The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1933, Page 3

| | | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1933 Page Three DEMONSTRATE ON MAY FIRST FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (W.icago Police Get | Back Pay to Smash Teachers’ Protest CHICAGO, UL, April 26.—Refusing to be starved into submission, more than 1,000 school teachers massed in Chicago's financial district again today to demonstrate at the banks for their back pay. Gathering their forces at, the First National Bank the teachers, predominantly women, shouting and | jeering attempted again to see the bank officials to obtain and answer to | their demand. ‘They were met bye-———————. a cordon of mounted police Who) the city are making any effort to swung their nightsticks over the|meet the teachers’ demand for 30) faces and heads of the teachers forc- ing them back from the bank's! pay, The Chicago Federation of foors, |Leachers, the A. F. of L. union here The militancy of the teachers WAS | is taking no active part in the mil- not dampened by police brutality or) jtant struggle of the starving teach- the clattering of horses’ hoofs. How-| ers, over they rallied wont forces vada times in the attempt to enter the| bank shouing thir slogan, “We wont /10,000 Teachers on #0 home until we're paid.” The bank) Geet, in Ireland closed its doors, after the president, | Traylor refused to see the teachers | Against Wage Cuts DUBLIN, April 26—Ten thousand Police Attack. | ‘The first clash with the police oc-| curred at the Chicago Title and/school teachers in the Irish Free Trust Co. when the teachers suc-|State are out on sirike today, and ceeded in jamming into the build-| 500,000 children are having a holiday, ing-but were driven out after a spe-|while their teachers are striking for cial force of police stationed theié/twenty-four hours in protest against had) brutally beaten several women. |the salary reductions proposed in De- Teachers defended themselves by us- | Valera’s new economy bill. 4 ing their school books to ward off} The rank and file of the National the blows of the police. A plate) Teachers’ Association have forced glass window was smashed in the/| that body to endorse the strike offici- stryggle and several women fainted.| ally. The teachers also threaten to Although funds have been found to sabotage the extra-curricular spread pay the police to assist the pankers|of the Gaelic language after school to terrorize and brutally maltreat|hours if their already low standard the teachers, neither the banks or /of living is further depreciated. GREEN, SWOPE FOR STAGGER BILL ~~ AT HOUSE COMMITTEE HEARING WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26 —, Electric Company in endorsing the Testifying before the House Labor| 30-hour Stagger Plan Bit. Committee today, Wm. Green, Presi-| Swope has long advocated such a dent of the A. F. of L., followed Ge- | plan to spare the bosses the expense yard Swope, President of the General} of unemployment relief and insurance !and to force this burden upon the —— | working masses. Both the leading in- AUNDREDS DESER' dustrialist and the leading agent of the employers among the ranks of ROOSEVELT CAMPS tne workers, approve of the principle ‘of “spreading employment” which Conditions of Forced unemployment insurance for the 17 ,million unemployed workers and ad- | voeate this bill to stifle the struggle | for this measure. million dollars due them in back} , Workers’ wages. Both these enemies| \of the working class are opposed to} MARCH AT UNITED FRONT SESSION Motion in Congress to Pay Bonus as Date of Vets: Arrival Nears CHICAGO, April 26.—The Veterans’ Conference last night in Chicago un-/ der the leadership of the United Vet- erans’ Provisional Committee | arrive in Washington on May 12, and |pledged to fight against the cuts in| disability compensation. | | Highty-nine delegates were present | | from nineteen veterans’ organizations, | five posts of the American Legion} and three posts of the Veterans of | Foreign Wars sending delegates. The National Officers Bonus Expeditionary | Force and the local Camp Hushka | of the New American Expeditionary | Force had two posts represented, while seven posts of the Workers’ Ex- Servicemen’s League sent representa- tives. Forty-four delegates repre-) sented unattached veterans, | Maurice Miller of the United Vet- | erans’ Committee was elected Com- | mander of the Chicago contingent) of the bonus march, with Arnold) | Blanchard of the Negro veterans, as| vice-commander. A strong leading} committee of seven members was} elected. | The Chicago veterans leave for) | Washington Tuesday, May 2, at 8] ‘a.m. from two assembly points, 777 | West Adams Street and 923 East 75th | Street. The marchers will stop in In- | dianapolis for contact with 190 Bonus | Expeditionary Force veterans from | that city who are joining the united |front march. Meetings of veterans |are being held nightly in Chicago to | support and organize the march. * ; i ° * ¢ WASHINGTON, April 26.