The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED SDAY, MARCH 22 1933 Page Three ——*_— >= RALLY WAR VETS FOR UNITED ACTION AGAINST REDUCTIONS Kcottsboro Tas Days Start Saturday Will Answer Lies of “Money From Russia” NEW YORK.—Workers are called upon by the N. Y. District Interna- tional Labor Defense to rally to the support of the nine innocent Scotts- | NEW YORK—A Scottsboro Unity Conference will be held on Friday, March 24th at 8 p. m,, at St. Lukes Hall, 125 W. 130th St. Ail organizations send delegates. Save the Scottsboro Boys! boro Boys by contributing as gener- ously as possible on the Scottsboro Tag Days here from Morch 25, to April and, inclusive. Successful Scottsboro 73 Days will > the.lies spread openly by the A pitalist press in the South and thru ference by Northern newspapers that money for the defense of the | nine Negro boys, framed by the boss- @s, comes from the Soviet Union. THUGS AND COPS _ IN MIDNIGHT RAID ON FOOD UNION Injunction Served on | Union Secretary and Foltis Strikers NEW YORK.—A large group of hired thugs flanked by a policeman and a lawyer of the Irving Trust Jompany, receivers of the Foltis- which is now on at midnight in- ied the headquarters of the Food Vorkers Industrial Union and served Rubin, General Secretary of the Union. with an applpication for an injunction against the Union and the Foltis-Fischer strikers. This move of the besses comes on top of their application for a contempt of court order against the union and the strikers. A monster mass meeting in support of tae Foltis-Fischer strikers and against the attacks of the bosses will be held at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Fast Fourth Street, Friday, March 24, at 8 pm. sharp. Ben Gold, Na- tional Secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, will ad- dress the mass meeting and propose action of the working masses of New York to defeat all the attempts of the bosses to break the strike. . 8 Commodore Strikers Still Out NEW YORK.—The laundry work- ers of the Hotel Commodore are still \ mt on strike. The management is rying to send its agents among the trikers in order to convince them not to picket. But the strikers, in answer to this, have intensified their work and are preparing to bring the workers of other departments out, and spread the strike throughout the whole hotel. RENT STRIKE WON AS OTHERS GO ON Picketing in Morning Against Evictions NEW YORK.—The tenants of 963 Saile Street, Bronx, won their rent strike when they settled with the landlord yesterday for a 12 per cent reduction in rent, no eviction of un- employed workers, recognition of the house and block committee, and re- pairs to be made. ‘This house was organized through the combined efforts of the East Bronx Unemployed Council and the Unemployed Committee of the Pros- ect Workers Center. It is signifi- ant to note that due to the success- ul victories of the rent strikes at herlotte Street, and Franklin and Bryant Avenues, which are in the same section, the landlord of Saile Stveet, Mr. Weinstock, consented to the agreement without the tenants having to picket the house, The landlords ave beginning to feel and vecognize the strength of organized tenants. * A mass picket line at 219 Herzl Street, Brooklyn, will be established this morning to prevent the eviction of five families. Workers are urged to help picket at 9 a.m. Four tenants of 444 Williams Ave- nue, Brooklyn, are also faced with eviction today. Workers of the neigh- porhood are urged to join in the picket line. I. W. 0. Office Staff Raises $55 for ‘Daily’ NEW YORK.—The office staff of “the International Workers Order, 80 Pos ‘Ave,, contributed $55 to the Section Daily Worker Agents Special enlarged edition Saturday, March 25th — Comrade Stalin's speech on collectivization. Daily Worker at a collection last week, The staffs of other mass and fraternal organizations are urged to follow this example, donating and pledging what they can to put the “Daily” drive over the $35,000 mark. McCREERY CUTS WAGES NEW YORK.—The James McCree- vy department store at 34th Si. and Fifth Ave. yesterday gave its em- ployees & wage cut in the form of a stagger system: One and a half hours off without pay. The workers can fight this Roosevelt “New Deal’ with the help of the Office Workers Upipn, 799 Broadway, BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 21 Sociology at Birmingham Southern ized as a “nigger love’, charged with “teaching Communism and evolution” and with probing “too far” into ques- tions of prostitution, Negro housing conditions, and general social |wel- fare. Broad Support. Dr. Barnhart will be one of nine Negro and white speakers at a mass meeting on the Scottsboro case to be held here, at the First Congrega- tional Church, 7th Ave. and 15th St. North, Sunday, March 26, at 6 p. m. