The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1934, Page 3

\ workers, repr Main Speaker Presenting of Daily Worker DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY §8, 1934 Paze Thre= Progressive Miners’ Local Demands30-Hr. 3-Day Week of N.R.A. Galls on Miners to Strike One Day for Demands NO CUT IN PAY Declare Living Cost Is Going Up Fast EDGEMONT, IL, Feb. 7.—A de- mand to the N. R. A. bituminous coal conference to be held in Wash- ington, Feb. 12. to institute the six- hour day, five-day week, with higher wages, was made in a resolution adopted by Local 8 of the Progressive Miners of America. In adopting the resolutions sent to the N. R. A, the local urged all P. M. A. locals to take the same steps and prepare for action to win the de- mands. The resolution of thelocal reads: “Be it resolved, that all local unions throughout the State of Tllinois de- clare Feb. 12, 1934, a holiday, hold mass meetings to discuss the six-hour | day and five-day per week, and send telegrams to the National Labor Board, demanding the six-hour day and five days per week.” To the National Labor Board, the following resolution was sent by the local, through its officers, S. Baum- gartner, president; Russell Smith, financial secretary, and L. 8. Dixon, recording secretary: “We hereby present the following demands: Whereas, the cost of living is mounting higher and higher every day and the purchasing power of the dollar is getting lower and the gov- ernment policy of raising prices will react upon the standard of living of the miners; and, whereas, there are thousands of miners unemployed, due to the modern machinery in the mines, we think a shorter work day would overcome the unemployed sit- uation in the mining industry. There~ fore, be it resolved that we present the following demands: (1) the six- hour day, five-day week, and a basic wage of $5 a day, and tonnage rates of 91 cents, based on the Danville District.” Cincinnati Workers: Force Concessions from CWA Officials Relief Workers Union Organizing Men On-the-Job CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 7—The Negotiations Committee of the Relfef Workers’ Protective Union, endorsed by the workers from 40 different C. W. A. projects, backed by the workers, forced C.W.A. Administrator Stuart to meet with their entire committee, and to hear their demands. The workers demanded re-instatement or immediate cash relief equal to pay for all discharged C.W-.A. workers; against lay-offs and wage cuts; for a guaranteed $15 weekly wage, with union pay to all skilled workers; and no discrimination because of race or trade union activities. More than 200 ing 40 different C.W.A. projects held a second protest meeting at Turner Hall here against the dismissal of over 3,000 C.W.A. workers, and the wage cuts given all remaining on C.W.A. An executive committee of 39 was elected, and three delegates, amid such enthusiasm by the work- ers, were elected to represent them at the National Convention Against ‘Unemployment. Sixty-five workers from the C.W.A. project on Diehl Road, under the leadership of the Relief Workers Pro- tective Union, marched to the C.W.A. offices, and protested against their being laid off during rainy weather. The workers forced the administrator represent- to meet with their committee, and permit them to make up lost time and get back wages due. ‘BOSTON CELEP RATION Saturday, Feb. 10th, 1934 CLARENCE HATHAWAY Editer Daily Worker, Ss Bie WORKERS CHORUS ‘ARIED PROGRAM Banner to Boston District Dudley St. Opera House ‘U8 Dudley Street, Rexbury Admission 250 : a eaini CONCERT and DANCE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11th, 1934 Peoples Auditorium—?451 W. Chicago Ave. Employment, Pay Rolls || Declined in December, || Federal Report Shows (Daily Worker Washington Bureau.) || WASHINGTON, Feb, 7.—“Fac- tory employment and pay rolls || declined. in December for the third consecutive month,” the Department of Commerce an- nounced today in its February “survey of current business.” “The usual seasonal tendency during this period is moderately downward and after allowing for this factor, employment in man- ufacturing establishments de- clined from September to De- cember by 3.4 per cent,” the sur- vey declared. This Commerce Department announcement comes but one day after Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins informed cor- respondents that “the desperate need for the C.W.A. has faded.” Minneapolis (.W.A. Workers to Hold United Conference Workers in Other Cities Form C€.W.A. Protective Unions MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 7.