The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1933, Page 1

{ 4 | acca arama i . ; nee aaa Uy yyEE IEE yISSS SESS nS eeeeeneeeemeeeeeeeeee eee Rush Funds to the “Daily” to Heip It Fight for the Nine Scottsboro Boys! (Section of the Communist International) ~ America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | WEATHER: CLOUDY AND WARMER. ‘Vol. X, No. 273 =* ‘Entered as second-claes matter st the Post Office at New York, M. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1933 "(Six Pages) Price 3 Cents DAMAGING ADMISSION OF NAZI TOOL THROWS “Was With Naz COURT INTO CONFUSION Dimitroff, Firing Questions, Again Threatened | With Expulsion—Prosecutor Vainly Tries to Make Lubbe Retract AT THE GERMAN FRONT! TER (via Zurich, Switzerland), Noy. 13.—Marinus van der Lubbe, Nazi tool in the firing of the Reichstag, declared he was “wit! of the Reichstag fire at today Reichstag building, Berlin. Van sion came when he answered 27 casual question as to his where- abouts on Feb. 27. The prisoner, emerging for the first time from his coma-| tose state and dull-witted replies, re- | plied promptly and clearly: } “ET was with the Nazis, | The court was instantly in an up- roar. Van der Lubbe’s answer threw consternation into the camp of the Nazis and brought broad smiles from the foreign correspondents. Recover- ing from his confusion, the Nazi pro- secutor directed a fierce barrage of questions at van der Lubbe, in a vain | effort to force him to retract this | damaging testimony against his Nazi masters. | Dimifroff Questions Lubbe. Van der Lubbe showed a complete | change in his behavior. He held his head up and looked all around the court, smiling. Dimitroff, seeing that van der Lubbe was capable of speak- img today, fired questions after | questions at the Nazi tool: “Had Lub- be connections with the Communists in Germany?” “Was the Reichstag fire discussed on his tramps?” “Who was he protecting by his silence,” etc. | Lubbe answered the first two ques- tions in the negative, but did not answer the question as to who he was protecting by his silence, | The court received a wire from the International Inquiry Commission declaring that van der Lubbe was identical with n Bergen who re- sided with Nazi leaders in Soernewitz | during August 1932. The presiding judge stated that this indentification was impossible as van der Lubbe was in a Dutch prison from July to Oc- tober. Gerecke, chief editor of the Telegraph Union, declared that there was a mistake due to confusion of a telephone messag | Dimitroft expressed doubts of the | explanation, and fired questions at | Gerecke. who repeatedly coniradicted | himself, and confused Dimitroff with | another Dimitroff, accused of the dy- | namiting of the Sofia cathedral. Dimitroff demanded to know why the | police had given the press the ly- ing statement that a Communist | Party membership book had been | found on van der Lubbe, He demanded exact information on h the Nazis” on the afternoon ession of the trial in the der Lubbe’s sensational admis- Soviet Recognition Parley Speeds Up; Expect Action Soon Talks With Litvinoft May End Before Friday By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker, Washingtoa Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 13.— His hope for successful completion of the Soviet recognition conversations before Friday was expressed today by an official clove to the White House. Under Secretary of State Phillips said the negotiations toward official American-Russian diplomatic rela- tions have reached a stage where they may proceed entirely informally. This was generally interpreted to mean a speeding-up of progress. President Roosevelt is leaving the capital Friday for his rest haven at ‘Warm Springs, Georgia, and the ad- ministration has taken care to em- phasize its eagerness to complete the talks with Maxim Litvimoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, before that time. The Commissar remained in his own room at the Soviet information bureau today, except for a brief walk, but held himself ready to go to a conference on short notice. In this manner he met Roosevelt in the Seclusion of the latter’s study last night. They held a two-hour con- ference, parting at midnight. The shroud of absolute secrecy still wraps the actual method of pro- cedure between Litvinoff and the Americans and the matters which concern them at most length. It was suggested in one American quar- ter today that the questions now un- der discussion may not be mentioned in the formal announcement of the establishment of recognition. It was | Fight Nazi “Trial” | Monday at Union Sq. The New York District of the Communist Party yesterday issued a call to all Party members, Party units and revolutionary workers to || turn out in tens of thousands to | @ mass protest meeting in U: |] Square next Monday, Nov. 20. a* 11 |] am. From there a march to the | German Consulate, 17 Battery Pi., will taye place to demand the re- lease of Dimitroff, Torgier, Taneff and Popoff, who are in immediate danzer of being butchered by the Nazis. US. TO GET CHARGES IN FUR TRIAL NEW YORK. — Judge Ed- Jail Negro Delegates to | Chicago Farm Meet; | Strike Blocks Roads [U.F.L. Restores Lines | Broken by Milo Reno Betrayal Order UNITY, Wis., Nov. 13.