The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1933, Page 6

2 e Fs | ze Stix hat a orld HARD TIMES. a times hard times in stand any kind of hard times 2 poor kids who picked-clinkers by the railroad + Now nick fishheads out of the ash- ; cans Hard times hard times breadlines deathlines Now weaklings cut their throats / And lads with guts talk revolution Hard times hard times god almighty 1 hever knew any good times Hard #imes I can stand any iKinge ard times i can stand anything but this ruling- class | | The Gish scum that always rises | ‘On the d, foul seas ft hard times. * Phe Problem of Leisure | Some of the Nira liberals and So-| Gialists have already begun to worry | @s to what the workers will do with| all the leisure that will come in with} the Blue Buzzard Utopia. | Tt is wonderful to be able to sl So far ahead. Heywood Broun, in @ lyric passage, that almost, but not| quite, reminas one of Shelley, fore-| sees a happy proletariat going in heavily for golf, landscape painting, | glee clubs and maybe book reading. | Jacob Panken is not a golfer, but wants the workers to take up pino-| elle. Oswald Villard and Bruce| Bliv. ~resent a united front for raf- | fia basket-weaving. The melancholi-| ous J. Wood Krutch would be Satis- | fied with nothing short of a nation} of Morris dancers. | This is a problem that has always} bothered the booboisie. They con-| ceive of the workers as a herd of| Mad bulls whom it is dangercus to leave out of the fenced pasture. Give | them higher wages, and they'll spend it on drink, chorus girls and Monte | Carlo, Give ‘em leisure and they'll} waste it in rape, arson and tobacco- | chewing. | But if Nira means shorter hours, | it also means less real wages. The than Nira raises. Which means the workers will have a sterner provlem of how to pay ihe landlord, the but-| ¢her and the doctor. | Nira doesn’t propose to free the| Wage-slave’s nose from the mean grindstone where it always has been. | A’steel mill, coal mine or cotton mill Wage slave still going to be glad to take oft time and just rest—rest. Maybe all these bubbling liberals| these all-important subjects was dis-/ fully reported that all along the line don’t know i, but Nira also means cussed or mentioned. There was not | of march there were spontaneous nse speed-up of the! even a hint of a program of action | demonstrations demanding death to that saintly liberal, | for young workers to follow in fight- | the assassins of workers, and ‘pro- bi most i workers, what jidney Hillman, first named, “pro- @uction standards.” Anyway, whose business is it how the worker spends his leisure? He} earns it, he earns every moment of | freedom, god knows. He pays with | his lifeblood for the little “leisure” | he will get under Nira. He has a Tight to “misuse” his free time, if | he wants to. This snob assumption that the pre- Sent crop of pasty-faced liberals are competent to instruct the worker as to life! Even under capitalism, the average skilled worker is a superior human being when compared with Some of the authors and advertising men I have known. He is a crafts- man, he enjoys life with gusto, and| even though he may never read a} book, when he does begin to read and think, his tastes are solid and ‘Compare folks e Walter p- | P man or Chris er Morley, for in- tance, with any honest plumber ,or bricklaye Which of the two spec would bore you least on a desert is- Jand? Friends, we all know the an- swer. | Sports No doubt that in our Communist sectarianism we have shut our eyes to many of the human habits of the American worker. Sport is a major interest with the American m: | Up to my twentieth year, I was an athlete, crazy about boxing, wrestling | and all the rest of it. I can remem- ber working all day for an express company, slinging 1000-pound cases | around. After twelve or fourteen| hours of this, I'd come home, grab! @ bite, and rush off to the gym. Here | Td box for half an hour or so, punch | the bag, skip the rope, do various| setting-up exercises, then go out with | @ crowd for a five mile run in trunks} through the hot or cold New York| streets. What a nightcap! | Yes, and we followed the baseball | Scores and were passionate fight fans. | But when I became a radical I drop- ped all this, because at that time! (15. years ago) sports were considered @ strictly bourgeois form of time- wasting. | One was supposed to get all the exercise he needed on a soapbox. Communism has broadened since} then, and labor sports flourish and| are a valuable auxiliary to the revo- lutionary movement. Sports keep he proletarian youth fit, give them @ feeling of pride and solidarity. | _ The Daily Worker has a mighty good sports column. Now I would like to see us take up the question of beer. Is This Too Frivolous? It is true, that after years of all noble Al Smithing, all this de-| fiance of the Puritans and calls for | al Tevolt, the wets have been left, the most hollow of victories, have won the right to beer, as they will soon win the inalienable | to whiskey, but now that it is| it is apparent that beer has not | inereased employment, solved the crime problem, or lowered the taxes.