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PAGE TWO DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1933 ‘Barricades in Berlin’ Epic Story of Struggles of German Workers Stirring Novel of May Day Events in 1929 Is Especially Timely Now; Book Start: s Seriall in “Daily” W BARRICADES IN BERLIN. By Klaus, raids searchlights play Neukrantz. Int Publishers, | the nts, ce shooting at/ 381 Fourth Ave. New York. %5]every window, women trampled and| shot by police masking their own| cents bound in boards. Note—On Wednesday the Daily Worker will begin publishing “Bar- | : ricades in Berlin” serially. By ROBERT HAMILTON Party, this n Berlin on s with peculiar | t of the Berlin the right tomarch of the heroic de- sse in the fear under an infuriated ness of their strength; K * carrier, developing unsv beastly police murd: t are not pasteboard dummies. characters do not serve as pegs on| “ANTIIMPERTAL fality. | The workers slowly awakening from | a feeling of impotence to a t, the hod- pected pe f leadership in the emergency , & Social Democrat for The MEET IN JAPAN worker Schaefer, who at his graveside,” Jednesday political | the author e emotion, hectic days, . t “neither | ds of this HE author tells us so full of puls ported that 180 ni | in the alley had joined the Commu- | nist Party. “The five brothers of the | shot by the | olice, have also joined the Pa and took a solemn oath of r nge Revolutions do not spring out of the brains of proletarian leaders in full armor, like Minerva out of the head of Jupite volution ements of the} TOKYO, Mar. 5 (By Mail)—The} srows out of just apparently frown down at the Japanese section of the League| isolated struggles as the battle in the| 1 cobblestones. Patches of] Against Imperialism has issued a call] Koeslinerstrasse, accumulating mo-| stucco peel o e damp walls. And for a Pan-Pacific Anti-Imperialist | mentum as it progresses, until it rolls] halfway up the street there is the| Conference to be held “somewhere in bly, erushing all opposi- | “Red Nightingale,’ the tiny cafe Japan tion in its path. that is the center of the Communist rty Unit 145. t The May Day demonstration has been prohibited by the police—for the first time in forty years. not even Kaiser Wilhelm had ven- tured to do had been done by a Stroke of Zoergiebel’s pen—Zoergiebel, the Socialist Chief of Police. The ~police had turned all the proletarian districts of Berlin into armed camps. Armored cars rattle down the streets, machine guns are} set up at the corners, and steel-hel- meted police reserves are called into f vay as East | ference will be held Wednesday, aie alrite |March 29th, 8 p. m. at 88 East 10th i Street. On the eve of the demonstration: heated discussions in the Unit meet- ing, the anticipation of conflict with the police on the morrow, the air of nervous apprehension in the street, in the courtyards, in the “Red Night- ingale.” In the morning, the work-| ( ers pour out into the street under red flags in defiance of the ban. Po- lice charge the parade, clubbing and beating; the workers give way only to re-form their ranks and march on Philippines will attend the Confer- ence, the call for which points to the | What| menace of a war against the Soviet Union, the threat of division of China among the im- perialist powers, and the suppression | of the national revolutionary move-| } ments. United States endorses the Pan- Pacific Conference. | to be torturing Nap Hin, Chinese, ar- rested Friday in the demonstration against Matsouka, agent of Japanese imperial'sm. .They hope to extort a der Matsouka and also establish some basis to deport him. .The police have persistently denied to representatives of the International Labor Defense Delegates from militant organiza- ions in Japan, China, India and the of intervention | The Anti-Imperialist League of the A mass meeting to greet this Con- NEW YORK.