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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-21

mination to fight and defend them
selves against attack, the unem-
ployedvery definitely served notice
upon the boss class and on the flunky
Mayor Miller that they will not starve
to death, but will fight for their right
to live.
United Under the Leadership of the
Unemployed Councils.
workers of st. Louis Negroes and
white, employed and unemployed,
young and old, we must united under
militant leadership of the Unem-
ployed Councils and carry on the
fight. Organize in every block, in
every neighborhood e committee of
the unemployed. Workers in trade
unions, fraternal organizations, sup
port the struggle of the unemployed
and send your delegates to the Un-
employed Councils and participate in
mass at the United Front Conference
on July oath at Turner Hall, 1903
Chouteau Ave, at 10 a. m. Workers
in shops send your delegates, come
to this conference. Organize your
committees and fight against wage
cuts and speed-up.
Demand al war funds be used for
relief and unemployment insurance.
Support the fight of the ex-service-
men for bonus. Stop evictions. De-
mand that all applicants be put on
relief list without red tape or discri-
mination. Demand the unconditional
activity in the struggle of the unem-
release of al arrested workers for the
ployed. Smash jim Crowism and
segregation of Negro workers. Down
with Miller Hoover government of
hunger and war"
UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS
of st. Louis.
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Slave Labor in the
Hotel Neav Yorker
Mattresses Get $3.50 for Two Weeks Work
aundry Workers Cut Off from Sun and Air

rich patrons. For the workers there
is only hell. To furnish the workers
with a bit of air costs money"
Dogs get better treatment than
these workers. For seven days a
week chamberrnaids get $40. The
bosses who cry "times are bad" have
recently bought new carpets, antiques
and other decorations with the SAY
ings" garnered from the exploitation
of the workers.
These big moguls," parasites who
wander around all day with their
hands in their pockets and do Moth
ing but smile for their equally para
site guests, get between $4,000 and
$4,000 a year.
Unfortunately, little organizing has
yet taken place among hotel workers.
The Food Workers Industrial Union
should without delay seek to pene-
trate these slave labor hotels,
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says IN part: -
1--WE the unemployed men
and women, Negro and white,
together with our families, we
assembled in front of the City
Hall on Monday July 18th, to present
our demands to the Board of Alder
men and the Mayor Of the City. We
demanded our right to live. We de-
manded milk for our starving chill
dren. We demanded an oppropri-
alton of $lo0o0,000 for immediate re-
lief We demanded that food orders
be issued at once to the hungry fam
lilies. For over three hours we waited
under the scorching sun while Mayor
Miller refused to meet the delegation
which was elected by 10000 as
spokesman Of the 100000 unemployed
workers of st. Louis.
Mayor Miller finally decided to an
swer our demands with tear gas
bombs, bullets and clubs. Mayor Mil
Ter directed his answer to the hungry
families with brutal attack, where
were shot, 20 wounded and 48 were
arrested and beaten while in jail. One
of the arrested, George Breezely, ter
rorized and threatened by the Mil
Ter thugs, committed suicide. Judge
Blaine, appointee and hireling Of
Mayor Miller, gave 10 of the workers
arrested maximum fine of $50 each
Judge Blain carried out full instruc-
ton of his master behind closed door
of the police court.
Bullets Won't Solve Starvation.
"But bullets, clubs and jails will moi
stop the cry of the starving children
for milk, nor will it feed the 00,00(
unemployed. The unemployed of st
Louis showed on July 18th the deter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-21
days With Lenin" In
New Pamphlet Form
by Intern'l Publishers

