The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1934, Page 3

* Protest Firing of Million Off C.W.A. Today e C.W.A. Layoffs Begin; Roosevelt Jobs for Unemployed ‘Front Protest at Perkins’ Tea Party To Forestall Social In- surance Bill PROTEST TODAY House Bill 7598 Still Held in Committee By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb, 14.—While Civil Works Administration was pol-| ishing off the axe that falls tomor- row, to chop off 1,000,000 C.W.A. jobs by March 1, President Roose- velt today casually informed the press that he thinks unemployment will never be abolished. (Apparently he meant in the United States—it no longer exists in Soviet Russia.) And at the same time Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor, the lorgnetted Frances Perkins, was “asking” for order in a “labor legislation” con- ference of American Federation of Labor officialdom and reformist so- cial-worker representatives of 38 state Governors. Large Scale Tapering Of | Perkins had carefully placed the subject of unemployment “reserves” (the conference will not even con- sider unemployment insurance) seventh among the tonite of discus~ sion, and she completely skipped this subject in discussing the program. Later she announced it would be taken up tomorrow The office of C.W.A. Administra~ tor Harry L. Hopkins told this cor~ | respondent that: layoffs already are| under, way, but that “large scale tapering off” will begin tomorrow. The plan is to take the first million jobs from C.W.A. workers in San Diego, Cal,, Key West and Miami, Fla., San Antonio and other Texas towns, on the theory that “Spring is just around the corner” in these areas. (Presumably “Spring” will be substituted for food.) “Land Planning” Again Rules and regulations giving de- ails of the process by which local .W.A. officials will completely shut down by May 1 will go forth within a few days—along with “revised” regulations on the wage scale, it was said. Present rolls, it was stated, carry 3,800,000 C.W.A. jobs. Recent regulations forbade replacement of C.W.A. workers who dropped out be- cause of accidents, deaths, etc. President Roosevelt disclosed his point _of view on unemployment in speaking to the press about his Na~ tional land planning program. He said it would take the place of public works in course of long-range plan- ning and would help to relieve unem- ployment, which, he added matter-of- factly, we shall always have with us. Perkins’ conference was for all the world like a kindergarten class, the pupils were chiefly well dressed ladies oozing sweetness and light and cigar- smoking A. F. of L. leaders. They recited on workmen’s compensation, abolishing child labor, and health protection by proper physical equip- ment in industry, all venturing the thought that all these are desirable, precious few suggesting anything con- crete, ‘Trying to Forestall Workers’ Bill In an opening address, Perkins ad- mitted that she put all the other matters on the agenda because she was “afraid” that talk of unemploy- ment insurance and old-age pensions would “overwhelm” the conference. She rebuke a news photographer, say- ing she didn’t “fawncy having my photograph taken with my mouth open,” and declared that “the most important thing before the confer- ence” is “co-ordination of the work of the Federal Department of Labor with State Labor Departments.” The Perkins conference is one method by which the Roosevelt gov- ernment hopes to forestall mass pres- sure for the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance bill (H. R. 7598). This bill now before 10,000 Pea Pickers in California Face Machine GunThugs Demand Pay Rise, Union es and Improved Working Ports Conditions are di q 3 Clean water sanitar” itead of 1 cent; St ott sis Sees No Painters Local A.F.L., Calls for Action on the Social Insurance Bill NEW YORK.—Local Union 392 of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper-hangers, A. F. of L., with one thousand mem- bers, at its regular meeting Tues- day night indorsed the Workers Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill (H, R. 7598). The loca! union voted to send a communica- tion to Congressman Lundeen urg- ing the enactment of the bill at the present session of Congress, The National Unemployment Councils, in a statement yesterday, urged all workers and workers or- yanizations not to let the Workers Bill (HLR. 7598), die in Committee, but to send telegrams and letters to their Congressman and to Con- gtessman Connery, chairman of the House Committee on Labor, which is considering the bill, NoPay for CWAMen Saturday Is Threat; Fire Million Today Hopkins Claims to Be Without Funds; Call for Protests NEW YORK.—The four million C. W. A. workers are threatened with josing their pay Saturday because Congress has delayed passage of even the meagre nine hundred and fifty million dollar appropriation called for by President Roosevelt’s “tapering off” C.W.A. relief bill. C.W-.A. headquar- ters claims to have no funds. The | Roosevelt bill, now being discussed by Congress, calls for the firing of one million workers today. The National Unemployment Coun- cil, through I. Amter, secretary, has issued a statement calling on all C. 