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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08

NEW YORK.-The United Front
May Day Anti-War Committee, set
up at the mass conference of New
York workers organizations, issued
an urgent call to all organizations
to carry out the following immediate
program Of action in preparation for
the mighty demonstration and par
ade on the International Day of
working class solidarity and strug-
gle, May First:
/. All organizations are called
upon to rush their pledges towards
the May Day struggle fund. Funds
are urgently needed to develop the
May Day activities. Millions of
leaflets are in preparations. Signs,
floats, banners, bands of music,
effigies, etc. must be gotten ready
without delay. May Day buttons
and pennants are already ordered.
Funds must be Immediately avail
able.
2. All organizations, shops, un-
ions, mass organizations TO issue
statements in the press, get out
leaflets for wide mass distributions,
organize a series of indoor and
outdoor meetings among the work
ers in their shops, nationality or
neighborhood, prepare appropriate
slogans, banners, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08

Foland ana OCner puppeJ states OF
French imperialism in Eastern Eu-
rope.
Amter Contrasts Capitalist Decay
with Socialist Triumphs In Soviet
Union
Comrade I. Amter, district or
ganizer of the Communist Party and
representative of the Central Com
mittee, declared that war had al
ready begun in China, that new
world war was threatening, Is years
after the World War in which ten
million were killed, 20 million Grip
pied and manned for life, with in
Fiction of misery and suffering on
untold millions, and with the vast
age Of three hundred and sixty bill
lion dollars worth Of wealth prod
uced by the working class. He show
ed that the burdens of war fall upon
the shoulders of the workers and poor
farmers and upon the enslaved CO.
Ionial masses. He pointed to the
collapse Of capitalist economy, the
worldwide decay of the capitalist
system, the continuous deepening of
the crisis with increase in unemploy-
ment and mass misery, the Hoover
wage-slashing program, the calIous
denial of unemployment relief, at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
BLOCK AID TO
BE CHALLENGED
BY UNEMPLOYED
Needy Families In East
Side Demand Re-
lief at Noon

A number Of families denied relief
by the Home Relief Bureau will be
led today at noon by the Unemploy-
ed Council to a local Block Aid sta
ton at 2 Avenue A to demand aid.
The Block Aid campaign has, by
bleeding workers of their last nickels
and dimes raised over $2,O0O.0OO dol
lars. Yet when a committee from
the Downtown Unemployed Council
brought needy workers and asked
for relief last week they were told
by the Block Aid on Avenue A that
they had no relief. Proving that
the Block Aid is not only organized
to deceive the working class, to spy
on them and to pile heavier and
heavier the burden of the crisis on
them but is a complete hoax, refus-
ing to take care of needy cases after
raising money in the name of the
needy.
The Downtown Unemployed Coun-
Gil has started an intensive campaign
to expose the treachery Of the Block
Aid to the workers of the East Side.
1t intends to flood that section with
100000 leaflets. On April 9 and 10
they will hold tag days to raise
funds for these leaflets.
They appeal to all workers who
possibly can to join in the tag days.
1t is of paramount Importance that
the leaflets are distributed. The Block
Aid is also part of the bosses war
plan, being similar to Home Defense
in 1917.
Workers wanting to cooperate in
the tag days report at the following
stations April 9-t0: headquarters of
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League, 70
E. 10th St.; Downtown Workers
Club, II Clinton Street; Downtown
Unemployed Council, "a E. It'll ST.;
Workers Center, 142 E. Bird St.; East
Side Workers Club, 1876 E. Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
LEFT WING WINS
IN CLOAkMAkERS
CONVENTION
Elects Six Delegates
On Class Struggle
Basis

NEW YORK.-The movement of
the cloakmakers against the fake
strike that Schlessinger is already
supporting to be put through in the
cloak trade Jointly with the bosses,
found concrete expression in the ell
ections of Local which took place
yesterday. Despite all efforts of
Schlessinger and the fake progressive
ansrchist-Lovestone combination, the
left wing slate polled the highest
vote and elected Of the 7 delegates
who ran on a program of class strug-
gle, program against clique control
of the international, for a real strike
under rank and file leadership.
In the elections Of Local SO, one
OF the left wing delegates was elected
and the machine is now manouever-
ing for a recount.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
Russian Aid Society to
Aid Daily Worker

