The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1933, Page 3

DISREGARDING DANGER TO RIDERS. IRT Subway Workers | Face Mass Lay-Offs | In “Efficiency Plan’) NEW both the 59th St. and 74th St. power plants are being made by the r Ceiveers of the I, R. T., according to reliable reports. The company ex- pects to economize by giving this business to the Edison Co. What will} happen to the workers who are; thrown out of jobs does not concern: the company. Layoffs are also con- templated in the cleaning, painting, washing and other departments. ‘The Emergency Unemployment Re-} lief Committee is opposing the dis- | charge of the workers, as a result of the publicity given these plans by| the I. R. T. Workers’ Group in their leaflets and activities and ‘2 pro- tests of many workers. > Com- mittee states that it will > cn added | burden of unemployment to the city} ad will endanger- public | safety ‘ough improper and undermanned rvice, Twenty “spotters” (company stool Pigeons) have been added to the New| York Central Station in an attempt | to prevent the agitation and leaflets of the I. R. T. Workers Group. The Group is protesting the proposed di: YORK.—Plans to eliminate} 5 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 193 TS, i a LR.T, workers: rushing at their dangerous task repairing cars. Aged Especially Fired By LR. T., One Worked 26 Years, | Now Gets $7 a Week (By A Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK CITY.—Another crime gainst labor is being perpetrated charge caused by the “efficiency” pro- | by the I. R. T. company and its re- those using the subways. more years to the service of the com- ith this retirement, but the month- AS COURT MEETS, Proceedings | for a general strike in the whole chain | mass meeting of all see mara | congressman, will represent the Am- Food Workers Industrial Union in| ous doubts in the feeding of a canary bird, let alone a man who in practi- cally every case has a family to sup- port. Many Worked 26 Years for Co. Among other cases I know of, there is one when the employe in question has spent twenty-six years working for the Interboro. He began his lifes’ labor at the age of twenty on a job which from that time to this forced him to work nine hours a day (it gram and the ruthless policy of the | ceivers. All the “old-timers”, that is, aE Seite enero | pany, are being officially asked to PLAN GENERAL tly check receivd in lieu of this pen- LaGuardia Attorney) of cafeterias, to be launched at aj workers and strikers are being made. erican Civil Liberties Union, along} the fight against the Foltis-Fischer | Used to be more) and seven days a company in endangering the lives of {men who have given twenty-five or retire”. A so-called pension goes FOL S STRIKE sion is so miserable as to raise seri- : | \ Against Contempt | 4 NEW YORK.—Active preparations | Meanwhile Fiorella Laguardia, former with Attorney Buitenkant, for the} strike contempt proceedings today.| Week. Of course he took a few days The hearing is before the Federal Off during those twenty-six years. | Court, twelfth floor of the Woolworth Building, at 4p. m, | | Test Case, The Civil Liberties was present at @ conference last week between the | union and the International Labor Defens, where ft was pointed out that if this contempt case goes through, it will amount" practically to the de- claring of an anti-strike law for all companies in receivership. | The receiver of Foltis-Fischer| plaime that any strike while the court | in charge of a company means | tempt of court. Half the big com- ‘panies in America are either in or on | the verge of going into receivership. | This trial, extremely important to all| workers, is open to the public, | Strike Goes On. Meanwhile the strike in 12 Foltis- | Fischer cafeterias goes ahead, picket- | ing continues, and the company is | hard hit. | It has been found out that the | cafeterias of this chain which used to | bring in $500 a night, now average | hardly $50 and none of the struck cafeterias are paying expenses. | Hired gangsters are threatening | the pickets, police are adopting aj menacing attitude also. The F. W. I. U. calls a membership meeting of it cafeteria section Fri- | & week or take the consequences. On;e he was sick for a few days and the other time he attended his mother's funeral. Forced Retirement. This man is now forty-six and head of a family of eight; the oldest of whom is seventeen. Now, after a life time of sweat, with no money saved (how careless of him, he only had nine people to feed on a salary of thirty dollars a week). Hedley tells him the good news; he can “‘re- tire” on a pension of seven dollars In other words lose his job and the pen- | slon, both. For, do you see, the age for a pension is seventy along with the twenty-five years service. —I. R. T. Worker. Brownsville Workers Support Rent Strike On Williams Avenue NEW YORK.