The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1934 Page ee Workers Demonstrate in Many Cities for Continuation of C. W.A. Job 2 000 i in Aero Plant Reject N.R.A., A.F.L. Proposal; Call Strike ® eos = Loader Wants ‘More War Appropriation; Men Want Higher Pay | By JOHN WHITE | BUFFALO, N. Y. — The 2,000 workers of the Curtis) Aeroplane and Motor Co. and the Consolidated Aircraft Co., now on strike, voted on March ‘27 to sustain the strike vote taken at a special meeting on March 23. The strike vote was taken after the eompanies refused to consider the demands of the workers for an in- crease in wages, to meet the rising cost of living, caused by the infla- tion policy of the Roosevelt govern- | ment. The workers are organized in the Aeronautical Workers’ Federal Union No. 18286, The local has both ployed union aircraft workers. In recent pick-up in production, when the companies received orders the government to build air- for the army and navy shes be used to kill workers coming imperialist war), the companies broke the agreement by new workers and giving them as low as 10 per cent below the basle rate agree upon by the companies. The union committee went to the | companies to protest the violation The committee | He ii increases to meet the rising cost of | | living. The demands were $39 for | bi ANNIVERSARY \; CELEBRATION | given by Turkish Workers Educatioal Club Saturday, March 3ist, at 8 P. M, "BARRICADES" presented by Turkish Workers Theatrical Group PARK She Uaioe Ape ideo Admission 40 Amalgamation Ball We Invite All Food Workers to the Celebrate the Amalgamation of | 70,000 Workers in the Shoe and Leather Industry Saturday, April Central Opera House | 6th St. and Third Ave. New York District ‘United Shoe 4 Leather Workers ‘Union IN MEMORY OF Morris Langer Organizer of the N.T.W.U, Memorial Meeting on Sunday, April Ist, at 2 P.M. Central Opera House 67th Street and 3rd Avenue Speakers: Ben Gold, Max Bedacht, J. Winogradsky, 8. Burt Charles Krumbein. Tickets 26c, to be had at Union skilled workers, $36 for semi-skilled and an equitable raise for the rest of the workers. The company re- fused to consider the demands, At the strike meeting Thomas J. Williams, federal labor conciliator, harangued the workers for about 25 minutes to accept his proposal to arbitrate the question in Washing- ton and ask for an increase of war appropriations from the govern- ment for the airplanes. Williams went even so far as to threaten the workers by saying that if the work- ers persist on striking, the govern- ment will not consider the appeals of the workers and will not give any aid whatsoever. stating that they had no money to} | raise wages. | | | Seabs | he get the companies to sit together Williams wanted the workers to} go back to work on the basis that | with the union committee to arbi-| of police and thugs, trate the question in Washington. | The militancy of the striking taxi drivers is shown by their stopping these cabs despite the presence Won’t Get Past Here! He refused to state how long the | negotiations would continue or to} set a time limit. He also stated that he does not guarantee the out- come of the negotiations. His prime worry was to get the | workers to go back to work and to) (Continued from Page 1) Tth | try to get an increase for the cosm- panies in the war appropriations | from the government for the air- planes, so that the company would be able to make bigger profits, and also to tie down the workers to the | National Labor Board with its long drawnout “arbitrations,” to ham- string the workers just as the Wierton steel workers and the re- cent sellout of the auto workers by the board. The workers rejected Williams’ Proposals. The workers showed |their determination to fight for | higher wages to feed their families | and to fight for the right to strike | and picket. The workers responded to Will- 24-hour picket line around both |plants and by saying that they had enough promises. What the work— ers want is action to increase their wages. The union announced strike head- quarters will be at 244 Forest Ave., with picket headquarters for the Consolidated at 838 Hertel Ave., and at Vulcan and Skillen Sts. for the Curtis Aeroplane Co. All workers are urged to su the strike. ah bi The local is controlled by the rank and file. It organized and is- sued charters to aircraft workers in eon Wash., and Bridgeport, Conn., and has agreements with aircraft workers in St. Louis, Mis- souri, and Baltimore, and connec- | tions with the workers in Waco, | Texas, and St. Monica, Cal FINAL WARNING | 20-50% Discount | Sale Ends Saturday Two More Days to Go at the NEW YORK WORKERS’ BOOK SHOP and Circulating Library 50 East 13th Street, N.Y.C. also at all branches GARMENT WORKERS WELCOME SHERIDAN VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT (Formerly Shildkrauts) 225 WEST 36th STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues BENSONHURST WORKERS Patronize Gorgeou’s Cafeteria 