The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1933, Page 5

| j DAILY WORKER, Demonstrate Ma cs - “YN ANTHRACITE AGAINSTPAY CUT Foreshadows Sharp Résistance to Coming Lewis Wage Cut ¢SHENANDOAH, Pa., Qpril 25— Foun-hundred anthracite miners of the Reading Coal and Iron Co. joined the, strike of the miners of the Maple Hill.mine today against a cut in the Yate paid for coal loading. The walk- outs represent a concrete answer to the mine operators’ demand for a general 35 per cent cut in wages. The Injne, operators are conferting with ~Lewis machine in Philadelphia at ptesent, on the best method for putting over this new wage cut. ‘The strikes at the Maple Hill and tife;Reading Coal and Iron Co, are be Guesult of a long series of wage clits.” The proposed wage cut will reduce the miners’ wages ftom $2.84 for loading a car of coal to $1.68. The strikes anticipate the development of sharp struggles of the anthracite miers against the many direct and indiféét pay cuts which they have been “forced to accept. It indicates thal‘the miners will not take the new proposed cut of 35 per cent lying dow. THE’ Shenandoah General Mine Boddtd on which 17 locals of the ‘UMWA are represented is giving full support to the Maple Hill strikes and is demanding that the union officials obtain, pay increases for the miners at thé conference in Philadelphia, Mitmeapolis Welfare Committee Forced to -Concede to Demands! sbi MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, April 21— ‘The demonstration on April 13 of thdusands of Minneapolis unemployed ‘wotktts forced the city council wel- tare Committce to meet with an un- eniployed delegation Monday morn-| ing," aid to agree to recommend fa-| vorably to the City Council the fol-| Joyitig demands of the Unemployed) Couticil: Decentralizing the relief |the court when the appeal is heard systém, and establishing neighbor- hood“ télief stations; Meal tickets for | single men to be good in any restau- rant’ of their own choosing; If un-| employed committees bring griev-| anées before their aldermen and do nob: get a satisfactory <ottlement, to | have the right to appeal before the welfare committee and present their} demands. ‘Phe council welfare committee re- fused: to agree, however, to the de- mand-against forced labor, « Po all ‘Toilers of the U. 8. Brothdm: With"one strike the Roosevelt gov- @mnment has slashed the living ey be of every workingman and ‘wor! oman, Through the infla- tion policy which reduces the value of the dollar and raises the prices of all-conimodities in order to increase ‘profits; the wages of the workers and thé—rélief given to the unemployed have undergone a great shrinkage, the official figures show beer ed first day after the an- it of this policy prices have ij) tem per cent and the com- ities, most vital for the every neéds of the masses by even more,” This brings a new era of ex- ploitation of the masses of workers through a reduction of real wages, as nominal wages continue lagging be- hind the rising cost of commodities. This will be followed by even bigger incvéases- in prices as the inflation poley: is- developed. Gniyea- handful of the very rich will ake through these measures. The mauses will be the losers, Wages and veliefcan buy less. Small deposits and insurance policies are worth less. ‘The farmers are made to believe that they will profit by high prices. But thig,isya‘ fraud. The big speculators a heiers will profit. The small Yarntet ‘whose dollar is today worth #8 cents, according to March price indexes, will have to pay higher prieésfor the goods he needs, The Roosevelt, inflation program is a uni- ‘attack on the living standards in Line With Other Measures against lr eyes Masses The infiation program of President Roosevelt. which was endorsed by J. P. Margan iy in line with all the other “Measures carried through by his administration. These measures consisted of cutting the veterans al- jowanges.. by 500 millions and the wi government workers by 15 por todak Now the small allowances are again cut through inflation prices.—:-Now these low wages are again reduced through inflation. Roosevelt also introduced forced I ips at a $1 a day wage. “All oth easures enacted or now pend- ing are directed against the masses, The Black bill reducing hours of labor to 30 per week is in reality the staggering of work, through which the employed workers will have thelr wages reduced and the burden placed mn them for supporting the unem- ployed. The minimum wage proposal is interititd’ to depress wages downward Tor all workers. The minimum wage pro} in order to be of benefit to the must also carry with it a tee of no reduction in the wer monthly earnings through the reduction of hours. Such an amendment made by the TUUL ,before the Senate Committee was, not embodied in the bill. The mi “Wage proposal side by side wil Ube inflation policy means the pauperization of the entire working- clases Similarly the Roosevelt public , Works program aside from being in onstruction \ mality a war c Brogram jed in 1919 when the American Legion | ARD ANSWERS CHICAGO STARVING) TEACHERS: WILL CLOSE SCHOOLS Propose to Let Them Just Go on Starving; Still More Militant Demonstration Soon CHICAGO, 1H., April 25.