The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1934, Page 1

re te AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR A SOVIET U. S. Help Spread the Daily Worker Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 3, 1879. WEATHER: Fair. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1934 Suunday: Probably showers Price 3 Cents (Eight Pages) 13 Face Death For May Day Vol. XI, No. 108 <-> * Jobless Worker Dies After 30 Mile Hike To Plead for Food ATLANTA, Ga., May 4—J Williams, an unemployed worker, collapsed from hunger in the ! 8.000 Alabama ten oa = U. S., British, Japanese Gee diners Go Days After Mey I) Clash Over World Marts re in | NEW YORK.—Charles Krum- bein, Secretary of the New York District of the Communist Party, ) | Out on Strike! A (Se a @ lWalkoutAgainst Pay Cut Imposed by N. R. A. Wage Scale DOCKERS STRIKE Mitch, U.M.W.A. Head, Sends Miners Back To Work Special to the Daily Worker BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May| 4—Eight thousand ore} miners struck this morning against a pay cut of five cents per day, embodied in the N. R. A. wage scale announced re-/| cently by President Roosevelt, and | for recognition of the International | Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (A. F. of L.). At the same time the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union has called a longshore- men’s strike for the entire Hamp- ton Roads area centering in Ports- mouth, Virginia. William Mitch, district leader of the United Mine Workers of America, sent the last of the coal miners back to work, thus finally ending the strike of 21,000 Alabama ¢oal miners. Mitch sent the coal miners back to work under an agreement based on the wage scale of the N.R.A. announced by Roose- velt which gives the coal miners al- most a dollar a day less than the scale set for the northern coal min- ers. In ending the coal miners strike, at the same time that the ore min- | ers walk out, the U.M.W.A. leader- ship is trying to break up the strug- gle of the miners piecemeal. As soon as the Marine Workers Industrial Union had called the longshoremen’s strike, the Inter- national Longshoremen's Associa- tion (A, F. of L.), officials made a strikebreaking statement that “The M.W.1.U, is not affiliated to the A. F. of L., and our own organization will be extended to the utmost to meet the needs of the dock work- ers.” The Marine Workers Indus- trial Union has called for unity of all dock workers to win the strike. _ Thirty Negro strikers were ar- rested at the pier of the Seaboard Airline Railway for refusing to obey the orders of the police to disburse. Compositors Strike | Series on Struggles On Waterfront Starts in Daily Worker Mon. NEW YORK.— Marguerite Young’s series of articles on the struggles of the marine workers will begin in Monday's Daily Worker. These articles, which deal with the fight of one of the most im- portant sections of the labor movement to administer their own relief, are of particular in- terest to every worker. | Marguerite Young, who has | been with the seamen since they | began their march from Balti- more to Washington, has written a thrilling, factual account of the life and death struggle on the waterfront. Don’t miss it! | Aero Strikers Reject Board’s “Arbitration” Police Beat Up Mother Of Eleven on the Picket Line BUFFALO, N. Y., May 4.—The 2,000 strikes of the Curtiss and Consolidated aircraft companies were to meet tonight to vote on the proposal of the Labor Board that they retur’h to work and then arbitrate. The strikers are in favor of rejection of the government board's proposal. The executive committee of the Aeronautical Workers Union has al- ready informed the Labor Board that the union regards the board as incompetent to conduct such arbi- tration and will not accept this) strike-breaking proposal. The same stand is taken by the Aniline Chem- ical and the Houde Auto workers. Realizing the spirit of the strik- ers against the proposed Labor Board sell-out, the company has brought in over 130 police and dep- uties and launched a reign of ter- ror on the picket line. One woman, the wife of a strik- er and mother of 11 children, was seized on the picket line and so badly beaten by the cops and dep- uties that she is now in the hos- pital. She was clubbed uncon- scious when she refused to leave the picket line. Women have Two Jersey Papers Picket Paterson “Call” and “Evening Post’’ been among among the most spir- ited pickets. The company is now trying to get | some weak sisters to return to work Monday. The strikers are guarding against this. PATERSON, N. J., May 4.