The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1933, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1933 PATERSON SILK | Waterfront Slaves Who (HOLD SCOTTSBOROSEABURY WILL | Are “Barge Captains” STRIKE CALLED - FOR MONDAY Mayor’s Committee Asks Workers to Wait PATERSON, N. J., May 19. Associated Silk Workers met entatives of the Cham! merce, yor'’s Conci! The repre- e silk workers’ n from the Union at- situation National Tex ended al the Manufacturers’ ex- faction after Schweitzer presented the Associated Silk ‘no disagree- But he did he delegates from the and Brown, who de- for the work- d this demand that the not afford it and the suffer along with us not count the boss Committee with Sch- Mayor c n ‘y and to wait nent 1 ion to go into eting on Thurs- da workers at a mass meet- ng c d by the Associated, demand- st be declared. The Associated officials forced to take a stand announced that a strike would be called on Monday. The workers elso demanded u Speakers for the Associated left the hall hastily t was then taken over ho elected a com- unity with mittee of 9 t the Associated. SPRCIAL SCOTTSBORO MARCH- ERS MEET NEW YORK.—All Scottsboro march called to a special 2 pm 9 W. r @ mass meet- mass meeting ipport of Roy Wright e Scottsboro Boys who 1 for habeus corpus t Decatur, Alabama March to Bronx City Hall Today; Protest School Conditions ‘otest parade of and students against 2 Public Schools which the mental and phy- our children” will be Wilkins and In- and march to tervale he Bronx City Hall. e clothing for chi!dren of un- yed and part time workers, no over crowding in classrooms, building of new schools, appointment of more t and other demands will be ners” made. The called after a Parents and protest was onference of last Thursd. Joint Teache MONTHLY MEET OF UNEM- PLOYED TODAY “NEW YORK—The next regular monthly meeting of the Unem- ployed Councils of Greater New York starts today at 10 am. at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th Street. It is composed of regular delegates from the local unemployed councils, city bodies of workers organizations and trade unions. SUBSCRIBE yourself snd get fellow workers |to read the Dai Worker. Young Socialist League National Committee Opposes United Struggle; Members Want It By J. M. On April 6, the Young Commun- ist League, in the interest of uniting the youth in the struggle against hunger, fascism and war, addressed proposals for united action to the Young Peoples’ Socialist League, the League for Industrial Democracy and the National Student League. The call of the Young Communist League pointed out that the needs and in- terests of the working and student youth demanded immediate action. Tt asked all organizations to respond immediately. More than a month has passed since April 6. There has been no reply from the National Committee of the YPSL or from the League for Industrial Democracy which follows the leadership of the YPSL. Every day the need for uniting the youth in fighting action becomes more ur- gent. Roosevelt's inflation policy and proposed sales tax, bringing with it higher prices, will reduce the already Sweat-shop lvel wages of the youth. ‘The herding of the unemployed youth into the reforestation camps is a direct war move which comes simul- taneously with appropriations for a larger military machine in America, Hitler continues to ravage the Ger- man toilers. Every day more schools are closed, thus denying thousands of youth even the right to an educa- tion. The fight to free the 9 in- nocent Scottsboro boys demands im- mediate and united action. In the face of these facts the YPSL Na- tional Committee .has maintained a silence to the call for united action. They follow in the footsteps of the treacherous acts of the Socialist Party leaders who acted against uni- ted May Day demonstrations this year, who made every effort to dis- rupt the Mooney Congress in Chi- cago, who forbade delegates from militant workers organizations from participating in the hand picked Continental Congress in Washington. YPSL Members for United Struggle— Leaders Threaten and Expel The National Committee of the YPSL has been silent to the call for united action, This silence has The Daily Worker today begins the publication of a series of feature articles describing life on New York barges, by John L. Spivak, vet- eran newspaperman and author of “Georgia Nigger.” By JOHN L. SPIVAK, HEY call them barge captains but they are feally laborers with a high-sounding