—Foliowing the militant demonstration of 5,000 SAN JOSE, Cal., April 25.—As the| strike wave among the agricultural! Workers rolls higher spreading thru | | Alameda and Santa Clara counties| | and involving the spinach workers, | the full forces of boss terror is being} unleashed against the workers. | During a strike meeting of pea pi¢kers on Satiirday, police raided the next week and to rally to the mass protest meeting being prepared. LAMB, CENTRALIA PRISONER, FREED CENTRALIA, Wash. April 25.— John Lamb, Centralia prisoner fram- Chicago school teachers yesterday, Orville J. Taylor, president of the Board | of Edacation announced that immediate steps would be taken to close the | schools as a “solution” to the question of providing back pay to the starv- ing teachers. Since no attempt is being made to pay them millions of dollars | due them, Chicago's school teachers ¢ “- | are rallying their forces for another | | and still more militant demonstra- TERROR SPRE ADS | tion in the financial district tomorrow ‘ to continue the fight. Many of the teachers are reported as destitute, IN PE A STRIKE haying Jost their savings; some are said to have resorted to Tephene | — in order to obtain funds for food. | a ican 91 . In the meanwhile the banks are Party Offices Raided; withholding payments on the excuse| Force Jobless to Seab | that there is no assurance of returns through tax payments. Although the city administration claims to be} bankrupt it is well known that large numbers on the city pay roll are re- ceivng ertormous salaries regularly. Jailed for Distributing Leaflets On Chicago) Education D eman d 8 headquarters of the Communist Party | , and arrested two workers. They! CHICAGO, Il. — For distributing | Jater invaded a nearby ranch and leaflets issued by the Young Com-| held six workers, one, a youth of 19 Sage League bee ee neers | was turned oved to the immigration | ol erica in le corridors 1e iti Lindblom Public School, Agnes Rey- get Ray ede ga pia nold, a former student was arrested, | he strike which is now in its third | charged with inciting to riot and | week was called in protest against a) fined $50 or one month in jail. | cut of four and a half cents per hop-| The leaflets called upon eH dents | Pet and is being led by the Agricul-| and teachers to support the students tural Workers’ Industria! Union.) strike and the fight against the cur- Deputy sheriffs are patrolling the en- tailment of educational facilities, and |tHe Strike area. All rights have been | for the immediate payment of wages denied the workers to parade or hold} to the teachers, meetings by Mayor Cunha of Hey-| A strong fight is being organized Ward. 4 | by the National Students League for Close co-operation between Cunha} her release while the International |and the bosses here may result in| Labor Defense who defended her in| cutting off all state relief from pea} court has appealed the casé. Work- | Pickers who refuse to work as scabs. | ers and sttidents are urged to pack | The bosses have already succeeded in} | robbing the starving unemployed of | | all county relief. More than 4,000) | men and women have been taken off| | the relief lists of the Alameda County | | Board. Cunha has just sent a wire to | Governor Rolph asking that similar | treatment be given to workers on| state relief. Governor Rolph took ac- tion immediately ordering his chief probation officer to investigate the | situation. The axe is being held over the heads of the unemployed to de- Stroy their solidarity with the em- ployed in a desperate effort to break the strike. attacked the I.W.W. hall here, has been released on parole. Three of the Centralia prisoners, Britt Smith, Ray Becker, and Bert Bland, are still in Walla Walla penitentiary. Hitch-hike, drive, walk to the Chi-) cago Mooney Congress, April 30 to. May 2. y 1 Against Forced Labor, and For Jobless I Karning their 20 cents a day in a Roosevelt Forced Labor Camp. 1f depression wages range around $4 a day. ‘These unemployed, unskilled in this umbering is hard and dangerous work, for which even in time of ort of labor, are supposed to get $1 a day, but the government takes back 80 cents to send their families so it won't have to give them any relief. Labor Dep’t Tries to Relief Cut for Not Enlisting on Forced Labor in Evansville EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 25.—The velief agency here is foreing young! men to join the forest camps under threat of taking away relief from their parents. Alvin Flute, a sixty year old worker, who has a son 21 years old, had the relief taken away | from him. Brown, trustee of Perry} township said, that Flutz will not get WASHINGTON, April 2 camps. answer is: under the supervision of the forest or employees of the National Park Service, .While they are in canip or off the job they wil! be under the superyision of the army officers who will be in charge of the camp i ‘To the question whether be discrimination because of race relief. until his son enlists for the| creed they answer: “Ther! camp. | will ne an outright lie to : Se .