The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1934, Page 6

Daily QW Mra omens communist 6A CORCMION OF COMMUMEST TRON ARONA? “femertee’s Oniy Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUDLIGHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAELY PUBLISHING CO., INE. 4 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Felephone: Adgonquin 4-795 4. Gable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, ™. ¥. Washington e Room 964, National Press Mth afd F st, on, D.C Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St, Room 705, Chicago, Ti. Telephone: Dearborn 3921 Subscription Rates: Building By M THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934 Popularize the Struggle for Power, for a Soviet U.S, hing now, m. Likewise we the conditions of every action E: conditions. these str he mass mat th ted, capable and to prove preparation, dur- of these day- try to wrest every capitalists, the Com- of the struggle, all ‘es of the authorities, to in- workers’ understanding of capitalist rule ng it. ing while we ion from thi crease th and of the need for ent speriences of the struggle to con- of the correctness of Communist and practice, of revolutionary Marxism and We try to transform the workers into fighters for Communism. JN PRACTICE this effort to develop the revolution- y ers ng of the masses has many times or at best but weakly undertaken. In some cases, particularly in strikes, there has even loped an opportunist resistance to the bringing yard of the Party’s face and its revolutionary program, Some comrades have capitulated before the “red scare” and fallen into the mire of pure and simple trade unionism, forgetting their revolu- tionary objective, forgetting what Comrade Browder so well emphasized at Cleveland, that only revolu- tionists, who have no concern for capitalist profits, who keep their revolutionary goal clearly before them, can fight effectively for the workers’ im- mediate needs. Even the Daily Worker has reflected this same shortcoming: the failure to make our revolutionary objective clear to the workers, One of our readers calls us to task: “Your paper gives a good day-to-day resume of the fight in the daily struggle—strikes, lockouts, etc., but it does not adequately clarify the basic is . If it did, the workers in seeking relief fi their conditions would not follow the various Sccialist and labor parties but would recognize them for what they are—the guardians and stool- pigeons of capitalism.” The comrade then goes on correctly urging us to deal with the character of capitalism, capitalist democracy, fascism, proletarian revolution, prole- tarian dictatorship, the building of socialism—and concretely prove to the toilers the benefits they would derive from such a fundamental change. 'HE Party convention at Cleveland faced this issue. In the manifesto of the convention (pub- lished in the “Daily” of April 3) addressed to the workers, the farmers, the Negro masses, the intel- lectuals, the relationship of the day-to-day strug- gies for improved conditions to the preparation of the revolutionary struggle for the seizure of poli- tical power is put in a way that every worker can understand. The speech of Comrade Browder, to be pub- lished in Saturday's “Daily,” the resolution of the convention, and the manifesto of the convention to the masses should serve as a guide for the widest popularization of Communist aims, of Communist strategy and tactics among the broadest masses. The convention decisions should end once and for all the failure or hesitancy to bring forward properly our program for the seizure of political power through proletarian revolution and the es- tablishment of a workers’ state, a Soviet Power. We have the inspiring example of the Soviet Union before us. There the unemployment, misery and suffering, characteristic of capitalism, has been overcome. By seizing political power, by confiscat- ing the factories, banks, railroads, by ending the whole system of capitalist exploitation, the masses of the people, the workers and peasants, the in- tellectuals, have escaped the terrible crisis now ravaging the capitalist world. They are moving forward at a rapid tempo toward the building of a socialist society, toward a society where the exploita- tion of man by man will be unknown. On the other hand, ali around us there is the increasing misery and suffering of capitalist America. Sixteen million unemployed. Wage cuts and a cutting of relief. Forced labor. Lynchings. Destruction of the workers’ civil rights. Full speed toward fascism. Feverish preparations for war. The contrast between the living, building So- cialist world, typified by the Soviet Unjon, and the