The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1933, Page 3

Elect Delegat DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933 es to the Chica C/ Page Three go Tom Mooney Congress 37 LOCALS OF A.F.L. IN SAN FRANCISCO}#UN@#8 PARADE AND EASTER PARADE Vers Will March on | JOIN UNITED FRONT MOONEY CONGRESS |~ AEE Nr EE Are in Movement Despite Threats of Expulsion by Officials Mooney Proposes Large Committee for the “Congress” Representatives from Many Organizations Suggested NEW YORK—In 4 iclegtam to the Eastern Office of the Mooney Molders’ Defense Committee, Mooney approved the establishment of &® management committee to direct the Free Tom Mooney CGongress scheduled for Chicago April 30 to May 2. Mooney requested that, besides a wide range of political and trade union representatives, invitations to the management committee be sent to Lincoln Steffens, noted writer; Roger Baldwin, of the American Civil Liberties Union; Prof. John Dewey, formerly of Columbia Univer- sity, as well as a number of other prominent liberals. The management committee, suggested by Mooney in his wire, called for two representatives from thé Socialist Party, one from the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, two from the Communist Party, five trade unionists, one dele- gate from the International Labor Defense, one from the League for Industrial Democracy, and the three liberals named: above. Meanwhile, preparations are in Tom} Considerable space in the recent issues of the Labor| | Clarion has been given to unfair attacks upon the United} Front-Free Tom Mooney Conference in San Francisco. | Below we reprint a letter which | appeared in “Labor Clarion”, of- | ficial journal of the San Francisco | Labor Council on April 7. The let- ter signed by 37 American Federa- | tion of Labor locals is an answer | to the attacks made by this paper | on the United Front Free Tom | Mooney Congress which is sched- | uled to take place in Chicago be-~ ginning April 29 to May 2. | n its issue of March 31 the “La- | bor Clarion” printed on the first page its satisfaction with the ac- | | Editor Labor Clarion: | Gially was the alleged “split” dwelt upon. A letter addressed to the San Francisco Labor Council by the | United Front Conference, courteously ; but effectively answering the attack- éfs, Was fet read at the Council | Meeting fot reasons unknown to us. Therefore the undersigned, loyal trade unionists, representing thirt seven American Federation of Labor unions affiliated with the United ‘Brotherhoods, request you to give space in the Labor Clarion to the | following brief statement ¢* incts: | Nothing resembling a split hes oc- Cein jeurred in thé Conference. its entire existence only four unions) 00d of Railway and Steamship) | have seen fit to withdraw their sup-| Clerks No. 890, Brotherhood of Rail-| | three times that many unions. Militant Labor Policy. |. The militant labor poli tion of the Chicago Federation of of the ©2 Gate Express Lodge No. Labor and the National Committee of the Sofialist Party in refusing to accept a united front of all workers for the Mooney Congress. The Labor Council even threatened to expel members who stpported this conference as the Socialist Party has done in Chicago. But the mass support by 37 locals caused a “change of heart”. Unity in the ranks of the work- ers cah and must be established. But this will only develop on the basis of a growing movement which will brush aside all obstacles in its way. Qererceeetnias — | Union, Local No. Thomas Cre- min, Division 518, Carmen’s Union; S. K. Leman, Bakers’ Union, 24; Adam Vurek, president of Litho- graphers No. 17; Joseph Gonsalvés, Bookbinders and Binderywomen’s | Union, Local 31-125; Benjamin Ellis- berg, Ornamental Plasterers’ Union, Local 460; Ed Harris, Machinists No. 68; W. R. Parker, Painters 1158; B. 4S Front Conference, and three Railway R. Noldin, B. of L. F. & 1, No. 148; Smoky Finch, B. of Ry. C., No. 735, on behalf of the following trades unions affiliated with the Free Tom |Mooney-United Front Conference: | Auto Mechanics No. 1305, Brother- | port and their places were taken by| WaY and Steamship Clerks No. 854,/ | Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers No. | 17960, Electrical Workers No. 6, Gold- 2176, full swing for additional preliminary! Conference has been winning wide-; Heat, Frost, General Insulators and conferences in various Cities through-| spread support, as witnessed, among Asbestos Workers No, 6, International out the United States in preparation ther things, by the great mass mect- Hod Carriers, Building and Common for the Mooney Congress. Already | ing of 14,000 in the Civic Auditorium | Laborers No. 261, Journeymen_Tail- scheduled are those in Rochester,|on March 19. The people there were 0S’ Union of America, Local No. 80, Syracuse, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. satisfied that the so-called break was, Millmen’s Union