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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
met with mass brutality, clubbing
and arrests.

met with mass brutality, clubbing
and arrests.
"The Unemployed Council of Ro-
chester declares that only by the or
ganization of the thousands of un
employed within the council, and in
a militant campaign can its demands
be realized.
While the Socialist Party may APP
peal to the Eastman-controlled city
administration to act, the Unemploy-
ed Council calls upon the workers
for action. The Unemployed Council
points out that the only ones cara-
BILE of giving jobs or wages to the
unemployed are the employers of
Rochester, and they are not only
not doing so, but are engaged IN
introducing more speed-up and wage
cuts, laying off more workers, and
adding the saving in labor costs to
their profits, thus compelling the
workers to bear the burden of their
crisis.
"The Council appeals to the en-
ployed workers to organize and rally
to the support Of the demands of
the unemployed. Only by winning
the demands Of the council, can en-
ployed workers safeguard their wag-
es and working conditions. Hun
dreds of workers have already join
ed the Council and will carry on the
struggle in spite Of every effort on
the part Of the Socialists and such
resolutions as that Of Guzzetta to
divide and mislead the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
Indignation Rises At
Murder of Jobless Boy

Continued from Page ORe)
brother under arrest for larceny"
are trying to shift responsibility.
They say the young worker should
not have tried to escape. But he
knew that it is a crime to be jobless
and hungry under capitalism. Then
the policeman murderer, Andres,
says that his "foot slipped" and
young Nunemacker was killed "ac-
cidentally."
But the brutality of the police
against the workers is too glaring
to be hidden by such palavar. Only
yesterday the police broke up an,
unemployed mass meeting in front
of the auditorium, the mounted po-
lice riding down the workers in real
Cossack style.
But tomorrow, on March 6, there
will be thousands of workers strike
and demonstrate in spite of the po-
lice, and in resentment at the capt.
talist system of murder and starva-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
WORKERS. STRIKE TODAY EAlP AND OB BOSSES
down TOOLS
7. u. U. |. CALLS
Masses Called to Union
Square

AdLlIuS upon lflS WOTheES Ol 1Ttd-
ter New York to down tools today,
and to demonstrate in masses in
Union Square, the Trade Union Uni
ty League, Metropolitan Area, is
sued the following appeal to its af-
filiated unions and the working class
generally:
Employed workers, strike today,
March 9th! Lay down tools at II
o'clock. Employed and unemployed
demonstrate on Union Square, at l
p. M, against starvation, for WORK
OR WAGES. The Trade Union Uni
ty League, Metropolitan Area, the
new revolutionary Trade Union Cen
ter, which organizes the unorganized
and the unemployed, and leads the
struggle against wage cuts, long
hours, the speed-up and for unem-
ployment relief, and all its affiliated
unions and Industrial Leagues, t Re
Food Workers Union, Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, Indepel,d-
ent Shoe Workers Union, the New
York and New Jersey Districts of
the National Textile Workers I'M
ion, the Building Maintenance Work
ers Union, the Marine Workers
League, the Metal Workers Indus
trial League, the Building Construc-
ton Industrial League, the Laundry
Workers Industrial League, etc, ap-
peal to all the workers in their in
to all their members, and
to the working class generally to
rally in gigantic masses to the mill
tant demonstration against unem-
ployment, the speed-up, long hours,
wage cuts, and capitalist oppression.
Unemployment is not the problem
of the unemployed alone. Unemploy-
ment is a class issue; it is a curse
that hangs over the heads of all
workers. Fight against the attempts
Of the bosses and their social fascist
agents, Matthew Woll, Green, the
whole bureaucracy of the A. F. of
L. and socialists to divide the en-
ployed from the unemployed, and
utilize the vast and growing army
Of unemployed to cut wages, reduce
the standards and drive down the
of all workers.
Unemployed and Employed. Unite
your forces! Demonstrate your class
solidarity! Strike and demonstrate
at Union Square today and hear our
demands! 10 &
1. Unemployed workers. Form I'm
Councils. Organize! De-
mand work or wages! Demand i'm
emergency unemployment
relief to be paid by the bosses and
their government!
2. Demand that all administration
Of relief be in the hands of unem-
ployed councils!
3. Demand that police terror
against the unemployed workers
cease.
4. Full equality of Negro workers!
Demand the unconditional release Of
all workers arrested in connection
with unemployed demonstrations.
protest meetings, etc!
5. Demand the seven hour, five
day week!
6. Build the Trade Union Unity
League - the center of class strug-
gle unionism of the U. S. - Section
Of the Red International Labor Tn
ion! Join the Industrial Unions of
the T. U. U. L.
7. Fight for social insurance for
unemployment, sickness and death!
8. Fight all attempts of the bosses
and their agents to divide the IN
workers!
9. Smash the social fascism of the
A. F. of l.. and the socialist party!
10. Smash the imperialist war
danger! Defend the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
RED FRONT HOLDS
BERLIN MEETINGS
Rochester Unemployed
Drive in City Council

