The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, AURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1938 rage Three QD I SOCIALIST “HEADS BACK ~ STRIKE BAN Denmark Abolishes Right to Strike; Hits Toilers RAISE LIVING COST Communists Build Mass Resistance COPENHAGEN, Feb. 1. — with the aid of the socialists in a coalition with the parties of the “Left”, and in the face of mass protests against its policy led by the Communist Party, which were broken up by police using tear gas, the Danish government has abolished the right to strike and enacted infla- tionary measures which greatly in- crease the cost of Uving for the toll- ing population, Having gone off the gold standard in order to maintain its position in the British market, the krone has jnow been inflated by government edict to 22% to the pound. Wages are being slashed right and left and junemployment is increasing rapidly. \| Strikes [legal The anti-strike legislation was car- ried through under the threat of a lockout of some 100,000 workers by employers federations. The new law also-prohibits lockouts but is directed against the workers since it was clear that the threatened lockout if car- ||rled through would have resulted in |counter-strike action with the Com- |munist Party securing a tremendous | |inerease in its influence, Under the law, strikes for higher wages to meet ||the rapidly increasing cost of living jare made illegal. | The government program is in- tended to placate the well-to-do and ||wealthy farmers and one of its rul- ings provide for the destruction of |1500 cattle weekly in order to keep up the price of meat by reducing the supply of livestock. It is estimated that the govern- ment program will increase the in- come of the land owners by 250,000,- 000 kronen annually, Practically all of this increase will have to be borne by industrial and clerical workers, This is socialism of the Second In- ternational variety in Denmark, Ham- let'wes right, It is the Socialist Par- ty Of Denmark. STEEL CO. GETS TOILERS DEMANDS Demonstration Hits Pay Cuts, for Relief PITTSBURGH, Feb, hundred workers demonstrated today before the Jorgs-Laughlin steel mill against wage cuts that the steel in- dustry is plotting to put into effect soon and for more relief, An Unemployed Council delegation of 300 marchced and presented the demands to the company, Five of \the leaders were arrested, including 4\ Edith Briscoe and Ben Carruthers, ‘This demonstration met with the best response since the struggle against hunger began in Pittsburgh area. Resentment of the workers against the police interference and arrests is high and a second dem- onstration to take place soon is be- ing planned. fi ag ae Homestead Unemployed March. HOMESTEAD, Pa., Feb. 1—For the first time since the famous Home- stead strike of 40 years ago workers marehed through the streets here vefore the great Carnegie steel com- pany plant, The demonstration was under the leadership of the Unem- ployed Councils. A delegation in- cluding 5 white workers and 45 Negro men and women workers went to the Allegheny county welfare association offices, where Pat Cush, Val. Donne and Rey. Solomon presented demands for immediate relief including food, clothing, fuel, etc, Many workers got clothing before they left and grocers ies were delivered to some a half an hour after applying. Defeat Eviction mass resistance and white workers in the Hill section of this city prevented a Negro worker and his family being evicted here, in spite of the mobilization of 50 police to defeat the Unemployed Councils who led the resistance, Some twenty workers were arrested, but the un- employed workers packed the court room so the magistrate released all but two arrested—Fred Griff and Ernest Carruthers—who are still held because they are recognized as Unemployed Council leaders. The \Unemployed Councils and the Inter- tional Labor Defense are Bie the workers of the Hill district and of Pittsburgh rely, to fight iin defense of the leaders of the un- employed and to prevent them being ingled out and jatied by the police, WORKERS WAGES WITHELD, NEW YORK CITY.—I just want to show you how cheap the million- aire outfit ke the United Fuel are, and’ how ss are the workers. we as &, carpenter and for them id they were paying [er Saree Selene dns a eee 1.