The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1933, Page 3

PREPARE FOR WASHINGTON {JOBLESS CONVENTION JAN.13 ‘from all parts of the country de-| manding Unemployment Insurance. | Workers’ organizations should imme- diately send protest telegrams and National Tag Days for Meet Set for Dec. 16-17 letters to President Roosevelt. ‘engages Tag days to pay the expenses of/| | NEW YORK.—County and Oity| the convention have been set for De-} conferences are being held through- | cember 16 and 17 in ali cities. out the United States in preparation) One of the most important demands tor the Unemployed Convention to|te be considered by the convention take place in Washington, D. C. on/ will be the demand for trade union Jan. 18, 14 and 15, called by the Na-| wages and conditions on all C.W.A- tional Committee of Unemployed, projects, Many delegates from C.W.A. Councils, | jobs will be present at the conven- | Roosevelt has refused to feed and| tion to help plan a program of strug- house the delegates, who will come! gle. Cero ear a ( call for Jalili Buffalo Conference Meet Dec. 23 in to Demand Jobless, Cleveland, Ohio Insurance, Dec. 17 or Will Elect Delegates CityEmploymentDrops | to National Con- 4 3-10 Per Cent in vention One Month CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The Unem-|.. BUFFALO, N, ¥.—Pointing to the ployed Council here sent out|mass lay-offs that are taking place @ call for the Mass Convention|in Buffalo and vicinity, the Joint Against Unemployment to be held} Councils of Unions and Unemployed Saturday, Dec. 23, 7 p. m., at the|Councils has issued a call for a/ Small Home Owners Hall, 4323 Lorain. | United wis Spon peu for, Tnem- | The call is addressed to all Unem- | Ployment Insurance eld Sun- ployed Council Branches, and other|@ay, Dec. 17, at Carpenters Hall, at unemployed organizations, veterans, % P. m DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1933 By ©. A, HATHAWAY Article If Having shown in my first article, which appeared in Saturday’s Daily Worker, that the Communist Party slone foresaw the impending crisis, | correctly estimated its trend, and in a timely, unhesitating manner ex- posed the anti-working class program | of Hoover, Roosevelt and the reform- ists, the second question that nat- | | urally arises in the mind of the mili- |tant worker before deciding to join! the Communist Party is the following: What steps has the Communist | Party taken during the present prolonged crisis to rally the workers | in defense of their own interests, | | and were those such as would serve | to unite the workers in the most | effective struggle for their imme- diate needs and for their revolu- tionary class aims? We believe that also in the field of! our practical work, as well as in thc field of political-economic the: Communist Party is jus’“'ed pealing to workers to join its ranks. Organize Workers’ Strugg.cs At the outbreak of the crisis and throughout the four crisis years we {have repeatedly declared that the road out of the crisis pursued by the bourgeoisie is one which leads to a’ new imperialist world slaughter and to new onslaughts on the living stand- ards and on the civil rights of the toilers. This obvious class aim of the) bourgeoisie has conditioned our ap- | proach to every issue. Our efforts, therefore, have been | and are now concentrated on rallying | the masses of the workers to fight to maintain their wage levels, to resist lay-offs and the stagger plan, to secure adequate unemployment re- Uef and insurance, to retain their, civil rights (right to strike, to picket, and that socialism can only be hieyed through revolutionary class truggle, through the seizure of state power by the workers and the setting up of a proletarian dictatorshij Our determined efforts to win im- mediate victories for the based al class strugg the workers as against the class in- terest of the capitalists—is inseparably bound up by us with the revolution- CA, HATHAWAY | COUNTY, CITY CONFERENCES Why the Communist Party Calls On th /Communists Wage Relentless Fight for the! Workers’ Daily Needs and Revolutionary Aims; Socialist Leaders Betray | | talist system. They advocate co-| operation between workers and capi- talists and invariably, as a result of | this approach, make bargains detri-| mental to the immediate interests of the workers. Their~ belief in the} masses, | capitalist system, based on exploite- | ism. on the principles of the | tion, causes them to necessarily pro- | spite the low —the class interests of | tect the profits of the capitalists, | living standar profits that must be squeezed out of | plic: the workers, It was natural, therefore, for Green | In the name of Socialis PROTEST, UR gradual, peaceful change to Soc and in the name of r peaceful change to Soci t advocate and practice in the éader - ship of the unions and the ployed movement the ne c laboration policies as the J a * i Lea de leadership, and with the same di: = pen i astrous results for the work Strike Tried; Fight - for Unions’ Rights Norman Thom the whole So ports the N.R.A., 10% Pay RaiseGranted as Aftermath of Walk-out s, for e leader i G in the nsition to So ports it, but they do of the peaceful t The NR th the 1g from ful road w to So- cia! n they to ally himself first with Hoover and | against the Socialist revolutior OUTH ST. PAUL, Minn.