The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1933, Page 3

KNOW THE ENEMY, FIGHT THE BOSS! SAYS U. S. SOLDIER Describes Misery of | Army Life; Brutality Hunger and Low Pay GOVERNORS ISLAND, N. ¥., Jan. 29,On this island here we have just as much misery as the sixteen million unemployed all over the country, They tell us that when we join the army that we are going to be educated and built up to be re- spectable citizens of our great Amer- ica, But I am going to give my per- sonal opinion about the statements they are handing out to our fellow men after they sign up for three years of suffering. | First of all they give us uniforms and @ rusty rifle. Then you've got to work all day and night for at least a week before you ret that ar- ticle clean, and if you co; get that rifle clean just as they v2nt it, then | you get the followin, punishment: (1) Kitchen police. Now, you say, | what do I mean by kitchen police? In. plain English—dishwasher, floor serubber, etc. Now, fellow-workers, | if you can stand this punishment for | & week at an average of 16 hours a| day, then you cannot call yourself | a human being. If you happen to break the rules of the bosses, then you are sent down the road for six months. After you are out of the | prison, you go back to active duty} dressed up as a prisoner in overalls, | and then the fun begins. In the) morning you sweep and scrub the floor and the tojlet. Next you go marching down to the good old stable and there you sweep and scrub. After comes the mules’ grooming. By the time that’s over it is dinner time, | and Jet me tell you the meals are not so hot. After dinner you go out} and learn how to defend yourself against your supposed to be enemy, and most of the soldiers don’t know who is this supposed to be enemy, I tell you who it is—our father, mother, brother and sister. Now I want you fellow-workers to think it over whether I am right or not. Yes, | think of it. Now, I haven’t said much about myself, as you know I) am a non-commissioned officer in| the so-called U. S. Army and I have! some or just as much privilege as olf cop has in the city. So I am used| as a weapon by the boss class, But| in spite of the fact that I am an ia officer—that don’t mean that I have | Ignon es to treat my fellowmen as an enemy. | Now, you take the soldiers of the) army, they are unemployed, or rather employed by forced labor, Now you would say that they are getting paid. | It is true they are supposed to draw $21 a month, The bosses have a check system, by which they are rob- bing the soldiers of their pay, I am going to give you in detail just how the bosses are robbing us soldiers, First of all $7 worth of this check goes for the cutting or fitting of a suit. Second, you must at least have your suit cleaned twice a month, and that will cost $3, Then you have to have your shoes repaired, and that bond to bail appeal, This thorities. migration aut: nounced that. ficers release insane on th while serving strike of the ers in 1931, sane Asylum International bor Temple, the Workers ai the terror a of protest to portation of workers and politicians, w! the corrupt, FLA. WORKERS — | FIGHT TERROR Lopez Sentenced to Serve on Chain-Gang TAMPA Fia., Jan. 27.—Twenty-six days on the chain-gang for “being a Communist and found in Tampa” was handed out to Armando Lopez, militant worker here, habeas corpus to secure his release pending appeal of the case, similar to that of Homer Barton, will be filed in his behalf by Attorney EB. L. Bryan, retained by the International Labor Defense. The workers raised $5,000 property Homer Barton is still held by im- although he is an American citizen. County Solicitor it that the state re-arrests him im- mediately, on whatever trumped-up charge they can think up. | Cesario Alvarez, who was driven} tence for his connection with Spain, it was discovered here three days after this occurred. been transferred to the State In- was taken out secretly, shipped to New York and so to Spain, without | informing either his relatives or the | Jegal representatives. Panchito Valdez, a Negro, 71 years} old, the president of the Tampa La~- Tobacco Workers’ Union, is still held on charges of “being a Communist.” workers are also held. tions all over the country bys mediately join in mass protest ago.'nst Tampa, sending wires and resolutions of Tampa, and to Governor Sholtz, at Tallahassee. LEGION HEAD HITS OREIGN - BORN Attack on USSR NEW YORK.