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the Citizens’ Committee on the Scottsboro case. Other speakers will be Rev. Louis J. Paptiste, Negro pastor of the ; Dr. Henry M. Edmonds, white, pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church; Ernest W. Tag~ gart, President of the Birmingham Branch of the N.A.A.C.P.; Oscar W. Adams, Negro, Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias; David Hut- to, student at Birmingham Southern College; Mrs. H. C. Bryant, Negro, president Y.W.C.A., Dr. Benjamin B. Goldstein, Montgomery rabbi, and Gaines T. Bradford, editor of the Birmingham World, Negro bi-weekly. BIRMINGHAM PROFESSOR IS FIRED: SUPPORTED SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE Dr. Barnhart Had Exposed Police Killings of | Negroes in Scientific Study of Homicide Because he supporied the defense of | the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, Dr. Kenneth E, Barnhart, professor of faculty for th: next term, it was revealed today. Dr. Bsrnhart had during previous weeks, especially, been character- College, has been dropped from the Author of Studies Dr. Barnhart is the author of many Papers for scientific periodicals and organizations. One of these is “A Study of Homicide in the U. 8.” One portion of this, entitled “A Study of Homicide in Birmingham, Ala., says: “One reason that the Negro rate is higher in Birmingham than the white rate is because many Negroes are killed by policemen for ‘r ing arrest’.”” Dr. Barnhart has taught at Bir- mingham-Southern College for years. Previously he taught at Har- ris Teachers College, St. Louis, Mo., for five years. Dr. Guy E. Snavely, president of the college, announced that the course in “sociology” there would be dropped, and in spite of the fact that the real charges against Dr. Barn- hart were well known, has tried to hide this move under the mask of “economy”. He has already, during his eleven years as president, dis- missed ten professors and instructors because of their “liberal opinions”, or for similar reasons. Rank and File SIOUX CITY, Ia, March 21—In Conference this Friday and Saturday, milk strikes have been waged—farmers from Iowa and surrounding regions will gather at a rank and file Relief March 24 and 25, at Teutonia Hall, this storm center—where militant 413 Jennings Street. Thousands of leaflets containing the Conference Call have been issued, and large numbers of meetings have been held in preparation for the gathering, which will-frame immediate, urgent demands vital to the very life of the thousands of farmers of Iowa and surrounding country. To Adopt Program At this conference, which is being FARM BILL GETS SHAM OPPOSITION Militant Farmers Seek Debts Cancellation WASHINGTON, March 21.—Just before the House of Representatives adjourned for the day, it was clear that Roosevelt's farm bill would not come up for a vote until the follow- ing day, when it is expected to be passed, The bill has aroused considerable controversy around it since it was first put forward by the Roosevelt administration. Objection to the bill, both in the House and in the Senate, may be summarized as follows: 1. The type of sham opposition de- veloped by demagogic congressmen who, under pressure from the thickly- populated centers, point out that the rise in prices, inevitable as a result of the government tax on the proces- sors of farm products, would be passed on to the consumer—to the tune of at least $800,000,000 a year. 2. Congressmen and senators rep- resenting the interests of groups like the American Cotton Shippers’ Asso- ciation, who have nothing to gain from the “cotton plan” aspect of the bill which turns the swag over to the cotton speculators. 3. Individuals like Senator Borah, who continually warns of the grow- ing farm revolt and urges effective methods to stem it. He criticizes the Farm Bill and offers the counter- proposal! for “refinancing the farm- ers.” This scheme would involve turning over millions of dollars through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or similar agencies—not to the farmers directly—but to their mortgagees, the banks and insurance companies, Cancellation Is Demand. Meanwhile, through the Farmers’ Cormmittee of Action and the United Farmers’ League, militants are put- ting forward the demand for com- plete cancellation of all farm indebt- edness. They point out that the Roosevelt farm “relief” bill will aid the large-scale farmers and market- ing agencies, {| the same time rais- ing the cost of living not only for the masses in the cities but also for the impoverished farmers, Though the Farm Bill will un- doubtedly raise the prices of farm products, the increase will not bene- fit the farmers, but will go to the marketing agencies which now ‘have a stranglehold upon them. N. J. Governor Plans to Establish Camps for Jobless Workers TRENTON, N. J., March 21.