—Before now with Roosevelt to prevent strikes | practice class collaboration ¥ 1€ | courtroom jammed to rflowing during the crisis, to put over the| employers, they betray the wit I Se orkers, thre agger plan, to win support for the | 2very day interests of the w at Armour R. A., to oppose unemployment insurance, etc, would hamper the capitalists in their efforts to find a way out of the crisis and to maintain their system. Ac- ceptance of these proposals meant a lower living standard for the work- ers, it meant that the workers were forced, through Green’s theory of co- operation, to bear the burdens of the crisis, Clearly, therefore the Communists, | who stand opposed to any lowering | of the workers’ living standard, as ism, wage a continuous fight against the A. F. of L. leadership as we fight against the capitalists. themselves. These officials are .only the agents of the capitalists in the workers’ ranks, Betrayals In Name of Socialism Opposition by the| Yonary Socialist leader workers to any of these proposals] tent that they could, h: | every effort | steps to organi r well as for the overthrow of capital- | ‘@blishment of shorter lacemae to enter Behind such thec to defend the ‘s to organize, the development against the lower living standards They have hamper unite Wm. Schr itz were arrested hing of the picket- riving the trial took ment 's ages ermath strike he leader- Workers In- ranks. The Par 4 the unemploy when the crisis broke out, it too! steps to fight against lay-offs or p time work (on the contrary dorsed Hoover's sta | “victory” for the wor 0 per cent 1 ted, as a direct 4 zhouse workers’ wages unde! inghous into the st against Fascism, i two days, and the = none other than orney Stassen, who was ble for the arrest of the strike and the smashing of th Stassen tried desperately to against war, {| Negro rights. | In the more recent period the Soci- | alist Party has entered into some of | these activities (unemployed struggles strikes, etc.) but only for the purpos str - BENJAMIN, FREED BY MASS e Workers 1 to Join Its Ranks rs of Armour + | yea: of applying their class collaborationist whip up prejudice against the defend- GES SPEED IN CONVENTION PREPARATIONS W.A. Workers Need Organization, Says Leader of Jobless Speaks This Evening at Webster Hall on Gallup Strike By CARL REEVE NEW xORK.—The workers of New Mexico stirred by the successful struggle of the Gallup coal miners, will send a sizable delegation to the National Unemployed Convention to be held Jan. 13 in Washington, D. C., Herbert Benjamin, just out of a New Mexico prison, reported yesterday. Benjamin, national organizer of the Unemployed Councils, was serving @ sentence in the penitentiary at Albuquerque, New Mexico, when re- leased by the terms of the strike settlement. Benjamin speaks tonight on the Gallup strike at Webster Hall, The one thousand Gallup strikers, in five mines, won a strike settlement which is one of the few to include the agreement of the employers and the government representatives to release all strike and unemployed leaders ar- |rested during the course of the strike. | Refused To Leave State “After this strike settlement was reached,” Benjamin stated, “the sheriff called George Kaplan of the | International Labor Defense and my- self into the prison office and told us | we were to be released. However, he \tried to violate the settlement and But what are the differences be-| pacifist, policies, hoving thereby to ism must be the aim of the workers, | tween the A. F. of L. leaders and the | hamper the Communists and stop the ary aims of the workers’ movement, | Socialist Party leaders? The Social- ants, and to prove that the Commu-| ordereds nists who were leading the strike|agreeing to leave the state of New |to demonstrate, free speech, free us to sign a statement and fraternal organizations, small| “Recent figures released in Buffalo,” j press, etc.), and to resist the brep- | home owners, workers in shops and|the call states, “for the month of alr ted at the request of the| Mexico for a year. This we refused 4 i 4 270, were W. A. jobs and to all Ne » Youth | October show a decline in employ-|arations for and the steps toward |growth of Communist influence Pb bay Jia mae ee petal erkitor' ment 43 per cent and a dectine | imperialist war. | with the historic need of overthrow- | ist leaders pretend to stand for so-/ 2mong the workers. s s . e aut but —— sata Led do. The other strike leaders who u “The thousands who are not on|in pay roll of 64 per cent. At| At the very outbreak of the crisis) ing capitalism and establishing so-|cCialism. But their