decaying, dying capitalist world evident in our own surroundings, should break down any hesitancy to bring forward our position. Poy ere care 'VERY comrade, every worker should boldly de- clare: We are for Soviets! We are for Socialism! We are for the overthrow of capitalist rule! We are Yor the setting up of the rule of the workers! The Daily Worker will undertake to correct its ‘own shortcomings in accord with the line of the Cleveland convention. “We call upon every comrade, every revolution- ry worker to work more energetically than ever before in the day-to-day struggles of the workers and farmers. Penetrate the factories of the basic industries. Organize the revolutionary trade unions. - Build opposition groups in the A. F. of L. Prepare and lead to the best of your ability the struggles of the masses for improved conditions, for higher wages, for social insurance, for Negro rights. But in these struggles bring forward the Com- - munist Party and its revolutionary aims. Win the workers for the revolutionary struggle for the seizure of power! Win the workers to consciously fight for & Soviet United States) N PAGE ONE of today’s issue we print a withering expose of Socialist leaders’ splitting tactics written by Sam Orner, President of the Manhattan Local of the Taxi Drivers’ Union of Greater New York. Sam Orner is not a Communist. He writes from the angle of an honest trade union leader, fighting to build and maintain independent and united union of the taxi drivers. He shows from his own experiences what the Communists have been pointing out and fighting against all along. Orner shows up the trickery, the strike-breaking methods of Panken, Most, Levy & Co. In order to achieve the end of splitting the taxi union by trying to force them into the corroding grip of Green, Woll, Lewis & Co., the Socialist leaders stop at noth The main brunt of their attack, of course, st the Communists who fought side by side with the taxi drivers in their inspiring and heroic strike while the Soc’ leaders were trying by every means to discourage and disrupt the strike in the interest of La Guardia and the taxi owners. The taxi drivers must maintain unity in their ranks. They must maintain their own fighting union—independent, free from the strike-breaking control of the A. F. of L. leaders. They must not allow the Socialist leaders to maneuver them into the hands of the same A. F. of L. leaders who broke the Philadelphia taxi strike, the Ford and Budd strikes, who drove the Weirton steel workers into company unions, and who now do everything to | keep the 250,000 auto workers from striking against company unions. ‘Taxi drivers! Be on guard against the Socialist leaders who t to shackle you with the experi- enced strike-breakers leading the A. F. of B, Keep your ranks united, strong and independent. Build your own union! ‘Hopkins’ Hypocrisy Hides |*v » %e sxbine. Attacks on Jobless HE hypocrisy of the Roosevelt govern- ment on the question of unemployment insurance was once more demonstrated by the speech of Federal Relief Director Hop- kins before the Red Cross Convention in Washington. Hopkins, together with all other mem- bers of Roosevelt's official family, and Roosevelt himself, has flat-footedly endorsed the Wagner un- employment “reserves” bill, which they fraudulently call “unemployment insurance.” One need only re- member that the Wagner bill would not go into ef- fect for two years and that it applies only to those now working who might become jobless and not to the sixteen million unemployed. At the same time that Hopkins “advocates” un- employment “insurance” and specifically boosts the ‘Wagner bill, which exempts the federal government from granting unemployment insurance, Hopkins lays the basis for further relief cuts. He admits that four and one half million families are dependent upon relief, totalling with families, 18,000,000 per- sons. Hopkins only other proposal is a “broad public works program.” But we know what kind of a pro- gram for public works that Hopkins has in mind. The P. W. A. has shown that by public works the Roosevelt government means millions of dollars given in “loans” to bankers and for war. ‘Thus Hopkins policy is in line with the Roosevelt liquidation of the ©. W. A., with the firing and wage cuts on the new “work relief,” with the drastic cuts in relief appropriations. It is, in practice, ballyhoo “for” unemployment insurance, which serves the useful purpose of a smoke screen to hide from the workers and farmers the futility to the unemployed of the Wagner bill, and to conceal the relief cuts the government is putting over. This demagogic talk of “unémployment in- surance” is the governments method of attacking