The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1934, Page 1

y! { t fi | wast For Social Insurance and H. R. 7598! Down Tools May Day! CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED SATURDAY: on BREE OR 38 Saturday ..... 6 Total to date ....3,597 Total + 2,557 7, ‘9 Botered as second-class matt Vol. XI, No. 97 D_s Daily ,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) ter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Minneapolis Bosses Fear May First Meet; T.U.U.L. Urged Unity on May Day Plan Pollan” Measures Against May Day Demonstration MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 18— Preparations of Minneapolis work- ers for a giant United Front May Day demonstration are adding to the fears of Minneapolis bosses and their City Council trembling at the memory of the militant April 6th demonstration of 6,000 discharged .W.A. workers who forced the city fathers to vote relief appropriations. Last Friday the Minneapolis Real Estate Board and the Junior Cham- ber of Commerce held a joint meet- ing to hear a report by L. S. Joseph, chairman of the relief committee of the welfare board, and to plan police measures against the workers on May Day. Joseph referred in- sultingly to the unemployed millions as “the offal of the human grist mill.” A major part of the meeting was devoted to a report on the April 6 demonstration, the relief chairman telling a shocked assemblage of rent-gougers and other exploiters how members of the welfare board were “kept prisoners” by the dem- onstrators, and finally “ran like hell” when the angry workers broke in on their meeting to demand that the board vote relief appropriations for the discharged thousands of .W.A. workers and their families: “And We, Gentlemen, Ran Like Hell—” “They gave us five minutes and then they broke in the door—and there they were and we, gentle- men, ran like hell,” the relief chairman confessed, and when another member of the board ob- jected to his frankness, retorted: “You ran, too. You urged that we hurry up and finish our busi- ness.” “So did you, and you were the first—” That's right, I ran first,” the re- | ‘ief chairman agreed, then shifting to a warning that Minneapolis workers were again preparing to demonstrate for their demands on May Day: ‘ “And now, the upshot of it all, what are you and other good citi- zens of Minneapolis going to do about this situation? May Day is coming and they’ll probably stage more demonstrations. I say to you, you’ve got to stand behind the welfare board and the police department.” “What we're asking you to do is So call your alderman,” the speaker continued in a request that the business men instruct their lackeys in the city government to unleash a police terror against the workers on May Day. “Tell them they've got to solidify the conservative element in the council. They’ve got to fight the demands of the radical agitators. The Communists think they won a victory before the council last Fri- day. They can consider it a victory. But they’ve still got to come before the welfare board, and we're going to stand pat and we're going to have law and order.” Council Retracts Vote Against Forced Labor The above statement of the relief chairman must be considered in the light of the action of the City Council yesterday in repudiating its promise to abandon the R.W.A. forced labor schemes, and its vot- ing of $800 to buy more tear gas and additional funds for a gross of long nightsticks for their police thugs. On the same day, the Minneapolis Star attacked the approaching May Day demonstration as “Something to Stay Away from,” and the Com- munists for preparing the demon- stration. The editorial openly threatened with police violence those who do not stay “away from public demonstrations which by their very nature threaten to result in disorder.” May Day Greetings Must Be Rushed By Airmail to the ‘Daily’ NEW YORK, — Workers’ or- ganizations and individual work- ers are urged to send their May Day greetings directly by airmail to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Orders for the special 24 page May Day Edition must also be rushed via airmail to the New York office of the “Daily.” In New York, greetings and orders not yet sent in should be brought to the District Daily Worker of- fice, 35 E, 12th St. All workers are called upon to mobilize for Red Daily Worker Days, April 28 and 29, to help spread the May Day edition of the “Daily” among half a million American workers. April 30 is the last day on which trial subscriptions can be accepted for the Daily Worker at the special 50 cent rate. After April 30 the regular rates are in force. | United May Ist| Demonstrations NEW YORK. — Union Square, 2:30 to 5 p. m., preceded by two. monster parades. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Capitol Park, facing Jefferson County jail. DETROIT.—Grand Circus Park. CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Public Sa., at 3 pm, CHICAGO.—Grant Park. PATERSON, N, J—Sandy Hill Park, at noon. ST. LOUIS, Mo—Old Court House, Broadway & Market at 4 pm. BOSTON — Charles St. Mall, Boston Common at 12 o'clock. AKRON, Ohio—Perkins Square at 2 pm. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Berger’s Park. RACINE, Wis. — Lake Front Park. VIRDEN, Ill—City Hall. BELLEVILLE, Ill.—In front of Court House. ZEIGLER, 1ll.—City Park. PEORIA, Il.Court House Sq. OAKLAND, Calif. — Chabet Park, 11th & Jefferson St., at 2 p.m. EAST OAKLADN, Calif.—Mass meeting at 8 p.m. LYNN, Mass.—Lynch Common at 1 p.m. SALEM, Mass.—Derby Square at 7 p.m. PEABODY, Mass. — Main St. corner Walnut at 7:30 p.m. NASHUA, New Hampshire. — O'Donnell Hall at 7 p.m. DAYTON, Ohio.—Lbrary Park at 4 p.m. LOS ANGELES, Cal. — Plaza, North Main and Sunset at 12 o'clock. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Inde- pendence Square. Workers Fraternal ‘Orders Plan Fight For Workers Bill Detroit AFL Unions Endorse Workers Bill H.R. 7598 NEW YORK.—Five hundred dele- gates from fraternal organizations met at the Central Opera House yesterday to plan a city-wide cam- paign for the support of the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill. The delegates from the _ organizations participating pledged themselves to secure from their organizations active support to the Workers’ Bill, and to support. by a full mobilization of their mem- bership the delegates from the con- ference who will demand that Mayor LaGuardia and the city ad- ministration officially endorse the Workers’ Bill. Congressman Lundeen of Minne- sota, who spoke on the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill (H. R. 7598), which he in- troduced into Congress, after briefly tracing the history of the bill as it was originally drafted by the Unemployment Councils, stated:" “This has variously been called the ‘Lundeen Bill’; it is not the Lun- deen Bill—it is the Workers’ Bill.” Lundeen promised the assembled delegates that he would fight for the bill in Congress, Israel Amter, national secretary of the Unemployment Councils, who followed Lundeen as speaker, said, after explaining to the delegates the need of mass pressure to bring the (Continued on Page 2) | Stresses “Demand For Immediate Enactment Of H.R. 7598 NEW YORK.—Calling upon all affiliated unions to come out on the streets on May First the Trade Union Unity League issued the fol- lowing statement: To all members of the revolutionary trade unions: To all rank and file members of the A. F. of L.: To all members of unions: To all organized and unorganized workers, Negro and white work- ers; youth and women workers: The tradition of the great years of struggle during which the eight- hour day was born out of the first May Day celebrated by the Amer- ican workers in 1886, is being car- ried forward to greater heights by the American workingclass today. May Day, 1934 finds the American workers in the midst of another giant strike wave, involving scores of thousands of workers, against the new slavery of the “New Deal,” for the right to organize into unions of their own choosing, for higher wages, for unemployment relief and unemployment insurance at the ex- pense of the bosses and the gov- ernment. The strike wave of 1933, in which a million and a quarter struck, will be exceeded by the fierce working- class struggles of this year. May Day comes in the midst of these ris- ing struggles. On May Day the workers must be on the streets, in demonstration for the demands around which so many scores of thousands of workers have struck; for higher wages, for the right to organize in any unions they choose; for unemployment relief, and for unemployment insurance at the ex- Pense of bosses and government. It is a May Day of demonstration against Fascism and war; for the defense of the only country in which the workers rule—the Soviet | Union. Make. this May Day a real fight- | independent \ing day of the toiling masses of the United States. Join hands with workers through the world on this day of interna- tional workingclass solidarity. Down tools; come out and dem- onstrate on May Day for: Higher wages and shorter hours. For the passage of the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (HR 7598). For immediate cash relief. Against compulsory arbitration, for the right to strike. against com- pany unions, for the right of or- ganization, for recognition of the union of the workers’ choice. For equality for the Negro toiler; against all forms of discrimination; for the right to all jobs at equal pay. Against Fascism. For solidarity with the German workers and the freedom of Thael- mann and all anti-Fascist fighters in Hitler's torture chambers. Against imperialist war prepara- tions, for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China. NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE, TRADE UNION UNITY Germany Recruits Youths for Army BERLIN, April 22—Having em- barkedeon a complete program of re-arming, Nazi Germany is pre- paring its forces in expectation of war at a near date. Without pub- licity, general orders have been is- sued to all 20-year-old youths to re- port to military or forced labor camps for military training, to last a year and a half. At the same time a one month’s furlough, such as is granted sol- diers immediately before they are expected to go into action, has been ordered for the Storm Troop army for the month of July. Painters in Local 499 Plan To Join United May Day Meet NEW YORK.