Continued from Page One)
lay there were severe collisions with
the police in which one worker was
seriously injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06

stated that "there are few men
being called back to work-no new
men being hir> d. At least that is
what you are told when seeking EN-
ployment and l have been informed
that in the De'eo products General
Motors subsidiary that men were
making 81, $3.50 and So per day
when laid off but when called back
were cut to $40 per week. Also
informed that craftsmen have been
cut 35c per hour. | also know of 4
temporary erecting job that should
pay 1.50 per hour and they are Of
feIing &c."
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Call From Wagon to Demonstrate.

SAiEA L AAANOOIA, ICllll's 4IoiI III ~
the bosses of Chattanooga, having
seen that the Trade Union Unity
League and its Unemployed Council
were successfully mobilizing the
workers, both jobless and employed,
both Negro and white, have changed
their policy from ignoring" the
movement to a policy of trying to
break it up.
An open air meeting here today,
called by the Unemployed Council
has been broken up by the bosses
police, after melee in which hun
dreds of workers, Negro and white,
rallied around the speakers.
AS result, not only the speak
ers, Amy Schechter of the T.U.U.L.,
and the Negro organizer Lewis, but
other workers both Negro and white
were arrested. Yet, while in the
wagon, the workers called out to the
crowd to meet tomorrow in the big
demonstration on World Fighting
Day on Unemployment, the workers
cheering enthusiastically. A big
demonstration will be held here to-
morrow in spite of the arrests.
Babies Starve
BALTIMORE, Nd, Mar. 5.-One
little example among many of the
fact that capitalism makes life hell
for the workers family, is seen in
the item published in the Baltimore
"Sun" on Monday, telling of %
wear old mother Of four children,
Leila Murphy, % North Stricken
street, who is unable to find work
that pqys enough money to support
the children and is forced to give
her babies away TO someone more
fortunate.
Two are already parted from the
mother, taken by other people. 4
10y and girl of 8 years remain,
bright and beautiful children as the
published photo shows. The miser-
able charity" institutions SANDER
the poor working class mother by
saying she was "tired" of her babies,
when the natural desperation of try
ing to care for children under cap
italist starvation and wage slavery
drives working mothers insane.
Her husband has disappeared, also
driven by unemployment to part
from his babies, and the best the
mother could find as a job was SIC
a week and miserable board working
in a hospital but this barred her
fiom being at home with the chill
dren.
Against such hideous system the
workers of Baltimore, employed and
unemployed, Negro and white, are
challenging the capitalist chief of
police who has called out all forces
armed to the teeth to prevent the
demonstration on March 6. But the
workers will demonstrate anyhow in
solidarity with the international
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
Boston Strikers Win Is
Shops; Picketing Grows

