The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1933, Page 1

Get A Regular Subscription from Every Member of Your Organization Bow Yok, 5 Vol. X, No. 159 2 ‘¥., wndw the Act Daily Central Or (Section of the Communist International ) orker ist Party U.S.A. Read Jack Stachel’s Article ‘on the Recovery Act on Page 3 WEATHER—Fair and warmer: motter ot Post Office at the of Moreh 3, 107. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1933 The Right to Revolution qonay the spokesmen and apologists of the American capitalist class celebrate in time-honored phrases the historic glories of the American Declaration of Independence. But they will conceal behind the traditional bombast of this holiday the class background of that historic document, and their actual utter- ances will violate that “glorious liberty” about which they will mouth with such hypocrisy. They will talk “liberty.” But they will seek to bind the workers even more firmly to their slavery—which is slavery no less because it is wage slavery. . 8 sad does Independence Day mean to the American workers? What does the Declaration of Independence mean to them? The capitalist apologists who will read the Declaration of Indepen- dence will be uncomfortable in the performance. For it is so glaringly apparent that the “liberty” which it describes as the “inalienable right of the people” does not exist in the United States. The toiling masses, the workers in the factories and mines, the many- millioned army of jobless workers, the farmers of Iowa and Wisconsin, the Negro people, still living throughout the country in the atmosphere of the slave market—to these laboring masses, the talk of ‘iberty” is a mockery. ‘The real revolutionary traditions of the American Revolution were betrayed by the American bo isie almost immediately after the triumph against England. As in bourgeois revolutions, the bourgeoisie climbed to power on the backs and with the revolutionary assistance of the poor farmers and small artisans. And, as in all bourgeois revolutions, it was necessary for the bourgeoisie to turn against their “lower class” allies, to prevent the revolution. from going “too far,” that is, against the bourgeoisie themselves. That is the class meaning of the American Constitution, which only riveted upon the American farmers and workers heavier bondage to the landlords and merchant capitalism. It was capitalist democracy which this bourgeois revolution estab- lished. And, in the words of Marx, the United States became “‘the classic land of the swindle of bourgeois democracy.” It must not be forgotten that whatever democratic rights are embodied in the Constitution were the result of a bitter struggle of the small farmers and artisans against the rich merchants and landlords. But even’ this meagre concession to the masses the capitalist ruling class has always trampled on. It is only the Proletarian Revolution, through the dictatorship of the Proletariat, which can establish true democracy, which can destroy class domination ‘a: exploitation. Bz the Declaration of Independence speaks of that which gives the present American capitalist rulers tremors of fear—the right to violent revolution against oppression! The Declaration of Independence, representing the revolutionary aspects of the War for Independence, laid down the fundamental propo- sition, that the majority of the people, when they can no longer endure the yoke of their oppressors have “the right, the duty, to throw off such a government and provide new guards for their future security.” . The violent and forceful overthrow of oppression! This is the basic message of the Declaration, which has meaning for the workers and small farmers of America today. This basic principle of that Declaration to which they offer such lip adoration, written in the fire of the Revolutionary War, the American pourgeoisie hates, and attempts to stifle with ruthless brutality. . Tos. the American bourg.visie, entering the fourth year of world crisis, can no longer even feed their own slaves, the workers. Today, Revolution is the living need of the suffering masses. _ To this basic right of their own historic document, the American bour- geoisie can only give hypocritical support. For the struggle of the oppressed workers and farmers is now directed against them, the capitalist exploiting oppressors. The American Revolution was a bourgeois fight to overthrow the rule of the feudal aristocracy over the rising capitalist class of America. To the oppressed small farmers and workers of America, it only changed the form of their slavery. Only the workers and small farmers of America today, in the fourth year of the most catastrophic world crisis, can understand and truly embody the right to revolution which