The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1933, Page 2

PAGE TWO BARRICADES Printed by Spesial Permis- IN BERLIN 22° PUBLIGHERS, 38! Fourth “A Avene, Mew York City AH Workers are urged to read this book and spread it among thelr Friends. BY KLAUS NEWNRANTZ WLUSTRATED «PY WALTER QUIRT THE STORY THUS FAR: The workers of the prélétarian district, Wedding, in Berlin, demonstrate May Day, 1920, despite the ban issued by the Socialist Police Chief, Zoergiebel. The workers’ demonstration is at- | tacked by the police. | A protest meeting fellows, which is also attacked by the police. Armed insurrection,” said some.| Women with lamps in their hands “What with?” “With pop-guns and|came down to the doors when they broomsticks?” repleid others. “Do| heard the men from the “Red Night- | you perhaps want to start a civil war | ingale” working among the wood and in Wedding? Of course, man,| iron tubes. When the first of them | Thomas will become the red general) appeared carrying beams and long} and Hermann, People’s Commisar of | poles on théir shoulders they under- the Koslin quarter!” stood what was heppening. Within a/ Everybody laughed Nervousness | few minutes evefything was in full disappeared. They listened calmly.| swing. Do believe,” said Hermann) “Bring a light here!” shouted a gravely, “that if the Party gave out| nigh-pitched voice. ‘They could not the call armed insurrection, we| see their own hands before their eyes. | d remain armed with a few out-| Through the darknéss the unsteady, date pistols? Comrades, if that) trembling lights shed their reflection the case, Berlin would look very| on the men moving among the ruins different tonight! If today we de-| of yesterday's barricades. Bright f se bandits nd ourselves against th s best we c: that is spots of light appeared in all the! doordays and ran along the houses to! the place of work. Wood splintered. The door builder's hut flew open with bank. The tools lying in readiness for the navvies were distributed. “Hi, what are you dreaming about—give us & hand!” Pickaxes, spades and | axes clashed on to the pavement.! They took all the boards, sticks, etc., they could find lying about. ¥ in thought at first that they had all gone crazy! When the pro-/ cession of people carrying these things passed through the alley—be- tween the grotesque shadews of the | worhen were run- boys suddenly loudly, as if} of the a loud For goodness’ sake, shut up! You'll police on our heels!” Her- furiously. What did y roaring the “Interna- now, in the middle of the 1ight, in the silent, blockaded quarter, whilé in all probability the machine- ;| guns of the police were potted a few! hundred yards further on? But there was nothing doing! quickly as dried-up thirsty soil ab-| sorbs water, the melody was taken up by the people, by the whole alley. | Women were hanging out of the black As| was reached when & cour- e polee open wirdows, shouting and waving} their hands Thy came running out of the doors, the paventents were blind in f suddenly filled with singing and | laughing people. The dancing lights | painted long moving shadows on the up, and through the n passage the woczers pushed their way inte | Ge sk wall | Kurt stood with Hermann a few| Hermann saw an oid woman stand- seconds longer, speaking softly about | ing next to him, who was carefully Anna. From moment he had| protecting the glass of her lamp from disarmed the pal nan he had heard| the wind with her hand, as if this nothing mo: Only just now | were the most important thing in the | in the d Nightingale” a woman) world. Above it the face shone, a him that Anna had been | round white patch. in whieh tine eyes ed and the boy taken home by} looked out like two dark holes. The a comrade. Someone had seen that/ thin bloodless lips weré moving with she was beaten by the police. That/ the song. was all, This uncertaintly drove him| “Mad . . + quite mad!” Hermann | not betray any secrets, but she might thing quite different. with the help of police witnesses be; Just before it reached the Wiesen| coavieved of rebellion, violence, or | Strasse the procession stopped. Picks | God knows what, and be sentenced to| and spades flew into action. Crash. | years of imprisonment. Tt was with difficulty that Hermann) they tore up the pavement to the/ * D | svopped him from going to the police-| right and left and lifted the héavy! reaches the I. L. D. of instances of| Plaza Hall at 2:30 p. m. In the siation to search for her. Kurt was| cobblestonés with erowbars. known as Communist and they| Look out, comrades, mind your legs!” v simply have kept him there.