title, and there are 4,000 of them in New York harbor. Half of them have their families on board with them, emaciated women and sickly children. Most of them live in indescribable filth and squalor and all of them exist from hand to mouth, They are the forgotten people of a great city. They are as cut off from life by the ropes that moor them to the docks as though they were in an- other world, for a barge captain must never leave his boat lest a tug comes to tow him, and not finding him ready wait, and thus increase the cost of the tow to the barge company. There have been barge captains who were fired because they left the boat to buy food and a tug came while they were away. 10,000 Men, Women, Kids No one has taken a census of these waterfront people. They are at one pier today and another tomorrow but @ conservative estimate places their number at some 10,000 men, women and children. It was at the foot of 95th Street and the East River that I first saw the inside of a coal barge cabin. The huge, wooden bulk lay on the full tide straining at its tight lines. Its hatches were filled to the brim with coal. At one end was a typical cabin, some tix feet by ten of pine planks pointed dark green and four tiny, curtained windows to supply light and air to the occupants, eC a ae EE the doorway was a two-year-old child, its faces, legs and arms covered by a mass of sores. Another boy, four years old, in a ragged pair of overalls and with a face so grimy from coal dust that it was difficult to tell whether he was white or black, peeked out from behind a greasy door at the stranger’s approach. The mother was a scrawny woman looking far older than her years. Through the open door I could see her bent over a washtub placed on the kitchen table. Without looking up from her work she kekpt crying shrilly to the children not to go too near the low rail. The year before, I learned, the boy had fallen over the rail and the swift tide had almost carried him away. The father sat on the bit used to hold ropes, staring nodoily at his bare-footed children. # | | ‘Typical barge captain described by John L, Spivak in accompany- ing article. He earned a dollar a day for work~- | ing 24 hours a day, seven days a week | and no holidays at any time. Out of | this he had to feed his family, clothe | and dress them. That is why most of | the furniture on a barge is picked up| |at the city dumps and the clothes | from the refuse scows. j | Despite the four windows the cabin | | was dark and gloomy. That may be| | because it was painted the same dark | | green that the boat was for the coal| barge companies rarely supply their | captains with paint for the inside of | | the cabin and since the captain can- | not afford to buy paint, he usually | uses the boat paint for the inside of | | his home. | There was litle space to move | around in. The cabin was divided by |green planks into a sort of living room and kitchen and a bed room | where the father, mother and the two| | children slept on one large double |bed. There were no sheets on the| | |mattress and the blankets were a | dirty gray. There is no use trying to keep things clean, the woman ex- | plained, what with the coal dust sift- |ing in always and the husband and | children bringing in dirt and dust on their persons. | JT is not the coal dust that bothered | |#her the most. It was the cock-| | roaches and bed bugs that they could not seem to get rid of. Once they had spent some of their hard-earned j money for a bucket of sulphur to| |fumigate the place three times, but | the barge tied up near another and | | the roaches and bed bugs swarmed | over to them again. So in their help- | |lessness they decided not to try to} |fght the vermin. They always came, | |like the myriads of ants come every| summer and swarm over the food and the children in the night. | There was a time not so long ago/| | when young men would not take a job on a barge even for a hundred |dollars a month which the company | used to pay. The hours were too |long and there was never a holiday. | Young blood would not stand the| | “prison life” as the captains call it. Single men found it hard to cook their own food and keep the cabin | clean. | Only old men, those over fifty who | would normally work as watchmen, would take the job of barge captain. | but since “prosperity” hit this coun- | try like a southern tornado and young men found it difficult to get jobs,| | younger men were taken and the| | older ones fired. Barge e@ompanies| want young men, especially family men, for rather than risk being fired and being left homeless with their | wives and children they will do car-| | penter work around the boat and thus | save expenses for the company. |running one mile. | winner of the race will be presented MEET IN JAMAICA. NEW YORK.