the Declaration of Independence proclaims as its fundamental proposition. In the words of Lenin, in his famous 1918 message to the American workers: “The best vepresentatives of ithe American Proletariat—those rep- resentatives who have repeatedly given expression to the full solidarity with us, the Bolsheviki—are the expression of the revolutionary tradi- tion in the life of the American people.” og UT today, to talk of the right to revolution without insisting on the necessity for proletarian revolution and the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is to knowingly betray the only vital meaning of the word. For, the proletariat is the most revolutionary.class in modern s0- ciety. It alone can lead all the oppressed classes in their struggle against oppression. The revolutionary working class alone can continue the revo- lutionary traditions “in the life of the American people.” Though it is heir to the revolutionary traditions of America, it draws its main inspiration from its own Revolution, the Proletarian Revolution, of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. The revolution of '76 overthrew the rule of foreign oppression, the monarchical rule of the English, only to put in its place the rule of the capitalist class. But the Workers’ Revolution, the Proletarian Revolution, of the Soviet Union, laid the basis for the destruction of the rule of classes, and for the building of a classless Socialist Society. The workers of America today, in recalling the revolutionary tradi- tions, are preparing their own Proletarian Revolution. It is the over- throw of a‘l class oppression towards which they struggle, as the leader of all the oppressed. And this Revolution will make the American bourgeois revolution pale before the splendor of its achievement—the liberation of society from class domination. The establishment of Soviet America—this will be the crown of the real revolution which is inevitably gathering force as capitalism plunges to its doom,’ as the working class, under the leadership of the Communist Party, prepares for power. “Economy”-- But for Whom? \OOSEVELT’S government “economy” scheme is not the simple thing he would like to have it appear. It has many angles to it. First, it isn’t economy at all. The initial deficit reported by the Roosevelt gov- ernment is nearly $2,000,000,000, and if the money handed over to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was added it would be over $3,000,000,000. At the expense of the great mass of civil service workers, Roosevelt proceeds at a slashing pace to achieve the appearance of “economy.” He cuts wages 10 per cent, and in some instances 20 per cent, Postmaster Farley, not exactly concerned with the health of the workers, makes thou- sands of poorly paid post office workers take long and enforced “vaca-’ tions” without pay. This “economy” at the expense of the lower strata of civil service workers is one side of the Roosevelt policy. * . 8 VER 20,000 Federal workers are fired, including civil service -workers and non-civil service workers, Charity, Roosevelt believes, should begin at home, but not jobmaking—that is got for the former Hoover supporters. Many of the 20,000 who were fired were Hoover supporters, Tammany Hall-trained Postmaster Farley is on the job. Roosevelt has set up his own machinery in which fat, cushy jobs will be created to reward the troop of henchmen necessary to keep the Democratic Party's machinery intact for future elections. But at first blush the firing of 20,000 Federal workers and the whole- sale wage slashes give Roosevelt the talking point of “economy.” Keer T THE expense of the veterans and for the benefit of greater war expenditures real “economy” was achieved. Roosevelt can claim credit for the increased suicides among the 560,000 war vets whose allowances were cut to zero. Out of this triumph Roosevelt coined $275,000,000. There is economy at the expense of the war vets, the civil service workers and other workers, But increased expenditures for the war munitions makers, the big trusts and the political henchmen of the Demo- cratic Party, is the key to the Roosevelt “economy” program. 