The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1933, Page 1

Editorials _| Rank and File Action for Veterans’ Demands (OT the least of the series of crimes of the Roosevelt administration is the utter contempt with which the war veterans are being treated. ‘These men, many. of them living in unrelenting agony from injuries in the world war, are being treated as outcasts, by the administration of the man who was assistant secretary of the navy in the Wilson war-cabinet, ‘The whole kept press of the nation is howling against them for protesting the “economy” measures that cut off their pensions and deny them their back pay—the so-called bonus. ‘The government of the bankers and the stock-exchange, in its ferocious drive to help the capitalists place the burdens of their increasing crisis upon the workers, the farmers, the smali depositors, includes as victims of its greed and avarice, those who fought in 1917-18 to make the world safe for investments of the House of Morgan. Heroes of yesterday are re- garded as blackmailers and criminals of today. These are the exact words of the New York Evening Post who praise Roosevelt for continuing the Hoover drive against the veterans. The butchery of men and babies at Anacostia last July was a fitting prelude to what is happening today. Joining the Post, which referred to the legitimate demands of the war veterans as “blackmail,” is the New York Tribune, which assails those members of the American Legion who compelled their officials to voice their demands at Washington as “venomous, disingenous and at times ab-~ solutely dishonest.” The old lady of 42nd St., the New York Times, ad- vocates splitting the Legion to drive out those rank and file members who fight for the bonus and against cuts for wounded veterans and slash- ng of pensions in these words: “It must not be forgotten that the membership of the American Legion compr'ses only a part of the veterans—less than one-quarter, the figures indicate. When the bill is passed, it may become a wadge to break up the American Legion or to compel its reorganiza~ tion.” ‘Thus the Wall Street organ shows that the rulers of the country realize that the Legion, which for years was one of the most active anti-working class and strike-breaking organizations in the country, is splitting into two camps—the rank and file soldier elements whose interests coincide with the working class and the officer-caste and well-to-do elements who sup- port the capitalist offensive against the toiling masses. The capitalist class is anxious to maintain the Legion, on the only basis that it can ex~ ist—that is 'as an instrument of reaction. It wants to cleanse it of all ag- gressive anti-capitalist elements so that it can rely upon it as an instru- ment in carrying forward the capitalist offensive. This is the real mean- ing of the attacks in the capitalist press. What these papers, spokesmen for this government, say about the Le- gion is their contemptuous opinion of all ex-soldiers. In this drive against the ex-soldiers the national commander of the Legion, Louis A. Johnson, who, under pressure of the membership, has been taiking against the Roosevelt “economy” bill, now that it is passed, comes forth with a pledge to help impose it upon the veterans, Against this concentrated attack the rank and file members of the American Legion can be mobilized to fight. The best and most effective way to fight is to raise in all Legion posts the question of united front | action with other veterans’ organizations. The Workers Ex-Servicemens League, must show leadership in developing united front action to wage & struggle to defeat the slashing of benefits and pensions, to compel the payment of the bonus. A The State Completely Fused With Finance Capital R years the learned economists of the bourgeoisie and the various types of Marxian revisionists were preaching the doctrine of the “decentralization of wealth.” They that said that the ownership and con- trol of wealth was not becoming increasingly centralized and concen- trated as Marx had predicted, but that the widespread ownership of common stock among the “small” investors was leading to a “democrati- zation” of the ownership of wealth. The present economic and financial crisis has smashed this illusion, It is now absolutely clear that it is exactly this sd-called distribution ownership among small investors, which provided a mechanism whereby monopoly finance capital could penetrate and extend its influence among all the strata of the population. Today these thousands of petty-bour- geois investors are poverty-stricken. All their small holdings have been swept up during the progress of the financial crisis into the hands of a small clique of Wall Street’ finance masters who sit at the top, “The domination of monopoly capital, at the present day has brought under its sway almost the whole economy of capitalist society .....” (Thesis of the Twelfth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International). As this concentration and centralization of monopoly capital grows more and more intense, we can observe the process of the complete fus~ ing of this capitalist money power with the organs of the State. This has been very clearly described by