. Each organization being responsible for all such collections within the area in| which it operates. The proceeds from the sale of the | Penny Tax Tickets are to be divided as follows: Twenty per cent to the N. O. which will also cover cost of print- ing and mailing. Twenty-five per cent to the basic organization. (Clock Committee, Branch, etc.), Fifty-five per cent to be divided between state, city and neighbor- hood Council in such a manner as will be determined in each state and city. The N.O. will send an initial sup- ply of the Tax Tickets on receipt of order accompanied by cash at the rate of $2 per thousand and will re- new supplies on the same basis. The Penny Contribution is a per-| manent and basic method of financ- | ing the daily work and struggle of our movement. It is net a campaign | to be conducted during a limited per- iod but must be a part of the routine work of every division of our move- ment all year around. WORKER CORRESPONDENCE PACKING HOUSE AND FISHERY WORKERS CHICAGO STOCKYARD WORKERS ORGANIZING CHICAGO, Ill. — Conditions are getting worse among the stockyard workers. The unemployed are suf- fering greatly and are able to get hardly any relief at all. They had to contribute weekly to “relief” funds while working. A PICTURE TELLS A STORY! Worker correspondents take photographs and send them to the Daily Worker. The National Committee of the Workers Film and Photo League will cooperate ieee photographer-correspondents, Wages at Armour, Swift and others are about $12 a week. The continu- ous wage-cutting of the packers has brought wages down to 36c an hour and speed-up is almost killing the workers, Armour is shutting down its light plant and ice house and some de- partments are shutting down. The drivers got an indirect cut by losing one-day a week. Libby, McNeil and Libby workers average 3 days a week and $8 to $9. The workers are quietly getting or- ganized, with the union calling group meetings almost nightly. By spring we expect to have an almost 100 per cent organization. Therefore it is es- sential for all other unions to give us aid in every way possible. Sec, Packing House Workers Union. 9 | tal of the province. 26th Red Army. was completely disarmed. Many of the Kuomintang soldiers joined the} Red Army. Advancing imto Shensi Province, the 4th Red Army occupied Langtin on Nov. 22, destroying half of a Kuo- mintang division which was sta- I tioned at this city. On Novy. 26 the 4th and the 26th Red Armies successfully effected a junction at Hsien-Yang-Hsien, driv- ing out the Kuomintang White troops. This successful action repre- sents a tremendous setback for the Kuomintang Nanking Government, which strenuously tried to prevent the junction of the two Red Armies by rushing additional Kuomintang troops to southern Shensi to reinforce | the White troops. In its desperation, the Nanking government offered the comamnder of the reinforcements the governorship of Shensi Province as a reward if he succeeded in de- feating the Red Army forces. Yang Fu-chen, governor of the province, | is naturally hostile to this proposi- tion and is actively opposing the Nanking government at the same time that he carries on a white ter- ror against tha toiling masses of | Shensi Province. Province Governor Flees. By Nov. 23 the 4th Red Army was only three miles from Sian, the capi- four cities west of Sian. The masses jin Sian prepared a tremendous wel- come for the Red Army. Yang Fu- chen launched a savage terror against | | the toiling population, dissolving many workers’ organizations and closing most of the schools. A few days la- ter, however, Yang Fu-Chen was forced to flee as the 4th Red Army 7“. advanced on the capital. The Shanghai Chinese bourgeois papers have published claims that the 4th Red Army had been reduced to 4,000 soldiers as a result of its re- peated battles with the Kuomintang “Red Suppression” forces. The fact is that the 4th Red Army now has 50,000 men, having gained thousands | of new fighters from the workers and peasants of North China and by de- sertions of Kuomintang troops to the Red Army. Its influence is rapidly increasing among the toiling masses. Agrarian Fights Aid. The brilliant successes of the Red Armies in North China are aided by the rapid development of local daily struggles of the workers and the in- creasing partisan activities of the peasants in the fight against the landlords. These struggles involve thousands of toilers. Under the lead- ership of the Comunist Party of China, the masses are struggling for the demand for the arms, the land and the political power to carry on the national liberation struggle against the Japanese invasion and the proceeding imperialist partition of China. They are raising their strug- gles to the highest form, the Soviets, with new Soviets being set up over wide territories. A North China conference held by the Communist Party of China on June 24, 1932, was participated in by delegates from Hope, Shantung, Shensi, Shansi, Honan, and other northern provinces. The conference correctly estimated the situation in North China and out- lined the following main tasks for the Party in North China: 1. Intensification of the fight against imperialist armed interven- tion against the Soviet Union and the imperialist partition of China; 2. A relentless fight against the Kuomintang’s Fourth “Red Sup- pression” campaign, which is sup- ported by the United States and other imperialist bandit powers; 3. Armed resistance against the Japanese invasion of Jehol Prov- ince; 4. Overthrow of the rule of the Kuomintang lackeys of ism; 5. Spreading of the guerilla war- fare of the workers and peasants in Manchuria, Jehol and Hopei Proy- ince against the Japanese invaders; 6. Establishment of the Soviet Power in North China. The effect of this conference is al- ready to be noted in the developing revolutionary