The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1934, Page 3

Demand Jobs or Relief—Elect Delegates DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1934 Constitution Violated by Lewis Men, Hand-Picked Delegates aoa ? Packing of Indianapolis tia Convention Exposed by Opposition. By TOM MYERSCOUGH As predicted in a previous article, the United Mine Workers of America payroll gang is very much on.the job getting delegates by “hook or. crook” for the coming International Conven- tion, which opens in Indianapolis on Jan. 23. A specific instance is to be found in Central Pennsylvania, at the Jerome, Somerset County, local of the U. M. W. A, where the Lewis organizer, Martin, in deliberate defiance of the constitution, persuaded the local union to add the name of Jim Marks, Presi- dent of District No. 2, U, M. W. A., to the credentials of the two delegates previously elected at 8 regular meet- ing, saying, “It won’t cost you any- thing.” Constitution Violated The constitution is quite clear on this point, and reads as follows: “Section 14, Article 12. Delegates to International Conventions must be elected at official meetings of Local Unions after the call for the Conven- tion is received and has been read to the Local Union. The Local Re- cording Secretary shall post notices, signed by himself and the Local Pres- ident, at the mine at least three days prior to such meetings, stating that delegates are to be elected on @ cer- fain day. Delegates must» receive a majority vote of the members present at such meeting, and no meeting other than the one fivst arlvertised and called in accordance herewith shall be recognized as an official meeting for the election of delegates.” .. .... It develops that at Jerome ‘there is a ¢ of uncertainty as to the atti- tude of the men toward he Lewis gang. The firs local union president and his brother were juggled out of office ard out of their jobs through compa: influence, and a miner- preacher was put into the office of local president. Scon after, the company gave this good job in the mine and id be gotten for the men pe by the Jerome miners. With the selection of a new president and the clection of two delegates to the convention, uncertainty as to their “leanings” was felt, and the Lewis “machine” thought it best to play safe. Meeting Hastily Adjowned They “played” on the lack of knowl- edge of the constitution by these new members of the union and, at the meeting following the election of del- ogates, organizer Martin, after spend- ing several days in Jerome, pretending to “guide” the new local officers, got the local to add the names of the District President, “Grandpa? Jim Marks, to the credentials. Martin told the local union, and the local president, Cook, told me himself, that it “would not cost them any more” to do this. Cook himself is regarded as an honest element, but after T- talked with him, he appeared not only naive, but also quite timid about conversing longer with me. More, although he told me that anyone who spoke for the workers could address thé local, he allowed it to adjourn without giv- ing me the chance or announcing that I desired to do so. r Hand-Picked Favorites Thereupon, we advertised a mass meeting for the following night at the same hall, where an int meeting was held. There I told the miners assembled, that, despite organ- izer Martin's assurance that “it would cost them nothing extra,” that it would prove to be a very costly mis- take unless they correct it at a sub- sequent meeting. © In other parts of the county this same organizer is ‘running. around carrying on his crooked attempts to have the locals get themselves exon- erated from sending delegates and then going into their .meetings and getting hand-picked company. favor- ites elected without a si-cle constitu- 10™ ANNIVERSARY Daily, qlorker CELEBRATIONS DISTRICT 8 “ PHILADELPHIA—On Feb. 2 at Girard ‘Manor Hall, 911 W. Girard Ave, Good program arranged. DISTRICT BO HILL SECTION, an. i, Pittsburgh—J ame Z SOUTH SIDE, Pittsburgh—Jan. 13, NORTH SIDE, Pittsburgh.—Jan. 19> LIBRARY SECTION—Jan. 13. NEW KENSINGTON, Pa—Jan, 18. McKEESPORT, Pa.—Jan. 13. DISTRICT 6 COLLINWOOD, O.—On Jan. 18 rae Slovenian at 8 P. M. Good speakers, very inter- esting program. DISTRICT 7. DETROIT, Mich—On Jan. 14 at Pinnish Hall, '5069—14th St. A. W. Markon, New York, will be che main sp ‘Musical On Jan. 13 at New Workers Center, 548 ‘Wisconsin St. of (cor. De Blouses, John Reed Club, Finnish ¥< Chorus’ ins large program. Jazz Band, Refreshments. Gene Bech- told, speaker. Adm. 200. in» se; 25¢ at door, Auspices Sec. 4 O.P. DISTRICT 160 | NORFOLK, Va.