The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 6, 1933, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 1 W.W. GANG Newseics HSINKING, Manchukuo Manchukuo officials today F port inspectors to deny Washington Hall, an American who writes under the name of Upton Close, entrance into Manchuria, be- cause of his asserted anti-Japanese views expressed in American mag- ne articles. Action of the puppet Murderous Attack on Manchukuo government was taken = - after a spokesman on the Japanes w Orleans Marine Government announced the joun would be denied official courtes! road passes and ho’ ms Workers; 5 Hurt W. W. OPPOSES UNITY ti Ww Marine Union Holds Protest Meeting July Fourth Toll at 144 NEW YORK, July July 4th casualties deaths throughout the nation, six deaths directly traced to works, ‘Thousands were injured property damage great, as usual New York City alone approxi 1,100 were treated for burns ¢ by explosives throughout the day 5.—A s showed 144 with La., July 5 of the Industrial i led by Bridges, NEW ORLE band of 17 mem Three Die in Gulf Storm. YORK, July 5—The storm the No la: coas' for thred days and moved southward to rage in the G of Mexico, ac- NEW union with brass pes wrapped in counted for three more victim: 4 Two survivors of the barge S. G, the murderous | wilder were landed at Norfolk, Va., all seri- this afternoon. Three other members of the crew had been swept overboard to death. Kerean Floods Kill SEOUL, KOREA, July 5.—Deaths from floods in Rakuto Valley totalled 55 today, as ‘waters began subsiding. The number of homeless was set at 80,000 and property damage at 2,700,- 000. 55 The groun union e Unity s as a result of the) organized by the union. , The I.W.W. attack reveals the anti- workingclass character of these ele- ments who serve the bosses by split- ting the working class and trying to defeat real gains which can only be made through a united struggle. As a result of this attack, marine work- ers must redouble their energies to build the Marine Workers Industrial outed “This on the he LW.W. 1 ing to be leaflet tack 2 Union and agitate among the work- dele- ers on the docks and to elec! gates to the coming Marine Wo! Convention in New York July 16-18. ting is being AMUSE * PICTURE—Daily News Premiere of t Russix’s Great erple HE © COMMISSARS” —womine LE OF THE IN ‘THE CIVIL WA ine cate of Potonsin ane te End ot se pace, ACM E lim traces one of the most signiticant chapters of THEATRE a Revolution.” (English Titles) zs Atracion:. May Day Celebration in Moscow | “Uxiow suuann? MUSIC i : ware EKO Jefferson Mth st. Srd Ave. 1 Richard Barthelmess and Sally Eilers in ‘CENTRAL AIRPORT’ Added Feature: ‘UNDED THE TONTO RIM’ with Stuart Ervin and Raymond Hatton ow TADIUM CONCERTS Philkermonic-Symphony Orches' wisohn Sta . Amst. Av. & 138 St. iMem yan WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS! Daily Worker Picnic Tickets for July 30 ARE NOW READY 25¢ ADMISSION TICKETS WILL BE SOLD TO WORKERS ORGANIZATIONS AT THE RATE OF $10.00 PER HUNDRED TICKETS. SEND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE WITH CASH to City Office Daily Worker, 50 E. 12th St., ground floor SPREE THREP TO THE Soviet Union Given at DAILY WORKER PICNIC July 30th at PLEASANT BAY PARK . Wore TOU RIsTs 175 FIFTH AYE «NEW YORK, N.Y. June 8, 1933, Iatly Torker, 3 Bast 12th St., Mew York City. 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If the above date is not suitable, we can change seme according to your wishes, GET YOUR TICKETS NOW at a Substantial Discount at the City Office, Daily Worker, 35 East 12th Street, New York —— CUTS CONTINUED 6, 1938 | Miners’ Wives Beg Rags to Hide of Tubercular Children LIFE IN COMPANY Where the Boss TOWN IN TENN. 3 TOLD BY VISITOR Lack of Organization Makes Men Slaves STANLEY GIBSON YORK.