—At the end of the second week of the farm strike here, most creameries, cheese factories are still closed down. Picketing has been reduced by the freezing wintry weather which is way below zero, with cutting winds roaring over the roads. The great majority of farmers are withholding all products from the market, making cream into butter, and storing and feeding milk to the hogs. Stock deliveries to the terminals are very small, that grain going out is more than twice the amount being reecived. { Pickets Protest Betrayal | Gilbert, the chairman of the Wis- consin Holiday Association, tried to |Farmers Overcome All Difficulties on Way | | to Chicago Meet | CHICAGO, IIL, Nov. 13.—In spite | of the jailing of eight Negro farmers | in Chambers County, Alabama, and | a reign of terror instituted by sheriff | and landlords against members of the Sharecroppers Union who have| refused to pick cotton for less than 50 cents a hundred pounds, reports from Alabama indicate that a good/ sized delegation from the southern) states will attend the Farmers 2nd National Conference to be held here} Nov. 15-18, it was reported from| Alabama today, | Increased unrest in the farming areas arising from mass dissatisfac-| tion with the Agricultural Adjustment | Administration which has failed to) help the ruined farmers, especially | those producng hogs, cattle, and milk, | Seottsboro Lynch Exposure on Page 2] The Daily Worker publishes on Page 2 the third article in its ex- posure of the officially inspired campaizn to lynch the Scottsboro Boys, the defense attorneys and witnesses when the new trials open in Decatur, Alabama. | | Raise $1,600 For “Daily” At Banquet NEW YORK. Roused by the financial danger facing the Daily Worker, working class organizations, represented by about 1,000 delegates | at the Daily Worker Banquet in Irv-}| ing Plaza, Sunday night, contributed over $1,600 net cash to the $40,000 Drive, and made pledges of addi- tional amounts to be raised in the) next two weeks. | In a brief speech, C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, pointed | PRESS RAISES “MEAT FAMINE” CRY AS STRIKE SPREADS is” on Day of Fire, Declares Van der Lubbe MORE PITTSBURGH PACKING HOUSE WORKERS WALK OUT: NRA, PACKERS OFFER TERMS Committee Declares All Proposals Will Be Taken Up by Strikers Before Any Action Is Considered PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 13.—With the strike movement of the Packing House Workers here in Pittsburgh spreading, the boss press today raised the cry of the danger of a meat famine here within one week. The N. R. A. Labor Board and the Meat Packers, it seems, are offering some concessions. | pet all proposals will be taken 40 00 Are Sent to j before the strikers to be acted upon 7 ° | mands this morning to all employers Workin Anthracite ==: give them 12 hours’ notice to ————?The committees representing | A meeting of all shop committees comply. This was done. This dele- the workers state categorically | eS 8,000 Walk Out as | held last night decided to present de- | gated council was given such author- ward J. Gavegan of the New = break the strike recently by an- York Supreme Court, before | nouncing in the press that the strike whom application by the A. F. | was called off. This caused many of L. Fur Union for an injunction | pickets to leave the lines, protesting against the fur department of the bitterly at their betrayal again at Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | the hands of the Holiday Association | Union is being heard, declared yester- | leaders. day at the trial that all evidence of The United Farmers League, how- is causing broad numbers of farmers | tion of the capitalist to tum to th> Farmers 2nd National | Ut that. @ portio ae PBs a | press which was critical of the N. R. seem deem will be held in this! 4 “has made peace with it, with the | understanding that the N. R. A.’s Sharecroppers Union with 5,000) planned attack on newspapers criti- members is sending about 12 mem-| cising it would be centered on the bers to the Conference to tell farm-| Communist press and especially on ers from other parts of the country| the Daily Worker. To prevent the Fight Against Wage- Cut of Lehigh Valley Coal Company TAMAQUA, Pa., Nov. 13.