deeds, though} In every workers’ struggle w ness got on the stand and proved| were held at Gallup, also refused to C. W. A. jobs,” the call then states, “the thousands who have never got any relief at all; the Negro masses who get a lower standard of relief merely because of their color; the. the same time the relief figures for the same month show a decline in relief of 1 per cent. “We must rouse ourselves” the call continues, “as never before, to place before the workers who are steadily heing laid| Federal Government the unflinching off; and the problem of the C. W. A, workers at the end of the 9 weeks— demand for immediate cash relief and Unemployment Insurance.” we bent our every effort toward the} organization of the workers to fight | |the unity of employed and unem-| ployed workers in the struggle, It} movement—the Unemployed Coun-| cils—was established. Beginning with all mean that the problems of the i unemployed workers are among the most urgent.” ai it Jobless Conference The Convention will be upon to go on record Memenning Leet | * Ci . . Will ‘kers y} | se cr ree eee! I Gnemnati Wi , elect delegates to the National Job- | i oe Sailnet in Washington, Jan, | Demand Insurance CINCINNATI, Ohio.—The local Un- | employed Council is calling a con-| Single Workers ference for Thursday, Dec. 21, 8 p. m.,) é at Central Turner Hall, Room 10, 1411 March for Chicago "i 2 fat ia Be meet Civil Works Jobs workers of this city for the support jemployment and Social Insurance, which will be held in Washington, |D. C., on Jan. 13, 14, and 15. Police Have Denied | hangers’, Painters’, and Machinist’s| March Permit ‘The rank and file of the Paper- | Unions are showing @ growing interest ‘in the movement for Federal Unem- March 6th, 1930, millions of unem-~- ployed workers have been drawn into atcive struggle for unemployment re- Mef and insurance, forcing the gov- ernmental authorities to pay out mil- lions of dollars in relief to the workers. Prepared Strikes | ‘The same can be said for our ac- tivities among the employed workers, There we have busied ourselves with | the organization of the workers, with | the preparation of strikes, and with the leadership of strike struggles to prevent lay-offs, to resist the intro- duction of the stagger system, to pre- vent wage cuts and to force wage in- creases. These struggles have pre- vented the employers from going as) far as they would have gone in their} | attacks if the Communists had not been on the job. | In the struggle against war, against the development of fascism, against cialism, That position has its practical con-| #f€ no different than the deeds of cist leadership the workers have unemployment, striving to achieve} clusions also in the day-to-day ac-| the A. F. of L. leaders. They differ tivities of the Communists. Because we have no faith in capi- with the capitalists behind the backs of the workers. We likewise refuse | | concealed behind socialist phrases, | only in their demagogy. | The first thing A. F. of L. leaders, | tionary struggle, of Communists and | Communism. If in no other way, | was cursed with A. F. of L. or |Persuaded to accept compron | detrimental to their interests. crisis record of this leade was through the efforts of the Com-|talism or in the spokesmen for the | Socialist leaders, and renegades all | record of betrayals munists that the first unemployed | capitalists, we refuse to make deals| have in common is hatred of revolu- | | The Communist Party has fought | for the immediate needs of it has rallied the wor assen and the newspapers had made up s story themselves as part of the plan to break the strike. The trial brought out clearly that the workers still have confidence in the Communists who are leading the Packingh Workers Industrial Union, and are not frightened by the red scart i by Stassen, the to make deals with the A. F. of L,| they all serve the capitalists by their newspapers, and the employers, who CHICAGO, Il. — Thousands of single workers, men and women from houses and dirty flophouses of the city here, will march to the Civil Works Administration offices on Dec. 15, demanding jobs or cash re- lief. The police commissioner has so far: denied @ permit for the march, but the Single Workers Committee is go- ing ahead with preparations. Workers in Cook County have been promised 99,000 jobs and 300,000 have already registered for them, accord- ing to official figures, Flophouse workers are not given grocery relief because the officials claim they have no place to prepare the food. The march for jobs will start from Union Park at 10:30 a.m. News Briefs | ployment Insurance, The conference will take up the problems facing the workers on the Civil Works Administration jobs. In this city the workers are already feel- ing the blows of the Civil Works Program, in the form of speed up, injuries and deaths on the jobs with mo guarantee of compensation, loss of time through bad weather for which the workers receive no pay, and