The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1933, Page 2

| | °age Two BARRICADES Printed by Spacisl Permis R L | S| sion of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 381 Fourth § PS Avenue, New York City. | ~ i All Workers are urged to reed this it among their friends BY KLAUS NEUKRANTZ BY WALTER QUIRT book snd spread LLUSTRATED THE STORY THUS FAR: The workers of the proletarian district, Wedding, in Berlin, demonstrate May Day, 1929, despite the ban issued by ihe Socialist Police Chief, Zoergiebel. The workers’ demonstration is at- tacked by the police . . . The police in Pankstrasse | the ground. Over the hanging head er to the attack. | they saw a grey overall sleeve. They on the windows and the| cleared away boards and beams and fied. Under its cover | flashed their torches into the white, forward, Helmets| young face of a sixteen-year-old ttered from the| worker. Above the left eye there was . They rushed/a dark round hole, from which a ng cease-| thin stream of blood, now dried up, side the police|ran over knitted brows, The mouth ear view of the| small as a young girl's. the barricade| In the sand beside hin es. Stones flew) men found a small shining rifle and Ny Shouting | a little head of percussion caps. the police jumped on to! The torch went out. ... . prepared for a| erage re The barricade The barricade was taken, but not the alley. The dark crevice between the high houses seemed impregnable With difficulty a passage had been made between the barricades on the road, The police retreated. The sound the face of an nt boy. “Damned blood from } e rifles clanked ing at that If only one ssian pe he wiped The | nuous! con invisible had an aim! The narrow ed monster! ack point of an of- ficer’s boot turned the man over who was lying a motionless lump on the ground be the beams. The b ly was bl: i moist like the dark spot on the asphalt From the passage next to the “Red Nightingale” revolver fire flared up. Butt ends of rifles crashed against the blinds of the pu “Forward,” the they're inside there THROUGH THE DOOR The door to the “Red Nightingale” icer shouted’ crashed to pieces. The police knew t here was the communist strong- hold of the Ko rte “Hands of you!” fe ‘The major's torch swept the dark| + .- flashed their torches into the room. It was—emr white, young face of a sixtoen-ycar “Bi jomeone turned| old worker. the elec light. went the a anaes ie ee of their nailed boots was replaced Gverturned. On the wall was a news-| PY. hard clanging rattle from the Reinickendorfer Strasse. A powerful searchlight lit up the ‘elley like day light, making dark fleeting shadows. At the same moment a machine gun ccmmenced firing. Through the ruins eaded: “Fighting May 19 A policeman cursed and tore down the front page of the “Rote Fahne.” They found no one. Black and y the passage men did not; C@! pushed its way. the interior of the pub. The ma-| The attack on the alley! jor discovered the passage and storm-| Tack... tack... tack... tack ed through it with raised revolver. A) The shining white steel-coated bullets kick opened the door at ‘There wes a light behind. The room| and order. e them. The new Stones and bullets shot Tusty, small-calibre pistols jumped ineffectively off the youngsters were sitting and playing i —car steel plates. The fire-spitting fort- glass door leading to the yard ress rolled on and on. Some yards | stood open. Their quarry hed va-! behind it followed the police—the nished! Again disappearing. silently| pest, the bravest, the youngest, the and without a trace, diving into un-' most brutal, in extended line. known hiding-places swallowed up by| the darkness of the passages and! And then the game began. yards. | house, passage, yard was to be cap- A few empty cartriges was all they| tured. At the point of the rifles found. As for the two youths who had| women and children were turned out “played cards’—nothing in their) of bed, the mattresses searched, cup- pockets but a few buttons, a piece of| boards and rooms. Shadows flying string, cigarettes and a dirty hand-j|in deadly terror on the stairs were kerchief. No evidence of any kind, no} hunted to attics, hounded down, membership cards of the “Rote Front-| batoned to the ground, mauled and kampferbund” (the Red Front Fight-| arrested. But in most cases invisi- ers’ League) or the Young Commun-| pijity had again swallowed the men is; League—nothing but two young,| they sought. unmoved faces suffering with tightly| ,, closed lips the terrible manhandling| “There bead been shooting from of the police. Pisgbodt eal No one dare enter the dark and) “Yes. Look at the wall. You can silent yard... 5 }see your own bullets.” Outside the “Red Nightingale” the! “Hold your tongue!