1,000 COAL MINERS ON STRIKE AT THE. PITTSBURGH COAL Demand More Than 10 Per Cent Raise Given, StrikeWave Spreads PITTSBURGH, Pa., July | Although United Mine Work- ers leaders attempted to stop their struggle, 1,000 miners of the number 3 mine of the Pitts- burgh Terminal Coal Co. in Cover- dale, Pa., went on strike today dis- satisfied with the ten per cent in- crease in wages granted by the com- pany. The company has an agree- ment with the United Mine Workers. Every indication points to the fact that similar action may be taken by| No. 4 and No. 8 of the Pittsburgh Terminal mines, where the miners have already taken a strike vote but were manouvered into waiting ten more days by U. M. W. A. officials who raised false hopes of benefits from the Recovery (Slavery) Act. Rank and file miners of number 3 taking the lead have elected their committees for the conduct of the strike and have organized plans for Spreading the strike and for mass picketing. Strikers Ignore Van Bittner In Scotts Run, West Virginia, a revolt is taking place among the rank and file in the locals of the UMWA. Although Van Bittner, UMWA of- ficial, is trying to hold back the strike wave, the miners are refusing to wait for promises and are voting to strike in local after local. Miners are call- ing for the leadership of the National Miners’ Union throughout the field. Four hundred miners of the Ham- merville mine in Alleghany Valley struck for their own checkweighman, payment of dead work and imme- diate increase in wages. The strike of the Lily mine near Brownsville, Pa., was betrayed by the UMWA leaders who succeeded in wresting control of the strike from the rank and file committee. They have returned at a 10 per cent in- crease even though the company it- self offered a 20 per cent increase two weeks ago. The resentment is widespread against this betrayal. The strikes of the Clyde Mines numbers 1, 2 and 3 were ended by the leaders of the UMWA who forced the strikers to return without any gains. The strike started when the miners elected committee was fired by the company which is trying to establish a company union in, the mines. The only demand the UMWA leaders put forward was recognition of their union which was not ac- complished. Here also the miners are now able to see that the UMWA was not interested in improving their conditions. The Hunker mine which has been on strike for the past few weeks under the leadership of a united front strike committee guided by the National Miners Union ended in a victory for the miners. Prepare for United Front Conference The National Miners’ Union has intensified its activity in all fields and is carrying on a campaign to expose the purposes of the Recovery (Slavery) Act and the role of the United Mine Workers officials. Plans are being pushed for a suc- cessful united front conference called the Miners’ United Front Com- mittee of West Penna and Ohio for | August 12 and 13 at 1524 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh. Miners are urged to or- ganize meetings in every mine and in every mining camp to elect del- egates to the conference. JURY HUNG IN “RIOT” CASE SAN DIEGO.—A hung jury, ten to two for acquittal, was the result of the trial of William Gable, Sam Klapperman, Will Geer and Joe Klapperman, who were arrested here on National Youth Day on charges of “inciting to riot.” They were defended by Leo Gal- lagher, defense attorney of the In- ternational Labor Defense,» who ex- posed the frame-up and showed that the police, and not the workers who had assembled to parade, were the real rioters, : 500 Jobless Get Poisoned Food in Los Angeles Flop House Man Dies of Hunger in Omaha; L ack of Medical Aid Kills Spokane} Baby; Need Unemployment Insurance Against ‘New Deal’ of Misery LOS ANGELES, Calif, July 3.— Five hundred jobless workers living in the “Tavern” flop house were poisoned from food served them in the dining room. It is reported that three died in the county hospital from the food which they had eaten Sat- urday, ‘When the next shift of workers re- fused to eat the poisoned “Spanish rice” salad, the supervisor told them that the salad was fresh and ate some himself, getting violently sick. All Saturday night about 30 men were taken to the hospital. Four doctors remained giving the rest of the workers castor oil. Call Protest Meet On Monday the Relief Workers Protective Union, Local 3 called a mass meeting electing committees to protest to the Welfare Bureau. They won their demand of better food and an investigation of the rotten con- ditions prevailing in the “Tavern.” Hundreds of workers joined the union to carry on the struggle for cash re- lief and work, e Run by Fakers The “Tavern” is a private venture of a group of fakers, where the Roosevelt Agrees to Granting Credits for) Financing Purchases Here \ | Testifies to Growing Strength of Workers’) Republic, Talk of Recognition WASHINGTON, July 8.