inadequate wages in the face of the higher cost of living. To popularize this conference for Unemployment Insurance, a series of neighborhood actions are being ar- ranged around the issue of Cash Xmas Relief. On Saturday, Dec. 16, the Block Assemblies of the West End will send a delegation to the City Hall to demand cash relief for Xmas and present to the city officials for endorsement the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. The Walnut Hills Unemployed Branch will send @ delegation to the Peebles’ Corner Associated Charities on Monday, Dec, 18, and on Tuesday, Dec, 19, the East | End Block Assemblies will likewise the persecution of the Negro people, the Communists have carried through thousands of protest meetings, dem- onstrations, and other actions to pro- tect the interests of the workers, Negro and white. The Communist Party has tried with all its might to win every pos- ers. We have tried to prevent the lowering of the workers’ living stand- ards. We have tried to raise these standards. We have tried to prevent any strengthening of the position of the workers’ class enemies—the bour- geoisie. It is not too much to say that the workers would be still worse off today had it not been for the activity of the Communists. Revolution Aim of Workers At the same time, while exerting every effort to rally the workers for these day-to-day struggles—and it is on this point that our basic differ- ences with the reformist and rene- gade groups begin—we strive to con- vince the workers, through their ex- periences and through our activities, that capitalism offers only greater Three Killed When Wall _ | ena a delegation to the City Hall, Caves In \ misery and exploitation, that social- sible immediate victory for the work- | or Socialist Party leaders, who invari- ably come forward with proposals and maneuvers beneficial only to the capitalists and designed to bolster up the capitalist system (though fre- quently proposed in the name of so- cialism). Open Service to Capitalists The A. F. of L. leaders make no pretense of desiring a socialist so- ciety. They openly support the capi- fight against revolutionary leadership of strikes, and of the struggles of the unemployed, and against all tenden- cies on the part of the workers to adopt a revolutionary outlook or forms of struggle. f The Socialist leadership, ignoring the violence of the bourgeoisie in their efforts to continue their bloody system of exploitation, advise the workers to rely on bourgeois demo- cracy, to be pacifists, to wait for the struggles that forced huge conc: from the bourgeoisie, it has c ently propagated the reyolutio way out of the crisis, the revolutic ary road to Socialism, in the course | jot these day-to-day struggles, It is on the basis of these —the determined fight for the diate needs of the workers comb with our efforts to make consol revolutionists out of the workers—t we appeal to the workers to join Communist Party Drill Morning, Night; | March to Work in | Lockstep | CLAM LAKE, Wis—Twelve young workers in the Citizens Conservation Camp here, have signed a petition |protesting against the new military regulations that have been put into jeffect, The petition follows: “Our original contract stated that }militarism in any form was not to jenter into our daily life here at the camp but we were notified that hence- forth strict military regulations are to be the vogue. Each morning we marched to work in lock-step forma- tion. At evening, after fulfilling our eight hours of manual labor, we are again to be submitted to military drill. “Tt is only fair to state that our local officers are not responsible for | these orders, but they are guilty of} brazenly informing us that a dishon- orable discharge awaits anyone found | KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 12.—At | least three men were killed and six! were buried when the retaining wall) on the Indian Gap Highway in Great Smoky Mountains caved in. Little} hope was held for the buried men, . * 2 One Killed, Five Hurt in Italian injured by the premature explosion of a mine while they were excavating By MARGUERITE YOUNG Beer acy (Dally Worker Washington Bureau) Resu ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—A seven- | Fourth ote it of teen-billion-dollar-a-year cosmetic BANGOR, Me., Dec, 12.