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peek. _ @ceasion for their provocative aims. Page Two Takes Radicd : Step As Morgan Company oF . > Lock Wall Street-Controlled President Seeks to Appear As Anti-Imperialist His Masters HAVANA, Aug. 9.—In an effort to su Without Offending in the U. S. ain his pre- ® fF Y WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1924 MENDIETA “SEIZES” PHONE PLANT TO LULL CUBAN MASSES, BUT WALL STREET STILL OWNS IT AND GETS ALL PROFITS Depositors in Defunct Bank Seek Auditing Ou t Strikers Send Lette tes Court On Accounting of | Superintendent NEW YORK —The United De- positors Committee of the Bank of | United States, the New York bank | which closed its doors two years | ago with tremendous loss to small depositors, at a meeting Monday. voted to ask for the material no tenses at defending the interest of the Cuban workers, Pres- | in the possession of the State Bank- ident Mendieta today informed the Wall Street-controlled Cuban Telephone Company that the government would now } ponsible for the telephone service. be ri T tion was forced upon Men-¢ dieta as a result of the recent strike | in which the company refused to fehire 256 strikers. Mendicta’s action, however, does not in the slightest infringe upon the property rights of the Wall Street stockholders, who retian full right to their properties and their profits from the company. Mendieta, striving to steer be- tween the course of appearing as an | opponent of Wall Street imperial- | ism and at the same time desirous | of showing the imperialists that he | is a loyal servant, is caught in a] contradiction which may cause him | difficulties with his Wail Street | Masters, it is reported, since the} American imperialists who domin ate the Cuban gov like to see actions w with the big Wall Street interests. The International Telephone and Telegraph Company controls the} Cuban company. Both are J. P.| Morgan properties. Farm Reserves Are Wiped Out) (Continued from Page 1) Oklahoma, and parts of every other State west of the M issippi except Louisiana and Washington. It now includes 878 counties. | It would have been possible to save practically all of the livestock in the drought area by prompt action in shipping in necessary feed, by removing cattle to other | regions, by permitting the planting of emergency crops in areas not affected by, the: drought and by throwing every effort into saving all that could be saved from the havoc of the drought. But for defi- nite reasons this was not done. | To do it would have been to act | in direct contradiction to the New Deal plans to reduce the surpluses of agricultural products. Farmers Demand Hay | KENOSHA, Wisc., Aug. 10.—At a Meeting called by the County Agent to discuss relief measures and for government measures for slaughter- ing cattle, more than 500 drought- stricken farmers demeaded that the Federal Government immediately provide free hay to all stricken cat- | tle herds. Relief would be granted on a limi- ted scale, the County officials de- clare only if the farmers agree to Slaughter 25 per cent of their cattle. | As soon as an attempt was made by the farmers, led by the United Farmers League to form a commit- tee for action on drought relief, the Officials disbanded the meeting. But further steps are being taken by the farmers to carry forward the demand for free government distri- bution of fodder for the stricken animals and food for the farmers’ families. Japan Lies Against The USSR Increase (Continued from Page 1) | to bargain for better conditions for Japan at the Tokio conference dealing with the sale of the Chin- @se Eastern Railroad. This is proved by the fact that Japanese newspapers, on July 30, had already very optimistically ap- Praised relations between Japan and} the U.S. S. R. asserting that at the | forthcoming agreement regarding the Chinese Eastern Railroad” all questions of japanese Soviet rela- tions would be easily settled.” As s00n as the report $ published, however, that during tose nego- tiations the Soviet delegation had decline to accept the condiitions of Japan, the Japanese press started @ violent anti-Soviet campaign. On their part, the Manchurian Newspapers tried to outdo the Tokio press, without hesitating to direct their threats at the break-up of relations with Soviet consulates. The comparison merely suggests itself with last year when the anti- Soviet campaign started at ap- proximately the same time, with the same object of exerting pres- Sure upon the U. S. S. R. in con- nection with the Tokio conference. It resulted in the imprisonment in| Manchuria of a number of abs- Olutely guitless employes and work- ers of the Chinese Eastern Rail- road. The initiators of these methods of pressure are, however, taking too great a responsibility upon them- Selves. While they are applying their methods in vain, large cor- porations and certain of their fer- vent executives as well as other extreme elements of Manchuria who have always sought the breaking up of every effort towards peace- ful establishment of Japanese- t. Lowis Nutpickers | Plan Action