The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1934, Page 3

Chi. Rank and File At AF L Conterence ToBack Workers’ Bill DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, ” Urge Workers To Jam Cleveland Council at H. R. 7598 Hearing | Musteite “Leaders Behead Struggles of Penna. Jobless CLEVELAND, Ohiu employment Council: land call upon all workers to jam the City Council chambers on Thursday afteroon at 2 p.m. the open hearing of th —The Un- of Cleve- | Collaborate with Police, To Lead Siruggle into | | APRIL 2 Page Three | Te ee _ || ers Unemployment é PP cap Se et ere Bill (H. R. 7598) and force: afe’”’? Channels Federation Distorts Calf) union Committea for Unemploy- || City Council to endorse the Sos 4 ment Insurance and Relief, in a call|| Workers Bill By lorker G Issued by Painters to the workers in all Chicago A. F.| Workers delecates from the a ss eee ce neeness I 1 637 of L. locals, urges the men in the|] Unemployment Council, the ||, ALLENTOWN, Pa.—The Musteite Local Oe unions to elect rank and file del-!] Communist Party, the Small | @dership of the Unemployed | —— egates to the conference and fight|| Home Owners Federation and | Leazue again showed its role in CHICAGO, Ill, April 24.—/on the floor for the workers’ de-|| sther workingclass organizations, | 2¢ading the militancy of the work- i i mands. The Rank and File Com-|| will speak for the Workers Bill. | TS into “safe” channels, at the ja ett a a ot Re Wadia mittee urges the A. F. of L. del- teas ‘demonstration” for relief, staged | =. SNe cRatleas Brother. egates to demand jobs at union here last week. tallway ‘OUNeY- | wages for all the unemployed, en- F ] | POER y ‘f ily ‘ hoods in Chicago and vicinity |dorsement of the Workers Unem- Paternal anc ectaae Ps ee ihe goird et rae Hatt will meet at ployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) ; ‘ Teuinca : armen’s Hall, Ashland and Van Buren Sts,, | on Sunday, April 29, at the suggestion of Local Union 637 of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, which on March 4th, submitted to the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, a resoution de- manding continuation and extension of C. W. A. jobs, The resolution of Local 657 pro- posed: 1) that the C. W. A. provide jobs for all the Chicago unemployed st union wages on the basis of a five day week and six-hour day; 2) that the government grant funds) for the continuation of all C. W. A.| wojects originally planned; and) ) that the C. W. A. launch an extensive program of public works—| schools, hospitals, etc. in working- | class neighborhoods, and the aboli- tion of the Chicago slums and the erection of workers’ homes at low) rental. Federation Distorts Call At the meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor on March 18th, Exiwards Nockels, secretary of the) Federation, tried to substitute a dif-| ferent oall than that issued by the. Painters’ Local 637. A study of the call issued by the Federation reveals the real inten- tions of the A. F, of L. leadership —to boost the Roosevelt adminis- tration and the N. R. A. slave codes. The call, intended by the A. F. of L. leadership to sound the keynote of the conference, distorts the original resolution of the painters’ local, It asks Chicago workers to support the entire Rooseevit strikebreaking ma- ehinery as embodied in the Wagner Bill and all the wage cutting slave eodes of the N. R. A. ‘Whereas the painters’ resolution ealled for continuation and exten- sion of C. W. A. to provide jobs for all unemployed workers in Chicago, the Federation call states: “The government cannot forever continue to absorb the whole burden of unemployment . . , The National Recovery Act was drawn with the ‘eatest good of the greatest num- ers in mind.” Demand Jobs or H. R. 7598 The A. F. of L. Rank and File + 1061 ST.NY. COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Mr. Delancey Street, New York City EYES EXAMINED By JOSEPH LAX, 0.D, Optometrist Wholesale Opticians Tel. ORchard 4-4520 Factory on Premises Tompkins Square 6-7697 Dr. S. A. Chernoff GENITO-URINARY 228 Second Ave., N. Y. C. OFFICE HOURS: 11 - 7:30 P.M. SUNDAY: 12-8 P.M. AARON SHAPIRO, Pod.G. CHIROPODIST 388 SECOND AVENUE Algonquin 4-4492 Cor. 14th St. Neientific Treatment of Foot Ailments ‘Tompkins Square 6-918% Caucasian Restaurant “KAVKAZ” Russian and Oriental Kitehen BANQUETS AND PARTIES 3n9 Fast 14th Street © New York City We Have Reopened JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 12th and 13th St.) WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Telephone: Estabrook §-1400—8-1401 Trains. Stop at Allerton Ave. a.m. to & p.m, White P yours © Folding Chairs © Desks, Files ‘ e Typewriters KALMUS 35 West 26th Street now in the House Committee o1 Labor, for dues exemption to un- nm employed members of the A. F. of L,, and for rank and file control of | the unions. Most important of all in the face of the Rooseevit abandonment of} C. W. A., is the demand that the Chicago Conference endorse the| Workers Bill H. R. 7598, and ins) struct all delegates to fight for its endorsement on the floor of the) next national convention of the) A. F. of L. the Newark Conference Demands H. R. 7598 . NEWARK, N, J.