No. 42, Millwrights’ | Paul, Youngstown, Detroit, Superior, Boston, Salt Lake City, Utah and other cities. | Front had been conducted. We feel that our efforts contrib- | uted to the success achieved in se- Pitis-| of small consequence and were in| Union No. 766, Mantel, Grate and| burgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Duluth,| sympathy with the way the United| Tile Setters’ Helpers No. 70, Plar‘~ ers’ Union No. 66, Plumbers’ L7val No. 442, Painters No, 19, Roofers’ Lo- cal No. 40, Retail Dyers and Cleaners Of all the classes that stand face curing a new trial for Tom Mooney | No. 18182, San Francisco Bricklayers’ to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other and we trust that more unions will support the campaign which the United Front Conference will under- Union, 203, Sheet Metel Workers No. 216 | (Oakland), Steam Shoyelmen’s Union classes decay and finally disappear | take to secure Mooncy’s freedom and| No. 45, Sheet Metal Workers (Amal- in the face of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product—Communist Manifesto. | vindication. |_ Fraternally yours: John F. Metcalf, |I. M. U, of N. A. 164; Max Wester. man, Ladies’ Garment Worke AMUSE SOVIET RUSSIA SPEAKS! LAST 2 DAYS SOVIETS § PARADE = STARS... Stalin, orky, so worxens Acme Theatre 14TH ST. AND UNION SQUARE RKO JEFFERSON 12 8. #|NOW JAMES CAGNEY and MARY BRIAN in “HARD TO HANDLE” ire—"MAN HUNT” with IN and Mrs. WALLACE REID Added Fi JUNIOR DU! Jewish Talkie From the U THE RETURN OF NATHAN BECKER” Ail-Siar Jowish-Russian Cast—Music by Len- ingrad Symphony Orchestra—English Titles. EUROPA 21 ¥ 5889 gto 1. E. th Ay. 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George) Biklyn S gamated Union No. 104), Trackmen’s Union No. 687, Woodearvers’ Union, | Wo0dd, Wire and Metal Lathers No. 66. San Francisco, April 2, 1933. BLACK BI LIN oll Helps Bosses Push High Tariff WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 17.— A motion to reconsider the Black 30 hour stagger bill which passed the Senate on April 6th was defeated today in the Senate by a vote of 52-32, ‘The motion was made fol- lowing an amendment introduced by Senator Tremmell to exclude articles | of foregin trade unless they are pro- | duced on the basis of the 6 hour |day and the 5 day week. This | amendment is being pushed by Mat+ | thew Woll’s high tariff lobby which | is known as the Wege-Earners’ Pro- | tective Conference and has the back- ~ | ing of the leading high tariff indus- trialists. The amendment has the double edged purpose of forcing a virtual embargo on all foreign goods and failing this, of defeating the | bill, While on the one. hand Green |is for the Black bill, Woll his chief agent is against it, indicating the emagogy of the A. F. of L. official- dom who claim they seek this stag- | ger plan bill for the benefit of the | workers, i SERIE | FREE TOM MOONEY MEET NEW YORK.—A Free Tom Mooney | meeting under auspices of the Tom | Mooney Molders’ Defense Commit- ; tee will be held at the Brooklyn La- |bor Lyceum, Room 9, April 20 | (Thursday) at 8 p.m. | WORKER RAZZES CHARLIE SCHWAB (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK CITY—“Every Day and in Every Way We Are Getting Betier and Beiter” is the advice that & capitalists magnate gives to the stockholders at-a meeting of Beth- Jehem Steel Corp. Charles M. Schwab, the chairmen, admits that “In my 52 years in the steel industry I never expected to address stockholders un- der conditions such as we have to- day,” and Mr. Grace also admits that “the steel industry is limping very badly. It lost about $150,000,000 last year.” There is now a slight demand for construction steel and some small or- ders from the auto-industry, But both sources of these orders are very unstable and temporary. Yet the two steel directors of Bethlehem seize this occasion to notify their stock holders that prosperity is returning. Just listen to Schwab: “We have gone on for four years with greatly diminished consump- tion. We know the future must de- mand more, “Be of good cheer, be hopeful, and with Christian Science suggestiveness think that we are going to get better and that perhaps the experiences we are going through will make us ap- preciate better and enjoy the good things to come.” Our industrial capitalists must cer- tainly be bankrupt, if they must de- pend on suggestiveness for the guide of production and throw away to the dogs the bourgeois statisticians and '! their charts of production, M. F. s Espe-, in the conference in San Fran-| j cisco played up and the asserted “numerous withdrawals” Local | Sausagemakers ’ Union No.! "SENATE AGAIN Conferences Thru- Out Land Prepare Mooney Congress Cleveland, St. Louis, Youngstown Will Send Delegates to Chicago CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 17.