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nace ener nena CERCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECETVED YESTERDAY Daly ep reere-ee 7 Total te date ..3,239 Saturday Total .... Vol. XI, 2 . 87 Group Picke To Speed Army — Air War Plans Most Significant Military Move Since the Last Imperialist War BAKER HEADS BODY Choose War Experts for Intensive Preparations By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau.) WASHINGTON, April 10. —Secretary of War George H. Dern, former Governor and banker of Utah, today an- nounced the eleven members of “a combined military and civilian committee” which will meet in ‘Washington in about a week to draft | elaborate plans for increasing the} effectiveness for war of the Army| Air Corps. The formation of this committee is one of the most signifi- eant War Department moves since the close of the imperialist world| war in that it seeks to co-ordinate the general military, scientific and industrial-military activities of offi- efal and unofficial organizations. Newton D. Baker, former War Secretary who is now one of the leading public utilities, automobile and open shop lawyers, will be chairman of the group which was selected, according to the War De- partment, “to make a constructive study of the Army Air Corps.” Ma- jor General Hugh A. Drum, Deputy Chief of Staff of the War Depart- ment, will act as executive vice- > NEWTON D. BAKER Secretary of War in Wilson’s war Cabinet who has just been appointed to head a civilian and military board to control aviation. Aircraft Men In Hartford Out on Strike Munition Plants Face General Walkout as chairman, while Brigadier General Charles E. Kilbourne, Assstant Chief | of Staff of the War Plans Division | of the War Department, will also| play a prominent role. | “In selecting the members of the committee.” the War Department | decldred, “the Secretary of War has sought to secure the assistance of men especially associated with the development of aviation in America, both from the military and civil viewpoint. Mr, Baker's acceptance of the invitation to serve will bring to the group invaluable experience | resulting from his great work as Secretary of War in the World War and, subsequent thereto, at the time of the reorganization of the army in 1920.” War Experts ‘The aviation war plans group also includes: Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, Chief of the Air Corps; Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Major General George §. Simonds, Commandant of the War College; Dr. George William Lewis, director of Aeronautical Re- search, National Advisory Commit- tee for Aeronautics; Clarence D. (Continued on Page 9) Soviet Spokesman Renews Plea for Real Disarmament Urges Soviet Definition of Aggressor Be Put Into Agreements GENEVA, April 10.—A renewed declaration of the Soviet Union’s readiness to enter into any agree- ment which will actually bring dis- armament, was made here today by Boris Stein, Soviet representative, at n meeting of the steering committee of the “disarmament” conference. Such an agreement must be uni- versal, and apply to Eastern as well as to Western powers, he declared. He urged that the Soviet Union’s definition of an aggressor nation be taken up and embodied in all proposals for non-aggression agree- ments, including President Roose- velt’s. Against the urging of Capt. An- thony Eden, British representative, who recently made a tour of Euro- pean capitals in an effort to organ- ize an anti-Soviet grouping, the committee voted to meet on April 30, and to call a,full session of the conference May 23. Arthur Hender- son, chairman, was empowered to postpone the meetings if he wished. News 1 Flash FALL RIVER, Mass., April 10. —The entire textile printing in- dustry of Fall River faced a shut- down today when over 650 weay- ers of Mill No. 2, of the Ark- wright Corp. joined the strike he- ing conducted by the weavers of the Algonquin Printing Co., and the American Printing Co. The terrific speed-up is one of the con- ditions aganst which the workers are fighting. The move in the Arkwright was taken against the orders of the United Textile Workers officials, who are trying to keep the strike action split. The Printing Work- ers Union is meeting tonight to gall the rest ¢* the Arkwright workers out, Strike Move Grows Special to the Daily Worker) One hundred and forty-eight | workers, employed by the Hamil- | ton Propellor Company, walked | out today at the beginning of the | aircraft strike. As the strike con- | tinues to spread throughout Hart- | ford, the workers at the Chance- | Vought and the Pratt and Whit- ney Companies are scheduled to strike on Wednesday and Thurs- day. The aircraft workers, under the leadership of the Industrial Aircraft Workers Union, an in- dependent union, are demanding a 10 per cent wage increase. The strike of the 2,000 workers in the Arrow Electric Company continues solid, with all the work- ers in mass picket lines. The Communist Party of Hartford has