—In which he attacked the Communist Party and the Soviet Union, Louis A. Johnson, national commander of the American Legion, urged the de- Sration restrictions. - Johnson's speech was made at the Brooklyn Elks Club before a gath- ering of Brooklyn businessmen and the Legion and not for the rank and file which includes many foreign- | A writ of him out pending the was refused by the au- horities, without charge, Giyens has an- if the immigration of- Barton, he will see to back convineed against evictions and e chain-gang last year out a three-year sen- the ‘Tampa Tobacco Work- has been .deported to at Le Mars, Ia He had recover far to n at Chattanoochie, andj gases. On Jan Labor Defense, his! ance. which is controlled by Industrial Two other} ©. discovering nd workers’ orzaniza- im- leaderships, gainst the workers in| Chief of Police Logan, Dave | | action on all farmers’ Bonus; Makes @ speech in| militant foreign-born demanded rigid immi- WORKER CORRESPONDENCE OMAHA, Neb.—Little did the cap- italists and their bankers and poli- ticians realize the discontent was to follow from the farm confer- ence in Washington, D. delegations, almost to a man, came that nothing good could come to the farmer from the Hoover-Roosevelt Government. What concrete proof have we for this? Answer—mass demonstrations are becoming more numerous every day. The second week, urn of the delegations, a group of 300 farmers stopped the eviction of a farm widow in Nebraska. On Jan. 4 0 or more farmers blocked a foreclosure and threatened machinery which had been seized for debts in other 7 there was another gathering in the same vicinity for the same purpose. The latter meet- ing doubled the first one in attend~- These farmers made it plain that they were not acting unde rthe lead- ership of such organizations as the Farmers Holiday Association nor the Farmers Union. It is encouraging to see how rapidly some farmers are the dishonesty of leadership of those organizations. Fearing general mass action, these as well as government officials, are calling conventions and meetings to put forth a plan that threatens to make a serf out of every farmer in the United States. This plan calls for @ suspension of court | period of from five to seven months. That means that when the 1933 har- vest commences, the open season for evictions and foreclosures will also start. Are the farmers going to let themselves be led into a new feudal system? Already plans are under way to introduce such a law in the state of Towa. The misleaders of the Ne- braska section of the Farmers Union opened a convention in Omaha this | week to uphold such a law. Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, in a speech at Lincoln, Neb., openly advocated a national law to force such procedure. The farmers should constantly be FARMERS FORMING ORGANIZATIONS UNDER OWN CONTROL Misleaders of Farmers Plan Step to Reduce the Farmers to Feudal Serfs on their guard against the traitors ie have cleverly worked their way into the leadership of those organ- izations. Suspensions of ‘foreclosures and evictions are all right .but when they are screens for robbery and slave-driving, they should be ex- posed and torn down. A Worker Correspondent, WIS. FARMERS SUPPORT COMMUNISTS FOR LEAD COLBY, Wis,—At a forced sale near here, which we were not yet strong |enough to prevent, the delegates to |the farmers National Relief Confer~ ence at Washington, spoke on the Hunger March and the Farm Con- | ference explained some of the work of the Unemployed Councils, and explained to the farmers the | facts about the recent Alabama share croppers struggles and the murder of several of the eroppers while resist- ing confiscation of their property. Telegrams of pretest were sent to the | governor of Alabama, and to Sheriff | Kyle Young of Talapoosa County in | the name of the Farm Holiday As- | sociation of three counties. that C. Returning forecloseures after the re~ the I. H. UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE FORMS NEW BRANCHES NUNICE, Mich.