2211 86th Street Near Bay Parkway Fresh Food at Proletarian Prices Saturday, March 31st 8:30 P.M. Andre Cibuiski, Tenor Chorus of 150 Voices Dante Dancers Office, 181 West 26th Street ql 8th Anniversary Celebration BRONX WORKERS’ — PROGRAM — DANCE to Shifrin’s Double Band Tickets at 1610 Boston Road 35¢ - - - CLUB Hunts Point Palace 163rd St. & So. Boulevard Brass Band Dramatic Section Mandolin Orchestra 10S e At Palace 45c Support the Only Chinese Revolutionary Organ in America! {th ANNIVERSARY CHINESE VANGUARD Prominent Chinese Speakers on in China—Chinese Sword Dance—Recital of Chinese the Latest Events Revolutionary Poems—Chinese Soviet Songs (By Daily Worker Chorus)—“Guard Duty,” a Play (By Workers Lab. Theatre)—Negro Orchestra—Concert SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 6:30 P.M. MANHATTAN LYCEUM 66 EAST FOURTH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Chinese Refreshments from 6:30 p. m.; Program 8 p. m. Sharp; Tickets in Advance 35¢.—at the Box Office 45c.; on Sale at the Workers’ Book Shop, 50 East 13th Street (B'way and University Place). ‘ jams’ proposals by organizing a| Union. Foyt brought a contribution | of $1 from the radio operators, Speaking for the war veterans, Davis of the Workers Ex-Service- men’s League, said that Mayor La- Guardia had promised the veterans all that was coming to them. “We got nothing,” said Davis, “and the | hackies can expect the same from | Mayor LaGuardia, LaGuardia’s plan, as well as the company unions’ plan is to starve the strikers.” | Joseph Gilbert, organizer of the | Manhattan Local of the Taxi Driy- |ers Union, received an ovation which lasted over five minutes, when he appeared on the platform to speak. He told how the hackmen had been kicked from pillar to post and how they’ were betrayed in the first strike by Judge Panken, Mr. Levy, Morris Ernst and other So- cialists and liberals. “We are de- termined not to be crushed by the Parmelee and Terminal bosses,” said Gilbert. “Our militant fight will force the bosses to give us a living wage. We know that we have the support of the best section of the working-class in New York City.” Cheering and applause greeted Samuel Orner, president of the union, who told how, when the first strike began he was driving a cab in New York. Orner stressed the | question of fighting against the | Parmelee Jim-Crow system and told how the union was carrying on a | special struggle for the Negro | cab drivers. “Come out and help us| picket the day line at 6 a. m. in the morning,” said Orner. “We must have a 100 per cent picket line around every garage.” The meeting, one of the most enthusiastic held during the course | of the strike, did not only bring ad- | ditional financial support to the| city from the various unions and labor organizations, Nathan Schaeffer, speaking for the International Workers Order said; “The medical bureau stands ready to aid medically the striking taxi drivers. Our organization pledges to bring, within two weeks, $1,000 for the striking taxi drivers. To begin with we are bringing $200.” The meeting was also addressed Trade Union Unity Council Greater New York; Andrew Over- ‘Trade Union Unity Council; Sarah Licht, representative of the Wo- strikers, and J. Baxter of the Marine Workers Industrial Union who told the strikers that “any cab on the waterfront will be tested to see if it can run.” striking drivers but brought addi-/| tional moral support, and support! on the picket line throughout the | by Henry Shepard, organizer of the | of | gaard, General Secretary of the/| men’s Councils who gave $60 to the | 4,000 Pledge Support to Taxi Cie 's tr iipaker Sues “Daily” Taxi Reporter Staff Writer With “Criminal Libel’’ for Backing Strikers By CYRIL BRIGGS NEW YORK.—An attempt to muzzle the “Daily Worker” and break the strike of the taxi drivers | was initiated Tuesday with the) service of a summons on Harry Raymond, Daily Worker staff | writer covering the strike, to ap- pear in the City Magistrate's Court at 425 Sixth Avenue this morning, to answer a charge of criminal libel. Conviction carries a long prison sentence and may be followed by a suit for damages. The Daily Worker is the only paper supporting the strike and ex- posing the enemies of the strikers, and the summons, while served on Raymond, is aimed at the Daily Worker and this member of its staff who has been untiring in attending strike meetings and investigating and exposing the scab agencies fur- nishing the Parmelee and other |taxicab bosses with thugs against |the strikers, Of these agencies, the |most notorious is the Sherwood Detective Agency of 1457 Broadway, which is behind the present attack on the Daily Worker. | The action, brought by George | Williams, one of the lieutenants of this agency, is based on an exposure | published in the Daily Worker of March 21, under Harry Raymond's name, The Daily Worker will continue to try to expose relentlessly the ene- mies of the strikers, and the court and police instruments of the taxi- |cab bosses. The Daily Worker calls | on all taxicab strikers and the work- ers generally to pack the court this morning in a powerful pro- test demonstration against this latest attack on the strikers and the only paper supporting their struggles for better conditions and recognition of their union. Defend your paper! Answer the attack by a tremendous outpouring this morning at 10 o'clock in the City Magistrate's Court, 425 Sixth Ave. ‘The legal defense will be handled by Joseph Brodsky, ‘head of the legal department of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, nationally known for his work in the Scotts- boro case, and Edward Kuntz, I. L. D. attorney, | ‘Bronx Workers in ] C.P.