—On the day 40,000 miners were told to go | ity by the mass meeting of over | 1,000 held yesterday. | Today at noon Armour’s Packing | House, employing about 150, walked | out when the superintendent an- {nounced he would not consider the | demands. This afternoon the day | shift of Pittsburgh Provision, the | violence presented both by Industrial | Union witnesses and by strikebreak~ ers of the A. F. of L. would be turned over to the Federal District Attorney. This announcement came... after | Weiss, a fur worker, told of the mur- derous attack on the Needle Union headquarters, last April and testified | that Reese, partner of Null, the plain- | tiff's attorney, had defended the | gangsters. | The judge's announcement indi- cates the intention to link up this case with that of the frame-up in- dictment against the Needle Union leaders handed down to the Federal | Grand Jury last week. Attorney Boudin for the Industrial | Union read into /the record the |recent jury decision convicting the | gangsters, involved in the attack, and | presented as evidence a statement ap- | pearing in Women’s Wear, official | organ of the garment manufacturers, foretelling that the A. F. of L. fur union would instigate the raid. On two occasions yesterdsy At- torney Boudin demanded that a mis- trial be declared on the ground that the judge was prejudiced and had already made up his mind. This was based on the arbitrary decisions of the judge regarding the admission of evidence. The judge however was compelled to concede that the In- dustrial Union was a labor organiza- tion and not a political organization which the A. F. of L. attorney at- tempted to establish. Several fur bosses testified during the afternoon session admitting that | they were unable to obtain labor ex- |cept through the Industrial Union during the strike last July. They ever, refused to accept this calling off of the strike, and called a United Front county meeting at which a strike committee was elected to con- tinue the strike. Similar meetings all over the State resulted in a State meeting held at Madison, as a result of which many pickets were again brought back to the picket. lines. Beat Up Militants The leaders of tne State United Farm League, John Witt, Elmer Witt, and Albert Hardrath, were arrested and beaten badly by the sheriff. Couriers rushed to all parts of the State, and 2,000 farmers gathered, faced the guns of the deputies, re- cruited from the pool rooms, and forced their way into the jail, where the sheriff released the farmers. A victory parade was held in the town, with truckloads of farmers arriving all night to rescue the arrested lead- ers, The Chicago Conference is getting the greatest attention here, with the Holiday Association and Milk Pool badly discredited. Baltimore Delegates Must Register by Tuesday Evening NEW YORK —All delegates to the Baltimore anti-lynching Con- ference traveling by bus must reg- ister not Jater than Thursday, Nov. 16, 8:39 o’clocs at the district of- fice of the International Labor De- the interview of Goering with jour-| Said that the Americans may be nalists on the night of the fire. | simply consulting Litvinoff at length, Graves, 2 member of the Guard | °Mtirely informally, concerning ques- Corps and a hairdresser in Hennings- | !ons which he would have to deal dorf, testified he saw Van der Lubbe on the street in Heningsdorf talking | to three or four persons on the day} before the fire. Van der Lubbe here | stated he was at Spandau before he went to Henningsdorf, where he sfoke to Nazis. He later retracted his statement on Spandau, declaring it was Charlottenburg he meant, but (Continued on Page 2) Soviet Delegate to Arms Meet Scores Japan’s War Plans GENEVA, Nov. 13.—Boris Stein, Soviet delegate to the preliminary arms conference here, nailed Ja- pan’s war plans on the spot today when he rose at a meeting of the Armaments Control Committee to insist on universal control of arma- ments. His statement that “no single country in the region neighboring the U.SS.R. should bo exempted from such a system.” came as an immediate reply to that of Naotake Sato, Japanese delegate, who had told the committee that the Jap- anese government “might” reject in- ternational supervision of arms. Sato’s statement brought forth the immediate reply from the Soviet delegate that arms control must be universal. It is significant that Manchou- kuo, Japan’s puppet state, where an entire series of anti-Soviet provoca~ tions have occurred, {s not officially represented at this conference, and thus exempted from the formal car- sving out of its decisions, a | with eventually, but which need not | be mentioned specifically at the time recognition is announced. testified also that the workers struck were unwilling to return until an agreement had been signed with the Industrial Union. They declared that they had tried to get workers from (Continued on Page 2) fense, 870 