—Under the pressure of the veterans’ mass or- | ganizations, house and senate mem- | bers today took steps to add a bonus \rider to the administration inflation |bill. The rider will be introduced in the Senate by Robinson of Indi- |ana, while the veterans’ bloc claims to have obtained the necessary sig- |matures to force a democratic caucus |in the House to consider the pay- |ment of the veterans’ bonus. | Robinson and Patman of Texas, who backed down in their opposition to Roosevelt's slash of disabled vet- erans’ compensation, are now being forced by the mass pressure from the needy veterans, and by the threat of | the impending bonus march to Wash- |ington May 12, to calm the storm of | protests that has flooded Washington jsince the passage of the “economy bill”. VETERANS PLAN New York Trade Union News 87 Negro Tenants Strike in Rockefeller Slums NEW YORK.—Eighty-seven Ne- gro tenants declared a rent strike at 210-214 and 218 West 63rd St, jimerow apartments, Tuesday night for a 25 per cent reduction in rent The houses are controlled by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The strike is led by the West Side Unemployed Council. The multi-millionaire Rockefel- ler refuses to make repairs. One tenant was recently injured by fal- ling plaster. Exhorbitant rents are en-| paid for rooms without electricity, | headquarte _—- |dorsed the bonus march, which is to| with toilets in the hall and slum | and arre conditions. Another profiteering trick is worked on the tenants through weekly rent payments which net Mr. Rockefeller 13 months rent | ber, on breaking into the strike head- | each year. Tuskeege Institute in Alabama, the heads of which turned the Ala~ bama share croppers over to the sheriff, is also supported by Rocke- feller. RANK AND FILE BOATMEN WANT UNION ACTION NEW YORK—The Marine Work- ers Association, independent union of towboatmen, rank and file are de- manding that their officials present demands upon the shipowners before May 1st when the present agreement expires, The rank and file are demanding that a special membership meeting be called at which these demands be drafted and militant action planned to make them effective. ‘The leadership wants to wait un- til the owners make their demands for another wage-cut and then “win a@ victory” by accepting only part of the cut. twenty hours in a stretch. The men demand a straight eight hour day. tion and protect the men from the owners, The maneuvres of the lead- ers are getting more slippery all the time. The rank anc file opposition call upon the men to flood the of- ficials with demands for the meeting this week, all members to be informed of the date and where it will be heid. MUSCLE SHOALS BILL IS PASSED GANGSTERS RAID PAPER UNION: ARREST WORKERS NEW YORK—Following an at- | tack by gangsters last night on work- jers striking at the Equitable Paper jand Bag Company, 314 Schools St., | Brooklyn, cops raided the strike at 197 Humboldt St., ed 28 of the strikers, in- |eluding 5 women. They were taken to the 85th Precinet police station, Stagg and Bushwick Sts. The gangsters, about 12 in num- |quarters, demanded that the strik- {ers promise to return to work, and \failing to get such a promise began |beating up the workers. The cops jcame in while the attack was in pro- gress, This is the crudest and most brutal attempt by the bosses of theBquitable Paper Company to break the strike. Numerous arrests of pickets failing | to break the workers’ spirit, the bos- ses are following the same tactics |of those who tried vainly to intimi- date the workers of the Needle Trade by sending gangsters to at- |tack them. | The New York District Interna- tional Labor Defense which will de- fend the arrested strikers calls on Jal members of the I, L. D. in that | territory to mobilize at once mass |pressure for the release of the strik- |ing workers, and against the terror | has closed its doors. It has moved to| |of uniformed and ununiformed gang- | sters, | ie | LAUNDRY WORKERS MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK.—A mass membership | meeting of all laundry workers will | Furriers Poll Big Vote As Elections in’ Union Continue NEW YORK—Showing more support than ever before to the correct militant leadership of the Needle Trades Industrial Union the furriers started piling up the biggest vote in the history of the union yesterday. The elections continue through today. Union officials stated that they xpected between 3500 and 5000 to vote. The candidates were nom- inated in open membership meet- ing, some time ago. There are 54 candidates for the 31 offices on the Trade board representing cutters, operators, nailers and fin- ishers. Demand Opening Downtown Relief |Demonstrate Tomor- | row at 78th Street | Bureau NEW YORK—The workers of the | Middle East Side, aroused because the | Bowe Relief Buro has moved | blocks further uptown, will hold a | demonstration in front of the Home | Relief Buro on 78th Street near First | Avenue, tomorrow, April 28, at 11:30 The 51st Street Home Relief Buro | 78th Street. Families without carfare, | living as far down as 14th Street, have to walk or starve. Families liv- ing uptown have to wait for relief | because the place is overcrowded. | The assemblying point for the de- |monstration will be 72nd Street and | First Ave., tomorrow at 11:30 a. m. The owners are pitting the men be held at Ambassador Hall, 3rd Ave. | From this Point, the workers will pa- against each other by working some|near Claremont Parkway tonight,|rade to the Home Relief Buro on °nditions, forced upon them by the boats part time and others in high | April 27, at 8 p.m. The meeting will | 78th St. and demand the opening of | U0hOly alliance of the bosses and the CALLS ON W ~ TRADE UNION COUNCIL ORKERS TO SUPPORT NEEDLE UNION NEW YORK.—The Trade Union Unity Council has sent out the following call to all workers to rally to the support of the Needle Trades Workers Ind ustrial Union's struggle against the boss and A. F. of L. gangsters: “The murderous attack on dustrial Union organized the bosses together with the leaders of the A. F. of L. in an effort to kill the militant leaders and to break the heroic Struggie of the fur workers for ce- cent living conditions, must meet | with the unanimous condemnation of all workers regardless of their union affiliation or their political views and opinions. “This attack on the lives of these first rank fighters, organized by the bosses jointly with the A. F. of L. burocrats and the extent to whicl y are helping the bosses to car’ igh their vicious attack on the | conditions of the workers, The fur workers have been amongst the first workers in New York City to carry through a real united front policy |and to mobilize all workers, regard- less of their views and opinions, in struggle against their common ene- In the course of the past two , they have carried through strikes in which thousands of work- ers have won higher wages, shorter hours and decent living conditions “The furriers under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union have been the first to establish an unemployment insur- ance fund paid by the bosses. Through | their united efforts they have suc- ceeded in throwing off the yoke of oppression, long hours and sweat shop my. yea: | take up the important question of the|a Home Relief Buro in the Lower DUrocrats of the A. F. of L. |coming mass strike and plans for Activities in the union are the re-| defeating the injunction granted the | back rents and regular sult of a campaign started by militant) bosses of the Pretty Laundry res-|every month; registration and relief | Paganda of the bosses and the A. F. rank and file members to force ac-| training the Union and the strikers | for young and single workers; against | of L. officials that the workers can- in the struggle | the forcing of young workers into mi- | not win better conditions during the from all activity against wage cuts. | UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL | ORGANIZERS MEET TODAY | NEW YORK.—The next regular |meeting of all local Unemployed Council organizers will be held tod: April 27, at 10 East 17th Street, | Manhattan, Harlem and Bronx or- | ganizers will meet at 10 a.m. sharp, and Brooklyn organizers will meet at 2 p.m. sharp. Important matters will be taken up | Twenties; immediate payment of all payments | litary camps; no cutting of relief of | families whose sons are already in | the camps. | ‘The demonstration is called by the | East Side Unemployed Council, 519 Second Avenue, New York City. HARLEM RELIEF MARCH FRIDAY “The successful struggles of the fur- riers have exposed the poisonous pro- The successful been period of a crisis. struggles of the fur workers ha’ an inspiration to the workers in other | trades to unite their ranks and to fight for better