—So terrible are conditions among the 1,200] coal miners’ families in South- ern Tennessee that even a con-| servative social worker who has just returned to New York a se ERS eS GAA eS ‘ after a nine month’s stay ther A photograph showing typical miners’ wives similar to those de- is forced to describe the situ-| scribed by Miss Ruth L. Parker after her return from Southern Ten- ation ¢ astly”. nessee, Miss F r, in describing ampbell Cour ae ry of the |from _ pellagra—the he miseries|caused by malnutrition—the Red|and three times as much as at the he coal min- | Cross sells yeast to treat it, at a price far beyond the reach of most | of the workers, she said. | Lured into the mining towns with | nilies misery of Parker included: essed by wrapped Ss; @ ‘offers of fabulous wages during the | |3-year-old boy, eros- | Wor! sing ice-covered ground with an erly lived in the holiows and val- eight-year old child in his arms, leys of the southern part of the going to school. state. “They are underfed, under- She reported that while miners’ nourished and oppressed,” Miss Par- are “credited aver ker said. ing about $3 a week, » they Only the Red Cross gave trae actually go deeper -i debt | garden seed to the miners so they | to the mining comy , Month by|could raise a few vegetables for) mont 2 a deduc- | their families, but now only those leaves them almost | working on “relief” jobs for the Re- | ood for themselves and| construction Finance Corporation Deductions include | (forced labor) get the seeds—and their a burial Rags for Decaying Bones. Mothers y rags with which to ying bones of their nis a tools, | | pay for them! fund. “Pay Days”—No Money. During the past two years, Miss Parker reported, “there have been very few pay-days when any min- ers received any American money, Id: on sight in Southern Ten-| The mine operators own the towns | nessee mining towns, Miss Parker| or mining camps. Food at the com- reported. With hundreds suffering’ pany store—which the miners are regular chain stores.” Red Cross rations in Campbell county consist. of one sack of flour or ‘cornmeal every two or three weeks. “If the miners’ wives can War, these miners had form-| buy lard,” Miss Parker said, “they|and Grand Officers. |mix it and make bread. If not, they mix the flour with water. I went through one village at dinner time; they had nothing more than this had yaised.” Miss “rrker went to Tennessee as a representative of “The Save-the- Children Fund,” a bourgeois “phil- anthropic” organization with Fifth Avenue headquarters, Witnessing the terrible suffering of the miners and their families, she organized various “cooperative” projects which, of course were the proverbial drops- in-the-bucket in alleviating the mis- eries of the workers—miseries which can be overcome only thru solid and militant organization. CIVIL SERVICE WASHINGTO! 5. — Making bout the drop NEW YORK. workers for an| League of the United States, All mass period beyond June 30, funds will be collected to aid the anti- statement ordering the wage The Cuban masses are fighting velt_said_ that heroically against the double oppres- ths in 1983 the’ sion of Wall Street imperialism and s Topped 23 per cent. the native bourgeois-landlord. terror. This is contrary to all known facts.!-ro9 tittle support has been given Fe el aerator (them. “heir Organizations on the ecanm fs ragga pone hed -an|Susar plantations are beginning to | eae Stay thet re pecar had| Menace the imperialist and national risenda per Gene Ih tHE nek year, | bourgeois interests. That is why the United States government is inter- and were going up-at the a eLEr vening, through “mediation” by Am- 3 per cent a week. rate of Every worker will recognize Roose-| bassador Sumner Welles, to unite ; thereby increasing the cost of living.|the bloody Machado dictatorship and velt’s asons” for continuing wage| its bourgeois opponents, including the cuts as a sha'iow excuse. The. wage! A. B. C. terrorist organization. | cutting polic by the government is an open lead to the bosses in all| industries to cut wages, and does|by the real revolutionary students, not at all gibe with his popular pro-| are carrying on the fight to drive out nunciamentos to the workers about | the ‘imperialism which oppresses and the coming rise in wages. impoverishes the Cuban masses, no Scorning this “mediation,” the Cu- ban workers and peasants, supported "4 rs $ | matter which native group is in Milk Strike Looms As power. ‘They must have our help. y sey Bi Following the example of the Cuban NOY: Dairy I ALMETS | \orkers, the Anti-Imperialist League Demand 5 Cent Rate | puts forward the following demands: eae Stes Upon the Roosevelt government: NEWPORT, N. Y., July 5—That| Complete economic and political in- e of independent dairy pro-| dependence for Cuba; abolition of is looming was revealed