—Police are reported “confession” that he wanted to mur- “Events of this kind show clearly how armed insurrection against the | despotic government does not mere- | ly develop as an idea in the pro- | grams and heads of revolutionaries, but as the natural, the practical, | and the inevitable next step of the | movement itself; a result of the growing indignation, the growing experience, and the growing cour- age of the mass (Lenin in 1902, writing on a politiei] mass strike in Russia). Today, when the Berlin workers are fighting under the most difficult con- ditions, with all leaflets and news- papers printed illegally, with secret Party meetings, and communications maintained only by couriers, with ngs of armed Nazis breaking into houses everywhere in search of work- ing-class leaders, this novel recalls the most heroic episode in the annals of the German prolet: it since 1923 All workers whose hearts beat with indignation at the Nazi terror in Ger- many will feel themselves partici- pants in a highly developed stage of jpurpose of discrediting the ¢ | activities jmayor by running the dis- jtorted and malicious state- jand NYGARD, COMMUNIST MAYOR CALLS SESS ION TO SPIKE PRESS LIES CROSBY, Minn., March 24.—In answer to the lies spread by the capitalist press throughout the state, Emil Nygard, Communist Mayor of Crosby has issued the following procla- | mation in calling a mass meeting’ last Sunday to further expose these lies: A PROCLAMATION Whereas, the newspapers of Crosby have openly begun an attack upon the President of the Village Council for the of the workers’ ments of the Associated Press in regards to public appear- ances of the Mayor in St. Paul, Chicago, and elsewhere; Whereas, such statements re entirely false and are be- ing made for the purpose of creating prejudice and oppo- sition to the mayor because of his membership and activ- ities in the Communist Party of the U. S. A., whose pro- MAYOR NYGARD | gram of struggle in the interests of the workers the mayor has consistently tried to carry out; | Now therefore, I, Emil C. Nygard, President of the Vil- lage Council of Crosby, Minn., call a general meeting of all workers, citizens and taxpayers to assemble at tne Crosby Workers’ Hall on Sunday, March 26, at 2 P. M., where these charges of the press and other individuals will be answered, and where discussion will be held upon the various problems of the working men and women of Crosby. (Signed) EMIL C. NYGARD, President of the Village Council. Read the Daily Worker, the only working class daily news- paper in the English language in the U. S. A. BLOCK RELIEF CUTIN WARREN Unemployed Council Scores Victory ing they raised the flour to the for- (By a Worker Correspondent) again. The police officers give t command: “Fire!” and the fall back, carrying their dead a wounded, to plan their defensive tac- tics. The hasty erection and building materials are workers 2 of barricades at both ends of the street to block the entrance of the armored cars} ... iron pipe, cobblestones, old mat- tresses, ash cans, street lamp-posts piled high from curb to curb. Night police he| that Nap Hin is being held. nd| William Simons, National Secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League ar- rested for speaking at the Matsouka demonstration will be tried in Jef- ferson Market Court, 10th Street and 6th Avenue today at 10 a. m. Mer- baum of the I. L. D. will defend him and workers are called to be present to protest his arrest and attempts to jail him. the class struggle while reading Bar- ricydes in Berlin, And after reading this book, they should summon all their energies toward the support of the German masses in their heroic struggle against the fascist dictator- ship, for which the treacheries of the social-democratic leaders pa’ way. Barricades in Berlin, which the German government suppressed shortly after it appeared, is one of the epics of the working class. “I CONTRIBUTED” WHAT'S ON Monday DISTRICT H_Lyghtbaum © 2.00 S Horwath 10 EMBERS : New York IW House Party .45{ Units 18, 27, Sec- DISTRICT 4 Détenbe Beonkine Bs pation Pronond Bensonhurst Schutte | Hinsdale Workers tion 15 20.00 Buffalo ns a | i Defense Speaking Class report tonight at LIWwo 8.30) Club ELS] Mapleton Workers, | The Nature Room $06, 90 Rest ith Gee's pe ing Valley Schullo| Unit 8, Sec 8 Ctub 2.30| Friends 10.00 q » 8 D. m. Swe °"3.00| E Singer, coll. by | Union. Workers Total to date $246.35| SPECIAL MEETING will be held at Union y Jnckney House | Fea Walsh 5.00| Club 9.39 DISTRICT 6 Workers Center, 801 Prospect Ave., 8 p. m. Party 19.75 A Knubowits -50/ C Saksinsky 1.00 Cleveland sharp tonight. Ail members must be present. Bastern Parkway Brownsville Shuile | Luiker 1.00 W Benjamin .