—In- dications are that several hundred | delegates representing organiaations of every sort and color will take part in the local Free Tom Mooney con- ference to be held here Sunday, April 33 at 10 a. m. in Painters’ Hall, 2030 Euclid Avenue. Among the organizations which have elected delegates are the Mold | ers Local of the A. F. of L.; A. F. of |L. Blacksmiths Loeal; Hungarian | Workers’ Singing Society; Small Home and Land Owners Federation; Metal Trades Council (central body of the metal trades unions of Cleve- land) of the A. F. of L.; the A. F. of | L. Machinists, three Painters’, Pap- erhangers, Boilermakers, and other locals; Masonic Organizations, the Sycamore Club, the International La- bor Defense, and the Clevéland di vision of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. ‘ | | | | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 17.—| | The local Free Tomi Mooney Confer-| ence will be held Sunday, April 23, | at 2 p. m. at Painters Hall, 245 East | | Federal Street, it was announced to-| | day by the Provisional Youngstown | | Committee of the Tom Mooney Mold-| ers Defense Cominittee. The hall) was donated by the Painters’ Local, A. F, of L., which has endorsed Tom Mooney’s call for local conferences and for the Free Tom Mooney Con-| gtess to be held in Chicago, April 30 | through May 2. | | | i | | | | | | | | Park Avenue, New York, Easter morning. Two well fed plutocrats of the exploiting class displaying their expensive cloths. On the side an unemployed worker hungry. in rags, This symbolizes Easter for the workers in the richest coun- try in the world! SMALL HOME OWNERS STRIKE AGAINST MORTGAGE SHARKS Sunnyside Gardens, Long Island Community, | Acts Against Real Estate Racket NEW YORK, April 17—A “mortgage strike” of small home owners against the mortgage and loan sharks is on at Sunnyside Gardens, Long Island, a community consisting of 563 one, two and three-family houses. | The mortgage burdens have been so heavy and the fall in income bid | these “home owners,” many of them salaried employees, university professors, Among those endorsing the call as) architects, small business and profes- @————-__— members of the provisional committee | sional men, has heen drastic. There|the present market price of such Elias Charry, H. 8. Floyd, Superin- tendent of Struthers Schools, Rev. DuBois LeFevre, Attorney R, Leo Waldman, Hannah R. Blumenthal | and Abe B. Lewis, the last two being members of the Internatienal Labor Defense, ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 17—Locals of the A. F. of L., Unemployed Coun- cils, Unemployed Citizens’ League, Communist Party, and the Young Communist League are among the organizations which haye responded here to the call for election of dele- | gates to the Free Tom Mooney Con- gress in Chicago, April 30 to May 2. A mass meeting has been prepared for April 23 for a send-off of the del- egates to the congress. are Attorney Don Kaufman, Rabbi| are also a considerable numbet of | property. That is to say. workers in the skilled trades—build- | ing, printing, mechanical trades living | in this community—many of whom are in utter poverty. “Boom” Period Estate Venture Sunnyside Gardens were built in | the years 1924 to 1928 by an enter- | prising gang of real estate racketeers | calling themselves the City Housing | Corporation, at a market valine of $6,400,000. This included 293 one- | family houses at $9.000; 224 two-fam- lily houses at $13,000; and 46 three- |family houses at $18,000. Bach of these “homes” were acquited on a ten per cent down payment basis. Many of these “hore owners” after paying for years still owe more than , after reduc- ing the principal and interest on a | $9,000 house to $2,500 it is discovered | that a similar house can be bought | jin the open market for as low as | $2,000. With incomes drastically reduced | and some of these former well-to-do lower middie class and skilled trades- | men without any income the situa- | tion has become desperate, hence the organization of the strike against fur- | | ther payments to mortgage holdérs. | Thus fer the demands have been con- | | fines to asking reductions in pay- ments, instead of fighting for imme- | | diate and complete cancellation of | these debts. ‘STEEL ORDERS |Economie Crisis Makes Bank Crisis Worse The total of unfilled orders of the United States Steel Company, 1,841,- 003 tons is now the lowest on record. The amount of unfilled steel orders is considred a sensitive index of the | perspective for industry generally. | These figures indicate that the eco- portant bearing upon the bank cri- sis, since the solution of the bank crisis is dependent upon the solution of the economic crisis. Steel produc- tion continues at pre-war levels, hov- ering today at about 17 per cent of capacity, as compared with the all- time low of 13.5 per cent made a few weeks ago. The attempts of the Roosevelt gov- ernment to affect any improvement in the economic situation are thus shown to be failures. The lack of markets, which is due to the