The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1933, Page 2

| PAGE TWO COLLECT ARRICADES ERLIN BY KLAUS MNF UKRANTZ ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER ce days of May 1929 THE AUTHOR p in a bourgeois d—Youth Movement — teer—then four and a in the trenches. I met E Hease—the first man from whom I heard something of “soc- ApOUT HT househ mt jalism” in whole of my life, in the Ra Sappers’ Barracks | at Konigsberg, in the spring of the day I was demobilized. I 191 w tood very little about it at that time, but it sufficed to with- hold me from my intention of joining one of the East Prussian Detachments of the Volunteer League (a secret Fascist “Black Reichswehr” which was in existence at that time). Shortly after = family in Berlin—I sought to learn, read a great deal in a planless sort of way, attended meetings and lectures, and earned my living as an office worker and by writing mediocre short stories, which were occasionally published here and there. My actual political develop- ment really began a few years later when I was an “oppositional” mem- ber of the Factory Council in the District Council Office at Kreuz- berg. Berlin. (The Weimar Con- stitution decreed the establishment of Factory Councils in all establish- ments employing more than thirty workers). I followed various occupations, worked amongst other things as a hand on a small North Sea vessel, and finally became a Communist as a result of a brief and accidental sojourn with comrades during the period of illegality. (The German Communist Party was illegal from 1923-1925). From this period on- wards the revolutionary working- class took over my education. I was active as an editor for the Workers International Relief, or- ganised later an Agit-Prop Troupe tor the “Artists’ Aid,” which existed at that time, and went with it on tour through the Ruhr Valley, and was finally accepted into the edi- torial staff of the “Welt am Abend” (Berlin’s great workers’ evening paper). Followed two years in hos- pitals and health resorts, which can be laid at the door of the World War. After a lengthy stay in the Soviet Union, I returned to Berlin, and have worked since then as an active Party worker, and rev- olutionary proletarian writer in the ranks of the working class. With regard to the novel which follows, I want to state that nei- ther the personages mentioned therein nor their deeds have been “invented,” but have all been taken from the actual events which took place in the Koslinerstrasse during the May days of 1929, Changes have been made only in those cases where there existed the danger of subsequent attack on the persons concerned by the hirelings of class justice. In particular, the police at- tacks which are described are taken from the documents of the Investi- gation Committee, which were placed at my disposal, all of which are vouched for on oath and can be legally verified at any time. THE STORY A jal Mett nel aia gd : 1” The lyoung man peered with a sleepy stare through the glass panes of the tramcar. “That your newspaper... ?” A woman pointed to one lying at his teet. He thrust it into his pocket; in another moment he was outside. The yellow lights of the gas lamps were reflected on the wet pave- ment. The shock of wind and rain enlivened him. A loud-speaker boomed from a restaurant at the tram-stop. He was freezing. “A man ought to have an overcoat,” he thought, turning up his coat collar. He spat, put his hands in his pockets and walked slowly home. He hurried from the Pankstrasse, into the dark alley where he lived. The slum shops were already shut. Only the saloons showed signs of life, blurred streaks of light in an empty street illuminated by a few feeble gas jets. Behind the win- dows of the tall dark houses—most- ly curtainless—gleamed here and there a miserable oil lamp, From an open cellar came the warm smell of washing. A few more houses and he was home, “ANNA IS HOME” Two women stood at the house door. He nodded briefly at their greeting and vanished in the dark passage. Not till he saw the win- dow of his dwelling from the yard did he pause. “Good ... Anna is at home,” he thought, and reas- sured, he passed his hand over his tired face. This happened every evening as he walked across the yard. He rejoiced at the sight of the bright window. Nothing more. He felt his way up the few steps of the narrow stairway and opened the door. “Evening, Anna.” “Evening, Kurt.” He hung his cap on the