| ™an starves on sandwiches all life, saving his money so as to} eat steaks and mushrooms when he | is old. When he is ready for the steaks, his teeth are gone and his stomach shrunken. The beer crusa- ders won their holy grail, but when they examined the bucket they found it smelly with a load of depression. The masses today need bread, not Publtehed by the Comprodaily Publishin; 40h St, New York City, N, ¥. Telephon ik Co., Ine, daly execpt Sunday, at 56. @ Akgonquin 4-7988. Cable “DAIWORK.” 4Géress and mail chacks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th S., New York, N, ¥. eae 40,000 March at Funeral 2 of Founder of Cuban Red Unions, Machado Victim -By Michael Gaa— | War Minister May Be Replaced as Government Tries in Vain to Kee from Fraternizing With Toilers SPECIAL TO THE DAILY WORKER. HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 30.—Strikes. are spreading everywhere in Cuba, particularly in the sugar plantations are joining the Confederacion Nacional Obrera de Cuba, and demanding wage increases, an eight-hour day, and the smashing of Yankee imperial- ism in Cuba. The soldiers and sailors Young Socialist Congress Chokes All Discussions READING most of steam-rolling Pa. — After spending two-day sessions in discussion, and in fighting against the left-wing dele- g n, the national convention of the YPSL adjourned .here Sunday night at 9 p.m., referring all un- finished business to the National Ex- ecutive Committee. Included in this “unfinished” busi- ness were more than three-fourths of the resolutions, including the pro- grammatic statement, resolutions on NRA, War, Soviet Union, etc. Not one of these subjects was discussed at the convention. From the start, it was apparent that the most important subject at the convention would be the question of the expulsions of the Chicago de- legation, The leadership endeavored in every way possible toprevent dis- cussion on this subject, but were fin- ally forced by rank and file pres- sure to give the floor to George Smer- kin, removed Nevtional Secretary. Smerkin sharply attacked the Uman- sky-McDowell leadership on policy and called upon the delegates to fight for a left-wing program. In spite of repeated attempts by e left wing delegates like Richard Far- | price of living is going up much faster | ber of Connecticut and Willie Sue} Bladgen of Tennessee to secure the floor for the expelled Chicago dele- gation, they were unsuccessful. The elementary right of appeal to the convention was denied the Chicago group by a vote of 72-33. From the attitude of the conven- tion one would not have known that Fascism existed, that Hitler had come | his shoes in his leisure| t© Power, that war-danger existed,|tional and other Communist ‘songs that NRA was here. Not one of ing for their immediate needs. The United Front, the one policy resolution which was presented; con- sisted wholly and simply of a bitter attack upon the Young Communist League. When rank-and-file dele- gates raised the question at this point of giving the YCL representative pre- sent the floor and made that a mo- tion, this was sharply fought by Um- ansky and Levenstein. Nearly half of the delegates nevertheless voted to give him the floor, the motion be- | ing defeated by only 61-50. The position of the so-called “mil- itants” was particularly The only question fon which this group had anything to say, besides attacking the YCL, was on the all- important questions of—uniforms and salutes! This equestion provoked a long heated fight on the floor! The political bankruptcy of the Julius Bertmans, the Paul Rasmussens, was never clearer. The elections to the national com- mittee were particularly significant. | Arthur G. McDowell was elected na- tion: an, solely on the basis of his ord in smashing the Chi- cago YPSL! Following his election, his defeated “opponent” Levenstein, made the statement, “McDowell is a symbol of the ‘dit ne’ (meaning the revo Chicago charters) and the ‘unity’ (meaning the expul- sions in Chicago) of the YPSL!” The convention on the whole, having nearly half New York dele- gates (50 out of 130) resembled much more a New York convention thanea national one Several opposition conferences were held during the convention and one just afterward. Here, contrary to the action of the convention, the left- wing conference invited the Y.C.L. representatives to be present. At this left conference, the expelled sections presented their