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ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTs
June 12,s 1888

The news spotlight 8 in c e
March 4th has been focused on
the White House. For brief
periods it has moved slightly to
illumine business recovery. beer,
war debts. tariff accords and dis
cords, world economic aud dis
armament parleys. At the mo.
ment the Morgan investigation
has dwarfed every thing-it has
served to obscure in the days
news other developments which.
If less dramatic. are infinitely
more important to the average
citizen. These developments in
volve business which is moving
forward after three years of re
treat
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Wednesday

PROSPECT WORKERS CENTER, 1887 So
Blvd, Bronx, Is calling a membership meet
ing. report and future activities will be
taken up.
MARX MEMORIAL MEETING at pm.
at Brooklyn Labor Lyceum Willoughby and
Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y. Speaker:
Chas. Alexander. Good program. Auspices;
Section 6, C.P.
THE BRONX SHOE WORKERS CENTER
arranged lecture with Comrade Sadie Van
Veen. Subject: The Bank Situation and
the Present Crisis. March 90, pm. at 1884
50. Blvd. Admission free.
DAILY WORKER CHORUS rehearsal, q
pm. at Manhattan Lyceun, So g. Fourth
st. All invited.
the Workers School is now going on at
Room s0i. IS E. l2th st.
OPEN MEETING Of Unit D-1 this morning
at 1870 am. io8 E. 18th St., second floor.
Discussion led by Comrade wicks German
situstion-United Front.
'PLAYWRTGHTING CLASS for beginners
starts Friday evening, March 31st at the
workers Lab. Theatre Of wIR, q E. 18th
St. Register now"
Division Of Income" at Burnside Manor
IS W. Burnside Ave, Bronx (near Univer-
sity Ave.l at pm. question period. Ad.
mission 25c, Auspices: Friends Of the So
Wet Union. Bronx Branches.
TONIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
war Threats against the Soviet Union"
oy B. Freedman, at Labor Temple 24s e.
Branch, FsU.
| THIS AFTERNOON CLASS in Esperanto
at ~. sNerp for beginners at the WORK.
ers Home, $50 T. sist St, Room S. This
Is the last call to those interested 10 io,n
this class Instruction free,
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PREPARE TO BOOST
DAILY CIRCULATION

Am approaching a worker for
an IS cent weekly subscription, It
should be understood that the pri-
mary purpose is to get the worker
to read the Daily Worker, and not,
IS many comrades do, bring up all
forms of organizations which this
'rorhe- sbeu'+ belong to first and
then finally csk him to read the
Daily.
5-During a strike, our comrades
should see to 1t that the Daily Work
cr (which usually carries the news
o. their strike) be popularized among
these workers and that a determined
effort be made to get these striking
workers on the carrier routes. Par
ticuIarly does this apply to the pc
rod of the rent strikes In the Bronx,
--'"er, irrtead CT an j-cr-~s". we suf-
fercI c decrease in circulation.
The basis OF successful routes is
the house to house canvassing and
the getting Of as many workers as
possible in as concentrated terri
tory SIS possible.
bring the question Of carrier
routes up in the organization you
belong to-
2.-CanyasS the workers living in
your own house.
3-Place yourself on the Daily
Worker carrier route.
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ScOttsbOrO and
Mooney Meets to
Draw Thousands
Rallies Thru City Fri
day and Saturday;
Wed. in Newark