—Painters District ean 9, led by the notorious ip Zausner, utilizing the grow- ing radicalization among the paint- ers, and trying to win the confi- dence of the workers, has decided to call a general strike on May 1, and through the District Council machine Zausner is trying to force the local unions to participate in the Socialist Party led march. (Last. year he made application in S. P. but was given a year’s probation. S. P. leaders feared objection from rank and file. Now he’s trying to make good.) The painters are ready to demon- strate on May 1, but are certainly opposed to the proposal that the corrupt District Council machine of racketeers and gangsters led by Zausner and Jake the Bum should lead them jn the demonstration. This local has about 700 mem- bers. When they heard of Zaus- ner’s plan, they treated it as a joke. The Socialist Party chairman was actually afraid to tell the painters) that Zausner intends to deliver the membership to the Socialist Party demonstration, Meet Called Wednesday Local 499 decided to call a spe- cial meeting on April 25. This meeting will take up officially the question of participating in the United Front May Day demonstra- tion. Under no circumstances will the local consider a May First dem- onstration led by Zausner who is hated by every member of the local. Zausner and his gang recently pre- ferred charges against Local 499 with the intention of revoking the charter of said local. Rank and file members in the other locals will demand their con- stitutional right to decide in what demonstration they shall partici- pate, The Painters Rank and File Protective Association, composed of rank and file members affiliated with District, Council No. 9, decided to participate in the United Front demonstration, NEW YORW, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1934 Seamen’s Roosevelt Sec’y Damns Demands of Ralamore’| Delegation 2,000 Colorado Relief By MARGUERITE YOUN WASHINGTON, April 22.—! -he way you feel about it.” Thus Marvin H. McIntyre, secre- tary to President Roosevelt, replied yesterday to demands by a delega- ‘ion of seven Negroes and white Bal- timore seamen that the President personally see them, and that they retain workers’ control of unemploy- ment relief to Baltimore seamen. The delegation were left here to see the President by the 72 seamen who walked 50 miles from Baltimore last week, to protest against the shutting down of the seamen’s re- lief project. They were accompanied by Roy Howell, Baltimore restaurant keeper, representing an organization of waterfront small business men who support the seamen’s demands. They were led by the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union and the Balti- more Unemployment Council. March Against Jim Crow Holding a continuous demonstra- tion for Negro and white workers’ unity as they walked through miles of capital streets carrying great banners and singing songs calling “You | an demand and be damned if that’s | Workers Strike for Pay Rise; Ohio Strikers Solid for Negro and white solidarity, the marcning seamen repeatedly refused to accept meals, lodging and medi- cal aid offered by the government an announced government policy of Segregation. They won a demand for transportation home, without Jim Crowing. McIntyre met the small delega- tion in the lobby of the President's | executive office. When Leonard Pat- | terson, Negro leader, demanded that they go inside McIntyre’s office, the secretary expanded, “Sure, come on in—we all talk the same language.” But he told a different story when Patterson, with Walter Stack of the M.W.LU. and James Kennedy of the Seamen’s Relief Administration Committee, laid down their central demands: for the continuation of the workers’ control of relief; for enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill; and for an end to police brutality on the waterfront. The seamen since Jan- uary have been running the relief project supported by federal funds. (Continued on Page 2) Unions Back Scottsboro Meet Apr. 25 Ann Burlak to Speak at Boston Protest Demonstration NEW YORK.—The citywide dem- | onstration called for April 25. Inter- national Scottsboro Day, to protest | the torture of the Scottsboro boys | and demand their immediate re- lease has been endorsed by the | Union, United Shoe & Leather| | Workers Union, Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, Furniture Workers Industrial Union, United Council of Working-class Women, and the Young Communist League, it was announced yesterday by the International Labor Defense. The demonstration, in which workers from all parts of the city will participate, will be held in Harlem at 5 o'clock this Wednesday afternoon. Mobilization points will be announced tomorrow. ore 8 Ann Burlak To Speak at Boston Protest BOSTON, April 22.