The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1934, Page 1

To Subscribe ASK YOUR FRIENDS fer the “Daily” l Vol. XI, No. 23 | \, House Speakex Urges Big \, Navy “To Keep Out of Coming War” ASKS 102 MORE SHIPS To Rush Vinson Navy Bill Through at Once | (See more war news on page six today) By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Deily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.— Henry T. Rainey, speaker of the House of Representatives, asserted today in an interview with this and one other correspend- ent: “It looks awfully bad in the Far East. We may have trouble in the | spring between Russia and Japan.” | This virtually flat prediction of war) was Rainey’s explanation of his en-| dorsing and rushing through the House the Vinson naval building} program for gigantic enlargement of | the United States fleet. | “The best way for us to keep out | .” Rainey added, referring to} is to build up our fleet to treaty | ‘The declazation came on the heels of action by the Rules Committee of | | the House, traditional dynamo of the| political machine in power, giving the Vinson bill the right of way on the calendar. This will bring it up| consideration tomorrow or next) Tuesday, or as soon as the subject | now under discussion is concluded. “Looks Bad in Far East” ] Rainey made his statement when | consulted about a rumor that he had | j privately said that in his opinion the | United States might be drawn into| j war this spring. Asked what he would | i say about the report that he con-| sidered war imminent, he replied: | “You tell them that I say it looks awfully bad in the Far Hast. We may j hy rouble in the spring between Russia and Japan.” | Asked whether he thought, then, that the -United..States. would goin mn the side of the Soviet Union, he} | ‘aid: “I don’t think we will get in it \ if we build up the Navy. The best way for us to keep out of it is to | build our fleet up to treaty limits. ‘Then they are not so likely to attack us. In that way we'll keep out of it. ‘We're way below treaty strength now (Continued on Page 2) NRA Machinery Is , War Preparation, "Says U. S. Official | Assistant War Secretary) Admits Military Aims of New Deal WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — Roose- \ velt’s N. R. A. agencies are definitely war organization measures, Harry H. Woodring, assistant secretary of war, said today in an address before a women’s patriotic conference on na-| tional defense, The N. R. A. apparatus closely | parallels the war department’s blue- prints for conscripting labor and dis- twibuting war production orders, he said. The National Labor Board, estab- lished to smash strikes; the Civilian Conservation Camps, where nearly half a million boys are given military training, the C. W. A. by which prep- aration projects are put through at minimum wages, and all the other } agencies of the “New Deal,” which the Daily Worker has exposed as parts of a war program since the inception of the N. R. A. are precisely the kind of agencies the War Depart- | ment planned for, said Woodring. In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sooner Soren faldort Strike. ‘Workers Welcome Foster. 3 “Painters Union Heads Graft Party Organisa- tions Must Lead!” “Anti-Soviet Poison of ‘The Nation’ ”; “Their Secret Conference”; “Another Pe |coming forward at the convention Entered as second-class matter New York, N. ¥., under the At |Rainey Says Pinchot’s Troops Shoot |Japan-USSR At Anthracite Pickets; War Is Close Men Defy Injunctions Philip Murray | International Vice-President of United Mine Workers, well known labor betrayer. UMW Rank & File Fights for Right to Strike Paul Bohus Takes Floor | Against Lewis Machine in Convention By DAN DAVIS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan, 25.— ‘The steam-rolling of the U.M.W.A. Convention by the officialdom of the union continued the third day, tabling or killing all resolutions, ac- cording to the orders of John L. Lewis, International President.. session Wednesday was the discus- sion on a fesolution presented by the New Salen, Pa., local, reading in part: “Whereas, Governors of some | the face. |rescue and the strike breaker will -Daily,.QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) at the Post Office at ct of March 8, 1879 ‘Steel Workers Strike When ‘Leader Is Fired |H’dware Foundry Work- 5,000 at Mass Meeting; | ers Demand Wage Rise | | State Troops Assault From Bosses | Children, Women BUFFALO, N. ¥., Jan, 25,—The pbs | workers of the Atlas Steel Foundry By DAN SLINGER | in the bier tad tie of Buffalo is ve went on strike, Jan. 23, protesting OILES BARRE, Hage b his al | against the discharge of John Ziack, State Troopers and City police shot | “hop committeeman of the Steel and at pickets at the South Wilkes-Barre | Metal Workers Industrial Union. As Colliery, today, where the pickets |@ result of the previous