NEW YORK--Tens OF thousands
Of workers will raise their voices this
Friday and Saturday for the mined
late and unconditional release OF the
nine innocent Scottsboro boys and Of
Tom Mooney at 6 series Of powerful
demonstrations which all sections and
branches of the N. Y. District Inter
national Labor Defense will hold
throughout Greater New York. At
these demonstrations workers will de-
mand from the Alabama authorities
abColute protection OF the min o
framed Negro boys against whom
lynch nobs have been organized.
ScoTtsboro Tag Day Closes Sunday
While these demonstrations take
placs. hundreds of volunteer work
erS will continue to carry on the
Scottsboro Tag Day Drive. Tag Day
stations in Harlem are located at II
w. 13lst St., and at 214e Seventh Ave.
The time and place for the various
demonstrations throughout Greater
New York and in Newark are as fol-
lows:
Down Town
Friday, pm. at Remington Hall,
214 E. End st., meeting preceded by
a mass parade.
Harlem and Bronx
All sections of Harlem and Bronx
will unite in an outdoor demonstra-
ton Saturday, pm. at 10th st. and
Fifth Ave. The demonstration will
conclude with a huge parade led by
a brass band through Harlem.
Brownsville
The demonstration here Saturday,
l pm. will also protest arrest Of II
rent strikers.
Jamaica
Saturday, p. m. at Union Hall
st. and 1o9th Ave.
Mount Vernon
An indoor demonstration on Sat-
urday. Tag day, same day, for which
police were forced to grant permit.
Meets in Needle Market
Midtown Section to hold meet In
Needle Trades Market Saturday noon.
Thousands of needle trades workers
are expected to take part.
Newark
Mass meeting, Wednesday, March
Goth, at 8 p m. at Workers Home, So
Broome st.
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the body which was lying in state in
the union headquarters. All through
the night union leaders and workers
stood guard and until the time set
for the demonstration the workers
were still steadily pouring into the
headquarters to view for the last
time the heroic courageous fighter
Of the working class.
At IL am. thousands of workers
gathered before the offices OF the
Union. They were addressed by l.
Potash, Ben Gold and Louis Hyman
Of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, A. OYergaard of the
Trade Union Unity Council, H. Shep-
hard of the Communist Party, and
by Morris Langer's wife.
hangers Wife Calls Greater Fight
Langer's wife called upon the work
ers to carry on the struggle for which
LANCER died and to avenge his death
by building strong union to defeat
the bosses system of terror and starry
alton.
The workers then formed line,
six abreast, behind the casket bear
ing hangers body. 5000 workers
joined the march while thousands
more followed the marcherS along
the streets. Many workers looked
down from their shop windows to
honor the memory of the dead work
ing class leader.
The procession presented power
full and tremendous demonstration as
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sary.a She had married Kurt two
years ago in the full knowledge that
he was in the workers movement
and gave up every free moment
to it. There was no use talking to
him about it. If there was a meet
Ing, or a job to do, ready as he
might be to drop with fatigue, he
would insist on carrying on till
late at night-then up and away
to work again, at half-past five.
AS if there were not enough unem-
ployed comrades, who could do the
job and find time and to spare
for sleep. What was the good of it
all II his strength was destroyed
in the process She did not ask
much Of him otherwise. She was
working woman and knew well
enough with how little she must
be content. Perhaps he would be
off again tonight
TO Be Continued)
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RevoltS Against Forced Labor Unite

ployers and win certain demands.
Similar conditions surrounded the
armed attack on Dec. 10, 1882, on
share choppers at NotaSulga, ITALIA
poosa County, Ala, few miles from
Camp HILL In the fighting, in which
the choppers defended themselves
heroically, several of them were
wounded and Is arrested. Two of
those wounded, including Cliff James,
organizer OF the Share Choppers
Union, subsequently died.
Mass Revolt In Colonies.
There have been many rebellions
recently against forced labor oppres-
sion in the Philippines. There was
/ an uprising of the Tayug peasants
in January, 1881. Hundreds Of men
and women armed only with clubs
and cane knives marched into the
town of Tayug, PagaSinian province.
They set out for their direct exploit
ers, those who collected the taxes.
In spite of the fact that the workers
had no guns, they we're fired upon.
One was killed, whereupon the angry
peasants and laborers killed a lieu
tenant and several soldiers who were
responsible. A pitched battle enSued,
lasting two days
A sympathetic soldier helped the
rebels break into the storeroom
where arms and ammunition were
kept After they were thus armed,
they took over the city of $4,000 in
habitants and held it for several
days. All deeds and records of mort
cages were burned. The movement
was entirely spontaneous. The i'm
mediate cause of the Tayug uprising
was the decision of the Philippine
Supreme Court which legalized the
seizure Of land, belonging to 1000
peasants, by the foreign-owned Es-
peranza estate which already con-
tanned 100, 1000 acres.
There have also been many fights
against forced labor and imperialism
in Cuba, carried on especially by the
agricultural workers on the sugar
plantations. Big strikes were waged
in 1906, 1920, 1925, 1926, and in more
recent years. During the 1925 and
1926 strikes hlmdreds Of workers and
peasants were slaughtered.
But in spite of all this repression
the Cuban workers and peasants are
now moving in new revolutionary
wave. The bloody battles in Havana
streets on December IA, 1929; the
political strike of January 10, 1890;
the general strike of some 100000
persons, March 80, 1880, against I'M
employment and against the perse-
cution of the unions; the demon
strations on May 1; the strike Of
over $4,000 tobacco workers which
was betrayed by the reformist lead
ers the strikes of the street car men
and sugar workers-most Of them led
by the National Workers Federation
OF Cuba and the Communist Party
these mark long and persistent
struggle against imperialist exploita-
ton with its attendant forced labor.
Read tomorrow's Daily Worker
for the concluding installment
from the sensational new book,
Forced Labor In the United
States" 1t will contain a crushing
= answer to the false charges of
those who shout about forced
labor" in the Soviet Union.
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BY ROBERT FRANKLIN