—Although we are not actually starving, being farmers, the taxes, rents and mortgage inter- est are piling up relentlessly. Most farmers are aware that we cannot expect to meet our obligations under existing conditions. Our township is broke and is not the only one in Muskegon County. Red Cross flour is still available. A couple of branches of the United Farmers’ League have been formed. We have not many members but have already experienced the militaney of | these in a few cases where farmers were hard pressed by their creditors. | More and -more farmers will visualize the benefit of a new system of so- ciety as their poverty increases. —F. G, affairs, for a Farmers here he spoke only for boss-owned leaders of Hear of Workers’. Struggles; Hit James Murder DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO: AY, JANUARY 30, 1933 Page Three Photo shows how Moscow streets Electricity Melts Moscow Snow electric are cleared with an snow-melter. for renewed demands for incr relief for jobless steel workers by the Unemployed Councils, According to reports, Taylor himself is in favor | of omittng the dividend entirely at this time. Detroit Strike Makes Them Nervous. There is no doubt that the militan strike of automobile body w Detroit, led by the Auto Union, affiliated to the Trade Unity League, as is the Stecl and Metal Workers Industrial Union, and the solidarity of the unemployed with | the strikers, a feature of the Detroit strike and other recent strugg: of great influence in making the t heads uncertain of the results of a new wage cut at this itme. Fear Unity of Workers. Hence the maneuvering around the question of the preferred stock divid- end which is obtained by the most in- | human robbery of stecl workers and some of the important facts of which is haye already been exposed in the Daily Worker, the Steel and Metal Workers, official publication of the SMWIQU, and their local New York paper, the Metal Worker. The Responsible Robbers. The Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation con- se | Ss and billionaires, and the most powerful finance capitalists in the world, who are chiefly responsible for the com-! ing wage cut and for the poverty, | 4 steel workers, and all other American | workers for that matter): New Steel Wage Cut Is Decision of Wall St. Meet (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE) | employee contributed to the wealth | of the company the sum of $1).87. $617.35. For the life of the corpora- tion each employee’s contribution to the company's wealth was $19,- 138.00, The contribution of each | werker is actually greater because these figures are based upon a com~ putation of the total payroll, which | includes the high salaried employees. On the average capital investment, according to the company claims of | $885,661,067, the profits of the com- pany agi ting $4,007,537,269, amounted to 45242 per cent or a 31- | year average profit of 14 3-5 per cent. according to the figures of the U. S. Commissioner of Corporations, whose inventory showed an inflated valuation of the original plant of 135 million dollars, the aggregate profits mount to 534 per cent or an annual 3i-year average of over 17 per cent. It must be borne in mind that this it is after a net expenditure of 83,221,712 for “replacements” of plant, depreciation, depletion, etc. Brutal Treatment of Workers. The steel trust always has been 1 in its treatment of workers. It is necessary to stress this fact to show that the basis for its well-known generosity to the security holders is the ruthless robbery and oppression. of workers. The company has been generous to the stockholders and to J. P, Morgan. At the same time it maintains the most . efficient. spy, private police and thug system in the U.S. And, Fabulous Dividends. The total paid out to the security destitution and mass hunger amons| holders is suficient to show its liber-| ality to stockholders, an annual 31~ year average return of 94 per cent RELIEF HEAD ‘RAID JOBLESS | JAILS WORKERS, MEETING IN ALA. | Orders Police Attack TOWN, ARREST 10 on Strikers ea Coal and Iron Bosses IR} YG ., a. { ° Wirt Taylor, Lee G Behind Attack Clark were arrested = | Birmingham Red v BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 2— | entered the Woodlawn reli nt six plain clothes men |to present the demands of the meeting of unemployed forced-labor victims of the in a private home in organizations for a 50 per oc i location of the larg- erease in relief, for a plant of the Tennessee Coal and tio in East Birmin Iron Company. r n without a search acked the house, seiz- e and personal belong- sting ten workers. Alice against being forced to miles a day to slave f day relief in groceries Relief Head Calls Police dicks brok The committee was elected