decision to join the| Young Communists en bloc. At the same time, the question of continu- ing the struggle for the united front by those left wingers in the YPSL or Socialist Party was discussed. The decisions of the convention, far beer. Yet it is a peculiar fact that most | Americans today are beer-conscious. The years of prohibition have done something to make people thirsty. To the majority of New Yorkers as I know them, next to Nira, beer is @ more absorbing topic at this mo- merit than Japan’s rape of China, for instance. I imagine this is as true in_the rest of the country. If we want to reach these masses, beer is one of the ways. We must give them the lowdown on beer, ex- pose the racketeering and policial phenagling that may be going on here. We must ask why a glass of beer is ten cents, instead of a nickel; who gets the graft in taxes that come from beer, In New York, also, several of the breweries are run by the old racket-| eers and we must check the reports that @ beer war is going on. Some of the beer may be made with chem- icals, it is rumored, ifistead of hops and malt. It gives one a typical etherized-bar headache, scouts and veterans report, T pass all this on to our crack city editor, Bill Randorf. I think an ex- posure of the new beeriracket would interest thousands of proletarian readers, and I hope, comrade,.I am not devjoting again. If I am, blame it on beer, continue to fraternize with the workers’ and ————%peasants in many places, despite an ridiculous. | p Soldiers and Sailors and mills, and workers in thousands order by J. R. Sanguily, chief of staff, forbidding all contact between sol- diers and the people, and ordering “all kinds of steps, no matter. how energetic” to “reestablish public’ or- der.” Within a few hours after this order the Communist Party and | Young Communist League had dis- | tributed thousands of leaflets in the | army calling for continued fraterni- zation with the workers. | It is reported that D. M. Pokorny, minister of war, will be replaced in an attempt to obtain more energetic obedience to this order in the army and navy. Communist Party Legalized: Official spokesmen for the govern- ment have announced that the revo- cation of Machado’s constitutional re- forms of 1928 make the Communist Party and the red flag legal in ube. Nearly 40,000 workers took part in the most imposing funeral ever held in Cuba, that of Alfredo Lopez, founder of the Confederacion Naci- onal Obrera de Cuba, who was. as- sassinated on July 20, 1926, by order of Machado. His skeleton, with the head caved in by a blow from be- hind, was recently found in the castle of Atares. University students, doctors, and other professionals joined the mas- ses of workers in the funeral parade. Communist Party banners waved high and proclaimed the slogans of anti- | imperialist struggle for the freedom of Cuba. All stores were closed in |honor of Lopez along the line of | march. Four Hour Procession. Solid ranks of messengers on. di- cycles, just organized into a union, led the procession, followed by the various unions, the Communist Party and Young Communist League, the Pioneers, Youth Sections of the unions, etc. The sidewalks were fil- | led_with other tens of thousands. ‘The procession lasted four hours, and the marchers sang the Interna- | \all the way. The capitalist press fear- | testing against Yankee imperialism. |__ Representatives of the Communist Party were among the speakers: at the cemetery, but Sandalio Junco, renegade from the Communist Party who has gone into the service of the government was howled down and not allowed to speak. After the funeral thousands of youths were helped by the carmen to mount streetcars, mounted their ted banners on the roofs, and rode all through the city, shouting cheers for the Communist Party and the Young Communist League and crying [Pore with the police” . ee oe HAVANA, Aug. 30.—M. V. Molam- | |Phy, general manager of the Amer- |ican United Fruit Company at Santa | Clara demanded a company of ma- |tines at the company’s docks, where |the striking workers have just gone |back to work. He said he wanted | mon-commissioned officers to trans- | mit his orders to the workers. Tobacco workers in Pinar del Rio | Went on strike; cooks, maids, waiters, painters and other trades are expected |to join them, Three women were |injured when pickets clashed ‘with |Scabs. Five thousand workers have voted to strike at Jovellanos. A strike on the Morniguero central,-at | Cruces, Santa Clara province, won |its demands. Fifteen hundred dem- onstrated there, demanding the ¥e- signation of Laredo Bru, secretary of the interior. from discouraging the lefts, have | rather heartened them, and prepared them for action. Decision. was»to continue and widen the fight-for the | united front on all important issues ‘By Molt everywhere: One year, $6; six excepting Borough of Manhattan —By Burck Bell, noted colonial administrator, will suggest in The London Times tomorrow that the fascist salute originated with the chimpanzees of Africa and not with the ancient Romans.