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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
NAVY GETS READY
FOR COMING WAR
Perfecting It's Murder
Machinery

Giving graphic description Of the
war preparations, the Washington
bureau of the United Press says:
1.-THE fleet gathers for its annual
maneuvers; a naval conference pom
ders intricate questions of tonnage
in London; squadrons of airplanes
dive and zoom overhead in a demon
stration; a president boards a battle
ship to visit neighboring lands"
Steadily the conflicts between the
imperialist powers grow, and the at
tacks of the Soviet Union becomes
sharper.
With it all goes the rapid increase
in ornaments and the war maneu-
vers. Right now the Navy Depart
ment has more than 200 scientists"
working in the strictest secrecy pre-
pairing the death dealing apparatus
for the next war.
They are preparing poison gas and
death-dealing rays to kill off the
workers, to further the struggle for
the enslavement of the colonial peo-
pies and for war against the workers
fatherland, the U.S.S.R.
Against the war preparations all
workers must raise their voice, and
prepare to act. Why can the bosses
find so many millions for war prep
arations and not one cent for un-
employment insurance? Demand
they turn the war funds over to the
unemployed. Join the May Day DEM
onstrations and rally against imper-
ialist WARRIOR the defense of the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
Arrest Miner Who
Fights to Live
No Relief Given to
Starving Miners
Harrisburg, Illinois.

Harrisburg, Illinois.
Daily Worker:
I have five children, and my wife
and work only one or two days a
week. 80 per cent of the miners
here don't know what they are going
to eat tomorrow. They cannot sleep
at night, for they are starving
slowly. Charities in this town are
just joke.
My father and mother live across
the street from me. They are both
sick in bed, and have nothing to
eat, so I went to get something to
eat for them. The charity organiza-
ton I asked told me they had no
blanks, so the old folks have to
starve three days until they get
some, and give them a can of beans.
One trouble here about the U. M.
w. A. is that the rank and file are
not attending meeting regularly. The
takers are always there to mislead
you. We have about eight hundred
members in our local, but never
over twenty-five attend meeting.
Yes, the miners are going to fight
here pretty soon, but the bosses know
they are preparing. They arrested
Roy Groves here yesterday. When I
went to see him last night, the sehiff
didn't let me in, but asked my name.
Before he was elected he was good
friend of mine. He came to my
house to ask me to vote for him.
But now when men are hungry and
have no jobs to make their living,
he throws them in Jail.
j. X.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
Wage Cuts in
Goodrich Rubber, Rem
ington Arms Co.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
profits of the bosses), says the
financia Chronicle, "AND THAT is
REDUCTION IN WAGE SEIZED

profits OF the D0SSeS1, says dne
financia Chronicle, "AND THAT is
REDUCTION IN WAGE SCHED-
ULES."
Nor are they content with cutting
the pay of the railroad workers.
what is here said regarding rail-
road labor" they emphasize, applies
with equal force to labor in general"
That there is a nationwide, con-
certed slashing Of pay, directing by
the "59' leading rulers of the United
States--the capitalists and bankers
who get the greatest share of the
profits and run the governments
beyind doubt. The capitalist papers
have admitted 1t, Hoover has adj
mitted it. In the face of this, the
A. F. of l.. oficialdom is doing its
usual task--helping the bosses cut
pay.
The only force that is rallying the
workers to organize and strike
against wage cuts is the Trade Union
Unity League, with the support OF
the Communist Party.
The f.U.U.L. and the Communist
Party calls on all workers to smash
the pay cut drive. Mobilize on May
First, unemployed and employed
against wage cuts. Organize shop
committees Strike against wage
cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
RED BUILDERS
SEND DONATION: PLAN
TO PUSH WEEKLY PAGE