the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). This is the only bill before Con- gress which calls for security to all those now un- employed. In accord with the decisions of the Communist Party’s powerful Eighth National Conyention there should be a wider mobilization of the workers and farmers in a more deepgoing mass campaign for the enactment of the Workers’ Bill (Hi. R. 7598), ———————Eee LaGuardia’s Ritry Name for Wage Slashing IA.RLY Tuesday morning the New York State Senate passed the La Guardia City Economy Bill. Yesterday, without a minute of time wasted, La Guardia’s Board of Estimate announced its schedules for wage cuts on every city employee—wage cuts which, characteristically enough, in keeping with the whole demagogic veneer of the Fusion administration, are masqueraded under the “progressive” name of “enforced furloughs.” While the figures published by the city ad- ministration attempt to give the impression that the $6,000-and-over-salaried group will receive the biggest cuts, a thorough examination of these figures, coupled with the realization that the vast majority of victimized city workers are in the lowest- paid categories, will make it immediately apparent that this new wage cut wil be taken out of the hides of the masses of poor civil employees. Why is La Guardia putting over these cuts on workers whose wages have already been slashed to a bare subsistence level? Our “progressive” Mayor says that this moye is meant to balance the budget. Which leads to a second question: what is the cause of the budget deficit for which city workers are being painfully victimized? ‘The Daily Worker has answered this question before, and does so again: Because La Guardia is wholeheartedly com- mitted to the city’s payment of $126,000,000 a year for the next four years to the Wall Street banks which swept him into office. For four years these banks will receive the annual suge sum of $126,- 000,000, under the terms of the Untermeyer agree- ment. La Guardia did not for a moment think of cut- ting the budget deficit by cutting down on the bank payments. Instead he took it out of the wages of the New York masses whom his demagogie promises fooled into voting for him. Class-conscious workers of New York should ex- plain this vicious situation to friends and neighbors on the city payrolls. Tell them the plain and simple truth of the matter, so that they will never be taken in again by reactionary demagogs like La Guardia and his gang! Workers of New York, city employees, fight unitedly against the La Guardia wage cuts! Or- ganize committees on every city job, in every city office! Prepare protest action! Work independently of the politicians to build up a mass movement ca- pable of forcing a return of the wage cuts! Sterilization Plan for U.S. Hitler Chief Orders| Race-Hatred Course. _| for German Studenis> § NEW YORK.—With the apology that sterilization is “not a vindictive act,” Dr. Gladys Schwesinger, head | of the staff of the Eugenics Research | Association, came out yesterday in support of the various sterilization measures in several Southern states | aimed against the Negro masses and | the white workers rallying to their defense for joint struggle against starvation and fascist lynch terror. She praised, by implication, the monstrous Nazi program of sterili- | zation for political opponents, Jews }and Negroes and other minority | groups, declaring the Nazi program was “the most outstanding impetus yet given to sterilization.” She jcredited the reactionary California bosses, jailers of Tom Mooney and | originators of many anti-labor laws, | with giving the cue to the Nazi butchers. The Nazi sterilization act, | she claimed, was patterned closely | after a similar law in California. ees aie: BERLIN, April 11. — Dr. Arthur Guett, chief director of the Nazi sterilization program told the pub- | lic health commission today that a bill for unification of public health | departments to speed up the Nazi sterilization project would soon be He instructed the medical profes- sion on their duties in the fascist Reich, deciaring that “racial ser- vice” must take precedence over in- dividual health. A course to promote race and national chauvinism under the guise of eugenics was being contemplated \for ninth-grade students, he indi- cated. The course would be taught t the expense of some other sub- ject, so as not to overburden the students. Recently published statistics is- | sued by the Ministry of the Interior show 205 ordinary and 29 higher | sterilization courts have been estab- |lished by the fascist regime. Spain Opens Bandit ‘Attack in Morocco | |Foreign Legion Is Sent to Seize Ifni MADRID, April 11.