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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-03
STRIKE
PARTIAL VICTORY
1000 Mill w orkers
Build Organization

MAYNARD, Mass, March 2.-Over
1000 who struck at the Assabett mill
here of the American Wooden Co.
last Thursday, in solidarity with the
Lawrence strikers and for local de-
mands, have voted to go back on the
basis of partial victory, approx
mately the same as the gains at
Lawrence. The Assabett strikers
have won 35 per cent wage in
crease on silver tone work" and
have forced the company to with
draw the efficiency (speed-up) ex-
perts.
The vote was taken at mass
meeting of all strikers held yester-
day. The strikers go back organ
lied and will continue the fight
against the 1912 per cent wage-cut
ordered by the American Wooden Co.,
the same company as at Lawrence.
There was mobilization of the
churches, imported police and the
United Textile Workers to break the
strike.
The National Textile Workers
Union local is now well organized
here.
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Z More Shops Out In Dress Strike;
Soviet Needle Workers Send Greetings

NEW YORK.-The beginning of the
third week Of the dressmakers strike
here saw the morale of. the strikers
as high as ever, picketing as mil
liant - on the first day of the strike,
ana seven more shops joined the hun
dreds already out under the leader
ship of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, affiliated with the
Trade Trade Union Unity League.
The dressmakers are striking for
the elimination of sweatshop condi-
tons, a guaranteed minimum wage
scale, a shorter workday (the hours
now average go week. and recogni-
ton of the shop committees and of
the Industrial Union. More than 1900
dressmakers have already won these
demands since the strike began.
Workers organizations all over the
country are supporting the strikers
both here and in Philadelphia. Two
kilograms received by the Union yes
terday indicate the extent of the in
terest the dressmakers' strike has a
result. One, from Russia, reads:
"NijnivgorOd Needle Workers Send
Rovo'u:'oaary Greetings to Fighting
3r-3silakcrs. BE Firm in Struggle.
Tue other. front Los Angeles, says.
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HUNGER MARCH
REACHES TRENTON.
4 900 Demonstrate;
Elect Delegation

TRENTON, N. j., March 2.-The
New Jersey hunger marchers have
reached Trenton They arrived at 3
p. m. and were met by 1000 workers
on the outskirts of the city who had
waited fer them for hours. A large
delegation from the local unem-
ployed council met them with pla-
cards, and a meeting was held. The
crowd cheered and applauded. After
the meeting the 200 delegates accom-
panied by TOO other workers marched
for an hour and a quarter through
all the workers sections and facto-
ries. Workers cheered them on from
the windows. Thousands lined the
streets.
The workers marched up to the
state house amid cheers and songs.
A meeting was not scheduled but one
was held. 1000 workers were await
ing the hunger marchers here. They
marched to a hall and held an in
door meeting where Is delegates were
elected to present the bill to the gov
ernor of the state. A meeting is
scheduled for 8 o'clock.
Hundreds of dailies, leaflets, Lib
orators, Labor Unities, ETC., we're dis
tributed and sold. The marchers
were greeted very enthusiastically
everywhere they went.
Arrest in New Brunswick.
One marcher was arrested in New
Brunswick. He was sitting in a small
provision truck with the food and
literature, and was pulled out of the
truck and arrested by the police. He
was bailed out and this morning in
the courts was fined $25. The charge
against him was that he wanted to
attack a bystander. He was doing
nothing but sitting in the truck.
After supper an educational meet
ing was held, at which IS to 20 work.
ers signed up for the various
branches of the Trade Union Unity
League. In the morning the mass
demonstration was held as planned.
The police tried to break it up, but
the workers resisted, and the meeting
continued. Some Fascists started a
fight but it was quickly quashed by
the Defense Corps.
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ALBANY, N. Y, March Both
hunger marches, the one which has
passed through all the industrial
towns up the Hudson River and the
march coming in from upstate met
today at p. m. at Hudson Bridge
here. The Hunger March on AL
bany is an accomplished fact.
When the two marching groups
met, a meeting was held and speeches
of greeting made by representatives
of each. Then, combined, making
total of over 500 marchers, they
swept down through the main streets
OF Albany, the state capitol, and the
throngs along the Sidewalks cheered
the signs and placards they carried,
calling for immediate relief and in
surance for the jobless. The march
ers shouted I'VE want work or
wages"
Arriving at Clinton Square, job
less demonstration was held in which
5000 workers and unemployed work
ers of Albany participated. One Of
the speakers was Mike Pef, secretary
of the Albany Unemployed Council.
Tomorrow at 10 a. m. there will be
another demonstration at the state
capitol building, with speakers adj
dressing the crowd from the steps
of the capitol.
At II am. the delegation from
both groups of marchers will go in to
present demands to save the lives of
the hundreds of thousands of unem-
ployed in this state to Governor
Roosevelt.
Last night, after the demonstration
by the hunger marchers in Hudson,
10 unemployed workers in the crowd
Immediately formed an Unemployed
Council.
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NEGRO WOMENFOR
B'kLYN MARCH 5