Continued from Page One)
the only country in a world of
breadlines where there is no unem-
ployment!
Busy With Frame-Up
Dubinsky and Schlesinger and
other company union officials, are
busy building up the Dress Con-
tractors Association, planning ma
neuvers, and frame-up stunts.
Several pickets in court today
were fined $25 each. Elias Marks
and Corvine were held on framed
charges for $4,000 bail each.
In contradiction to the 1. l.. G..
w. meeting, the N. T. w. 7. U. meet
ing last night was packed with en-
thusiastic strikers, who cheered the
victories already won, and pledged
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06

themselves to go on and win the rest
of the shops.
Schlesinger's meeting voted him
authority to call fake strike in
Boston, whenever conditions re-
quire it."
At Schlesinger's meeting the /. L.
G. w. chiefs pleaded that the work
ers Should not lose hope" in the
company union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
BOGDANOv DENIES CHARGES
AGAINST AMTORG

P. A. Bogdanov, chairman Of the
Board Of the Directors of the Am
tory Trading Corporation, declared
yesterday that any statements direct
or indirect, to the effect that The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
Reading the Socialist" Press

J. L.. who picked up the milwaukee Leader"
dated Nov. 6th sends us the following from
Brooklyn don't ask me why Milwaukee COM
rades don't see such things. These are bright
spots of socialist" life and politics:
"The collapse of the Communist system in
Russia, would stand out in much holder relief
we're it not for the similar collapse of the CAPT.
talist system"
Since everything had collapsed, Allen Benson.
once star performer vice-presidential
didate with Debs on the socialist ticket, finally
got elected sheriff of Milwaukee So the Leader
prints the following from his statement to thu
press:-"Captains of industry have nothing to
fear at the hands of the new sheriff"
Then to top off the whole, the Leader" an
nounces that one of the newly elected Social
ist' assemblymen in Milwaukee o. L. failed to
give his name)-"wilI not relinquish his job as
trainer of the chimpanzee at the Milwaukee
He will get leave of absence instead"
Comment might seem superfluous. But we
are tempted to suggest that the socialist" as
semblyman is correct in retaining contact with
the chimpanzee, only the role of trainer and
pupil should be reversed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
Identification Progress in Soviet
Union and Other Countries

0000O0,0O0 k. h. by 1888. In three years to ac-
complish as much as the first Is years in u S.
But that is not all.
The sale price of electrical energy forms
more astounding contrast between socialist and
capitalist economy than the tempo of develop
ment S. Y. B.. Vol. 1, page 291, informs us that
the average sale price in U S. was in cents $50
for 1927 and SIS for 1923 per k h., and that
the average net profit to the companies was
2.85 cents per k. h. while U. S. S. R. in Construc-
ton, No. 4, page Q, informs us that the Soviet
power plant under construction on the Dnieper
will have a capacity of 3,0o0.00000O k. h. per
year, that the cost of production will be u of
a cent k h. Soviet Year Book, Page 144 and
will sell for four-tenths of cent-namely--17
times cheaper than the prevailing price in u S.
and still this extremely low charge will bring
revenue of $10,00o00O to the plant
The potential tempo Of developmnt after 1888
may be conceived from the fact that l. G. Alex
androv has been instructed to select the most
suitable location on the Vaksh river and pro-
coed with the construction of power plant with
capacity of 45oO,OOO000 k. h. per year. Two
stations of similar size are recommended by
Rudnitzky on the rive Yenisei, and sites are
being selected for two more on the Volga In
later years this industry will get greater atten-
ton than it is getting at present for every bill
lion k. his produced every year by water power
saves one million tons Of coal year and ali the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
PRE-PLENUM DISCUSSION
Young Communist League, U.S.A.
Building the Labor Sports Union