—Tenants of 440 and 444 Williams Ave., Brooklyn, mili- tantly carry on the rent strike started one week ago in spite of disspossess notices and arrests, A very successful open air meeting was held Saturday. The workers liv- ing on that block and on nearby streets rallied. Mass picketing and a firm stand quieted the cops which the day, 8 p. m. at 4 West 18th St. The mass meeting of all Foltis workers for | a general strike will be arranged at the meeting Friday. N. Y. State Farmers in Fight for Milk Raise ALBANY, March 14.—Moving on f=: State Capitol, nearly 1,000 dairy ' landlord called. They dared not dis- turb the meeting. When two workers went to spread {the news of a meeting called for | Sunday at the Hinsdale Workers Club at 313 Hinsdale St., they were arrest- ed on the charges of disorderly con- duct and of resisting arrest. Framed by the strike-breaking landlords of the district, who want to teach ten- ‘armers thronged the legislative} phamber here today in conection with ‘the hearing on the Pitcher bill, which $500 bail, The stronger the attacks of the a house owners, the more determined would create a milk control board these workers are in their struggle empowered | to. establish minimum fo. 4 fifteen per cent reduction snd prices and license dealers. | the recognition of the house commit- Threats of a general milk strike | tee, They have informed their land- unless they were guaranteed a mini-| lord in case of any evictions that set- mum price were made by the dairy| tlement will only be discussed when ants a “lesson,” they were held on/ farmers, the evicted tenants are readmitted. FIRING, B T Economy Plan Emergency Work Bureau to | Lay Off 3,500 Next Week, Own Letters Smash Propaganda About “New Deal”; No Government Money | NEW YORK.— The E ergency Work and Relief Bureau has made Cuts Wages 40 Pp Cc | open announcement through the press that it is laying off 3,500 men previ- And Lays Off Many NEW YORK. —Conductors and| trainmen on the B, M. T. have had their pay reduced nearly 40 per cent in the company’s recent economy drive, according to a bulletin issued by the B. M. T. Workers Group. BMT workers have been working 7 days a week and doing special plat- form work in order to make ends meet, The company recently ordered all men on a six day basis, abolished the platform work and cut the mis- erable pay. ten per cent in addition. ‘At the same time Dahl, chairman of the Board of Directors received over $250,000 in bonuses and in the past seven months the company has net- ted $4,026,112. As a result of the | company’s policy to economize at the expense of the workers, bonuses have | been entirely eliminated with the ex- ception of the door accident bonus | | which has been slashed in half. One man operates eight or nine cars | where there was a man for every car | a few years ago, resulting in many more accidents. Must Wait For Hours. Extra men who must report for work as early as 4 or 5 a. m. never get more than two hours’ work a day, after waiting around for many hours. The BMT Workers’ Group warns the workers of another impending wage cut and calls upon the workers to organize to stop the cuts, the lay-offs and short time, For further information BMT workers are urged to get in touch with the Group of BMT workers at Room 222, 799 Broadway. Salamanca, N. Y., R. R. Toilers on J Part Time | (By a Worker Correspondent) SALAMANCA, N. Y.—Not one worker is working full time here ex- cepting the railroad engineers, Three railroad companies maintain railroad shops in this town—Erie, Pennsyl- vania, and Baltimore and Ohio, In these three companies, repairmen re- | ceive 35 cents an hour. Skilled me- | chanics no more than 42 1-2 cents an hour. $00 Taxi Drivers Out Of Jobs; Two Firms Shut Down } Yesterday NEW YORK.—Two taxicab com- panies closed their doors yesterday, throwing more than 600 steady day jand night men and 300 extras out | of jobs. The Palace Cab Co., located at Garage 2, 17lst St. and Inwood | Ave. Bronx, closed up without no- | tice to the drivers. The Monarch Taxi Corporation closed its garage at 156th St. and Whitlock Ave, yesterday with the promise that it would reopen on Friday. The workers predict that the gar- age will remain closed since its 150 | cars are old and dilapidated, Other | garages of these companies remain open but operate with reduced crews chosen from those who turn in the largest fares on the previous day. Taxi men scarcely average $10 a week for a 6-day shift. The majority of the workers do not get more than |two or three days work. The Taxi | Workers Union is carrying on a strug- gle against discrimination and unem- ployment in the industry, Bronx | hackmen thrown out of work by the garage shut-downs get in touch with the union office, Room 231, 80 E. 11th St., immediately, LABOR UNION MEETINGS HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WORKERS Very important meeting Hotel and Res- taurant Workers, March 15, at 9 p. m., at 4 West 18th Street. se LAUNDRY WORKERS Laundry Workers Industrial Union meet- ing evening of March 16 at 360 E. 