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all winter as the officials have an
nounced it would. No one in Hudson,
however, takes this promise seriously.
The announcement was probably
made as a smokescFeen to trick the
workers into giving a full days pay
to fake community chest campaign.
p. A. Dittmar, plant manager of the
Atlas Corporation, was also president
of the community chest organization.
Need Organization
Workers in the plant and in other
industrial plants in this city are be-
ginning to awaken. Recently hun
! dreds of copies of the Daily Worker
containing reports of actual condi-
lions in the plants in Hudson have
aroused the workers to a militant
fighting spirit.
They are beginning to talk about
organization. Workers in the Atlas
plant are thinking about organizing
Cement Workers Union
Above all, they know that it was
the Daily Worker that printed stories
of local conditions and as a result,
the workers acted together and voted
against, and defeated, mayor who
had always deceived the workers and
groveled meekly before the bosses.
Their only regret seems to be that
republican instead of Communist
N1eyn-, was elected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. "a. -
Sunday, at Grard Manor Hall the
conference under the auspices of the
United Front Hunger March Commit
tee took place. From the various
delegates representing Unemployed
Councils, A. r. of L. locals, Trade
Union Unity League groups, Workers
International Relief branches and
other working class organizations, it
was evident, that Philadelphia is dew
clipping a mass campaign for the
hunger march. Two Hundred and
twenty-four delegates representing
1873 organizations showed by their
unanimous support that they were
behind the Unemployed Councils in
their fight for unemployment insur-
ance.
In view Of the fact that only eleven
days are left before the delegates ar
rive from the Eastern Atlantic Sec
ton in Philadelphia. the conference
elected a committee Of 81 for the
purpose OF intensifying the drive for
foods, funds and transportation. Also
at this conference SO delegates were
elected as marchers to Washington.
The rest of the delegates are to be
elected from the various branches
and other working class organizations.
A committee of the Unemployed
Councils and the Workers Interna-
tional Relief visited the offices OF
Mayor Mackey to demand free food
and lodging for the marchers while
in Philadelphia.
Mayor Is "Out"
When the committee came to the
mayors office they were told 1.-THE
mayor is out" and the secretary was
very busy" and did not have much
time to spare. The delegation told
the secretary that the Unemployed
Councils OF Philadelphia expect the
demands for free food and lodgings
will be granted; they also served no.
tice that on Dec. they will have
mass demonstration In front Of the
City Hall. in order to bring mass
pressure for their demands.
Funds and Food Are Urgent.
The Workers International Relief
calls upon all delegates that were at
the United Front Conference, as we'll
as all the workers of Philadelphia, to
intensity the collection of funds, food
and the securing of trucks for the
Hunger March. All delegates that
were present should carry out the
pledge Of Immediately activizing their
respective organizations for a mass
collection throughout the entire dis
trict.
All funds already collected should
Immediately be turned in to the
United Front Hunger March Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
Thanksgiving Day
Public Trials to
Be Held by Youth


NEW YORK.-The Youth Com
mittees of the Unemployed Councils
have organized mass public trials for
the youth on Thanksgiving Day"
Nov. 26. In preparation for these
there have been appeals made to the
unemployed youth, through leaflets,
demonstrations, struggles aroung
specific youth cases for relief and to
employed youth in the factories. City
officials, charity heads, A. F. of L.
officials, demagogic politicians have
been indicted and challenged to de-
fend themselves at these Public
Trials. -
The basis for these trials is to ex-
pose these officials before the youth.
Unmasking their demagogy in COM
pletely ignoring of any relief for the
unemployed youth. Discrimination
practiced against the young unem-
ployed in getting jobs or even miser-
able charity relief will be exposed
This youth action on "thanksgiv-
ing day" is aimed at the hypocrisy OF
the bosses, when they ny to satisfy
the penniless, starving unemployed
youth and children of unemployed
parents with dinners on this day,
They expect them to be contented to
suffer the year around. This is a
fitting day for the Public Trials
which will give a smashing answer
Of the unemployed youth to the
bosses. The trials will serve to ex-
pose these rich bosses and their
politicians who don't give a damn
for the unemployed workers and espe-
cially the unemployed youth.
Tn unemployed youth has been
quite active in the preparations for
the National Hunger March to Wash
ington on Dec. Z. Many of the dele
gates going will be young, unem-
ployed workers. They will be active
in, organizig and continuing the strug-
gle amongst the youth in the fight to
get adequate relief for the unem-
ployed.
The Public Trials are being organ
lied in the following cities, which will
be a youth action for the National
Hunger March: Youngstown, Char
lotte, Duluth, Superior, Minneapolis,
st. Paul, Bridgeport, New York, Cleve-
land, Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Kanses City, Detroit, Sioux City.
The witnesses for the prosecution
will be unemployed young workers,
children of the unemployed who have
suffered and are suffering now from
no relief. The witnesses and the
prosecution will expose the dema-
gogy Of the officials, will show up the
discrimination practiced against the
unemployed in giving out job and
giving out miserable charity.
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N.M.U. Board in
Meeting Maps Out
Program of Action
CONTINUED FROM PAGE OEEl

