The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1934, Page 7

DA ee | CHANGE WORLD! --- By SENDER GARLIN ABOR DAY orators this year more than ever before will find it difficult to fashion flowing similes about that beautiful understanding between Capital and Labor. Em- barrassed by the fact that about a million workers are on Strike, I fear that many of the orators will find it necessary to discard the set speeches that they have trotted out year alter year and improvise more or less. Labor Day, established by the bosses as a legal holiday to counter- act the real workers’ day of international solidarity on-May 1, is, of Cours?, not intended to be a day of struggie. The formula by now is as Well ¢stablished as the firecracker activities of July 4. President Wil- liam (Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, issues a long statement blustering about “the rights of organized labor,” boast- ing ft the same time of fictional achievements; Matthew Woll, vice- President of the A. F. of L. and acting president of the National Civic Fedgration, generally issues a statement which he hopes will crowd thafone by Green’ off the front page. He has found that most effective fpr that purpose is a snarling attack upon the Soviet Union. /’ Woll, as head of the National Civic Federation, in a sense symbol- izes the spirit’ of Labor Day: the inspiring union of the rulers of in- dustry and their labor lieutenants in the ranks of the working class. A Mirthless Holiday [2aos DAY is a mirthless holiday; May Day, on the other hand, is a day of struggle. May Day was created by the workers themselves in defiance of the capitalist class and its government. When millions of workers in every city in the world pour out into the streets on May Day to demonstrate for bread and liberty, the canitalist class mobilizes its police with their machine guns, clubs and tear gas; for it knows that on this day the workers are rehearsing for the final seizure of Power, The American Labor Day, on the other hand, is a hollow gift handed to the workers by the capitalists for the purpose of discrediting May Day and establishing a “labor holiday” which would be quite harmless: Some years ago Boris Reinstein (then active in the Socialist Labor Party and later a valuable aide to Lenin) wrote a vigorous little pam- phlet on the history of Labor Day. In it he says: “A vampire. when he settles down upon the body of a sleeping person and sucks his blood, is known to fan his victim with his wings, to soothe the victim’s pain, and to prevent him from waking up and driving the vampire away. So was Labor Day created by the politi- cal agents of the American capitalists, to fan the sleeping giant, the American working class, while the capitalists are sucking its blood.” Reinstein suggested that Labor Day might be considered the ver- sion of the “ancient custom of the days of serfdom and slavery. In those days the masters, for recreation and amusement, oftentimes set aside one day to celebrate the ‘enthronement of slaves.’ They would take a slave, take the chains off his limbs, put him on a mock throne, put a mock crown on his head and, bowing to him in mock humility and obedience, would humbly serve him and overwhelm him with flat- . And he on the mock throne would throw out his chest and swell with pride. But the day of mockery over, the chains were again clapped on his limbs, and the miserable slave, groaning, would resume his life of a beast of burden.” “My Fellow-Citizens ... ” Wwe CAN therefore expect that today the workers of the United States will be deluged with bombastic speeches about the\“dignity of labor” and the “horny-handed sons of toil.” Most of the speeches, of course, will be made by men with finelysmanicured hands who find it more dignified to toil in the lobbies of ritzy hotels: labor officials with triple chins who get fat salaries out of the high initiation fees and dues of their union members; congressmen and senators and governors and miscellaneous local politicians out to flatter the workers in anticipa- tion of the coming election. The growing strikes which have broken past the barriers of the N.R.A., the increasing revolt among rank and file unionists against their corrupt officialdom, the increasing leadership of the revolution- ary unions of the Trade Union Unity League in struggles all over the country—all this indicates that the workers this year will no doubt view Labor Day with a more skeptical eye than ever. . . * * A Threat from “Krimson Krank” SEEMS a shame, but on the very day that I called attention to the existence of “Krimson Kracks,” its author “Krimson Krank,” an anonymous individua! in California, writes me a letter threatening to discontinue sending me contributions. Ii seems that “Krimson Krank’s” letter and the Daily Worker crossed in the mails. Here’s what he writes me: “Final Krack— “Well, Reds, I've been krimson