138th St. eMart | UNDERWEAR WORKERS All underwear workers are called ty the Needle Trades Workers Industrial! Union to meet 7 - March 16, sixth floor at eet. 131 West 28th Str oe 8. | MILLINERY WORKERS Conference of all millinery workers, cap makers and hatters March 18 and 19 at Irv- ing Plaza Hall. Called by the Headwear United Front Rank and File Committee. gt tea CAFETERIA WORKERS Cafeteria workers called to meet by Food Workers Industrial Union at 8 p.m., March 17 at 4 West 18th St. Plans to win Foltis- A crime against the working class to permit the Daily Worker to sus- pend. Rush funds today. WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN ;bolicies with record speed designed The crisis plunges irito new depths with such rapidity that it is bewil- dering to those who do not realize the fundamental causes of the crisis. ‘The present financial and banking crisis is only one phase of the deep- ening of the crisis. Under cover of the bank crisis is hidden a new rise of unemployment, a new closing of the. factories, a new drop in produc- To the toiling masses of workers jand farmers this deepening of the crisis means more wage-cuts, more part-time work, less unemployment relief, loss of deposits, rise in the cost of living, a further impoverish- ment. ‘The new Congress, under the lead- ership of Roosevelt, has enacted the new banking legislation with unpre-~ cedented rapidity. What does this ition mean to the masses? It means that the sfnall depositors will be the victims of the manipulations through which the big bankers, the Mitchells, have enriched themselves. ‘The banking legislation also calls for the issuance of additional cur- rency. To the masses this means a rise in the cost of living, a fall in xéal wages (through the Roosevelt inflation) We thus see that beneath the Roosevelt talk about the for- man he is putting into effect to save the fortunes of the rich Wall Street bankers at the expense of the masses, The first act of Roosevelt is relief to the big bankers,. while the starvation of the million masses increases from day to day. The second bill before Congress proposed by Roosevelt shows even more clearly the class character of the Roosevelt government. Roose- velt demands the cutting down of the meager relief to the veterans, the victims of the last world war through “which the rich became richer! He also demands new wage- cuts for the low paid government em- Ployes! He does not meet the Gov- ernment deficit through taxes on the rich, but through further robbery of the poor, It is also claimed that Roosevelt will bring forward a bill for a half billion dollars for public works in or- der to put a half million workers on jobs. Even if this is true it 1s of little importance, Tens of thousands of workers have been thrown out of employment in the last few days alone. Many times this sum of the workers’ and “small man’s” deposits has been wiped out in the last few days. Billions for War, The Roosevelt administration, while denying relief to the unem- ployed, continues the policy of spend- ed billions for war preparations. ie Roosevelt program is a program of trying to save capitalism through the impoverishment of the masses and through new world imperialist slaughter, The crisis is sharpening in every capitalist country in the world. And everywhere the ruling class tries to solve the crisis in the same way as the Wall Street-Roosevelt govern- ment. In Germany, Hitler makes, war on the masses and prepares for; war with France and Poland, but/ most of all against the Soviet Union.’ Japan makes war on the masses at) home and on the Chinese masses, while it builds up its war machinery for an attack on the Soviet Union, Two Worlds. World capitalism realizes that tn the struggle of the two world sys- tems, the system of capitalism, and the system of Socialism, which the Soviet Union represents, the new or- der is rapidly rising, and the old or- der of capitalism is rapidly declining. Out of this realization, and in talist system, the imperialists of the world are arming for a war against the Soviet Union. The A. F. of L. leadership ts once more trying to fool the workers of this country into accepting the new attacks, Green speaks of a rise in prices as a precondition for a rise in| | night with a “plea” as to | WESL. attempt to save the decaying capi-| betrayed ously drawing a meager wage from it. All talk, capitalist propaganda, al is answered by letters now being sent: out to applicants at the Emergency Work: Bureau. An unemployed mu- sician got this one, after waiting three months for any answer at all. “No doubt you have read in the papers about the additional moneys which have been made available for relief in New York City, These funds have been advanced by the Recon- struction Finance Corporation to the State of New York, and through the The firing is scheduled for next week. | No new jobs have been given out for months. | bout the “New Deal” for the jobless, | state, to the