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SOUTHERNWORKER Bazaar, and Should Also Start to 2« MON YORK, for the Daily 83, L SQUARE NEW N Page Two DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 13, 1930 THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER —Bill in Action By RYAN WALKER “SOCIALISTS” OFFER r— • mm ) ComTlmTair U"IJUSTS'J ifi) K;KC ANO lift i MILWAUKEE WORKERS fc ” ¦I AJACDoWAIO Tfte # ! %fiOUK'ANO I fOllfctN HAV£ THfc / WATER AND HOT AIR Hn I I spare Oeorooca Ilfoa^You l aJd Communist Party Mobilizing- Workers for Un- employment Insurance By J. LOKL'S. , has already presented such hills in MILWAUKEE, Wis.— IToday in Washington.” But seeing that the this “socialist” city while walking workers were interested in this the streets where the workers live question, then our wise “socialist” one can see how the capitalist watch in order to get out of this predica- dags on every corner are lying and ment, knowing that the majority of betraying the workers, so that they his listeners were rel i g i ous, may be able to secure more votes squirmed here and there and then for themselves, and secure them- starts up with god, raising his selves with good city jobs with hands up, and says: “God created plenty of graft. everything necessary to live, wind, One Saturday while collecting air, sun, water, etc., but the repub- signatures for the Communist can- licans and democrats do not give didates I saw a group of workers this to the workers, but we so- listening to a street corner meet- cialists believe in the socialism that ing. They were “socialist” speak- I god created for every one of us.” I heavenly ers. I listened to their But from the crowd a worker praise of the socialist administra- says: “On the 6th of March when tion in the city of Milwaukee. the unemployed workers numbering SCAB UNION PICKETS Among other things one speaker 25,000 came to the City Hall and Show Up Tammany Fake Free SECOND BAZAAR CONF. skid, “You know that in no other demanded work or wages. Mayor ASKS FUNDS FOR BOOT AND SHOE city administration is SHOP WHERE FWIU WON where the Hoan sent out the police and thugs Employment REPORTS BIG PROGRESS either republican or democratic to club and beat the men, women, Agency as Means in- NEW A “Day” there is no place like ours. For and compli- ORK.—The Jewish C, children. And then he and the yellow P. CAMPAIGN The second Communist Press stance. in no other city is the water socialist “Forward” MEETING REVOLTS mented the Milwaukee socialist or- Bazaar conference held last Wednes- so cheap as in Milwaukee, or the are carrying articles boosting Saper- to Wage gan, the Milwaukee Leader, and 1 Etfect Drastic Cuts day night at the Workers Center, texts so low—some people do not stein’s scab bakery on Burke and then he praised the police for carry- District Two Calls on Score Scab Tricks; was an example working have to pay any at all.” Holland Aves., Bronx. of class ing out his orders in an excellent solidarity and support for the Com- Her* ia what the social fascists manner.” All the workers in this shop are Workers to Help Rybicki Sends Out Scabs; One Worker Gets a Capture Platform rejoice at! It does on strike and have joined the Food munist Press. Most of the dele- of Milwaukee gates them that thousands of No policemen were present dur- Workers’ Industrial Union. Scabs The Communist campaign in New Job for s2l; Another Who Got S4O Is Fired NEW YORK.—The scabby Boot were on hand with encourag- not bother ing reports of their families have not even a ing all the time that the socialists ; are supplied by Local 507 of York is getting into full swing. and Shoe Workers’ Union of the A. activities since workers' the F. the first conference. crust of bread in the house! Thou- were speaking. But as soon as they; Bakery and Confectionary Workers’ Numerous campaign meetings are NEW YORK.—The real meaning t | wave of merciless wage cuts, while of L. was repudiated at its own meeting by sands of workers’ children go bare- ended the meeting, the workers who International Union of America held at factory gates, at the unem- of the “cooperation” between the | | th: number of unemployed is not over 200 workers in the Comrade Konigsberg of the In- footed and naked, and when it gets had asked the questions began to! (A.F.L.). The workers in this shop ployment bureaus, in the needle bosses and the Tammany Bureau i ; lessened, since these workers sent trade who assembled there Thursday. dustrial Cloak Makers’ Union was not one of them will be able to talk to the workers who still be- j struck against the 16-hour day market, during noon time, and in was explained yesterday at a Com- ! over by the Tammany Bureau are The meeting was held in Lorraine