The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1933, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY APRIL 24, 1933 Page THE NEW MOONEY TRIAL OPENS TOMORROW; MAKE THE -MOONEY CONGRESS A POWERFUL WEAPON FOR HIS RELEASE WILL STRIKE 2 CHICAGO ‘Masses Mobilize to Greet RR. STOCKHOLDERS IN- ucrco,aaa ee IMooney in San Francisco; | SHOE PLANTS; WORKERS orcs es ae FIGHT OVER PROFITS; TOJOIN MAY 1 PARADE #2255" Judge Refuses Subpoenas ALL READY 10 CUT WAGES | |have just died after being fed | Seven Divisions Will Be in Line of March, Headed by Haymarket Survivors wert See ||'Three Die in Chicago ||Prison from Eating ||Diseased Hog Meat, — i | | meat from diseased hogs, has stir- | | | red other inmates to active protest. | | Suppressed By the capitalist press, | | | | news of the revolt leaked out thru | @ recently released prisoner who , | told of working on the prison pig |farm where the hogs were slaugh-| | tered. 1} New Plan to Make Pool for Equipment Shows Up As Scheme to Cut Down Employment | Labor Jury Ready to Attend; Tens of Thousands Expected to Gather Before Hall of Justice When Noted Labor Prisoner Arrives i | ee | ; +h ees Ee | Oni 5 * ~ ae Warret Similar conditions have led. to| | @..,*,]% war lee F 4 con ate COR aN 8 Mittra cs a ate s is j Pittsburgh Meet in East Park, Scores of Cities otner recent strikes and revolts be- | | SOCialist Locals Throughout Illinois Mining Region Electing Dele- Freight Cars Are Drug on the Market Now; | be, 5. ant: ~ hind prison walls, according to | © oy 5,’ "A 2x 7} je 7 P Canialia: oy ~, - . i Preparing May 1 Demonstrations Walter Wilson, author of the te-| | gates to Free Tom Mooney Congress in Defiance of Socialist Leaders Employment Falls In Car Factories mn 4 —-- -—— ; cently published book, Forced La- | semen Sarr : Pre Ss $ BULLETIN | bor in the United States. (Inter- | BULLETIN ‘ oe & CHICAGO, Tit, April 23—The second united front May Day confer- | |National Publishers, $1) Wilson | CHICAGO, April 23—Despite the sabotage of the national Socialist Party leaders, Socialist locals in Asserting that gag law was being invoked in the annual meeting ence held teday.was attended by 429 delezates, They represented 264 | ives @ vivid picture of the hor-|| Gillespie, Benld, Taylorville, Staunton, Nokomis, Tana, and Collinsville have elected delegates to the Fee stockholders of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Arthur i it organizations. his is 87 more organizations than at the first conference. | [zible _ Conditions un a ie which || Tom Mooney Congress in Chicago, beginning April 30. The majority of the locals of the Southern Ilinois Barnes, editor of the Bristol. (Conn.) ‘Press, called for » 300,58 per cant Rea Among them Wprp six delegates from the N. A, A. C. P. and strike leaders “| | DECOR IROOE IE DERRICK EG. | | Progressive Miners Association, including women’s auxiliaries, are also sending delegates to the big Chicago reduction in the salaries of that railroad’s executives. He was supported by from the Crane College students, who were active in the strike for the | | . convention. i sobs pene ee ee but their motion was bacenestes ee the teachers’ pay. nee paar Ee : : y A eR ainG | tee Shai ee ae | out pay each month. For the non- | There were tw additional A. F. of L. locals, carpenters and painters. | | SAN FRANCISCO, April 23—As Judge Louis H. Ward,| wo Youths in Chains ©» 00000 year eT a onan | salaried workers, they ate- eounting Besides eight mo#é.A. F. of L. locals from the first conference, the James from whom the granting of a new trial for Tom Mooney was Hitch - Hike Way tO) to paying for ability i; pe “not | OF another warns ie “oe : 7 i yen y Day 5 é ‘ : $93,000 a year Pelley, President o! } Connelly Clubsendorsed the May stg peste and Yivsath as a body. HUNGER MARCH forced by mass pressure, maneuvered to prevent presentation ‘Mooney Con gress exist and Fe a are un-' the road, wie absent peceaie he had j OM Ce aa ees S prple Peal heen —— ) of evidence to expose the frame-up of seventeen years ago in iz ‘ SS RE: COM | SY to take Mrs. Pelley sont He her } ; 30, ML; April 23.—A number ops and unions will partici- | -y : * > 4: tees, ae ER tt The trio were concerned about | health. The men on this road report ' pate in the ‘May First demonstration here. . The shoe workers of the Committee in Boston | the trial on an unused indictment which opens Tuesday, the their dividends. They w assured | that officials make them. put ob \ "Metropolitan angMyer Randolph plants have unanimously decided to quit! Sends Final Appeal | masses of San Francisco were @——— | when Edward Bu chairman of | special staterooms for the two hou: work on May Fitst-ard march as a body at 3 o'clock to Union Park. Meet- | mobilized and prepared today |in this move of Judge Ward. { | the orig te st , Him ; Soe tpulese een York Ps a ys ; ings before shop'-gates and activities in the unions will result in their; BOSTON, Mass., April 23. — The to greet Mooney with the eene.