—Ann Burlak, militant leader of the textile work- ers, will be the main speaker at the “April 25 Scottsboro demonstration at Madison Square, South End, Warwick and Sterling Streets, 6 p, m. The workers will march into the Square in a demonstration Square, East End. ahs ee Protest Meet Called in Capitol WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.— A mass meeting and demonstration will be held here, under the aus- Pices of the I. L. D., April 25, to demand the freedom of the Scotts- boro boys. TrishRevolutionary Leader Shows Irish Path to Freedom Sean Murray to Speak in Many Cities of U. S. NEW YORK.—A large and en- thusiastic audience cheered Sean Murray, leader of the Communist Party of Ireland, as he spoke on the problems of Irish national lib- eration in Bryant Hall Friday night. Reviewing the history of Ireland's ancient struggle for freedom, he | showed how the revolutionary will of the Irish workers and peasants had been thwarted again and again by the compromises of the Irish capitalist classes. The only road to freedom for Ire- land, he declared, was the road pointed out by Jim Connolly, the road of struggle led by the Irish Perialists and their agents in the Irish upper class. Comrade Murray started out Fri- day night on a tour of principal U. 8. cities, where he will speak on the Irish question. His itinerary is as follows: April 21 to 25, Boston; Connecti- cut. April 26 to 28: Philadelphia, April 21 to May 1; Baltimore, May 2 and 3; Pittsburgh, May 4 to 8; Cleveland, May 10 to 12; Chicago, and 23, Down tools May 1 against wage cuts and for higher wages! Steel & Metal Workers Industrial | at} starting at 5 o'clock from Douglas) May 17 to 20; St. Louis, May 22) General Strike Greets Spanish Fierce Fighting Rages As Police Attack United Front MADRID, April 22.— Madrid is tied up by an illegal 24-hour gen- eral strike, and workers are fighting police and soldiers attempting to smash mass demonstrations in many parts of the city. The strike, in which Communist, Socialist, Anarchist and Syndicalist workers have formed an anti-fascist | united front, is in protest against the mass rally at Escorial of 40,000 members of the fascist League of Catholic Youth, headed by Jose Marie Gil Robles. Subway, street car and taxi traf- fic were paralyzed; waiters, bakers, and practically all other workers who work on Sunday came out on strike. Strikes are reported to have taken place in many other parts of Spain, but reports on these are still incomplete. Firing has been going on all day in many parts of the city between state forces and demonstrating workers, Several are known to have | been killed, and many wounded. Workers and farmers at the vil- lage of Ciempozuelos attempted to stop a train carrying delegates to the fascist convention, and fought | with civil guards and the fascist Passengers. Two persons were re- ported wounded. The general strike and mass dem- onstrations followed a series of struggles beginning Friday, when the reactionary amnesty bill, free- actionary prisoners, but no workers, was voted in the Cortes. Police at- tacked mass demonstrations of pro- test, wounding many. Coal Mine Blast Traps 250 Miners in Bosnia SARAJEVO, April 22—Two hun- dred and fifty miners were trapped in an explosion in the Kakanj coal mine near Senicia, Bosnia. Bodies of have been recovered so far. Nelson mine at Duchkov, Czecho- slovakia, in January, when 142 miners were killed, was due to criminal disregard of safety devices by the mine owners, permitting the accumulation of fire-damp, which exploded when a miner lit a cigaret. on a Jim C-ow basis, in accord with | Fascist Meet ing 9,000 monarchist and other re- | The explosion, like that in the| cil WEATHER: Cloudy, probably Five Ships Strike in Support of Baltimore | Seamen’s Demands | || _ BALTIMORE, Md., April 22— Five ships on the Baltimore waterfront struck for two hours today under the leadership of || the Marine Workers Industrial |] Union, and 150 longshoremen |] also struck in support of the demands of the Baltimore sea- men to continue to administer their own relief. At a mass meeting held on the waterfront today, delegations of seamen were elected to visit j all North Atlantic ports to rally the support of the seamen to the demands of the Baltimore jobless and employed seamen. The mass meeting called upon all workers’ organizations to give them support in their fight to continue administration of relief to jobless seamen. | Relief League. Maps Fight on Cuts, Layoffs First Convention of the| R. W. L. Represents 4,000 N.Y. Members NEW YORK.