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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-09
TERROR, FRAUD
IN N. Y. VOTING
Try to Keep Workers
from Voting Red
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED

mocratic parties Wed with each other
in the use of crooked devices to roll
up votes. Booze and cash flowing
freely throughout the city. Votes
were selling this year at greatly red
uced rates, the lowest quotation be-
ing 25 cents on the Bowery, but at
P. S. TIA, 129 Attorney ST., one man
cleaned up by voting no less than Is
times.
At 1873 E. Seventh ST. a worker
came to vote and found that his
vote had already been registered
through a fake voter. The Inter
national Labor Defense got on the
job and forced the arrest of the fake
voter, who is being held on $1,000
bail
In many booths Tammany or re-
publican flunkies entered the booths
and tried to do the voting for work
ers. This was the case in the district
in Harlem where the fake liberal and
ally of the Socialist Party, Congress-
man La Guardia was running for
reelection. At the polls at "a East
Hath St and 1O6th ST. near Madison
Ave. in this district, La Guardia men
were actually forcing workers to vote
for him.
Levers that wouldn't work, for some
mysterious reason were found only
over Communist candidates. At 10th
st. between Finley and College AYES.
the Bronx, the lever over the name
of M. j. Olgin. candidate for Con-
gress in the oath District. was broken.
AT Amsterdam Ave. and 72nd st. the
lever over the name of James w.
Ford, candidate for vice president,
was damned, At Rivington and e.
bridge Streets all the levers were out
of order. There were dozens Of in
stances Of this kind
Workers who tried to vote at Hes
ter st. and the Bowery, reported
that while they were pulling the
levers down over the Communist can
didates, the curtains were drawn
apart and a Tammany turnkey re-
fused to allow them to vote.
At P. S. 1873 on E. 18th st. between
Avenues B and G, workers, led by
the Communist candidate for Assem-
bly,, Rubin Shulman, forced the ar
rest of three thugs and gained ad-
mission for the Communist watcher
who had been thrown out
At P. S. IS, 71O Z. eth ST., the
swindling. intimidation and bribery
became so fragrant that the police
were compelled to arrest the entire
election board.
In Brooklyn. in the 23rd Assembly
District, where the overwhelming
majority of the voters were Com
munist, gangsters attacked a group
of workers, who defended themselves
bravely. A police emergency squad
arrived on the scene and started
clubbing the workers. They did not,
however, dare to arrest any Of the
workers
One capitalist newspaper yesterday
estimated that at least 10000 voters
had made charges of fraud in polling
places in New York City.
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police. The Standard Fruit Com
pany has two boats running from
Honduras to Tampa with bananas for
cargo. Every time one of these boats
come into port there are about two
or three hundred Negroes standing
on the dock waiting to get a job.
10 Cents an Hour
But the boss needs only rs or 30
men, and they are paid as low as 10
cents an hour, and there is only
actually four hours of unloading
These bananas have to be carried
from the ship to the dock. There is
no unloading machine in Tompa, so
that they have a locked about every
20 feet, from the snip to the cars.
and long line of Negroes practically
running and not allowed to drop out
If one should slow down he will get
swift kick by one of the checkers.
These checkers get about 10 cents
an hour more for doing this work.
Cripple Negro Child
In the meantime, while this is
going on, little half-starved Negro
children dart in and under the cars
picking UP fallen bananas. I have
seen a checker kick Negro child
off the dock and into the bay. He
swan ashore alright, but he is Grip
pied for life from the kick he re-
ceived.
Comrades of the North, send in
organizers to help in this work, and
get Negro and white to fight together
to smash this persecution for all
time.
f. j.,
Delegate 102, M.WI.U.
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.JOBLESS DEMAND
Aid IN LAWRENCE
1000 Workers Resist
Cop Provocations

