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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
Miners Prepare to
Get "New Deal' By
Organized Efforts

GARRETT, Ky.--November 8, Elec-
ton Day. Bill .Addington and S. E,
Lucas decided to lay off for the cleo
ton. The next day or so they return
ed to work. Lo and behold, the boss
says, Get your tools and go home
When we need you we will send for
you" They have never sent.
They finally landed on the 30
hour per-week federal road aid job
and cannot get even the 80 hours per
week on account Of lay-offs by the
contractors. This is only an example
Of how things are going. Hundreds
are being treated this way.
Us part time slaves are getting a
red foothold and are working to
launch a program along the lines OF
the demands of the Communist Par
ty. Our chief demands are: Federal
Unemployment Insurance paid by
taxation from inheritance taxes and
other incomes. Immediate reduction
in farm and all poll and school taxes
for workers and the poor of at ! asst
SO per cent. Immediate relief fol he
jobless and poor farmers. World de
cancellation of all debts. Inlnet lie
payment of soldiers bonus with in
terest, and cancellation of interes. on
those that have borrowed.
These demands may be somewhat
revised, but not enough to alter the
general idea behind each demand.
viii report later with more complete
data. We think the time is fully
ripe here for anything. SO, comrades
we are getting ready for that new
deal'-made possible only by the
combined forces Of the common peo-
pie in organized struggle.
IT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
STEEL TRUSTS
PLAN PAY CUT
Only Strike Action Can
Defeat It
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

the shorter work week in connection
with wages and working conditions,
s. M. W. I. u. Calls Workers to
Action.
The Steel and Metal Workers IN
dustrial Union; affiliated to the
Trade Union Unity League whose ma
tional secretary is william 2. Foster,
early foresaw and issued call to
action against the coming wage cut.
1t Is the only organization in the
steel industry which the steel trust
fears. 1t is the only organization
which has to its credit the defeat
OF a wage cut. In the Warren strike
OF last fall against the Republic Steel
Company it succeeded in forcing the
company to withdraw 7 per cent
wage cut.
Predicted Cut Last November.
The November issue of the Steel
and Metal Worker stated, in the
course of a call for the formation of
mill committees, unity of the en-
ployed and unemployed and other
preparations for resistance to wage
cuts:
1.-THE steel bosses are preparing
public opinion and maneuvering to
put over another general wage cut
in the steel industry. Recent events
in the financial circles of Wall Street
prove this.
"Myron c. Taylor, chairman of the
Millionaire board of directors of the
u. S. Steel Corporation land right
hand man Of ]. p. Morgan, unofficial
president of the U.S.A.) recently met
with the heads of nine leading rail-
roads and agreed to slash the prices
of steel rails from $43 to $40 a ton.
"This action of the u. S, Steel au-
tomatically sets the price Of steel
products for the entire industry .
The second event in Wall Street was
the payment of the regular quarterly
dividend of U. S. Steel stock to its
millionaire holders to the tune Of
over $6,000,000.
Workers to Pay.
who is going to pay for the mill
lions of dollars difference caused by
the reduction OF steel prices and for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
COMMUNISTS WIN CITY
ELECTION

COLOGNE, Germany, Dec. l9e(by
rnaiD I'm the municipal election in
Alsdorf the Nazis suffered severe
defeat, They lost more than IS per
cent Of their vote in the November 6
Reichstag elections. The Communists
are the biggest single party in the
City Council now, with 10 aldermen
to the Socialists 3, the Catholics Z,
the bourgeois groups and the Hit
lerites' /.
The local election in the little town
of Ostritz, Saxony, resulted in a %
per cent loss for the Nazis, compared
with the November 6 vote, while the
Communists vote rose from PSI to
295,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
DETROIT PLANS
ANTI-WAR MEETS