—A mass meeting in protest against the Scottsboro frame- up will be held tonight at the Jam-| aica Arena, Archer Ave, and 144th Pl. The meeting has been arranged by the Angelo Herndon Branch of| the International Labor Defense, under whose auspices two smaller| preparatory meetings were held in| Jamaica Wednesday. | The meeting will be addressed by| Ruby Bates, defense witness; Mrs. Patterson, mother of Heywood Patter- | son, recently condemned to death for the second time at Decatur, Ala.;| Richard B. Moore, and Reverend Mc- Carthy of the Brooks Memorial Church, T. Holmes will act as chair- man, eo Oke NEW YORK.—Négro and white | youth from various sport clubs will | run through the heart of the Negro district in Jamaica, Long Island, Sat- urday, carrying signs demanding the} freedom of Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys. | ‘The run will start at 5 pm. from Midvale Oval, 109th Avenue and Mer- rick Avenue, and follow a two and a half milé course, with a girl’s team Prizes to the at the Arena meeting. ANTI-NAZI MEET IN BROOKLYN | ‘The Brooklyn Committee of Allied| Professions to Aid Victims of Ger- man Fascism will hold a mass meet- ing at Franklin Manor (Franklin and President Streets) on Sunday even-} ing, May 21, at 8:30. | Government WASHINGTON, May 19.—Washing- ton papers state that the government! “has ripped off the kid glove” and) proposes to take drastic action against | the war veterans in convention at Fort Hunt. While preparing for any step they regard as necessary, the} government is using its agents, par- ticularly Mike Thomas, who posed as | a radical in last year’s march, for further disruptive work. Favors Forced Labor Camps | After a conference last night at the | home of Congressman Rhinehart, one of the lackeys of the Roosevelt ad- ministration, this Thomas declared “Ought To Be Grateful” From $100 a month the pay slid to| $90 and so on down the scale until now, depending upon the company, the average pay is less than $2 a da: when loaded and being towed an one dollar a day when the barge is empty and rocking on the river front. | And with prosperity as it is today | most of the barges are empty. | There are companies which, know- | ing that most of their captains are | either too old to look for another job and dare not leave, pay the dollar a day when loaded and nothing when unloaded. “They ought to be grateful we give ‘em a place to stay,” one barge com- pany official explained. eee that he is fully in favor of the forced Jabor camps for the soldiers and | stated that he, himself, would prob- | ably take a job. It is quite clear that if he takes a job in the so-called eforestation camps it will be as a | special government agent, being paid | for his treachery to the war veterans. Congressman Beats Retreat At the camp last night two Con- | gressmen were scheduled to speak. Sellers, of the Convention Committee, | took the floor and flayed the whole government position, with the result | that one of the Congressmen left the | camp without attempting to speak. Government Sabotages Parade ‘The parade scheduled for today was Life on a dump by the Harlem River will be described in John L. Spivak’s article in Monday's issue. NEW YORK.—With the first groups leaving the camps for the for- ests, an additional 15,000 young job- | less workers will be recruited from | this area, including New York and | New Jersey. As in the former drive, | recruiting will be in the hands of the ‘army. not yet under way at 4:30 because the | government did not supply sufficient | | trucks to carry the veterans from the| {camp to Washington. It is clearly} |the intention of the government to | try to postpone the parade to a late) | hour and demoralize the men so the parade will not show the militancy | that actually spurs on the veterans. | Foulkrod Out of the Picture | Harold Foulkrod, former Burns de- | tective, who has persistently carried ‘on splitting tactics, has, with three spoken louder than words. But the attitude of these leaders is not one of indifference. They have actively worked against united struggle. Im numerous cities the members of the YPSL, and even certain local leaders have entered