LAWRENCE, Mass, Nov. 6.--Over .
a thousand demonstrated for relief
at the city hall despite the pouring
rain and the presence Of scores OF
police. The huge mass Of workers
waited one hour to hear the report
Of the unemployed delegation to the
city council headed by Martin Rus
SAX.
Mayor White exposed his hypocrit-
ical statements at the Children's'
Hunger Hearing that mo one would
starve as long as am Mayor" by
ordering the delegation out. When
they refused, Alderman Burke. COM
ing up for recollection moved that the
council table the petition containing
the demands leaning it unread.
The attempts of the police to
smash the demonstration and arresa
the speakers Yves prevented by the
militant resistance OF the workers.
Upon hearing the report given by
Russak on the answer of the Council
the workers pledged to organize a
powerful Unemployed Council and
dAOtlieE NeAlDiStIdlACu W AukCS VIC
granting Of their demands.
A thunderous vote of support was
given the National Hunger March.
Hundreds marched to the headquar-
tiers of the Unemployed Council.
three hundred attending the indoor
meeting. Seventy-five Joined the
Council. Nine of the workers volun-
teered and were endorsed to go on
the National Hunger March.
Loud applause greeted the Comnu-
mist organizer June Croll when she
called for vote against starvation.
for the Communist platform. The
names of Foster, Ford, BALKAN and,
Dawson received similar greetings y
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Pars0n Threatens
failing Seaman in
Savannah Mission

SAVANNAH, Ga.-Conditions are
very bad in Savannah. You can't get
aboard ship to look for job with
out being chased around the cracked
watchmen. If you get aboard and
come ashore again. they frisk you if
you try to board the ship again.
Longshoremen are being paid 25
to 80 cents an hour. The Union is
needed very badly down here. There
has been almost no propaganda work
among the longshoremen.
The skypilot in the Savannah Mis-
sion held services on October 2. He
threatened to arrest two seamen for
whispering during the services. This
parson allows destitute seamen three
nights free-no more. The chairman,
or janitor has been working for this
institute for three years for room
and board and the nickels he can
cadge from the skypilot. He is also
official informer for the person..
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654 socialist and, 1926 fascist votes.
The Communist Party beat the So
cialists in almost all industrial areas.
including Oppeln, Merseburg, South
Westfalia, Cologne, Achen, Coblenz,
T'rier, East Dusseldorf, West Duess-
eldorf and Baden.
Socialist Scabb'ng in Berlin
The street railway strike con-
tinued today in Berlin, but thanks
to the particular socialist scabbing
the company succeeded in running
an extended service with trans, buss-
es and subway trains. The subway
service is, however, admittedly weak.
The company claims that IA thou
and workers returned to work while
l6 thousand are still out on strike.
The strike of the 1400 municipal
dustmen declared in solidarity with
the traffic workers continued un-
weakened. The companies, the gov
eminent, the police, the bourgeois
and socialist press are uniting in a
terrific campaign TO break the strike
while the great majority of the work.
ers remain loyal TO the strike-co
mittee.
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World Toilers Greet Soviet Union on the
18th Year OF Mighty Victories of Socialism
CHINA SOVIETS,
GERMAN REDS
HAILFATHERLAND
U.S.S.R. Leads to the
World Revolution

MOSCOW, USSR., Nov. 8. (By
Cable Greetings to the proletariat
of the Soviet Union on the 18th An
niversary are heard from all corners
of the globe. The Soviet Govern
ment received greetings from the Cen
trail Government of Soviet China
simultaneously celebrating the first
anniversary of its existence. The
greeting says: ION occasion Of the
18th Anniversary we send the Soviet
Government, organizer and leader Of
the November It'll Revolution, our
revolutionary greetings. The best ex-
ample to the workers and toilers Of
the whole world on how to fight for
the revolutionary solution Of the cap
italist world crisis, are the victories OF
Socialist construction, your fulfillment
of the Five Year Ian, in four years.
Anniversary Chinese Soviet Govern
ment
''Tlle 18th Anniversary Of the Oc-
tober Revolution comedies with the
first anniversary of the Provisional
Central Government of the Soviet Re-
public of China. Your experience is
being used by the Chinese workers
and peasants who fearleSsly fight for
Soviet China. Facts show that in
semi colonies such as China the So
Wet power alone is capable of lib
Grating the toilers from oppression,
and exploitation by the national bour-
geoisie, landlords and imperialists.
China's Soviet Government fights for
national liberation and independence
of China, and leads and organizes
the toiling masses in national, re-
volutionary war against occupation by
Japanese imperialism of Manchuria
and Mongolia, and against interven-
ton in USSR by world imperialism"
German Workers Greet Soviet Union
In behalf of the German revo-
lutionary proletariat, the toilers of
the Soviet Union, shock troops of The
world proletariat were greeted by
Thaelmann. He writes, Communist
Germany together with millions Of
working men, women, young workers
and toilers in city and village declare
on the 18th Anniversary of the Oc-
tober Revolution their deep, unbreak-
able bond with the Socialist Soviet
Union, the Red Army and Navy, and
with the Communists Party Of the
Soviet Union marching at the head
of millions of workers and peasants.
BY your Five-Yeac Plan, which is on
the eve of successful completion. you
created the foundation of Socialist
economy over one-sixth of the globe.
You are launching the Second Five
Year Plan to create a classics So
cialist society. You, Bolsheviks, car
rying into effect Lenin's requests, are
the tried and victorious shock troops
of the world proletariat and world
socialism. The German Communist
Party and the revolutionary workers
greet you"
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the men out in a general move to cut
the price on fish.
Conditions in Pensacola are bad
The fishermen have a limit of 10000
pounds catch at 5 cents a pound. The
company shares 5000 pounds of the
catch and also receives 40 per cent
Of the remainder of 10000 They
have limit of 20 days at sea and if
they get the limit the best they can
do is S25 to s28. Usually they come
in with from 5000 to $4,000 pounds
after 20 days. The average income of
fishermen is from IL to ID a month.
The men are mostly Scandinavian,
Portuguese and German. They are
ready for any kind of organization
that will help them fight the star
walton system. All seamen passing
through Pensacola should talk with
the fishermen and try to get them
organized
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HUGE COMMUNIST
MEET in CHICAGO
Ford, Weinstone Speak
to 13 Thousand
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