—Thirty-five del- egates from 11 locals of the A. F. of L. met in Newark Saturday, and unanimously endorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7698). Committees were elected from the | Fraternal Federation for Social In- floor to visit all Newark locals and| surance, reviewed the work of the obtain endorsements to the worker bill. the workers bill. In the discussion it was pointed) out by many of the’ delegates that) the A. F. of L. officialdom is favor- ing the Wagner-Lewis “Reserves” Bill, and urging the locals to sup- port and endorse this fake insur- ance bill which provides no insur- ance for the 16,000,000 unemployed, and aims to set up “insurance funds” administered by the bosses. BLAST ATTEMPT TO FRAME C.W.A. ORGANIZER DALLAS, Texas.— Attempts to railroad to prison L. OC, Keel, or- ganizer of O.W.A, workers and un- employed, on a charge of raiding @ government arsenal in Ranger, Texas, having been cut short by an admission by three men, two of them relatives of Raymond Hamil- ton, desperado, that they received | stolen rifles and ammunition from | others. Mass Orders C.W.A, workers from being directed into a militant struggle for the con- tinuation of the C.W.A., in line with Leader of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, who A state conference will be work of obtaining endorsement and called by the Newark conference of | suport to the Workers’ Bill. | all A. F. of L. unions to meet on| the nation-wide movement at that time, they announced that a demon- stration would be called right after April 1. As they explained it, C. “W.A. was to be discontinued after April 1, and in its place something else, they just didn’t know exactly what, was to be substituted, and | those on C.W.A. jobs would just be transferred to this other “some- thing.” Therefore, inasmuch as the workers by their militant pro- test had forced the Lehigh County C.W.A. adminisirators to rescind the wage cut from 50 to 40 ts per hour, it would be necessary to de- mand that the rate on the new “something” should not be any less. Previously they had even come for- Back HR 7598 Wide Representation at the First Conference of | Fraternal Federation | NEW YORK—Five hundred dele- | gates, representing 40,000 members of fraternal orders, met at the Cen- tral Opera House, Sunday. to plan wide support for the Workers’ Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). The conference unanimously endorsed the Workers’ Bill, |__ George Primhoff, secretary of the hours per week” platform. of course, C,W.A. has entirely, and the “something” did not materialize and all of the above had to be forgot- ten, Instead it was announced in all fhe ward (U.L.) organizations, that a demonstration would be staged in front of the local State | Emergency Relief Board on Mon- day, April 9, at 12 noon, to be pre- ceeded by a parade. A few days later, however, it was announced in the papers that the parade would not go to the Relief Board but into 's’ Federation since its inception in its In its resolutions, the conference demanded that no further reduc- tions be made on C. W. A., that all C. W. A. workers be paid at union wages, and that jobs or cash relief equal at least to C. W. A. wages be paid to all unemployed. In its campaign for the enact- ment of the Workers’ Bill, the con- ference delegates will mobilize the membership of their lodges and fra- ternal organizations when their|the ‘Trainmen’s hall inmsead. It delegates present the Workers’ Bill seems that the Chief of Police, Gen- Peres LaGuardia for endorse- \eral Berry, had convinced them | (the Musteite leaders) that it would Thirty-five independent fraternal pe much better to do this, as it organizations were represented at) might create too much confuson the conference in addition to dele-| it workers gathered on the street gates seated from national orga-|in front of the relief headquarters, nizations such as the Foresters, The “general” had even helped Sons of Italy, Sons of Italy Grand them to get the hell free of charge. Lodge, Odd Fellows, Knights of| the desire of the workers for Colombus, Catholic Council, Order | yititant action was apparent from of Bastern Star, Modern