—The New York Times. Nazis Find Arming of Austria Chance for Treaty Change Fascists Meet to Take Orders at National Conference BERLIN, Aug. 830—Nazi leaders here declared themselves delighted that the former allies had relaxed the peace treaties to allow Austria to increase its armed forces. ‘They declared they would use this as a weapon in their demand for consent to the extensive rearm- ing which is now going on secretly throughout Germany. At Danzig yesterday Dr. Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda, emphasized Nazi Germany’s trend toward war by declaring that Ger- many considered the free port of Danzig to belong to her, and would never give it up. oe en Nazis Break Austrian Jail INNSBRUCK, Austria, Aug. 30. —Three Nazis broke into the Inns- bruck jail at midnight last night, and released Franz Hofer, their Ty- rolese leader. They escaped in an eave abis toward the Italian fron- ler. The car was later found aban- doned two miles from the border. It is not known whether they crossed the frontier. No Voting at Nazi Congress NUREMBERG, Germany, Aug. 30.—The Nazi party begins here today a five-day convention, the first since it took power in Ger- many- With parades, celebrations, lec. tures, and party sessions, the Ger- man Fascists will do everything in their power to ballyhoo their mur- derous regime. No discussion or voting will be allowed. The various conferences will receive their orders instead. * 8 6 Jews Jailed in Reprisal BERLIN, Aug. 30—In reprisal against exposures of brutalities in a large concentration camp at Ost- hofen, near Worms the Nazis have arrested a large number of Jews there and sent them. to the camp. | facing the workers, The exposure was published in a American Crisis Cuts EDITOR'S NOTE: This -is. the second part of Martin Moriarty’s account of the growth of the reyo- lutionary movement in Ireland, as told him by Jim Gralton, Irish born Red leader who was rece deported from his birthplace to America, where he had become citizen, In the first part of this artick, Gralton spoke about the treaty of 1921, which sold out the republican war, and how the Irish workers and farmers, under revolutionary leadership, organized to seize the land, and strove to bring the Re- | publican Army into the struggle, jes | without success. For his with the Irish workers, was ordered deported. He took to the hills, where he was protected by the farmers among whom he worked, although many of these farmers were devout Catholics,.and the priests had begun a vicious campaign against Gralton and Communism. “Many Irish workers and farm- ers are reading “Marx and Eiigels on the Irish Revolution’; the ‘Trish Case for Communism’, all of Con- Off Support of Many! Relatives of Irish-Americans; Turn Their Thoughts Toward Soviet Union A] nolly’s works, the writings of Lenin,” says Gralton, e+ 8 8 By MARTIN MORIARTY. It “WO the workers and farmers fol- low the news from America? Yes,” says Jim Gralton. “They know about Tom Mooney of course. They know it was a frame-up, just as the British framed the leaders of the Land League in Parnell’s days. They were interested in the case of Pat Burke, the young Irish unemployed organizer deported from the coast back to Ireland. His case happened about the same time I went on the run. One capitalist government de- porting an Irish worker to Ireland— the other capitalist government de- porting an Irish worker to America. “Trish activities in America mean @ lot to the people at home. Especi- ally since the crisis. Before the crisis, boys and girls returning to Ire- land on vacation from America usec to tell their friends what a grand country America was. “The old folks used to get money from their relatives in America. It was p for the capitalist system, you might say. Every Sun- day at Mass you used to be able to 211 Communists Are Arrested in Poland | WASAW, Poland, Aug. 30,— Police arrested 211 Communists in a four-day series of raids in cen- tral Poland and Eastern Galicia. The police of Lvov reported they had found a secret printing plant where the illegal paper “Sparta- cus” was published. ‘Venezuelan Editor Jailed for Mention, ‘of Cuban Workers | NEW YORK—For |editorial titled “The C ‘Over 500 Wounded | Anti-Fascists Are in Berlin Hospital Dead Left Beside Dy- ing; Red. Aid Leader Among Injured BERLIN.