The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1934, Page 3

i \ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1934 rage Thi A.F.L. Workers Back H. R. 7598 Despite Treachery Philadelphia C. L. U. | Railroad Support to Machine Rescinds H.R. 7598 Endorsement By a Work-r Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 3.—The A. F. of L. machine, by trickery and by confusing the workers, overruled the|L. Conference, held here Sun- decision of the Philadelphia Central Labor Union to sup- port the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) despite the wishes of the membership to give full support to the Workers Bill. In Philadelphia, as elsewhere, the fight for adequate unemployment insurance began among the rank and file. The Carpenters local was the first to endorse it. It soon spread throughout the locals in the city, local after local endorsing the Workers Bill, un*i it was brought up by the A. F. of L. delegates to the Central Labor Union, where it met unanimous approval. On April 8th, a leter was received from William Green, in which he attacked the bill as being uncon- stitutional, “Communistic” and im- possible of passage. He attacked the Workers Bill because one clause stated that the insurance would be administered by elected rank and Ale workers. He called upon the C.L.U. to endorse the Wagner-Lewis “Reserves” Bill, the fake unemploy- ment insurance bill which has the support of the Roosevelt adminis- tration. A motion was made that the C.L.U. rescind its endorsement of the Workers Bill, and support the Wagner-Iewis Bill. This motion met with such opposition by the rank and file that the motion was tabled until an investigation was made of the two bills. Admit H.R. 7598 Ideal Knowing that the Wagner-Lewis Bill would not receive the support of the delegates if submitted on its own merits, the executive board took it upon themselves to recom- mend the endorsement of the Wag- ner-Lewis Bill in preference to the Workers Bill, and submitted this recommendation for concurrence at the next meeting of the delegates two weeks later. The executive board did not dare criticize the Workers Bill, but on the contrary, after studying both bills declared the Workers Bill the ideal bill for meeting the present needs of the workers, but because it did nat have the support of the A. F. of L. offi- cialdom and Congress, thev believed it impossible of enactment. ‘When this was presented to the membership, it was met with bitter opposition by the delegates, who accused the executive board of being inconsistent in their recommenda- tions. There was a heated discus- sion which lasted about two hours, in which one delegate after another took the ficor and exposed the Wagner-Lewis Bill as being detri- mental to the interests of labor. Even a member of the executive beard (who was not present at that board meeting) got up and spoke against. the recommendations, stat- ing that he was in favor of con- tinuing to support the Workers’ Bill unless some definite proof was pre- sented to show its being uncon- stitutional. The chairman then resorted to other tactics, refusing the floor a second time to anyone having spoken before he re-read Green's letter, and made a lengthy speech in favor of Green's stand. The motion to rescind the en- dorsement of the Workers Bill and andorse the Wagner-Lewis Bill was then put to a vote, and it was unanimously defeated. The rank and file had apparently won out, when someone jumped up and said we should have voted on whether +o concur with the recommendations of the executive board. The chair- man immediately outlawed the former motion and substituted it with the later, which caused con- fusion among the membership as to what they were really voting for. When the motion was voted on, there was a division, and when the votes were counted the executive board won out by a vote of 46 to 36. After this experience we workers are beginning to realize that the fight for unemployment insurance is also a fight against the bureaucrats end ae racketeers in the A. F. of L. Comradely Atmosphere Marshall Foods 797 BROADWAY, N. Y. C. [near lith St.] Pure Foods at Popular Prices —PHILADELPHTA— of Chiefs Chicago A.F.L. Officials | Fake Wagner Bill By a Worker Corresnondent CHICAGO, Ill., May 3.