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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08

visited these camps at their own will
and under their own guidance, With
out any hindrance. All Of them
have branded the stories about
forced labor" as outright lies. Yet
these stories persist. The capitalists
are trying to stir up the workers
against the Soviet Union by means
of these hes.
Perhaps the most smashing blow
to the stories about forced labor"
in the Soviet lumber camps was dealt
by j. F. Stewart, a capitalize con-
sulting forest engineer, in an article
published in the Manchester Guar
dian, England, Feb 10, 1881. Stew
art wrote this article at the very
height Of the anti-Soviet campaign
in Britain-under the cry OF forced
labor" Here is what this EXPERT
said:
Il was recently engaged on behalf
of a London trust company in in
speeding forests in the north of Rus
STA. I Travelled thousands Of miles
through the forests, and visited, fed
in and lived in the lumber camps
wherever I went. I was not on any
conducted tour, but went wherever
my work called me, without regard
to the wishes Of the government,
who, 7 must say, never placed any
obstacle in my way.
'The camps themselves are quite
good, and mostly good deal better
than I have often built for my men
and myself in other countries. I was
not impressed with the food given
me, black bread and tea, but it
seemed all the food the people ex-
pected, and I must say they looked
we'll.
I'm many cases the loggers do not
live in camps, but come from the
nearest village.
"The work itself is not unduly try
ing to a healthy man who is used
to it. The telling and trimming of
trees. and even the amounts ex-
pected, as reported by refugees,
would be laughed at, by, for ex-
ample, Scottish voodsman, who
could do the whole days work in
couple of hours and think nothing
of it.
Il have been in hospitals in the
forest villages where they were we'll
equipped, excellently managed by a
partly qualified medical woman, kept
Spotlessly clean, and, in their small
way, we're the last word in efficiency.
A very good mail service is kept up
throughout the entire North, as we'll
as an efficient telegraph service"
This is the testimony Of a capital
list expert. Hundreds of others have
borne him out. The pictures we
print are further proof that the cap
italist press is filled with lies about
forced labor"--all designed to push
forward the war drive against the
workers republic. to shatter the con-
struction of the Five-Year Plan and
to keep back Socialist upbuilding.
Every worker should give his an
swer by participating in the May
Day demonstrations and voicing his
solidarity with the workers of the
Soviet Union against the war mon
gers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
RAILWAY EXPRESS co.
LAYS OFF MANY MEN
WITH LONG SERVICE
One Hundred and Fifty Laid Off Few Days
Ago: Greater Speed Up Now
Union Misleaders Previously Put Up Bosses
Proposals to Stagger

doesn't include all that are laid of
in their other departments or in any
of their Is big depots in New York
City, Brooklyn and Jersey City. The
real cause of those big lay-offs is
the fact that one man in the express
company today does more work than
3 used to do 10 years ago.
Sunday at about 1920 p. m, those
who were laid off andsmany of those
still working are going to the local
a08 at 1888 Broadway to ask the dele
gates what they are going to do about
it. This is not "a meeting called by
the unions two locals which have 3
delegates and no slack times.
"A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08

AKRON. O.-The other day a COM
buckets picking up coal on the rail-
road tracks. They appeared to be
about or years old. The conlrade
asked them what they were doing and
they said 1--WE have to make a FIRE"
so you have to pack coal, yes, they
said, my father doesn't work and we
have no fire.
The conrade thought that Hooy-
er's prosperity salary Of $4,000 a
year, or about $215 a day, must be
gotten at the expense of such chill
dren as these and their fathers. Then
ae thought of the speech made by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
Districts Suing Into Action IN Drive for
1000 Yearly Subs, Rem oWQb by May

