The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1933, Page 1

i Read Open Letter to Party Membership in Special Maga- zine Section ail Central Or u (Section of the Communist International) orker ist Party U.S.A. IN TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE Vol. X, No. 167 oe On the Right Road 'HE workers at the Illinois Steel Company plant in Gary, and at the Michigan and the Great Lakes Steel plants in Detroit are to be con- gratulated. They are entering onto the right road in their fight against the lower Ning standards and the practical slavery embodied in Roose- Yelt’s Industrial “Recovery” Act. Their decisive rejection of the company unions, now almost univer- sally brought forward by the steel bosses, was absolutely correct. Their futher act—the equally emphatic rejection of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin workers, also virtually a com- pany union though affiliated to the A. F. of L.—showed even greater fore- sight. : Their decision to set up their own independent union as an instru- ment of struggle for higher wages, for shorter hours, and for improved conditions generally can lead to effective resistance to Roosevelt's pro- gram and to the disorganizing activities of the bosses’ agents. . . . . UT the workers must still be on guard. Defeated in their first man- Batered as second-class matter at the Post Offiee at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Match 8, 1978. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933 NATIONAL EDITION "Price 3 Cente U.S. Secret Service | Pays Students to Spy) on Their Classmates! MADISON, Wis.—The U. S. se- cret service employs “students in | universities to spy on their fellow | students and gather information as to Communist activities, it was revealed today at a legislators’ in- vestigating committee here. This startling revelation was | made when William H. Haight, Jr., student at the University of Wis- consin and member of the R. O. | T. C., told the committee of this stool-pigeoning practice carried on by the U. S. seeret service at that university, and stated that he him- self was paid by the secret service | for such information. | New York workers demonstrati: ing at one of the city wide protest | white workers are Negro Arrested for Accompanying Woman |Cops Thought White LOUISVILLE, Ky — Negro and prote: the arest of George Clements, who was seized while walking on the street with his sister-in-law, who was mis- taken by a policeman for a white woman. Escorting his brother's wife home R | from a card party, he was accosted by a motorcycle cop who demanded to know whom he was accompany- ing. Clements replied that it was none of the cop's bus! The couple were taken into custody and Clements was pui into a ceil in the precinct station. His brother, Dean Clements went bond for him. STEEL WORKERS, IN GARY SPURN COMPANY UNION Three Departments at Illinois Steel Co. Vote to Form Own Union; Set Wage- and Hour Scale | Steel, Metal Industrial Union ‘Calls Workers to Use Petitions to Expose Company Unions oeuyers, the bosses will undertake new manoeuvers. They failed once with the undisguised company union; they failed to have the A. F. of L. | union accepted by the workers. But they will renew their efforts day | in and day out, never giving up in their determination to fasten their | deadly grip on the workers. If openly reactionary trade union leaders of the Green-Tighe type are rejected by the workers and therefore become useless to the steel bosses, they will bring forward new “labor” leaders more skilled in the use of radical phrases, more able to fool the workers, These they will | meetings to enforce demands that city give adequate aid to those out | Haight named 18 students who he said were Communists. He said he concentrated his activities upon the John Reed Club here and the National Student League, at the request of the secret service. Haight had previously operated as a stool pigeon in Chicago, he told the committee. of work. Hopkins May Cut Off 1U. S. PLANS STILL BIGGER NAVY IN pin@ARY: Ind, July 12—Three hundred workers ofthe ma RACE WITH JAPAN aN aoe Sees ooo nee acksinith: shop: Ct hea | Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of U. S. Steel, met in the ma- - eae chine shop of the plant today and drew up demands for a even yJace at the head of so-called independent unions, but of “inde- pendent” unions which will in reality work on friendly relations with the bosses to the detriment of the workers interests. That is the touchstone for the bosses in determining their attitude toward any workers’ organization: does it urge a “common interest” of workers and bosses which is always the bosses’ interests, or does it boldly fight against the bosses for the interests of the workers. The former, no mctter what its name, is a company union; the latter—one based on class struggle—is a workers’ union. 