today! the Platt Amendment; no interven- when Felix peta speohine Bas 3) tion; against the sending of Amer- }group of independents, demanded | ; that the State Milk Board fix a Fy ge erie banshee gs rite rate of 5 cents a quart for producers. | ¢ : a aar oe ene, The Milk Board, after strong pres-|@v@mtanamo naval base, and imme- ah : : vag| diate withdrawal of American war- sure exerted by the farmers, was/ Oe 7 : forced to fix 4 cents a quart as the | Ships from Cuba; immediate cancel- price distributors must pay to pro-| lation of debts owed by Cuba to |ducers. Piseck, who is reported as or- | American banks. |ganizing the dairymen in northern| Upon the Cuban government: Im- | New York, stated that a strike would| Mediate and unconditional release of |be called to win the demand, but; Vivo, Ordoqui,. Vilar and the other | the time of the strike is not being! political prisoners in Cuban jails; for | made public. ‘ the right of the revolutionary organi- etc aE Te Retest as a 4 Anti-Imperialist League Supports Cuban Toiler .—A national campaign in support of the Cuban workers, | probably put tha‘ ; peasants and revolutionary students is being initiated by the Anti-Imperialist to get some favors down there. organizations are urged to participate. The campaign will culminate in a Cuban Week, July 23 to 29, during which |-imperialist organizations of Cuba. zations to exist without interferetice from the Cuban government; for the right of the Cubans in exile to return, especially the workers and revolu- tionary students. a it All anti-imperialist- mass organiza- tions are urged to adopt resolutions in support of these demands, to hold lectures and open-air meetings on Cuba, to push the sale of the July Cuban issue of “Upsurge,” monthly organ of the Anti-Imperialist League, and to demonstrate before Cuban consulates. The Anti-Imperialist League, East 10th Street, will send a form resolution to all organizations asking for it, will furnish copies of “Up- surge” and of penny pamphlets on Cuba, will arrange lectures and send speakers to workers’ clubs and other mass organizations upon request, and will provide outlines for discussions on Cuba, including a special outline for trade unions, emphasizing the union angle of the present struggle. Central open-air rallies will be held on the following dates in New York: Harlem, July 8; Red Hook, Brooklyn, July 15; Dewntown, July 22. Other open-air meetings all through July will be held by mass organiza- tions at which resolutions should be adopted and sent to the Roosevelt Administration and the Cuban gov- ernment, with copies to the Anti- Imperialist League. There will be a special Cuban issue of the Daily Worker on July 22, to which all organizations are asked to send greetings to the Cuban anti- imperialist organizations. “26 Commissars” Is Stirring _ Epic in History of U.S. S.R. By EDWIN ROLFE shot, and how they were shot. Re- “Twenty-six Gommissars,” a new volt flares up. Even as the British Soviet film at the Acme, is a picture | machine-guns begin to fire down which no worker should fail to see. | upon the crowd of workers, they rally | It is the film story of the Baku|to the defense of their revolution, oil fields in the year 1918, when the} Seizing the armory, they surge out } | | Two Workers, Framed By Salvation Army, Receive 25 Days NEW YORK.—Sentences of 25 days each were handed out in the Sec- | ond Avenue and Second Street Court Friday to Duke, Negro worker, and | to Joe Gray, member of the Down- | town Unemployed Council, on 2 com- plaint by a Salvation Army official workers already having seized power, into the streets as the British begin were forced to fight bitterly to re- | to retreat. They send a telegram: tain it against the traitorous Men-| “yoscow! KREMLIN! LENIN! sheviks who sought, and for a very) Workers of Baku in arms against brief time succeeded, to hand con- | the British! Send Red Army” trol of the oil fields over to the Brit- . * « ish interventionists. Twenty-six commis affairs of the militan The cold-blooded murder of the commissars; the “workers, massed | about the British staff headquarters rs guided the { new workers’ regime, ope ig the oil fields, fight- demandin; H 2 ig the return of their lead- ing the enemy with raw but heroic | ..... frcbe GH every feont ers; their faces when they hear that they are dead. These are but a few |of the scenes which remain unerase- | able. The brief sketch of events tiat |I have attempted is, after all, no more than a sketch. To see this pic- ture is to be a spectator, a witness— | More, a participant!