by a ughn, Thorpe, Jim large delegation of the striking cketon, Bouthwell, \forced-labor victims which under McKenzie, Murphy and Barnett. |the leadership of the Unemployed Fe: Rising Struggies. sted workers are charged a meeting without po- The city of Fairfield, the Tennessee Coal and has a vicious anti-working- relief marched n the on the committee present Mr The tion. W entered Station to demands of the workers head of the Woodlawn | the police and order th Brooks. n, called the arrest of 5 ordinance, positive 2 | the committee in an attempt to be- fr seme Be ntnber Mii head the strike : thering of workers, even ix their homes, without police permis- The International Labor Defense is | mobilizing legal and mass def the three workeys as ten arrested Friday | field. The strikers more de mined than ever to cay on. |I. L, D, is appealing to all wor | and intellectuals to rally t port of the strike, to de | lease of the 13 arrested e for | * defendants spent Friday night in jail, but were bailed out by work- turday. The Tennessee n Co,, and its tools in e determined ‘s to jai $ part of t drive crush the struggles of the unemployed 1 workers against star- in The Coal and I to The bosses are especially alarmed at t growing unity being effected between white and Negro , under the leadership of the IN ARGENTINA Commu Party and militant mass | organizations. This unity is being a forged in the process of struggle More Farmers Join against starvation and boss terror- ism. It evidenced in the rising thunder of protest both by white and Negro toilers against the ‘vicious \chain-gang sentence which was re- r|cently rendered against Angelo today, when several Herndon, 19-year-old Negro organizer ers, assembled at San Antonio de|°f the Unemployed Council of At- Areco, unanimously endorsed the call | J@nta, Ga., and in the support of the issued by delegates to the Argentina | StTuggles of the Negro croppers of Agrarian Federation for a general| Tallapoosa County, Ala, by white strike to enforce the demands of the|TOPpers and exploited farmers, impoverished farmers for relief by Workers Must Demonstrate, the government. The strike is set} Workers and their organizations |to begin this Wednesday. Large sec- throughout the country are urged to tions of farmers already have gone| Protest against the raid and arrest on strike, stopping all agricultural|f unemployed workers, and against work, the vicious anti-working-class ordi- ‘The government yesterday tried to|Bance under which these attacks ead off the strike by promises to| Were carried out. Send protests to | extend $2,000,000 to provide seed for | Judge Gilley, Fairfield, Ala., demand- he next planting. It also promised |1%S release of arrested workers, re- relief action” when Congress re-| Peal of ordinance, the right of free \convenes in May. The farmers re-|SPeech and assemblage for the work» jected these gestures of “relief,” and | &TS of Fairfield, Ala. PLAN AT MEET mands, which include reduction in taxes, a four-year moratorium on all Rally Tonight Against Starvation Scheme farm. debts and higher prices for} | Movement BUENOS AIRES, Jan. |farm strike movement spread fu farm products. | (C. P. OF GERMANY © IN STRIKE CALL FREDERICK, S. D.~Most of the Farm Conference delegates from North Dakota, northern South Dakota, Montana and West, returned to Savo Hall here Dec. 20 and held a very interesting meeting. Several dele- gates gave talks that made-an impression on the farmers gathered here. They told of the soup received in the soup Jine in Clinten, Iowa, which a we farmers found interesting because - most of us know nothing of such | things as “dumb, numbskulls, fools things. The soup was reported better | and dumbheads.” This antagomizes when the delegates came back] One and it might be one that would through from Washington. otherwise become interested. Even They also told of the Hoovervilles | though everyone does not agree with and factories standing idle, of food- | everyone else, that does not mean stuffs rotting on farms and the need | that the others are not intelligent. of food in cities. Several township | Let’s have no name calling when meetings have been held and com- ee oe en ae stare Pac sn mittees of action elected in Brown Miao wom Wied 10. vee hel ee Jd. P. Morgan, Chairman; George F. costs $3. Now comes the cleaning ma- Baker; Myron C. Taylor; Thomas terial, and that costs $4. Then your haiyeut that costs $1, Then there's the laundry cost of $1.75. So here you have the tetal amount that the soldiers don’t get, $19.75. On pay- day they have one dollar and twenty> five cents ($1.25) left for cigarettes and recreation. ‘Well, there’s not enough smokes for the month and no recreation whatever; so there’s nothing else to do but play cards and go to sleep. So you see just how the bosses are keeping that black veil over the eyes of these unemployed soldiers, But don’t forget, fellow-workers, that to- | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 29.