The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1933, Page 1

BORROW $25 / Vol. X, No. 27 “The Amer'can Youth Club, 407 Rockaway We raised $19 before; but ‘Therefore the Save the Daily Worker Committee Avenue, Brooklyn, has a of our club has borrowed ury for immediate delivery to the Waily Worker. Our total donation to date is, therefore, $44.” —AMERICAN YOUTH CLUB. ‘NEW YORK.—New York workers New York Workers Rally Against German Fascism| BY STRIKES, FOR “DAILY” campaign quota of $125, it the Daily canhot wait! $25 from tée club treas- Dail Central Orga i>) ae de (Section of the Communist International } Entered as second-class matler a against fascism in Labor Temple, 243 Act of March 8, 1878. HITLER MET ‘will march on the Hitler headquar- | East 84th St. on the tasks of the ters on 92nd Street, between First | German and American workers in and Second Avenues in denunciation of the bloody fascist regime in Ger- Many and in solidarity with the Ger- man workers. ‘The march will start | trom a number of mass meetings held along 86th Street between Lex- ington and Third Ave., tomorrow at 3 pm, Saturday at 8 p.m. Max Bedacht will address a mass protest rally | this situation. ‘The meeting is also | the fifth anniversary celebration of {the German language Communist paper, “Der Arbeiter.” } | Sunday all marine workers are in- ; Vited to the International Becaial |Club open forum at 140 Broad St., | | where Bedacht will again speak, es- | | pecially on the German situation as | lit relates to marine workers. 150 COPS FORCE BRONX EVICTIONS Violate Landlord’s Promise NEW YORK, N. Y.—With 150 po- lice to back him up, a marshall evict- ed two tenants from 1045 Bryant “Ave. yesterday. One has a family of feven and the other a family of five. The marshall and the police byoke down the doors of apartments and threw out the furniture. Organizer King of the block committee was knocked down the stairway when he attempted to go up. In spite of all this, the pickets and |Mass Demonstration — | | At 1392 Franklin Ave. | Today Against Terror | NEW YORK.—All workers’ organ- | zations near 1392 Franklin Ave. are mobilizing the neighborhood to a big mass demonstration at 8 p.m. today | to break through the police terror. | There were two evictions at 1392 | Franklin Aye. yesterday, and now the landlord is left alone in the house. | But picketing will continue, as also | | at 1377 Franklin Ave. where more | evictions are scheduled. ‘Demonstrate For Rent Strikers! | HAMBURG i the Pest Office at BATTLES Many Collisions in Nation-Wide Street Fights ‘DOCKERS OUT ocialists, Communist Workers Fight Jointly BULLETIN BERLIN, Jan. 31 (By Cabie).— Two thousand delegates at a shop committee conference reported workers determined to take all measures to repulse fascist attack and build united front regardless of party affiliations. Socialist Party leaders ignore Communist Party offer for joint organization of gen- eral strike. Strikes in number of factories in lower Saxony, railway repair works Esslinger and protest strikes in Berlin factories growing. BETLIN, Jan. 31 (By Cable).—The fascist press re- ports that the Hitler cabinet | session today is dealing ex- “y cil. BATTLE AGAINST FORCED LABOR. tial victory won when the city council were forced chot’s new commissary nates all cash relief and gi before). | In these struggles what Norker Party U.S.A. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1933 Without ‘Daily’ We'd Lose OurFight on Forced Labor, WHAT'S WRON struggles of the farmers, the auto workers’ strike the steel workers against Worker. enongh. CITY EDITION What's wrong with the Mid-West? G, MID-WEST? Surely the the unemployed battles, in Detroit, the fight of wage-cuts—all of which find guidance and reflection in the Dafly Worker— should stimulate greater effort to save the Dally The Middle-West has lagged behind Iong It’s about time to get into action! Price 3 Cents BRIGGS MEN FIGHT ON AFTER GREATEST MASS PICKETING Says Toiler, Keep It Alive TF the Daily Worker failed to appear for even one or two days, afraid our battle againit forced labor would be lost,” writesan unemployed worker of Chester, Pa., an active mem- ber of the Chester Unemployed Coun- This worker describes the fight of the Chester jobless, and tells of a par- record as opposed to Governor Pin- distribution (a scheme which elimi- employ:d only half as much food as ! e ance. If the Daily Worker failed to appear for even one or two days, I am afraid our battle against forced labor would be lost.” IF. “DAILY” FAILED TO APPEAR I am Similar letters could be written by workers all over the country. “If the Daily Worker failed to appear for even one or two days” — — Think of the fight against wage- cuts in the steel, auto, railroad indus- mayor and to gd on clusively with the question of | of the Daily Worker? 