'W. A. and jobless workers to organize job committees on C.W.A. projects and protest against the lay-off of one million men scheduled by Roosevelt for today. The Unemployment Coun~- cils calls for action by all workers and workers organizations at once to send telegrams and letters to the Congressmen and Senators demand- ing continuation and extension of jobs, without discrimination against Negro and foreign born workers. Recognition of the job committees should be demanded. ‘The Unemployment Councils call for demonstrations and meetings of protest against C.W.A.“lay-offs and wage cuts and for support to the New York demonstration in Union Square at 8 P.M. today. All workers and workers organiza- tions should send telegrams and let- ters to James Connery, chairman of the House Committee on Labor, the Unemployment Council declares. call- ng for the reporting out of that com- mittee of the Workers Onemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). Important Shoe Union Meetings on Today NEW YORK.—The United Shoe DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934 PRECONVENTION DISCUSSION IN TOMORROW ’S DAILY. The Preconvention Discussion with Comrade Gebert’s article is omitted from today’s issue. Tomorrow's “Daily” will carry the article. Jobless, CWA United Union Square Today Demonstrate to Force Continuance, Enlarge- ment of C. W. A. NEW YORK.—Today at 3 P.M., on the day of the lay-offs by Roosevelt of one million C.W.A, workers, the job- less, trade union, and C.W.A. workers will converge on Union Square a united front mass demonstration Only the united action of the work- ingelass will force the continuance and enlargement of the C.W.A., si the Roosevelt wage cuts and mass lay-offs, and force the LaGuardia city administration to grant immediate cash relief to the unemployed. This demonstrations must be made a de- cisive step in the movement to force the federal government to enact the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. All C.W.A. workers are urged to join the demonstration. A delegation will visit City C.W.A. Administrator, F. I, Daniels, to force the O.W.A, to pay these workers for the day on which they exercise their right of protest. In a statement isued yesterday, the Trade Union Unity Council urged all its affiliated unions, and all workers in independent and A. F. of L. unions to mobilize at Union Square at 3 p.m. today for the united front demon~ stration. Col. W. A. Delamater, City C.W.A. Administrator, in a statement issued yesterday, promised that all C. W. A. workers who left their jobs to par- ticipate in today’s united front dem- onstration would be permitted to leave work at noon on that day for this purpose without prejudice to their positions or standing. The C. W. 8S, Administrator issued a sim- ilar notice, Furniture Union to Open Fight Against NRA MinimumWage Delegates on Way Home from Convention; to Build Big Union tion of a new national executive com- NEW YORK.—Following the elec- |History of Social- | Democratic Leaders’ | Betrayals (Continued fro | fascist leader of the Heimwehr, | Prince Starhemberg, is one of the | richest land owners in Austria. The broad masses of the petty-bourgeoisie in city and countryside, who had put their hopes on the promises of So- cial-Democracy, came more and more under the pressure of the crisis of the capitalist offensive and followed the demagogic slogans of the fascists who were organized by the bour- beoisie, came under the influence of the openly counter-revolutionary forces, Step by step, the Austrian kour- | geoisie consolidated its power. | Army Transformed The army was more systematically cleaned of all elements under sus- picion of being sympathetic with the working class and was transformed into a reliable instrument against the working class. he old reactionary imperial office and generals were given positions. The same happened with the police and the gendarmerie The bourgeoisie systematically or- ganized and armed the fascists with | the help of large sums of money, the same time, the arms in the hands of the workers were systematically confiscated, The bourgeoisie con- ducted for years a systematic process of fa ation in Austria, while at the same time, the Austrian Social- Democratic leaders pacified the work- ers, “proved” chattered about the building up of Socialism in Vienna, The Communist Party, which made all efforts to establish the united front of the workers in the struggle against fascization, which tirelessly warned the workers that the road of Austrian Social-Democracy was lead- ing to fascism were denounced by the Social-Democrats as people who wanted to organize a bloodbath. 