The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1934, Page 3

Hit Company Unions 1000 in Akron Hear| Monterey County Fore DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1984 ‘Browder Speak on To Resist Evietions, ed Pittsburgh Jobless Police Brutality Fails Scrap Anti-Picket To Break Aero Strike In Vote In Utility conmunistWayOut | Workers from Rubber) jand Other Plants Show! t: K ) i § . Law Under Mass Protest © eg = |March on Ot 2,000 In Buffalo ee Power Plants Today Workers Urged to Vote fer Own Union in Plebiscite NEW YORK. — To smash down the attempts of the big gas and electric companies to foist company unions on their | employes, eighty-five per cent of the workers of the fifteen Con-/| solidated System Companies have; petitioned for a plebiscite to vote on a union of their own choice. The balloting in the following eight companies will be held today: Astoria Light, Heat and Power Co! pany, New Amsterdam Gas Com- “| opposition of the top leadership of | 85 Kenosha Bed Spring Strikers Win Pay Rise KENOSHA, Wis., April 11—The strike of 85 workers in the Vin- cent-McCall Bed Spring plant, begun Feb. 5, was settled last week with a 10 per cent increase in pay for the | workers. Besides, the strikers won recognition of the-union shop com- mittee. The men went back to work under the banner of their federal union, Local 18846. Though the workers did not win all their de- mands, the company failed to smash the union or the solidarity of the workers, The strike was run by the workers themselves, rejecting all the A. F. of L. peny, Mast River Gas Company of; ~ Great Interest AKRON, Ohio, April 11—Over 1,000 Akron workers heard Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, speak on the Communist way out of the crisis at @ mass Meet here yesterday in the Perkins School Hall. Many of the workers from the strike ranks, from the rubber and other factories, as well as unem- ployed and students, listened with an intentness and interest such as| was never seen before. Browder's explanation of the meaning of the “settlement” in the threatening general auto strike was of especial interest to the rubber workers, who at present face sim- ilar action from their A. F. of L. top leaders. More than 20 workers got up and asked questions and took part in | Industrial Unio n: Pushes Plans for a Powerful) Strike of Cantaloupe Pickers on Low Pay and Miserable Conditions SAN DIEGO, Calif, April 11— instructions of shippers, who are using legal and extra-legal terror to prevent a strike of cantaloupe pickers for bet- as a result of wide mass protests, Nine other agricultural counties still have such ordinances, passed as an answer to the successful nery and Agricultural Workers’ In- dustrial Union last season, in peas, cherries, peaches, lettuce, apricots, pears, beets and cotton. agricultural strikes led by the Can-/} Long Island City, Central Union Ges’ Company, Northern Union Gas Company, New York & Queens Gas Company, New York and Queens Electric Light and Power Company and the Westchester Lighting Com- pany. Next Tuesday workers from the following comvanies will vote: Brooklyn Edison Company, Consoli- dated Gas Company of New York, Yonkers. Electric Light and Power Company. New York Steam Corpo- ration, National Coal and Coke Company Light Company of the City of New York. Consolidated System Is Pushing Company Unions The Consolidated System has been pushing the company union caim- paign. Through intimidation this system has forced the workers in several of the large plants to vote for a company union. A company union formed several months ago in the New York Edison Co. has aroused the workers and they are now demanding a union controlled by the employes. Workers in the Brooklyn Edison Company Hudson Ave. steam gener- ating plant, the biggest of its kind in the world, are almost solidly or- ganized into their own independent union,’ The Trade Union Unity Council has issued a statement from its offices at 799 Broadway on the elec- tion. The statement says, in part: “Workers in all the plants should beware of the tricks of the bosses to tie them hand and foot through their company union scheme“to the wage-cutting, strikebreaking plans of the Consolidated System. “Vote against the company union! Vote for your own independent unions! Then build them up on the basis of democratically elected de- partment committees as a weapon against the wage-slashing program of the bosses.” DANCE and Entertainment Saturday, April 14 —9P.M. — 224 W. 4th Street Sheridan Square Russian Balalaika Orchestra Refreshments Subscription 35 cents Auspices: Rose Pastor Stokes International Labor Defense . and the Standard Gas) Baltimore C. P. to Hold Nominating Convention, Apr. 22 Workers’ Organizations Urged