strike, con- were out in msasses. Twelve women | ducted in the late fall, the company were among the two patro: wagon|had agreed to recognize the shop loads of strikers that were taken to|committee of the Steel and Metal the Wilkes-Barre police station. Workers Industrial Union. | The miners are preparing for a| Two weeks ago the management of | mass meeting at Hubert Park to the Atlas Steel Foundry handed a let-/ protest ageinst the arrests. A fight | ter to each employee with a proposal started when one of the strike | for a company representative plan, | breakers, attempting to go to work,| thereby denying recognition of the shop committee. These proposals werg flatly rejected by the mon. The following are the demands agreed upon by the men at the local meeting Tuesday, Jan. 23rd, unani- mously: 1, The reinstatement of committee- | man John Ziack. struck one of the women pickets in | Other women came to her not go to work for some days. Pinchot’s Troops Assoult Children Mass anger and resentment is growing against the brutality of Governor Pinchot’s State Troop- ers, sent by him to break the strike 2. Abolition of the Company | of the miners, while his wife pre- ss i . 1 tends to bewail the low wages paid Pkt alla Pian (Company Saucy to striking laundry workers, The miners ask why don’t she come into the State where her husband is 3. No discrimination on the job. | The men denounced the N.R.A. ac- tivities in its past betrayals, citing Gover id step the State eoopers: tesa beating up children | the cases of Weirton, Republic Steel, | and women, | Buffalo, Ambridge, etc. | The shop is out solidly involving some 70 men under the leadership of | the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- | trial Union, with elected strike com- | mittee and picketing at the plant. At Plymouth, Pa., State Troopers brutally beat a school boy of 12, breaking his legs. Defy Injunction Last night 5,000 miners gathered in a mass meeting at Plymouth f Present Wage Demands where Maloney told the miners that NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JA | templated no immediate steps. jafter a fight with Alex Johnson, a WEATHER: Fair, JARY 26, 1934. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER : Sehr much colder. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Negro Youth Is\Tay-Offs of Thousands of CWA Taken Out Of Jail; Lynched Kentucky ‘Jailers Hand| Victim Over to Masked Band | 6 BULLETIN i] FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 35.—The | | Roosevelt Forgot These Men! Kentucky House of Representatives | today adopted a resolution pledg- | ing support to Goy. Ruby Laffoon | in “any steps he may take” to | punish the lynchers of Rex Scott, | Negro youth. The Legislature it- self took no step against lynching. Notified of the adoption of the res- | olution, the governor said he con- | | HAZARD, Ky., Jan. 25.—Rex Scott, | 20-year-old Negro youth, arrested} white miner, was taken out of the| Perry County jail by a masked band | of 30 white lynchers and lynched last | night. | Scott’s body riddled with bullets, | was found dangling from a tree a the Cornett Hill graveyard adjoin- | ing Knott County about an hour after the prison authorities had delivered | him over to the lynch gang. | Local newspaper reports of the crime agree that W. C. Knuckles, | deputy warden of the jail, led the} lynchers into the jail, and subse- quently turned over the key to Scott’s| cell to them. Warden Troy B.) Combs admitted the lynch band. The defense of the two jailers, in the} event that there is even a gesture of | official investigation of the crime, is| already indicated. Knuckles will argue that he was outside the jail) These forgotten men are “gettin ficial C. W. A. announcement says. ing for three months, pick and shovel work, for food, work clothing and tobacco. C. W. A. jobs. That’s sweet. months from now! Oregon. g a chance to make good,” the of- It is like this: They work for noth- At the end of three months, if they “make good” they get The C. W. A. jobs pay $1 a day, less de- ductions, and they end May 1; which, if you figure it up, is just three Scene is at a government supervised camp, Mollala, when the lynch gang gathered at its | — door, and that he was’on his way to| aid Warden Combs in “defending” ) Scott, when members of the gang Farmer Labor inal ‘Mass Protest Wins | |the injunction amounted to noth- jing, but he was against any mass action to smash same. But the miners think different. This morning at the Luzerne County Court Hause 1,500 minegs packed the Court room and cor- ridors protesting against the injunc- tion that was being applied for by the Glen Alden Coal Company. More miners are out on strike to- day than at any time since the starting of the strike, is the state- ment by President Maloney. He promised that some definite word will come from Washington, leaving the inference that another Commis- | Local ‘51, to the management on Tuesday. ‘The shop committee also demanded | $2 or $3 a day on a piece work basis | for the fourth or fifth day when they | made $5 for the first three days. This | autorbatically cancelled the rate made | on ajpiece work of $5 a day | management of the North Buf- BUFFALO, N. ¥., Jan. 25. — The |poked their guns into his back as North Buffalo Hardware Foundry,!Combs opened the gate for him. presented demands for a|Combs will argue that the lynchers wage-increase for moulders at the|forced themselves through the gate rate of 65 cents per hour minimum behind Knuckles before he was able} to close the gate. Perry County authorities are mak- that the men working on the so-called |ing the usual promise of a sweeping | “merit system” in the plant be paid | investigation, such as those now) for the full amount of work put out, | dragging on or already abandoned in abolishing the system of paying them several states where recent lynchings have occurred. (See Editorial on Page 6) Scottsboro Protest Demonstration This Elects Delegate to Prompt Relief For Jobless Convention Jobless in Pitts. Hold Mass Send-ofis for|Dele gates Elected To Delegates to Feb. 3 Unemployed | Washington | Convention EVELETH, Minn., Jan. 25. — A| PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 25.—Daily jmember was elected by the Eveleth | mass delegations to home relief and local of the Farmer Labor Party as | welfare offices have been the answer their delegate.to the National Con-|of the Unemployed Councils here to }Ssion-is: going “tobe -sent in. . He : ware Foundry agreed to the abolition of the merit system with the jim rates and guaranteed that two weeks the wage increase would; be considered. This action came As a result of the activities of wants to end the strike by compul- sory arbitration. Mass meetings of the miners and regular local meetings resolutions | are being passed demanding further mass violation of the injunction. States have succeeded in gotting an industrial court order passed, and “Whereas, said law prohibits the use of strike as a weapon of de- fense against the aggression of the capitalists or for the better- ment of the workers of said States, | “Therefore, be it resolved that — the U.M.W.A. supports any and ali | justified strikes under the juris- | diction of the U.M.W.A. in said | states and fights to the bitter end for the repeal of said law and for restoration to the workers of such States as their inherent right, the right to strike.” Defends Resolution While this resolution does not in itself face squarely the issuc of the Tight to strike as affected by the N.R.A. and the U.M.W.A. agree- ments, a resolution fully taking up this issue was introduced by another local. Nevertheless, Paul Bohus of Ohio, young militant miner who is as leader of the opposition dele- gates, took the floor in defense of this resolution, a strong plea for the traditional right to strike. He received so great a re- sponse from the delegates, that the Lewis henchmen, in panic, at once put forward some of its leading ma- chine men in an effort to block the passage of the resolution. Pacefico, one of the International (Continued on Page 2) REICHSTAG CALLED BERLIN, Jan. 25—The Nazi Reichs- tag, composeq of deputies who have no power except to vote yes to any proposal Hitler puts before them, has suddenly been called to meet next Tuesday. That day will be the first anniversary of Hitler’s coming to power, Rally for Defense the shbp committee of the Steel and Metal Yorkers Industrial Union, rec- ognized: yby the company, of USSR. at FSU, APL Official Has No Convention Tonig!:’ Ibjection to Co. 700 Delegates Gather for, Union at Budd Plant 3-Day Meet at New Star Casino | Compliance Board Bluffs | Workers Along on Protests NEW YORK.—With the danger of an attack on the Soviet Union sharper than ever before, delegates from 25 states will meet here tonight in the opening session of the first national convention of the Friends of the Soviet Union. The convention opens tonight with @ mass meeting to welcome the more than 700 delegates, at New Star Ca- sino, 107th St. and Park Ave. Among WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Because Budd Auto workers who were driven back to work by the National Labor Board are vigorously protesting against the company union foisted on them, the N.R.A. officials here are of the case, | Federal investigators were sent to || tend with their trying to find means of getting rid! . Saturday in Harlem NEW YORK.