conditions. The | growth of the Industrial Union, the | militancy and determination of the | workers to build their class struggle | union struck terror into the hearts of the bosses who have once more | turned to the A. F. of L. for support in their struggle oeeinst the workers. | Since the negotiations have been | broken off with the Associated Man- by¢ the Needle Trades Workers In- WORKERS RALLY TO DEFENSE OF NEEDLE UNION Keep Sharp Vigil As Police Flood Gar- ment Section NEW YORK—A new wave of er husiasm is spreading among the it needle trades workers in answer to the murderous gangster attack o' the Union headquarters on Monda: by hired thugs of the Pur Associatior and Socialist leaders. Outdoor protest meetings in the fur, white goods and millinery maz kets were attended by thousands o workers yesterday at the call of the Needle Trades Workers Industria Union who pledged to rally with ever | greater militancy to the defense o the Union and to the struggle fo: better conditions. At all meetings speakers pointeci out the role of the Socialist leader: and the bosses who are trying to stampede the workers back into the A. F. of L. Unions by campaigns of terror and intimidation. The masse voted to join the United Front Ma Day demonstration under the banne: of the Needle Trades Workers’ In dustrial Union, The needle trades center is flooded with the dicks of the industrial squac and cops sent up supposedly to pro- tect the workers but in reality to be ready to attack the workers when the fur bosses carry through their plar | for a lock-out and are answered by a strike. The boss press publicize | the police commissioner's statemen’ |that “two hundred men will stay there | until there is no danger anymore.” | High police officials are in the con- spiracy to smash the union and know | when the hext attack will be made but they are not fooling the workers. | They will defend themselves as they | did last Monday, and as successfully. Fight gangsters involved in the at- | tack on the union headquarters Mon- | will usher in renewed attacks on the Labor Atrocious MITCHELL FIELD, L. I., April 26— Victims of the forced labor camp here are deserting wholesale, ntany of them walking away without a penny and’ fleeing, like convicts, to get away from the hell holes established by the Roosevelt hunger government under the hypocritical pretense of aiding the unemployed. Mitchell Field’s contingent of 1,041 members, every hour more men make breaks for freedom. f The men are treated worse than dumb animals, forced to sleep in an aircraft hangar, on soggy ground, with not enough clothing to keep warm. On certain days they are sub-) jected to inoculation by doctors who line them up and shoot injection in- to them. More than 200 | | Mr. Green declared before the) | House Labor Committee today that/| |he was opposed to the principle of| establishing “Minimum Wage Boards” | Millions for Big War Project 1,000 FARMERS which makes it absolutely essential) New YORK—The Kast Harlem |to have a full attendance. All or-| Unemployed Council issued a call | sanizers must be present and come on | yesterday for all workers organiza- | time. tions to mobilize their forces on Fri- | day were indicted today and held for trial scheduled to take place on May 2nd. They were charged with felo- | niqug assault, with carrying weapons, ufacturers, the bosses have been plot- | ting with the officials of the A. F. | of L. to launch a new pogrom against the workers. 3] has dwindled to 860 and) “recruits” | declaring that “it may lower the average wage.” Mr. Green's active assistance to the Hoover and Roose- yelt administrations in cutting the wages of workers and his campaign | of terror against the militants in the A. F. of L. unions who have fought against wage-cuts belies his pretended | fears that wage levels will be lowered. Green has not demanded any legisla- tive protection for the workers against the wage cuts which will follow on the introduction of the stagger plan. To answer the Roosevelt-Green on- slaught on the living standards oi the workers, militant workers in the unions and in the shops among the fainted after being given typhold for a 7-hour day, without pay re- STORM MILK CZAR ‘Demand ‘Board Stop ‘Favor to Milk Dealers ALBANY, N. ¥., April 26—Over |1,000 dairy farmers marched on Chan- | cellor's Hall here today to demand a | showdown from the State Milk Con- | trol Board on the question of mini- }mum milk prices for producers. This milk control board, created |under the Pitcher Bill, through the unemployed must raise the demand | militancy of the milk farmers’ strike | lin the Rochester area, has so far WASHINGTON, April 26—By a vote of 306 to 91 the House of Re-| presentatives passed the Muscle | Shoals bill which authorizes an im- |mediate expenditure of $10,000,000 | through appropriation and a bond is- sue of $50,000,000, to operate and de- |velop the war-time hydro-electric system of the Tennessee river valley. The bill to extend the war-time | project put the question of its use | for future war purposes first. It read: \ “Establishment of the Tennessee Val- |ley Authority, a government corpora- | tion, in the interest of national de- | fense, agriculture and industrial de- | velopment.” |NEED TRUCKS FOR SCOTTSBORO MARCH NEW YORK.