—The first direct trade negoti-| ations between the Soviet government and the government of | the United States took place here when Jsse H. Jones, chair- | man of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, announced | last night that President Roosevelt had approved the sale of | © $4,000,000 worth of cotton, on credit, to the Union of Socialist | nts Soviet Republics. ‘The agreement provides for an im- mediate paying of 30 per cent of the| cost of the cotton on shipment and the payment of the rest within one year. * The conclusion of this agrpement | for the sale to the Soviet Union of 60,000 to 80,000 bales of cotton through the Soviet trade agency here, the Amtorg Trading Co., fol- lowed repeated conversations between members of the American delegation in London, Morgenthau and Profes sor Moley and the Soviet Commissar of Foregin Affairs, Maxim Litvinoff. Litvinoff repeatedly pointed out that the Soviet Union could purchase large amounts of the surplus prod- ucts of the capitalist countries, pro- vided credit arrangements were made, and offered an economic non~- aggression pact to all of the capital- ist powers. In his conversations with Moley, Litvinoff said that the Soviet Union was willing to purchase not only cotton but large quantities of metal, other raw materials, machin- o ARMED JAPANESE INVADES SOVIET OFFICE AT TOKIO ‘TOKIO, July 3—Armed with a long | sword, the president of a Japanese re- | actionary patriotic society invaded the office of the Soviet commercial attache Kotchetoff, in the heart ot | Tokio this morning, smashed windows and furniture and threatened the at- tache and his staff, adding another to the long list of recent Japanese provocations against the Soviet Union. | The rowdy told police he was Hajime Suritate, thirty. years old, head of the Kakumeiso patriotic so- ciety. He said he had made the| attack because he was indignant over the recent alleged killing of three Japanese fishermen in Kamchatka. | The Japanese authorities have been | circulating false stories that the fish- | ermen were “murdered by a G.P.U.! patrol” although the Soviet govern- | ment has pointed out that no such patrol exists in Kamchatka. While the Soviet authorities were investigating the report of the slay- ing of the fishermen, a Japanese war- ship entered Soviet waters without | permission, in violation of interna- tional law to make its own unauthor- ized investigation. The Soviet -gov- ernment has protested vigorously against this provocative action, which occurred while Soviet representatives at Tokio were seeking, in conferences with representatives of Japan and Manchukuo to achieve a peaceful set- tlement of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way question in Manchuria. | Following the “patriot’s” attack to- | day, a Japanese Foreign Office repre- sentative was sent to the Soviet Em- | | bassy to express the regrets of the | | government. | | RUMANIA TO SIGN NON - AGGRESSION PACT WITH USSR. LONDON, July 3.—Another vic- |tory for the Soviet peace policy was gained when Maxim Litvinoff was |able during the recesses of the Lon- |don Economic Conference to arrange for a non « 2ression past with Ru- mania, whicn five other countries joined. While the U. S. S. R. has signed non-aggression pacts pre- viously with Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Finland, the Rumanian govern- ment, the keystone to the Western anti-Soviet war alliance, remained outside. The fascist delegates of Germany did all in their power to prevent the drawing up of this non-aggression pact. The new pact includes not only; | Rumania, but will be signed by Po-| land, Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Turkey. The pact will define an ag- gressor state in the manner Litvinoff sought to have included at the Gen- eva Conference, but which all of the imperialist powers refused to agree | ery and the like. In 1930 Soviet trade with the Uni-| ted States reached the high figure of $130,000,000, but because of failure to obtain credit in this country it drop- ped to a few millions of dollars a| year. The new move of the Roosevelt government, following on the heels of the lifting of the British embargo on Soviet goods, re-establishing trade | with the Union of Socialist Soviet | Republics, is an added victory for the | workers’ republic. It. testifies to the| growing strength of the Soviet Union. As “Pravda,” Soviet. newspaper point- ed out on the lifting of the British embargo, this by no means signifies a change of the basic policy of the capitalist powers in their attempt to overthrow the Soviet Union through | war preparations. It signifies that in the present stage of the world economic crisis, the capitalist powers find that they need the Soviet mar- | kets. The London conference uncovered the sharpening conflict, financially | and commercially, of the leading| capitalist powers leading to a new stage of economic warfare and struggle for markets. The Roosevelt | government recognizes that the policy of the Hoover regime towards the| Soviet Union cannot stand up much longer in the face of the crisis and} the growing pressure of the masses} for recognition of the workers’ re-| | Union, as well as G. Siskind, organ-| CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents _—_—— Strikes Led by United Front Mill Committees NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 3.