Milwaukee, having only by letter heard OF this
conference This act smashes any such ideas
as was shown by the Milwaukee unit which is
really only an underestimation of the readiness
of the young workers to join the L.S.U on class
basis This attitude is great resistance to the
building of the LS.U.
The real significance of this conference is that
it not only established basketball league, but
actually made start in roofing itself into Amer
lean sports, in place of combining sports to soccer,
calisthenics, track and field and other such non
American sports, therefore making the L. S. U.
an organization not consisting of American work.
ers but mainly of foreign born elements
Many of the ideas of the leading comrades in
the district, who claimed it was not necessary to
invite other than class-conscious worker sports
men to this conference because outside sport
clubs would not come down to the conference
on a class basis The fact that clearly proved
this idea to be wrong was when the conference
unanimously accepted the secretarys report on
the L. S. u because it was an organization that
was not corrupt and fought all corrupt sport
organizations. The question of race equality was
also brought out in the report, as result the
conference unanimously elected the only Negro
at the conference to the office of president show
ing how in actuality they intend to carry on
the struggle for equality of all races
Another tendency that was brought out by
some of the leading comrades was that because
of the lack of forces it is impossible to build
successful conferences. This tendency has proven
itself shallow when over is clubs we're succeeded
to be modified by three comrades
Looking over the membership of the clubs
represented we find that these clubs can be a
major recruiting field for the YC.L. in the build
ing of the Y.C.L. into a mass young workers
organization in the future.
We must not be satisfied with ourselves hav-
ing built successful conference, but must con-
tinue with the work of broadening. the exist
ing basketball league. In involving more COM
rades into sports work in order to broaden our
field of work And to call conferences in other
sections of the district using the experiences
we have gained in this conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
Support the Mineral Worker"

and their agents spreading poisonous propaganda
among the miners. The very best fascist and
social fascist speakers and organizers are touring
the sections of the coal industry in order to
check the developing strike movement.
The Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial
Union, the only revolutionary union in the min
ing industry, fighting these unbearably condi-
tons, fighting for the organization of the Mine
and Oil workers, is lacking its most important
weapon, its official organ. The lack of an official
organ which is to become the best agtator, prop
agator and organizer, binders our union tremen-
dousy in organizing the workers and leading
them in the strike against wage cuts, speed-up,
unemployment, etc.
Tens of thousands of workers who are deter
mined to wage decisive fight against the misery
and starvation, cannot be reached by our union
simply because of the lack Of its official organ.
In order to reach these workers, in order to
bring to them the revolutionary message and
in order to mobilize them for struggle, the Ma
tional Buro of the NJ o. S. I. u. appeals to
all mine, oil and smelter workers to subscribe
at once to the Mineral Worker and get subs and
to collect and send donations, thus enabling the
appearance of the Mineral Worker.
1t appeals to the entire working class for i'm
mediate action in the form of contributions to
the Mineral Worker
1t appeals to all working class organizations
for contributions to the fund of the Mineral
Worker.
Fight and strike against wage cuts and
speed-up!
Fight for the Workers Social Insurance Bill!
Forward to the mass Mineral Worker, the
organizer and agitator for our union.
Send all subs and contributions to the Mine,
Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union, Gil
Penn Ave, Room 512, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
BY GEO. KATSIOLIS.

THE magnitude of any achievement is best ap-
preciated when properly contrasted: with
other such achievements in the same field of
endeavor. Therefore it will be of value 10 pre-
sent few comparisons with other countries:
The output of electrical energy for the entire
world in 1925 was 100000 100000 k. h. OF these
the output of Germany was 1881 100000 X h.
That of France was 9,70o.oooOOO k h. and that
of the United Kingdom was only 8,320,000000
k. h. Commerce Year Book 1929, Vol. 2. Page
735, by the U. S. Department of Commerce)
The development in U. S. was somewhat diff
ferent In the same book, Vol. /, and page 287
is seen as follows: output for the following years
in killowatt hours:
1902 4768,OOOOOO 1917 32679 100000
1907 1851 100000 1923 55,665 100000
1912 1757200o00O 1928 87,850000,00o
And in 1880 it is expected to be over 1O0,-
OO00oOO00. This might seem fast but look how
Soviet Russia is doing it.
From page 100 Soviet Year Book, we see that
the output there in 1929 was $685. 100000 k. h.
preliminary figures for 1880 indicate a 20 per
cent increase, which brings the output up to
9O51 100000 k. h. This leaves England behind,
comes abreast to Germany and France and races
with the U. S. There are now under construc-
ton and engagements of plants that will soon
be completed and bring the output UP to A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
&!a41<>...~
We Explain
By JORGE