Woodmen | ine applause which greeted every jof the World, Workmen's Circle| reference io such, but when one League, Daily News Chapel, Elks. |r them at the end of the meeting Brith Sholom, International Work- | proposed a march from the hall di- ers’ Order, Russian Mutual Aid So- i : PHILADELPHIA 4th JUBILEE ., a iW. 8. Sat., April 28th P.M Ambassador Hall 1710 N. Broad Street PROGRAM: Workers’ Choruses, I, W. 0. Youth Dram Gri Nature Friends Dram Group, Recita- tions by Youth and Negro Talent, jolin Orchestra, Speaker: W. Weiner, President of I.W.O. Auspices: Dist. Comm. I.W.0. — Admission 25¢ RUSSIAN NITE Entertainment & Dance Friday Evening April 27th Flatbush Workers Center 1576 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn Arranged by Professional Com. to Support the Struggle of the Waterfront Workers Subscription 54 Cents SARAH GREENSPAN and IRVING SIGNBLUM WE WOULD feel unjustified to you Sarah and Irving to con- gratulate you at the threshold of your new life by spending money for flowers, when our battlefront is scarce in ammu- nition to fight for a new life for the entire working class. Therefore we contribute the price of flowers to the DAILY WORKER. RIFKE, BEN and VICTOR. GARMENT WORKERS WELCOME SHERIDAN VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT (Formerly Shildkrauts) 225 WEST 36th STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues STATIONERY and MIMEOGRAPH SUPPLIES At Special Prices for Organizations LERMAN BROS., Inc. Phone ALgonquin 4-3356 — g843 29 East 14th St. N. ¥. ©. KRAUS & SONS, Inc. Manufacturers of Badges-Banners-Buttons For Workers Clubs and Organizations 157 DELANCEY STREET ‘Telephone: DRydock 4-8275-8276 Williamsburg Comrades Welcome ASSEMBLY CAFETERIA 166 Broadway, Brooklyn, N. Y. ‘p, Prominent Negre Tenor, * |rectly to the local relief board to siety, Iathuanian Workingmen’s Al- |present demands for milk for the wee ere caert Sick and | cniidren, etc, this proposal was | | sauelched under the pretext that no | Bb one was there at the present time. Tool Men To Strike | Unless Given Demands | ANOTHER LINDBERGH “CLUE” NEW YORK.—Six thousand seven hundred dollars in five and ten dol- (F.P.).—The first a roup in the four-| Jar bills was discovered in a drawer etna woken Picture Workers in an apartment at 20 East 88th St., Industria! Union have been pre-| here yesterday by new tenants. They sented to the Mitchell Camera Co./ turned the money over to the police The workers, mostiy highly skilled) who stored it and began checking | tool and die men, asked for a 10)the numbers against those of the | per cent raise for all getting $1 an bills given as ransom money in the |hour and 15 per cent for others.| Lindbergh kidnaping, |The increase was not granted, al-| | though other concessions were made.| DILLINGER DEAD OR ALIVE! | rred action. Tine tact that the industria! | MERCER, Wis.——Nearly 100 men union was able to win substantial | have been detailed by the Federal membership in the large Mitchell government to capture Dillinger, plant is deemed significant of the | dead or alive. The government pre- reaction against the older unions as fers him dead. | a result of the recent strike, | The list of injured as a result of | the last attempt to capture him re- Down tools May Ist! Rally the mains at four, with two dead and fight against the N.R.A.’s attacks | the condition of one of the wounded on living standards and workers’ men serious. organizations, HOLLYWOOD, | Down Tools, Demonstrate May Ast to, force the adoption of the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, H. R. 7598! AUTO INSTRUCTION N. ¥, TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, 228 3nd | Ave., cor. 1th St, (Est, 1910). Special | offer for complete Automobile Mechanical Gourse $50. Pay as little as $3 weekiy.| Become expert mechanic working in our | repair shops. Enroll Now. New mechan- ical class starts April 20. DRIVING INSTRUCTION $10. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M ‘Tenants Driven Off the. Land by Wealthy Landlords By JANE WATSON Union County, North Carolina.) \Serves as a very good example of what acreage reduction means for the share croppers, tenants, and) small farmers. The amount of cotton that any farmer can grow this year is set by the County Control Committee, In Union County, as throughout the South, ths committee is composed |of landlords, bankers, insurance men, etc., and these enemies of the toiling farmers are seeing to it that they, and not the poro farmers, will receive added profits this year as the result of the acreage reduction. Four of the members of the Union County Committee are: Jones, a Comradely Atmosphere Marshall Foods 797 