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Delegates rep
resenting "a working-class women's
organizations, trade unions and fra
ternal organizations at a conference
called by Section of the Commu-
mist Party endorsed March. 8 as In
ternational Women's Day of Struggle
Against Capitalism and Exploita-
ton.
Delegates representing these or
CARNATIONS pledged to mobilize the
widest number of working women for
the international Women's Day DEM
onstration, which will be held for
the workers Of Williamsburgh, Boro
Hall, Green Point and Masphet at
the Grand Manor, 318 Grand st.,
near Havemeyer, Brooklyn, on Sun
day, March 8, at p. m.
Special effort to mobilize the Ne
gro working women was thoroughly
discussed at the conference and a
special affair prior to the mass meet
ing to bring the Negro working
women in preparation for the March
8 celebration has been arranged for
Friday evening at 81 Graham Ave,
where banquet will be held.
Mass open-air meetings will be
held all during the week to reach
the housewives and workers from the
shops.
Open-air shop gate meetings in
front of the Feldman and Kahn tex
tile mill, where the working women
are terrifically exploited. will be held
u expose the conditions and mob
ilDe those workers for March &
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day, most of them in Harlem, where
dressmakers are being paid 81, Sc and
So for as much as 10 hours of work
week. The majority of the strikers
in Harlem are young workers with
little or no experience in strike strug-
giles, Notwithstanding. they march on
the picket lines, singing and cheer
ing, and have offered effective re-
sistance to the police, who are aiding
the employers and the IL.G.W. Com
pany union) to break the strike.
Young Dressmakers Meet Tonight
The Youth Department of the Mt
VIII. has called mass meeting of
all young dressmakers for tonight at
$50 in the headquarters of the I'M
ion, 131 w. 2Sth st. A report out
lining the strike activities of the
young workers and submitting plans
for extending these activities will be
submitted. The young dressmakers
are among the most exploited of all
being forced to do the work of adult
dressmakers at third or a fourth OF
their salary. Young dressmakers hsvt
taken leading part III the militant
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-03

Significance of the Menshevik
Trial
Following of the Moscow trial of the Menshvks
Communist N1OscowEdJ
( ST., Especial Gable to the Daily Worker)
BY PAGE ARNOT

political significance of the trial of the
the completely the Second
the mperast bougeoe
corresponding wreckn activities inside
International the dock Not only the Menshevk
the activities supported morally
materially International
so-cald because in the
sought Vrow Soviet power froma peaceful
violence weckng with
degenera
Republics, and left them in the di
working Of
terventon plans
hope of section of
the neegentsa and other
institutions hating the Soviet
power being the
Soviet generation.
In carrying wrecing their
utilizing the position
could connections with the
pleaded
prison which without basis
Mensh based the working class sought to organize
capitalist against the Plan hog in another Sense
sought organize anarchy of capitalism abroad
They pretended
actually with Ramzn thousands of
told them him mill
tary dictatorship restoration of capitalism.
the 1925 straight from Hill
the Social and the
International laid with the promise OF the Social Democrats
assistance program of wrecking intervention.
all parties Party Kondratye Party
capitalist
republic Socialist revolution The Mensh showed
worthy International which supported them with
rehabIae
capitalist the standard of living of
speeches
ng capitalism at the the misery of the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-03
Hunger Marchers At Albany
Met By 5000 Demonstrators
New York City Marchers Join Upstate March
At Bridge! Parade Together Thru City;
Demonstration at Capitol Today