The Seattle Red Builders News
Club at their last membership meet
ing March 26 not only decided to
send a donation of $40 to the Daily
Worker, but decided, on their own
hook, to get in touch with the Dis
trict Organizer and the Daily Worker
agent regarding district page. Here's
an example of Communist initiative
in laying plans for weekly issue in
Seattle, and indicates real vitality in
the Club. Following are the present
members: H. Stapp, VIM. Barton, c.
D. Mcclellan (chairman), L. Tisipou-
lis, N. Atelivich, D. C. O'Hanrahan,
and c. ]. Blame, (secretary- treasurer)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

are mercilessly beaten and jailed.
The Japanese princes are travelling
around the world on honeymoon
trip, but in reality it is diplomatic
tour, sounding out the various I'M
perialist allies for alignments in the
coming imperialist war: preparing
the war against the Soviet Union
Japan has been hard hit by the
present world economic crisis Of cap
italism. Nearly 40 per cent of Japa-
nese exports go to the United States,
and the two royal drones will come
as business men, to further this
trade. More than so per cent Of the
factories in Japan are closed-and
even when they are open the work.
ers slave from 10 to IL hours day
for starvation wages.
Now more than 100000 Japanese
workers are unemployed. Their posi-
ton is similar to that of the Amer
lean unemployed. There is no I'M
employment insurance in Japan, and
these workers have been dubbed by
the japanese police, just as the
American workers have been slugged
when demanding unemployment re-
lief
japanese imperialism is preparing
it's war front against the Soviet
Union, and the visit of the members
of the japanese royal family, head
of the imperialist murderers, will
talk over the united attack against
the workers republic.
Against these parasites, represen-
tatives of the same class who rule in
the United States, the workers must
raise their indignant protests--
against the murder Of their fellow
workers in Japan for the unity Of
the international struggle against
imperialism and for the defense OF
the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
GUIDO SERIO ON
TOUR FOR LID.
To Speak in Albany,
Troy, Schenectady

NEW YORK, April 6-Guido Serio,
who is facing immediate deportation
to Italy for his anti-fascist cativities
and will undoubtedly be executed
there unless the workers Of the Uni
ted States are successful in stopping
the attempt to deport, is at present
on a speaking and organizational
tour for the International Labor De-
tense. Serio's case is now up on APP
peal before the United States Cir
cult Court where the vicious attempts
to deport him is being made by the
Department of Labor.
The immigration authorities are
working hand in hand with the TIA
liam Embassy at Washington who are
under instructions from the Musso-
lini government to ship Serio back
to Italy where they can handle him
effectively and put a stop to all his
militant activities. Serio had escaped
from Italy in 1924 after the fascists
had almost killed him and left him
for dead on the street. He has been
active in the workingclass movement
ever since arrival in the u. S.
Serio will speak in both italian
and English at Albany, Tuesday
evening, at the Workers Center.
971l Hamilton St.; at Troy, We'd
nesday evening, at the l. L. d. Hall
273Il River ST.. and Thursday, SeriG
will speak at Schenectady at the
Sons of Italy Hall, 12l SO. Ferry ST..
pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
Milwaukee, Wis.

Milwaukee, Wis.
Comrades:
At tn Oil Gear Co. at West Bruce
ST. there were a few socialists work
ng, one who is the superintendent,
" the name of Hugo Benewitz. This
t,,s the same Hugo who year ago to-
hi sther with the manager Of the COM
phny forced some workers that we're
already subscribers to the Milwaukee
Leader Socialist paper, to take an
other years subscription before the
previous year had expired.
Discharged Worker.
Not long ago the same socialist,
Hugo, discharged member of the
same party. The discharged man is
william Yaneche. The reason was
that he spoiled one little piece of
cast iron. The iron was more i'm
portant to Hugo that the whole va
neche family.
The socialist knew that once a
worker loses his job that there is
little chance of obtaining another
one. Still this faker follows the
steps of Milwaukee Hoan and Ben
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

are supposed TO get their turn IN
working. There is a woman there
who has charge of the office and
anybody she does not like does not
get that three days they give out
every month or six weeks to the
worker.
Talk has also been going on in
this city that the city is going to
cut off all the charity that they
have been giving out till now. The
city gives so little charity that the
workers have all they can do to
exist.
1 wish that you would mention
that we have an Unemployed Coun-
ell at 100 Beaver st. am in charge
of it and also am the Trade Union
Unity League organizer in this dis
triet and city.
11-15 Dollars Is Wages
Some workers are starting to talk
about organizing because they all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
SENDS S. FOR "ONLY
TRUTHFUL PAPER"