to Send | Delegates BALTIMORE, Md., April 11—The State Nominating Convention of the Communist Party in Maryland will be held on Sunday, April 22, at 11 a. m., at 200 8. Bond St., Ind floor. At this convention candidates for all state offices from governor down will be nominated. Candidates will also be nominated for three of the six Congressional districts of the state. and four of the six legislative districts of Baltimore. To get on the ballot two thousand signatures will be required for each of the five state-wide candidates (ineluding U. 8. Senator), 1,500 for each of the Congressional nominees and 500 fer each of the city candi- dstes. In conjunction with the conyen- tion and the following campaign, concentrated work will be made in the steel mills, railroad shops, along the waterfront and among the Ne- gro masses. In its call to the con- vention the Communist Party ap- peals to the workers to rally around the campaign, to support the Party, to organize shop committees of the Trade Union Unity League, and not only aid the Party in the campaign. but to fight wage cuts and speed up. Although the convention will not jbe as fully representative as it should had a more aggressive and well-organized campaign been con- ducted, nevertheless delegates are expected from A. F. of L. locals, from among the farmers, from Western Maryland, from a large number of Negro and fraternal or- ganizations, and from the red unions and left groups in factories. The keynote speech will be made by E. Williams, section organizer of the Communist Party. who will lay down the basis for the campaign. Acceptance speeches will be made by the candidates nominated for state- wide offices. Any organization, not having re- ceived a call to the convention, de- siring to send two delegates, should communicate with O. Roberts, cam- paign manager, at 207 8. Bond St., Baltimore, Md. Organizations and individuals desiring to contribute BERS ANy should write to seme ad- ress. —Philadelphia, Pa.— |. L. D. Bazaar FRIDAY and SATURDAY April 13th and 14th AMBASSADOR HALL 1710 NORTH BROAD ST. 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REMOVAL SALE Friday, Apr. 13 107 EAST 14th STREET, N. Y. C. Beginning April 14th we will be located at OUR ONLY STORE: 9 West 42nd Street, at 5th Ave. SELLING OUT At Our Branch, 107 East 14th Street, Large Stock of IMPORTS FROM THE SOVIET UNION: Hand Painted Bowls Ye Hand Embroidered Peasant Blouses 3.69 a es Sata ¢ “Hand Blocked Ties... -89¢ Mele pps re Sc “also Trays, Lamps, Peasant. Linen, Hand Carved Animals Nest of Wooden Dolls _ _ Brassware at greatly reduced prices. 9c ite NATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL “of the League of Workers’ Theatres of the U. S. A. COMPETITION of the BEST WORKERS’ THEATRERS from New York, New Jerscy, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Gary, Moline, Los Angeles, Toronto, Canada ADMISSION: 20c for - FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY One Night; combines APRIL APRIL APRIL tion Ticket for Three 13 vy 15 Nights: 7c. Starts 1 |8:80 PM. TURNER HALL, 820 N. CLARK STREET, CHICAGO of time prevented dozens more from | + participating. The chairman of the meeting brought out the fact that the Akron police force tried to prevent work- ers from distributing leaflets an- nouncing the mectting. A large number of the circulars were de- |stroyed by the police, taken from workers in front of the Goodrich rubber plant. Scores of workers made applica- tion for membership to the Com- munist Party during the course of the meeting. When the meeting was closed, and as Comrade Brow- | der was rushjng to make the train, | he was met by a number of sym- pathetic students from the Akron schools. Workers stood around the hall long after Browder left, dis- cussing the meeting. Mexican Gov't Aids! CaliforniaGrowers’ Attack on Pickers: Union Leader Arrested As He Leaves Meeting Called by Glassford SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 11. —} Stanley Hancock, militant leader of the lettuce pickers’ strike in Im- perial Valley, was officially deported from Mexico last. Friday. Hancock was arrested in Mexicali upon orders from Joaquin Terrazas, Mexican Consul at Celexico, Calif. Terrazas has unsuccessfully tried to force the Mexican workers into the growers’ company union in order to prevent them joining the Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Industria! Union, which is leading the strile movement in the valley. After his deportation from Mexico, Hancock immediately went to El Centro to place the demands of the pickers on General Glassford, N. R. A. arbitrator, who is now in the Valley attempting to prevent a strike in the cantaloupe fields. Frank Nieto, one of the leaders of the agricultural