—Following the example of France’s bloody war on Morocco, which has cost tens of thousands of French and Moroccan dead, and in “co-operation” with it, the Lerroux government has also begun an imperialist bandit raid in Morocco. A naval transport with a regi- ment of the Spanish Foreign Legion left Ceuta Tuesday to occupy Ifni, a section of Morocco near the Straits of Gibraltar, which was made “Spanish territory” in 1860. Two previous attempts by the Spanish army to conquer the tribes- men of Ifni met with defeat. K. K. K. Burns Crosses To Disrupt Lecture On the Soviet Union MONTICELLO, N. Y—Ku Klux Klan members disrupted a lecture and set two big wooden crosses afire at a meeting held at Monti- cello, N. Y., by the Friends of the Soviet Union. No one was injured, but the crosses were tied to a dry pine tree a few feet from the house in_ which the lecture was being held, and to a wooden fence gur- rounding the house at which the lecturer was staying. U. 8. and Soviet Trade Spurred by Recognition WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 11.— American trade with the Soviet Union has leaped ahead following recognition, the figures of the U. S. Commerce Department released yesterday show. Exports to th Soviet Union for February were three times that of last year, and imports exceeded Fbruary, 1933 by $300,000. The recent spurt in trade is shown in a comparison with Jan- uary and February of this year. In January, goods valued at $321,- 735 were shipped to the Soviet Union, compared with $1,486,459. Imports were $1,195,766 as com- pared with $604,949 for the month previous, DAEY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, ‘APRUL 12, 1994 rker | Enemies of the Taximen Supports Nazi | PB, S.—HE GOT THE JOB! By Burek Newton bd. Baker Leaders’ Betrayal in 2 Strikes (Continued from Page 19 to be the chief speaker. In fact Ben Gold was not even present at this conference. However, Ben Gold did speak at strike meetings, and the taxi drivers welcomed him and the support given by Gold and the mili- tant and fighting needle union, of which he is a leader. It so hap- pened that I and Joe Gilbert, chief organizer of the Manhattan Local, were the chief speakers, Herman Goldstein of the Brooklyn Local also spoke. Also Mr. Most and the Bronx and Brooklyn leaders were present at a joint council meeting at which this conference was dis- cussed. Mr. Most was the only one who raised any objection to this conference to which all labor or- ganizations, A. F. of L. or otherwise, were invited. Mr. Most did warn us that the A. F. of L. unions would not participate in this conference. He pointed out that it was the cus- tom of a large number of A. F. of L, unions in New York City not to at- tend any conference unless Mr, Panken put his stamp of approval upon it. Mr. Most told us in no mincing words that the consent of Mr. Panken for the A. F. of L. unions to attend this conference could be had at a price. The price wag the union’s repudiation of Joseph Gil- bert, our general organizer, and the acceptance of Mr. Panken as our counsel, Otherwise the A. F. of L. unions would not attend the con- ference, We refused to pay the price. ‘ The conference was & success, morally and financflly. About $5,000 was collected for the relief of the strikers, enabling us to feed our starving men with their wives and children at the soup kitchens in our strike halls. At the request of Mr. Most, some of this “Moscow gold” collected at this conference went to feed the men of the Bronx and Brooklyn Locals. Yes, despite the efforts of Mr. Most and Panken, we did manage to keep life in the bodies of our members. The record of the Social- ist Party leaders, Mr. Panken, and Mr. Most, is one of black shame. Nothing at all in the way of moral support, nor one cent was forth- coming from all of these gentlemen to support a body of downtrodden workers who waged the most glori- ous battle against intolerable con- ditions ever witnessed in New York. Exposed Panken’s Role Since the second of February, wave after wave of strikes have taken place in the taxi industry. I was placed into a prominent role in this union when Mr. Panken attempted to put over on the boys in the Bronx one sell-out agreement after another. It was my repeated exposure of these sell-out agree- ments that caused the boys in the Bronx Local to insist that I be placed upon the Committee of 13 which was the General Strike Com- mittee in the February strike. Given Knockout Drops I was placed upon this committee because the boys of the Bronx mis- trusted the man the Socialist lead- ers support, Sam Smith, President of the Bronx local, and also Mr. Panken, who worked day and night attempting to foist upon us an agreement