—At the initiative of the United Relief Workers Association, a Minnesota state conference of all organized and unorganized C.W.A. workers has been called on Feb. 18th, to be held in Minneapolis. The purpose of the conference is to unite the forces of |the C.W.A. workers to carry on a struggle against lay-offs and reduc- jtions in weekly pay, and for jobs or relief. C.W.A. relief workers or- sanizations have been established in Minneapolis, St, Paul, and Duluth, and are springing up in other towns. In Minneapolis, the U.R.W.A. is try- ing to establish joint action with other Minneapolis C.W.A. organiza- tions, and has invited them to a joint conference on Feb. 7th to discuss united action. ° Form Union in Emaus, Pa. EMAUS, Pa.—C.W.A. workers here, at a meeting held at 657 Chestnut St., formed the C.W.A. Workers Pro- tective Association of Emaus. A com- mittee was elected to demand the reinstatement of C.W.A. workers who had been laid off, and resolutions protesting the Roosevelt abandon- ment of the C.W.A., were sent to Roosevelt. ‘The workers endorsed the National Convention Against Unemployment, and pledged their support to the ac- tions that the convention will take jto struggle against C.W.A. lay-offs and wage-cuts, 2 6 Form California Union SAN DIEGO, Calif—O.W.A. work- ers met here Sunday, and formed the Construction Workers Industrial Union. Organizers were elected to organize the C.W.A. workers on the job on the workers demands for a 30-hour week with minimum wages of 60 cents an hour; against the Rooseveli abandonment of the C. W. A.; and no discrimination because of race or political or union affiliations. The workers voted to support the city demonstration on Feb. 3 for the endorsement of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill. se 6 New Britain Workers Freeze NEW BRITAIN, Conn—About 20 C.W.A. workers, employed on the swimming pool project sponsored by Mayor Grugley, have been frozen while working, during the recent zero weather. One worker lost three fin- gers, and others had their ears frozen. i: Workers Demand C.W.A. Continue 8ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Relief Workers Protective Association, at its last regular meeting at its offices at 865 Payne Ave., telegraphed Roose- velt and the Minnesota Senators and and the reinstatement of sll laid-off C. W. A. workers. eo Seek | C.W.A, Artists Get Pay Cut NEW YORK. — Artists 2 3 £ = g Fi PROGRAM STARTS 3:30 P.M.—Dance After Program A Grand Concert of the best Artists of more than 2 dozen language groups. Three prizes will be awarded to best numbers Admission 35¢ — With this Ad 25¢ Auspices: COMMUNIST PARTY DISTRICT 8 | | | | unemployed worker who has to sleep night. “NO DESPERATE NEED FOR C€. W. A.” When Madame Perkins made that statement she didn’t consult this out on the docks In the cold every By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—“The & | Perate need for C. W. A. has fa: Secretary of Labor Frances Parkins | today casually informed correspon- | dents attending her regular weekly press conference. | Asked whether it was “practicable” | millions of workers now existing on the pitiable C. W. A. salaries into the| week of February. It’s too early to| say whether it’s practicable to stop| C. W. A. work. . . this idea of tapering | off the C. W. A. has its own validity since so many people will go back to such work as fishing and the summer | occupations. A considerable number | of those now on the C. W. A. roles will | be returning to normal occupations | and employment. The desperate need | for C. W. A. has faded.” | Evades Question of Hours | “Has General Johnson discussed | with you bringing down the code authorities to shorten liours?” One of | the conservative correspondents asked | Perkins. | “Very briefly,” came the answer. | “We can’t understand it because he’s just lengthened hours in the automobile and shipbuilding indus- tries,” her questioner complained. “Of course, you understand, that due to the kind of skill involved it may be necessary to lengthen the hours to get the labor needed.” | “But there’s tremendous unemploy- "No Desperate Need for CWA-- \Men Can Fish,” F, Perkins Says| Ben Gold, leader of the Industrial Fur Worker: to the person complained about. Silent About Ben Gold “Mis Perkins, has the American Civil Liberties Union sent you a I: protest-ng against Mr, McGrady’s ac- tivity in putting Ben Gold in jail, commit Gold?” (McGrady with the militant fur department of the Needle Trades Workers Indus-| trial Union if they wish to get an} N.R.A. code—Ed, “The rule in this department fs | that if any letter comes in com- plaining about the activities of any | one, it is forwarded to the one com-/ plained about,” the Secretary replied. | “Then you'll walt until Mr. Mc-| Grady returns the letter te you?”