| Crrrash! Perhaps he would nevertheless havé| ‘Three young workers appeared out yisk it, had hé known when and how | of the darkness of fhe alley carrying he would sée her again | heavy gas stréet lamp on their | A : . shoulders. “Look out, make room!” Bang. iron pipe fell aerdss the road. “Just bring a light here. Grete, | come here.” The women ran baek-_ | wards and forwards with their lamps. | Suddeniy a short, muffied thud was heard from the Wiesen Strasse. A) rocket rose. “Lie down,” someone shouted. For | seconds the corner was lit up by a) glaring green light. Trémbling, long shadows ran over the houses as the | ball of light sank to the ground. Hiss- | ing and smoking, it fizzled out on the pavement just in frent of the barri- cade. The police had sent out a patrel. Only the fear that the fire of their shots ht show where they were prevented them from shooting. Carefully three shadows moved in front of the barricade, closely pressed to the Houses. Motionless they stood for a short period at the corner of the Wiesen Strasée, one with the gray of the wall. A hasty movement, jyst opposite a doorway, betrayed the police patrol through the silver but- tons on théir uniforms. The lights behind the barricade disappeared. Peng... . . peng. The window-panes in the entrance | | 517 SPXTH AVENUE, AT 28TH stRRET| | OPPOSIte fell to the ground ih splin- - ; | ters After a short but sharp ex- | change of shots. the police retreated. | The work behind the barricade went | on, (70 BE GONTINUED) | | The noise of wooden beams being thrown into the street alarmed the inhabitants. Doors banged. Some were running along in front of the window into the darkhess whence the noises came. Paraffin candle and Wwshts appeared on the landings. 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TO ALL READERS OF THE “DAILY WORKER” TO ALL MASS ORGANIZATIONS HAVING WEEKLY ORDERS We find that a few of the organizations are cutting out their orders because of the approaching summer months and because many of the workers are leaving the city for that period, We urge every one of these workers to get a three-months’, two-months’, or one- month subscription for the Daily Worker in their absence, so as to keep in constant touch with the doings and activities of the working class. Do not DAILY WORKEP. NEW YORK TUESDAY, MAY 25. 19. iSon Slain by Cops | \Father Asks Y. C. L. | to Organize Youth DETROIT.—“Now I want fight the capitalist system that | murdered my boy. My boy had no) | chance under this system. He was | a good boy, he wanted a job but | there wasn’t any. I want you to | teach the young people to join the Young Communist League, that will organize them in a better so- ciety. | These were the words of the | father of Nick Jeftazek to the or- | ganizer of the Young Communist| League here. Nick was shot by a| | patrolman, the third youth to meet his death at the hands of police and railroad detectives here within a week. A mass funeral for Jeftazek is to be held, starting from Martin Hall, 4959 Martin St., organized by the Unemployed Councils and the ¥. C. L, His death, as well as the shootings of the other two young workers, will be stressed at the Nations! Youth Day meeting on RACKETEER TRIES TO IMPERSONATE SCOTTSBORO BOY I. L. D. Warns Against Tmposters BUFFALO, N. Y., May 22.—A young Negro racketeer posing as Haywood Patterson, travelling with a young little girl who posed as Ruby Bate has just been exnosed by the Intern: tional Labor Defense here last week. The Negro bay, telling a wild story of escape, had apparently collected large amounts of money in various cities, travelling fast, pretending to be a fugitive and therefore secretive, be- fore he came to Buffalo. Quickly Exposed Workers flocked to the I. L. D. here when he and the girl came to town, to offer help. He was quickly exposed after making a long statement of his expésriences in the Scottsboro case, not a single point of which coincided with the facts of the case, and ducked out of town with his girl companion. The racketeering methods used by the boy were compared by the I. L. D. to the schemes used b; racketsers, including persons holding themselves out as representing “Dem- ocratic organizations,” isters, and many others, who collected = have thousands of dollars from workers all) over the country on ment that it was for Scott, fense. In a small number of cases, hund- p false state- sboro dé- reds of workers, enraged by this dup-| ltcity, have forced the racketeers, once exposed, to turn over this stolen money to the International Labor | Defense or the National Scottsboro Action Committee, the only two or- ganizations now authorized to collect funds for the Scottsboro defense. Guard Against Racketeers Strong measures are being taken by He knew that she would| was thinking, but he méant some-| the I. L. D. to see that no bona fide | imously accepied in place of the com~ | collector ever goes out without direct | mittes propocal of proportional repre- credentials from ‘the organization, and to force turning over of the money which has already been col- |Crash. The stones threw sparks. First | jected under false pretenses by irres-| Committee of Action be held S@tur- ponsible perfons. Daily information racketeering on Seotisboro all over the country. The International Labor Defense calls on all workers and sympathisers te send funds for the Scottsboro de- fense directly to it. Money is batily needed to carry on the legal and mass defense steps to save the lives of the Scottaboro boys which the I. L, D. has undertaken. Funds should be sent to the In- ternational Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 East lith St., New York City. By JOHN L. SPIVAK. mn, T the foot of 95th Street and the East River, where sewers empty into the oily water, there is a spaci- ous dock to which coal barges are almost always moored. Sometimes there are dozens of boats there and always when the barges come word is flashéd to the nearby tenements that coal is being unloaded. It is then that ragged, unkempt crews of Negroes and white leave the holes they Call home and scurry to the dock with their burlap sacks to fill them with eoal for their stoves. When luci. is with them they get a few ex- tra bags to sell to those too old to clamber up and down the barge’s ladder, There is never a day that passes by that this scene is not enacted here and om a hundred other coal docks in New York harbor. Sometimes in winter when the snow is frozen on the railings and decks are as slip- pery as polished glass, a man slips and falls into the water. Sometimes one is drowned. It is the price the poor pay for trying to keep warm. Dive Into Hold. | There is an unwritten law on the | coal docks that the diggers for coal | huge steam shovels that unload the hundreds of tons into the coal com- pany bins have scooped up all they | cen. It is then that the signal is | ven and the waiting men and boys | lescend into the hold and with broom | and shovel sweep up the dust and the bits of coal left. They are like a lot of ants attacking some choice morsel of food in their bustling hur- ry. They want to get as much as possible and be ready for the next barge which is being unloaded. They are strange, sure-footed creatures, these men coming up witl 50-pound sacks loaded with dust and coal, It does not take long before | hold many other} shall not board a barge until the | N.Y UNIONS ELECTS PROV NEW YORK—Altho there were many heated arguments on questions of policy, a healthy spirit of unity prevailed throughout the Second Shoe Work- ers United Front Conference held in afternoon and evening. The meeting#——_——-— was concluded by the eleetion of the United Front Provisional Committee of Six. Each organization being re- presented by one delegate. ‘The conference opened at 3 P. M, ‘and a check-up of delegates showed | | that only 7 out of 123 were absent. | The organizations Shoe & Leather Union; The Italian Federation Shoe Workers; National Shoe Work- Association; The Boot é& Shoe| orkers Union; Shoe Workers Pre-| tective Union, and The Goodyear Operators Union. | D’seuss Organization | he first order of business was the | discussion on the proposed resolu-| tions on organization as submitted by the Resolution Committee at the first! meeting of the conference. A substi- | tute resolution proposed by the dele-/ gates of the National Shoe Workers Association was withdrawn by them in order that they may submit the different points in opposition to the represented were: | Workers Industria] | of Committee's resolution, as amend- ments. ‘There appeared little difference opinion during the discussion until t ction of the resolution was} ached which dealt with the duties of the proposed United Front Com-| mittee of action and its composition. | The delegates representing the Na-| tional Shoe Workers Association were | of the opinion that the only duty of | the Committee of Action should be to} conferences and enter into friendly discussions with & view to| bring about one big Union in the} indi y: | The delegates from the Italian Federation of Shoe Workers and the} Shoe Workers Industrial Union main- tained