+A | ringing protest against Governor | Pinchot's new commissary plan fer distributing relief to the unemployed large sections of his followers. The | Will be voleed at & meng meats’ to- “ A -|™morrew (Monday) night, called by tactics pursued by von Schleicher of | the Kensington Unemployed Council splitting the Hitler party, have also| 3 A {at the Kensington Labor Lyceum, caused widespread disintegration in Gedond St, above Caxaivia. the ranks of the National Socialist a : party, with several of Hitler's chief | Pinchot's new starvation scheme, lieutenants breaking away from their | Which has already been put into op- allegiance to him. eration in a number of cities and is GROWING REVOLUTIONARY | bout to be extended to Philadelphia, CRISIS. does away with cash relief and in- The resignation of the von Schlei-| Stead offers the unemployed food cher Cabinet reflects the developing | bags costing about 47 cents a week born veterans. Not once did he mention the burn- | ing issue of immediate payment of the bonus and the proposed cuts in disability allowances, . . . Vet Squad Continues Tour. CLEVELAND. (By Mail).—A spir- ited mass meeting of veterans was held here to hear the message of the nine members of the Kansas City contingent of the last bonus march, who are touring the country as an organizing squad, rallying the ex- servicemen in a united front struggle for the bonus, against cuts in dis- ability allowances and for local re- on the average investment as claimed | + by the company. If, however, we are | Lamont; Joseph A. Farrell; Nathan! tg accept the U. S. Commissioner's | L. Miller; Walter S. Gif Junius |\ figures, the percentage rises to eleven §. Morgan, Jr.; William F. Filbert; | ang one-fifth percent. This is over David F. Houston; Percival Roberts, 4 39-year stretch of “good” times and dr.; Sewell L. Avery; Eugene J. =| “pad” times. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) nothing” has already disiilusioned fington. a Eliminating the Bond interest paid, Cut Confirmed By Wall Street. | the total average stockhoidings for The Journal of Commerce said in! which the company received any its “Business Outlook” column on Jan. | tangible value at all, amounts to $371,- 28: “The United States Steel Cor-| 798,559 and on this investment the poration is expected to reduce or omit stockholders received $1,934,541,598 or dividends units preferred stock next | 4 total of 520 per cent, or a 31-year Tuesday and this action will be fol- annual average of 16% per cent in lowed by a third wage reduction and) cash and a further gift of $711,623, probably a writing down of its plant | 599 in common stock, or almost double County, and at least one township in » er person. In addition, the unem- day the soldiers are doing just what | lef for the unemployed vets. jection to so much profanity in the | account,’ | the original stockholdings in watered | Tevolutionary crisis in Germany, the | Per Person. . i on working-class pichaedeh is, bet The vets contributed generously to peleney, Gounar eee stories. We all know such things are} This will be the first time that | atotke pra complete failure of Schleicher’s pol- ay thie abe pe dinner: e ss nm A county-wide Farm Holiday meet- ing was held in Aberdeen Jan. 11. A fair-sized crowd was present and lis- tened with interest to talks given by the secretary of the county associa- tion and E. Bert, editor of “The Pro- ducer’s News,” official paper of the United Farmers League. Mr. Charles Taylor, chief of the Executive Coun- cil of the United Farmers’ League, showed the need of united action and told of state conferences to be held in Montana, North and South Da- kota, Minnesota and Iowa. Several resolutions were passed, icies, supported by the Social De- mocratic leaders in the reformist Unions, to alleviate the acuteness of class antagonisms in