kracking for about a year now. But I don’t seem to be getting anywhere with these kracks. I have given something. But you have given nothing, either spiritual or ma- terial, in return. This one-sided thing can no longer continue. I’ve tried several experiments, I’ve sent the kracks in thin batches, thick batches, infrequent and irregular intervals, and lastly in frequent and regular intervals. But no matter, there was no difference in your attitude. I’ve gotten about as much of a murmur out of you as from a wooden Indian or stone statue. Unless I get some sort of tumble out of you, this is the last krack you are going to get from this source. If my talents are not appreciated and not needed in your direction, I shall have to find an outlet in another direction. Toodelooo (and be damned!) Station K-R-I-M-S-O-N K-R-A-C-K-S signing off.” . * . yOW, my dear “Krimson Krank,” it’s your own fault. Why didn’t you send me your address so that I could communicate with you per- sonally during the past few months? What's more, you'll have to hold Mike Gold responsible for not utilizing your talents for at least nine months out of that year. And you'll have to admit that I finally did discover you and bring you before the great public, which received your report of the dog suicide with tremendous enthusiasm. So please don’t get sore, and continue to do your stuff! . . . Who Paid for Mickey Cochrane ge from Detroit comes the following from A. B. Magil, Daily Worker correspondent and editor of the Auto Workers News: “Maybe you think it's Mickey Cochrane that's responsible for putting the Tigers in first place? Or perhaps you attribute it to the mighty arm of Schoolboy Rowe? ‘There are people who would also say a good word for the generosity and business acumen of Frank Navin, president of the Detroit baseball club, who paid $100,000 © for Mickey. But the real hero of the Tigers’ sensational ciimb to the heights goes unsung. It’s the Ford Motor Co. “Yessir, the money that bought Cochrane and Goslin came from the coffers of no less a benefactor of mankind than Edsel Ford, Henry's son. It’s Edsel’s golden hypodermics that have transformed a second division team into the probable pennant winner. Edsel is reported to have acquired a controlling interest in the Detroit club, with Navin as the ehead, “We Detroiters are sure proud of our team! Look at the latest example of civic pride: on Thursday, Aug. 23, promptly on the dot of 12:30 p. m, there will gather in the swell Hotel Statler a group of distinguished statesmen and leaders of thought for the express purpose of organizing the Tiger Rooter Association, which, accord- ing to the Detroit Free Press (Aug. 22), ‘will migrate to New York to attend the World Series games there.’ “The group of civic leaders is headed by none other than Mayor Frank Couzens. On the arrangements committee are former Gov. Fred W. Green, who introduced the state troopers into’ Michigan to keep handy for ‘emergencies,’ Police Commissioner Heinrich Pickert, who showed his sportsmanship when he broke the Michigan copper miners’ strike in 1913 and more recently has been hitting foul balls at workers’ demonstrations, Louis J. Colombo, Ford attorney, and— believe it or not—that noted sportsman, Harry Bennett, ex-thug, now head of the Ford service department (spy system), who proved to be a crack shot on March 7, 1932, when he and “his gunmen laid low five workers who were part of several thousand marching on the Ford plant to demand jobs or relief. “But cheer up, Ford workers. The best you'll be able to do is get the World Series on the radio (semebody else's), but thers’s ene consoiation you have: the money that’s buying the Tigers the pennant came out of your hides, Greater honor hath no man known.” \ | False Sentiments Exalted in New TLY WORKER, NEW YORK. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1934 Scottsboro Boys Full Broadway Film Of Hope Says Mother “THE FOUNTAIN” Reviewed by ED KENNEDY FOUNTAIN” more likely will be considered one of the better and sadder love pictures —and besides hasn’t it got the late war and many uniforms running through it? The audience at the Music Hall thought it a very lovely picture—it made them cry. An English girl falls in love with en English officer, who is interned in her step-father’s estate in Hol- land. Her husband, a German, is at the front. The rather tortured happiness of the lovers is broken by the return of the husband. He comes back from the war crippled and very seriously gassed. The love affair stops, and the heroine de- votes herself unselfishly to her hus- band. Finally he dies, a la Holly- wood, and the girl is free again—if she wants to be. So you see that, on the surface, it’s a very simple story and is pro- duced to get all available tears. Dvorak’s New World symphony forms the musical background. Ann Harding gives her best organ tones to the lines. Brian