City. They will be ad- ministered by the Home Relief Bu- reau and the City Work Bureau. “No part of these funds will come to this Bureau..., There is very little likelihood of this Bureau's being able to make additional placements or grant additional assistance in any form.” Following which the E. W. B. re- jects the applicants’ request for a job. City Engineers Places Fil | Meeting Tomorrow to Launch Struggle; Less | Than 2 Per Cent of Technicians Have Jobs NEW YORK. — Representatives | have united in calling a mass meeting of employed and unemployed ar- | | | chitects, engineers and technicians at Street and Irving Place, tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. The principal speakers will be Dr. David B. Steinman, President of the New York Society of Professional Engineers, Professor J. McGoldrick, of Columbia University, and George Dyson Friou, chairman of the Emer- Delay, Sabotage and Cut Down Relief At Central Registration NEW YORK.—The Central Regis- tration Buro is cutting down the re- lief for single jobless workers. In- stead of a week’s misery in a flop- house they now dole out only one “why don't you give some new fellows a chance"? The clerks have been instructed to slow down on their work and a work- er has to stand in line for as high as seven hours. At 3p. m, they close the windows with a cynical “Come back tomorrow.” They do not serve beef stew any- more but a thin watered macaroni “stew.” One worker asked why they cut out sugar in the coffee and they said no money. This worker has been in Cuba and seen the workers in the cane fields slaving for a nickel a day and expressed his puzzlement. He was told “You're off the list for a week.”. The bank “holiday” is the stock excuse for cutting relief and inoreasing the graft. Movement Grows For Weinstein “Rélease; Many Meetings Soon NEW YORK.—With March 12 to March 17 designated as “Sam Wein- stein Week,” branches and sections of the N. Y. District International Labor Defense, supported by various workers’ organizations, are continu- ing their drive to build up through protest meetings a powerful mass re- sistance against the conviction of Weinstein, strike leader, railroaded to Sing Sing. Midtown Section The Midtown Section of the ILD in New York City will hold a mass protest meeting tonight at 109 E. 26th St. Ben Bergman, chairman of tne Weinstein Defense Com: mittee, who was present in court through- out Weinstein's trial, will be the main speaker, Alfred Levy Branch Supported by the Hinsdale Workers Club, the Alfred Levy Branch, ILD, will hold « similar protest meeting tonight at 8:30 p.m., at 313 Hinsdale Ave. Needle Trades Meets Two powerful mass meetings for the re- lease of Sam Weinstein will be held by the Needle Trade Workers, one today at 2 Pam., at Bryant Hall, 41st St., and Sixth Ave, with M. E. Taft’ speaking, and a sec- ond tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Needle Trades Center, 131 W. 28th St, with Dan Morgan as main speacer, Funds Must Be Rushed The Weinstein Defense Commiitee issued a special appeal to all workers and workers’ organizations to rush funds, especially those gathered with coliection lists, to the Committee, Room 338, 799 Broadway, CORRECTION: Due to a line dropping out of the type yesterday's Deily Worker stated that Post 35, “condemned” Sam Wein- scein. What they condemned, of course, was the frame-up and sen- tencing of Weinstein. FOR UNEMPLOYMENT and social in- surance, againat sedition and eviction laws, fer the defense of the Soriet Union, against imperialist war! RANKS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY; employment. Green wants the masses to believe that the Roosevelt admin- istration is working in the interests of the masses and not the bankers. The Socialist Party was even the forerunner in demanding inflation as a means of solving the crisis. Soolalist Parties Mislead Workers, Everywhere the Socialist Parties, which claim to represent the inter- ests of the masses, have exposed themselves as the saviors of capital- the the capi war plans. In Eng- land and Germany, however, the So- cialist leaders have again and again the masses and made room for the attacks on the masses, for the rise of fascism. In Germany the Soclalists elected Hindenberg to stop Hitler, The results speak for them- selves. Only the Communist Party, which is a section of the Communist In- ternational, has from the beginning Laid Off; led By Gibson of a number of engineering groups Washington Irving High School, 1ith gency Committee on school over- crowding. * The meeting is called for the pur- Pose of protesting the displacement and substitution of regular engin- eering employees by “Emergency” re- lief workers, to demand the Civil Service salary scale for all city en- | gineering work, to sponsor the im- | mediate commencement of a com- prehensive program of public {m- provements, and to urge the exten- sion of Civil Service preferred lists. Are Organizing These demands were