%5| LECTURE by Margaret I. Lamont, Sec- Wkrs Center 23.00) No. 5 2.25 | Workers School, U © Br. 2 and Block| retary of the Recognition of Soviet ‘Union Finnish Wkrs Fed.: |G Klein 1.85| — coll K Committees 19.00| Committee, tonite 8 p. m. at Cooperative 8 T Y, Twaco, Bartels 2.00) Brighton Shulle 5, | Wintonen, Tar Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park East. Subject: Wash. 2.00| Spartacus Club 3.55| IW 1.35) Day % “Why Soviet Union Should be Recognized.” 8 TY, Ardmore 10.00| ¥CL Unit 9, Bx 5.00 DISTRICT 3 M Patterson, Tag | George Powers will also speak. Auspices ST Y, Wilkes East Side Workers | J Pyvarun paral Day i -80| Metal Workers Industrial Union. 2 3.00! Club 1. from affair 9.00 E. 79th St. Station y st Y, Tokoma Fk, | Tag Day 18999, M V Kieek 1.00| “Tag Day | varehig Mame Cele oe ene te po’ 13968 105.06 | M Pairchied 1.00] Central 2 garian Workers Home, Room 5," 360 Bent eee es | Se eee eee 130| gota 8, Tag | dist St. AU members’ must attend, i 2. a A Sheeves *50| Section 3, Taj is Weeecs | winter | as| te taeetie rf S © 4212| UNUSUAL CONCERT tonite 8:15 p. m or 4.05 | [0s | Mo Hurwits 4 30.00| The Pierre Degeyter Club (revolutiona: TY Worcester 5.00) 1.00| Hl Wallerstein J 1.00] Musicians) presents Henry Cowell, c § f Y Cononsburgh,| A ‘65 |L Shapiro K (25| Poser, pianist and lecturer in’ a program oe. | ‘5|3 Turner i 140) of oftginal compositions for piano. | Proe ¥, sen B Rappaport 25| S Georgian 3 3 gram starts punctually 8:15 p, m. Admis- ae F meckester, Anonymous 5 | Section 1 1.40| Donation from sion 35 cents. 25 cents with this notice, Ny’ Al Brenner G Adams 116) affair 20.00| 55 West 19th St. gr 0| M Klinkowsky ox -10| P Howelts 8) , WORKERS INTERNATIONAL | RELIEF iol ‘00 | Sarah jer x mas -25) BAND vitally needs any band instruments s. Vickerman, | BI Newman A Chambertain 15) Sterr +05) which organizations or comrades own and iam 2.00; P Schwarte L Hartman ‘10| Sympathizer 05| do not use. They can be loaned or donated Longfellow .50| Merlmelstein Friend +15| P Potter +95] regardless of conditions. Get in touch 78 6.00 | Holtzman Mayer .05| Mi Horowits 05) with I. Rosen, 133 Fifth Ave. or phone Gli-Grand Club on | O Smith Lohman 10} Sam Cheff 10) University 4-2127, New players always wel- lists 17363, 17360 | Anonymous J Kolovachett 10 A Eatren “10| come. Rehearssls Monday "3. pr ''m, "at <a Pred ined = gd +19 Stuyvesant Casino, 142 2nd Ave. near 9th. z a x aa : Wellman 100 | Friend 110] Ht Feschott MASS MEETING tonite of Lower East Gem Masry Gime | 4 Biesmaa A Andre “10| Becker | Side Branch W. I. R. at 165 E. Broadway, ‘Branch 10.00! Anonymous Two Friends 115| M. Petrovies Bee be Ce reo Promineay, mpsak- Tislian Wkrs Center | Anonymous S Krembach 10] Kronure ery. Chorus, Hrim 3.00/ M D Fuestro 5K .05| J Prulthgony 1 Unit 23, Sec 5 8.00 A Friend R Pukos “05 | Bribilivie Wednesday Unit 6-8, See 2 5.56| Gilbert J Poneck 110] Teddy a: Concourse Workers | J Doussa 5 Pearl <6) J Chelpin AFTERNOON CLASS in Esperanto every Club 40) P Anthony Chainer -$5| Brana Wednesday beginning 3 p. m. sharp for be- ‘M Levine 1.00/ N Tumpakis J Smith +10) J Buchski sinners at Workers Home, 350 E. 8st St. ter, Bx 10.00) Criss Smi } 2, Detereane +05) 3 Adowsky ‘4 5. Last call to those interested to Malian Workers Cen-| G Manitsas | # Smith 05) P Stasiw Join this class. Free instruction. Units 24, 27, See- | A Douvis |S Elias 10| F Maricewsa Frid. MSE . Brighton Beach | P Athens | G Patowath 25] Fete George 10| Friday 12.50| P Simakins Section 18 3.00| H Bullentte é Eee inst| N Leusitts © Mudent “30 TLD. Ukrainian PLAYWRIGHTING CLASS for begins Friend 1.00| J Kantarsis Freiheit Gesangs Tollers 7.00] Starts Priday evening March 31s Date 415, Seetion 4, | C Augustidis Verein 18.14] Coll. Lith Fshr. Workers Laboratory Theatre of W. I. R., bro 4.24) Anonymous | unit 306 19.12! Assn. 25} East 12th Bt, Register now, 1.00 | H Kirshner | 8. Phila Womens || unit 11, see 8-9! 