SUBSCRIPTION lists have been sent to every
district and sub district Daily Worker repre-
sentative, to spur activity in the sections units
and mass organizations for 1000 new yearly sub
scriptions or renewals by May 1. Following are
subscriptions or renewals sent by the districts
covering the number of MONTHS District l.
As mos; Dist. g. 81 mos; Dist g. 81 mos; Dist
4, 81 mos; Dist 5, Sc mos; Dist 6. 90: Dist. T.
Ct; Dist g. ITO; Dist. 9, SO; Dist 10, so: Dist H.
z; Dist H. 80; Dist Is, 10; Dist is, ID; Dist. IT,
4; Dist. II g.; Dist. 10, 81; Unorg. 35
In the United Front May Day conference, the
Daily Worker should be welded into every pro-
gram of action. Every mass organisation should
Ne drawn into this campaign, Greetings from
workers and workers organizations should be
sent in, as well as advertisements. Names will
be printed at Csc and organizations should send
according to their means. Make this May Day
target for 1000 subs and put the Daily Worker
on more solid financial ground
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
South Norwalk AFL Tries to Frame Workers

union. Later the case was brought
to the District Council of the A. F.
of L. Here they we're at first found
innocent. The labor takers demanded
another trial, in which all except two
we're found guilty. This trial was de-
clared illegal, and in the final trial
all we're found guilty, on the demand
of De Falco, grating A. F. of L.
organizer.
This shows the triekery of the A.
F. of L., but the workers are waking
Up, p. l..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
Marchers Start April II

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April z. ---
Unemployed and employed workers
are called to meet at the city hall,
Philadelphia, April II, at 9 am. to
send off the state marchers to Har-
risburg.
The unemployed councils circulate
leaflets throughout the city, giving
the main demands of the hunger
marchers, and explaining that there
are 100000 unemployed in Pennsyl-
yania, with hundreds of thousands
starving, being evicted, suffering
from pellagra and other food def
cheney diseases. while the warehouses
burst with food and clothing, houses
go vacant, and She half starved part
time workers are heavily taxed by
their employers to provide what little
relief" is given the jobless. While
this goes on. millions of dollars are
appropriated by state and cities for
military purposes. for state police,
for high salaries for public officials.
Pinchot Broke Promises
Governor Pinchot has betrayed
his election promises to the unem-
ployed, as he has betrayed every cleo
ton promise to the workers and
small farmers of the state" the un-
employed councils point out.
The socialist party officials have
introduced bill which will provide
only So for relief per week to each
jobless family. The A. F. of L. fights
any insurance whatever.
The state headquarters of the I'M
employed councils, 929 Arch ST., Phi
ladelphia, calls on employed and un-
employed workers to get together
form jobless councils, and send de-
legations to join the march. They
should communicate with the state
headquarters as soon as possible. II
calls on A. F.. of l.. union members
to get their locals to endorse the
march, and to have their delegate;
at the state federation of labor con-
vention fight for the demands Of thu
hunger marchers.
Fight for Demands.
I. Immediate enactment of th'
Workers Unemployment Insuranc,
Bill, calling for a weekly paymen
to the one million unemployed o
a sum equal to their average wage
but not less than SIS a week, will
50 additional for each dependent
the funds to be raised by a tax o
10 per cent on fortunes over $500
and on annual incomes over $4,000
This fund to be managed by tn
workers themselves, unemployed an
employed.
| 2. An emergency appropriation b
the State Legislature Of forty-tw
million dollars from the propose
budget, to be turned over to tn
Unemployed Insurance Fund. and I
be paid out to the unemployed a
indicated above.
8. Immediate cancellation of a,
debts and mortgages for poor farm
ers. No taxation Of poor farmers.
4. No eviction of the unemployed
The repeal of the State ENictio
Law. No sheriff sales OF worker
homes or property OF poor farmers
for non-payment Of taxes or mort
cages.
4 3 No diee94uSQaelon s9s3nst n
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South Norwalk, Conn.

South Norwalk, Conn.
Daily Worker.
A group of union laborers were
tried three times by the same court
here. These workers belong to the
Hod Carriers and Common Laborers
Union, section Of the A. F.. Of L.
They were framed up last August, ac-
cused of having worked below the
union wages.
At first they we're tried in the union
local court, where it was declared
that, guilty or not guilty, they should
he punished for their fighting in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
Eagle Pencil Co. Pulls Down With Holiday

New York, N. Y.
Daily WORKER
As / am worker at the Eagle
Pencil Company I want to let you
know about the conditions which
hundreds of workers are forced to
work under. Now what has hap
pened?
The bosses take advantage of the
religious holidays this week and use
them as an excuse to throw almost
every department out of work for
at least three days. Conditions
were bad enough when workers put
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
Jersey City, N. J.