—A fourth death as a result of a fire which destroyed the Paradise dance hall yes- terday occurred today. Miss Helen Emery, a marathon dancer, died from injuries suffered in the blaze. . * . $5 Debt Causes Death of Two BRISTOL, Pa., Dec. 12, — John Princivilla, unemployed, demanded $5 to him by government to make Profit fit to eat, all uinely curative, all cosmetics harmless, and the advertising of them truthful. The manufacturers, fearing one of their own highly villa and then committed suicide. Nine’ ployes, Senator children in one family and three in| New York, the other are left fatherless. Morgan’ je i MN funeral (of the promise) will take Several Die in Central Europe | place in the next session of Congress. Cold Wave Press Silent on Exposures LONDON, ee penance deaths | Most of it is still news today be- were reported due to exposure as an| cause the capitalist press dared not intense cold wave swept over Europe. | print The Thames river froze for the first feesaicen liad ey time in many years. . Teacher Swindles Six of $200,000 NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Frederick J, Werner, former Brooklyn school teacher, today admitted to swindling several people out of $200,000. He | man of a subcommittee of the Senate Senate Committee Protects Food Government Protects Wall Street Food, Drug Monopolies Which Sell Harmful Goods Under False Advertisements hearings on it last week, and there the bitter, farcial exposure of the en- tire matter came out. There the industries gathered, from bold fakers dealing in proven poison- ous nostrums to the most reputable purveyors of soaps, hair-removers and toothpastes admittedly injurious yet advertised as guaranteed-pure in pub- lications like the chaste New York Times. There they served notice in so many words that they will NOT allow regulation that might threaten even one penny of their profits. Poisoned Apples ‘There Samuel Fraser, representing the National Apple Association, bluntly testified that he was against the appearance in the law of certain restrictions on arsenic-lead poisén on apples, “although Mr. Campbell (head of the bureau which administers the law) assures me it won’t be enforced.” Fraser was afraid, he said, that he might not always have “such a skill- ful diplomat” as Campbell in charge of “enforcement.” There ©. ©. Parlin of the Curtis Pigs) Soren of Philadelphia, Perpetrator of Saturday Eve- ning Post, of advertising, and that such simply could not be done (Mr, natuprally meant within the has been the greatest single fac- in making American economic life Military Rule Proteste By 12 Boys in CCC Camp are to stand reveille, to be drilled and | d guilty of doing a bit of thinking. | Their words are that we aren’t being |paid to think. We were literally be- \ing condemned for owning nothing |more than the suitcase that our par- ling with. Is it our ill-fated fortune |that we can afford nothing better? |Our commanding officer sees fit to | Joke and gibe about the matter.” Donald McCarthy, Glenwood City; Harry Tomasyewski, Milwaukee; Tony Zembrycki, Jr, Ashland; Al- vin M. Matowitz, Marshtieid; James S. Kolavik; Tisch Mills; Ralph Kohr, Milwaukee: Michael Hel- minick, Milwaukee; Leonard Ols- zewski, Milwaukee; Ray Machia, Manitowoc; Hugh Jesson, Adams; Lawrence Klatt, Adams; Walter | Grimm, Marshfield. « * | Editor's Note:—The young work- ers in this camp can fight the mili- tary role by organizing the boys to sign the petition. After most of them have signed, a meeting should be called to elect « committee to present it to the commandant. The workers should keep in touch with the Daily on all developments.) ents were forced to ao.their travel-| \ Philadelphia Die Makers Organizing | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec, 12—A group of tool and die makers working in the Atwater Kent plant in Phila~ delphia held a meeting and decided to organize s Tool and Dye Makers | Union in this city. They were addressed by David Davis, organizer of the Trade Union Unity League in Philadelphia, who outlined for them the aims and cies of a rank and file controlled or ganization, After listening to his pro- posals, they decided unanimously to express their thanks to the TUUL for | their support and asked D. Davis’ co- operation in drafting their constitu- tion. First Workers’ Center Opened at Worcester WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. Over 300 workers celebra opening of the fir: Worcester here St. ‘An open forum has alr | established and the first lecture and) |discussion forum will take place on Sunday, January 7. Plans for a | workers school at the center are al- \ready under way. 1 want to drive the Union out of town, The trial concluded on Saturday, and the jury deliberated for six hours but was unable to reach an agree- ment, Judge Shepley was finally d to discharge the jury and set a date for a new trial on Thursday, Dec, national Labor Defense is on a protest campaign the persecution of the strike ers and farmers or- individual workers ons that the charges feat the Trust to inghouse workers. Bedding Workers Win 3-Day Strike PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 13.