DETROIT, Jan. 8.--As emergency
mobilization for a whole series OF
mass meetings to protest against the
new onslaught by japanese imperial
ism on the Chinese people and
against the open war maneuvers and
war preparations of the United
States government, the District Com
mittee of the Communist Party, Dis
trict No. z, is calling upon the work.
ers, especially automobile workers, to
organize and demonstrate against the
developing imperialist wars and the
menace of new imperialist world
war.
Action Meetings.
The Anti-War Meetings are being
held in the following sections on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday:
Ferry Hall, Hamtramck, North De-
troit, Downtown, Ford Section at
Bayside, East Side Automobile Sec
ton, Martin Hall, Finnish Hall,
Brewster Center Negro section), and
in TIE outlying sections, such as Pom
tiac, Flint, Grand Rapids, jackson
and Kalamazoo.
The District Committee further
calls upon the Party members and
sympathizers to build up the Lieb-
knecht meetings, organized by the
Young Communist League in the re-
spective sections. At these meetings,
organizational proposals and resolu-
lions will be adopted against war
and the new wage-cut in the Ford
and other automobile plants, and to
call upon the automobile workers
to build the conference against wage
cuts and for relief, called by the Auto
Workers Union for Sunday, Jan. az,
at 2 pm, at the Finnish Hall, 1868
18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
3 GOV'TS RUSH
TROOPS TO FRONT
Bolivia Training New
Reserves
CONTINUED ON PAGE Two)


ION, thus indicating sudden with
drawal of the Brazilian government
from the U. S. bloc of puppet states
Such a withdrawal by the Brazilian
would be a victory for
the British imperialist rivals Of Wall
Street. The two undeclared wars in
South America reflect the fierce
struggle for markets between these
two imperialist rivals. The Colon
bian warships held up by Brazil in
clude the former U. s. freighter
"Bridgetown" and several other YES
sells purchased in this country since
the opening of hostilities.
Call for Conscripting Women.
Consumption of women for the
mon combative" branches Of the
military service is being advocated
by Brazilian militarists under the
usual imperialist pretext Of national
emergency"
In addition to the Colombian
forces on the Amazon, Colombia has
also dispatched 5000 soldiers over
land from Bogota to Caucaya on the
Putumayo River. These forces in
clude number of fighting planes.
Peru has 5000 men, three gunboats,
four river launches and seven air
planes at Iquitos or along the ANA
zon River.
Chaco Battle RACES.
Bolivian artillery yesterday de-
feated an attack by several squad
rons of Paraguayan cavalry in the
undecIared Gran Chaco war. The
Bolivian government has modified
and is training thousands of reser-
visits of the classes of 1923 to 1929
for active military service. This war
which likewise reflects the clash Of
U. S.-British imperialist interests, as
we'll as the desperation of the native
bourgeoisie in seeking a capitalist
way out" of the crisis, is threaten
ing to involve Argentina.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
U.M.W.A. PAY-CUT.

BONANZA, Ark.-I live in a min
ing field where the miners are back
in the John L. Lewis Union. The
miners went to sign up at the Com
pany terms of Is per cent reduc-
ton. The average pay is about $500
per day. In many places the workers
are on half time and the boss can
discharge whomeyer he pleases at any
time he sees fit. Yet it is glorious
to be in a Union led by takers. We
miners sure love to be misled like
this but it will soon be different
with many of those that are think
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
and the A. F. of l.. bureaucracy.
Action Called For,

The crisis must be met by the en-
ergetic action of the rank and file.
Elect a committee of action in your
branch, get in touch with Commit
tees of Action" Box 2S, Essex Sta
ton, Boston, Mass.
Our immediate goal is the I'M
parchment and expulsion of Squibb
for his open violation Of the Asso-
cations Constitution, for his
friendly" and money relations with
the employers. Our slogans are;
Answer lockouts with strikes! Main
tain our wage scale! Organize all
the granite workers under militant
leadership, elected by the rank and
file.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
HUNGER MARCH IN SPAIN

p GRANADA, Spain, Dec. % (by
aaiD Hundreds of starving unem-
ployed demonstrated in the streets
here today In a hunger march to the
city hall. A delegation conferred
there with city officials and protested
against the lack of public aid for
those out of work.
Turned away with nothing but
words, a group of workers smashed
the windows of a food store and
carried off all the merchandise in
side. Two workers weer shot when
the Civil Guard fired into the crowd,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
HUNGER HEARINGS
in CAL. AND OHIO
Govt Officials Won't
Take Floor