| cover up the jim-crow policy in the The quota for the labor camps i mbps. Reports printed in tie Daily this city is barely filled one thi: This is due to the exposure by the| Unemployed Councils, which has car-| ried on a struggle against the forced) shite workers are kept away and no labor camps. | permitted to mingle with the Ne; Attorney Condit is in charge of en-| To each camp re is listments for the camps. He assisted | captain from the regular army, in the prosecution last February of! jieuaenants from the Officer workers who were arrested when ask-} Corps and three se: ing for relief. The Unemployed} employed are pk Councils will take up this issue. The| they are comp workers here will struggle to defeat) pq Phe dolla this new plan of taking them off} is pra the relief and forcing their children families into labor camps. = TERY ae EE to Elect delegates to the Chicago pe Mooney Congress, April 30 to May 2.) _ Worker from Camp Custer, Mich, and other camps show that Negro work- ers are put into separate camps. The d to work w ed to them to their d from r |The camps are definitely ¢ t a army which wil ready for imperialist. war. ve made public in a bulletin its policy towards the forced labor It is printed in the form of questions and answers. To the question of who will be in charge of the men the “While they are actually on the job, the Hide Conditions In Forest Camps; Recruits Expose It he Labor Department has Military Discipline and Jim-Crow Rules at Fort Hancock, N. J. will work 7 By a Labor Camp Correspondent . Py r FORT HANCOCK, N. J.—In this Boy Sick from Food tori there are 1500’ young’ workers; at Labor Camp in 500 are from institutions—those who Mitchell Field, Len LE mostly homeless yout The rest of on parole, delin s of all types, jthe boys are from relief and work bureau cases (from families). It was NEW YORK, April 25.—A young /yery difficult to fill the quota. worker at Mitchell Field, L. I. writes Fairy Tales to his mother about conditions in the 9 He hat ay Arrived here Tues- id about food is ht Before leaving, the boys were tol 1 sorts of fancy things about a hour day, d. I might get used to it. very easy work, cigaret ‘0 days later the boy was home,|ftee, good food, very little military “I coulcn’t stand it any more,” he|discipline. = : told his mother. On returning home| | Military D sie the boy had a severe attack of cramps! When the boys got there, they got aS a result of the food..“I would not |everything but no cigarettes, mili- return for ail the money in the) tary discipline, hard work, K.P. duty world,” was his advice to his friends.| (kitchen police.) The men are kep' i doing certain duties all day, such as But starving at home the cleaning, drilling, etc way out for the workers The 1,500 youth are divided up into platoons (200 each), sections and squads. Military officers are the ones who rule them Rotten Food The food is rotten. The boys throw most of it away, Some throw their mess kits with it Parents’ Relief Cut Of pon Those hundreds of boys whose rents are getting relief are learning loyed. Building ed can be won, Not only some food and place tq sleep. What the unemployed must have is federal un- employment insurance. nsurance ! VETS’ DISTRESS ACUTE; THROW U ON RED CROs \Johnson Ouster Asked by Rhode Island State Legion WASHINGTON, April 25. ‘ank T |Hines, head of the Veterans Bureau, | yesterday admitted at a meeting of \the American Red Cross that “distress | will unquestionably ensue through the denial or reduction of pensions hith- erto received, regardless of form or jamount.” Most of this distress will affect the 425,000 veterans who have been getting disability allowances for disease or injuries, which the Govern- ment now claims were not the result of war service. | l Johnson, national commander of Ametican Legion, endorsed the Roosevelt's “economy program” at the same meeting, but admitted that “in the next few months thousands of veterans will face suffering in its | direst form.” He appealed to the Ret Cross to take over the burden of ‘charity relief” for the veterans whose pensions are cut off. Hundreds of thousands of veterans /are being thrown on charity; évietions and starvation will inevitably follow. The coming veterans march to Wash- ington on May 12 will squarely place before Congress and the Administra- tion their fullest responsibility for the suffering of millions of America’s veterans and unemployed. ae | PROVIDENCE, April 25 —According to the Providence Journal, the éxecu- tive committee of the Rhode Island department of the American mn has passed a resolution demi ing jthe ouster of Louis Johnson, national |commander, for his support of Roose- velt's economy program. NEGRO VETS AND SCOTTSBORO CASE In the last imperialist war 400,000 Negro workers, who were called upon to fight “to end all wars” and “make |the world safe for demotracy,” were subjected to the worst form of Jim- Crow