The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1935, Page 2

——— Page 2 Packing Boss Sets Up Home Sluggers For S Owner of Austin Plant Attempts to Break Up Militant Union AUSTIN small so preparing i constantly, 55 men, dep’ local sheriff and (i trained by an off om. Point, the private army J. Hormel. A special “home” been set up whi drill, Although the straight time wage in the plant is less than $20 per week, these ex-wrestlers, thugs, etc., a few of them local “boys,” draw $35 a week. Hormel tries to cover up the real purpose of this “army” by talk of personal protection. In reality it is to protect the huge profits made from the exploitation of the work- ers in the plant that this army is maintained Struck a Year Ago November, 1933, rkers in the plant struck milita: y, even seiz- ing control of the plant for a while, and forced recognition of their union, the Independent Union of All Workers, Austin Local No. 1. ‘Time and again the company has been forced to back down step by step in the face of the militant de- termination of the workers to safe- guard their union and their work- ing rights. By stopping department after department the company was forced to replace non-union men with union labor. An actual closed shop is in effect because the union has made it clear that seniority rights apply only to union mem- bers. Numerous grievances have been settled satisfactorily through the union committees. Wants to Smash Union Hormel, in the face of defeats ad- ministered by the workers and their union, is still planning to smash the union. For this purpose he is training an army : He failed to form a company union, so now he wants to wipe the union out entirely. He wants to take back the con- cessions granted to the workers by the use of force. The role of this army is clear to,us. It is a strike- breaking army. In order that the union will be safeguarded it is necessary that all the workers understand the role that Hormel is playing. His plans can only be met by further deter- mined action on the part of all the workers. The slogan must be raised throughout the plant—DOWN WITH HORMEL'S PRIVATE ARMY! KEEP ALL DEPUTIZED THUGS OUT OF THE PLANT! ized by the rumored West of form Saarland Seethes On Plebiscite Eve (Continued from Page 1) ligious groups, joined with the Com- munist Party in the common strug- gle against the common enemy The anti-fascist_ mass movement has been working like a ferment in the ranks of the Christian popula- tion of the Saar. Large numbers of Catholic opponents of Hitler, of the more progressive elements among the middle classes and peasants have joined in the fight of the United) Front under the slogan: “For a free Germany and against Hitler!” Defend Union Against Nazis In defending the premises of the Chiistian Metal Workers’ Union, which were raided by the Nazi| troops on the orders of Ley, the anti-fascist metal workers estab- lished the fighting alliance with the Christian union metal workers against the Nazi trade union de- stroyers. The definition of the status quo by the League of Nations Council in Geneva, which made it plain that the people of the Saar will have the Possibility of voting at some future time for union with a free Ger- many, has for many Catholic fam- ilies finally settled the vexed ques- tion whether a vote for the status quo would not mean perpetual sep- aration from Germany. Thus the people's front on the | Saar will fight the great anti- | fascist battle tomorrow under the | ery of: “Never to Hitler, for the sake of the German people!” Reports Will Be. Made on National Congress For Social Insurance Milton Stone, educational director of the.Workers Committee on Un-| worke:s to pack the Tenth District | Ninety days after the agreement employment Locals 2 and 3, wilt re- port on the decisions of the National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance, to which he was a delegate, | at a mass meeting tomorrow night | at 8 o'clock at the Madison House, | 226 Madison Street. Stone will also report on the Fourth National Con- vention of the Unemployment Coun- | cils, which was held in Washington | following the National Congress. All employed and unemployed workers have been urged to attend. ‘The meeting will be under the aus- pices of the Rutgers Square Local | ef the Unemployment Councils. | RRR | Sellers of the Daily Worker: | What have your experiences been | in slling the paper to workers be- fore factories, on street corners, at meetings, and in the .home? | Write the Daily Worker. Letters will be published to stimulate participation in the circulation campaign, The Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill, H. R. 3471, as introduced into the House of Representa- tives Wednesday, Jan. 9, by Representative Usher Burdiek of North Dakota, and referred to the House Committee