which gave us nothing but mere verbiage, vague promises. In the attempt of the Bronx lead- ers, who received the unqualified support of Mr. Most and Mr. Pan- ken, to get us to accept the sell- out agreement, knoekout drops were fed to me in a cup of coffee to pre- vent me from appearing at the strike hall to oppose the agreement. At the sitting of the Committee of 13, a well worked-out plan of breaking down the morale of the Committee was put into effect by Panken and Levy. Statement after statement was made by them to the Committee, their purpose being to act as a cold douche upon the Com- mittee’s ardor. First, Panken yould come in and inform us that he had seen hundreds of cabs on the street; Mr. Levy would say that the num- ber of scab cars was increasing; then Mr. Levy would tell us that La Guardia would put policemen on the cabs; the object of all this was to have the Committee accept any sort of an agreement on the grounds that it was impossible to continue the strike, though the spirit and morale of the men was at all times high. Ten days after the February strike terminated, Mr. Levy informed us that 32 out of 35 fleet owners who had signed the agreement had done so with reservations, despite the fact that when we had signed it, we were given definitely to un- derstand that the agreement had been signed by the employers in a perfect, manner. Today the heroic taxi drivers of New York, over 40,000 of them, who have waged such a splendid strug- gle against company unionism and for a principled idea are more firmly united than ever. Their confidence in the honesty and ability of the Manhattan leadership has never wavered. Despite all of the vicious attacks and the onslaughts of the Socialist Party, we stand today more firmly united, and more determined than ever to carry on until our ob- jective has been achieved. Challenges Socialist Leaders On various occasions I have challenged Jack Altman and Ami- cus Most to have me appear be- fore the Socialist Party or any body of workers where I could state my case and prove that the Socialist Party, particularly in the persons of Panken and Levy, has betrayed New York’s taxi drivers. My offer still holds good, and I am confident that all, with the exception of the Socialist Party autocracy, would agree with me that the main obstacle to our success was the tactics of the Pan- kens, Levys, Weinbergs, and Mosts. But despite this corrupt element with their splitting and sell-out methods, we will go on to victory! To the Rank and File of the So- cialist Party: Compel these be- trayers to keep their hands off the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater ‘New York! When our committees appeared before the A. F. of L. unions dominated by the Pankens, of the Taxi Union, When the boys answered in the negative, they found that no financial aid was forthcoming. Our men refuse to accept anyone as their counsel under the threat of isolation. 3 The Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York asks nothing of you but to leave us alone, Mr. Panken and ‘Mr. Levy. Mr. Panken, Mr. Levy, Mr. Most, Mr. Weinberg: Hands off the Taxi Cab Drivers Union of Greater New York! Despite all that these ele- ments may do, we will go on and build a fighting, independent union untainted by the strikebreaking leadership of the A. F. of L. All power to the rank and file! Down with our betrayers! —_— ® Send Greetings, Orders, Directly to “Daily” Without Delay Now that the Eighth National Convention of the Communist Party is over, the preparations for which retarded the full mobilization of the Party for the special May Day edi- tion of the Daily Worker, all forces should without a moment's delay take up the urgent tasks of insur- ing the successful editing and dis- tribution of this 24-page half- million copy edition. So far 14 districts have sent in their orders for bundles totalling 383,000 of the 500,000 copies to be printed. These districts are: Boston, 5,000; New York, 200,000; Philadelphia, 20,000; Pittsburgh, 10,- 000; Cleveland, 20,000; Detroit, 15,- 000; Chicago, 35,000; Minnesota, 15,000; Seattle, 13,000; California, 10,000; New Jersey, 19.000; Milwau- Fascist Committee Plans to Frame Shoe Union Leader Workers in Bowdoin Shop Remain on Strike (Special to the Daity Worker) HAVERHILL, Mass., April 11.