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Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1934 “Red” Vienna Built Houses;| Unity of Cannery Workers in San Pedro USSR Destroyed Landlords Pics W Austrian To Defend Capit By D. Z. MANUILSKY Article XVI amiversities ar and collective fs the Workings mers Class Respor for the Defeat of D And yet Otto hh Baue s | French Revo! ° ional working cla: yeracy” at work *xperience, ts true n Since 1918 wave sustainet Tomy this ‘ talism he bourge ‘ince then th of American them back continent and acro countless—and State and Feder: s the release of her son, to Governor Rolph and to Roosevelt, who re- fused to see her. Now she says she is convinced that there is only one | voiee that can demand and secure bis freedom—the mighty voice of organized labor. | ‘The first mass sentence of death | was on the Scottsboro boys | April 10, 1931. The next day the) firs mass vrotest meet was held in| Bariem in St. Luke’s Hall. On April 5 the first big protest parade in| Bariem was broken up by police. | June 28, Mrs. Wrieht (mother of | wo of the boys), who was already | eampatenine in their behalf, was excluded from a mass meeting, held by the N.AA.CP. in Pittsburgh. Ym spring of 1932. after Alabama | Supreme Court had upheld death | verdicts, the International Red Aid invited J. Louis Enedahl and a} Scottsboro mother to tour Europe | to publicize the frame-unp. | Mrs. Wright remembers in detail | and speaks vividly of each town| through which they passed in| France, Germany, Belzium, Holland, | England. Norway, Sweden, Den. mark. Czechoslovakia and other) pountries. mi the “Labor Defender” of 1932 she wrote: “I am not strong. Mv health has heen nndermined bv lifelone and diffientt toil. T have brouvht seven chilfren into the | world and did my best for them. Iam row more than 46 vears o'd | . ++I never dreamed that I had the | streneth to moke a. seven-month | tour of the United States and then | to cress the Atlentic and for more then fovr months now to ‘carry or in the European Scottsboro | camoaign... | “Bunt my love for my two sons . +. with the growing desire... | to achieve something for my | people and my class, have kept me strong... “Rut I didn't think that they ( | Chattanooga, } oy somd me to jail and to pected to be in New York ogain’ forts S. P. Leaders Turn Social-Fascist alist Democracy id will And the d Dy their own s when both the Party any Continue the lives of my two sons. Yes I have just been in pelice stations, jails prisons... .” Arsested at Klodne, near Prague, and thrust into a filthy dungeon, she wrote: “At that moment I never felt so much alone in all my life. I ad- it that I nearly broke down and But in that very same I resolved not ‘to shed a iy boss class jail Czecho-Slo their tour. Eng- rain, died in Moscow gave me y horseshoe,” re- “I wanted all s to share i*. But it into so many wouldn’t be vretty So I keen it on the men ce, and, when the boys get out, e it.” Wright feared to make airplane ‘rin from Paris to Am- am until she was assured that 1 had done so. “He did?” } Wright. more, Mother she did. America—the case for hearing before the U. 8S. Supreme Court. Cyril Briegs wrote in the Labor Defender of Novem- ber. 1932: “The solidarity of the white workers of the whole world with the persecuted Negre masses was | dramatically demonstrated In the court room itself, with the en- trance of Mother Mooney, mother of Tom Mooney, victim of another notorious frame-up by the Ameri- can ruling class, A flunky of capitalism, in the person of the U. S. Marshal, attempted to bar Mrs, Mooney on the grounds that she could have no interest in the Scottsboro case and the fate of the nine Negro lads. Mother Mooney, who. in the company of Richard B. Moore, Negro prole- tarien orator, had traveled thou- sands of miles throughout the United States, in defiance of the orders of her physician, for the Scottsboro-Mooney defense cam~- paign, brushed aside the argu- ments of the U. S. Marshal, She was permitted to remain.” What proletarian woman can hear such stories as those of Mother Mooney and the Scottsboro mothers, and hope to remain aloof —to refrain from participating fully |in the great effort to free the work- ers of all capitalist countries? The grief and hopes of one of us are the grief and hopes of all of us. Clara Ze*kin, until her death president