BROADWAY, N. Y. C. {near 11th St.] Pure Foods at Popular Prices Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Modern Bakery was first to settle Bread Strike ward with their $1.00 per hour, 30} pr Pa Ma NTS ret aah Ursa and first to sign with the Food Workers’ Industrial Union 691 ALLERTON AVE. rich landowner, banker, realtor, and insurance man; Pree, a big land- lord; Deal, another big landlord; was recently slugged by thugs. Metal Union Head | Attacked by Thug Pat Cush Slugged on Way to Meeting PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 23—Pat! Oush, national dent. of the Steel | and Metal Workers Industrial Union| was slugged by an unidentified thug | upon entering the Lithuanian Hall, | Soho Street, where a union mass} meeting was to be held several days ago. The gunman was waiting for Pat Cush in an alley near the hall, and he accomplished his dirty task while no workers were around. The mass meeting was called to take up special issues confronting the workers of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, and all indications point to the thug being one of the many gunmen hred by the J. & L. Company. Pat Cush was announced as speaker at this meeting in a special leaflet which was distributed in the J. & L. mills, and this attack on| Cush was a deliberate effort on the part of the steel bosses to ter- rorize the steel workers. L, A. Custom Tailors Maintain Militancy | LOS ANGELES, April 24—Call- ing upon all custom tailors work- ing on the cheaper grades to sup- | port their striking fellow workers, the Custom Tailors’ Union is main- | taining its solidarity in strike. The tailors working on the cheaper grades of clothing are or- ganized under the A. F. of L, The militant union of those employed in the shops making more expen- sive clothing issued a circular cali- ing for joint action to support the strike. The strikers pointed out that worse conditions are tolerated in the second-grade shops, but that proposals for joint action had been refused by the A. F. of L, union leaders. The leaflet called upon all tail- ors to refuse work coming in from shops on strike. It gave the pledge of the striking tailors to assist the others in any undertaking to im- prove their conditions. JOHNSON & JOHNSON TO IN- CREASE WORK HOURS, FIRE 200 | NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., April 22.—Johnson and Johnson, manu- facturers of ‘surgical supplies and cotton, have announced that hours are to be increased from 35 to 40 and 200 workers are to be dismissed. J. & J. bosses “regret” that this must be done, blaming it on the N.R.A, codes Write about your union for the Workers Correspondence Section of the New York Daily Worker Trade Union Supplement. This first sup- plement will appear Monday, Apri! 30. Acreage Reduction Means Misery to Share Croppers whose five-year average was 324 | pounds per acre, was cut down to 100 pounds. When he refused to accept the Board’s estimate, the chairman of the board stated: “You either accept our figure or none at all. We will see to it that you will not gin any cotton this year,” of the board are fixing the reduc- | tion figures so that they and their} friends will receive rental payments | for land and at the same time not | decrease their acreage, but actually increase it. Deal, a member of the board, rented several hundred acres | from a bank, and has evicted all the croppers and tenants, except one, from this land. This tenant | owed a debt to the bank, and the bank would not allow his eviction as they hope to collect his debt. Deal says that he will get more from this land by renting it to the gov- &@ crop on it, ,from the government. This rented Bridgeport Relief Viner WorkersPrepare to Fight for Demands \Strike With Little Gains to Workers | By J. J. SOLVENT | BRIDGEPORT. C m the PEE ° or equality ney were sent bac e | Socialist Jack Be e leadership, winning only one part of jtheir major demand and none of | their other demands. | Bight hundred and fifty workers had gone out on strike for cash re- aid lief plus supplementary transportation, compensati juries and no di them and F.ER.A. ers. A “peaceful pol: ed by the leadership ded the Socialist Commissioner of Education and petty Democratic politicians, holding their meetings in Beechwood Park, which is located tance from City Hall and the Wel fare Building. The strike was under the protec- tion of the Police Department and the leaders ri d eve that the city them granting the demands of the work- ers, the City Relief Commission de- cided that the workers would get either 50 cents an hour for a 24- hour week in cash without any ad- ditional relief (that is food. cloth- ing, rent, fuel, medical attention, etc.) or the