— More shops signed an agreement with the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, and the price list yesterday involved thousan of workers. The turn workmen are still striking at the Bowdoin Shoe Company, however, as the question of price is not settled. The local newspaper, the Haver- hill Gazette, is still playing up the newly formed Vigilance Committee, which was organized to smash up the union. It was revealed that this committee had worked out plans to frame up Joe Castello, leader of the union, on trumped-up charges. This information leaked out of a secent meeting of the Committee. Through this Vigilance Commit- tee the shoe bosses are trying to split the locals of the union here away from the United Shoe and Leather. The local city officials gave sanction secretly to the Vigi- lance Committee to frame the mili- tant leaders of the union. The union members, determined to defeat this move, are preparing to protest against the fascist com- mittee. U. S. Warships Stage Mimic Battles Prepar- ing for Actual Conflict MEXICO, April 11—Mimic war- fare was staged today when a theo- retical combat between surface crafts and the new giant subma- rines, recently built by the U. S. Navy, lasted 36 hours. The new ships are capable of cruising 25,000 miles, armed with 6- inch guns and house airplanes of their own. Dirigibles, airplanes and ships are maneuvering southward down the East coast, winging their way to the Canal Zone, to show the power of the United States’ war equipment, Communism or Fascism, Debate Between Bedacht and Fascist Editor NEW YORK. — “Capitalism is Bankrupt — Which Way Out,” will be the subject of a debate between Max Bedacht, national secretary of the International Workers Order, who will speak for Communism as the only way out, and Carlo M. Flumiani, editor of the Interna- tional Observer, who will try to up- hold Fascism. ‘They will speak at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., Friday night, April 13. Tickets will be 25 cents in advance and 35 cents at the door. POLAND NOW HAS EMBASSY IN U.S. S. R. WARSAW, April 11—The Polish government today changed its lega- tion in Moscow to an embassy, giv- ing*a higher status to its represen- tative in the Soviet Union. The change follows the signing of the pact of non-aggression between the Soviet Union and Poland. Soviet Flyers ‘Arctic Ice Floe Three Planes in Daring Flight; Soviet Rushes More Planes, Ships MOSCOW, April 11. — In herote| defiance of unfavorable Arctic cH- matic conditions, three Soviet ayi- ators have rescued 33 of the refu- gees who have been adrift on a great ice floe in the Arctic Sea for several weeks as the result of the Sinking of the Soviet icebreaker “Cheliuskin.” Official announce- | ment of the spectacular rescue was made today. It is hoped that the remainder of the refugees would be rescued soon. |the coast of Siberia waiting for favorable opportunity to go to thelj aid, while ships were moving up thi Pacific Coast with more planes. The Soviet Government had even sent the icebreaker “Krassin” by way of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pa- nama Canal, while three Soviet avie |ators went via New York to Alaska to join the rescue parties. Matching the heroism of the rescue aviators, Capt. Otto Schmid, leader of the scientific expedition, stuck by his post despite a severe attack of pneumonia until instructed by the Soviet Government to leave aboard one of the rescue planes. The women and children in the expedition were rescued some time ago. Then last week five men were taken off. The latest rescues were made by the Soviet aviators, Molo- koff, Kaminin, and Slepnoff, in two separate daring trips, one yesterday, the second early today. Rehire 2,000 C.W.A. Workers; Picketing Councils Urge Joint Action of Employed and Unemployed NEW YORK. — Growing mass pressure has forced Commissioner of Welfare William Hodson to or- der the reinstatement of 2,000 of when the city “work relief” sup- planted the C.W.A. on April 1, At the same time, the Depart- ment of Welfare announced that “approximately 10,000” of the 30,000 fired would be returned to the “work relief” rolls, stating that all of the paupers oath questionnaires would be “reviewed.” ‘The Unemployment Councils and the Relief Workers Leagues demand that all 30,000 be immediately re- instated, that the questionnaire be not used as a basis of firing or dis- crimination against any workers, and that jobs at original C.W-A, wages or immediate cash relief equal at least to C.W.A. pay bel granted to all the unemployed. The Councils and the League fur~ ther warned all workers now on the jobs that in promising these jobs the LaGuardia administration had made no additional relief appro- priations, and in emphasizing the “need” requirements, would un- doubtedly attempt to fire single workers now on work relief jobs. To fight against job discrimina-, yWorkers’ League and the Unem. ployment Councils urge all worker: on the jobs to resist any firings by calling strikes and stoppages of work in joint actions of the em~ ployed and unemployed, and the sending of mass delegations to the Welfare Department demanding re- instatement of all fired workers, Demonstrations and mass meetings and delegations should demand that the Home Relief Bureaus grant im- mediate relief equal at least to C. 