chairman, with Comrade Leisero- cold Hall, go to school, because their parents lieved the socialist betrayers, and j which the A.F.L. imposed on them. all working class districts in the munist demonstration in front of j jreplacing workers who are now out Brooklyn. The chairman witch as secretary. are thrown out of the factories into suddenly several policemen began On this same street the F.W.I.U. evenings. In New York State the the Tammany fake unemployment | ; on the streets. launched it off with an attack on Comrade Siegel of the Bazaar to disperse the workers, yelling the Independent Shoe the streets. After working years out.! has established union conditions in Red Campaign is beginning to make agency. Harriet Silverman, Communist Workers’ Committee pointed out that the “Break it up”! “No Red meetings itself Union, which a lasting in these factories today they have j a shop at Burke Ave. and felt. Meetings are held, The demonstration which was ad candidate in Sixth has earned bazaar activities have not yet suf- here”! and dispersed the workers, j White the Assembly place in the hearts of the not a penny to buy bread with for Plains Rd. There is no strike there, workers are visited in their homes. dressed by members of the Down- District, Manhattan, in speaking he- workers ficiently developed among the Richard B. Moore,' by its courageous struggle for bet- their children; and here the social The Communist Party of Mil- and the workers have won the eight- i Communist can- I j town Unemployed Workers’ Council fore the large crowd of unemployed masses. Comrade Siegel reported didate for attorney-general j ter conditions and against the lock- that forty fascists try to gladden the hearts waukee is actually mobilising the j hour day and sanitary conditions, of New | j and candidates of the Communist > | workers in front of the Tammany booths have already been with their as York State, is completing his out last year. arranged of the workers cheap workers, judging from the mass j well as the union rate of pay. tour. !| Party in the coming elections heard ; j agency, has pointed out the fake for with organizations. J. Louis Engdahl is starting The speakers added to the bad Magazine water, and hot air. demonstrations which were held This shop the A.F.L. pickets—in out on j the story of a shoe worker of the | methods employed by the three capi- The Bazaar has obtained his state tour in a few days. impression. Woltz, a candidate on seventeen As to taxes: This is a lie. If the under the leadership of the Com- order to throw more business to Other | Refined Shoe Company, 330 Melrose talistj parties in order to put their pages of advertisements cheaper only for the Saperstein’s, candidates heading the state the socialist ticket, boasted of the and greetings taxes are it is munist Party on March 6, May Ist, j which has lost about. ticket I j Ave., Brooklyn, who was getting S4O j j candidates through in the coming to the sum of SI7OO. and bosses. If a will visit the various workers amounts of money he made in the However, a deal of work business men August Ist and September Ist. Also 90 per cent of its trade. The A.F.L cen-1 a week and is now replaced by one ! | elections by fooling the workers. The great yet lucky enough to ters of New York insurance business. An Italian so- remains to worker is have a the numerous mass meetings and makes no demands for workers, it State. sent down by the Tammany Bureau Unemployed Council of the Trade be done. Honor roll little shack, his taxes are growing But—we must have inline- sial fascist from II Nuova Mundo lists must be taken out advertise- open air meetings, and shop gate only sells its label. Sentiment of funds at a wage of s2l a week and re Union Unity League which is or. higher every year. meetings diately. We cannot develop spoke and so did a faker from the ments and greetings which are held daily; the entire neighborhood is for the j the ! j placing him with one who is now ganizing these and other demonstra- secured for the concluding he asked if throughout city. campaign as we should have for International Jewelry Workers. bazaar magazine as Before the Another fact i Saperstein strikers and against the I getting nearly a half of that, is | tions every day at once same there were any questions. He 1 lack *bf funds. ! one j is calling a confer- Ivanoff, of the Independent Shoe will have to go to press not later is that nine of our most militant j fake picketing of the ship where the ! of those firms so much praised by j ence of all unemployed workers in thought that the workers would fighters and leaders of The Communist Party is rely- i Workers Union, demanded the floor.
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