Enclosed find money order for S.
for which renew my subscription for
six months. The other 50 is for
donation from my father and my
self. There are three people beside
myself who read the Daily" for they
haven't the money to subscribe them
selves. The Daily is the only paper
barring none that tells the truth and
describes the working class move
ment." K. G. Jr., Kenosha, Wis. 49,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
Utica Cotton Mills Running on Short Time
Utica, n, J

Utica, N. Y.
Here is a little piece for the city
Of Utica. Of course, everybody has
something to say about this city.
Well. I've got enough, but here is
the best part against this city.
This city has many cotton mills,
but ask If people are working.
People in this city work like horses
just to get money for bread. Many
people in this city are not working,
but if person works two or
three days a week the boss says
the person is working and the mills
are running. Ask if he gets wages
that are high enough just for his
work. No. he only gets enough to
buy bread, and sometimes not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

There is no excuse for these cuts
in a city the size of jamestown.
If the present force is crippled,
why haven't you made any at
tempt to get other jobless workers
selling the paper? A leafiet to the
unemployed of jamestown, inviting
them to meeting where they will
be shown how to make expenses by
selling the Daily would be more
effective means of continuing the
sales and PAYING for the bundles
than cutting the orders down and
losing contact with workers!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

appropriated for military purposes.
If the legislature does not approve
this bill, the committee has decided
to move for a referendum.
Other demands of the Unemployed
Councils to be passed on at the
Columbus conference, which will pre-
pare the final program for presenta-
ton to the legislature n April 81,
include laws to prohibit the eviction
of unemployed workers from their
homes, to prevent turning off of gas,
water, and electric service to pro-
vide for the use of public buildings to
shelter the jobless, and to provide for
free meals, free textbooks and free
carfare for the children of jobless
parents.
Latest reports on arrangements for
the hunger march are at hand from
Hamilton, Middletown, Dayton,
Springfield, Mansfield. Carey and
Canton. They indicate, as did ear
lier reports from Akron, Mortified,
Gallon, Columbus, Massillon and
Wooster, that lodging will be provided
by the cities in most cases, but many
of them are still refusing to supply
food, despite pressure from the local
unemployed.
An unusual degree Of interest in
the march is reported in Massillon,
due to its association with General
CoXcy, and local unemployment in
surance committee is completing
plans for the reception of the march
ers on April ID, when a mass meeting
will be held in the City Hall
Hamilton Comes Through
In Hamilton, the city manager has
told unemployed representatives that
arrangements will be made to house
and feed the section of hunger
marchers who will start from Gin
cinnati on the morning of April 30.
He states. however, that there will
be convention of the American
Legion in the city on the same day
and that the Legionaires may start
trouble.
The city manager of Middletown
has taken the attitude that lodging
will be provided but that the city
will not feed the marchers. Local
unemployed are making arrangements
for a canteen to supply the
marchers, if the city cannot be in
duced to provide food.
In Dayton the city manager has
promised that both food and lodging
will be provided for the marchers
when they reach there April %. The
Chief Of Police has granted permits
for March through the city and for
an open air meeting on Paterson
Boulevard.
Springfield reports that the city
manager has promised the use of
city buildings to lodge the marchers
on April % but that he is unwilling
to provide food.
The village of Carey which will
be reached on April 81 by the section
of the march starting from Toledo
on April 10 is unable to furnish
food and lodging according to a let
ter to the state commute from
Mayor Ed Campbell Jr.
The Committee of Public Welfare
of Canton likewise declared it is I'M
able to render aid and suggests that
"the unemployed councils make over
lures to- the State legislature for the
relief desired"
Mansfield Mass Meeting
In Mansfield. the Unemployed
Insurance Committee recently or
ganized is holding a mass meeting
in the Trades Council Hall on April
at 7,30 p. M, to rally support for
the hunger march which is To reach
Mansfield on April Is.
Intensive preparations for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
Gets A Job-l2 Hours A Night, 7 Nights
A Week
A Week

for insurance. Now I intend to send
81 month to the Daily Worker to
help in the cause, because we as
workers need the Daily to fight our
battles to the finish.
Hoping for a workers ard farm
ers' government in the grand old
U. s. A., where some are worked to
death and the rest can starve, beg
or steal IS. =.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
JAMESTOWN MAKES
UNNECESSARY CUT

