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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02

suspicion or looks at you in a worldly
wise fashion, only give them the reg
ular sales line then pack up and go. "
How the Rats Work.
These statesmen were supposed to
sell ties, Christmas cards, patent me
diicne, some were connected with
local clothing houses. Each man was
given list with Is to 40 names of
workers in the plant that was sup
piled to Downey by the Duplan plant.
The Daily Worker has a copy of
one Of these lists.
Each night these men had to turn
in written report to Downey on
strikers and their families that they
visited and their feelings and how
they progressed toward breaking the
strike-even reports showing how
much money they had in the house,
if they were hungry, If they could
pay the rent The Statesmen" pile it
into them that things are tough and
the best thing to do is to give in.
Also they report whether the strikers
have a militant attitude. These re-
ports were sent to the Markle Bank
Bldg. where stenographer worked
at night tipping them out and de-
hyering them to the company.
One of the statesmen" Garrett
called on worker who was staunch
supporter of the strike and tried two
or three times to engage in a con-
versation.
Besides, one of the statesmen" spies
by the name of Greeves is calling on
the small merchants in the vicinity
of the strike and bringing pressure
to bear against them to keep them
from giving credit to the workers so
that they win go hungry.
What the Strikers Must Do.
The strikers in the Hazelton plant
OF the Duplan Silk Co. must organize
a large and representative rank and
file strike committee to conduct the
strike. The strike can be won if thd
workers stay out and organize, not
allowing themselves to be misled by
the A. F. of L. takers. Mass picket
ing must be conducted to get out the
workers in other mills. Strikers, hold
together! Smash the wage cuts! Get
in touch with the Trade Union Unity
League at SO North 10th ST., Phila-
delphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
Starvation Stalks Through Coal Fields Of Pennsylvania

from the company store for her starving children 1t
was refused her. she snatehed loaf of bread This
was taken from her. Whereupon ten minutes later
her husband came, pistol in hand, and took, not
loaf but dozen. Moreover, he dared the company
hangers-on present at the peril of their lives to pre-
vent him. The coal companies and local governments
realizing the growing hunger and militancy of the
miners increasing their thug forces generally and
in southern Illinois and other btunlinous placing
special guards around freight cars loaded with food
stuffs,
Our Party, the TUUL unions and various other
workers organizations, in united front movement
have scheduled hunger marches in the local districts
There must be many more organized The two Execu-
tive Boards of the TUUL Miners and Metal Workers
Unions have just issued Joint call for militant
struggle against starvation. The starving miners
ready for action A wave of revolutionary spirit
sweeps among them Denied the opportunity to work
and refused unemployment relief, they will not pas
sively sarve They will seize food wherever they find
it. Whole sections of the bituminous on the
verge of hunger riots.
The situation in the mining industry provides test
of Partys ability to lead the masses in struggle
If we will this winter but give the miners little
ganizaton and leadership they will bring forward the
question Of unemployment and unemployment relief
dramatically and drastcally that the repercussion
will be felt in every industry in the country The
political strike is asogan OF action in the mining In
dustry Every Party district in which there is coal
territory should at once organize hunger marches In
all important coal camps and towns. These should be
connected with collection of signatures for our
BILL the election of delegates to Washington prepara-
tons for the great national unemployed demonstration
February 10TH and the organization Of unemployed
councils, the Miners Union, and the Party We never
had better opportunity to develop mass organization
and struggle than now exists among the famished
miners.
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HUNGER MARCHES
DUE NEXT WEEK
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tration is following a policy OF de-
liberately starving them into material
for the next war and to make them
allies in wage cutting program
Steel Jobless Mobilize.
In Ambridge, Pa, Their evil De a
hunger march Jan. 5.
In youngstown, Ohio, there will be
another, Jan. 5. There are more than
10000 jobless here, and they will not
die quietly They want food, and
they demand the city furnish at least
$40 a week for single unemployed
workers and $40 for those who have
families. The johless will march at Z
pm. and will send a delegation into
the city hall while they demonstrate
outside.
Southern Delegation.
On Jan. 6, over 100 delegates from
the throngs of jobless throughout
North Carolina will be at the state
capitol in Raleigh to present the de-
mands for the right of those who
sent them to live.
On Jan. 7, delegations from all over
Calf. will meet the jobless masses
in Sacramento, state capital, at IL
a. m, at Second and K. Sts, and
will proceed to the legislative halls
and make their demands.
On Jan. 8, the jobles Of Brooklyn
and ronX vii march on their borough
halls, demanding unemployment re-
lief, no evictions, no cutting off of
gas and Light Tor the jobiess, food
for, their School children, etc. The.
Bronx and Brooklyn Borough HALL
ection Councils of the Unemployed
have ben defying police terror for
days and mobilizing larger and larger
masses behind them. They have ipQ-
itantly stopped ewctions by mass
demonstrations and by putting the
furniture back They lead the
marches on Jan. 8.
On SATURDAY, Jan. 10, tne sWarnS
of iobless who are. growing desperate
from hunger in the great steel aud
coal center, Pittsburgh, will march
and make their demands for imine-
diate relief.
AL these hunger marches 30 hapd
in hand with the continual campaign
to collect tens Of thousands Of sigma
lures for the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, to organize the Coun-
ellis of the Unemployed, TO build up
great mass meetings to ratify the bill
and elect the delegations which Will
take 1t and the signatures to wash
ington and present them to congress
on February 10th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
NEW YEAR OPENS WITH LARGEST
NUMBER OUT OF WORK IN HISTORY