struggles in North China. While at the beginning of 1932, only a few hundred partisan soldiers were operating in a small number of Hsiens in North China, today the revolutionary struggle has spread all over North China. Increased Strike Struggles. The sharpening revolutionary crisis in North China is also indi- cated by the increasing strike strug- gles, the strike of street car work- ers in Tientsin, of miners at Tang- shan, at Tse-hsien and at the Brit- ish-owned Kaiping mine. In southern Hopei Province, the impoverished salt peddlers have driven out the Kuomintang Super- intendent, the rickshaw coolies have carried out an energetic struggle against the new taxes imposed on them by the Kuomintang militar- ists, All of these struggles took on the form of anti-imperialist, anti- Kuomintang actions. Strike strug- gles have even extended to the gov- ernment enterprises, with the work- ers on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway recently demanding an increase in their starvation wages. They pre- pared to strike to enforce their de- mands, ‘The struggles of the peasants against the landlords and usurers are likewise increasing in all parts of North China. Soldiers Raise Demands. Finally, the Kuomintang regime is less and less able to depend on its armed forces for the suppression of the struggles of the toiling masses. Desertions to the Red Armies are increasing. The Kuomintang sol- diers in North China are also de- manding the payment of airears in their wages, better food, cessation of glogging in the army, and especially resisting attempts to send them to South China to fight the Red Ar- mies. A Kuomintang regiment of It had occupied | Manchuria} imperial- | |help of the Internatio through a wage cut. T in st | another ten cents an hour cut | pr ‘oaching. Devices To Split Up Workers | © men were ap- ay The unorganized longshoremen ar forced to work for as little as cents an hour and less. B | wage cuts the shipowners have fur- ther worsened the working and liv- ing conditions of the longshoremen | by speed-up. Smaller gangs and | larger drafts, with loads to the cap- jacity limit, using unorganized car | gangs in place of union longshore- meh, using the coastwise men against | the deepwater men—the scale for the coastwise is 45 cents an hour, while | the deepwater is 75 cents an hour. | The Speed Up and Young Workers | The young workers are used against | the old workers. They n stand the \ speed up more than the old wor! | and most of them are unorga: |On McCormack coastwise ships one | man now operates two winches, in- | stead of one as before. At present 30 per cent of all longshoremen are unemployed and this amount is steadily increasing. Of those work- ing, 50 per cent work only one or | two days a week. The speed up is | throwing more and more out of work. | About 50 per cent of the longshore- men are Negro workers. The living conditions of the Negro are much worse than that of the white long- shoremen. They are discriminated against in hiring for work. Theg are Jim Crowed on the docks and slips. Struggle of the Rank and File The Marine Workers Industrial Union and the opposition in the Local 1116 of the L.L.A. following its leadership have played a very sig- nificant part in the struggle of the rank and file against the sell-out pol- | y of Ryan and Co., the increasing | worsened conditions on the job, and for the right to its own elected rank and file leadership. | In spite of these achievements, the | rank and file of 1116 are temporarily | defeated—forced to take orders from the old gang leadership they fought | against, and herded into a new local because of hunger and the neces- sity of a job. Their old charter and | treasury were lost. Expose Looting of Treasury Under pressure of the rank and file of local 1116 a committee was elected to carry through an investi- ; gation of the books and the per | capita tax returns to the Interna- | tional since June 1932. | AS an answer to the demands of |the rank and file, and in oder to cover up the money stolen from the | treasury of local 1116, Ryan and his | gang, who have for years terrorized | the longshoremen and imposed upon |them worsened conditions, have, | without asking them a question, dis- banded local 1116. _ Ryan's $6,000 and Shipowners | ‘When the rank and file resisted | this treacherous action of Ryan and | Baker, Mr. Ryan came down to speak to the longshoremen. He told them } that his salary of 6,000 dollars a year was barely enough for him, as |a labor representative, to represent them with. That he lived as humbly as any longshoremen existing on two | | days work a week. That due to the | | crisis which affected all people—the | | shipowners as well as the workers in | the transport industry, alike there could be no hope of improvement in | the working and living conditions. Whitewashes Looters He evaded any discussion of these | | conditions, or of the amount of un- employment, or of the program of | the International. Longshoremen’s | Association for bettering these con- ditions. He fully indorsed the action | of his Philadelphia henchmen, Baker }and Krutsberger. Not only did he! | attempt to whitewash the looting of the treasury of some 14,000 dollars of | local 1116, but when asked what po- | sition he took on Baker's attack on | | the longshoremen by dissolving local 1116, he said plainly, “Local 1291 is the only local on the waterfront. Take it or leave it.” Attacks M.W.LU. He launched an attack upon the Marine Workers Industrial Union, stating that they were the cause of the whole affair—the loss of th’ treasury, the formation of the new local, the bad conditions on the | waterfront. But this slander came to nothing | in the face of the solidarity of both Negro and white workers of 1o4 | 1116. Krutsberger and Baker bi | }ed local 1116 as “a scab local” and} | “a Communist