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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
(By a Worker Correspondent

Washington, D. G.
Daily Worker:
The Mt. Vernon Memorial BouIe-
ward is being built between Washing
ton, D. G. and Alexandria, Va, with
system of graft that is worse than
the Teapot Dome case. Under cover
Of patriotic CD reasons, and q bar
rage of holy awd myths, the work
ers are being exploited and lied to
in order to build a bee-oo-te-ful
highway for idle rich, and equally
idle government officials to roll their
Pumps over.
The engineers n1isjudged the ex-
penses for such a road by three mil
lion dollars! Only Soviet engineers
are supposed to make such glaring
mistakes; but since THIS was pa
triotic graft, no one cried to the Fish
that the Reds were putting diluted
sand in the cement, or playing leap
frog with the ledgers, or expense &C
count.
Congress in a moment of generos-
ity donated about three more million
dollars, with the order that the en-
gineers must give satisfaction. One
wag got up in Congress and claim
ed that the Mt. Vernon Boulevard
could have been paved with silver
dollars for the amount of money
which was spent, It could have been
paved with gold dollars twice.
Through the negligence of fore
man, who only has sense enough to
eat, dress, and Lick his superiors'
boots, a worker was injured on the
job. The worker received forty eight
dollars compensation for month in
the hospital, and promises Of easier
work on his return. sHe returned to
work and was given easier work for
while. Suddenly the big boss de-
cided on a speed-up.
The injured worker was asked to
go back to his old work, and to help
the others. He did, and because of
the strain, had to lose a few more
weeks without pay) and know by
then that his back would never be
entirely well.
On his return the second time, re-
peated attempts were made to place
him back at his old job, but the
worker refused to injure himself any
further. Because Of his attitude,
the stool-pigeon foreman from Penn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Boston Rdincodt Makers
Plan Strike for Autumn

BOSTON, Mass March 26.-The
raincoat makers here, members of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union have discussed the seri-
Gus situation in the trade with the
Executive Committee, and at meet
ings Of the entire membership, and
a special meeting of all raincoat
makers recently voted unanimously
to prepare and mobilize all raincoat
makers in Boston and vicinity for
a strike at the beginning of the fall
season. This decision has been en-
dorsed by the Shop Delegates Coun-
Gil of the Industrial Union.
The time when the strongly Or
ganized raincoat makers earned we'll
and we're known in the labor move
ment as a militant element is gone,
but can be brought back. The en-
ployers now take advantage of the
industrial crisis to cut wages and
increase speed-up, until now, work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
No Relief From Government.

No Relief From Government.
The state legislatures of New York
and Washington, and the Board of
Estimates of the city Of New York
have just taken up the unemploy-
ment problem. Result, absolutely
nothing for the jobless.
washington state legislature has
adjourned without even taking out Of
committee the bill for a state system
Of unemployment insurance and re-
lief-to be sure very weak one, but
the only one they even let go as far
as a committee The bill to ln7esti-
gate was even etched.
In Albany. where a few days ago
the New York State Federation of
LaLor and the National Association
OF Manufacturers appeared side by
side against the Mastick bill Cor LII
surance, Governor Roosevelt has now
taken hand-to postpone any Pos
sibility of insurance until the last
wage cut can be put through. Roose-
welt notified the legislature yester-
day that it should appoint a COM
mittee to investigate the possibilities
of insurance, rot a dole" he made
plain, but insurance for which the
worker insured shall previously have
paid by deductions from his wages.
Roosevelt calls this the only sort of
insurance That agrees with the dig
nifty OF American labor, and "ou1
economic laws
In New York City it was announced
yesterdat that the motion to ap-
propriave $2,0O0,9OO a month to en-
ploy the $4,000 the Prosser Commit
tee is firing, might not cone up until
another session Of the board Of esti-
mates"
Build Unemployed Councils.
Active organization of the councils
of the unemployed, and building of
the militant unions Of the Trade
Union Unity League must continue,
to win any relief for the jobless.
Preparations are being speeded for
three state hunger marches. The
workers of Maryland march, starting
from Baltimore the last day of this
month, and reaching Annapolis, the
state capital, the next day. On April
10 and IL, bands of jobless march
from Philadelphia, Chester, and other
Pennsylvania cities to reach Harris
burg several days later. The four
lines of march in Ohio start on the
Sixteenth, and converge on Columbus
on the Goth. The Ohio jobless will
make their demands on the state
legislature April q. .....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
CLEVELAND RED
NEWSIES ACTIVE