| this correspondent asked, “Oh no, I won't have to wait. back, “Gee whiz, I wish editors end pub- lishers would do that about com- plaints in our office,” a reporter re- marked in leaving the conference. “That's a good way of getting rid them,” another interjected. When asked whether she had read the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, formulated by the Unem- ployed Councils and the Communist of Party, and introduced Friday in the} House of Representatives by Ernest Lundeen of Minneapolis, Minn. Miss | Speak in Name of 1,200 | AFL Rank and File Convention Delegates Demand Green’s Stand on Workers’ Bill AFL Locals Endorsing | Workers’ Insurance | WASHINGTON, D. ©., Feb. 7.— | Members of the A. F, of L, at the | National Convention Against Un- | employment, held in this city, | formed a deiegation of 40 to pre- | sent their demands for the passage of the Workers Unemployment In- | surance Bill to a meeting of the A. F. of L, executive council which was in session. On Feb. 5th, the detegation walked into the sumptu- ous offices of the A. F. of L. Wil- Mam Green was presiding over a meeting of the executive council. The delegation for the National | Convention Against Unemployment | represented 1,200 locals, three state federations, and scores ef central | Jabor bodies which had endorsed | the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, } For the first time in history, Mr, Green permitted a rank and file | delegation to present its demands, ee aes into a Wilmington, Del.,| | jail, Miss Perkins revealed that com-! smooth and polite: |plaints concerning such are sent on says, to close down the C. W. A. and force| especially his writing the Judge to} as not yet answered | ranks of the unemployed, Miss Per-/|the accusation that he wrote the fur| kins replied: “We're now in the first; manufacturers not to sign contracts | rn| get {it some fine day,” she smiled | *|having all the data before me.” | ment in the automobile and ship-| Perkins replied: “It’s on my desk building industries.” | now. I haven’t read it and prefer not “We just discussed it briefly, not|to comment on it.” “May I touch on its provisions In replying to a query about As-| briefly?” this.correspondent inquired. sistant Secretary of Labor McGrady’s| “No, I don’t want to say anything action in using his influence to jam! about it until I've read it” Build Chicago A.F.L. 'Ford, Biedenkapp to Workers Committee Address Convention for Job Insurance of Furniture Union | Prepare Mass Meeting to | Session Opens Friday | Hear Weinstock on Workers’ Bill Hall CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Foundations| A national union of furniture work- ers will be launched at the first na- were laid here at a conference Sun- tional convention of the Fi Jona “wel rniture day for the building of a Chicago A. | workers’ Industrial Union scheduled F. of L. Committee for Unemploy-|to open Frid-y evering at Irvine at Irving Plaza | ment Insurance and Relief, affiliated with the national body which has headquarters in New York, An executive committee of 15 was chosen from among 75 delegates who came from A. F. of L. locals with ‘otal memberships of 58,000 workers. Included in the locals represented were those of railroad men, street railway men, machinists, boiler- makers, operating engineers, train dispatchers, cigarmakers, carpenters, painters, iron workers, silk drivers, laundry drivers, bricklayers, barbers, needletrade workers, teachers and locais of other trades and crafts. of besides carrying on a moyement in the A. F. of L. for federa] unem- ployment insurance, as outlined in the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, fighting racketeering and gangsterism in the unions, for union control by the rank and file against the A. F. of L. bureaucracy. A center in which members can meet is to be established. The “Rank and File Federationist,” official or- gan of the national body, was also The conference set itself the aim | | Plaza Hall at 8 p.m. Delegates from manv furniture centers from atl sec- tions of the country will be in at- tendance, many of them organized into a union for the first time. The