—More than 500 anti- |Fascists are confined in the Berlin, public hospital on Scharfhornstrasse, |badly wounded, and accorded scarcely |any medical attention, the illegal Ger- |man International Labor Defense has | |discovered, after an investigation. Among those in this hospital are! publishing an d ‘uban Solution,” giving credit to the workers of that | |Youth Day Rallies to country for the overthrow of the Machado regime, and faintly sug- gesting that this was an idea for the overthrow of other dictators, the editor and the publishers of the daily newspaper “E] Pueblo,” at Caracas, Venezuela, have been thrown into La Rotunda, the infamous dungeon where Dictator Gomez holds and tor- |tures more than 600 political pris- oners, according to information re- ceived here by the International Labor Defense. All copies of the paper were seized, including those in the hands of news- boys. Pablo Rojas, editor of the paper, was put into iron shackles. Copies of “El Pueblo” saved from are now being circulated from hand to hand, and speculation Has brought the price of a copy up to four dollars in American money, | Willi Koska, the general seizure by individuals! | former Communist Reichstag member and secretary of the German Red Aid before it passed into illegality. He was’ arrested and seriously wounded in a recent hunt for anti-Fascists by the Storm | Troopers. Other anti-Fascists in the hospital, which was not built to accomodate more than a fraction of the number now occupying it, are suffering from |gun-shot wounds, broken bones, and torture. Among them are women de- liberately shot through the womb. At the time of the investigation, seyeral anti-Fascist workers who had died in the hospital still lay, besides their wounded and dying comrades. This information has been trans- mitted to the foreign press correspon- dents in Berlin, ‘with a request that they themselves visit the hospital to see these things with their own eyes. newspaper in Strassbourg, France. * * Priest Sentenced DORTMUND, Aug. 30.—August Stoecker, a priest, was sentenced to six months in prison today on a charge of attacking the Nazi gov- ernment from his pulpit. Ora tis BERLIN, Aug. 30.—In another attempt to revive the collapsed tex- tile industry, the Nazi government has decreed new uniforms for Storm Troopers, police, and mar- riage clerks. The Storm Troopers are to wear chocolate-colored jackets over mus- tard-colored shirts. Marriage clerks are ordered to wear black gowns. Irish Catholics and Protestants Unite for : General Strike Called to Oust Equador Chief QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 30.— general political strike to force Pres. Juan Martinez Mera to re- sign was voted yesterday at a workers’ conference here. The strike, which is, aimed to cut off all public services except the water supply, has already closed a number stores and _ offices. Sol- diers were called to guard Presi- dent Mera and government offi- cials. Mera again refused a de- mand of the Congress Monday that he. resign, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: months, $2.50; $ months, $2; 1 month, 756, Bronx, New York City. Foreign and months, $5; 3 months, $8. By City April Applications NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—Using the excuse, the relief agencies of the city Negroes of Norfolk, Va. Again Threat- ened With Evictions NORFOLK, Va.—Mass_ evictions are again threatening the Negro population of Berkeley, where the rent strike took place last year, according to reports received by the Daily Worker.. Berkeley is a suburb of Norfolk. . Landlords, almost terrorized by the possibilities of another rent strike, have held a conference. At this conference they agreed not to rent rooms to any tenants who cannot show‘a certificate of 100 per cent good rent standing and conduct in relations with previous landlords and second, to bring pressure on city officials to legal- ize a rent check-off, or garnish the wages of families who aré back on rent payments. This second method they con- ceive to be the best method for defeating rent strikes. And is to be used against every employed member of the family no matter how little he earns. The entire attack is directed primarily against the Negro families. The landlords are reported threatening to carry through their policy at the point of guns, regardless of bloodshed. The militant Unemployed Coun- cil here demands, no evictions, cancellation of all back rent; gen- eral reduction in rents; immediate repairs and sanitary improve- ments. Rents are now $10 and $12 a month for homes not fit for dogs to live in. The Council is preparing a rent strike to enforce these demands. Unions. and other mass organi- zations are urged to send protests to Judge Page of Norfolk City Court,.and to City Manager Trux- ton. against evictions and the landlords’ terror plans. Buy Paper for Cuban Revolutionary Youth NEW YORK CITY.