were 5,796,920 out Of work Prof.
Horace Taylor of Columbia in 1928
said there were not less than 100000
unemployed in that year. And DR..
Leo Wolman, so-caled authority on
unemployment, said in 1927 there
were at the minimum 2,055,00o out of
work.
Worst In 100 Years!
We can see that before the onset Of
the present severe crisis there were
at least 100000 workers who could
not get jobs. All records for drops
in production have been smashed by
the present crisis. Sir Charles Adds
declared that the present world crisis
(and It finds its severest expression
in the United States) is the worst In
the last hundred years.
Dr. Stewart mot the Same individ-
nal ouotsd aboval eouusctsd With
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
100000 BRITISH
MINERS STRIKE
100000 In Textile Mills
Threat WalkOut

LONDON. Jan. Over 10000
miners in the South Wales coal fields
have gone out on strike today. A. J.
Cook, secretary of the Miners Fed
Grafton, working together with the
bosses and the Macdonald govern
nlent. is feverishly attempting to stop
the strike and to keep it from spread
ing among other mine districts.
Following its usual policy of be-
trayal of the workers. interests, the
Macdonald government is frantically
attempting to get 10000 coal miners
in South Wales to give in to the
bosses. At the same time, 100000
workers in the Manchester district
are preparing for a walk-out against
the proposal Of The bosses to increase
speed-up and cut wages.
The Macdonald government has
been calling for peace" asking the
workers to accept any conditions put
forward by the bosses in order not to
strike and thus cause His Majesty's
Labor Government embarrassment
Negotiations between the 10000
coal miners and the bosses ended in
a deadlock. The bosses are trying to
smash the seven and one half hour
day law which in itself is a compro-
mise put over by the Macdonald gov
eminent. Realizing they gained an
advantage by the action of the Mac
Donald outfit, the coal bosses are
pressing this advantage in order to
increase hours of work.
In the Manchester textile mills the
bosses have evoked a scheme 20 make
the workers take more looms than
formerly which would throw tens of
thousands of textile workers out of
jobs, and make these remaining do
more work at less money. The work.
ers are adamant in their refusal.
In a previous strike over the same
issue in Scotland, the labor mis-
leaders, through the fundamentally
of the Macdonald government, wsre
able to stab the workers in the back
and the workers are in fighting
move, ready to support the walkout
of the South Wales miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
MASS COLLECTION
SUNDAY IN PHILA.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. IA
special Red Sunday has been arrang-
ed by the Trade Union Unity League
of this district for the collection OF
signatures in support of the Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill. All men,
bers of the unions affiliated with the
Trade Union Unity League and SYM
pathetic organizations are urged to
cine out Sunday, Jan. 4, between 9
a. m. and p. m. The following
stations are announced as collection
headquarters, Go to the nearest for
lists, etc.
1903 Tasker St, South ,Philadel-
phia.
SGT N. 5th ST., North philadelphia
1881 Franklin ST.. North Philsdel-
phia.
1926 Gordon St, Strawberry Man.
sion.
4O45 Girard Ave, West PhiladeI-
phia.
1902 Kensington Ave, Kensington
Section.
The Unemployed Councils of the
Trade Union Unity League are mo-
bilzing the jobless workers of Phil
adelphia as well as the workers who
are still employed and are subject To
the wage-cutting campaign and the
part-time work.
A rally will be held Jan. IA, 8 D. m,
at the Broadway Arena, Broad and
Christian SITS. as part of the cam
paign which is carried on by the
Trade Union Unity League for sigma
lures to be presented by the Unem-
ployed delegation in Washington on
Feb. 10. Is is part of the prepare
lions for a big Unemployment Con-
ference which viii be held Sunday
Jan. 5, for which the unemployed a.
well as the employed and particularly
A. F. OF L. locals in the textile and
building trades are being modified.
These workers face starvation and
eviction from their homes.
The main speaker at the meeting
on Jan. IA will be William z. Foster,
general secretary of the Trade rJr' :,
Unity League recently released from
jail after serving six months for
leading tho March Unemployment
demonstration in New Yogk CITY.
An yworkars ~ Invited ,@a44
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
Gable REPORTS
Show the World
Crisis Extends