—Six autos and trucks |are needed at once by the National Scottsboro Action Committee to sec- ure gas, food, and supplies for the | Scottsboro March on Washington, | May 8, The Committee also declared that it needed 100 buses and trucks for the march itself. Owners should notify the National Scottsboro Ac- | tion Committee, 11 West 135th St.9, | Edgewater 4-7110; or send word to | the Transportation Committee, 114 West 135th St. FIRED AFTER 35 YEARS | day morning April'28 and join a pro- test march through Lower Harlem ending with a demonstration in front of the 102 Street Home Relief Bureau. | About fifteen organizations are |taking part in this demonstration into the largest protest meeting that has ever taken place in Lower Har- lem. At a conference a few days ago demands were drawn up to be pre- sented to the supervisor of the H. R, B. The concentration points for the march are: 1538 Madison Avenue, 9:30 a. m.; 22 West 114th St. 10 a. m.; | 2242 Second Ave., 10 a. m. j and are co-operating in making it} a \and with destruction of property. | “The Trade Union Unity Counci) ES NERS is confident that the fur workers and | the needle trades workers as a whole | will defeat this new attack on their | | conditions, on their union, just as | they have frustrated their previous attacks. In this struggle, the fur | workers will have the full support of | all members of the unions affiliated | Miners | and Farmers in Arkansas Uniting for May Day March (By a Farmer Correspondent.) GREENWOOD, Ark.—-We expect to {to the Trade Union Unity Council | have a united front May Day dem- | and every class conscious worker of |Onstration here, of farmers | and ithe A. F. of L. The Trade Union ; Miners and other workers. We are Unity Council calls on all militant |°Teanizing the farmers around here, | workers to rally to the support of |294 Pay what attention we can to the Needle Trades Workers Industrial the miners too, in order to. bring Union. It calls on the workers of the | #>out unity of the workers and farm~ A. F. of L. to protest the murderous ers here. We plan to have the May Day | attacks on the Industrial Union and | demonstration involve a united front injections. INFLATION BILL ductions, for pay increases to meet|done nothing for the farmers. All it} Capacity 3,000,000 Horsepower | | | Total waterpower resources of the \inflation prices, for adequate relief | has done is to further enrich the big | Tpo ‘and Unemployment Insurance at the | milk dealers by setting a minimum) Tennessee River Valley are appro- | expense of the bosses and the govern-| price to be paid by consumers in the | ximately 3,000,000 horsepower, by far | ment, city. the biggest of its kind in the cap- When Commissioner of Agriculture | italist world. The plant will produce Charles H. Balwin pleaded with the| not only electric power for indus- General Strike of Seamen in Finland HELSINGFORS, April 25.—The Finnish seamen went on strike yester- day all over the country. The Com- (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW ORLEANS, La.—J. W. Ever- hardt, employed by the J. Wilton |& Jones Roofing Co. as a warehouse | man, was fired after he had worked for the same boss without ever miss- | ing a day for 36 years, 5 months and| to repudiate the action of the offi- lof the United Mine Workers of cials and to pledge their support to e | America, the Progressive Miners’ the militant fur workers. We are | ynion, National Miners’ Union and confident that with this support, the | farmers. fur workers will defeat the new po-| ‘There is a possibility of a strike | grom and will continue to build their |here on or after May. 1. We are | Industrial Union as a powerful weap- | bending every effort to get the farm- Mellon to Support CERTAIN 10 PASS Senator Admits It Is to Lower Real Wages WASHINGTON, April 26.