The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1934, Page 3

Ship Yard Strikers Defy Mayor; Conduct Mass Picket Lines Nayy Joins With Employers in Effort to Break Strike on “S.S. Tuscaloosa” CAMDEN, N. J., May 9.—Militantly exercising their rights to fight for their demands in open defiance of Mayor Stewart’s order that no mass picketing be carried on at the New York Shipbuilding plant, two thousand strikers com-| pletely surrounded the plant yesterday morning making it impossible for anyone to ¢ pce nee enter. They had learned that | Clinto Bardo, company presi- dent, had made arrangements | to import a gang of strike| breakers, but after their spirited | display no one attempted to enter. ‘The navy, whose war preparations are being held up by the strike, took a tentative step to break it, when it ordered Bardo to resume work on the “Tuscaloosa,” one of the battleships his company is build- ing, by May 14, and threatened to Bridgeport Molders || Strike for More Pay BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 9. || —All 16 molders of the Bridge- port Casting Co. here went on Strike Monday under the lead- ership of the Steel and Metal j Workers Industrial Union. There | | i} are 40 workers employed in the foundry at present and it is ex- pected that all of them will join By BILL GEBERT ENERAL JOHNSON, who carries the title of “Recovery Adminis- trator,” in a speech to capitalists in Washington on March 17, de- clared: “In fact—take it from me and & wealth of experience—their inter- este (Green's Lewis’, McGrady’s, ete.) are your (capitalists) inter- ests.” There is nothing we can add to this characterization of the role of the AF. of L. The leaders of the A. of L. fully and thoroughly under- stand their role as the main social prop of capitalism. At the recent | conference called by the Chicago Federation of Labor of local unions and the officialdom of the A. F. of L. and Railroad Brotherhoods, Ruben G. Soderstrom, President of the Illinois State Federation of La- |bor and a State Senator, declared: | “Personally I don’t believe in depressions, They are such need- less things. I am for the National Industrial Recovery Act hook, line and sinker—all of it.” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 106, 1934 Militancy of Rank and File Delegates in Chicago Show the Possibilities; The Party Must Improve Its Work | GENERAL HUGH JOHNSON He told a group of big manu- facturers recently that the inter- ests of the A. F. of L. leaders are | cago. derestimate the importance of this question.” These remarks are very timely and fit into the situation in Chi- There must be an end not only of the policy as presented by Comrade Zack of Cleveland, of ab- staining from work in the A. F.| |of L., but it must be simultaneously combined with the struggle against | legalism and fear of going outside | of the frame of legal boundaries set by the burocracy. The revolution- ary struggle inside of the A, F. of | L. must be carried out on the basis of mobilization of the membership for the class program against the program of the bosses, carried by)! the officialdom, that is, based on| the class struggle, building révolu-| tionary opposition, developing the) revolutionary trade union move-| ment inside of the A. FP. of L. and Railroad Brotherhoods simultane- = Build A.F.L. Rank, File Opposition! Mass Delegatio Cash Relief and H.R. 7598 at Page Three n to Demand Penna. Relief Board Meeting vaaee| 6 @ Committee Sponsors H. R. 7598 By a Worker Correspondent | PORTLAND, Maine.—A joint committee of Socialists, Communists and non-affiliated workers spon- sors the campaign for the enactment of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill (H. R. 7598). The com- mittee meets each Friday, and dele- gates are elected to visit the A. F. of L. unions and fraternal organiza-| tions to obtain signatures to the Bill. Although the rank and file work- érs are eagér for the Workers’ Bill,| and readily support it, all sorts of| | ously with building unions of thé) tricks are used by the A. F. of L.