8 big crowd held a mass meeting on! the next block. | Smash These evictions took place in vio- Police Terror lation of the promise of the landlord; he had opened negotiations with the house committee the day before. The strike js continuing. A mass picketing demonstration is to take place at & ain. this morning before 1045 Bryant Ave., where four evic- tions are scheduled for today. The Bryant Ave. Block Committee, affillated to the Unemployed. Coun- cil, is distributing leaflets calling on all tenants on Bryant Ave. to sup- post the strikes at 1045 and 1041 and to organize and elect their house com- mittees in the spreading struggle against high rents and evictions. Dis- possessed tenants are urged to report to the relief captain at 1049 Bryant Put Back Furniture At 226 Barrett After Police Put It Out “NEW YORK.—Two tenants were evicted Monday at 226 Barrett St.. Brooklyn but the furniture of one of them was returned to his apartment immediately afterwards by the crowd that gathered there. It took the whole Brownsville police force to evict. The tenants are more deter- mined than ever to win their strike. All-are called to stop four more evic- tions threatened today. ‘sAll workers in the neighborhood are called to a mass protest meeting to- day at Saratoga and Pitkin Ave., in tfont of the office of the Socialist ‘Epstein, head of the landlord’s asso- \fclation. Krayzer Bros. at Thatford land Sutter, is the firm that has been furnishing the marshall with the help wsed in evicting. Neighbors’ Boys Put _ The Furniture Back "NEW YORK.— Young boys from the: neighborhood put back the fur- niture of the Taubwascher family of ‘amemployed workers, whem evicted from 868 Fox St. yesterday. They ‘acted before the committee from the unemployed council could get there. 'fne-family owed only one month's rent.after living at the place for a yepr: New Rent Strike at 828 DawsonAve.,Bronx NEW YORK. — Tenants at 828 Dawson St., Bronx, struck yesterday for 15 per cent reduction in rent, no eviction of unemployed workers, re- all necessary repairs. All the tenants af, this house are striking ite Eve ‘keting is going on. Neighbors an pe class organizations should join the picketing. Starlight Laundry Strike Won; Fired Worker Reinstated NEW YORK—The strike in the Starlight Launvry which started on Friday was settled when ‘the boss agreed to reinstate the worker who was fired and not to d<iminate against. union members, The shop committee is recognized and the right organize. abuses were also removed. ‘he workers will, no Jonger pay for repairs of the trucks in.case of acci- dents or court fines for fic viola- tions where it is not the fault of the ‘workers. The workers wha have gone s to organize the rest in the laundry and are preparing to put up demands for increase in pay. dry workers will be held. Thursday, Feb, 2 at 8 0 EB. 138th St. to discuss the settle the Starlight Strike and the policy.ofthe union, ..’ back to work are proceeding rapidly) ypholstering Co. struck Monday when - A membership meeting of all laun-| in the Union Hall, | | ture Workers Industrial On East Side! | | NEW YORK.—Picketing continues | {at 418 to 420 East Sixth St. and }at 11th St. and Ave. A. | A mass demonstration and march | through East Side streets in protest against the police brutality used on the rent strike pickets will start at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow from Seventh St, and Ave. A, will be joined by the crowds from nine open air meetings, will march to Union Square and back to Manhattan Lyceum, where an in- door mass meeting will be held at 8 p.m. None were evicted here yesterday; but a big mass picket line is called for this morning against 12 evictions threatened on Sixth St; and-three at Uth St. A meeting of all the workers of | the Downtown Unemployed Council and representatives of all mass or- ganizations and trade unions will be held at 15 E. 3rd St., Room 4, tonight at 8 o'clock to lay out a | program of action for rent reduction and relief for single workers. Organ- izations not yet having assigned re- presentatives are urged to do 50. | Eviction On Holland Ave.; Picket Today! NEW YORK.—The marshall with | 3 police and 6 gangsters came down | a day earlier than the dispossess no- tice called for, and evicted the chair- man of the house committee at 1322 Holliénd Ave., yesterday. More evic-| tions are expected today, and all in the neighborhood should be on hand to stop them. 1200 AT MEETING ON SCOTTSBORO, NEW YORK.