—A demonstration protest against the brutal prison ‘ment of the Scottsboro boys and to demand their immediate release is called for this Saturday, Jan. 27, at 2 p. m. by the Harlem Section of the International Labor Defense. The demonstration will begin with a parade from 131st Street and Lenox Avenue. White work- ers are especially urged to turn out en masse in a mighty mani- festation of working-class soli- darity with the oppressed Negro masses. Organizations should at- banners and |held in Washington. The proposal was brought up by a rank and file member at the reg- |some discussion was | Washington | delegation. with the Minnesota ie Wilkes-Barre Meet |cend-off meeting will be held here at the Workers Center, 325 East | Market St., on Thursday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p. m., for the delegates to the | National Convention Against Unem- |nloyment. All workers are invited tn atterid. Aine athe Fort Worth Send-Off Meet FORT WORTH, Tex. — A mass cond-off meeting will be held here en Saturday, Jan. 27th, for the Texas delegation to the National Convention Against Unemployment. slogans. ‘Wages Drop Behind Inflation Prices, Senators Predict’ ‘mit Roosevelt Gold Bill Will Strike ington on Monday, Jan. 29th, and arrive in Washington on Feb. 2nd. “Hees ear” Jamaica Send-Off Party |for the local delegates to the Na- | tional Convention | ployment will be held at the Work- jelected. The delegate will leave for} | The delegation will leave for Wash- | vention Against Unemployment to beg. the ruling of the County Relief Board *' that only committees of five would be recognized. The Relief Board has {been forced to accept the proposals} ular meeting of the local, and after|made by the County Unemployed} unanimously | Council through this mass pressure. | Bat‘les in three relief stations, jarrests in one, police attacks in |many more followed the Relief Board |ruling. One mass delegation of fifty | workers from only one block, on its | WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A mass |OWN_ initiative, marched into Mayor) |MeNair’s office to demand the re- Jlease of arrested workers. Mills, di- rector of county relief, claimed that the Unemployed Councils had con- sumed more than 375 hours of his |supervisors’ time last month not including the time spent in his | | At the county committee meeting | of the Unemployed Councils on | Saturday, more than 200 delegates | cause of the struggles which had | taken place the preceding week. | A Victory for Councils After a two-hour discussion on the county relief ruling, it was decided, temporarily and from an experimental | standpoint, to approve welfare com- | mittees of five to negotiate with | JAMAICA, L. I—A send-off party |the supervisors and that emergency | clients accompany the committee, Against Unem-|but if grievances are not immme-| diately handled, the Unemployed and 50 visitors were present be- | the speakers are C. A. Hathaway, Herbert Goldfrank, Mother Bloor, O. G. Crawford, Socialist of Erie, Pa.; Justine Wise Tulin, William M. the Budd auto body plant in Phila- delphia to give the appearance of “action.” Similar investigators were sent to the Weirton Steel Co. in Workers ers Center here at 148-29 Liberty |Council local shall march down in Ave., on Sunday, Jan. 28, at 8 p.m.|a body to handle the grievances. All workers are invited to attend. | Monthly meetings with the county ‘¢ e us |relier and weekly meetings with Leader, Dr. Reuben Young, Fred Biedenkapp, Bonchi Friedman, E, Ishigaki and others, Tomorrow morning and afternoon the delegates will organize, hear and discuss the reports of the secretary of the F. S. U. and of the workers’ delegation to the Soviet Union, which recently returned, Tomorrow night, at a gala affair in the same hall, Nina Tarasova, Russian singer; Toney Kraber and Bobbie Lewis, well-known Broadway players, and others, will entertain. On Sunday morning, Corliss La- mont will speak to the delegation on “Recognition, and After.” His talk will be broadcast over a nation-wide radio hook-up, in New York through station WJZ. Sunday afternoon, Ohio and West Virginia when 14,000 strikers were driven back by the Na- tional Labor Board. President Roose- velt and Senator Wagner said they would act. The matter was referred to the Department of Justice and buried. William H. Davis, chairman of the compliance board proposed an elec- tion of the workers. Edward G. Budd, owner of the plant, said an “election” was already held and the company union is functioning. Lewis G. Hines, A. F. of L. repre- Sentative said he is willing to com- promise; to allow the company union | to exist, if the boss will deal with the A. F. of L, leaders. “We have no objection to the two unions existing side by side,” sald Hines, Chicago Sets Pace in “Daily” Drive; Sends in 205 New Subs Quick Action by Section 5 in Circulation Campaign Revolutionary Challenge to All Districts CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 25—Section No. 5, Communist of this Dis- trict, records a Daily Worker circulation campaign securing 205 new subscribers to the Saturday edition at a mass meet- ing held by this section. te same ‘tine planning oi ane can- vass intensively their z Section No. 5 issues a revolutionary challenge to the other sections in District No. 8 and