| Write the words: |Portland, Maine, Joint Providence, R. I., Mass Meet to Demand Social Insurance Bill HR 7598 PROVIDENCE, R. I—A meeting under the auspices of Right Live Club, to workers behind the Work employment Insurance Bill 7698) will be held at the Plaza, Saturday, May 12, On May 18, there will be a cial” election. The Right Club is urging all mass the to ra all Un- H, R spe- to Live workers, em- ployed and unemployed to paste stickers on evéry ballot, or if work- ers do not have the stickers which} are being issued by the club, to) “I enclose H. R T. U. U. L. and independent class| officials, and letters signed by Mor-| 7598” on the ballot. struggle unions. There is no contradiction in this. They supplement each other. At) this stage of development, as far as! rison have been sent to all A. F. of L. unions instructing them not to} endorse the Workers’ Bill. | After attacking the Relief Work-} A mass campaign is being con-| t} ducted to force the state legislature | at the spécial May session to en- dorse the Workers Bi ll! to be Pittsbu rgh Councils Launch Campaign To Unify Unemployed PITTSBURGH, Pa of nt Councils Allecheny County, a mass delegation to nume ber 150 to 200 workers, dee payments from manding increased relief made in cash, an end to all evictions, jobe for all unemployed at trade union wages, and endorse- ment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R.7598) will at- tend the next meeting of the State | Relief Board in Harrisburg, on May locals of the Pennsylvania aployed Leagues, the Independ- Unemployed Citizens Leagues, ployment Councils, and all ed groups are being asked to send representative delegations. Begin Petition Campaign Chicag@ is concerned, the major | ers’ Protective Union, announcing | - the strike. The molders voted | Problem, the major task is to in-| that the A. F. of L. had not en- to strike at a meeting held on the interests of the bosses, And quite right he was, too, as many His co-faker, Oscar Nelson, Vice- | |President of the Chicago Federa-| haul the ship to the Philadelphia ion campaign is being insti- i] navy yard for completion, unless the Seaaocenereaneuenennnenennenent Saturday morning. The molders are striking for || (1) An inerease in prices to en- || able the men to earn a minimum || of 75¢ an hour; (2) Equal divi- || sion of work and (3) Recogni- | tion of the union. The strike of the Malleable tron workers last, Summer led by the 8. M. W. I. U., resulted in many gains for the foundry workers. order is complied with. There is a rumor, according to the Philadel- | phia press, that the strikers will, in that case, ask the organized navy | yard workers to “keep hands off” the Tuscaloosa. | | Bardo In Split Attempts | | Bardo, whose offer of a 13 per | cent Pay increase in place of the | % per cent demanded by the strik- | | érs was turned down last week) announces that 1100 strikers are | | | om alan to mowte «ott Meat Packers In the working week to thirty-two Allentown Strike hours with no wage increases. and oie a among the strikers, it turns out, is based on 4 vote taken eight months held a poll on the matter. Fteren| Com ist Party Urges | hundred men voted for the forty- | Communist ty Urg | four hour week on the same wace) Spread of Walk-Out | scale, while the rest wanted a pay increase. While making this 4n-| arienTOWN. — The Communiae} nouncement, Bardo was conferring Party here has issued 4 leaflet to with General Johnson, and other shipbuilders in Washington, hatch- |e Workers of the Atdegast ald) ing a scheme to break the strike. | Bastian plant, greeting them on the ec ESE SET ETE MS ____ | splendid strike they are conducting | | for better conditions. ago, Then he had proposed to out I |The Jeafiet points out that if the | electricians and other workers con- | tinue to work this will weaken the GET READY FOR strike. The workers should attempt A GOOD TIME to spread the strike to Swifts, Wil- son's and Steinmetz plants here, the e | leaflet says, warning the workers to | beware of the arbitration schemes |of the N.R.A., which has sold out DAILY WORKER (tte workers of Detroit and other ; and | centers. DAY A MOONLIGHT | The leaflet advises the strikers EXCURSION |to enlarge the strike committee and |to allow only this committee to e |speak ae strikers. ae he mass-picket lines as opposed to the SATURDAY, JUNE 918 smaller ones advised by reactionary | union leaders. ° | This léaflet was also distributed to the workers in other packing Tickets Available at all Workers Bookshops |} ouce6 in the city SOL’ SANDWICH LUNCH 101 University Place (Just Around the Corner) — ALL COMRADES WELCOME — NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Tasty Chinese and American Dishes PURE FOOD — POPULAR PRICES 848 Broadway bet. 19 # 14th st. Télephoné Tompkins Square 6-9780-9781 MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE Cor. Bronx Park East Pure Foods Proletarian Prieés OPTOMETRISTS OF (DoPTICLANS If 1378 ST.NICROLAS AVE* 1690 LEXINGTON 2 *® ST.NY, —WILLIAM BELL——— OFFICAL Optometrist OF THE Witliamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 94 Graham Ave. Cor. 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BRANCHES ARE URGENTLY REQUESTED TO ATTEND ROBERT MINOR Says- “Now Hugo Gellert Has Done a Big and Beautiful Job in Taking Marx's ‘Capital’ to the Lithograph Stone and Spreading Its Crisp Fresh Beauty on the Pages of a Popular Work of Art.” Combination Offer GELLERT’S “CAPITAL” IN PICTURES .. .