—| Twenty-eight hundred weavers of the} Hathaway, Butler, Potomska and) Gosnold mills ended their strike to- day with a partial victory. The tte: tile bosses promised a raise amount- ting to about 23 per cent and i re- duction in the number of machines in some cases. Although Batty who| had hastened from Washington to halt the strike and Binns, head of) the Weavers’ Union here, ordered the strikers on Saturday to return to the} mills, the strikers, massed at the| gates today and refused to enter until | the raise was announced. Soe ot | booed down all statements of the of- ficials promising them improvements “in a couple of weeks when the tex- tile code under the Recovery (Slav- ery) Act goes into effect.” | The strikes at the four mills were} called by the united front commit-| tees in the mills as a result of the) agitation of the National Textile} Workers’ Union. The strikes were departmental but plans were under} _ way to call out the entire mills. | Militancy Defeats U. T. W. Heads | That the United Textile Workers have little influence among the workers is clear from the fact that only 30 workers appeared at a strike meeting called by Batty on his ar- rival from Washington. The Na-| tional Textile Workers’ Union is urg- ing the workers to join the union to protect their gains and prepare to struggle for more improvements in| their conditions. The N. T. W. is also exposing the A. F. of L. officials,| Batty and Binns who tried to settle the strike at the expense of the! workers and for the beneiit of the mill owners. Only the militant de-| termination of the workers forced| the partial gains won. | TO DEMONSTRATE AGAINST SLAVERY CODE TOMORROW Rally at Union Square) to Protest Attack on Fur Union | NEW YORK—Tonlorrow morning, | July 5th, the workers of downtown | and midtown New York will demon-| strate their protest against the Roose- velt slave program, and in support} of the battling fur workers at Union | Square. The demonstration is called | for 11 o’clock sharp. M. J. Olgin, editor of the Morning | Freiheit, will be the principal speaker. One of the leaders of the! Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial} izer of Section 2 of the Communist | public. | Reports from Washington sources} are to the effect that the sale of the| cotton is the opening wedge for) further -trading with the Soviet| Union, and the possible early diplo- matic recognition of the U. S. S. R. Hitler Firm in Cuba | GetsWindow Broken |¥. of L. and socialist leaders, the | caused by stool-pigeons attending a| HAVANA, Cuba.—An illegal dem- onstration was led here by the Young Communist League of Cuba in front of the Agency of the Bayer Company in protest against a cir- cular issued by the firm which praised Hitler for his war against “Communist slum.” Scores of workers gathered in front of the building, and speeches were mad? and anti-fascist leaflets distributed. | This heroic action of the Y. C. L. in the face of the reign of terror now going on in Cuba is part of the preparations for the July 7, the day of anti-fascist struggle and in solidarity with the Anti-Fascist Youth Congress in Paris. Party, will speak. Joe Brandt, or-| ganizer of Section 1 of the ©. P., will] be chairman. In their call to the workers, the two section committees of the Com- munist Party point out that the {forces directing the war for the de-|and Joseph Herman, a farmer gctive -| struction of the fur union, and for|in the organization, have been ac-| {the smashing of the standards of|quitted of charges of assault and) the fur workers, is the federal gov- | ernment itself. This war of the A. Tammany police, and McGrady, one} of the directors of the Industrial | Recovery (Slavery) Act, shows the} direct application of this slavery act | to the fur workers, | The Communist Party calls upon | all workers to rally at Union Square Wednesday at 11 a.m. The fight of the fur workers is the con- | cern of all workers. A victory of | the fur workers will deal a smash- | ing blow at the Industrial Slavery | Act, It will strengthen the fight | for defense of the trade unions | and conditions of all workers. | International Labor Defense | calls on all members of its branches | turn out fomorrow at Union) to Square at 11 a.m, ' Trade Relations Between !28 NEWBEDFORD ROOSEVELT MESSAGE TO ‘rt TEXTILE WORK'RS OF OPEN ECONOMIC WAR Demagogic Appeal Is Addressed to American People to Back Inflation Drive 4 Rush for Armaments Goes Hand in Hand With* Bitter Struggle for World Markets BULLETIN LONDON, July 3.