door hook and dropped into the kitchen chair. The young cement heaver, Kurt Zimmerman was at home. There was just enough room be- side the fireplace in the kitchen for two to sit at the table, Kurt leaned his elbows on the table and looked at Anna_busying herself with the dishes. He was too tired to speak, but it gave him pleasure to sit there and look at her. She handled everything so deftly and quickly. The warmth of the fire slowly ’ following through | broke with my | QUIRT Printed by Special Permission of 381 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS | i € d to the imperishable) penetrated his damp clothing. The memory of the 33, shot by the| in Berlin during the mell of fat and onions was ap- petising. It occurred to him that .e had promised days ago to take Anna to the movies. “Perhaps we ought to go today,” he thought sieepily. Anna would like it, if only one’s bones did not ache so much. i The foreman was getting worse. Tomorrow the concrete would have to be carried a story higher. . . . WORN OUT His eyes closed. “Now then, lad eat a bit. Kurt, Kurt,—asleep already!” She pushed the plate across and patted his shoulder. As he raised his face to her and passed his hand sleepily over his brow, Anna not- iced how pale and tired he was. Since he had started on the build- ing job in Lichtenberg, he came home fagged out every evening. He months and he could not stand the there. “No, no...” he smiled wearily, “IT am not asleep.” He began to eat. Anna sat on the opposite side of the table and looked across, She laughed gently. The spoon was al- most swallowed in the broad, heavy palm. When he was tired his heavy awkwardness was emphasized. Yet Kurt was as good natured as a child. There was only one point on which he could get really very angry, and on that subject she took care not to express her opinion more than was absolutely neces- “Now then, iad, eat a bit . . Kart, Kurt—asleep already!” sary..She had married Kurt two years ago in the full knowledge that he was in the workers’ movement and gave up every free moment him about it. If there was a meet- ing, or a job to do, ready as he might be to drop with fatigue, he would insist on carrying on till late at night—then up and away to work again, at half-past five. As if there were not enough unem- job and find time and to spare for sleep. What was the good of it all if his strength was destroyed in the process ; She did not ask much of him otherwise. She was a working woman and knew well enough with how little she must be content. Perhaps he would be off again tonight! (To Be Continued) WHAT’S ON NOTE: In view of the crit- ical financial situation in the Daily Worker, organizations are asked to enclose money, at the rate of one cent a word per insertion, with announce- ments. Wednesday PI ROSPECT WORKERS CENTER, 1157 So. Bivd., Bronx, is calling a membership meet- ing. A report and future activities will be taken up. MARX MEMORIAL MEETING at 8 p.m. at Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, Willoughby and Myrtle Ave. Brooklyn, N. Y. Speaker: Chas. Alexa: Good ‘program. Auspices: Section 6, C.P. THE BRONX SHOE WORKERS CENTER arranged @ lecture with Comrade Sadie Van | Veen. Subject: The Bank Situation and the Present Crisis. March 29, 8 p.m. at 1334 | So. Blvd. Admission free. DAILY WORKER CHORUS rehearssl, 8| p.m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 &. Fourth | St. All invited. | REGISTRATION for the Spring Term of | had been out of work for over six | pace that was being forced on him “| ful and tremendous demonstration as to it. There was no use talking to | in ‘Daily’ Drive; Many Other ployed comrades, who could do the | eS DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, 10,000 MARCH MORRIS LANGER | Victim of Boss Bomb Viewed All Night by Thousands | | YORK. | vorkers paid th | rday to the r | NEW “‘yred leader | the body which was lying in state in | the union headquarters. All through |the night union leaders and Workers | stood guard and until the time set |for the demonstration the workers | were still steadily pouring into the headquarters to view for the last | time the heroic courageous fighter | Of the working class. | At 11 am. thousands of workers gathered before the offices of the Union. They were addressed by I Potash, Ben Gold and Louis Hyman | of the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union, A. Overgaard of the Trade Union Unity Council, H. Shep- | hard of the