$3.00 A YEAR’S SUB TO THE “DAILY” ...... 6.00 — TOTAL............$9.00 Our Price for Both, Only ... $7.00 SIX MONTH SUB AND THE BOOK, ONLY ................ $4.50 For Manhattan and Bronx, New York City, the Price for a Year's Sub and the Book Is $10.00. Six Month Sub and Book, $6.00. Subscribe Today DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. Y. | tion, Republican floor leader in the| 4 worker, City Council of Chicago, explained why the Chicago Federation of La- bor is for the Roosevelt “New Deal.” He declared: “My firm opinion is that if those who live from invested capi- tal persist in a refusal to take a decided reduction in dividends and profits, by inaugurating the shorter work day and paying a sold out by A. F. of L. leaders, has learned to his sorrow. 7598 must receive the maximum sup- | port of every worker. If until now the work inside of| | the A. F. of L. and Railroad Broth- ethoods relatively speaking is still) weak, it is precisely because of the} abstention of work inside the A, F. junions (A. F. of L, T. U. U. L. | unions), |crease tenfold the activities in the} dorsed the Workers’ Bill (although trade unions, which meéans that! 2,000 A. F. of L. unions have en- every eligible member of the Party| dorsed the Bill), the Central L: ab Railroad Brotherhoods, independent That the comrades in the unions are to be organized into well functioning fractions, building| around them rank and file move- ments around the issues and for the Workers Unemployment Insurance would be “explained.” these meetings we brought the fight into the open. the workers as they hall, and a délegation was instructed to bring the Workers’ Bill up on @ is to become a member of the trade} Union announced a series of meet- » | ings at which the industrial codes At one of Leaflets explaining the Workers’ Bill were distributed to entered the Two AFL Dist. i Councils Act on H. R. 7598 |Penna, Federation, A. of t Relief . Workers throughout the state are being urged to send resolutions and individual demands to Governor Pinchot and Relief Director Biddie, demanding that the délegation of workers be granted an audience, and that demands be granted at once, The petition will demand: (1) ine wage sufficient to create purchas- | ing power, then the other ex- tremists and the ranks of the Communists will develop, and our form of government, with its basic fundamental—private own- | ership of property—is in danger.” | These statements of the leaders! of the Illinois and Chicago Federa- | tions of Labor fully confirm the statement of General Johnson. Delegates Against Wagner Bill | The Conference called by the} Ohicago Federation of Labor was) supposedly “to put 10,000,000 men | back to work.” As the rank and file opposition movement of the A.| F. of L. corerctly characterized it, it was a conference not for this pur-| pose, but for the purpose of creat- | ing more ballyhoo around the Roosevelt New Deal and in the offi: cial organ of the Chicago Feder: tion of Labor, “Federation News,” the report of the conference is given under screaming headlines, “Labor Backs N. R. A. Determined to Go the Whole Way in Support of the Roosevelt Program.” While this is the position of the officialdom of the Chicago and Illi- nois Federation of Labor, the con- ference registered strong opposition to the New Deal. First of all, the opposition against “Wagner’s-Con- nery Labor Dispute Act,” and, above ali, against the Wagner-Lewis fake Unemployment Insurance Bill. A number of delegates who were able to secure the floor spoke against Wagner’s so-called unemployment insurance bill and in favor of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). As a | matter of fact, not a single rank and file delegate spoke in favor of | the Wagner bill. Delegates from the Painters, | Metal and Typographical Unions | | spoke in favor of the Workers’ Un- | employment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). was not éndorsed by the conference despite the ruling of Oscar Nelson, who was chairman of the confer- ence. There was a larger number of “No’s” than “I's” when the vote was taken for the Wagner bill and the demand for a rising vote was denied. This indicates the growing resentment in the ranks of the A. F. of L. against the leadership which is “hook, line and sinker” for the N. R. A, and which is also closely connected with gangsters and recketeers. Oscar Nelson him- sélf admitted at a recent rack- éteering frial that he had confer- erices with Al Capone. June 7 Conference In view