into united struggles with the Young Communist League and other organizations, in spite of instructions to the contrary from their National Committee and the Socialist Party. This was the an- swer Of the rank and file in the YP- SL to the call of the Young Com- munist League for united action. These sincere acts have been met by expulsions and threats. In Chicago the YPSL City Com- mittee, in accordance with the desires of most of the YPSL members, voted to approve the proposals of the Com- munist Party and Young Communist League for one united May Day. They voiced this opinion at the sep- arate May Day Conference called by the Socialist Party. What was the answer of the Socialist Party and YPSL leaders to this response to uni- ted action? Four members of the City Committee were expelled from their organization. The City dele- gates body of the YPSL voted 15 to 4 to reject this expulsion. The So- cialist Party then revoked the char- ters of all YPSL branches. All meet- ings of the branches were forbidden under threat of expulsion. Even Geo, Smerkin, National Sec- retary of the YPSL came under the Socialist Party sledge hammer. He was recently expelled because he at- tended the Tom Mooney Congress in spite of the Socialist Party boycott of the Congress. At the Congress, Smerkin spoke against the disrup- tive policy of the Socialist leaders. Following the Congress, he sent out letters to all YPSL branches asking them to support the fight to free Tom Mooney. This incident indi- cates the depth of the sentiment for united struggle, ami shows the vici- ous measures that the Socialist Par- ty leaders will take to disrupt the ranks of the workingclass. The Socialist leaders reasoned that no crime was greater than velding the fighting front of the youth. Clubbing the unemployed workers of Milwaukee by the “Socialist” admin- istration im Milwaukee, was permis- sible for Hoan. To haye Hillquit as an attorney for the capitalists in an attempt to steal oil fields from the Soviet Union, was in accordance with “Socialist” ethics. But the “crime” of fighting against hunger, fascism and war had to be met by expulsion and threats. In Cleveland, the local Young Communist League organization pro- Posed united action to the YPSL in ine with the proposals of the Na- tional Committee of the Young Com- munist League. The City member- ship meeting of the YPSL endorsed these proposals, and a committee was elected to work out plans for joint action with the Young Communist League and other youth organiza- tions. Again the Socialist Party and National YPSL leaders were filled with horror, They immediately com- municated with Cleveland. “Keep out of any united front activities,” they said. Parker, city secretary of the YPSL, sensing the indignation that would arise from the YPSL members, looked for a loop-hole that would quiet protests, and at the same time, would eliminate any united ac- tion. This loop-hole came in the form of a letter to the Young Com- munist League which stated that be- fore united action could be developed, the respective National Committees must come to some agreement. The National Committee, in turn, has frantically fought against any united struggle. They have not replied even to the proposals that were addressed to them on April 6. Thus the Na- tional Committee steps in the way of any united action. This opposition to united action is meeting with increased protests in the YPSL ranks, The bulk of YP- SL members are affected by the at- tacks on their living conditions, They see the need for united struggle. In New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Phil- adelphia, St. Louis, etc. they have defied expulsion Spreats to answer their convictions. “They have placed | out in full force on Mag a working class interests above disrup- tive instructions. The Young Com- munist League has greeted those sin- cere actions of many YPSL members. “You Are Not Sincere” ‘The YPSL leaders have complain- ed that the Young Communist’s crit- icism of their actions makes united struggles impossible, that they doubt Communist sincerity—that the Young Communists sole aim in proposing joint actions is to break up their or~- ganizations. The sincerity of the Young Com- munist League has been demonstra- ted in the unqualified support and cooperation given to the conference and demonstration called against German fascism that was initiated by the Rand School, ‘the Socialist School. The YPSL members in Chi- cago, who have fought side by