—Approximately 1,200 workers representing different creeds, colors and nationalities, packed Hen- nington Hall to its very doors, Mon- day evening, in a mass protest against the frame-up of the innocent Scotis- boro Negro boys. Speakers et this mass demonstra- tion, which twas held under the aus- pices of the Scottsboro Defense Com- | mittee, were Joe Porper, leader of the ‘1ocal rent struggles, who was candid- \ate for Senate in the 12th District on the Communist ticket; Stein of the ILD, who acted as chairman; Fitzgerald, also of the ILD; and Fred Biedenkapp one of the leaders of the Scottsboro Defense Committee. Some of the many organizations that endorsed ana attended the meet- ing were, the Brezezaner Y.M.B. So- ciety (Rank and File), the Hakoah Workers Club, United Hatters Union AFL. Local 8, and the Zukunft Workers Club. One of the most vital points that the speakers emphasized was that the Scottsboro case was a dramatic call to the workers of the United States to wage intensive war against the ter- rorism and brutality of the bosses all | over the world. The workers gathered in the hall responded to the appeal for defense funds by contributing $24 in bills and silver, among which was a goodly sprinkling of pennies, testifying to a willingness of the impoverished work- ers to defend the Scottsboro boys. Furniture Workers in Three Strikes; Call All to Help in Picketing NEW YORK.—Workers of Model | the boss tried to lock them out. The | stnke against the wage cut in the “F. ‘and R.” Mattress Co. is still going on, ‘Twenty-five workers at Glucz Bros. { 38 Maujer St., Brooklyn, struck! fi rday against the fifth wage cut! ntly. ‘These strikes are led by the Furni- Union (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Negro People in Herndon Protest “Twenty-Seven” Club Demands Release NEW YOR%.—The committee of Harlem people, Negro and white, elected at the meeting in St. Lukes Hall last Thursday night are meet- ing tomerrow, Thursday, to pre- pare for a broad movement and committee of fraternal organiza- tions, lodges, churches, block com- mittees, professionals and people of Harlem to wage a real struggle against the horrible conditions and discriminations in Harlem Hospital. The committee is expected to call for a mass demonstration at Com- missioner of Hospitals Greef’s of- fice against the hospital terror. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 31—Resolu- tions protesting against the senten- cing of Angelo Herndon, young Ne- gro organizer of the unemployed, to from 18 to 20 years on the chain gang, because he organized Negro and white workers together to fight against starvation, were passed by the “Twenty-seven Club,” an organ- ization of Negro professional and business men, at its last meeting. At the meeting, Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., one of the two Negro attorneys retained by the International Labor Defense for the defense of Herndon and of the “Atlanta Six” addressed the members on the significance of the case and the necessity for all Ne- groes to join in the fight of the white and Negro workers to smash the sentence, and to save the “Atlanta Six” whose cases are still to come up. Representatives of the Interna- tional Labor Defense also addressed the Baptist Ministers Union at its regular weekly meeting in Greater Wheat St. Baptist Church. worker tell you: GAINING IN system of tries, the fight for Negro rights, against imperialist war, in support of the German toilers without the ives the un- teeters Daily”! Bene i FAR FROM is the role INOUCH! Let this ee your hand: The fate of the Daily Worker is in 8, readers, workers every- IN THE HISTORY OF DETROIT ‘Company Issues Fake Announcements on Re- suming Work; Only Handful Scab | Strikers at Grand Rapids Plant, Tricked Into | Returning, Walk Out Again DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 31—The Briggs strike continued Strong today after yesterday’s mighty mass picketing demon- stration. This demonstration of over 15,000 workers at the four Briggs Body plants and the Murray Body factory was the greatest expression of class solidarity ever seen here. Not only | “pate ©Briggs and Murray stri‘:ers BUFFALO STEEL participated, but Ford and un- ;employed auto workers joined | W rm | the picket lines despite the fact | this solidarity by ¥ Picket to see if he 2 badge. One hundred and fifty dele gates from the Ford shop had m Sunday and vo ed to go on the pi lIn a Counter Blow to! line and give full support to th ° y aces strikers Big Wage Cut Drive | “Men, women ana children demon- of Steel Barons si ed all day with such eff = | ness that only a handful of Pie aa ,| 88 even many capitalist papers were BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 31—About forced to admit, entered the plan fae 120 steel workers of the Lackawanna POPULARITY “As the struggle becomes more militant, the Daily Worker is gaining in popularity. The Daily Worker’s bold stand in behalf of the workers has been a great help in this city, and the struggle here depends—as it does anyw:.ere— on the regularity of its appear- where. Yesterday $297.27 was received in the drive to save the “Daily”, a higher total than the daily average for last week, but