8 * * IN the steel industry now the workers should be on guard not only against the known company unions and the A. F. of L. union, long since exposed as an instrument of the companies, but also against so-called independent unions which can easily be organized by the steel companies. The workers both in Detroit and Gary have shown great initiative in exposing and defeating the company manouvers; they should now take steps to guarantee that the leadership remains only in the hands of trusted, militant fellow workers who have proven themselves by struggle. ‘The safest course—the only course as experience will show—is for the steel workers to ally themselves with the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, a class struggle union affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. This union has proven that it fights unflinchingly for the in- terests of the steel workers. The workers of Detroit and Gary, as well as of the other steel centers would do well to get in touch with this fight- ing organization. No Faith in Tammany WHEN the list of Mayor O’Brien’s promises were laid out in the Board of Estimate meeting yesterday, by the delegation headed by Robert Minor, not only Mayor O'Brien, but also the Board of Estimate pledged— hewever unwillingiy—to fulfill. the entire list of promises. These pro- mises are insufficient, as pointed out by Minor yesterday, and faulty in meny respects—but they would represent tangible gains to the hard- pressed unemployed if they were actually translated from the empty words of Mayor O’Brien into terms of action—into terms of meat and bread and milk for working class families, and relief from the night- mar? of evictions. Bus it is also clear that not one single promise will be kept except under the compulsion of bigger and sharper mass pressure against the ‘LEGION ASKS BAN ON COMMUNISTS. Resolution Adopted by} the Racine Post RACINE, Wisc.—A resolution to bar all Communists from the bal- lot was adopted by the Racine post | of the American Legion at a meet-| jing held recently. The resolution is most emphatic in stating that no one who will make any effort to| change the present conditions, shall | ever be permitted to hold office. | From now on, according to the, American -Legion officials, the work- | ets must passively accept starvation, | and unemployment, and not say a) werd about it. | The resolution was brought for- | ward by Edward Millstead, after 600 workers present at the Council/ Board meeting a week ago, booed | down his censure of the Unemployed | Council. Commander Gearen made | a@ joke of the Council Board meet- | ings, when he urged Legionnaires | to attend them because they would | find plenty of entertainment there. | This refers to meetings at which | workers would be present under the | leadership of the Unemployed Coun- cil to present the case of desti-| tute and starving workers to the Al- dermen, and to demand relief in- creases. i ‘STRIKE AT 3 FUR Federal Funds for Jobless' National and State Officials Make Political Game of Relief Issue WASHINGTON, July 12.— The Harry L. Hopkins to a conference of state executive that federal funds will not be given to states unless they raise a large portion of their own funds, was answered by state and local officials by cuts and stopping of The needs of millions of people all Scome a football between federal and relief. TORONTO MASS DEMONSTRATIO HITS FASCISM 25000Workers in Strike and Parade Defy Can- adian Police Attacks TORONTO, July 12.—Twenty-five thousand Toronto workers, including Needle Trades and many other unions and all labor organizations in united front action staged a magnificent two-hour strike with a parade and demonstration against fascism yester- day. Thousands.of banners and car- ‘icaturas of the symbols of faso'st ter- ror expressing the workers’ hate of the bloody Hitler 1€gime were carried. All other fascist regimes were pilloried by slogans and satires exposing their most hideous features. The demonstrators demanded the release of Thaelmann, Torgler, Dimit- rov and the tens of thousands of working class fighters now in the While Masses Starve statement of Relief Administrator over the country has be- state officials, each one shirking res- Ponsibility, while people starve. In New. York a million and a half people are without relief, while city, |state and federal officials argue as | to who should supply funds. In Chi- cago relief was cut 10 per cent. Cleve- | land reports that unemployed are put back on emergency relief which was long ago condemned as totally insu- Budget Raise .Asked As Tokio Bares Program WASHINGTON.—Secretary of the Navy, Claude A. Swanson yesterday announced he would ask for still more warships, to meet Japan’s new naval program, which was itself a response to America’s big navy budget. The American and Japan- ese governments thus declare them- selves in an unlimited competition in naval strength. | Swanson’s announcement was an instant response to the publication of Japan’s new warship budget of $140,000,000._ The American Navy department had just got $315,000,000 with which to build up the navy. It was only a few hours after the Japanese program was announced fficient. In Kentucky where miners starved even when working, the state has so far not supplied any funds for relief, telegram of Governor Laffoon, Hop- kins wrote, “I wish to make it per- fectly clear to you that the Federal Relief Administration will not con- tinue to finance relief