workers, was ar- reste@ and thrown into jail in San Diego as he left a meeting with Gen. Glassford to whom he had pre- sented the demands of the workers. No charges were placed against him, but he wes held until Glassford, finding his soft-soaping tactics em- barrassed by the arrest of the union representative induced Deputy Sheriff Rodney Clark to release Nieto. Arkansas Police Set Up Machine Guns to Break Unity of. Negro, White NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. April 11—Machine guns, tear gas bombs and clubs were used by po- lice here to break up a demonstra- tion of 400 white and Negro work- ers before. the City Hall, following the arrest of three workers’ leaders charged with “being Communists.” ‘The three arrested are J. W. Cur- ran, G.D. Liffen and G.W. Christie. Liffen and Christie were arrested while speaking at a meeting of 800 workers. Four hundred of them followed the police to City Hall, de- manding the release of their lead- ers. Frightened by this show of militancy, the police brought out their full arsenal, trained machine guns on the workers and arrested Curran. Under ect, covanized by the union, sup- ported by the the International Labor Defense and the American Civil Liberties Union, George Creel, N. R. A. ad- Peninsular and, after a conference with the growers, the local authori- ties and representatives of the workers’ union, announced that the ordinances were “un-American” and “contrary to democratic principles.” ‘These anti-labor ordinances pro- hibit all workers’ meetings, dem- onstrations and picketing. Communist Party, | ministrator, flew to the Monterey} White Workers Help Negro Attacked By Chicago Thugs } Meanwhile the N. R. A. officials | the growers and shippers on the| workers’ union and its organizers | and defense attorneys. Only a few ter conditions, was rescinded yes-/| days a@o police arrested a commit-| Negro and white workers of the Hi terday by the Board of Supervisors|tee from the International Labor| District stopped five evicti | Defense while en route to El Cen- | tro to help organize defense for ar. rested union members. | | The committee, Roberts, Coba, Gutierrez and his son, Emil Parra, Frank Zamorra and Randles, were held four days in jail. They were released into the arms pf a band of 10 armed ranchers, who drove them out of the Valley, threaten- ing them with death if they re-| turned. The Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union, which is pushing its plans for a strike of fruit pickers, declared today that! ‘low wages, infected drinking water, the contractor system and absence | of any sanitary arrangements in the workers’ camps are responsible for harvest strikes, which will be waged | along a solid united front of Mex- | jean, Filipino, Negro, Japanese, | Spanish and American fruft pickers | this spring and summer, | Anna Howe Slugged (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, April 11—Hoodlums shouting lynch threats attacked and severely beat a Negro worker and two white girls who went to his de- fense as they boarded a street car near the Peoples Auditorium, 245 West Chicago Ave., Tuesday at mid- night. The three had just left a dramatic council meeting held in preparation for the National Theatre Festival here April 13 to 15. Anne Howe, National Organiza- tional Secretary of the League of Workers Theatres and barely five Negro Worker, Badly Hurt; Workers Call for Formation of Defense Groups Unconscious; Hesse, feet in height, was knocked uncon- scious by the sluggers on the plat- form of the oar. Passengers sought to defend the workers but the lights were put out by the thugs. They smashed the windows and ran off. The Negro worker, Leon Hesse, was badly hurt. The attack was another in a series of such occurrences in the neigh- borhood of the Auditorium, a work- ers’ center. Indignant workers pointed out that the increasing at- tacks must be stopped by organizing | workers of the neighborhood into defense groups. | Of Flophouse Head Workers at Mass Meet Refused Decent Food NEW YORK.—Five hundred un- employed single workers, living at the Salvation Army's Gold Dust Lodge, at a mass meeting held be- fore the lodge at Corlears and Water Sts., voted to demand the immediate removal of Major Laurie from the head of the lodge, and will place their demands before Deputy Commissioner of Welfare Howe at 2:30 today. At the open-air meeting held yesterday, delegates were elected from the jobless workers to demand decent food, clothing and better housing for the single workers liv- ling there. When the delegates met with Major Laurie he refused to grant their demands. He followed the delegates to the meeting, and was asked to tell the workers what was his reply. Mounting the platform, he asked how many of those at the meeting lived at the lodge. Imme- diately about 400 hands holding blue cards shot up in the air. Forestalled in his attempt to dis- credit the delegates, he then launched into an attack upon the “reds.” “You people who held up your hands,” Laurie said, “can eat with your speakers, Three years ago I kicked out 500 ‘reds,’ and will do it again. Whenever they hold meetings I will send men among them to break up their meetings, and not allow them to be held.” ‘Plan to Fire 6,000 — Phila. C.W.A. Men Start Forced Labor for Relief PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 11.