The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1933, Page 2

Page Twe DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1933 John Schmies, Communist, Heads Detroit United Workers Ticket NEW YORK.—Armed, soldier-like guards with pistols in the belts of their uniforms keep watch over the very bedrooms of aliens and deportees on Ellis Island, Even Edward Corsi, Commissioner of Immigration for the port of New York, is a trifle apologetic about it. Leaders of Struggle for Unemployment Insurance and Higher Wages Nominated for City Office at Conference of Unions and Workers’ Organizations Called by the Communist Party | NEW YORK, July 2—Mrs. Ogden | : here forced the charities to provide Edward T. Kirby, director of the | iti lling at- | son from 848 South West Si., where| tated @ campaign today calling Nelson worked for a basket on the| tion holds that recreation is the best |Give, w Home for . ; Give, New Home for .| News Briefs |Armed Guards Menace |Evicted Family When a A |Werkers Demonatrate| No: Work? | Ge'T» ths Push Ellis Island Inmates INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 30—A| + Mills, F. Trubee Davison, William |... 2 : : . militant demonstration of workers) riaj¢ Harkness, Hugh Frayne and| Miss Perkins’ “Investigation” Confines Itself ‘ *. . a mew home and a moving van. t0|Xetional Recreation Association, In- | to “Powdering the Nose” of This Federal ‘Pen’ are | venti to the value of recreation for he pad been tiring for tnree Yess [unemployed youths. | “The associa | |foreed labor gang, and the landlord| Substitute when work cannot be | wanted to evict him while his wife | found DETROIT, Mich., July 2—At a conference called by the Communist ers than ever befor are jailed, ) 4 y, the United Workers Ticket of didates for the Detroit city pri- es Oct. 10, was nominated here urday. The conference was held in Workers’ Home, 1343 East Ferry St. It was attended by delegates of | the Communist Party, Auto Workers | n: Sat Union, Unemployed Councils, Work- | j ers’ clubs and other workers’ ganizations. John Schmies, Communist Party District Organizer, Phil Raymond, leader of the Auto Workers Union, | and Zarl Reno, head of the unem- | ploy councils were nominated for mer, city treasurer and city coun- cilman respectively. Other candidates are likewise lead- ofs in the many sided struggle of the workers of this city of automobiles and unemployment. The speeches at the conference rang with the fighting determination to make the election campaign part and parcel of the battle to raise wages and win relief and unemploy- ment insurance. Against Discrimination Both Negro and white candidates are nominated, and the fight to smash discrimination against Ne- groes on jobs and in relief is a cen-} tral issue in the election campaign The Communist Party call for the assembling of the conference points out that this year’s electi take Place under conditions far worse for workers and ‘heir families than in any previou: election. Unemploy- ment is worse and relief does not Teach even ten per cent of those out of work. Inflation, without or- any correspond- nitimidated, JOHN SCHMIES ing rise in wages has automatically slashed wages that were already at starvation level Brutal attacks on the Negro work- ers continue. They are jim-crowed into section where housing conditions are the very worst, they are the first laid off at factories, they are even given the worst end of it on relief jobs and forced labor. Both former Mayor Murphy and the present yor Couzens have flagrantly broken all their election promises about adequate relief. Cou- zens is even intensifying Murphy's hunger and forced labor program More workers and unemployed work- To Build Auto Union nd considerable amend- platform and organi- which connects the§) paign driectly with thef| uggle of the workers. ¥ the building of the Auth Union and of unemployed councils a vital part of the cam-| paign. Another essential task pointed out t platform and or- ganizational repo and amplified by John Schmies his report to the conference and acceptance speech is the building of ti-War Cominit- | | tees for the Aug 1 anti-war dem- onstrations Campaign Opens Tomptrow The campaign be™ officially launched at a mass meeting at the} Workers Camp on July 4. The ¢an-| didates will speak at the meeting. e to put the can- ballot will then begin. also the collection of 26,000 signa- tures demanding amendm of the city charter to provide for increased unemployment relief from the city. The campaign will be directed a committee of 24 elected at conference. William Reynolds chosen campaign manager. The Ticket The ticket nominated at the con- ference is as follows For Mayor, John Schmies, munist Party For City Treasurer, Anthony Ger- lach, of the National Executive Board of