—Despite the continued debates about the Thomas inflation amendment, it is a ainty that it will be adopted some time today or tomorrow. The present line-up in the senate indi- cates that the vote will be at least Roosevelt Policies; , Follows Morgan Lead farmers to have patience with “this| tries but was. specially developed to experiment,” the farmers refused to budge from their position, | “We have been sent here as del- jegates,” they announced, “instructed The Mellon financial oligarchy is|{o remain until we have obtaine’i the preparing to endorse the Roosevelt) minimum price for produced milk administration, tomorrow at a meet- ing of the Pittsburgh Clearing House. This is largely controlled by Mellon Mellon, secretary of the treasury | under Hoover and one of the richest | which will save us from bankruptcy. | We have been told not to succumb to | any dealers’ propaganda,” Renewed strikes on a wider scale |than before were promised by the |farmers if the milk control board produce nitrates for war munitions. It will also serve the big stee] and | other war industries of Birmingham (the Pittsburgh of the South) and will develop power along the route | from Birmingham to the port of Mo- bile, Alabama, on the Gulf. This is of great strategical advantage for war purposes because of its favorable po- sition in relation to the South Am- erican countries and will cut down | shipping time through the Panama 3 days. Now he has been thrown out with no compensation or pension of any kind, | 7 |GANGSTERS ATTACK ON | munists’ agitation among the marine | on in defense of their class interests |ers into Committees of Action under workers forced the Seamen's and | Firemen’s Union to sponsor the strike | officially, in spite. of the obvious re- | luctance of the union bureaucrats. \NEEDLE WORKERS CEN- To Fight Rent-Strike Curb | and will give their assistance to all|the Farmers’ Protective Association, other workers in their struggles for!to support this strike, and not to | | TER SHOW ON ACME ‘The Acme Theatre is now showing moving pictures of the gangsters’ at- |tack and the shooting up of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial The American Civil Liberties Union is contemplating a suit to test the ruling of Corporation Counse] Hilly that picketing by rent strikers is il- Jegal. The ruling was challenged by i} | ‘TEXTILE BOSSES RECOGNIZE BLACK BILL AS A NEW WAGE CUTTING LAW | Union headquarter ashe nln in & statement vesterdy” “Workers “Just Too Foolish” If They Expect Canal for naval fleets operating in | a — — Sees St es two to one for the measure. In the debate, Senator Harrison said that “America has a right to protect her own interests as other countries have done”. This is an ad- mission that the inflationary pro- /men in the world, has been reported | he as resenting the inflationary pro- Li op cpire BREESE, a Shey BS gram of the Roosevelt government. The announcement of his approval of the present administration means | i |that the so-called republican oppo- Farmers Unite in the Pacific, BIG GOV'T GRANT Pay Increase Won — to Keep Present Rates, Says Mill Journal (By Labor Research Association) duetfon (less for the workers) in or-| sition to Roosevelt's program is a_ Penn. to Block 5th 1 ‘ The 30-hour week bill (Black Bill) passed by the U. 5. Senate and now der to permit American manufac- Sham. } i T0 CONTR. ACTORS before the House, after some amendment, is in effect a glorified wage-cutting turers to compete more advantage-| Mellon’s approval of Roosevelt Attack on Property | tr U l nN eda echeme, For the congressmen who introduced it and voted for it, have no ously in foreign markets. ;comes soon after two other notorious | piearete intention of favoring wage increases for the workers. Their philosophy of —_—_—— j Propose Silver Amendment. The . | United States Steel Trust, Melvin| John Lilko, a farmer at Red Hill, ater ae amend: | Taylor and the head of the Bethle-| falled again when the farmers in the ments to the inflation bill. the Wheeler-King amendment which proposes that the president shall have the power to embark upon a free sil- ver coinage program at afixed ratiom to gold. Majority Leader Robinson said that the administration has not! offered any opposition to the pro- posed amendment. Other _ silver amendments wish to increase the amount of silver proposed as back- exploiters of the workers have en-| NORRISTOWN, Pa—Attempts to. dorsed him. The president of the Schwab goy- hem Steel Company, Charle: |have also endorsed Rooseve ernment. J, P, Morgan, the Wall Street king, jhas also endorsed Roosevelt's finan- cial policy, |60 NOVELTY WORKERS STRIKE, WASHINGTON, D, ©6., April 26+ Sixty workers of the Americai Noy- ing for the new currency to