— Six thousand additional C, W. A. workers will be fired this week, George W. Connell, formerly C. W. A. director and now in charge of L.W.D. in Philadelphia, said yes- terday. Among these Philadelphia work- ers to be fired are teachers, engi- neers and other skilled workers who have been working on such projects as the census of the unemployed, traffic count and investigation of special relief cases. “According to orders received from Washington, only those on the relief lists will be eligible for L.W.D. jobs,” said Connell. “I am doing everything possible to create more Jobs.” Actually he is transferring work- ers from the relief rolls to the forced labor of the “work relief projects.” The 76,000 workers on the relief rolis of Philadelphia were recently registered by the County Relief Board, and all “eligibles” are to be transferred to forced labor jobs. MURDER WITNESS KILLED NEW YORK.—Peter Turrigiani, principal witness in the case of the murder of Joseph Gonnola, who was kidnapped last February, was found strangled to death in Brooklyn to- day. His chauffeur, Peter Calica, was also found shot to death and was beside Turrigiani’s body in the | ered on Wylie Ave. | officials to give immediate relief to | the most pressing cases. Even Win Relief, Organize for Struggle PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 11.— Under the leadership of the Une. ployment Councils, Negro and white workers are mobilizing here and) The anti-picketing ordinance passed | have closed their eyes to the in-| successfully resisti 1 by Monterey County authorities on| creasing attacks by local officials| evictions that the growers andj|and the armed vigilante bands of | si ve the County Relief Boa stopped paying the rents of unem- ployed workers. On last Thursday, the milit one eviction fully 400 work t and although 12 police were mobilized to terrorize the workers, the family was moved into the house again. In Hazelwood hundreds of workers gathered at homes which faced sheriff's sales, and the sheriff dared not show up. Prom Thursday onward, dozens of | evictions have been throughout \the Hill District. On| Monday morning, three more evic-| tions were stopped by the workers. | In Wilkensburg, 71 workers gathered | and stopped a constable sale. The} Wilkensburg loca! council alone has stopped eight sales in the recent pe- | od. In Clairton, after the mayor had| refused to grant a permit for a| demonstration, the Unemployment | Councils mobilized over 400 unem-| ployed workers, marched in a steady | stream to the Welfare Office with-| out a parade permit, and forced the| though the mayor had deputized| dozens of thugs to smash the pa-| rade, it was held because of the) clever strategy of the local leaders of the Olsirton Unemployment | Council. A reign of terror is already | being initiated in an attempt to smash the militant Unemployment Council organization in Clairton. In Braddoek-Rankin, one of the} local leaders of the Unemploymient Council took 40 members of the/ Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to the relief station, and forced the relief offi- ¢efals to grant food orders and other needs to all of the famiies. The Unemployment Councils are Mobilizing all forces to defeat the mass evictions already begun, and to intensify all struggles down the line for increased relief, against dis- crimination of Negro and foreign- nt | ate : eg Norfolk Firemen Fight for Right to Organize NORFOLK, Va- Right of m cipal firem: to join a labo ganization of their own at stake in a c fore Circuit lk from enforci hibiting local firemen from c . {ing as members of a new loca! of |the International Association of j Fire Fighters. City,Negro Church, Post Daily Worker on Wall of Union Strike Headquarters By JIM WEST BUFFALO, N. Y., April 11. WV three thousand pickets and sympathizers lining the ength of the road in front of the Curtiss Aircraft Plant, ef- { police of Buffalo and Tona- da and deputies of Erie County to break up the militant picket line fell flat here Monday. Strikers, their wives and children, as well as the neighborhood, turned out in ghty demonstration of the unity stopped | in the ranks of the strike, now en- tering its third week. | Bill up at the City A.F. of L., Jobless’ Endorse H. R. 7598 En- act Unemployment Bill H.R. 7598 NEW YORK.