of this, it is of tremen- dous importance that all the revo- lutionary foreés, and Communists in especially for the Workers Unem- Forrest Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598. e conference of the local unions of the A. F. of L. and Railroad | Brotherhood called for June 17 in Chicago to rally the organized work- ers in the A. F. of L. and Brotheér- hoods in behalf of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill H, R. | Tecently that, The Wagner Bill | particular, will intensify their work | inside of the A. F. of L. locals and| of L. which represents the main obstacle in devéloping mass ac- tivities. Comrade O. Piatnitsky said} When Lenin tn 1920, during the period in which the proletariat took direct revolutionary action, devoted a special chapter in his historical work Infantile Sickness of ‘Leftism’ in Communism to the question of the necessity to work | in reactionary unions, he had be- | fore him but a few instances of refusal on the part of ‘left’ Com- | munists to carry on such work. However, even then he foresaw the danger that might arise from Communists refusing to work in mass organizations which had | been seized by the énemy. Today | we see the consequences of this | | ‘leftism’ practiced by some Com- | munist Parties of the capitalist countries. I think, however, that | | even the functionaries of the revo- lutionary trade uniow movement | not only then, but even now, mmn- | | elective post in the unions. | attitude that we cannot win in the | be defeated once we are able to| | mands. | | which must be coneretized in éach| local. This we recently began to| Bill, H. R. 7598, increased wages, shortened working week, against inhuman spéed-up, against high dués, against dropping of members for non-payment of dues due to un- employment, for workers’ democracy | in the unions and fighting for every We must not adopt a defeatist A. F. of L. It is possible and it) can be done. We can win locals and eéven delegated bodies. Na- turally, wé have no illusions of winnin gthe burocratic apparatus, but this burocratie apparatus can rally masses of workers behind the| program of demands, and devélop-| ing mass struggles for those de- These problems, together with the struggles for the right to strike and| organize, represent the main line | and work inside of the A. F. of L.| carry out in the city of Chicago. Asked in Fight ‘To Bring Case Before. | U. S. Court in Latest Legal Action SAN FRANCISCO, Calif —The re- léase of Tom Mooney on a writ of by attorneys in the first attempt to | bring the case before a Federal court. The pétifion, 110 pages long | with 500 pages of additional evi- | dence added, was presented in the} U. 8. Court for the Northern Dis-| trict of California by George T.| Davis. Statements by the ten surviving | members of the jury which origin- ally corivicted Mooney are includéd in the statement given the court. They say, “Had the evidence sub- sequently discovered, which the Dis- trict Attornéy suppressed, been be- fore them they would not have con- victed Mooney.” The statement of Judge Griffin, presiding judge, that “had the jury nevertheless con- victed Mooney he would have set the conviction aside,” is also in- cluded in thé petition. The brief cites the evidence dem- onstrating that Tom Mooney was convicted on perjured testimony and that Charles Fickert, District At- torney, was accomplice to the act. According to the laws of Cali- fornia there is no way by which the conviction of Mooney can be sét asidé, even after the ovérwhelming proof of his innocence. The peti-| tion states that the Federal court to také the position that he should | must free him unless it is willing} perjury ‘Federal Action Fighting President the floor of the meeting. When| A. E. Hopkins, A. F, L. organizer, | ciation, our spokestiian demanded and got the floor with the support of the rank and file. When our spokesman demanded the floor to explain the Workers’ Bill, Hopkins refused. Put to a vote, the rank and file workers granted our spokesman the floor. Hopkins was routed, and fled out the door. Many workers signed the petition, which will be sent to the congressmen from Maine, demand- ing that they support the Workers’ Bill, and several more A. F. of L. members joined the Relief Workers’ Protective Association. Cotton NRA Heads To Order Layoff | In Textile Mills Action Follows Lay-Off in Silk Mills of Pa. UMWA Local To Free Mooney Is Fired from Job Balya Had Led Fight on Lewis No-Strike Agreement CENTRAL CITY, Pa—The dis- Last Week NEW YORK.