—On Jan, 14 at Waltz Dream Garden, Church St. near Brambleton Ave, af 2 P. M. m, Milton Editor, Datly Worker will be main speaker. En >» of U.M.LW.A. tional requirement being complied ith. Steps are being taken, however, to try to correct this situation, and ex- posure of these practices in open meeting is the method we are em- ploying. Opposition candidates are being fought against by coal com-| panies in every local and bitter fights | result everywhere. Last Budget Article to Appear Tomorrow ‘The third and concluding article by Milton Howard analyzing the war cahracter of the Roosevelt budget, the budget crisis, will ap- pear tomorrow, instead of today as originally announced. Form Local Metal Union in Waterbury Fifth of SMWIU to Be, Organized in State of Connecticut WATERBURY, Conn., Jan, 9.— Twenty-seven metal workers here formed a local of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union Sunday, and established headquarters at 774 Bank St. Officers were elected and an ap- plication sent to the National Office | for a charter, ‘This is the fifth local of the union to be organized in Connecticut, the others being at Bridgeport, New Haven, Branford, and New Britain. | A mass meeting is being arranged by the union for Jan, 10, at which the principal speaker will be Sam) Kreiger, A delegate will be elected to at- tend the national convention of the union to be held in Pittsburgh in the latter part of March. Minn. | Upholsterers ‘Turn Down Sell-Out \Fight on A.F.L. Led By Rank and File Group MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Folowing the advice in @ leaflet issued by & group of rank and file workers, the upholsterers decided to reject the sell-out settlement engineered by the A. F. of L. leaders and continue the strike which has already lasted two months. @ mass meeting held on Dec. 28th where the leaders were to give their treacherous report, called upon the workers to stand pat against piece work and for the firing of all scabs. ‘The negotiations for the settlement had been carried out on the basis by the bosses: to maintain the old wage level of 34 cents an ination against militant strikers. |The rank and file program called for mass action to defeat the sell- out. The A. F. of L. leaders had waited for weeks before organizing & mass picketing demonstration. When this was finally done the Unemployed Council mobilized hundreds of unem- ployed to assist the strikers. ‘The N.R.A. board is preparing to break the strike and has announced that it has been empowered to make an arbitrary decision which the workers will have to accept, In the News Automobile Accidents Increase HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 10. — A toll of 29,900 lives was taken by auto- mobile accidents during the past él s Accidents this year have increased 5.9 per cent over the past year and injuries, 2.2 per cent. Campbell Chosen Education Head NEW YORK.—Dr. Harold C. Ci the Board of Education yesterday. The Board had chosen him in a se- cret caucus held Monday night. Dis- trict Superintendents John S. Roberts |boys, and to save Theodore Jordan, The leaflet, distributed at| >: hour, open-shop policy and discrim-/| | LaGuardia Police Club Left Wing W orkers for LL.G.W. Left wing union members of Local No. 9 of the I. L. G. W. U. union cards in hand, demand admission te a union meeting to protest ousting of their elected officers. International officials used police to bar ma- | jority of local union members from meeting called to ele ct new officials, Mass Conference | in Portland Sunday for Jordan Defense 28-Year Old Negro Youth | Faces Legal Murder in Frame-Up | | PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 9.—A state- | wide “Save Theodore Jordan Anti- | Lynch Conference” will be held here Sunday, Jan. 14. The fight to save the Scottsboro | 28-year-old Negro worker now in Oregon State penitentiary, framed on murder charges and sentenced to hang, will be the central work of ‘his conference. The conference, called by the In- ternational Labor Defense, has been | endorsed by the Council of Economic Research; the Finnish Workers’ Club; the Finnish Women’s Club; the Na- | tional Lumber Workers Union; Young Pioneers of America; Young Com- munist League; Portland Section of the Communist Party; Multnomah Federation of Unemployed (compris- ing four unemployed organizations) ; the Library Forum; Flour and Cereal Workers Union Local No. 18853, A. | . of L.; Progressive Educational | League; Marine Workers Industrial Union, and the Fishermen and Can- nery Workers Industrial Union. A broad mass movement over the whole country, with special concen- tration in the north-west, is being developed by the International Labor Defense, to save Jordan’s life. Students Protest Lunchroom Prices | Boos Greet Prinicpal’s| Talks; 5 Suspended | | NEW YORK.