ST. LOUIS, Mo., August 9—The Negro nutpickers here are again preparing for action, following the close down last April when more than one thousand women were thrown out of work. In violation of an agreement he} was forced to sign at the time of | the last strike, Funston, head super-| intendent, has been hiring non- union workers. Since these non- union workers are white girls, the local leaders of the Urban League attempt to portray them as enemies of the Negro workers, instead of ex- posing the boss as the exploiter of both Negro and white workers, The nutpickers will get together at ja dance which will be held Saturday, August 11th at the Trade Union Hall, 1229 North Leonard Avenue, as the first step in welding together the Negro union workers and non-union white workers, Committee Acts To Free | Herndon (Continued from Page 1) out that the aim of the sponsors of the Costigan-Wagner Bill was to deceive the masses with illusions that the lynch rulers would them- selves stop lynching, and thus divert the masses from the neces- sary mass fight against lynching. The _ conference unanimously adopted the program of action brought back by the resolutions committee. The main proposals of this program are: (1) the widest popularization of the L. 8. N, R. Bill; (2) a signature and fund-rais ing campaign for the defense of the Scottsboro Boys and Herndon; (3) another national conference in Oc- tober, at which a delegation will be elected to go before Congress to demand passage of the L. 8. N. R. Bill. The conference voted authority to the resolutions committee to call a meeting of all delegates present, which would resolve itself into a Committee of Action with power to enlarge itself and to carry out the decisions of the conference. Harry Haywood was elected secretary of the Committee of Action, and Davis, assistant secretary, Wednesday night's conference is the first of a series of national Scottsboro-Herndon conferences to be held throughout the country. SECTION 6 TO MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK.—An important dis- cussion of the Knitgoods strike will be held for members and sym- pathizers by Section 6 of the Com- munist Party tonight in the Bridge Plaza Workers Club, 265 Rodney St. at 8 o'clock. OME time ago a brother in one of the armies ot decency, boiling like a vegetarian at’the sight of an abbatoir, wrote in a letter to his favorite tabloid, denouncing the servants of the devil who permit their children to appear scantly clothed on the streets, and hinting that this abomination was another plot of the |Reds to jundermine American institutions .He de- manded that the perpetrators be immediately brought to judgment. The ways of the devil are strong, however, as many of us who do daily battle with him know. The debauchees the brother referred to are still at large. Now we have suffered another example of the devii’s might, in the sense the brother defined. The Women’s | Metropolitan Golf Association in | New York, it is true, has chased him for a moment—but in Chi- cago he still holds his evil sway. The victory of the caddies in their strike against the Exmoor Golf Cinb can be interpreted in no other fashion. This was the second or third caddie strike in the domain in the last two months. But this one was distinguished by the method of Soviet relations, are utilizing this picketing which the caddies adopted. They picketed naked, ing Superintendent, in order to audit it, The text of the letter sent by | the committee to Supreme Court Justice L. A. Valente, follows: “After the announcement in the \ newspapers about the application of }the Superintendent of Banks for }&n approval of his accounting and | for permission to pay a 5 per cent | dividend, the depositors of the Bank of United States met at 11 Clinton St., Manhattan, on August 6th and 1315 43rd St., Boro Park, Brook- lyn, on August 7th. | “It was unanimously decided to jask you to approve that part of ; the application which refers to the granting of the 5 per cent dividend. At the same time depositors have decided to ask you to withhold ap- proval of the accounting for the period of one month to enable this | committee to study the accounting submitted by the Superintendent of Banks, “We ask you to direct the Su- perintendent to furnish us with a | copy of the accounting and the | paper he has submitted on his pres- ent application. We also ask you to direct the Superintendent to fur- | nish us with such data in his poses- sion as may be necessary in order that we may Understand this ac- counting and check up on some of the items, “We want to call to your atten- tion that the total costs of the liquidation amount to over $6,550,- 009, which we consider a little too| much, Furthermore, of the sum of over $20,000,000 disbursed by the | Superintendent since December, 1932, over $9,000,000 was collected before December, 1931, and about | $9,000,000 was collected before De- cember, 1982—which shows that the expenses of over $2,000,000 he had in the period from December, 1932, were tco high when compared with the collection during the same period, “On Aug. 13, 1934, we were in- formed by the Banking Depart- ment that they had less than $6,- 000,000 in cash. Now they say that they have $7,200,000, We want to know how they obtained the sum Of $1,200,000 in these three weeks. “By the decision of the depositors, copies of this letter will be sent to the press. Our secretary is in- structed to be present at the hear- ing and to submit an affidavit. “We hope that you will handle this matter with fairness to all sides.” at Chicago YCL Prepares Anti-War Mass Meeting} International Youth Day CHICAGO, Aug. 9.