to sections in dis- tricts throughout the equal or beat its first achievement in the drive for 10,000 new dally sub- will} surpass its quota of 500 new daily In all strikes broken by the Na- tional Labor Board, the same pro- cedure is followed. Everything is done to drive the strikers back to work, When the strike is broken with promises to the workers, the boss refuses to carry out his prom- ises. The matier then comes before the compliance board, where it is dragged out, and the protesting workers are fired, The A. F. of L. steps in and helps the company union to entrench itself, in this in- stance actually offering “no objec- tions” to the company union, Read the Racketeer Exposure on Page 3 seribers and for 20,000 new readers of the Saturday edition of the “Daily.” Z The rapidity with whtch the 205 Saturday subscriptions were secured shows how ready workers are to be- come readers of our Daily Worker if | Republican, incidentally referred to 2) (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25— Senate diehards who see bane for certain propertied classes as well as for wage earners in the ‘Roosevelt | inflation program claimed virtually. all of today’s debate on the program} New York Mass Send-Off NEW YORK. — A mass d-off meeting in which delegates from all (Continued on Page 2) | Mills were approved, but the position was emphasized that emergency orders for food, medical attention, | (Continued on Page 2) which is still certain of enactment] Hae Lanne Tk without substantial modification, It is possible, though not probable, , Welfe are Ts land that the bill will go through tomor-| row. It was attacked throughout to-| ators Barbour and Kean of New Jersey, Austin of Vermont, and Hast- ings of Delaware, all Republicans, berated its proposal for government seizure of Federal Reserve. Bank's gold. Senator Hastings, Delaware s Daily Worker Was Firs its promise to the working classes: “The social results of this bill are hideous—we shall later see the cruel effect of stimulated and sustained speculation by wiser citizens whose plunder comes from the ignorant and the poor.” Hastinzs asserted that the bill “concentrates wealth instead of difus- ing it,” and that it “will ultimately impoverish the whole people.” “As wages and rise more slowly than prices,” he added, “heen clases will suffer in favor of equity holders of stock.” A.F.L. Heads, Gangsters, Politicians on Trial for Chicago Racketeering CHICAGO—Eighteen gangsters, n- By ED ROLFE NEW YORK.—Those who have the past seven years’ were not sur- prised at the gruesome details of | conditions existing in the New York | Penitentiary at Welfare Island, as jrevealed in the well-calculated and spectacular publicity raid engineered by the LaGuardia Fusion machine on Wednesday, As detail after new detail was dis- closed in scare-headlines of the local capitalist press (carefully invited to the by LaGuardia), it was recalled that as far back as 1927 the Daily Worker published a series of articles by Bill Dunne, who was railroaded to 30 days in the Tombs to the paper. After he had completed serving his sentence, Dunne lashet Today’s installment exposing graft and gangsterism in the || Painters Brotherhood will be found || on Page 3, Articles on rackets practised on workers by officials of the American Federation of Labor, electrical, longshoremen, and car- penters’ unions will follow. Work- ers are urged to send in their ex- with their grafting offi- they are approached and asked to subscribe, The Chicago District expects to and 1,000 new Saturday subscribers. This District will do its utmost to capture the National Daily Worker banner which will be awarded to the district first to achieve its quota in the Daily Worker circulation drive. Section No. 5 asks all other sec- tions to reply to its revolutionary challenge through the ¢olumus of , x ‘connection between business men, | volitictans, gangsters and American |terroristic methods are charged, -luding Al Capone, were named in a suit here which will reveal the close | Ministration of the city penal system in a brilliant series of articles ex- posing the very conditions—and more!—which the Fusion government is now cautiously and piecemeal bringing to the surface. Exposures Continued Dunne’s revelations were followed ily and brought to a the workers bore the brunt of the at- Seek again in 1930 and 1931 when tack both from the union officjgls| William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, I, Federation of Labor union officials. ‘The state will attempt to show that this conspiracy was formed at the ex- pense of legitimate business enter- prises. Bombings, acid throwing, and ‘been reading the Daily Worker for Ye in an attempt to deal a death blow| into the corrupt and degenerate ad-| sos Wary army wee er Scandal Raises day on constitutional grounds. so. Lid on Vile Jail Brutalities t To Expose Conditions in Prisons in 1927, 