1927 Demonstration In 1927 a powerful demonstration of the workers of Vienna took place against the shameful decisions of the bourgeois courts, which had also not been touched by the Social-Demo- cratic leaders in 1918. Thereupon, the police of “Socialist Vienna” cre- ated a terrible bloodbath among the demonstrating workers in which hun- dreds were left dead on the streets; during the course of the struggle, the Palace of Justice was burned as a protest against bourgeois class jus- tice. The workers of Vienna conducted in these days a heroic struggle against, the police. But, the Austrian Social- Democratic leaders who were at the head of the strongest Social-Demo- cratic Parties, whose Schutzbund (de- fense organization) was still in pos- session of large amounts of arms, who, in the trade unions were lead~ ing the great masses of workers, in- stead of leading the workers into the struggle, into a strike against the bloodbath and to defeat reaction, @ At} to them that they} should not conduct a struggle and| utilized their big power in order to prevent the workers from big protest actions, This policy made the fascist reac- mittee, the First National Convention of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union adjourned Monday night, all the delegates returning to their re- svective locals. prepared to set down Above photo was taken at a recent FASCISTS MADE EARLY PREPARATIO’ Fascist officers instructing soldiers to use machines guns against the group of Austrian workers opposite FOR MURDER! ‘G WORKERS demonstration in Vienna, tion ever more aggressive and ruth- less. The Austrian working class, the large majority of which was or- ganized in the Social-Democratic or- ganizations, had the power in its hands. But Social-Democracy used its organization and its influence to chain the working class while the reaction undertook one economic and political offensive after the other against the working class. They feverishly biult up the fascist organ- izations, the Heimwehr and the Hit- lerites. When Hitler seized power in Ger- many on the basis of the same policy of the Social-Democratic leaders of Germany as that of the Social-Dem- ocratic leaders of Austria, a sharp struggle developed between the two fascist groups, the Dollfuss and Heimwehr people on one side, the Hitlerites on the other side. These two groups, one financed by Italy, the other by the German Hitlerites, fought each other bitterly on the question of which group should be the monopoly party of the Austrian bourgeoisie and of suppressing the working class, but they were: united in their hatred against the prole- tariat, in their plan to establish the absolute fascist dictatorship in Au- Hitler. After the seizure of power by Hit- ler, the Austrian Communists pro- Posed to the Austrian Social-Demo- crats the establishment of 2 fight- ing united front to lead the power of the working class against the stria on the style of Mussolini andj} | threatening establishment of a fas- A few cist, dictatorship. ¥ J is si , a joint Ontlaw Communist Party demonstration of dicalized They organized for a united front | Social-Democratic w and Com~- ' AUSTRIA — HOW IT HAPPENED! | Only Can of the workers, whereupon the Doll- | ™unists took place. fuss fascists prohibited the Commu- | nist Party, drove it into illegality and arrested part of its leadership. Au strian Soclal-Democracy did not | BI | budge an inch, although the attac Hold Workers Back and held back the prole- t until the Dollfuss fascists took nal blow. he police and the army e trade union and party tematically to con- |fiscate the last arms which the | workers had still hidden, they began the fascization of Austria after the example of Hitler and Mussolini. But now the Austrian workers began to move. For years they had believed They declared that no struggle was to be conducted, that Dollfuss wa the “lesser evil,” compared to Hi and their “hole policy Supporting the “lesser ev: who is right now murdering “thou- sands of Viennese workers, who is bombarding houses with cannons and murdering thousands of women and} | children. Dollfuss’ fascism answered this treacherous policy with a new! blow. The Socialist Schutzbund, in| their joa at the road of bour- which many honest workers who} ¢, d was leading to- | Were sincerely ready to struggle are | organized, was dissolved and driven | into illegality, ‘The Social-Democratic leaders took}. With anger they watched how the | No action, whatsoever, told the work-| power which they had in their pos- ers to keep quiet and continued to| session was taken away from them support the “lesser evil’ Dollfuss. But | piecemeal, and how fascist counter- among the masses of Social-Demo- | revolution consolidated its forces. To cratic workers, the rebellion grew|an ever-larger degree, they began to against this policy of the Social-| understand the correctness of the road of the Communists, a Learn What Fascism Means Democratic leaders. Communist Party, which actively con- | the example in y tinued its work in illegality, won in-|learned what fase: tatorship fluence among the Social-Democratic| means. They saw how in Germany workers, especially