—Where have policemen tore down the barricades) you hidden those dogs? Eh. . .2” in the glare of a searchlight and un-|" wr oor gor yourself...” the w der the cover of a special detachment | ted Oe Pre cs 2) Ser Werte which, stationed on both sides of the|ePled mockingly. “They knew that street, fired uninterruptedly into the| the police would not dare to push windows. The black holes in the grey | further into the alley, Let them tear walls were the countless sharp and| up the floors of the houses near the fearfull eyes of the monster—the red| barricades if they wanted to. They alley! Still living and breathing, in-| Would find bugs and beetles, but not accessible, like some great monster|OUr men... of old, invincible, though bleeding) (To Be Continued) from a hundred wounds. The heart, —the red heart of Wedding—ham-| Se As Na mered on, stronger and wilder than/| ‘he barking rifles of the police. | When the searchers pulled away a fust-bin a small, dirty hand fell to| Rdward Dahlberg just returned from Germany will lecture on “The Authentic and Fake Proletarian Literature” COOP AUDITORIUM 2700 Bronx Park East FRIDAY, MAY 12th at 8 P. M. AUSPICES: THE COOP LIBRARY Admission 10c “WORKERS come to the Opening of the G. EB. Plenum of the N, T. W.1. U. FRIDAY EVENING MAY 12 WEBSTER HALL 119 EAST 11th STREET PROGRAM: CONCORD MUSIC SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA; Article 3, the last of the Daily Worker special reports of the Al- strike deals with the present strike situation and the betrayal plans of the state investigating committee been surrendered.—Editor, Pee alae At the present time of the 3200 children in these shops only a few are out on strike. Of the forty to fifty shops in the area only six were pulled out. Four in Allentown proper, |the Bernstein mill, the Freezer plant, |the Adelphi, and the Lehigh Valley, and two in Northampton, the D and D factory and the Clyde Shirt. While there are picket lines before the Freezer mill, and before the D and D in Northampton, most of the chil- dren have been driven back to work. Amalgamated Officials Abandon ‘hild Strikers An organizer of the Amalgamated was asked what he planned to do | with the children. Did he expect them |to pay dues to the Amalgamated? ae answer was, “I didn’t think of at,” The whole strike was turned over to the Mayor's investigating commit- tee. Tllusions were built up for the children that this committee will do something for them. What has the | Amalgamated and the other union | organizers done? Their chief plan is | to get into the Allentown silk mills | through the connections and activities the police- | 1 the back opened | Of the barricade a heavy armored the end.| sang and whistled the song of law! Every | to which the childrens’ struggle has | | 18 Forced Labor Camps in N. WASHINGTON, May 10. x to be established forced labor 5 i ten states, accordng to an- ments yesterday from the of of Robert Fechner, director of the noune m. Eighteen of t up in New York t will be “enlisted” for a year’s slayery in such camps | placed in prison uniform, under m tary discipline, at less than a dollar @ day. This is the wage Roosevelt @aims is suffic I 1 he was Phot é arg PRainst it { iy 87> Fe Ax Butcheries in Vogue in Berlin BERLIN, May 10.—Two men ac- cused of murder had their heads chopped off with an ax at dawn teday. This system of executions by the ax is in effect under the Hitler regime. Twelve more in Berlin, e of them women, are to be itchered the same way within the next few days. A Se eRe 28 in Sing Sing Death House OSSINING, May 10.—Twenty-eight are awaiting death in the electric air at Sing Sing. This is the largest ber in the death house in many months. et ar Franee Launches New Cruiser ST. NAZAIRE, May 10.—The new rench naval cruiser, Emile Bertin, 5,886 tons, was launched yesterday The cruiser has a speed of 34 knots and will carry two bombing planes, | Japan Launches Aircraft Carrier TOKYO, May 10—The Ryujo, Japanese navy’s new aireraft carrier, was launched yesterday at the Koko- suka naval base. It carries 25 planes. he Six More Dead in Southern Storms. ATLANTA, Ga., M: 0.