—At all of the hundreds of rallies which will be held throughout the country on 19th International Youth Day, September 1, collections will be taken up for a Solidarity Fund for the Cuban revolutionary youth movement. The Young Communist League of | Cuba which has been leading masses of young workers, peasants and stu- dents in the struggle against Am- \erican imperialism, has urgently re- quested the rican young work- ers for a donation of five tons of paper for the publication of their | paper, for the issuance of revolu- tionary leaflets and other maierial. The Solidarity Fund will be used to buy this paper. It is reported that on the third day of the general strike which forced the resignation of the bloody Machado regime, the only paper which was issued to rally masses in | this struggle was the “Juventul Ob- rera” (Young Worker), official or- gan of the Young Communist League of Cuba. . This aid to the youth of Cuba will be a symbol of the world wide unity of all militant young workers and students who will demonstrate on 19th International Youth Day against imperialist war under the banner of the Young Communist International. All young workers and students are urged to contribute to this fund. All contributions should be rushed in to the Young Communist League, Box 28, Station D, New York City. « AUGUST 31, 1998 4 NRA Codes Used to Slash Relief Payments Take Gen. Johnson’s Puffed Up Reports of New Jobs as Pretext; Only One-Fifth of Being Considered optimistic reports of the NKA as an are slashing relief payments and re~ ducing the number of families on the relief lists, it was disclosed today. The report of Frank Taylor, Commissioner of the Emergency Bureau, revealed that only 500 relief applications a day are now being con- oO sidered compared with 2,800 a day jin April. Home Relief. There are still 200,000 families wholly dependent on relief pay- ments, the report also showed. These slashes in relief are caus- ing the greatest suffering among the workers. A doubling of the number of unemployed in a typical working class district in New York was recently. reported The reductions in relief are ac- companied by rising numbers of evictions. oe * WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. — Without making any effort to back up his statement, or any presenta- tion of facts, General Johnson, of the NRA, made public a wild guess as to the number of jobs that have been created by the NRA codes. “We can scarcely realize,” he said, “that perhaps 2,000,000 have been removed from the ranks of the unemployed.” As difficult as General Johnson finds it to realize it, the jobless workers find it even more difficult, since they cannot discover where these mythical jobs are. These optimistic reports of the NRA are being used to cut down relief expenditures all over the country: STRUGGLE AGAINST PROVOCATION All workers and workers’ organ\- zations are warned against the fol- lowing individuals who have been exposed and expelled by the respec- tive Communist Party organizations as vicious enemies of the working class. ANTHONY PALMER—A coal miner of Archibald, Pa. Has been exposed as an unreliable and proyo- cative betrayer of his fellow workers and misappropriator of organiza- tional funds. He has proposed to several com- rades individual acts of terrorism not unlike an agent provocateur. By his own admissions he has spent or- ganization funds for shows and drinks, and has violated confidence placed in him by his fellow workers in that he has secretly worked with the burocrats of the United Mine Workers of America. He has also sabotaged and deliberately miscar- vied important work undertaken by himself. Description: About 37 years of age; about 5 feet 9 inches tall, and weighs about 170 pounds; has black hair, blue eyes, swarthy complexion and high cheek bones; talks broken Eng- lish. PAUL BEVERHARDT—Negro Ex- serviceman of Norfolk, Virginia. Found to be unreliable, disruptive and dishonest. He has been seen fraternizing with a court spotter.~ He has destroyed International Labor Defense appli- cation cards and kept the initiation fees for himself, as well as in other ways getting money for himself un- der various pretenses, going even to the extent of collecting money (with- out authority and without giving ac- count) for the case of framed-up Russell Gordon, who is threatened with the electric chair. He has been overbearing to other Negro comrades, has in various ways tried to disrupt Party work in his unit and in mass organizations, abus- ing workers at meetings, spreading yicious slanders against Party lead- ership, etc. Description: A Negro from the Vir- ‘Bin Islands (according to himself); approximately 38 years of age, 5 feet, 2 inches in height, 130-135 pounds in weight; brown skin, brown eyes, curly hair, slightly twisted face; very delicate and slim hands, slightly de- formed and drooping