—Fol- jJowing the line of the Roosevelt pro- posal to intern the jobless in mili- tary camps under a system of forced labor, Governor Moore today ane nounced the appointment of a com- mittee to study the plan for estab- lishing such camps in New Jersey. The camps are to be under state aus- pices but modeled on the lines pro- posed for the federal camps. in Sioux City, la., March 24th To Frame 3-Point Militant Program at 2-Day Conference Which Begins on Friday Farmers Meet supported by members of the Holiday Association, Farmers Union , United Farmers League, as well as unorgan- ized farmers, a program will be drawn up which will include: (1) Endorsing the plan of the Holi- day Association, which calls for a strike May 3 unless the Legislature talws effective action. (9) Strong resolutions against two vicious bills. one for establishing a state police which will be used for breaking strikes of workers and farm- ers, as well as a sharp resolution against the “Fish Bill,” which pro- vides a penalty of five years for the holding of a meeting of three or more people to plan the stopping of a sale jor eviction. (3) Full support of Cochran, the framed-up farmer picket, now held on @ murder charge. “At the conference,” the call states, “we must rally all farmers for Coch- ran’s defense and mobilize our forces to strengthen the power which the milk trust fears more than anything —the power of numbers.” The call concludes by stating: “Farmers, we can not work fast enough. This year it is far more profitable for us to lay plans and strengthen our ranks than to get in a big crop.” Rank and File Farmers The official call committee includes: W. C. Coons, treasurer, Farmers Holi day Association, Woodbury County; H, F, Walling, member F. H. A., Wood- bury County; B. B, Binnall, member F. H. A., Woodbury County; Charles S. Reggs, member F. H. A., Woodbury County; G. H. Nelson, Madrid, Route 1; J. P. Russell, United Farmers League, Manson, Ta,; Andrew Omholt, Farmers National Committee for Ac- tion; M. M. Clapp, U. F. L., Mont- pelier, Ia.; William Wamscott, U. F. L., Montpelier, Ia. Farmers who know that they will attend the Conference are urged to send notice to the headquarters of the Regional Committee for Action, 1009 Pierce Street, Sioux City, Iowa. Registration fee to cover expenses, fifty cents. Negro Demands Entry te Univ, of N. Carolina DURHAM, N. O.—Barred by the University of North Carolina from entering its School of Pharmacy, Thomas R. Hocutt, a Negro studeat, has brought legal suit against Tho- mas J. Wilson, University registrar.) March 24 has been set as a date for hearing by Judge M. V, Barnhill. It was Barnhill, who, in 1929, pre- sided over the case against National Textile Workers Union organizers whom the Gastonia mill owners sought to railroad to the electric chair for defending themselves against thugs of the textile owners. Deny New Trial to Ben Gold, 2 Other Hunger Marchers Jailed in Del. WILMINGTON, Del., March 21. —) New trials for Ben Gold Charles Sa- gamore and Karl Carlson, arrested here following the police attack upon hunger marchers enroute to Wash- ington last December, was yesterday denied by the Grand Session Court. Within 20 minutes after the court rendered its decision, the workers, who have been sentenced to sixty days in jail and $50 fine each, were in jail cells, The International Labor Defense is appealing the case to the Delaware state supreme court. Beer on Sale April 6 or 7; Sign Bill Today WASHINGTON, March 21.—Legal- ized beer will be sold on April 6th or 7th. That was made certain today | | when the house of representatives voted by acclamation for the bill le- galizing beer of 3.2 per cent alcoholic content. It will be signed by Roose- velt tomorrow. It canndt be signed today because it must first have the signature of the vice-president while the senate is £1 session. It will be CUT VETERANS’ RELIEF; RABE BANKERS’ PROFIT $725,000,000 Interest Single Item on U. S. Budget The U.S. Treasury Department announced Sunday night that it had sold $800 millions worth of short term bonds at interest rates of 4 percent and 414 percent. than four times the rate paid during the latter part of 1932 on these short term bonds which are held almost exclusively by banks and other rich investors. are announced by Roosevelt, the “Wall St. fighter”, at the time he cuts $500,000,000 off disabled veterans relief and puts 250,000 jobless into forced labor camps. This tremendous increase in interest payments is of par- ticular importance at present because about half the Federal debt, ten billion dollars, is redeemable by October of this year. The first Liberty Loan, which amounts to almost two bil- lions, is now eligible for redemption while the Fourth Liberty Loan of over six billions may be called in October. tion, there are two billions of various other issues also re- 20 33. leemable in 19 begun. get. how close t ployed Councils. It may also be o. interest to note that if the government paid these banks and investors at the same rate as it pays the workers who keep their money in the postal savings banks it would save over 200 million dollars a year. Following