SAN DIEGO, CAL Jan. 8. = San
Diegos hunger hearing was held in
the Lincoln School Auditorium before
an enthusiastic crowd of $50 workers.
The hearing was held in the form
of a public trial. Jack Hardy of the
w, E. S. L. acted as Judge and STAN
ley Hancock of the T. l.. d. acted as
prosecutor. The mayor, the city
council, the board of supervisors and
the county welfare commission were
the defendants and the audience
acted as jury.
Won't Take Floor.
Prior to the hearing all city and
county officials were notified to be
present and several appeared
although all declined to take the
floor in their own defense.
Positive proof of hunger in San
Diego was presented in the form of a
number of local unemployed workers
who took the stand and testified
about their own miserable conditions.
Testimony typical of the relief given
here was made by father of a
family of 10. His relief amounts to
$3.50 per week or an average of &c
a meal per person.
Call for Cash Relief.
Further resolutions we're endorsed
calling for cash relief instead of
grocery scrip, for a sharp increase
in the amount of relief given, for
free milk, hot lunches and carfare
for school children.
The state hunger march to Sacra-
mento (Tuesday, Jan. 100 was en-
dorsed and delegates elected. They
left here January Srd.
Hearing in Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 8. - Over one
hundred workers attended an open
hearing held on 55th and st. Clair.
Councilman Grossman and a member
Of senate from this district were in
vited to attend this meeting but did
not show UP, When Grossman ran
for the Office he promised the work.
ers that there would be no hunger
and evictions in his district if elected.
At this hearing, one Of the women
told of being evicted from her home
with her furniture and seven chill
dren, thrown into the streets two
days before Christmas. She also
stated that If it had not been for
the neighbors that were modified
by the Unemployed Council she and
her seven children would have had to
spend Christmas in the streets. All
furniture was put back into the
house and she is still living at the
same address.
A delegation was elected to go to
the councilman's home to demand
an explanation for not coming to
this meeting, also demanding of him
to send telegram to Columbus SO
that the delegates who are present.
ing the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill will be given the floor
in the state senate. This delegation
will also demand that the council
man take action against evictions,
forced labor and for an increase in
relief in his district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
JoBLEss DEMONSTRATE IN
SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM, Dec. II (by maiD -
More than 5000 unemployed workers
demonstrated in Goteborg yesterday
under the leadership of the Commu-
mist Party of Sweden. They de-
manded that the Socialist City Coun-
Gil provide extra Christmas relief Of
so kronen per person, plus the dis
tribution of clothing to the unen-
ployed and their dependents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
shall the Alteration Painters
Union Affiliate With TUUL?

BY Secretary, Alteration Painters Union
Artice)
the General Membership meeting of the Aera
utilization
Union the TUU broadly discussed by large number of workers
present
question put meeting by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
International
Notes
BIZ ROBERT HAMILTON
SOCIALIST LEADERS OF UNIONS
NAME SCHLEICHER MINISTER

According TO the capitalist Der
liner Tageblatt'' Of December l4th,
Kaiser, leader Of the Catholic trade
unions in Germany, stated in a meet
ing in Cologne:
81 also want to say that the
Chancellor General Won Schlei-
cher) got together with the trade
unions on the choice of the new
Minister Of Labor"
This new Minister of Labor, sug-
gested by the Socialist and Catholic
union officials, headed the National
Insurance Institute for years and is
chiefly responsible for the huge re-
auctions in unemployment relief dur
ing the past year.
1 The Socialist leaders proclaim their
aundying opposition to Schleicher,
but behind the workers backs they
not only negotiate with him but even
nominate his Cabinet ministersl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
Protest from Chicago.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 8. - Forty
members of the Scottsboro Branch,
LID, in Evanston, ILL.,, adopted a
resolution to Gov. Miller Of Alabama
demanding the immediate release OF
he jailed share-croppers and the
piping out Of the lynch trials against
The Scottsbcro bow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09
MINERS LOOKING FOR FIGHTING LEADERSHIP
Pa. Miners Send Collective
Letter to Miners of U.S,S.R
Detailed Description of Conditions in the Fields
and Union Betraying Officials
Assure Comrades of Soviet Union That They
Understand the Necessity of Defending USSR