Comrade Kuusinen before the 12th Plenum. He said: “Today the situation is such that the very Jargest concerns of fin- ance capital are mostly so closely connected with the whole machinery of State that they cannot go bankrupt and do not need to do so, since they control the State and can also mobilize ifs resources for their own support.” The recent acts of the Roosevelt government have given classical proof of this. The wholesale closing of the banks was avowedly for the purpose of avoiding bankruptcies of some of the largest banks. This was done above all for the purpose of weeding out the thousands of smaller and “weaker” ‘banks. This means that the Roosevelt government is actively assisting in the concentration of banking power in the hands of the Wall Street financlal oligarchy. More than this, the government is actually assisting in this process og concentrating the power of monopoly capital by making it possible for the giants of capitalism to sustain less losses and even to maintain in some cases, the old level of profits, by shifting a large part of the burden of the crisis onto those sections of the bourgeoisie which are not organ- ized into monopolies. This is done through the agency of the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration. The $90,000,000.loan to the Dawes bank in Chicago, the loaning of hundreds of millions to the largest railroads directly controlled by Wall Street for the express purpose of paying bond interests, contrasted with the meager loans to the impoverished petty-bourgeois home owners and small producers,—all this indicates a conscious policy on the part of the Roosevelt government to bring “almost the whole ecenomy of capitalist society under the domination of monopoly capital.” The White House Is Still a Wall Street Annex ENIN said that in times of financial crisis, particularly, every act of the government is made in order to protect the fortunes of the mil- lionaires. Nothing could illustrate this more clearly than the recent acts of the Roosevelt government. But it is necessary to keep this hidden from the masses. This ex- plains why the shutting of the banks and the issuance of inflated cur- rency has resulted in a whole series of articles in the bourgeois press, pretending to hail the downfall of the rule of Wall Street. The fierceness of Réosevelt’s drive against the masses is beginning to shake their confidence in him as an enemy of Wall Street. In order to carry out the further attack on the living standards of the masses, it is necessary to preserve this illusion among the masses. Hence the pres- ent campaign of presenting Roosevelt as being independent of Wall Street. For example, the “liberal” World-Telegram explains to the people that “The White House is no longer the annex of Wall Street.” And that great peddler of capitalist demagogy, Hearst’s New York American, in- forms the people that the Héuse of Morgan “which has for years dom{- nated both political parties in the United States, is no longer in power ...”, Mr. Hearst’s slick editorial writer assures us, “a Party is in power which the House of Morgan does not control”. What is behind this sudden discovery that Wall Street used to, but now no longer, dominates the White House? By what miracle has the power of Wall Street suddenly come to an end? Why is it that the World-Telerram, which rejected Roosevelt before his nomination as being too hesitant, as lacking in elements of leadership, now hails him for his “courage”, for his “decisiveness?” ‘The purpose of these utterances 1s precisely to hide the fact that the grip of Wall Street on the White House is tighter than ever. The purpose of these utterances is to hide the significance of the fact that Roosevelt's most intimate financial adviser is a partner in the House of Morgan, S. Parker Gilbert. It was this Morgan partner who assisted and advised Roosevelt in every stage of the recent financial measures. Hoover's connections with Wall Street were all too evident. There- fore, Roosevelt's entire strategy has been to pose as an enemy of Wall Street, as a fighter against the rule of the bankers. This is exactly why evelt had to come forward as the prophet of a “New Deal”. To ihe masses, the “New Deal” meant the promise of an end to the domi~- uation of the White House by Wall Street. The extremity of the recent demagogy and fake attacks on the bankers is an indirect tribute to the widespread hatred which exists among the masses for the finance mas- ters of Wall Street. Every member of Roosevelt's cabinet has direct connections with Wall Street. W. H. Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury has direct con- nections with ammunition and railroad equipment companies directly controlled by J. P. Morgan. What is true of Woodin is true in varyin degrees of every leading member of the Roosevelt government. ¥ Rush Tag Day Collections! All funds collected during the Tag Days should be sent without delay directly to the Daily Worker if our paper is to be saved! “Vol. X, No. 65 <p: NO GOV'T GUARANTEE | OF DEPOSITS Admits that New Deposits Won't Be | Backed Up FLOOD OF PROTESTS Many Congressmen | Fear for Their Jobs | WASHINGTON, March 16.) _It is now definitely established | that the Roosevelt administra- | {tion does not guarantee the} | deposits now being made in |the banks, say nothing of | guaranteeing those made be-| | fore the financial crisis forced | the closing of all banks in the coun- | try to protect the bankers while bil- | lions in deposits are wiped out. Glass-Steagel Plot Looting. | | Senator Carter Glass and Repre- | Sentative Henry Steagall, authors of | the Glass-Steagal bill, are planning New Winthrop W. Aldrich, president of Rockefeller’s Chase National Bank, one of the big boys being aided by Roosevelt at the expense of the small depositors. @ bill shortly to be presented to the | Senate and*house to make legal the wholesale looting of not only those who had deposits in the banks before the crash, but a bill that also refuses any guarantee to those who are now being duped into depositing money and gold in the banks. Provisions of New Bill. Provisions of the new bill include a tentative plan for setting aside $300,000,000 from the excise tax and surplus fund of the Federal Reserve, augmented by assessments upon member banks and percentage taxes upon time demand deposits and bank loans. The guarantees would apply | to deposits made at a fixed date after the conclusion of the “bank holiday.” An avalanche of protest telegrams | and letters are flooding the offices of congressmen and senators in | Washington; many of them are ex- | tremely nervous and are appealing to the Roosevelt administration to | give them some kind of concession so that they will be able to face their electors in the places from whence | they came, There are indications | that some of them will break under the terrific pressure that is being brought to bear, as they fear they will be defeated at the congressional elections next year. WORKER, SMALL DEPOSITOR MEETS Demand the bankers pay you your deposits in full, when you want them! Demand full wages—no holding back because of the bank crisis! Attend these protest meetings called by the Communist Party! BRONX. Tonight: Open air meet- ings throughout Bronx to prepare for tomorrow's open air rallies at 139 St. and Cypress Ave., and I6ist St. and Wilkins Ave., and at Wilkins and Intervale Avenues. wae | _ DOWNTOW! 8 P. M. tonight: Arthur Stein speaks at Orchard and Rivingston Streets. Lois Schwartz speaks at Tenth St. and Second Ave.) Cai Se ASTORIA: 8 P. M. tonight at Fes- Wants to Cut Out $ GARY, Indiana, March 16.—The latest attack of the U. S. Steel Trust on the workers is the attempt to force them to turn in their old in- surance policies for new ones at the same rate with the clause providing $1,000 insurance for total. disability removed, e Forced “Insurance” In all U. 8. Steel plants workers are forced to take out life insurance policies for which $1 is checked off the wages each month. By this method the company protects itself against suits by widows and orphans Entered as secon: Dail Central Org the-Co: —I «Worker unist Party U.S.A. mS (Section of the Communist International) Protest Against Attack on Vets! Workers and veters ans: Fight against t he Roosevelt-Wall Stret attack on the veterans’ benefits by supporting the Daily Worker, the only paper which defends their rights! York, N. ¥., Central Committee Asks | matter at the Pest Office at jer the Act of March 5, 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933 CITY EDITION | } Quick Aid to “Daily” | | WORKERS, READERS OF THE DAILY WORKER N extremely critical situation is facing the cen- tral organ of the Communist Party, the Daily A Worker. At a time when the bosses and their agents have started a new fierce onslaught on the living standards of millions of people, the only paper in English that leads the struggle against this hunger drive is in danger of being crushed out of existence. After two months of the financial campaign | about $19,000 has been raised. This money has been contributed by thous- ands of workers, farmers, intellectuals and other sections of the toiling population. It has been contributed at a time when the economic crisis of capitalism is hitting new depths, when 17,000,000 are unemployed, when millions more are on part-time, when a wave of wage cuts is sweeping evexy industry. This money in many cases represents food taken out of the mouths of the contributors; it is a testimony of the devotion of thousands of workers to the paper that gives voice, direction and leadership to their struggles. | | ‘The $19,000 raised so far has kept the “Daily” alive until now. But | it cannot keep it going in the future. For this the full amount of $35,000 | is required. It must be stated frankly that had the work been organ- ized properly in every district, had the plan outlined by the Emergency | Committee of the Central Committee been everywhere carried out, the | $35,000 would by now have been raised, and the “Daily” would be firmly on its feet instead of fighting for its life. The $19,000 contributed so far | is the result of intensive activity in comparatively few places and not of Te Central Committee of the Communist Party Is determined that the It is determined to spare no efforts toward this full $35,000 be raised end is raised, the Daily Worker will be Our determination springs from the fact that unless this amount ; forced out of