was making great strides. were areas
Of struggle.
The unions perspective, its keynote
of secretary Borich's report, was a
series of immediate strike struggles
around local demands-wage cuts,
payment for dead work, abolition of
cutting wages in half for so-called
dirty coal, etc,
Corps of Leading Forces
The question Of developing new
of leading forces was carefully dis
cussed. Both in Kentucky and West
Virginia big strides forward have been
made in this regard. Attic hundreds
of leaders were arrested in Kentucky
it was pointed out. there were always
new leaders to take their places.
Pennsylvania registered some progress
also, but not sufficient. Other dis
tricts were backward in this.
Following Borich's report, William
z. Foster, national secretary Of the
Trade Union Unity League reported
on the other unions of the TUUL,
and dealt at great length with the
shortcomings and advance of the
union, making detailed proposals for
future work. He especially dealt with
the growing strike sentiment in Ken
lucky and the forms the struggle
there will assume.
1t was decided TO work more closely
with the Trade Union Center in New
York and the International Miners
Committee whose Headquarters are
in Berlin.
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unemployed in this one county of AL
legheny alone. Even though these
figures are deliberately underesti-
mated by the state government, they
show over fourth Of the workers
unemployed.
Delegates to the National Hunger
March from Pittsburgh proper were
elected at the United Front confer
ence held at the Workers Center
Monday night.
All through the district, at confer
ences, additional delegates were
elected Saturday and Sunday. Alto
gether there will be 66 delegates from
Western Penna. and SO from Eastern
Ohio, all unemployed steel workers
or miners or members of their fam
lilies.
Tomorrow a committee will call
upon the mayor to demand that
housing and food be supplied to the
National Hunger Marchers coming
through Pittsburgh. Further demands
for gas and oil, ETC., will be made.
The city of Uniontown has already
agreed to feed all national delegates
and agreed to their holding meet
ings in towns within their county
limits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
HUNGER MARCH TODAY
JObless Workers Camp
Burned by Police and
the JObless Arrested
by q Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, nl-The homes of $50
johless men were burned by the police
and the men locked up at the Des-
PLANES st. station on charges Of dis
orderly conduct. If they are con-
victed they will have prison shelter.
If not they might go TO Hoover Hotel
the roadway under Wacker drive.
The men had occupied two camps
both on Monroe st. near Halstead st,
Their homes were rude sfacks made
from bits of wood and tin. Cooking
was done over bonfires, when there
was anything to cook. Clothing was
aired on suspended wires. The men
slept in relays keeping a guard to
drive away huge rats.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25