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Crisis and the Prominent & Stomer on ol mecte '90| Section 1 105] Speakers including Harry Alan Potamkin, ener: 19400 00| 6 Manon. 1.00 | Unit 306 ‘25' Gilbert Seldes, “William ‘Troy, Norman Workers ‘School on | Anonymous, Workers | Unit 208 S Markowski | "10 Warren and others, list 28217 1.00| School TWO Br. 40 Shoemaker 0% _ cas ool on | Anonymous, Unit 902 ried MB sone. ti EAN Meee t8| Behoo H Davis B saner TT le jorkers School on | Anonym Section S Zukanek 10 Mist 368 .35| School Section 13 ie fed Ten Days That Shook the n | Anonymous, L Goldstein ‘ — el School J Peleer 19 World! | A Comrade 252 05 Chi ; | 1 Ostinker Seitr J Regeiss MK Jepmin 25 hina Express! E Schwager A Potocki St ruggle for Bread! Staten Te 165 | tees dat Et vt ee Sa] MA. Wiskice ol What Won ak 4 C. es .00| O Johnson 200/ and Brownsville, all Party mem-, CLASSICS OF THE sovinr MoviES— Joe Lupt $00) Binsdale Workers bers, are called for urgent work WORKERS’ FILMS Shulle 3, WO 3.00) | Club 14.00/ today at 9 to 11 a. m. at the Work-| AY organization can now show them Barty of Professional | Shulle 12, 1WO, 1 Se Ceeler 1818 Bitkin Aveiee 6 mominal cost. Whrs and Teach- | Bronx 428 u y Information and Arrangements at ers 225.00 Greek Wkrs Club, AMUS “eV ite Is Beautiful” War—Produced in U.3.8.R. by Mejeab: pomfilm—English Titles Bast “DANTON” serotonin Times TH ST. AND UNION SQUARE ‘starting Tomorrow—3 Days Only! “——~" wn Engagement by Popular Demand! PUDOVKIN’S sasten rium er of “End of St. Petersburg,” ete. A Gripping Romantic Story of the Civit worxers Acme Theatre EMENTS District Daily Worker Office 35 E, TH STREET ®KOJEFFERSO?! 145 8 @|NOW IRENE DUNNE and PHILLIPS HOLMES in “THE SHCRET OF MADAME BLANCHE” Added Featw CKY DEVILS" with BILL BOYD and DOROTHY WILSON Produced by FAUSTIN WIRKU Extra Attractio ONG OF LIFE FRANCIS LEDERER & DOROTHY GISH iv AUTUMN CROCUS The New York and London Succeso MOROESCO THEATRE, 45th St, W. of Bway Eves, 8:40, Mats, Wed., Thurs, & Sat,, 2:40 nxoCAMEO " Now! | “VOODOO” BROOKLYN | For Brownsville Proletarians SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE WARREN, O.—On Feb, 1, a 20 per cent cut in relief took place. The amount of ‘relief was miserable anough before, but that didn’t stop the officials. The relief after the cut was 75 cents (in groceries) per week for single unemployed, $1.50 for a gouple, 25 cents for each dependent, with a maximum of $3 for a family, Flour, barely sufficient before, was cut more than half for families and altogether for single people. The Community Fund tried to fool the workers into believing that the cut was not a cut. They said the cut in groceries would be replaced by potatoes and canned vegetables which they had stocked up. But they “for- got” to say there wasn’t even a half once, and that there were less than a peck of potatoes to go around even 10,000 cans of vegetables for 3,000 families on the relief list. The Unemployed Council got into action right away, and forced the City Council to arrange a special meeting with our committee. A few days before the special meet- mer level. At the special meeting the city officials announced that there had never been a cut in relief! That now that the potatoes and vegetables were gone they were going to raise the relief again. But the workers of Warren know| that if it had not been for their de-j| termined fight led by the Unemployed | Council the cut in relief would noi | have been given back. Threaten to Drop All | Relief in Conneaut —— | (By a Worker Correspondent) | CONNEAUT, O.