issue, elty Co. in Petersburg, Va., struck when the bosses announced a cut in wages from 12 cents to 11 cents an hour, The workers are fighting the wage cut and demanding a reduction ‘in their working hours which are now 10 and a half a day. MITCHET, FACES NEW [ SEE, April 26-—oharles B <' 301 Clty Bank, was indicted to- day for the fourth time by a fed- cral grand jury for attempted evasion of ie aeereres, Seoos tax laws. income for 1929 was $3,649,623, of which salaries from the National City Bank and National City Com- pany announced to $1,872,861,69. The yemainder came from profits on se- curity sales. No action has been taken against Mitchell for selling worthless securi- ties to unsuspecting depositors, which (ransactions netted him the greater part of his enormous income. He !s oeing prosecuted only becawse he did aot divide sufficiet of his loot with ‘he government. INDICTMENT 26,870,000 Profit for General Motors at Height of Crisis The General Motors Corpora- tion reports that it made a profit of $6,870,000 for the first three, months of the year. The company reported that it also had in its | | Treasury “Cash, U. S. government bonds, and other marketable se- curities” valued at. $148,211,000. The profit for the first three months of this year are the largest; since the first quarter of 1932. Meanwhile, the General Motors Corp. which is a Morgan company, is outting the wages of its workers. foreclose on the farm property of surrounding region came to the de- |fense of Lilko, This is the fifth at- tempt made by deputy sheriffs to rob | Lilko Of his property which has failed |due to the militant solidarity of local farmers. Seventy-five special depu- jties have been armed and will be transported by busses to take this Property by force, it is reported. The farmers are preparing to drive the sheriffs off again and protect Lilko’s farm from confiscation, “ABOUT READY TO QUIT PAYINC TAXES” ROSWELL, N. M.—Recently three new forms of taxation were being put over, sales tax, drivers’ and garbage can tax with the aid of the Communist unit here we fought these moves and won overwhelmingly with the general public support. In fact people here are about ready to quit paying taxes for supporting the | crooked city gang any longer. The Progress Builders. LAY-OFFS IS F. R.’S NEW DEAL (By a Worker it) LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Rumor here- abouts that 400 men will be laid off by the Six Companies at the Boulyer Dam project, in a couple of days to. save expenses, and of course the rest will be speeded up. license WASHINGTON, April 26.—The ad- | ministration bill to set up a $500,000,- 000 fund for distribution to various) states was aproved by the senate) banking committee. It has already passed the house, | A federal relief administration would have charge of disbursing the fund, Workers in Calif. 90-Day Agreement Signed With Strikers’ Ac- “high wages” actually boils down to the words of an editorial in the textile bosses’ journal Fibre and. Fabtic@———————_____- which states that “Forty hours or| new bill; in many cases it will be thirty hours with a 48-hours pay is| More than 25 per cent too foolish to talk about, as labor is The editor of the Textile World, going to get in pay, just what it writing of the 30-hour week bill, ad- gives back in work, and anyone who! mits that it would mean “a gigantic believes that 48-hour pay is coming, wage cut.” Also he declares that even with a 30 or 40-hour week is being | if a provision were put in the bill to go direct to states for so-called pub- lic works, and the balance to be dis- tributed according to political favor- itism in strengthening the fences of the Roosevelt administration in the congressional elections that are to be held next year. None of the grants to states will need to ever be repaid. It is just given to them. Against Unemployment Insurance. This bill is being hailed as an un- employment relief measure in order to throw dust in the eyes of the work- ers who are demanding immediate emergency relief and unemployment insurance, Tt has the support of the demagogs in the senate who call themselves progressives and of whom Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin is the leader; also the Tammany leader, Senator Wagner of New York and the Colo- rado senator, Costigan, Much of the money will go to the big contractors who are connected with the various state political ma- chines. Labor will be furnished, ac- cording to the Roosevelt policy, from The wolf in the White House {s| showing his teeth. Oh ye forgotten poo al do ye like Delano’s “New the ranks of the unemployed forced’ into prison labor camps under mili- tary rule at whatever the contractors want to pi bs ‘, the first $250,000,000 of which would tion Committee; Prepare to Build Strong Union | GUADALUPE, Cal., April 26.