-Called Meet Hail Taxi Strikers. Charged | Speakers fioin Unions, jet, with a membership of 250. Communist Party Address Crowd NEW YORK- —An enthusiastic | meeting of workers was held in sup- | port of the taxi drivers’ strike on | Wednesday night at 2075 Clinton Ave., Bronx, N. ¥., under the aus- | pices of the Communist Party. The meeting was addressed by | representatives from the Needle | Trades Workers Industrial Union who brought a donation of $18.30 for the strike fund, Rose Nelson, organizer of Section 15 of the C. P., who brought a donation of $25 for the strikers, and Harry Raymond, representing the Daily Worker. M. Taft was chairman of the meeting. An attempt to disrupt the meeting was made by a group of hooligans who presented themselves as taxi drivers. This group was soon quieted down by a delegation of taxi drivers who came to the meeting from the Manhattan Local of the Taxi Drivers Union. Joe Krauss, told of the excellent support that the taxi drivers have been receiving from the Communist Party and the left wing labor movement throughout the city. He was greeted by long applause when he s{d that the taxi drivers should support the Communist Party. A final collection taken up for the strikers amounted to $61.30, Pa aa Downtown Communists Back Cabmen call of Section 1 of the Communist Party, more than 600 workers, in- cluding 200 taxi drivers, St., to obtain funds for the drivers, who are waging one of the most militant struggles experienced here in_ years. With Joseph Brandt, section or- being donated by the Majestic Shop ers Industrial Union. Five taxi drivers joined the Com- munist Party. Speakers included Carl Brodsky, a striking taxi driver, Gene Morse, Labor Defense. What is your Unit, trade union, mass organization doing to get new subscribers for the Daily Worker? Help put the sub drive over the top! NEW YORK.—Responding to the! attended | a mass meeting held last night at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E, Fourth} ganizer, acting as chairman, $118} was collected for the drivers, $100} unit of the Steel and Metal Work-| and Sam Stein, of the International | ienund No Firing, Union Pay Enactment of Social Insurane Illinois Miners | Demonstrate Demand Work, Passage of H. R. 7598 | CHICAGO, ml, ‘March 29 wee e | Chicago workers are falling beh’ |the C. W. A. job march to be hel 4 here on Saturday, March 31, broad masses of employed and unemployed workers and miners throughout the }state of MLllinois are mobilizing against the Roosevelt abandonment jof the C. W. A. for jobs and relief to all unemployed, and for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. The workers in Canton will dem- onstrate on March 31 at 2 p.m. at the Emergency Relief Administra- tion. They are demanding a 100 per cent increase in relief, continuation jand enlargement of C. W. A. to pro- vide jobs for all the unemployed, and for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill (AR. 7598). In Pana there will be a mass meeting on March 29 at the Miners’ | Hall and a demonstration March 30. | In Peoria, an important mining, railroad and industrial city, a mass | meeting will be held on March 30 at 2 pm. at the Ray Hotel, The Workers’ Unemployment and Social | {Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) has been | |endorsed by the Disabled Veterans, | with a membership of 160, and by |the Veterans’ Unemployment Coun- In Virden the workers will dem- ee rate at the Public Square on March 31 at 2 pm. The Unemploy- ment Councils have requested the |Jocal merchants to close their stores |for one hour on that day. Locals of | the Progressive Miners of America and the Women’s Auxiliary have endorsed the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill. In Springfield there will be a |Sangamon County demonstration on Friday, March 30, at 2 p.m. at the Court House. In Bloomington, a mass meeting was held on Wednesday, March 28. |The Plasterers’ Local of the A. F. of L. and the Relief Workers’ League have endorsed the Workers’ |Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill (H.R. 7598). In Decatur the workers and miners are demonstrating in Cen- tral Park on Thursday, March 29, at 2 p.m, | In Hillsboro a county-wide dem- jonstration will be held on March |29 at 9 am. at the Court House. In Centralia, where a general strike took place recently, a mass meeting was called for Thursday, March 29, at 2:30 p.m., and a dem- onstration on March 30. In Gien Carbon, a County Con- ference will be held on April 8 to plan a struggle for the continua- tion and enlargement of the C. W. A. to provide jobs for all unem- ployed, and for the Workers’ Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). (Conrad Kay, Brooklyn Food Strike Leader, Given Five Days Jail NEW YORK.