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q orkers 35YoungCoal Miner jlo Attend IIL. Meet Against War, Fascis ocialist Pais Take Sieps to Split Youths’ United Front CHICAGO, May 11. — In spite of the attempts of lead- ers of the Progressive Min- ers of America to prevent the sending of delegates to the Illinois State Youth Confer- ence Against War and Fas- cism, and the disruptive tactics of Chicago Socialist and “liberal” lead- ers in celling a separate conference to split the youth of Illinois, cre- dentials continue to pour into the Conference office. | Keck and Spizak, leaders of the P. M. A., called a special meeting of Local 1 at Gillespie. At this meet- ing they told the members that, re- gardless of the previous decision of the membership to send two dele- gates to Chicago, no delegates would be sent. Following the issuance of the Call) to the State Conference, a confer-| ence was called by assorted paci-| fists and socialists to be held in the| Morrison Hotel in Chicago, May 12 and 13th, The reactionary char- acter of this conference is indi- cated by the Call which speaks about defending our utions, our tolerance of minori- and states that one of the major dangers to peace today is Communism. The call defends the world court and League of Nations as bulwarks against imperialist war. Among the speakers listed at this splitting conference are Norman) Thomas, and other Socialist leaders. However, masses of youth are mobilizing in support of the State Youth Conference. Latest Creden-| tials show that thirty-five delegates from the Illinois coal fields will at- tend. Nine have been elected from | East St. Louis and neighboring towns. Such groups as the Boys| Brotherhood Republic, clubs from | Gross Settlement House and the Jewish Peoples’ Institute will be represented. Many school and/ neighborhood groups are electing| delegates. | ! Forc Cd Ss m of thousands of leaflets are being distributed May 30th the youth of Chicago will hold a great meeting at 47th Street and Halsted. Harry Hay- wood of the Central Committee of the Communist Party will be the main speaker Long Hours Are Disregarded by U.T.W. Officials Workers Organize Op- position in Reac- tionary Union NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—At the last meeting of the Textile Council (United Textile Workers) it was \brought out by some of the mem- workers, took the floor and exposed | ers that the loom fixers and changer-overs in the Butler Mill are working 11 hours a day and 55 hours ja week, with the knowledge and approval of the Textile Council and of Batty, secretary of the loom fix- ers union. This is being done at a time when there are many loom fixers out of work and the U.T.W. “democratic|‘S supposed to be carrying on a/ him talk,” “We want to hear him.” campaign for shorter hours for all textile workers. The fight in the Textile Council against Batty and other misleaders is only a reflection of the deep undercurrent of discontent with the U.T.W, leadership among the work- ers in the mills and the U.T.wW. unions. Right at this time the U.T.W. has entered into an organization cam- paign to “organize New Bedford 100 per cent. There is a 50 cent commission for the U.T.A. leaders for every new member brought in. In this drive the U.T.W. has full cooperation of the mill owners. In many of the mills those workers who are slow in signing up into the U.T.W. are approached by the super- intendent and told that unless they do so their job may be lost. The National Textile Workers e AIC Illinois Steel Men Get Call To Anti- Co. Union Confab For First Time Since 19 Militant Speaker Heard Inside Mill Philadelphia Seamen Organize in Struggle For Relief Demands PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 11 Fearing a march of the unemployed seamen on Washington, the federal and state relief officMls will meet here on the question of unemploy- ment. The jobless seamen have thus far obtained 173 signatures of sea- men on the beach—seamen living in the Seamen's Church Institute, Gal- (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) lalee Mission, etc. The unemployed are organizing into the Waterfront CHICAGO, May 11.—For the first s r Nee time since 1919 representative of Unemployment Council, demanding the Steel and Metal Workers In-| 2¢equate food, clothing and shelter, and workers’ control of relief. Small aasteial Union spoke to 8 meeting! jueiness men on the waterfront are {inside the Illinois Steel Co. plant 1 ;. |during working hours on May 7th,| 2/80 offering their support to the | At the special invitation of the | S¢#men's demands. | workers the speakers for the S.M.