persecution by the military au- | thorities. Immediately after the US. |entered the war, 13 Negro soldiers of the 24th Infantry were legally mas- sacred by U. 8. Court Martial be- cause they had been driven to pro- test against the fiendish Jim-Crow persecution of the military and civil | authorities. (During the war there ; occurred more than a hundred lynch- ings of Negroes in the United States, | many of these Negro soldiers in uni- | form.) After the war the Negro veterans under the guise of public wotks is intended further to cut wages through the employment of forced labor at wages similar to that paid in the forced labor camps already established. Capitalists Encouraged To Cut Wages The Roosevelt program of slashing the veterans’ allowances and the wages of the government employees was @ direct hint to the capitalists to further cut wages. At present the railroads are de- manding a 25 per cent wage cut. The operators in the anthracite mines are demanding a 35 per cent wage cut. The building contractors are de- manding a further big reduction of wages. Thus we can see that from all sides our living standards are being attacked. The bosses cut the | wages and Pres. Roosevelt through his program of inflation cuts down the standard of living still mere. This is all part of one policy. It is she policy of the capitalists. President Roosevelt is the servant of the cap- italists no less than Hoover. Strikebreaking Laws President Roosevelt and his cabinet are not unaware of the growing mood of the masses to fight against the attacks of capital. Already there have been increasing strikes and unemployed struggles. The veterans march of last year, the militant actions of the poor and bankrupt farmers all indicate that the further reduction of the living standards of the masses will meet with great resistance. Already the total wages for all workers is only 33 per cent of what it was in 1929. ‘The masses will not accept a further re- duction without a struggle. The Roosevelt government is pro- posing arbitration boards im all in- dustries to fix hours and wages. This is in reality the creation of compulsory arbitration boards to outlaw strikes, crush militant labor organizations and. carry through the capitalist attack on the living stand- ards of the masses. Policies of the AFL Leaders and Socialists and the oppressive machinery of the government that the capitalists are carrying through the attacks on the masses. The leaders of the Socialist Party and of the American Federa- tion of Labor are misleading and drugging the masses, trying to pre- vent them from fighting against these attacks. Norman Thomas, the leader of the Socialist Party has en- dorsed the Black stagger bill. So have the leaders of the A. F. of L. Neither the A. F. of L. nor the So- cialist Party opposed in any serious manner the cut in the pay of the government employes. The Socialist Party supported the slashing of the veterai's’ allowances. Norman Thomas praises President Roosevelt for his achievements. He demanded the Roosevelt inflation policy more than a year ago. President Green of the A. F. of L. has just issued a statement to the effect that the A. F. of L. will de- mand higher wages to meet the in- flation prices. This is a mere ges- ture to stop the masses from struggle. What has tbe A. F. of L, done dur- It is not alone through open force | TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE CALLS TO FIGHT ROOSEVELT HUNGER PLAN ing the last three and-half years|fight against the attempted wage re- when the living standards were re-|ductions. We mustisupport. the fight duced by 67 per cent? Is there any reason to believe that the A. F. of L, leaders will now fight? ‘They will |have to prove it by more than mere empty words. Workers of the A. F. of L., members of the Socialist Party | you can not approve the position of your leaders. You must fight against the Roosevelt infiation, starvation, forced labor, compulsory arbitration program. Roosevelt Program Will Not Solve Crisis | The supporters of the Roosevelt | administration argue that these measures no matter how displeasing they may be to some for a while will in the long run pulls us out of the crisis, The Socialists and the A. F. of L. leaders who support the various | Roosevelt measures make the same But this is entirely false. How will the inflation program which means reducing the standard of living of the |masses solve the problem of unem- | ployment? ‘By lowering the living | Standard of the masses it will, only increase unemployment. explanation. How will the stagger plan in the form of the 30 hour week with a corresponding reduction in earnings solve unemployment? It will not. All that it will do is to make the em- ployed workers bear the burden of maintaining a portion of the unem- ployed instead of taxing the rich to give relief and unemployment in- surance to the unemployed: In addi- tion through the 30 hour week and speed up the capitalists can reduce their cost of production by throwing more workers on the streets All the early measures of the Roosevelt