the Auto Workers Union For City Clerk, Jack er, of the N. E. B. of the Auto Workers Union For City Council, Phil Raymond, election cai everyday makes Work the was Com- The conference adopted after full |/ } PHIL RAYMOND secretary of the A. W. U.; Frank) Sykes, Negro worker and N. E. B. member of the A. W. U.; William | Brown, Negro worker, and organi- zation secretary of the Detroit dis- trict of the Communist Party; Hay- wood Mayben, Negro worker and member of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; William Newell, Negro worker and member of the L. 8. N. R.; Earl Réno, secretary of the Unemployed Counciis; Lee Sul- kowski, representing Polish Workets organizations; Nelly Belunas, repre- senting women workers’ organiza- tions and Jack Bryman, representing Jewish workers organizations. | was suffering from a nervous break- |down. He is a member of the Unem-| Breach Of Etiquette ployed Council and when the con- stable came to evict him, he shoved) LONDON, July 2. — John Walter, him out and organized the neighbor-| son of one of the proprietors of The hood for a demonstration. London Times, was the victim of a DECIDE 10 U NIT | Nazi assault during his visit to Ber- | lin, re boxed and his hair pulled for Endorse the Demand for Unemployment SING SING, July 2—Owney Mad- | P| den, big-time racketeer, murderer | Insurance and beer baron, left Sing Sing nine | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—A_ unitea| Pounds heavier than when he ¢n- frent conference involving 30 labor] tered last year. “I do not p to organizations in the Mahoning Valley|™=ske any statements,” he said, get- held recently, unanimously endorsed | ting into the green Packard which the formation of the Mahoning and| Called for him. Trumbull Counties Federation of un- $i aE TERED | employed organizations. Sixty-five delegates were present from the Unemployed Leagues ; WASHINGTON VETS Gerard, Newton ‘Township, nee FORM COMMITTEE Madden, Gangster, Says, “Home, James” the Mens Federated Club of Niles, the Unemployed Council of Masury, the | Warren North End Unemployed Com- mittee, the League for industrial | T'() PUSH DEMANDS Demoeracy, the Unemployed Citizens | Relief Astociation, International La- gg a ij bor Defense and other organizations. The conference was called by the Un- Denounce § Roosevelt employed Councils and Unemployed | Economy Program | Leagues of Youngstown and Austin-| town. H The demand for Unemployment In-/| group of veterans met here to elect He had unwittingly driven his ear past another containing a high | Nazi official when he was peremp- | | 9 a ae IN YOUN TO ; 4 “intoleral = eer 0 etiquette.’ | S| This is one of the conditions about which there were no remarks from 2 YEARS’ PRISON FOR DEMANDING WAGES IN CASH | Foreed Labor Fight BEAVER DAM, Wis. (by miail).— On Saturday, June 24, Herman Zitlow was sentenced to serve from one to two years in the state prison for re- fusal to work for relief. He was sen- tenced in the circuit court of Dodge County, at Juneau, by Judge Dayid- son and a jury of rich retired farm- ers and business men. Zitlows arrest ,and conviction are part of the attack ;being made upon the workers in Dodge County, who are now organiz- | jing their Unemployed Councils and carrying on with greater vigor the jctruggles against forced labor. | Zitlow was arrested immediately | after his return from the State Hun- | fer March to Madison. On the day | the marchers passed through the city of Beaver Dam, every worker on |forced labor jobs stopped work to |greet the marchers, Zitlow and sevy- eral other workers joined the line of ; march as representatives of the work- jers in Beaver Dam. On Zitlow’s re- turn from the march he was served WASHINGTON, D. C., July 2.—A/ with a warrant for “desertion while | | working on the job.” members of Secretary of Labor Fran- {ces Perkins’ Committee on Ellis Is- land, The Committee made a pre- liminary inspection of the island a | few days ago. Most of the day they spent in being photographed and hav- jing lunch. They made a superficial “survey” then Commissioner Corsi ex- plained the guard situation. | Guards—For Recreation “I wanted to provide more récrea- tion for the population,” he said, “and so I had to ask Washington for more guards, to supervise outdoor j activities. They couldn't give. me more money for regular guards, so ihey sent me border patrolmen, TI don’t like to have men_ parading around here with pistols in their belts.” Eyen Corsi expressed dislike for the present practice of detaining aliens in large rooms. He would prefer a “cottage system” with guards | Supervising less closely, less intima- | tely. As for maltreatment of aliens and Geportees, the Commissioner believes that in most cases the attendants follow the attitude of their head | Officers, He implies that in the case | of Ellis Island the treatment on the | whole is “fair”; but he confesses, ; “Our employes are Civil Service em- ployes, and we can’t get rid of them, |and we can’t change their nature.” |So if their nature happens to be | brutal there is nothing Commission- jer Corsi can do about it! | Which might explain an incident, which went unreported in news ac- counts of the Committee’s visit to Ellis Island. Reporters were queés- tioning a Negro woman and her three adopted daughters. The wo- 9 in Texas Jail for |surance was endorsed. Resolutions|a city Rank and File Comittee and | |calling for freedom of Tom Mooney | adopt a series of resolutions a& a| Threaten (Jobless Kenosha Jobless Head! 2 “ Given 5 Days After Cops Attack Meeting KENOSHA, Wis.—Over packed the courtroom her when five workers, 400 workers on Tues- day arrested a week ago in the Columbus Park dem- onstration and before City Hall, came up for Clark Lawrence. the tenced trial y secretary of Unemployed Councils. was sen- by the “liberal” Judge Stew- five days in jail, after he had rly proved that the police had at- ti nd broken up a peaceful and meeting. The four other workers were charg- “disorderly conduct.” Two of dano and Philip Simyon, nissed, and decision was| in the cases of August Matt- and Dalton Johnson, local Com- gt’org Rnizer, Johnson, who ghs less jthan 140 pounds, was tsely charged with attacking a 180- yound cfficer, krocking him down and breaking a tooth The large worker-audience in the courtroom is held to be responsible for| the “withheld decisions” and dismis- $3 Anthracite Miners ; Form Body to Fight Against Relief Cuts (By a Worker Correspondent) SHENANDOAH, Pa—The Unem- ployed Councils of Schuylkill County called a United Front County Con- ention, June 23, of unemployed and art-time workers, to defeat the 20 er cent relief cut. Nineteen dele- gates were present, representing Un- employed Councils, United Mine Workers of America and Unemployed Unions. Anthony Truck, vice-presi- dent of General Mine Board of Dis- triet 9 acted as chairman of the con- vention, as well as being elected chairman of Committee of Action. ‘The Unemployed Councils’ program was unanimously adopted. The dele- gates represented the following towns: Shenandoah, Minersville, Port Carbon, Shapt, Pennsylvania Eleven. Delegates were elected to a County Committee of Action. Denver Jobless Must Work to Get Relief (By a Worker Correspondent) DENWER. Colo—If we ask for work—at 2 living wage we are called ay and if we refuse to work for the so-called charity we are branded as not deserving any help. | In this city a man is told to work) for the relief order which he has been getting T was to work to one of the city Employment Offices by the) Bureau of Charities. When T asked By By Children of Provi ncetown | Fishermen Undernourished By a Fisherman Correspondent PROVINCETOWN, Mass.. ‘There's too much fish being taken out of the water, so the fishermen here in Provincetown are starving to death. The other day a ficherman’s seven-year-old child dropped in the street. The doctors said it was malnutrition, du The child was given some food, and One Dollar a Month. Dory fishermen have worked all winter for an average of $30 for the six months. One fellow got $6 total for the six months, or $1 a month. Some of the dory fishermen refuse to go out at all, because they can only get a cent or a cent and a quarter for fish, and it’s time wasted to fish at all. Those who refuse to go out and sell their fish to the freezers for nothing are refused re- lief by the town. Hounded Into Jail. One dory fisherman with a wife and 14 kids was refused relief be- cause he wouldn't go out and fish for nothing. They gave him three months in the jug for “non-support.” While he was in jail the State paid his wife $10 a week to care for the 14 children. When the father got out again the town police started riding him. It looked like they wanted to get him back in jail so the State would feed the kids ang save the town money. Another fisherman was served with a writ for “non-support.” The next day he got a job on the road. The Public Works Benefit Munitions Bondholders ARTICLE VIII BY HARRY GANNES ER since the present crisis be- gan, the capitalists, from Hoover to Roosevelt, have been promising to let loose the floodgates of public con- struction. By this means they were going to wipe out Title II of Roosevelt's slavery act was supposed to be the master stroke in this respect. As announced by Roosevelt, the industrial “recovery” act was to be a sort of double-barrelled affair. On the one hand, industry would be pulled up by its bootstraps. On the other, public works would be the an- swer to unemployment insurance. Capitalism would be saved. The Roosevelt public construction