The latest cable reports to the De-
partment of Commerce from many
countries show the economic crisis is
reaching sharper phases in nearly
every country in the world. On the
basis of the condition of many of the
markets on which United States i'm
perialism depends, it is clear that
there will be still further cut in
foreign trade in 1881. The following
are some of the details reported:
ARGENTINA--The dullness in gen.
eral business and weakness in ex-
change has continued with no i'm
provement in the outlook for better
cereal prices. The unfavorable credit
conditions in the country districts are
reported responsible for large can
cellations in ordered agricultural ma
chinery implements, of which heavy
stocks are accumulated and on hand.
Committees of land owners and tss-
ants have ben formed in some dis
tricts to compromise for reduced land
rentals in order to meet the emer-
gency for the next crop season.
AUSTRALIA-The general trade
and financial situation is less salts
factory than during the preceding
month. AS bank deposits continue
to decline, and state and federal def
cts increase, credit grows tighter.
Government deficits for the five
months ended Dec. totaled $780,
600 and revenues are lower. Iron and
steel production is approximately so
per cent that of November, 1929, and
building permits are considerably
lower.
NEW zEALAND-Business gener-
ally continues depressed throughout
New Zealand. Imports during 1881
will be reduced IS per cent, according
to present indications. Automobile
registrations for November were the
lowest for the past ten years and
December sales have been very slack
to date. Building and construction
is practically at standstill and lm-
Der and hardware business is very
dull. There is no sign of improve
ment in the general economic situa-
tion.
CANADA-With new lows for
wheat established during the weeks
trading at Winnipeg, the depression
in agriculture continues paramount
in the Canadian commercial position,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02

the census of unemployment in 1929
said, nearly four months ago, the
average amount Of unemployment in
any one day was between 100000
and 100000. Since then the en-
ployment indexes have dropped about
ten per cent, adding several millions
to the ranks of the unemployed.
More in the Future.
From all these facts, and remem-
bering that the agricultural workers
are not even counted in the above
estimates, the American workers have
in their ranks an army Of jobless be-
tween 100000 and 100000 stead
lily unemployed. With part-time en-
ployment. the figure is brought up to
between 100000 and 100000.
The leading capitalist experts say
this figure will be increased In 1881!
The downswing Of production is I'M
interrupted. Speed-up Is being in
creased, meaning present production
is going on with les workers. Every
process of the crisis is squeezing more
and more workers out Of their jobs
The entire working-class IN some
form or other, is affected directly, by
the largest mass OF unemployed
workers ever seen at any time in one
country In the history Of the world.
This Is the main problem facing the
workers IN 1851
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
BURMA PEASANTS
GAIN SUCCESSES
Bombay Riots Spread;
Cops Hurt
Gable by Impreeorrl