—One hundred members of the Typo- grapnical Union, Local 195, struck last night at 7 p.m. and have set up picket lines in front of Paterson’s only two newspaper plants, the Eve- ning Post and the Morning Call. For a month the local union membership has been trying to get the sanction of the National Ex- ecutive Council for strike action. ‘The Executivev Council finally sanc- tioned the strike. ‘The strikers have set up a rank and file strike committee of 11, headed by Henrk Berger and have voted down arbitration. They de- mand that the strikers shall deal directly with the owners of the newspapers. The type-setters are demanding $45 for a 38-hour week, enforcement of the union rules (especially the reproduction clause which requires that all ads sent to other papers shall be reset and reproved.) They are also demanding no firing or fining of workers for errors. Newark. press men and linotype men have pledged full support of the strike. Members of Passaic Lo- cal 178 expect to walk out Tuesday for the same demands. ‘The papers are appearing in a curtailed form, since the compa- nies have placed 22 scabs in the plants, supplied by a well-known strike-breaker named Flagg, who is bringing the scabs from White Plains and Hackensack. Answering an appeal to the pub- lic to support the strike, Sam Reed, organizer of the Communist Party, has called on the unemployed to help picket the plants. The Na- tional Textile Workers Union has offered to support the strike. The Amalgamation Party of Big Six, upon receiving word of the strike, issuued the following state- ment, “We warmly greet and ap- plaud the militant action of our brother compositors of Paterson and pledge our fullest moral and mate- rial support to their strike. They are fighting for the printers all over the country as well as for them- selves and we cannot afford to let them lose. All good union men should join their picket line. Every apel should post a contribution t for the support of the strike.” EARTHQUAKE ROCKS TOWN _ ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 4.— A sharp earthquake lasting ninety seconds, and felt several hundred miles away, frightened residents of this town from their homes last ‘night. Raw Sell Out Ends Strike of Fisher Men in Tarrytown Call Meeting. of Few Strikers; Accept Labor Board TARRYTOWN, N. Y., May 4.— The American Federation of Labor leaders put over a raw sell-out on the Tarrytown Fisher Body strik- ers today by calling a “mass” meet- ing of a few strikers on an hour's notice, and putting through a res- olution ending the strike and refer- ring disputes to the Auto Labor Board. The sell-out resolution put through this small meeting, con- fines the disputes to be taken up by the A. F. of L. officials with the local Fisher Body officials to “the question that was pending at the time the strike was called.” This means that wage demands, and de- mands against the speed-up will not even be “arbitrated” since the only question at issue then was dis- crimination. The resolution of the A. F. of L. officials declares, “in the event that mutually satisfactory conclusions are not reached in conference, the National Auto Labor Board will as- sume jurisdiction and settle the question.” Many of the strikers are highly indignant that this resolution was jammed through a “special” meet- ing at which only a small number of the strikers were present. Shoe and Textile Workers Hold May Day Meet LEWISTON, Me. May 4—The first May Day demonstration ever held in this city was attended by shoe and textile workers from Lewiston and Auburn. Halper, rep- {esate the Communist Party, poke on the need of building strong militant unions. Edward Lee of the Park Ave. Relief Workers Associa- tion, outlined the history of May Day and the fight for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). Members of the organization in whose hall the meeting took place were so impressed with the message of the speakers that they voted’ to return half of the price originally agreed on for the hall, was arrested here Friday by fed- eral agents. | Details of the charge were lacking as the Daily Worker went to press. Capitalist press state- ments indicate that a “federal in- dictment charging possession and use of fraudulent passports” serves as the pretext for the ar- rest. The arrest of the leader of the N. Y. District of the Communist Party is seen as the reply of the Roosevelt administration to the huge May First demonstrations throughout the country and par- ticularly the monster turnout in New York. Monday’s “Daily” will carry the details of the case. In the meantime all workers organizations are requested to forward protest resolutions to Roosevelt and the Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. Smith Ends ‘Tooland Die Walk-Out Socialist Leader Calls Off Strike; Without Any Demands Won By A. B. MAGIL DETROIT, May 4.