—The anized Quilt, Bedding and Local of the Furniture Mattress Workers Industrial Union of Phila- delpt a has carried through a three ike, winning al demands of the op. The Quilt Workers Union, while stil independ- ined union recognition in at shop and a closed union shop. On Monday, the boss, utilizing the 2 season, thought that he could the agreement, The workers ed his refusal to deal with the yp committee by striking 100 per boss was compelled to is of the workers. Si , together with other members other unions of the Trade Union Unity Council will cel- ebrate their victory, Saturday, Decem- ber 16th, at the New Garrick Hall, 507 South 8th Street, at a Dance, Supper and Entertainment. ed to send protest telegrams lutions to County Attorney H. , South St. Paul, Minnesota, | Kaplan to siz months. In the mili- A powerful protest will de- efforts of the Meat Packing jail the leaders of the pack~ om it is today,” and “the reduction of advertising to cold, factual state- ments okayed by a liberal-minded chemist would kill advertising, for advertising would become too dull hs manufacturers wouldn't pay for There, R. F. Anderson, representing the highly respected E. R. Squibb and Sons druggists, unable to imagine anything beyond capitalism, an- nounced, “There have been and prob~ ably always will be certain abuses in the distribution of drugs,” and sug- gested, by way of remedying this, that the new law should NOT provide government supervision of factories. Copeland Gets Paid Finally, came the exposure of Copeland by Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink of Consumers’ Research, @ private organization selling in- formation on the difference between advertised and real values. Kallett told the huge audience of several hundreds of industrialists, that Co- peland is now receiving pay as a radio advertiser of Fleischmann’s Yeast, that he appeared before the microphone just a few hours after conducting the first day’s hearing, and that “during the course of that broadcast statements were made which were gross exaggerations.” Kallett and Schlink had prepared a analysis showing why the bill, even as it stands now, would NOT Protect the consumers, particularly those exploited worker-consumers who must buy cheaper products, They refused, however, to present any tes- timony before the Committee headed by Copeland. They demand that he resign and that the hearings start over again with an “impartial” chairman. The only “labor” representative to speak was W. L. Roberts of the A. F. of L. and he confined himself to endorsing the bill as it is. / on Tespectable by em ot most and powerful ters of foods, drugs and cosmetics. It would not touch advertisements such as one that ap- peared recently in Chicago news- papers, promising all the unemployed Jobs if only they would buy Lifebuoy soap and be rid of body odor. Adver~ tising representatives, including some from the radio broadcasters who coin about $25,000,000 a year from food, drug and cosmetics radio advertising, sat in the hearing room all day long laughing out loud at the farce. per their papers wouldn’t print the story joked about it, one saying to me, “Well, 1 guess you're the only one who can handle this right.” Even the manufacturers them- selves lolled back in their chairs and laughed at one another; it was that open, that raw. The cream of the bitter jest was served when, one by one the Heinz pickle man, the confectioners, the wholesale grocers repeated like par- rots, “We agree, indeed, that the pres- ent laws need revision BUT”—and proceeded to demand exemption for themselves. Copeland in Secret Meetings Copeland is now re-writing the bill, and it is the foregone conclusion of every insider in Washington that he Adulterations of the F ood Trusts Capitalist Press Censors Sensational News of | Present Senate Hearings on Trusts’ | Poisoned Food Products In fact, I have direct informa- tioin that, during the months in | elimination” by distending intestines) | was that Roosevelt, seeking somes; which manufacturers were organiz- | thing with which to make an inno- Ing the opposition, Copeland at- | cuous and popular “reform,” hit upon tended numcrous secret conferences | this and dared to suggest that they with them and actually embar- | should and would be curbed, rassed them by his haste in agreeing : : to all their demands. a ae biden : "I i if r ne manufacturers, ironically, con- was propagandizing for corn sugar | demanding that the law continue to manufacturers, in radio broadcasts, | *ow them their “day in court,” in- simultaneously with holding hearings | Sead of providing for the Secretary on a bill which would have placed °f Agriculture's penalizing violations. this product on a par in advertising| They want this, of course, because with the proven-superior cane sugar.