still far from enough to keep the paper going. THE DAILY WORKER IS FIGHTING FOR ITS LIFE! RUSH TO ITS AID! SPEED FUNDS AT ONCE T7050 E. 13th ST., NEW YORK CITY! WORKERS AND TOILIN SUPPORT GERMAN MASSES IN STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM! FARMERS: | Steel Corporation plants No. 2 and 3 | Struck today in demand of a 20 per cent wage increase and recognition of the Shop Committee. The . strike represents the first counter-blow by the steel workers against the wage-cutting and speed- up drive of the steel companies ini- tiated in 1931, It comes as an an-| Swer to the announcement just made to the press by Myron C. Taylor, head of the S. Steel Corporation that another wage cut is about to be an- nounced. Four Wage Cuts. | The workers of the Lackawanna | | Steel Corporation have already re- j ceived four wage cuts, the last cut put into effect amounted to 35 per cent. The monthly bonus promised | | to the workers by the Company was + paid only once. But for the last two months the Company has refused to | pay the bonus. | ‘The company is no exception to the | terrific exploitation of the workers | now taking place in the steel indust- | ry. The working week is fifty-eight Fascism in power in Germany means speeding up of imperialist war, war on the work- ana a half hours long, with skilled ing class and toiling farmers, war on the Soviet Union. : The German working masses are compelled to put up the most desperate resistance to this attack by the German ruling class through the bloody hangman Hitler. The resistance of the German people is expressed by the call which has been issued for, a general strike. ,of the revolutionary German | masses! Hitler could not iiave come te power unless Wall Street’s govern- ment in Washington endorsed his program of militancy suppression of the working class and its struggles living standards to the starvation level in the interest of German cap- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | CITY EVENTS | MASS MEETING AGAINST HAITIAN TERROR a Mass meeting to protest Haitian terror, St. Luke’s Hall, Feb, 3, at 8 p.m. Speakers: James W. Ford, Glassford. * Robert Dunn, John Ballam and E, . = DEMONSTRATE AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR! American Committee for Struggle Against War calls all to mass anli- war demonstration at noon, Feb, 4, on Wall St., then to march to South and Whitehall Sts. where a big mass meeting will be held. : ° ° MASS PROT T MEETING FEB, 5 AGAINST TERROR IN JAPAN J. Amter and Fred Biedenkapp, principal speakers at mass protest meeting against wholesale arrests, torture and murder of Japanese workers’ leaders, Meeting at Manhattan Lyceum, 2 p.m., Feb. 5. ron nite | ELECT DELEGATES TO LABOR DEFENDER CONFERENCE, FEB. 5 “Alt workers’ organizations are urged to elect delegates to the “Labor Defender District Conference” on Feb. 5, 10 2.m., in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth Street, to help devise means for enabling this revolutionary pictorial publication to continue in existence. Robert Minor, Frank Spector and William Patterson will address the Conference. . 8 8 DEMONSTRATE FOR RELEASE OF TOM MOONEY Mass demonstration Feb. 10 in Union Square at 5 p.m. to demand that the Mooney case be reopened on the remaining indictment when it comes before Judge Ward Feb. 11. Speakers: Ben Gold, Louis B. Scott, personal representative of Tom Mooney; William L. Patterson and John Ballam of the LL.D. GEORGE POWERS’ to attend the trial of George Powers, charged Workers are ON TRIAL TODAY urged with “inciting to riot” for acting as spokesman for 20,000 demonstrating at City Hall for relief, Trial is in Franklin Streets, today. General Sessions court, Center and NEEDLE TRADES DEMONSTRATION TODAY All needle trades workers demonstrate today at 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the dress market against racketeering schemes and for united struggle. Workers leave the shops at 11 a.m. and go directly to 36th St. and Eighth Ave. Unemployed fur workers mobilize at 131 West 28th St. Other un- employed mobilize at 140 West 36th St. * * PARADE AND MEETING AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY Parade starts tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. at Seventh St. and Ave. A, pro- ceeds along Second to 14th, to Union Square and back to Manhattan Lyceum where mass meeting starts downtown, All join protest against police at 8 p.m. Nine open air brutality in rent strikes, . ~~ NEW YORK.