Degnan, like a welI-behaved tool,
helped to organize public opinion 10
ealiy In behalf of the rich cement
trust, AS a loyal democrat he ap-
peared extremely ridiculous In bally-
hoo.ng for protective tariff" on
esment-an ancient orthodox repub-
Lean principle!
s1s to SIS Week
When this same cement corporation
recently put into effect the second
wage cut made in their plant this
year, slashad the workers pay 10 per
cant and reduced time schedule to
four 8-heur days per week. MiclSy
Degnan made no protest nor any at
tempt to organize public opinion on
behalf of the workers. Most of the
workers in the Atlas plant receive a
miserable weekly wage of from $l2
to $15.
High Rents
And what is more, the benevolent
Atlas Cement Corporation forgot en-
tirely to reduce the rent on these
miserable novels while they were
slsshing wages. Rents elsewhere In
the city are coming down.
On top OF this hopeless situation
facing tine workers, news has leaked
cQs that third wage cut may be
expected before the winter ends. Pro-
viding, OF course, the plant operates
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charge made against them is prepsr-

charge made against them is prepar-
ing to create unrest on Nov. 7.
Korean and Chinese students in
New York yesterday united in de-
nunciation of the japanese attack on
the Chinese masses.
A Mukden dispatch reports an in
crease of guerilla warfare againstlthe
Japanese invaders throughout South
ern Manchuria. In one instance, the
Chinese raided town near Muk-
den, overpowered the Japanese po-
lice and took away their clothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25

On their way in, steel workers from
Verona, Harverulle, and Blawnox,
and miners from all adjacent camps
will meet before the gates of BIaw-
nox penitentiary in mass protest
against the Imprisonment OF mine
strikers and steel workers, of whom
long list is held in this prison.
Among the prisoners whose release
will be demanded at this meeting are
the two remaining Woodiawn case
men, Tom lima and Pete Muselin.
One of the Woodlawn case prisoners,
Milan Resetar, has already died from
disease brought on by conditions 1n
Jail. Others are the Canonsburg de-
PENDANTS: Leo Thompson, Anna and
Stella Rasefske, and others. Others
are the wildwood pickets who were
shot and arrested after being missed
by the hail of bullets that killed
Peter zigaric. Among these is Tom
Myerscough.
$4,000 More Jobless.
AS the thousands mobilize for this
Allegheny County Hunger March, an
nouncement is made from the state
labor office in Harrisburg that $4,000
more workers have lost their jobs in
the state, making a total of 1890
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
.JOBLESS STEEL WORKERS,
MINERS DEMAND RELIEF
$4,000 MORE Are FIRED

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 24-Tomorrow
workers and unemployed workers from every
part of Allegheny County will march into
Pittsburgh to demand immediate relief for the
unemployed form the County Commissioners
here They will in West Park N j. for mass meet
ing at 2 p. m.
Miners and steel workers will comprise ninetenths the
delegation Many trucks have already been modified to bring
these workers from many miles away.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
Children Organized Through Yard Meetings,
to March on Cleveland Mayor, Demand Meals

Demands will be served on Acting
Mayor Burton for: free hot lunches,
clothes and shoes, school supplies and
books for all children Of the unem-
ployed; cash relief for all unemployed
women from the Associated Charities,
no abuse or discrimination against
unemployed women at the chain
stores; IS cash relief weekly for all
unemployed young workers and free
lodging for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. "a. -
meetings, pot and pan demonstra-
tions, leaflet distributions, and every
other method are being used to mob
ilize women, children and young
workers for their hunger march on
the city hall Friday, November 27.
The marchers will start at 1880
p. m. from two points: 56o7 st. Clair
Ave. (3S04 Schoville Ave.) and 1o51
Auburn Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORKER
GROUPS ACTIVE AND GROWING
IN PASADENA A N D LEBANON


"A new Daily worker Club has been
organized in Pasadena, CAL This
Club Is already in full swing. 1t be-
gan with eight members, it now has
20 and it's still growing. This new
club has followed many of the sug-
gestions given in these columns. 1t Is
conducting a correspondence course
in Fundamentals of Communism that
makes the meetings alive and in
teresting. The members voted re-
Gently that every new member should
bring a friend at the next meeting
and in this way the club is spreading
out.
This last idea is such an excellent
way of spreading the club that 1T
ought to be encouraged and because
Of this we suggest that Daily Worker
Clubs be known hereafter as Friends
of the Daily Worker Groups, 50 that
members should always have present
In their minds that they are to get
their friends down TO the meetings,
and THESE friends should bring other
fricndi, etc.
We quote the letter from the Pasa-
dena iilub and We recommend it for
careful study by all Daily Worker
agents and readers and in fact all
Eorks,s, as the letter will give them
a greGI many points on how to start a
Friends of the Daily Worker Group
and how to keep it going. This is the
letter:
"A month ago Daily Worker
Club was organized in Pasadena.
We hold the meetings once a week,
and we combinedthc Daily Worker
Club with correspondence class in
the Fundamentals Of Communism,
50 that the readers Of the paper
will get = better understanding Of
what the Communist Party stands
for. Our plan has worked wonder
fully. rs this course makes our
meetings much more interesting
than II we confined ourselves TO
discussing only the paper and social
current events.
I'VE started with eight members
and now we are 20, From hte be-
ginning we passed a motion that
every new member should bring a
friend the following week. and the
results are that we are increasing
every week.
instead OF dues paying we have a
ccllsction fund box so that those
who work can contribute as much Is
they want, and save embarrassment
to those who cannot pay anything.
We found that these contributing
amount to more than dues paying.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
Japanese Communists Arrested.