1930 and 1933 {leased from Welfare and Harts | Island for leading the March 6, 1930, unemployed demonstration in New ‘ork. New facts of prison brutality were | again revealed as recently as last |summer, when John L. Spivak, special Daily Worker reporter, wrote |a series of articles based on the | sworn affidavit of Mark Shahian, an | ex-serviceman, who had_ personally | witnessed the brutal attack and mur- der of James Matthews, = Negro prisoner, Seeks to Conceal Wage Cuts The spectacular nature of this latest and much publicized move by LaGuardia was seen by the Commu- nist Party here yesterday as the first of a series of stunts planned by the LaGuardia administration to divert ttention from its wage-cutting pol- icy and from its open subservience to Wall Street banking interests. | Charles Krumbein, New York Dis- | trict Organizer of the Communist Party, in commenting on the prison raid, said: | “This action will In no way | change—nor is it meant to change | —the nature of the whole brutal and vicious penal system in New York. What LaGuardia is doing is substituting his own political (Contiouad om Page 2 Workers Continue As Result Of Roosevelt’ Firing Orders @ Detron, Cleveland an d Pittsburgh Are Hard Hit [DEMAND C.W.A. JOBS | Ohio Cities Report Mass | Firing; Fired Men Fight DETROIT, Jan. 25.—Seven | thousand C. W. A. workers | were laid off in Wayne County | yesterday, 300 of them in the {city of Detroit. Eight thou- jsand more will be laid off |from county C. W. A. jobs be- |fore the end of the week, public | works commissioner Laurance G. Lenhardt said, “if further material expenditures are not authorized.” Further material buying was dis- continued last week. Several Thousand In Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 25—Sev- |eral thousand men are being laid | off in Allegheny County, as a result jof President Roosevelt's “curtail- | ment” of the C. W. A. program, a |letter of protest sent by the county | commissioners to Roosevelt declares. | Pein asia 3,200 in Toledo TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 25. — Three thousand two hundred C. W. A. workers have already been laid off here, and will be laid off at the rate of 4,500 every two weeks, Col. John Shetler, C. W. A. administrator, | announced. | Pe CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. %—in | the beni few days 3,200 C.W.A. work- \ers here have been fired as the re: \of Roosevelt's abandonment of om C.W.A. program. In recent an- jnouncements to the press, J. E. | Stuart, county C.W.A. administrator, jhas stated that by April all C.W.A. workers here will be fired. At the same time, the thousands of workers who have regularly come to the C.W.A.. offices for jobs find that the relief lists have been closed for jall those registered for C.W.A, jobs, (Continued on Page 2) Cleveland Jobless, | CW.A. Hold Meet Endorse Nat'l Jobless Convention | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 25— C.W.A. and unemployed workers here in a joint conference laid out a pro- | Sram of action for jobs or relief, and | for support of the National Conven- tion Against Unemployment to be held in Washington Feb. 3, 4 and 5. A county-wide mass send-off meet- ing for the delegates to the National | Convention will be held Thurs., Feb. | 1, at 8 pm., at Moose Hall, 1000 Wal- nut St. On Feb. 5th at 6 p.m., Cleveland | workers will hold a mass demon- stration at the city hall, demanding that the city officials endorse the | Workers Unemployment Insurance | Bill, and provide adequate relief to | the 175,000 unemployed of Cleveland. A C.W.A. workers conference will | be held on Feb, 11 at 2 Pm., at 1237 Payne Ave. 2,500 CWS Workers Protest Pay Cuts To Send Delegation to Washington NEW YORK.—Twenty-five hun- dred C. W. A. white collar workers (C.W.S.) demonstrated Wednesday at the state C.W.A. offices against the | Wage cuts and abandonment of the |C. W. A. and voted to send their delegates to H. L. Hopkins, federal | relief administrator, to demand that their wage cuts be rescinded and the |C. W. A. program be enlarged. The state C. W. A. board, although ac- knowledging its “sympathy” with the workers, refused to take any .steps that the workers demanded. | The state C. W. A. authorities | passed the buck to Washington, and evaded their responsibility for the wage cuts and lay-offs in New York. C. D. Osborne, member of the state C. W. A. board, stated that he fully agreed with the workers that millions spent for war might be for the continuance of the C.W. but continued to place all responsi« bility on Washington, bag Call United Front Conference of CWA New York Workers NEW YORK.—The Relief Work- ers League of Greater New York has issued a call for an emer- gency conference for united action against Wage cuts and wholesale lay-offs on C. W. A. jobs, ‘The conference, to be held at the Furniture Workers Hall, 812 Broadway, at 1 P, M. on Sun., Jan.