side with the YCL in the struggle for un- employed relief for the youth and against high bread prices, can vouch for the sincerity of the Young Com- munist League. The actions of the YCL are dictated by the interests of the working class. The criticism of the disruptive tactics of the YPSL leaders is a workingclass duty. It is this criticism which will cement the unity of Young Socialists and Young Communists in the fight against hunger, war and fascism. It is not the criticism of the YCL, but the evasive and disruptive tactics of the YPSL leaders that is driving members of the YPSL away from their organization. It is not the ac- tions of the Young Communist League but the splitting actions of the YPSL leaders that has shown their insincerity toward united strug- gle. Prepare For Joint National Youth Day The Young Communist League is determined to weld the youth in un- parallelid youth demonstration against war on the occasion of Na- tional Youth Day, May 30th. The Young Communist League has called upon all YPSL members to have their circles participate in the preparation of National Youth Day and to tum BE CANDIDATE FOR N. Y. MAYOR NEW YORK, May 19.—It is likely that Samuel Seabury will announce his candidacy for mayor of New York on a fusion ticket within the next twenty-four hours. All the anti- Tammany forces are pretending to be united behind Seabury. The lat- est addition of strength was the ac- tion of Samuel Untermeyer, for years one of the foremost members of Tam- many’s “board of strategy.” Untermeyer wrote a plea to Sea- bury in which he referred to his fifty- three years’ connection with Tam- many and said that present condi- tions are such that “party loyalty becomes too great a strain for me to endure.” Strong Wall Sireet Backing Bankers and bondholders represent- ing a powerful section of Wail Street are back of Seabury and it is their influnece that has crystallized a pow- erful anti-Tammany mahine. They put forth Seabury in order not to be embarrassed with such a weak can- didate as the many times defeated, Fiorella H, LaGuardia, who is wait- ing an opportunity to again run for mayor on the Republican ticket. The reason for their support of Seabury is that they regard Tam- many government with its tremend- ous list of hangers-on that must be paid as too expensive. After paying off the machine there is too little left for the bondholders, so the bond- holders want a less extensive machine. Pe Banker Harriman Runs from Trial NEW YORK, May 19.—Joseph Har- riman, indicted chairman of the bankrupt Harriman National Bank, disappeared today from the sanitari- um where he was staying. He was out on bail of $25,000 un- der indictment of misuse of bank funds amounting to $1,713,000, It-has been charged that the false entries made by Harriman in the bank’s books were known for months to the Department of Justice, with- out any action being taken. As usual, Harriman made the plea that he was too ill to be tried, when he was indicted April 10. The court accepted the plea and freed the banker on the small bail (to a banker) of $25,000. Committee of the Scottsboro Trial Movie. Will Be Shown at Town | Hall Meet Tomorrow NEW YORK.—For the first time| a New York audience will have an opportunity to see moving pictures of the trila of Haywood Patterson in Decatur, Ala. The fikn will be shown tomorrow night (Sunday) in Town Hall, 113 W. 43rd St., at a meeting arranged by tse National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, | Speakers will include John L. Spivak, Joseph R. Brodsky, and Jos- hua Kunitz. Heywood Broun will be chairman, Threatens Action As, Veterans Turn Down Forced Labor All Forces Rallied in Attempt; to Split Ranks of War Vets Who Are Fighting for Three-Point Program of Demands others, been removed from the camp by the government. What they will do next is problematical, but it is certain that they will try, as agents of the government, to cripple the na- tionwide mass fight of the war vet- erans that is growing up around the demands of the marchers. The rumor has been circulated in the city that the notorious “red” baiter, J. Ham Fish, and other Con- gressmen, may head the right wing| of the parade. Thomas also came to the aid of the government again by announcing that he would recommend that his follow- ers evacuate the camp Monday. Heavy Police Mobilization There is exceptionally heavy police mobilization today as the paraders are forming their lines. Although every- thing has been peaceful in the