Aherne plays an English officer as a cross between Gary Cooper and a rather sick cow. Paul Lukas as the husband is good, until he dies. Since this film will more than likely prove very povular, let us step aside a moment and examine it more closely. Again another Holly- wood sedative to keep us quiet. All the characters are weak, futile souls. The hero says, “What's the use of being strong?” And that is the sentiment throughout. Strength, courage, a will to cry out are of no avail. Another example: “Love is peace.” “Solitude is peace, but I can’t find it.” “Peace is no good for the spirit.” “If there is a road beyond suffering I haven’t found it.” Indeed! And there you have it, a muck of dangerously false _ sentiments, pseudo philosophy, and _half- digested truth. The characters all are living through the greatest car- nage in history and all they can think of are their petty personal af- fairs and amours. The most glaring omission from the book was the fraternization be- tween the English officer and the German, and their condemnation of war, But that wouldn't do for Hollywood. I feel sure that all workers will immediately feel the utter falseness of this picture and only be amused over people who Spend their time sighing and mak- ing “fine” speeches. New Anti-Communist ‘Proclamation’ Spread by Vigilante Group CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 2.— Copies of a “Proclamation—A New Declar- ation of American Independence” are being distributed throughout the country by the American Vigi- lant Intelligence Federation, which lists its address as P. O. Box 144, Chicago. The decument, after ranting and repeating itself for seventeen para-~ graphs about the “Third (Com- munist) International and allied organizations,” declares: “Therefore, the undersigned call upon all loyal ahd patriotic citizens of the United States to apply and direct their activities and energies to the suppression of Communistic and Socialistic movements in the United States... .” than | | After Vi | | By S. VAN VEEN : | MRS. IDA NORRIS, mother of Clarence, one of the Scottsboro | boys, spent three days on the road to spend 15 minutes with her boy, who, with Haywood Patterson, is in |the death cell at Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Ala. j, Mrs. Norris told me about this trip after she arrived in New York, fresh from seeing her son, and ready to go out on a tour of 28 cities along with Angelo Herndon and Richard B. Moore, to speak at meetings in the fight to free the Scottsboro boys and Herndon. Arrived at the prison, Mrs. Nor- ris asked for permission to so7 Clarence, now three and a half years behind the bars. In all theso years she has paid five visits to the prison, and has never had morc than a few minutes with her boy. { Search Foed for Weapons i She was told by the warden she | could have 15 minutes. She wanted | to plead for more time, but sho| feared to get into an argument which might prevent her from se ing her boy at all. She brought cake and other cooked foods for | the two boys. The warden sliced un the cakes into small Pieces and went through all of the food in a hunt for notes, weanons, files. drugs. Mrs. Norris told him it was nothinc | but food and when he finished sh- | said to him: “I told you it was only food. You didn’t want to belicyv- me. Now look at it!” Clarence Norris and Hayw Patterson are in the upper tic with the other Negro prisoners— even while awaiting death, Negro and white prisoners are segregated. The boys were in separate cells, “I said to the guard, ‘open the door and let my boy out, I want to kiss him’,” The guard seemed surprised. but granted the reauest. “He let Clar- ence step outside long enough to Kiss his little sister and me, and then locked him up again right away. Fifteen minutes was all the time they gave us. “Just think, after travelling all that long w from Molena, Ga.. to Montgomery, Alabama, I could only have 15 minutes with my DOV si iecc Herndon’s Release Gave Added Courage The boys did not complain, she said. “They are full of hope that they will go free. They have never lost faith in the LL.D. They know that Herndon is out on bail and they were glad. I told them about it, but they had already heard. I never thought to ask them how they heard.” While Herndon was in jail in Atlanta, he wrote to the Scottsboro boys, and that gave them added courage. “Clarence worked all his life,” Mrs. Norris said. “He never had time to go to school. He siarted to work in the fields when his father and me were sharecropping. When he was 15 he went away for about @ year working in saw mills and restaurants. “Three and a half years ago, he said he was leaving the cotton shopping and picking and was go- ing out on the road to look for other work. He said he could earn twice as much in the city. “We work for awful little down South in the fields, I work from sun-up to sun-down, twelve