gov- ernment have not solved a single problem for capitalism. On the con- trary the situation has grown more acute. The fall in production in the month of March, the fall in the value growth of the crisis. | Unite Organize Resist Attacks We are being attacked. Capitalism is fighting desperately to save itself (but fight back. The Roosevelt gov- ernment is not the government of all the people. It is the government serving the interests of the powerful capitalists. As proof of this, we can see that every measure of the govern- ment is directed against the masses. We must oppose the Roosevelt at- tack with our united strength. Never before was the unity of all workers so necessary. All workers no matter in what union they belong, no mat- ter what is their political affiliation, no matter what their race, creed or color must unite and can unite on @ program of struggle in defense of their immediate interests. We are all interested in defending ourselves, This is no time for words, This is time for action. Program of Struggle We must fight in every factory, in every industry, for higher wages to meet the higher prices. We must resist all attempts to cut wages. We must support the railroad workers, the anthracite miners, the building ab our expense. We have no choice | of the striking miners in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and Illinois. We mt support the striking leather workers of Lynn. We must support the struggles of all workers for increased | wages. Form committees in your | factories, |in your’ cities. Work out your de- mands in accordance with the in- crease in prices. Fight, strike for | these demands. | We must organize mass actions jointly of the unemployed and em- |ployed to demand increased relief to |the unemployed corresponding to | the increased prices. We must de- |mand increased appropriations from the city, county, state and federal |governments for immediate relief to jali unemployed without discrimina- tion. We must demand the imme- | diate enactment of a Federal Unem- | ployment Insurance Bill guarantee- \ing to all unemployed insurance equal fo average wages but not less than | $10 per week and $3 additional for each dependent. We must oppose the Black stagger | bill in its present form and fight for |the shorter workday without reduc- tion in pay. We must oppose all forced labor measures. We must ce- mand that the pubiie works program shall undertake to build homes for the workers, schools, hospitals and not battleships and other war im- plements to slaughter the masses in the interests of the capitalists. We must oppose with all our united strength the attempt to outlaw srikes, and decree wages and hours through @ government compulsory arbitration board. We must fight for the right | to organize, to strike, against injunc- | tions, for all workers rights, for equal rights for the Negro masses, against | discrimination and deportation of | foreign-born workers. | We must organize ourselves to fight | against high prices, for reduction of of the dollar are definite signs of the rents, for reduction of public utility | | services, against evictions, shutting jof gas, light, or water of the unem- | ployed. BROTHERS: There is no time to be lost. The enemy is moving with lightning speed. Adopt resolutions in your | unions, lodges, unemployed organi-+ |zations, neighborhoods, clubs, against the Roosevelt program. Send these resolutions to the President, to Con- gress and to the labor press. Set up committees of action, strike committees, in your shop, Formulate your demands. Act. Unemployed Or- relief. Mass meetings, conferences, should be held in all cities to map out a line of action for the city as to wages. relief, prices, etc. + Workers of the A. F. of L. unions, TUUL unions, independent unions, unorganized, Socialist workers, Com- munist workers, workers of all poli- tical opinions and faiths, let us get together and Fight for our economic needs ‘and political rights. UNITED AND FIGHTING WE SHALL WIN ‘Trade Union Unity League National Executive Board trades workers and all others in their! Wm. FOSTER, General Secretary, Form Action Committees | ganizations Fight now for more ~ ROOSEVELT INFLATION RAISES PRICE » OF CLOTHING AND SHOES New York Real Estate Rent Raise; Organize Ag: High Cost |, NEW YORK, April 25.