work beyond August 15.” While this game is go- ing on between the federal and state heads in Kentucky thousands of fam- ilies are starving without any means of existence, Insignificant Funds The Federal funds which Hopkins threatens to cut amount to about $250,000,000 for the whole country. It is an insignificant sum considering the tremendous rise in the numbers needing relief, with the present fig- ure of 17 million unemployed. now that they are unemployed. In a! yesterday when Swanson declared he would go back to the Public Works Administration for more mil- | lions. The whole American fleet, in- cluding the Atlantic squadron, has now been in the Pacific for over a year, having been concentrated there soon after Japan began its drive into China which has resulted in the ecuquest of Manchuria, and is still Spreading out farther over the main- jJand of Asia. Both fleets are main- tained on a permanent war basis tension created by the fast-growing imperialist rivalry between the two countries, Cop Kissed by Hitler EnvoyTestifiesToday minimum wage scale and max ANTHRACITE COAL MINERS ADOPT STRUGGLE CODE Rank, File Conference Elects Committee to Present Demands in Washington SHENANDOAH, Pa., July 12.—Rank and file miners meeting in Moose Hall in the lower anthracite coal region last week at the call of the General Mine Board ,of Shenandoah adopted unanimously a code representing the miners’ demands for higher wages, shorter hours and improved condi- {tions on the job. The code was pre- |pared by a committee of action elected by the miners at a previous confer- | It constitutes the program of | struggle of the rank and file opposi- tion forces in this region. | After adoption of the code the | miners elected a ‘committee of 10° to | go to Washington to present it to the | (Slavery) Law. A call was issued to | Districts 1 and 7 to co-operate and/| elect their committees to join the Shenandoah Committee to Washing- ton when Lewis and the mine dper- |ators present their code. Another rank and file conference | will be held on July 30 to make final} ———» imam hours. The workers called for a minimum hourly rate of 60 cents for common labor, an eight hour day and a 5 day week and emphatically reject- ed the steel trust’s company union and the A. F. of L. as organizations to _ represent them. Instead they voted for a real rank and file union of | all steel workers. Petitions signed by the workers making demands on the company union outfit established in the plant under the Recovery (Slavery) Code were presented to the general fore- |man who became enraged and at- {tempted to destroy them. The |workers at the meeting today de- |manded the return of their petitions. Meetings in All Departments. Every department {ff ihe Mlinois |Steel plant is holding meetings as the workers recognize the power of |their organized strength to force |better conditions for themselves. In every department, the workers are | discussing higher wages and shorter jhours and their plans for present- |ing these demands to the company In~the American Sheet “and Tin Plate Co. the workers are demand-. because of the increasingly sharp |@dministration of the Recovery|ing the withdrawal of their. first | Wage Cut of 15 per cent and the return of all wages lost since the cut was declared. The workers invited a |Speaker from the Steel and Metal | Workeis’ Industrial Union to speak jat their picnic on Sunduy. Statement of Steel Union. Jhon Meldon national secretary of Against Arti-Nazi| prisons and penal camps of fascism. The savage attacks of the Bennett |Canadian government against the |preparations and plans to mobilize|the Steel and Metal Workers’ In- the workers in behalf of the miners’ | qustrial Union made the followin; demands. ‘The code of the anthracite | statement on the militant action o SHOPS IN CHICAGO acminisiration. The outstanding fact is that not one single thing has been done by Mayor O’Brien. Half of the working class population of Local officials will not be able, to evade responsibiliiy to provid> relief|_ NEW YORK. — A policeman, who a alt eek | 4 , particularly against the|much longer, The federal -|Was kissed on the cheek by Hans|miners wil be issued in leafiet form|the Qlinois Steel workers and the New York would be allowed to die if the workers were foolish enough Ranks Solid Against|Oommenst rerty uaa” ite’ leaders| met (will “not get away Ey. shirking Weidemann, Nazi representative, as| shortly. |growing wave of struggles in the to trust to the honor of the callous Tammany politicians who yesterday were objects of attack. Demands|its responsibility. They will be forced |@ ‘eward for his brutality against the} The National Miners’ Union leaflet | industry: met with cynical grins Minor’s declaration. The workers ci New York must be prepared for sharper and bigger mass struggles. Cops and A.F.L. Heads CHICAGO, Ill, July 12.