drawn up and proposed to the mass meeting by 2/ recent conference of discharged city engineers and other technicians. That conference also elected a “United Committee of Architects, Engineers and Technicians” to lead their strug- gle. Recent research at Columbia Uni- versity, has disclosed that only one and a half per cent of the Architects of this city are employed at regular work. Starvation Wage On Tri-Boro The recent proposal of former Gov- ernor Alfred E. Smith that the Tri- Borough Bridge plans be completed | by Emergency Workers at relief | wages, is causing consternation | long unemployed Engineers pati- ently awaiting an upturn in employ- ment at decent living wages. Previous meetings of unemployed | technicians disclosed the fact that hundreds of men on regular salaries are being fired, and théir places filt- | ed by the Emergency Work Bureau, | on-charity wages. In some cases the Same man who was fired from a $40 | or $50 job is hired back through the | | E. W. B. for 315 a week or less, SUMMON BORICH FOR DEPORTATION Worke rs Rally for Defense Struggle PITTSBURGH, Pa. March 14— Frank Borich, secretary of the Ne- tional Miners Union, has been sum- moned to surrender himself on Mar. 15, to the immigration authorities, who have ordered his deportation. This action comes at a time when coal miners throughout the country are preparing for a struggle on April Ist, against wage cuts and for re- lief, under the leadership of the Na- tional Miners Union. Other leaders and active members of the organization are involved in this attack on the union. The cases of Kemenoivch, Marenich, Jakrlin, Devunich, Shaffer, Cekovich, Evans, Benolvich, Davis and others, are scheduled to come up immediately after the decision on Borich. All are slated for deportation to fascist countries, Organizations and mass gatherings are also urged to send mass protests to the Department of Labor, in Wash- ington, D. C., and to the Immigration Director, Marshall, Pittsburgh. Full and immediate payment of the war veterans’ |ernment in connection with which | given, therefore, is based on the pos- Page Three LOOT REACHES 7 BILLION AS BANKS FOLD UP (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | ods. The Morgan bank had already} parted with its security affiliate through which it had operated ille- gally. Aldrich said that a big change was necessary in the banking system and forthwith the Chase National Bank divorced itself from its own illegal auxiliary, Just yesterday, the “liberal” World- Telegram showered praise upon Al- drich for his challenge to Morgan and glorified the Rockefeller agent. As an astute associate of Rockefeller, Aldrich hastened to act before the methods of the Chase National Bank would receive an airing in a Senate committee room. The National City Bank, it was revealed, gave the son of Peru's president $415,000 in con- nection with a big loan by the South American country. Aldrich attacked such shady bank deals. How About the $4,000,000? But Aldrich failed to explain a charge which beclouds “new integ- rity” of the Chase National Bank. In his confessions, Aldrich failed to tell about @ loan to the Cuban Gov- President Machado, the Wall Street puppet ruler, personally received the | sum of $4,000,000. The charge that Machado received a very generous gift from the Rockefeller bank is known to many United States Sen- ators, On January 14, 1932, Senator King asked for an explanation of this transaction, but up to this writ- ing, the masses of the American people are still awaiting an answer from the Chase National Bank. In e large measure, it was the loans to foreign countries which helped to eat up the deposits of millions of American workers, For the negotia- tions of these loans, the big bankers received fabulous commissions. These commissions were converted into sal- aries and bonuses and also used for speculation. American bankers have allowed foreign loans, for which the workers have been made to suffer, to mount to the colossal total of $2,547,457,669. These defaulted debts and the countries involved are as follows: Argenting Bolivis Brazil Chile China Colombia —_-______ 11,238,000 Beusdor 14,492,400 Jugo Slavia ___________ 1,000,500 Latvia 7,308,000 ‘Mexico 629,163,675 Peru 124,175,369 Turkey ——_ 972,151,850 Uruguay 5,619,000 Costa Rica - 7,816,000 Haiti 6,037,875 me ~-— 10,282,500 Summary of Loot, ‘Taking for granted that 50 pe: sent of these bad debts will some day be collected, the loss to depositors is Still $1,273,728,834. Of further logses to depositors, an estimated total of $1,050,000,000 is in- yolved in railroad issues. Most of the railroads in the country are either insolvent or on the verge of bankruptcy. The nation’s banks have about 5 per cent of the workers’ $42,000,000,000 deposits invested in such “securities.” The estimated loss sibility that depositors may retrieve one half of the deposits in such in- vestments. Another 10 per cent loss, amount- ing to $4,200,000,000, is figured