—Fifteen | <= International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON IRISH REPUBLICANS SUPPORT COMMUNIST CANDIDATE In the recent Irish elections to the Dail Eireann, “An Phoblacht,” organ of the Irish Republican Army, en- dorsed the candidacy of Jim Larkin, Jr., for the Dublin City South seat. Larkin was supported by the Reyolu- tionary Workers’ Groups, who de- clared that “the issue for the work- ing people is not the policy of Cumann na Gaedheal (Cosgrave)— blatant surrender to British imperial- ism—as against that of Fianna Fail (De Valera)—a bargain on certain terms—but the complete national liberation of Ireland and the estab- lishment of the Workers’ Republic for which Connolly died.” sce Mass PEASANT UPRISING IN ITALY Clashes between dissatisfied peas- ants and the carabinieri have oc- curred in the town of Monte San Giacomo and the neighboring yil- lage of Sasano. The peasants threw rocks and shot at a police station, wounding a non-commissioned offi- cer and seriously injuring a gen- darme. The gendarmerie charged the demonstrators, killing three andj Seriously wounding four others. Many were arrested, This report is taken from the Stefani Agency, the semi-official news bureau of Mussolini’s goyern- ment, These demonstrations are oc- casioned by the recent lease law, which has returned the rural popu- lation to the fetters of medieval serfdom, When the Fascist censor- ship has to concede the existence of such disorders, we can imagine the actual extent of peasant unrest in Mussolini's Italy! “agar ANCIENT LAWS INVOKED AGAINST COMMUNISTS In Georgia a Negro Communist was recently sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment under a 60-year-old “sedition law” enacted in the carpet- baggers’ period, But when it comes to the dragging out of hoary, antique statutes against Communists, England has nearly a thousand years’ headstart over the American bourgeoisie. Tom Mann, Emrhys Llewellyn, Kath _ Duncan, and now Comrade Phil Hicken of the Derbyshire Miners’ Union and the National Unemployed Workers’ Moveinent, haye been sent to prison for varying terms under a statute of the. reign of Edward Il, that is more than 600 years’ old! This law has been a dead letter for hundreds of years, but the learned jurists have delved deeply into their law tomes to exhume the paragraphs —ho matter how ancient—that would safely pyt Communists behind bars, even though only their thoughts were being punished. (eer ee BRITISH TROOPS REMATY IN IRAQ ALEPPO, Syria, Jan. 4 (By Mail). —The British government, which is obliged by treaty to withdraw Brit- ish troops of occupation now that Iraq hes entered the League of Na- tions, declares that it proposes to have them remain in Iraq for the present, The British troops are to police the roads and protect British interests in Iraq, Turkish circles are of the opinion that this statement is occasioned by the present dispute between Great Britain and Persia over the Anglo- Persian of] concession Hunger Fighter Tells ,of Rent Strike Gains NEW YORK.—The tremendous vic- tories won in 14 rent strikes in the past few weeks, and the preparations for the mass rent strike in the Bronx which are now taking place, are among the struggles for relief de- seribed in the current issue of the Hunger Fighter, just off the press. Two hundred and sixty-five ten- ants in New York City have won lower rents and other concessions in the last few weeks as a result of the militant rent strikes led by the Unemployed Councils, the Hunger Fighter shows, and 3,000 more ten- ants, organized into House Commit- tees are preparing to strike for a 25 per cent reduction in rents in the next few weeks, the Unemployed Council organ shows. Among the demands won by the rent strikers, in addition to reduc- tion in rents, are: Four and five weeks free rent and reinstatement for all evicted tenants, as well as com- pensation of up to $25 to these ten- ants; recognition of the House and Block Committees and of the Un- employed Council; and all necessary repairs in the aj nts, Other news in the Hunger Fighter include a statistical sum~ mary of the workers in New York City who are suffering from starva- tion, and of the money being ex- pended by the city government for thelr relief; victories won by the thousands of workers organized in the Unemployed Councils in the fight for relief; an exposure of the “bar- ter system”; and @ call to the mem~ bers of all organizations of the un- employed to take joint action with the Unemployed Councils in the common struggle against starvation and unemployment. Bundle orders of the unger Fight- er can be obtained at the office of the Unemployed Council at 10 E. 7th St., at a penny a copy. 40c an hour, I worked Nov. 8, elec- tion day, and I haven't received the money yet. Every time I go to the tite, they tall te to come back. Bg haye been to the Labor Commis- ir | sioner, and he told me he could do jothing ne and that’s why I want to show you eapitalist justice. poy s Funds Drop to $297 Tuesday;|CALL JOBLESS TO Suspension of Foreclosure Sales by Insurance Companies Is the Result of