—“Resolved,” reads Support the general strike of the German working class against fascism! Hitlerism, with its cabinet of barons, counts, junkers and generals, could not have come to power without the aid of Wall Street imperialism into whose hands have come, | the employed and unemployed is be- | through usurious loans, many of the big banks and industries. The American Wall Street bankers plan to guarantee these hundreds of millions in loans through the suppression’ ---- Soe | Women’s Peace League Backs | Demonstration Against War the resolution passed on January 25, | against the ruthless reduction of its by the Brooklyn branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, “that the League will support the parade against the invasion of China by Japan.” ‘The above letter containing the ican Committee For Struggle Against War, yesterday at its offices, 104— 5th Avenue. The latter organization has been mobilizing workers and in- tellectuals and all organizations and individuals interested in world peace for @ parade and demonstration to be held this Saturday at 12 noon at South and Wall Sts. “One of our members,” continues the letter, signed by Mrs. Clare Wei- nerman, Secretary, “will call at your office for a supply of leaffets.” The parade and demonstration against the bloody onslaughts of the imperialists upon the Chinese and South American masses that today SAILORS MUTINY IN DUTCH NAVY 1 Cruiser, 2 Destroyers in Far East Affected LONDON, Jan. 31,—-Sensational news of a mutiny in the Dutch naval forces in the Far East was published | in the Daily Mail today. The mutiny began yesterday and is reported caused by a proposed reduction in the pay of the rank and file sailors, marines and petty officers. ‘The mutiny broke out among the crews of the cruiser Java and the destroyers Piethein and Evertsin, stationed at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. Forty corporals, lance cor- porals and marines have been ar- rested in an attempt by the authori- ties to suppress the mutiny, which is the fourth known to have occurred within the past two years in the naval forces of the imperialist powers. The other revolts occurred in the British Navy, the Chilean Navy and the Peruvian Navy. ‘The Dutch imperialists maintain large naval and army forces in the East Indies against the rising na- tional revolutionary and economic, i resolution was received by the Amer- } rage furiously, will especially stress | the role of American and Japanese imperialisms, and give warning Of the rapidly increasing imperialist plans of attack upon the Soviet Union. Malcolm . Cowley, associate-editor of the New Republic, who is also chairman of the American Commit- tee for Struggle Against War, will be one of several leading intellec- tuals who will head the parade. Cowley will also be chairman of, the meeting that will be held at the fin- ishing point of the parade—Broad and Whitehall Streets. The parade is to pass thru Wall Street, finan- cial center of American imperialism. Women’s Councils Support Equally in line with the anti-war protest, event, in support of the Am- erican Committee, the United Coun- | ell of Working Class Women advises | that its councils are being mobilized, and that simultaneously, efforts are being made to rally working women within the neighborhood of Council branches, Similarly, workers clubs are responding, sending in yvolun~- teers for the distribution of leaflets. More such volunteers are needed, | however, the Committee advises. | Posts No. 52 and 191 of the Workers | Ex-Servicemen’s League informed the Committee they would partici- pate in a body. NEW YORK.—The Anti-Imper- jalist League appeals to all work- ers to come up and secure leaflets for distribution in their organiza- tions, shops, etc., calling for the Anti-War Demonstration for Feb. 4th, at 12 noon, to take place at Wall and South Sts. The address of the Anti-Imperialist League is 799 Broadway, room 536. | FORECLOSE HOMES OF 3,900 BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 31,—-Ac- cording to reports in the Buffalo | Times yesterday, over 3,900 home- | owners, mostly residents in this city, lost. their homes through mortgage foreclosures during _ the. last. three _ Struggles of: thelr solomlal- aaron yeary.. | mechanics, riyeters, cranemen and/| painters working for as low as 15| cents an hour. Lee by Militant Union. | The strikers are accepting with en-| | thusiasm the leadership of the Steel and Metal Trades Workers Industrial Union. As in the Detroit auto workers | strikes a firm united front between | | ing established through the Unem-| | ployed Council which is helping the | strikers. A broad strike committee has been elected, representing all departments. Following the successful methods of the Detroit auto workers who have | already won two strikes, the cirike | committee made the decision to pull out plant No. 1 of the same company. The plant is located a few miles away | | from the strike area, STOP WORK TODAY ‘TO DEMONSTRATE | Protest Racketeers In Needle Trades | NEW YORK.—The Secretariat of the New York District of the Com- | munist Party calls upon all its mem- | bers to attend and support the de- | monstration of the needle trades workers today at 1 a.m, NEW YORK.