Nigger Union.” | Officials Call Police In the face of the insistent de- recognition of their old local, their | own leadership, and the return of their charter—and their firm dis- cipline in the face of the provoca- tions and lies of Ryan and Co., the police were finally called in and the men driven out of the hall. Smashing Unions for Bosses It is in full agreement with the} shipowners that Ryan has played this trick, His answer clearly shows that the shipowners and the ILA.) officialdom want no union with rank and file control. Especially one that will fight for better conditions. Their discontent with the treach- erous sell-out of Ryan and Baker at the wage scale conference in October clearly shows this. For years the rank and file have worked hard to build up local 1116. Now Baker and Ryan are smashing it in an effort to further worsen con- ditions. Local 1291 was set up to deprive the rank and file of any means of expressing its opinion about present conditions. Paving Way For More Wage Cuts the forces of Marshal Chang Hsiao- liang, influenced by the partisan ac- tivities in the vicinity of Koli, Hopei Province, rebelled on Noy. 8 The men gathered at the large city of Poating, further spreading disaffec- tion among the Kuomintang garrison of that city sht and overtime work with® An entire regiment maining 60 percent are unorganized. In October the ship owners with the 1 Longshoremen’s Association officialdom put forced to accept a ten percent cut It aims to disorganize the long- horemen in the face of the acks of in this indu: The Baker and Kr ship want to use against the deepy and f ther cut the wages. Luckenbach and American Hawaiian hi: announced intentions of soon working coastwis¢ Preparing General Wage Cut These deepwater lines will be quickly followed by others affecting ag al wage cut on thousands of | longshoremen now working these | ships at the deepwater scale. than this, hours can be I with no overtime pay, draft loads will be increased, and smaller gangs em- | ployed. Ryan Meets Bosses First Tt is now well wn that R, came to Philadelphia four days in advance of his meeting with the long- shoremen to arrange with the ship- owners and the Stevedoring com- panies this new manouver and to get their backing of local 1291, Baker has attacked local 1116 being a “Communist Nigger Union”. Why? Because he saw in local 1116 | the unity of Negro and white long- | shoremen, under the leadership of | a rank and file committee fighting | for justice and better conditions, and | against the self-imposed leadership | of the corrupt Baker gang. The Marine Workers Industrial | Union pledges its full support to the | struggles of the rank and file against | the treacherous sellout policy of the | International Officialdom and in the struggle for better working and liv- | ing conditions and rank and file} leadership. The M. W.L. U. Action Program, It points out that only by carry- ing forward the struggle in 1291 for a rank and file leadership, and the | unity of all longshoremen around a | program of struggle for better condi- tions on the job, and against the sell-out policy of Ryan and Co., can | the longshoremen ever hope to get better conditions. Build the opposition in local 1291 For regular meetings of the local weekly. For an elected rank and file | leadership. For the unity of coas wise, deepwater and car gang men | in the struggle for better conditions. | For smaller drafts and full dockers gangs. Against wage cuts and speed up. Against discrimination in hir- ing. ‘Unity of Negro and white workers, employed and unemployed. “The struggle against militarism | must not be postponed until the moment when war breaks out. Then it will be too late. The struggle against war must be car- ried on now, daily, hourly.” LENIN. | white | Glassford, | Negro youth, whom ne mass defense, by organized and LL.D. secured the release forcing the governor ef refuse the request of his extradition. The > workers must now r forces on a far broader SI to force the chain gang state of Georgia to free Angelo Herndon. Demand the abolition of the chain gang! Demand immediate and unconditional freedom for Angelo Herndon! Demand a stop to the attempts of the Georgia bosses to railroad the Atlanta Six to similar chain gang sentences or the electric chair. The trial of these six organizers—two colored men, two white women and two white men—is now being prepared by the Georgia bosses. Demand their un- conditional freedom! Demand the right of free speech and assembly fer the white and Negro toilers of Geor; Defend the right of the workers political party, the Com- munist Party, to legal existence! to for and Ni bilize the mr Young Boys In Chains ILLE, S. C., Jan. 24.—Ad- aw many young camps of th made by Gen, who wi head of the Washington police con: Hoover Hw G nurderous attack summer on the Bonus Marchers. Glassford tells of inquiring at the Spartanburg jail for a 16-year old lad who had been recently picked up by the police, He was told the boy was on the chain gang Visiting a group of chain gang prisoners between Greer and Green- ville, he found “many young faces last in the up. Some of them were guilty of nothing but their hopeless.» efforts to find a job.” They had a rge of yagranc’ Reactionary Paints Rosy Picture ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. this adopted state of president-elect Roosevelt, Chase S. Osborn, former. governor of Michigan, today made a reactionary defense of the murder- ous Georgia chain gangs. His de- fense is contained in a letter to Goys William A. Comstock, ernor of Michigan, and is in the nature of a protest against the re- lease of 20-year old Jesse Crawford, the state of Georgia tried to extradite from Mi- chigan Osborn reports having visited the chain gangs frequently to hold re- ligious services. 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