—Workers were made for the immediate release of Tim Buck and all the class war to take steps to guarantee a uniform |national program for aid to the job- jless. This should take the form of workers who demonstrated against Weidemann on his arrival here May 25, will be one of the main witnesses exposing the Recovery (Slavery) Act was distributed during the conference here and was well received by the | “Immediately after the formation of the company unions in the steel Loe i : risoners held in Canadian jails, and . mills throughout the country, the ri Be er at three fur shops here, the M. T., iv rallying call was issued to workers|Unemployment insurance supplied to|f0T the prose when four work-|miners’ delegates. Sentiment among | National Board of the Steel and VERY case of emergency need on the part of a working class family |the Evans and the Bookman, have|to break the police ban against pa-|all jobless workers in every part of| TS come on trial this morning at the| the miners is strong for the N.M.U. to| xretat Workers Industrial Union should be instantly recorded with the local Unemployed Councils in the neighborhood. Every man, woman or youth who should be on the relief lists and is not there, should be immediately reported. All of these cases will be presented by the Unemployed Councils to the Mayor who with his Board of Estimate now stands solemnly pledged to give instant relief to such cases as are presented by the Unemployed Council, $e Ren Tt workers are now faced with the need of a series of big mass ac- tions to compel the keeping of O’Brien’s promises, These mass ac- gone on strike for better conditions, and for the right to belong to the union of their own choice. The strikes are being conducted under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Asin New York, A. F. of L. of- ficials, especially Mouchin have joined with the police department’s industrial squad to break the strikes. rades and demonstrations that has been in effect the past 12 years. The demonstration itself was an example of overwhelming mass defiance to the Canadian strike-breaking government and a challenge to the iron heel pol- icies of the Bennett government. Pa. Silk Weavers Win the United States. The Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill pro- |Posed by the Unemployed Councils and endorsed by numerous trade unions and other working class bodies makes thse provisions. PLOT NEW SALES Brooklyn court, 120 Schermerhorn St., on a felonious assault charge growing out of the demonstration. Workers are appealed to by the 1. L. D. as well as by those on trial to crowd the court this morning and by their presence prevent the prosecution from carrying through its frame-up. The court can be reached by taking any I. R. T. subway and lead the miners. The General Mine Board here is in opposition to the District and national U.M.W.A. ma- ;chine and is fighting against its boss | inspired policies. \Workers Protest | Czech Relief Cut |called on the steel workers to start jat once drawing up petitions, signed |by the steel workers in the depart- ments of the mills demanding im- |mediate wage-increases and other jlocal department grievances and de- jmands, “In the Jones and Laughlin mill jin Pittsburgh, this was done a few i . ii 4, \days after the company union was The workers, however, are holding ‘getting off at Borough Hall station. UE. ear" | tions must be a part of the Election Campaign itself. Right now, with- | their ranks solid. |2nd Strike, More Pay| $ T ‘AX AT ALB ANY! The ten workers who were released sefscntie minists (ob Goactieurs los ne pis erage ele a out waiting, food must be wrested from the unwilling hands of the city . [recently for demonstrating against} ¢ | authorities, and it can be obtained. Taking advantage of the election period, the workers ang all of their organizations should immediately take up the fight for adequate local relief while at the same time broadening the fight for Federal Social In- surance. Such a fight will also convince the workers that not Tammany, nor the fusionists, nor the Socialists, but that the Communist Party alone ropresents their interests. Leadership now in the fight for the workers’ pressing needs, will give us the workers’ support on election day. “A Poker Game” | So. Norwalk Workers’ Groups Name Ticket for Conn.City Elections SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.—A united workers’ ticket for the local elections was nominated here. The ticket represents several organtza- tions such as the Communist Party, International Workers Order, both Jewish and Hungarian Branches, CATESAUGA,. Pa, July 12— Workers of the General Ribbon Mill, after a two day strike forced a 10 per cent wage raise and the reduc- tion of their working day to 8 hours. Two months ago, the workers struck in this mill and gained a 20 per cent increase in wages and recog- nition of their shop committee. It was through the vigilance and ini- tlative of the shop local organized after the first strike that the latest victory was won. ALBANY, July 11—The Tammany |Democratic state administration of |Governor Lehman and the up-statc | Republican machine politicians in the state legislature are‘ conspiring further to rob the toiling masses of New York State by imposing a |2 per cent sales tax upon them. Support of both old parties for this proposal is guaranteed. New | Weidemann are asked to be-in court} as defense witnesses. The N. Y. District I. L. D. will also defend Jacc Stock and John