group the Pennsylvania anthracite
letter Soviet Miners in the stalinO District UssR
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09

And so on, on every article under
the coal company domain.
Words cannot describe the split
ting" of meals among them, or the
borrowing of each others clothes.
A mining pair of boots serves also
for Sunday. Some miners have not
owned hat for two years, as one
expressed tits the truth--take 1t
or leave 1t. They are no 30 ignorant
on political governments. either.
thanks to certain propaganda.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09

Private Stores
Private stores do not handle car
line, on account the miners are
orced to trade at company store.
into or white beans, per Id. .3-5c.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-18
1t Can't Be Faxed

DEOPLE who quarrel bitterly with
l. Kipling's notions about Nordic
supremacy and imperialism and
major generals sometimes forget
that there is nothing synthetic
about his point of view. I do not
think that he ever said to himself,
This is an attitude which should
be popular and sell a million copies"
No one ever has done that success
fully.
Once upon a time I knew a man
who wrote unanimously for the
more sensational magazines. His
conscience troubled him, and he
would moan about being a hack
and weep because he had prostituted
his talent.
Naturally we became friends, and
he revealed a secret. After the rent
was assured and enough had come
in to pay the grocer's bill, he labored
on a masterpiece.
OF course" he told me. nobody
ever will buy this book. 1t is too
stark, too bitter and too scarifying."
And he let me read it He called
1t JetSam." 1 imagine that the
editors who bought his wares
might have objected to this title.
and some one of them probably
would have suggested that the title
be changed to. The Lady Who
Couldn't Say No"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-18
DANGER FROM TOP

A MONG the minor interesting news. items
l. Aof the day is the report that the tomb
of Attila, famous many centuries ago as the
'scourge of God" has been found in a river
bed in Czechoslovakia
Whether the report is correct or not, the
story at least performs the useful function of
setting one thinking about the contrasting
ways in which civilized society can be threat
ened with destruction.
In Attila's day, when the Huns came roll
ing up out Of the eastern darkness, the
crumbling society of the time lived in fear
of invasion by barbarians.
Wave after wave of savage destroyers
came in over the eastern borders. each one
more destructive than the one before.
Attila was the last and worst. The whole
framework of civilization seemed to be COL
lapsing before him. Tt took society CEN
turtles to pick up the pieces.
When the historian, Gibbon, wrote his
Decline and Fall" he remarked that society
no longer faced that kline of danger. The
framework, he said, never could crumble
~SNAA' NANA NAN NJ NV O0' NoAAN OSV
to menace the frontiers.
And a few years after he had written that
came the French revolution, just to prove that
society could be threatened with destruction,
even when its frontiers were completely peace
full.
Destruction that time came from the bot
tom instead of from the outside, and it left
reverberations quite as profound as those that
Attila's host put in motion.
Today We have no barbaric hordes on the
borders. and-in spite of the shivers of the
timid-we are not in any real danger of an
uprising from below.
The threat that our society faces is entirely
new, and because. it is so new it is all the
more insidious 1t comes from the top.
Our danger is not that we shall be over
whelned by external enemies or turned over
by the downtrodden masses.
1t is that our order Of things may collapse
of its own weight, because the men at the
top have set up an establishment that they
can't quite master.
What is going on at Washington now is
simply an attempt to rearrange things to
make intelligent direction of our society more
easy.
1t may look radical at first glance, but it
is essentially deeply conservative. We have
neither an Attila nor a Robespierre to fear; if
trouble comes, it will be entirely our own
fault.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-18
Really Minor Matter