ovening session on Friday evening will be addressed by James Ford of the Trede Tnion Unity Learue and by "red Bierdenkanny, sec- retarv of the New Yerk District of the United Shoe and Leather Work- ers’ Union. The Saturday morning session will be devoted to a discussion of the report of the national secretary of the union, Jack Stachel, acting secretary of |the Trade Union Unity League, will speak to the delegates at the after- noon session. In the evening the New York union will welcome the delegates with a banquet and dance. adopted as the organ of the Chicago district, The conference voted to prepare @ mass meeting for Louis Weinstock, national secretary of the organiza- tion, who is touring the country and Speaking to A. F. of L. groups. Mr. Green comes out. He is very “Gentlemen,” he “The Executive Committee will | sive you a hearing right away.” The committee of 40 was led by Frank Mozer, a plumber, and chairman of the A. F. of L. Trade Union Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance. Mozer speaks for the delegation: “Mr. Green and council members: I want to state that this is not the first time we have tried to get the Executive Committee of our own or- ganization to give us a hearing. We come from the Convention Against Unemployment, Mr. Green: No objections. Go right ahead. Henry Kuhlman, of Asronautical Local 18236 is the first to speak. Mr. Green: Did your local send|the rank and file asked for referen-|not approve your sitting on the N you here? | Kuhlman: Absolutely; it has en- | dorsed the Worxers Unemployment Insurance Bill. My local wants to Ill. AFL, Independent Trade Unions at Nat'l Jobless Meet) ¢s sex. Many AFL Locals, Not Represented at National Convention, Endorse Workers Insurance Bill WASHINGTON, D. C.—Despite the treachery of the American Federa-} tion of Labor leaders, in refusing to| support the struggles of the rank and | file for unemployment insurance, a} | great number of A. F. of L. locals officially elected delegates to the tional Conention Against Unempl ment. A representative picture of the re-| sponse of A. F. of L. locals and inde- pendent trade unions electing dele- gates to the convention is contained | in the list of Illinois organizations | which elected and sent delegates to} the convention. They are: | Local 42, Pana, Ill, Progressive | Mine Workers of America. | Women’s Aux'liary and Unem- | ployed Council, Pana. | Village Board of the City of Tay- | lor Springs, U1. | Women’s Auxiliary, Taylor | Springs. Ml. | Women’s Auxiliary, Taylor | Sprines, | Coalton Auxiliary, Progressive | Miners of America. Ice and Coal Storage Local 16918, | —| National A.F.L. Officials Evade Workers’ Demands Today workers have te pay as high as $300 to officials for jobs. Our intérnational president knows of it. You know of it. My local de- mands the Workers Unemployment Ini Bill be fought for. Mr. Green: That’s what this meet- ing is for, unemployment insurance. Centralia, Ml. | We are trying to see our way to Boot and Shoe Union, Local 542. | drafting a bill, What is your remedy. U.M.W.A. Local 1397, Centralia. | A Worker: Give us strikes for better Hod Carriers’ Local, Centralia; | No talk that blinds, U.M.LW.A. Local 52, Centralia. Local 4, .. Bellville, Local 8, ., Bellville. ve + Local 6, Nokomis. 000 in all stone trades. Yet you Local 42, oro. ve us support eight different or- Women's Auxiliaries of Hillsboro, izations. We have talked unem~ Nokomis, Panama, Collinsville, | ployment insurance over, The best Pena, ete, (13). | Paid in our industry makes $700 a We want this Workers Un- Labor Loval, A. F. of L., Bellville. nent Insurance Bill passed. Barbers’ Local, Bellville. Methodist Church, Newport. mal Church, Newport. t Church, Brookly: Church of Broo‘lyn. lows Lodge, Brooklyn. Local 59, P.MLA., Canton. Club, Westville. year. emp! Peter Paul (from the lower anth- racite): There are 42,000 members and only 12,000 working part time Mr, Green: It’s terrible I-know, 1 2 & miner myself. The whole delegation burste out } laughing. ss| Paul: You know i is. organizations and trade unions send- | Three thousand men replace: 150, ing delegates to the convention, a| The rest unemployed, starving, We great number of A. F. of L. trade| Will close down all stripping. unions have endorsed the Workers'| Mr. Green: We don't blame you. Unemp'oyment Insurance Bill, but| Paul: You don't give us any en- did not elect delegates to the con-|couragement. We want the Workers vention. » Unemployment Insurance Bill, And { We want it