of the I. R. A. stated: “Every International Women’s Day must be an I. L. D. day; every I. L. D. must signify a stride for- ward in the struggle for the eman- cipation of women. Both the one and the other must be an offensive against capitalism—against this tor- turer and destroyer of humanity.” . os oe Mrs. Wright is now at home in though she is For Two Workers: e AFL Bars Struggle! Fishermen and Canne By a Cannery Workér Correspondent | sent in general? Well, | eration. The detail e isn’t aii Loe on. e details of this = Fired On Hog Kill By 2 Worker Correspondent OMAHA, Neb. ix we ago the A. F. inion in the had a com- a sort ofa Especially nd along” 33 e gant a sional state kill for the rein: two works: CWA Workers in South Dakota Cut Pennsylvania Farmers | . Pledge Anti-War Work ===" ring eae Time of Phila. | From $15 to $7.50 SISSITON, S. D.—Conditions ere are bad. We B ought area. Many armers never raised anything last year, many ne even harvested a i bushel. The C. W. A, work~ have been cut from $15 per to $7.50. Pp uy the wee! $1 m $5 down. You are sup- to get flour, eggs, butter, , but we all know what to ex- from the bosses. It’s like have been telling us for the last five years about prosperity— t’s coming only when we as farm- ers and workers through out mass power by forcing concessions from them get it. The farmers of Roberts County; | South Dakota, had many struggles; |not long ago a farmer was evicted | from his farm, and previous to this, last year, the U. F. L. (‘United | Farmers League”) saved him from being evicted. But the sheriff |slipped him out without anyone knowing it. Well, the farmers. | mobilized about 600, including, the | unemployed council, and he was, put back. ‘The council fights with the league —their struggles are ours, and we jact not only in words, but also. ac- | tion—that’s what counts. | —From 2 member of the Sissi- | ton unemployed conncil. Mobilize To Defend | Home In Cleveland | By a Worker Correspondent. | CLEVELAND, Ohio.—On Feb. 21, | 1934, at 4374 W. 48th St., Cleveland, @ penny sale was organized by -the Small Home and Land Owners’ Fed- penny sele are as follows: | One of our members was sued for $100 for back rent of his business place. Our member promised the landlord to pay him the $100 when |he would obtein work. Four months jlater a judgment was put on his |furniture. The auction was held on | Feb. 21. The organization was in- |formed about this auction and im- mediately action followed. Over 150 workers assembled at this worker’s home, and those workers who were Known to us were admitted. The auction was to take place at II o'clock and the bailiff came at 12, and with him the lawyer, who was suing this worker. The lawyer was going to bid on the furniture. When. the workers found this out they im- mediately kicked him out of the house, and the result was that the furniture was bought for $1.01. This proves what the workers can do when they organize. FASCIST POISON By a Worker Correspondent DALBO, Minn.—It is imperative that we circulate the Daily Worker in this neighborhood to counteract the poison propaganda being broad- cast by the churches against the Soviet Union for fascism, and against the Jews. The local opium peddler is circulating a magazine published in Witchita, Kansas, the “Defender,” which is a thinly dis- guised religious organ in favor of & fascist dictatorship in the U. 8. A. y | very soon. Mrs. Mooney Is at home jin San Francisco. They, among many other families and relatives | of class-war prisoners, are assisted | directly by the I. L. D. So—work- \ing-class women! help to support the families of workers in ruling-class dungeons, |help to mitigate the misery of im- |prisoned workers by writing to to support | They were getting | for a while, and those that are | direct relief get all the way Build the 1L-D., }--SAN PEDRO, Cal.