Nationwide Militant Action By Farmers \Chicago Breaks Ice With $50 Falling from $636.46, which was re- ceived Sunday and Monday, only $297.27 in donations reached the Daily Worker on Tuesday—miles behind the sum that is needed. If all the dis- tricts and sections that report con- ferences and plans for work would actually get down to work and raise funds, a great deal more would be coming in every day. The total since the drive began is now $3,080.48, ‘The most encouraging news of the day is Chicago’s contribution of $50, an indication that the workers in the big burg on Lake Michigan are begin- ning to act! A Chicago worker writes: “Here’s hoping by the time you receive this news that District 8 will have more than $2 in the D. W. fund. Our Unit has ten collectors out in our territory and we are having a meeting Sunday, Jan. 29, with the Shock Troop Committee. We are also engaged in a revolutionary competi- tion with Section 7. I am from Sec- tion 8, to see which section raises its quota first. We're also planning a big affair for the Daily soon.” ‘This sounds good, but only results can save the Daily Worker. Nine districts are again on the blank list. Not a penny was received from Districts 1, 5, 7, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19, nor from International Workers Order branches. Of these, Districts 5 (Pittsburgh), 12 (Seattle), 16 (N. and S. Carolina), 17 (Alabama and Florida) and 19 (Denver) are far PUTSCH IN SPAIN SCORED BY C. P. Organized ‘Action of Masses Is Needed (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) welcomed by the workers who had been disappointed owing to the in- activity on the part of the anarcho- syndicalist leaders then caused the latter to veer around again and de- | clare a strike for a limited period. This strike was accompanied by loud announcements that the “social rev-| olution” was about to take place. However, the ease with which the police succeeded in discovering the bomb supplies indicates that the anarcho-syndicalist moyement ‘is honeycombed with spies and agents- provocateurs and that in fact the | anarcho-syndicalists fell victim to these provocations. Warned Against Proyocateurs. On Jan. 3 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain published a warning to the workers in its daily newspaper “Mundo Obrero,” It reviewed the facts of the situation and urgently warned the workers against the provocative elements in the anarcho-syndicalist ranks who were trying to jockey the masses into unprepared and rash ac- tions. This warning did not come a moment too soon. In the mean- time a series of putsch actions have broken out in various parts of the country led by anarchist elements. | % In Madrid, Barcelona, Lerida, Ge-|m m rona, Tarrasa and other towns small | 5 groups of armed men have attacked barracks and other buildings. Armed collisions have taken place as a re- sult of which scores of workers have been killed and hundreds arrested. The police and military have also suffered losses. No Connection With Masses, ‘The anarcho-syndicalist movement was a downright putsch. It was car- ried out by small groups of armed and misled workers without any con- nection with the masses of the work- ers. Even the members of the anareho-syndicalist unions knew nothing about the matter. The only people who knew anything definite were the little groups of desperate anarchists and the police. When the armed groups attacked the bar- vacks they found the soldiers under arms with ball cartridges in the chamber and ready to receive them. The anarchist action provides the government with new opportunities to suppress the revolutionary move- ment and the Communist Party and | 7, hampers the development of the bourgeois-democratic revolution. The real struggles of the Spanish masses have already taken on an organized mass character, thanks to the Com- munist Party. Only such tactics can endanger the Spanish bourgeoisie. The anarchist putsch which has aly ready utterly broken down was noth- ing but grist for the mill of the bour- gBeoisle and its government. Notorious Racketeer" Zarenko Active Now|, Among Housewreckers NEW YORK.