now! The Executive Council grows more of importance, after four years of) | crisis? My local is losing confidence | | because nothing has been gained. | Green then asked Louis Weinstock if his local sent him. | Weinstock: Yes. I am also sec- retary of the Rank and File Com- mittee. After the Cincinnati con- vention, no state bills were in- troduced, despite decision, except in New York; and that is for unem- | ployment reserves for 1935. Yet every | A. F. of L. local I approached en- dorsed unemployment insurance. We ask you very definitely to approve the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, Instruct the locals and internationals to take steps to win its enactment. You know the A. F. of L. has lost over one million mem- bers due to failure to make provision for the unemployed. Philadelphia plumbers pay $4 a month. In 1929 they paid only $2.50. The carpenters union has dropped from 160,000 mem- bers to 85,000. Mr. Green: Why didn’t the mem- bers change this? Weinstock: I will come to that.) You well know that our constitutions | are being discarded by force. When} dums to be sent out, we were told: “We are in charge of this organiza- | tion” by the officials. You know! this. You know about racketeering. | | ing the workers. back and told to get the hell out of | wacpnuomable all the time es othe my local meeting. Is racketeering} “fy Green: Can you expect us as in unions a secret to the Executive! pasonable men to approve something Council? You claim to be organiz-) without analytically studying it? It What did you do! isn't constitution as yet. in Chester, Pa.? A Voice: Then you are against it. Mr. Green: It’s not our fault if} goyjdn’t you call a strike for 1t? they sent back the charter: We) yr Green: What do you want us helped them before when they struck | tg go before they were organized and pre-| 5. notice Delegation: Mobi the: pard. | 1 . Mosher: In two days every man was | eae oo familiar “with out. It is the policy of the A. F. of | the legislative program of the A. F L, leaders that broke the ranks. of L. Jt is not a@ sufficient ok Weinstock: We can’t see why 80Y| Ren so, you do not do anything to workers must have a charter hang-| so.o0 y¢ through ing on the wall to strike. | . va ee Mr. Green: True. But it refiects ae pr fe eda Sr ie unpreparedness to fight big indus- gotten. Where were you when we trialists. They spend millions— | got the anti-injunction bill? A Worker: To fight the workers.) ~ 4 voice: What anti-injunction bill? De you be ved of oe ae for | Are there no injunctions? There are signing je aul and coal codes? ji fi im Weinstock: We want to state that | Iiunet O08 ie POO 5 Oe auras the A. F. of L, leadership Jim-Crows Mr. Green: Why do you blame us? Negroes. i Weinstock: The Executive Council Mr. Green: (Greatly irked): We} is to blame for lobbying and meet- will take care of that matter. It {s|ing in chambers with the bosses and & question of their coming to us.|the capitalist politicians, and not You mustn’t lecture us, | mobilizing the rank and file for mill- Weinstock: The rank and file do} tant fight for its needs, sf A Delegate: When will we get « tional Labor Board. We demand in-/ direct answer on the Workers Un- structions, for immediate withdrawal.| employment. Insurance Bill? Next to speak was William Lip-| Mr. Green: Gentlemen, you had shitz, of t! Yew York Waiters Union. | better go now. We are handling the ask why the delay in such a matter|I personally had a gun stuck in my| He said: “I have been a member for| matter, Chicago Teachers Plan Fight for Pay 'o Hold Mass Meeting in New Campaign CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 6—Still un- | paid after the militant but misguided demonstrations and parades in the Loop last year, Chicago’s school teachers prepared to launch another campaign to win their back salaries and to stop the utter ruining of the local school system. Meeting at the Central Y.M.C.A., teacher delegates representing nearly all of the city’s 400 schools planned to secure rledges from thousands of teachers in support of the new cam- paign. A mass meeting is to be held Saturday at which an attendance of 25,000 will be sought, The time and place for the meeting has not yet been announced. John M. Fewkes, Tilden High School teacher, is in the leadership of the movement. He announced that at the mass meeting Saturday plans will be discussed “to secure needed iegislation to save the schools.” He Stated the campaign will start Feb- Tuary 12th, However, it was uncertain