| A widely representative labor jury | , of © sieidape k me eet gee Bee pind oy Berean a os particivetion wider their own ban-«- —_—__——-——| State Hunger March Committee of /¥© 8Teet Mooney Breal-| of workers, liberals and represen- | Caitd tke tote ete ee ee ® 3 { hers. May Dageju-Chicago will sur-; Yonah Hall, 2727 Columbia Avenue; | the Unemployed Councils sent out an| est demonstration ever held here |tatives of fraternal organizations and | eCry emo ’ : = when he appears here at the trial|trade unions has been elected to at- | opening, the first time in seventeen |tend the trial. years he will have set foot outside of; As the preparations of the state | the dungeons of San Quentin. Tens | and corporations to prevent the of thousands are expected to gather | frame-up exposure and to either re- before the Hall of Justice when Moo- ge pass every p. demonstration. | Girard Manor Hall, 911 W. Girard | appeal today to all workers’ organi- } To the second@-tonference six dele-| Avenue; Kensington Labor Lyceum,) zations and to sympathizers and sup- gates from thé [Nptional Assocation| 2nd and Cambria Sts.; 755 S. 19th) porters of the Unemployed Councils, for the Advancement of Colored| Street; Italian Progressive Institute, ! to collect sufficient food for the State People will be present. The conference | 1208 Tasker St. | Hunger Marchers who arrive in Bos- is issuing 150,009 leaflets, besides those | Railroad Equipment Continues to Decline * | The number of | holding jobs cont railroad workers | orders was reported by the association nue to decline, with |In the first two months of 1933, the ‘united front activities of the Chicago i ‘i f In Chester a demonstration has issued separately; by various organi-| zations, The Cammunist Party will! been arranged at Third and Market | issue 100,000 manifestos.- Large quan- | tities of leaflets arg circulated by the! Wilmington is arranging an open | ton May First. | Arrangements haye been made so | that every workers’ center in Boston | and vicinity will act as a storage | place for the food which may be trade unions, Young Communist Lea-| air demonstration to put up a real) brought in any evening in the week. \ney is brought there, Judge Ward, obeying the orders of his masters who have decided to jS8mash every attempt to expose the, |connection ef the state, the corpora- turn Mooney to his cell. of living | death or to get rid of the “Mooney | issue” once and for all by murdering | him, reports of the working-class mo- bilization to free him indicate that the workers of the United States are gue and ot] * | fight for the right to the streets. A) moog may be brought during the day ; 4 | parade in Lehigh Valley and a pa-) to the Unemployed Couneil office, 775 Seven’ Divisions, | race from Easton, Bethlehem and Al-| Washinton pak The committee Seven divisions,-representatives of | lentown to Emos, Pa., will take place} especially requests that staples and ection ofthe city will march | on May First. canned goods be brought in, not food May Dayo; parade. Colorful) th the lower section of the anthra-| that is perishable. floats, effigies, and. posters will mark] cite, a County Hunger March will} An intensive drive is also being the parade. The frends of the Sov-! take place from Shenandoah, Miners-| made for the collection of funds, iet Union willscarry a float in the) ville, Mahanoy City, to the county! With barely a week before May lst form of a huge globe of the world,) preparations for the march are in | Seat and Pottsville. with one-sixihwofthe world as the) ty wilkesbarre the city authoriti-| danger of being seriously crippled workers’ fatherland. ties have been pompelled to grant a| because of Jack of necessary findnces. Haymarket Supyivors Mead Parade. permit for. the frst. Mme. in:the his- | Lucy Parsons ‘together with fad open air demonstration May First, | NEW HAVEN, | Conn., April 3— survivors of the “famous Haymarket! demanding the release of Tom Moo-| The trial of Kaplan and Martin, who Teling pamaniates = sh bel ney. were arrested for fighiing against an a: a ‘eviction, was going on in court for zations and the delegates to In Baltimore-and Washington open JAIL FOR TWO FIGHTING’ |tions, the spies, and the degenerates | thoroughly aroused, and will fight de- (Who figured in the first trial, yester- |terminedly to prevent realization of |day refused to issue subpoenas for | these aims and to free Tom Mooney. these persons, for Ed Nolan and Is- 7 . rael Welnbere, who were orlinatly | Delegates Gather for Congress |indieted with Mooney and who are| More than 3,000 delegates from all now in Los Angeles and Cleveland re- |©ver the country, elected by organiza- |spectively, and for Warren K. Bill- |tions of every color and political af- ings, framed and convicted like Moo- |fillation, including many Socialist (ney on perjured evidence. Party branches and A. F. of L. trade |ney will be tried charges the murder |SPite of threats of expulsion by the jof the persons killed in the Prepared- | | . jthe “Free Tom Mooney Congress” ney jot the trial, and will last through | Will Openly Prove He Was Framed |May 2, the Congress Organization | The indictment under which Moo- |UMions who sent representatives in | ‘of Arthur- Nelson, @ hotel clerk, one |°eDttal bodies of these organizations, | 4s Bina! are expected to meet in Chicago at | | February the latest month when fi- |gures are available. For December. 1932, there were 976,824 men on the }Payrolls; in January 946,005 and in | February 941,524. ne February fi- | Sures were released by the Interstate | The effect of the crisis is always | immediately reflected in car loadings, | which .rise and fall with shipments of coal, steel, grain and other pro- ducts. When car loadings hit bottom, | as they have been doing these past weeks, freight cars become a drug on | i to an article in Journal of March 18, 691,160 were idle and in good con- BELLINGHAM. Wash. — Two youths shackled togethér with hand- | cufts and chain, hitch-hiked through here recently’ “or their’ way to the| need of repairs freight cars. | There were 8,966 serviceable loco- according to Commerce Commission on April 11th. | moti railroads placed in service 476 new freight. cars compared with 3870 in the same period last year. No new locomotives were put in service during this period whereas last w there were three. New loco- on order, including equip- ment to be made in railroad shops numbered three on March Ist, against thirty six a year ago. Output of steel rails for 1932 was the smallest for any year since 1877. Employment for workers engaged in the market. There are some 2,200,000 | the manufacture of cars for electric freight cars in the country, according | and steam railways fell from 22.8 in the Wall Street | March 1932 to 17.2 in March 1988 and of these, | Payrotis were 9.2 compared with the general index of manufacturing dition. No need for workers'to repair | establishments of 33.4. Employment of workers engaged in manufacturing locomotives was the lowest for any motives on March Ist, and 10,290 in | industry reporting, 10.3, being a 30 the | per cent drop from March, 1932. Pay- The prosecution used po- tice | "The verdict in this case will haye | COmmittee has reported. |no direct effect upon his present sen- arte Free Tom Mooney Congres in Wash- American Railway Association. A | rolls for this industry declined almost |four days. Mooney Congres | air demonstrations as well as parades final ie All divisions will gather at Union Park where speaking starts at half pest four. Following this the march proceeds to the Stedium,yzhere the huge Free Tom Mooney ms3 meeting will take Place. "7 Philadelphiz Demonstration. PHILADELPHIA,.. Pa., ‘The workers will, demonstrate on May first at 12 nooy,at Reyburn Pleza. After this there. will be a march to} take place in the different parts of | Thirteenth ang Thompson Streets, scene of last year’s attack by the po- lice. qu In the evening: indoor will be held as follows: April'30, Eu- reka Theatre, ath and Market Sts., 8 p.m. On May'First, all at 8 p. m., Statément of Expelled Ill. Young Socialist ‘League z Members Exposes Role of Socialist Leadership are planned. For the first time in it: | history May Day demonstrations and | parades have been planned in Len- caster and York, Pa. | ae wie ew Win Permit, Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 23. permit for a May First demonstra- tion in East Park was gained her‘ April 23.-—~j-after -being-refusesd t= first.’