poverty of the working class, cannot be over- come without abolishing the capitalist system of private property. Rail Carloadings Drop Still Further; Prepare Wage Cuts WASHINGTON, April 17. — Oar- loadings for the week ending April 6 showed @ decline of .7292 cars from the preceding week, according to the American Railway Association. As a result of this drop, loadings at the end of the week were 10.6 per cent under a year ago. Total carloadings for this year are running at least 15 per cent behind last year. It will be remembered that the railroad workers were urged by their Brotherhood officials to accept the “temporary” 19 per cent cut at Chi- cago on the grounds that this would “help to restore prosperity.” The workers were forced not only to take this cut, but they were made to con- tinue the wage-cutting agreement for nine months. Today the Brotherhood officials, together with the new “lib- | eral” Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, are preparing the way for a cut in basic wage rates of at least 10 to 15 per cent. The decline in carloadings which goes steadily on because of the eco- nomic crisis is indication of the deepening of the crisis, and proof that the promises of the Brotherhood officials were {alse ‘Many Banks Still MAKE NEW LOW state of industrial production and the | nomic crisis has been, and is still,| getting worse. This fact has an im-/| Ky. Miners Strike Against Pay in Scrip HAZARD, Ky., April 17 (By) Mail).—500 miners in this starva-| |tion-ridden territory refused to| jaccept scrip in payment of their} | wages and struck against the Carrs |Fork Coal Co. The scrip is re- |deemable only for merchandise at| {the company store where prices) | |are higher than those prevailing) | generally, Inflation Bringing | Rise in Prices of Wheat, Sugar, Coffee NEW YORK.—Based upon the be- ginnings of currency inflation and expected increase in credit inflation, speculative buying in commodities swept the commodity price level to the highest level of the year. The Moody Index of spot commod- ity prices based upon primary sta- | ples, like cotton, wheat and hogs has | now risen to a point where it is | above the level of the same period last year. The Index is now at 90.8, compared with the crisis low of 78.7 made February 4 this year. The prices of necessary foods is at a new high point for the season. Su- gar futures made a new high of 3.10 cents a pound. Cotton advanced to $1 a bale. Coffee was 10 points high- er than last year. Rubber prices were especially strong, advancing 56 to 72 points on heavy trading, ‘The rise in some of these commod- ities is partly explainable by certain special situations, such as the gov- ernment statement on wheat crops, which indicated a poor crop. But it is, generally admitted that the sen- sational rise in commodity prices is a direct result of the government's determination to raise prices through one form of inflation or another. The available stocks of these commodities is still greater than ever. The only factor that can cause a rise in their prices is inflated credit or currency, For the first time since 1929, com- modity prices have risen so sharply. ‘The rise in prices reflects purchases made in anticipation of further in- flation, MORE SCRIP IN NEW JERSEY ATLANTIC COUNTY, N. J., April 17.—Three dollar bills appeared here last week. They were found to be scrip. This county has issued $300,- 000 worth of this fake money, $75,- 000 of which are in these worthless $3 bills. ‘This paper will be used to pay county employes their back pay. 4 Closed; Inflation Brings Price Rise; Cavloadings and Steel Drop EVEN OPEN BANKS LIMIT BUSINESS ‘Bankrupt Banks Are| Allowed to Re-open Over 50 per cent of the State banks | and over 25 per cent of the Federal Reserve Momber banks are still) closed, or are doing business upon 4 | severely restricted basis, according to | a survey made by the Associated Press. These figures do not tell the | full story, since many banks have | | been re-opened which are, in reality, bankrupt. In at least one State, permission was given to all non-member banks to resume operations after the holi- | day, each bank to decide for itself | whether it could re-open and what its restrictions were to be. Obviously, there must be hundreds of insolvent and near-insolvent state banks which are now doing business as “sound” | figures available. It has been con- servatively estimated at being not Jess than $5,000,000,000. Many of the re-opened “sound” banks will soon have to disclose their real condition. ‘There are evidences that many of the banks reported to be “open” are in fact doing. only a limited business and are paying out only fractions of their deposits—an immediate assault upon the savings of the wage earn- ers and small business people. This is true particularly in smaller commu- nities where average deposits are necessarily much smaller than in large cities. Throughout the country the funds of civil service departments are tied up in semi-open banks—in some cases because of interlocks be- tween government board supervisors and the banks. In these communities the promise is made that the banks will reopen if the townspeople—with new money—buy stock, Under such circumstances it is obvious that these banks will not reopen. In many cases the deposits of the small depositors will never be recovered. | The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the » the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into ite Lerwg wage-laborers.