Broadway. Delegates wiil leave Saturday, Nov. 18, at 5:30 A. M., from Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Plaza and 15th Street. cost for delegates going by bus is 35.00, including all expenses. The about the miserable conditions of southern Negro share croppers. Farm- | ers from Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, | and Tennessee will also attend the) Conference as well as a large delega- | tion of farmers and farm workers | from Arkansas. At Broad Camp, Arkansas, reports the state secretary of the Farmers Protective Association, “we had a | meeting of 33 and 32 joined the F. P. A. and elected a delegate and made up $5 and pledged more to send their delegate to Chicago.” Altogether about six counties of Arkansas will be represented. A car of delegates will also set out from Texas. Utter destitution in the South makes it im- possible for all delegates elected to attend the Conference, but those who | will attend represent broad sections of impoverished farmers. 18) os Mayor Spurns Committee CHICAGO, Ill, Noy. 13. — Mayor Edward E. Kelly refused to see mem- bers of the Arrangements Committee | of the Farmers 2nd National Confer- ence here. who had come to request that the city provide cots for the nearly 1,000 farmers and their fami- lies who would be in Chicago Noy. 15-18, from farming sections all over | the country. In contrast to the attitude of the| city authorities and the federal auth- orities in Chicago to the farmers con- ference which is attracting the small} and ruined farmers from the leading | farm organizations in the country, | and the great mass of farmers who do not belong to any farm organiza- | | tion the workers of Chicago are gladly opening their homes to the delegates. Already places for 150 delegates have been arranged and many blanks have been turned over to workers and workers’ organiza- tions, N, R. A’s suppression of the “Daily” | Hathaway called not only for finan- cial support in the $40,000 Drive, but for the building up of a mass circu- lation for the Daily Worker, Not only did organizations answer the call to save our Daily Worker, but individual delegates and members of the audience responsed with personal contributions. The Prospect Work- ers’ Center gave $101.15, in addition to $260 already raised by the Pros- pect Workers’ Club on an original quota of $225. The Hinsdale Work- | ers’ Club passed its quota of $75 with an additional contribution of $55, tak- | ing the lead in the race for the Daily | Worker Banner offered to the Club} raising the highest percentage on its quota, Applause and ovations greeted the | program of entertainment which in- | cluded classical music by the Guild String Quartet, revolutionary songs by the Daily Worker Chorus, chalk- talks by William Siegal, John Reed | Club artist, recitation of original poems by Ruby Edwards, Negro wo- man worker, revolutionary dancing by | the Workers’ Dance League. Acting master of ceremonies, Carl Brodsky, campaign manager for | the Communist Party in the. recent} election here, stirred the entire audi- | ence to gales of laughter with his/ witty introductions. The support of the New York work- | ers of our Daily Worker is a chal-/| lenge to all workers throughout the| country, Funds for our fighting paper are urgently needed. Raise them at once! Build up a mass circulation! Rush all funds possible to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St,, New York City. Monday's receipts . Previous total .... -$ 1,803.71 22,152.63 TOTAL TO DATE $23,956.34 Scab Corporations Praise Him, as He Promises Cheap Government and Charity Instead of Jobless Relief By HARRY GANNES BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Nov. 13.— | “The Great Jasper,” as the capitalist press affectionately calls him, the Socialist Jasper McLevy, was sworn in as Mayor of Bridgeport today. Surrounded by a profusion of yel- low and white flowers, McLevy took the oath of office along with three socialist sheriffs, 12 selectmen, two members of the Board of Education and the town clerk. Four thousand people packed the Central High School—many of them ragged unemployed with hopes raised high—to see Socialists take office. The unemployed did not have long to wait to learn that “The Great Jasper” had nothing to offer them but charity and forced labor. “Both your political friends and foes, coupled with the disinterested and independent thinkers of Bridge- port,” declared the outgoing Mayor to McLevy, before administering the oath of office, “look to you with con- fidence and hopefulness.” McLevy’s inaugural speech was roundly applauded by the capitalist press. McLevy pledged cheap gov- ernment for the war industries. He declared his administration would pay “strict adherence to the provi- sions of the City Charter, in the transaction of Municipal