— Refusing to take a vote by| hands, the Chicago A, F. of | day, April 29th, voted by a vocal vote, support to the | Wagner-Lewis “Reserves” Bill, the fake unemployment insurance bill, railroaded through by the A. F. of L. officialdom. The conference, called by the Chicago Federation of Labor for unemployment insurance, Wa 5s opened by Oscar Nelson, vice- president of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor, one of 17 accused of racketeering. The assistant secre- tary read off the can >f the con- ference that endorsed the N. R. A., which was discussed by most of the leaders of the Chicago Federation of Labor, like Sodorstrom, president | of the Mlinois Federation of Labor, and many other top officials. Only one rank and file delegate, H. Cohen from Local 637 of the Painters’ Union, was given the floor to speak. The chairman of the conference asked that the Wagner-Connery bill be adopted. Objections were made from the floor by rank and file delegates that they did not know what they were going to vote for, that it should read off before the conference. Nelson answered that William Green is for the bill and the American Federation of Labor in general was for the Dill, therefore all delegates can easily yote for it. The vote for this bill was railroaded despite the protest of large numbers of rank and file delegates. | The Wagner-Lewis “Reserves” bill then came up for discussion, A delegate from Local 637, Elmer Johnson, spoke for the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill (H. R, 7598). He was questioned by the chairman of the conference and again when answer- ing to the conference received tre- mendous applause, especially when unemployed today.” George Kupp, of the Typographical Union, Local Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill (H. R, 7598). When he got through he received tremen- dous applause. Mr. Nelson and the other top officials were actually llost, and it really looked as though | the Workers’ Bill (H.R. 7598) was | going to be carried. Nelson then made an attack on the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, claiming that this bill is published only for “Com- munist propaganda.” When he said this the rank and file delegates ooed him, and he said, “Boos or no boos, this bill is not going to be carried.” A group of officials spoke after that, and the yote was sud- denly taken. ‘The Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance. Bill got a very big vote. Nevertheless, the chairman announced that the “ayes” have it, and the Wagner bill was carried. Would there have been a vote by ‘hands, it would have been impos- sible for the chairman to announce the Wagner bill carries, There were also resolutions adopted for the six-hour, five-day week, for the return of the C.W.A. jobs and the P.W.A. program, also for the building of more schools, hiring of more teachers, etc. The rank and file left the con- ference with a determination to show up their leadership in their local unions, by working for the adoption of the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill in every local union in the city of Chicago. in Upper Mich. on Relief SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich.— Nearly one-half of the population of the Upper Peninsula is on relief, according to figures released here recently. The number on relief in the state range from 24.2 per cent in Chippewa County to 81.5 per cent in Keweenaw County. This number includes only those on direct relief and those on relief projects, There are thousands more, totally unemployed, that are not registered, putting the total of those with no guaranteed methods of sup- port well over half the total popu- lation. LS Sib, eS CHINA KITCHEN CHINESE-AMERICAN CAFETERIA-RESTAURANT 233 E. 14th St., Opp. Labor Temple SPECIAL LUNCH 5c. DINNER 35¢, Comradely Atmos; CONCERT .. . DANCE Movie Showing “War Against the Centuries” SATURDAY, MAY 5th, 8 P.M. at 2523 E, Thompson Street Auspices: South Slavic Workers Club Admission 30¢. Refreshments Chicago VETERANS RALLY Concert and Dance Elaborate CONCERT Program Music by Polish Amer. Orch, SATURDAY, MAY 5th from 7:30 P.M. till down Northwest Masonic Temple 1547 N. Leavitt Street Auspices: W.E.S.1. Post 49 Admission at door 35c. 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May 3.—De-| termined to enforce their demands| for adequate cash relief, 500 striking relief workers stormed the doors of the Council chambers of the board of supervisors here Monday. | For more than a week the Sioux| City relief workers have been on| strike, demanding increased pay, and, on the basis of demands for more relief to the unemployed and no evictions, have been able to win} the unemployed workers to support of the strike. All relief work in| the city is closed by the strike. | On Monday, a committee backed | up by 500 workers demanded cash | relief to the strikers and the job- less. After waiting for an hour, the workers smashed the door. Im- mediately the leaders of the strike were seized, but the supervisor was forced to meet with the workers committee, and later was forced to release the arrested leaders. Demonstrate Again In the afternoon the striking| workers and unemployed § egain demonstrated, and the supervisors | locked up the office and fled. Food orders to some of the workers were given out on the spot. | When the workers were preparing | their May Day demonstration, the county supervisor was forced to promise to open all relief stations, | and to give free medical attention to all workers. The county attorney called the governor and promised to send a supervisor with full authority | to issue the relief needed. | Police with the aid of armed thugs have started a reign of terror against the striking relief workers. They entered the jail, took Bill Levine, youthful leader of the strikers to the South Dakota line, beat him into unconsciousness and | left him on a lonely road. Sympa- | thetic farmers took Levine back to) the city. ee este Bemidji Jobless Win Relief ! BEMIDJI, Minn. — Two demon-| strations in one day won relief for | | 35 families here on Monday. Under the leadership of the C.W.A. Workers Protective Union, 300 work- ers gathered at the relief office, de- manding that relief budgets be doubled. The relief supervisors had | fled, and the workers left, determined | to reassemble at 3 p.m. Again the relief headquarters were closed when the workers returned at |3 p.m. A committee of five, together | with the 35 workers in immediate | need of relief, visited the local chain | store to obtain a relief order. A full | mobilization of police was at hand at the first store visited, and the committee, backed up by the 300 demonstrators, visited another store where relief orders were granted to} all 35 workers. | oe | Tell your friends and shopmates | about the Daily Worker. Let them | read your copy. Ask them to sub- | seribe. By W. G. B. | NEW ORLEANS, May 3.—“We'll | teach you ‘niggers’ to attend Com- munist meetings.” This was a New Orleans policeman speaking as he arrested four Negro Youths as they were leaving a lecture on Commu- | nism by Clarence Hathaway. | More than 150 Negroes were among the 500 workers and sym- pathizers who came to hear the first | public presentation of Communism in this Southern city. -Nearly two years ago Comrade Hathaway came to New Orleans to fill an engage- ment for William Z. Foster. The police decided no Communist could j speak. He was arrested, taken to | jail and told to leave town, The | meeting was broken up. Now, the New Orleans Public Forum invites Hathaway to speak on the program of the Party and its solution for the present crisis. For an hour and 30 minutes Hathaway spoke, dissecting the present capi- talist system and explaining the Communist program for a remedy. “Today, we see two world sys- tems: capitalism, which rules in the most of the world. Under capital- ism, production has declined, mil- lions are unemployed and starving. Capitalism has proved a_ failure.” ‘Then speaking of the Soviet Union. he said: “Here we can see that Communism is not a utopia, but a that is functioning adequately. Com- munism is a success... . “Many look to Professor Tugwell | and the Braintrusters as the ones who will find the solution. Some socialists and liberals even think they are smuggling in Socialism or Communism. They are wrong. It 4s Fascism, the iron rule of finance capital, the rule of Wall Street and the biggest, most influential money interests that they will smuggle in. It will be the same kind of dicta- torship that is behind Hitler today. “The New Deal is moving towards Fascism. It is not Fascism, but by stimulating monopoly, the biggest corporations squeezing out the smaller business men, and placing the control of the nation’s business under the control of Wall Street, it paves the way for Fascism. “Hoover gave the workers a direct wage cut. Roosevelt, while pretend- ing to rav> wages, has in reality caused a great reduction in the ac- tual wages. According to their own statistics, wages have been raised 75%, while the cost of living has gone up 23%. Here in the South’ the difference is much greater. Equal Richts for Negroes “The Communists reject all theo- ries of racial inequality. We believe | then rush like hell to get them fin-| AGAINST COMPANY This sound truck created a sensation in Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, and was a great aid in mobilizing the hosiery | As they left the factory, the truck parked workers for a meeting. | UNIONISM nearby, and roared forth a call for the workers to join a mass meeting against company unionism held at a nearby hall. At Pa. R.R. Su By a Railroad Worker Corres- {| pondent LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y¥.—The workers in other departments of the Sunnyside Yards have written in telling about the filthy condi-) tions they work under and have in| some cases got better conditions| from the bosses by exposing these conditions, so I am going to tell you about the conditions of the car cleaners who work for the Penn- sylvania. The bosses make us do two men's work in eight hours and if you don’t give the right answer to the boss when he talks to you he snaps you! up. They give us cars to do in what they call a reasonable time| and yet sometimes we have to hunt all over the yards for them and ished. Then the bosses started hiring only white workers, so if a man is colored he can’t get a job in the Speed-up and Discrimination Car Worker Exposes Bad Conditions Used by Company Against Employes nnyside Yards back, 214 per cent to