—Out of the 23 workers who were arrested for pick- eting the Karp Brothers’ Fruit Store, 2221 65th St., Brooklyn, which has been on strike for some time junder the leadership of the Food Workers Industrial Union, 22 were dismissed and one, Conrad Kay, or- ganizer for the union, was given a five-day jail sentence. A number of cases are still pend- ing before the Coney Island Court. Picketing is still being continued at the store. Three more strikes—one at 298 Albany Ave., Brooklyn, one at the Strauss Dairy, Eighth Ave, and 115th St., Manhattan, and another at the Zion Grocery, 66 Belmont | Ave., are still continuing. The aceéagecceduetion program of the Roosevelt administration has already resulted in the de- struction of 20-40 per cent of the cotton, wheat and corn crop. Never before has there been such deliberate, planned destruction of goods by a peace-time government, It is officially estimated that more than 2,500,000 sharecroppers will be driven off the land by Roose- yelt’s farm program. Already more than 250,000 have been evicted in Texas and driven into pauperism. The following article gives a remarkably vivid picture of the concrete way the Roosevelt pro- gram is strengthening the position of the plantation landlords in the South. It is a document that damns all the claims of the Roose- velt government to be a govern- ment in the interests of the ruined, impoverished farmers, eaters eee By E. RICHARDS The acreage reduction campaign is in full swing, Illiterate and semi- illiterate sharecroppers, tenants, and small farmers, both Negro and white, are herded together like GOV'T FARM uetesert BRUTAL WEAPON IN HANDS OF SOUTHERN MASTERS AGAINST NEGRO CROPPERS | and Jobless for CWA Jobs lees Toledo Men Strike at Amer. Nat'l Company Demand Wage Increases Over Heads of Union Officials (Special to the Daily Worker) TOLEDO, Ohio, ch 29.—Fully 1,000 workers in the three plants of the American National Company, manufacturers of children’s vehicles, walked out Wednesday morning. ‘The strike was called by John Cur- tin, president of the Juvenile Metal Wheel Workers Union, a federal union, after a closed session of the union wage and shop committee. The workers were not consulted. Curtin is not employed in the in- dustry, but is deputy treasurer of the Lucas County Local. The local press states that the only demand |is for union recognition, but the} | majority of the workers, not in- forfhed by Curtin, believe that the | demands also inchide a 20 per cent increase in wages. The ten per cent increase which was announced several weeks ago has not been re- ceived, but the wages are now even lower than since piece rates have been lowered. The wages are now only about $12 a week for produc- tion workers, The metal polishers have been on | strike for several weeks under the leadership of the Metal Polishers Union Local 2. They are demand- ing $1 an hour. The workers are raising rank and file demands. Knitgoods Strikers. Score Bosses’ Ad Appeal to Public Is “Tissue of Lies” | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 29. | —The members of the Knit Goods Workers’ Union, Local 1759, were highly incensed by the appearance | in the press of an ad paid for by the employers. They view this as |a@ beginning of a campaign to de- stroy and disrupt their union. I. H. Feingold, manager of the union, stated “That the appeal of the employers to the people of Philadelphia is a tissue of lies. The mills were closed because our strike is successful, because the employers could not get the workers to enter | the mills and not because of vio- lence. | “The union does not advocate violence. We depend on the intelli- | |gence of the workers to be able to | judge whether or not they wish to | strike, and the workers by their re- sponse showed their decision. “The employers claim that only a handful were striking. There are over 4,000 workers registered with the union and that makes a mighty big handful. “The three statements about wages, code and employers’ willing- ness to meet with employes are un- true. The wages were not in- lcreased. In many instances they were actually lowered. The union is in possession of pay envelopes of the workers of the M. and M. Mills, showing that they earned less than the code minimum. The Hub em- ployers would give workers the full minimum and enclose in a pay envelope a request that in a day or j two the workers return the differ- ence between $10 and $11, their ac- ‘tual wages, and $14, the minimum.” Roosevelt Farm Plan Drives Croppers Off Land ee to “sign on the dotted line.” A great number haven't the faintest contract. They are forced to sign by threats, terror, and fear of “law.” “You either sign or plant no cot- ton this year,” is the slogan of the landlords to their croppers or ten- ants. The local press carries scream- ing articles on what will happen to those who won't sign. “You must pay $50 for ginning”....