—A Negro church in Cincinnati, the City Council of Lin den, N. J.. the Springfield Unem- ployed League, and the Bronx, N. Y. Amalgamated Bakers Local 164, have added their endorsement to the growing list of unions, workers’ or ganizations and cities that have en- dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7596). At C. W. A. meetings, the Unem- ployed Council of Linden brought the bill to the workers. A delegation was elected to bring the Workers’ Demand Congress At the meeting, the workers packed the council chambers, and forced the city body to act on the Workers’ Bill Negro Church Endorses Bill Council meeting. | The few scabs still working in the plant were being hustled out of the shops in moving vans, under police protection, while at the same time, deputies were attempting to i ve off the pickets. One threatened a young pan striker, midst of a group of German-Amer- workers. Brushing aside the swinging club, the young striker shouted into the face of the uni- formed thug: “Think you're iron- fisted Hit eh? Want to smack me, eh? Well, ‘Hitler,’ wateh out |you might get smacked! The | deputy retreated in a huff. These same German-American strikers to- | day welcomed the Daily Worker and | Young Worker, distributed on the | picket line. Yesterday morning there was a | notably less number of scab cars jin sight! | Prints Rats’ Names The strikers employed another |means of defeating the company and the scabs, A leaflet, with a huge rat in the background, con- taining the names of scabs in a | certain neighborhood, was distrib- The Mill Creek Baptist Church, a! uted in that neighborhood. Many Negro church in Cincinnati, en-|of the scabs named in the hand- | dorsed the Workers Bill (H. R. 7598).| bill came to the strikers, and on The minister of the church at- tempted to block the endorsement of the Bill, but the workers at the church were unanimous in their en- dorsement. born workers, and for the immediate Bakers Demand H. R. 7598 enactment of the Workers Unem-| The Workers’ Bill was unani- | bended knees begged for the neigh- | bors to be informed that they would |not scab any more. The strikers |have demanded of the scabs who | have taken this action to picket on the line with them. The company has threatened to ployment Insurance Bill. 1,000 Picket Real Strike Against Company Slave Union and for Pay Rise INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 11.— Over 1,000 of the 2,200 strikers at the Real Silk, National and Fulton hosiery mills were on the picket lines Monday. Supporting them were members of the Unemployed Couneil. The strike is against the company union, for higher wages, and recognition of the Full Fash- ioned Hosiery Workers’ Union. International Labor Defense dis- tributed leaflets to the strikers, pledging full cooperation and de- fense of all strikers. It was estimated that production are on strike could last only until Wednesday. One half of the executive board of the union is composed of rank and file knitters. The management of the plant is firm on its non-recognition policy, and no negotiations have yet been held. There are signs that the bosses will offer wage concessions, up to the union scale, but will in- sist on retaining the company union. The company had a number of threadler machines going on each floor to give the impression of “bus- iness as usual” but the strikers were not fooled by the familiar swish- swish of these machines. FIRE SWEEPS N. Y. APARTMENT HOUSE NEW YORK.—A tremendous blaze swept through 35 of the 72 apart- ments at 3101 Lakeland Ave. today, car. driving all tenants to the street. Massachusetts Workers Demand H. By BILL GORDON BOSTON, Mass. April 11.—A hearing on the motion that the Massachusetts legislature memorial- ize Congress for passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7578), was held before the committee on rules of the Mas- sachusetts legislature here Tuesday morning. The motion was intro- duced by Representative Hyman Manevitch of Dorchester for the Unemployment Councils. Alice Burke of the Unemployment Council of Boston brought out the salient features of the bill, showing that the bill is the only one which takes care of all unemployed work- ers and farmers, that it provides for the entire time of their unemploy- ment in amounts equal to average Jocal wages, it would be adminis- tered by the workers themselves, doing away with graft, politics, fa- voritism, and discrimination against Negroes, foreign born and women, and that the funds. would be raised by taxing inheritances, gifts, and individual and corporate