The United Committee of the Rus
sian National Mutual Aid Society.
following its policy of uniting the
Russian workers in America and SUPP
porting the workers press, today an
nounced its first concert and ball for
the benefit OF the Daily Worker, GEN.
trail organ of the Communist Party,
U.S.A. 1t will be held at Manhattan
Lyceum Saturday evening, April 8,
starting at 8 pm
This affair is arranged under the
auspices Of the United Committee,
composed of representative from IL
working class organizations, and in
Guiding q committee from the Rus
sian weekly militant paper, "Noyy
Mir
In statement to the Daily Work
er, the United Committee says that
this affair is being held to show the
support OF the Russian and allied
workers to the working class of
America--to demonstrate politically
that the New York Russian workers,
branches of the RN.M.A.S, the Polish
Workers Club and the Russian
branch of the Friends of the Soviet
Union are fighting in the ranks Of
the militant workers, in defense Of
the Soviet Union, against hunger,
war, unemployment and mass star
walton
The statement says: THE branches
Of the R.NMA.S, at whose initiative
the United Committee was formed,
came to realize that they should not
conduct an undertaker's office, but
rather headquarters for the support
of the workers movement, defending
the foreign-born, counter acting the
infamous attacks of the Russian
white guards
1t continues: eve came to the con-
clusion that assistance given only to
the press of the Russian language is
insufficient, and that we must give
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
Masses of AFL Workers Vote
for Unemployment Insurance

NEW YORK.-The New York A.
F. of L. Trade Union Committee for
Unemployment Insurance and Relief
received the endorsement on its ref
erendum for Government Unemploy-
ment Insurance from the Central La
Dor Union of Albuquerque, N. M, In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, locals 20 and %, membership,
$500. also voted in favor of the ref
erendum.
Numerous other endorsements from
A. F. of L. local unions and lodges Of
railroad brotherhoQds are coming in
to the office of ting committee daily.
Local 100, United Mine Workers, from
Stanton, Ill, not only voted in IA
vor OF the referendum, which was
initiated by 81 local unions and since
by so more, but also in
structed its delegates to present the
demand of unemployment insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
Needle Trades Bazaar
Holds Special Youth
Night This Evening

NEW YORK. - Tonight will be
Youth Night at the Needle Trades
Workers Bazaar, which opened
Thursday at the New Star Casino,
l07th Street and Park Avenue.
For This occasio nthe Youth Com
mittee of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union is mobilizing large
sections OF the young dressmakers
and turTierS. Young workers from
all trades are urged to come and
celebrate together with the workers
Of the needle trades.
Admission Friday will be rs cents
on Saturday and Sunday admission
VII be so cents. reg
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
300 Penna Miners
On Strike: Work to
Spread Ind. Strike

BOLTz, Pa.--Two hundred miners
of the Diamond Tmoklers Coal Com
pany are out on strike here. The
strike was Immediately spread and
100 miners Of the Cosgrove Coal Mine
Company, in Dilltown, Pa, joined
the strike. A Workers International
Relief nCommittee ad a strike COM
mittee has been elected in Boltz and
w. l. R. committees are being
formed in the Cosgrove strike. A
similar committee has been organ
lied in the Seward section.
Work is progressing towards
spreading the Indiana County strike
into Westmoreland and Somerset
Counties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
PROTEST LYNCH
VERDICT TONIGHT
Moore and Brodsky to
Speak at Meeting

A mass protest demonstration
against the bloody verdict Of the
Alabama Sup RENE Court in the
Scottsboro case, will be held stonight
at st. Lukes Hall, 125 w. 13Oth St.,
New York City.
All Negro and white workers are
asked to come to this demonstration
tonight where Comrade Moore of the
National Committee of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights and Com
rade Brodsky, lawyer for the Inter
national Labor Defense, will talk
about the latest developments of the
Scottsboro case Admission is free!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
SOVIET FILM REVOLT IN THE
DESERT" AT ACME SATURDAY