*Before | jriite: centeat demonstration inthe af- ternoon, local demonstrations will the city. Besides Pittsburgh there will be May Day demonstrations in Wilkins- | Rankin and in many other steel and | mining towns in western Pennsyl- | vania. and_ stool-pigeons to testify | against the arrested workers. The | judge of the Common Pleas Court allowed the issue of Communism to enter, though the workers were sup- | posed to be tried only for fighting | this eviction. | In the whole case the prosecution | hda praise for the big property own- lers, the need of protecting “private property,” even if it means throwin | families on the streets.” ~~ . Both were found guilty. Kaplan was sentenced to four months and Martin to thirty days. Hitch-hike, drive, walk to the Chi- cago Mooney Congress, April 30 to meetings | burg, Homestead, MURocks, Bradlock,! May 2. Elect delegates to |tence, and will not free him, but the proof of ftrame-up brought forward, | in addition to his admitted innocence, | will be a powerful weapon in the | hands of the masses of workers who | are demanding his freedom. | Judge Ward's latest move is in line | with his previous ruling that no new | | evidence of e frame-up may be | brought.into churt-aupless the state bfitigs tip” the TWdehtital witnesses it | brought at the first trial. Since Mat- | thew Brady, district attorney, has an- |nounced he will refuse to prosecute, ,and force quashing of the indictment | in the hearing on which lies Moo- | ney’s chance “of “vindication on the | frecord, the link-ixs ‘between the prose- | \eutor’s office, ‘the “judge, and the the Chicago frame-up machinery of the state and | Mooney Congress, April 30 to May 2.|corporations comes out into the open | Editor's Note:: We print part of the |front and march together in the | van and Green are conservative right- statement of fqux expelled members » from the Socialist. Party and Young | People’s Socialist. League in Chicago. (Due to lack of space we cannot print the whole statement, which is very long.) The reasgn for their expulsion was due to their- participation in workers. They were members of the city committee which supported their action by a vote of 15 to 4 The “crime” of which they were found “guilty” by the S. P. leaders is participating in ,ynited front move- ments. On the instance of one united May Day demonstration the Commu- nist Party stood {premost, as it does on all occasions for developing united struggles. si is The Communitt' Patty has consis- ently brought forth, a_program for the united front. It Welcomed every step in this directiof®” The response of members in theAGhicago Socialist or- ganizations, an ecially the activ~ ity of E.Weiner?Sfatks, Sylvia Arn- stein and Lila Wolthan, is a sign of the growing desite-for unity in the yanks of the Socialist Party. ‘The leadership. of the S. P. has been very “uneasy” fyith recent devel- opments. Tt has opposed a united movement for the Continental Con- gress in Washing on May 6. On the other hand {ts actions are aimed at splitting the Panes, of the workers, ™ this it is not,alone. The actions of the Second. International, the shameful surrender to Hitler by the German Socialist is the prece~ lent they follow; “Whereas our-action for united it is in line the Labor and International, which on Feb- tuary 9 issued a t in favor of This is The Labor and ‘Socialist Interna- tional are the iy, ational leaders who place the se: approval on the ictions of the national and Chicago eaders. : The Chicago ¥ic.P.5. L. comrades, struggle against the capitalist offen- sive, “To All Members ot the Young People's Socialist League and the Socialist Party: “The Young People’s Socialist Lefigue of Chicago, since its inception about six years ago, has always been in favor of the united front of the working class, On numerous occa- sions we have pledged ourselves and toward the eventual unifying of all the workers. 8. P. Breaks United Front. “The Socialiss Party executive, seven days before the Hunger March, voted to withdraw from and break the united front.. They came to a caucus of their own unemployed, the next day, and there were defeated 78 to 18, the unemployed workers voting to stay in the united front. “At this meeting, Comrade Sol Larks, speaking for the Y. P. 8. L.| delegation, pledged their full support to the Hunger March. As a result of this mass pressure by the Socialist unemployed, by the. firm stand the Y. P. S. L. took, an emergency meet- ing of the party executive was called, three days before the march. Here the decision was taken to reverse their previous stand, and to partici- pate in the march. On October 31, this march was held and forced the withdrawal of the re- lief cut. At the time, the Socialist Party openly threatened the Y. P. S. L, because of their firm stand. “During all this struggle, the So- cialist Party stood aloof, and took no part at all. “Shortly afterward, @ united front unemployed conference was held in Springfield, Ill. The delegates for the ¥. P. S, L. were Ed Weiner and Sol Larks. These two comrades, as mem- bers of a jobless delegation to visit Governor Horner, were clubbed and beaten right in his office. Senior Clique Decides “During all this period the machi- nations of the rising Krueger_Senior- Sullivan-Green