scrip system of $5.60 in serip and additional relief. The joker was that the cash relief would only be temporary. Jack Bergin advised the workers to take the offer of the City Relief Commission “because the city had no money” and that it was up to the State and Federal governments to provide relief for them, When the Unemployed Councils and the Communist Party tried to warn the workers of the sell-out, attempts were made to drive them out of the meeting by a “strong arm squad” which received its orders from Bergin, Leaflets were distributed amongst the workers exposing the role of Jack Bergin and the Socialist lead- ers and urged the workers to con- tinue their fight for their demands and pledging the support of the Un- employed Councils. When Bergin saw the leaflets, he urged the work- ers not to read them and sent his squad out to prevent the distribu- tion and to take away the leaflets from the workers. He continually kept repeating “keep the Commu- nists out. Do not listen to them,” and did all that he could to provoke the workers to attack those who were distributing the leaflets, When the workers learned of the sell-out they came and asked for the leaflets. While they voted to return to work under conditions laid down by the City Relief Commission, the struggle is not yet over. They return to work with their eyes fully jopen to the traitorous role played by their so-called leader, Jack Ber- gin, and plan to marshall the--best forces in their ranks for a renewed | fight for cash relief plus supple- mentary aid, together with all the other demands. HOW TO LIVE LONG WASHINGTON.—Worry is send- ing many people to an early grave, says Dr. Francis Benedict of the National Academy of Sciences. His advice is to stop worrying and live long. Dr. Benedict did not give any further advice to unemployed how to take the rise of milk and other prices without worry so that their lives might be thus lengthened, land, as well as the land that Deal owns, is very poor, Last year on his bast piece of land a share cropper, who has now been evicted, made | three bales for four and a half acres. This is the rating the board gave Deal for all his land—that which he | owns and that which he has rented! On the other hand the members| And Deal is not the only one who} is lining his pockets by this method. | This can clearly be seen by the fact that after all the reduction contracts were signed, even with the 40 per cent reduction, fore land would have been put in cot- ton this year than has ever been planted in Union County before. ~ Instead of investigating the fig- ures of the landlords, mow this com- mittee is again cutting down all the farmers. And the poor farmers are the ones who are getting the biggest cuts again, G, a Negro managing | tenant, was originally cut down from ernment than he would be raking | 30 to 20 acres; on this second cut and Shields, the owner of a chain of filling stations and son of still another rich landlord. This com- mittee sets the “average produc- tion,” upon which is based the amount to be grown this year as well as the rental and parity to be veceived from the government. The committee has set the aver- age production for Union County as 227 pounds of lint cotton per acre, making the average rental $10.22 per acre. But share croppers and share tenants do not receive a penny of this rental; it all goes to the landlord. Of the tenant farmers, only the “managing tenants,” htose who own their own equipment and stock, will receive the rental pre- Summer Life in Full Swing, Sun Is Ready to Serve at Camp § ma ao” ‘Tel, Beacon 731 Cars leave daily at 10:30 a, m. from Oo- All Comrades Meet at the NEW HEALTH CENTER CAFETERIA Fresh Food—Proletarian Prices—50 E. 13th St.—WORKERS' CENTER be, operative Restaurant, 1) miums. And many of the landlords Phe Enabreok i400, ||Rave Kept their managing tenants 4 from facia this out, and intent G to collect the rental themselves. | Private Priarieoe The average production figure Again Available || of 227 pounds really means noth- | BRING YOUR SHORTS ing so far as the poor farmers are concerned, A Negro sharecropper Let us see why he will get more | He will receive rental payments only | ~ 3 Fight Lewl ‘Omaha Carmen Go Back to Work in AFL Heads’ Sellout Parker and Blume Praise Arbitration To Halt Strike OMAHA, Neb., April 24.