days With Lenin," by Maxim
Gorky, which has appeared In the
Daily Worker, is now being pub
lishcd IS pamphlet by Inter ma
tional Publishers.
These intimate and illuminating
"reminiscences of the greatest work.,
ing class leader Of our times by
Gorky round out the picture OF
Lenin, the man and revolutionary
leader, as given in Memories of
Lcnin by N. d. Krupskaya, Lenin's
wife, which ha salready been made
available by International Pub
, fishers.
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was leading another strike in the
American Mills. This was in 1929
N. T. w. U. organizers and strikers
were kidnapped.
That year occurred the big Marion
strike, in North Carolina. Here the
U. T. w. led by the Musteite Hoff-
man, betrayed the workers. The
strikers of Marion were told to carry
bibles instead of instituting militant
action. AS a resulto the massacre of
six Marion strikers occurred, for
which Marion Manufacturing Co. and
its thugs are responsible.
The same Musteites who sold out,
with the U. T. w. the strikers of
Marion, Elizabethton and other places
last year cut the wages of the men,
bers of the Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers Union, which they control,
by as high as so per cent, in order
to stabilize the industry" and to try
to Improve business" for the bosses
This most shameless betrayal by the
Musteites of the Full Fashioned has a
direct connection with the present
strike of the North Carolina hosiery
workers. HowP
This wage cut resulted in the
further driving down of the wages
and conditions of the southern host
cry workers. The southern hosiery
bosses said, you see, the wages in
the hosiery mills in Reading, Phila-
delphia Sand Milwaukee, have been
cut. In order to compete with these
northern concerns we must cut the
wages here in the hosiery mills in
the South"
U. T. w. Betrayers
McKeown, Musteite and socialist
candidate for mayor of Philadelphia,
was one of the leaders in putting
through the general hosiery wage
cut.
The Musteites and the U. T. w.
mislsaders Will undoubtedly be
brought into the situation soon in
order to seek to behead this mass
strike movement of the southern
workers.
The strikers must be warned
against these demagogic takers.
The N. It. w. U. led the southern
workers, right in the present strike
area, in heroic struggles, and gained
great confidence of the workers in
mill towns from Charlotte, N. G. to
Greenville, S. c.
But the N. T. w. U. failed to follow
up the gains it had made in the
South
Rank and File Committee
1t is clear from the history Of the
Southern textile strikes that unless
the strikers form their own rank and
file strike and picket committees and
take the leadership In their own
hands clering out all company tools,
they will not be able to win the
struggle The workers are in need of
the guidance of fighting union like
the National Textile Workers Union
that led the Gastonia fight. These
workers must be warned against all
tricky manuevers Of the bosses, fake
promises, and against the leaders of
the United Textile Workers Union
that will attempt to take over the
struggle. They must be warned
against the U. S. Labor Department
mediators who will swarm into the
strike area to crush the strike. The
unemployed must be enlisted along
with the youth, women and Negro
workers into one solid fighting front.
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CAROLINA SCENE
OF BIG FIGHTS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)


ployed and part time textile workers
and their wives and children in most
textile towns.
Face Death by Starvation
Death by starvation was staring
b 9th employed and unemployed
southern textile workers in the face.
The southern textile workers found
themselves completely unorganized
The United Textile Workers had sold
them out, collecting scores of thous-
ands of dollars in dues. in this and
that mill town, and decamped, de-
serted the field.
The MuSteites were sent down to
do the job of hopping up for when
the orthodox labor takers sell out and
run away, they have the Musteites
go down and try to make the workers
forget by the use of fake militant
phrases.
Unorganized as they were, the
In the last few months there have
been at least a dozen strikes, in
isolated mill towns. There was the
strike, for instance of 1,400 workers
of the Blue Bell Overall plant in
Greensboro.
Greensboro, which is is miles away
from High Point, where the present
strike wave started, is real textile
boss ruled domain. There the big
Cone interests hold sway. There both
terror and the "benevolence" method
Of holding the workers down are in
force.
Blue Bell Strike
The Blue Bell workers struck
against so per cent wage cut. Yes
in the South SO per cent wage cuts
are the rule. The strikers elected
their own leadership.
They fought hard, these Blue Bel
strikers. Unorganized as they were
they forced the bosses to offer to
compromise on a Is per cent cut
But the strikers stuck. They finally
went back under Is per cent cut
Since then the bosses, through the
Bedaux speed-up system have sue
ceeded in taking away the fruits Of
that partial victory. This was because
the workers were unorganized.
Then followed in quick succession
strikes in textile mills In Langley, In
Bath, in Clearwater and many other
southern mill towns.
In all these cases the workers were
unorganized But their fighting
spirit was so great that they wers
able to win partial gains.
These strikes helped to pave the
way for the big strike that is now
sweeping the textile mills and fur
niture plants in the Piedmont area
The Piedmont area has seen some
of the greatest strike struggles in the
South Indeed in the entire country
The famous Gastonia strike tool,
place in this section. Here the Ma
tional Textile Workers Uron led the
long, brave battle of tho workers Of
the Loray Mills against speed-up and
wage cuts.
Murder Of Ella May
Ferocious terror featured that
strike. Ella May, one of the leaders
who came from the workers them
selves, was murdered by mill thugs in
Bessemer City, where the N. T. w. u,
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of the veterans Waters announced
yesterday that he would not allow
food to given out of the BEEF. COM
missary to the rank and file groups
which had revolted against his die
tatorship. M
Following speech made by Gen.
eral Butler, ertswhile officer in the
Marine Corps who came to WASH
ington to rally support for the Wa,
ters dictatorship, Waters launched
into an attack against the Workers
Ex-servicemen's League.
Butler, who is notorious for the
role he played in the last big i'm
perialist war. who drove thousands
Of young America to their death
in France, came to the capital to
bolster Waters fast waning fascist
support.
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INRIA CONFERENCE ENDS IN
RIOT