bloc in party affairs, became more and more evident. «me all other workers, will have to ‘reak the obstacles*placed in the way y these opponents ef the united Through intrigue and unprincipled blocs (Krueger and Senior style them- fought for this ideal, as a means | | wingers of the worst variety. The | quality of Jeftism in this bloc can be their greatest fight against the left wing in the Party and Y. P. S. L.) they managed to secure control of the county executive committee, prac- tically abolished the county central committee by making it meet only once in three months, removed the existing county secretary, and re- | placed him with their own candidate, | Roy Burt, | hands out toward control of the state | office, which they expect to capture |shortly. A letter was discovered, written by Maynard Krueger to Paul Rasmussen, in which Krueger dis- | cusses the apportionment of the state and county jobs weeks before this bloc had secured control. Backed by National Office | by the power of the national office, | through Clarence Senior, found a stumbling block in the determined socialist stand of the Chicago Y. P. S. L. leadership. On seeing this, they resorted to all the usual weapons of trickery, intrigue and frame-up in order to smash the Y. P. S. L. Frame Up Active Member “The following trick was tried. When Diane and Lila Wolman were arrested in January, together with a dozen others, the I. L. D. defended their cases. The party for two months voiced no objections. Suddenly, on March 21, the two comrades, return- ing home at 1 a.m. from a protest meeting, found a letter from Krueger, written in provocative language, stat- ing that ‘The executive committee .. . voted unanimously to request the two ¥. P. S. L. members, Diane and Lila Wolman to withdraw from partici- pation {n defense provided by the I. L. D. Attendance by Diane and Lila at the I. L. D, affair on Roose. velt Road tonight will be interpreted by the executive committee as refusal to comply with the above request,’ “This brings us up to the present. “On Thursday, March 23, a call was received for a united front May Day demonstration. The ¥. P. §, L. city executive committee unanimous- ly endorsed this, called upon the So- clalist Party to do likewise, and in- selves “militants,” “lefts,” while Sulli- | best seen by the fact they conducted | They also stretch their | | “This unprinciples clique, backed | Socialist Party May Day conference to agitate and vote for the united front. | “Shortly afterward, the rumor | spread around that charges had been preferred against the four named comrades. On April 3, the city cen- tral committee of the Y. P. S. L., in regular session, received a letter from the Socialist Party stating that | charges had been preterred, that the Grievance Committee had had a) “preliminary investigation,” and had ordered the arbitrary suspension from | office of the four named comrades, | members of the Y. P. S. L. executive | committee. This was done without any chance for defense by the accused | comrades. It was stated that 4/| “hearing” would be held the follow- | ing Saturday. The comrades were accused, of maligning and casting as- | | persions, ete. On Trial for Activity On Saturday, April 8, after a farc- | | ical trial, in which the whole sub | Stance was an attack on the accuse | for their minority opinions, the griev- |ance and executive committees, in a| | hostile and prejudiced atmosphere, | voted to expel the comrades from the | | Socialist Party and Y. P. 8. L. | _. “And why has the Socialist Party | [leadership decided to have them ex- | pelled? For ‘maligning, casting as- | | Persons, ete.’? Not at all. | “Then, why the expulsions? Time | after time. during the trial, the ques- | tion of the United Front came up. ‘We were being attacked for our opin- | ions and defended the stand of the | Chicago Y. P. S. L. on united action! Krueger, county chairman, objected strenuously to a postponement of the trial, on the ground that there was a May Day conference the next day, where the question of a united front. would come up. “Comrade Yipsels and Socialist Party members, follow the example of the city central committee. “Fight for unity, in your branches, with all workers’ organizations. “Fight against any expulsions of those who fight for unity. | “Adopt resolutions in your circles, | branches, condemning these expul- | sions and send them to the national office. “Long live the solidarity of the | structed all of its delegates to the | entire working class!” \ ington, April 30. to May 2, joer decline in railway equipment ‘They are Val Kohler and “Happy”| | Petterson, elected delegates of the | Watson County Free Tom Mobdiiey’) Congress,’ representing 28 organiza- PHILA. STRONG So Picket Daily Despite |#"¢ 4. of L. groups. =! 