NEW YORK-Yesterday the Madison needle,
meetings
bulletins of the Albany
solidarity sent to the marchers by the councils.
will
Bryant Hail. The will
councils 70 strikers jObIess invited.
open meetings
Albany before reaching
Harlem Then huge demonstration will
that they will march
Uneml West21
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SAY YES" WHEN
ASKED IF GUILTY
Shows Up Role of End
International
Especial Gable to Daily Worker.)

MOSCOW.-Sunday, at 6 p. m, in
the Column Hall of the Moscow
Trade Union House, in pre-revolu-
tionary days nobleman's house,
witnessed the opening of the trial of
the counter-revolutionary Union Bu-
reau of the Menshevik Central Com
mittee before the special session of
the Soviet Unions Supreme Court
Over 1000 swelled the hall and hun
dreds sought entrance into the hall.
This indicated the enormous interest
Of the workers in the first great
proletarian court procedure against
the leaders and agents of the Men
shevik section of the Second Inter
national.
Silence prevailed in the hall when
the fourteen defendants were brought
onto the stand which but about
three months ago had been the seat
of exposure and condemnation of
the Industrial Party leaders.
The external professorlike calm
ness and the healthy looking, WELL
fed appearance of the defendants
did not conceal their inner distur-
bance.
First, the secretary Of the Central
Trade Union Council of the Soviet
Union, the old Bolshevik metallist,
Shvernik, the presiding judge. Judges
of the old proletarian fighters, Elk
Duma Deputy, Muranov; the Rail-
way worker, Antonov; Saratovsky, an
old Party worker. The defense law
yers were non-Party men. Komodov
and Brande, former for Finn Emo
taevski and the latter for Sher and
Volkoy. The other defendants de-
clined counsel. First part of the pro-
cedure was to roll call the defen-
dants. This signified a heavy blow
to all anti-Soviet baiters who sought
to minimize the importance of the
committed crimes by depreciating
the defendants personalities: All de-
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'tative of the National Textile
Workers Union to come in and
address them. The N.T.W. led
the Lawrence strike.
The NT.W. representative
urged the strikers to spread their
strike to. other departments and to
other mills, and offered the coopera-
ton of the union. His remarks were
with enthusiastic applause,
and the strikers then voted for him
to remain through the meeting and
assist with advice in leading the
strike.
Attempts are being made to spread
the strike not only to other depart
ments here, but to the Blumenthal
mills in Bridgeport, Uncasville, and
South River.
Meanwhile, news arrives of an un-
organized textile strike in Jewett City,
starting last week. A representative
of the N.T.W. has been sent there.
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Workers Groups Con
tinue to Contribute
to Strike Fund

"At an Outing of Los Angeles Trade
Local We Raised $50 For You Strik-
ing Dressmakers. We Greet Your
Rebellious Spirit Displayed in Strike
Fight On Victory is Yours. We VIII
Expedite Your Victory Through Our
Financial support"
Chicago Local Builds Strike Fund.
The Chicago local of the N.T.W.IU.
has sent Morris Backal on tour of
the middle west for the purpose of
collecting donations to the $4,000
Dress Strike Fund. A Lotker and
S. Lifshitz have been sent on ma
tional tour of workers organizations
for the same purpose.
At the second United Front Con-
ference held here last Saturday in
Irving Plaza, a report of all strike
activities to date was submitted and
representatives of scores of working
class organizations pledged to sup
port the strike morally and finan-
cially.
SIX dressmakcrs we're arrested to-
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Shelton Weaver
Strike; Invite
n w to Help
UnOrganized Strike in Textile Mill at Jewett
City; Union Sends Organizer
Move to Spread Shelton Strike to Other De-
partments and Mills in Other Cities
BULLETIN