—Six more poor croppers and tenant farmers were killed as furious storms swept through Tennessee and Georgia and parts of Alabama. Their death was due to the collapse of flimsy houses in which they are compelled to live. This is the sixth major storm in the South since mid-March. The death list in the storms during that period totals more than 180. Stage and Screen “China Express” sensation produced by th calls fo oriental ay 1 rd 0 these pe formers. As a ni ing fact, there a e wha in the ionic gift, but rather in nse of simplicity E The eloquent and for trained actor: ure to the rection of | master-regisst stein, Trauberg sele for their being app boots’? as the persons they are ca’ to portray. “Counsellor-At-Law” | Reopens At 46th Street Next Monday “Counsellor-At-Law,” the x Rice which had a long r part of the season r 46th Street Thea- agement rincipal role. a satirical and comedy by on Broad- comedy b | Kennel, w be p eed by the Players Theatre on Thursday evening at the Lyceum Theatre. A return engageme: Child” is announced for next Tuesday e' | enthal. | sea | ‘Kuhle Wampe” Opens Alt | “Kuhle Wa | Potsdam) | Theatre | ment ument of ” (Pighting The Beast of ted at the Acme rm limited engage- Kuhle Wampe” is a passionate doc- “the years of the locust wa produced by @ group of revolutionary artists | whose art is closely bound with their polit- ical faith | Kuhle Wampe is the name of a tent- | colony outside of Berlin where the evicted unemployed live. It is a historic home Paul Muni Acme Theatre Friday New 10a, It BRIEFS AlabamaSharecropp Planning for Fight at RELIEF BURE MAY 11, 1983 | Cotton-Picking Time Sidelights on Trial of Tallapoosa Share- Croppers Which Railroaded Leaders (The following sketch gives side- lights on the Tallapoosa sharecrop- pers’ tr'al which ended in the five defendants getting long prison terms, and tells of the plans of the ecroppers for struggle against the landlords.—Editor’s Note). PMG? ted | By JIM MALLORY DADEVILLE, Ala—The trial of the Tallapoosa sharecroppers is having a tremendous effect on the farmers in the courtroom, The I.L.D. attorney, | the defendants, the wives of the mur- deted share- ppers, Mrs. James and Mrs. Bentley, tell the story of the bitter struggles of the croppers for bread, for the right to live, against the ever increasing burden of “debts.” The deeds of the Iowa fafmers, in desperate struggle in the North, are brought forward and inspire the | ter The prosecution has spoken |much about leaflets. The defense at- |torney demands that these leafleis of the union be read. The judge glances over them hastily and refuses. For there stands the demands for which the croppers have fought: For the right of the cropper to sell his| own cotton. No forced pooling of cot- ton. Cancellation of debts. No eyic- tions of croppers from the land. No confiscation ef live stock. A min- imum price ef ten cents per pound for cotton. Free hus transportation to and from school for the Negro ch'I- dren, ‘These demands are at the heart of the struggles of the croppers. They mean life or death to évery share- cropper, every tenant, every poor farmer, white or black, in the court roonr or cut of it. No wonder Judge Bowling refuses to have the demands | read. A white cropper turns to his neighbor and says: “Those boys have | the right idea! That's what we've) back to the town of Dadevilie. At the highways they meet little knots of armed men. Deputy Gantt is among them, and they know him, for he was one of those who went out | on December 19 to murder the share- lat a time across a dangerous creck. | | HE trial is over. | 4 be croppers and to smash their uni Today he will testify against their leaders. The armed patrols force the croppers to turn back. But almost all of them find ways to get into town, The share-croppers from the Dadeyille region, stronghold of the union, plunge into the swamps, im- provise a raft, and push four men A fifteen-year-old boy t alone, and finally, ion to the court room. ie had to go, you see,” his mother explains jlater. “He’s a young Communist.” * ES An appeal is to made for the convicted crop- pets. The members of the union, the | working class as 2 whole, will struggle | there And for their release. Meanwhile, is yet other work to be done. small meetings are