A number of Japanese Commu-
nists are reported to have been ar
rested in Flushing CMukden pro-
vince by the Japanese military be-
cause of their activities against the
japanese seizure of Manchuria. The
Manchurian Daily News also reports
80 Communists, including a number
of women, arrested in Darien. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25

Part Of Chang's Army.
"'ReaI War Feared as Japanese
Battle Again.
Drive Begins Near Chinchow."
Japan Looks TO League for More Help
Japan having received the open
sanction of the League of Nations for
its seizure of Manchurt, as q base
against the Soviet Union, now asks
the League to sanction the new Jap
anese drive in Southern Manchuris.
The dispatch reports:
Meanwhile, Toxic asked the
League to obtain withdrawal of the
last Of Chang's troops from Man
churia 10 within the Great Wall Of
China.
Japan want neutral zone from
Chinchow to the Great Wall at
Scandinavian. Such a develop
ment would be tantamount to the
surrender of that area, eighty miles
long and twenty-five miles wide, by
China"
A Toxic dispatch to the New York
Times admits that Japan has no fear
that the League of Nations or the
United States will take any effective
measures against her aggressions in
China.
Stimson Continues Secret Notes
The same dispatch says that "Strict
secrecy is being maintained regarding
Secretary Stimson's communication
to Foreign Minister Shidehara."
Throughout the conflict in Man
churia, the United States and Japan
have carried on an exclusive of secret
notes. These notes have been inter-
preted even by imperialist sources,
including American papers support
ing the Hoover administration, as
supporting and strengthening the
japanese position in Manchuria.
A Paris dispatch to the New York
Times makes clear the leading role
of the United States in the anti
Soviet front and in support of the
japanese as the spearhead in the
carrying out of the plan for a new
division of China and war on the
Soviet Union. The dispatch declares:
See Important Clique Backing Japan
Ambassador Dawes conversation
have given the impression that the
United States is collaborating not
so much with the Council as with
a few powers of the Council. He
frequently conferred with the Jap
anese, especially Tsuneo Matsu-
datra. japanese Ambassador to
London, with DIR. Alfred Sac Of
Chins. but aside fro ma courtesy
, call he has talked only once in a
week with the president of the
Council, Aristide BRAND, and only
two or three times with Sir John
Simon, Foreign Secretary of Brit
tain"
The dispatch after pointing out
that Dawes has ignored the smaller
powers in the Council, states:
Those who are aware of AM
bassador Dawes's active work be-
hind the scenes, especially with the
japanese and Chinese, and the diff
ficultfes of his position consider all
the surface indications help to cast
doubt on the American attitude"
The same dispatch reports another
secret conference between Dawes and
Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambas-
sador to France. The British, afraid
Of being again outmanouvered by the
United States into a position OF OPP
position to Japan, are reported to be
refusing to commit themselves on the
question of invoking the economic
sanctions under Article XII of the
League Covenant until they are Gin
formed of the American position to
such program"
The New York Herald Tribune, an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25