—Seventy delegates | and fraternal delegates adopted a program of struggle against work | relief wage cuts, for jobs, and ade-| quate cash relief, at the first con-| vention of the four months old Re- | lief Workers League held yesterday | afternoon at the Irving Plaza. The convention included 57 regu- |lar delegates, elected by the locals |in the Bronx, West Washington | Market, All Trades Local, Browns- | | ville, Harlem, East Side, Manhattan, | and West End, in addition to frater- | nal delegates, with 4,000 members. | The organizational program adopted | by the convention called for selec- | tion of job concentration points, and conducting of recruiting drive. The | program calls for each local to set | up an organizing committee to| strengthen the job organization and to lead the recruiting work. Neigh- borhood ‘committees are to be formed to recruit relief workers in the neighborhoods and to fight for | relief for those already laid off. | The convention proposes that neighborhood united front confer- ences be called, under the jurisdic- tion of the United Action Commit- tee of 100, so that united front ac- tion on a neighborhood scale can be organized. A resolution was adopted for participation in the May First demonstration. The relief workers are to mobilize at Battery Place at 9:30 a.m. together with the Unem- ployed Councils, to march to Union Square. The convention passed a resolu- tion calling upon the locals to vote for affiliation to the Unemployment Councils, after the city executive to act after the locals vote, The report of president Davidow showed that in the four months of its existence the R.W.L. has gained 4,000 members and has established ten locals. Not only has the R.W.L. been the only organization among | the manual workers which has fought against the wage cuts and layoffs, Davidow reported, but it has won many demands in the localities, (Continued on Page 2) Withdraw Relief to Sacramento Councils SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 22— Six months ago mass pressure by the members of the Unemployed Council forced the Sacramento County Welfare Department to agree to furnish $500 worth of pro- visions monthly to the Unemployed Council for distribution among its 600 members. Under the pretext that the Coun- “4s a Communist organization,” the department now announces that on May 1 it will discontinue this relief. The workers, who by mass pressure won this concession, are now planning to use mass pressure again to force the department to continue this relief. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING APER showers. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents [rive shire site >| ROR, Union Heads Try to Bolster F aith in Roosevelt Betrayer! F, A. Whitney, R. R. Labor Ex- ecutive Chief, who wants workers to have faith in Roosevelt, wage- cutter, strikebreaker, Seaman Auto: Strikers Find They’re re Duped. Leaders OK Agreement Workers Had Turned Down 3 Times Special to the Daily Worker MILWAUKEE, April 22—Seaman | Body Corporation workers, return- ing to work as the result of the re- cent settlement of their 7-week strike, discovered Friday morning that scabs had been called back on Wednesday, violating the agree- ment of the strike settlement. The workers immediately called | a meeting in the departments and/ after considerable discussion, Bo-| risch, a union official made a 15) minute speech telling the workers | mittees which went to Seaman’s of- | fice. Seaman stated that he knew nothing about the agreement that they were talking about, and the only one he knew of was the first agreement which he had signed.| This is the agreement which the strikers had turned down three times during the strike. The workers discovered they had| been tricked by their union officials | in the strike settlement and the | agreement they had signed was not | the one signed by Seaman. The whole shop which had come. back to work at 7:15 in the morning did | not begin work until 11:30 but they demanded pay for the four hours} during which their meeting was held and negotiations attempted. They} won their demand and were paid for this time. One department demanded a wage increase above the 50 cents an hour | minimum and won a 5 cents an hour increase. On the same day, a union meet- ing of the United Auto Workers | Federal Union No. 19059 was held. The rank and file proposed to oust Frank Schutz, } resident of the union A .ong and stormy meeting ensued. lasting until midnight, and Schutz’s scalp was saved by the presiding official’s refusal to put the question | to a vote. There is great unrest among the Seaman workers as a result of the sell-out and the tac- tics of the union officials. BERLIN, April 10.( By Mail) — May Day, which Hitler has sought to steal from th eworking class by making it a “national celebration” as a compulsory holiday with Nazi parades, will be a day of revolution- ary struggle for the workers of Germany. The Central Committee of the’ Communist Party of Germany, in a manifesto broadcast illegally by the tens of thousands of copies through- out Germany, calls the workers to fighting demonstrations. The Communist call follows, in part: “Workers in all the shops, work- ers in all Day of struggle. Prepare to stage independent mass demonstrations and manifestations of all kinds proletarian districts, | everywhere, prepare for a Red May, Hammer and Sickle Emblem Is Stolen For Nazi ‘May Day’ BERLIN, April 22—So fearful is Adolf Hitler of the thousands of hammer and sickle emblems of Communism which will be chalked and