camp, this mobilization takes place, which shows that the government. agents hope to be able to provoke something. The government, suffering defeat on all its propositions, especially its trump card, the reforestation camp scheme, is indignant at the marchers | and particularly furious that the Communist elements in the leadership consistently exposed such moves. Glassford Tries To Horn In The capitalist press had a story that General Glassford held a con-| ference at 1348 Fairmont Avenue with | leaders of the convention. This con-| ference did take place, but the details were absolutely incorrect. General Glassford, who together with Mac-| Arthur were responsible agents of the government in driving out the last bonus march, approached the leaders of the convention with the idea of accepting the one-point program of SHOE CONFERENCE ON UNITED FRONT CONVENES TODAY NEW YORK.—Today at 2 p.m. the United Front Conference of Shoe Workers will reconvene at the Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl., N. Y. C. to complete its plans for a real United Front Campaign of all Shoe Workers against hunger wages, inhuman speedup and long hours of work. Last Saturday the conference was| attended by 123 delegates coming from six different organizations and rep- resenting 32 shops. It is expected that the conference today will be at- tended by many more delegates com- ing from unorganized shops. Special attention will also be given to the question of relief and unem- ployment insurance for the unem- Ployed shoe workers Gen. Sec., F. Biedenkapp of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial) Union stated today that the senti-| ment of the Shoe Workers in New! A York City was 100 per cent for one big Industrial Union and unalterably opposed to any program of corcilia- tion that did not guarantee a decent standard of living acceptable to the Shoe Workers, short work week and the recognition of the shop commit- tees and the Union. The Conference today is looked, upon by the workers as a definite step in the right direction and has the support of the unorganized, the unemployed as well as organized shoe workers, Pennsylvania Home Owners Must Pay) Taxes or Be Jailed BROOKVILLE, Pa., May 19.— Thirty-five owners of small homes! in Knox the Adjusted Service Certificates. The leaders of the Convention stood adamant and did not change their position. It is clear that Glassford is lobbying for the government, with the idea that the bonus proposition is in- definite as far as government enact- ment is concerned. This gesture was to appease the men and send them home. The three-point program for the payment of the adjustéd service cer- tificates, for no cuts in the disability allowance, and particularly for relief for the unemployed and the farmers, has aroused the anger of the govern- ment officials, so that they are doing everything they can in order to bring about a change in the program. This 4s impossible. The program was over- ees adopted at the Conven- ion. The Alabama delegation are solidly behind the three-point program, as a A] entire delegation from the uth. Morning Freiheit in Danger; Call | Issued for Funds’ \“Need Is Most Pressing” Says the*Central Communist Party; Appeals to All Workers To the Jewish workers of the U.S.A. To the workers in general: Once more the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. appeals to you to help save the Jewish daily militant newspaper, the Morning Freiheit, by contributing to its campaign for funds. For the last few weeks the Morning Freiheit has been ‘campaigning for a 35,000 dollar fund which is the minimum sum required to save it from imminent disaster and to secure its existence throughout the com- ing months, The response of the Jewish workers, both in New York and other cities, has been lively but, unfortunately, insufficient. There have been collected up to cate no more than 15,000 dollars. \Iniportant as this contribution is, and great as are the sacrifices of those thousands of workers who sometimes deprive themselves of prime necessities to help their paper, the Central Committee 20,000 dollars more are raised, the paper will not be able to continue its existence. It is needless to stress the importance of the Morning 'Freiheit for must say quite clearly that unless the workers, particularly at this stage, with inflation cutting the wages of the workers, with relief being discontinued or cut down in many local- ities, with evictions increasing and with the crisis