—Zarenko, a racket- eer who is well known among the housewreckers, is again on the scene. | 9” He is attempting to place himself at the head of Local 95 of the A, F. of L, housewreckers union, Recently he called a meeting of the members of Local 95 and had him~ self elected a delegate by 145 votes. He is trying to fool the workers with false prmises. In warning against this corrupt racketeer. it is only necessary to cite Zarenko’s “Co-operative” swindle of the year 1929 when he duped a num- ber of housewreckers out of hundreds of dollars. Some of the victims are D. Urgin who lost $50, P, Cook—50, P. Stayski —$5, M. Kushnir—$100, Bahy—$100, V. Moha—$100, Any of these workers as well as a@ good many others are able to give full details of Zaranko's racketeering activities, which clearly demonstrate his dangerous character as far as the workers are concerned. down in the list. A letter from a Boston worker points out that funds can be raised despite the crisis, “Conditions in the Boston district,” he writes, “are just as bad as anywhere else. Tens of thousands are unemployed or part-time, the workers in the tex- tile and shoe industries have re- ceived wage cut after wage cut. Yet our district, as in past drives, is up among the leaders, The reason for the failure of other districts to col- lect the proper amounts is in lack of proper ogganization of drive ac- tivities. They are not canvagsing the organizations, they are not ar- ranging affairs, they are not hold- ing every Party member respon- sible for raising funds for the ‘Daily’ And when they do work, it is still in the same old narrow circle as in the past, instead of spreading out among the thousands of new workers and sympathizers who have come close to our move- ment in the last couple of years.” How about it, workers in other dis- GLOOMY GUS There’s a reasont Sheriff Gus has just been tofd where to get off at by a group of determ’ned and militant farmers, gathered to pre- vent the foreclosure on the home of one of their fellow-farmers, “Times are changing,” the sheriff is re- ported to have said. You're right, sheriff, and it’s the Daily Worker that is guiding the farmers in this change! They're not going to let you and your big banker masters get away with it any more, Farm- ers, get into the “Daily” drive for $35,000! tricts? Isn’t this worker right? Every worker on the job and send in col- lection lists at once! Total received Tuesda Previously Received .. 297.2% Ypres TOTAL TO DATE 1080.48 TUESDAY'S CONTRIBUTIONS: DISTRICT 2 Coll. by M. Rosen, A Worker Woodridge, N.’ A Student Shlofrock Winick Welkes Treasury Bochuer Z Strauch Barilla A Strauch L. Bhapire W Savage la Dickman W Fined Brown Ids Ginn Mrs. Shapiro B Ripper A Worke® Skoloft Kemer M Savage American Youth M Rothman Club J. McGinnis Gee. Morgan Bronx Coop, 00 Abe Gringold .00 thet Cooper 00 B Stern -00 D Unger Concourse Workers Jobn Goykin club 1.40 Minnie Laiter Arts Comm, of Pen and Hammer 3.00 Shule 5 Bronx Sing Le Jose Sariano Mary Zonsky Jeans Kalin J Light © Stadler J Goldwasin Jack Nilo 0 Anonymous Arthur Fried 205 Garden Gene Greely :05 Symp! Lila Greely 0% A Pot K Willett 7 Fogel A Friend J Healy Jack Shered L Howarth Call, by TWO A Tarpinias Br. 127: John Saras Maslow B Coleman 8 Aruer An Erlich J Cherkis Lou Smal! Rex David E © Ruocco R Rosen A Friend 5 Resnikotf S Bipt Sebrelber Annonymous K Rosen Annonymous Anonymous tat $223.74 A Worker al te date $2,140-70 DISTRICT § T Chomehuk, js from banquet cy 3129.08 2.90 $31.85 0 964.47 50.00 978.55 910,40 3.00 $7.50 DISTRICT 11 WwW, W. Willard 1.00 Total to date $13.00 DISTRICT 13 Von Blum 8.00 Total to Reis, $4.00 pinaaicr uu 1.68 $15.87 Brooklyn Unit Party Raises a fe Fund NEW YORK.—On the initiative of Unit 9 Section 6 (a shop nucleus) of the Communist Party, a group of workers gathered at the house of Comrade Jagendor, 8817 Bay Park- way, Brooklyn, last week, a letter from the unit states. “We had a real good time,” the letter continues, “however, the comrades felt that at ~~ 2788.21 | 00) Hitler at once as the first fruits of 0| hands to stampede the electorate by AID OF HERNDON || Relief Fighters Are Victimized by Bosses NEW YORK—In an emphatic protest against the virtual death sen- tence meted out by the Southern ruling class to Angelo Herndon, leader in the unemployed movement in Atlanta, the National Committee | of the Unemployed Councils today called upon all its affiliated Unem- ployed Councils to join hands with! the International Labor Defense in| the fight to save this young Negro organizer from the murderous South- erm chain gang. The National Committee points out that the struggle to free Herndon cannot be separated from the fight against the whole system of terror and bloodshed instigated by the capi- talists against the unemployed to| ! paralyze their efforts to win relief | from starvation. “The ruling class terror against the unemployed is well | known to all workers. The capitalist | governments haye sent their police to shoot down militant unemployed} workers in cold blood in St. Louis,| Chicago and elsewhere. They have| arrested and are now seeking to de- port Anna Bloch, leader of the New England contingent of the National Hunger March, and Oscar Larsen, leader of the Utah Hunger March They have