painted by revolu- tionary workers all over Ger- many for May Day, that he has decided to use the hammer and sickle on the official design for the fascist May 1 celebration. The Nazi design for May 1 has a head of Goethe, the fascist eagle with the swastika cross, and a hammer and sickie! under revolutionary slogans, in the| fascist parody of May Day! I oF Turn Nazi May Day Into Revolutionary * Demonstration, Is Call of German C.P. “Raise fighting slogans in all | shops, in all labor exchanges. Fly the red flag over the factories, on public flagpoles! Fight against forced participation in the Nazi celebrations; form working class May Day committees. Carry the spirit of resistance, of proletarian hatred and indignation into the ranks of the Labor Front and of all the fascist mass organizations! “Down with the fascist dic- tatorship; Down with the labor slavery law! “Down with the bloody terror! “Free Thaelmann and all our imprisoned comrades! “Down with the imperialist war makers; for defense of the Soviet | Union! “Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat, a Soviet Germany! live Socialism!” Talk of Strike Ballot, But Act to Duplicate Auto Sell-Out MEN ARE INDIGN ANT Lays Basia. ee Endless Conferences WASHINGTON, April 22. —With the carrying through of the extention of the 10 per cent wage cut for railroad workers now directly in the hands of President Roosevelt, the railroad labor executi yesterday in an _ interview | with the capitalist press strove to raise the faith of the workers in President Roosevelt. “We have no fault to find with oS President Roosevelt or with Co- ordinator Eastman,” declared A. F, Whitney, president of the Railway Labor Executives Association, This statement was made after Whitney talked of taking a strike allot, not in order to call a strike, ut to prove that the railroad workers are not in favor of having | their pay cuts extended. “Our only alternative appears to | call for a strike ballot,” he said, “in order to prove our point in this ; matter, and if this is done there can be but one answer from the men who have been receiving such ja beggarly stipend.” Whitney told how much he hated to mention even the word “strike,” saying: “It seems tragic that our men Must be driven into a corner and forced to show their teeth in order to get justice at the hands of the American rajlroads, but there ap- Pears to be nothing else to do.” | Immediately following this state- |Mment, Mr. Whitney completely ab- | solves Roosevelt from blame, though |it is a known fact that Roosevelt |has been meeting constantly with |the railroad bosses, carrying out their every wish. Furthermore, Roosevelt declared in his letter to | Joseph B. Eastman insisting on extending the wage cut to January 1, 1935, that his main object is “to keep the railroads in private hands.” That is to say, he wants to preserve the profits of the rail- Toad bosses, cost what it may in wage cuts and unemployment to the railroad workers. According to Whitney, there are 400,000 railroad workers, |$7 a week. Oosevelt is setting up a cabinet | commission consisting of Secretaries | Perkins and Roper, and Attorney |General Cummings, to “investigate” © | the railroads, but in reality to drag | On negotiations and to prepare to | defeat strike action on the Part of the workers. At the same time, the machinery of the Railway Labor | Act is being oiled up, to delay and thwart strike. The Railway Labor | Act Provides arbitration for a pe- |riod of 30 days after total disagree- |ment, and prohibits all strikes dur- | ing that Period. eee (See editorial on page 6 on the railroad situation.) Offer LL.D. Help _ To Auto Strikers M.E.S.A. Denies Refer Matter to Executive Special to the Daily Worker | DETROIT, April 21—A committee |of the International Labor Defense appeared last night before a meet- ing of the District Committee of the | the 1: Educational Society. The I.L.D. Committee, represented by A. Gerlach and A. Mezerick, pro- posed that the I.L.D. extend its legal aid to the striking tool and die and Michigan Stove workers organized |in the M.E.S.A. The representative f the I.L.D. also proposed to de- | velop a int campaign against | Sangster on the picket line and | against police terror. | In connection with the increasing Police terror under the new regime of Police Commissioner Heinrich Pickert, the I.L.D. asked the ME. S.A. District Committee to join in a fight against the banning of the May Frist Grand Circus Park meet- ing. The chairman at the meeting was willing to consider the proposals made by representatives of the ILD. but Matthew Smith, secre- tary of the M.E.S.A., who continues his secret deals with the N.R.A. Labor Board, insisted the matter be referred, and that the I.L.D, will be informed by letter what the stand of the organization will be on the proposals made by the I.L.D. repre- | sentatives. The ILD. decided, in | view of the attitude taken by Smith, to appeal directly to the member- |ship of the MESA, The ILD. | committee will appear at a mecting of shop stewards which will be held | Monday. eS