Editor Daily WORKER
During slack seasons, which are
January February and June-July, the
Railway Express agency has always
laid off number of men. Those lay
offs used never to effect men with
more than 2h years of continuous
service.
But with the past year or more
those lay-offs affect men with 51a
years service, and they say men with
6 and Z years service in this COM
pany will be laid off this summer.
A few days ago about $50 men were
laid offsin March. This number is
from the vehicle service only. and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
Excuse

in only five days but now they are
worse.
Don't let the bosses pull down the
salaries by the Easter Holiday ex-
cuse. Force them to restore the
five day week, protest against the
Inauguration of the three day week
which they are planning to put
across. Conditions are bad enough
now without the bosses making
them worse. With more wage cuts,
shortening of working hours and
speed-up systems.
Eagle Pencil Company Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08

CONTINUED FRO
ton in every industrial town Of coun-
ellis of the unemployed, and of the
militant unions of the Trade Union
Unity League. The main task of
these councils and unions is, besides
supporting the demands on state le-
gislatmes and national government
for unemployment insurance, to fight
the day-to-day battle against wage
cuts, against evictions, for relief for
particular cases Of starving workers,
to organize tenants leagues, to stop
any attempt to use the jobless as
Scabs. etc. - -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
SMASH THE CRY OF "CONVICTLABOR" WAR PRE-
4. s. LUMBER BARONS CALL FOR AN
EMBARGO AS SOVIET SHIPS NEAR WITH
100000 FEET OF RUSSIAN LUMBER
British Forest Engineer Says Talk of Forced
Labor" Is Fabric of Lies; Soviet Lumber
Camps BetterThan He Built Himself

Soon the whole cry of forced labor will be whipped up
to greater fury Several ship loads of Soviet lumber
the to the United States containing 100000 feet of Rus
timber They expected to arrive All the enemies
of the workers republic using this occasion for prpa
oanda cafnnagn against the y. S. S R
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
HYPoCRiTICAL HENRY

Henry Ford, who talks glibly about
maintaining high wages and high
wing standards" but who has con-
9 stently cut wages and laid-off his
workers at various times.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
CoMRADE OLENAIH DIES

PASSAIC. N. J., April 6,--Dmitro
Olenaill, an active Ukranian worker,
was killed, and Charles Simchers was
very badly injured. as a car the lat
ter was driving collided with train
at railroad crossing.
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JobIess Delegates Demand In
Surance From Legislature
1CnNrINuEn FROM PAGE nNEl

4 PAGE ONE)
gro workers, women workers and
young workers in the administration
of relief. Equal rights for Negro
workers.
6. Free gas, electricity and coal
for the unemployed.
7. The right of workers to free
speech and assembly and to strike.
The repeal of the Flynn Sedition Act
and granting of an amnesty to all
political prisoners. Abolition of the
injunction in strikes, and the imme-
date release of Shoe Organizer G..
Lippa of Philadelphia. Abolition of
the Coal and Iron Police in all forms.
Mansfield Mass Meet.
MANSFIELD, Ohio, April ITO
rally support for the hunger march
on Columbus, the unemployment in
surance committee of Mansfield is
calling mass meeting for April 8
at 7:30 p. m. in the Trades Council
Hall. The committee was elected at
a recent unemployed meeting to
guarantee that five representatives
of the Mansfield jobless will join the
march when it passes through the
city on April 81, and to prepare for
the reception of the marchers from
other cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08

Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day ON your job. The worker
next to you will help save the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08
BUNDLE CIRCULATION
SHOWS SLIGHT PROGRESS

Tables for last week show total circulation
OF 34,3ss which, when special orders Of 642 arc
taken off, leaves solid circulation of 33,75l
This week the total circulation is $4,000, but
since there are no special orders, the loss of 1898
shown in the tables indicates net gain of 500
However, this is the result of extra papers being
sent to the Anthracite region in wilkes Barre
for tho present nline stsikA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08