existence. And in the without the “Daily” for even a single day. banking crisis has shown t the “Daily.” | ! | present situation the working masses of this country cannot afford to be | } There can be no e surance, against w Tom Mooney, against impet ive strug} for the alist wai ship in Germany, against the new depths which the bosses are trying to plunge you without th But unless the $35,000 is raised, To say this is to issue a call to to coast and rouse thousands to the We call on the Party members and the working masses of the entire country, Negro and white, employed and unemployed, native and for. eign-born, to rally to the defense of We cali on the various sympath bers in motion with collection lists, to arrange new affairs for the “Daily” and in every way to help put over the drive. Immediate action is needed or ti before the $35,000 is raised. Revitalize the drive! Daily Worker! CENTRAL COMMITT * RECEIVED YESTERDAY $670.95 EE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF U.S.A. | sler’s Hall, Woolsey and Steinway| tractors Avenues, systematic, well-directed daily work in every part of the country. Stalin’s Speech to’ FarmShock-Brigades in “Daily” on 25th On February 19, the last day of the Congress of the Collective Farm Shock-Brigaders held in Moscow, the delegates present loudly called for a speech from Stalin, Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. .. The calls for Stalin could not be- quieted until he stepped upon the platform. He was greeted with such storms of applause that he could not be heard for several min- utes. When quiet was at last re- stored, Stalin delivered a speech, the keynote of which was. “The Way of the Collective Farms is the Only Correct Way.” This speech, espe@ally significant at the present time, will be pub- lished in full in the Daily Worker of Saturday, March 25th. The same issue will contain a full page of farmers’ correspondence from va~ rious parts of the United States, telling of the struggles of the farmers against evictions and star- vation. The correspondence, describing the growing misery of the Am- erican farmers, is in sharp contrast to the constantly improving sit- uation of the peasant masses of the Soviet Union as described by him in his significant speesh. SENATE DEBATES BEER, NOT HUNGER WASHINGTON, March 16.—Ignor- ing the demands of the 17,000,000 hungry unemployed, the Senate be- gan debate today on the 3.2 percent beer and wine bill. Since it is being backed by the leading bankers and capitalists, it is expected that this bill will pass as quickly in the Senate as it did in the House. The final vote will probably be taken no later than tomorrow night. The House bill, passed yesterday, did not include wine, and the Senate measure will therefore have to go back to the House for action. While answering the demands of the “forgotten man” with wage-cuts for government employes, reductions in veterans’ benefits and beer instead of bread, Roosevelt is also getting ready his attask on the unemployed. His message to Congress on an unem- ployment “relief” program is now being written for him in accordance with the instructions of his Wall Street masters. His proposals will take the form of a $500,000,000 bond issue to finance a public works program that will benefit bankers and con- and intern ten of thousands of unemployed in forced labor camps STEEL TRUST TRIES TO ROB THE TOILERS OF THEIR INSURANCE FUND 1,000 Total Disability Clause; Fight Back of those workers who are killed and the workers are made to pay for the risks they run while at work in the steel mill. At the same time the steel mill profits from the workers’ money accumulated for insurance purposes. The Steel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial branch in the Illinois Steeel and the American Sheet and Tin have raised the demand that the workers keep their old polickes with- out any increase of rates and that the company pay for all compulsory in- surance a Speed funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. he American toilers why they ‘need gle for unemployment relief and in- release of the Scottsboro boys and r, against the bloody fascist dictator- of mis and starvation into Daily Worl there will be no Daily Worker, action that must resound from coast | task of saving the “Daily.” | their fighting organ. etic organizations to set their mem- will be forced to suspend Rush aid! Save the ihe “Dail TOTAL TO DATE 319,567.21 SENATE PASSES BILL TO ROB VETS, |to New Low as Part GOV'T EMPLOYES OF $50,000,000 But Refuses to Reduce Own ‘Legal’ Graft; Vet Groups Urge Fight on Cuts, for Bonus | WASHINGTON, March 16.