—City employes are to be paid here half in cash and half in scrip. Most of the money used to pay the employes is taken from the water fund. The city merchants refuse to bid on the food relief, and the city says it will discontinue all relief, because of the increasing number that are in need. Stage and Screen “LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL,” SOVIET FILM, RETURNS TO ACME THEATRE TUESDAY Beginning Tuesday, the Acme The- atre will bring back the Soviet pro- duction, “Life Is Beautiful,” directed by the brilliant Soviet producer, Pu- dovkin, creator of “End of St. Peters- burg” and “Storm Over Asia.” The picture tells a beautiful ro- mantic story of a Red commander and his wife against the background of the terrible tense struggle of the Civil War days. The film which has English titles, will be shown to Thursday inclusive, “SECRET OF MADAME BLANCHE” AT JEFFERSON The Jefferson Theatre is now showing “The Secret of Madame Blanche” with Irene Dunne and Phillips Holmes and a second fea- ture, “Lucky Devils” with Bill Boyd and Dorothy Wilson. Beginning Wednesday, the Jefferson will pre- sent “The Billion Dollar Scandal” with Robert Montgomery and Con- stance Cummings and “The Iron {ntern’) Workers Order | DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOR AU Work Done Under Personal Gary of DR JOSEPHSON —— | Hospital and Oculist Prescriptions Filled At One-Half Price id Filled Frames___$1.80 jell Frames ~.—-___, $1.00 | Lenses not included COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. First Door Off Delancey St. Telephone: ORchard 4. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B’kiyes PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M. 1-2, 6-8 PM, WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1638 PITKIN AVENUE Near Mopkinson Ave. Brooklyn, N. ¥ CLASSIFIED WANTED TO BUY—Cash paid for old gold, tecth, 045 B, 163rd St,, Davis, Dept, Store, 4 Comragea Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Clar-mont Parkway, Beoas Master” with Reginald Denny and Lile Lee, “Voodoo,” a travel film of Haiti, produced by Faustin Wirkus, is now being shown at the Cameo Theatre. The same program includes “Song of Life” 2 continental film highly praised by critics abroad and here. “Autumn Crocus,” the ©. L. An- thony play at the Morosco Theatre with Francis Lederer and Dorothy Gish just celebrated its 150th per- formance. The play will be given at @ special matinee performance for the benefit of the Actors’ Fund of America on Tuesday afternoon The Franklin is now showing Nan- cy Carroll and John Boles in “Child of Manhattan,” adapted from the stage hit; also “So This Is Harris,” a comedy with Phil Harris and Wal- ter Catlett. Beginning Wednesday the program includes “They Just Hgd to Get Married,” with Slim Summer- ville and Zasu Pitts and a Jimmy Savo comedy. BUILD the working ciass paper fi the working 2 into » powerful weapon acainet the roling capitalist class. GARMENT DISTRICT Peonage Holds Thousands of Work- ers and Farmers in New Slavery Established by Southern White Ru‘ing Class to Perpetuate Slave Con- ditions for Negroes Flood and Drought Exposed Serfd om; Peonage on Government Job By WALTER WILSON Editor’s Note: This is the third installment from the new book, “Forced Labor in the United States,” by Walter Wilson, A com- plete picture of the forced labor system will be gotten from a read- ing of the book, of which the fol- lowing is an extract. Prepared under direction of Labor Research Association, Introduction by Theo- dore Dreiser. International Pub- lishers, 381 Fifth Ave., New York, $l. eS, Se IN addition to the use of convicts, there are other systems of forced labor in the United States. The most widespread is peonage, involving as it does many thot ds of workers and farmers, chiefly Negroes. It is especially prevalent in the South where pianters and employers de- veloped it as a substitute for the kind of slavery which was