—Follow- ing on the heels of the ending of the strike of one thousand workers of the Michigan Stove Company, the Me- chanics Educational Society of America yesterday officially an- nounced the termination of the walkout of tool and die makers which at its beginning on April twelve involved nearly four thousand men, As in the case of the Michigan Stove strike, Matthew Smith, Gen- eral Secretary of the M.ES.A., con- tinued his shameless demagogic efforts to hide the loss of the strike. Smith is quoted in today’s press as stating that the men were returning to those shops which “meet the re wage scale set by the M. E. . A.” “Approximately ninety five per cent of the shops are paying that scale,” Smith is quoted as saying “but a few selfish shop owners are preventing the manufacturers asso- ciation from making a general settlement.” In this way Smith defends the Manufacturers Association, putting the blame on a “few selfish shop owners,” and seeks to hide the fact that the men’s demands for twenty (Continued on Page 2) Two Negro Girls Robbed of Wages Shipped from Baltimore by Racketeering Agency NEW YORK.—Two colored Bal- timore girls are stranded in this city as the result of a conspiracy be- tween local employers of domestic labor and Baltimore Employment Agencies to trap Negro girls into coming to this city for employment at starvation wages which are never paid. The two workers are Bertha Jones and Cecelia Talbott, who were shipped to Brooklyn employers by the Baum Agency of 508 W. Mul- berry St., Baltimore, Md. Miss Jones was hired by Mrs. S. L. An- ker of 486 Brooklyn Ave., Brooklyn, and Miss Talbott by Mrs. Nina Katz of the same address. The two workers were told by the agency that they would be well paid. Arriving at the Brooklyn address, without a return ticket, they were forced to accept employment at $20 a month. Is Leading to New War NEW YORK.—Head-on clashes over world markets, intermingled with covert dip- lomatic war notes, bristle in the Far East as both the United States and Great Britain took up the question of conflict with Japan on the question of world trade. Following the British ulti- matum delivered by President Wal- ter Runiciman of the Board of Trade to Japan, that Japanese goods are driving out British products in the empire’s colonies, the State De- partment in Washington began a series of provocative “investigations” on Japanese competition. The struggle over markets and colonial aggrandizement which is now coming more openly to the sur- face 1s the real reason for the bit- ter notes passed between Washing- ton and Tokio. The Japanese in their recent declaration stated that America’s heavy shipment of mill- U. S. Follows Up Note-Writing by Provocative | “Investigation”’ of Japanese Conditions ment, were the means being used to undermine Japanese trade in the Orient. The Japanese war lords de- jclared they would not tolerate any further encroachment on the “spe- cial interests” of Japan in China. The United States replied, insisting on the “open door,” which means the right of Wall Street to pene-| trate China and establish its com- mercial and military base. The State Department, aided by the Department of Commerce, pointed out that Japanese goods were rapidly ousting American prod- ucts in the Philippines, Hawaii. Latin America, and other exclusive | American markets. The object of this announcement is to bolster up | the Roosevelt war program to in- sure Amerigan supremacy in these markets as against Japan. Official figures published by the | State Department show that Jap- anese sales have increased in the United States from 425,300,000 yen in 1931, to 492,237,000 yen in Jan- tary planes to China, and the loans to the Chiang Kai-Shek govern- (Continued on Page 2) NEW YORK.—In response to the call of the National Rank and File Committee of the veterans for an ex-servicemen’s march on Washing- ton for support of their three-point program, many contingents have al- ready left cities in various parts of the country and are now en route to the nation’s capital. Prepara- tions for the departure of other groups are going on in almost every principal city of the land. Rank and file members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion are also register- ing tm great numbers for the march. The first group of New York City veterans left for Washington on the evening of May 1. A second con- tingent will gather in Union Square on Wednesday morning, May 9, and call on Mayor LaGuardia at City points program before starting on its march. Mobilization and re- cruiting are at present being car- ried on at the following places: Central city recruiting headquar- ters: 203 E, 15th St. Lower East Side headquarters: 69 E. Third St. Brooklyn headquarters: 579 Broad- way. Recruiting Rallies Planned Mass rallies for the purpose of recruiting participants for the march and to gain greater support from the masses of workers are scheduled in New York City as fol- lows: Saturday afternoon at Union Sq.; Saturday evening at 125th St. and Fifth Ave.; Sunday, all day and evening, at Union Sq. A Browns- ville rally is scheduled for Sunday, as well as other local meetings to be conducted by Bronx and Brook- lyn_ posts. T.U.U.L. Endorses March In a statement signed by Jack Stachel, acting national secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, the workers returned from their day off to find the doors of both apartments locked to them. The employers re- fuused to pay them their wages, or to return their clothes. Brooklyn Negro workers brought the two stranded girls to the office of the Daily Worker yesterday to tell the story of their bitter expe- rience. They were then taken to the district office of the Interna- After working a month, the two Longshoremen, Seamen In Action In Many Ports Seamen Gain in Fight | for Own Relief Plan in Buffalo BUFFALO, N. Y., May 4.