on Agriculture, reads as follows: 74TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION. H. R. No. 3471 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 9, 1935 Mr. Burdick introduced the following Bill, by request, which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, No. 1—A BILL To meet the emergency caused by the crisis, reatl ensified by the drought, to prevent fur- ther ruin and dispossession of tenants, sharecrop- pers, and operator-owners on account of debts, enormo' and rent payments and because of low prices for the commodities they sell and high prices for what they buy as a result of the growth of monopolies; designated as the Farmers’ Emer- gency ReHef Bill, BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, That because the operation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act has resulted in intensifying the already existing critical conditions of the farmers by (a) eviction of tens of thousands of tenants, sharecroppers and opera owners of farms, from their farms and homes through the reduction of acreage programs, (b) imposing the burden of the cost of benefit payments upon the farmers and workers through the processing tax, the waste of fertile farm lands and the re- turn to laborious, primitive and subsistence methods of production, while millions of unemployed work- ers are in serious want, (d) further strengthening and fostering monop- olies among the distributors and processors of agri- cultural products through the marketing agree- ments and licenses, ——the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is hereby revoked and repealed. Section 2, The term “farmer” as used in this Act means any individual who is engaged in tilling the soil or raising livestock, whether a tenant, sharecropper or owner, who operates his farm primarily by his own labor. None of the benefits or rights of exemptions from taxation granted by this Act shall apply to any landlord or absentee owner or corporation or to any farmer who owns more than one farm, or who operates primarily with hired labor, or to any manager or foreman of a farm. (c) (Continued from Page 1) Territory,” Mine Workers — must see that a good delegation attends. the joint convention. In some of the locals, it is pos- | management. sible, that the officers will not read FARMERS’ EMERGENCY RELIEF BILL (H.R. 3471)Group Appeals Steel Mine Parley London Workers Stop Showing of Anti-Soviet Set for Feb. 3 Film in Whitechapel] LONDON, Jan. 11.— “Forbidden | an anti-Soviet film be- ing shown at the Whitechapel Cin- _—_ ema here, was forced to stop run- | a@ part of a campaign to confuse the | imperialist slavery. ning when a mass delegation of issues facing the silk workers of the | national independence of Abyssinia! | workers’ organizations visited the! Plain Goods Department of the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935 Private Strikebreaking Army Drills in Minnesota Town Section 3. Under no circumstances shall any farmer be evicted from the farm on which he has tilled the soil or raised livestock, or from the dwell- ing house on that farm for the non-payment of any debt, rent, taxes, or other obligations, or be- cause of the termination of any lease or contract. To secure the farmer in possession of his land, home and equipment, all debts and other obligations threatening such possession are declared cancelled. Section 4. No farm equipment, farm improve- ments, livestock or produce of any farm shall be attached, seized, levied upon, or removed from such farm for the non-payment of any debt, rent, taxes or other obligation or because of the termination of any lease or contract. Section 5. Long-term crop production loans pay- able in cash or kind shall be mage without interest to all farmers in need of such loans. Section 6. Farm, home, equipment and live- stock long-ierm Joans shall be made without inter- est to all farmers in need of same due to the fact that they have suffered the loss of farm, dwelling house, farm equipment, farm improvements, or live- stock, through foreclosure, eviction, seizure, attach- ment, levy or removal. Such loans shall be made to the individual farmer to repiace such losses as have been suffered by the individual farmer through eviction, foreclosure, seizure, levy, attachment, or removal, since 1921 and to an amount sufficient to replace such farm, house, equipment or chattels. Section 7, No discrimination shall be made in the administration of this Act because of the age, Sex, race, color, religious or political opinion or affiliation, or nationality of any farmer. Section 8. The monies, feed and seed furnished under this Act shall not be subject to attachment, garnishment, or execution for any debt, taxes, rent, or other obligetion, Section 9. Cash relief for the necessities of life shall be afforded to all farmers in need of relief. The needs for relief and for the benefits of this Act shall be determined by farmers designated in this Act, through committees which they themselves elect from their own number. The Secretary of the Treasury shall, promptly upon the receipt of a certified request from such local farmer committee, furnish to any individual farmer in the community, such amounts as the farmers shall certify are needed by any individual farmer in the community. Section. 