Communist Party, and | by Morris Langer’s wife. Langer’s Wife Calls Greater Fight Langer’s wife called upon the work- ers to carry on the struggle for which | Langer died and to avenge his death | by building a strong union to defeat the bosses system of terror and starv- ation. The workers then formed a line, six abreast, behind the casket bear- jing Langer’s body. 5,000 workers joined the march while thousands more followed the marchers along the streets. Many workers looked down from their shop windows to | honor the memory of the dead work- ing class leader. The procession presented a power- r | throughout Greater New York. At | mand from the Alabama authorities | Scottsboro Tag Day Drive. | Scottshoro and IN TRIBUTE TO Mooney Meets to Draw Thousands Rallies Thru City Fri- day and Saturday; Wed. in Newark YORK—Tens of thousands’ 's will raise their voices this! and Saturday for the immed- and onditional release of the it Scottsboro boys and of les of powerful ns Which ail sections and of the N. Y, District Inter- Labor Defense will hold tional these demonstrations workers will de- abcolute protection of the nine framed Negro boys against whom | lynch mobs have been organized. Scottsboro Tag Day Closes Sunday While these demonstrations take place, hundzeds of volunteer work- ers will continue to carry on the/ Tag Day stations in Harlem are located at 77 W. 131st St., and at 2149 Seventh Ave. The time and place for the various demonstrations throughout Greater New York and in Newark are as fol- lows: Down Town Friday, 8 p.m. at Hennington Hall, 214 E. 2nd St., meeting preceeded by @ mass parade. Harlem and Bronx All sections of Harlem and Bronx will unite in an outdoor demonstra-_ tion Saturday, 1 p.m. at 110th St, and‘ Fifth Ave. The demonstration will! conclude with a huge parade led by a brass band through Harlem. Brownsville The demonstration here Saturday, 1 p.m. will also protest arrest of 27 tent strikers. Jamaica Saturday, 1 p. m. at Union Hall) St. and 109th Ave. Mount Vernon An indoor demonstration on Sat-! urday, Tag day, same day, for which police were forced to grant permit. Meets in Needle Market Midtown Section to hold meet in Needle Trades Market Saturday noon. ' Thousands of needle trades workers are expected to take part. Newark Mass meeting, Wednesday, March 29th, at 8 p. m, at Workers Home, 53 Broome 8t. it wound its way up 7th Avenue through the garment center to 40th Street and then up Fifth Avenue to 59th Street. The workers took cars and taxis to Long Island, where Langer’s body was cremated. Strikers of the A. & J. Hollander shop marched carrying pictures of the workers murdered by these same bosses in the 1915 strike. Boston Hits 95 95. a) $49.59 to become the third dis- jtrict in the country (Pitts- | burgh and New York have already crashed above their quotas) to reach the 100 per cent mark, | With slightly over $10,000 to go to} reach the needed $35,000, every dis- | trict in the country should redouble | its work in order to put the Daily | Worker drive over the top! . ® 3 3 3 a, Pa s ; £ as = 3 2 id 43 3 3 ry ee 35 a @ oe ae | 1—Bosten $ 64.50 § 950.41 N. 377.50 | 6—Cleve. | Wetroit 8Chicago | o-Minn, 10—K. ©. | u—N, {1a | 13—Cal 12.8 ‘Districts Remain Inactive Only $941.95 came in to the Daily | half-week from Friday to Monday (inclusive), a drop of over | $1,000 from the previous half-week’s total. The best showing, comparatively, of these three days is that of Boston, which raised $64.50, boosting its percentage to Boston must raise only ¢ 40.6 PE JRE |the Workers Sehool is now going on at ioe 38 | Room 301, 35 E. 13th st. lw. 0. 1,958.35 5,250 37.3 | OPEN MEETING of Unit D-1 this morning | Ga aa ana 7 at 11:20 a.m., 108 E. 14th St., second floor. | “‘Feerien — 3.95 —— — Discussion led by Comrade Wicks. German | ci ame Maree Halal tel situation—United Front, ‘Total $941.95 $24,749.61 $35,000 70.7 8 “PLAYWRIGHTING CLASS for beginners starts Friday evening, March 31st at the | Workers Lab. Theatre of WIR, 42 E. 12th St., Register now.” Recelved Sunday and Mondi Previously received —. 24,504.17 PROF. SCOTT NEARING will speak on " “Division of Income” at Burnside Manor,| Total to 4 eer ae 85 W. Burnside Ave. Bronx (near Univer- DISTRICT Spartacus Club sity Ave.) at 8 p.m.’ Question period. Ad- w York) Tag Day om mission 28¢. Auspices: Friends of the So- based Beare tg oa viet Union, Bronx Branches. aaa | eergemitins TONIGHT LECTURE—"Hitlerism” and ae cece = “War Threats against the Soviet Unton,” Poe Mamerrtttnadla Ahaha by B. Freedman, at Labor Temple, 243 E. Ee RR op tae ll Bath Bt. at 8:15 p.m. Auspices: Yorkville | Ida Cohen ed fpppedoceen 4 | Branch, FSU, | d. Erikson 1.00 | Anonymous 1.00 | THIS APTERNOON CLASS in Esperanto | Anonymous al at 3 n.~. harp for bezinners at the Work. | G. Unger Home, 350 E. Sist St, Room 5. This| J. McCormack the last call to those interested to join| Workers’ School this cl Instruction free. ee R, Melnick | Thursday Louis Monsa DOMESTIC WORKERS SKCTIOI Pood Workers Industrial Union meraberstis | meeting {s March 30, 8 p.m. at 18 W. 126th DR JULIUS LITTINSKY St. Every Domestic Worker should join the 4 union now. * WORKERS OF THE COOPERATIVE neigh- 107 Bristol Street borhood are called to a very import meeting ‘Thursday, 8:30 pam. in the Goon, erative Auditorium, 2100 Bronx Park East (Bet. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) PHONE: DICKENS 2-8012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M. ‘kiyp Friday RED LITERARY EVENING in the Tre- mont Workers Club, 2075 Clinton Ave., with | following members of ne nev weve ser | AMtern’) Workers Order eration—Moe Bragin, Philip Rhay, Milton | | Howard, Alfred Hays, Wallace Pheips and| DENTAL DEPARTMENT neta 2 8 80 FIFTH AVENUE \NNOUNCEMENT 15th AVOREERS FILM and PHOTO teaqus| FLOOR announces symposium “Crisis and the Film,” | AD Work Done Under Versonad Care Percent Mark rker drive in the Club on Lists Workers’ School on Lists Unit 14, See- fs tion 1 Party 10.20| A. W. K. Workers’ School on Lists I. W. 0. Br. 37 ‘Tag Days LW.O. Br. 57 ‘Tag Day Kushfarian Tag Day Unit 16, Sec. 1 6.15 on Lists N. 0. ¥. Total TH to Organizations Partici- pating in Raising Funds for the AFFAIR & LECTURE TONIGHT at 8 P. M. 249 Glove Road, Staten Island Arranged by Women’s Council No, 1 and Finnish Women’s Couneil What, No Costume? Slap on a mustard plaster and you’re all essed for the NEW MASSES SPRING COSTUME BALL Friday, March 31st WEBSTER HALL 119 East 11th Street REDUCED PRICES $1.00 in advance —$1.50 at the door Reserve Tickets Through: NEW MASSES, 31 E. 27th St, WORKERS’ BOOKSHOP, 50 F. 18th St. ROMANY MARIE, 42 W. 8th at, WASHINGTON SQUARE BOOKSHOP, 27 W. 8th St. Dancing Till Dawn | Sunday, April 9, at 8:30 p.m. at John Reed | Club headquarters, 450 Sixth Ave, ' Brook! 61 ————————————_——=_= ‘ A i an cme smeacetesce 3 SIT PRE MB RE Kent- Vincent Orchestra ———| tant battles against their conditions. o4a.53 | 90d whites fought shoulder to shoul- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1933 By WALTER WILSON Editor's Note: This is the fifth | installment from the new book, | “Foreed Labor In the United | States,” by Walter Wilson. A com- | plete picture of the forced labor system ‘s given in the book, which should be read by all workers. It was propared under the direction of the Labor Research Association. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser. Intemations! Publishers, 381 Fourth | Ave., New York, $1. { HE workers in ¢ pr this country, on their own ini | tive, have waged some bitter strug- Gles against the conditions that I° have described. In some cases these prison revolts have been aided by workers on the outside who were act- ons |ing in solidarity with their impris- oned and victimized fellow-workers. In the period from 1881 to 1900, for example, there are 22 recorded strikes against convict labor in coal mines. ‘Perhaps the most significant | of all such revolts wes the Coal Creek Rebellion in 1891-1892 in the coal mines~ef East Tennessee. Following | a combination lockout and_ strike, convict strike-breakers were brought | in by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and} Railroad Co. (now a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corp.), which leased an average of 1,500 to 1,600 convicts from the state. The miners, Negro and white, aided by the farmers of East Tennessee, drove out the guards, burned the prison stockades and released the convicts, who escaped. Governor Buchanan sent in the militia to sub- due the workers. After a pitched battle the entire force of soldiers was captured and driven out after being disarmed and after promising never to return to the mining sec- tion. The struggle had begun in earnest. It lasted from July 14 1891 (Bastille day), to November, 1892, with a few skirmishes as late as 1893. 