The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1934, Page 1

£ oy HELP GET New Readers for the ee . 22 Vol. XI, Mine Local Resolutions House Passes ||" To Convention of UMWA Demand Right to Strike Lewis Strong Arm Men “Cover” Delegate Who Talks of Strike | —- | By DAN DAVIS | (By Special Wire to Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 24.— The second day of the 33rd Conven- tion of the U.M.W.A. opened with the | ell oiled Lewis machine pushing through the acceptance by the dele+ | ss of the officers’ report given to} e Convention yesterday. The report | pholds the N.R.A. as the greatest | benefit for the miners. In a standing | vote on the report about 200 delegates held their seats on the affirmative vote. When thdse voting “no” were asked to rise, about 25 of the 200 braved the machine and stood up. een machine delegates, all from held the floor through- | i k J. Hays, | resident of the union, who the chair, recognized West | one after another. | ate, Joe Farnari, Local | was able to} former arm pn eae | the report made no} ecent strike strug-| ania, which were algo omits any mention | tikes thruout the mine ninst N.R.A. It says nothing , workers,’ Negro disc. .nina- et i neglects even to mention | t 40 to 50 per cent unemployed | Resolutions Printed | Printed resolutions submitted by | 1s to the Convention were issued | y and it was found the largest | bulk demanded the right to strike, democratization of the union, against high salaries of the officials and for yment and social insurance. resolutions demanded a clause barring members of the Communist Ex from membership in the union ciiminated. Freedom for the ero boys and Tom Mooney, and | icn against the Nazis were} tuded. i thousand resolutioas on the} ale were. not printed by the} nm Committee. They stated) ‘eso.utions would be turned over | ale committee. 12 Lewis intends to “settle” | nous cor! code with N.R.A.| ington. An attempt will be) place code settlement entirely | ands of top officials. Lewis | uelch all discussion on | ges scale at the present time. D8 Wes tfeld, Illinois, Local 5509, , ‘king cla ass{ resolutions, | During the discugsion this morning on the officials’ zebort, a miner at-| tempsed to speak on unemployment, | but he was ruled out of order. At) one time, when a Lewis man sought the floor, an oral vote showed almost fifty per cent of the Convention against his speaking, bul a standing | vote showed the machine was effec- | tive in intimidating a majority of these from openly showing their op- position. When the discussion latter became heated, Hays gave the chair} over to Lewis. | Officers introduced a bill endorsing | old age pension laws in the various states. The bill passed. An “old age pension” bill in form of a retirement | fund for officials was included in the report. They also requested a fund for those working in union offices. All this money for the retirement. funds is to be paid by rank and file. | ‘The officials will use every device to put the retiring funds over. President Roosevelt, who was in- vited to the Convention, sent his greetings. Hugh Johnson, Mrs. Per- kins and William Green, are to speak at the Convention. Delegates were urged. today to ac- cord a respectable audience to the representative of the coal operators, C. B. Huntress, of the National Coal Association, who has been invited to speak at the Convention. It is obvi- ous that the raw move of bringing a bosses’ representative to the miners’ Convention is causing concern to the Lewis forces. AEE TTA SRR In the Daily Worker Today U.M.W.A. Leader Are Strike- In Utah Miners’ Strik; ues of Oscar Day’s Accuser TeqAfies Against Father. Green Wants N.R.A. to Break Strikes. U.MLW.A. Convention Strike, Report Ig- Calls for N.R.A. a New York, N. ¥., under the U. S. Gov't Lifts Ban on Exports from USSR WASHINGTON, Jan, 24.— The Treasury Department today lifted Entered as second-class matter Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) at the Post Office at Act of March 8, 1879. Big Navy Bill Unanimous! y | Roosevelt Has Obtained | Over Billion for U. S. Navy | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. — The) | Roosevelt war machine in the House| |today pushed through the $295,000.000 |Navy Department appropriations bill} |for the fiscal year 1935 without the| the embargoes on gold, lumber, wood-pulp, and matches from the Soviet Union. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1934 | Hundreds of Thousands Already Fired News Chief Jingo WEATHER: Warmer, r 4MERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents | From C.W.A. Jobs By Roosevelt’s Orders; Workers Organize Nation-Wide Protests Take Up the C. W.A. Fight! Anthracite | ered and attempted to take down the/| {and the oficials of the U.M.W.A. to | keep the miners in subjection and in The embargoes were clamped down, the gold one as far back as || 1920, on the pretext that products || of Soviet's collective labor were | produced by “forced or prison |} labor.” i The Treasury decision now ad- mits this claim was a lie. Strikers Defy | [Injunction 1,000 Gather; Pinchot’s Troopers Slug Men; 20,000 Out By DAN SLINGER WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 24— Police were called at Nanticoke, where pickets stoned the machines of those attempting to go to work. More than a thousand miners gath- notices being posted by State Troop- ers which told of the injunction | against picketing. Pickets at Ply-| mouth stoned busses and machines carrying miners to work. State Troopers follow miners and their wives into their houses. Glen Alden Robs Miners The Glen Alden Co. yesterday ob- tained a preliminary injunction re- straining 16,000 miners from prose- cuting the company for the return} of money taken from the miners’ pay envelopes as “union dues.” S. D. Dimmick, Vice-President and General Manager of the Glen Alden Coal Co., said they had in their pos- session $16,000 belonging to the miners, Thousands of other miners, no; doubt, have retained these checks, other than those by the Glen Alden | Coal Co. These coal companies have had the use of this money which has been filched from the miners’ star-| vation wages. Many of them would! have cashed the checks personally, | but some of those who did so were told that they were fired. This was | another form of terror and intimida- tion used both by the coal operators the company union, the U.M.W.A. Under the law the miners can bring suit, get judgment, and there is no} appeal, but the Glen Alden Coal Co. | uses its courts to obtainjan injunc- tion to stop the miners from making them pay back the thousands of dol- |Jars which they have been robbed. Tom Maloney, President of the U.| | A. M. P., advises the miners to dis- regard the order of the Glen Alden Coal Co. to remove their tools, if (Continued on Page 2) Arrest Communist Organizer; Kidnap Strikers’ Lawyers SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 24.—A meeting of 2,000 strikers was held at Axteca last night despite a threatening mobilization of 500 American Legionnaires in trucks. A. L. Wiren, one of the defense Attorneys k‘dnanned last nizht, was escorted out of Imperial Valley this morning by police, who warned him not to return. Another defense at- torney is held on vagrancy charges. Ret Saat ales BRAWLEY, Calif., Jan. 24—Three International Labor Defense lawyers defending arrested lettuce strikers were kidnapped last night by Legion- naires and Vigilantes seeking to break the strike of 7,000 lettuce workers in the Imperial Valley. The three attor- neys are Grover C. Johnson of San Bernardino, David Sokol of Los An- geles, and A. L, T. Wirin. The wife of Johnson was kidnapped at the same time, Sokol was to have spoken at a meeting of 1,500 Mexican strikers last night. The abductions failed to stop the meeting, which adopted vigorous utterance of a single objection from one of the 435 Democratic, Republi- can and Farmer-Laborite representa: tives. The war temper of the Roosevelt | administration was emphasized by the | facg that the President’s House lieu- | tenants jammed through Chairman) Ayre’s (Democrat of Kansas) Navy | Department appropriations bill just a/ few hours after Roosevelt, in his press | conference, had declareq with cold | \clarity that he has not changed his} mind about ending civil works pro- jects on May 1. Thus the Roosevelt | slogan might well be: slaughter, but not a cent for work) relief.” Over Billion for Navy From the figures ready at hand, the Roosevelt administration has au- thorized, including the certain im-| pending passage of the Vinson $475,- the appropriation of substantially} }more than a billion dollars for the | Navy Department alone: $238,000,000 ordered by Roosevelt several months ago, under the guise of public works, for building 32 war- ships, $7,500,000 allotted by P.W.A. for aviation building. $295,000,000 