now held, There is much work to be done in the union, for great struggles are in sight. Late fall will bring cotton- picking time. Formerly, the cotton | has been ginned, then placed in the) landlord's barn—pooled, as it is call- ed—until the landlord decides to sell it. This pooling is not of the crop- per’s choice, How much the landlord gets for this cotton, the cropper never knows. Hundreds of croppers have | been killed outright for demanding an | accounting. The croppers only know that the landlo: share is the money from the sales; the cropper’s share is the “debt” still owing to the lahd- | lord after the cotton has been sold. Watch for cotton-picking time, 1938. | It will be a period of gigantic sirug- got to do too, Organize against the|@les. The Share Croppers Union has rich,” “Yesterday they came after my neigh- ing my father's land. Nobody knows | who will be next. We've got to or-/ ganize!” bor's stock. Tomorrow they are tak-| cotton. es ne jraised the demand: No foresd pool- ATIGUES | WIUME ABYEEE, PAVE" | OC Sneeisdich SHLERE 4B: aRitS amie OWaT This demand aims blows at the very reots of debt slavery, of peonage, of the wealth of the South- ern landlord class, wrung from the agonies of generations of croppers. "HE irial is drawing to its close, The | Last year, and for decades before, the 1 sheriffs and deputies on the wit- ness stand lie shamelessly. Ih the preliminary s that they could not identify Judson | Simpson, Clinton Moss or Sam Moss as having been connected with the hooting. | all without hesitation, Posie. farm: Pers comes up today in { \court, The croppers are on the moye; the fields are alive with them. ‘ | Now they identify them) |.) | members | | orp has gone out from fram to} members for every man they've put | =e =P | ¥ highway, and from highway to|in jail. The case of the share-crop-| Georgia, west and south through all Dadeville | of Alabama! route of the picked white cetton-boll was from the ginning mill to market. hearing, they had said | Along that path lies struggle—but| along that path lies also the ultimate salvation of the croppers from debt- | bondage. And so the croppers raise their slo- : “Twenty-five hundred new for _ the Union by August 1! Spread the union—east into “For we're through working for the They | landlords for nothing, and Ned Cobb! come on foot, they come on mule- spoke true words.” CLIFF JAMES’ widow, Ludie, and her seven children live here in ‘his Alabama shack with eight other relstives. Cliff James was mur- dered by sheriff's deputies last December when he and other members of the Sharecroppers’ Union resisted an attempt to seize his live-stock. but the workers got wind of the ac. | tivities of the U.T.W. in Allentown, lentown child sweatshop workers’ |and the organizers of the U.T.W.|shops make a profit or not. But it| could not leave town until they turn- ed back every single cent collected from the workers, The Amalgamated is working in the | sweat shops to strengthen their po- sition in textile, | the strike situation will spread to that industry. Governor Pinchot’s Game Governor Pinchot runs for re-elec- tion in the fall of 1934. Mrs. Cor- |nelia Bryce Pinchot is preparing the ground for that re-election by driving in a limousine to the picket lines of child strikers, by picketing before the Paramount News Camera so that the people of Pennsylvania may know that she, as well as her husband, is |@ friend of the “poor.” “Noblesse oblige’—the nobles are obliged—Mrs. Pinchot answered with her “grand lady air” to the question of whether it is good to picket. Yes, indeed the “nobles” are obliged to make this show in order to keep their nobility. They make mockery of workers’ misery, and-children’s suf- | fering, with their political acrobatics. Allentown is not a _pro-Pinchot member only too well the state troop- ers sent by Pinchot at the request | of the silk bosses to break the strike of two years ago. The hosiery work- with the hope that area, The workers of Allentown re-| 47 cents a week for adults and 27 -of the shirt shop children, whether {or not the petty bosses of the sweat |is of the utmost importance to Pin- chot to see that the interests of the| | Silk, and the coal, and the steel mag- | jNates are insured, because these in- | terests are his interests. Therefore to carry the publicity stunt still further, Governor Pinchot, on the basis of the