incomes above $5,000 a year. . Workers’ Leaders Appear Paul Burns, social worker, told of the ravages of disease and malnu- trition among children of the un- employed. R. 7598 |mously endorsed by the Amalga-|take all the work of the Baltimore | mated Bakers local 164 of Bronx,| Plant which has not been operating |N. Y¥., at the regular membership| for some time. The strikers ask | meeting attended by 400 workers on| Baltimore workers’ organizations to | April 7. |co-operate with them and to rally | The Bill was presented by L. Fine,| Support of the aero workers in Bal- | of the Bronx County Unemployment | timore for the strike. ‘The Tom Mooney branch of the/ without the aid of the knitters who) | Silk in Indianapolis | Council. The resolution with a peti-| | tion attached will be sent to Con- | gress with the demand that the | Workers’ Bill will be adopted. Springfield Unemployed Act The Springfield, Mass, Unem ployed League, at its regular meet ing on April 6, endorsed the Work- ers Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill. When the Workers’ Bill was pro- posed, Flemming, a Socialist, treas- urer of the league, proposed that to support the Sawyer-Lewis Bill at a legislative hearing. The workers voted down this proposal, adopting the Workers’ Bill. Knitgood Strikers |Picket Lines Thrown Around 50 Mills PHILADELPHIA, April 11— | Magistrates served notice that they | will do their part to smash the gen- eral strike in the knitgoods indus- try, now in its third week, when Megistrate O'Hara slapped a ten- day sentence on three strikers. George and Irene Weiss and Aida Basuni yesterday. The strikers were pulled out of the picket line in front of the Philadelphia Sweater Milis, when cops attacked the picket line. The strikers recognized this as the beginning of a campaign of open terror to smash their strike, after slanderous attacks in the press and the machinations of the Regional Labor Board failed to make an impression on the militant spirit of the strikers. They are de- termined that this method, too, ognition of the Knit Goods Work- | ers’ Union, a 35-hour week and} the league send delegates to Boston! Jailed in Phila. The plant manager, Mr. Wright, is calling for state troopers to come in and break the strike. Byvidently, | the strike is too much for the police of two cities and one county to handle. It is expected that tear eas and increased police brutality | will be used against the strikers. However, with the growing support !of the workers in the neighbrhood, and in Buffalo as a whole, the strikers are closing their ranks in greater unity, the unity that brings victory. | Pastes Up Daily Worker | Lét's take a look at the strike headquarters of the Curtiss strikers! Plastered all over the wall are | copies of the Daily Worker. Articles on the aero strike are crayon marked. Here and there are sep- arate items, clipped from the Daily Worker, dealing with the struggles f the unemployed, farmers, etc., vhich shows the intense interest of | these strikers in the general strug- gles of the workers throughout the country. Leaflets of the Commu- |nist Party in support of the strike | are stuck up all over the wall. And jin the midst of all this activity, in- | dicating the energetic activity of |the Communists in support of the | strike, one sees a small green pla- card with the words, “Compliments jof the Socialist Party!" Many of the strikers refer to the use of the police and deputies as “Hitler in America.” | The Young Communist League, | Which is on the picket lime every | day, is issuing a leaflet to the young | workers of Buffalo exposing the Y. |M. C. A., which is harboring strike- breakers in the “Y” “Men’s” hotel, | This is another example of the growing support rallying toe the strikers. The Consolidated strike is solid 100 per cent and the plant remains shut down tight. Unity of all workers in the strug- |gle to win their demands was urged | by John Gibbons, president of the | Steel and Metal Workers Industrial shall fail, and are picketing 50 struck mills. The strikers demand full rec-/} | Union of the Buffalo District, who spoke to the Curtiss strikers yes- terday. He pledged the support of Communist Party, Workers’ Mass Organizations Demand State Legislature Act on Bill ee would consider the measure and | report later. The members of this committee |on rules, who were forced to listen sualization plan for longshoremen, which would drive two-thirds of the Jongshoremen out of the industry. Davidson, of the Needle Trades Union, Gilbert for the Furniture Workers Union, and Prager for the Dyehouse Workers Union, stressed the need of part-time workers in these seasonal industries for this social insurance. Albert Mallinger, of the Amer- ican League Against