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CHAPTER xxi

An American mission headed by Col.
e. NJ. House arrived in France toward
the end of November for an interallied
conference. Other members Of the
mission were Admiral w. S. Benson ;
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, chief of staff,
Oscar T. Crosby, for the Treasury de-
partment; Vance Mccormick, chair
man Of the war trade board; Balm
bridge Colby, shipping board; Alonzo
E. Taylor, Thomas N. Perkins, war in
dustries, and Paul Cravath.
AS the representatives Of different
nationalities gathered in Paris recent
reports of decreasing losses Of ocean
tonnage and greater destruction Of
German submarines, with prospects Of
still further improvement, seemed to
give more Of hopefulness in the gen.
eral situation and allied spirits were
somewhat revived.
The British had won at Cambria and
were making satisfactory progress In
their advance on Jerusalem, which, 1t
was said, would be facilitated by the
use of their new base at Jaffa. The
Italians seemed to have recovered
their morale to limited extent, with
the stiffening of their lines by British
and French divisions, and had success
fully held their own against the Aus
trian attack on the Piave.
Not the least hopeful thing was the
step just taken toward unity Of COM
mand in the creation of the supreme
war council. But the decisive factor
in the whole situation, If it could be
utilized in time, was the tremendous
economical and physical power Of the
United States. To make that avail
able before it was too late was the
problem upon the solution of which
depended the success Of the allied
cause. Would the allies see it and
would they work together to solve It?
InteraiIied Conference.
When all were seated around the
table in the assembly room at the min
istry of foreign affairs Prime Minis
ter Clemenceau, who presided, spoke
briefly, setting forth the Importance
of the gathering and the necessity of
translating the noble spirit Of the alli-
ance into action. No attempts at ora
tory were in evidence, nor was there
prolonged discourse on any subject.
Naturally questions concerning avail
able man power, shipping, munitions
and supplies were mentioned, but only
in a general way. The conference did
little more than agree that the study
of the various subjects should be left
to committees composed of interallied
representatives
1t was very clear that everybody
was looking to America to provide the
additional man power needed to give
the allies superiority. None was more
eager to increase our forces than our
solves, but on my part every possible
argument to procure shipping had
been presented to the allies and to our
War department, so when the confer
hence urged the expedition of our
forces it made the strongest kind OF
case in favor of immediate increase
of allied aid in tonnage.
For some time reliance upon the
allies for any considerable amount OF
tonnage had seemed almost in vain
! and it looked as though we should
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The tanks and the infantry were to
make an opening through which the
cavalry was to pass and attack the
TANKS of the enemy. Then French
troops held in readiness in the vicinity
were to follow. AS to the question of
command of these combined forces
when both should become engaged it
was to be left to the senior general
officer in the vicinity, who might be
either French or British. In going
over these plans it seemed to me that
their idea of securing cooperation
after the French should begin partici-
patton was rather vague.
During the day we first went to visit
General Byng, commanding the third
army, who explained further details
of the attack and the progress already
made. He and his chief of staff were
busy receiving news from the front
and felt that all was going well.
British Victory Spurs Allies.
The attack was made on siX-mile
front and the British had the advan-
tage from the outset. The sudden de-
bouchment of the long line of tanks,
closely followed by the infantry, all
without the usual warning of long pre-
liminary artillery bombardment, conf
pletely surprised the Germans. The
tanks broke wide gaps in the wire and
subdued the machine-gun nests, aiding
the infantry through the defenses with
a minimum of loss.
The front was rather narrow, cuIi-
sidering the depth Of the detectives. A
maximum gain Of some four and a
half miles was secured the first day,
and a greater result was prevented, it
was said, by serious check to the
tanks at Flesquieres.
For some reason or other the French
were not called into action, but pre-
sumably it was because the British
cavalry, which was to precede them,
could not go forward as planned. The
offensive continued for two or three
days longer with varying success. 1t
was, however, a decided victory, and,
while not as great as the British eX-
pected, it gave encouragement to the
allies on the western front and no
doubt helped to offset temporarily the
depressing effect of the serious defeat
recently sustained by the Italian army.
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CONSTITUTION ALLOWS NO AID TO WB[ESS- ROOSEVELT
Little Red Riding Hood