"Revolt in the Desert" a new Soviet
Amkino production and newest film
release from Soviet Russia will have
its American Premiere at the Acme
Theatre this Saturday. "Revolt in the
Desert was taken in a remote part
of Turkemistan, with the nomadic
people Of that region as the cast. The
picture shows an old and ancient
form of civilization, many customs
and habits Of their desert life, going
back to antiquity. Much of the wealth
of these nomad people is concen-
trated in their flocks and much of
their life is a struggle for existence.
There are interestin scenes of the
caravan in motion Of the desert
camps where the women can take
down the simple huts in little time
and pack them on camels--for these
nomads keep on the move all the
time. The terrors Of thirst and sand
storms are shown in dramatic Sc
Quences, primitive methods of keep
ing house and rites Of these backward
people are shown in the picture.
Into this background of ancient
superstition and ignorance comes the
young Alma, who represents modern
life. In contrast to the desert women
with their long trailing garments, Ella
borate head dresses and wells, she
wears an abbreviated skirt, smock
and her bobbed hair flies in the wind.
The final scenes show the ANAL
gamation Of the old life with the new
under the leadership of Alma and
With the help of agriculturists, the
learn 10 grow fodder for
cattle in desert soil, and build their
own villages. These strong dramatic
contrasts form OF background add
much to the interest Of Revolt in the
Desert" This is the last day of Road
o Life. at the Acme Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
Treat Unemployed AS
On Chain Gang On
City Relief Jobs

NE WORK, N. Y.-Unemployed,
working on the cities emergency re-
lief jobs, are treated as if. they were
criminals on chain gang, workers
report.
Strict, inhuman discipline is SEN
forced. Talking is not permitted,
workers caught speaking to their
neighbors are punished with a loss
of time. A loss of time is direct
way Of starving the workers, since
every penny off their meagre pay is
so much less bread Going to the tot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
Furriers Plan Mass
Meet to Launch Drive
On Work Card System

NEW YORK.-The struggle Of the
turriers against the enforcing card
racketeer system is taking on mass
character. In every shop where the
kaufman agents together with the
bosses came up to force the workers
to pay money to the underworld
kaufman gang, the workers answered
with determined resistance.
At the Cooper Union mass meeting
to be held soon concrete plans for
spreading and intensifying this strug-
gle will be discussed by the workers.
AL fur workers, employed and unem-
ployed are urged to mobile and come
en- mass to this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08

whatever assistance we can afford
to he leader Of the working class
movement in America1-the Daily
Worker. The entire Russian colony
of New York and vicinity stands be-
hin dus to carry this plan out.
"All workers who are free Sattr-
day night can start this movement
of the Russian workers off success
fully by coming to Manhattan Ly-
ceum to our first affair.
Long Live the Daily Worker!
Long live the Communist Party,
y. S. APP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
CONCERT AND DANCE IN
BRIGHTON

A concert and dance will be held
Saturday night, April 9th at 1113
Brighton Beach Avenue under the
auspices of unit 6-9-11 OF the Com
munist Party. The proceeds of the
meeting will go to the Daily Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08