appropriated today | for the Mavy Department 1935 fis- cal year. $475,000,000 to be authorized in a few days for the so-called treaty Navy. All this, not counting the miscel- laneous millions for ammunition and other war expenditures, making a to- tal of $1,015,500,000, Vinson Bill Coming Up In the brief distussion which pre- ceded the passage of the Navy bill, Representative Freq Britten (Repub- lican, Ill.), former chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee and pres- ent ranking Republican on the Com- mittee, pointed out that the appro- priation of a mere $295,000,000 was “hoodwinkery.” ‘The atual Navy De- (Continued on Page 2) Strike at Waldorf, |Plan to Spread Strike; Industrial Union Pledges Support NEW YORK.—Wealthy guests of the luxurious Waldorf Astoria Hotel tasted the discomfort of going without supper Monday night when the entire crew of 600 workers of the hotel’s kitchen and dining room, from pastry chefs to dishwashers, stopped work at 7 p. m. Two hours later, after their demands had been re- jected by Lucius M. Boomer, presi- dent of the Waldorf Astoria Corpora- tion, the strike was officially on and the workers had left the hotel to take their places on the picket line. ‘The strike, led by the Amalgamated Food Workers, was precipitated by the discharge of two union men, one of whom, Fourngault, a cook, was the union delegate and active in or- |ganizing the workers. Sentiment for the strike was strong among the workers and at a shop meeting Mon- day night the workers decided to call a strike if the boss failed to rein- state their discharged fellow workers and to grant union recognition. Prmptly at 7 p. m. Monday night the workers left their posts. Soon after, the dining room was empty as the hotel guests began to feel the pinch of hunger. Boomer, hotel president told the workers to return to work or get paid off. Oscar the maitre d’hotel and one of the bosses’ agents in the company controlled Hotel Guild, taken by surprise, tried to persuade the workers to return to feed several hundred business men at three big banquets. But the workers, deter- mined to gain their demands walked (Continued on Page 2) “Billions for} 000,000 special construction program, | 600 Hotel Workers. Tie Up Dining Room General Senjuro Hayashi, new Japanese War Minister, told the | Diet yesterday that “army policies ‘or coping with the emergency con- fronting the empire a'ready have been determined, and will not be changed.” ‘Austrian Threat to Call Leasue Against \Nazis Presages War | Japanese, White Guards, lin Harbin Anti-U.S.S.R. Demonstration GENEVA, Jan. 24.—War in Europe lover Nezi aggression in Austita is| {openly discu-sed here. following word | | that Chancellor Dollfuss has told Ger- | many he will appeal to the Lenjue/ of Nations if his demands that Ger- | | many keen hands off Austria are not carried out. It is freely admitted here that the League's decision will depend entirely on whether the pawvers making tt are ready to back it uv with their armies or those of their vassal states. France and Italy are opposed to| Germany's gaining strength in Eu- | rope by a closer alliance with Austria at this time. Great Britain, while less sharply opposed, could not re- main neutral. Austva is now awaiting Hitler's re- ly. to Dellfuss’ demand that he stop the Nazi broatcasting campaign over Austria, break up the armed Nazi camps on the Austrian border. posal suppress the troffic in erms and ex- | vlosives from Germany to Nazis in| | Austria. | a ie | Report Anti-Soviet Plans NEW YORK.—While Chinese| sourees in Geneva are quoted yester- | day as saying Janan was about to fnvade North China, in nrenaration invade North China, in preparation word was received of an anti-Soviet | demonstration of Jananese and White Guards in Harbin, Manchuria. The Geneva dispatches said that the coronstion of Henry Pu-Yi as/ “Emperor” of Manchukuo on March 1 would be followed almost jmmedi- ately by a further Japanese advance. In Harbin, 3,000 are reported to have demonstration in front of the offices of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way, which is Soviet-owned. For many months, during negotiations for its sale to Japan, the Japanese have carried on a series of provocations on the railway, arresting Soviet officials | and damaging the line, 500 Credentials in for FSU Convention Delegates Pouring in from 25 States NEW YORK.