—Communist Mant~ Washington May 12 to Demand Bonus NEW YORK.—Answering the at- tacks of the Roosevelt “New Deal,” veterans from all parts of the coun-| try are organizing to march to Wash- gram” $450,000,000 will be cut from disability compensations, allowances and pensions. One million, four hun- dred thousand veterans of the World War, Spanish-American and other wars will be affected. In addition, many thousands of veterans who are receiving hospital treatment for in- juries and diseases resulting from their experiences in these wars will be thrown on the streets and denied proper medical attention. Sixty-eight thousand, one hundred and forty- three beds in veteran hospitals and soldiers’ homes will be discontinued. One billion, two hundred and three million dollars is to be “saved” at the expense of the men who fought the past Wars of the country. This money which is to be “saved” will be used to pay the interest on War Bonds which are held in the main by the war profiteers—‘“the dollar a} year men”=-the PAYtriots of 1917-18. isleaders Aid Roosevelt. The misleaders of the veterans, Ad- mital Coontz of the Veterans of For-| eign Wars and Johnson, National Commander of the Ameri¢an Legion, with the greatest haste, rushed to the aid of President Roosevelt. They is- sued statements calling on the v er to “Be loyal to the President.” Veterans are “To keep your heads | si |I cannot get a job. | That the veterans are answering | their misleaders is shown by their Tesponse to the call of the Veterans’ National Liaison Committee to fight ington in answer to the call of the| against the New Deal of | Veterans’ National Liaison Commit-| Roosevelt. The reports tee. |from Posts of the Workers’ Ex-Ser- Under the new “Economy Pro-|vicemen’s League, other veteran groups and unattached veterans in- dicate that the veterans will not meekly accept Roosevelt's program The demands of the veterans who are going to Washington are: 1, Immediate Cash Payment of the balance due on Adjusted Service Certificates. 2. No cuts in disability Compen- | sation or Allowances. 3. Immediate relief for the unem- ployed and farmers. While in Washington the veterans will carry through the following plan of action 1, May 12—Veterans’ National As- sembly. 2, May 13—Veterans’ National Conference. 3. Veterans’ Justice Day. (Parade and mass presentation of petition to Congress.) Rank and file veterans should take up these demands in their posts and organizations with a view of gaining the support of their organization and organizing veterans for the mareh to Washington. All veterans should get in touch with Workers’ Ex-Servicemen's Leagué, P. O. Box 38, Station D, New ies City, for further information | concerning the march to Washing- ton, Mutiny in Jugoslavian Navy Recalls Mutiny Against Austria During War By a Vet Worke: NEW YORK CITY—The news | mutiny of Jugo-Slav naval sailors, brings to mind some of my experien: | during the World War in the U. 8. Navy. I happened to be attached to the Submarine Chaser No. 79 at the PLL MARCH IN MAY, SAYS VET Wounded, Begging for Living, Joins Up (By a Vet Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md.—I volunteered in 1917, was put in Co. D, Fifth Regi- ment, 106th Infantry. After a few months’ training, I was shipped over the ocean. Wounded In the Trenches. After training in France in mud and slime, T was sent to the trenches to fight and kill the Germans. I was | wounded and sent to a hospital to | get well. Has to Beg for a Living. I was discharged as a shell-shocked veteran when I got home again. I till suffer from nervous trouble and I have to beg for a living and all I get to eat is | what I can mooch off of bakers and) | butchers. Threatened With Insane Asylum. I put in several times for a pen- | sion, but I cannot get it, as the army | doctors will frame me to an insane |asylum, as many of the veterans were framed and put in straight jack-/| ets in the Veterans’ Hospitals. Fraternally, Edward Anderson. GIVES STAND OF _ VETS ON MARCH “We Are Marching for Our Very Existence” By a Vet Worker Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Robertson of California said: ‘The veterans are veteran is fool enough to believe that Roosevelt is in sympathy with the veterans? No. Mr. Faker and Mr. Misleader, the veteran has learned something since the last bonus march. Can't Live On Scalps. 