—The workers in the French Sardine Cannery went {out on strike on Thursday, Feb. 15, against the unbearable conditions prevailing in that plant. Many times the workers had to work from 10 to 18 hours at a Stretch, without extra pay for over- time. On Feb. 15, at 12 noon, the whole Warehouse gang struck, and when * | the workers in the canning depart- Ment heard about it, they also Struck as one, leaving the fish piled up on tables and trays. The pleas of the boss to clean up the tables Were of no avail About 500 workers are employed this cannery normally, but at sent only-about 3: working, stly girls. ermen and Cannery Work- trial Union, the only union th had about 100 charge of the strike, ie help of the Young League and the Com- nan of action was tool Tike committe of 15 were and m picketing agreed Ta ere called , and the ¢ French In all, 2 boats, t out. morni. the pickets to the pl and found at work (about re in the fertilizer quit, and the 100 per cent. its part by g.” The LL.D. was notified, and $50 bail was pos Started the “Red Scar and pub- lished lies about the plant shutting By 2 Farmer ry Workers’ Industrial Union, With Aid of Young Communist League, Helps in Struggle down anyway. Three A. F. of L. members working in the plant tried to mislead the workers by telling them that the N.R.A. would take care of them, and settle the strike. | Ata mass meeting demands were |raised as follows: | 1 Decent drinking water and bet- | ter sanitary conditions, | 2) Time clock to be reinstalled. (The time clock had been taken out so the workers could not know how | many hours they had worked). | 3) The boss and foreman to re- |frain from using vile and abusive |Janguage, and the use of such ex- | pressions as “Snap it up,” or “Make it snappy.” 4) No worker to be fired for his or her union or strike activities. | 5) Recognition of the F.C.W.1U. and grievance committees in the plant. | 6) Regular meals at 5:30 even if | there is only one hour more to work. | 7) Full 30 minutes for lunch. All these demands, including the demands for wage increases, were | won after a six day battle. | Other important results have been | that the plant is now organized 75 per cent in the Fishermen ‘and Can- |nery Workers Industrial Union (75 of these members were recruited | during the strike). | During this struggle, members of the Young Communist League es- | pecially distinguished themselves by jt own militancy. | ne workers in the plant realize |that only because of the solidarity of the various races and nationali- ties, Philippine, Mexican, Italian, Japanese, Slavonien, and native- | born Americans, as well as the vari- |ous crafts in the plant, was this | victory won. They reelize that the | correct leadership and tactics of the mber for| F.C.W..U,, and the Trade Union| | Unity League, which is unity of all The press| workers, is the only means by which | | the workers can defend themselves | against attacks of the boss-class. Correspondent. HILLTOWN, Pa.—During National Defense Week, there was a meet- ing of one of the locals of the United Farmers Protective Association. | At this meeting, the farmers discussed the war preparations of Roose- |-Vvelt. ‘The farmers were unanimous in their anti-war sentiment, so they sent a resolution to the President on National Defense Week. They said, “Mr. President, if your National Defense Week is to sound out the American people to find out how soon you can launch an imperialist war, we wish to inform you that we are | Also: { “That as producers of food we opposed to such-a war.” will refuse to support an imperialist | war,” and that “the workers and farmers are still paying for the last | war,” while “we know who profits from such wars.” | There is wide-spread opposition to war among the farmers in Penn- | sylvania. It is necessary that we unite with other organizations opposed to war in a broad united front against war and fascism. The farmers are ready for such action. | Letters from | WILL INCREASE SALE OF D. W. ; Chicago, Il. Members of Unit 108 of the Com- \ihunist Party, Chicago, have pledged | themselves to work for the unity of the working class to fight against |fascism and war, also against dis- [erimination of the colored and |forelgn-born workers. We all re- \@lize that only a perverted or un- (developed mind would try to up- ‘Hold this damnable system that | allows millions to starve tmidst of plenty. We also note with | Pride, and are greatly interested in og improvement of our paper, the | Daily Worker, the only paper that gives the workers the real facts, and jwe intend to work wholeheartedly to increase the sales of same. UNIT 108, CHICAGO, Sam Boyd, Secretary. pee apa -IN APPRECIATION OF WORK- | ERS’ SCHOOL THEATRE GROUP | Brooklyn, N. ¥. The Women’s Council 13 of | Willlamsburg Section recently cele- | brated their third anniversary. The | event was very entertaining