Germany. With the failure of Papen’s policy of open and brutal onslaught on the working rare signa king ik masses, the role adopted by Schlei- ne on eda te ase on| Cher was the application of more | common stock were paid each year. | skillful and elastic methods, the em- On prefevred there has never been ployment of “social” maneuvers and an omission. This steady flow of in-| small concessions calculated to “re- A eae benefit of| eve” the growing class tension, ana) Amalgamated Agents the security-holders. The companys|‘? steer the German bourgeoisie | treatment of the workers presents a| through the fourth starvation winter | Exposed by Workers terrifying contrast. Workers are of the devastating crisis. Schleicher the regular dividend has been omitted or changed for 31 years. Bit Dividends — Starvation Wages The U, 8. Steel Corp. in October | declared its regular quarterly dividend | on preferred stock of $1.75 ($7 an-| nually) and at the same time issued a statement showing a loss for the third quarter of the year of $20,871,- 109 following a half-yearly loss of $33,670,722, A three-quarter-year loss of over $50 million, a part-time schedule ol | one to ten days per month for three quarters of its employees, with starva~ | finance the tour, and funds were also donated by the Lithuanian Benefit Society, the Women’s Council, the Scandinavian Workers Club, the Hungarian Workers and the Unem- ployed Councils. Food also was con- tributed to send the squad on its way. The nine vets have already held suc- cessful meetings in Stamford, Conn., emt in various towns of New York state, used, but we hear plenty in our daily lives and it adds nothing to the story; in fact I am also one that feels that it cheapens it, Mrs. E, M. M. Editor's Note: The farmers’ pa~ per, “The Producers News,” men- tioned in this letter, should be read by all farmers. The subscription price is 50 cents for three months and can be obtained from Plenty- wood, Montana. Besides coining this golden outpour- ing out of the workers’ blood and sweat, there is left, at the company disposal, enough in surplus to pay off every penny of investment and debt and stil have remaining a sum of ganizing against the same boss, and I urge the soldiers of the U. S, Army that each and every one of you know your enemy when the time comes and that time is just around the corner. for hours. The protest meeting will organize a united front of the workers of this section, employed and unemployed, against the Pinchot plan (actually the plan of the bankers and capi- talists), which cuts down the food allowance about 50 per cent, Joe Rosich Hearing Set for February 7 DULUTH, Minn.—tThe case of Joe Rosich, 63 year old unemployed workex.being held for deportation to LONGCOVE LL.D. MEETING LONG COVE, Maine, Jan. 29.—The | local branch of the International La~ WORCOR CALENDAR Tues., Jan, 31—Foreed labor and relief rbs. Accounts of the strike breaking ac- Jugo-Slavia, has been postponed until | bor Defense had its Scottsboro-Moo- | also a protest against the murder of Jobs, tion wages—already twice cut—being | (axen on and laid off without regard | 8S failed in this attempt, despite A Feb, 7. ‘The case will be tried bofore | ney meeting on Saturday, January | Cliff James, the Negro share-cropper | Wee Fem t= paid in cheap groceries in many steel | for their needs. the traitorous support of the Social | ivitine canduced oy arte te done Federal Judge Gunnar H. Nordby. | 21st, with 32 people attending, which | in Alabama, was sent, Protests were| fri. Feb. 3~Foed. 6 | fowns, and at the same time a steady Hoge Labor Turnover, ach ian eee coe ed’ be | Shp, continue to come in to the Daily a 1 | enly advocased by . ‘ y Workers and workers’ organizations | is considered quiet good for this small} also sent from some of the town-| Mon., Feb. 6—Vets and soldiers. payment of $7 a share to its preferred’ To net differences, year after year, | 71 Oy are ether Scvial Paenporatie | Worker through correspondence from Tuesday, Feb. 7—Exposing misleaders. Your letter must arrive three days in advance of publication. Address it to Work- er Correspondence. Order an extra bundle for special distribution when gending your stook-holders aggregating $25,219,677 | of the total yearly number of work~ leaves jn a state of angry amazement) ¢-; employed, run into the tens of : c unic the steel worker who tries to pay! (housands, There are years