10, There is hereby appropriated the initial sum of $2,000,000,000 for the Purposes of this Act, which sum shall be raised by the taxation sharply graduated upward of inheritance and gifts and the taxation of all incomes (whether of trusts, individuals, corporations or foundations) in excess of $5,000 per year. ‘Socialist Paper Hits Union Head (Continued from Page 1) | American Federation of Silk Work- The deputation which forced the| ers in their election tomorrow and the call. They may say that they | withdrawal of the anti-Soviet film| stave off defeat of the Lovestoneite, did not receive it. do so. 3 Attack of Bosses Already the rank and file miners can talk of this. Tell the other min- ers about it. Hold meetings in re- gard to the conference. See that | the members of the locals attend | the local meeting. See that s WinAgreement Silver's The Silver chain, one of the| and bring the report back to the| largest cafeteria systems in Greater Conferences | New York, offered substantial con-| | cessions at a conference held with representatives Wednesday the T-hour day and the increase | Might, which will be placed for ap-| in pay was given to the miners to| Proval before the workers in tts 11) keep them from striking at the | establishments. This is the second same time the steel workrs, railroad appeals far Toben ant chain re s ing | > signed jointly by Be Sen a roma Gnen ailigied with tie Industrial and Local 302 of the Delicatessen, Countermen and Cooks’ are actively supporting such a move. | The miners in the districts around |, 4 Pittsburgh can easily send delegates. | Wi t h In the districts far from Pittsburgh the miners must make sure that| at least a few of the miners attend | locals of that district. can be held for this purpose, The miners should remember that | Union and strike. | 5 C. B, Huntress one of the big | F00d_ Workers leaders of the coal operators in the October, 1934, issue of the Coal Age writes that the coal bosses are con- | the A. F. of 1. vinced that the 7-hour day is im- | Some of them | consisted of representatives of trade| Bli Keller, and his will be instructed by the leaders of | unions, the Communist Party, the U. M. W. of A. to ignore the|/ Film and Photo League and the call. In these cases the members of | Friends of the Soviet Union. the locals must see that a call is| declared the overwhelming mass of given to the secretary and that he! the Whitechapel and Stepney popu- be forced to read it. If he does not! Jation were strongly in support of a secretary can be elected that will| the Soviet Union, and demanded | the withdawal of the film, demand was complied with, In response to the invitation of practicable and that we will have to | te Cafeteria Workers’ Union, Local - 302, agreed to form a joint organi- go back to the 8-hour day. New ‘ ‘ 7 attacks on our conditions are com- | 2*tion committee, which was com- group now in the | leadership. : Informed of the slanderous article in the New Leader, Vigorito prompt ly issued the following statement: “I know that fascism has led to the smashing of the trade unions and that the conditions of the working people have become much worse in those countries where it was permitted to obtain power. As a trade union member, and one They which | ‘Food Workers, who, as everyone here knows, has taken an active part in the fight | for decent working conditions for the dyers, I could have nothing to do with such a movement. Charge Falsehood “I know that this is the reason that the members of Local 1733 have given me such a big majority in the vote for president. The charge that I was refused per- mission to speak at the Anti- Fascist mass meeting held on Jan. 1 with G. E, Modigliani as speaker, is another falsehood. Brother Yanaralli spoke for our local, Had I been invited, I would have been only tco glad to join my voice with othas against fas- cism. Union, | “I, along with most members of our local, voted to support the mass meeting. The information in the story that I am a member of the Italian Republican Club and of the Circolo Nazionale, and for that reason a ‘notorious fas- cist’ is just a plain lie. Union of | gether with the steel |at 515 Saratoga Avenue, ing. We have the chance to give the | answer. Let the coal miners get to- | and other | workers, Organizer for the joint con- | ference, In unity