abolished with the Civil War. Indeed, pednage is nothing more than a concomitant of the tenant farming system, which was Geliberately and carefully established by the southern ruling class to per- petuate slavery under a different name. This tenant system is in many respects worse than the slavery it succeeded, for it combines absolute dependency on the part of the tenant with very little responsibility on the part of the landlord, The term “peonage” is now gen- erally applied in the United States to any method by which a person is physically or legally held in involun- tary servitude, with the exception, of course, of convict labor. A peon thus held in debt slavery dares not attempt to Jeave his em- ployment. If he is foolhardy enough to escape, 2 man-hunt is organized. Even the “law” takes an active part in these modern hunts for runaway slaves. Sheriffs have frequently been known to cross state lines in order numbers they are held by mass ter- rorism. For instance, during and after the World War, there was a considerable migration of Negroes from the South to the North. In their efforts to stop it, planters and businessmen’s posses halted trains and dragged Negroes from them, dispersed crowds of Negroes waiting for trains to take them North, lynched the discontent- ed, and arrested, mebbed, and fined labor agents who dared hire the Negroes. CATASTROPHES EXPOSE PEONAGE A big “act of God” is a better in- vestigator of peonage, apparently, than the Department of Justice, for such catastrophes usually bring to light peonage cases by the wholesale. In 1927, for example, the Mississippi River fiooded a vast territory includ- ing much of the peonage country. Several hundred thousand white and black tenants and laborers were thrown on the doles of that “Wonder- ful Mother,” the Red Cross. It is a matter of record that the planters at first refused to let their tenants be removed from the plantations for fear they might escape. In the encampments the croppers, renters, and laborers were closely watched by guardsmen. No one could leave the camp without a permit. Several of the flood victims were shot, some while trying to escape. Still, many escaped. Thousands were conscripted into levee building and work for private employers on other jobs without pay. When the floods teceded, the Red Cross, the National Guard, and the overseers from vari- ous plantations staged a “round-up” of the reluctant victims, herded them into barges and returned them to their masters. In_ 1930, one of the worst famines in the country’s entire history fol- lowed a prolonged drought in the southern states bordering the Mis- to bring back escaped peons. And when the peons try to leave in large sissippi river. Widespread peonage was agein uncovered. Reports came on Slave Farms z ay This Negro boy tilling tomatoes with a mule and shovel-plow in Florence, S. C., is one of the thousands of Negro children, who, together with their parents, are kept in peonage by the white plantation owners. Copyright by John L. Spivak, author of “Georgia Nigger.” Negro Child Labor Arrest 27th Worker In Laundry Strike Against 4th Cut NEW YORK—Uvsing the flimsiest of excuses, police recently arrested the 27th worker involved in the strike against the Pretty Laundry, in order to crush the laundry workers’ fight against a 4th wage cut at this plant. One worker was arrested be- Cause he informed a former customer of this laundry that the workers had gone out on strike. Sam Berland, president of the Laundry Workers’ Union is held in jail, with bail fixed at $10,000. Despite this campaign of police ter- ror the workers are conducting the strike with increased determination. DOWNTOWN Comrades meet at STARLIGHT RESTAURANT 117 East 15th Street Union Square and Irving Place HOME COOKING —COMRADELY ATMOSPRERE Management: A. Jurich from Pittsburgh Bet. Garment Section Workers Patronize Navarr Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE Corner 28th St. Phone Tomkins Sq. 6-9554 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with