closely upon the heels of the Roosevelt Eco- nomy Bill which deprived hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans of a livelihood and reduced the wages of thousands of government employees, such as letter carriers, this in- crease of interest payments for the rich comes as a direct slap in the face of all workers—veterans and non-veterans, employed and unemployed. The bankers may use these high rates as a precedent for increasing the rates now in force or in keeping them at heir high wartime levels when refunding operations are At present, interest payments amount to 725 million dol- ars a year, thus forming the largest single item in the bud- This amounts to a payment of six dollars a year for every man, woman and child in the country. sum were divided among the unemployed instead of given to he coupon clippers it would provide a payment of $43 for each one of the 17 million out of work in America. s to the $50 relief demanded by the Unem- to Bankers Largest This is more These high payments Tn addi- If this terrific Notice Summer Resort Bosses Prepare Wage Cuts By « Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—With the beginning of the preparations for the opening of the summer resorts, a number of hotel, propriétors and _ employment agencies’ are plarining’ to work to- gether to get cheap labor for the former and big fees for the latter. Among these is the employment agency maintaining office space in the State Labor Bureau on 28th Street. At a meeting this agency made plans to exploit waiters, cham- bermaids and dishwashers for as low as $10 a month. Besides this, those workers hired must pay their own tion to their fees. They must also sign an affidavit that they will pay for all breakage of dishes, etc. This clause will easily be invoked against the workers if the bosses want to fire them or force them to leave. They also want to examine the baggage of workers. Unite Against Terror in Williamsburgh NEW YORK.—Challenging the bru- tal beating by plain-clothes men of Jacob Stock and John Russo after their arrest at & demonstration near a Home #elief Bureau in Williams- burgh, workers’ organizations in that section, supported by the N. Y. Dis- trict International Labor Defense, have organized a provisional commit- tee for defending both workers and for waging a campaign against police terror. Stock and Russo face trial on charges of felonious asasult. Bail, originally set at $5,000 each, was re- duced to $500 on protest by defend- ing attorneys, Organizations which have formed the Provisional Committee include the Progressive Workers Club, the Bridge Plaza Club, the Unemployed Council, Williamsburgh, the Williams- burgh Section, N. Y, District TLD, the Williamsburgh Workers Club, and the Italian Proletarian Club, OHIO FLOOD HAVOC HITS WORKERS CINCINNATI, O.—Thousands of families have been forced from their homes into the intense cold as the Ohio River flooded its banks in four states, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky, Red Cross relief has been promised the sufferers who are mostly impoverished small farmers, but this will be the usual promise and the ruined farmers will be thrown on the city breadlines. LABOR UNION MEETINGS A meeting of alt the carpenters ix called | the by the Ind, Carpenters Union for tonight, 8 p.m. at 018 Broadway, near 12th St. ° * ‘The meeting of the Dressmakers Unem- ployed Council will be held today, 1 , at 140 West 3¢th St. A report will be given on the Gibson mittee and plans for developing the struggle for jebs and relief for the unemployed Grosuran vere. A report will_also be given on the Albany conference on Labor Uesislation. ¥ p.m. ssmakers will hear Wvitles of their dep t for the year and will nominati didates for jo board, executive council and patd officers. The meeting will be held Thurs- aay, 7 p.m, in Irving Plaza. Cid wine report on A membership meeting of knitgoods work- ers will be held on Thursday, 7 p.m. at the office of the union, 181, W. 28th St. . ‘The Lett Wing Group of Local 22 is call. ing an open forum for Thursday, 1:30 p.m. at 140 West 36th St. to discuss the present in session untilytomorrow situation and the ram of the Left Wing KU KLUX TERRORIZES MINEOLA NEGRO VOTERS NEW YORK.—The notorious Ku Kluxers of Mineola erected a twenty foot flaming cross in the village yes- terday to keep Negroes from voting in the elections now being held. The campaign is being conducted on the basis of budget economies and the Klan will appear in full regalia to see to it that workers, Negro and white, who might benefit from these economies, are not permitted to vote, Southern lynch terror used against the Negro people in New York the “financial” heart of the “democratic” north, ‘200 Form Union, fare to the country resort in addi-, Place Demands And Win Strike Joined With Laundry Workers Indus- trial Union NEW YORK.