towards his ody; not a good speaker, but likes [the platform and has certain amount of agitational ability. see the girls wearing American clothes, sent home by the exiles. You don’t see that so much now. The money hasn't been coming from America since the crisis. The people don’t look to America for a lead any more. They know there’s unemploy- ment there. And that brings them ground to thinking about Russia, where there's no unemployment. “So the bosses, knowing the dis- content, peddle more lies about the Soviets. The same old lies—people living like animals in a compound, children taken away at birth and given to the state,” jeans) DELIGION is not so successful these days as a trick to keep the workers: Gralton reports. Diyide and rule, that essential imperialist technique, was always practised in Ireland. “Onee the Protestant and Papist get together it means goodbye to the British interests in Ireland”, an old pro-British archbishop said over a hundred years ago. Of course the British boss—and the Irish Catholic and Protestant boss—knew the truth of the warning. They inflamed “re- ligious” antagonisms. Falls Road is the Catholic section ‘| of Belfast. Sandy Row, the Protest- ant. Years ago it was not safe for an Orangeman—a protestant loyalist —to go into Falls Road. It wasn’t safe for a Catholic to go near Sandy Row. Members of the same trade of the North and south divided, | union were at each other throats— “religion” was the issue. But now? Gralton says the old hates are dying, and the Belfast re- lief fight last year was one great teacher. British machine guns did not distinguish between the Protes- tant. ‘Catholic’ workers’ stomachs. For worker§ fought together for relief. They won it too—relief scales were tripled. “The Catholic working women in Falls: Road ‘scolded their menfolk like thi8:."Is that all you're doing against the ? Haven't you built the ade yet? Why, the pro- testant folk Sean Sandy Row are ahead of yot—-get busy! “And in Sandy Row the Protestant working-women ccolded their men like this: “The. Catholics are putting up a better fight against the soldiers than you are. Get busy!’ “Catholic workers who had fought with the LR.A. and Protestant work- ers who had served with the B. Spe- cials—auxillary crown forces in Ul- ster during the trouble—both re- ported tothe strike committee for active service. They did fine work when they helped throw up the bar- ricades and f tt side by side against all the fe of the state— Police, soldiers, armored cars, ma- chine guns, for three days. “MIOW about the conditions of the farmers. Take the case of the Strikes and 18 families in our townland. There were three stores, all trying to live off each other. Every family has relatives in America. That doesn’t mean a thing now. In_ so-called normal times the heads of the fami- lies would sow the crop, keep the cl away from school to get a4 crop in, while they went across Scotland and .hired out for farm work there. “No use going to Scotland now, Even if the farmers did get work, wages are so low they can't clear trevelling expenses. Some families might buy a couple of pounds of bacon now and again. Many live mainly on spuds when the crop's “Six of these old people are old age pensioners. Two are blind pen- sioners. Some get a little outdcor reKef, though you must-have a pull with the priest or with one of the big men on the County Council to get that. One that did spy work against our committee got the blind pension though he wasn’t quite blind —the ranchers’ reward. Another man ‘seemed favorable to us. He attended Relief Str Hunger Marches and Relief Strikes Rally Poorest—Dublin’s Jobless Win Cash Relief and 25 Per Cent Increase - uggles week relief only. “There are hunger marches in Tre- Jand too. When Cork City discon- tinued its tramway service a work- ers’ delegation marched all the way to Dublin, 162 miles without a lift They forced a hearing on the case with the ministry. “There are strikes on relief jobs everywhere, Sometimes they take the form of strikes against bringing in people from outside the parish to work on the job. Or they may be sirikes against the crushers, the ma- chines that break stones faster than men can. In Some cases local au- thorities have been forced to away the machinery. +*Dublin’s unemployed used to get relief in king They put up a fight, now fey got cash AGE res x cent increase. what's how the roots 6f Commu- nism are being Isid in Ireland, 1 know the wvorkcrs aud-farmers are not intorssied in an independent re- public like Americe—ihe old i afew years ago. They'll fight for workers’ republic. That’s why they're reading the works of James Connolly. That's why they’re reading x the/hall and lost his blind pension. Now he gets on 12 or 14 shillings a building up the Communist Party of 1 Fa