for real estate and mortgages held by the savings banks, building and loan associations, mortgage institutions and other banking concerns. Real Estate has shrunk to only a fraction of its market value on Capitalist ex- changes. A final 2 per cent loss of $840,000,- 000 should be deducted for unsecured loans, depreciated and worthless util- ity issues and miscellaneous items. The aforementioned figures neces- sarily can offer only a cold, mathe- matical picture of the new typhoon of misery into which millions of work- ers and their families have been plunged. The Wall Street govern- ment has laid out the stage for the new deal to the masses of the people. This program, glibly worded by Roo- sevelt, with the new line-up of “sound” banks holds only one guar- antee for the workers—more unem- Ployment through business bank- Tuptcies — more cuts — lower standards of living through inflation of unsound currency—and a more vigorous and extended campaign of terrorization of the American work- ing class. Baild a workers correspondence adjusted compen- sation certificates; no cut in the disability allowances; no discrimi- nation in hospitalization. correctly analyzed the crisis. When the Socialist leaders repeated the bosses propaganda about the quick solution of the crisis, the Commu- nists declared that this crisis is not of the same character as previous crises, when capitalism was still able to maneuver out of the situation. Today the Communists again declare that this crisis cannot be overcome in the old way, but that we have entered a new round of revolutions Sars anie ras we at every correctly ana- lyaed the situation. This the facts of the situation prove beyond doubt. Only the Communist Party Fights Bosses’ Attacks. Only the Communist Party is mob- ilizing the masses to fight against the attempts of the capitalists to transfer the whole burden of the crisis on to the shoulders of the toiling masses. The Communists have exposed the theory that low wages will solve the crisis. The Communists have organized and led the masses in struggle for unemploy- ment relief and insurance, against wage-cuts, for wage increases, for the return of the deposits to the small depositors, for relief to the farmers, for the interests of the vet- erans. Only the Communists are carrying on a fight against the grow- ing reaction, for the political rights the masses, for the righ’ Qremp mm your factery, shop or weighborheod. Send regular letters ‘to the Daly Worker. UNDER ROOSEVELT DECREE J. Pierpont Morgan and John both receive the undivided support banking crisis, Roosevelt Aids His Pals D. Rockefeller, two of the most powerful bankers in the U. S., may be at war with each other, but they of F. D. Roosevelt in the present GROWS SAYS RELIABLE REPORTS Bombing Planes Dispatched to Center of Revolt; Masses Indignant The anti-war revolt in the Peruvian army is gaining headway, accord- ing to reports seeping out of Peru past the stringent military censorship by which the Peruvian government attempts te conceal from the interna- tional proletariat the heroic anti-war actions of the toiling masses of Peru, Reliable reports reaching Chile contradict the claims of the Peruvan gov- cs spe gee ‘> ment that the revolt is isolated to the trol”, MARX, 100, URGED) Cajamarca region and is “under con- LABOR DEFENSE! Remember It At Paris Commune Meeting NEW YORK —The call issued by Karl Marx in the Spring of 187i, which stirred the workers throughout the world to come to the defense of the brave workers of Paris against the butchers of the boss-class, will be dramatically remembered Satur- day night, when revolutionary writ- ers and speakers will call on the workers at the Paris Commune Cel- ebration at St. Nicholas Arena, 66th St. and Broadway, to form a solid working class fortress around the nine innocent Scottsboro Boys whom the boss-class is trying to burn in the electric chair. A large list of y 's’ mass or- ganizations have announced that their members will attend the celebration. Arrangements have been made by the N. Y. District International Labor De- fense which is sponsoring the Gele- bration to comfortably seat 7,000 at} St. Nicholas Arena this Saturday night. Unusual Program The program prepared for the Cel-/} ebration includes in addition to speeches by Waldo Frank, Michael} Gold, Irving Schwab, Louis B, Scott, | Richard B. Moore, Albert Glassford, | Negro worker delegate to the Scotts- boro Labor Jury, musical selections | from the play, “Run Little Children,” | by the entire Hall Johnson cast of this play, a dramatic sketch by the} famous Negro actress Rose McLen-| don, and revolutionary dances by Edith Siegel, ! Vicious Boss Drive. Special bodies of “loyal” troops and Vigilante bands composed of the bourgeois youth are being used against the mutinous soldiers and te patrol the working class distriets in the urban centers in an attempt to block an uprising by the masses in support of the mutiny in the army. Bombing planes have been dispatched to Cajarmarca, the center of the revo- lutionary movement. Meanwhile, the bourgeois press are carrying on a vici- ous campaign of chauvinist incite- ment in connection with the unde- clared war with Colombia and for a bloody vengeance against the muti- nous soldiers, whom the bourgeois press accuses of “betraying their country”—that is, the interests of the bourgeoisie in the war instigated by U. S. and British imperialists through their Peruvian and Colombian pup- pets. The government has ordered the arrest of all known members of the illegal Communist Party of Peru, which is charged with inciting the masses to turn the present imperial- ist war into a civil war against the capitalist war-mongers. 