Russo when they co:se up for trial this morning in Special Sessions, 120 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn, charged | with felonious sssault, after they were brutally clubbed by police during and| Butchers and Sausage Makers are|withdrawal of the 25 per cent cut. Ceraanding a general strike in pro-|Disruptors among the workers pre- test against a proposed reduction in|yented the petition from going to unemployment benefits. Glass work- the company union, and manueyered ers of Reitendorf carried on a one-|to have it sent to president Roose- hour protest strike. Demonstrations |yelt and Secretary of Labor Perk- were held in many mine pits of the |ins. This move directed the strug- Kladno distrie:, three tescile fector-| gle away from the local department jes of Brunn and a number of work-jand mill situation. The workers ers’ town csuncils have »ul sharp are now on guard to get their pe- resolutions to the government. i aoe after a demonstrafion at a Brooklyn home relief bureau. titions straight to the company un- - | ion. |A Weapon for the Steel Workers. It is expected that this victory/ York City politicians are backing - . | See “F W. 99! “This ti f raising the burni ; Delon SING tO a ates Me's | ill greatly, encourage the Tibbon|the proposals, Mayor John P| Washington Meet Hits) “This Is Your War,”| “This tactic of ealsing tive Buzzing ro months ago Roosevelt broadcast an extraordinary message to the | ticket is headed by Askins, a Negro|Weavers in Allentown to take action|O’Brien, City Comptroller Charles governments of all nations, calling on them to agree never to send an armed force beyond their boundaries. Three days ago, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy, Claude A. Swan- son, announced in the name of “pacifism” the government's determina- ticn to build a navy second to none. na Navies have only one function—to “carry armed forcés beyond na- tional boundaries.” Two days ago the Japanese government countered with a big new program of warship construction. Yesterday, Swanson met the Japanese plan by declaring he would demand still further millions for a still bigger navy. Swanson calls navy building a “poker game.” Japan meets America’s bet, Swanson counters by raising the bet. , In all games of poker the time comes for a showdown, when the bets have to be paid. Washington's aces may be warships, but the stakes are the lives of millions of workers. This is the point that Swanson ne- glected to mention. Roosevelt's and Swanson’s phrases about peace can no longer dis- guise the headlong drive toward war. The sharp rivalry of American and Japanese imperialism for the division of plunder in China approaches ever nearer the point where commercial and diplomatic struggle turns into armed conflict. Both countries are feverishly fortifying themselves for that day, when millions of. workers will be hurled against each other to settle the accounts of the rival capitalists. ” of imperialist capitalism. Every capitalist government is pre- paring to transform it into armed war, while endless conferences and “pacifist” declarations are used to obscure the process. They are striving most of all to transform it into a war against e Soviet Union, where the workers have taken the revolutionary road ~ which alone makes imperialist aggression impossible, Active mass struggle against war—this is the road the workers should take; active struggle in the factories against the production of war material; active struggle in the street. : All out on August 1, to ® monster demonstration for the revolution- ary way against war, and for defense of the Soviet Union. worker who have been active in organizing the Negro workers in the International Labor Defense, ‘The workers’ movement is making headway in South Norwalk espe- cially among the Negro workers. NEW YORK.—A 10 to 20 per cent increase th wages was won by the workers of the Jacobson Knitting Mills in a strTke under the leader- ship of the knitgoods department of the Needle Trades Workers Indus-: trial Union. The workers pledged to Join the union on the receipt of the first pay. for wage increases as the Allentown mills are subsidiaries of the Gen’l Ribbon. A joint committee of the two mills has been established to work out. a plan of action. ST. LOUIS TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 11—Led by the Trade Union Unity League, 150 Negro and whité workers came out on strike at the Ferer Aaron and Son textile factory today. 