—Delegates from 25 states are coming into New York to participate in the first national con- vention of the Friends of the Soviet Union, which officially opens with a mass meeting to be held tomorrow night at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, farm organizer and veteran labor leader; Dr. Reuben Young, Negro intellectual; C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and Justine Wise Tuline, daughter of Rabbi Stephen Wise, will address the meeting. Two members of the Socialist Party of Erie, Pa., one of which is O. G. Crawford, who wiil speak at the Fri- LL over the country Roosevelt’s orders are being ruth- lessly carried out on the C.W.A. jobs—workers are being fired, wages are being slashed, hours of work being swiftly cut down. This is condemning hundreds of thousands of workers to starve in the streets. Only, immediate action can stop this Roosevelt brutal assault on the jobless and their families. Not one C.W.A. worker to be fired! Every discharged C.W.A. man to be immediately reinstated! Every C.W.A. worker to be fully paid for time lost on account of Roosevelt's order! Every discharged C.W.A. worker to get immediate adequate relief! Against the Roosevelt slashing | of C.W.A. wages to coolie standards! All workers whose C.W.A. time is cut, shall receive full, regular wages! Organization and struggle can defeat Roosevelt's attack and win the demands of the C.W.A. workers. Set up Committees of Action on every C.W.A. job! All fired men | and those still on the job to unite in mass demonstrations before the | C.W.A. bureaus for their demands! Demonstrate before the City Halls! | Employed and unemployed and their organizations to carry through im- | mediate city-wide actions against Roosevelt’s order! Resolutions and telegrams of protest from the C.W.A. workers and from all sections of the working class to be rushed to regional C.W.A. bureaus, to Congress, and to Roosevelt at the White House! In these struggles of the C.W.A. men the demand for Unemployment | Insurance must be raised to the forefront! C.W.A, delegates should be elected to the National Convention against Unemployment to be held at Washington on February 3 to 5. | The C.W.A. are boiling with anger. Every worker is aroused. The revolting C.W.A. men are looking for leadership. It is up to the Com- munists, in every section and unit, to establish immediate contact with all the C.W.A. workers, those on the jobs, and those already fired. Every Party organization must immediately take up the Mght of the C.W.A. men! President Whitewashes Graft Scandal in C.W.A. : |To Put Through Firing | of CWA Men; O.K.’s Wage Cuts | By MARGUERITE YOUNG = | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Prectdent | Roosevelt today gave federal officials a clean bill of health in the Civil) Works Administration graft scandal. | He said he considers that most of | the thousands of complaints which | have been coming in daily, to federal | officials, are poditical protests. They | have come, he acknowledged, from | beth Republicans and Democrats. In his regular press conference, | Roosevelt also reported that he has | not changed his plans 2 end fan ih W. A. program on May ficial here recently have me iste er about 9,000 complaints daily against che cessation, 25 Mayors Discovered Getting Salaries on Ohio CWA Work Jobs STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Jan. 24.— After a short investigation, it was discovered that 25 mayors, town- ship clerks and trustees, have been collecting regular wages from C.W.A. funds here. This is only one instance of what reports reveal to be a nation-wide condition of grafting on the C.W.A. jobs. ‘Wall Street Bankers. to Lap Up Roosevelt ‘rhomants of Compamts ato Billig Dollar Loan plaints which have come in from} thousands of workers — complaints against thievery and political favor- itism, against C.W.A. officials taking | rake-offs from business men supply- | In First Budget Unemployed Leader y ages Paid Today Are 20 Per Cent Less by Federal Order FLOOD OF PROTES 'A.F.L. Locals, I. Amter, National Secretary of the Unemployed Counci!s of the U. S., organizing the National Unemployed Convention, Feb. 5, at Washington, Miners, Back Jobless Meet. New York ‘Has Send-Off, | 4 Minn. Locals, A.F.L., Send Delegates BELLEVILLE, Ill, Jan. 24- —Pro- | gressive Miners Local No. 8, the sec-| jond largest local of the Progressive | Miners of America, unanimously en- dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment | |Insurance Bill after hearing a report |from a committee representing the | Unemployed Council of Belleville. All the miners present (650) voted or the bill and for financial aid to to the Convention at Washington, ; |Feb. 3rd. The Common Laborers’ local of the| |. F. of L, has also endorsed the bill jand has promised financial support. | | tion | Chemists and Technicians, Elect Delegates to Job. less Meet BULLETIN NEW YORK. — Three thousand workers were gathered as the Daily Worker went to press, at the C.W.A, offices of F. I. Daniels, executive di- rector of the New York State C.W.A,, at 124 E. 28th St., protest- ing against the wage cuts given C.W.A. office workers (C.W.S.) this week. The demands included the 30- hour week with full pay and resto~ ration of the wage cut, and no more dismissals, The demonstration was organized by the Association of Office and Professional Emergency Employes; the Emergency Home Relief Bu- reau Employees Association; the As- sociation of Emergency Workers in Adult Education, and the Federa- of Architects, Engineers, NEW YORK.—The waged ;of 138,000 New York C.W.A, / workers were cut 20 per cent this week, at the order of Pres ident Roosevelt and pay checks today will have shrunk from |$15 to $18.44, the maximum wages received by the unskilled workers. Many receive even less. Those who received $18 a week at | skilled work will get today $14.40. The hours were reduced from 30 tc 24 hours. Since many C.W.A. work- ers were not working more than 24 hours a week, the hourly wage rates of these C. W. A. workers have been cut twenty per cent, \the delegates from Belleville going} The fruits of Roosevelt’s order to begin “tapering off” on C.W.A. jobs and to end the projects completely May 1, firing a million on Feb. 15, are already being felt by hundreds of | thousands of C.W.A. workers. The | Wee eee |cut of twenty per cent in wages now Minneapolis Locals Indorse jin effect for all C.W.A. workers, is MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 24—j|expected by the Roosevelt govern- | Four locals of A. F. of L. unions here | |ment to drive down the wages of have endorsed the National Conven-| workers now in industry. It is in \tion Against Unemployment to be|line with the statement of Johnson, |held in Washington, D. C., Feb. 3, 4\head of the N.R.A. that the C.W.A. jand 5, Other locals are expected to| wages should be reduced in order to |take similar action this week. The|keep down the wage levels of those \Cab'net Makers local and the Paint-| in industry. ers local have elected delegates, while | The demonstrations and protest the Cement Finishers and the Lathers| actions of the workers both employed jlocals have endorsed the convention| and unemployed against Roosevelt's jand the delegate elected by the other| latest attack on the unemployed, A F. of L. locals. ‘are increasing. Election of delegates A send-off mass meeting for the|to the National Convention Against | Minnesota delegation will be held here} Unemployment on Feb. 3 in Wash- on Sunday, Jan. 28, at the Metal] ington, D. C. are taking place in all Workers Hall, 329 Cedar Ave. at 8| parts of the country. p. m., and the truck will leave with | P s ° |the delegates on Monday or Tuesday. ‘ | % ; ‘é | Columbus C.W.A. Fires 300 | COLUMBUS, Ohio.—Three hundred q s Send-off 2 | NEW TOHE--A er Saat | discharged C.W.A. workers demon- day night mass meeting, are delegates to the convention. ing materials, and against corrupt union officfals being protected ‘Ikick-back” rackets. Asked how many of the 4,000,000 unemployed supposedly on C.W.A. rolls would be absorbed on ie I Roosevelt replied that it was cs Uy) hard to give figures at this tim., jut that he hoped that a fairly large majority would be taken up by an/ industrial pick-up, Public Works Ad- ministration projects and season | works, 500,000 Fired a Week Most of them, Roosevelt empha- | sized, were political protests. He said that local administrative agencies are using the C.W.A. program to fill the rolls with people of one major political party or the other. Actual operation of the program is in the hands of local governments, he added, and keeping it out of graft and out of politics depends upon the quality of local governments. The President will ask Congress to oppropriate, as he suggested in his budget message, $350,000,000 to carry C.W.A,, until May 1. This will re- quire dropping 500,000 persons