—Wall Street’s obedient servants in the Senate foliowed the example of their colleagues in the House and last night passed by a vote-of-62-to 13-the bill to slash $509,000,000 off veterans’ benefits and the wages of government employes. The bill gives President Roosevelt dictatorial powers te do the cutting in accordance with Wall Street's wishes, which means that® more than $500,000,000 can be; lopped off if the bankers so desire. | ductions to the vets and government Over 1,500,000 veterans and depend- | ¢mployes, the senators refused to dis- ents and 1,000,000 government em- | $orge a cent of the “legal” graft that ployes will be affected. | goes with their jobs. When Sena- Eight amendments were incorpor-| tor Borah offered an amendment to ated in the bill in order to throw a|Cut the 20-cent mileage allowance few crumbs to the vets in an effort |for senators and representatives to to stifle their angry protest at this |5 cents, it was voted down. Borah big-scale robbery. One of these | Said that the congressmen were get- amendments retains for veterans|ting three or four times as much with so-called ‘non-service con-| Mileage expense as they actually nected disabilities” the right to free | used. hospital treatment instead of cut-| Since the original bill passed in ting them off completely. |the House has been amended in the # 5 a Senate, it must now go back to the ‘Opponents” Not Against Cuts. | House before the President can sign Practically all of those who voted | it. against the bill did not oppose cuts, | but were forced by pressure of vet~ erans in their home states to come out against such drastic reductions. |erans and workers to continue the The fake progressive, Senator La-| fight on this hunger bill and to beat Follette, moved for a straight 15 per:| back all efforts to deprive the vets cent cut, while Senator Clark pre-|of the bonus. Demand that Con- sented’ the proposal of the mislead- ers of the American Legion for aj velt bill! Fight for immediate pay- 25 per cent cut. All the proposals|ment of the bonus and relief for were defeated. ! workers and farmers! Trial of Scott:boro Boys Is Set for March 27, Decatur NEW YORK.—A Paris Commune-Scottsboro Meet will be held by the N. ¥. District International Labor Defense this Saturday, at 8 p.m., at St. Nicholas Arena, 66th and Broadway. Speakers: Waldo Frank, Michael While handing out these big re- The Veterans’ National Liaison Committee and the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League call on all vet- Gold, Richard B. Moore, Irving Schwab, Mrs. Lincoln Steffens, Albert | gress revoke the Wall Street-Roose- | Thompson and Richard B. Moore; 8 W. 130th St., 8 p.m. John Bailam, Glassford; 8:30 p.m. MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 16.—, The new trials of the Scottsboro boys, ordered by the U. S. Supreme Court under pressure of the world- wide mass protests against the or- iginal lynch verdicts, have been set | for March 37. The Alabama ruling class through its State Attorney Thomas E. Knight, Jr., is opposing the motion of the International La- bor Defense attorneys for a new change of venue from Decatur to Birmingham. ‘The LL.D. attorneys won one point in the preliminary legal skirmish yes- terday by forcing the removal of all of the to the Birmingham County Jail, where it is expected they will be able to have private inter- views with their attorneys as pro- vided for by Alabama law. All the reactionary forces of the landlord-capitalist system of Ala- bama are mobilizing to carry through the lynching of the boys, either by legal or extra-legal means, in frank admission that more than ever the lives of these nine victims of capital- ist justice can be saved only in the world-wide fight around the Scotts- boys. Samuel Leibowitz, chief trial at- torney for the L.L.D., announced yes- terday that he would place the jury system of Alabama on trial by calling witnesses to support a motion now pending to quash the indictments on the ground that Negroes are sys- tematically excluded fqn jury duty. . a Glassford, member of the Scottsboro Labor Jury. | Other Scottsboro Defense meetings are: at 8 p.m. tonight at Negro Civic League Hail, 221 St. and Williams Bridge, Bronx. Speakers: Louise p.m. tonight at St. Lukes Hall, 125 Speakers: William Fitzgerald, David Kaliscrutter, Sunday, Co-operative Auditorium. Speakers, F.E.A. Wells, Loui B, Scott. . ° CARLOCK WITNESS DISAPPEARS MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 16.— Fannie Henderson, an eye-witness to. the police murder of Levon Carlock, 19-year-old Negro youth, has disap- peared, following several visits of po~ Mcemen to her home. The Interna- tional Labor Defense, which took up the issue of th elynching of Carlock by six Memphis policemen, was able to secure an affidavit from Miss Hen- derson. describing the brutal attack and murder of Carlock. It is thought that Miss Henderson has been kid- napped in an attempt to block the mass campaign initiated by the ILD for the death penalty to the six uni- formed lynchers. “This will not stop our fight against police brutality and lynch- ing in Memphis,” the ILD stated. “No continuance of this refgn of terror of the bosses and rulers of Memphis will be able to halt the aroused masses of people, both Ne- gto and white, who are rallying to the call of the Provisional Carlock Committee for United Action. Oth- er witnesses to Memphis uniform- ed murder are ready to testify, and thousands of workers are ready to boi on the struggle to final vie~ Electric Power Sinks | of Acute Crisis Growth | NEW YORK, March 16—Electric power has sunk to a new low level in the week ended March 11. It was 197,300,000 kilowatt hours as jagainst 201,100,000 the preceeding week, and 218,200,000 in the corres- ponding week last year. All sec- tions of the country participated in | the decline, At the same time car loadings again slumped more than 20 per cent as compared to the corresponding week last year. STRUGGLE LOOMS ON CONTI GRANDE Fascist Union Permits | Starvation Pay | NEW YORK.