hours and more, for 60 cents a day. Hard work, too, It's always like that. We did share- cropping | for years. Clarence’s sit to Jail father dropped dead of overwork. ‘The doctors called it heart trouble. His heart was all right. He was just worked to death, never got any rest.” “I Stick With the I. L. D.” On one occgsion, she told me, Mrs. Norris received a letter from the office of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Col- lored People, enclosing a letter which was made to sound as if her son had written it, telling her to drop the IL.D. and hand the de- CLARENCE NORRIS fense over to the N.AAC.P. But Mrs. Norris was clever enough to know that it was faked. Clarence | had never written it. He wrote to his mother that he was being wor- ried by N.A.A.C.P. people, and tired of their threats. I.L.D.,” he said. Pres. Roosevelt Too “Busy” To Sec Scottsboro Mothers On Mother's Day this year, Mrs. Norris went together with the other Scottsboro boys’ mothers to see the President. ney, together with the letter which was sent later to President Roose- velt by the I.L.D., showing clearly that the President does have the power to free the Scottsboro br in the new LL.D. pamphict, A President, Free the Scottsboro é Roosevelt. wouldn't see s.. Norris said. “We went again the next day and again they said he was busy or out. thought he would see us. I thought because it was Mothers’ Day he would not refuse to hear our story. And I thought maybe he would say that he would look into the whole case. I wanted to tell him that when so many people all over the country believe in the innocence of the Scottsboro boys, it was his job as President to look into the case. “But he wouldn't see us. We just got to depend on the IL.D. and the working class people. The Supreme Court must be forced to release them or let them out on bail.” “The boys are looking to the workers to get free,” Clarence’s mother said. “I know the workers will raise the money to take the case to the Supreme Court, just like they raised the bail for Hern- don. but even then, we can only de- pend on the working class.” FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF THE CHINESE SOVIET REPUBLIC, with an Intreduction by Bela Kun. With maps and diagrams. International Publishers, 96 pp. 20 cents. ous Rena) THE CHINESE SOVIETS, by Vic- ter A. Yakhonteff. Coward-Mc- Cann, Inc. 292 pp. $2.75. ait ae Reviewed by R, DOONPING 'HE publication of the Funda- mental Laws of the Chinese So- viet Republic is an historic event. It brings the most important docu- mentary material on Soviet China to the English speaking workers and farmers, whose oppressors play a major role in the exploitation and dismemberment of China and provide the backbone for Chiang Kai-shek’s anti-Soviet military campaigns. The documents herein printed, agrarian and labor laws, legislation on economic policy and the Red Army, and resolutions on the Na- tional Minority question, and mar- riage and divorce, are not merely blueprints to be carried out into ac- tion, but are laws being daily en- forced and governing 80,000,000 peo- ple in a territory larger than that of France. They constitute the framework of a new society in the active process of struggle and crea- tion. For those who are obscure about the real nature of a democratic dic- tatorship of the proletariat and peasantry, these documents should help to clarify the question, for they describe’ a concrete case of democratic dictatorship of the pro- letariat and peasantry. They con- stitute the best material for the study of the fundamental question of the Colonial Revolution. To the broad mass of the American work- ers and farmers and other sympa- thizers in China’s struggle for lib- eration, these laws give a most re- Mable picture of the new society that is being built up in the midst of misery, corruption and terror, a new China, which deserves their active support by a determined | militant struggle epainst imperialist intervention, 2 e 8 ‘HE supreme imnortance of th- role played by imperialist in- ‘Two Important New On the Soviets ® Books In China tervention in the anti-Communist campaigns in China has been cor- rectly stated by General Victor A. Yakhontoff, who has the honor of being the author of the first book on Soviet China. General Yakhon- toff says, in the concluding sentence of his book: “Undoubtedly foréign heip to Nanking and to other enemies of Soviet China has prolonged the struggle. But, judging by what the Chinese Soviets haye accom- plished in spite of it, one supposes that were this support withdrawn, most, if not ail, of China would ‘turn Communist,’ probably with- in a very short time.” (p. 215.) Certainly no better conclusion can be drawn on the subject at the present time. It is an objective observation, but it implies a task of struggie against imperialist inter- yention the importance of which no American worker cr farmer