—The N. R. A. Cot- ton Textile Code Authority is pre- paring for a general 25 per cent re- duction in production to extend over a period of from 60 to 90 days, it was announced by them yesterday | This will résult in a lay-off of thou- | sands and a further speed-up of those remaining at work. This move, like the similar move jcreased relief, surplus food orders attacked the Relief Workers’ Asso- | y. | F. L. Locals Support Workers Bill | NEW YORK.—Two District Coun- |cils of A. P. of L. Unions, and one | Federation of Labor have recently |endorsed the Workers Unemploy- | ment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) The Carpenters’ District Council the Painters’ District Council of Kansas City, Mo., and the Hazel- | wood (Pittsburgh) Pa. Federation of Labor, which includes six locals of the Railroad Brotherhood and the Blacksmiths and Boilermakers of the A. F. of L., are the latest city A. F. of L. bodies to add their names to the growing list of eén- dorsements. | The Brotherhood of Carpenters | and Joiners Local 1329, of Independ- ence, Mo., Millmen’s Local 1635 of Kansas City, Mo., the Brotherhood of Painters Local 675 of Dearborn, Mich., the International Machinists Local 402 of New York, and the In- ternational Woodcarvers Association | of New York are the latest Ameri-| can Federation of Labor Locals to take action on the Workers Bill. ILD Asks Protests On the Egan Case | Pennsylvania Court Nears Decision | (Special to the Daily Worker.) | PITTSBURGH, May 9. — A de- tissal of Mike Balya, president of|im the silk industry last week, to) vison is about to be reached by the ers of America here, has been up- held by the commissioners of the Eastérn Biuminous Board of Arbi- tration. Balya was dismissed from his job because hé was the leader| of the local miners in demanding that the scaies at the local mines be the miners limitéd their production to one car per day per man. The Board of Arbitration has ruled that the miners are subjsct to $1 a day fine for the duration of the limited production, basing this Tuling on the vicious no-strike agréé- ment signed by the Lewis machine and the companies. The owners of the Reitz minés have offered to| “overlook” the fines if the miners will return to full production and not fight the discharge of Balya. Balya, however, has the full sup- port of the riiners. He ras led a militant fight against the Lewis machine and it has been through his influencé that Tom Myérscough, president of thé National Miners Union, spoke before the locai several times, be imprisoned for life authough j was proved arid his irino- | cerice established. habeas corpus was asked Tuesday| thé local of thé United Mine Work-| Close all mills for one week, is a frantic effort to curb production | until the vast surplus of stock on |hand is partially consumed. The }decline in the cotton textile trade is much greater than the usual sea- sonal drop, and the éxport trade in textiles has registered a tremendous | tested and Secauseé of his leadership | decrease, the code authority said. in the strike on the job, in which| Over 600 silk mills are closing Pennsylvania Sunérior Court in the cases of James Egan, National Sec- | retary of the Stéel and Métal | Workers Industrial Union: Phil | |Frankfeld, Pittsburgh District Or- | ganizer of the Unemployment Coun- | cils, the ranking unemployed cases | | and the Ambridge strike cases. | The Pittsburgh District I. L. D. | Sixteen hundred carpenters, | down for a week under the orders |C@lls upon all organizations throush- | |of thé big producers through the N.| ut the country to direct a bom- | |R. A. silk textile code suthority.| bardment of protests, demanding This will throw 30,000 workers out | the release of the above defendants, of théir jobs. With the present | & the judgés of the Superior Court, | conditions prévailing, it is likely that many of these will be peér- manently unemployed. The old “spread-the-work” game je being revived, with Francis J. |Gorman, vice-president of the United Textile Workers, together with certain employers advocating two shifts of 30 hours each week. This will result in a further reduc- tion in the starvation minimum pay of $13 a week if the workers allow it to be carried out. It will affect the workers in the Southern mills even more because of the dif- ferential provision in thé N. R. A.) code, which allows employers to pay only $12 a week minimum for work | which, according to the estimate of the United Textile Workers’ offi-| cials, averages 80 hours, Workers Answer Terror of scabs to the job. Thereupon the * . Mayor of Monroe had 40 of the With Picket Lines, | picketing workers arrested. In the| Demonstrations court the ustial formal court pro- cedure was brushed aside. The CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 9. -+ A wave of