—The workers of the Giant (Samack) Steam Laundry, 7th Ave. and 155th St., which has close to 200 workers, joined the Laundry Workers Industrial Union, elected a Shop Committee, and made a num- ber of demands which were granted by the bosses when thehy found that the workers were organized. The demands granted are: Reinstate- ment of the workers fired, no firing without consent of union, equal di- vision of work, a full hour for lunch, and shop committee recognition. Previously workers were being re- placed by cheaper workers. The fore- man discriminated against workers Many times workers were told to come in to work, and were then sent home, wasting carfare. The whistle used to blow 15 minutes before the starting hour, and any worker com- W.ES.L. CALLS FOR BUILDING ACTION COMMITTEES IN ALL VETERAN GROUPS Must Link Local and National Demands in Preparation for Mareh to Washington May 12, Ex-Servicemen’s League States The National Executive Committee of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, with headquarters at 799 Broadway, New York, yesterday issued a statement calling for the building of action committees in «/l veterans’ organizations in a united front movement against the cuts in veterans’ benefits. The statement also endorses the call of the Vet- Seorsere ero “erans’ National Liason Com-2-————————_—__—_— FORD TO PRESE T | mittee for a march to Wash-|Vets Oust Leader i ington to demand withdrawal | s * a lof the an and inaimediatal for Opposing Aid to CHARGES OF Vi TS payment of the bonus. May 12 has! Workers’ Struggles WI 4% been set as the date when the vets| ¥ — will assemble in the capital | CHICAGO.—Be he opposed Yneake ¢ baring | The Wall 8 Roosevelt econ-| participation of Workers Ex- Speaks at Hear Ing on}, ny bill, now being put into effect, | £ Li 2 strike strug- Relief Tonight | s more than $400,000,000 from| ¢ emonstrations of th i veterans’ benefits and about $125,-| 2, John Marshal, re- NEW YORK.—James W. Ford Communist candidate for vice-presi- dent in the last elections and a mem ber of the National Committee of th Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League | will present charges against Commis- | sioner of Public Welfare Taylor at an open hearing on veterans’ relief, to- night at 8 p.m. at Manhattan Lyceum 66 E. Fourth St. Ford will show that Taylor is de+ liberately denying relief to thousands of unemployed vets in violation of Section 117-119 of the State Welfare laws. The hearing tonight will also be a mobilization for the march to th Board of Estimate which the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League is organizing for Friday. The vets will rally in Union Square Friday morning at 10 o'clock and march to City Hall. They will demand immediate ade- quate relief for unemployed vets and that the board send a resolution to President Roosevelt and congress, asking that the cut in veterans’ ben- efits be withdrawn. Workers are also urged to participate in the march. Tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Sol Har- per, leading Negro vet, will speak on “New Attacks on the Ex-Servicemen” at 4215 Third Ave., corner Tremont, the Bronx Chair Factory in Milwaukee Prison (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis—The Milwau- kee County House of Correction, otherwise known as Momsen's ‘Hotel (he’s the warden) by the work: has a large furniture factory operated by a wealthy Milwaukee furniture deal- er, Klode, who has invested in some old machinery and equipment. They have just received a large or for 40,000 chairs for the Chicago World's Fai and while the big furnitu of Sheboygan and other cties are shut dowa, with thousands of men out of work—such orders as these are |being handled and produced by forced labor under the Klode-Mom- sen-Socialist County Board plan Klode pays the state 50 cents a day for each man working in the furni- ture factory ‘there are usually six to seven hundred working there), And what do the men get? Beans and ba- loney and eventually out of jail with $15 in their pants if they've been in over a year. There is no compersation insur- ance, etc., of any kind carried on the men who work in this factory, and i? they get an arm torn off eye poker out cr worse on this eld, dan- gerous machinery—they’ll get ban- dayes and whistle for the rest. And why is there no protest from the nine Socialist members of the county board about this forced labor and collusion between the state and @ capitalist? Comrades, if you lived in Milwaukee you'd realize this is just another cxample of the Hoan- Hilquit-Thomas type of socialism— perhaps Hoan célls it “socialist pro- duction,” so why should the nine lit- tle Socialist members of the county board worry tieir heads over it— beer's coming back to Milwaukee and that's their big concern right now! ing later was sent home for the day. The workers w being cheated out of half their lunch time. 000,000 from the wages of government employes, including members of | armed forces, Bankers Demand Loot. In its statement, the W.ES.L