1. We are not after Hines’ scalp or anybody's scalp. We are march- ing for our very existence, which means no cuts in disability allow- ance. Immediate payment of the bonus. Unemployment Insurance. This is what we have to have in or- der to live. body's scalp. 2. The veteran knows well that the National Economy League and Roo- sevelt worked hand in hand to pass the Economy Act. They also know that Capitol Hill was in on the deal, Can't Eat Patriotism. 3. That the veteran has come to realize that he is fighting for his very existence and will brush aside all misleaders, organization jealousy, race prejudice, political party humbug, religious hatred, misleaders of Amer- ican Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Vet- erans. Why will he overcome these obstacles? Because he has been fool- ed long enough—because of his hav- ing lost faith in various so-called patriotic organizations, which have become nothing but » name which he can't eat. —One of Hoover's Criminals, h is at the mouth of the Adriatic Sea and off the coast of Albania. - - Ssouth of Dalmatia, the Jugo-Slavi: We can't live on any-| r Correspondent) in today’s “Daily Worker” about the eer time, with our base in Corfu, Greece, province, in which is situated the towns of Cattaro and Ragusa men- | tioned in the news dispatch. | Before the armistice was signed by | Austria, which at that time ruled | Parts of Jugo-Slavia, the Austrian sailors on board the battleships “Radetsky” and “Zrinyi” revolted and hoisted # hand-made American flac on the masts. They abandoned | their ships and went home. Right after this happened, occupation crews Were sent aboard these war- ; Ships from our own sailors aboard |the fleet of submarine-chasers sta- | tioned in the Adriatic. We were warmly welcomed by the revolting Austrian sailors—their of- ficers having strangely disappeared beforehand. We found out from the sailors that there was good reason | for the officers disappearing, as they knew what was coming to them for their brutality towards the sailors, | who now had the opportunity to settle old scores. Naturally, we sym- pathized with them as rank and file | Sailors, knowing that the officer | caste of our “own” navy were of the | same stripe, A few days later, our ship, together | with some others in our fleet went to the town of Spalato. There we were warmly greeted by the populace, | who regarded us as friends in their |struggley against the Austrian aris- tocracy, against the threatening imperialist designs of Italy. A special issue of the newspaper “Novo Dobo” with a front page appeal in English was distributed to us on the | American ships. This appeal out- | lined the sufferings of the Jugo-Slav people under the heél of Austro-Hun garian oppression, and the maneu- vers of the Italian imperialists who wanted to annex their land for the |“greater glory of Italian civilization.” We, in the American navy, became for the first time since the war con- scious of what the war was all about —not to “save the world for democ- racy” but to change around the right | to exploit from one set of imperialist | oppressors to another. We had an opportunity to learn the two sides of ES banks, The New York Evening Post | after Hines’ scalp, but we stand be-| Hedin cont rear ores! Medici comments “there has been a re-/| hind President Roosevelt even though mas x ie pees pe pin re opening of a latge number of dis-|he signed the Economy Bill.” la om einai dumnbceact > ea | tressingly weak banks.” Does he believe for a moment that | OUr own nc y, e Se the veteran is sep enough to swal-|than in “autocracies.” As one ship- | The amount of deposits tied up in | iow” the ideology that Hines is to, mate expressed it, “I will not do this | these banks cannot be accurately aS-| biame, or that Roosevelt is not the|®sain for a million dollars.’ certained, for there are no official | poss of Hines? Or does he think the) And, when we finally got home into civil life, we realized all the more where we stood—no longer the “he- |roes,” but called “treasury raiders” | for demanding our back pay and the right to live, the same as our fellow- workers. The Bonus March last summer, when we were ousted from Washing- ton by force of arms, and our two comrades, Hushka and Carlson, killed, and some of the veterans’ children killed by tear showed us conclusively the brut Behe system of exploitation that been hiding all along behind the false mask of “American democracy.” We know, now, that we must keep up our We owe it to our fellow. to establish the responsibility of the Wall Street government to take care of all its victims, by mak- ing the coming Veterans’ March to Washington on May 12th @ suceess, We will not allow anyone to divide the unity of workers and veterans, Together, we will win. MORRIS KLOSNER, | (Member of Post 35, Workers’ lx- servicemen’s League) in- ery the nas nee ink \er= ally nds blic jal- now fix pon the de- eto iven vard, -