called for mass support to the strike and to spread the strike to other plants. The plants of the Pratt Whitney Tool Company, Pratt-Cady, Un- derwood Typewriter, Colt Fire Arms and many others face a gen- eral walkout of all Hartford work- ers, Palace Plots Alleged in Rumania and Siam BUCHAREST, Ajril 10—Twenty army officers and 100 civilians have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to kill King Carol of Rumania. The conspirators rep- resent groups who feel Carol and his government are not capable of coping with the deep unrest of the Rumanian worker and peasant masses who are resisting more and more aggressively the unbearable eects forced on them in the ee ge BANGKOK, Siam, April 10—One hundred persons were arrested in seize control of the army, commu- nications, and government buildings by @ coup d'etat. HARTFORD, Conn., April 10.—| connection with an alleged plot to| people and mate | Aim of Charges Is To| Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at fhe Poit Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1870 d |Wirt Calls’ Tass Man,) NRA Heads' “Real Reds” End Demagogie Promises By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 10—Dr.| William A. Wirt, School Superin- tendent for the U. S. Steel town of Gary, Indiana, seeking to substan- tiate his absurd charge that the Roosevelt “Brain trust” are plot- ting “revolution” leading to Com- munism, today told a House Com- mittee that “Lawrence Todd, repre- sentative of Tass, the Soviet Gov- ernment News Agency,” asserted in his presence that, “Roosevelt is only the Kerensky of this revolu- tion.” Immediately afterward Todd denied the charges in full, declaring to the Daily Worker: “T made no suggestion that the) President or his policies were pro-| |} moting Socialism or Communism. In my presence there was no men-| | tion of revolution, of Kerensky, or | Stalin or of any desire or plan of retarding recovery, or of anyone or any group’s controlling the Presi- dent’s policy. There was no sugges- tion that Roosevelt had been forced into any ‘stream of action.’” Gastonia Strikebreaker Chairman The characterization of Todd as a Soviet News correspondent at the time Wirt referred to was incorrect. | at the time of the occasion Wirt mentioned during a private dinner jseven months ago—Todd was a | correspondent not for Tass but for Federated Press, Labor News Agency. Most of the thousand or more spectators at Wirt’s appearance be- fore a special committee of the House of Representatives, appointed to investigate the “revolution” charges, thought it was all a grand farce. They listened to the statements by the red-faced, ner- yous little witness and to the inept questioning by the chairman of the committee, Representative A. L. | Bulwinkle, a “leading citizen” of | Gastonia, North Carolina, who was Ja guiding spirit in the terror | against the heroic textile strikers in | 1929—and laughed ‘out loud. But the investigation is more than a show. It, and the Wirt cam- (Continued on Page 2) Need ‘Brain Trust’ | To Fool the Masses, Richberg | Declares Says “Revolution” Talk Is Needed to Hide Exploitation By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 10—In de- fense of the Brain Trust, Donald R. Richberg, Chief Counsel of the N. R. A. warned business men’s lawyers of the trade and commerce | bar association tonight not to “cry out against a mythical brain trust” because the brainy men of the N. R. A. are keeping the American working class from growing “im- patient of the slow process of so- cial betterment.” The Richberg address to the big- shot lawyers was made by telephone from Miami, Fla., to their meeting in the Biltmore Hotel in New York. A copy of the speech was released to the press here, “Former masters of the world relied upon armies to suppress the aspirations of the disinherited masses, forgetting that armies must be composed of common that in the ulti- conflict a hired soldiery (Continued on Page 2) Only 12 Days Remain to Send In Your May Day Greetings An alarmingly small number of greetings have come in for the May Day edition of the Daily Worker, to be printed in the 24-page, half- million-copy edition. So meager are the greetings which have come in so far, that they lag far behind the number received at similar dates for the last three big editions which the Daily Worker was published. This state of affairs again em- phasizes the necessity of all work- ing class organizations, clubs, units, branches, etc. throughout the country sending their May Day greetings immediately to the Daily’ Worker. The deadline for all greet- ings is April 22—only 12 days away! Get on the job immediately if you expect your organizational greetings to appear in the 24-page Daily Worker! Take up this important question at your very next meeting! The question of greetings assumes special importance now, in view of the fact that the entire Daily Worker editorial staff is collecting material for one of the most out- standing editions ever to be pub- lished in more