that the United Front Com-| mittee of Action must not only dis-| | cuss in a friendly way how to bring about one big union, but must, pend- ing the formation of h a union, be | actively engaged in leading the work- | ers in struggle and in strikes, not | only against wage-cuts and miserable shop and living conditions, but also for wage increases and reduction of | hours of labor and to prepare the | hoe workers for a general mass | struggle in the industry in the near | future. After four hours of discussion, dur- ing which time more than 30 dele-| | gates participated, the Organization | | Resolution as prepared by the Com- mittee’ was adopted with minor changes, the vote being 14 against and 69 for the reSclution. On the} question of the composition of the | United Front Committee, a motion | to elect five delegates from every organization represented was unan- | sentation, | It was further decided that the first meeting of the United Front day afternoon, June 3rd at the Irving meantime, every organization is to take the necessary steps for the election of its five delegates to the United Fro Committee of Action. Pending the first meeting of this committee, the six delegates elected, jas already stated, are to carry on United Front work in the spirit of | the resolution. The six delegates elec- ted were: Boot and Shoe—Rosen- berg. National — Bixby. Goodyear— | wm. Russell. Protective—M. Bacon. _ TRADE UNION NEWS SECOND CONFERENCE OF SIX SHOE JONAL COMMITTEE OF SIX. Resolutions Adopted Call for Active United Front Committee of Action | Federation—Garafallo. Industrial — UNITED FRONT the Irving Plaz: Hall last Saturday I, Rosenberg. The first task of this committee will be to unite forces in support of | | the ike at the man-Sass Shop, where 120 shoe workers are out fighting against a wage cut and for | the reinctetement of discharged | workers. The strikers are members | of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union and the Italian Federation organization. A United Front Committee of strikers is in charge of thé strike. An additional task is also the part- icipation of all shoe workers in the strike against the Drell Shop IN 490 BARBER» SHOPS IN BRONX NEW YORK.—Six hundred barbers in 400 shops in the Bronx are out on} strike, following the strike call issued} by the Jousneymen Barbers’ Inter- national Union Local 560. The strike} has the support of the rank and file| which called the strike through 4 rank and file eommittee. Other barber shops in the Bronx are expected to be drawn into the) strike shortly, so that 800 to 900 | Bronx shops will be tied up. This is the first time that the rank/ and file hes called and led a strike} in this local, and elected its own| strike commitee of 15. The strike has | the full support of the rank and file) membership, and is called and led| over the heads of the A. F. of L. bu-| reaucracy. | The demands of the strikers are} (1) a@ minimum wage of $25 weekly,| with commission of 50 per cent over) $35. Wages for a single week day of $5; single Saturday $8, 50 per cent} over $12; and Friday and Saturday) $13, 50 percent over $19. (Oliver Mine Co. Refuses to Pay Tax; Relief Cut | HIBBING, Minn., May 21.—The| Oliver Mining Company, control-| | ling most of the iron mines on the Mesaba Range, announced that it| would refuse to pay its next in- Stallment of taxes, about five mil- lion doliars, due in October. The Steel Trust has been agitating and lobbying for a long time for reduc-| tion in taxes, and th’s latest move is part of this campaign. While farmers and unemployed workers ate being evicted and fore-| closed because they are unable to, | pay rent, mortgages, or taxes, thete |is no indication that the Farmer- Labor 2dm‘nistration of Minnesota headed by Garvin Olson will do anything to prosecute the Oliver! Mining Company. The failure of the Oliver Mining Company to pay taxes will mean a drastic reduction in the m’serably {small amounts of relief given by the local and state government. Letters from Our Readers Soldiers Should Not | Be Neglected Cleveland. Editor Daily Worker: I read in the Daily Worker. dated May 13th, that the J. Louis Eng- dahl Workers Club invited workers, students and intellectuals to také part in the cultural and social ac- | tivities. That's all right, but why not invite one of the most important sections of the working population? I think that the soldieis play the most important role in times of rev- olution whether bourgeois or social. I simply write these few lines for the benefit of those who do not un- derstand, and who neglect the