30 workers in another factory joined the strikers. All the workers voted to join the National Textile Workers’ Union. _ LANSDALE, Pa., July 12—While dispersing @ picket line of workers of the Perfect Foods Corporation who Police attacked Mrs. Alice Sloane, 18, an expectant mother and struck her in the stomach. Eight others includ- Cops Club Expectant Mother Picketing Lansdale Plant were called by the company’s treas- urer, Floyd Kulp, and immediately went to work on the strikers. When their clubs wildly, Bloane. Striking hosiery workers succeeded striking Mrs. ing two women strikers were arrested. Strikers took the injured women worker to the Grandview Hospital, Sellersville where a report on her con- dition was not made public. Three hundred pretzel workers in the plant walked out in the general Pain movement which is sweeping in drawing out the workers of a cloth- ing mill nearby owned by 8. Homer Kendie, Mills of the Interstate Hosiery, the Dexdale and Arcadia hosiery companies were declared on strike when 1,500 workers in these mills walked out. (Turn to page 3 for more details of Police|the strike. W. Berry and Deputy Comptroller Frank J. Prial visited Governor Leh- man at his summer home on Lake George, yesterday, and it is under- stood that the additional sales tax was agreed upon. Board of Estimate to Act It is probable that the New York City Board of Estimate at its next meeting will request a special session of the State Legislature to raise money for “unemployment relief.” How much concerned these politi- cians are about such relief can be gauged from the fact that although New York City has on hand $24,000,- 000 excess cash, it has stopped relief for more than a million men, women and children. 200 Allentown Silk Workers Strike for MoreWages, Less Hrs. ALLENTOWN, Pa., July 12.—Re- jecting the company’s advice to wait per cent raise in their pay and an 8 hour day. The weavers Work 10 hours on the night shift under con- ditions which’ rank worst among the notoriously bad mill conditions which exist here. The strike is being led by the workers themselves. After refusing to recognize the organizer of the United Textile Workers who ap- peared on the scene, the workers elected their own committee. Short Story,Featured | New “Recovery” Act re a in Saturday’s ‘Daily’. WASHINGTON, D. C.—At open air) i meeting at 7th and Pennsylvania « Var.” i Ave., held here, Charles Spencer, or- bay aes pie ay York Pees }ganizer of the Communist Party in| | \orker, heads the special features | | Washington, spoke on the “Commun- te appear in the Daily Worker ist Position on the National Recovery| | next Saturday. It is written by | Act.” Government employees were! | Hellen Koppell and illustrated by | urged to organize and fight the 15! | walter Quirt. } ;Per cent. wage-cut. Ly effective. | Also of great interest is an ar- | | Spencer pledged the support of the ~ |Communist Party to the efforts of the| {ticle on conditions in the Bir- | | |mingham, Alabama, jail government employees to better their \ wire Taylor and Phe Raiecaky conditions. j ui loyed organi It is planned to hold another meet-| peyton git isbn ing on the same corner July 21, 6N. Y. Labor Camp Recruits Get 60 Days in Jail for Revolt )SYRACUSE, N. Y., July 12.—Mili- tary officers yesterday handed over | by Captain Ernest John of Fort Han- cock, New Jersey, commander of the authorities who sentenced them to 60 days in the penitentiary as a result of their refusal to do the very hard work in the camps. These stiff jail bellion was taking place the six Negro workers arrested at Camp Preston last Friday, completed their 5 day sentences and left for home. They now becoming widespread and is one of the most effective means of ex- |posing the boss controlled company |unions. ‘The contradiction in the Industrial Recovery (Slayery) Act, |which is supposed to allow the work- ers to petition the company unions, |wives the steel workers a weapon by which they can rally thousifids around specific immediate demands, |It immediately raises the issue of |struggle, once demands are rejected |by the company unions. “It gives our union locals in pat ‘cular a splendid opportunity for assuming leadership in these struge gles that are fast developing in many centers of the steel and metal industry. The action of the Illinois Steel workers in this respect is both an excellent example of how to mo- bilize the steel workers and how to raise the burning demands in the most concrete manner possible. It is an object lesson in the method of exposing the company unions, with the purpose of rejecting and destroying, and replacing the com. pany unions by real working class trolled organizations of struggle, ah iia out on strike in ke, semeent the until the Silke Code is beng , 200] six New Jersey youths from the Cross| contingent. cont eas ly intensified the fi 1 of all came ne bs sympathy big ~ strikers tried aevihe cope posited bil ald of fee tne ee Clearing forced labor camp to civil! While the Cross Clearing Camp re- 1,200 Philippine Workers on Strike sentences are now being meted out to. the boys in an effort to smash the rising tide of strikes and riots within the camps, Those sentenced were Albert Guar- dine, Samuel Browder, Edward Schmidtz, Benjamin Rauso, Otto Wilson and Salvatore Veralli. ‘The complaint was brought to the police had protested the removal of two Negro clerks and their being replaced by two white clerks, despite the over- whelming majority of Negroes in the camp. Camp Preston is now going to be made into a thorogoing Jim Crow camp, with the white workers trans- ferred to another camp. MANILA, Philippine Islands, July 12.—Seven hundred workers who struck last Friday in protest against jthe firing of a worker at Davao were joined today by 500 more. Three big companies are tied up by the strike. The government has sent pee of constabulary to break the Seo ete oe