—The crew of the} Conte Grande, transatlantic glant of the Italian Line, have reported to the | Marine Workers Industrial Union, | their intention to struggle against the prison-like conditions on board. The Conte Grande has been in Am- erican waters since January 9 and is plying the West Indies in short cruises until May 10 when she is due to sail home, The crew are all members of the Italian Fascist union which Mussolini forces upon them since breaking the once powerful Seamen’s Union, in his seizure of power. The ship is being | paid in Amerigan money but the crew | are forced to take their pay in lires. They earn between $12 and $16 a month, working 16 to 18 hours a day without overtime pay. This money has very little value and if the men spend it either on board or ashore they can get only a fraction of their earnings. Prices for the crew on shipboard are about 40 per cent higher than ashore if they had Am- erican currency to buy with. This is the main grievances of the crew at this time. | In about ten days the ship is due |back in Red Hook, Brooklyn, On docking the crew will take action for | Payment of wages in American cur- |rency. The Marine Workers Indus- | trial Union is issuing a leaflet. in Italian calling upon the Italian work- ers of New York to back the crew in their fight against the Fascist terror | and cheating. | 2a Mie | SCOT STUDE: VOTE NOT TO FIGHT FOR BRITAIN | GLASGOW, Scotland, March 15— | By a vote of 634, to 568 male stu- dents of Glasgow University today | voted not to bear arms for “King or Country.” | The vote followed similar -pacifist action taken by the Oxford Union and Manchester University. Tremendous agitation and contro- versy accompanied the vote in Glas- gow University, and die-hards con- soled themselves with the declaration that “similar motions have been pag ed for decades, but as soon as t e need was urgent the students wire among the first to rally to the Em- pire.” | surance presented to Roose’ | of this country than relief 9 Price 3 Cents DEMAND ACTION ON JOBLESS AID Councils Send Nev Note to President Roosevelt DEMAND ACTION Gov't Aids the Rich Hits the Masses The new against the masses which the Roosevelt administration has ushered with lightning speed in the plundering of the of hunger drive in small de- of from the pay envelopes life-time savings positors and the slashing millio Workers delegates who met in Albany to demand jobless insurance and other labor measures are seen marching on the capitol. of veterans and government dontinues in the deliberate to suppress the demands of ¢ million starving unemployed. The mands of the National Conference ot the Unemployed Councils for tm diate relief and unemployment retary on March 7th and reinfor by the voices of tens of thousands workers in protest demonstre throughout the country on Marc have been completely ignored. Bankers Taken Care of The needs of the bankers have been In made the first order of business. the meantime the conditio: unemployed workers grow ir ly worse with mass la s ing cuts in relief due to widespre: payment in scqip and the use of forced labor. The National Committee of the Un- employed Councils demanding action on these most vital issues for the working class has sent the following letter to Roosevelt: Demand Jobless Hearing “Sir: ‘ “On March 7th a delegation of the conference called by the National Committee Unemployed Councils of U. S. A., held in Washington, D. C., presented to you through Mr. Howe, your secretary, the demands of the millions of unemployed of this coun- try for relief and unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the employers and the government. We ask that you confirm the receipt of this statement and that you also in- form .us when a delegation of the National Committee, Unemployed Councils may confer with you re- garding these demands. We hold that there is no more important question before the government or the people surance for the 17 million ployed and millions of part time j; Workers and their families. We in~ sist, therefore, that this conference be held as soon as possible and that the workers be considered in pref- erence to the bankers who apparente- ly have ready access to you.” JUANITA LEWIS HERE TODAY NEW. YORK.—Juanita Lewis, on¢ of the members of the Negro Film Group which visited the Soviet Union Jast summer, is reported to have sail- ed from Berlin for New York and will arrive today, by either the “Man- hattan” of the U. S. Lines, or the “New York” of the Hamburg-Am- erican Line, MANCHESTER, N. H., March 17. Officials of the Amoskeag Manufac- | turing Co., among the richest cotton milis in the world, have declared aj ‘wage cut in the rayon and worsted departments which the workers have refused to accept. Tho officials arp AMOSKEAG TEXTILE WORKERS FIGHT PAY CUT IN RAYON, WORSTED DEPT’S now attempting to force the workers to submit by threatening to close down these departments. * More than half the workers of the New Hampshire Mills are out on strike against a 15 per cent wage cut which went inte effect on Mongar