—in the momen- tous struggles of the Baku workers, | their betrayal, and their victory. The | English titles by Nathan Adler con= tribute greatly to the film’s vivid- ness, A Soviet news-reel of May Day in Moscow, shown at the Acme to- gether with “Twenty-six Commis- | Sars,” is the most stirring of any | newsreel out of the Soviet Union that this reviewer has thus far seen. It is | the territory. For a brief and disas- trous moment, a majority of the | Workers fell under the spell of the | velvet-mouthed Menshevik dema- | gogy, and voted to permit the Brit- ish troops in Persia to enter Baku to “aid” them, | ‘That moment of weakness was dis- astrous, but not fatal. The twenty- | Six commissars, “the brain, the heart, | the voice of the young revolution, betrayed by the suave Menshevik | leaders, were taken out into the des- | ert—‘as far from the railway line as | possible"—surrounded by the British and Mensheviks, and shot down in cold blood. But the workers in Baku, suffering | | even greater hunger and privation | Photographed more clearly than any under British rule, awoke to the |f its predecessors, and records a treachery, and, surrounding the | Wealth of detailed ceremonies whieh | have been omitted from previous news-reels, | building which housed the British | staff, demanded the release of their | 26 commissars. No answer. Again,| It should be stressed and repeated “We want our commissars!” , that this week's bill at the Acme is They are told that the commis- one that no American worker can sars are dead—that they have been | afford to overlook od that they had disturbed a downtown | Salvation Army meeting on June 29. _ | A demand by the two workers that | the trial should be adjourned was |Tefused on the ground that the Sal- | ton, A worker who testified for the de- ifendants declared that Duke was | passing by the meeting when some- one grabbed him and started a fight. | Gray came to his assistance, and the two were arrested on a “disorderly conduct” charge. The one who had | attacked Duke was not even brought to court as a witness. WHAT'S ON Thursday j REGISTER, NOW! Registration ts now going on for summer term of Workers School, school office, Reom 301, 36 Mast | 12th Street POCKETBOOK FOUND at Furriers’ dem- onstration, July [helt omée, 50 East 18th Strect, 6th floor. CLARA ZETKIN AND ROSE PASTOR STOKES MEMORIAL PROGRAM, Pelham | Parkway Workers Club, 2128 Ctuger Av | pue, 8:30 p.m. 1. W. 0. BRANCH 500, 208, 50 East 13th Street, vention. Friday MAX BEDACHT 6n “The World Cepital- |Ast Orisis and Fascism, Workers Center, | 2708 Mermaid Avenue, Bklyn. Membership drive, John Reed Rr. 514, I. W. O. LECTURE, Eugene Blondell, on American Imperialism, ‘The Philippines’ Struggle for Independence. Unity Youth, 2863 West 66th ‘Street, Coney Island meeting, Room Report on con- . 90 | Loser apply to Fret-| Bones Engineers’ Chiet Admits Wage Deal to Assess Men for Officials’ Losses Owns the Mine—and Miners! SELL-OUT DEALS OF JOHNSTON ARE BARED AT CONFAB Rank, File Move for Board of Working Engineers By R. V. STRAN. | CLEVELAND, O., July 5.—Evidence |that Grand Chief Alvanley, Johnston of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers worked his hardest to put over the original 10 per cent cut on the railroad workers, with the idea | of obtaining favors in Wall Street, was produced in the closely guarded |report of the Banking Committee to | the Brotherhood’s convention, now in its fifth week in Cleveland. |- The report includes such exposures | | dread disease |compelled to patronize—costs two | of financial manipulations on the part of the Grand Officers that every pre- caution is being taken to keep its |findings from the membership and |the public. It has been kept out of the minutes and only sufficient copies have been printed for the delegates | Each copy is |numbered and has the delegate’s |mame name printed on it; he must sign for his copy before receiving it, Included in the committee’s report jbread and gravy made with flour | as read to the convention, is a letter jand water, and