Satur- day whether the officials of the older teacher organizations would join in the new movement. The Chicago division of the Illinois State Teach- ers Association will meet Thursday to determine whether they will go| 6 daily along with the Fewkes campaign. Rank and file teachers here are preparing to prevent the side~track~ ing of the militant teachers’ actions into “safe channels” for the officials of school and city, Only Mass Protest Will Save Thaelman e (Continued from Page 1) Packages of food to more than 1,000 widows of murdered victims of the Nazis, and to the wives and families of prisoners, all of whom are cut off even from the miserable relief ser- Resistance Growing Daily Through this secret network of couriers,.men and women who con- stantly risk their safety and their lives, the committee also obtains con- stant reports of events in that censor- ship sealed country, he said. “We know from all these sources that the anti-Fascist work in Ger- many is growing daily, surely,” he declared, “The underground resis- tance is very great. Small, compact groups who keep in touch with each other only through their captains, for secrecy, are working heroically and persistently everywhere. “Those who supported Hitler are better every day that they have been fooled. The mass feeling against Hitler is increasing con- stantly.” “The whole direction of Hitlerism is toward war,” he went on, “It is Underground Resistance to Nazis Grows Constantly, | Says Chairman of International Anti-Fascist Aid Committee—To Speak in 13 Cities well known that Germany and Ja-|sands of prisoners of the Nazis go pan have reached a very close un-j| through who has not made such an derstanding. investigation as we have,” he said. “The Nazis and the Japanese rul- | “We accepted no hearsay evidence, ing classes both aim at the dismem-|and the doctors and lawyers ex- berment of the Soviet Union. Ger- many wants to seize Soviet Ukraine; Japan to create an Asiatic empire with China and Eastern Siberia. I have learned many details of this in my visit to the Orient, and through our international committee in Paris,” Reports of Torture Victims Lord Marley told of the most re- cent work ot his committee in Paris. It organized a commission of six physicians and six lawyers, who ex- amined and cross-examined more than 100 refugees from German prison-camps, only five weeks ago. “No one can form conception of the horrors and brutality to which every one of the thousands and thou- amined the witnesses closely. What Bae told us is horrible beyond all He told of case after case in which the real events behind the police story of “suicide” and “shot while attempting to escape” which is given out when it is necessary to report on the death of s prisoner. “They will order a prisoner to speak to a sentry some distance off. The moment he takes @ step, he is shot down,” he said, To cap the climax of official horror by which the Nazis maintain their regime of horror, Lord Marley de- scribed the newest method of ex- ecution adopted in “The executioner, who ts always {Endorse Insurance Bill | |at Phoenix Mass Meeting | PHOENIX, Ariz. Feb. 6. — The! United Front Committee Against Un-| | employment, at a mass meeting held) here Saturday, attended by 700, in| telegrams sent to Roosevelt and to| Arizona Senators and Congressmen} demanded the continuance of the C. W. A. program, and the endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill. The United Front Committee has opened permanent headquarters at} 823 E. Jefferson St., next door to the C. W. A. offices. | Relief Investigators Judge to Postpone, LOS ANGELES —Four hundred in- AER vestigators of the County Welfare 2 ‘ Farm Leader Trial | been |. Earl E. , County Superin- WARSAW, Indiana, Feb. 7.—Kos-| iendant of ae. pig Pe, them at the trial of Alfred Tiala, Nationa! |}, c i Secretary of the United Farmers ry Ne ag squaly. gn sloyod League, Mrs. Viola Tiala, his wife) workers are to do when the 0. W. A. 800 in Court Force|*** 200 Los Angeles | 1 Department will be dismissed in the near future. Two hundred have fired already, ciusko County farmers jammed the | ;, Circuit Court room here to capacity | W. we ee “that the O. w re and Jesse Hann, Syracuse farmer. The three were arrested January 20,|°"4S Jensen 33 : = — at the for closure sale of the farm of} n, Says Marley Records of the U. S. employment office in Phoenix show that imme- diately prior to the establishment and operation of the C. W. A. program in Arizona there were nearly 86.000 unemployed