than ten years of from different districts, a special page prepared by “Trud,” the offi- cial organ of the Soviet trade unions, political, historical and cul- tural features of all kinds—all these will appear in the May Day edition. And greetings must come in to en- able this outstanding edition to be successfully published. Altogether different from this situatton is the one which prevails among the groups which are order- ing special bundles of the May Day edition. In Philadelphia, the mem- bers of the Spartacus Club called a meeting of Greek workers to discuss the Daily Worker, its significance to the working class in its everyday struggles, its importance to the for- eign-born workers, etc. The workers present decided to order 1,000 copies of the special May Day edition, and money to pay for them was collected on the spot. The Spartacus Club also decided to challenge every lan- guage organization in Philadelphia to order more copies than 1,000. If such a challenge is taken up, the Spartacus promises to surpass its challengers. Organizations in all districts! NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1934 Browder’s Masterly Report To 8th C. P. Convention to Appear in Saturday ‘Daily’ of the Daily Worker. able to do so. Reserve Egan Decision on I.L.D. Appeal Eastman Urges LL.D. Asks Workers to Demand Freedom of S.M.W.I.U: Leader (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 10— Reserving decision to a future date, and terming the stacks of protest resolutions sent in by workers’ or- ganizations “threats,” the judges of the Superior Court here today heard the appeal of the case of James Egan, national secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. The judge displayed the same prejudice which was displayed by the District Attorney when he was prosecuting the case. Since the successful organization and strike of the 5,000 Ambridge steel workers, led by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, Egan has been made a target of at- tack by the Pennsylvania Steel barons. While the court was in session, protest resolutions demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Egan, continued to arrive. The Pittsburgh District of the Interna- tional Labor Defense calls nuon all I, L, D. branches throughout ‘the country and upon all workers’ or- ganizations and unions, particularly the locals of the Amalgamated As- sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to immediately send pro- tests to the Superior Court judges The inspiring report of Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States, to the Eighth National Convention of the Party, will be printed in full in Saturday's edition The report will take wp four full pages of the enlarged Saturday edition. I will be printed in a separate and complete section, so that readers who want to preserve this historic document will be This masterly report, which lasted for almost six hours at the first business session of the Cleveland convention, and started the fruitful and complete discussion which followed for the duration of the sessions, is one which should be read by all workers who are interested in the present situation in the United States. Districts who expect larger distributions should insure their receiving greater numbers of copies by sending in their increased orders for the Saturday edition without delay. Rule Against R.R. Strikes, Roosevelt Official Says'| the Union Chiefs Support It By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.— A clear-cut endorsement of a pro- vision for compulsory arbitration of | railway labor disputes in the Dill} Bill was made today before the Sen- ate Committee on Interstate Com- merce by Federal Co-ordinator of Transportation, Joseph B. Eastman.) He read a prepared statement on| the bill in which he declared that) when the regular members of the National Adjustment Board, which is provided for in the bill, disagree, “They must call in a neutral mem- ber appointed by the mediation board to decide the case.” Eastman told the committee that the railway labor executive associa- tion, headed by A. F. Whitney, are willing “to agree to such a provi-| sion.” The bill by Senator Dill (Demo- crat of Washington) is entitled: “A bill to amend the railway labor act) approved May 20, 1928, and to pro-| vide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employess.” Brotherhood Chiefs. Agree Eastman, who has been con- ferring with William Thiehoff, | the representative of the railroad magnates, and with the Whitney group on the dispute over Presi- dent Roosevelt's company-inspired at the City Court Building, Pitts- burgh, Pa. (Continued on Page 2) Demanding Jobs, Relief, 1,000 Storm Chicago Young Communist League Calls Meeting to Demand Jobs for Young Workers By DAN DAVIS (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau.) CHICAGO, April 10. — Bricks crashed through the windows of the local C.C.C. Registration offices at 310 Madison St. early this morning when 1,000 young workers