a few lucky ones had | from C. Stirling Smith to the Chase |Scraps of a few earty vegetables they | Nat’l Bank in N. Y. Smith is former |president of the Standard Trust | Bank, of which the B. of L. E. is |largest stockholder, and an intimate | personal associate of Grand Chief |Johnston in all his financial trans- |actions. In this letter Smith told | his Wall Street friends that Johnston (was doing his best to put over-the |10 per cent cut on the railroad work- |ers, but that he was meeting with. | some opposition from the other Broth- $6. erhoods. Smith wrote that Johnston was hopeful of putting over the cut, however, with the aid of the Con- ductors’ officials. | Pleads Ignorance Johnston made a long speech to the |convention, attempting to defend his | financial record, pleading innocence lor ignorance, claiming persecution |and blaming the Federal Reserve Di- | rector for closing the bank. He bare- |ly mentioned the eviderice of his 10 | per cent cut sell-out, saying: “Smith it up as an argument Ng |mever knew a thing about it. There |is nothing to that.” “Both discussion and action on the Banking Committee's report were de- ferred until the report should be | printed and the delegates have an | opportunity to study it. The commit- | tee is understood to be preparing an answer to Johnston's denials. Rudolph’s Sham Opposition The sham character of Carl Ru- ‘dolph’s alleged opposition to the | Johnston machine on the advisory | board, was revealed in the debate on the suspension of Division 436, Bir- mingham, Ala. Rudolph is chief con- tendant against Johnston for the job ,of Grand Chief. He has succeeded in | foisting himself onto what is basically a movement of rank and file discon- tent, on the basis of a very flimsy | record of opposition to the Johnston | regime. | Division 436 was suspended by | Grand Chief Johnston under the gag |law, Section 86, for circulating a call | for a special convention of the Broth- jerhood, following the failure of the | Standard Trust Bank. It appealed to | the convention for reinstatement and | its fight was taken up by the opposi- ition. In the discussion on the com- | mittee’s recommendation to sustain |the Grand Chief, the records of the | Advisory Board were produced to | show that it had voted unanimously, | with Rudolph present, to approve the | Grand Chief's action. Rudolph was \repeatedly booed by delegates when | he sought to excuse his action on con- | stitutional grounds and complained |that the records did not show that |he had denounced the gag law at the same time as he voted to sustain Johnston. The committee's report, however, was declared adopted amid bitter charges of “railroading.” An important amendment of rank and file origin is the subject of pro- longed discussion. It provides for a Board of Directors made up of five working engineers, who shall have power to supervise the Grand Officers | and their handling of the finances, {Heart Fails As Worker Searches CityDump for 'Family’s Food; Is Dead By PASCUAL, | JERSEY COITY.—Forced by | desperate need of his family of 10, | Anthony Griziso grubbed for food at | the dumps, where he was found dead} from heart failure. This reporter went to visit the fam- ily living in four small rooms on the first floor of a dingy shack. Every room contained a bed, one small bed- room holding’ three beds neatly put up in an effort to accommodate the! crowded family. The Jersey City Relief had been giving this family of 11 people a mis- erly $5 a week, and Mrs. Grisio lived in constant fear that some welfare organization would come and take her | children away from her. She was asked why she did not demand the Jersey City Relief Bu- reau give her more than $5 per week of which $13 rent, kerosene for the} Jamp, and food to maintain a family of ten had to be supplied. “You can’t get sassy with them,” she re- plied, “because then they might take my kinds away. And I wouldn’t want that to happen.” The youngest child is two years old. An insight into the life of a worker under capitalism who starts life strong and confident and then at the age of 52 is found dead on the dump heaps grubbing food for his family is illustrated by Mrs. Griziso’s late husband, Anthony. Arm Crushed In 1920 he was a skilled mechanic working in a rubber factory, with great plans for the future. Then