VACATION -- Beautiful Mountain,
Views quiet resting place. good food,
$3.50 weekIy--Avanta Farm. UiEser
Park. New Ycgk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-08

Against eyictions, for rent reduce
tionel
-hss-lLs
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2Ss MEfT fTS AND
RENSv.'IS FOR WEEK

total of 3056 subs were dropped this week
but 1913 new subscriptions and 1855 renewals were
put q VI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
Call Rail Union Rank and File to
Prepare Strike Against Wage Cuts

NEW YORK.--Around 1900 local
chairtnen OF the railroad brother
hoods are now meeting IN Chicago to
consider the most drastic wage cuts
ever proposed to the 100000 en-
ployed railroad workers Of the co1n-
try.
The National Railroad Industrial
League, 702 East 63rd Street, Chicago,
has issued a call to all railroad work
ers to prepare for a strike against
wage cuts. The complete call will be
published soon in the Daily Worker.
The appeal calls for the organizing
of local and district conferences in
the railroad industry to form united
front committees to fight wage cuts.
A Rank and File Conference of the
Chicago Switching District will take
place Sunday, Dec. 10, at the Peo-
pies Auditorium, 2457 West Chicago
Ave, at 10 a. M. as the first step in
rallying the railroad workers against
wage cuts.
The railroad bosses expect the
union officials to turn back to the
rich parasites who own the $33,O00,-
100000 stocks and bonds comprising
the value Of the railroads in the
United States at least $250.000.0o0.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

''Belief that the convention of
railroad union chairmen meeting In
Chicago next Monday viii find It
advisable to take a wage cut Of 10
per cent for one year beginning
December l was expressed yester.
day by ]. NJ. Kurn, president Of the
st. Louis-Sa Francisco Railway.
II have this opinion" Mr.. Kurn
added, because in the case of re-
duction under the TRANSPORTATION
Act the roads would ask for q
greater cut. Also. the results under
such proceedings would not be for
only a year, but would be for an
indefinite open-end period, with the
possibility that. the men will never
get the old wage scale back.
81 believe the reduction in Can
ada will have some effect on the
action to be taken at the labor
meeting in Chicago"
To fight against this drive OF the
bosses, in which they expect to get
assistance from the union misleaders,
al railroad union men must now
gather their forces. Prepare to strike
against wage cutsl Smash the drive
10 cut the wages OF railroad workers.
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gained 2S,S29 votes, bringing their
total to 44,59s. The Socialists lost
1892 votes, getting a total vote of
46,Slo. The Communist Party gained
5,721 votes, bringing its total up to
1880.
Hitler now Claims that he has
100000 supporters in Germany, and
that he will take over power very
shortly The action Of the Bruehing
government emphasizes the fact that
the fascists have some sort OF an
agreenent with Bruening. At the
same time, the Socialists unite with
Bruening, maintaining the present
government in power and permitting
it to nurture the fascists for
stronger attack against the workers.
The sccialistic help Bruening put over
his fascist DEGREES by preventing the
Reichstag from being called into
session.
In Wall Street the unity of Hitler
and Bruening, and the early assump-
ton of power by Hitler, is taken as
q fact. The American bankers, fur
ther, approve of this step as they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
BOSSES PRESS
ADMITS HORROR
OF HOOVER CREW