sentenced Homer Barton to the chain gang at Tampa, Florida, for assisting the Tampa unemployed workers to organize and fight. They have provoked bloodshed against and sentenced to jail countless numbers of fearless workers who are carrying on the struggle for bread. “Unemployed workers must rally to the defense of their militant fight- ers by raising the slogan for their freedom at all demonstrations, meet- ings and in all struggles for relief. The Councils are urged to work with| the I, L. D. in their districts in the mass Campaign to free these workers and send letters of protest to Roose- velt, Hoover and the governors of Georgia and Florida, demanding their immediate release HINDENBURG ENDS. THE REICHSTAC Street Battles and Strikes Continue (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to be well supplied with revolvers and ammunition. That Wall Street and its govern- ment are trying to find concrete ways of strengthening the Hitler govern- ment and its industrialist-landlord backing is seen by the report that Hugenberg’s proposal for a drastic Jowering of interest rates on German foreign debts, public and private of most categories, to one and one-half per cent has met with favor from the American delegates to the debt conference. If the Wall Street rep- resentatives agree to this or some similar proposal for American debt settlements it would he hailed by his foreign policy and give him a new weapon for the coming elec- tions, Center Fears Loss of Workers. The decision for the dissolution of the Reichstag was influenced by the unwillingness of the Center Party (Catholic), which has a considerable measure of working class support that it feared to lose, to vote in the Reichstag for the absolute power Hit- ler demanded, Snap Elections, In spite of this it must be admit- ted that the Hitler credit balance has naturally been increased by the formation of a government and the Fascists hope, that with the powerful government machinery in their @ snap election. Many bloody conflicts resulting in at least six déaths occurred yester- day: a Two Fascists, Policeman Killed. In Hamburg and the Rhineland district of coal and sieel industry a collision between fascists and police resulted in two fascists and a police- man being killed. Reichsbanner Kills Fascist. In Luebeck an attack on a so- cial-democrat Reichstag member re- sulted in a fascist being killed by Aid Briggs Strike After Winning Own Fight The picket line at the Motor Products Corporatior the auto industry, where, under the leadership of the Auto Workers Union, more than 1,000 workers gained an overwhelming victory after a strike lasting only three days. The to the Briggs Vernor Highway shop, and the Motor Products men have refused to work on material for the Briggs company as long as the strike lasts, | an auxiliary to Motor Products plant is located next | WORKER CORRESPONDENCE STEEL, METAL AND AUTO WORKERS WRITE Former Briggs Worker Hails Present Struggles and Victory BROOKLYN, METROPOLITAN IS LATEST TO. CALL OFF FARM SALES | Local Banks Will Push Evictions NEW YORK, Dec. 1.— The Metropolitan Life Insuranee Company today joined the other five large insurance com- panies, including the Prudential, in announcing suspension of fore- closure sales on farms against which hey hold mortgages. action on the part of these a clear-cut vindication f the militant mass action of the farmers throughout the country—and articularly in the West—in thwart- foreclosure sales and resisting, by organization, the evictions of farmers and their families. At the same time | it reveals in the most striking man- ner the depth of the capitalist crisis and particu as it has affected the farmers of the United States. In relation to the insurance com- panies themselves, 't indicates their particularly shakey character at pres- ent, inasmu as for years mort- gages on f: properties have been considered “gilt edge” securities. Fear that the farmers would com- pletely repudiate their formal in- debtedness to them is seen as one of the major considerations in the incisions of the leading insurance companies in announcing their sus- | pension of foreclosure sales. At the seme time it is clear that |this action in no way solves the for the farmers, as shown by > fact that whereas $1,700,000,000 in mortgages is held by the insurance companies- e than $10,000,000,000 is held by local banks who are pro- ceeding as usual to evict the ruined farmers. These local banks are for the most part agents of big Eastern banks and trust companies. What is more, the suspension ac- N. ¥.