War and Fas- cism, brought out the fact that the original bill provided that all war (funds should be used for unem- ployment insurance. He stressed the preparations for war and said that over $1,000,000,000 had been appropriated for war purposes by the Roosevelt government in the last year. Main May Day Issue Manuel Blanc, for the Communist Party, told of the rising tide of strikes, demonstrations, and mass meetings before relief bureaus, on C.W.A. jobs and local forced labor projects, demonstrations whose King, of the M.W.I.U.,| main purpose was the demand for brought up the government deca- | adequate relief. He stressed the ‘ to these militant speeches, repre- militant mood of the workers and|sent directly the ruling clique of the preparations for May Day, on|finance capital in New England. which day the masses would dem-|The speaker of the house, Salton- onstrate all over the country, and|stall, is a member of the corpora- whose central demand would be Un- | tion law firm of Gaston, Snow, Salt- employment Insurance. jonstall & Hunt, one of the two Donald Burke, of the ILL.D., told;dominant corporation of the work of his organization in|here. Senator Bacon, president of defending workers arrested in strug-|the Senate and also on this com- gles for adequate relief and a living | mittee, it was revealed last year is wage. He described the growing | on the Morgan preferred list. political Content of these struggles} The composition of this commit- and said that the workers were | tee shows how tightly finance cap- demanding and would fight for the ital keeps its grip on the law-making passage of this bill. | bodies here. Every bill brought be- Representative Manevitch, who'fore the legislature must pass introduced the bill, disclaimed any | through this committee and these hint of Communism in his make-) representatives of Wall Street and up, spoke of his war service, and Boston's State Street are placed said that this bill provided an'there for the sole purpose of pro- “American way” of handling the! tecting th interests. This is a unemployment problem. He said | local instarice of the futility of the that this bill would provide for the! Socialist Party program based on “poor starving workers” in an,legal measures within the structure “American way” rather than) of the capitalist state. Donald Burke through May Day “riots.” He also| brought out the need for mass ac- said he would fight for the motion ‘tion on the part of the workers as on the floor of the house if it was] the necessary motive power for any not reported out favorably. | bill of ‘this nature. Only a mili- The chairman then declared the | tant and aroused working class can | hearing adjourned and the commit-! force through this bill Jaw firms 4 |all members of the union to the Wage increases to make up for the | trike, His speech was received with Workers’ organizations are ex-| the greatest enthusiasm, and his ap- pressing their admiration of the peal for.rank and file control of the militant spirit of the strikers, and/ Strike and the union was applauded their solidarity with them, by] Yarmly. staging dances and parties to raise ee TAG See funds for strike relief. New York Bakers Win After Six Month Strike NEW YORK —The six months’ | strike at the Marseillaise French | Baking Co. 293 W. 4th Street | against low wages ‘and long hours ended. in a victory for the thirty- — five workers in the shop, when the boss signed a céntract with the Bakery Workers Industrial Union © under whose leadership the strike — was conducted. 3 The strikers have come out yvie- — toriously with the following gains: (1) Recognition of the union, Pickets Freed; Commit- tee Urges Mass Picketing of Welfare Department NEW YORK.—The 13 fired C. W. A. workers who were arrested on April 4, for picketing Commissioner of Welfare Hodson’s offices, were freed Tuesday when they faced Magistrate August Dreyer. The Committee of One Hundred urges all unemployed and fired C. W..A. workers to form mass picket lines at the Welfare Department (2) Recognition of the Sh 4 building at 50 Lafayette St., and to Committee. oR continue the picketing until the v ease fro granting of the workers demands ae hte ie . 1) aes for immediate reinstatement of all : fired C. W. A. workers, and imme-| rarsgangss of daily hours by diate. cash relief equal at least to C. W. A. wages be granted to the ihemplagee: 2 FIREMEN DIE IN $50,000 BLAZE. PERTH AMBOY, N. J., April 11 A $50,000 fire roared today in F. and W. five and ten cent taking the lives of two firemen w were caught in the blazing structy following their entrance inta it. Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be interested in reading it. Address: Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St,