report of the | members of the “Governor's Commit- tee to investigate conditions in the {needle trades in Northampton and Lehigh Counties,” has assigned still | another committee to invéstigate, the | very evident fact of hunger, exploit- ation, misery, privation, abuse and insult, inflicted upon these children of the shirt shops. Investigation, and | publicity, but no action. The Commissary Plan for the Employed |, The Governor's Committee and | Mrs, Pinchot are using the evidence of horrible conditions for the passage of the “Minimum Wage Bill.” The “Minimum wage meet liv- ing requirements” will pr ly mean the enforcement of the commissary plan of Pinchot on the employed as well as the unemployed workers. The Commissary Plan provides for cents a week for children to live on. Mrs. Pinchot favors this plan. To prove that it is a good one (for the unemployed), she arranged a banquet ers of nearby Reading know under for about 40 society ladies who are CHAIM KOTILIANSKY in new) Soviet Songs; SIDNEY LEVIN in Concertina Solos; EMILIA BABAD in_ revolutionary Recitations, SPEAKERS: | Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, Irving | Potash, Clarence Hathaway. Jack Stachel of this child labor strike, ership of the United Textile Workers Union funds were collected in initia- tions and dues to the amount of $7000. whose direction the state troopers| also “noblesse oblige” and spent $2.52 Allentown Child Strikers Driven Back to Sweatshops; State Commission Betraying Them | back at work, ond Investigating Committee to look into the violations of the Mann Act, seduction, ete. The issues under which the chil- dren rallied were for an inerease of wages, for the shortening of the work day, while many of them are today forced through the threats of cutting off their relief, and evicting their unemployed parents, still the conditions will bring them out onto the sirects again, in the fight against the sweat shop. And their parents will be rallied. behind the Unemployed Councils in the fight for Unemployment Insur- ance. BOOK NOTES STIRRING NOVEL OF PROLET- ARIAN UPRISING IN RUHR In view of the situation in Ger- many today Hans Marchwitza’s novel: STORM OVER THE RUHR, which has just been issued by International Publishers, is of breathless interest. Together with BARRICADES IN BERLIN, by Klaus Neukranz, it meets a deep-felt need on the part of American workers for an intimate picture of the class struggle in Ger- many and its immediate historical setting. STORM OVER THE RUHR tells the story of the resistance of the just such sweating slavery as in the) hops before which Mrs. Pinchot pa- | ‘aded that these workers struck. Why | The U.T.W. stands disgraced before | is it then, that today Pinchot orders | the textile workers of Allentown, and | 4" investigation committee, and yes- | since that time they have not even|terday he ordered the state police? | been able to get together seven work-| It is very simple. The silk inter- ers for & meeting. |ests, the coal and the steel are the In Shmokin, which {s nearby, the | backers of Pinchot. It is immaterial the U.T.W. organized 1500 workers, to Pinchot or to the othor state of-| ADMISSION 20 Dues and initiations were collected’ ficials who “investigated” the strike | x : During the last strike of the tex-| Were sent to break the strike against | for this banquet. The amounts aver- | tile workers in 1931, under the lead- | 2 45 per cent wage cut. It was against aged to six cents per person. This is Mrs. Pinchot’s idea of “meeting liy- ing requiremenis.” Issues To Be Sidetracked The revolt of the children was a} rebellion against endless hours of toil for no pay, against insult and abuse of the bosses, for an increase of wages, and recognition of a union, Pinchot puts aside the issues of the sweat shop and the fight ‘against’ these conditions and charges the sec- | Ruhr miners and metal workers to | the Kapp-Lutwitza attempt to selze power in Germany and restore the empite in 1920. It tells how the Spartacists (Communists) called for and carried through the arming of the workers against the reaction- aries; it describes the general strike and the part played in it by the So- cial-Democratic leaders, and finally depicts the armed struggle against the Social-Democratic Minister of Defense, Noske, who led the "Black NEW YORK.