in Linz, where the Social-Democracy left the prole- The Austrian | of leading the Austrian | CPU" into the struggle, which, | © ; A ¥ hick could | Promising struggle against the bour- prev dictate Page Three by Roosevelt the Workingelass ow Such Heroism in Its Battles - st dictatorship. Therg n proletariat merei-g, 8 ssed, its bev, leaders tortured, murdered, and they tood at once that tke “lesser Dolifuss, which the Social- Democratic leaders thought would ent the establishment of fascist} : is exactly like Musso~ lint Htler, the bloody execu- the Austrian proletafiat. And they se, with that heroism of which the proletariat is ca- pable, who instinctively know that! they are fighting in the interest of a higher order of society, of a better | future, against | against 2 d barbaric forces, order of society the world “—_ munist workers are jointly conduct- ing a heroic struggle which will play * a powerful role in the greatest days of the liberation struggle of the pro- letai class. At Heavy Odds At the present hour it is not yet clear who will remain victor im these struggle: the Austrian working class led from defeat to defeat by the social democratic leaders, fight- ing in this situation where heavy disadvantages make this struggle tremendously difficult. In this hour, the hour of bloody struggle, where the lives of workers, women and / children, are being destroyed by the bullets of a class trembling for ite profits and its power, in this hour the workers of the world must recog- ; nize which road is the correct one, the | road of social democracy in Austrian and Germany, which led the working class from the position of power in 1918 into Fascist dictatorship, or the toad of the Communists, who in all tries of the world are molding vorkers together into an uncom- geoisie and show the road to power against the Communist Party was th ely few) that power which brought about beginning of the general Austrian | the historical s jet against the working class. aE y oppor- | he historical successes of the Soviet Union, where the Bolsheviks seized power, destroyed counter-revolution The Heim. | 9d are building up socialism. In this hour there is not a single honest worker in the other countries who, in his thoughts, is not among the fighters, who would not wish to fight with a rifle in his hands side by side with the Austrian workers against Fascist barbarism. In this hour, there is not a single honest worker who does not uunderstand that the struggle of the Austrian workers is the big proletarian pre- minaty skirmish of the European | workers for the destruction of fase capitalist reaction and domina- tion. In this hour every worker must learn the lesson that the uniting of the workers into. the struggling united front against the bourgeoisie, the throwing overboard of the bank- rupt and treacherous social democ- 1|tacy, which leads the workers from defeat to defeat and strengthens the forces of the “bourgeoisie, is a life and death quéstion for the prole- tariat. to the work of forging a solid united fighting front of the furniture work- ers in the big centers. The following national officers were elected at the final session: National Chairman, Harry Yeover, from Lan- Chi. Socialist Rejects United Front Against Austrian Fascism caster, Pa.; Vice Chairman, Jack McCarty, from Boston: Secret-rv- || Daily Worker Midwestern Bureau treasurer, Joe Kiss, New York; Na- tional Organizer, M. Pizer, New York. National headquarters of the union will remain located at 812 Broadway, New York City. i The delegates elected to the Gen- eral Ereeutive Board of the union are as follows: Harry Pickard. Silver, J. McCarty, Rich and J. Suckney from Boston; M. Perlow, L. Sitkoff, A. Handy and M. Pizer from New York; Blottner from Chicago; Wade and Gugenheim from Lancaster, Pa.; | A. Sokolov and J. Dillela from Phila- delphia; Balvage from New Jersey; O. Nelson and E. Broden from James- CHICAGO, Ill, Feb, 14—Harold Kelson, publicity director of the Socialist Party, told Tom Mc- Kenna, local secretary of the American League Against War and Fascism, that he could not accept the proposal for a united front against Austrian fascism because “he was against action which involved foreign countries,” He then “suggested” that the League speak to other officials of the Socialist Party, Postpone Jobless Meet Has ‘Good Time Tells N.R./ “I hope, Mr. Administrator, that It was Jacob Panken, former So- occasions as a beneficiary of Tam- all Board of Estimate chambers. The “good time” to which J Panken, Former S.P. Judge, Administrator How Much He Enjoyed| Account of Misery, Jim-Crowism, Slave W. ages | you've had as good a time as I have.” | clalist Party municipal judge, who has been exposed on a number of many favors, speaking to William L. Allan, deputy N. R. A. administrator, on Tuesday, the second day of the tea code board's hearings in the City Mr. Three Mass Meets of Needle Workers to Protest on Austria at Taxi Hearing NEW YORK—The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union