soldier. Nine speakers out of ten never refer to the soldiers when they address audiences. Who keeps in power the Hooligan Hitler? The soldiers. Lenin always mentioned in his speeches the soldiers, but in the U. S. A. the soldier is very much neglected. Whether it is in clubs or mass meetings, the soldier should never be forgotten. —A Workingman. Demonstrate National Youth Day,) May 30, against lynching and oppres- sion of Negro youth! No discrimina- tion of the Negro youth! Socialist Secretary Says, “Can’t Go With Them” Longer EDITOR'S NOTE: We are printing this letter of a member of the Soci- alist Party. He writes as many other 8. P. members feel, the disgust with the Party which is responsible for the betrayal of the working class. On some points raised in his letter the Communist position is not stated correctly. He writes concerning the farmers’ organization thus, “there are a few Communists inside the organi- zation who are just waiting until the present leaders can lead no further to step in and get conirai”. This is not the position of the Communist Party. Our interest “is not to wait and than get control”. Our task is to convinee the workers and farmers fight together on the basis of their needs. In the course of the activity, not to wait, but by our own experi- ence show them that the toilers must, fight against the misleaders while fighting against the capitalists. In order to defeat the capitalists, they 12-Year-Old Boy Makes 20 Cents a Day Picking Coal on up all the coal they can find they empty the bags on the dock ard sift | the pieces from the dust by hand. They go through each pile carefully | for each piece of coal counts. & cee | HERE was a boy of twelve, his face | 4 grimy with coal dust, who rushed about filling his three sacks and smil- ing contentedly. “Why aren’t you in school, boy?” I asked when he came up the ladder with a sack of coal on his shoulder. He grinned. “I get twenty cents a | bag for this coal,” he said cheerfully, “and my mother needs it.” There seemed to be nothing to say to him after that and I turned away. On the doek, bent over while crack- | ing large chunks of coal inte smaller bits, was a clean-cut white man, his | face somewhat thin and drawn. He was breaking the coal with a piece of iron he had pitked up in the nearby junk yerd. I focused my camera on Me id he turned away quickly. bg 't take my picture, Miste: i River Barge said quietly. Then he added: “It’s bad enough to have to get coal to keep your kids warm...” He got up quickly apparently fear- ful that T would take his picture and leaving the rest of his coal pile, walked away. A ten-year old boy swooped down upon it for his own bag. HE barge captains sit in front of their cabins smoking. They do/| not interfere with there hordes. Some ; feel sorry for them and those who do not have learned that men who are cold and hungry will not be de- nied some things. There was a cap- tain this past winter who never let | them on board. When a cold spell came and he moored to the dock with a capacity load of a thousand tons of stove coal some fifteén black and white gnomes from the tene~ ments swarmed aboard, Their homes were cold and they would not wait until the barge was unloaded bofore trying to get coal. The captain ordered them off but they paid no attention to him. Some of them worked in pairs, one filling the sack and the other receiving it on the dock. The barge master seized a wooden club and brandished it. “When Men Are Cold and Hungry”. They say he neyer knew how it happened but hands surrounded him and he found himself in the icy water erying for help. A nearby barge captain rescued him and gave him dry clothos. “When mén are cold and hungry”, caid the wrinkled old captain who told mie the story, “ya never know what théy'll do. Me—I always lets ‘em have the coal left in the hatches, It don’t do me no good and they need it.” And a sad-faced Negro who was cifting a pile of coal on the dock nodded his head. must defeat the enemy who helps the | capitalists. In another place he points out that | — probably after 6 months the people will loose “Faith in their God” and their faith in Roosevelt. No, fellow workers, the faith in Roosevelt will be broken not by itself, but by exposing every phrase of Roosevelt's demagogy and mobilizing the workers to struggle against the Rocsevelt hunger program. | We must not make religion the | main issue. Large sections of work- | ers are under the influence of reli- gion. Rather the main issue is to fight for the demands facing the workers and in this way we will build the workers’ organizations. We raise these points of criticism in a comradely way. With the inter- est of making our program clear. We welcome you into our ranks to join the Communist Party, to show others to follow your example. Dear Sir: I wrote to the National Office of the Unemployed Council some time ago for information relative to the orga- nization of a council in Okemah, and they gave me your name and address and advised me to get in touch with you, so I sent one letter to you and it was returned to me, but saw your address in the lest issue of the “Guardian”, so I am hoping to reach you this time. Since writing to the National Office, the Farmers’ Holiday Association has sprung up in this county, and has become strong in membership. We know the leaders of that organiza~- tion are just misleaders of the mas- ses, and that they can lead only so far while the masses will continue on to a higher degree of militancy, so as there are a few Communists | inside the organization who are just | waiting until the present leaders can lJead no further to step in and get control. Do you not think we should | coneentrate our efforts along that line. Instead of trying to set up separate and distinct organizations, there are a few of us fellows here who have never been in contact with the Com- munist Porty, but have been doing our bit just the same. As to myself, I was raised a socialist, but after a little thinking for myself, I can see that the Communist is the only true socialist and that we must have the dictatorship of the proletariat instead of a representative form of political government. I have been the secretary of the So- cialist Party here since it was orga- nized, but can go with them no fur- ther, I have been told there is a local of the Communist Pariy in Oklahoma City. If this is true and you can put us in touch with the secretary, we will appreciate it very mueh. There are two things, which, more than any others Leep us from con- verting the people here to Commu- nism and these are: the people's un- veaconable faith in their god, and their faith in Roosevelt. But Rot yelt will soon lose the confidenee, and after they have prayed for some- thing to eat for about six months without receiving an answer to their prayers, they may become awave of ; Any special To the Sho Unions, Ne | | By BILL GEBERT 1 Central Commitiee of our has issued a call to the whole to seéctire 5,000 new arly subscriptions for the Saturday edi- tion of the Daily Worker. This drive, if we are to get results, must be con- centrated in the shops, mines, trade unions, locals of the Socialist Party, in the Negro organizations and or- ganizations of the unemployed. The | whole orientation of the drive must be to penetrate with our fighting organ, the Daily Worker, into the | midst of the decisive section of the | American working class. Up till now, the Daily Worker has | not reached deeply enough into this | section of the proletariat. We speak | }much of changing our methods o work. We speak much about making | a turn to the shops and trade unions. Unfortunately, most of the time we just talk about it. Even when we | formulate our plans of work, at the most we mer n “shops and trad unions,” but that is as far as we go. approach, that is, to place the question of the Daily Worker as an indispensable weapon in the daily struggles of the masses in a given: shop, in a given trade union, is omitted. This reflects itself in the Daily Worker. There is not | sufficient material written by work- | er correspondents from important shops of the country, trade unions, ete. That is why we don't penetrate, with the Daily Worker, that section of the working class which we must win and organize, and the Daily Worker is one of the best means of doing so. Must Reach Heavy Industries In the Chicago District, the drive, | if it is to be successful, must be a drive to get subs for the Daily Worker from the Stockyard workers, steel workers, railroad workers, min- ers, Negro workers and members of | the A. F. of L., P. M. A, Socialist Party, and members of organizations of the unemployed. To carry thru this objective, it is necessary to mo- bilize, not only our Party members, who must be very active in this drive, but in addition to that, the | Party members in the shops, in the | trade unions, in the fraternal mass organizations, in the Unemployed Councils, Chicago Workers’ Commit- tee on Unemployment, Unemployéd Citizens Leagues, in the Negro mass organizations; to mobilize, to put in motion masses of workers in these organizations, to carry on a campaign of securing subscriptions