NEW YORK-Yesterday, New York
papers give under capitalist press
services, names quite full accounts OF
the embarrassment of the Hoover ad-
administration officials. Hoover and
his gang never intended the National
Hunger March to reache Washington.
They are dismayed at its size and
militancy, and at the enthusiastic
support it receiver in Washington
and all along the way from the mil
lions Of workers and jobless.
The capitalist newspapers empha-
size the military preparations, the
large number of marines and police
modified. One says:
Alarmed at the size and belliger-
ency Of the march officials, led by
Secretary of War Pat Hurley, began
their action, and the marchers faced
the fixed bayonetS of the marines as
they paraded past the capitol grounds
today" yesterday
Another refers to the White House
being guarded more than in time
of war"
Another, telling of the scene just
before the presentation of demands
states:
every precaution has been taken
to prevent the Hunger Marchers from
disturbing the legislators, but they
were visible from the Capitol windows
as they paraded and massed in the
area set apart for them by Vice-Pre-
sident Curtis by suspending the rules
governing the Capitol grounds. Under
penalty of arrest they have been or
dered to conceal their banners de-
handing Food and Down with the
HooVer-Wa st. Starvation Program"
1t is clearly against the capitalist
law to demand food in front Of the
capitol of the country with the rich
est nillionaires in the world.
The first edition of the Hearst
afternoon paper here had big
streaner head line: HUNGER
MARCHERS STORM CAPITOL"
The story under the headline tells of
Congress opening with HUNGER
Marchers virtually surrounding the
Capitol Building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

In order to do this, the railroad
union officials have to aid in put
ting over a 10 per cent wage cut.
The Chicago 81 Northwestern r. F.,
as well as many other roads, have
announced that they intend to cut
wages. The capitalist press has stated
on more than one occasion that the
big union officials favor wage cuts,
but fear the action of the men.
In Canada the Board of Concilia-
ton has declared in favor of 10
per cent wage cut for Canadian rail-
road workers. Most Of the Canadian
railroads are owned by the same Wall
Street interests who seek a wage cut
against the American railroad work
ers: and they are going to use the
Canadian action against the Amer
lean workers.
Besides getting $1,000,000,o00 from
the United States government, which
Hoover soon proposes to hand over
to the railroads, the bosses insist on
a wage cut.
The latest report in the Journal Of
Commerce states that the 500 local
chairmen are expected to come across
for the railroad bosses. This Wall
Street sheet says;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
l,2OO BOO GREEN;
DELEGATES TELL
HIM HE'S FAKER
tcoN1INUUn FRoM FACE oNBl

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNED
found Green in luxurious quarters,
by strong arm thugs, and
full of imprecstions against the hun
ger marchc, Green repeated his old
lies ''Your agents are Moscow agents
who thrive on misery and do not
want to relieve unemployment, ETC.,
but the committee cut him short.
They demanded to know why the
A. F. L. leadership was on record OPP
posing unemployment insurance when
IS per cent Of the membership of the
A. r. of l.. demands insurance.
While Green was trying to say the
workers were against unemployment
insurance, he was booed by the dele
gates. They dared him to come out
side and tell that TO the workers.
When Green launched his attack on
the Soviet Union, the delegates
shouted, "You and the A. F. of L.
leaders are fakersl We demand that
Il4C lain ellu lllG NC I1CoAO!
The committee then walked out on
Green, leaving him talking.
1900 Jeer.
Fifteen hundred marchers stood
outside the A. F. Of L. headquarters
jeering the high salaried dictators of
the A. F. of L. and then marched on
to huge mass meeting in Washing
ton Auditorium.
The delegation left with Green the
resolution of protest against the stand
of the A. F. of L. Vancouver conven-
ton against unemployment insur-
ance, and demanding the freedom
of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Bill
lings, framed up by California capt.
talists and A. F of L. takers in COM
bination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

recognize the main attack must h
directed now against the German
workers. The Wall Street Journal
dec. T. 1870, reviewing Hitler's
latest statements, said:
Considerable interest was at
tached TO Fridays statement Of
Adolf Hitler. leader of the German
Nazis. Comment frequently heard
that Hitler's remarks are growing
steadily less frey as he approaches
possible admission TO power leading
10 the belief that If his party gains
a hand IN the government It will
find 1t necessary to follow the pro
gram already laid down. Local
banking circles lin Wall Street
hold 1t is now but a matter Of
time before the Nazis ike sue
cessful bid for power but this, II Is
said, viii not necessarily mean the
overthrow Of Chancellor Bruening.
On the contrary, it is felt ChanceI-
Tor Bruening will remain in power
Us the head of the government, but
that the Nazis viii be given some
seats in the cabinet"