his| arm was crushed in a machine and for a year he was unable to do any sort of work. Finally he got a job at the Goodwill Institution as a helper at $15 a week. Up until six months ago when he lost his job completely, he was employed for a year and a half for three days a week, receiving the Hence up to six months ago the family of nine was living on An- thony's $6 a week wages and the $5 from the relief. Asked how she got along when her husband lost his $6 a week job, Mrs. Griziso replied: “Well you see, I bake my own bread, then one day I make macaroni and potatoes, and the next day I make macaroni and green peas, and the next day I bake the macaroni, so we manage to get along. “Anthony,” she continued, “didn't take it so cheerfully. He used to sit in the kitchen, see what was going on in there, and worry and worry, Then one day he saw some Negro fellers carrying wood and things wrapped up in paper from the dumps, and that’s where he got the idea.” In other words, driven desperate by the sight of an empty kitchen he went together with the Negro work- ers to the dumps to bring home ‘pieces of -wood for the fire, and “things wrapped up in pieces of paper,” so that the neighbors wouldn’t see the beastlike degradation that capitalism forces on the worker. Then his heart couldn’t stand the strain and he dropped dead. and to remove them from office if found guilty of misconduct. Designed to clip the czaristic powers now en- joyed by the Grand Chief and the Grand Officers, the proposal is meet- ing bitter opposition from the ma- chine. But there is so much senti- ment for it among the delegates that it may be made the subject of a test vote. Amalgamation Being Blocked The movement for amalgamation of the B. of L. E. and the Firemen’s Brotherhood is being blocked in the usual way by high-paid officials of both organizations who fear loss of their jobs. Most of them claim to favor the move, but in practice place every obstacle in the way. Asst. Grand Chief G. W. Laughlin heads the B. of L. E. committee negotiating with the B. of L. F. and E. His re- port to the convention was a prize example of creating obstacles and throwing cold water without openly opposing the proposition. Some Decisions | Recent convention actions include the decision to reprganize the insur- ance department on a legal reserve basis, instead of the present assess- ment basis, defeat of a move té in- crease the terms of officers from three to six years, and a reduction of 10 per cent in the expenses of officers and delegates. WOMEN’S CAMP TEACHING GIRLS NEW TRADES FOR JOBS THAT DON'T EXIST (From a Woman Camp Correspondent.) CAMP TERA, N. Y.—Now we are Women. We expect 29 more this afternoon, which makes 90 at the camp. We live in 3-roomed cabins, 2 in a room, 6 in a cabin. Each cabin has a vation Army official who lodged the | , complaint ae to go on Mie cavaet captain to bring complaints, etc., to the council meeting. The cabins are mosily screened instead of walled sc > that we get pienty of air. We breakfast at 8, lunch at 12:30, supper at 6. We have setting up exercises, etc. At 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. we meet in the Playhouse where we have a victrola, checker games, card games, piano, dancing. None of these activities are compulsory—however most of the girls are usually to- gether—the 4 camp councillors try- ing to make things interesting. These councillors are from tite Red Cross, | sort of girl scout types. Leerning Trades But Where Are the Jobs? Mrs. Roosevelt has said that first | she wants us to get healthy and then | She wants us to have a vacation. | Some of us have registered in the stenography class, others in the typ: ing class. As if we will have jobs when we are forced back to starva- tion in the city. And since we have no money here, everybody has for- gotten about the depression back in. the U. 8. There is a library with very cheap novels and cheap maga- zines to further help us forget our situation. Most Girls Physically Defective. The girls were given thorough phy- sical examinations, Mostof us have 61 girls in the Camp for Unemployed been found defective in many ways— no wonder, the life“we have been liv- ing. My feet are flat, my back is hollow, ete. At 2:30 they have a cor- rective class for these things—as if this short period will