clares that the real reason for cuts is that Wall Street bankers capitalists are demanding of $70,000,000 in government bonds which they hold. “Large demonstrations should be organized,” the statement contin- ues, “in support of the Veterans’ National Liaison Committee call. These demonstrations should also present to the city and state gov- ernments the demand of the vet- erans that Roosevelt withdraw the proposed cuts in veterans’ benefits, asking that the city and state gov- ernments send memorials to Roose velt requesting that he heed the demands of the vets. “Local city and state action com- fons of veterans in all organiza- i de- ions should be built to carry on he local fight for relief and for the national demands, and to work out plans for the organization of contingents of veterans to go to Washington. “Local actions of veterans, which take place preparatory to the marci, are vitally necessary, as it is only through such actions, coupled with the march to Washington, that the veterans will be able to force the government to grant their demands. Demand Cuts Stop. “Rank and file members of the American Legion, Veterans of For- eign Wars, Disabled American Vet- erans, Khaki Shirts, B.E.F., Wounded the payment | | irman of the organizatior n his office pend- of gation charge hall were ented to the Regional Committe: the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League by Leslie R. Hurt, regiona organization secretary The committee members voted un- animously to remove Marshall, ap- pointed a trial board and agreed to call a pul hearing to which al! workers ar eterans will be invitec | According to the charges submittec | the Regional Committee sessior | Marshall refused to give his approval | to a letter to all Chicago posts of th | Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, ap- pealing to the membership for their support of the shoe and leathe workers’ strike, which is being con- ducted under the militant leadership of the Shoe and Leather Worker | Industrial Union and the Trade | Union Unity League, War Veterans of America, United Spanish-American War Veterans. Civil War Veterans and the wives mothers and widows of veterans: “Demand that Roosevelt stop th: cuts in disability compensation and pensions! No cuts in Civil War and Spanish-American War pensions! Nc reduction of widows’ and mothers’ pensions! Demand immediate cash payment of the bonus! Demand cancellation of U. S. government bonds held by multi-millionaires and bankers!” will be held here Sunday, April 2, to the fight against the vicious cuts in The decision to call the conference w: Rockefeller’s Radio City Cuts Wages of Performers, Musicians NEW YORK CITY.—The new co- lossal theatrical Musi@ Hall, gave notice to all em- ployees from the women costume makers to the performers, of a 10 per cent wage-cut, 20 per cent for musicians. The premier dancer, Patsy Bowman, has received notice of dis- charge. This theatre pet of Rockefeller’s, which he built to evade paying in- dome tax to Uncle Sam, has joined the orgy of wage-cutting which will not stop until the American working class organizes under Communist leadership. K. 500 Strike, Tie Up Shee Factory in Lynn LYNN, Mass., March 21.—That the ‘trike movement among the shoe workers in Lynn is not over is evi- dent from the report today that fif- teen wood heel factories ciosed down when 500 wood heel workers walked out on strike. The workers are striking for increased wages and im- proved working conditions, palace, Radio City| Oregon Vet Meet April 2 to Spread Fight on Cuts PORTLAND, Ore., March 21.—A mass state-wide conference of veterans rally the ex-servicemen of Oregon for veterans’ benefits and for local relief. ‘as made at an enthusiastic meeting of the Rank and File Veterans’ Provisional Committee, attended by members AEBS “of every veterans’ organization | Portland. | | The veterans present were unani- |}™Mous in voicing approval of the | march on Washington May 12, cal- led by the Veterans’ National Liai- son Committee. This march will de- mand the withdrawal of the more than $400,000,000 reduction in vet- erans’ benefits contained in the Roosevelt economy bill, and immedi- ate payment of the bonus. Commit- tees of action will be formed in al! veterans’ organizations to spread the fight on the cuts and for local relies for the vets. The meeting also endorsed de- mands for relief for workers and poor farmers. Richard Lovelace, regional orga- niger of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, outlined the program of the National Liaison Committee. Howard Hanes, member of the National Executive Committee of the Disabled American Veterans and also a mem- ber of the American Legion and Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, denounced- the betrayal of the leaders of th reactionary veterans’ organization }counteract their treachery. Hanes s chairman of the Rank and File | Provisional Committee, Lovelace is |secretary, and Hammond, of the B. | ©. F. and National Order of Veterans, is treasurer. 