BOMBAY.-Fifty were injured in
riot at the All-India Depressed
Glasses Conference, when those de-
manding separate electorate for the
depressed classes were elected from
the hall.
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TO HAIL FOSTER
WITH Big PARADE
IN DETROIT, MICH.
Ford In Jersey Elk
poses Forced Labor
In State
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
Saginaw, July %; Kalamazoo, July
%, and Grand Rapids, July 80, at
the LIS and D. Hall, 1867 Hamilton
N. w.
Ford in Trenton

N. w.
Ford in Trenton
TRENTON, N. j., July 20.-Despite
the terrific heat, 400 workers heard
James w. Ford, Negro worker and
Communist candidate for vice-presi-
dent, inaone of the largest working
class rallies ever hedl here.
More than 10000 workers are jobless
in this city of metal industries.
Workers at the meeting described the
vicious speed-up system prevailing in
the biggest plant in town owned by
John A. Roebling, builder of the
Brooklyn Bridge. A Is per cent cut
was put over just before Christmas
last year, another 10 per cent in the
spring, and a third cut hovers over
the heads of the men at the present
time.
Forced Labor Described
The unemployed are bitter against
the forced labor schemes put over
recently by the state. Despite the
1927 state labor law" which makes
it illegal to pay workers in anything
but cash, the state is now paying
baskets of food mostly canned goods
in return for two days work of eight
hours each day for family of five.
To perfect this slavery scheme, the
state has hired speed-up experts
known as volunteer" foremen, and
at the slightest disagreement with the
forenen, workers lose their jobs.
Point of the contract which the
workers are made to sign says that
for insubordination employment will
Immediately terminate. In addition
workers are deprived of accident COM
pensation, since Point of the con-
tract says that "the previous pro-
visions of Section II of the New Jer-
sey employment compensation act
are not to apply to your contract of
employment. You therefore cannot
COLecI peIlellCS IOT personal injury.
Abolished Previous Laws
Thus, as Ford pointed out in his
speech, this new relief" bill abol-
ished with one strike the state labor
statutes and workmens compensation
act.
Ford exposed this and cited it as a
striking example OF the reactionary
character Of the capitalist way out
of the crisis. In his speech he also
attacked Garner who made a dema-
gogic speech about Wall Street
running the government" but who
actually helped over measures in the
last Congress which were hailed by
Henry Hartman, president of the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce.
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BREAD, NOT BULLETS!
KEYNOTE DEMAND OF
ST. LOUIS JOBLESS

ST. LOUIS July 20-Bread not bullets. This will be the
keynote demand united front unemployed conference
be held in the Turner Hall in this city Sunday July "a at 10
The Unemployed Council of St. Louis is calling the
workers join this conference issued statement today which
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CUTS OPERATORS WAGES
BALTIMORE, Md, July 15.--The
and Potomac Telephone
Co. has cut the wages of operators.
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JAPANESE SHIPS
LOAD MUNITIONS
Workers! Protest u. S.
Aid of War
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