On March %, F. G. H. sent us a
cut down to 100 daily, and 200 Friday
and Saturday because things are
continually growing worse and the
customers are broke, and we cannot
afford to dig down and pay out of
our own pockets for the balance out
side of sales" 81, S. P. writes as
follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

DOVER, Della, April g. During
the discussion on the Little Bill in
the State House of Representatives
here, Representative Donovan re-
marked, II don't believe it will pass
because it does not raise anybody's
salary. If 1t raised some salaries it
would be sure to pass
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

Toledo, Ohio.
Daily Worker:
Now please don't drop dead when
] tell you that I got job. Oh, yes,
/ got one, All have to do is work
IL hours night for nights week,
and all the rest of the time is mine,
SO you see this is great life If you
don't weaken.
I receive for my services $3.50 a
week, with the SO cents per week off
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
NeWS Briefs

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The Bank of France is suing thu
Soviet Government in New Yorl
federal courts, through the Soviet
financial agents, the Chase Nationa.
and Guaranty Trusts, for $5,000,00C
sent the banks in 1923 which France
claims was gold confiscated in Len
ingrad banks in 1917, although ii
cannot identify the particular gold
The Soviet trade delegation has
arrived in Berlin to direct details OF
the purchase of $75,oOo,oOo worth OF
German machinery for Soviet indus
try.
Washington dispatches say that a
Reindeer Committee has been ap-
pointed to lend the chaos" of rein
deer raising in Alaska. This seems
to be the only chaos possible to solve
under capitalism, and even this is
not assured.
The New York Women's City Club
is making a big howl to revise the
city charter to provide for mon
partisan" city manager system, which
in other cities has supplanted par
tisan graft for non-partisan graft
under the pretense of eliminating
graft.
James Maxton, the fake "leftist'
of the British labor party, has made
maneuver usual to him at the con-
ference of the independent labor
party, by first attacking" the Mac
Donald leadership and then keeping
the I. l.. P. in organiZational and
political subordination to MacDon-
aid.
The Portuguese general, Sousa
Dias, has led military revolt and
seized control of the Portuguese
island possession of Madeira which
lies off the African coast. The Portu-
guese dictator, Cormona, is sending
troops to suppress it.
Much ado about Australia and the
reputation of debts by the New
South Wales labor" premier, J. T
Lang is filling timid British bond
holders with alarm and the entire
world capitalist press with bunkum
Lang and a very artful social-fascist
secretary of .the N. S. W. trade
unions, Jock Garden, are even claim
ing to initiate Soviet" program
with a "three-year plan" Garden is
renegade Communist. While this
plan will undoubtedly bring at least
the appearance of shuddering horror
to British capitalists and their SER
wants in the labor" parties of both
Britain and Australia, the result, if
any, will be an attempt at fascist
regime of collaboration between
producers" (meaning employers
and workers. The purpose of Lang
and Garden in proposing it is, by
pointing to the opposition Of British
and Australian ultra reaction, TO get
workers support for it.
The Berlin socialist" paper, The
Vorwaerts, has issued a stern warm
ing" to advise the German govern
ment that the proposed customs
union with Austria must, in social
list" opinion, result in intimate
Franco-German cooperation and
that what the Vorwaerts calls "a
healty development" -namely, an
anti-Soviet bloc-is conceivable only
with the aid of French capital"
Although it is common knowledge
that judgeships are bought and sold
in New York City at prices quoted
by Tammany Halls open market,
after seven months of investigation
by Samuel Seabury, it is officially
stated that it has been impossible to
get proofs, which is the usual result
of capitalism investigating capital
ism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
BICKNELL, IND.
INCREASES TO go