'W.A. wages to fired workers and the unemployed. The Committee of One Hundred of the Greater New York Confer- ence on C.W.A. and Unemployment urged all fired C.W.A. workers to mass in the picket lines at the De- partment of Welfare, 50 Lafayette Street. Citing the Jim-Crow policies of the Home Relief Bureaus which maintain separate lines for Negro and white workers in the Harlem relief bureaus, the Committee urges all Negro workers to mass at the Picket lines to demand jobs at equal pay, and the right of Negro work- ers to all categories of relief jobs. Of the 300,000 Negroes living in Harlem, 85 per cent are jobless, and only 11,596 were given jobs on C.W. A. Instead of giving jobs to more Negroes, the present “work relief” has continued the C. W. A. discrim- ination, kee, 10,000; Denver, 10,000, and St.) May Day Special for specific townshave awakened the Louis, 10,000. The names of no less than seven. districts are missing from the above list. What is wrong with Buffalo (District 4), which did such excellent work in the last Daily Worker financial drive? What do the comrades in Kansas and the Dakotas (Districts 10 and 11) intend to do about spreading the Daily Worker among the farmers and stockyards workers? What has happened to Connecti- cut, which held so successful a District C. P. convention recently? And the Carolinas and Alabama, centers of Southern textile, rail- read, steel and coal industries? And Texas? These are the districts which have so far failed even to communicate with the Daily Worker concerning their May Day edition orders. All the other districts, as our list indi- cates, have announced their tenta- tive quotas. It remains for them now to get their section apparatuses into motion, to order bundles of the and neighborhoods. This must be done without delay, as the deadline for orders for the special May Day edition is April 24. Increase Concentration Orders! Several of the districts which have already sent in their tentative quotas for the distribution of this edition, notably Pittsburgh, Detroit and Minnesota, should immediately make plans for increasing” their quotas. This applies particularly to Pittsburgh and Detroit, two of the Communist Party’s most important concentration districts, two of the most outstanding centers of heavy industry in the United States. A mere 10,000 copies for Pittsburgh and 15,000 for Detroit are less than half of the amounts these districts should order. Such amounts would be entirely inadequate to meet the needs of the embattled workers in these important industrial centers. Minnesota, too, in which recent un- employed and C. W. A. struggles class Population to blazing militancy, will need more than 15,000 copies to supply its aroused working-class ranks. The May Day Daily Worker will appear in four separate editions— one each for the Far West, the Middle West, the Eastern Seaboard and New York City. In order to insure arrival of these editions on time, orders should be wired in now! Act On These Points Today! Other important things in con- nection with the May Day edition need immediate attention. These include the securing of May Day greetings to the Daily Worker, as well as advertisements from all cities and localities. Greetings will be printed not only from organiza- tions, workers’ clubs, units and branches, etc., but also from in-! dividual workers. The minimum charge for an individual greeting is 25 cents. All greetings must be in not later than April 22 to appear in sem May Day edition, TSeven Districts Still U: Immediate Action Needed to Insure Success of May 1 Edition heard from; Others Lag in Orders Speed up the tempo of our May Day issue preparations by doing the following things: Send in your orders and your greetings, whether individual or organizational, without a moment's delay! Send in correspondence concerning your own strike and un- employment struggles to the Daily Worker, and place orders for the May Day edition in which these Stories will appear. Sec! branches, units and workers’ clubs, order your bundles directly! If you have news or articles for the :necial edition, mail them in today! Only complete and inten- sified effort on the part of every worker and workers’ organization in the country will guarantee 100 per cent sticcessful publication and dis- tribution of the May Day edition. Rescue 33 Off Airplanes are strung out all cd | Actions Continue | the 30,000 workers who were fired { tion of single workers, the oe |