uoovERS most recent to
of the of what called the Commission on Law
Enforcement" that there law enforcement
Commission Employment discov
cred that there is little if employment
things reminiscent Little Red Riding Hood fairy tales
discovers that what
pears grandma,
political realities Little Red Riding Hood
Wolf the capitalist class rule
the fairy tale those of simple minds.
fondly foolhy that capitalism be
naed habtable could thing that it
absurdite Wickers
report of
abolish prostitution
abolish
these contradictory social relations of economic classes
therefore that the of virtue the socaled
prohibition laws the of Variable OF filth and graft
highest capitalist This
capitalism "cleanest", reality
partnership between Hoover and AL Capone
would
to have it. From this all the OF battle about repeal
repeal. Hypocrica
wet maintaining euphemcay
IAN mind"
o
Of
press
death importance to millions workers and
the million obess
which amounts question whether alcoholic
legally legaywlen these millions of
of fifteen
of this country launching
the standard Of living below level?
terrible situation famine
them either minority
the Wickersham Commission
Workers will that whether capitalism capital
ism; that they, allied with
throw capitalism they get rid of all hypo-
capitalist society,"
the the by issues
fighting their immediate
lation as well as the jobless workers.
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Two Workers, Jailed
for Hunger March,
To Be Trie d

The capitalist class, replying to the
unemployment demonstrations and
hunger marches of the workers with
arrests and beatings. will on Tuesday
and Wednesday try to send two more
workers to Jail On Tuesday, Isidore
Bogusloff, and on Wednesday, Serop
Soghomanian, both arrested in the
hunger march of Jan. 20, will be tried
in the First District Magistrates
Court on charges of felonious assault.
This outrageous charge has been
trumpet up against them despite the
TACT that both workers were severely
beaten by the police. They are being
defended by the New York District
of the International Labor Defense.
Though Bogusloff was a bystander.
not participant in the demonstra-
ton, the I. L. D. is defending him,
as well as Soghomanian. in accord
ance with its policy of protecting all
workers victimized in the course Of
the class struggle. Soghomanian. an
Armenian worker. was on Saturday
released on $1,000 bail furnished by
the I. L. D.
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Arrest Farmers Organize,
in Ark; Fight Won Demands

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan. 25.--
Angered by the fact that the starv-
ing farmers, refusing to accept as
adequate" the Red Cross relief OF
about s1.19 per month per family,
had forced by their armed demon
stration at England, Arkansas, the
giving of relief in that particular
area of about SIS per a month per
family, the capitalist authorities have
begun a campaign Of repression.
This was shown by the arrest here
OF an organizer OF the United Farm
ers' League, Frank Brown, together
with an alleged assistant" named
zini, and the arbitrary banning OF
any farmers mass meetings by
Mayor Lawson of Little Rock.
The United Farmers League,
whose national headquarters are at
New York Mills, Minnesota, Box 278,
is popularizing its Program of Action
and organizing Committees of Action
and Relief Councils among the farm
ers of this region to fight for ade-
quate immediate relief and better
the general conditions of the share
choppers and poor tenant farmers.
The League program is enthusiast
tically welcomed by the farmers, who
see in it the one way to struggle
against capitalist starvation. 1t is
for this reason that Brown and zini
we're arrested and are being held in
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Dippy. one of the marchers and q
member of the Twenty ninth Divi-
sion in the world war, land We
haven't anything. We're going tc
walk. even if lots Of the boys are
hardly able.D
More and more ex-servicemen are
verging on starvation. In New York,
according to the Veterans Bureau,
there are $4,000. There are hundreds
Of thousands throughout the coun-
try. AL sorts of fake organizations
are trying to mislead them, like the
Veterans Of Foreign Wars. Some
capitalist congressman are taking
up the cry for a cash bonus, but
the only way to get 1t is by working
with the millions of other unem-
ployed workers who are preparing
for the mass hunger marches on Feb.
10th, when the Unemployed Delega-
ton will present its demands to con-
gress. The Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League is also mobilizing the unem-
ployed and employed vets to fight
for the bonus on the basis of militant
workingclass action.
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800 Vets On Hunger March to
Washington for Bonus, Relief
Inspired by 7. u U. L. and Communist Hunger
Marches; But Permit Bad Leadership
To Play Down Fight