From NJ. I. of Bicknell, Ind.
eve want the office to send so
copies every day instead of 40 I'M
til further notice. Let Fish take
this blow under the chin and the
rest of rotten capitalists that ex-
plot the workers to starvation"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
5000 JOBLESS IN NEW
BRITAIN, CONN. ASP.
F. CORBIN'S LAYS OFF
Lock Company Also Gives Those Still Working
Wage Slash
: Few Shops Working Paying Wages Ranging
From S11 to SIS
New Britain, Conn.
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
Will write few lines to let the Daily know that prosperity
is not around the in this city.
At P F. Corbins they have laid off about $50 workers.
workers that have worked years heard last night that
the office help getting 10 per cent cut Some time
the other workers received wage cut and the office help did
no receive it. The workers being Disseminated against
here There is place called the City Yards where workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

these newsstandS. 80. We are circu-
larizing the neighborhood with leaf
lets, also to the workers of the New
Haven Clock Co. as a means of
popularizing these newSstands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

and control their own form of gov
eminent. Demand death TO the
lynchers! Organize defense corps Of
white and Negro workers to. resist
The lynchers! Show your solidarity
May Day! Demonstrated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

leaves of bread and two quortS of
milk to S,107 families Q5,133 per-
sonsl, cut down the allowance to
half that amount and announced
that it would soon. shut down en-
tirely unless more donations came
in. The city admits that need for
relief still exists"
But while cutting off even this sop
of bread and milk, tn eauthorities
find money to buy Sheriff Lewis
Worker gas gun outfit costing $135.
Let them starve, and give them gas
if they squak," is the program here.
The need for relief not only con-
tinues, it is increasing. In the last
week Of March the Minnegua Steel
Plant laid off 100 men. Today 400
more are to be laid off permanently.
This is known because the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Co. gives the Protes-
tant employees the right to buy coal
on credit from the Anderson Co. and
have the amounts deducted from
their pay checks. The Catholic
workers get their coal in the same
way from the Moore Coal Co. The
G. F. & I. takes care to notify these
coal companies who is going to be
fired, in order to cut off the credit,
even when it does not notify the
men who are going to be fired until
the last minute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
JUGO SLAV SENDS
SUB FOR SON

please send the Daily Worker
here" writes Andy <. of Calhan,
Colo, enclosing So for 4 mos. subscrip-
ton. "As my father reads Rovnost
Ludu, and I can't read it, he has sent
for the Daily Worker for me-"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07

Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day ON your Job. The worisu
next to you will help savs ~ DsGg
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-07
PR0SSER COMMITTEE HEAD
FIRES $50 OF OWN EMPLOYEES

erS employed on a road paving con-
tract near Middletown. The COM
pany simply closed up shop and re-
fused to pay the wages. The report
itself says: "Penniless and disheart-
ened the men drifted away and
many of them were reduced to the
bread lines. One, an alien, was de-
ported" Some of them had been
working six or eight weeks.
The contract having been renewed
the company agrees to pay the
wages now But the department OF
labor does not say how the men will
be found, or how the deported man
will be reconpensed.
Seattle Breadlines Close.
SEATTLE, Wash, April 6.-The
Central Labor Council has closed
down its kitchen, in the midst OF
growing unemployment. In order to
keep unemployed workers from join
ing the militant councils of the I'M
employed the Central Labor Council
taxed all the unions some time ago
and started up its own soup line
Now this, too, is abandoned.
The breadline at the Armory OF
the Washington National Guard ex-
pired March 81. This means that
over 1000 people, including men,
women and children, young and old,
will face starvation.
One leading restaurant, 1.-THE
Boldt's Cafe" got $50 per day for
cooking hash once day. Never
theless, five men will be laid off
after the closing down of the kit
chen.
And what sore of food was handed
out at this breadline? Fish. which
was smuggled in from Canada and
other countries and then seized by
the United States Customs, was
served to the unemployed. Meat
that the butchers could not use was
also given for the unemployed. The
Pacific Telephone Co. donated its
services for gathering and transport
ing this rotten slop, which even a
dog would not touch. One Unem-
ployed Council member on the bread
line witnessed an incident where a
big German police dog would not eat
the stuff that was given to the work.
ers.