business.” The capitalist law, made in the in- SOCIALIST MAYOR SWORN IN WITH BOSSES’ PRAISE terest of the exploiters, will be main- | tained to the letter, if it requires | ; Smashing heads of striking and un- employed workers. This is how Mc- Levy interprets “socialism” for Bridgeport. He washed his hands completely | of responsibility for unemployment relief. “The problem of unemploy- ment relief,” he declared, “is, of course, the most difficult one that the administration will be called upon to face.” Forced Labor, Charity But MecLevy proposed to solve this “difficulty” in two ways. One, which he proposed in his speech, is to chime in with Rooseveit’s sch..12 of forced labor for the unemployed. Mc- Levy said nothing about union pay for such work. The other he didn’t have the nerve to mention in his inaugural speech. His very first of- ficial act was to appeal to the work- ers of Bridgeport to donate part of their meagre wages for charity for the unemployed. “Since we cannot hope to provide with public funds for more than the bare necessities of life,” said his proclamation endorsing the Community Fund Drive, “we must support all other welfare work through private funds.” No wonder an unamed “manufac- turer’ whose statement of approval of the Socialist administration is pub- lished in the Bridgeport Herald, “The Great Jasper” JASPER MC LEVY could exclaim: “A few socialists in the city hall, tempered by a few republicans and a few democrats, will be a blessing to our city government.” A blessing to the manufacturers in the guise of a Socialist. But not | content with the few democrats and | republicans now in his administra- tion, as if to confirm to the letter the hopes of the unamed “manufac- turer,” McLevy, even before he was sworn into office, appointed as as- sistant town clerk, Josef F. Wieler, democrat, and former town clerk un- der the previous administration. Discordant Note Only one discordant note was in- jected into the inaugural ceremony. An unemployed worker cried out. “The shops won't shut down now!” McLevy failed to assure him on this point. With a copy of McLevy’s inaugural [speech in their hands, with the knowledge that behind McLevy stood the “sturdy” forces of manufacturers, bankers, and other exploiters of la- bor, the Bridgeport Morning Post could well editorialize: “The political campaign is over; the contention is forgotten and the bitterness departs. We believe that even the most stalwart opponents of the Socialist ticket will join today in wishing good luck to Mayor Jasper McLevy. “Problems of the most intricate nature wait to be solved, The city’s borrowing capacity is exhausted while demands upon ite treaswy bave) | reached the highest peak.” | McLevy is the man for them to} save the capitalist city treasury at the expense of the workers and un- employed. Socialism, the workingclass, all talk about displacing capitalism and the use of the Socialist city admin- istration to aid the workingclass was as absent from McLevy’s speech as the possibilities of increased relief for the Bridgeport unemployed. Meets Expectations McLevy dealt and is considering with precisely those problems the capitalists want him to—efficient ad- ministration, lowering of costs, so/ that taxes can be lowered for the} manufacturers; a lessening of the} tlass struggle, and class peace. Two important figures behind Mc- Levy (neither in the Socialist Party) ‘vere not present on the platform when McLevy took the oath but will have a leading hand in formu- lating his policies. Who Is “Mr. Manufacturer?” There is the unnamed “manufac- | turer.” Though his statement cov-| ers two columns of the Bridzeport Herald not a hint is given as to his} identity. If he is one of the bosses who recently broke a strike of the workers for higher wages and union recognition in Bridgeport? Or is he back to work by their officials, an- x other 8,000 here in the Panther Creek | jareest Peniemen Dpaeeipscriae Valley went on strike. received the same answer. This is The men ‘struck when the Lehigh | the shop where thé A. F. of L. con- Navigation and Coal Co. posted new | centrated on the drivers to split them wage scales, which meant a reduction | off from the strike and use them as in pay. | bait for smashing the strike. The The strike tied up five of the Le-| drivers, who are members of the A. high company’s mines. | F. of L., pledged that they would A mass meeting of the miners is} join the strike 100 per cent immedi- taking place today in Coaldale to dis-| ately, as soon as the trucks pull in cuss demands and future action. tonight. “s ¥ ie Many strikers were arrested during the night. Some are being held on framed-up charges of violence. The workers in the neighborhoods are on N.R.A., Union Heads, Break Strike WILKES BARRE, Noy. 13.