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. Is. -
Inspired by the huge hunger marches
organized by the Trade Union Unity
League and the Communist Party,
800 unemployed ex-servicemen started
from Philadelphia yesterday morning
on a hunger march to washington
to demand the immediate passage of
the cash bonus for ex-servicemen.
This was a spontaneous demonstra-
ton, but due to lack Of organization
and contact. with the revolutionary
workers movement many of the ex-
servicemen allowed themselves to be
discouraged Only "a arrived at
Chester in the 1876 mile walk to
Washington.
When the 300 ex-servicemen left
Philadelphia hundreds of workers
cheered them on. But no preparations
were made along the line of march,
together with the workingclass or
CARNATIONS to rally mass support. The
vets were led by John Alien, a men,
Der OF the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
which in itself dashed cold water
on the beginning Of a brilliant demon
stration.
We're all unemployed" said John
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THREAT ANOTHER
LYNCHING IN NO.
Frame-Up Negro Wor-
ker On Fake Charges

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jan. Is. A
Negro worker, Rudolph Gibson, has
been arrested and framed. He was
erst Jailed on a murder charge, and
is now being held on the charge of
rape" The local secretary of the
International Labor Defense inter
viewed Gibson in Jail and announced
that from all evidence it is obvious
that the whole thing is a clear-cut
frame-up case
If Gibson is convicted it might re-
suit in another lynching like the one
in Maryville, Mo-, or in legal murder.
Attempts we're made to stop the l. L.
D. from holding mass meeting on
the ground that the Negro workers
were too much agitated over the
Gum lynching. The trial of Gibson
is set for Monday.
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therefore, donating 81 per week to
help it coming out day by day and I
trust others will follow my example.
Enclosed find 50, covering 3 weeks"
Unemployed workers delegations
are now preparing their marches to
the various state capitols. All along
the line of march, the Daily Worker
must be the forerunner; it must be
the advance scout to prepare the field
and organize committees to assist the
marchers on their way to the state
capitols.
The Daily Worker must not only
appear every day, but there must be
no delays in getting 1t out on time.
Due to our financial condition, al
though we do get the paper out, we
do not always catch the proper trains
and even in reaching the news stands
in New York City. This condition
can only be eliminated by liquidat-
ing the deficit.
Comrades: See that you send your
contribution in, get your fellow
workers and also the organizations in
which you are member to do like
wise. DO THIS NOW. RUSH ALL
FUNDS TO THE DAILY WORKER,
so E. 18th ST., New York City.
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Fine Texas Militia Companies
Back Insurance; March Feb. 10
San Antonio Example
to Other Cities to
Plan Demonstrations

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 25.-
Five companies of the 141st Infan-
try, Texas National Guard, have
signed the lists demanding the pas
sage of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
Through mass pressure Of the
workers belonging to it (many of
them now nemployeO the Texas
National Guard permitted speakers
o: the Trade Union Unity League
and the Council of the Unemployed
TO address the militiamen at their
drill period in the armory here. Then
all the men in Headquarters Com
pany, Co. A. Co. G, Co. F, and Com
pany NJ, signed the lists, and many
also expressed their determination to
fight for immediate relief for the
jobless.
Over 1000 signatures have already
been secured for the bill. Reagan, in
charge of the signature drive, got
500 of these himself.
Fast Progress.
The T. U. u L. is only two months
old in San Antonio, but has already
established a Workers Center at 400
and half Nebraska ST., andis max
ing arrangements for an organiza-
ton campaign among the farm work
ers of the vicinity and in the Rio
Crande Valley, winter Garden Sec
ton. The. fran workers are mostly
Mexicans, putting in up to IA hours
day for the whole family, and get
ting $3.50 to $3.50 for it.
In the plasterers, roofers, painters
and carpenters local unions "a. F.
l. the membership has signed the
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capitalist courts and to show that
this trial is an effort to gag the
hundreds of thousands of starving
New York workers who are demand
ing immediate relief and unemploy-
ment insurance.
The International Labor Defense,
New York district, which is handling
this case, appeals to all workers to
demonstrate Monday morning within
and before the courtroom and to de-
mand the release of their leaders.
To show to the Tammany grafters
that the workers of New York City
resent this attack upon the entire
working class through their attempts
to imprison Nesin. Stone and Lealess
be on hand at an early hour.
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Il OLD NE G R @
RIGHTS MASS MEET
Foster to Speak Today
lon Workers. Struggles