—On top of |the rise in prices f oal food, there is proceeding a drastic rise in clothing |brices and a move-on the part of the | Real Estate Board to boost rei Effects of inflati hier taised prices of flour, |egas, canned goods and f: \felt in the clothing mar! i | Shoe Prices Steadily Rising | With steady advances in hide and leather, the leading shoe manvfac- turers have boosted the price of shoes from ‘o 50 cents in the ch 4 Graces ty . and $1.50 in the higher price ranges. This, in spite of the fact that demand for shoes decreases at this time of year, which proves that the price rise is not due to the operation of supply arid demand, but is purely inflationary. New Lists for Cotton Goods Cotton goods markets are preparing to issue new price lists boosting every- | |thing they handle — bed spreads, | sheets, pillow cases, clothing. New | |lists will also be issued for wool and |cotton blankets at the end of the | | week: Meanwhile no orders are being | taker, until the price rise is agreed | | upon, | | Withdraw Knit Goods From Sale | | All lines of gnit goods have been |removed from sale. They will again ; {be sold when price rises are ade |justed to suit the inflation robber, |imposed upon the masses in the pro- | jcess of imposing drastic indirect wage jcuts and beating down to lower levels |the standards of life of workers and jfarmers and other impoverished sec- tions of the population. | In no lines of commodities are jorders being taken in advance be- |cause of the uncertainty as to the degree to which inflation will cause risés in prices, Plans On To Boost Rents Anton L. Trunk, president of the |Real Estate Board of New York, in an announcement yesterday dec- Jared that “ordinary business cau- tion” calls for hesitancy in meking | ;new and renewed leases at present | “depression rentals.” | Fight Must Reach Higher Stages The very vicfousnes of the attack jall along the line on ail the toiling {masses must result in widespread, {general, unified action against the hunger program of the capitalists jand their government, which is tak- jing tis lead in smashing down standards of life. Everywhere, in the neighborhoods, | jin the industries, before relief stations | action must be developed to chal- \lenge this worst of all hunger drives. The slogans around which the struggle is being organized are: | 1, For increased relief and wages |to meet inflation prices! 2. Fight for immediate reliet and (unemployment insurance! | 3. Against relief cuts! Against | wage cuts! | | 4, Against/ forced labor! | | 5. Lower rents! no evictions of | j unemployed * | 6 A public works program to tear down the slums, to build santtary | | will thereby President Announces inst Roosevelt's of Living houses and hospitals for workers. Unemployed workers employed on public works to be paid regular trade | union wage 7. The use of all war funds for relief and insura: 8. Ho and fight HEARINGS OPEN ON BLACK 30-HR. STAGGER BILL . WASHINGTON, pril 25—Hearings started today before the House Labor Committee on the amended Black 30 hour stagger plan bill. Frances Per- kns appeared before the Committee} to urge the passage of the bill and| declared it a “relief” measure for the! unemployd. The bill as amended contains the original plan to force, the employed to share their jobs and wages with the unemployed through the introduction of a five day week| and six hour day with no safeguards | against pay cuis. ‘The new features of the bill con-| tain the provision for the establish-| ment of minimum wage boards Inj; each industry. \This is designed to! deceive the masses that a livng wage be established in each and the danger of pay ll be obviated. The boards, however, will determine wages on the basis of the lowest pay in each local- ity and on what the industry will bear after the boss has squeezed out the maximum profit, The A. F. of L. is among the chief sponsors of the stagger bill. As aj result of rank and file pressure, Green, president of the A. F. of L. has reversed himself several times on the question of minimun wage | boards, but he and his agents may| be counted on as the chief bulwark} of the Roosevelt administration in| putting through the nation-wid Wage-cutting drive implicit n the DU. Green's latest announcement is to the effect that he favors thes: boards for women and children but not for men. Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers has) declared his support of the govern- | ment bill in the following demagogic | manner: “In the interests of the pub- lic in a vast emergency we musi act with courageous caution. We must accept our responsibilities as an op- portunity for public service, not as a vehicle for untried theores.” Hillman Was not so cautious in putting through a 20 per cent wage cut for the cloth- ing workers in the interests of the manufacturers in Rochester and Chi- cago recently. that this relief is being cut off. The|Wwere further separated from the men have leaders from the Citizens|white veterans. They were Jim- Conservation Corp., who were picked |Crowed in the vocational training as loyal overseers to spy, bulldoze, and | Schools; denied admittance into Fed- cheek any radicalism. jeral Administration, except as Negtoes Jim-Crowed |menials; their disability compensation The Negro young workers are Jim- | Was either very low or cut off within Crowed into other camps. They are|® short period after the war. Thou- more terrorized than the white youth. | Sands of veterans, especially Negroes. A Negro youth was beaten up at the | Were hounded by officials, framed up army base for cracking a joke which | 82d thrown into hospitals for the | pline the officer didn’: fancy (this happened at Whitehali Street). Youth Deserting Ma youth are returning or de- The officers say that military disci- will not be continued in the forests; but the militarism etting tighter than ever each day—which means harder work and longer hours, and terrorism. Don’t Yet Know Way Out Meny of the youth—all prole- tarians—have no ‘h in the capital- ist system. e all sorts of utopian and boutgeols ways out of their con- ditions. Must Fight for Demands It is not only necessary to conduct within these forced labor camps, but the w ng class outside must assist and fight against this scheme, and to better the conditions of those inside for: Adequate pay according to trade union standards. 