—I have just out and the rest of the factory fol-| tion of the insurance companies ex- received a letter from a friend of| lowed, which showed how well the} Rakes stipulates that it shall affect mine, a school teacher in Detroit Although he is not close to the rad- | ical movement, nevertheless I think |men were organized. Actual picketing was done only by| | men with Briggs’ badges and the | those farms occupied by owners j that where tenants occupy the farms the sheriffs will continue their at- that the following remarks from his| Auto Workers’ Union, which donated | ‘emPts to foreclose and evict, letter give some indication that even the general populace are aware of| the significance of the victory and present struggles of the Auto Work- ers’ Union in Detroit and other parts of Michigan. “Briggs tried to cut their employ- | ees 20 per cent last. week, in addition to a series of previous cuts of 15 per cent, 10 per cent and 15 per cent. Seeing that the men took the cu docile and peaceful like, “Professor’ Briggs tried to slip over this new 20) per cent cut—putting the most skilled teol and die makers on a top salary of 43 cents per hour and Sweepers | and unskilled at 25 cents, “A few smart Communists, antici- pating the cut, had organized home | meetings at various homes of the men in the shop and planned to re- sist the cut. When the cut was an nounced, thi tool and die men walked halls, speakers, etc. Pamphlets were | distributed at all plants of Briggs,| Hudson, Ford, etc. So quickly and} effectively did the men do their stuff | that all men were put back to. work; | all belong to the union and will re- | sist further cuts. | Murray Body, which had posted a }10 per cent cut, and Hudson's;:which | had posted a 20 per cent cut, hastily} took down their notices when they| saw the success of Briggs’ men. This, incidentally, is the first successful aut@ strike in these parts and show ws} | strikes can be successful in hard] times if the men are organized.” I, who haye lived in Detroit for] | many years and have worked in| ;many auto plants, including Briggs. the worst hell-hole of them all, hail | the victory and struggles of the Auto| | significant events happening in this | Workers’ Union as one of the most | country today, Big Profits for Bossing One Season, Offs and Wage-Cuts for Workers NEW YORK CITY.—I would lke going on among the girls who work work, from a year ago, so that most of us the girls who haye been in the shop a We worked hard, plenty overtime @ for straight pay. At Christmas we were all Iaid off for ten days, with a lipstick for pay, January 3 we came back, and now we're working only 40 Tours. During the season they hired a couple of hundred girls for $8 a week for a full 54g day week. Now we're making be- tween $8 to $10 for 40 hours, And now Kasdan, our boss, is planning a new wage cut. As soon as new spring orders come in, we'll go back to the 48 hours a week for the forty hours pay! That is what happened last year, and what will happen again, unless we organize to preyent him, RR. STRIKE AIDED IN FREE STATE Workers Won't Touch Goods From North BALTIMORE, Feb, 1.—Baltimore & Ohio Railroad officials an- Reichsbanner workers. (The Reichs- banner is the rank and file defense organization composed of social-dem- ———| Ocrat workers.) Fascist Murder in Hamburg. In Hamburg a railway fascist shot two of his fellow workers—one a member of the Stahlhelm (National- ist) and the other a social-democrat. The former was killed and the latter seriously wounded, Young Worker Murdered. In Velbert, Rhineland district, a young worker was killed in a strug- gle with the fascists. A fascist has been reported killed in Zittau. Fierce conflicts continued between workers and fascists in Essen, Dues- seldorf and Crefeld. There were a pe of fascist bomb outrages in rlin, PORTO-RICAN ANTI-IMPERIAL- ISTS AID DAILY WORKER NEW YORK.—Porto Rican Anti- Imperialist. Association gives an en- tertainment and dance for the bene- fit of the Daily Worker at 8 p.m. nounced the closing of all shops throughout the system and curtail- ment of the company’s clerical forces, throwing thousands out of work, The orders are effective to- day, the closing of the shops to continue until Feb. 15 and the clerical ourtallment indefinitely. BERLIN, Feb. 1, (By Cable) —The railway workers of the Free State have refused to handle goods from the North of Ireland (Ulster) where 5,000 workers are on strike egainst a 10 per cent wage cut ordered by the government Railway Wages Board. The companies are trying to carry on a@ skeleton scab service under heavy armed guards but very few trains are running. The Belfast and Larne dock workers have also re- fused to handle goods coming from the railways. NANKING EDITOR KILLED NANKING, Feb. 1.