same time that the government is
donating billions of dollars to the
railroads and banks and spending
huge sums for war preparations.
Amter contrasted the deepening
mass misery in the United States
with its army of 100000 unem-
ployed with conditions under the rule
of the workers and peasants in the
Soviet Union where, last week, wages
were again raised II to 20 per cent
in the industries. He called for a
united struggle of all workers and
poor farmers against the capitalist
hunger and war offensive and for
support of the party of the working
class, the Communist Party, in the
coming elections.
Exposes Sham Bourgeois Democracy
Hudson, secretary of the Marine
Workers Industrial League and re-
preventative Of the Trade Union I'm
ity Council pointed out that although
the World War was supposedly
fought TO make the world safe for
democracy" today the widest terror
was raging against the workers of
this country, with the right of free
speech and assemblage brutally de-
MED in the coal fields of Kentucky,
Pennsylvania, ETC., and that war
would mean further attacks on the
struggles of the workers, under cover
of martial law, and increased misery
and suffering for the toiling masses.
Clara Wernick, of the Young Com
munist League, told of the mobiliza-
ton by the bosses of the youth for
war; of the terrific exploitation of
the youth in industry, of denial of
any relief whatever to the young
workers.
Samuel SLENDER, a member of the
Executive Committee of the Workers
Bx-Servicemens League, pointed out
that the imperialists no longer en-
gage in formal declarations of war,
but simply mobilize their troops and
attack, as the Japanese have done in
Manchuria and Shanghai, as the
United States does in Nicaragua, Ell
Salvador and other Latin American
countries.
Calls For Fight Against Negro
OppreSSion
Mother Bloor, speaking in the
name of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights urged the workers pre-
sent to actively agitate among their
neighbors and shopmates to build up
"a tremendous mass defense for the
nine innocent Scottsboro Negro boys,
and against the murderous national
oppression of the Negro people, for
complete equality for the Negroes
and the right of self discrimination
for the Black Belt.
Marcel Scherer of the Friends of
The Soviet Union told of the triumph
ant march of Socialist construction
in the Soviet Union, of the recent
opening of new giant industrial
plants, the increase in production
the success of the First Five Year
Plan. He pointed out that the Sow
let masses were now moving forward
with the greatest enthusiasm for the
carrying out of the Second Five Year
Plan, which would abolish classes in
the Soviet Union and effect further
tremendous improvement in the
material and cultural conditions of
the Soviet masses. 1t is this success
full Socialist construction, with its
abolition of unemployment and want,
that the bosses are now trying to
destroy in their criminal plans for
armed Intervention against the Sow
let Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
Arrest Is Workers
For Picketing

Sixteen workers were arrested yes
terday for picketing in front of NY
Favorite Dress Shop in the garment
district. The court was later forced
to release them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
F. S. U. BRANCH AFFAIR

The Bronx Branch of the Friends
of the Soviet Union will hold Vec-
cherinka, concert and dance Saturday
night, April 9th, at Ambassador Hall,
172nd Street and Third Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
appetit.

appetit.
Yet the bankers still shout for
economy. Nothing short of murder
ing the workers through starvation
will suit these parasites who sit on
their millions and ask the workers to
give pennies in the Block Aid Cam
paign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08
10000 NY. Workers Roar
Approval of Resolution
Against Bosses Robber War

Comrade James W. Ford chairman of the huge anti
meeting at the Bronx Coliseum briefly explained the pur-
pose of the demonstration pointing to the Japanese cone
aon Of troops the Soviet Far Eastern borders the Jap
nese admissions that they expected to by Joined Roumana
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-27
AN EASY DECISION

The principal cause of the farmers troubles
is SURPRISES.
1t is obvious that in any line of business,
production beyond the point of maximum
consumption inevitably leads to profitless
prices. There is but one way to make a profit
to sell part of what one has for an amount
e%qualing the total production cost. When the
balance is sold, the profit is made. Farmers, in
many instances, have been selling part of
what they have for far less than it cost to
produce it, and have been unable to find any
market at all for the balance.
A way out is through organization and
mass action. In other words, through the farm
cooperative. 1t is said that the citrus growers
of California are in the best position of any
farmers-simply because they are 80 per cent
organized. Other cooperatives have greatly
improved the condition of their members, and
still better results will be obtained as the num-
Der of organized farmers grows.
Intelligent cooperation means eventual
farm prosperity. Refusal to cooperate can
mean ruin for millions of farmers. -
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-27
THAT CRUCIAL TEN PER CENT

The people of the United States consume
about 80 per cent of what they produce. Ten
per cent normally goes abroad.
That may seem a small drop in the bucket.
But, as David Lawrence recently pointed out,
the 10 per cent may mean the difference be-
tween prosperity and depression in this coun-
try. A 10 per cent profit On an investment
is a very good one. A 10 per cent drop in the
business done by a concern usually makes dras-
tic retrenchment essential.
In 1881 the United States sold abroad ST.
$780, 00, 900 less in goods than in 1925. Yet,
even in 1881, more than $1,500,000 {, 900 was
paid to 1,4oo,o 900 people directly involved in
manufacturing products for export. Accord
ing to Mr.. Lawrence, if we could get back the
two-and-a-half billions of foreign trade we
have lost, we could put more than 10000
men to work, earning about $1,50o,0oo c, 900
in wages, all Of which would serve to swell
our purchasing power as a nation. Another
100000 persons would be put to work sup
plying the goods these re-employed people
wanted to buy. The net gain, therefore,
would be employment for close to 5000, 900
workers-more than a third of those now out
of work.
There is not a state or Town in the coun-
try which is not adversely affected by the de-
cline in foreign trade. In these days
between nations grows steadily more import
ant to the stability and prosperity of the
world. 1t is an international problem-but it
is a problem which narrows down until it
reaches the smallest hamlet in the land.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-27
OPTIMISM FOR THE RAILROADS