organ Of the Republican adn1tnistYa-
ton, yesterday published an editorial
calling for the speeding-up OF AM
erican war preparations and fer thu
carrying out OF Hoover's Ar7nistice
Day proposals for war against Tire re-
volutionary struggles Of the Chinese
masses and the colonial peoples The
editorial points out the extensive use
by the Japanese Of horse cavalry In
Manchuria and declares:
1.-THE lesson for American nsk2l-
tary policy Is plain. We nausE 20
ahead with our motorized cavalry,
of course, but we must not neglect
the mounted branch. Only fourteen
years ago we were required 10 send
an expeditionary force overseas
Unlikely as II seems today, We may
have to send an expeditionaFy force
abroad in the future. II wowla -
folly to depend solely on motor We
hicles if we were required to exert
our military military effort In Nam
churia or Africa or In almost any
corner Of the world except Western
Europe" Emphasis ours, DsEiy
WOrker.)
Japanese Crisis Growing Wessa.
The japanese economic and ftnan-
cial crisis continues to intensity and
is having its effect on yen exchange.
The New York Times yesterday re-
ported:
THE report that Japan was sees-
ing loan had an unfavorsbIs sf-
feet upon japanese bonds yesser-
day and was held partly responsible
for break of points in yen en-
change"
Japanese government bonds and
commercial bonds guaranteed by the
Japanese government suffered fall
in prices.
Cotton Shipments Crowd Oriental
Ports.
A Mobile, Ala, dispatch 7eports
that Shanghai warehouses are
crowded with cotton purchased by
Japan in this country. In the mean
time, thousands Of bales are reported
arriving at Oriental ports, with large
quantities now held up In r1orida
because past shipments have crowded
storage facilities in Shanghai and
Japanese ports.
Kuomintang In New Move Against
Chinese Masses.
The Kuonintang traitors, alarmed
by the growing protests and resist
arlce Of the Chinese masses, have
made a new move to help the In
perialsts carry out the re-division of
China, Wellington Koo, new Nan
king Foreign Secretary, is reported in
a dispatch from Marking to have a
new peace plan" to present to the
League Council. A Paris dispatch
interprets Koo's new plan as ID
rect appeal for American interven-
ton in China"
Soviet Press Exposes japanese Aid
TO Gen. Ma
Walter Duranty, Moscow CORE
spondent of the New York Times. re-
ports publication by the Soviet news-
papers, Izvestia and Pravda, of dis
patch from Peiping stating that the
Dairen press now admits General Ma
Chen-shan received military supplies
from Japanese sources. Dwantys
dispatch tells of exposures In the
Soviet press of the provocative &C
tons of the Japanese against the
Soviet Union. His dispatch further
states:
There was no comment in any
Soviet newspaper today, but a Paris
dispatch describing the proceedings
of the League Council session wss
published under the headline, Tm-
perialists Negotiate About Seizure Of
China with the subhead, 'Manchu-
ria Remains in japanese Hands,'
which show that Soviet opinion -
he subject is unchanged"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
Mckeesport Conference Elects National March
Delegates; Women, Negro and White

McKEESpORT, Pa, Nov. PA
united front conference in this steel
town last night had packed hall
and elected six delegates to the Ma
tional Hunger March Of whom two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
NEW PAY-CUT THREAT
LOOMS FOR WORKERS
IN ATLAS CEMENT CO.
Wages Now Down To $12 and SIS A Week;
New Cut Will Bring Actual Starvation
Workers Urged to Build Action Committees
In Every Department
(By a Worker Correspondent

HUDSON N. MAYOR Michael J. Degnan, present Dem
ocratc Mayor Hudson and local political mouthpece of the
Universal Atlas Cement Company subsidiary of the u s. Steel
Corporation sustained his first political defeat last election
day after IL years public office Loss of large portion
of the working vote of the chief OF the
mayors downfall.
In 1929 and 1880 when the cement barons carrying
incessant campaign to put tariff raid Mayor
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are Negroes and two are women. AL
four men on the delegation are I'M
employed steel workers. Five truck
loads Of Allegheny County hunger
marchers are coming into Pittsburgh
from McKeesport tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
Elect Philadelphia Delegation of SO to the
National Hunger March: Demand Food. Beds

mittee, e2e Arch St, Philadelphia
Pa.
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JAPANESE IN NEW BATTLE TO
EXTEND HOLD ON MANCHURIA
Part Of Chang's Army.

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