—Police, R. O. T. C. and members of the football team were called by Dr. Harry A. Potter, of New Utrecht High School, to disperse over 1,000 students who came out irto the hall in front of his office and presented petitions demanding lower prices in the lunch room, free teod for students whose parents were unemployed, and ac- ademic freedom. ‘When the principal denied the de- mands of the students, a boycott of| the lunchroom called by the Nat‘onal Student ieague chapter, was taken up by the students. The principal came to the lunchroom to speak to the students, but was booed and hissed out of the room. Five students have been suspended and threatened with expulsion. The Suspended students, Morris Oshatz, Adoph Ross, Betty Kressel, Margaret Kahn and Rachel Scheck, have been leading the fight and the action was taken against them in order to smash the students’ boycott. The Students Rights Committee calls upon all worker, student and teacher organizations to support their fight and send telegrams demand- ing the immediate reinstatement of 100 Artists Demonstrate For Jobs or Cash Relief NEW YORK.—Demanding art work for needy artists or immediate cash relief, 100 jobless artists led by the Artists Association erly Place and MacDougall St., where the police broke up the march. When this police intimidation was mentioned by the delegation to Mrs. Juliana R, Force, director of the Museum, who Public Works Artists Projects, she ex- claimed she is against intimidation the suspended students. and if the spokesman, Phil Bard mentions it, she will have him thrown out of her office. Two horsecops and a score of cops guarded the entrance to the museum while the needy artists chanted, “We want jobs or cash relief,” and “Down with favoritism.” Myrrha Bolotowsky, jobless art teacher, carried a placard on which was written, “I registered three weeks ago, when will I get my_ card?” Phil Bard, reporting on the in- terview, exposed the merit system lie which Mrs. Force used to give the jobs to her close friends. “The cen- demand must be,” he stated, “an immediate increased art project ap- vrovriation. and no favoritiem * — 40 Per Cent Cotton || Destruction Is °34 || Plan of Roosevelt || WASHINGTON, Jan, 10.—One of the first acts of the Roosevelt government in the new year will be to complete the arrangements for the destruction of 40 per cent of the country’s normal cotton acreage, t was announced today. | The Roosevelt government will || pay rich cotton plantation own- || ers $125,000,000 in direct subsidies || to repay them for the reduction of |) their acreage. | | The purpose of the plan is to reduce the supply of cotton in order to raise prices for the city consumers. Actually, it gives pro- fits to the monopoly middlemen || and rich farmers, but impoverishes | the small farmer by reducing the market for his cotton, and sends the retail prices of cotton goods out of the reach of the city con- | sumers, 300 Ohio Farmers Stop Foreclosure Farm League Mortgage Action LEETONIA, Ohio, Jan. 10—Farm- jers, led by members of the Ohio | Farmers’ League, blocked a sale of farm chattels in Lorain County, near La Grange, on Jan. 3, The Bank of La Grange, which had closed its doors sometime before, was selling the live stock and tools of George Sprague, who had been induced to give a bill of sale to the | bank to cover a debt on the farm. A | hardware company also had a lien on some hay and corn for $206. Due to the mass action of the farmers the hardware company was forced to throw off $106 and the bank to relinquish $3,600 in deficiency judgments. The result does not represent a complete victory for the farmers. However, this is the first time any ‘|such action has ben taken in that | vicinity. Much interest was created by this action though and many farmers are expected to join the O. F, L. in Lorain County. About 500 farmers were present at the sale. Only a few came to buy. Sheet Metal Union Shows Up Pechman Co. Scheme to Avoid Union at Meet | NEW YORK.