NEW YORK.-The experiences of
cur work and methods to build up
the circulation Of the Daily Worker
to date have shown us that the aver
aee unit distribution of the Daily
Worker in New York is both irregular
and aimlesS, and that there is no
steady drive at given point for in
creased circulation. We also find that
a good percentage of our own party
members do not read the Daily
Worker; and, lastly, that few of the
nle,oheHs of our mass organizations
read it.
The best way to increase the cir
culation in New York City is by in
Htituting the carrier-route system
that is, fer 10 cents weekly the Daily
Worker will be delivered to the homes
Of the workers. But even in this, a
change must be made from the old
conception OF delivery routes. Until
now, where deliveries were made,
they were made in the daytime, so
that when the worker arrived home
at night he found the Daily Worker.
Therefore the news he finds in the
Daily Worker at night appears stale
and the chances of his looking
through the Daily are slight.
If. on the other hand, the Daily
Worker would be found by this work
er before he leaves his home in the
morning, it would be the first paper
he reads-it would be fresh news
he would read it at his breakfast at
home or as he rides to work i'll the
subway or elevated This would also
give him a chance to leave the paper
in the subway or bring it into his
shop or place Of work.
This, of course, makes it impera-
tive for the delivery Of the Daily
Worker to be made at night. The
Daily Worker is off the press at
midnight: the route carriers should
call for the paper at that time and
make deliveries any time between IL
and in the morning.
1.-The Daily Worker or Red Press
Committee in the various organiza-
tionS should canvass their member
ship for the IS cents weekly delivery.
2.--House to house canvasSing
should be done by the members of
the working class organization in
the territory in which they operate,
to build up as compact a route as
possible.
3.-The units of the Party should
carry on house to house canvassing
for the Daily Worker within the
territory in which the unit operates.
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THE STORY
@NETTELBECKPLATZ &.