LONDON, Jan. Lone hundred
and ninety-two were injured yester-
day night in Bombay street fighting
when police and troops tried to pre-
vent the holding Of rs meetings to
commemorate, the anniversary of in
dependence at4the call of. the Lahore
Congress. The police fired ON Mala-
bathiH crowds injuring- many The
masses surged forward throwing
stones, Seventeen police we're injured
severely and sent to the hosnital
Mrs, Hnyahar Lal Nehru was arrested
under the criminal law. amendment
act.
Latest dispatches from Rangoo1s.
Burma. state that the 1000 peasants
who are in rebellion against the head
taxqand robbery of their land through
the aid of British imperialism out
witted a patrol of British and Pun
iabi troops, executed a bold scrty
within seventy-five miles of Rangoon
and bombed a bridge so damaging 1t
as to halt train service and inter-
fere with the movement of troops.
So successful was this raid that
Rangoon itself was in state of tur-
mol. Reports were spread that the
rebels had broken through and had
begun to attack the city itself. Most
of the villages of the Tharawaddy
district are deserted, the inhabitants
having joined the forces of the rebels.
Despite the feverish attempts Of
the Macdonald troops to wipe out
more than 1000 peasants and agri-
cultural laborers who are rebslling
against head tax, starvation and the
robbery of their lands, dispatches
from Rangoon to capitalist news
papers here state that the rebels are
successfully continuing their attacks
against the imperialist authorities.
The insurgent peasants are iorti-
fled in the jungle are near, Rangoon
in the Tharawaddy district. British
and Punjabi troops who were sent
against them reported killing over 100.
but the peasants have been able to
make several successful sorties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

ditions in the bitunnous districts beggar descrp
ton Men, women, and children are actually starving
in great masses There is next to nothing to eat
Babies are dying like flies for want of milk. Grown
children cannot go to school for lack of food and
clothes Barefoot. they trudge about in the snow
The dread hunger disease, peIagra is spreading
throughout the biturinous sections.
The companies have no organized relief systems
Their motto is the brutal of John l.. Lewis that
100000 miners must get out of the coal industry In
many places the miners are still allowed to remain in
the decrepit company houses. This is because the
mine companies, realizing that the crisis in the coal
industry is chronic have for their surplus
company houses than for their surplus miners. The
company houses fall and into disrepair, the
companies doing nothing to keep them up, Often
without light and water they barely shelter the fam
ished workers from the wtry blasts In the coke
gions thousands of miners and other homeless work
ers sleep in the coke ovens trying to find warmth and
shelter In such desperate conditions live great armies
Of miners and their families while useless capitalist
parasites spend millions Of dollars for coming out
parties for their daughters, trips to Europe, etc.
Many miners seeing their families starving be-
coming desperate, Suicides rapidly on the in
crease, Organized banduy is beginning, Hungry
workers are organizing in small groups and stealing
whatever food they from the richer farmers of
the country round about delegate to the recent
meeting OF Miners Union Board reported the fol-
lowing typical incident One miner told another that
he was going to an adjoining town to look for work
The second ridiculed him wasting his time and in
wted him to join the party he had organized to go
and get a sheep He joined. The workers are going
Into the company stores, demanding food and il 1t
is not given them taking it by force.
Here is typical incident: In western Pennsylvania
town a Negro woman few days ago demanded food
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
"Wdit Hrs. on Cold Placement
TOR Lousy Sandwich" Workers
Eager for Daily; Orders Grow

Last night, 7 waited three hours
in the Breadline at Times Square for
a meaSly sandwich and a cup Of cof-
fee with saltpeter in it," a jobles
worker writes. Hundreds of unem-
ployed workers had to wait till twelve
o'clock midnight, six hours Of freez-
ing on the cold pavement for a lousy
sandwich.
Some sentimental guys thought
they'd help the jobless handing out
nickels. Another one picked out the
most ragged Of us to hand thin
dime to each one. But a couple Of
unemployed workers handed out hun
dreds Of copies of the Daily Worker.
"The workers in the line grabbed
the paper like hot cakes. They
surely know the Daily. The street
cleaner who has job cleaning up
the paper sups picked up two Dali
les and showed them to the cop
with a dirty grin, but a jobless
worker hollerei gimme that paper
Then another picked the other
Daily from the trash can"
Three U. S. sailors came to the
breadline at this time and wanted to
get in line but the cop refused to let
them pretending that it was a dis
grace to the uniform to let them in
line. The sailors protested. I'm
hungry, one of them said. want
something to eat. You thing got a
lot Of money in the Navy Hell, no.
Let me in this line. A big crow
gathered around the cop and the
three sailors, the sailors, trying to get
in the line and the cop pushing them
off. Then a half dozen cops came
and pushed the gobs away"
LETTERS SHOW ENTHUSIASM
OF WORKERS FOR THE DAILY
H. H. B., Detroit, writes:
please continue with the Daily
Worker, for / love the paper, the
Daily Worker. I read it every day.
I talk to my fellow-workers and will
send you the names of several work
ers. Some seem to understand and
some seem to be still asleep. About
one out Of every thousand is working
and the rest are out on the streets.
But continue on with the Daily
Worker. Teach the soldiers with the
Daily Workers. Give me liberty or
death"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
Engineers Calculate
Starvation of Jobless