— The Young Communist League of District 8 is- sued a call yesterday to all organ- ized and unorganied young workers of the Middle West to prepare now for demonstrations and mass meet- ings to protest war preparations on International Youth Day, Aug. 31. The Y. C. L. has arranged a mass meeting for Friday evening at 8 o'clock, Aug. 31, at the Sokol Hav- jlicek Tyre Hall, 2619 South Lawn- {dale Ave. Claude Lightfoot, candi- date for Assemblyman, will be the only speaker. There will be short sketches, anti-war plays, gymnastic drills, dancing, choruses and other features. The Y. C. L. issued a statement yesterday which read in part: “All of the youth regardless of their political, social, or religious differences, must be brough to- gether into a mighty united action on International Youth Day against imperialist war and fascism, We, A great deal of consternation took place among a number of well-bred ladies when the pickets appeared before them. The ladies were forced to leave the field. One hundred and _ twenty-five caddies comprised the strikers. They got their demand of a 60-cent nine- hole fee and $1 for eighteen holes, and 40 cents an hour for chasing balls. They won without an arbitra- tion board. Nor was any slick suggestion put over on them, They refused to go back to work until their demands had been met, though the club pleaded with them when they dropped their bags, that they work until a play had been completed. eit ae (E case of the Women’s Met- ropolitan Golf Association—the board of directors prohibiting the wearing of shorts on the golf links —has become a great issue in America, As those on the side of decency will tell us, it is an issue over whether the redeemer still liveth or whether he is just an epithet used by the blasphemous. The New York Times is so agitated over the episode that it has al- ready devoted a two-column, front Gutters of New York MPERIQLIST WAR! tivities."—-NEWS ITEM. By Del Witad wh a pis 4 a “Captain Hynes of the Los Angeles Anti-Radical Squad accuses Hollywood film stars of supporting Red ac- MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 8. —A statement which tears the veil of pretendtd sympathy with the truck strike from Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B. Olson and com- pletely exposes his strike-breaking activity has been issued to work- ers in this city by the Communist Party. The statement likens Governor Ol- son’s action in using troops against the strike, to similar actions of the Republican Governor Merriam of California and the Democratic Gov- ernor White of Ohio. It calls on Minnesota workers to elect Com- munists to public office as the only guarantee that armed government forces will not be used against workers in future strikes. “While the Republican and Democratic governors do their strike-breaking openly, the Farmer- Labor Governor Olson tries to cover his strike-breaking actions with nice-words,” the statement declares. “He issues a statement of sympathy with the strikers, then prohibits picketing. He uses harsh words on the Citizens Alliances then moves their trucks. He talks about a ‘new social order’ and supports with his military rule the old rotten order.” Olson *s F ake Labor ‘Sympathy’ Exposed by Communist Party Farmer-Labor Governor Follows Example of Democrats and Republicans in Using Troops The Communist statement fur- ther exposes the Farmer-Labor lJeaders in the trade unions as sup- porters of Olson's policies, citing the cases of Oramer, Urtabess and Nel- son, leaders of the Central Labor Union who refused to appear at a strikers’ mass meeting on July 27. “In view of these facts we call on you to support the Communist Party. You voted Farmer-Labor in 1932. ‘Vote Communist in 1934. You voted for Olson in 1932. Vote for Davis in 1934,” the statement concludes. The Davis referred to is 8S, K. Davis, Communist candidate for Governor and widely-known leader of the unemployed in Minnesota. The other State candidates of the Communist Party are: Alfred Tiala, farm leader, for U. S. Senator; Ed- ward Carey for Lieutenant Gover- nor; Robert Turner, for Secretary of State; Mabel Puschel, for State Treasurer; Reinto Tanttila, for Railroad and Warehouse Commis- sioner, and John Hell, Peter O. Sjodin, Thomas Tracy, Harry May- ville, Emil Nygaard, Thomas Foley and Edward Bauman, for Congress in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth eighth and ninth districts, respectively. Communist Party Calls Meeting Today To Support Strike NEW YORK. — The New York District Secretariat of the Commu- nist Party yesterday issued