correct our physical ills. Police Keep Girls Within Camps. ‘We have been given our return ticket—so if anybody gets lonesome or discouraged they have a right to run back to N. Y. And there is a policeman on the outskirts to see to it that we do not go off the grounds. The girls do all the chores (are we paid—dont’ make me giggle). The food is much better than I had expected-—at any rate much better than I got st the Salvation Army— where an ordinary potato even was mutilated beyond recognition. How- ever I understand this comparatively good food. They expect visitors every minute—congressmen and the like, By their goodness to “$0” they can pleasantly forget about the starvation of millions of young girls. ‘They try to fill us full of hot air about their ideas of obedience, truth RAISE GIVEN IN 1927 TAKEN BACK, TO REPAY BANKS Unity Committee Calls on Progressives to Prepare Program CLEVELAND, O., July 5--Grand Chief Alvaniey Johnston, at the tri- ennial convention of the Brotherhood / of Locomotive Engineers here ad-{ mitted to convention delegates that the engineers received an increase in pay from the roads in 1927 because, the Brotherhood’s grand offi wanted to assess the membership t make up losses suffered by the broth- erhood in its extensive financial and real estate ventures. “The 1927 convention authorized loyalty loans from the members to bolster up the collapsing $16,000,000 veal estate deal in Venice, Florida. “That conventicn failed to put on an assessment and I was afraid if we did put one on this organization it would not stand,” Johnston told there dele- gates. “The thing to do was to go out and get a wage increase for the men before we could ask them to put up any money. In collaboration with the’ railroad executives a pay raise was given solely for the purpose of assessing the meme bers the amount of the increase, in order to turn the amount over to the bankers! “The pay raises were granted by a U. S. Board of Mediation after the union had asked for a 15 per cent increase,” declared Johnston. “We got a 7'% per cent increase on eastern roads and 6% per cent on others. In September, 1928, we put on an as- Sessment after every man had been given sufficient increase in May to meet the assessment or loyalty loan in full.” The Brotherhood to date has collected nearly $6,300,000 from the members on the loyalty loan!” The Grand Chiefs easily volunteer- ed to continue the 10 per cent deduc- tion; they had milked the member- ship for all the members would stand for. Johnston has publicly stated that Roosevelt’s co-ordination bill is ‘eminently fair’ and has agreed to another extension of the 10 per cent deduction (without a vote of the membership), even though railroad profits are increasing, and the cost of living is going up rapidly, as well as the cost of belonging to the Broth- erhood which is being increased. Progressive engineers should get in touch with the Chicago Railroad Brotherhood’s Unity Committee, 2003 N. California, Chicago, at once and prepare for constructive action in be- half of the rank and file, and against these grand betrayers. ¥ WORKERS’ RATIONAL LIVING LIBRARY by the Revolutionary Doctor and Health Teacher have appeared: NO. 1— “How Is Your Stomach?” \ (Essays on Foods, Indigestion, Con- ion). NO. ap a “Sex and Health” (The Sexual Revolution, Anatomy and Physiology, Menstruation). NO. 3— - g a “Sex Life and Marriage” (Essays on Sexual Life, Pregnancy, Childbirth). In Preparation: “Mental Health”. 20 CENTS A COPY (NO_STAMPS) ADDRESS RATIONAL LIVING Bex 4, Station M_ New York, N.Y. BBB BBB™ BUNGALOWS and ROOMS FOR RENT AT CAMP WOCOLONA Rate: $15.00 per Person for the summer Write to Camp Wocolona MONROE, New York ERIE R. R. MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE Cor. Bronx Park) East Pure Foods Proletarian Prices Garment Section Workers Navar r Cafeteria 333 7th AVENUE ANDWICH|. SOLS “Conca 101 University Place (Just Around the ‘Jorner) , Telephone Tompkins Sqcare 6-9780-9781 BROOKLYN FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE Brighton Beach Workers WELCOME AT y Hoffman's Cafeteria 282 BRIGHTON BEACH AVENUE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT WILLIAMSBURG WORKERS EAT AT ete. etc. They sre atria wa hen gotten “wrong” ideas while we were bungry. KALE CAFETERIA 246 BROADWAY, BROOKLYN