can afford to underestimate. The beok not only assembles a mass of useful information on So- viet China, but also gives a histor- ical sketch of the Chinese Revolu- tion, which goes as far back as the Taiping Rebellion of the latter haif of the 19th century. The au- thor has consulted the most re- liable and important Russian. and Chinese sources and has produced a book that is indispensable to all who are interested in the Far East- erm question and certainly of spe- cial value to revoluticnary workers and propagandists. #8 * IE great ideological weakness of the book lics in its lack of em- phasis on the struggle of the Chi- nese proletariat and their role in the revolution. In certain specific formulations of the question in the book, General Yakhontoff recog- nized the important role of the pro- letariat in the Chinese Revolution and refuted the Trotskyist distor- tion of the situation (pp. 182-183, etc.). But the general content of the book leaves th> isolated sec- tions dealing with the struggle of the nroletariat tho most unsatis- factory nart of the book. The historic scamen’s sirike in 1922, which ushered in the militant labor movement in China was not cven mensioned, while the Canton- “Aenekong sirike of 1925 to 1926, vhich was the backbone of the » Canton period of the last revolu- tionary wave, was glossed over without giving the slightest inkling of its importance. The rising wave of the struggle of the proletariat in cities which accompanies the grow- ing sovietizetion of China was not adequately dealt with. The partisan movements in Manchuria, which are pregnant with such tremendous possibilities, are also ignored in the book. Not that there is no material on such subjects. English, Chinese, and especially Russian publications are full of such information, and the deficiency must be ascribed to General Yakhontoff's distorted per- spective of the Chinese situation. Pe OE | Need the point of view of writing technique, the architectural make-up of the book leaves much room for improvement. The story of the 1925-'27 Reyolution is broken up in such a manner that is quite eenfusing. It is also unfortunate that the book should be marred by numerous inexcusable mistakes in the text that can be easily cor- rected. The Canton uprising was an armed mass uprising, not a coup d'etat. It was not led by Wang Ping (a wrong spelling of the name of Huang Ping) as stated on page 77, but by Chang Tai-lei, who was killed in the struggle, although the former participated actively in the struggle. Comrade Su Chao-chen was elected the President of th? Canten Commune, but he was not in Canton at the time of the up- rising. The famous May 30, 1925, the date of the Shanghai incident, which marked the beginning of the Revolution of 1925 to 1927, has been carefully left out of the chrono- logical table. The designation of the Chinese local administrative unit, “hsien,” sometimes as “dis- trict” and sometimes as “county” (p 91), is a shortcoming that can be easily corrected. but causes endless confusion to the readera. Much confusion in spelling Chinese names ean be removed by cerevul editing. There is no reason why the names ef the president and vice-president of the Chinese Soviet Government are spelled Mao Tse-Dun, San-in- Chang Go-Tao on page 235, and Mao Tse-Tung, Han-sin. Chang Kuo-Tas on page 241, This sort of “I stick with the | The story of that jour- | I really | Artists on Picket! 'Line for Adequate! Relief and Jobs NEW YORK.—Under the aus-| pices of the Artists Union, 100 art- ists picketed the College Arts A: sociation Thursday afternoon pro- | testing the coritinued criminal and | callous neglect of the administra- | tion in providing adequate relief | and jobs for unemployed artists. | Aubrey McMahon, directress of College Arts, which is the official | |} employment center in New York | |for all artists, received the delega- | tion sent up by the demonstrators. | She evasively refused to take a | stand on the demands presented to | her, which included jobs for all un- | | employed artists, adequate home re- | | lief for artists till placed on jobs, | | the P.W.AP. wage level of $38.50 on | Jall art projects, passage of the| | Workers Unemployment and Social | Insurance Bill, complete freedom of | conception and execution of work, | jand no discrimination for organ- | | izational activities on projects. She was forced to promise to go with | the delegation to see Mrs. Goselin, | |in charge of Emergency Works Proj- | jects, to present the demands of the | | Artists Union to her. | |New Palme Dutt Book |On Fascism Praised |Highly By Strachey | NEW YORK.