—Afte nplete sellout by u mn oO} | co-opera with t | bor Board, 535 striking }men went back to work Thursday morning, pending arbitration. Less than one-half voted to end the strike. The streetcar men met Wednesday night at the Labor Temple and voted 249 to 42 to ac- | cept the plan ag upon by union | leade: ny officials | Ri streetcar and ex- pressed confidence in arbitration as a means of settling disputes. “We are neither Communists nor anar- chis he declared. Parker echoed the secretary the Kansas City Regional Labor Board, R. L. Biume. Blume, who = arranged the conference betwene the union and com- pany representatives and acted as mediator, made an appeal to the streetcar men to end the strike. Ignoring the strike lessons of | 1918, the workers made no gains in | their strike. The written agreement read at the union meeting is as follows: 1. Charges against trated. 2. A 48-hour week of work in six days will be adopted if this does not add te the company’s cost of operation or reduce employment. 3. Demands for wage increases | will be arbitrated, provided jitney service is completely. stopped within five days and volume of streetcar | traffic becomes normal within 30 | days. The company will not arbitrate on three union men discharged he- fore Oct. 2. The workers were demanding a basic pay increase from 52 cents to 68 cents per hour, union recogni- tion and reinstatement of 12 fired workers. Parker aided the boss by declaring that he would get the three men fired before Oct. 2 “better jobs in |some other city.” of discrimination union men will be arbi- | Depression Makes No Dents in the Incomes of the Coupon Clippers NEW YORK (F.P.)—The 1934, which started off-key by show- ing a decrease of interest payments in January below January, 1933, }swung back io normai in February. For the. two months combined the figures show: 1933 . 1934 . Apparentl; « -$834,692,000 841,278,000 is going to be 1934 bad, depression and prosperity. it is going to show an increase of the number of dollars paid to the coupon clippers. The figures, which are gathered by the New York Journal of Commerce, only cover about 70 per cent of the inte: payments of the country. Totals do not show the full interest payments, but the comparison from year to year seems valid. Increases Rent Burden for Thousands of Poor Croppers production. Cuts Living Standards What will happen to the croppers who stay on the land? A cropper |who made 10 bales last year will |now make six at the most; instead of getting five bales, he will now get three. This will be $150 if cot- |ton is 10 cents a pound this Fall. |In addition the prices of food and | clothing have gone up even more in the landlords’ stores than in the regular retail stores. Flour has gone up from $1.60 to $3.75; overalls, from 65c to $1.50; fat back from 4'4c to |8%c; and fertilizer from $17 to $20, | of the croppers will be cut more tion and the higher prices. It has long been a practice of of | just like every other year, good and / | for the first 10 acres taken out of | ‘he already low living standards | | than half, with the acreage reduc- | |he has been reduced to 14 acres, | Bankhead Bill tion of cotton production, just signed by Roosevelt, will only cause another severe cotton crash about two months from now, a confiden- tial source on the New York Cot- ton Exchange reveals. This source, which is of the highest authority, informs the Bill will fail of its purpose as far as reducing the cotton crop is con- | cerned. “We are raising prices only to encourage production abroad, while limiting it at home,” the Daily Worker's informant states. NEW YORK —The Bankhead, Bill, providing for drastic reduc-| Daily Worker that the Bankhead | Will Intens Cotton Crisis, Expert Reveals The practical result of the reduc- tion of last year’s crop has been to cause more than a milion and a half more bales to be produced abroad this year than last.” “Here at home, fore fertilizer is being used per acre in the South than ever before, and the effect of the acreage production has been merely to teach our farmers how to produce a higher yield per acre. And farmers will simply hold to the amount they produce over the allotted 19,000,000 hele limit in the expectation that the 50 per cent tax will presently be removed," |some landlords to rent out about half of their land ot croppers and tenants, and on the other half to tenants as day laborers, The “pay” for this is usually 50¢ a day credit at the landlord's store, for which they work from sunrise to sunset. | These landlords have taken out the |40 per cent cut on the croppers’ the croppers will be forced to slave for them. In return they may be allowed a patch of the rented land, a garden and about three days work a week ($1.50). Acreage reduction is also hit- ting the tenant farmers hard. About 55 per cent of the farm- | and most of them pay what we | ers in Union County are tenants, | call “sure rent.” This is a cer- tain number of bales of cotton or a certain amount of cases, no matter how much cotton they grow a crop using the croppers