deepening...The Morn- ing Fretheit is a fighting paper. It has been instrumental in leading the workers in every battle of the class struggle and it must continue in order to be able to lead the Jewish workers in the struggle for higher wages, for more relief, for social insurance, for Negro rights, against cap- italist terror, against discriminations against foreign-born workers, against war preparations, and for the defense of the USSR. In order that the Morning Freiheit may continue, new efforts must be made i this campaign by greater numbers of workers. ‘The Central Committee therefore appeals to the workers; Mobilize! Increase the ranks of ing Freiheit fund! Increase your activities in collecting funds! those who contribute to the Morn- Bring the questio~ of the Morning Freiheit inte your shops and into every gathering of workers. fore every workingclass organization. Bring the question of the Morning Fretheit be- Let every worker renew his or her contribution to the Morning Freiheit, even at the expense of temporary privation. The Morning Fretheit must live—and the workers oan ‘seewre ite on- CENTRAL OCODEMEITTBE, OF.0.3.A, 4 istence. 3 MINE LEADERS END JAIL TERM ° Welcome L.Thompson, Raéefske, Getto - PITTSBURGH, Pa—Leo Thomp- son, leader of the 1931 strike in the Cannonsburg-Washington County section, has been released from Blaw- nox, after serving his two-year sen- tence, together with Stella Rasefske. Adam Getto, who served two years in the Allegheny Workhouse for his activities in the strike at Ellsworth, Pa., was also released. These sentences were given by the coal operators’ Judge Cummins, after these militant workers had led the miners in the smash-up of the United Mine Workers’ attempt to break their strike. While in prison, Thompson was particularly singled out for punish- ment. He was confined to the dun- ) geon twice ifor eee at ple 2a and to solidary confinement AID NAZI VICTIMS Milk Strikers Battle Tag Days _ Continue | Throughout City TAG DAY STATIONS BRONX a errerntive Colony WIR, 2700 Bronx Perk | fast. * Bronx Workers Club, 1610 Boston Rd. nee Workers Club, 11§T Southern vd. Middie Bronx Workers Club, 3662 Third Avenue. Union Workers Club, 801 Prospect Avenue. German UP Anti-Fascist, Ebling Casino, 156th Street and Third Avenue. Hungarian Workers Club, 569 Prospect Ave. DOWNTOWN Midtown Branch WIR, 50 West 38th Street. East Side Workers Club, 165 East Bway. Vegetarian Workers Club, 220 Fast 14th Street. International Labor Defense, 799 Broad- way, Room: 336. ‘ Rational Committee Aid Victims German Fascism, 75 Fifth Avenue. Conference Progressive Labor Action, 128 Esst 16th Street. Ukrainian Daily News, 17 Fast Third Bt. Russian Mutual Aid, 122 Second Avenue. HARLEM Labor Temple, 243 East 84th Street. Finnish Workers Home, 15 West 126th St. Esthonian Workers Home, 27 West 115th Street. Czecho-Slovak Workers Home, 347 East Street. TaInd Hungarian Workers Home, 360 Rast 8ist Street. WILLIAMSBURG Bridge Plaas Workers Club, 295 Rodney St. Williamsburg Workers Club, 43 Manhat- tan Avenue. Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, Willoughby and Myrtle Avenues, EAST NEW YORK East New York Workers Club, 608 Cleve- land Avenue. Hinsdale Workers Club, 313 Hinsdale Ave. VILLE WIR Children’s Centre, 421 Stone Avenue. Brownsville Youth Center, 105 Thetford Avenue. Brownsville Workers Center, New York Avenue. CONEY ISLAND WIR. Branch, Coney Island, 2708 Mermaid venue. Brighton Beach Club, BENSONK’ Mapleton Workers Club, 2006 70th Street, BORO PARK Boro Park Workers Center, 1373 43rd St. Boro Park Workers Center, dist Street and 13th Avenue. Boro Park Workers Center, 1145 45th St. QUEENS County Labor Lyceum, Forest and Putnam Avenue. 10,000 Fired from Relief Jobs MINEOLA, L. I, May 19.—Ten thousand unemployed will be dis- charged by the Nassau County Emer- gency Work Bureau according to the announcement of its chairman, Al- income for these workers most of bert 8. Roberts. This was the only whom have families to support. FURRIERS DO NOT WORK SATURDAYS! NEW YORK.