—The strike of the agricultural workers | wheih is spreading through the Santa Clara and Alameda County regions will be greatly strengthened with the news of an important partial victory won by the striking pea pickers of Guadalupe and Santa Maria today. The strikers signed 2 90 day agreement with the bosses involving definite gains | for the workers. The agreement was » fooled.” | “maintain wages” the attempt to en- Although the A. F. of L. and the| force such a provision weuld be United ‘Textile Workers officials sup-| “futile.” | port it, this shorter work week bill is actually regarded by textile employ- | ers as nothing more than @ legalized stagger system. As the Daily News |signed jointly by the Strikers’ Action Committee and the Growers Associ- ation and includes all but four bos- ses who refuse to settle and have | proceeded to hire scabs to work un- der armed guard. By the terms of settlement the strikers won a wage scale of 20 cents an hour, an increase of five cents over the previous rate, 17 cents per crate of peas instead of the former nine cents, twelve cents per crate of lettuce instead of 9 cents of the contractors. The strike was called on April 4th for the demands of 30 cents an hour, 19 cents per and the elimination of 50 per cent lettuce crate and 14 cents per pea |a crate, for the abolition of all con- tractors and the worker to be paid directly by the companies, That the 90-day agreement was merely a temporary truce which will be followed by another struggle un- less the full demands for which the workers struck are granted was in- dicated today. The Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union which led the struggle de- clared that the temporary strike set- tlement was necessary due to the lack of relief for the strikers and the use of armed guards and scabs by some of the bosses which threatened to weaken the strike. The partial gains won will spur the work- ers to build the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union and strengthen it in the fight to win all the demands when the present agreement expires, the union stated. A drive will now be made to win \ses are Erminio Valenzuela, Fran- Manuel Perez, Hearing the report of the strike victory of the workers here, the agri- cultural workers of San Luis Obispo decided to go out on strike and are joining the Agricultural Workers’ In- Gustrial on, Si Record cotton page comments, “There is considerable sympathy with the | idea in the trade, where a number | construe it as planning to do by law (By 2 Textile Worker Correspondent) PATTERSON, N. J.—I have been working in the silk mills here as @ weaver for 13 years, Conditions for | the silk workers are worse than they ever were before. The 8-hour-day has disappeared completely. Wages |eoncessions for the strikers of those | bosses who refuse to settle. The bos- | |cesco Segada, Dionisio Martinez and | | what the Teagle committee (the | have dropped to rock bottom, | share-the-work movement, Ed.) tried) While the winders, warpers, twiste to do through general co-operation | ers, quillers and loomfixers are mise | last year—efforts to have work spread | erably exploited, the weavers are still out so that there would be more/ more exploited. Bad silk and broken people having an income of some | down looms are the conditions weave sort... . For any of the cotton manu- | ers must contend with, facturing associations to take excep-| At present, I am working 1014 tion to this means for spreading em~ | hours a night from 5 p.m. to 4 a.m, ployment ... would be regarded a* | ‘These are the hours for the miserable absurd.” | Wage of $14 a week. But it is not 25 Per Cent Cut in Textiles Expected unusual for weavers to earn $10 & This trade organ makes clear the week for an 11-hour day or night, appalling extent of the wage cut con-| From time to time, the silk works templated by the bosses when it de- ers have fought bravely against ine clares that in mills where wages now | human conditions and the silk work« l average about $12, “it is felt there! ers will be in another struggle soon | would be a compromise, so that the| against the blood sucking silk bosses. wages in question would be about) The National Textile Workers Union $9.” In other words, a reduction of at} will, as in the pest, organize and lead least 25 per cent is in store for the! the workers in struggle, workers of cotton mills under ~ Saal