and | was enjoyed by every one present. | Credit is due to the comrades from the Workers’ School Theatre Group. Permit us to show our apprecia- |tion of their wonderful perform- ance through the columns of the Daily Worker. I know we are a bit late in writ- ing this letter, because we cele- bra‘ed our anniversary on Jan. 13, but better late than never. D. BENSON, Secretary. A BOOST FOR “WHY COMMU- NISM” Detroit, Mich. Editor Daily Worker: So many workers have written in to the Daily Worker expresing their appreciation of Comrade Olgin’s pamphlet “Why Communism?” that I too feel like throwing my hat in the ring. In my many years in the revolutionary movement, reading hundreds of pamphlets, I have not yet come across a piece of literature that hits the nail right on the head like “Why Communism.” Written in the language that the worker can understand, one only wishes that there were many trore pamphlets written in that style. Unfortunetely, many of our writers write too aca- demically for the workers to under- stand. It is one pamphlet that should be distributed on a mass scale if only our comrades would get to work. We have a big fleld ahead ef us and the workers ate clamoring for the problems that confront them, if only it wil be brought to their [attention. As it is, when a new ex-|them and sending them small com- | pamphlet comes off the press, most | of our comrades buy one copy for in the) literature that’ will explain to them | Our Readers their own individual use and let it |go at that. ‘To show what can be done, one |comrade who is a member of the | Mechanics Educational Society of | | America and very enthusiatic abcut \this pamphlet, has already sold [among its membership, over 200 | copies. The Workers’ Bookshop is | making a special drive to see that it | gets into the hands o* every worker. |To do this, we need the co-opera- ticn of every comrade and I am sure that “Why Communism” will go over the top. i. L. D. DEFEATS VICIOUS NEW ORLEANS LAW NEW ORLEANS, La., March 7.— | Smashing the “dangerous and sus- | picious character” ordinance which has been used here in a whole series of frame-ups, and to behead the workers’ movement in times of struggle, the International Labor Defense has forced the release of Joseph Nelson, militant seaman held for organizing the workers in the Seamen’s Institute here and sen- tenced to thirty days in jail. The I. L. D, forced Judge Eche- zabal to rule that the ordinance was insufficient to hold anyone “pending investigation.” Send us names of those you know whe are not readers of the Datty Worker but who would be Interested in reading it. Address: Dally Worker, 56 E. 18th St, New York, N. ¥. (Classified) ROOM for two with kitchen privileges in Greenwich Village. Call evenings. Landy, 52 Bank Street. THEATRE of the Workers School wants to share headquarters with other organt- zation. Please communteate, Theatre of New Folding Chairs JOHN KALMUS CO. Inc. 8& W. 26th st. [ene Gene Se ‘omrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria SOLS SANDWICH LUNCH the Workers School, 35 B. 12th St. Room 303, Mondays and Pridays, 8:20 p.m. MUrray Hill 4-547 — Ofte = School Equipment NEW snd USED 94 Graham Ave. Cor, Siegel St. EVERY BITE A DELIGHT 101 University Place (Just Around the Corner) Telephone Tompkins Squere 6-8780-0781 ins All Demands in 6-Day Strike Farmers Make Butter But Eat Oleomargarine By a Farmer Correspondent MEADVILLE, Pa.—Want to tell you how successful the Eastern farmers are. Some people think that farmers are not hit by the depression. Of course, some of them milk cows and sell milk. But the truth is, that they can’t eat their own butter. They take their butter and sell it in order to get a little money scraped up to pay on taxes. If they want butter, they substitute oleo. I know 20 farmers personally, and, to be honest, every one owes money. They borrow to the full value of their property and then get sold out, of course. When you city people see these rich farm homes, Please don’t think they are going to be there long. FROM A FARMER’S SON By a Farmer’s Child Correspondent BRANCH, Mich.