there is strength, | Nine Jobless Will Face | Trial in Brownsville The Brownsville Unemployment | Councils yesterday called upon ail| Magistrate Court, Pennsylvania and Liberty Avenues, Monday morning | at 9 o'clock, when nine unemployed | workers come up for trial. | Although all are to be tried on) the same day, the arrests grew | out of different struggles of the un-| employed workers of Brownsville. | Two of the arrested workers were seized at the time of the rent strike Others: were arrested in. connection. with | Struggles at the relief station and) demonstrations against the La- Guardia sales taxes, | Earl Browder, Secretary of the | Communist Party has declared: “We are only playing around with the Daily Worker until we | have given it a minimum circu- lation of 100,000 copies a day. To set the goal of 100,000 circulation — is cerely to reach those workers | with whom we are already in edntact ...” What are you do- | ing te set your contacts to be- | come Vavbias subscribers? i | Posed of three rank and file mem- bers and one officer of each union. The first achievement was the cam- paign among the 500 Silver Com- pany workers. Foltis-Fisher, Willow and Stew- arts are next in line in the organi- zation drive. The Silver Company agrees to recognize the two unions and its stores will be divided, a certain number to be under the jurisdiction of each union. All workers are to join the unions within two days. goes into effect a conference of the| company’s and union representatives will make further adjustment on the basis of the present agreement. | The agreement will go into effect | after the membership of both unions | approves it. | The following are the provisions agreed upon now: wage increases ranging from $2 a week to seven | per cent for those earning more| than $15. | Both unions and a shop commit- | tee at each establishment are recog- nized. There is to be a 48-hour week for women and 54-hours for men. All split shifts are to be eliminated; no reduction or restrie- tion of food for the workers; no charge for laundry or washing of | uniforms at home. No discrimination in hiring against Negro workers. These are to receive the same wages for the Same work done by white workers. All hiring through the union, and no worker is to be discharged with- | Soloman, Goldman, Nearenberg. out just cause, Thousands of Italian workers be- Tong to these and similar elubs, which offer social activities—bowl- ing alleys, pool tables and other forms of recreation, These work- ers are not any more fascist than I am. Many of the members of the union are in these clubs. “For instance, our organizer, J. Yanaralli, who, as everyone knows, is an enemy of fascism, is a mem- ber of the Circolo Nazionale. 1 don’t believe that any worker will sincerely pay attention to these slanders, Fish Workers Union Will Install 19 New Officers The Installation ef the new offi- cers‘of the Fish Workers Industrial Union will take place tomorrow af- ternoon at 1:30 o'clock at Irving | Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place. Refreshments will be served after the speakers and the installation of officers in the following offices: or- ganizers, Woolis and Hugg; execu- tive board members, Yoshkowitz, Koblin, Borden, Zukerman, Wander, Stibelman, Zelikowitz, Nearenberg, Berman, Bloom and Isner; griev- ance board, Singer, Isner, Allen, All members of the union have been urged to come and bring their families World Negro On Abyssinia Trade Union Committee Protests Imperialist Attacks PARIS, Jan. 11—The Interna- | tional Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers here has issued an | appeal to the working class and in-| tellectuals to protest against the acts of war provocation of fascist Italy in forcibly occupying Abyssin- ian territory. Addressed “To the | black and white toilers!” the appeal | states: “The Italian imperialists, after a battle between Italian military forces armed with tanks, machine- | guns and airplanes, and Abyssinian troops have made an attack on the native escort to an Anglo-Ethiopian (Abyssinian) Commission studying | boundary grazing rights. “Early press reports reveal that though the Italian forces were heavily armed with the most mod- ern weapons and bombing planes, the Abyssinians defend: them- selves to the last ditch, resulting in losses to the Italian army of 60 dead and 400 wounded, more than 100 Abyssinians being killed, “Abyssinia has for a long time | been a highly coveted country for plunder and the expansionist schemes of Italian imperialism. Its rich natural resources, the tremen- dous possibilities of transforming the country into huge cotton plan- | tations, the highly strategic posi- | tion which it occupies, have been the sources of keen rivalry between the various imperialist powers, es- pecially Italy, France and Britain, for control and domination. “A new element in the struggle for influence and domination in Abyssinia is Japan, whose impe- rialists, it is reported, have acquired large areas of cotton land in Abys- sinia. “To carry out their program of exploitation, robbery and enslave- ment of Abyssinia, the Italian im- | perialists have launched their first | bloody attack and occupied the ter- | ritory. This is what Mussolini means when be recently spoke of ‘Italy's historic, spiritual and cul- tural mission in Africa.’ “The international working class, | black and white, especially the Brit- ish and French workers, must dem- onstrate their solidarity with the Abyssinian toilers to maintain their independence from imperialist dom- ination. The workers must protest | | to the Talian consulates and or- | ganize protest meetings and actions against this bloody attack of the | fascist rulers. Only united working | class action can save Abyssinia from | Fight for the) “INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION, COMMITTEE OF NE-| GRO WORKERS.” | Brunv’s Lawyer Aided Art Smith (Continued from Page 1) corroborate evermore strongly the view that Hauptmann, about whose guilt no one who has been closely watching the case has any doubt, is not the only person involved in the kidnaping. Mrs, Myra Condon Hacker, daughter of Dr. John (Jafsie) Condon, who was expected |to substantiate her father’s testi- |mony to the affect that Hauptmann |is the only one guilty of the kid- naping of the Lindbergh baby, startled the promctoen yesterday when she declared that the person who came to her father’s home with @ ransom note was not Hauptmann. Mrs. Hacker's testimony is the strongest evidence thus far adduced at the trial to support the conten- | tion that a gang comprising at least |four people is involved in the kid- napping and murder, Reilly Names Two Reilly yesterday partially fulfilled his promise to name the four per- sons'he considers guilty by declaring that he would charge Isidore Fisch, the Jewish furrier who died in Leipsig, Germany, shortly after the kidnaping, and Violet Sharpe, maid in the Morrow home who committed suicide after police questioning, as two of the four. Reilly plans to call a retired sea captain who will place Fisch near Condon’s home during the ransom negotiations. Fisch died penniless in Leipsig and was completely absolved of complicity in the crime by District Attorney Foley of the Bronx at the time of Hauptmann’s arrest on Sept. 20, 1934. The “mystery woman” who has been linked with “Jafsie” was iden- tified today as Mrs. Hermine Koron. Althogh she has still to testify, she declared off the stand that Dr. Con- don told her that the Lindbergh Tansom money was paid on a farm in New Jersey near Hopewell, in- stead of at the gate of a ceme' in the Bronx, as Lindbergh and | Condon have testified. Handwriting experts who have studied 287,000 letters in the Lind- bergh case testified today on the handwriting in the ransom notes. Several handwriting experts picked by the Nazi government in Berlin to help defend Hauptmann, left for the United States Wednesady. “In a time like this,” writes a railroad worker, “when there is so much confusion about what is wrong with our present system, the ‘Daily’ has kept me from be- ing confused he as Coughlin be hie Neen Union for Social Justice . . .” Get the low Legionnaires Warned Against Questionnaire On Bonus Certificates Workers Ex-Servicemen’ and File to Refuse Could Be Used s League Urges Rank Information Which to Slash Relief To Face Trial In Lancaster Communist, Former SP Leader, Is Victim of Frame-Up LANCASTER, Pa,, Jan. 11—The case of J. Granville Eddy, arrested In a statement issued yesterday, the Workers Hx-| i" connection with the general tex Servicemen’s League called upon the rank and file veterans and ex-servicemen to refuse now being distributed in the relative to the payment of the bonus. These questionnaires, which list seven questions, the League®- a Workers Ex-Servicemen’s statement declared, can only be for the purpose of denying relief, cut- ting relief to those now on the rolls or to regiment the use of the bonus, if paid, to substitute for relief pay- ments. The W.ES.L, statement declares that this new scheme “presents a | very serious danger to the rank and file unemployed ex-servicemen. This can be seen clearly when it is remembered that the National Department of the Legion has or- dered set up in every State Depart- ment and County Council an “Amer- icanism Committee,” whose sole purpose it is to spy upon every ac- tive trade unionist, militant unem- | played or other articulate, strug- gling member of the exploited masses, Planned to Cut Relief “These questionnaires” the state-| balance is paid, what will you use ment declared “are supposed to be for securing information to refute the statement of President Roose- | velt relative to the use to which the | League’s policy is—an unemployed veterans put the first half of the | worker has a right to relief even | money received from their adjusted | compensation certificates. But, in going over the seven questions printed on the questionnaire, they seem to be entirely in line with the |.questions being answered to the | officials of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, with a view to cutting off the relief rolls certain categories of the unemployed. “For instance, question 4, ‘If you borrowed (on the certificates) are you paying the interest.’ Obviously, if any unemployed ex-serviceman on the relief rolls was attempting to meet the interest payments on his certificate in order that it might not be entirely liquidated by the annual compounding of this interest and information to this effect were! to be placed in the hands of the re- |employed to use these funds in lief administrators, this unemployed | limited amounts on any deferred or veteran would be immediately and arbitrarily removed from the rolls. “Question 7 is also in direct line with Question 4. It is ‘Do you ‘carry any insurance on your life?’ It is common knowledge that in the past few days, hundreds of unemployed to fill out the questionnaires posts of the American Legion have been summarily removed from the relief rolls because the relief officials had been supplied with in- formation to the effect that these relief clients were carrying small |insurance policies. Especially are | these two questions:significant when. we look at Question % which isks, | ‘Are you receiving relief from the | City of New York?’ “That the information secured on these questionnaires could not only be used for the purpose of aiding the present relief cutting policy of the administrations, Federal and lo- cal, but can also be used to fur- ‘nish the supporters of Hamilton |Fish’s compromise ‘bonus’ meas- ures which calls for extended pay- ments by installment of the balance due on the ‘bonus certificates’ will be understood when we read Ques- |tion 5 which is ‘In the event the the money for?’ Warns of Danger The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s though he may be carrying small amounts of insurance or paying a portion of the interest on the loan of his adjusted compensation cer- | tificate to keep from losing the en- tire balance due. “We further demand the imme- diate payment in full of the balance due to the adjusted Compensation certificates plus all accrued inter- est charges on the former borrowed | amounts without deductions for any | further interest charges. We are | also opposed to any compromise that has been or may be suggested. We contend that this money due is not a ‘bonus’ at all, but back wages earned in 1917 and 1918 which should have been paid immediately after the close of the war. We will | Tesist any attempt to force the un- partial payment scheme. Rank and file veterans are urged to refuse to fill out these questionnaires and to organize groups of rank and file veterans in their posts to force a stoppage of this vicious ‘question- naire’ campaign.” Threats Made To Guardsmen For Exposure CHICAGO, MIll., Jan, 11.—A fascist threat “to tear your place apart” has been received by The Armory News, a worker-guardsman bulletin | published by groups of guardsmen of the 33d Division of the Illinois National Guard. The office of the Armory News is at 2019 West Divi-| sion Street this city. The threat is contained in a let- ter from an anonymous sergeant- henchman of Captain Bravos, com- mander of Company D, 132d In- fantry, and is in response to an ex- posure by rank and file members of the company of graft in the han- dling of a company fund to which the men are forced to contribute, and in overcharges for locks. for their lockers and other expenses levied on them for special equip- ment. The men also reported that 65 men in the company were forced to pay a mysterious levy of $1 be- fore receivin_ their pay-checks. The Armory News, in publishing the threatening letter of Captain Bravos’ henchman, repeats the charges made by rank and file members of, his company. Com- menting on the sergeant’s claim that before his captain's business got so bad, the captain would fur- nish funds for the men’s special equipment out of his own pocket, the worker-guirdsmen publishers of the Armory News state: “You write that your command- ing officer bought shoe brushes, polish, coffee and rolls for the en- tire company two years ago. We do not wish to have the captain spend his money so freely. If you had read our paper, you will see that our demands are for the govern- ment supplying these items. But we would ask you to think -twice before you make the following statement: ‘I want to mention that when my