From =. Fromholz district Daily
Worker representative Of Cleveland
Ohio:
Kindly split my bundle order for
the time being. We now have a Red
Builders News Club established, and
they are to get 100 papers daily. My
bundle order is now $50, and is to
be split in the following way: 100
to w. r., $50 to me.
1--WE are making this arrange
ment in order to cut down our
surplus, and to get readjusted. Had
been getting many extras, although
we were sending many direct to the
homes. In about one week, my
bundle will again appear, as at
present"
Comrade Fromholz assures us this
is temporary split, the only reason
why we accept it. We are certain
that the comrades and Red Builders
in Cleveland will increase their sales
to the extent of ordering separate
bundles.
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tOONlIN OED MUM ONEp
representatives there yesterday, Six
hundred delegates and local men,
brs were present, and the meeting,
being too large for the union hall,
was held in the Y. M. G. A.
Officials Exposed.
When Murray and Boylan got
there, they found that the militant
rank and file opposition of District l
had distributed leaflets beginning:
Don't let the traitors and strike
breakers speak! Murray, after he
sold out the soft coal miners, is here
to break the backbone of the Anthra-
cite. Boylan has broken more than
one strike here, he wants to break
this one.
"Carboni acted as a stool pigeon
and prosecutor and had two miners
arrested yesterday for giving out a
leaflet calling on the miners to strike.
They are telling us we are breaking
the contract Mr.. Murray, Mr.. Boy
Ian, Mr.. Kmetz, Mr.. Carboni, and the
rest of the takers, aren't the coal
companies breaking the contract
every day? What are you doing
about that? Nothingl"
When Murray and Boy1an first
tried to enter, the rank and file
miners blocked their way, Missed and
booed them. BY parliamentary man
euvers, the officials inside got them
admitted, in criss-cross fire Of mo-
lions and amendments, and rulings
by the chairman, etc.
State Grievances.
The International officials and the
government agent, an experienced
strikebreaker, took seats on the plat
form, but the miners delegates went
on with their business. Delegate after
delegate took the floor, pointing out
men are being docked daily for coal
which falls off the cars, because they
are piled high, and are docked for
not piling the coal high if none does
fall off,, They told of doubling up Of
jobs, of bosses threatening to fire
anybody who made the least protest,
and of the breaker working and coal
being hoisted after quitting time.
''This is not sympathetic strike"
the delegates said, referring to the
first strike which started Saturday
in two locals because the teamsterB
we're forced to work an extra hour
per day without pay. eve all have
these same reasons for striking
against the damnable conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
II BIG UNIV. LOCALS OF GLEN ALDEN
COMPANY VOTE TO JOIN IN STRUGGLE

existing under all Glen Alden opera
tons" the delegates said.
Show Kennedy Lied.
Many Of the delegates tore the mask
off Of the International and district
officers hypocrisy. They told how
Kennedy had declared that the five
and a half year contract must be
accepted as it would keep the wages
from being cut or conditions from
growing worse. The delegates said
the miners had accepted this assllr-
ance, and now the officials had be-
trayed them, standing by while the
Glen Alden company ruthlessIy made
conditions worse.
Finally they gave Murray ten min
utes to speak. He began with insults,
saying he had been in many states,
and 81 have never seen miners act
like they have acted here" He urged
them to all go back to work-and
arbitrate.
BoyIan Threatens Scabbing.
Boylan was given few minutes,
and he threatened there will be no
settlement until the men go back to
work, and Furthermore, the unem-
ployed will be used to replace them
if they do not go back.
Seventeen of the locals voted for
strike, an overwhelming majority.
The officials of Truesdale local had
refused to call a meeting to vote on
the strike, so meeting was called
by the Militant Rank and File Op-
position. The Rank and File called
for large strike committee with no
officials on it if they were against
the strike, and to fight for these de-
mands: All supplies to be brought to
Sthe place Of work, timbers, props,
boaros, powder and other material;
pay for all rock and dead work, and
for setting Of timber; recognition of
the Rank and File Com, nittee, no
check-off; no Cancellation board Of
compulsory arbitration system; re-
turn of al men fired in No. IL and
No. 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Protest Tomorrow; Fight Against
Brutal Deportation and Lynchings!