terror is unleashed in Middletown to break the FERA strike of 1,300 relief workers in Butler County, now on its fourth week. Scabs from Middletown were sent to work on Thursday, May 3 to a hamlet near Middletown con- trolled by Mayor Stuart, owner of the Oakland Canning Co. The mayor is éager to keep thé wages of the workers in his shop down, hence his opposition to a wage in- eréasé for the FERA workers. Prior to the strike the FERA workers of Mi were only making 25 cents an hour; now the officials throughout Butler County are eager to have the workers return to work for 40 certs an hour. The strike has already won a wage increase. The Relief Workers’ Protective Union has won full relief to all strikers, stopped the intended relief cut, and won representation on the complaint board. When the scabs started to work, 4@ mass picket line was immediately formed by the Middletown workers and they made a solid wall on the road to prevent the tratispottation workers were not asked by the court whether they were innocent or guilty, whether they want a jury trial, nor was there any prosecu- tion for the case. Workers were kept 24 hours in jail without food 6r water, likewisé an expectant mother was locked un. Mayor Stuart refused to have the workers, released on bond. Hold Mass Meets A mass méé¢ting in protest against the arrest was held in Middletown on Friday, May 4, by the mothers, sisters and wives of the arrested | workers. The workérs showed tre- mendous enthusiasm at this meet- ing. They pledged to intensify the strike struggle. These workers, who heretofore had illusions about the kindness of théit government have learned from this arrest a very valuable lesson; that the city gov- ernment is part of the machinery used by the employers to oppress the workers. These workers have |heartily accepted the Relief Work- ers’ Protective Union as their or- ganization, and have begun to iso-_ late from théir former leaders, Barker, spokesman for the A. F. 1of IL. and Scoty, Socialist Party 5, when the trial of séven of the arrested workers of Middletown was | held, the court room of Monroe was jammed with workers from Middletown and a delegation from Hamilton. The mayor this time) changed his tune. Although thé workers had no attorney, they spoke for themselves in court. ‘They forced the mayor to give them @ jury trial, although hé insisted a jury trial for next Weédnesday, May 9. A protest meeting fo demand the | freedom of thése workers will be | held in Middletown on Monday afternoon and in Hamilton on Mon- day @vening. On Wednesday, 2 joint parade cf Hamilton and Middletown workers will be held, marching in one body to Monroe, where the trial of the workers will be held. In Monroe an ordinance was passed that no groups, even as small as three, can congregate on the street. Officials Deputize Thugs. It is rumored that thé officials are making another attempt to break the striké. Thev intend +~ send scabs on the jobs—who will be deputized thugs. The strikers of Butler County are ready and made all preparations to defend their 6 flunky. On the following day, May , Strikers, | Américan Rolling Mill. The Com- }munist Party is growing, and all} Butler County Strikers Resist Rising Police Terror Steel Workers | Join Communist Party and will form mass picket lines. The néwly formed Communist Party Unit in Middletown is func- tioning and taking up not only the | problem of winning the strike, but | also to organize the workers of the | possibilities that a section will be | established in this steél town, owned by the American Rolling Mill Company. It is the members of the Communist Party who are leading this strike, fighting in the fore- | front alongside with the rest of the workers, and notwithstanding all ef- forts of the officials, the “red scare” failed completely. At one demon- stration, when about 3,000 workers were present, a quéstion was asked | “how many Communists are in this | demonstration?” Almost all hands were raised. { In Hamilton at present are sev- | eral officials frem Columbus. Ac- | cording to Brownins, Butler County Welfare Director, at a meeting with | City-County Building, Pittsburgh, | | Pa. |N. Y. Hatters Vote to | Demand Pay Increase | from Manufacturers | | NEW YORK.