SNETTELBECKPLATZ !" The
Nyoung man peered with a sleepy
stare through the glass panes OF
the tramcar.
THAT your newspaper p A
woman pointed to one lying at his
feet. He thrust it into his pocket;
in another moment he was outside.
The yellow lights Of the gas lamps
were reflected on the wet pave
ment. The shock Of wind and rain
enlivened him. A loud-speaker
doomed from a restaurant at the
tram-stop. He was freezing. "A
man ought to have an overcoat,"
he thought, turning up his coat
collar. He Spst, put his hands in
his pockets and walked slowly home.
He hurried from the PankstraSse,
into the dark alley where he lived.
The Slum shops were already shut.
Only the saloons showed signs of
life, blurred Streaks of light in an
empty street illuminated by a few
feeble gas Jets. Behind the win
dows Of the tall dark houses-moet-
ly curtainleSs-gleamed here and
there miserable oil lamp. From
an open cellar came the warm
smell of washing. A few more
houses and he was home.
ANNA is HOME
Two women stood at the house
door. He nodded briefly at their
greeting and vanished in the dark
passage. Not till he saw the win
dow of his dwelling from the yard
did he pause. Good Anna is
at home" he thought, and reas-
sured, he passed his hand over his
tired face. This happened every
evening as he walked across the
yard. lie rejoiced at the sight Of the
bright window. Nothing more.
He felt his way up the few steps
Of the narrow stairway and opened
the door.
Evening, Anna"
Evening, Kurt"
He hung his cap on the doc
hook and dropped into the kitchen
chair. The young cement HEAVIER
Kurt Zimmerman was at home.
There was just enough room be-
side the fireplace in the kitchen
for two to sit at the table. Kur
leaned his elbows on the table anc
looked at Anna busying hersel
with the dishes. He was too tirec
to speak, but it gave him pleasure
to sit there and look at her. Sh,
handled everything so deity anc
quickly.
The warmth of the fire slowly
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white and Negro tenants in and
around Camp Hill, Ala, were organ
lied by the Trade Union Unity
League into militant union. The
main purpose of this avowedly mill
tant union is in one respect no diff
ferent from that Of the tenants union
in Arkansas in 1919, namely-to fight
peonage. Alabama planters, emulat-
ing their ruling class brothers In Ar
kansas, also attacked union meet
ing which was being held in church
near Camp Hill. The church was
burned to the ground, one man was
murdered on the spot in cold blood
and four others were sent to "cut
stove wood" euphemistic term for
lynching. Some IS were rounded up
and arrested.
The Camp Hill union, in co-opera-
ton with the International Labor
Defense, was able to win the free
dom of all the IS arrested members.
And for the first time in the long
history of the struggles against peon-
age, this Camp Hill union was able
to beat back the attacks Of the en-
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"a AFAEAJ 4 L AAA1 "A - Il INV
DROUGHT up IN a bourgeois
u household-Youth Movement -
1914, Volunteer-then four and a
half years in the trenches. met
HUGO Haase-the first man from
whom heard something of SOC
ialism" in the whole Of my life,
in the Railway Sappers' Barracks
at Konigsberg, in the spring OF
1919, the day I was demobilized.
understood very little about 1t at
that time, but it sufficed to with
hold me from following through
my intention OF joining one Of the
East Prussian DetachmentS Of the
Volunteer League IA secret Fascist
BLACK Reichswehr" which was in
existence at that time).
Shortly after : broke with my
family in Berlin-I sought to learn,
read a great deal in planless sort
of way, attended meetings and
lectures, and earned my living as
an office worker and by writing
mediocre snort stories, which were
occasionally published here and
there. My actual political develop
rnent really began a few years later
when I was an "oppositional' mem
Der of the Factory Council in the
District Council Office at Kreuz-
berg. Berlin. (The Weimar Con-
stitution decreed the establishment
Of Factory Councils in all establish
ments employing more than thirty
workers..
I followed various occupations,
worked amongst other things as a
hand on a small North Sea vessel,
and finally became a Communist
as result Of a brief and accidental
soiourn with comrades during the
period of iIlegality. (The German
Communist Party was illegal from
1923-1925). From this period on
wards the revolutionary working
class took over my education. I
was active as an editor for the
Workers International Relief, or
ganised later an Agit-Prop Troupe
for the Artists AID which existed
at that time, and went with it on
tour through the Ruhr Valley, and
was finally accepted into the edi-
torial staff of the welt am Abend"
(Berlins great workers evening
paper. Followed two years in hos
pitfalls and health resorts, which
can be laid at the door of the
World War. After a lengthy stay in
the Soviet Union, returned to
Berlin, and have worked since then
as an active Party worker, and rev.
dictionary proletarian writer in
the ranks of the working class.
with regard TO the novel which
follows, I want to state that nei-
ther the personages mentioned
therein nor their deeds have been
invented" but have all been taken
from the actual events which took
place in the Koslinerstrasse during
the May days of 1929. Changes have
been made only in those cases
where there existed the danger Of
subsequent attack on the persons
concerned by the hirelings OF class
justice. In particular, the police at
taeks which are described are taken
from the documents Of the Investi-
CATION Committee, which we're
placed at my disposal, all Of which
are vouched for on oath and can
be legally verified at any time.
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Negro and White

Houston, Texas, in 1891. Their strike
was defeated by the white wealthy
farmers and business men. There
was also the brutal suppression of
the Negro farmers union at Elaine,
Ark, in 1919. Though the union was
a conservative one, It was bitterly
opposed and in an attack, in which
The Negroes resisted brayely, killing
a number Of their white attackers,
nearly 200 Of the former were
slaughtered.
Industrial workers have also strug-
gled against actual peonage. On No
vember %, 1919. in Bogalusa, La,
three white men were shot dead, and
number severely wounded in such
q struggle. The white men were
killed because they had dared walk
down the main street Of the city
controlled by the Great Southern
Lumber Co., with guns on their hips,
protecting the life of q Negro Or
ganizer.
Camp Hill.
In the summer of 1881, to cite an
other and even more significant case,
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WHAT'S ON