—The slippery bosses | of the Pechman Store Equipment Co. evaded paying back pay to the work- ers at a conference with the Re- gional Labor Board yesterday by announcing that they were going out of business. The bosses admitted that they had locked out 12 workers, members of the Independent Sheet Metal Workers’ Union to avoid union recognition, against which action the union had called a strike, The union representative pelled Secretary Ben Golden of the) N.R.A. Board to declare that if the company went into business again under whatever name, the workers were to be paid all back pay due them from the time they were locked out. Steps for an organization drive and to expose the racketeering officials of Lozal 137 (A, F. of L.) will be taken up at the next meeting of the union at its headquarters, 820 Broadway tonight at 7.30 p. m. ¢ Joint action of the independent union and the rank and file of Local 137 is being worked out to defeat the corrupt officials who are working with the bosses to undermine con- ditions in the shops. Unorganized sheet metal workers as well as members of the union are invited to| the meeting tonight. | Jobless Teachers Force Hearing PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10. — Four teachers, members of the Unemployed Teachers Council, were beaten and ejected from a meeting of the Board of Education when they sotght a hearing on a resolution which sus- pends the 3-year eligibility rule so that jobless teachers may stay on the applicants’ list. Blocks | Use Jersey C.W.A. Funds to Carry on War Preparations, Airplane Factories and Airports Being Built With Relief Funds | By BILL STEWART NEWARK, N. J, Jan. 10—Under the guise of C. W. A. unemployment | fit to live in, into conditions even | relief, $360,000 more was apprcpri- {ated for war purposes during the day were “served. last two weeks in December. The Raritan Arsenal previous Civil Works allotment of $11,000 was augmented , by an additional $60,000 for grading | and repair of tracks. The Tuckerton | new airplane base received its first | didn’t like to see men in overalls on| Officialdom!'| se War ¢s. Page " to Feb. 3rd Conference The government intends to conc! latest by May 1. At the sar ne, the House Naval Affairs Co) a sels. The Roosevelt budget of $10,600,000,000 is mainly for war. Social Insurance AN EDITORIAL lude the C. W. A. projects at the Reprsntative Bi chairman of lemands $478,200,000 for 101 war ves- Des} promises of allowing no one to starve and of unem nt insurance Roosevelt has mai > proposal for con’ ing the C. W. A. jobs. They are to be “tap ning Feb. 15. Public works, in the form of building workers’ ment. Slum clearance program.’ Thus the Roosevelt. promises go the 17,000,000 unemployed to starve, w poses The issue becor MENT INSURANCE We workers want none of th im it pe Der ia) whose number is swelling, the millions of part-time workers, the ma of Negro and foreign-born workers Insurance. This is the ¢ i be the center of the den Against Unemployment in Washingto ing class mployed, u veterans professia Negro, yout | elect delegates to this convention. It will be one of the most imp conventions that has ever been held. most feverish war preparations, wi To put through the convention, t Councils, appeals for funds. All wor! of the unemployed mittee, Unemployed Councils, Room (By a C.W.A. Correspondent) SPOKANE, Wash.—The Spokane Unemployed Council carried on many militant struggles previous to June, 1933, trying ys to live up to their slogan, “That not one unemployed worker or his family shall go without decent food, clothing and shelter.” In June, 1933, the powers that be decided to move the unemployed single men from the old brewery to the county Fairgrounds, which are lo- cated about three and one-half or four miles east of town. This was done. About 720 men were moved out of the brewery, which was never Two hand-outs a which were sup- posed to be meals. Out of the 720 men in this group 13 were members of the Unemployed Council. Jobless Too Hot The white collared stiffs in town more unsanitary. s been abando: sen dropped because of y day . pokane Jobless Single ten Win Long F ight |have it but federal gov sence of a suit ed bh immering. The government tells WAR VER NEMPLOY- clear to the gc nment that we The 17,000,000 unemployed demand Unemployment and Social whole working class. This will 1 Conver 45. All wor organizations, clubs, organizations—should rtant m on Februa unions, fra’ and women’s It will take place at a time of the h war practically at our door. ee, Unemployed sympathizers he National Commi! ers’ organizations novement should rush funds to the National Com- 437, 80 East 11th Street, New York. | | | for Cash Aid they given three meals a day instead of two and also tobacco. This was granted, but after two weeks the) tobacco was cut off. Win Butter Then under the leadership of the | U. C. the men began to struggle for smaller concessions. They demanded butter and were told that they could because of the “budget” allowed, they would have to be sat- isfied with one meal of soup only |They agreed and after getting butter | |immediately started a fight against) \the soup. Soup was finally dropped | from the menu and butter stayed. | It now began to get cold anc it} |was impossible to heat the Jair-| | grounds buildings. A struggle was im-) mediately started for cash relief.