Dear Jorge:-Why isn't the Red Sparks in
the Daily Worker today? My friends and my
self are in flame of protest! We demand
an explanation! Don't let it happen again!
When they talk to you like that, you have
to come across
You see, it's long story, but we try to short
en- it. In the balmy days of September we
moved. Not that it would have made much
difference, as in the old building the heat was
shut off the Daily every excuse and none.
But here there was new excuse the furnace
wasn't in.
So for week after week in unreasonable cold
weather. we sat in my old overcoat writing
sparkes for you Incidentally without enough
pay to keep up proper steam internally. (Some
people who think this is joke should know
that two of the most valuable comrades on our
staff, the desk man"-who has a wife and
three kids in actual want-and the copy boy"
whom we wouldn't trade off for dozen District
Agit-propers, have no home. One hasn't paid
rent for six months and remains in shelter only
by sufferance, and the other has no other bed
than a desk in this blasted cold office.
We got bad cold then. We did all. Red
Sparks held up when others took the count.
But failed to move the heart of Goldfeld, the
building ns-manager who said to us: "Vell,
you want steam, do you? So like the District
on the HIN IlOOr, give IL 10 De SoUO ana you'll
have it."
1t seems that the District, which tells us just
what they want and how they want it in the
Daily, is opulent enough to purchase separate
gas heating system for its own part of it's own
floor
Time went by, but the bad cold hung on. After
much rebellion, the staff got moved into some
half-baked offices where we were supposed to
be kept warm by string of radiators But we
know Goldfelds radiators from sad experience.
The one beside Red Sparks was the last one
on the steam line at the corner of the top floor.
And some of Goldfelds carpenters who put
the plumbing in, didn't know that a radiator
has to have an air-valve in it, especially at the
end of the steam line. So while steam was
warming up the other tovarishi downstairs, we
sat beside radiator that we had to wrap up
in gunny sacks to keep it from freezing We
gathered the general idea that there's Five
hopes to complete it in four years. But we
don't.
Goldfeld did get interested in it once. He
came around and explained exactly why the
thing was cold. We coughed syrnpathetically and
he said he'd have it fixed right up. That was
two weeks ago last Friday, and we had mean
while just naturally collapsed.
We came back to life and the office on Friday,
but there's no air-valve here yet-and no steam
some day, you see black border around Red
Sparks, with the words: "Died to Help Finish
the Five-Year Plan in Fourteen Years"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
BY SEYMOUR SIPORIN.

THE Illinois District of the Labor Sports Union
l of America called a district basketball con-
ference Sept. 25 Despite the fact that over IS
clubs elected delegates to this conference, only
Is clubs were there (nany of these clubs having
never before been approached by any working
class organization). These sixteen clubs repre-
sented 25 teams (basketbalD, coming from Chi
cago, Milwaukee and Gary Ind. The member
ship of these clubs represented consisted mainly
of young workers working in the real basic in
dustries (steel, iron, etc. also great many I'M
employed young workers.
Although the conference can we'll be called
success, judging from the sort of representa-
ton (proletarian) at this conference, there were
a number of shortcomings which must be avoid
ed at future such conferences.
The fact that only two weeks time was given
to the committee for the development of this
conference resulted in not sufficient check-up of
the elected delegates This being one of the
main reasons over IS clubs elected delegates to
this conference and only Is clubs we're repre-
sented.
Another of the basic shortcomings of this con-
ference was the failure to popularize the L.S.U.
program and announcing this conference on
mass basis by: l. Distributing leaflets before
factories where worker spotsmen are to be
found Q. Little publicity in workers press and
also in bourgeois press (altho release was
printed in one of the Chicago dailies). 8. Very
few speakers at clubs popularizing the L.S.U.
program
The League also failed to concentrate on Ne
and organizing factory teams (Western Electric,
stock yards etc., is serious shortening.
The eLague also failed t. concentrate on Ne
gro teams in Chicago, resulting in only one
Negro delegate being present, and that one from
Gary.
Outside of Chicago very little work was carried
on by the League in preparation for this confer
ence Milwaukee using as an excuse, mo team
would travel any distance for this conference
despite the fact that no team was visited by
them. In spite of this a team did come from