LAWRENCE Worker
office aded
cOnfiscated Johanna fairfield
will continue in spite of all obstacles
arrests for the strike
attorney for the international
habas proceedings will be
Protest meetings against the Lawrence
evening Lexington D.
Parkman meetings will held
Wednesday in ten other cities.
SHELTON Conn., Mach 2-Taking heart from the success
of 900 striking in Lawrence 800 here the Blum
enthta mills out strike under the leadership of the
Shelton Viewers Club But these strikers at their mass meet
ing in Cas Hall here this morning voted call represent
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A Warning


trial Sunday the of white chaunsm,
warning alb members of the Party to the seriousness with which the
Party despicable working attitude
acting defense attorney light
matter for class conscious worker be expelled from the ranks the
Communist International.
But when worker by his actions shows prejudice against Negroes
the white condition becomes
woedangerous
only leader is the Communist Party.
fact that member Party representing the interests
of all workers. all toll who by capital
is not enough to I am for equal rights of all races in Words
Negroes passive observe such
Party principles.
not enough the Communist Party to give lip service to equality
and then negate it with provision reservation that
equality for Negroes -"
While perfectly true as stated by the defense that the prejudice
originates
capitalist a
together precisely
its
eprosy distributed by the capitalist
sacred institutions of capitalism that excluded the offender
ranks.
expulsion the most the Party can do to the
Negro who through centuries of slavery
and logically have to du all whites that the
requirements Yoknen to carry out as prerequisite for the
right to file application
was speaking the truth when his trial he admitted that his action
"a crime against the working a whole"
Again accent the all retain white
dencies and remind all
attorney ourselves each and every one
and see if we are free from this anhs influence
anti-workng class propaganda of the ruling capitalist
AS WE GO TO PRESS, AFTER
WE LEARN THAT THE q. s. GOVERNMENT
FICERs HAVE SEIZED YoKNEN FOR DEPORTATION
WORKERS. AND NEGRO WORKERS PARTICULARLY WILL
CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THAT THIS OUTRAGE PROVES
Hit THE CAPITALIST GOVERNMENT
ISM WITH ALL ITS BRUTAL jim CROWISM MURDEROUS
LYNCHNGS. INDEED YOKINEN CONDEMNED HIS
FORMER ATTITUDE AND FOREsWORE LEADS TO
LYNCHNG THAT LEADS TO THE DIVISION NEGRO AND
WHITE WORKERS, THAT THE CAPITALIST GOVERNMENT NOW
NOT ONE STEP TO PUNIsH-
AND BY THIS REALLY rRoTEcTs-THE MuRDERERs
THREE NEGROES LYNCHED YEAR.
HAD YOKINEN UPHELD THE OF NEGROES AND RE-
NOUNCED THE COMMUNIST PARTY,
LOWED TIE sL4IE FREEDOM THE GOVERNMENT
LYNCHERS ALL WORKERS PAETICNI. NEGRO WORKERS
SHOULD RUSH TO YOKINENS DEFENSE!
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Leather Workers Win
Partial Vic tory at
"Well Made" S h O D

NEW YORK.-Twenty girls, on
strike since last Tuesday at the Well
Made Leather Co., ATT Broadway,
voted to go back to work yesterday,
with a partial victory. The strike
was led by the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union of the
Trade Union Unity League.
Demands won were chairs with
backs to work in, and the company
to provide the tools instead of max
ing the workers furnish them, and
better sanitary conditions.
The demand to rescind the 20 per
cent wage-cut, which started the
strike, was lost. stsd
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Ruthenberg Memorial Meet
Mar. 4, Central Opera House