| Three committtees were elected. One} |went to the court house with the de-| mands, one to the city hall and one} to the welfare boa:d. The following two days two sicmon- | allotment of $10,000, and at Lake-/| the streets, and these same militant! <trations were held. The first to the |hurst 48 acres of woodiand is to be men were making things hot for the county court house with 300 m | cleared for an airplane factory and | welfare foficials by sending commit-| the next day a air base. | When completed, the airplane fac- | tory at Lakehurst will be the largest on the Atlantic coast. The first} | government order will be for 1,000 | planes. P. W. A. Funds Added Although the exact amount of tees almost every day. By putting them so far from town it would elim- inate this “bother,” according to their point of view. However, they had misjudged their men. These were not the degenerated, declassed elements the city bourgeoisie thought but were the men, who, with their own labor, | had helped to create out of a wilder- and | 2 city | |hall with 450 workers. | Wis Cash Relief | Two days efterward cash relief of| {$2 a week is 1 |faker, McKay, w: G |cdemonstrations, but as usual, refused, lief he would be unable to organize money already alloted to Lakehurst | ness the city as it is today, including | them. Naval Reservation has not yet been} made public, over a thousand acres of land are being cleared for a land- | | ing field by a large force of C. W. A. | workers from Ocean County. | These war grants to New Jersey | |ic works funds, which has been | granted by Washington and only} awaits the President's signature. | tary expenditures assures the grant | ing of this sum. Departmental jeal-| | ousies and the President's favor to- | wards the more subtle arm of the| | American imperialist machine are | | held acountable forthe present de- lay of this million dollar grant. | New Jersey Airports The $10,000,000 plan for a network | | of federal airports throughout the/ nation has not been abandoned, but | | has, in reality, been enlarged upon. | posed of the government building | | these airports, as was first decided | | upon, the government has urged the | | states to build them and apply to |the C. W. A. for funds. This better | enables the Roosevelt government to} | hide its war preparations. | Following the announcement of the {abandonment of the planned na-| tional network, John Colt, State C.| W. A. administrator, appointed Ma- | jor Robert L. Chopsey, commanding officer of the aviation division of the National Guard, to “co-ordinate projects with the general program | and assure a standard of operation | in keeping with the state and na- tional aviation regiilations.” State Director of Aviation, Captain G. R. | Wilson, was appointed by the C. W. A, as assistant to Chopsey. Complete New Jersey Network Plans are now being drawn up for | men of every trade and many profes sions. As soon as they were fairly estab- lished in the Fairgrounds billet, the single men got busy and organize an organization called “The Single do not include over $1,000,000 of pub- | Men’s Union,” Eighty per ceni of ine} Fairgrounds men joined the union after it got a good start, setting up The misleaders under the direction of McKay, the Socialist Party and the Spokane County Unemployed League tried at all times to get con- .q | trol of these 700 men in order to keep} | them in a pacifist attitude. | Today the brewery and Fairground: | billets are things of the past No on is even asked to work for direct relief to stop C.W.A. F ruary, cotton pla to force Negro and white workers to saying that if the men got cash re-| Alabama Tenant Farmers Cut Off Relief, C.W.A. Jobs Sharecroppers Union Starts Mass Action for Relief MONTGOMERY, Plans are already g time, in order tations at accept jobs on cotton plal view, Thad nistrator, has tenant farmers a cannot be given A. jobs “unless be andiord are di which will c roppers and relief that , was brazenly admitted the announceemnt “to enable fa work to be carried on without inter- The 6,000 mem! harecroppers Union, with ers in Alabama, is leading ampuign against this action landiords and the govern- The Une:ployed Counciis of ment Alabama hav2 announced their sup- port and cooperaicn in this cam- pa‘gn. (. W. A. Head Dies: Was Banker, Tool of Traction Trust La Chuedinte! Aid Was Republican; Kept CWA Men Off Jobs NEW YORK.