—I am a farm- ers boy. We are a family of six brothers and three sisters. Our father and mother bought this hilly brush 20 years ago, and worked hard all the time to make a living and to raise up us poor children. Now the government is offering us $2 an acre so that we can get off here. I do not know what they are going to do about it yet. Of course I know that the Com- munist way is the only way out of all the misery here. There are a lot of C. C. C. camps around here. When we ask for work on the C. W. A. they teli me to go to the| canips. They just seem to be crazy to set a young fellow in like me. I am enclosing 25 cents to help along with the expense for you. I'll try ahd do better next time. NOTE: We publish leiters from farm- | | ora, agricultural workers, cannery workers, and forestry workers every Thursday. These workers are urged to send us letters about their conditions of work, and their struggles to organise. Please | get these letters to us by Mon- day of each week. | | | | | Workers Wasted | By a Needle Worker Correspondent ership of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union gave us a new lesson in demagogy this week. A general membership meeting of the silk branch of our union was called for last Wednesday. The turn-out was tremendous. Over a thousand workers came. Everybody was anxious to know the results of the so-called investigation,- carried jon by the union, concerning the jcode and the minimum scales. No jend of complaints carne into the | union that workers are making way below the scale. Right from the start fs was ob- vious that the chairmen wanted to kill time. minutes were rend and approved. Every time someone asked a ques- tion or wanted something explained, the chairman told them that Reis- berg will answer all questions in his report. Then a few unimportant matters were taken up but no dis- cussion was allowed. Finally Reisberg started reporting. He told us that he had nothing to Teport, that negotiations between the committee of the union and the association are stil] going on. “There are four items up for settle- ment,” he said. “Three of which are agreed on but not the fourth. And since the fourth isn’t settled nothing is settled.” On the question of just what are these items, he answered he could not tell, it’s a secret. “You must trust me,” he pleaded, “after every- thing will be settled, we'll let you know through your shop chairman. ‘We'll call a shop chairman meet- ing and tell them the results.” But before starting his report Mr. Reisberg said that after his report we'll have plenty of time to dis- uss. cr When he finished his rt, he said, “That’s all,” and adjourned the meeting. —WILLIAM BELL——_—_ OFFICIAL Optometrist a 106 EAST 14th STREET Near Fourth Ave., N. ¥. ©. Phone: TOmpkins Square 6-8237 Dr. E. E. EICHEL Dentist 150 E. 93rd St., New York Cit: Cor. Lexington Ave. ATwater 9-! Hours: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sun. 9 to 1 Member Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund 1378 ST.NICHOLAS AVE * 1690 LEXINGTON AVE. |f ib 179" ST.KY at 106tb ST.NY, DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-2012 Offcs Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M PARTY LIFE Cleveland Section Challenges to Daily Worker Competition Detroit Workers Bookshop Stimulates Sales Of Anniversary and Special Issues Open Challenge to Socialist Com- ber of the Daily Worker. This idea At ILGWU Meet PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The lead- | About 10 different sets of | petition From Cleveland To the Section Committee, Section Three, To the Membership, Section Three. | Comrades: Comrade Browder’s keynote speech before the 18th Plenum of the Cen- tral Committee said: “The problem of building the Party is... a prob- lem of a struggle for the Party line | among the masses.” e| Browder also indicated “the instru-| ment of reaching the masses” with | |our political line which includes the | |printed word of which the most | | important {s the Daily Worker. | |. Our section has already chal-| \lenged your section in revolutionary | | competition in the recruiting drive.) |So far we have recruited 14 new! members and the reports are that/| you have already recruited 22 new} members as against the quotas of | 35 and 40, resnectively. Inasmuch as the campaigns of recruitment and the circulation of the Daily | Worker are so closely connected, we |are, therefore, challenzing you in revolutionary competition in the Daily Worker circulation drive also. Your quota is 50 (yearly) daily subs and 75 Saturday (yearly) subs. Our quota is 25 daily (yearly) subs and 50 Sa‘urday (yearly) subs. Our challenge is that we will reach our | |auota FIRST before the drive is} over. | | Besides the sub drive we will also | | continue to increase the bundle or-| ders both daily and the Saturday | edition. Already in the Saturday | edition our section has increased | from 50 to 160, in which all the) | units in the section are involving ;the membership in selling. We | pledge that by the end of the drive | | the units in our section will sell 300 | Saturday papers and 100 daily) pers, including regular sales be- | | fore at least two shops, before the | © jend of the drive. | We are determined to make this/ |challenge and pledge more than an | |empty boast on paper but to trans- | |form them into revolutionary deeds. | | Comradely yours, Ms Section Organizer, Section 14, District 6. | ES Ss" Editor, Daily Worker: | | It may be of some benefit to our | | comrades to know one of the meth- ods used by the Workers’ Bookshop in Detroit to stimulate the distribu- tion of the 10th Anniversary num- and others can be advantageously utilized for any and all special is- sues. When the announcement was made that there would be an An- niversary issue of the Daily Worker to commemorate the ten years of its existence, we immediately set | ourselves the task to dispose of at Jeast 500 copies. Our success went beyond our expectations. First we contacted as many work- ers that came into the Bookshop, to order from us in advance as many Daily Workers as they could, explaining and emphasizing to them the necessity of spreading our paper on @ broader scale. We also canvassed on the outside our friends and sympathizers. The result was that they took five, ten and 25 copies each. By the time the Anniversary issue was ready for dis‘ribution we had ad- vance orders for 175 copies. Many that we spoke to were willing to donate a nickel or a dime, provid- ing we gave them away ourselves to workers that were unemployed and who could not afford to buy a conv themselves. On that suggestion we obtained box. and wrote on it the purvose of the fund. Surprising though t* may seem, when opening it we found over $7 in it. When the papers arrived here, we covered the whole of our show win- dow with covies of the Daily Worker, with the result that hun- dreds of workers in passing stopped to read its contents. We also painted on the window the fac‘ that it was a 25-page, 10th Anni- versary number, that it is the only working-class paper, that the work- ers should read it, and that it sells at its usual price, three cents « oD. One of us stood outside the store with the papers and offered them to the workers, shouting slogans at the same time. Lest there be some misunder- | Standing, let me state that only two of us are in the Bookshop, and car- ried this work out. We settled for all the papers we | took on the wholesale price, and thereby had a little left for the run- ning expenses of the Bookshop. We disposed of 600 copies. Comradely yours, J.B, is a marble cutter. I have worked at this trade a good many years for the Northwestern Marble and Tile | Company at the rate of 84 hours a | week, without any Sundays off. The | cutting is done with a hammer and a chisel which is operated by com- | pressed air and jerks the life out of |@ person! Several years ago I began to suffer with freezing hands, especially my right hand. In cold weather I have to put on two pairs of mittens on each hand, and when it is very cold this doesn’t help, The longest I can stand is thirty minutes and then the blood in my fingers goes up and they get white and numb up to the knuckles. The right hand in which I held that hammer is always worse than the left, Later the pain began to con- BERMAE’S Cafeteria and Bar 809 BROADWAY Between lith and 12th Streets MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining By PAUL LUTTINGER, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Marble Cutters’ Neuritis “Dear Comrade Dr, Luttinger: | “T am 44 years old and my trade Rank giz z nile i 3E888 PATRONIZE SEVERN’S CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St. Best Food—Workers Prices GB me # K CHINA KITCHEN CHINESE-AMERICAN CAFETERIA-RESTAURANT 238 E. 14th St., Opp. Labor Temple SPECIAL LUNCH 25c. DINNEB 85c. Comrafely ‘ revolutionary gift, a trial below. This offer does Enclosed find $. 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