“You can’t sell your cotton unless——” and an end- Jess chain of such threats. These threats have now material- ized in the Bankhead Bill, which lays a tax of 12c per pound, or $60 per bale, for all cotton over 60 per cent of the five years’ average. An- other is the government's refusal to grant any loans to anyone who re- fuses to sign. Further, the cotton acreage reduction contract states. “Any farmer making false represen- tations will be prosecuted by law.” And how easy it is to “prove” that @ poor sharecropper or tenant has given a “false representation” when this representation is left to the discretion of a board composed of the richest landlords! Rental Premiums Not for Croppers | and Tenants But the most significant and glar- ing provision of these contracts is the fact that sharecroppers and ten- cattle, asked a few questions, and idea what is contained in “their” | | rental premium, which is 3%c per Ib. of cotton. The contract read: “In the event that cotton is pro- | duced on this farm in 1934, by share producer agrees that he will pay to each such share tenant and/or sharecropper upon such tenant’s or eropper’s share of the cotton pro- ruced by him on this farm in 1934, @ sum computed at the rate of such parity payment as is made to the producer.” (My emphasis—E. R.) The payments are divided into two parts, one called “rental” and the other “parity.” Rental pay- ment is a flat rate of 3'4c per Ib. and all this goes to the “producer” —the landlord. The parity is an allotment of “not less than le per Ib. to be paid between December 31, 1934, and January 1, 1935.” This one penny, or “possibly more,” is what will be divided between the landlord and the cropper or tenant. But the contract calls that ALL checks be made payable to the “producer” (the landlord) and states further: “This provision of this contract | shall not be construed: as establish- ing a right in any share tenant and/or sharecropper as against the Secretary (Secretary of Agriculture), but is intended to obligate the pro- ducer to pay to the share tenants ants will not receive a penny of the | tenants and/or sharecroppers, the | efit of the ‘parity payment’ which may be made by the Secretary, to the producer pursuant to the con- tract.” Government Admits “Some Will Suffer” It is very clear that the contract is an excellent weapon in the hands of the landlords for further en- slaving the croppers and tenants, | main will have their starvation | rations cut more than 50 per cent. | This past winter has been more severe than any previous winter; | the coming winter will be much | worse. Already scores of croppers | are “hunting cabins.” Many cab-| ins stand empty, but the landlords | will not rent them, claiming, “We will get more by renting to the gov- ernment than by cropping this land.” This is what Oscar John- | son, of the Farm Credit Adminis- | tration, meant when he said: “Un- | doubtedly the government will rent @ few public roads and sloughs, and | undoubtedly some men will suffer.” (My emphasis—E. R.) Rich Graft for Landlords, Starvation for Croppers When Landlord Deal, of Union County, North Carolina, rented a/ 12-plot plantation from a non-resi-_ dent owner he evicted all but one | or sharecroppers proportionate ben-| of the croppers an. has now rented | | this farm, rent free, for the years | this land, most of which is very sandy, to the government. The | production rate of this land was |computed at the same rate as his best acres. This is possible for a man who himself is on the board, | j and this is what is meant when the landlords say, “it pays to rent to| the government.” But Johnson in his speech forgot | that will suffer.” The program of cotton acreage reduction contains | only evictions, hunger and cold—! death—to those “some men”—and | their families. Let’s see what the | contract provides. Section 7 reads; “The producer shall endeavor in good faith to bring about th reduc- tion of acreage contemplated in} this contract in such a manner as | to cause the least possible amount of labor, economic and social dis- turbance, and to this end, insofar a@s possible, he shall effect the | acreage reduction as nearly ratably as practicable among tenants on this farm; shall, insofar as possible (My emphasis—E.R.), maintain on 1934 and 1935, respectively (unless any such tenant shall so conduct himself as to become a nuisance or @ menace to the welfare of the pro- ducer)... .” (My emphasis—E.R,) (To Be Continued) | Protest in | dation of the C. W. Yunion