—“Incomparably the | best book on fascism that has yet been written,” cabled John Stra-| y, auther of The Menace of Fas- and The Comins Stru-zle for | . of R. Palme Dutt’s Fascism | | and Social Revolution. The book | will be released by International Publishers Sept. 10 and will be re- | Viewed by Harry Gannes, staff writ- | |er of the Daily Worker, in a forth- coming issue. “It is the duty of every anti- fascist in the world,” Strachey said | in his message from London, “not enly to read but to master thor- oughiy every word of this book.” Dutt is a foremost Marxist publi- | cist in Britain and edits the Labor | |Monthly there. International re- cenily published his Life and | Teachings of V. I. Lenin. STAGE AND SCREEN | Soviet Talkie, “Petersburg Night” Coming to Cameo | —Theatre on September 8) | The Cameo Theatre has been taken over by ‘ew menagemenit, | and will open Saturday, Sept. 8, | with the lates Sovie talkie, “Petersburg Night.” The picture is being released here by Amkino and | this is the first showing in America. | “Petersburg Night” was adapted from the story by Dostoyevski, and was directed by D. Roshal. Leading | players in the film include P. Dob- ronravov, A. Goriunov, K. Tarasova and L, Oriova. The Cameo Thaatre will specialize | and present the first showing of the | best films imported from the Soviet | Union, France, England, The man- | agement have ec-rtracted with Local 306, A. F. of L., for a full union | Stage crew of operators. | D’Oyly Carte Opera Company Opens Season Tonight at the Beck With “The Gondoliers” The noted D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, from the Savoy Theatre, | London, will open their limited en- | Sagement of Gilbert and. Sullivan operas at the Martin Beck Theatre this evening. Their first opera will be “The Gondoliers,” which will be | presented tonight, Tuesday and | Wednesday evenings, and on Wed- afternoon. Beginning Thurs- | day a double bill, “Cox and Box” | and “The Pirates of Penzance,” will | be offered, and a change of program | will follow bi-weekly thereafter. The | Jarge English cast is héaded by | Muriel Dickson, Dorothy Gill, Mar- jorie Eyre, John Dean, Derek Old- | ham and Darrell Fancourt. | “No More Ladies,” the A. E. Thomas comedy seen here last sea- son, will reopen this afternoon for a limited engagement of four weeks at the Morosco Theatre. The play- ers include Walter Pidgeon, Mary Sargent, Daphne Warren Wilson and Robert Lowes. “Too Many Boats,” Owen Davis's new play, based on a novel by Charles L. Clifford, will’ be pre- sented by William A. Brady, Jr., at the Playhouse on Friday night. Earle Larimore, Helen Flint, Hor- ace Braham, Charles Kennedy and Frank Shannon head the large cast. Moscow’s Derby Day Now Shown in Soviet News- reel at the Acme Theatre On the same program with the Soviet talkie, “Soviets Greet New Turkey,” a picture produced in Turkey by the Leningrad Cinema Trust in co-operation with the Turkish government, the Acme Theaire is presenting the latest So- viet Newsreel from the Soviet Union. High lights of the film in- clude Moscow's Derby Day; Soviet Children, who build and race their own automobiles; native songs and music; Soviet Porcelain Factories; the Theatre and Art of the Na- tional Minorities, and other news from the U. 8. 8. R. WHAT’S ON Monday are MURRY BLINE will speak on “Labor on the Crossronds—A. F. L. or T. U. U. L.” at the New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave., Brookiyn. careless spelling of Chinese proper names is a common weakness of many English books on China, The author as well as the publisher owe a duty to the reader to use the standard spelling, the Wade system. Otherwise, they make the already too difficult task of learning Chi- nese names an absolutely impessible task for the western reader. But, despite these mistakes. which the reviewér considers it his duty to point out, the book is a notable contribution to tho literature of the Chinese Revolution and should be in the library of all revolutionary werkers, farmers, and other pro- gressive elements. | speech. | picturing himself j under the arm. | stood watching the men coming in Page Seven NG EAST (Synopsis on his way east to look for a job. he finds work in a wire factory. handsome daughter of a local shop-keeper, and falls in love Cliff Mulligan, 19-year old unemployed worker, In a small, town on the w: At a dance he meets with her. There is a lay-off and wage cut at the wire works. A tion organizer, Max Harris, comes to town. Claff becomes active in the organization. Harris proposes that leaflets be dis- tributed, and a committee go to the company demanding that the wage cut be rescinded.) x. you, Mista Gorge. Waita for de rr, “ arial | bigga meeting for tonight.” Weber cpnpeed iis. yronpeal | George grabbed the leaflets. Cot- “That'll get the fellers in trouble that go up there. They'll sure get sacked,” “No good dis way, calla da strike, dat’s all,” Cottilo said. “You can’t call the men out right away. We must prepare them, show them that only by striking can we stop the cut. We must do some gitation to make them come out on strike,” Harris argued. They argued back and forth