per cent relief cut in Chicago by
united front action along the lines
laid down here by Fosters famous
speech during the election campaign,
the great gains at the polls Of the
German Communist Party, the new
trial won for the Scottsboro boys by
mass action, along the line of the
Communist program and largely I'M
der the leadership of the Communist
Party; the completion in four years
OF the Five-Year Plan of socialist
construction in the Soviet Union, and
the mobilization here for big Com
munist vote, for the National Hun
ger March, for the mass delegation
to Springfield to demand relief next
Tuesday, the new bonus march of the
Veterans coming in December, etc.
There was cheering throughout the
entire meeting, as w. w. Weinstone,
of the Central Committee of thf
Communist Party; Herbert Newton,
Negro worker and Communist can
didate against the Republican De-
Priest; Mary Himoff Of the Young
Communist League and Ford en-
larged on these themes, and outlined
the next steps in the struggle.
Fer Negro Equality
Newton and Ford particularly took
up the fight for the Communist de-
mand Of complete equality for the
Negroes, and the need for continuous
struggle to free the Scottsboro boys
who will now face a determined at
tempt to railroad them in a new
trial.
The reorganized International Red
Band enlivened the whole meeting
with revolutionary music, and the
pageant was a huge mass prdouc-
tion, including the Blue Blouses, John
Reed Club, all the workers choruses
and at times the audience too
The capitalist press here, just as
in all large cities, gave full advertise
ment to and printed complete speech
es of the Socialist, Democratic and
candidates and their final
meetings, but boycotted the Commu-
mist meeting and speeches.
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VOTE AIDS FIGHT
'''FR MAN RED
Communist Party in
Statement on Results
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,


list fascist) Party, the statement goes
on to say, would intensity the efforts
of the fascist leaders to secure a place
in the government front while it
would facilitate the Communist Par
tvs efforts to win over the fascist
workers. The Nationalist also gain
ed considerably but Papen's bid for a
mass support failed missrably and
try mass storm against him is rising.
he bourgeoisie will answer the
riS 1g revolutionary front with inten-
sibd terror, threatening the de-
reimbursement of the workers, more
wage-cuts and new attacks on the
workers social and political rights.
The Communist Party will organize
the mass resistance.
Mass Policy of C.P. Correct
Continuing, the statement makes
it clear that the electoral victory is
ne first fruit of the persistent mass
activity and Bolsheyist mass policy
pursued by the Communist Party
against the right-wing opportunists,
representing the main danger in the
present period and the ultra cleft"
Sectarians.
The Communist Party will not rest
on the laurels of the past but will
concentrate all its forces to develop
the election gains into a mass strug-
gle against the capitalist offensive
threatening fascist dictatorship.
\ Election Results in Berlin
The biggest Communist victory was
;1gon in Berlin where the Communist
farty polled 863,559 votes compared
\ nth 721,252 polled in the previous
Elections. The fascists obtained 72o,-
SAT votes as against 754,6S8 previous
ly polled. The socialists received
646,246 votes compared with 721 OCT.
This represents the first answer of
the Berlin workers to the scab ac-
tivity of the socialists against the
street railway strike. In eleven of
the biggest Berlin constituencies the
Communist Party topped the poll,
beating the socialists in IA districts.
In Wedding, the Communist Party
polled 1858 votes or more than the
combined votes of the socialists and
fascists. In Neukoelin the Communist
Party pnllr1 82188 votes against 54,-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-09
Fight Pay Cut on
West kebar' in NY.
Unity Of All Seamen
Could Have Won Fight