NEW YORK.-Stressing the i'm
portance of the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights mass meeting to-
night at st. Luke's Hall. lis w. l30th
ST., at o'clock, the city committee
of the L. S. N. r. has issued the
following statement:
This mass meeting is of great i'm
portance. especially in view OF the
many problems facing the Negro
masses throughout the United States.
The recurrent waves of terror against
the Negro workers and poor farmers
to keep them from fighting starva-
ton, wage-cuts and savage repres-
sion, indicate the struggles facing
the Negro toilers in their common
fight by the side of the white work.
ers and poor farmers"
William z. Foster, Herbert Newton,
editor Of the Liberator: Richard B.
Moore, Bill Siroka Of the Young Com
munist League, will be the speakers.
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FIGHT ANOTHER
EVICTION TODAY
Stop 2 Wednesday; All
at Court Today!

NEW YORK.-The Down Town
Council of the Unemployed put back
the furniture of two evicted families
last Wednesday. One, the family of
K. Grossn1an at PAL E. Second ST.,
was followed by the arrest of Mes.
Grossrnan. She pointed out that her
husband needle worker, had no
work gor year and that there were
two children.
The judge asked sarcastically: did
Bowery buns or the Communists put
the furniture back?' but he did not
dare 60 on Just then with the evic-
ton and gave Mrs. Grossman ten
days more. She had been charged
with disorderly conduct by the land
lord.
The other eviction stopped was at
SO Rivington st.
All jobless and militant workers
are called to demonstrate today
against the eviction of Nathan
Schweier at 1877 Suffold st.
There will be another meeting of
the jobless in front Of the Tammany
agency at Leonard and Lafayette
E:5. today at 10 a. m, and all job
less are called to demonstrate inside
and outside of the special sessions
courtroom at 80 Franklin st. Corner
of Lafayette). where the Oct. 16 dele
gation--Nesin. Lealess and Stone
are to be railroaded to Jail without
a jury trial for laying the demands
OF the jobless before the city board
Of estimates.
There was the. usual Lafayette st.
meeting on Saturday.
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WAR MOVES
ON U. S. S. R.
INCREASING
Wall Street Journal
Calls For End
To Soviets


On all sides the capitalists are agi-
tating and preparing for war, par
ticularly against the Soviet. Union
The Wall Street Journal one of the
leading mouthpieces of the, imperial
lists and bankers of the United States
in a special article in it's Saturday
edition calls for open war against the
workers republic which it calls an
enemy of Western civilization" . -
capitalism.
THE American system of govern
ment", says the Wall Street journal
sis the most complete and definite ex-
preston of the principles upon which
the Western civilization is based, and
is in the most complete opposition to
the system which the Soviet govern
ment is endeavoring to establish in
Russia, and eventually, everywhere. .
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GiVes ST.. A Week to ttDaily",
Calls On Others to Do Same