In Arnold, Pa, Sunday night, at
1880, Umbra Hail.
In Avella, Pa, Sunday, o'clock,
at Granish Hall, Browntown.
In McKeesport, Pa, Sunday, 7:30
pm, at Workers Club, 18th and Loo
ust Streets.
In Milwaukee, Wis, Saturday
night, o'clock, at Labor Temple,
8O8 Walnut Street.
In Philadelphia fourteen demon
STATIONS have been arranged for
Saturday at the following corners:
4th and Federal, 18th and Fitzwater,
7th and Snyder Ave, 18th and Rod
man, 18th and Reed, Kensington,
Marvine and Columbia Ave-, Marvine
and Girard Ave, Hutchinson and
Poplar, 46th and Haverford Avenue,
10th and Poplar, 32nd and Cumber-
land, oath Turner, 22d and Indiana
Ave. These are all afternoon meet
ings. In the evening, at z o'clock,
there will be another demonstration
at Mcpherson Square.
In Newark five demonstrations
have been arranged for 2 pm, Sat-
urday. Demonstrations will also be
held in Linden, Elizabeth, New
Brunswick, Paterson and Passaic.
In Niagara Falls, N. Y, at the Hip
podrome Hall.
In the South, demonstrations are
being arranged in several cities, and
Southern white and Negro workers
will march side by side as In past
demonstrations held by the Trade
Union Unity League and the Com
munist Party. These and hundreds
Of other working-class organizations,
including a number Of AT. Of L.
locals whose rank and file members
have defied the reactionary policies
Of their fascist leadership, are sup
porting the March % demonstrations
throughout the country.
In New York City, demonstrations
will be held In Brownsville, VIII
liamsburg, South Brooklyn, Long
Island City, Astoria, down town and
midtown Manhattan, the Bronx, etc.
The main demonstration will be held
in Harlem beginning at Hath Street
and Lenox Avenue, with parade
through 144th to Seventh Avenue,
down 7th Avenue to Hath Street,
east to Fifth Avenue, down Fifth to
10th Street, where a monster mass
meeting win be held 49,,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Terrific Speed-up Help
Work of Organizing
Workers

tuberculosis.
Just recently In another plant a
wage cut was put through under the
pretense Of reducing the hours of the
workers, from 10 hours to 5.
In five OF these plants, the Metal
Workers Industrial League has been
able to form shop organizations thru
fearless application of correct meth
DDS. All groups have secretaries and
function regularly, holding meetings
once week. An Industrial Council
of the MWIL with representatives
from each shop group has been or
ganized. This is mainly for the pur-
pose of developing local forces, in
terchanging experiences and co-or-
the work Of the groups in
the different mills. Local leadership
is being built up Some of the slop
groups arc already in a position to
take care Of themselves, with the
check-up Of the council. These are
k,ffS 4 IS q Ia ~ s5cssfgs 40 49, .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Quotas Set for Districts in
1000 Subs By May 1" DriVe.

New subscriptions or renewals
ONE THOUSAND BY MAY
WRISTS the present objective in
the Daily Worker circulation cam
paign. This latest move for $4,000
readers should spur g.ry Party
and League member, every worker
and sympathizer to jump into ac-
Hvity and get our campaign across.
Following are the quotas for the
districts: Boston, go (72O months
of subscription); New York, $50;
Philadelphia, 80; Buffalo, 40;
Pittsburgh, so; Cleveland, 80; De-
polls, 60; Kansas City, 8; Agricul-
troit, 14O; Chicago, 14O; Minnea-
tural, IL; Seattle, Is; California,
20; South, 5; Birmingham, 6; But
tie, Z; Denver, 5.
Every name sent in for subscrip-
lions or renewals will be printed in
the May Day edition sent to the
Soviet Union, which will contain an
a-page supplement beside the regular
paper. In order that every section
of the country will receive the spe-
cial issue in time for distribution,
four editions will be printed. The
Far West (west of Mississippi River
will receive the issue dated April "a;
the Midwest (west of, and including
Pittsburgh and South will receive
the issue dated April %; Eastern
states (east of Pittsburgh, April 30;
New York City, May 1.
Greet the Daily Worker with these
1000 subscriptions and hasten the
$4,000 goal!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