registered for relief werk. The C. W. A. has stated that its payroll approximats: 16,700 workers. Maricopa County, in which about ene-third of the state's population live, has a total of 3,500 C. W. A. jobs assigned. |Ford “Raises” Wages |—for “Some Workers” | DETROIT, Feb. 7—The periodic flow of hooey emanated from the Ford Motor plant yesterday as officials “disclosed” that Ford has “raised the wages of 20,000 workers as another step toward resuming the minimum wage, ‘The truthfulness of the report was Seriously questioned when Ford offi- ctals later stated that the wages of game shop workers” had heen raised. fae increases are not general, admitted. Lied drunk, decapitates with a hand Asa Schedule of Tour New Haven, High School, Feb. 8. Philadelphia, Locust St. Thea., Feb. 9. Newark, Y. M. H. A., Y. W. H. A., High and Kinney Sts., Feb. 19. Cleveland, Masonic Temple, Feb. 11. Detroit, Naval Armory, Feb. 12. San Francisco, San Francisco Feb, 18. : | New York, Mecca Temple, Feb. 24: Boston, Repertory Theatre, Feb. 26. larence Gearhart, in Kosciusko County, Over 800 farmers partic- ipated in the struggle against the foreclosure, Circuit Judge Vanderyeer postponed the trial to February 14th, fearing the tremendous crowd in the Court oom, Again he refused to lower the bond which is set at $5,009 for each. Attorneys David S. Bentail of Chi- cago and Albert M. Block of Gary are defending the arrested farmers, If found guilty, the farm leaders are liable to one year in jail. Several day: of other for Frank Bowser, American Legion and former federal deputy district attorney, tried to mobilize the American Legion to use against the farmers in the fore- closure sales. However, the mem- S ago when a number closures were slated, bers of the American Legion refused | ' to be deputized for use against the farmers, There is tremendous sympathy for the farmers’ struggle in this locality. This is the first time that such a Movement of the farmers has been organized on such a scale in Indiana. While telegraph protests fo the judge and sheriff should be con- tinued, the United Farmers League National Office at 1817 South Loomis Street, Chicago, appeals to all farm- ers and workers’ organizations to. send in money for the Defense Fund in order to put up a strong fight for the release of our national sec- retary, Alfred Tiala, his wife, Viola, and Jesse Hann, Indiana organizer, Deaf Form C.P. Unit of 10 in Los Angeles; to Issue Monthly Paper LOS ANGELES, Ca!l—The first deaf workers’ unit of the Communist Party was formed recently, It now reports a membership of ten. In Sept., 1933, an active, deaf Com- munist Party member organized in St. Lou's, Mo., the first unit in the United States which was composed entirely of deaf members. The last report stated that it had 16 members Opera|who participated in all Party activi- ties, Encouraged by this, a deaf com- rade organized the unit here, which is mobilizing deaf workers for better work and relief conditions and will soon issue the first copy of its monthly bulletin; The Pacific Coast Deaf Worker, local head of the) SANTA BARBARA, Calif—The City Council voted that every city employe is to take a two weeks’ “vacation” without pay between now and July, due to “lack of funds.” N. Y. Legislature ‘Deplores'Lynchings ALBANY, N. ¥., Feb. 7—Proof ot the growing pressure of the mass ti-lynching fight on bourgeois gov~ ernmental institutions is given in the ssare by the New York Assembly yesterday of a resolution calling on the federal government to end lynchings, The resolution was offered In the and West.” where they are “executions without due process of law,” but is silent the increasing number of 1 lynch. ings in the courts and on the per- sistent attempts of Alabams courts to- legally lynch the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. The resolution enumerated lynchings of the past few months ae out the San Jose, Calif. ‘ouble Iynching as a particular ex- comple, without, however, condemning: Gov. Rolph for his collaboration and. open defense of that crime, ~~ Laundry Workers Get — Unity in Strike Meet NEW YORK. — A the Laundry Workers Interns os = ri members, who am_ Ber! general the Industrial Union, Fos sicenco question of unity of the file in the strike struggle, a@ complete victory for the when a committee of ten was elected — from the floor to meet a committee from the Industrial Union. ternational officials called the police to break up the meeting but workers forced their wal & militant protest, NOTICE The American