—Needle trades work- ers will “down tools” today at 11 a. m. and together with unemployed needle workers will demonstrate at 36th St. and 8th Ave. between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., in pro- test against the attempt of racket- eers, with the assistance of the bos- | ses and the LL.G.W.U. officials, to| gain a foothold in the industry. Unemployed needle workers other than furriers will assemble at 10 a. m. in the headquarters of the Unity Committee, 140 W. 36th St. while unemployed furriers will meet at the same time in the Union headqvar- ters, 131 W. 28th St., at the call of the Needle Trades Unemployed Council. ! The Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union in a statement today de- clared: “The Metropolitan Association was | sponsored and organized by a group of racketeers who have no connec- tion or interest in the dress trade. “The attempt on the part of the International Ladies Garment Work- ers Union leadership to whitewash this’ racket outfit through a merger of the Metropolitan and the existing Employers’ Association will not change its character or the purpose whose chief aim is to extort money from the contractors and to increase the exploitation of the dressmakers and drive them into the LU.G.W.U., | where they will be forced to pay dues and taxes for the right to work in the shops the LL.G.W.U. coptzol, | turn, and Hen: though the company i. announcement that to work. The comp: as the deadlix ay had set noon for the men to re- Ford, who has been forced by the effectiveness of the strike to shut down his plants thru- out the country, tr a the strikers back ing to begin manufacturing his own bodies. But these threats and an- nouncements fell on deaf ears as far as the strikers were concerned. Fake Announcements, Today the Briggs company tried the tactic, which has been used by bosses thousands of times to break Strikes, of issuing fake announce ments about resuming production, ‘The statement said that enough men had been hired to maintain a steady flow of bodies. Even if one should believe the-company’s statement ‘that 500 had been hired yesterday and 200 thr (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) Answer Lehman! Push the Albany Conference Plans NEW YORK—In a statement is- sued yesterday, the N. Y. District Committee of the ‘Communist Party lashes Governor Lehman's Revenue proposals, as proposals which entail greater burdens and miseries for New York State’s miserably-paid, part- time and unemployed workers. The statement calls upon all toilers aid their organizations to redouble their activities in pushing the state-wide conference on labor legislation, called by a group of American Federation of Labor Unions for February 25th, 26th and 27th at Albany, New York. Governor Lehman’s Budget message presented to the State Legislature on Jan. 30 fully confirms the estimation of the Communist Party that Leh- man will continue Roosevelt's policies —namely, the continued starvation and degradation of the masses in the interest of the capitalist class. The message does not contain a word relative to adequate unem- pleyment relief for the nearlys 3,- 000,000 unemployed of New York State. Instead it intends to con- tinue the dooming of these masses to further starvation, and for a sweeping reduction in the wages of the already underpaid state em- ployees, In the interest of the bankers, Leh- man proposes to cut the wages of all state employees receiving over $2,000 a year 6 ¢ cent He further pro- poses a special income tax of one per cent on all inceme abpve $1,000 for single and above $2,500 for married persons in addition to the regular in- come tax. These taxes and reduc~- tions will hit with especial force the lower-paid categories of state em- ployees. He further demands a sales tax of three-quarters of one per cent, This tax will mean further pauper- ization of masses of toilers, whose wages already slashed to the bone, wil be compelled to pay more for articles of consumption. On problems of burning interest to the workers and impoverished farm- ers of N. Y. State, Lehman remains silent. He has not a word to say | about the growing army of unem- ployed and the increased poverty of the toilers, nor about the repressive measures used by the capitalist para, sites against legor. On the contrary, Lehman and Wall Street aim to con- tinue their program of hunger and destitution for the working class, Precisely because of this, the workers of New York must begin NOW to push with the utmost vigor the preparations fer the Albany Conference on labor legislation. This conference should be a gather- ing of the broadest section of toil- ers who in united action must raise the united mighty fist and power of labor which atone can force con- cessions from the Wall Street plun- é f