1,000 Prisoners Freed. Before the struggle was over nearly @ dozen prisons were burned to the ground and over 1,000 convicts given their freedom, food and. clothing. Three commanding officers, a gen- eral, a colonel and a captain were captured, as well as several hundred soldiers, including whole train loads at a time. Even the United States) War Department was forced to ad- mit that most of the people of Ten- nessee, “including the militia,” were in sympathy with the miners. Negroes and whites, men who fought for the North and men who fought for the South in the Civil War, farmers and miners, convicts and “free” men, stuck together in} the face of the entire armed forces | of Tennessee, Approximately 10,000 soldiers and members of business Men's posses were used to crush the revolt. Workers and convicts stormed forts and cannons and died together. But they died with the knowledge that they had killed a great many more of the common enemy than the enemy killed of them. | Revolts and strikes have broken out in prisons all over the United States during 1931 and 1932. Many of them were not reported, or if re- Ported were “played down” or called “riots.” There were strikes in at least three reformatories for girls in the South and the institutions were wrecked or burned. The most important chain gang strike in 1981 occurred in Loudon County, Tenn. The Negro and white convicts there asked for an 8-hour day and better food. Two guards quit in sympathy. In July, 1932, seventy convicts on the Sunbeam prison chain gang in Florida went on strike against brutal conditions and won a transfer. In October, 1932, a strike took place in the State Road camp at Indiantown, Florida. The strike was led by several political prisoners, the militants of the Tampa tobacco workers’ case. The workers and farmers held in peonage have likewise waged mili- In many of these struggles Negroes der. One of the early efforts to or- ganize tenant farmers on a large scale in the South was the attempt to form a Colored Farmers’ Alliance of the U. S. with headquarters in WORKERS PATRONIZE CENTURY CAFETERIA 154 West 28th Street Pare Food Proletarian Prices ‘Bospital and Oculist Prescriptions Filled At One-Half Price White Gold Filled Frames___$1.50 SYL Shell Frames —_—____.. . $1.00 ‘Lenses not included COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. Dr. WILLIAM BELL OPTOMETRIST 106 E. 14th St., near 4th Av. BROOKLYN For Brownsville Proletarians SOKAL CAFETERIA 1688 PITKIN AVENUE WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria 1688 PITKIN AVENUE Near Bepkinson Ave. Brookiyn, N. ¥ CLASSIFIED ROOM WANTED Downtown Section. dress: Allee West, %4 | Auspices—Friends Houston, Texas, in 1891. Their strike was defeated by the white wealthy farmers and. business men. There was also the brutal suppression of the Negro farmers’ union at Elaine, Ark., in 1919. Though the union was & conservative one, it was bitterly , in which avely, killing white attackers, the former were slaughter: Industrial ‘kers have also strug- vember in Bogalusa, La., three white men were shot dead, and a@ number severely wounded in such a struggle. The white men were killed because they had dared walk down the main street of the city controlled by the Great Southern Lumber Co., with guns on their hips, protecting the life of a Negro or- ganizer. Camp Hill. In the summer of 1931, to cite an- other and even more significant case, white and Negro tenants in and around Camp Hill, Ala., were organ- ized by the Trade Union Unity League into a militant union. The main purpose of this avowedly mili- tant union is in one respect no dif- ferent from that of the tenants’ union in Arkansas in 1919, namely—to fight peonage. Alabama pianters, emulat- ing their ruling class brothers in Ar- kansas, also attacked a union meet- ing which was being held in a church near Camp Hill. The church was burned to the ground, one man was murdered on the spot in cold blood and four others were sent to “cut stove wood,” a euphemistic term for lynching. Some 35 were rounded up and arrested. The Camp Hill union, in co-opera- tion with the International Labor Defense, was able to win the free- dom of all the 35 arrested members. And for the first time in the long history of the struggles against peon- age, this Camp Hill union was able to beat back the attacks of the em- PREPARE TO BOOST ‘DAILY’ CIRCULATION By ROBERT FRANKLIN NEW YORK.