300 MINER DELEGATES, NEGRO AND WHITE, FROM THREE STATES, MEET IN CONFERENCE TO PREPARE APRIL FIRST MASS STRUGGLE PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 21,—A‘ the call of the National Miners’ Un- fon, nearly 300 delegates gathered here Sunday for a united front con- ference to prepare strikes to improve mine conditions and actions to win relief for the unemployed. Dele- gates, Negro and white, from Penn- sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia re- presenting employed and unemploy- ed, locals of the National Miners’ Union, the United Mine Workers and unorganized were present. Al- though unemployment is high in the mining fields, about 100 delegates were employed, elected by the work- ers in the mine and representing some of the most important mines. Women fraternal delegates from wo- men’s auxiliaries, attended the con- Terence. The women delégates also held a special conference, pledging to rally the women to fight side by side with the men. ‘The conference was one of the most enthusiastic ever held and clearly indicated the desire of the miners to put a stop to the attacks upon their living standards. Both in the report of Frank Borich, National Secretary of the National Miners’ Union and the reports of the delegates, it was revealed that the operators have reduced tie con }tions of the employed miners to ac- tual starvation. TM mine after mine the workers are receiving empty pay envelopes after the company’s arbitrary deductions for supplies, rent and other fixed charges. Miners Strike Against Scrip ‘The miners reported that they are already carrying on big mass strug- gles. In protest against the mine companies, attempt to force the min- ers to take scrip to be cashed in company stores only, at a discount of 30-50 per cent, the miners of four Pittsburgh Terminal mines number- ing about 2,000, struck 100 per cent, compelling the company to pay cash. U.M.W.A. officials (the U.M.W.A. has an agreement with this com- pany) attempted to persuade the miners to accept, but led by the op- position group the miners drove them out of meetings. 900 miners of the Powhattan Ohio mine, of the same company, also defeated scrip. After a thorough discussion, the miners adopted a resolution of pol- jey calling upon the miners to or- ganize and fight against these condi- tions and to utilize April 1, the day when many great mine strikes start- ed in the past, to begin these strug- gles by means of strikes in the mines and unemployed for increased relief. On April Pirst, hunger marches ; will take place in Washington Coun- ty, and Westmoreland County, Pa., and Belmont county, Ohio, with de- monstvations in every mining center in the three states. Adopt Scale Committee Report A long and vigorous discussion took place on the report of the scale committee which was adopted by a vote of all delegates except 10. The debate centered on the proposal that, in view of the difference in the level of wages paid in the different mines that the basic demand be for a flat increase of 10 cents per ton to all miners, Those who voted against this demand wanted to adopt a flat tonnage rate of 40 cents for all mines, The majority of the delegates who voted for the demands pointed out that the flat tonnage rate proposed could not be put over in mines where the rate is 18 and 22 cents per ton while those receiving a higher ton- nage rate would be getting a wage eut. The U. M. W. A officials re- cently vut through this policy in Hocking Valley through the “equal- ization of wages.” The other main demands adopted by the conference were: 2 cents a ton increase for cutters, 75 cents a and joint actions of the employed! day increase for day men, 2 miner checkweighmen on every tipple, pay- ment for dead work based on day- men’s rates. For the unemployed, the demands are: $2 cash relief a week for single men, $4 extra for each dependent; when working miners do not receive this amount, additional relief be given to reach this scale of relief. Other de- mands included no discrimination against Negroes and no discrimina- tion for activity, recognition of mine committees. Many resolutions were adopted against the fascist terror in Gere many, for the release of the Scotts. boro boys, Tom Mooney, against de- portations, against the Roosevelt Economy bill and the Pennsylvania Commissary plan, A resolution call~ ing on the W.LR. to begin the cam- paign for relief in coming strikes was campaign to publish the Mine Work- er. A United Action Committee was elected to carry out the decisions of the conference and prepare the strikes and unemployed struggles for April 1. The miners pledged to re- turn and develop these struggles in their flelds. The resolution printed page 3 was adopted as the Hine of Suey % te. for couples with 50 cents, aa enthusiastically accepted. The con= . and urged united, wilitant action to —~