—Travis H. Whitney Mayor La Guardia’s New York City Civil Works Administrator, died Tues- day in Post raduate Hospital of stomach ulcers. The ulcers were not caused by starvation or inferior food. Whitney, a corporation lawyer with offices at 72 Wall St., was a stand- pat Republican for years, and known for years as the mouthpiece of the utility corporations, for whom he was long lobbyist at Albany. Whitney, who was tl bankers’ and the traction interests’ represen- tative in keeping the unemployed off relief, was one of Mayor La Guardia’s best supporters. Whitney’s wife. Rosalie Loew Whitney, was one of La Guardia’s chief advisers in the municipal election campaign. He has jan identical program with La Guardia |for raising the traction fares of the city. When he died, Whitney was a |member of the Republican Club, a director of the National Exchange Bank and Trust Co., the National Ex- change Bank Financial corporation jand @ director of the New York Rapid | Transit Corporation. He was a mem- ber of the Bankers Club. For five years, beginning in 1924, & Guardia’s aide, Whitney, was vice- resident and drector of the Brook- jlyn-Manhattan Transit Corporatio: |In 1929 he became active in the ai militant committees and winning the|any more. All committees are treated | rairs of the United States Shares | Roosevelt's avowed policy of mili-| following concessions: Better meals, | : ¢ = |clean bedclothing and other sanitary | onstration, a permit is always refused conditions, and recognition of a |house committee by the welfare of-|ways take the streets and so far have fictals, Boss Kicked Out The next move of the bosses was |to send out a hard-boiled flunkey | by the name of Clemons, who was put in charge of the Fairgrounds. He called a meeting, telling the workers that he was in charge and that this meeting would be the last held on the Fairgrounds. The house committee got into action. Clemons lasted two more days and hasn’t been seen since. It was at this time that the 13 U. C, members went into a huddle and decided that a stronger U. C, must be built in this group of men. A drive was made. The workers were called to metings by the old “grape- vine” method, without the knowledge of the misleaders of the Single Men’s Union, which was now in control. Finally the U. C. grew to 85 members. Almost at once, the group which con- | trolled the Single Men's Union found out about the growing U. C., started to quarrel among themselves and caused @ split leaving the control of the union in the hands of the U.C. Refuse Forced Labor The bosses now brought up the question of forced labor and attempt- ed to force the workers to work. This the men refused to do. The bosses with respect. When we have a dem- \for the use of the streets. We al- |not been molested, The former Fair- |grounds men and 4,000 married men lare getting cash relief. Their svand- ard of liv'ng has gone up and only However, our fight has just begun. LD Asks Funds fo Scottsboro Appeal NEW YORK. — Urgent need of funds to carry on the fight to save the Scottsboro boys was expressed in a statement issued by the Interna- tional Labor Defense last week, as motions were filed in Decatur court, demanding the reversal of the lynch verdicts of death against Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. The funds necessary for legal ex- pense alone in obtaining the records, filing complete motions, and follow- ng them with appeals to the state supreme court, will run into thou- sands of dollars, William L. Patter- son, national I. L. D. secretary said. This money must come from con- tributions by the friends of the | Scottsboro boys, of the struggle of | the working class, and of the libera- struggle brought about this change.) | Corporation. During the war, Whitney did not go to France, but took a desk job as head of the “war commission on | reconstruction.” Whitney in some of his last state- ments denounced the attempts of the C.W.A. workers to get their back pay and to get some of the worst griev- jances remedied. He expressed anger at the demands of the C.W.A. work- ers, One of Whitney's last stéte- ments was, “I have no time to quibble over the salaries of those already on the pay roll.” Those “on the pay roli” were protesting at not receiving \their pay. Whitney is temporarily replaced by another representative of the bank- lers, Col. Walter A. De Lamater, whe |is commander of the Tist Regimen* of the National Guard. This mili- tary officer can be relied on by Lx |Guardia to keep as many worker |as possible from getting jobs, to cu | down payrolls and in general, to carr |forward the work begun by Whitne; 50. W. A. Workers on Strike in Texas AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 10.