—The experiences of cur work and methods to build up the circulation of the Daily Worker to date have shown us that the aver- age unit dist-ibution of the Daily Worker in New York is both irregular and aimless, and that there is no steady drive at a given point for in- creased circulation. We also find that a good percen‘ase of our own varty members do not read the Daily Worker; and, lastly, that few of the members of our mass organizations read it. The best way to increase the cir- culation in New York City is by in- etituting the carrier-route system— that is, for 18 cents weekly the Daily Worker will be delivered to the homes of the worlers. But even in this, a change must be made from the old conception of delivery routes. Until now, where deliveries were made, | they were made in the daytime, so that when the worker arrived home at night he found the Daily Worker. Therefore the news he finds in the Daily Worker at night appears stale end the chances of his looking through the Daily are slight. If, on the other hand, the Daily Worker would be found by this work- er before he leaves his home in the morning, it would be the first paper he reads—it would be fresh news— he would read it at his breakfast at home or as he rides tb work in the subway or elevated. This would also give him a chance to leave the paper in the subway or bring it into his shop or place cf work. This, of course, makes it impera- tive for the delivery of the Daily Worker to be made at night. The Daily Worker is off the press at midnight; the route carriers should call for the paper at that time and make deliveries any time between 12 and 6 in the morning. 1—The Daily Worker or Red Press Committee in the various organiza- tions should canvass their member- ship for the 18 cents weekly delivery. 2.—-House to house canvassing should be done by the members of the wo:king class organization in the territory in which they operate, to build up as compact a route as possible. 3.—The units of the Party should carry on house to house canvassing for the Daily Worker within the territory in which the unit operates. TONIGHT Prof. Scott Nearing will speak on Division of Income’ at BURNSIDE MANOR 85 W. Burnside Avenue, Bronx (Near University Ave.) Admission 25¢ of the Soviet Union, Bronx Branches New York District Office, 799 Broadway, Room 330, N. Y. DOWNTOWN Comrades meet at STARL'GHT RESTAURANT 117 East 15th Street Bet. Union Square and Irving Place —HOME COOKING —COMRADELY ATMOSPRERE Management: A. Jurich from Pittsburgh Phone Tomkins Sq. 6-9554 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHE> A piace with nfmosphere where nll radicals meet 302 E. 12th St New for 29 EAS! 4TH STREET NEW YORK Tet. Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line of STATIONERY AT SPECIAL PRICES for Organizations JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE Bet, 12 & 13 4—In approaching a worker for an 18 cent weekly subscription, it should be understood that the pri- mary purpose is to get the worker to read the Daily Worker, and not, .8 many comrades do, bring up all forms of organizations which this ~orke show’ belong to first and then finally csk him to read the Daily. 5—During a strike, our comrades should see to it that the Da'ly Work- er (which usually carries the news o° their strike) be popularized amon these workers and thet a determined effort be made to get these st-iking werkers on the carrier routes. Par- ticularly does this apply to the pe- r'od of the rent strikes in the Bronx, m, inctead of an incr-sas, we suf: © Geerstse in cirenlation. ‘the basis of successful routes is the house to house canvassing and the getting of as many workers as possible in as concentrated a terri- tory as possible. 1—Bring the question of carrier routes up in the organization you belong to. 2.—Canvass the workers Iving in your own house. 3—Place yourself on the Daily Worker carrier route. i uae aN | KARL MARX MEET IN B’KLYN | NEW YORK—A Karl Marx Me- morial meeting will be held in Brook- lyn by Section 6 of the Communist Party at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, | Willoughby and Myrtle Avenues this Wednesday March 29 at 8 p. m. o~ MEDIATELY! CITY-WIDE SCOTISBORO TAG DAYS END SUN! Revolts Against Forced Labor Unite | Negro and White ployers and win certain demands. | Similar conditions surrounded. the armed attack on Dec. 19, 1932, on | share-croppers at Notasulga, Talla- | poosa County, Ala., a few miles from | Camp Hill. In the fighting, in which | the croppers defended themselves | heroically, several of them were wounded and 13 arrested. Two of those