and readérs for the Daily Worker. In the minds of millions of prole- tarians, faith in the capitalist sys- tem has been shaken. Millions are asking the quéstion as to what is the With the Daily ps, Trade’ gro Masses way out, question of the Soviet | Union, the question of the daily econ- oinic and political struggles, of strug- gle against imperialist war, of the demagogy of President Roosevélt— ell these problems can be most éf- fectively answered if the Daily Worker will become the mass organ of our Party. Wipe Out Pessimism As a rulo wé underestimate the importance of our press. The best example of our district is the Illinois coal fields. There, where the masses of miners até in motion, in ggle, the Daily Worker and Workers’ Voice have not reached the thousands of miners who are willing to read these ition to subscribe for a would buy and ri the Paper daily. Some of them in a position to subscribe, but ‘we accept the liné of least resistance. ome say “the miners are not ready the Daily Worker and Workers’ Voice.” This pessimistic outlook must be wiped out of our ranks. Without the Daily Workér and Workers’ Voice among the miners, how can we pos- sibly think of consolidating conscious revolutionary: forces that will be able to participate and give guidance and jleadership to the growing struggles of thé miners? It is simply impossible. The same apolies to other industries —Calumet steel region, Stockyards. and is true of the Negro masses, etc. Finally, a word about workers’ cor- réspondence. Hand in hand with the drive for subscriptions for the Daily, it is necessary to build up workers’ correspondence. Here, for instance, is what steel worker correspondénis can write about: Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bethlehem Stee! Corporation, in his annual report to thé stock- holders, declared: “The earnings of many em- ployes are insufficient to provide the necessities of life.” If the steel magnate, Schwab, is forced to admit the starvation of the employed steel workérs, then what are the actual conditions of the stecl workers? Here is where workers’ cor- réspondence publicize, explain and give a living picture of the conditions of the workers and show the way to organization and struggle against hunger and starvation. Our press must reflect, much more than up till now, the real economic conditions of the toiling masses. This cannot’ ‘be mills, shops, trade unions, among done by the editorial staff alone. This can be done by everyone of us in thé Negro masses, impoverished farmers and intellectuals. -On with the Daily Worker Drive— AMUSE MENTS The Theatre Guild Presents ——""| The MASK ANDTHE FACE |) By LUIGI CBIARELLI Adapted by W. Somerset Maugham BIOGRAPHY |! . 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PERFORMANCE, 1 to 11 p.m. | Auspices: Communist Party, Sec. 8 Demonstrate National Youth Day.) May 30, aga’nst sweatshop conditions, | and for increased wages for young | workers! | intern’) Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOR AD Wark Done Under Versunel Care of Dr. C. WEISSMAN DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) Briyo PHONE: DICKENS 2-9012 M. Office 8-10 1-2, 6-8 P.M, All Those Interested in Joinini Tent Colony At 3 WOCOLONA Come to 2 Mecting THURSDAY, MAY 26TH, at WORKERS CENTER—50 East 13th Street Beacon DAILY FROM 20 BRONX PARK FAST. DECORATION DAY in CAMP NITGEDAIGET Sport Cultural Activities: The Only Workers’ Activities: Base Ball Camp Open on Lectures 2 Basket Decoration Day Campfires Theatriont Volley Bungalows, Hotel Performances Soctcer Rooms, according Singing . Tennis to your own choice — Swimming acer fone BERCON FROM : @PECTAL RATE: GRAND” CENTRAL Exeusions $2.00 Round Trip aun" *Y#FE cans, LEAVE Weekend Price: 3 Days 46 (incl. tax). One Day: $2.25 in He. Bp Worker} Task of Reaching Thousands of New Readers Cannot Be Successful Without Forming Strong Ties Through Correspondence ny NNR NNN the boat is swept clean. | “They'd a-bin a lot of us starved | the fact that they will have to be Those who hope to fill a few extra to death this winter if it wasn’t for| their own savior if they are to be Every Additional Day: $2.00 forget to send in your subscriptions when you leave town. ‘ sacks to sell to their neighbors bring | ‘ A this coal’, he explained. “We gits| found worth saving. TION CALL: ESTABROOK 8-1 ie * nae ‘ théir bags tied around their waists | Photo shows 12-year-old boy in | & quarter a bag—comoetimes 20 cents Yours for the revolution, Fee en ae bs i vit | with a rope. 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