A prominent railroad executive declares
himself "an incurable optimist on our rail-
roads," and predicted that restoration Of the
railroads Ito their former position of leader
ship in the life and Of America"
will follow revival of industry.
He based his views upon the superior eff
cheney of railroads, the low cost of their freight
service, the unequaled comfort, convenience
and safety of rail travel, and the fact that
the railroads alone provide dependable, year.
round operation in every climate, in low and
high attitudes, in sunshine and storm, through
sleet, hail, snow, fog and rain, by night as
easily as by day-safely, surely and substan-
TALLY free from interruption"
He predicted that public opinion would
compel the effective regulation Of highway
transport by the Federal and State govern
ments; also that the regulation of railroads
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-27
AND STILL WE COMPLAIN

Do you think your lot is hard? Are you
wont to complain?
If so you should feel ashamed, as DR.. Archi-
bald Johnson explains in this fashion in Char
ity and Children:
go through the hospital and ask the pa
tents what is the greatest blessing and they
will say health Go to the blind school and
ask what is the greatest blessing and the reply
will be the power to see.' Go to the deaf and
dumb institution and ask what is the greatest
blessing and the reply will be to be able to
hear and speak, Then go out on the streets
and hear men, who can see and hear and talk
and are in such perfect health that they never
think of health at all, complain because they
have hone of the blessings of life"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-27

other fellow passes it right on down
the line, and then we wonder why
there is no business.
Originally we just about broke
even," today l could not honestly say
where We stand, in fact, l hate even
to think about it. Where are we 60
ing to get off? That's what l want
to know. And l am not a white-col-
lar man either, but a trained mechan-
ic with twenty-five years service.
WORRIED.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-27
LEADER IN HOSIERY PRODUCTION

North Carolina led all States of the Union
in the number of dozen pairs of hosiery man.
ufactured, the census bureau and State DEPART
ment of conservation and development reports.
The Tar Heel State produced about 49,
100000 dozen pairs of hosiery in that year,
or 80 per cent. Of the nations production.
Pennsylvania was second with 100000
dozen pairs and a percentage of about 20. The
nation produced about Ill, 900, 900 dozen
pairs.
Value of the hosiery produced in Pennsyl-
vania, however,, was far greater than that In
North Carolina. In Pennsylvania the output
was valued at $216, 900, 900 and in North Car
DINA it was $4,000, 900. For the nation the
valuation was $521, 100000.
The hosiery industry in North Carolina has
expanded rapidly in recent years, more than
doubling output in eight years.
In 1928 the State produced only IS million
dozen pairs and in 1926 only Is million doz-
en-. In 1927 the production was 26 million
dozen pairs.
The value of the hosiery production in 1920
was $21, 682, 900 and in 1923 it was almost
$4,000, 900, an increase of $50 per cent Dur
ing the two years between 1927 and 1925 the
value ulSlCdoCu 1lOlu p O3OVO3oOO " ~ O,o0o3-
900, or AS per cent. This made hosiery max
ing the fastest growing industry in the State.
North Carolina had no hosiery plants in
1880 and had five in 1890, census reports
show. Each year since 1890 new plants have
come into the State until there are now about
rs. During the depression year of 1890 there
were II new plants built and % others en-
larged.
Between 1927 and 1929 the number of wage
earners in the hosiery mills in the State in
creased from 1924 to 10, $40 and the amount
of wages from $1o,3S9,ooo to $16,11S,ooo.
The cost of materials, fuel and purchased cleo
trio current jumped from $32,SSS,oo0 to
$41,903,0 900. The value added to raw materials
by manufacture increased from 20, 900 1000 to
80 1-3 million dollars. In addition the plants
employed some 1000 Officers and salaried en-
ployes and paid them $4,000, 900.