July is a way we'll never feel it. And with prices for food and clothes going up 20 to 30 per cent it doesn’t mean any- thing. A CAR CLEANER, Oss ches ok NOTE:—The policy of bosses of the Penn R.R. in dis- criminating against Negro work- ers by hiring only white workers in this department is just another way the bosses use to split the unity of the white and colored workers, so that the workers won't get together in a fight for getter conditions. The workers in this department should talk over conditions with other workers in this department | and with the workers in the Pull- Car Cleaning Department. The workers should realize that only through an organization that is built and supported by the department. In fact, the bosses are| workers on the job can they get constantly inventing pretexts to| better conditions and higher fire colored workers to replace them| wages. For more information on with white workers, Then too, they want the car) cleaned, but when we go to Mc- Intyre to get brushes, he looks at} them and says they can still be! used, or says, wait a minute, and then he goes away and we don’t! get it anyway. Yet they expect first class work without tools. | In the Safety First book they tell} us not to use defective tools and/ yet when we ask for tools we can’t] get them. If we work with bad! toois and get hurt they got us.| They ask us if we read the rules! and that’s the way they get out! of paying us compensation. Then the way they give our cut! Negro, W, hite Workers in New Orleans Cheer C. A. Hatha how to organize, the work should fill in and mail the ap. Plication printed below. UNITY COMMITTEE, Room 631, Dept. 10. Please send me more informa- tion on how. to organize for bet- ter conditions, City . 6 * . Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, whose fighting speech for Negro and white unity at a meeting in New Orleans sev- eral days apo was cheered by Jocal workers. the Negro people. Long ago the founder of scientific Communism, Karl Marx, said: ‘Labor in a white skin cannot emancipate itself so Jong as labor in a black skin is branded’.” This statement brought tremendous applause from both Ne- gro and whites. The fact that hun- dreds of white workers applauded this statement shows the tremen- dous advence the influence of the Party has made since its entrance in the South. “When we first entered the South,” Hathaway continued, “we were told by many that we would be lynched by the white workers, that we would be run out of the South, if we did not modify our program on the Negro question. We did not compromise on this ques- tion. . . not one bit. We have not been run out of the South. We are building throughout the South to- day revolutionary trade unions, in which Negro and whites are ac- cepted on an equal basis.. We are | building the Communist Party here. The correctness of our position is being shown to the workers in their struggles.” in and stand uncompromisingly for In exvlaining the difference be- tween the Socialist Party and the Communist Party, Comrade Hatha- way explained that the Socialists | believed in a gradual change, in re- lying upon the present machinery of democracy to bring about the change peacefully. “We Commu- nists don't believe the capitalists will give up so easily. Morgan and Rockefeller have built up their f | wealth by bloodshea, terror and robbery, and they will use these | Same methods to maintain their rule. History gives us no incident lof such great changes coming about peacefully. When in 1774 the | American colonies declared theit |independence, did Great Britain |give it to them? No, she sent an army against the colonies, and a seven years’ war was fought to establish their independence. “Again, in 1860, the majority of voters in America decided in favor of the industrialists of the North, they signified by their vote that slavery must be abolished. But did the Southern landlords give up their slaves? No. It took four years of bloody war to establish the rule of the Northern capitalist, And when the Communists shall have con- vinced the majority of workers that they should set up a Soviet gov- ernment of workers and farmers to safeguard their interests we do not expect the capitalists to surrender with open arms, No, they will use their last guns to maintain their dictatorship, their rule of terror. The Communist Party is now or- ganizing the workers to prepare them to maintain their new system by force.” Again there was an out- burst of enthusiastic applause. After the lecture, there was a period of 30 minutes devoted to questions. “What about free speech, do you believe in that?” “We Com- |munists approach all such ques- tions from a class viewpoint. We don’t believe in free speech in the abstract, We believe in unlimited freedom of expression for the work- ers, but for the capitalists and old aristocracy, who try to disrupt the workers’ government, they feel the iron fist of the workers’ dictator- ship.” Then: “What about the workers’ right to strike in the Sc- viet Union?” Hathaway explained that in the Soviet Union the work- ers were in control, that all the ma- chinery of production and distribu- tion were in the hands of the | workers, and “naturally workers would not desire to strike agains themselves,” he declared. Also, there were many questions as to everyone receiving the same salary, etc., all of which were met success- fully. | After the meeting hundreds of | Daily Workers were distributed fr jbut the workers contributed th pennies and nickels for these paper to the extent of $5.50, Many work- the | Meet way’s Call for Negro Rights Camden S. P. Meet| Philadelphia Auto Flops, As Workers Forge United Front Socialist, Workers Fraternize in Historic Rally CAMDEN, N. J., May 3.—More than 800 workers marched into Court House Plaza here on May Day in response to the call of the Communist speak. The workers marched under | the banners of the United Front to| | the Socialist meeting place, thus} West End of Boston. forcing a real united front in spite | housewives are so aroused over the| of the workers in the K Body Stri ke Solid; 8 Shops Shut Down Picketing at Bread Strike in Boston last week in Malden, Chi a, Win-| throp, Dorchester, Roxbury and the Mothers andj Police Attack Women | Knit - eat Workers, Campbell Strikers, Reject Sell-Out United May Day Committee, car- May 3—Police bru- s |rying banners and signs demand-/tajiy attacked women and vouths| PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May ing unemployment insurance, abo-! picketing Monday before Jewish| 3.—The str of the auto iitio of fim-crowism and against | bakeries, in a “bread strike” called! workers ll bv | fascism and war to protest the raise in price of Ny rker: here, called by the A separate meeting called by the! bread from seven cents to 12 cents| Commercial Auto Body Loeal Socialist Party leaders, who had re-|and of rolls from 15 cents to 24/2, of the Auto Workers Union, jected the United Front appeal.jcents a dozen. The strike WAS | is solid jénded in a flop, and the Socialist|called by the Working Women’s} 7. 7° | speakers came to the United Front| Councils of Greater Boston, follow-| Eight shops, Allegheny, | meeting and asked for a chance to/jing a series of mass meetings held| Barry and Bailey, Darien, Driban, Kaiser, Soffee, Wacker and Kirstein, are closed down, with 100 per cent of the workers on strike. Over half one shop of the Socialist leaders. The few|sharp rise in bread prices that from | are out, and 75 per cent “of those Socialist workers at the S. P. meet-| ing joined enthusiastically with the| United Front demonstrators, thus | | completing the demonstration ar-)| jranged by the Communist Party }and the United Front May Day) | Committee. Lackawanna County Workers Win Big Victory on May Day SCRANTON, Pa., May 3.—Work- ers of Scranton and many sur- rounding towns and villages packed two halls here in the largest May Day demonstration Lackawanna! County has ever seen.’ Many work- ers marched miles on foot to the meetings. Before assembling at the halls, | the workers marched under the |leadership of the Lackawanna County Unemployment Council on the County Relief Board and de- manded $5 a day relief for every unemployed worker and $3 for each dependent; wages of 50-cents an | hour on relief projects and a mini- mum of 30 hours a week. | Terrified by the size and mili- tancy of the workers’ mobiliza- | tion, the County Commissioners announced a few minutes before | the march began the cessation of | back taxes. | sheriff sales of workers’ homes for Inspired by their victory over the} county commissioners, and by the} various speakers, including John) Parkes of the Philadelphia Unem- ployment Council, the workers cheered and sang during the meet- | | ings in the halls. |U.'T. W. Leader Hurries | Out of Nashua May 1 Meet | who was present at the meeting, | hurriedly left the hall when the mecting was thrown open to ques- tions from the floor, rather than} | face the workers on the issue of} A. F. of L. leadership betrayal of | the strugg'es.of the textile workers. | The Pioneer Group of Milford, |N. H., provided an excellent pro-| | gram of revolutionary songs and| | poems. Conn. Workers Hold | section, 500 to 600 atended each of the seven | mass meetings and many joined! the Working Women’s Councils. | Strike leaders reported that the} women engaged in mass picketing} before every Jewish bakery in the bravely resisting police brutality. Lodi Workers Once More Win Demands Despite AFL Heads Under NTW Leadership, Win Recognition of Committees PASSAIC, N. J.—The Lodi, N. d Dye Workers, employed by the U. § Piece Dve Works Co., again defeated the A. F. of L. leaders and gained very important demands, including: 1) The recognition of the N.T.W.U. department and shop committee. 