Page THE MILITANT Saturday, December 28, 1929 Mass Speaks at Open Forum in Detroit CHRISTMAS FOR LABOR Greetings to Weekly Militant Louisiana Standard Oil Signs that there is not enough work here for Wage Contract with Itself By Grace Hutchins shoe worker had tuberculosis. The NEW YORK. Once more at this men who had worked 12 years beside him Christmas time, a fraction of New York in the same shoe factory pitted him and DETROIT At the Workers Open For poverty stands revealed on the country when exhaustion forced him to go home held on Wednesday, Dec. 11th, Barney Chicago, 111.
stage, produced for the eighteenth time a early they finished his work for him. In Dear Comrades: 3s of the Communist Leaguo, spoke on benefit performance called The Hundred spite of their help his wages began to decrisis in the Communist International This is the first opportunity have had Needlest Cases. Well to do benefactors crease. Now he is in a tuberculosis hospitdozen members of the Young Communist to tell you how pleased was with the satisfy themselves by paying 300, 000 or al. His seven children are undernourished, dangerously so. Illness. first issue of the Weekly Militant. read ogue put in their appearance, evidently more for the showing of how the other halt it from beginning to end without stopin the intention of disrupting the meetAlone at 61, she makes flowers. Her lives in the world richest city. Publicity Stunt husband died. She has never worked out ping. It is certainly a relief after the dellow worker Erwin, the chairman of many years of bombastic editing of the Workers and their families, caught by side; and there is very little she can do Daily Worker, now, because an accident many years ago Although am comparaforum, apprehensive of the official Com unemployment, old age, illness or death of nist party tactics, was prepared for tively young in years, am still not a tenthe wage earner in a country that provides left her right arm and hand hanging helpTess by her side. She makes artificial derfoot in the movement.
no social insurance, are paraded before In my time intrusion. After Mass had exposed the footlights of publicity. They are made to nicious theory of socialism in one counflowers, slowly, with her good left hand, have seen many papers started and think as being the crux of the effort to re display their private lives, their entire eco. and asks, gently, for the first time in her can speak with some authority when life, for help. Death of the wage earner. say that never in America was there a papse Marxism, and responsible for the ca nomic situation. But the publicity lasts only strophic happenings in the International, three weeks.
er started devoted to the struggles of the The curtain falls; the rich Too Hungry To Move working class that had a better claim to more courageous League member yelled: forget the play, and behind the scenes, hid.
Too old to work even at 50 is the latest s a lie. This apparently was to be the the support of the workers.
den away in dingy tenements, the workers dictum of personn manage Minnie is goal for a systematic drive to heckle and live out reality.
not much more than 50. For 10 years the Compared to the Daily Worker, the That the cases displayed are only a Militant is like day to night.
cak up the meeting. 15 a week that she earned in good weeks Free from Erwin however, Instantly left the platsmall fraction of those on the lists is em behind a department store counter supportbombast, every article is truthful and to rm and emphatically impressed the young phasized by all the nine charity organiza ed her and her 82 year old mother. Bethe point. Every word is a challenge to Yommunists that no interruption would tions participating. One of the societies cause she was so often hungry that it made bureaucratism, every line burns with the tolerated and it they had any questions told Federated Press that it carried 2, 800. her feel sick, she could not move around ceaseless flame of working class determinopinions to express they would be afcases at present. Another said it was carryand wait on people fast and she looked ation. Side by side with the splendid theo.
ded ample timo at the appropriate ing 2, 500, and more are coming for help retical articles by our leaders are the artolder than her age. So, when business gets ment. The League members after lookevery day. Of course no such organization slack, she is the first to be laid off. Old icles from our worker correspondents, reover some of the fellow workers and says anything about the countlessi under age. ports from the battle front which will grow cerning their determination to suppress paid workers who are not yet at the demore numerous as the Militant gains in cirLabor organizers, analyzing these apydyism in a quick manner, decided to spairing point of seeking private charity. peals for the neediest, find they dramatize culation. And the circulation will grow, let ve in an åtmosphere of noise to dignify Starvation Conditions the four great hazards of a worker life no one be mistaken about that; for we are in retreat. The effective escort of some Dick a pressman by trade, was out and the lack of social insurance against on the correct line and the road, If difficult the fellow workers interfered with this of work for weeks, with a family of nine these hazards, unemployment, old age, 111is clear ahead. a few remained behind to listen attento feed. He had been existing, with his ness and death. very few of the stories Whilo every one must push forward ly to the remarks of the speaker. The wife and seven young children, on a diet are those of children left abandoned or with new courage and keep pushing from ting was successful and an interesting of dry cereal for breakfast and watery orphaned for whom a capitalist state feels day to day, it is good to realize that we ussion followed.