section of the slavery bill is the big-/| gest hoax. The bill is supposed to provide $3,300,000,000 in public works. The impression given to the workers was that this amount of work would be released all at once, or within a short period, and millions would be employed. In the first place this three billion figure is a trick in book- keeping a little analysis will show this. In 1930, Hoover, together with the ie to getting nothing but fish to eat, sent back home to starve again. day after that fis wife got a court order for $10 a week. The fisher- man only made $11 in the first two) weeks, so he owed his wife $9 and had nothing to live on at all. Cheated at the Freezer, The fishermen are gypped on all occasions. The trap fishermen sell’ their fish to the freezers (Cold Stor-| age) in boxes that are supposed to/ hold six bushels. Actually they hold} eight and everybody’ knows it. But} they don't dare protest because the| companies have extra crews stand-| ing by to take the place of any that get fired. The worst gypped of the lot though | are the beam trawler men. They work on a 50-50 lay, which is to say the owner of the boat gets half, and; the men who do the fishing get half. But all the expenses of the boat, food, gasoline and stores, come out of the fishermen’s half. The captain, the engineer, and two of three men who} Protesting Evictions | FORT WORTH, Tex.—T. E. Bar- low, organizer of the local Unem- ployed Council, Henry Gordon, dis- trict organizer of the Communist Party and 27 other workers are under arrest in connection with an eviction demonstration here. Barlow is being held in a death cell, and others, held incommunicado, are said to be tor- tured in jail while awaiting trial, set for July 12. rette money out of it, We had a Union once, an A. F. of union. But the secretary L. all unions are like that one. But one thing is sure, we've either got to get a union, or starve to death en- tirely, Roosevelt's Nice Promises. Roosevelt came by here, in his neat little yacht. It isn’t like the fish- ing boats. He talked friendly to the! captains, and they gave him fish.) He made a lot of promises, but I say the only way we'll get anywhere is to et organized and fight the freezers, like they fought the canneries on the! West Coast. The West Coast fishei men won their strike. So ean we. ee Editor's Note:—The Marine Work- ers’ Industrial Union helped the West | Coast fishermen in their struggles, | ran | | away with the money, and the Union | | broke up. Most of them think that) unemployment. | get regular wages, are paid out of} and will help the Provincetown fish-| |the fishermen’s half, leaving about|ermen also. The national headquar- |and the Scottsboro Boys were unan-|basis for a determined fight to be |imously adopted. | waged s |_ The practical organization of the|my” program, and for the | Federation will take place at the Sec-|™ment of the bonus and immediate ond Conference to be held in July. | relief. The conference chairman was Joe! The committee elected to lead | Dallet of the Steel and Metal Work- | the fight for adequate veteran re- ers Industrial Union, and Morgan of/lief, without discrimination against the Newton Township Unemployed | Negroes, consists ef three white and League was Secretary. Mack of the|two Negro vets. Four representa- Unemployed Council made the open-|tives to the Continental Congress’ ing report in the name of the Con-|Fourth of July meeting were also ference Call Committee. | appointed. | Resolutions adopted demanded: Police Attack Berry | That funds being sapenicg by A < « : 1 i Strikers in California (25, tha naval armaments in pre- |paration for future wars be turned SAN JOSE, Cal., June 29.—Follow-| over to the relief of veterans, work- ing the police attack in which three/ers and farmers of the country. striking berry-pickers were badly in-| tmmediate cash payment of the jured, 27 more strikers have been al-/ remainder due on Adjusted Service rested on riot charges. The new ar- | Certificates, the so-called bonus. rests were made after an auto pared?! Restoration. of Disability Compen- by strikers and sympathizers. sation,, Allowances and Pensions Communist headquarters in the| with ‘no curtailment in Hospital Mexican quarter of Sunnyvale, near! anq domiciliary rights. San Jose, were raided by police, who Immediate remedial relief for the destroyed literature. i 3 Sheriff Emig has sworn in 25 spe- a aie p< eas he es cial deputies, armed with gas bombs, : guns and pick-handles, and squads of| Withdrawal of the invitation to highway patrolmen have been sent| Chambers of Commerce and Boards inte Santa Clara county fron neigh-|°f Trade to serve on special boards, boring districts. The sheriff has | 2dministering, among other matters, asked Governor Rolph to call out the | the