2) The hiring of union members who were laid off some months ago. | mills. in the Lyter shop are out. The Finnesey Body Shop at 26th and Parrish streets has already signed the agreement with the union, agreeing to recognition cf the union, the closed shop and a minimum wage of 70¢ an hour. The strike sentiment is spreading among the workers of other shops in the city. The workers in the Uncle Sam Shop forced an agree- ment with the boss for recognition of the union and the 70¢ minimum wage demanded by the union. It is expected that three other shops will sign the agreement, within a few days and that the Auto Body Builders Association will be forced to sign also. The Leiter shop, the largest in the industry here, is crippled with 80 per cent of the workers out. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. May 3:— The open co-operation of the offi- als of the United Textile Workers with the bosses in trying to smash the general strike of the knit goods workers, has forced some of the workers to return to work in some The workers have returned, however, in an organized body, full of confidence in the militant lead- ership of the Knit Goods Workers There are 4,000 working in the| Union, which conducted the six- Lodi mill. weeks strike, and full of hatred to- The A. F. of L. leaders again| ward the betrayers of the U.T. W. attempted to call a mass meetint of the workers on Saturday, April | 22, in Lodi, by telling the workers that the owners of the United Piece | Dye Workers of Lodi had signed a contract with them. which would be read at this meeting. The bosses of the Lodi plant in- structed their workers to be present | at this meeting, but on Saturday only a few workers from another shop showed Again some of NASHUA, N . May 3.—Sev- up. par owiehe anaes in ft nih the National Textile Workers Union eas fanaa: tha 5 ay. | members took the floor and exposed | te attended the May Day meet-) the 4 F. of L. leaders and the fal ME i tract, which had never been M. Revere, organizer of the i " % United Textile Workers of America,|S!sned. They then left for the | meeting of the National Textile Workers Union where Anna Burlak, National Secretary of the N.T.W.U., spoke. At this meeting fifteen workers | were elected to present the above | demands to the company. At first | the officials tried to explain that | there is no work, and they are hav- ing a hard time keeping all workers at work, but when the com- mittee exposed this soft talk and proved that the company is making enough profit, the officials promised ili ay ings to run only two shifts, instead of | Militant i 6 Meat |four or five. The Committee fur- | | In Spirited May 1 Mee’ jther demanded the recognition of | NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 3.— One thousand workers paraded for| two hours through the Negro dis-| trict on May 1 and finally assembled on the Green in a militant May Day | demonstration. A preliminary meet~ ing in the Negro section met with enthusiastic response. | The parade passed by the Work- |men’s Circle Hall, where striking their department and shop commit- | tees, which was granted. | Many workers who were outside the office, waiting for the report of | the Committee, promised to rally more members into the union, after | hearing the report. This proved to! the workers, especially in Mill B, | that through organization we can accomplish much. The Lodi work- | | bakers, members of an A. F. of L. union, greeted the demonstrators | | and the slogans of proletarian unity I. Wofsy, District Organizer of the | Communist Party, was the main | speaker at the demonstration. An | indoor meeting in the evening at the Little Cinema Theatre, was packed, with well over 300 attending. | The main speaker wes Bill Taylor | of the Communist Party. aah We 1,000 Out In New Britain NEW BRITAIN, Conn., May 3.— One thousand workers of this “Hardware City” demonstrated on) May Day. and were addressed by} Bill Taylor and I. Abrahams of the Communist Party. * « 900 At Hartford Meetings successful May Day open-air meet- ings were held here with 600 workers at one, and 300 at the other. An evening meeting at Odd Fellows Hall was attended by 300, with many others unable to get in. The main speakers of the day were I. Wofsy, District Organizer of the Communist Party, and I. Abrahams New Bedford Workers NEW YORK, Mass., May 3.—Over 450 workers attended an enthusias- tic May Day demonstration in Ash- ley Park here, despite efforts of the} police to intimidate the workers. Resolutions endorsing the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill H. R. 7598. 2nd demanding the re-| lease of Ernst) Thaelmann were) passed. The meeting was addressed | by W. Peters, J. Weber, and W. | Burke, with Shuster as chairman. ers have since asked for more in- formation about the Party, and a) few have offered their applications. | One incident is worthy of note. A white woman comes to the Work- ers’ Center the next day and says: “I have been a Communist all my life, but didn’t know it until ITheard | Hathaway. What can I do to help? She was given 20 “Dailies” to sell! and an hour later came back, hav- | ‘ng sold them ail. The I. L. D. immediately got on he job and forced the release of the four Negro youths who were | arrested. HARTFORD, Conn., May 3.