soup flavored with potatoes for midday no responsibility. All the rest are victims have taken an important step at this parMass is to speak at an Open Forum Sunand evening meals. Mrs. is too starved of a society which uses up a worker body ticular time for every day the Daily WorJan, 5th, at 333 Grand River, at 3:30 to attempt soon the support of the family. but makes no social provision for the haz ker grows more unreliable and more use(Unemployment. ards of his life.
less to the working class. That some who should know better continue to go along with it is to be expected, suppose, for tunate situation. stated the chief of police bureaucratism inevitably attracts to it the INGRATITUDE moral cowards, the weak kneed, the spinethose who live here.
less, the lick spittles, the lackeys and the Yo read in one of the Dally Worker The city fall not being able to accomJob holders.
bes: The New York Times (a favorodate. all those arrested, many are released Although as a plain worker have neauthority with Trotsky American MEMPHIS, Tenn. The Standard with a warning to leave town and seek em ver been given to throwing bouquets, feel ds on the Militant. reports that TrotOil Co. of Louisana, representative in this ployment elsewhere.
that must compliment you all on the owns some property in Berlin, and the section of the pious young Rockefeller, has splendid job you are doing in editing our 150 may eventually be heard here. DecΦ gone through the motions of signing a colpaper, the Weekly Militant, under the most umber 17, 1929. lective agreement, covering employes in the WHERE SACCO AND VANZETTI difficult of circumstances. Keep up the We are sure that there is some mistake Tennessee Arkansas district. But no shoutWERE MURDERED good work. Rest assured we will do ours.
here, which we will generously attribute ing and pounding of tables were reported BOSTON Sanctimonious Boston, which Fraternally yours, so the linotype operator who sets the Daily as issuing from the conference room where suppresses advanced books and plays while Worker. The Times is not our favorite the agreement was signed. The workers JOHN MIHELIC encouraging low burlesque shows, follows uthority. It is the principal authority of were represented by a committee from Chicago in the extent of municipal corrup Daily Workor. Where does the Daily among their own number by secret ballot.
tion, states Walter Liggett in Plain ker get its daily Russian news from?
The management tried to kid itself that From the correspondence of comrade Walter this was a kind of collective bargaining, Talk. Bootlegging nets 60, 000, 000 a year, he charges, and prostitution flourishes to Duranty, Moscow representative of the but the men suspect that the company was a degree, unknown in other eastern cities.
Times! Who tips the Daily Worker off bargaining with itself.
Responsibility is laid at the door of the LOS ANGELES, Callf. Belmont News Co.
on what the new line is on this or that The company announced that it would governor, who appoints Boston police 101 East 5th st. Western News Stand, question? Good old comrade Duranty! allow a week vacation with pay to every commissioner, and of the Boston politicians, Box 604, Arcade Station.
Who puts the Daily Worker wise on what wage earner having a year service, and The article has been denounced ir. dig SAN FRANSISCO, Calil. McDonald Book Stalin wants to say about Trotsky or the two weeks with pay to those having two nantly in the Boston Herald and other Shop, Sixth Street Trotskyists or about Bucharin and the year service.
newspapers, although privately Bostonlans Bucharinists? Most honored and respected Piously the company let be known the WASHINGTON, Gale Book Shop 803 concede the truth of the indictment.
comrade Duranty! Who saves Stalin the fact that it will not discriminate against Tenth St, trouble of sending cablegrams to the Daily employes who join unions. But let them try CHICAGO, ILL, Cheshinsky Book Store, Worker about the latest zig zag in policy? to get other workers into unlons, and CLEVELAND. Vice Pres. George 2720 Division St. Horsley Book Store, The New York Times cable service and well, just let them.
Graham of Willys Overland predicts that 1623 Madison St. and on various news Its most esteemed, most faithful and most The Joint conference broke up after 1930 will see fewer motor cars produced stands. bolshevized Moscow correspondent, coma banquet at which a good time was had and sold with prices higher.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL: Joe Angelo, 481 No.
rade Duranty! What paper is the Daily by all. Wesley St.
Worker favorite, guaranteed authority on The prize of the month for the coinage BOSTON, MASS. Shapiro Book Store, Russian events? The Moscow dispatches CHAIN GANG FOR JOBLESS of new third period words, goes to Max Beach St. near Washington.
of what paper does it copy word for word Bedackt for his contribution in the current ROXBURY, MASS. Goldberg Store, 536 CHARLESTON, Unemployment without the courage or courtesy of acknownumber of the Communist. He writes (page Warren St.
ledging their source? The New York Times!
in this city means the chain. gang for the jobless worker or an order to leave town 680. The sloganization of the political So don jump on the Times so eagerDETROT, MICH. Aidas Book Shop, 1713Police and seek employment elsewhere.
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