issued a call today to all needle workers to rally in three mass |] meetings tomorrow (Friday) noon in a series of three mass meetings the murder of ig people. The meetings will be held at the following places: Cloak and dress workers: Thirty-sixth St. and 8th Ave. Fur workers: Twenty-ninth St. and 8th Ave. work per year, the drivers’ code de- mands that the c!ty government and employers guarantee the difference by unemployment insurance. Demands Jobless Insurance ‘Where the hackman is totally un- employed through accident, illness or lack of job, the code demands that he shall receive from the city gov E 3 E B i 3 g g g z3 a ie: ae i rywhere are urged to “diately to Dorothy Ray, ‘ At the last session of the conven- cents an hour. hours. The union delegates T pledged fight against the wage differentiation between the North and the South, demanding a 70 cent minimum per hour for the unskilled, For Unity of Negro and White The convention delegates unani- mously declared that they will carry on a fight through their locals for Unity of the white and Negro masses, against race prejudice and discrimi- nation against Negro workers. “We will get down to real work now,” said a delegate from Boston. “We must unite all our struggles with the struggles of the workers within the A. F. of L.” Finally, the convention went on record to “greet our fearless, courage~ it and militant leaders of American labor movement, the leaders of the Trade Union Unity League.” “Without their assistance,” said a statement issued by the convention, “we would not have been able to come together at this date for the forma- tion of our rank and file union,” It was revealed that ;|@ lumber manufacturer, W. O. Bel- cher, of Centerville, Ala, has been paying his veneer workers 15 cents an hour, working them unlimited town, N. Y.; and Brooks from| of Del lite aor: legates One Week Emphasis On South NEW YORK.—The meeting of the delegates to the Unemployment Con- vention in Washington take place tonight, has been post- poned in order to enable full mobili- zation of the unemployed to attend the Coliseum meeting in defense of the Austrian workers. The will meet instead on Thi ~ Feb. 22, at 7:30 p, m., at Irving Plaga, | City Events UPHOLSTERY WORKERS MEET An important membership meeting of the Upholstery Section of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union will be held tonight at 1:30 p.m., at 812 Broadway. WHITE GOODS WORKERS MEET A meeting of sil white goods workers will be held tonight right after work at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 FE. 4th st, National Events SHICAGO ¥.C.L. CITY-WIDE MEETING CHICAGO, — Young Communist League membership meeting Thursday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m., at Peoples Auditorium, 3rd floor, 3487 W. Chicago Ave, ————— LORD MARLEY SPEAKS IN DENVER DENVER,—Lord Marley will speak here on Sunday, Feb. 18th at the Broadway Theatre. NEW ENGLAND TOUR OF THIBODEAUX The schedule of the tour of Norman Thibodeaux, Donald Burke and Scottsboro Film is: Lawrence—Mayfiower Hall, 292 Essex St., Monday, Peb. 12. Haverhill—Calvary Baptist Church, 13 Ashland St., Tuesday, Feb, 18, Worcester—Washburn Hall, Mech- snics Bldg. Thursday, Feb. 15, Providence— Odd Fellows Hall, 310 Cranston St., Friday, Peb. 16 Boston—Dudley House, 113 Dudley St., Saturday, Feb. 17. Ce og Mooes Hall, 142 Hancock St., Sunday, . 18, 2:30 p.m. Chelsea—Labor Lyceum, 483 Broadway, Monday, Feb. 19. Malden—Tues- day, Feb. 20, Lynn—aAt I. Dance, Rus- stan Club, Wednesday, Feb. 21. DAILY WORKER MASS MEETING IN DETROIT DETROIT, — Daily Worker Mass meeting Thursday, Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m, at 1343 5. Werry Ave. “Europe and the’ Task of the Revolutionary Movement Here.”* Panken referred was the running ac- count, throughout both sessions, of continual revelations by driver-wit- nesses of miserable, starvation-wage, back-breaking conditions under which the taxi drivers are forced to each dependent. The code further demands that the blacklist system practiced by the op- erators be abolished at once and that there shall be no discrimination or segregation against drivers on ac- count of race, creed or color. Control of the industry must he at Among a mass of other vile con- ditions revealed at the hearing, systematic Jim-Crow system against | onee transferred from ithe police de- Negro eab drivers was disclosed. partment to the Hack Buro of the Uy Fg fact," said Samuel Orner, |'Taxi Drivers’ Union, the code states, PY ey Gilbert Scores N. R. A. Joseph Gilbert, speaking in the afternoon session, told Administrator Allen that “you cannot separate the question of minimum wages from that of maximum hours; they are too closely interlocked.” He cited the fect that under the N. R. A. the minimum wage, wherever agreed to by the employers, has tnvariably be- come the maximum wage. Of the 67.000 licensed hackmen in New York City. Gilbert declared, the records show that only from 30.000 to 32,000 