Detroit, or held for deportation as
in the case of Yoldnen in New York.
Deportations of militant foreign
born workers are. being speeded-up
by the government, which has just
announced its intention to deport
100000 foreign born seamen. In
Akron, Ohio, the government is rush
ing the frame-up Of a Hungarian
worker, Paul F. KaSsay.
The workers will answer these vici-
Gus attacks in monster demonstra-
tons tomorrow. In Chicago, where
half a million workers are unem-
ployed and hundreds Of working
class families starving, and where
the boss terror against the Negro
and foreign born workers is being
carried out with the utmost savage
ry, the workers will hold a mass
meeting at pm. at Slovak Workers
Home, 51st and Whipple Streets.
This will be followed up with three
meetings on Sunday, at 3 pm, at
the following halls: Forester Hall,
"A and State Streets, Imperial Hall,
2409 N. Halsted St., and Labor Ly-
ceum, 2733 Hirsh Blvd.
In Johnstown, Pa, there will be
meeting at Sylvestre Hall, SGT
Maple Ave, Woodvale, Johnstown,
at 2 pm, Saturday.
In Monessen, Pa, the demonstra-
ton will be held at pm, Saturday,
at Finnish Hall, 618 9Th Street.
In Yorkville, O., at 1880 pm, Sat-
urday, at Misko Hall.
In Pittsburgh, Pa, on Sunday
night, 8 o'clock, at International Ly-
ceum, 8o5 James ST., N. S., with a
preparatory meeting Saturday night
at the Pythian Temple. 2O11 Center
Street (Wylie entrance).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

Oakland, Cal.
Daily Worker:
If the capitalist countries are going
to pull off a war, they must move
quickly or the workers will not fol-
low them. They are growing more
and more resentful and disconnected
all the time. Look at my work (street
railways, the Key Route System-re-
porter. One man doing two mems
work and getting five cents an hour
more pay only. Conditions of work
are getting harder and harder all
the time and nothing we do is right
with the company officials. One man
brooded over the matter until he
went loco and committed suicide.
The Garments Union is practically
a company union. The business
agent of the union helped the COM
pany put over the one-man car plan.
We have to give 100 hours of work
without pay to learn to run the one
man cars, if we were conductors be-
fore; SO hours if we were motormen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Akron Children Meet to Take Up Fight
Against Bad Conditions in Rubber City

The conference will also consid-
er the question of drawing COM
rades sympathetic to the revolu-
tiOnary movement into the work
of leading different kinds of chill
dren's clubs, such as sports, sing
ing, etc.
other questions that will be dis
cussed at the Pioneer conference
will be the preparations for Pio-
neer camp this summer and the
support Of the Young Pioneer mag
azine for workers children. ALI
workers organizations of Akron are
urged to send delegations to this
conference,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

AKRON, Ohio. A conference
to take up the most important ques-
tons before the workers children
in Akron today, and 20 draw the
workers organizations of Akron
into the work of building mass
children's movement here, will be
held Sunday, Aril 5, at 3 p. M, at
the Workers Center, 9 w. Bartges.
The main question to be taken up
at this conference will be the fight
of the workers children against
the miserable conditions which
they face as result Of the mass
unemployment in Akron today, and
how the adult workers can aid in
this fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
IS KILLED, 500
HURT in INDIA
Fighting Is Spreading
Everywhere
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

dent in Karchi where the Indian Ma
tional Congress is meeting writes:
1.-THE independence leader, who was
the object of hostile demonstrations
by red shirts throughout last night,
told newspapermen that the execution
Of Nationalist extremists at Lahore
had not affected his position toward
the peace settlement" That is to
say, Gandhi's object is to do the dirty
work for British Imperialism, despite
everything. He said that the British
or with his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
government had Committed a first
class blunder," making it harder for
Gandhi to put over the selI-out.
Refused an interview with Gandhi
or with his lieutenant, Jawarhalal
Nehru, who is parading as cleft"
the "red shirt" representatives de-
parted shouting: Who killed Bhagat
Singh?" and answering, "Gandhi!
Gandhi"!
More ''red shirts" are arriving at
Karachi. The "red shirts" are a
militant youth organization who dc
not approve of Gandhi's program OF
uniting with the British imperialists
Not only are there reports OF
fighting in Cawnpore and the Thar
waddy forest as well as the Insein
regions, but mass demonstrations
against the British are taking place
in Bombay and Calcutta.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Worker Gets $48 for Injury
On So Million GRAFT Road Job