—W. 8, Wang, | Kuomintang editor, was kidnapped several days ago. His body was found yesterday on the slope of Purple Mountain, near the tomb of Sun Yat- this time our Daily Ws ‘could not| Fem. 4, at their headquarters, 240 be f ten. The reg} .to an ap-| Columbia St., Red Hook. Speeches | sen. the body was a preti "we cal tans workers Fiipino tenon, will sing a Piliping ith: the. enemy, gine “upon ig an are urged to follow this example band will play, been But Faw | ers, eroppers, school children, ete. :- oS at Majestic on assembly and packing | Last season we worked under a wage cut of close to 50 percent | to tell you a few words about what is were making $10 to $12. That is for | few years, making profits for Kasdan, Isn't that a straight wage cut? That's what we figure, and that is why we | are writing in to you. The boss is neryous as the dickens, And he is laying off old workers left and right, without any e: e. Any- one who is caught talking in the shop is warned against talking dur- ing hours. All of us who have been here for years feel that we can’t tell if we'll have a job tomorrow morn- ing. We all want t2 organize, because we gee that if the workers in dif- ferent departments at Majestic stu together, like the polishers, and th spray department, they got what they fought for. The Majestic Co. made $200,000 in the last tough season, out of our hard work, out of the life of Mary Diaz, out of many more of us who have worked and been hurt and suffered here. They can well afford to pay us decent wages, and we can well afford now to organize. The ‘Metal Workers Industrial Union is giving out leaflets, and building up organization in our shop, and we're ready for it. Come on girls, only organization can stop that wage-cut, the boss is going to try to put over in a short while. —A Majestic Worker, NEWARK, N. J. Tonight Daily Worker Conference 7 Charlton Street tenance. | SRN geen y soe I recognize the necessity of the Daily Worker as @ mighty weapon in the day-to-day struggles of the working class and wish to contribute to its main- T contribute §........ to the Daily Worker Fund. Wire, air Mail, rush funds to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City, Delegation to Ala. ‘Vegubatons MONTGOMERY, Ala. Feb. 1. — Bringing forward immediate demands for relief, a mass delegation of Ala- bama farmers and sharecroppers are expected here on Feb. 23 at the | Opening session of the state legis- | lature. The delegation is being organized by the Alabama Farmers’ Relief Con- ference which has called upon the |Sharecroppers Union, the United Farmers League and other farmers organizations to join the united front fight for demands which include: Food and clothing for all starving farmers and their families; mora- toriums on all debts: no foreclosures or seizure of stock; the right of the sharecroppers to sell their own cot- ton; the release of al) jailed croppers and the right to organize; the right ©! to vote without any restrictions thru | poll taxes, etc.; the immediate open- |ing of the schools that have been | closed; payment of back wages to j teachers; free hot lunches and trans- portation fer ali school children; no discrimination against Negro farm~- 3,000 Farmers “Run” Sale DESHLER, O., Feb. 1—The sum of $2.17 is what the City Loan and Savings Co. of Bowling Green, ©., is due to get out of an auction sale of livestock and farm implements to | Satisfy a debt owed by Cecil Kist~ ner, a local farmer, The bank's hard luck resulted from the fact that 3,000 farmers responded to the advertisements of the auc- tion, and bought articles offered for sale at prices ranging from 1 to 11 cents, with the idea’ of returning everything sold to Kistner, A plow sold for three cents, two horses and two cows fetehed 25 cents apiece, and househeld goods went for a total of 11 cents, The farmer said that his loan made three years ago was for $350 and that he has paid interest total- ing $324—and he still owes $390. A group of farmers’ wives of the vicinity served meals to the farmers when they hecame hungry while waiting for the auction sale to begin Baltimore MWIU Hold Dance Despite Police BALTIMORE, Md., Feb, 1.—Despite police effort to disrupt the activities of workers’ organizations by eon- demning the Tom Mooney Hall, the Marine Workers Industrial Union succeeded in smashing through the terror and held a very successful dance and entertainment on Jan. 28. Crews attending from Swedish and German ships swelled the crowd, and all joined in the pledge to su the fight to stop shipments o! material to the far east. The German and Swedish crews spoke very highly of the affair, and a basis was laid for an International Seamen’s Club in Baltimore by the branch of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, war