a state- ment urging cooperation from Com- munist Party units, fraternal or- ganizations, trade union locals and other workers’ organizations to sup- port the full time District Traiuing School of the Young Communist League. Contributions should be sent to Y. C. L. District Training School, 35 “Amnesty” Signals New Terror Drive (Continued from Page 1) fascist prisoners in German concen- tration camps. Already large meetings held in Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Mil- Waukee, St. Louis, Kansas (ity, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, have passed ringing resolutions for Thaelmann’s E, 12th St., New York City. therefore, call upon all youth to Prepare the greatest possible mo- bilization of their friends and or- ganizations and bring them down to the demonstration.” COMMENTS ON SPORTS ® page feature play to it, and followed this with a full column of space. With their usual perspicacity the newspapers have divided the camps into radical and conserva- tive. The radicals want the girls to take their skirts off. The con- servatives want the girls to keep their skirts on, as is taught to girls at their cradles. Anyone can see that the motives of the radi- cals are ulterior and sinister. Who but a radical would want to look at a girl with her skirts off? Even though, in this case, the radicals want the girls to keep their pants on. The radicals are playing a fast stroke. They have already brought the issue down to the basils of the sex struggle. “What right,” asks Mrs. Tom Hanes, president of the Women’s Tidewater Golf Association, “have men to be moze comfortable than women on the golf course?” Neither Mrs. Hanes, of course, nor the conservatives, are referring to the caddies. They are referring to ladies and gentlemen. Nor did the Times become agitated ‘over the comfort of the caddies. It’s always easier for papers like the Times to write about the sex struggle than about the class struggle liberation, for the freedom of Lud- wig Renn, famous author; Carl Von Ossietsky, pacifist and journalist; Hugo Graef, secretary of the war veterans organization; Kurt Hiller, attorney; Frau Steinfurth and Frau Beimler, held as hostages; Klaus Neukrantz, Hans Litten and hun- dreds of others. William Fuchs +A COMRADE namei Hy Gold- 1 stein has written me a long letter, accusing me of distorting fact.. He charges: 1—that I said a Jew can not make the Yale or Harvard team; 2.—that in writing about a permit applied for by the Labor Sports Union, I implied that the police had purposely shunted the Labor Sports Union off to @ late hour on the field. Answer: 1—I never categoric- ally stated that a Jew can not Make the Yale or Harvard team. I said (May 14, 1934): “Who has ever heard of a Negro (or a Jew, for that matter) being welcomed on a Harvard or Yale team?” What I meant is obvious. Anyone: knows how hard it is for 2 Negro or Jew to get admitted into Har- vard or Yale. Answer: 2—My information came from the L. 8. U. No one who knows the attitude of the police department to any revolutionary working class organization will doubt the L. S. U. assumption, This is not the first time the police department has treated the L. S. U. in this fashion. The police department has even broken up L. S, U, meets, , ‘ New Mexico Miners Strike On Relief Job Gallup Workers Out— Strike Spreads After Wage Slash GALLUP, N. M., Aug. 9.—Unem- ployed miners here struck on the Federal Emergency Relief jobs last week after wages for unskiled work- ers were slashed ten cents an hour. The striking relief workers are demanding a six-hour day and four day week at wages of fifty cents an hour. In addition to the demands for guaranteed minimum wage rates, the workers demand payment every week and that no workers be discriminated against for strike ac- tivity. Stating thai the wage cut would permit the F E. R. A. to put more men to work on the projects, the relief officials slashed wages throughout the state, In Gallup, the ex-miners, with the tradition of a militant strike under the lead- ership of the National Miners Union in the past year, refused to accept the wage cut. The Gallup relief workers are calling upon all relief workers in the state to join them in the strike for return of the 20 per cent wage cut. vee mae Strike Spreading ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Aug. 9.— Demanding restoration of the fifty cent wage scale and four six-hour- days a week, workers on the F. E. R. A. jobs in three New Mexico cities were either on strike or threatening to strike today. Local F. E. R. A. officials in each ‘of the three cities yesterday stated that regardless of the wage scale paid the laborers will receive no more than $25 monthly wages. Pekin, Ill, Strikers Resist Police Attacks, Oust Strikebreakers (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 9.