700 Hosiery Workers Strike in South HIGHPOINT, N. C.—A walk-out of 700 workers at Alamance near High- point, today closed down the Stand- ard Hosiery Mills. The strike is re- ported to be due to the company’s discharge of leaders of a strike called several months ago. The strikers, who are showing enthusiastic spirit picketed the Whitehead Hosiery mill near here and succeeded in getting 250 workers to join them. VET WRITES ‘DAILY’ TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THEIR FIGHT New Roosevelt Attack on Vets Should Spur A Daily Worker, Sir:— | As you know there are here in Am-| erica today 3,500,000 veterans who are | very much interested in the immedi- | ate cash payment of their Adjusted | Service Certificates. I am at a loss to see why you neglect to mention this fact in your articles dealing with the unemployed demonstrations and | hunger marchers, etc.. also why the veteran's demands are not made part of the farmer, labor and other groups. As I know you are alw ready to criticize others, 1 think that you should come in for a certain amount of criticism yourself on this issue. As you should know, the greater part of these veterans belong to the working! Counter-Offensive class and also to the great army of the unemployed. Don't you think that the proper move would be to bring these closer together .rather than leave a separation in their ranks? I would appreciate your comment in a personal letter to me. Cordially, Edward J. Williams. oc rane Editors Note: We aceept the criticism. The Daily Worker has been a nersistant fighter for the vets’ bonus and against cuts in vets benefits, but this has not found its expression every day in our paper. With the help of Williams and other veteran correspondents send~ ing us material we can rectify this. THE PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS Negro masses and all other specially| pends upon you whether capitalism, This the Soviet Union has demons oppressed groups. The Communist Party, while realizing that capitalism is bankrupt, that a new society must be established, nevertheless defends the immediate interests of the masses and fights against every attack of the capitalists. The Communist Party is the only Party that explains to the masses that there can be no prosperity for the masses under capitalism. The existence of capitalism can be con- tinued only through the further im- pov. t of the masses and through the slaughter of millions in &@ new world war. Only the abolition of capitalism can bring peace and prosperity to the masses. Join the Only Party of the We Class, forking The Communist Party, in order to be able to better organize the fight for the immediate interests of the masses, in order to strengthen the fight of the working class for the abolition of capitalism, calls upon the masses to join its ranks and strengthen the only Party that repre- | sents their interests. ‘The COMMUNIST PARTY is the Party of the working class. Its| strength is derived from the working class. It depends upon you how strong the Party is. It depends upon you how effectively we ean resist the attacks of the capitalists. It de- can save itself by making paupers of | us ali and kill us by the millions in @ new world slaughter. It depends upon you how quickly we can mobilize the masses to do away with this insane, rotten system where millions starve amidst plenty. The capitalists have shown that they cannot satisfy even the most elemen- tary needs of the masses. Only we, the working class, can manage in- dustry in the interests of the masses. surated in practice. Socialist workers especially must draw the conclusions from the pres- ent situation, not only from the ate tivity of the Socialists in this coune try, but in Germany. Join the ranks of the Communist Party. The Party is open to all work ers. There is no condition except one. That condition is that you be willing to fight for the interests of your class, Communist Party, U. S. A. P. O. Box 87, Station D, New York City: Please send me more informat. ADDRESS tee seeeeeee cITY OCCUPATION ,. Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, U. 8, P. O. Box 87, Station D., New York City Workers, Join the Party of Your Class! jon on the Communist Party, ooo STATE AGE ,