NEW YORK-Another swindling
investigation" which will make a
pretense of solving unemployment,
and in the course Of months and
years pile up some figures of doubt
full value while 100000 workers
starve for lack Of jobs. is to be made
by the American Engineering Coun-
Gil. chiefs Of that organization stated
yesterday.
They have appointed 100 sub-com-
nittees to collect figures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
PHILA. liberal"
SHEET DEMANDS
.SERIO'S DEATH
Show Kinship With
Bloody Fascism
tBy a Worker Correspondent

10y d nuAhCA
PHILADELPHIA.-Only the mass
action Of the working class itself will
save Conlrade Guido Serio,
Speaking of this very vital case, I
noticed in the Philadelphia Record
of Dec. Is an editorial dealing with
this and showing the line Of the lib
erals" in regard to Serio. The Phila-
delphia Record calls itself liberal
paper.
Shows Liberal Stand.
1t shows the stand of the liberals
in this case when it says that there
is no room for sentiment in the case
of Guido Serio" and here they state
the case and the reason for his ar
rest and sentence of deportation to
Italy. which means certain death to
active opposition to fascism.
"Serio asks to be sent to Russia at
his own expense" and here they state,
lis it sophistry to say that to order
seditious alien returned to his ma
tive land to face death penalty is
equivalent to inflicing death SEN
tence for his offense committed here?
Is it brutal to say to the prisoner
that is your affair, not ours. You
cannot expect us to protect you
against Italy, whose laws you also
dehed?' On the other hand would
it be in accord with the comfy OF
governments for this one to help
Serio escape justice in his native land
as administered by its government?
Such questions are bound to be
asked"
And here is the answer given by
this reactionary liberal" paper: 1--WE
can perceive no reason why the fed
eral authorities should hesitate to
send Serio back to Italy IGNORING
his request to go to Russia. But it
will be interesting to see what the
United States Circuit Court Of Ap-
peals, to which the case is to be car
ried, will rule"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-02
10000 SOUTH BEND
JOBLESS BEING
FED PROMISES
Four Breadlines In
Auto Town
(By a Worker Correspondent

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The bosses
and their tools, the social fascist So
ciaIsts here are trying to create the
impression that Immediately after
New Year thirty thousand unem-
ployed workers here will be given
jobs and unemployment will disap-
pear from the city limits Of South
Bend. they say.
They tell the starving unemployed
that the Federal government is plan
ming to build a huge post office
building which Will cost many hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars and
that that will solve unemployment.
Fake Bldg. Program
While it may be true that the fed
eral government is planning to build
a post office here it is also true that
only a handful Of workers win be
hired to do the work. And these
worT5ers will be speeded up beyond
human endurance and their wages
VIII be about IS cents an hour. No
worker believes these social liars.
But the government has been
building post office buildings around
here for the last year and the unem-
ployed didn't get any work, That is
why no worker believe that the
building program" will ever be put
into effect in South Bend.
Breadlines Here.
The unemployed are realizing more
than ever before that instead of lis
tening to the capitalist bunk and
selling apples they are anxious to do
something that will make the bosses
shiver and tremble with fear.
There are three or four breadlines
here and few workers go back again
to eat the rotten food given them
Join the South Bend Council OF
Unemployed and fight for real sub
Gantial unemployment relief for you
Ind your family.