NEW YORK.-The New York Dis
trict of the Communist Party has
arranged a memorial meeting in
honor of the founder and leader of
the. Communist Party, Charles E.
Ruthenber, on Wednesday, March 4
at 8 p. m. at the Central Opera House,
81 Street and Third Avenue.
Some of the outstanding leaders
of the party in this district will speak
on the VOC and revolutionary tradi-
tons of the founder of our party,
especially in his militant and cour-
ageous struggle against the last i'm
perialist war, that set an example of
proletarian courage, and revolution
airy integrity in face of the complete
bankruptcy Of the Socialist Party,
and in the face of terror against all
those who fought against the impe-
rialist world slaughter.
The example of comrade Ruthen-
berg in the struggle against imperial
list war, and for defense of the Soviet
Union must be brought to the work
ing class, especially now with the
acute sharpness of the war danger,
and imminent danger of armed in
terve:1tion against the Soviet Union.
The Albany hunger marchers will
be back to report to this meeting
about the hundreds of thousands of
unemployed they found about the
militancy of the workers everywhere
in their line of march, the enthu-
siastic receptions, the constant at
tempts of the police and state troop
ers TO break up the march, and their
fight in the state legislature for UNI
employment insurance and immediate
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relief in behalf of the unemployed.
Thousands of revolutionary work
ers will demonstrate at Central
Opera House in the name of our great
leader, whose last words are inspir-
ing the masses and the party he
founded, CLOSE your ranks, carry on
the fight"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-03
AMERICAN SOCIALISTS
SUPPORTED COUNTER
REVOLUTION in USSR
HillQuit and Go. Gave
AbramoWitz Money
For Wrecking

AS the trial of the IA Menshevik
counter-revolutionists gets under way
is Moscow, it is well to recall the
close financial, organizational and
other support the Socialists in the
United States gave to this admittedly
nti-workingclass wreckers in the
Soviet Union.
Abromovitch, whose name figures
prominently in the trial, always got
an enthusiastic greeting from his So
cialist hackers in the United States.
Hillquit financed great part of
Abromovitch's tours, designed to aid
the imperialists in their war prepara-
tons against the Soviet Union. This
is now confessed to by the Menshe-
viks Groman, Sheer & Co. in Mos
COW.
These Mensheviks gladly took
money from Ramsin, the money
Ramsin got, in turn from the i'm
perialist Dterding, from the murders
of, the Indian workers, Churchill;
from Poincare and BRAND.
$4,000 for War on Soviets
To do their share, the American
socialists handed Abromovitch money
to carry on the preparation for
armed intervention in the Soviet
Union, For instance, in 1928 the re-
port of the Jewish Socialist Verband,
to the Socialist National Convention,
actually boasts its financing of the
counter-revolution in the Soviet
Union, The report, telling of Abram-
owitch's successful tour" states $780,
600 were raised for the Social Demo-
cratic Party in Russia"
How was this money used? Sheer
and Groman tell us now. To sup
port the armies of the imperialists
in their preparations for slaughter of
the workers in the Soviet Union!
That is what Hillquit paid money
for. That is what $4,000 was given
Abramowitz for the ''Social-Demo-
cratic Party in Russia"
Hillquit Backs Deterding.
More still. Not only did the So
cialistS, with Hillquit, Oneal at the
head, collect money for the counter
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Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day vi your job. The worker
rext to You will help save the Daily
Worker.
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BOSSES DEPORT-
ING 257 WORKERS
Continue Policy OF
Picking Up Militants
BULLETIN.

August Yokinen, defendant in
Sundays mass trial, was arrested
yesterday by immigration authori-
ties and is being held for deporta-
ton to fascist Finland. His crime
against American Imperialism lays
in his admission of his error in
harboring white chauvinistic ideas
(hatred and contempt of Negroes)
and his pledge to fight for the
unity of the Negro and white
workers against capitalist starva-
ton.
The international Labor Defense
has taken up the case and is de-
handing his release.
NEW YORK-Anothef large grouu
of militant foreign-born workers,
whose Working-class activities in the
fight against starvation have Of
Tended the bosses, are on Ellis Island
today awaiting deportation, many of
them to fascist countries where they
face certain death.
Most of the number were brought
here from other states and so savage
was the treatment they received en-
route that at least 20 of the srSS..::-
are in grave danger of losing their
minds.
The 257, under special guards of
the Immigration Service, were landed
ON the island from a barge of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad terminal at
Jersey City, on which they had been
crowded like cattle. Among the
group are many women and children.
All of the cases were railroaded
through in the towns where the raids
took place. The case histories we're
not forwarded to Ellis Island, and
the view of Ellis Island officials is
that the workers areesimply in tram
sit out of the country, without any
hope of appeal against this outrage
Gus action '4@ .sa
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