''Kurama Maru Fuku'' brought q load
Of sugar for the same purpose. The
"Hoku Roku Maru" is leaving for
Boston, and will return within few
days to take on it's shipment of war
material for Japan. A fourth ship
is expected to arrive within few days
for similar cargo.
The explosive powder is packed in
barrels containing from 450 to 500
pounds. Each ship carries an aver
age of 5000 barrels. All the explo-
sives come from the DUPONT Com
pany's Delaware plant. The motors
are from Detroit.
Here, fellow workers, Is further
concrete proof of how the Wall
Street imperialist are shipping
munitions and other war supplies
to the Japanese militarists for their
murderous attacks on the Chinese
People, for their criminal drive for
armed Intervention against the So
Wet Union and its triumphant So
cialist construction.
Imperialist war has already be-
gun. Every day increases the danger
of an explosion among the imper-
ialist brigands in the sharpening
struggle for the division of loot in
China. The imperialists are fran
tically striving to direct this war
into anti Soviet channels. They are
seeking capitalist "way out" of the
crisis at the expense Of the Soviet
and Chinese masses, at the expense
of the whole world working class.
They are trying to unite on the
basis of their common hostility to
workers rule in the Soviet Union.
Only the working class can pre-
vent new world conflagration, a
new world slaughter of workers.
Workers! Stop the production and
shipment of munitions to Japan!
Organize united front anti-war
committees in your factories, in
your unions, in all your organiza-
tions! Demand the withdrawal of
all imperialist armed forces from
China! Demand all war funds for
the starving unemployed millions
and the payment of social insurance
and the veterans bonus! All out
August First, International Fight
ing Day Against Imperialist War!
Demonstrate against the war mong-
ers! Defend your class interests!
Defend the Chinese People and the
Soviet Union!
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POLICE CLUB
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$4,000 STRIKE
l5O MILLS SHUT

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
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F. S. U. Issues Call.

mittee of the Friends of the Soviet
Union" has Issued a call urging all
friends and sympathizers of the Sow
let Union to pour into the streets on
August First for the anti-war DEM
onstrations. The call points out that
the devastating crisis of world capt.
talism has reached catastrophe
depths, that the capitalists are driv-
ing towards war as the capitalist
way out"-war against the working
class which is now raging in all cap
italist countries with increasing saw
age prosecutions of militant work
ers, especially foreign-born and Ne
groes, bloody attacks on the demon
STATIONS of the unemployed, on the
strikes of the employed against the
boss policy of wage cuts and speed
up:
"The Hoover Hunger Government
adds to the mass oppression and
misery of the working class here by
now seeking to terrorize the for
eign born. The Dies Bill is aimed
not only against foreign born work
ers, but Is intended as a vicious
blow against the entire working
class"
War Manouvers in Mimi.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July TO-
The biggest mobilization of armed
forces since the World War took
place in the war manouvers recently
completed at Camp Ripley, Little
Falls, MINI, Infantry, tanks, artil-
lery and airplanes were paraded in
large numbers. Little Falls is also
the site Of the training camp of the
National Guard, for which the Min
nesota State Legislature has recently
appropriated 1,550,00O while denying
relief for the unemployed workers.
On August First, the workers of
this district District 8, Communist
Party will answer these war prepara-
tons with II central anti-war DEM
onstratiops. In Minneapolis the
demonstration will be held at p. m,
at Bridge Square. 1t will be followed
by an anti-war parade to the Audi
torium.
Anti-war demonstrations will also
be held in st. Paul. Duluth, Crosby,
Two Harbors, Cloquet. Virginia, Hib-
bling and Bemidpi. At International
Falls, on the Canadian border. an in
ternational demonstration will be held
with American and Canadaian work.
ers participating.
Demonstrations will be held in
Northern Wisconsin in Superior,
Brentwood and Owen.
In Upper Michigan, demonstrations
will be held in Ironwood, Iron River,
Hancock Negaunee, and Sault ste.
Marie. The latter town is on the
Canadian border, and here another
international demonstration of Can
adam and American workers will be
held.
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Ferocious terror featured that
strike. Ella May, one Of the leaders
who came from the workers them
selves, was murdered by mill thugs in
Bessemer City. where the N. T. w. u,
Evening star., 1932-04-28