and | \land, and plan to plant a full crop! on their own land this year, and/ which they formerly cropped, fof" Get Ready to satUMWA Socialite Leaders End District Convention | Officials Fy Trickery To Block Rising Opposition Ry TONY MINERICH PITTSBURGH, April 24. When the district convention of the United Mine Workers position elected in t Scheming to block the resentment of the miners as they d this new agreement means to them, the Lewis officials are taking ac- tve steps to pack the convention v ithful Lewis men, who will to at mroll whatever op- elop. early revealed by the way the convention was an- nounced. The officials have just sprung the announcement of the convention—less than three weeks before it is supposed to meet, The U.M.W.A. constitution states that every delegates’s name must he in the hands of the District See- retary five days before the Con- | vention. And this is impossible | since the notice was sent out se late. This gives the Lewis ma- chine its opportunity to unseat delegates or not to print the names of the delegates, permitting all the Lewis men to attend as delegates. This Is ¢ Miners Protest In all sections of the mine fields. the men are kicking against the new agreement which, under the cover of seeming wage increases actually leaves the vast majority of miners worse off than before, and whatever nominal increase is pro- vided for, applies, in the first place to only about 10 per cent of the miners. And even this turns out to be meaningless in the light of other provisions in the agreemen{ which provide for increased rent higher prices for powder, and so on The U.M.W.A. officials are getting ready to repeat their old tricks usec at the last national convention where these officials went aroune the locals getting the men to ac. cept Lewis n on the ground tha: such delegates “would not cost the local any money” to send to the convention. This makes the fob of electing real rank and file miners, those who are against Lewis, the most im- portant job at the present time. Recruit Scabs From East To Smash Strike LOS ANGELES. April 21 (By year | Mail).—Sparing no amount of money to break the solidarity of the Los Angeles Hosiery strii the bosses this week imported 98 seabs from the East, bringing the total number of scabs now em- ployed in the Knit Mile to 70, The profe mal strike-breakere were brought in by bus by a super- scab named Art Shires. The capi- talist press reported that his bus- load of scabs had been stopped in North Carolina and that he had been held up by police for trans- porting them without a license. The bus. however. was allowed to pro- ceed. The Central Labor Council made no effort to stop the importa- | tion or to assist the strikers. | Shires arrived yesterday with the 28 scabs and put them up in the Coliseum Hotel at Santa Barbara Avenue and Figueroa Street. From there he marched them dramatic- ally to the mill where the scabs already working were herded out on the roof to serve as a reception committee. Direct evidence of “red squad” connivance to frame the militant strikers has been exposed. Mission MULTIGRAPHERS STRIKE NEW YORK, (F.P.) — Higher wages, shorter hours and union ree- ognition are demanded by 350 striking multigraph operators em- ployed by New York City commer- cial plants which market facsimile letters and circulars. The strikers are members of the United Multi- graph Operators’ Union. | make. N is a tenant who has been making about 20 bales; his | sure rent is 8. When he eut his acreage, he will make around 12 bales and after he has paid his rent he will have only 4 bales left. With these four bales he must feed and clothe his family and buy feed, seed, fertilizer, and such equipment as he can. The tenant farmer who pays cash rent will be in the same boat, for it will take a large part of his crop _ to pay the rent, The small farmers who own a patch of land and have never been able to produce enough to live are being forced, just like the croppers and tenants, to reduce their asre- age. The Bankhead Bill provides @ leeway of 5 per cent of the total production of the county for “small producers’ or for those who wish te go Into cotton production. This means nothing for the small farm- er who is now being forced to re- duce his acreage 40 per cent. The croppers, tenants, and smal) farmers see that acreage reduction means more misery and starvation. | They see that organizing is the only jway to meet these atiacks of the |landlords and the government. Anc | they are organizing into the Share | Croppers Union. Mass meetings and | neighborhood meetings are being |held in many parts of the county, jand new members are coming into the militant Share Croppers Union.