lives of 150,000 tubercular and i ‘i , neuro-psychiatric cases. militia to smash Ha Blekers strike. Copies of these and other reso- Mave you appreacned your fej- lutions have been sent to General ‘ | Frank T. Hines, Director of the low worker in your shop with & | Veterans’ Administration, to Presi- $17 dollars to be split among four-| ters are at 140 Broad St., New York | teen men. They hardly make ciga-| City. ulus to business and employment struction work is made. | made possible by systematically; It is true, somebody will benefit! planned acceleration of public con-| from this bill. Even if there is Uttle | struction projects is by no means as| construction above the usual amount, great as it is popularly supposed to| Roosevelt proposes to issue $3,300,- be.” | 000,000 in government bonds. The af _| interest payments on theSe bonds What the Roosevelt industrial sla | (the only certain “gain” that will very bill actually tries to do under the head of public works it to figure ,COMe out of the public works pro- te gram) will be over $250,000,000 a year.) up all the usual and ordinary amount | a fi | beet |The bondholders will be paid! The! of public construction that will be i | done anyhow for the next two years. capitalists who have the bite te fi to ‘ vest in these bonds will get their They lump this altogether into one| Vest in impressive figure and fling it into Money regularly. The money will a from increased taxes that will the face of the workers. [See | ultimately be loaded on the backs of Under the bill only two things|the workers. Yes, Roosevelt's public have been done, or, rather, may be| works program is a good scheme, but |done. in the period of a year or two|for the bondholders, not for. the! j—atid that is the laying out of $400,-| workers. They can and will find an-| 000,000 for road construetion and) other $250,000,000 to give to the $260,000,000 for battleships. | coupon clippers, but they cannot find | The very first thing Roosevelt didja cent for unemployment insurance. | was to use the public works section of | There is plenty for batleships, plenty ; the bill as an excuse for continuing} for anything necessary to preserve and expanding war preparations by/|the profits and markets of the eapi- ordering the immediate building of) talists, but nothing for the 17,000,000 34 battleships. This was a clever| unemployed, means of hiding the great expendi-| Roosevelt's public construction pro- tures for war, while nothing is paid | gram, as distinguished in a few de- for unemployment insurance or for] tails trom that of Hoover, throws in| the vets’ bonus. As the Daily Worker | , phrase about the construction of | has pointed out, even this work Will|jow cost living houses and slum cepy of the ‘Daily?’ If not, do so dent Roosevelt and the press. TODAY! — | ‘The courtroom was filled with about against Roosevelt's “Econo- |250 workers, some of them from sur- | pay- | rounding cities. The whole process of he trial proved to the workers the boss-control of the courts. In his speech to the jury, the district attor- ney said, “If you find Zitlow not guilty, then there will not be a man who will work for his relief in the just loaf and let you taxpayers feed them in idleness.” Workers from the foundries, where Zitlow had worked in the past, were forced by the bosses to come to court and testify that Zitlow was an “agita- tor” that he had told the men to “ask for more wages” that “he was lazy and did not want to work.” There is no doubt but that they were forced to testify or be discharged from the job, ‘The International Labor Defense, which* defended Zitlow, will take the case to the state Supreme Court. Samuel Berg, I. L. D. attorney, brought the class issues to the fore- front in his defense. The verdict of guilty in this case, the I. L. D. points out, means that slavery is legal, that relief officials have the right to make a slave of any worker whenever they see fit to do 80. | WORKERS ORGANIZE CULTURAL CLUB DETROIT.—Workers here have or- ganized the Ameri¢an Cultural Club at 440 Clairepointe for the benefit | of all without regard for political or religious belief. Membership for adults is 25 cents a month. | unskilled.” | Have the workers a word to say about their wage rates? Not at all.