commanding officer's tery | business was good there was no such thing as company fund. In view of the fact there has been no financial accounting, this statement can be interpreted in two ways. “If you are sincere in eliminating graft in your company, we would propose: “(D Have financial accounting to the men, “(2) Elect committees represent- ing the men to audit all finances. “(3) Demand the government supply you with special equipment.” Unemployed rank and file mem- bers of the National Guard are de- manding jobs at union wages; five dollars weekly cash relief for un- employed men; no deduction of drill pay from relief budget; enactment of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill; and against strikebreaking duty.” Moscow Hails NewBread Sale System inUSSR (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 11. (By Wireless). —The vast change in the machinery of food distribution, initiated on the first of the year with the abolition of the bread-card system, has now, on the tenth day of the change, been accomplished with the greatest smoothness. People pass in and out of the clean and well-stocked bread stores in rapid succession. Nowhere does the inconvenient waiting on line exist any longer. The quality of the bread sold has noticeably impzoved and there is big choice of various sorts of black and white bread, fancy bread, rolls, etc, served delightfully fresh sey- eral times daily. Yet the quantity of flour and bread bought daily has not increased since the abolition of the breadcards. This is a sign that one great advantage of the new system is the regularity of the bread supply, rather than only the demand for more bread, Hence there is not the slightest tendency to hoard provisions. On the basis of experiences during the first days and by a study of the needs of the population, it is ob- vious that there are still shortcom- ings existing in some places. But these are rapidly being eliminated by adding to the selection of bread and bettering the transport service between the bread factories and the shops. The practice of daily delivery of bread to the houses of workers tile strike, will come to trial here in’: Lancaster, Tuesday, Jan. 15. Eddy is a former local leader of the Socialist Party and recently. joined the Communist Party. . He has become the most popular mass speaker in the area. His courageous exposures of the local politicians and their mill-owner allies have at- tracted wide attention. They fear his hold on the masses. So, they. ‘are trying to railroad him to jail. The local authorities accuse him of “obstructing justice” when on the picket line, for protesting against the arrest of a worker for selling the Daily Worker. The International Labor Defense is rallying mass ‘upport. A mass meeting is scheduled in Red Men’s Hall, Monday, Jan. 14, at 8 p.m. The main speaker will be Bill O'Donnell of Vineland, N. J., who was recently released by mass pres- sure from prison where he had been confined for work in connection with the Seabrook farm strike. “We have just begun to fight,” said Frank Scott, local organizer of the International Labor Defense. “The issue is the workers’ right to organize, to strike and to picket for better wages. Mayor Ross and his Politicians are the real criminals. It is they who.conspired with the mill owners to smash the. strike and thereby lower wages, The proof. is that right after the strike they at- tempted to lower wages 25 per cent in the American Silk Mill. We call on the workers. to come to the mass meeting in Red Men’s Hall, Monday night and to jam the court. room Tuesday.” Leninism Dis eliveiOtis | Will Be Held Tomorrow Four round-table discussions on Leninism and the American Com- munist Party have been arranged by Section One of the Party in prep- aration for the Lenin Memorial meeting. The discussions will take place 1:30 o'clock, Sunday afternoon at the, following clubs: Italian Workers Club, 311 East Twelfth Btrest, George Siskind will speak; Italian Workers Club, 117 McDougal Street, Margaret Cowl will speak; Cli- Grand Youth Club, 380 Grand Street, George Lewis will speak; and the Zukunft Workers Club, 31 Second Avenue where Art Stein will speak. All members of Communist units who live in the vicinity of - these clubs have been urged.to attend the discussions and to use the invita- tions that hav. been issued to bring five sympathizers with them. Dis- cussions from the floor -will follow the speakers and every one will have > the right to take the floor. Organizations—Send your greet- ings to the Daily Worker on its Eleventh Anniversary. Your greetings should reach the ‘Daily’ before January 12th. TORGSIN orders to U.S. 5. R. sent through AM-DERUTRA TRANSPORT CORP. 10) FLOOR Our orders are sent direct to every city in the U. S. 8. 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