—Folowing on the heels of the Roose‘ velt declaration against currency stabilization, it is declared here that the London Economic Conference will probably adjourn tonight. LONDON IS DECLARATION ; * * * WASHINGTON, July 3—A sharp and bitterly worded message from President Roosevelt, on behalf of Wall Street, directed against the bloc of the European imperialist powers, made public here today, emphasizes as no other action at the London Economic Conference the deep rift of all of the capi- talist robber powers in their struggle for world markets. 5 eo pai wy The Roosevelt message which ° | fell on the conference like a® Seek to Compel bombshell is phrased to preparen Scottsboro Bai |the American masses for wart jin support of the American , NEW YORK —General George | capitalists policy of inflation, W. Chamlee, chief Scottsboro de- | through which Roosevelt and” fense counsel, of Chattanooga, is | his capitalist supporters hope ' taking legal steps to force Judge James E. Horton to set a date for the hearing on the write of habeas corpus to demand that the Scotts- boro boys be set free on bond. In- formation was reserved here by the | Great Britain, sought to get Roosev International Labor Defense that |{0 Sere: to @ Policy of stabilization of the hearing would be held yester- | ‘ - Roosevelt's declaration clearly 1a day, Pat Horton set no date for it. | down the line of American capitali William L. Patterson, national jof higher prices at home, an und secretary of the LL.D., yesterday | mining of world currency stabil announced the opening of a special | tion, and a no-quarter fight markets, dumping and other meas- campaign to raise funds to meet i ures directly leading to armed strug-* the bail of the nine boys. if ie : | gles. Bond will only be set by Judge | Demagogic Appeal Horton ‘on the basis of ‘mass pro- |“ m- message itself which is ad- test and demand for the freedom |dressed as much to the American! of the Scottsboro boys,” Patterson | people in order to win them on dema- said. | woeie pee to the economic war “Jetlee 1 has been forced | Policy o: le Roosevelt regime, says x ak ff ne are er | that Roosevelt “would regard it as a! |ecatastrophe amounting to a world’ Scottsboro boys, but he did not set | tragedy if the great conference of: them free, Only the mass pressure | nations called to bring about a more that forced this partial concession Lo pyle ee stability Prospe! i" on the part of Judge Horton can | of a1 ‘nations should in advance. of bring the boys their freedom. | any serious efforts to consider these! “Funds for this purpose should | broader problems allow itself to be: be sent to the national office of the | diverted by the proposal of a purely! |artificial and tempor: International Labor Defense, Room porary experiment | affecting the moneta 430, 80 E, llth St, and mark ‘e monetary exchange of | @ few nations only.” ‘Scottsboro Bond Fund.” Will Continue Inflation. . This is a threat to F: 2 Freed in Bethlehem a threat to France and the in “Assault” Arrest! jother gold powers, backed by Great Britain, Wall Street's chief competi- BETHLEHEM, Pa.—John Santos, organizer for the Hungarian Branch} tor for world economic and financial of the International Workers’ Order,) to win greater markets at the’ expense of Wall Street’s rivals. © | The message came after a Jong and | | heated struggle in London in which* the gold standard powers, backed domination that the Roosevelt regime will proceed without let-up of its policy of inflation, higher prices at home, and lower prices on the world market in terms of gold exchange, to, undermine the markets of its com- petitors. He goes on to stir up the hatred of |the masses to the point of a war "spirit by saying: “The world will not December 2th party and celebra-Piong be lulled by the specious policy : | Of achieving a temporary and prob- Police began a policy of terroriza-| shiv an artificial stability in tae tion as a result of the affair, opened | exchange on the part of a few large , ; | workers’ mail, and made raids every | oountries only.” battery placed against them last De-| cember as a result of a disturbance faulted on the war debts to the United States and hits directly at NEWS FL ASH | armaments by saying: s “i | “When the world works out con- RECKLINGHAUSEN, Germany, | certed sree in hn se | nations to produce balanced budgets July 3—Five workers were killed and| o14 living within their means, then ten seriously injured today in a sur- | we can properly discuss a better dis face explosion at the Blumenthal coal | tribution of the world’s gold and Je tyene | silver supply to act as a reserve base, of national currencies.” By this section of his message few days, The International Labor | = Defense, through Attorney Wald-| War Debt Attack baum, defended the workers and won| The attack is then