NEW YORK HARBOR.-Two men
sent aboard the West Kebar at 8
o'clock one night last week walked
off when they heard the ship was
struck. The Malaria liner, which had
heaved her hook and started down
the bay, was forced to drop anchor
again off Stapleton.
The men were shipped from that
famous crimping joint the Dog
House. with assurances that there
was no trouble aboard the ship.
When they got there they we're told
that there was a strike aboard, that
the Filipino gang had walked off
over SIS wage-cut. They wouldn't
sign the articles and were sent back
ashore.
Men Refuse to Take Cut.
The strike came on the West Ke-
bar when the seven Filipinos, oilers,
firemen and wipers, refused to take
a heavy cut. 1t would have brought
the wages down to $50 for wiper,
$3.50 for firemen and $42.50 for OIL
ers month at the same time the deck
wages were cut to $40 for ABS. The
white men in the deck gang accepted
the cut without a murmur. Several
of them have been on the Kebar
over a year and half, and one has
been aboard two years.
The FilipinoS remained aboard on
strike till they were thrown off the
ship. then reported to the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, which
sent out a picket line and spread the
story of the strike over the water
front.
The Seamen'S Church Institute,
which gets $4,000 a year from Bar
Der, the head of the Malaria Line,
true to their scabby reputation, told
men that there was no strike aboard,
that the company was merely re-
placing the Filipinos to give the
white seamen work" They sup
pressed the story of the wage-cut
and walk-off.
Six men were sent from the In
stitute. When they heard the true
story at the picket line, five of these
men threw away the slips from the
Dog House crimp and went back to
town. Only one still wanted to scab.
He sneaked around the maze of Erie
Basin and finally got aboard.
At night he slept with bolo I'M
der his pillow for them reds might
get aboard the ship during the night,
and you can never tell what them
reds will don The other firemen
aboard went on the passes thrown
away by the men sent from the Dog
House.
Ship Tied Up.
just as the ship was ready to let
go her lines, the four men piled off,
and she was tied up again. A Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union dele
gate walked over to the port engi-
neer and said: Nov if you want a
crew for your fire-room and engine
room, all you have to do is to take
back the wage-cut, and you can have
your original crew. The port cap
tain refused. "Then you won't get
the crew." said the delegate.
AT eleven o'clock she was still lying
in the stream, off Stapleton, almost
twelve hours late.
Needed Unity to Succeed.
The delay caused the Kebar shows
that the seamen will, even now stand
together to hold up the wage scale
and working conditions. If the So
called white men" on deck had
struck with the FiinlnnA the West
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-09
NEW ORLEANS
SEAMEN ACTIVE
Negro Dockers Turn
to NJ. w. I. u.

NEW ORLEANS.-Tn spreading
literature around New Orleans 1 find
the marine workers sympathetic to
the Marine Workers Industrial Union.
I made a speech in the Shipping
Board office while ago and was well
received by the men, but the shipping
master told me that If I didn't keep
my mouth shut I'd visit the new House
of Detention on Tulane st. I asked
the shipping master if there was any
harm in giving marine workers the
truth about the conditions on ships
in New Orleans. He said there was
no harm it in, but to tell them about
it on the streets, not in the Shipping
Board.
I spread a lot of literature in the
shipping board and called meeting
in the union hall. Got a big response
Sympathy is strong among the dock
workers and New Orleans has good
prospects for organization work this
winter.
The Moore MacCormack line out of
here pays $45 and no overtime. The
seamen have to drive winches in port
They need organization there. The
Bull line is using the same tactics
The M. w. I. q. longshoremen's
hall is getting big crowds and good
results among the Negro longshore-
men. We have made demands and
gotten some recognition.
The banana boats here pay Is cents
an hour. In Galveston they pay &c
cents and only get one beat a week
two the next. The cracker bosses
drive hell out of them, and they dis
charge boat in 4 to s hours.
Delegate No. 1853, M.WI.U,
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ready had their insurance payments
cut of or cut down to nearly noth-
ing. The report was skillfully camou-
flaged, the reduction being hidden.
under a provision for "13 weeks to
80 weeks, but with provisions which
insure the longer periods Of payments.
will be very infrequent.
Now A Hunger March Here. ..
The fight against these relief cuts
and against socialist treachery
against the attempt at terror by i'm
prisoning Harrington, the Commu-
mist leader Of the jobless, will go on
in England, while the American job
less organize their gigantic hunger
march on Washington as part Of the
same worldwide fight.
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JAIL HANNIINGTON..
PLAN DOLE CUT.
Propose Payments for
Only 13 Weeks