—Offi- cials of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylcania today ordered 40,000 miners back to work after a one week's strike on the promise that the the picket lines supporting the strike. Through their efforts many trucks are being stopped from delivering | protesting against this strikebreaking | with. N.R.A, will “mediate.” meat prepared by scabs. The pack- Many of the rank and file as well| ing touse employers are herding as the delegates from the pits are | scabs froma out of town. Dozens of deputies and police have been mob- ilized to help break the strike. They are riding with the trucks. Injunction Threat A threat of an injunction has been made today by the court holding the receivership of the firm of Oswald, Hess and Zoler’s, under the excuse that it is in contempt of court to strike shops under receivership. A conference of the judge, committees of these shops and attorneys for both sides is now being held on this ques- tion, with the workers demanding the . right to strike and picket. The N. N R A Major R. A. Labor Board invited represen- . . . tatives of the strikers to the con- - |ference. Delegations from all shops, (Editor's Note:—This article by | amounting to 50, including the union Martha Roberts, arrested at a mine | Jeaders, are now in conference, with strike meeting, was sent out of the | the workers on the watch against without any guarantee to the miners that their demands will be complied Miners are especially bitter because (Continued on Page 2) | Miners In Gallup Fight Sell-Out of | Gallup strike. « (Continued on Page 2) ¢ \" Gallup, New Mexico, city jail with great difficulty. Martha Roberts writes, “I am being held incom~ municado under military surveil- lance.”) Nee ati By MARTHA ROBERTS CITY JAIL, GALLUP, N. M—Ar- rests of union leaders, persecution and fascist violence failing to break the solid front of the Gallup miners. Governor Hockenhull has appealed thru the “liberal” Senator Bronson Cutting for a representative of the National Labor Board to “settle” the Major John B. Moore is en route to Gallup for this pur- pose. Early in the strike, the Gallup min- ers had a similar experience with Mr. Grubbs, district representative of the National Labor Board. Mr. Grubbs spent two weeks button-hol- ing leading miners and then ap- peared before the Sub-District Board of the union. “Go back to work,” he urged, “and settle your differences later.” But the miners, under the militant leadership of the National Miners Union, repudiated Grubbs. “We need no mediator,” they told him, “We have to work under these conditions—let us decide. We will not go back to work until our de- mands are granted.” Two Mines Victorious So Mr. swindle the miners into returning to work. Of the five mines originally struck in Gallup, three are still on strike. Two have returned to work with the miners victorious. Although the oper- ators have spread ballyhoo that they have 80 per cent of their former forces at work, production figures prove that the strike is still effective. | The scabs in Gallup are drifters, not miners. Much damage has resulted to the mines and machinery because of their inexperience. Track is torn up and timbers blown out when a (Continued on Page 2) Grubbs left— unable to} ~ any possible strikebreaking maneu- vers they may try to put over, It must not be forgotten that Pat Fagen, who played an important part in betraying the miners in their last strike, is the chairman of this Labor Board. N. R. A. mediators are hover- ing around secretly, meeting with the employers, waiting like vultures to act in the interests of the Meat Pack- ers’ Association. The Unemployed Councils of Al- legheny are mobilizing to support the strike and join the picket line, Meat Strike Ends; Workers Will Meet to Discuss Terms | AUSTIN, Minn., Nov. 13. — The | striking employees of the Hormel Meat Packing Company called off their strike, it is reported, with promises of some concessions, in the “ace of five companies of the National Guard, called out against the strik~ ers by the Farmer-Labor Governor, Floyd Olson. Six hundred of the strikers, aided by farmers of the Na+ tional Holiday Association, were re- sisting ejection from the plant. The ers won the right to negotiate with the company, which had been Senied them, up to this time. The company also agreed to recognize veniority rights. Olson was enabled to get the strike valled off only after the five com- sanies of the National Guards urived, and Olson stated they would Ses avainst the strikers “agow | ‘ast resort.” The officials of the ie nesota State Federation of Lal “ave disavowed the strikers. The em» vioyees struck as an independent |union. The plant employs 2700 men vho were all on strike. The strikers ‘vill hold & mass meeting to consider terms of settlement, A a SALAD AEARAMRNRNRCIR. SURE RR ARNE emt 18 ang ream ares