NOTE: In Uiep of the crit
icoI financial situation in the
Daily Worker, organizations
are asked to enclose money,
at the rate of one cent a scord
per insertion, Uith announce
nsents.
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IS. Boston must raise only
$49.59 to become the third dis
trict in the country pitts
burgh and New York have already
crashed above their quotas to reach
the 100 per cent mark.
With slightly over $4,000 to go to
reach the needed $4,000, every dis
tr1ct in the country should redouble
it's work in order to put the Daily
Worker drive over the top!
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it wound it's way up It'll Avenue
through the garment center to 40th
Street and then up Fifth Avenue to
59th Street. The workers took cars
and taxis to Long Island, where
hangers body was cremated.
Strikers Of the A. g. j. Hoilander
shop marched carrying pictures OF
the workers murdered by these same
bosses in the 1915 strike.
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penetrated his damp clothing. The
5meu Of fat and onions was ap-
petising. 1t occurred to him that
lie had promised days ago to take
Anna to the movies. Perhaps we
ought to so today" he thought
sleepily. Anna would like it, If only
ones bones did not ache so much.
The foreman was getting
worse. Tomorrow the concrete
would have to be carried a story
higher.
WORN OUT
His eyes closed.
Now then, lad eat bit.
Kurt, Kurt,-asleep already"
She pushed the plate across and
patted his shoulder. AS he raised
his face to her and passed his hand
Sleeptly over his brow, Anna not
iced how pale and tired he was.
Since he had started on the build
ing job in Lichtenberg, he came
home tagged out every evening. He
had been out OF work for over six
months and he could not stand the
pace that was being forced on him
there.
mo, no :" he smiled YEARLY,
Il am not asleep" He began to eat.
Anna sat on the opposite side of
the table and looked across. She
laughed gently. The spoon was al
most swallowed in the broad, heavy
palm. When he was tired his heavy
awkwardness was emphasized.
Yet Kurt was as good natured as
a child. There was only one point
on which he could get really very
angry, and on that subject she took
care not to express her opinion
more than was absolutely neces-
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Boston Hits IS Percent Mark
in Daily Drive; Many Other
Districts Remain Inactive

Only Ss41.95 in to the Daily Worker drive in the
haweek from Friday to Monday (ncusive), drop of
$1,000 from the previous half-week's total.
The best showing comparatively of these three days
that of Boston which raised S645O boosting its percentage
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10000 MARCH
IN TRIBUTE TO
NORRIS LANCER
Victim of Boss Bomb
Viewed All Night
by Thousands

NEW YORK. 49, At least 10000
+orkers paid their last respects yes
;srday to the memory Of the mar
'yred leader Morris LANCER, who died
the victim of Hollander ana Singers
hired murdere-s last Sunday morn
ng.
Since 8 pm. Monday night a
1teady stream of workers had viewed
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KARL MARX MEET IN B'KLYN

NEW YORK-A Karl Marx Me-
mortal meeting will be held in Brook
Ign by Section OF the Communist
Party at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum
Willoughby and Myrtle Avenues this
Wednesday March 90 at 8 p. m
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Thursday

DOMESTIC WORKERS SECTION o, tbs
Food Workers Industrial Union nernbershin
meeting Is March 80, 9 pm. at is w. i2sts
St Every Domestic Worker should join III.
union now. '''S
WORKERS OF THE COOPERATIVE neigh.
oorhooo are called to very Important
meeting Thursday, $50 pm. in the Coon
erative Auditorium, 2Too Bronx Parry Fast
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-29

Dedicated to the iD,perishdbIe
memory of the 80, shot By the
police in Berlin during the
days of May 1929
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FYiGay

RED LITERARY EVENING in the Ire
mont Workers Club, a07S Clinton Ave, with
following members Of the Rev. Writers FED.
eration--Moe Bragin, Philip Rhav, Milton
Howard Alfred Hays, Wallace Phelps and
many others.
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Read tomorrow's Daily Worker
for the concluding installment
from the sensational new book,
Forced Labor In the United
States" 1t will contain crushing
answer to the false charges of
those who shout about forced
labor" in the Soviet Union.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
-.

WORKERS FILM and PHOTO LEAGUE
announces symposium "crisis and the Film,"
Sunday. April 8, at $50 pm. at John Reed
Club headquarters, $50 Sixth Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-29
BY WALTER WILSON

Editors Note: THIS is the fifth
installment from the new book.
Forced Labor In the United
States" by Walter Wilson. A COM
pfete picture OF the forced labor
system is given in the book, which
should be read by all workers. 1t
was prepared under the direction
Of the Labor Research Association.
Introduction by Theodore Dresser.
international Publishers, 3Si Fourth
Ave, New Xork, 81.