—Five hundred seamen at a meeting held at the Seamen’s Church Institute voted down proposals of John Elli- son, leader of the A. F. of L., and Federal Relief Director Ewing to put over a 90 cent a week forced relief plan on the marine workers. The men voted for the Baltimore plan, whereby relief amounting to 85 cents a day shall be given to the seamen by the government through a rank and file committee elected by the seamen. When John Ellison, A. F. of L. leader, got up to speak he was booed lustily by the men. He was only permitted to speak when leaders of | wa; the Marine Workers Industrial Union advised the men to listen to him and decide by their vote what they thought of his plan. McCuisition, Young and Fetzik, speaking for the Marine Workers Industrial Union, exposed the forced (Continued on Page 2) tional Labor Defense. Many Rallies to Recruit N. Vets for Washington March Many Contingents Already En Route to Capital; T.U.U.L. Urges Unions to Actively Aid Vets office of Governor Talmadge. and died in a hospital a few hours later. Williams had walked from his home in Villa Rica, 30 miles distant, to plead for food for his wife and two children No Gain in Pay, Admits | ‘Wm. Green | Higher Cost of Living Voids Any Wage | Increases | toys eeeenE er By SEYMOUR WALDMAN | WASHINGTON, May 4. “The individual worker in in-| dustry made no gain whatever in ‘real’ wages from March, 1933 to March 1934,” the May! issue of the American Federation of Labor monthly survey of busi- ness declares today. Corporation | profits, under the New Deal, how- jever, is another story. “Continua-| tion of the riding trend in profits | is anticipated for the current year. | Dividend payments in March this | year were higher by $15,000,000 (nine per cent) than in March last y The unemployed are estimated as/| “over 10,000,000.” Period of Decline “His (the worker's) average wage Meets in France Threaten Frame-Up Communist Party Leaders NEW FASCIST DRIVE Charged With Resisting Public Power May 1-2 PARIS, May A (By Radio). —Thirteen workers arrested after the barric fighting in Pe of Jeanne x toa special Premier Gaston Dournergue of ed by the gov= France, who invokes death penalty for workers’ activity. res of the Hitler attack against taken over all mea government in its French workers. jot only are these 13 workers faced with execution for their par- ticipation in the May Day demon- stration and for resisting the fas- cist attack of the Paris police, but | the leaders of the organiz: ms to which they belong are subject to the same penalty. The May First - - - City by City Reports from various cities and towns throughout the United States, indicate that many hun- dreds of thousands of workers participated in militant demon- strations May First. An incom- plete list follows: | NEW YORK CITY.—200,000 in Union Square May Day demonstra- tion; 100,000 in parade. About 100,-| increased 9.7 per cent, but this was national executive board of the T. |completely offset by a 9.3 per cent | U.U.L. calls upon all unicns and| 000 in Madison Square. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—8,000 in pa- troff, Popoff and Tane: by the Hitler gov Hall in the interests of the three~ | other working class organizations to endorse this march and its three- point program for: 1) Immediate full payment of the | “bonus” (veterans’ back wages). 2) Repeal of the Economy Act (to restore all cuts to disabled veterans). 3) Immediate passage of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill—H.R. 7598. “This,” the statement declares, “is a reaffirmation of the established position of the T.U.U.L., which has always fought militantly and mo- bilized thousands of workers in struggles on behalf of veterans’ de- mands.” The T.U.U.L. appeals not only to the unions affiliated with its own organization, but to all unions, of the American Federation of Labor, and independent unions, etc. Pie Pars Southern Vets to March WASHINGTON, D. C.