—The Fur Department in a call issued yesterday stated that the Fur Trade Board decided that no furrier is to go in to work on Saturday and that this decision will be carried out iagevactpgite The fur- fiers are again urged not to on Saturday. In addition to that the 1440 Best Third Street, URST Guards in Wisconsin continued across Shawano county to: Brown county, 14 miles east of Green- bay. The battle is far from finished, as 2,000 guardsmen have been moved into Shawano territory, and are now using fixed bayonet attacks to repulse the farmers, A hundred men belong- ing to the machine gun company from Appleton, has just swung into action with instructions to use all force necessary to break the strike. Shot in the Back The se of fire-arms is beoming more prevalent. It now transpires that Heiding, the 18-year-old farm boy who was shot in the spine, re- ceived a bullet from the rifle of Cap- tain Veste Jensen, Two hundred and fifty pickets were trapped between barbed wire fences and attacked with clubs and gas bombs by two troops of military. The field was soon filled with wounded farmers, moaning in pain, many of them bleeding profusely, The worst beating was given to a 65-year-old farmer who “didn’t run fast enough.” Farmers Disarm Gunman At Durham Hill, in the Milwaukee milk shed territory, there was a furi- ous battle lasting two hours, between guardsmen and strikers, Bayonet charges were made, and 2 dozen gas bombs used against the farmers. The farmers were ordered to leave Durham Hill, which they have held for five days, but they re- fused to budge. This started the fight. One of the most vicious of the guardsmen, Harry Wolf of Janesville, was put out of commission when 15 farmers pounc.d on him, and took away his revolver and equipment. This tactic is t 2coming more frequent, and many of the farmers are obtain- ing arms and ammunition in this way. Police Trickery Useless In addition to using the most brutal violence against the farmers, the authorities are also resorting to trickery of every description. Fake telephone calls are being sent out by the police and deputies to picket captains, stating that the strike has been called off, or giving misinforma- tion about the routes followed by milk trucks. In spite of these ruses, hundreds of farmers who did not believe the reports that the strike had been called off, crowded into the Wisconsin capital, Madison, today for a demonstration. More than a thou- sand farmers, are expected by noon. Singler Exposes Himself Such trickery on the part of the union has arranged for active mem- bers to patrol the fur market. authorities are aided by the weak and vacillating leadership of Singler. This |Farmers Give Unemployed Councils Milk Free for Jobless Relief Stations” (From the Daily Worker's Special Correspondent.) MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 19.—The latest action in the series of ature battles which are raging in Wisconsin was a renning fight pickets and guardsmen over a 20 mile front as pickets prevented sumption of milk shipments. The battle started at Cemetery Bill and i Singler has not been showing up. He is trying to run out on the strike, but this “leader from behind” not be able to stop the-movement ot the farmers, which is surging forward with an impetus which is growing, every day. f | oe eeior | N The farmers, far from slowing down the struggle, are receiving new ac- cessions of strength hourly. Farm Holiday units in the horth are re- pudiating the leadership of Gilberts and Milo Reno, and are joining the pickets. Indians from Oneid# Reser- vation, Outagamie county, are join- ing the picket lines, This strike and reports that the farmers are arming have ctruck fear into the ranks of the exploiters, They do not know what to -expect next. The strike is moreover costing the State $20,000 a day in payrolls, trans- portation and equipment. The Communist Party. is more and more taking the leadership in this struggle, particularly in Racine, and in some of the northern counties. In the former place, the: farmers are bringing in milk to.-be distributed free of charge to the workers, and the Communist Party has opened two distributing stations. ~The Socialists are paying lip service tothe cause of, the strikers, but the rank and finds it increasingly difficult to ex- plain why their leaders have sending Milwauee police to act as strike-breakers. sient That the socialist rank and file is coming rapidly to the conviction that the sincere supporters of the farmers and workers’ struggles are the Communists can be seen by the news (printed elsewhere) of the ac- tion of the Milwaukee Trades Council, which overwhelmingly voted to back the strike with all means possible, and criticised bitterly the Socialist officials of the city, | Given a fighting ‘leadership, and with all the support that is forth- oming from the workers, and from farmers of other states, the Wiscon- sin strikers must win, their a