4 On their backs they bore ‘the fol-| crete a national corporation to pool Cops; Fight Cut lowing signs: “Watson County, Wash,,/all~such equipment and, Tease it to ae Farmers and Workers Delegation,|the various roads. The savings on PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 23.— | 31921,” and “On to Chicago, April 30| such an arrangement would run into The shoe repair workers’ strike, led) to May 2, Free Tom Mooney Con-} many millions, according to the Wall by the Shoe and Leather Workers’ | gress, 31921.” 31921 is Mooney’s prison | Street Journal of March 18 Industria] Onion and a strike com-| number. The plan is based on the organi- mittee of 25, is now almost 100 per} ‘The delegates are earning their éx:|#atidn of a gigantic equipment poset ane one chain stores, | petises by selling postcard pictures| corporation. Railroads would: lease completely ancl fy eae oe ‘themselyes to be sent to Mooney| equipment from the corporation ac Despite the co-operation of the me;| Z158% Quentin as a protest against| cording to use. Cars could be shunted lice with the bosses to break the strike, SHOE STRIKE IN ‘That the roads intend to keep em- | his imprisonment. around to meet traffic requirements » through terror and arrests, — every repair shop including those in the main business district is being | a by large groups of strikers | ‘Lue \..-xers demand: No wage- cuts, minimum pay of $26, $28 and/ $32, 38-hour. day, recognition of the! union and minor demands. | ‘The strike is receiving the co-op- | Sidi seat Lad He Domo Shoe @ sos Association, poser [| small shop owners not ainployiny |oamen Organizing workers, to Stop Scabbing on Dock Workers ee | | A HEADS lias « eas wake csigeeames |_ SOLOMON’S ISLAND, Md.—The FOR MORE CUTS | First man to the table gets the eats {and the latecomer has no way of get- penal ting any grub. This is how the " : } ¥ the same, if not more, work, A me- i) r | Standard Oil feeds the workers on ng ae Oe 2 A Yecommend 35 Percent | the taidup fleet in Solomon's Island chanieal device called cer retarde Guts in Anthracite. |) tule, oul ef Saitimere on the) Sie cube “aopa” and. roudd- aged arn maritime lawyer| Houses are continually installing so- | | a vices, More un- By L. RB. A. Lfde Soakatallana, Oil. teupeea heed otf oma labor-saving devices. More un Ai & secret meeting of the inter-| the Haight Emergency Committee to| °™Ployment. national executive board of the Unit-| raise funds for the vultures that ex- ‘Railroad Workers Need New Leadership By a Railroad Worker Correspondent. RUSSELL, Ky.—The largest singly operated railroad yards in the United | States is in Russell. A few years | ago this yard employed several hun- dred yardmen. Now a few dozen do ed Mine Workers of America, held in| ploit the misery of jobless seamen in| they are pushing to the front. It is Indianapolis during the last week of' New York, the company is using the | efficiency classes for the various March, anthracite union presidents | conditiens of seamen as a force to supervisors. It is nothing but a | discussed with President John L.| make them do the work of shipyard! scheme to get the bosses to compet- Lewis and the other national offi-) workers at ordinary seamen's wages eset a Papas ih 5 per cent! This is $42 & month end mates are President John Boylan of the Scran-| wipers’ wages of $50 ton district, President Martin Bren-| 4 nan of the Pottsville district and) .T8e men who work must turn out President: Michael Hartneady of the|®t 7:15 am. and work till 4 p.m. Hazelton district were among those 494 then another gang goes -on till present. ee ‘The men at 7 all sail- The Wall Street Journal explains | OTS Ut for every sailor Lhepit trak ed how a way was prepared for the cut, ibd saint na mind who: are that would save the union officials U4 1 Set @ pace for wo “any embarrassment” with the mem-| Sunday is not_a day ‘of rest for bership. dee Lp sous in a mone es i y Officers do not have a “rush” jol ‘sea a Shae rane e and you can go off if you want to.