are emvloyed. He referred to the unemvloyment insurance clause in the code as the prover measure for dealing with unemploy- ment in the industry. Irving Krauss, another member of the centrel committee of the Toxi Drivers’ Union, exnesed the fact that the Parmelee and Terminal taxi svs- tems. the two largest taxi comvanies in New York City, worked most of their cabs in one shift a day. The Terminal Company, he revea'ed. uses many devices, such as smeil allow- ances for gas, exorbitant fines for damage and loss of tools, etc., to fur- ther reduce the miserable income of the drivers. Taxi Owners Have Spy System Every cab driver who spoke at the hearing testified to the existence of a widesoread net of spies employed by the big taxi companies and the fleet owners. These spies are given the euphonious names of “inspectors” although we're north of the Mason and Dixon line, | discrimination and Jim-Crowism against colored hackmen prevails in New York's taxi industry.” He declared that, until recently, only green-colored eabs were given te Negro drivers, in order to enable company inspectors and passengers to know that a Negro was driving the car, “At the garages,” Orner stated, “cars are very seldom given to Negro drivers, When a Negro hackmen does get a cab, he is forced to bring in a definite sum at the end of his shift, Sometimes he has te make it up out of his day’s tips, and at other times he even has to put out his own money, if he has it.” The existence of this Jim-Crowism evidently gave the former 8. P. judge his “good time.” Administrator Allen and other N. R. A. officials, who have been try- ing to sidetrack the wages issue at the taxicab code hearings, squirmed in their chairs when they heard the demands of the drivers, which were presented by William Gandall, rep- Sit ied the hackmen's committee Gandall read a code which was prepared by the Taxi Workers’ Union and presented to the committee by Joseph Gilbert, leader of the union and member of the committee of 13. The code calls for » minimum of $23 a week for day men and $25 per week for night drivers. Where the and “supervisors.” etc. industry does not provide 50 weeks Nothing that was said by Maurice ernment and the employer: Millinery workers: —Thirty- ployment insurance at the rate of || Seventh St. and 6th Ave. $13 a week for married men, $10 a week for single drivers and $3 for|Hotchner, attorney for the taxi | bosses, who attempted to deny the nature of the work these inspectors and supervisors were engaged in, could dispel the stigma attached to Spec names by the drivers who testi~ lec. Hotchner, who is executive chair- man and counsel for the National Association of Taxicab Owners, put forward the bosses’ stand that cab- men continue to work on a com- mission basis, instead of the standing weekly minimum salary which they demand. He declared that William Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, agreed with the | bosses on this point. Hotchner also attempted to explain away discrimination against Negro drivers by weakly stating that the taxi color-schemes were necessary to distinvuish different cab companies “who had the good will of the taxi- riding public’ from others whose service wes inferior. The drivers, however, did not capitulate on this, nor on any other point. In his final words to Administrator Allan, Jude Panken urged the estab- lishment of a body composed of rep- drivers resentatives of both the cab and the employers, headed “impartial chairman.” Thus tried to imvose on the taxi the same N. R. A, practices which have been so disastrous to workers in other industries. Pauken's reconmendation for an “impartial chairman” recalled Com- missar Litvinoff's remark at the | Rague several years ago, to the effect | that at the present time “there are two worlds: the world of socialism }and the world of capitalism. And it is another world up in the sky where the angels live. Only an angel could be an impartial chairman here. And I haven't seen any angels walking around here.” {has been rumored about that there | i Spanish Socialists Join Communists in Call for Struggle General Strike Called in Avila, Valencia; Fight ov Reaction Grows BILBAO, Spain, Feb. 16. Nine Persons were toda; clashes between ron and police attem: to break 2 ist Party committees to the United front fight, despite the sabotaging ace tions of the higher bodies of the So- ‘ist party, The reeefonary government at nist and Socialist headquarters in the vrovinee under pretext of a search for arms. The joint appeal called tor a gen- eral strike to begin tomorrow. A general strike was also declared at Palencia in protest against unemployment and the cutting of re- lief, and in sympathy with strikers of a local shawl contpany who struck six days ago. Strikes in the Northern mining districts are continuing, under the militant leadership of the Com- munistr. The strike of 30,000 building trades ‘workers in Madrid was reinforced to- dsy when 10,000 additional eonstrwe- tion workers came out. i i