demanded that the doors of the closed head- quarters be opened to registration for jobs or cash relief. More than 400 of the workers, led by the Young Communist League, marched around the building to unite the workers standing in the front and in the rear of the of- fices. A young worker put his fist through the window of a truck LaGuardia Bill Is Passed by Senate In All-Nite Session Deciding Vote Is Cast by Senator Thayer, Utilities Grafter ALBANY, N. Y., April 10. — After three months of political dog-fight- ing here, the LaGuardia City Eco- nomy Bill was passed at 4:10 a. m. today by the State Senate. The vote was 38 to 6. ‘ Under the terms of this bill, which was long ago exposed in the Daily Worker as a vicious attack on the wages and living standards of New York workers, LaGuardia and his Board of Estimate now have the legal power to cut salaries of under- paid city employees, to enforce pay- less furloughs on the lower-salaried workers, to “reorganize” city de- partments, etc. After much wrangling, the all- night session of the Senate had just succeeded in collecting 33 votes in favor of the wage-slashing bill. Another vote was needed to insure its passage. And—who should ap- pear at the doorway but Senator Warren T. Thayer, the exposure of whose grafting connections with the big utilities interests while he was supposed to be safeguarding the state’s population from exorbitant power rates, has just raised a big stink in the Legislature. Thayer cast the 34th and deciding vote, thus aiding the “progressive” LaGuardia gang to jam a new wage-cut down the throats of New York's working the Daily's existence. Special pages Send in your greetings today! population, C.C.C. Offices which started through the ranks of | the workers. The auto stopped, and trucks following it went the other | way. | As the workers arrived at 6 a.m., copies of the weekly paper, “The Young Worker,” were distributed. and discussion held on the plight of | the youth. Many had waited in line) all night. | Three thousand came to the office | during the morning, many leaving immediately on being told by the of- ficials that registration was closed. ‘Two squads of police were finally called out to disperse the workers. The young workers shouted they would be bak the next day. A meeting will be held Wednes- day at 1118 Madison Ave., called by the Civil and Public Works Labor Union, to organize a youth section. A man over the age limit of 25 for those eligible for the C. C. C. camps | demanded a job at the office, which is also the headquarters of the Re- lief Commission’s Public Relations Bureau. He was Arthur Louis Giese, 2114 Lincoln Ave., who was laid off the C.W.A. in January. “I want to be taken off relief and | put to work,” he said, “I can't live on $5 a month. I'm single, but sin- gle men are here to earn a living, too.” would go to married men only. |put the finishing touches on their WEATHER: Fair, colder, ~— AMERICA’S ON CLASS DAILY LY WORKING NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Motor Products Strike Ends; AFL Heads, Gov’t Pressure Drive Men Back West Va. Miners Gird Forces to Defeat NRA | Sellout by UM Three Anti-Fascists | To Be Tried Today || in Brooklyn Court || | BROOKLYN.—Three anti-fas- cist workers arrested at the Nazi demonstration in Ridgewood, will be tried this morning in the Ridgewood Court, 5th district, on Catalpa Avenue. The arrested workers are Aaron Schlossberg, Nathan Friedman, 17, and Abe Bloom. Workers are urged to pack the court to show their solidarity with the anti-fascist workers. Cabmen Hit S.P. Move to Split Unity, Cabmen Force Entrance | of Orner to Speak for Unity NEW YORK.—In an attempt to plan to split the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York and herd the men of the Bronx and Brooklyn locals into the graft-ridden Ameri- can Federation of Labor, Socialist leaders Matthew Levy and Amicus Most called a meeting late yester- day afternoon in the Hunts Point Palace. | ‘The meeting, called by the heads of the Bronx and Brooklyn locals, who invited the Socialists to speak, was attended by only 400, many of whom were Socialist and Y.P.S.L.| members. Samuel Orner, president of the Manhattan Local, who arrived at the meeting to speak against the} plan of the Socialist leaders, was barred at the door from entering the hall. But when the news of his arrival reached the taxi men inside, they shouted: “Let him in! Let him in!” and forced his admit- tance. Packing two meetings of the} Bronx and Brooklyn locals of the Taxi Drivers Union held yesterday at 5 a.m, at Hunts Point Palace and the Amalgamated Temple, members of the Socialist Party and Young Peoples Socialist League, helped Norman Thomas put over a reso- lution calling for a split in the) union and the affiliation of these locals with the A. F. of L. A large number of those voting for | the resolution were not taxi drivers | and not members of the Taxi Driv- ers Union of Greater New York. | Meanwhile, hackmen in Manhat- | tan were aroused over