—Two | &S: ithe O'Keefe and Merritt stove fac- ers have begun to understand the strength of our union. Shoe Repair Men To Discuss Strike To Take Up Question, Of Walk-Out NEW YORK.—The Shoe Repair Department of the United Shoe and| Leather Workers Union announces} its next regular membership meet-| jing on Sunday, May 6, 1934, at 10 a. m. at the new headquarters, 22 W. 15th St., N. Y. Shoe repair-| hat cleaners and bootblacks | should positively attend this meet- ing and take part in the discussion and in the preparations for our general strike. At this meeting plans to make/| the bosses live up to the signed agreements and strengthen our or- ganization in the different sections of the city will be discussed. The meeting will start at 10 a.m.! sharp and will close at 1 p.m. and will be held in the large union hall! at 22 W. 12th St. Readers of the “Daily” have been requested to or- ganize the thousands of shoe re-) pair workers by telling the shoe repairers about the organization. | Stove Workers in L, A.| Get 20 Per Cent Slash LOS ANGELES, Calif—Pay cuts. | in some instances as high as 20 per cen, have been received by the} workers in the foundry section of} tory here. The workers are or- ganized into the A. F. of L. and several attempts to strike have been stalled off by the A. F. of L. heads. Great dissatisfaction with the A. F. of L. is manifest among the workers. MAY 1 MEET IN CHICOPEE FALLS CHICOPEE FALLS, Mass., May 3. —In this smail town fifty workers attend the May Day meeting at the Polish National Home despite police | Thomas McMahon the | threats. Ben Compton of the Com- munist Party was the main speaker. secretary of the U.T.W., has been completely dis- credited before the strikers. Strikers in other shops are still out and supporting the N.G.W.U. in |the struggle against discrimination | against union workers in the mills that have already settled. Campbell Strikers Storm City Hall CAMDEN, N. J., May 3.—Pickets from the Campbell Soup Co. here | stormed the City Hall and engaged in a battle with the police to force the release of seven of their num- ber who had been arrested in front | of the plant on the orders of Mayor Stewart. Police charged the crowds of workers on the City Hall Plaza on motorcycles, with no regard for possible injuries to the workers. While the pickets were battling the police, Frank Manning, Social- ist leader of the Industrial Can- |ners’ Union, announced that he had | “confidential information” that the | National Labor Board would soon | come to an agreement on the strike, |The board, after today’s demon- | stration, will not dare offer a sell- out agreement, it is expected. The strikers have already turned down several offers made by Chap- pel, national mediator, and several offers of minor wage increases made by Arthur Dorrance, president of the company, and have refused to be stampeded by the threat of an an‘i-picketing injunction from the | company. 1,000 Single Workers in Omaha, Neb. Forced Labor ‘Transient Camp’ By a Worker Correspondent OMAHA, Neb—More than 1,000 Negro and white single unemployed workers and farmers are held in the old government supply base at 24th and Hickory Sts, here, which is operated as a “Transient Camp” of the Federal Transient Bureau, The men are jammed into un- healthy sleeping quarters; some are compelled to work without any pay under threat of expulsion, others are paid 90 cents a week. About six die each month. Last January the workers struck | against the Salvation Army admin- istration of the camp. The strike was won. Six of the workers were jailed at the time, but were released |immediately through the Interna- tional Labor Defense. The Salvation Army was ousted, and the men won better food—more meat and vegetables and plenty of bread, sugar, milk and desert. : The workers are now organizing to stop discrimination in the giving out of clothing, for cash wages, and for decent sleeping headquarters. Set Up New Branches of Unemployment Councils In Peoria, Illinois PEORIA, Tll—Continued requests are coming in to the Peoria County Committee, Unemployment Coun- cils, for the formation of locals, East Peoria, Hollis, Mapleton, Kingston, Glasford, Princeville, are requesting locals. An organization meeting, Tenth Ward (Averyville), Peoria, was held on Tuesday, April 24. A trade union committee from the Unemployment Councils was set up last Thursday morning to bring the Workers’ Unemployment and So- cial Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) be- fore all labor organizations in this territory. Plans are now being made to conduct a mass meeting and dem- onstration at Peoria County Court House on May Day for the Workers’ Bill and other vital issues concerne ing the workers. =