and finally agreed to ihe organizer's proposals. It was late at night when the meeting adjourned. tilo held tight. They wrestled. Cliff ran to help the little Ital: The foreman was gone before t got to the gates. HE foremen had been snooping around the whole day trying to find out what the men were talk- ing about. Mr. Barnes, the chief director, who seldom stepped into the heating department, where it was hot and the cranes sprinkled the air with tar and chunks of coal, | was going around talking to the Cliff and Harris remained to get | men. the leaflet ready for distribution in “How goes it, Weber? Those the morning. The mimeograph | blowers ought to -make things machine they had bought for ten | easier.” Je referred to the new dollars was an old piece of junk | machines that had been put in to and would get stuck every five min- | keep the fires up. | “Yeh,” Weber mumbled, busying. | himself poking away at the coal, I know what you're after, you dirty skunk you, tryin’ to be good now, eh,” Weber said to himself. Cliff kept going strong the whole | day, though he hadn't had a wink of sieep. He had been thinking of the meeting, wondering if the men would come down. He didn’t have a chance to speak to anybody. George was hard on his heels. Weber spoke to some of the fellows. They said that they’d come to the meeting. When Cliff got into the hall, every seat was taken and the aisles crowded. He elbowed his way through to the platform. | “Gee whiz, never thought there | were sO many men in the shop,” he said to Harris. “Tt sure is a good turn out for the first meeting.” Harris smiled. Looking at the multitude, Cliff got frightened. What was he to talk about to them? What was he | to say? Nelson opened the meeting. He made a few introductory remarks |in his broken English, then he | called out Cliff Mulligan. Cliff tried to pull himself to- gether. “What am I afraid of? I talk. to these fellows every day,” he thought. He stood looking over the utes. They got through at dawn. Cliff had to be at the gate with leaflets in a couple of hours and had to prepare his speech for the meeting. He sat in the dingy room that served as headquarters and a sleeping place for the organizer, memorizing the points of the out- line that Harris had made for him until it was time to go. WALKED out in the chilly morning, half-memorizing his He began to speak aloud, talking to a packed hall of men. “Folks, we got to get together an’ show them bloodsuckers where they get off.” The words rang in the stillness of the sleepy streets. “No it's no good that way,” he muttered. “This is not the way to start.” “Folks,” it rang in the air. He couldn't go on. He felt a bit leery. He pressed the package of leaflets voice, | began in a low . * «POLKS, we came here to see what we can do to stop the cut. Well, I don't have to say much to you | fellows, how tough things are. They | make us break our backs in order to produce more. They fired pretty near half of the gang and we got | to do the work for them. But that ain't enough, they want to cut wages. They want to take out of the envelope fifteen per cent of the pay, but we ain’t gonna take it, We're gonna make them keep their hands off.” He found himself shouting. “They think that because there are lots of men walking the streets they got us by the throat and can do what they want, but we'll fight like hell to keep the same wages. “Well, fellow workers, I say,” he stopped, wiping his forehead, “what 2 got to do is all of us put up @ strong fight and show this bunch | of bloodsuckers where they get off.” When he finished speaking, the | hall stormed with applause. There were shouts, “Atta boy!” Cliff was overwhelmed. Everything in the hall and on the platform turned around before him. (To be continued) “It's a pack of dynamite I got here, It'll blow the whole damn bunch of foremen and directors to pieces. It’ll make them stop drivin’ us and come across with a decent wage. An’ then Edna.” He caught a glimpse of the rays of the rising sun coming out from behind the mountains, “Ain't it great!” A happy feeling swept over him. Not far from the shop Cottilo, Nelson and two more fellows were waiting. Everyone took a bunch of leaflets and headed for the gates. Cliff didn’t hand them out. He two's and three’s, taking the leaf- lets and putting them into their pockets. George took ome and stopped to read. When he got through, Cliff heard him saying something to Cottilo. The Italian shouted, “No fraida TUNING IN 8:45-WJZ—Broadcast From Schooner Seth 3:00 P.M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Tali WJZ—From Londot Speaker 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Labor's Message—J. P. Ryan, President Central Trades & Labor Council WJZ—Martin Orch WABC—What the New Deal Has Done for Labor—Wm. Green, Pres. 9:00-WEAF—Gypsies Orch.; Frank Parker,. 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