ntmoxphere where ali radicals meet 302 E. 12th St. New York MENTION THE DAILY WORKER DENIS WHOLESALE AND RETAIN FLORIST FLORAL DESIGNS A SPECIALTY 101 W. 28th St., New York PHONE: LACKAWANNA 4-2470 PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St. Best Food at Workers Prices JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet. 12 & 13 Welcome to Our Comrades Workers Welcome at Raincr’s Cafeteria 115 Second Avenue Food Workers Industrial Union. OPEN AGAIN TO SERVE OUR PATRONIZING COMRADES New Health Center Cafeteria IN WORKERS CENTER our MorTo: FRESH 50 EAST 13TH STREET ROLETARIAN RICES CUSTOM TAILORS MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK—Preparing for a mass campaign against wage cuts, and for better conditions, the custom tailors have called a mass meeting for to- | night at Bryant Hall, 1087 Sixth j Avenue, sponsored by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, out of the drought country that ter- rible conditions existed especially in Louisiana and Arkansas. More spe- cific locations were given around Bald Knob and Searcy, Arkansas, as well as in St. Francis County. RECENT CASES OF PEONAGE, IN 1928 Thelma Duncan, @ North Carolina school teacher, reported cases of peonage in that state. In 1929, Orland K. armstrong, university of Florida professor, made a damning expose of peonage laws and practices in Florida. He cited many cases of Negroes being sold to turpentine com- panies at from $50 to $150 each. In March, 1930, James E. Piggott, prominent Washington Parish, Louisi- ana, planter, pleaded guilty of hold- ing Negro workers in peonage. Pig- gott told Federal Judge Borah that “I handled Negroes in the same way every one else in the South doe: He admitted that on several occa- sions his croppers escaped into Mississippi and thet Louisiana offi- cers went after them and brought them back without any sort of requi- sition papers or warrants. Another typical case in Louisiana occurred in 1931. J. M. McLemore of Coushatta was charged with peonage practices. The investigation disclosed that McLemore habitually carried a pistol with which to shoot any one attempting to escape. PEONAGE ON GOVERNMENT JOB One of the most recent exposes of peonage involved work done for the United States government. In De- cember, 1931, it was discovered that the War Department was using com- pulsory labor on levee work under its supervision along the Mississippi River. Gross brutality was charged, including the flogging and beating of Negro workers with leather straps, clubs and pistol butts, for not doing enough work or for minor infraction of camp rules. Men were forced to work 12 to 18 hours a day. The pay Tate was 75 cent to $2 a day for skilled labor, For unskilled it was much less. Trading in the commis- sary was compuisory and charges for “stuff” were exorbitant. There was an arbjtrary deduction of $4.50 a week from each man’s pay for com- missary supplies, whether the sup- plies were purchased or not. Thirty contractors with offices in New Or- leans, St. Louis. Kansas City, Cleve- land and Pittsburgh were declared to be involved. Just as intolerable as the peonage that binds Negroes in the South is the peonage to which Mexicans are subjected in the United States. Though no formal study has been made of the situation, it is well recog- nized. that much of the work in the industries in the Southwest—projecis in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, the Imperial! Valley in southern Cali= fornia, big ranches, railroad consiruc- tion, irrigation jobs—has been done by Mexican workers slaving under peonage. Thousands of Mexican forced laborers have toiled in the beet fields of Colorado, Kansas and other states, and have carried on struggles against their slavery, led by the Agricultural Workers Indus- trial Union. Cr ae | Read tomorrow's Daily Worker for the fourth installment from the sen- sational new book, “Forced Labor in the United States”. 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