wounded, including Cliff James, | organizer of the Share Croppers’ Union, subsequently died. Mass Revolt In Colonies. There have been many rebellions recently against forced labor oppres- sion in the Philippines. There was an uprising of the Tayug peasants in January, 1931, Hundreds of men and women armed only with clubs and cane knives marched into the town of Tayug, Pagasinian province, | They set out for their direct exploit- | ers, those who collected the taxes. In spite of the fact that the workers had no guns, they were fired upon. One was killed, whereupon the angry peasants and laborers killed a lieu- tenant and several soldiers who were responsible. A pitched battle ensued, lasting two days. A sympathetic soldier helped the rebels break into the storeroom | where arms and ammunition were kept. After they were thus armed, they took over the city of 15,000 in- habitants and held it for several days. All deeds and records of mort- Gages were burned. The movement was entirely spontaneous. The im- mediate cause of the Tayug uprising was the decision of the Philippine Supreme Court which legalized the seizure of land, belonging to 1,000 peasants, by the foreign-owned Es- peranza estate which already con- tained 100,000 acres. There have also been many fights against forced labor and imperialism in Cuba, carried on especially by the agricultural workers on the sugar Plantations. Big strikes were waged in 1906, 1920, 1925, 1926, and in more recent years. During the 1925 and 1926 strikes hundred$ of workers and peasants were slaughtered. But in spite of all this repression the Cuban workers and peasants are now moving in a new revolutionary wave. The bloody battles in Havana streets on December 14, 1929; the political strike of January 10, 1930; the general strike of some 200,000 Persons, March 30, 1930, a7ainst un- employment and against the perse- cution of the unions; the demon- strations on May 1; the strike of over 15,000 tobacco workers which was betrayed by the reformist lead- ers; the strikes of the street car men and sugar workers—most of them led by the National Workers’ Federation ot Cuba and the Communist Party— these mark a long and_ persistent struggle against imperialist exploita~ tion with its attendant forced labor. a) Read tomorrow's Daily Worker tor the concluding installment from the sensational new book, “Forced Labor In ‘the United States.” It will contain a crushing answer to the false charges of those who shout about “forced labor” in the Soviet Union. AMUSE MENTS Today and Tomorrow Only! Return Engagement by Popular Demand! PUDOVKIN’S waster rum Director of “End of St. Petersburg,” ete. “Life Is Beautiful” Gripping Romantic Story of the Civil, War—Produced in U.8.S.R. ri by Mejrabpomfilm—English Titles worsers ACme Theatre FRANCIS LEDERER & DOROTHY GISR is AUTUMN CROCUS ‘The New York and London Success MOROSCO THEATRE, 45th St. W. of Eves. 8: Mat ‘Thurs. & Gat. BKO JEFFERSON 14h §. ¢|NOW Robt. Armstrong & Constance Cummings in ‘The Billion Dollar Scandal’ Extra Feature: “THE IRON MASTER” with REGINALD DENNY and LILA LEE Bway & kKO CAMEO wae st. Now! “VOODOO” Produced by FAUSTIN WIRKUS Extra Attraction: “SONG OF LIFE” 14TH ST. AND UNION SQUARE Welcome to Our Comrades th JUBILEE ll CELEBRATION of the MORNING FRETHEIT (The Only Jewish Revolutionary Working Class Paper in America) Saturday Eve., April 1 New York MECCA AUDITOR!UM 55th Street, Between 6th and ‘ith Avenues TWO HALLS — Brooklyn ACADEMY OF MUSIC Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place PROGRAM: Freiheit Singing Society and Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Conductor: J, SHAFFER ARTEF In One-Act Play, by Cherner & Paler “SHULEM GETS A MEDAL from Pilsudsky Government” SAME PROGRAM IN BOTH HALLS Tickets 35c, 55c and 83c (tax included). For sale at Freiheit office, 35 B 12th St., 6th floor, and Workers Book Shop, 50 E, 13th St. Workers Cooperative Colony 2700-2500 BRONX PARK EAST (OPPOSITE BRONX PARK) has now REDUCED THE RENT ON THE APARTMENTS AND SINGLE ROOMS CULTURAL ACTIVITIES Kindergarden; Classes for Adults and Children; Library; Gymnasium; Clubs and Other Privileges NO INVESTMENTS REQUIRED 3EVERAL GOOD APARTMENTS & SINGLE ROOMS AVAILABLE Take Advantage of the Opportunity. Lexington Avense train to White| Office open daily Plains Read. Stop at Allerton Avenae| Fridey & Saterday Station. Tel. Estabrook 8-1406—1401/ Sunday 9 am. to 8 pm, 9 a.m. to 5 pm. 1 a.m. to 8 pm. oat \ 4