LONDON, England, Nov 1.-TWO
nearly simultaneously blows we're
struck at the British unemployed yes
terday and today by the Macdonald
government.
Today the Bow Street police court
sentenced Wal Harrington to three
months Imprisonment for "inciting
mutiny and disaffection in the police
force, for urging them not to at
tack the jobless.
Cut Down Dole Payments. ,
Yesterday the royal commission;
headed by Judge Holman Gregory,
brought in majority report which
proposes to cut payments of the dole
from 26 weeks in each year to IS,
and approves the Means Test, by
which over a million jobless have al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-09
FLAUNT TOOLS OF DEATH

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The old killing
ship Constitution, "Old Ironsides" of
days of yore, is to be towed from
Washington to the Norfolk Navy Yard
where she will be reconditioned for
trip to the west coast. The govern
ment mine sweeper, "Grebe'' is to do
the towing and act as tender and
convoy for this big tub enroute.
What foolish undertaking this is.
Always a killing continuance is in
stalled before our eyes not only in
this case, but in public parks where
we go to try and see a little of the
glories OF nature. But there to upset
us is big gun on wheels. RS.
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AGREE TO DISCUSS
FORCED LABOR

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, NOV. 8.-Sioux
City workers scored a victory against
forced labor on Monday morning
After a demonstration at the County
Court house chairman of Supervisors
John Kinquist was forced to set next
Thursday as the date for meeting
with delegation of the Unemployed
Council to confer on the Withdraw
ing of proposals for forced labor.
The unemployed delegation will de-
mand cash relief and transportation.
that is trucks and gasoline for the
Sioux City delegation to the National
Hunger March.
Krieger was arrested at the demon
stration but released because of the
pressure of the workers who were
marching to storm the Jail.
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PENSACOLA FISHERMEN'S UNION
is FACING LOCKOUT
Marine Workers Calls for Special Attention to
Help These Men Reorganize

PENSACOLA, Fla.-The. fishermen
Of this port went on strike August Is,
1882. They were out one month dur
ing which the union spent $2,400 to
win strike against cent cut in
the price Of red snappers. There are
two companies in the field, the E. E.
Saunders Co. and the Warren Fish
Co. The strike was against the e. E.
Saunders Co. only. The Saunders Co.
had cut the price from cents to 4
cents. The Warren Co. kept the price
at 5 cents. After three weeks the
Warren Co. was taking the trade away.
SO the Saunders Co. settled.
Now the union is broke and the
companies are getting ready to lock
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Speedup Aided by
St0Olpigeon on
Savannah Line

SAVANNAH LINE-I got a job on
the SIS. Montgomery, of the Savannah
line. Here are the conditions I found
on this coastwise packet.
A. BIS get $4950 a month. The bosun
acts as day man and storekeeper. He
draws the same pay as an A. B. They
got fast speed-up system on this
ship. They give man Job on deck
and tell him that when he gets it
done he is through for the day. But
it generally takes hi movertime to get
the job done, and no overtime pay.
The focsles on these ships are full
of vermin. The food is unfit to eat
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half the time.
The mate knocks the men off some
times and they are so eager to hold
their jobs that they work overtime
of their own without being asked
Each man is afraid of the other. There
is stool aboard who tells the mate
everything. Then the mate comes
down and bawls them out.
They sure need some job action and
on the Savannah Line.
Delegate No. 1853, M.WI.U.
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Kebar would not have sailed till she
put wages back at the old level. The
West Kebar strike shows the son-
darity of the seamen. More Of II
will stop the wage-cut .