—Locals 2 and 3 of employment unahimously voted to participate in joint struggle with the Downtown Unemployed Couneil at the Home Relief Bureau this Friday. A delegation from the Downtown Unemployed Council presented 2 pro- poral of united actién to the chaitman of the grievance committee presiding | at a meeting of Locals 2 and 3.at the Henry Street Settlement Tuesday night, May 9. | The Unemployed workers at the | | meeting readily accepted the propo- sals of the delegate from the Down- | town Unemployed Council, knowing | full well the record of the Couneil in previous actions at the Home Relief Bureau. A few questions were asked | of the delegates who for more than an hour had been addressing the un- employed workers at the meeting. Why Demonstrations? Max Kolokofsky, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee attempted to | discourage participation in a demon- | stration atthe Home Relief Buréau. | “What good are démonstrations?” | he asked. An unemployed worker in the audi- ence got up and told the workers present that he and a few others went to the Home Relief Bureau for | rent and food checks for their wives and childrén, At the Reéllef Bureau he was given an application and told to wait. He could not wait. Mis wife and two children were hungry. He was served with a dispossess by the landlord. A neighbor told him of the Downtown Unemployed Council. With the other workers he came to ers |DEMONSTRATEFRIDAY AT DOWNTOWN AU AGAINST EVICTIONS Locals 2 and 8 of Workers’ Committee Unite With Unemployed Councils in Fight New York Workers’ Committee on Un- Ce {thé Council for assistance. The | Couneil sent a delegation with him and 125 other unenjployed workers to the Home Relief Buresu. Militantly they demanded rent and food chécks. | They would not leave until they re- c@ived rent and food checks, The | unemployed worker told the workers | present at the meeting that he and | 28 othérs recsived checks that day (eae the others were fortheoming. | A city-wide campaign has been} | started by the Unemployed Councils |mobilizing all unemployed organiza- tions in the city in one gigantic united | ; front action to force rent and food} chéeeks for the unémployed without | discrimination. | The Home Relief Bureau has stopt | | the payment of rent and is brutally | disregarding. thousands of evictions | |onto the city streets. | The Downtown Unemployed Council | | calls upon all workers’ organizations | jall the Unemployed Coimmittées in the | |downtown settion, to mobilize before | | the Home Relief Bureau Friday morn- | ing, May 12, in the initial demon- | stration to be followed by daily de- | monstrations until: 1) The Eviction | | Laws are repealéd; ov, 2) The Home ‘Relief Bureau pays rent. JUDGE AURELIO TO TRY 2 RENT STRIKE PICKETS | NEW YORK.—George Williams and Louls Roméd, uneniployed workers | among the fifteen familes to recélye The policemian clubbed them with dispossesses at $16 East Ninth Street, | were attacked by pélice while picketing in front of the honce. i CESS ARE SSE “SEES | working class news. Letters from Our Readers Turn ‘Labor Day’ Into Fight on Reaction Philadeipnia, Pa. Dear Comrades: May I a3 a reader of the Daily Worker since its inception congratu- Inte the Daily Worker for its real No other news paper can give such real information as our Daily Worker. Your editorial for May 5th, namely, “Continue the Fight for May First Stogans,” was to the point. May Day in America this year has had a greater measure of success than heretofore. The united front program is correct. Why does not the Daily Worker | start @ campaign for a united front of all economic and political organiza- tidtis for September 4th (the so-called Labor Day), with a broad program that would unite all labor unions up- on a common program, such as re- instatement of all] members who have been dropped due to non-payment of dues, caused by unemployment; re- instatément of all members who were expelled because they fought reaction- ary officials for rank and file control of the union; the immediate organ- ization of all workers regardless of race, color or creed; for the freedom of Tom Mooney and tlw Scottsboro boys; for national amnesty of all class war and political prisoners and the repeal of all war time seditious acts against labor; unemployment and so- celal insurance at the expense of em- ployers and government; against class collaboration; for class struggle and @ united front