—Striking workers in the American Distillery Co. plant in Pekin, Ill., heroically resisted bloody police attacks against their picket lines and turned back strikebreakers on Monday. The same workers struck about two months ago. During that strike, members of the Unemploy- ment Councils and the Communist Party were among the most active supporters of the strike and won the respect of their fellow-workers. Classified LARGE furnished room with kitchen privileges, southern exposure, near Cen- tral Park West (96th St.), $5 a week. Write Box “A” c/o Daily Worker. COMFORTABLE room, comradely atmos- phere, all improvements, shower. Reas- onable; 338 E. 13th St. Apt. PATRONIZE Southern and West Indian Markets 291 Dumont Ave. — 325 Livonia Ave, NEEDLE WORKERS PATRONIZE SILVER FOX CAFETERIA and BAR 326-7th Avenue Between 28th and 29th Streets Food Workers Industrial Union QUALITY BAKING CO. 44-19 Broadway, Astoria, L. I. J. and Z, DEMIRJIAN, Props. Oriental Fi Shashlik Bread delivered at Picnies within a day’s notice WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Direction: “Lexington Ave., White Plains Trains, Stop at Allerton Ave, station Office open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m, to 2 p.m, Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 friday and Saturday 9 a.m, to 5 p.m. EXTRA! Union. Yesterday morning, after the boss had been compelled to sign up with the F. W. I. U. and the workers were going up to the shop, they were attacked by gangsters of the Joint Council. The workers de- fended themselves and repulsed the Trade Union Meet to Plan Defense Action (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Mass defense actions to prevent the crushing of the revolutionary trade union move- ment by the police will be planned at a mass meeting to be held at 3018 South Wells Street, in Liberty Hall, Tuesday, August 14, at 8 p. m. ‘The meeting, called jointly by the International Labor Defense, will protest vigorously against the arrests of Frank Gallagher and Charles Soders, leaders of the Packinghouse Workers Industrial Union, during the recent Stock Yards live stock handlers strike. During questioning in the state’s attorney's office, Gallagher was in- formed that the police, with the co- operation of the leaders of the A. F. of L., were planning to illegalize the unions of the T. U. U. L. HARLEM WORKERS PATRONIZE INTERNATIONAL RESTAURANT and BAR 322 Lenox Avenue - New York Bet. 126th and 127th St I. J. MORRIS, Ine, GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 296 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order Trade Union Unity League and the | A. F. of L. Gangsters Attack Fur Workers Who Joined F.W.LU. Industrial Union Wins Demands and Recognition While A. F. of L. Joint Council Works With Bosses to Lower Standards NEW YORK.—Efforts of the Joint Council of the A, F. of L. Fur Workers Union to register members of the Harry Soldinger Shop, 307 Seventh Ave., by strong-arm methods, failed when the workers insisted on joining the militant Fur Workers’ Industrial¢—-———_—— scabs. Solounis, an organizer of the F. W. I. U., was arrested after the clash. The employer has agreed to the following conditions: Back pay on the unemployment insurance fund, back pay for workers paid below the Scale, wage increases and recogni- tion of the Pur Workers’ Industrial Union. A stoppage of work, called by the | F. W. I. U., in the shop of M. Woolf, at 242 W, 30th St., was sufficient to make the employer deal with the F. W. I. U. and accept union con- ditions. He had been working with the Joint Council of the A. F. of L. union to register the workers in that union and lower the conditions of the workers. Six new shops walked out yester- day morning for wage increases. At present the union is busy with the coming elections. Fur workers are about to vote and elect the in- coming paid and non-paid officers, | A great deal of interest and discus- sion is going on among the fur workers on the subject. Daily meet- ings are taking place in prepara- tion for elections. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Aves,, Brooklyn Dr. Maximilian Cohen Dental Surgeon 41 Union Sq. W., N. Y. G After 6 P.M. Use Night Entrance 22 EAST 17th STREET Suite 703—GR, 17-0135 Dr. S. A. Chernoff GENITO-URINARY Men‘and Women 228 Second Ave., N. Y. C. OFFICE HOURS: 11 - 7:30 P.M, SUNDAY: 12-3 P.M. Tompkins Square 6-7697 fort to all campers. Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4—-5 CAMP UNITY Overcrowded The Management of Camp Unity regrets that it cannot accommodate any more campers until further notice. The camp is filled to capacity and any further additions would cause discom- It suggests that Unity patrons take advantage of the remaining accommodations in the other two proletarian camps, Nitgedaiget and Kinder- land, where cultural, social and sports activities are on the same level as Unity’s. — Spend Your Vacation in a Proletarian Camp — CAMP KINDERLAND HOPEWELL JUNCTION For Adults and Children Vacation Rates for Adults $14.00 per Week (Tax Included) NEW YORK For Children of I.W.O. Schools and Members of the I.W.0. $16.00 for 2 Wks.—5 Wks. $52.50—10 Wks. $105.00 For Others Additional $2.00 per Week For children over 12 years an additional dollar per week Cars Leave for Camp Daily at 10:30 A. M,; Friday and Saturday 10:30 A. M., 3 P. 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