—Members of Local | 8, of the United Hatters Union, at ja shop conference, held in Bee- |thoven Hall last Tuesday, voted to |demand wage increases from the hat manufacturers. The hatters are demanding an in- crease of 75 cents a dozen for finishing, a 10 cent increase for flanging, and an increase of $5 a) week for weekly help. Théy are also| | demanding increases for finishing | |snow hats, and # 15 cents increase | for nine line band hats. | The final vote on these demands | | Will be taken at a genéral membér- | ship mééting, Wednesday, May 16,! at 4 p.m., at Beethoven Hall. This) to be continued or compensated in cash; (2) all relief to be paid in cash; (3) evictions and sheriff sales to be stopped by immediate action of the Relief Board pending repeal of the eviction law; (4) endorsement of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill by the Relief Board; (5) increased medical relief; (6) organized unemployed workers to be represented on the State Relief Board. Carpenters ‘Warn Hutchinson “Hands Off Our Strike” 1,600 Out in Washing. ton Refuse to Post- pone Walkout WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9.— 1,100 employed, and 500 unemployed, striking heré for $137 cents an hour, and the six hour day, have warned International President..Hutchinson, of the Carpenters Union (A. F. 6f L.) to keep his hands off. the strike. The carpenters recall the sell-otit of their strike last year, when Hutchinson sent in International Representative Allen, who put over a wage cut, and sent the carpenters back to work without consulting them as to the séttlemént. Hutchinson at first telegraphed the carpenters’ district cotincil ap- proving their démands, but ordering them to postpone the strike. But the district council wired back that the strike was already on, and would not be postponed. The wire of thé carpentérs told Hutchinson that they wanted no international repre- sentative sént in. Hutchinson ré- plied by “agreeing” to the strike, but sending in Allen, the same man who sold out last year’s strike, as thé international officé représenta- tive in the present strike. The carpentérs told Allen, on his arrival, that if hé did not keép out | Of town they would not be respon- sible for the consequéncés fo him. The rank afd file opposition to |the Hutchinson machine has drawn | up a program, calling on the strike ers for mass picketing, for daily strike meetings, for the spreading of the strike to involve other crafts, warning the government not to send strikebreakers in through the reliéf agencies of the governmént, and for the gathering of relief for the | strikers. The employers have offeréd a 10 per cent increase, but would not hear of thé six-hour day. The stfik- ers are déférminéd on 4 militant fight until the demands are won, 300 N. J. Students On Strike Against Firing Of Two Local Teachers HACKENSACK, N. J. — Thrée meeting will decide on the date of | hundred out of the 400 students in préseritation of the Bill of Prices| the high school here are on strike, to the manufacturers, and also the | demanding the reinstatement of two length of time the latter will be | teachers discharged by the Board given to answer. | of Education. The students attend | school but refuse to have classes Ryan, Reactionary Head | of N. Y. School Board, Re-Elected 13th Time. | NEW YORK.—Dr. George J.) Ryan, ré-élected president of the! Board of Education, a post he has held since 1922, for the 13th time Tuesday, admitted immediately af-! ter his re-election that, because of | the curtailing of school funds, thé entire public school system faces “a new crisis more serious than any | previous one.” In a demagogic but contradictory | statement in which he declared that the crisis was over, that the N.R.A. has at the same time been an aid to students and a strain on the school system, Dr. Ryan—who has been responsible for the dismissals of scores of militant teachers dur- ing his period of power—wound up priations for education. by urging greater financial ea thésé officials, he recommended 45 This will bé uséd, as events during eents an hour, but the state officials, | the past 13 years have proved, for strike—a strike for bread and milk. conducted until the two are uncon- ditionally reinstated. Demonstrate Against LL.A. Officials Today NEW YORK.—A mass demonstra- tion to protest the gangster méthods used against workers by the Intér- national Longshoremén's Associa- tion Officials will be held at West 18th St. and llth Avé. at 12 noon today under the auspices of the Rank and File Action Committee of the LL.A. Last week, two members of the Rank and File Committee were sé- verély beaten by thugs led by Sam- son, an LL.A. delegate. This was to try to prevent an exposure of the rotten racketeering methods and anti-working class activities of the LL.A. officials. Workers are urged to support this demonstration. ‘The Daily Worker gives you full nets about the struggle for un- employment insurance. Sul 60 it sééms, have not accepted his | furthér contracting graft and insidé recommendatian. political graft in the school system. to the Daily Worker y