| they rarely are stopped by capitalist A private threat of criminal prosecu- courts—as was demonstrated when " this racket, |H+ B. Thompson, representing the Hon belied Siti 20) ceaae Shia xAoke ‘ patent-medicine vendors, shamelessly Thus the absolute domination of | cited a U. S. Supreme Court decision business interests over legislation en- | upholding the sale of an alleged ab- acted postage in the Prices hed | solute cure for cancer! all the people is demonstrated anew in) ‘The other chief argument they American democracy, 1933. | raised, demogogically, against regula- Few instead were those among the | tion was that supervision of their fac- hundreds in the hearing room who/ tory processes would result in expos- didn't know that the only answer to/| ure of their trade “secrets.” This, in the problems under discussion is so- | the teeth of the universally acknowl- cialized medicine, abolition of private edged fact that modern chemistry can property is ot, the corey el Ls |analyze any product. trums, cure alls, act in- eaibie foods and grossly “lepes Soa Feudalism in the person of Queen sented products which have always|Marie Antoinette shrugged at bread- bess palmed off e — of ex~|less French peasants and said, “Let ploited cgnsumers. at really angers | 6” italis tie: maitre ‘of products like Lash- them eat cake Capitalism today Lure (which has burned holes in the will riddle even its pretense of pro- viding protection to the consumers before presenting it to the full com- (at fancy prices) fake foods, impure and often dangerous drugs and poi- faces of its users) and Kellogg's bran (which has caused serious intestinal through American industrialists offers | sign such a statement. We were sent back to our cells, But the Gallup strikers refused to return to work until we were released. Five days later, in the face of the protests | throughout the state and the solid- arity. of the Gallup miners, the auth- \orities were forced to release us | unconditionally.” Eight Days on Bread and Water Benjamin was arrested in Gallup | while on a tour in preparation of the ;, National Unemployed Convention. He | Soke on the picket line to the Gallup | miners, after the militia, headed by | General Woods, had banned all meet- | ings, arrested most of the strike lead- jers, and instituted a reign of terror | after Benjamin's arrest, The miners |marched to the stockade demanding |his release and were dispersed only | by tear gas attacks of the national |guard. Five days later he escaped, | but was re-captured after being lost \2 the desert for 32 hours. Benjamin was sentenced to a year in prison and | tary stockade he was on bread and | water, together with the other strike \leaders for eight days, In the Gallup Jail, after sentence, he was in @ dark cell for two days. Speed Convention Preparations “Enroute on my return here from | New Mexico, I found that the unem- ployed put on C. W. A. work are highly dissatisfied,” Benjamin con- | tinued. “The need for organization of the C.W.A. workers is great. Many have not been paid after being cut off relief and put on C.W.A. jobs.” “The whole tempo of pre] for the national convention of the unemployed January 13, should be speeded up. Only a month is left before the convention,” he said..-“Tag |days throughout the country have j been called for December 16 and 17, | to help finance the convention, Many |Jocal and county conferences are taking place this week. The program for the convention includes the devel-~ opment of local struggles and activi- ties for relief and for the Workers Unemployment Insurance, and the building of solid councils and com~- mittees in the neighborhoods, on the |C.W.A. jobs and in all workers’ or- ganizations. The Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles, where negligence killed 100 relief workers, proves the need of such organization, This week |the national government refused to supply food and housing for the con~ vention, after I. Amter visited the White House with the unemployed | workers’ demands. But if the work- \ers throughout the country protest at jonce, we can force the national gor- ernment to grant the unemployed de- | mands for food and housing.” Ben, 500 miners have joined the NMU. and won 16 demands,” Benjamin said. Benjamin will tell the history of the Gallup struggle tonight st the Webster Hall mass meeting. His case | went to the New Mexico supreme |court on appeal, This court upheld |the court martial sentence of Ben- jamin on the ground that a “state of insurrection” existed. “The state of |New Mexico denies the demands of |the Unemployed Councils for ade- quate unemployment relief,” declared Benjamin, “But they spent $100,000 on the national guard to to break the Gallup miners strike means of martial law. Roosevelt Machine , The demonstration Nov. 4 of the Gallup miners, Benjamin pointed out, coupled with the nationwide protests, forced the state government to move himself and Kaplan to Albuquerque and end the manhandling in prison, It was in this Nov. 4 demonstration that the national guard cavalry charged the strikers with drawn sabres, wounding several and arrest~ ing & dozen workers, Benjamin emphasized the respon- sibility of the Roosevelt administra~ tion for the terror against the Callup miners. Bronson Cutting, senator from New Mexico, he pointed out, is head of the democratic machine in that state, and was responsible for 288 | the bringing in of the soldiers and the assaults on the strikers, as well as the actions of the courts troubles) and Fieischmann’s yeast (which has “cured” much sonous cosmetic smears to mask their ‘faulty emaciatt-~ Fy