the maneu- vers of the Soialist leaders and Her- man Goldstein and Samuel Smith, presidents of the Brooklyn and Bronx locals, to split these two se2- tions away from the main body of the drivers in manhattan. All throughout the day yesterday (Continued on Page 2) | 37 German Miners Face | “High Treason” Trial | MUNICH, April 10—Thirty- seven coal miners from the Penz- berg district, Upper Bavaria, went on trial here yesterday on charges of high treason. They were arrested for revolu- | tionary activities among the min- talking explosives from the mines.! | lution | “captive” mines. W Heads Tell Johnson and Lewis | They Want Demands Before Returning | (Special to the Daily Worker) | FAIRMONT, West Va., April 10— With coal code revision hearings | Opening in Washington, in an at- tempt to settle the strike of 30,000 Northern West Virginia miners United Mine Workers of America field organizers here began to lay the basis for a betrayal of the| strike, | They propose the usual sell-out | | formula that the N.R.A. and Roose- | velt has used all along in the great | strike wave of telling the miners to| 80 back to work, and let the N.R.A.| “settle” demands afterward. They tell the miners the N. R. A. will take | care of them by “arbitration” after the mines begin working. To add force to their proposals, the U.M.W.A. organizers also in-| structed every mine local not to| send picket reinforcements to the} mines trying to operate, especially in Jordan and Carolina, without first obtaining permission of the organizers, | On the initiative of the rank and| file opposition forces, though insuf- ficiently organized and without the necessary contacts, every U.M.W.A. local answered this move yesterday and today by sending a strong reso- to General Johnson, and John L. Lewis, stating no miner will return to work until an agreement is signed meeting all demands They further declared that this must include commercial as well as They rejected in advance any» separate agreements for individual mines, | Together with the resolution to| Johnson and Lewis, they also an- swered by concentrating mass} picket lines, with many locals con- demning the proposals of the Lewis| organizers. This morning mass picketing was the greatest since the strike began. By this means the miners answered the importation of more state po: lice and company guards, who yes: terday fired machine guns in thi air at the Jordan mine in an at. tempt to terrorize and disperse the picket lines. The rank and file opposition forces in local meetings insisted on mobilization of women for picket duty. This morning, for the first time in the strike, militant women Picketed and attended mass meet- ings of the strikers. According to all indications, the next few days will witness a great resistance of the miners to the N. AFL Leaders Try to | Avert Dock Strike Rank and File Urging Action SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 10.— Leaders of the International Long- | shoremen’s Association have sqelched another strike movement. The gulf longshoremen were ready to strike for a 15-cent increase in wages, but after leaders of the Association had an eight hour conference with the shipowners they announced that the strike would be postponed at least 30 days pending further discussions. A number of militant rank and file members of the union have sug- A. F. L. Chiefs Prepare Sell-Out of Main De- mands of Walkout STOP STRIKE SPREAD Smith Offers Scab Bosses ames of Union Men BULLETIN DETROIT. — Police again at- tacked the pickets at the Detroit Stove Company, who were massed to prevent scabs from entering the factory. Three of the pickets were ar- rested and several beaten so badly that it was necessary to give them first-aid treatment. . * DETROIT, Mich., April 10.— Mathew Smith, general secretary of the Mechanics Educational So- ciety of America, independent union of the tool and die-makers, agreed to turn over the member- ship rolls to the Ternstedt Manu- facturing Co. and the Fisher Body Co., beth General Motors units, according to a statement in the press today. The Detroit Times quotes him as saying: “We expect to let Tern- stedt and Fisher have the records within 24 hours. This is the first time here that any union has agreed to disclose members to Plant officials.” Smith thus openly boasts that what not even the A. F. of L. lead- ers dared do, fearing the anger of the members, he without consult- ing the rank and file is planning to do. This practically invites the open shop General Motors Co. to blacklist M. workers. The statement ca after a previous denial by Smith that he woud turn over membership lists. This marks a new and more open treachery by this crafty slinger of radical phrases. Smith is also laying the basis for throttling the general walkout of over 15,000 tool and die-makers scheduled fer Thursday midnight by turning over the dispute to the Regional Labor Board of which Smith is a member. The tool and die-makers are demanding a 20 per cent increase in pay