—Fitt C.W.A. workers here went on strik com- then issued a statement that all the} tion struggles of the Negro people. airports at Morristown, Ocean City, | against the continued employmen | Other War Freparations in Jersey Vineland, Hammontown, Bayonne, Wanaque, Princeton, Tuckerton, Phil- lipsburg, Newton, Dover and Linden- wald. This is certainly far more would have allotted to New Jersey| Jim Crow in Jersey Work Camps _ The work camp at Sim Place, not | far from Warren Grove, and about | nine miles from Barnegat is for Ne-| eroes only. It is more like a shambles | than a camp. Work and living con- | ditions are very bad; medical care} is inadequate. | At New Gretna and at Chatsworth camps are maintained for whites only. It is not necessary to yo below the Mason and Dixon line to find| segregation and Jim Crow. | | New Jersey is also an important | state in the manufacture of chem- | icals, powder and munitions. The Hercules Powder Plant near Parlin is more busy now than ever before in recent times. New Jersey is a great war prep-| aration laboratory, and, under the | guise of relief, thousands of workers | are being made (to prepare the| ground for the future war. A. SCHULTZ TO SPEAK ON GERMANY | CLEVELAND.—Anna Schultz, secretary Their militant action finally forced the Board to pass the resohition. to Ernst Torgler, will speak on the Ger-| man situation at the Prospect Auditorium, 2612 Prospect Ave, Priday, Jan. 12. |men who were physically able must | | work one day a week for their board. Money for Scottsboro should be sent immediately defense to the |The workers were forced to arbvitrate national office of the International | |of a foreman who used intimidatic |to make the men work. The foreman would go among tt and agreed to work one day a week) Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 E. 1th |men carrying a pick-axe handle ov: than the $10,000,000 ‘national plan | the Fairgrounds only provided! St., New York City. Led by Steel Industrial inion, Mechanics Win Skilled Status NEW YORK.—The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, through the activity of its Unemployed Com- mittee, has won demands of 189 killed workers in the city dock de- partment who had been transferred to unskilled C. W. A. work. ‘These men are carpenters, painters, dock builders, iron workers, plumbers and sheet metal workers who were getting wages of $11.20 to $12.00 a day in the city dock department, be- fore the C. W. A. After the C. W. A. the men were all laid off, and after approximately a month without work, were given jobs on C. W. A. projects at unskilled work with wages around $4.50 to $5.00 a day. members of A. F. of L. unions Led by the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union, the men made Most of the men are | three demands on the city: 1) re- instatement as mechanics and not unskilled workers, 2) pay to be the prevailing trade union rate with a | minimum of three days work a week, laid cff and transferred, shall be made up, at trade union wage rates. when they were told to report for After for Dec. 12, and won re-instatement | as mechanics at skilled pay. One | hundred and eleven of the men begin work at skilled pay next Monday and jthe rest are to be re-employed at skilled wages, it is promised. They were working under the jurisdiction jof the City Commission Works Bureau. |3) the month of work lost after being | They also demanded pay for Dec. 12,/ work and then sent home without | working. | their committee presented | these demands the men won the pay | his shoulder, and saying ta the sul jm ™ lit would “go hard with them.” C. Wiggs, C.W.A. project enginer |on learning of the strike, sent “i vestigators” to the project with t |intention of giving information a federal grand jury of those w had participated in ‘the strike, order to intimidaate the men. After the strike, in order to pr vent the men from organizing furtt for their demands, the gangs we | split up and sent to other projects The leader of the strike was fit by Wiges in a further attempt |intimidate the men. 300 C. W. A. Workers Fired in El Paso, Te EL PASO, Texas, Jan, 10.—Un |the pretext that others are more need, 300 C.W.A. workers, mo: single men, have been fired fr C.W. A. jobs here, The city’s C.W.A. quota is fil and thousands of workers are re: tered for jobs and have not b given work.