2. No military tactics or teachings. 3. Direct relief to youth. 4. No cutting of relief of families. 5. No discrimination of Negroes. All these can be linked up with the | struggles of the workers as a whole against Hunger, War and Starvation. Crop of. Accidents At Chemical Works Foretold by Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) BUTLER, N. J.—I wrote you in my last letter of the rotten conditions in Wecoline Products, Inc., which could produce accidents. Well, we've had a crop of them. After Tomany went to the hospital, when a tube blew out on the boiler, they worked us at full speed to get! @ new set of tubes and a firebox in. We would put in about 20 hours at straight time—from 7 a.m. to 3 a.m. Then they would decide that we couldn’t finish that night and tell us to come in at 12 noon the next day, While cleaning out the tubes with steam under the speed-up, Frenchy got scalded and had to stay home for a couple of weeks at half coms pensation pay. Paul Morris got some caustic soda in his eye from one of the leaking tanks and had to t the doctor regularly and wear black glasses. Johnny Rosebery was working near a hot-water He slipped and fell in with o: There was no guard about the trap as required by y. “Rosey” has been getting the magnificent sum of $16 (48 hours at |22c, plus some overtime at straight pay), laborer’s wages for pipefitter’s ng because their expectations fall jinsane end into prisons. | Tens of thousands of Negro veter- |ans in need of medical attention in the South were either forced to ac- cept treatment in Jim Crow wards of white hospitals or were forced to wait for months to get treatment in the Jim-Crow hospital at Tuskegee, |Ala. The dependents of Negro vet- jerans are often gyped by various of+ ficials, death compensation checks ag well as other allowances being withe held for months or denied altogether, (The Negro Gold Star Mothers were rewarded for their supreme sacrifices by being Jim-Crowed on their trip to France to visit the graves of their |sons. They were tramsported by the government to France on leaky cattle boats.) 7 Many Negro veterans have fatlem victim to the present wave of lyhch- ing and lynch frame-ups. The most notorious case is that of Willie Peter- son, tubercular Negro veteran, who contracted tuberculosis because the Veterans’ Bureau failed to certify him for treatment and compensation, Peterson was framed-up in Birming- ham, Ala., in August, 1931, on a mur der charge, a raw frame-up for @ crime of which he is innocent. Following the frame-up against Peterson, white veterans who de- |fended him in Alabama were horse- whipped in prison. In Florida, Al McBride, a white war veteran, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for organizing tobacco factory workers. These attacks upon the Negro war veterans are part of the attack upon the Negro people as a whole. This is shown clearly in the frame-up of Haywood Patterson, one of the nine Scottsboro boys who has been sen- tenced to death in the electric chair. The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League has from the very start sup- ported the fight, which is led by the International Labor Defense, for the release of the nine Scottsboro boys. The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League has as one of its principles “No Jim- Crowing or any kind of discrimina- ion against Negro war veterans.” Action to Take. In order to actively support the ‘fight for the release of the Scottse boro boys, Willie Peterson and alt other victims of the lynch gangs the National Headquarters of the Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League recome mends to all posts of the W. E. 8. L. the following action: That they approach the Negro Posts of the American Legion, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, etc., with the proposal for a united front in dee fense of the Scottsboro boys. 2. In order to give the greatest of {strength to this defense, work must be carried’ on with the Scottsboro | Defense Committees. 3. Posts should immediately start the work of mobilizing. Negro and white veterans for the Scottsboro | March to Washington which takes |place May 8. These veterans ‘should stay in Washington and re- | Port to the Veterans’ National Liaison Militant Workers must not permit) work, On this he had to support a/ Committee, Room 210-11, Maryland Teo igh 14 and Hf Sts. ° D. q this fake bill to divert them from the | main struggle for jobless insurance, wife and two children. While at home in bed, he gets half pay, $7.68.