and a 36- hour week, * DEROIT, April 10. — Fifty-eight hundred Motor Products workers on strike here since last Wednesday returned to work today after the fu veight of Government pressure had een brought to bear in an effort to drive the men back. In order to send the workers back to prevent the strike from spreading to other plants, the company, the National Automobile Labor Board, and Edward McGrady, N.R.A. rep- resentative, were compelled to make | some concessions. With the thunderous rejection by strikers on Sunday of the nine-point agreement proposed by the Labor | Board still ringing in their ears, they were forced to add a tenth » A. s’s § eb) in eae nd Lewis's atleepreekink | oant. “at fa fuither aac sane kts | ‘ standard rate upon which piece rates are computed shall be in- creased 10 per cent for skilled and semi-skilled workers.” The original nine-point proposal | | (Continued on Page 6) |New York Employment Rise Shows Increased | Exploitation of Labor NEW YORK.—While factory em- ployment in New York -State in | March rose to 72 per cent of the | 1925-1927 levels, wages were only 58 | per cent of the levels of those years, | thus showing an increased rate of exploitation. Teh gains in employ- ment, more than cancelled by the | rising costs of living, are entirely | in stocks which have been piled up | in anticipation of strikes, and also repreesnt what is ordinarily a sea- gested that the longshoremen organ-| sonal gain in business. The figures ize their own committees, and if the} on employment weer released by B ‘The officials said work relief jobs| ers, and framed up on charges of | leadership does not take action, to| F. Andrews, State Industrial Com- strike over the heads of the leaders. ! missioner, NEW YORK. — A committee) headed by Carl Brodsky, Secretary of the United Front May Day Ar- rangements Committee, yesterday afternoon presented documentary proof of the priority of its applica- tion for Union Square between the hours of 1 and 5 on May Day to Roger Baldwin, one of a committee of three appointed by Mayor La- Guardia to consider the question of the police arrangements for Union Square on May Day. The committee repeated the charges it had made last Friday and Monday to Mayor La Guardia that the city administration had grossly discriminated against the United Front May Day demonstra- tion against Fascism and War in assigning hours for the use of Union Square. The committee emphasized the fact that its invitation to the So- cialist Party for one united froat | May Day demonstration had be™ | United Front Committee Firm on Socialist Youth Club to Send Delegates to United | Front May Day Meet Saturday rejected by the Socialist leaders, as well as the fact that the police de- partment, at first agreeing to the plans of the United Front Commit- tee for the use of the Square from 1 to 5 on May Day, later revised these plans in alliance with the So- cialist Party leaders as a blow against the proletarian united front. The committee insisted that the police department stand by its original agreement for the United Front demonstration to be in the Square from 1 to 5, pointing out that the arrangements already made by the United Front Committee, the number of marchers and the subse- quent evening celebration in Madi- son Square Garden, make it im- possible for the committee to radi- M oe y Ist Plans and betraying the revolutionary May Day traditions of international pro- letarian solidarity. It is expected that a militant demand for working class unity will be made by many at the Socialist demonstration itself in Union Square. An indication of the growing sen- cally change its plans. From discussions in the shops and unions, it is evident that the) workers are determined to carry|timent among Socialist workers for through the plans of their delegates; the united front is given in the ac- on the United Front May Day Ar-| tion of the Upton Sinclair Young rangements Committee, and bitterly | Circle League (youth branch of the resent the continued splitting tactics, Workmen's Circle) in selecting three of the Socialist leaders. Great re-| delegates to the United Front May sentment is being expressed at the| Day Cnference called by the United rejection by the recent Socialist | Front Committee for this Saturday, May Day conference of the proposal) one o'clock, at Webster Hall, 119 for a May Day United Front made} East 11th St. Reports from many by a delegation from the United| unions and fraternal organizations Front Committee, | indicate a record participation ir Resentment is also growing among | the conference and militant suppots rank and file members of the So-| for the united front. The Com- cialist-controlled unions and the! mittee yesterday urged all delegwces Socialist Party against the traitor-| to be on time for the conferénce ous policies of the leadership in| and to bring the donations of their dividing the ranks of the workers! organizations with them, “«

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