recognition, Phila, Pitts Minneapolis, Many Other Sections Demonstrations, picket liner mass mectings, marches and dele gations in many cities and town are scheduled to take place, de manding continuation and exten sion of C. W. A. jobs. In Pitts burgh, Phila., New York, Chicago Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Terre Haute, upper New York State York, Lancaster, and other cities, actions demanding C.W.A. jobs and protesting Roosevelt's liqui- have been called. These demonstrations and marches are demanding, continu- ation and extension of the C. W. A. jobs, immediate enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) + no discrimination against Negro workers and union wages and conditions on C. W. A. jobs with recognition of the workers’ com- mittees. Sia ae Call Seven-County Conference. GENEVA, N. Y., March 20—On- tario County ©. W. A. strikers, who have been out since March 19th, issued a call for a seven-county eon- ference to plan struggle against C. W. A. firings, and called wpon all upper New York State ©. W. A workers to join the nation-wide one- hour protest strike Thursday, The 660 0. W. A. steters in Ome tario county, who struck against tite Roosevelt C. W. A. wage cuts, have forced the county relief board to grant relief to all strikers in ex- cess of the starvation C. W. A. wages. Os ieee 15 A. F. of L. Locals Join San Franciseo Demonstration SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. —The city- wide demonstration, to be held here on March 3ist already involves 46 workers’ organizations. Fifteen A. F. of L. locals have endorsed the united front, and will mobilize their |membership to participate. The workers demand the continuation and enlargement of C. W. A, and against the Roosevelt wage cuts. Demonstrate im Cincinnati CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 20.— C.W.A. workers here will down their tools on Friday, March 30, and ;march in a body to the demonstra- tion called at the Hospital Lot, 12th \and Central Ave., at 3:30 p.m, In addition, the workers were to | picket the Welfare and C, W. A. headquarters on Thursday, March 29. Mass meetings will be held on | the jobs, calling upon the workers to organize and resist C. W. A. firings. A delegated conference to plan action against C.W.A. firings, called by the Relief Workers Protective Union, was attended by 60 C.W.A. workers, ha lye Philadelphia Demonstration PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 29, —Workers here will demonstrate against C.W.A. firings at Raeburn Plaza, Saturday, March 31, at 1 p.m. Following the demonstration, the workers will march through the central part of the city. Action In Terre Haute TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 28. — Between 300 to 400 workers jammed the hall of the Labor Temple here Monday, at a united front meeting called by the rank and file committee of action of the C.W.A. Union. The workers en= thusiastically greeted the call for a demonstration to be held here Thursday, March 29, in response to the national strike call. The meeting was called by the rank and file committee, who in the previous week had wrested control of the union from the local A. F. of L. leaders. As a result, the Negro workers for the first time in Terre Haute found themselves welcomed in the ranks of a union, and sey- eral Negro workers were elected to fill the responsible positions in the union, eee Atlantic City Demonstration ATLANTIC CITY, N. J—C.W.A. workers here, many of whom have been notified that they will receive their last pay check this week, will demonstrate for the continuation and enlargement of the C.W.A. Youth Win Demands MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 28, — Unemployed young workers won another victory here in forcing the granting of an additional three days a week work, at wages of $13.20, Two weeks ago 500 young workers were put on the C.W.A. payroll as a result of the youth struggles. One of the provisions won was that single workers receiving relief or | whose families received relief would | not be discriminated against. After the young workers had demanded both Negro and white. Thousands | to show (and consciously so) what lan additional three day's work a will be evicted, while those who re-| is being done for those “some men | month, they were again given work this week. Theatre Is Being Used for Recruiting Scabs NEW YORK.—It was revealed yesterday that the Monroe Theatre, 89th St. and First Ave. is being used to recruit scabs to break the strike of the workers employed by the American Display Corporation, 475 Tenth Ave. The strikebreaking activities of the Monroe Theatre owners were brought to light when workers answering an advertise- ment in the New York American for artists in lettering, learned that they were to be used as strikebreak~ ers at the American Display Cor- poration, The workers at the American Dis- play Corporation have been on strike for two weeks fighting for niieindid rete