with fall of the Schleicher Cabinet w his month’s rent (providing he has! quciyations of 30 to 40 thousand, | Prédicted in the International Pres are urged to send resolutions and letters protesting against the de- portation to Mr. Klegg, immigration inspector, Dulyth, Minn.; William N. granite town, The main speaker was Anna Block, of Boston. Emo Stein and Bertha Leppanen reported on the district, ships. Offices were donated for use in Aberdeen by a sympathizer. Now I wish to make a criticism. So many Communists and also near leaders of the reformist unions, The | Mdignant workers. In Tuesday's is- sue the Daily carried an account of how these agents were chased out by Doak, Secretary of Labor and to| convention of the I. L. D. to which| Communists will resort to calling |!" not been evicted). rear’ it 49,000 and in one | Correspondence of January 12 by | workers in Hartford, Conn. . "i A District D. W. ai ize special dis- to on. Y, year it bs | pis time they ch: f Judge Nordby, Dulyth, Minn. they were delegates. 5 views § $4,000,000,000 in 30 Years. iw ; ak "gt. Comrade T. Neubauer, a leader of is time they were chased out 0: Tudge iby, Dulut y clegates those with opposing views such’ tribution at s 3 the net lay-off was 76,000. ‘These | 6’ orman Communist Party. In his| South River, N. J. Here, Mr. Jake, HOMELESS YOUTH---REFUSE TO STARVE! into army camps, labor etc, for the purpose of teaching you to -to use you against the workers fighting fer bread. They the Soviet Union. HOMELESS YOUTH: ARE YOU READY TO BLEED FOR THE BOSSES WHO NOW LET YOU STARVE? ARE YOU READY TO SHOOT DWN YOUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS, WHOSE HOME YOU HAD TO LEAVE BE- CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED You demand FOOD AND SHELTER. Singly you can be defeated-UNITED, YOU ARE A POWER. Backed up by the Unemployed Councils, as the young fighters of the working class, you are a force to be reckoned with. The UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS and the Young Communist League call you to regional conferences in Sacramento, St. Louis, Milwau- Kee and Pittsburgh, on FEBRUARY 15, for the four sections of the country, to discuss the needs and demands of the youth—and to de- cide ACTION. Young Communists, homeless youth themselves, are out on the road, in the jungles, Hoovervilles, Rooseveltburgs and flop- houses, raising the question with the homeless young workers. They are in the YWCAs, talk- ing to the girls. HOMELESS BOYS: Get in touch with the rote Council wherever you are, Direct the boys to the place. Become an organ- izer for the conferences. HOMELESS GIRLS: Do the same. Become an organizer among the tens of thousands of of working class girls, who are thrown out of their homes because of hunger. BOYS OUT ON THE ROAD: Get among the homeless youth in distant sections. Tell them the WORKING CLASS BOYS AND GIRLS ARE GETTING TOGETHER TO FIGHT FOR FIND FUNDS FOR THE RELIEF OF THE WORKING CLASS. THI WE CAN FORCE THEM TO DO IF WE GET TOGETHER. Make the conferences in Sacremento, St, Louis, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh on February 15 MASS CONFERENCES. Discuss with the boys and girls what they should demand. We propose: 1—Si per day for every homeless youth, to be raised on a local and national scale. 2—State, city and federal buildings—arm- ories, public auditoriums, etc.—be used for shelter for unemployed youth. These shelters to be managed by committees of the youth, 3—Abolition of all vagrancy and anti-hitch hike laws. 4—State and federal unemployment insur- ance to be paid by the government and employers. Form COMMITTEES OF ACTION in the jungles, flophouses, on every box car, to fight for immediate relief, food, clothes, medical at- tention and shelter. UNEMPLOYED YOUNG WORKERS: Stay in your cities and fight for relief. Organize committees of action in the neighborhoods, pool rooms, clubs and flophouses. Carry on a fight with the Unemployed Councils, for relief. ALL THE WORKERS MUST UNITE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER—NEGRO AND WHITE, YOUNG AND OLD. NOW I8 ” ‘THE 'TIME WHEN UNITY IS MOST NEEDED. On to Sacramento, St. Louis, Milwaukee and ieeoar ae 15—there to decide on ON? In 30 years and 8 months December 31, 1931, the U. S Corp. had left over, after costs. penses and total payroll, the stup ous sum of $4,007,537,269. The me: ing of this sum can be better preciated