The liquidation of the deficit of the
Daily Worker must take on much
faster form than up to date. The
continued everyday struggle to keep
up the paper becomes sharper. Even
under these trying circumstances, we
have concrete evidence that the
workers will liquidte the deficit and
establish such methods that in the
future we will not fall so far behind.
A letter received from Long Island
says: ST feel that we who still have
our jobs must carry the extra load.
We dare not lose the Daily Worker,
as it alone in America fights for I'm
employment Insurance, against evic-
tons and all evils the employers try
Tor force on the working class. I am,
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and More Action, 1--WE refuse
to starve", etc.
Finally representative of
Governor Roosevelt came out,
cast a few sneers, "You don't
look hungry etc, and then got down
to business and issued a permit for
committee to see Roosevelt at l2.45
p. m. A committee of one Negro and
ore white worker (Pell, secretary of
the Council of the Unemployed
went in and presented to Governors
Roosevelt of New York; Norman S.
Case Of Rhode Island: Morgan Lar
son Of New Jersey Wilbur Cross of
Connecticut; j. B. Ely of Massachu-
SETS; PinchoG of Pennsylvania: and
George White of Ohio, the demands
OF the jobless.
The statement of the committee
pointed out
Your city, county and state gov
ernments, as well as the federal
government, all refuse to give us
unemployment insurance. All we
get is charity investigations" and
promises about better times
ahead" But meantime, we must
eat, we must feed and clothe our
children. we must have roofs over
our heads. We refuse to starve.
We have therefore elected COM
mittee from among us to go to your
conference and present to you on
own behalf. as well as IN behalf
of the hundreds OF thousands of
workers in your states, the fol-
lowing:
1-Unemployment relief of SIS
each week must be paid to all single
CONTINUED On PAGE THREE)
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BUDAPEST POLICE
ATTACK MARCHES
Hunger Marches In
Brazil Suppressed

NEW YORK. t,n. 25. -Cabled re-
ports to the COZ alist press over the
weekend indicate greet hunger dem
onstration in Central European coun-
tries.
Admitting that the unemployed
workers of Budapest in need of bread,
the police however suppressed several
hunger demonstrations. The fascist
authorities tried to draw a red her
ring across the trial of mass soarva-
ton by shouting that the "Work or
Bread" cry of the demonstrators was
part of a Moscow plot" Already
many arrests have been made and
Communist functionaries jailed en-
masse. Raids upon workers centres
and homes have been frequent.
RIO de JANEIRO, Jan. 25.-Show-
ing its true fascist colors, the police
of the Vargas government raided
Communist centres and homes in an
attempt to suppress the hunger
marches scheduled to be held in all
the large centres Of Brazil demanding
food for the starving unemployed
Brazilian workers.
Troops were marched into the CEN
tire of Rio to suppress the hunger
marchers and the police modified to
cover all points the marchers were
to assemble. Due to the arrest of the
Communists and the raging terror
the hunger march was not held on
the 10th as planned.
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NEGRO KILLED AS
OHIO MOB GROWS
Hungry Workers Tried
to Get Food


BYCRUS, Ohio, Jan. 25. - More
than 1000 boss-minded persons are
attempting to form themselves into
lynch mob to lynch three Negro
workers here who defended them
selves from being brutalized by a
local sheriff when they were accused
of stealing food.
One of three brothers was killed by
member of the mob. The workers
saw that they were about to be
lynched and one attempted in des-
perate attempt to escape. A railroad
detective shot the Negro worker.
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Call Upon Workers
to Put Party on
Ballot

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-All workers.
Sympathizers and members of the
Communist Party are urged to
report tonite at 81 Graham Ave,
Brooklyn, to collect signatures to
put the Communist Party on the
ballot for the special 7th congress
sional district election. If 1000
signatures are not secuted by
tonite the workers will not be re-
presented on the ballot. All party
members in New York must help.
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Stone and Robert Lealess, the three
leaders of the unemployed demon
stration Of october l6, will appear in
Special Sessions Court on Monday
morning at 10 o'clock. The hearing
is listed as the first on the calendar.
The case of the unemployment del
egation is just such an attack upon
the working class as was evident in
the conviction of the March 9Th del
egation Foster. Minor, Amter and
Raymond. The denying Of a jury
trial and other means Of capitalist
justice" are being used in an effort
to railroad them to long jail terms
Three charges have been placed
against each member Of the ldelega-
ton: unlawful assembly, outraging
public decency and endangering pub
lie peace.
Speak for Jobless.
BY defending themselves, the three
militants will attempt to break
through the legal trickery OF the
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Dress Strike Demonstration
Wednesday, at SO g S'Aue.
Open Air Meetings All Over Needle Trades
Section Today at Noon; Hundreds of Or
CARNATIONS Prepare Conference

NEW YORK. - A huge strike dem
onstration will be held in the dress
trade district Wednesday at noon
time at seth Street and 9th Avenue
This will be demonstration to wage
valiant struggle against the sweat
shop conditions to which they are
at present being subjected.
While the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union is mobilizing the
workers for the coming strike in Feb.