state made the remark that: cha
would soon get rid Of that worker"
The injured worker had to lose
some time again because Of his in
jury, and having an intense hatred
now for the corruption and misman-
agement Of the Mount Vernon boule-
ward, decided to refuse to go thru
all the red tape in order to receive
compensation. He would starve may
be, or he would have to go some
where else for work, but he would
not lick the boots Of any pie-in-the-
sky breaucrat. He went back 70
work, and worked few weeks be-
fore the government laid off about
seyenty-fiye workers because Of lack
Of funds.
A worker who was permanently in
jured, and had been employed for
over a year was laid off with no
job In sight; and workers who licked
the bosses boots were kept on, al
though they had been employed but
a few months. One worker was kept
on because he had g, car and drove
the two-faced foreman to work. This
worker also has a job at night, and
makes over two hundred dollars g.
month; while some workers who
were married and made possibly sew
enty dollars month were laid off.
Workers laid nff
This, comrades, is the kind Of gov
eminent we work for. The govern
ment has enough money to pay lot
Of grafterS ten dollars or fifteen dol
lars a day, but out of three million
dollars they do not have enough to
pay poverty-stricken farmers and
workers forty cents an hour.
The men who were laid off with
out one minutes notice are plenty.
We will have to get together and kick
all those deficiency" experts out,
and put in some workers who can
make a Soviet America, and build a
system which will give work to eV-
erybody, instead of this government
of bull shooters and money grabbers.
A WORKER.
CNOTE: I have been laid off with
the rest, and I am not going to stop
fighting and writing until the black
and white workers have kicked all
the Hooey Hoovers off the earth,
and planted Red Flag on the white
house,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Ham Fish Joins in Frame-up Of Akron
Worker to Put Over Wage Cut for Bosses

I the most. sensational detective story
style.
But the charges themselves are
more than ridiculous. A stool pigeon
named Petro, posing as an agent for
the Amtorg, claims that Kassay told
him that he weakened the ship by
splitting on the rivets. Every worker
in the plant knows that in order to
place a rivet upward, all must wet
the rivet with saliva so that it will
stay in place till the riveting process
is completed. The inspectors use a
strong search light which reveals any
space that might be left where the
rivets are fastened. Certainly ac-
cording to the workers, if ice was to
form, the searchlight would quickly
reveal this. According to the spies,
Kassay, who is an expert mechanic,
tried to wreck the ship by leaving
two out of six and a half million
rivets loose!
The stool pigeon Petro who made
suggestions to Kassay that he shall
weaken the ship and that he would
be rewarded for this by good job
in the Soviet Union and $4,000, now
claims that Kassay accepted this
offer. This is the extent of the "evi-
dence" which is the basis for the
sensational stories, the rawlings of
Ham Fish, and the demand for the
excessive bond of $4,000. On the
basis of such evidence efforts will be
made to railroad the worker Kassay
to ten years Imprisonment and to
justify an attack upon the Commu-
mist Party and the revolutionary
unions.
Rally to Defense of Paul Kassay.
The Communist Party and the In
ternational Labor Defense have al
ready taken steps to provide defense
for Paul KasSay and to expose before
the whole working class the Shiny
frame-up of the Goodyear Rubber
Co., the state authorities and the
federal government spies prompted
by the fascist Fish.
The capitalist press which is play
ing up every ridiculous accusation
and every statement of the prosecu-
tors, is also trying to disarm the
workers who would rally to the de-
Tense of Kassay. The Scripps Howard
paper in Akron thus publishes an
editorial advising the Communists"
that they are not to become involved
in the Kassay case. This prostitute
organ declares that "Ohio will not
submit to the crusifixion of another
Sacco, another Vanzetti, another
Mooney Billings, within its liberal
courts" (sicD
But the workers of Ohio know that
the Ohio courts are very liberal in
long prison sentences for workers.
The Ohio courts are capitalist courts,
similar to the courts in Massachusetts
and California. The fact that the
judges before whom Kassay has al
ready appeared have made vitriolic
attacks upon him and upon the Party
and have held him on excessive bail
despite the flimsy character Of the
charges should be sufficient proof to
the workers that they must rally
throughout the country mass move
ment of defense as the only means
of saving Paul Kassay from the
clutches Of the framc-up artists.