a week, beginring Feb. 15, and a continua- tion of the staggering-hours, wage- cutting process. Roosevelt also will propose the $500,000,000 previously suggested for relief for the next 15 months— nothing more, in | Financing | WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—After a |ceeret conference with leading Wall | Street bankers, Secretary of the | Treasury Morgenthau end his assist- j ant, Earle Bailie, indicated today that | they expect the. bankers to subscribe | quickly to the first $1,000,000,000 of- fering of the government as part of |ts $10,000,000,000 budget. Bailie, who was appointed by Roosevelt, is a member of the Wall Street banking house, J. W. Seligman and Co. The Treasury is offering $500,000,- 000 two and one-half per cent notes to mature in 12 months and another $500,000,000 to mature in six months. The Wall Street banks will eagerly | grab these notes, it was predicted, because of the generous interest rates On the short-term transaction, the bankers will clear at least $15,000,000 interest profit. Most of the funds thus raised by the government will go for the pay- ment of loans, subsidies, R.F.C. pre- ferred bank stock investments, etc. and other Wall Street monopoly in- terests. Roosevelt is determined that these investments of the bankers shall be guaranteed through heavy taxes on the consumers, wage slashes for fed- eral employees, etc. resolutions protesting the kidnappings and demanding the right of the work- ers to organize. The three attorneys and Mrs. Johnson were later released in scattered nearby towns after being brutally beaten up. On the same night, four strike lead- ers were forcibly escorted from town and ordered not to return. The four workers returned this morning to carry on their strike activities, in de- fiance of the terror. Stanley Hancock, section organizer of the Communist Party, which is playing an active role in the leader- ship of the strike of agricultural Pat Chambers trial Union, have been arrested, charged with inciting to riot, unlaw- ful assembly and disturbing the peace. Frank Samora, secretary of the Union, | ' rants Ray and Fred Martinez of ‘oung Communist League, are also in jail, NEW YORK.—Accusing local, state and national executive members of the American Federation of Labor of being involved in criminal racketeer- ing practices, 400 workers at a meet- ‘ng called by the Anti-Racketeering Committee Tuesday night, unani- nously endorsed resolutions calling for fight by the rank and file cgainst these conditions in local “nions, and against Federal control of the A. F. of L. Dave Gordon of Local 107, Paper late and Bag Union, pointed out that William Green ordered expunged trom the records of the last A. F. of %. convention an anti-racketeering “esolution. When rank and file mem- baie of Local 52 of the Bridge Struc- ural and Iron Workers complained ‘o Matthew Woll, he promptly told “hem he was not interested in racke- teering. When members of a walters Stuff Fight Urged By Anti-Racketeering Group local told this same corrupt official that “Dutch” Schultz, and Spunky White, notorfous gangsters, controlled their union, and that an ex-convict was a local official, Woll laughed them off with the statement he “be- eves in democracy.” Announcing that a city-wide con- ference against racketeering of rep- resentatives from unions in the city will be held in six weeks, to prepare for a National Con‘erence, Jack Tay- lor, secretary of the committee, scored the capitalist press for presenting the fight agefinst racketeering as one be- tween different factions in the unions. $3,000 “Initiation” Fee Taylor pointed out an illustration of graft in Local 384 of the Motion Picture Operators Union, where the Officials are collecting a $3,000 tnitia- tion fee and 10 per cent of the weekly wages of new members, These work- ers are then classified as junior mem- bers and are deprived of voice or vote on the floor of all meetings. He was followed by Dave Schur- man of Painters Brotherhood Local 892 who said that for 10 years he had been fighting racketeers and that the majority of the rank and file of the A. F. of L. are in revolt against thefts corrupt officials, but the job of ousting these racketeers, he stressed, les not in the hands of the press, but with the rank and file. Lecal Is Su-pended Another speaker, Albert Grey, rep- resenting the Bridge Structural us Iron Workers Union Local 52, de- scribed the action