against worsened con- ditions of the working class as a whole, including the farmers and share croppers unions, Many other slogans and facis per- taining to reactionary officials against rank and file control ean he brought out by the Daily Worker. Turn this reactionary Labor Day, September 4th, into a struggle against reaction, by parades, and mass meet- ings for rank and file control of unions with a possible national ¢on- his hight stlex before making the ar- | on May 16 at 9 o'clock in the morn- | vention to take place on Sept. 4th to rest. They wére brought before the infemous Judge Aurelio to be tried. The I. L. D. attorney, Mr. Sehiffnér, demanded a postponement, Judge Aurelio last week railroaded | Samuel Gonshak to the workhouse to an indeterminate sentence of two | years. All workers in the vicinity of the | Ninth Street address should appear TWO ARMIES Share-Croppers | Five hundred | By JOHN ADAMS NEW YORK—1917—Ohateau Thi- sry, shells—gas alerm, 4 nameless worker goes forward et command “Over the Top!” From the otlicr side of that muddy hell, another nameless worker receives a command “Fire at | will.” Onward he plunges through the mud, yelling with fright and fear. An American soldier fighting for his country! A scream, shrapnel hits his right eye. Back to the base hospital, |mever again to see frem that eye. For Democracy! | 1933—The “hero” with a sightless right eye is standing in a line again. A medal hangs from his coat lapel. | No bands are playing or girls running around kissing the “men in uniform.” Alongside of him stand two hundre | and fifty more. Many have medals. | All ars “heroes.” The one-eyed veteran his buddy in the ranks: “Look, $12 a month, I gat. This letter says after June 30, I can’t be carried anymore. New Deal, hell. Let’s go.” In Union Square, May 10, the “for- gotten men” line up, New York's contingent of the 1933 Veterans March for the bonus, return of dis- ability allowances and relief for job- | less workers and for the farmers, is getting ready to marth on to Wash- ington! Commander Allman, veteran lead- er, tried in the struggles of 1932 and found “all gold” reports. “Two hundred and six men. all disabled, from Bath, Maine, have | left Valley Stream, L. I. this morning. | The uncertain weather makes it im- | possible for them to come here and wait with us. They're sick men, We'll |meet in Washington. A cheer goes |up from the lines and three thous- | and workers, men and women, Ne- | gro and white echo it. | “We are going to make our just | demands,” he continues, “We know | why we were defeated last year. This year we will run the march ourselves, | No one is to break ranks. No pan- | handling, No drinking. row the | troublemakers sent in by the officials | outside the ranks, if they statt any- | thing.” On the sidewalks, the workers are ltalking. “It's hard to make a trip like this, boys, here's six packs of cigarettes, all I can sparé,” one tells ‘them. He can't march, He is not a | veteran but they are fighting his | battle, too! “We could take it for those bas- tards in '17, we can take it now,” one veterans answers @ questioner, & Wo- man, who fears that they will be at- tacked in Washingten. An appeal for funds is made. Lean faced workers, reach down and give of their few remaining dollars. News- paper reporters squirm as the speak- er flays them for their dis- patches about the marchers and their struggle. The ranks are formed, all latecomers are signed up and in their places. Commander Allman steps to the front, flanked by his rank and file elected staff. “Forward march,” he snaps out and the line statts on the speaks to “new deel’ president and demand | promises be fullfilled. | Hulidreds” against the workers in the | Ruhr, Despite its large size, the price has been cut down to a minimum, (212 pages, cloth, $1.50; boards, $0.75). Obtainable at all workers’ or direct from International Pitblish- ers, 381 Fourth re lew York, ‘ ing at the Third District Magistrate's | Court, at Second Street and Second | | Avenue. | solidify the movement. entire working class —Textile Worker. | | | | Workers Begin Workers are beginning to respond ; | to the Daily Worker's call for 20,000 new readers by September 1. Letters received from all paris of the country testiiy to this. From Sam Chazchinko, of Fayette, | North Dakota, comes a one-month sub, with the words: “I’m sending you $1 (all I have at this time) for | the good paper that you put out.” “Now I'm broke; can’t even eat,” writes H. E. Fuller, of Napoleon, Ohio. But that didn’t keep him from get- | ting a three-month — subscription, which is a good indication of his re- gard for the Daily Worker, George Goss, of Chicago, writes: “I will take the paper for one month. | I am sending you one quarter more than the price of the sub to help the Daily Worker.” “I'm sending you $1 for the Daily Worker Saturday edition,” writes Mary Danieis, of Warren Ohio. Please send the paper for as long as the dollar covers it. If I get more money soon I will be glad to send it, because this is the only paper that helps the bitin class people in their strug- 8 es." —— There are numerous other letters of this kind, too many to be printed at once, But they indicate a response which ‘should stimulate the districts into action—if such stimulus is nec- essary. Every district should estab- lish an apparatus strong enough and sufficiently well-organized to guide, not to lag behind, the efforts of these individual workers. So far, in spite of several letters sent out to all dis- trict Daily Worker representatives, the ‘Daily’ has received reports of ac- tivities from obly three districts— Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, | with Detroit far in the lead. This is the second week of tho drive, Conferences for Daily Worker circulation should ‘be in progress, or at least prepared, by now, in every | | single district in the country. Let's have news of your activities. EVERY READER GETS A NEW READER OF THE ‘DAILY’! Here is a letter from one worker, Avthur Baker, of Deitoit, who is putting the above slogan into prac- tice: I noticed your for more cir- culation for the ‘Daily’ so I phoned two rs I know. They agreed to e the paper for ohe month, They thought $6 a bit too high then, not knowing the paper. Se to intro- e the ‘Daily to them I pla: upon the one-month-for-75 cents, I you went to sertd mé the subs, I'll representatives te | week, to teke up a long hike to: Weahinavon, £9).a08 te | financial interest, both to your organization arid tho Bring the “Daily” to the Masses! 20,000 New Readers By September First! Special Notice To All Working Class Organizations, Clubs, Unions, Bte.2- THE DAILY WORKER asks that you send one of your to Respond to ‘Drive’; Need District Action! make an effort to help your cireula- tien here; if not, Pi send you their nomes so you can take care of them. I won't promise you many one-year oubs. My object is to get them into the habit of reading the “Daily,” and learning what it stands for.” Other readers, follow suit! a “A CONTRIBUTION FROM THE PROLETARIAN WOMEN” Although the drive for $35,000, closed some time ago, workers and organizations still contribute funds: from time to time, Here is @ letter from one odntributing group: . “Enclosed find $28.65 raised at two little affairs arranged by the working women of the Czecho-Slovak organi- zations in New York. “Re that our fighting paper the Daily Worker, is in urgent need of funds at all times, we Czecho- Slovak women decided to help fin- ancially, so we arranged two little affairs which netted the above men- tioned sum. Please take it as a con- tribution of the proletarian women for the support of the only English paper fighting in the interests of the working class.” a *. * USE NEW DRIVE POSTERS TO RAISE CIRCULATION! Two brand new circulation drive posters are off the press now, and | will be shipped to every district in | the U. S. A. within a few days. These should be posted up in clubrooms, workers’ headquarters, in all viein- ities where workers live, work, con- gregate. Not a single one should be wasted! Use thése posters to gain the 20,000 new readers that the Daily Worker needs! Sproul of fiedal sarees, has not done awer with class ant is. It has but Heal of appremlon, sew Teena ef ion, new struggle WA place of the old ol Manifesto, the District Datly Worker Office, — 35 Bast 12th Streét, Grouttd Floor, within the coming matter of grcat imporiance and of Dally. Worker. Your represzntetive cai call any time — between 9:50 a. m, and 7:00 p. mi. Organizers and secretaries of these organizations, It is not hecessary to wait for the election of x reptesen- tative, either come yourself or delegate otie of your membership to call. City Committee, Daily Worker. 4 re OR _ ———