directed against a complete acquittal. | France and other‘nations that de- for their meals and room. =The county pays to the tavern ten cents; for every meal given to the unem- ployed workers. Unemployed workers have to slave five half days on the river bottom for the privileges of getting the rot- ten slop and a.place to sleep. Those refusing this forced labor are told to get out and starve. One worker with an artificial leg, unable to walk the three and half miles to the river bot- tom was turned out. f Local No. 6,of the Relief Workers Protective Union mobilized a del- egation of unemployed workers and forced the County Welfare last Fri- day to grant relief to fifteen cases brought to them. The Welfare had to pay the gas| and light bill of one worker with a family of five small children living in a garage on Date Ave. in Alhambra. SPOKANE, Wash.—The one year county sends all unemployed forced to slave on the river bottom. ‘ old child of an unemployed worker, Fred Webb, died from pnuemonia at Roosevelt touches directly on the question of armaments for war. He wants Wall Street's competitors like | England and France to cut down on | their armaments to give the United | States supremacy in this regard in | the senaGie for markets. Then he | Says, Wall Street will be willing to pre al father, Fred Fritz died of) talk about gold questions, and not 5 | until then—when it has the military The family has been living in ajforce to put over its policy. orphan girl of 12, when charity of- ficials rushed food to her house the Sacred Heart hospital after theyrefused aid. refused to send an ambulance for the; Webb called Dr. Lain at two o'clock baby and after two county doctors} beseeching him to do something for Fight “New Deal” The poisoning of 500 jobless workers in death by starvation of Fred Fritz in Omaha are examples of the “New Deal” for the jobless in every community throughout the country. These reports only bring out the vital need for Unemployment In- sul . In the fight for relief in every city the endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bills should be brought forward as a primary need. Adopt resolu- tions at all meetings and organiza- tions to be sent to President Roo- sevelt demanding that he call a session of Los Angeles, the tragic | his child who was tossing around in his crib with a high fever. Dr. Lain told the harassed father that he had a meeting to attend. Then Webb managed to get Dr. Finnley down to examine the child and when this doctor discovered he was getting aid from the R. F, C. he refused to do anything, and said, the child had better be taken to the hos- pital inside an hour. Then Webb desperately called up all the hospitals in town including |the Police Department and the Em- |ergency Hospital, begging them to | send down some means of transpor- | tation to get the baby into a hospital. | Finally a neighbor managed to get |a car. The child was rushed to the | Raspital at 7 o'clock where it soon | died. OMAHA, Neb. “If this had been done a couple of weeks ago, my would still be alive.” said s little condemned house, which Fritz had fixed himself. It has no lights or any plumbing. Some discarded fur- niture was given to them by the Sal- vation Army. The relief organization at first re- fused any relief to the Fritz family. ‘They claimed that the family did not live in Omaha for a sufficient length of time. After considerable red tape he was given the usual ration of $1.50 every ten days. After seeking work all day last Wednesday Fritz returned home de- spondent each day after a hopeless search. He did not have anything to eat for three days. He sat down and told his wife “I am just too under- nourished and a little later died. His body had not yet cooled, when charity officials rushed in with food for the wife and 12 year old girl. What the Community Chest would not do for the living they are con- tributing to the dead. They agreed to pay for the funeral of Fred Fritz, whom they helped to starve to death. In the concluding part of his dec- laration Roosevelt returns to the question of markets, the central theme of the London Economic Con~ | ference. | “Restoration of world trade ts an important partner both in the means |and the result,” he says, “Here also (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) Spokane Unemployed Stop Discrimination | | SPOKANE, Wash.—Unemployed workers in this city refuse to accept , discrimination of single Negro work- ers from receiving relief, When one Negro worker was given a ticket tc j the soup line and forced to walk five miles from his home to get the food, @ committee went with him to the Zone Headquarters to protest suc! discrimination., The Welfare Board fears the rising militancy of the workers, ~~ oo mer a uw