of their interna- tional after the majority of the mem- bership had kicked out their gang- ster officials. This action was ch mediately followed by suspension of the local by the international, ap- propriation of all union properties that body and the formation of a new local, 447, with the ousted gang- sters at the head of it. The first resolution adopted by the workers called for the organization and affiliation to the central body of anti-racketeering groups in the locals. The second resolution, op- posing federal control of the trade unions, stated in part: “As members of the A. F. of L., we must always guard against any and all measures which attempt to take away the dem- ocratic control of the trade unions from the rank and file. Taking ad- vantage of the fight against racket- eering, a very strong tendency has developed in certain circles to ex- ercise federal control over the trade unions. . . . This mass meeting is opposed to any and all tendencies aiming at federal control of the trade by ‘union movement.” _ meeting for the New York delegates to the National Convention Against Unemployemnt, to be held in Wash- | ‘ngton, will be held in St. Nicholas | Arena, 69 West 66th St., Thursday, Feb. Ist at 8 p.m. The Unemployed | Councils of Greater New York urges all those organizations which have | elected delegates to the National Convention Azainst Unemployment to be held in Washington on Feb. 3, | strated here Monday, following Roose- velt’s abandonment of the O, W. A. program. The demonstration was called by the Unemployed Council, Communig Party, and the Relief | Workers ective Union. More than |1,300 worl 3 here have been fired by | this latest ittack upon the workers, a ete Slash Wages, Fire 400 in Peoria PEORIA, Ill.—Four hundred C. W. of’ered by the Roosevelt, government. | 4 and 5, to send the names and | addresses of these delegates to the Unemployed Council, 29 East 20th St. A. workers, comprising 11 per cent of the city’s quota, were fired here last week. All those remaining on C.W.A. received a wage slash of 20 to 50 per All elected delegates to the Na- | cent, put over by reducing hours, eat tar tional Convention must report at 29 East 20th St. on Friday, Feb. 2 at 7 a. m. ready to leave for | | Washington. Roosevelt Dollar Means Mass Misery SenateDebateShows Dollar Devaluation to Bring “Indescribable Destitution” Rockford C.W.A. Workers To Demonstrate | ROCKFORD, Ill.—C.W.A. workers here will demonstrate against the 50 per cent wage slash of all C.W.A (Continued on Page 2) NAZIS CLOSE FORCED LABOR: CAMPS BERLIN, Jan. 24.—“Shortage of funds” is given as the reason for an order to close down all forced labor camps in Germany for # month, Two hundred and fifty thousand are reported employed in these camps, where the pay is one warm meal a day and « place te sleep. CW.A. Men Strike in West Virginia Walk-Out Against Cuts By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Senator | Carter Glass of Virginia likened the Roosevelt devaluation program to that which created “destitution al- most indescribable among the middle classes and the wage earners in Eu- rope,” as the Senate opened debate on the bill, today, and an adminis- tration spokesman rushed in to de- of Roosevelt fend it as “the only sound method — of inflation.” CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 24—- The debate tapped the wells of| A strike of C.W.A. workers of Hana- Senatorial oratory, and telltale facts | | wha County against the cutting down gushed forth in the spew. But it was} | of hours from 30 to 24 was effective all in an atmosphere of tacit under-| here, as C.W.A. administrator W. W.- standing that this was but the shout-| Allen announced that all C.W.A, work ing prel'minary to favorable action.| in the county has been halted. Five The bill will be enacted—perhaps | hundred walked out the first day. The with several amendments, but with| strikers declare they will picket. no fundamental change. The only| The strike may spread to the entire question in the minds of leaders is, | State of West Virginia. when; some believe in a day or 50, | Another demand of the strikers, some say it will take longer. | organized into the Unemployed War Danger | Leagues, is that all men put off The drive toward war that is im- C.W.A. jobs be put back on the Jobs plicit in the bill’s provision for S| at once. They demand an eng of in the ore and @ uniform (Continued on on Page 2) wage