—Indica- tions of a growing sentiment of vet- erans for a mass convention in Washington, rather than a dele- gated convention are reaching the Veterans National Rank and File Committee here. The veterans in Cleveland report that C. B. Cowan, organizer and leader of the large contingent which left Cleveland in 1932 has been elected commander. Mass meetings are being held daily in Cleveland and enthusiasm for the march is rapidly developing. Chicago reports that it will send a delegation of at least 500. The American World War Veter- ans, a national organization with headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., has come out in support of the three- point program, and promises a large group from the South. Army Rushes Purchase of New Bombing Planes WASHINGTON, May 4—The War Department has opened bids for 110 airplanes, to cost $7,500,000, as the first step to the purchase of 1,000 new planes in the three-year avia- tion program. Money for the purchases are to be supplied by the Public Works Administration and will be taken away from relief work in order to Tush the war program of the Roose- velt, regime, in view of the war ten- Sion in the Far East. increase in the cost of living,” says | the Survey, one of the organs of | the A. F. of L. chieftains who, in| riveting near-coolie codes on Amer- | ican labor, have done yoemen work | 2) | (Continued on Page ‘Striking OhioRelief Men Record Gains At May Day Rally Win Full Relief for All Strikers; Many Join Communist Party The arrest of the 13 out of the protest demo May 2nd, when o erected barric vicious attack of the pol rade and demonstration. CHICAGO, Ill—20,000 in parade; 21,500 at park, according to incom- plete reports. CLEVELAND, Ohio—10,000 in | demonstration; 5,000 in parade By threatening thes BIRMING f, Ala—5,000 in h ponclty, the Do demonstration ment hopes to NORFOLK, Va‘--1,000 in demon- developing unite stration. ers against fascism. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—30,000 at Reyburn Plaza for march to Inde- pendence Square, | PATERSON, N, J.—2,000 in dem- onstration;.500 in parade. STAMFORD, Conn—800 in dem- | onstration. BOSTON, Mass.—20,000 in | onstration; 15,000 in parade. PORTLAND, Ore.—4,000 in onstration; 800 in parade. HANCOCK, Mich.—1,200 in onstration; 800 in parade. 1,000 Demonsir ate In Cincinnati, 0). | Workers Defy Splitters of Labor Movement dem- | dem- dem- workers, the strike committee of the| Relief Workers Protective Union reported on the gains won by the striking workers—the relief cut in- troduced last week had been abol- ished, all striking F.E.R.A. workers will receive full relief for the period represented on the complaint boar« by relief work strikers who had on the previous day refused affiliation | with the A. F. of L., and steel work- ers from Middletown, The climax of the demonstration was reached when Walter Jones, speaking for the Communist Party,| said: “This May Day ushers in a} series of strikes in Southern Ohio.| As a result of the F.E.R.A. strike, the workers in the American rolling mills are organizing for struggle, and other shops in Hamilton are spurred on to organization into militant industrial unions.” Following the demonstration, 250) workers with their wives and chil-/ dren formed a line of march and} paraded through the heart of Ham-| ilton, shouting slogans against hun- ger, fascism and war, and for a Soviet America. After the demonstration, a num- ber of workers, including striking} F.E.R.A. workers from Middletown, the home of the American Rolling Mills, joined the Communist Party. Action Commitee Calls for Support of Longshore Strike NEW YORK—The Rank and File Action Committee of the Interna- tional Lonshoremen’s Association issued a statement yesterday hail- ing the action of the 18,000 long- shoremen who are now on strike in southern ports for better condi- tions, higher wages and a union of their own choosing. “This strike has not been organ- ized by Joseph P. Ryan or the lead- ers of the International Longshore- men’s Association,” said H. J. Far- mer, secretary of the Rank and File Action Committee, at the headquar- ters of the committee at 799 Broad- iy. “It was called by the rank and file, who are fast losing faith in the leaders who hold them back from taking the only action that will pro- tect the present working conditions and win better wages, smaller drafts and the 1929 Working conditions on the pie Farmer pointed out that the long- shoremen aré understanding that strike action is the only action that will win anything for the dockers. “The longshoremen are inspired everywhere by the victories won under the leadership of the Rank and File Action Committee and are following the example of the 12,000 West Coast longshoremen,” said Farmer. “This strike can be won if in all ports the longshoremen refuse to work the scab ships.” The Rank and File Action Com- mittee has pledged its full support of the strike which is now taking place in Lake Charles, La. and Texas ports, and called on long- shoremen in other ports to spread the strike. It also hailed the strike of the Norfolk dockers who are striking under the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. “We will mobilize all forces in all ports for solidarity action with the strikers,” said Farme’ of the strike, and the union will be) The demonstration was attended | it | LOS ANGELES, Cal.—10,000 demonstration. strate. stration. COMPTON, Cal—200 in demon- stration. WORCESTER, demonstration. | BRIDGEPORT, demonstration. Mass.—3,000 in Conn.—400 in | (C ontinued on Page on Page 2) ‘Move to Expel 38 Michigan Students. Beaten by CopsTuesday ; ‘Was Coming to Them,’ Says Free Press (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, May 4.