| The state grafting politicians will do all the talking about that, and the| workers cannot violate the agree-| ments, according to the law, as they face a fine of $500, a jail term of| $ months, or worse under the fed- eral jurisdiction, ° “T am glad to see that the special jaturday feature page has been re- vived,” writes J. G. M. of Madison, Wisconsin. “Several years ago, when the page appeared regularly, a group of us used to sit up pretty late on the night the paper arrived, discussing the short stories, the book reviews, the poems, sketches and articles. “I liked especially the article on Th main note that the capitalist g, press has sounded on Roosevelt's public Works program is the tre-| mendous speed with which it will go! into effect. But at the hearings on the bill, Congressman Watson, one of | its most ardent sponsors, said: | | | “—t would take over a year before we could get into condition where very much money could be spent on buildings.” Henry I. Harriman, president of the United States Chamber of Com- merce, said: “Personally I should not like to Seé the amount of $3,300,000,000 in- creased at this time, becanse it is my belief that it will take at least | two years to spend this money.” | Subtracting the war expenditures, | which are an inseparable part of the Fred Ellis and the poem, ‘Mecklen- | berg County’ by Harry Alan Potam- |kin. But where are the stories, the book reviews? “It would be a good idea to keep because, this up regularly, in my a Nye f in the employment of-| Municipalities, spent — $3,500,000,000 ‘hee Sieinis ‘work. See aah sup-|for public construction for that one posed to do was city work, he said,| year. That is $200,000 more than “jt was.” I asked him how much do| Roosevelt proposes to spend in two) Tget a day? He told me, “You don’t| Years. The number of unemployed get anything vou are sent here to| during that year increased by over | work for the relief you are receiving.” | 4,000,000! Most interesting of all, the | I told him, “When one works | building construction workers, who} ¢ i$ not charity nor is it relief.” | Were supposed to tape, ae by I am willing to work for the city | Public construction, suffere: e most, |are on part-time will receive some not employ an additional number of| workers. The shipyards workers who} additional work, a few will be em-| ployed. | | But this is not a new program. | Preparation for war has always been| an integral part of the capitalists during a crisis when they were en- tering sharper struggles for markets, clearance. Has there been one move to accomplish this? Let every worker read the capitalist newspapers and he will find that the first batch of cold cash goes for battleships and not for slum clearance. The addition of these catch-phrases is the clever part of the Roosevelt demagogy, of the Roosevelt rosy aura with which he surrounds. the old plan of Wail Street. capitalist government program| - throughout the crisis, it will be seen,)- that the Roosevelt building program. in practice will drop below that spent. by the Hoover government in the first two years of the crisis. It will not increase employment It will not provide immediate work. It will not bring relief to the 17,000,000 un- employed. Its only tangible result will be the $250,000,000 yearly added x nip ie i i \ f I am paid for my work. But now) we work end in return they give us| harity relief and no pay. | A Member of the United Front from unemployment, At that time over 70 per cent of the building trades workers were without jobs. E conclusion reached by the lead- and this type of building does not But nothing will come of it. He will at all take up even a rivulet in the| allow a few liberals to tamper | mighty stream of unemployment that| around with a maze of blue prints, | pours out of all the basic industries. | but the workers sleeping on the . . | Streets, or those breathing the foul ,air of consumption-laden tenements to those bondholders, those parasites who under the Roosevelt regime are protected against tax levies to pay for unemployment insurance. ieee tebe’ opinion, what the Daily lacks most, right now, are educational and en- tertainment features. Also, it would Unemployed Council No. 1 | 2 ing capitalist economists at that 'HE public construction policy of | CORRECTION The letter from Claude Patterson on the frame-up of his son Haywood | time was that public construction| * the slavery bill has a clause in it| eta not help sepoltaniiin out of its| that effectively blocks real construc- | crisis, | tion and will, after the work is tallied | On June 25, 1930 | UP, Show that less will be done un- Hoover’s Com- der it than during the Hoover regime. and the cight other Scottsboro boys | mittee on Recent Economic Changes, | was published originally in the Chat- | consisting of Owen D. Young, William | anooga Defender, a Negro weekly,| Green, John T. Raskob and Julius | and not in the Chatanooga News, a| Klein, said that “public construction | Gaily, as stated in the editorial note | has long been tried and found in a fo the letter which «was printed in | great measure wanting.” | The Journal of Commerce, Novem- Patterson's letter was | ber 3, 1930, commenting on this re- ssed to the “News” which had | port said: led editorials advocating the | “If the elaborate and careful