Take the night of the Jefferson day
dinner, for example.
When Byrd was introduced a mighty
roar was heard. Virginians were on
their feet, cheering him. Gen. Billy
Mitchell, former chief of the Army Air
Service, who lives the life of a country
gentleman at Middleburg, led a group
in the rebel yell
When Ritchie was introduced later
as mighty roar went up. There
were $50 Free State residents in at
tendance" wrote one observer.
Adding to the interest of the thing is
the difference with which each views
the fneoted question Of prohibition
Ritchie wants the eighteenth amend
ment repealed outright and the right
to control liquor returned TO the States.
Byrd, on the other hand, is advocat4
ing new plan for deciding the ques-
ton OF prohibition A dry he proposes
that the problem be dealt with through
two constitutional amendments. one to
clear the way for a direct popular vote
and the other containing whatever
proposition Congress votes to submit
retention Of prohibition, repeal or mod
iflcation.
No less person than Chairman Ras-
Evening star., 1932-04-28
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop was smoking and reading in his
private chair and I was sitting on the
floor thinking and lissening to the wind
outside, and I said, Hay pop, IL sud
denly opened all the windows and the
wind blew everything all around the
room. including your newspaper, would
you think it was funny?
No. and neither would you, In TACT
YOU would regard the occurrence as one
of the saddest episodes of your life,
particularly the termination, pop said.
Meening what he would do to me,
and I said. Well if mixed up lot Of
shaving lather In q bucket and came up
in back of you and smeared 1t all over
volIr face with a whitewash brush would
you laugh?
I'd laugh just as much as you would
laugh directly Afterwards when I
warmed the sect of your pants so
thoroughly that all your other trousers
hanging in your closit would feel a
sympathetic gov pop said.
Meening not at all, and said. Well
G. pop. then how is it that's exactly
what Squidge Jones did in the Kut Up
Komedy at the Little Grand last Satti-
day and you laughed like everything?
I'll tell you hcw it is, pop said In
the ferst place Squidge Jones was not
trying his tricks on me but on cellu-
laid strangers in whom my interest was
free from any feeling of personel re-
sponsibility or sentimental attachment,
and in the End place had paid def
mite amount CT good money to be in
titled to laugh at Squidge Jones, and
serious thinkers throughout the ages
have agreed that there is certain salts
faction in getting your moneys werth.
So that's how 1t Is. pop said.
wich it prcberly is, me not trying any
tricks to prove It.
Evening star., 1932-04-28

kob Of the Democratic National COM
nittee has said of the Byrd proposal
that st is better than mine, for It
would give the cities a fairer repre-
sentatlon in the total vote"
An objection to Byrds proposal,
heard in The Thirsty" group around
the Capital. is that such a plan might
take too long to settle the question
1t is pointed out that it took around
13 months for the States to ratify the
eighteenth amendment. The usual ex-
PLANTATION given for this speed Is that
Is was up for decision during the stress
and turmoil attending war times.
Traditionally, a seYen-year period is
permitted the State within which to
ratify or reject an amendment to the
Constitution. If a sufficient number
has not reported by that time, then the
amendment dies.
1t is pointed out that If the States
availed themselves Of half Of their al
lotted time or less on the two pro-
posed amendments, along with the
necessary other lapSes of time. it might
be years before change could be eff
Iected.
Evening star., 1932-04-28
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX

- EAR MISS DIX newspaper
woman concert pianist Incorporated herself
how this would work out if she to fall
married also ambitious and need money to
studies Wouo you ADVISE my making my lnVo
company. "a o.
has is poor risk of
came along she fell and good by the career
which, is a
call for training under European
teachers
COMEOW don't mix harmoniousy
Most wives home and
comfortable for them instead OF gaddng over the country
whanot Also
husbands egot who desire their wives look up to
get little Joy out Of being the tail to "es Kite
It one of
wife
has choose husband children and
And husband isn't
willing will
herself and her talents DoROIH4 DIX
~ she take it, insult compliment MRS L. r G.
she principle CRATER
everything possible out Of g who gold digger
pocket sleeht professional
Just the methods refined
efdcaclouS
Often
Of hard hearted andaoy about
time has obbed her
yellow backed bills
usual method however limiting
past shop where there are dresses or or f
jewels that she thinks would be Just Of him to
always hungry wanting eat restaurants
plays or to go to places dance DOROTHY DIX.