A ND in fairness to my friend, l
n will admit that he well might
have had to face the objection: Il
think that in the last chapter you
might make one small change. You
remember where Bill jumps over
the cliff and is dashed to pieces on
the rocks below? Have him Just
about to jump, but before he can
leap, Eileen rushes out of the Jungle
and cries, No, no! I loved you all
the time!,."
Aside from those two minor al
te%rations, there wasn't an idea or a
phrase or an episode which would
not have fitted perfectly into what
poor Tom K. Che died last year, re-
ferret to as his potboilers.
1 don't know whether Rudyard
Kipling intended to include column
lists in his quota of those who use
words" but his doctrine is comfort
ing. We, too, eat pottage without
the payment of any birthright.
Hot or cold, the fare we offer.
whether we know it or not, is the
best we car provide.
Copyright. 1888. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-18
SAFE FROM AIR INVASION

THE successful completion of General Italo
Balbos flight across the North Atlantic
with twenty-four seaplanes proves that avia-
ton has made great progress, and that the
open ocean no longer is an effective barrier
to competent and determined airmen.
But it does not prove that the United
States would be in any great danger of aerial
raids If it should get into war with a Euro
pean foe.
Stripped for action, given every help pos
sible and permitted to take all the time they
needed, these ~twenty-four planes got to Labra-
dor unframed.
But if they had been war planes on a
bombing mission, they would have had a good
deal farther to fly. before reaching their OBJ
%jective, they would have had to carry heavy
loads of bombs, and they would have had to
plan on flying back without stopping to refuel.
Flying the Atlantic in peacetime is one
thing; conducting a wartime bombing raid is
something entirely different.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-18
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
IF GOVERNMENT STOPPED

THE public services Of government, for all
the criticisms that legitimately may be
leveled against them, are, by and large, the
things that give to American civilization such
stability and meaning as it has in this singu-
larly unstable and doubtful time.
So says DR.. Glenn Frank, president OF the
University Of Wisconsin, in a recent discussion
upon constructive versus destructive economy
in government.
DR.. Frank still speaking:
There undoubtedly is waste, duplication, and
instances of the obsolete in public service. 1t is
the business of craftsmanship ruthlessly to dis
cover and ruthlessly to do away with such
w~asteful, duplicating, and obsolete services.
But great craftsmanship will perform these
surgical operations upon government without
joining the blind reductionists who, in plead
ing for elimination of waste, are throwing
public suspicion upon the whole public service"
In a late issue of Scribner's magazine, the
clear-headed Charles A. Beard painted a vivid
picture of what would happen if the So
called bureaucracy" should quit functioning
for even one day.
Water would cease to flow from faucets.
Sewer pumps would stop. Guides to naviga-
ton on the seas and in the air would be cut
off. Epidemics would spread with death-deal-
ing swiftness. Millions of school children
would roam the streets. Criminals and luna
tics would break from their cells.
Thousands of sick in hospitals would go un-
cared for. Publicly operated charities would
close. There would be no bureau of mines or
coast guard service or supervision Of Always
to protect lives on land and sea and in air.
There would be no forest service to conserve
and guard the national forest domain.
American agriculture would have it's access
to modern science blocked and the American
farmer would have to begin the trek back to
the days of rule and thumb. There would be
no public health service. There would be no
fire departments to protect property. There
would be no Reed commissions to block the
advance of yellow fever, with the sacrifice of
their own bodies.
1t behooves us to think twice before we
throw, our hats in the air every time a flippant
cartoonist depicts public servants as swilling
swine at the public trough. We shall do well
to examine carefully the ak which many forces
want to swing at public services, in order to be
sure that it is not a private ak waiting to
be ground.
History well may look back upon men who,
in the midst of this economic crisis, lost their
heads in a lurid onslaught against public serv-
ices as the real anarchists, although many of
them come from the ranks of the most con-
sentative men of the time.