study wal of the T.L.D. from the | of Planning and Control of Public| boro case. The “News” hay- | Works, recently published by a com- fused to publish the letter, it |:ittee of the President’s Conference t to the Chatanooga Defend- on Unemployment, is to be accepted ¢ it appeared. jas authoritative, however, the stim- The bill provides that the federal | government will provide the cities with 30 per cent of any public con- | struction they undertake. Sounds all right, But where's the hitch? Most} cities are bankrupt and could no| for the work. Chicago cannot even pay the city employes. New York cannot market its bonds. Smaller cities are forced to close down schools altogether, It is of such stuff that Roosevelt's grandiose public con- will have only the pleasure of read- ing about the “plans” of slum clear- ance or low rent housing eenstruc- tion. Whereas the first part of the sla- very bill talks about collective bar- gaining, and the partnership of labor and capital, the public works section doesn’t even mention these trim- mings. Nothing is said about the right of the workers to organize, be- |more find the funds for providing| C@use in the mobilization of these |the 70 per cent than they could of few workers who get jobs on road | providing the 100 per cent necessary | building, their conditions will be sim- ilar to the Roosevelt labor campe. ‘The bill says: “All state road con- tracts shall provide minimum wage rates pre-determined by the state Highway Department (usually linked| transferred to this type of ‘construction with’ the contractor) for skilled and the struggle against the Roose- velt, schemes of public works which are designed primarily as prepara- tions for war, as wage-cutting expe- dients and systems of forced labor help a good bit in making the Sat- | urday edition of the paper more popular, and I'm sure you could in- crease the Saturday subscriptions by a thousand if the features hit a high we must put forward our program. We must demand the immediate in- auguration of the building of work- ers’ homes to replace the present horrible slums and barracks inhab- ited by millions ef underpaid and unemployed workers, the building of workers’ hospitals, nurseries, etc, All ublic buildings to be at trade union wage an@ on the basis of the 30- hour Week without any reduction in pay. We must démand thet sums laid out for battleships anc other war paraphernalia be ediately and popular level.” This is the first letter of comment we have received on the Saturday feature page. We would like to have the commonts of all workers on every innovation in the pages of the Daily. Just as important, however, is that Dally Worker distributors and salesman use this special page in getting new subscriptiens for the Satur.ay edition, at $1.50 a year. It supplies 2 new inducement to subseribe to workers who have been until now. This new page should canse a no- » Y DAY _ With the “Daily” Use Saturday Feature Page to Get NewSubs and Readers ticeable pick-up in new Saturday subs within a very short time. FOR we Workers and organizations every- where are urged to make special ef- forts to get. more and more subs for the Daily Worker. The summer time usually means a drop in circulation for all papers. So that it is more than ever necessary that NEW SUBS be secured to offset the danger that this drop means. Send those subs in, TODAY! whole of Dodge County. They will) man was born in Texas, but went | to Liberia and married a British | subject. Returning here she was held up for a $1,000 bond to satisfy |the government that she and her | daughters would not become “public charges.” As the questioning pro- gressed, a uniformed inspector ap- peared, threw out his arms, and bel- llowed to the Negroes, “Get along there! Get along to lunch! Get along there!” A reporter interrupted the officer: “Do you always shoo people here, like that, as though they were swine?” “Sure,” he shrugged, “I don’t know what language they speak.” The Negroes happened to speak far better English than the interpreter’s. Attempt to Lynch Two Negroes Arrested on Suspicion -in Murder TUSCALOSSA, Ala—An organized \lyneh mob of nearly 300 men and boys appeared at the county jail here and demanded the persons of two colored men who had been picked up on “suspicion” in connec- tion with the murder of a white farm girl. They searched all the celld bub failed to find the two men. PROTEST SCOTTSBORO AT BUNKER HILL BOSTON.—Negro and white work ers, meeting at the foot of the Bun- ker Hill monument to celebrate the memory of Peter Salem, Negro sol- dier who fought in the - ary War, adopted a resolution con- demning the Scottsboro prosecution and demanding abolition of color segregation by the federal govern- ment. 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