—Bfforts to ex- pel thirty-eight University of Mich- igan students. who participated in Detroit May Day celebration, have been launched bv University author- s. The University discivline committee wass cheduled to meet: rfolk Dock Strikers Firm on Second Day | of Strike NORFOLK, Va., May 4—The second day of the coastwise long- Shoremen’s strike finds the ranks of the strikers strong, with the strike affecting seven docks. Seven hundred Negro longshoremen are now out under the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. In an attempt to break the strike police have arrested 44 pickets in Portsmouth. The shipowners are| trying to ship scabs, especially from the ranks of the unemployed white workers. They are also appealing} to crews on the ships to act as strike-breakers. Bui when asked to replace a strik- ing longshoreman, two seamen} walked off the S. S. State of Mary- land, The strikebreaking role of the) | leaders of the International Long- |shoremens Association was made | the | Secretary | Wood, Sociology yesterday to decide what action to take. Students, who were organized by | militant National League, and came to the demon- stration in a truck, jby police, foreed to drive into a | blind alley, beaten with blackjacks | by cops. | A campaign of incitement, ap- | preved and aided by President Arthur G. Ruthven of University, has been started against students. Edward T. Cheyfitz. leader of N.S.L. at University, is being made the center of attack. Yesterday's Detroit Free Press carried an_ editorial headed: “They Got What Was Coming,” attacking students andj} defending police. The Michigan Daily, student pub- lication, also published a vicious front page editorial, openly calling for the expulsion of Cheyfitz. Students, under the leadership of N.S.L., are organizing a movement to protest the attack on the May Day delegation and to prevent the | victimization of the participants. Among students under fire, in ad- dition to Cheyfitz, are Karl Gannon, of the NS.L., Kendall son of Prof. Arthur Wood, Professor at University; (Continued on Page 2) | Ghaies T. Orr, faxetitag Fellow in Economics, in| STOCKTON, Cal—500 demon-| Wino is now or trial for h PHOENIX, Ariz.—400 in demon-} In May Day Parade were wavlaid | HAMILTON, Ohio, May 4—With| | ueceynee Ky.—300 in dem-| thousand w the strike of the 1,300 Federal Emer-| a jy | Washington P: gency Relief Administration work-| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—10,000 in plerpacgs cates and pr Jers in Butler County in full swing, | demonstration. the disruptive efforts of the a May Day demonstration was held} Pcysaaaua Cal—3,000 in demon-| tionary leadership of tle Am on the Court House steps. About stration. Clothi: Workers 450 ‘workers ‘were present, Araid an| , SACRAMENTO, \Cal—2000 dem-| 00 Cosone Minne on enthusiastic response from the/ onstrate. workers May Day United Front. After hearing the main speaker, | McDermott of the Communist Par is activities |in the Butler County s the workers paraded through the main Streets of the city. Over 300 work- rs and children participated in the march, Six hundred copies of the Worker” and 360 pamphlets sold. | The Unemployed Councils, with | the Communist units in their ter- |ritory, marched together to the demonstration at Washington Park, Fisher Body Strikers Join | St. Louis May Day Parade ST, LOUIS, Mo., May 3.— Over 1,000 Negro and white workers |marched in the May Day parade through the heart of the business and garment industry district, defy- ing the police refusal to grant a permit for the parade. A group of Fisher Body strikers participated in | the march. The workers’ divisi at City Hall, ther prec: town, joined and followed sands on the st |the removal of from the Nazi Consulate. Concluding the demonstration at the Old Court House, the speakers launched a huge drive against Negro oppression from the stand where chattel slaves were once sold, 2,500 copies of the Daily Worker | were sold “Daily were Student | Pineville, “Ky. . Has | Its First May Day Meet | By a Worker Correspontent | PINEVILLE, Ky., Mi 4.—This | southern town saw its |Dey demonstration. Man: attended and supported the de- mands for passage of Unemploys ment Insurance Bill (H.-R. 7593), and for the release of the Scotts- boro boys, Angelo Herndon, Ernst Thaelmann and all class war prisoners. A letter from a Soviet worker, describing conditions in the S t | Union, was read and received with | tremendous enthusiasm. The local American Legion held a counter meeting “to offset the | meetings of radical people else- where.” | Missouri Militia Terrorize Miners March LAMAR, Mo.—The militia was called out here on May Day against striking miners. Two hundred guardsmen, with tanks and aire planes, terrorized the march of Pittsburgh and Kansas miners, en- raged by the Roosevelt differential code decision permitting lower wages for Southern miners,