when contrasted with the) total payroll which was $8,660,845,257. | In other words, for every dollar paid | out to its employees $100,000 a year men included the company “made” the tidy percentage of 46 cents. | $1,000,000,000 “Velvet” in Plant Alone. | Starting with a plant, inventoried by the U. 5. Commissioner of Cor-— porations at $682,000,000, the company | has built up with these profits a_ plant, carried on the books now at) a& net figure of $1,683,982,093. ‘This | figure which is $1,001,982,093 greater than the original value is the net sum after being written down by re- serve funds aggregating $757,972,056, | by a writing down of $25,000,000 paid-— in surplus, and by a complete wiping | out of the entire original issue of watered common stock to the tune of $58,302,500. Huge Reserves. Besides building up a plant two and a half times the original value the company had, on December 31, 1931, cash and other current assets of ever one-half billion dollars and close to another hundred million in other as- sets. It owed to outsiders, all around, Jess than 85 million dollars. Its Un- divided Profits surplus is 422 million dollars and its real surplus close to 800 million dollars. Intensive Robbery of Workers. Tt employed an average, during its 31 years’ existence, of 209,402 people per year. For every week during this neriod af Lime and every’ E the net differences; the total res must be much grester. And , out of a total number em- ployed of 203,674, the number work~ ing part-time was 150,055, Today the ; number is much greater, Helping the Morgan Banks The company, besides being kind to the security-holders, can also be kind to individuals—if the individuals are J. P, Morgan or others belonging to his billionaire gang. When the U. S. Steel Corp. was organized, J, P. Morgan et al received $120 million in stock of the company for “services.” The stocks hadn't much of a market value at the time, so Mr. Morgan in- duced the Board of Directors to “con- vent” for him $150 million of pre- ferred stock he had into Bonds which, of course had a mueh higher market value. Spike This Lie. This is the crew of capitalist rob- bers which is now planning to omit, their usual dividend in cold-blooded preparation for a plea of poverty which they hope will fool steel work- ers and other workers into accepting the lying tales put out by the of- cials of the American Federation of Labor like the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Stecl and Tin Workers, and its Musteite wing, as in the War- ren strike, to the effect that “the company can’t pay.” “The struggle against wilitarian must of be postponed until the moment when war hreake ovt Trev it will be tao late. The stroggle ageinst war must be cer tied on now, daily, homrly.” LENIN sds | article Comrade Neubauer pointed ; boss of one of the two Boy's Wash- | out: ‘able shops in town, having an agree- | “The serious crisis which has | ment with the Amalgamated in hia | overtaken the Schleicher cabinet | pocket, took on the job of “strike is in itself the oxpression of the leader” for this organization, teld the workers that a committee from the Amalgamated would come, and that | they should respond to the Amalga- | mated “strike” call, But the workers | rallied behind a member of the Needle | Trades Workers Industrial Union who | exposed the move, The workers here slave for $2, $3 after the lapse of two moi jand $4 a week. The Amalgamated The new cabinet will have as its) wanted to squeeze 50 cents a week chief purpose the carrying out of new | dues from the workers, but it didn’t and more brutal attacks on the | work. working-class. The German working- Class, under the leadership of its| talist system, for the revolutionary Communist vanguard, will answer} way out of the crisis of dying capi- these attacks, as in the past, with | talism, for the establishment of a -cabinet of the capitalist headed by Bruening, ruled for 25 months; the second, under Papen’s leadership, ruled for five and half months; the third, under Schlei- cher, is on the verge of collapse ths.” | T recognize the necessity of the Daily Worker as a mighty weapon in the day-to-day struggles of the working class and wish lo contribute to its main- tenance. I contribule 8. . lo the Daily Worker Fund, « Name ....... Pare he eal Address: 2. 6.65% Wire, air Mail, rush funds to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. ae es — ws