| the Indianapolis conference, there is! Where to go is another question. If | no doubt but that discussion of the | YOU quit you do not get transporta- wage rate lowering was the chief| tion. The seamen are being sent to tore interested in a pension that topic... . The negotiations will not | ‘his hell-hole, where they’ do not see’ :hey will not get than they are in be based upon any contractual claus-|#9Y Portlon of a seaman’s Job, but immediate action. Time should sec es. If a wage slash is agreed upon it | Neve to wrestle air-hammers and chip ' some satisfactory results will be submitted to the general | hammers by the crimps at Goodhue’s ing with each other to see which one can speed up his men the mest. During the last few years all our leadership has done is raise dues hand out excuses, and assist in put- ting over some wage-cuts. There is & movement started to do something about the double crossing by our teaders, but I regret that’ it has not been able at this time to get the re- sults that we would like to sec. 1 believe that in due time they will get some have in mind is the Railroad Broth hoods Unity Committee. They hi the right ideas, it is very dif. see this. A lot of our old-timers are J membership for approval. This. course | in Baltimore. Saar aaeg "ae of action will relieve union leaders of! It’s time we organized to Gemand JALL NEGRO RIDERS. any embarrassment occasioned in la-| seama’s wages for seamen’s work GREENVILLE, Fla. When the bor circles by wage slash advocacy.”| and let the dockworkers work at) (Our emphasis, Ed.) ‘their job instead of Tn other words, U.M.W. officials | them. are advocating the slash and oper-| —Two Solomon's Island Sexmen. body of a brakeman was found alonr the railroad track, police stopped th: freight-train on which he had beer seabbing on ators know they are advocating it but RRR IRE RYERSS riding, and arrested seven men, five are glad to shield the union officials! EAST ST. LOUIS, April 23,—Fol-| Negro and two whi ie whites in this secret arrangement. When the | lowing a wege-cut of 30 per cent im-! hovever, were im) 0 vly turned rank-and-file miners realize that the | posed on the workers of the National loose to go on their way, while th Negroes were third-degreed in an ef- fort to make them accuse each other of murder, and held for a he on charges of murder cut has been practically agreed upon, Stockyards a majority of the men by the U.M.W. offfriais behind closed | employed in the horse barns struck doors, they will resict it more deter-j| last Monday. About 300 other work- minedly, ‘ers continued at their jobs, | ployment in rail equipment industries | Transportation Workers, Soviet and American, Write of Conditions two thirds, from 18.2 to 6.5, Rail Equipment Pool Proposed in the various parte of the. country and the roads would be relieved of Socialist t the lowest possible level is revealed | @ considerable proportion of their in’a plan proposed by F. H. Prince to | debt and overhead now tied up in their, individual equipment. reserves. The N. Y. Central railroad has eh- minated one millions train miles du- g~ the past year “in the interest of economy,” according to the N. Y. Times, April 20. Through a rearrange- ment of trains another 200,000 miles will be cut when daylight saving goes into effect. Similar “adjustments” by the Pennsylvania are expected to cut 1,460,000 train miles on that road. Soviet Waterfront Workers Conditions Improving Steadily (By a Soviet Worker Correspondent.) BAKU, Soviet Union.—Before the workers’ revolution of 1917, our water transport workers were compelled to live in cellars. But now. they are provided with conveniént up-to-date lodging in new workers’ apartments just built up. The streets of Baku have been laid with asphalt and everywhere-you can | see the mighty construction of mo- ‘The company has another idea that | dern workers’ houses. Formerly a boiler-maker: earned 3 rubles 20 kopecks for a ten hour day in the shops under czarism. Now he works 7 hours a day, and gets 1 ruble, 70 kopecks per hour, A blacksmith formerly earned 4 rubies for # work- ing day, but now he gets 2 rubles, 49 kopecks an hour. The skilled‘ lock- smiths and turners get 2 rubles an hour, A washroom and warm - shower baths have been installed in our shops. Besides this we have a. large public bathhouse with hot sea ‘baths During dinner time our can listen to a concert or a | lecture. results. The movement I} cult to get a lot of the old-timers to | he capacity of our new dining room, belonging to the shops, is 2,- 500 dinners per day, and there is @ special section, with specially. pre- d diets, for those who have di- ve troubles the town of So he beys of former times, the town of the khans and Asiatic markets, slums, and has become a town. for the —a& town of many schools, lubs, places anc parks of culture and est. Last spring in one of the dis- ricts of the town, a palace for cul- ure opened, Now it has become pos- ible for our workers to go to a good rovie, hear a good lecture, and par- lirty icipate in sports NOTICE. Leviers from Transportation Work- rs, Marine, Railroad, Subway, Street- var, Cab-drivers, etc., are published Monday. Letters should be in nds by the previous Thursday. ever, our h - ae ats erennmneg nitrites