| The unemployed seamen call upon W. I. U. brought out the program) all seamen, employed and unem- of the union and the demand for ployed, to support their demands a twenty-five per cent increase in| sending resolutions to H. M. Stuart, wages. | 1433 Vine St., Philadelphia, Pa, The meeting, called by the com- EECA ae, pany union in the Blast Furnace Palen ooh was attended by many Glove Strikers Are Bitter at Union Sell-Out Attempt men and superintendents. Com- AFL Officials Try To pany union representatives spoke| about their activities of the last End Strike With Promises year, claiming they had not won |much for the workers because they | were “green” at the job, and mak-! ing grand promises for the future. | “Let Him Talk” The representative of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Un-| ion, who had been invited by the| GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Mav 11. —The ranks of the 3,000 striking orously. | glove workers remained solid in the Company union officials tried to fourth week of the strike despite | put him off the floor, The work-|the attempts at betrayal. by the ers answered with shouts of “let| heads of the A. F. of L.-controlled glove workers union, the N.R.A. Then the company union repre-| Board and the employers. Sentatives made a maneuver, by! ‘The union officials have ruled that | asking all those who wanted Ld | the men should accept a 10 per cent jhear the speaker to raise their] raise instead of the 27 per cent raise hands. Since the foremen and su-| demanded and thet this raise should | were present, None he deferred until “manufacturers | perintendents peared to raise thelr hands and ex-| 4 :caehout ‘tha Gountry” consentad | |to the raise. The Labor Board co- pose themselves to the bosses. i Squad Car Appears | operated with them in this maneu- | Following this, company men ver, The men refused to accept jmade talks, trying to make the! this agreement. | work believ t y we! evisdd and Sau GLtE ie ihe The manufacturers have issued a workers. They even went so far,| Statement declaring that a commit- when the question was asked, to) tee of union officials and a com- claim that they would call a strike|™ittee of manufacturers will pre- if demands were refused. jSent this agreement “to their re- In an effort to prove to the work-|Spective memberships” in the effort ers that at company union meetings| to force the men back to work. they were free to present demands,! There is deep discontent among company men called on a worker| tne workers ae this attempted who had a grievance against a) pot ‘ ‘ rayal. There is talk among the foreman to state it to the meeting,| yorkers for an independent union eo We eeeenn ea sle we knowing | and a broad, elected strike commit- |the rottenness of the A. F. of L.| | leaders, then ripped into the com- | pany union, and introduced the call! |to the anti-company union united | |front conference called for June| |3. Workers present applauded vig-| At the Conference, besides the|Ution is working to organize this general discussion, three commissions | 0PPositionist current within the U. will be set up to consider special| 7. W. into an organized opposition problems, One will deal with build-| based on the program of struggle ing anti-war groups in shops and) for immediate demands. At the end of the meeting calls were distributed for the conference June 3 and workers seized them eagerly. When the spaker of the that he would be fired if he did. | unions. The second will consider | work in schools and colleges, and| | the third work among women and girls. i Bob Minor will represent the Communist Party at the Conference. Preparations for National Youth Day are going ahead rapidly. Tens BONDS Both principal and interest payments. are based upon a fixed quantity of gold, providing the investor with pro- tection against loss resulting from pos- sible further depreciation in the U.8, dollar Circular D-19 upon request SOVIET AMERICAN SECURITIES CORP. 30 Broad Street Steel and Metal Workers Industrial WHAT'S ON Union left the plant, a squad car i i, was waiting at the gate. Only the Philadelphia |fact that a shift was leaving the PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Fra: ‘plant at that time permitted the Williams, M.D., lect 7 tiene in the USSR and the OSA | Speaker to escape unnoticed by the Thursday, May 15. at 8:15 p.m., at Social | police. Service Building Auditorium, 311 8, Juni- Se ae per St. Augpices: Pen & Hammer. RANK AND FILE A. F. L. MEET tee to handle the strike, rather than all the “negotiating.” The wo: where in the glove centers, | Brandle Forced to | Resign from Jersey Trade Union Body | the few union heads who are doing | ‘KeTs: are determined to spread the strike to other shops in Mayfield and else- | Bridgeport, Conn. BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—‘‘The Patriots.’ together with latest Russian news reel and | will be! shown frnday, May 13, at 2 p.m. at Capi- | Musical pro- | special feature “Art and Cultu tol Theatre, 435 E. Main St 1:30 p.m., Boston, Mass. gram, proceeds film. NEW YORK.—A meeting of all| "| representatives of rank and file JERSEY CITY. May 11.—Theo- groups and local unions affiliated | “ore M. Brandle, at one time a close with the A. F. of L. Trade Union| friend of Mayor Hague and for 18 Committee for Unemployment In-| Years a powerful figure in the Jersey | surance and Relief will be held| labor unions, was forced to resign | Saturday, May 12, 1 pm. at Irving| fom the New Jersey State Building Mass.—-Outing Sunday, May 2 ta on Ta Benak, MEY | New York. All elected representa- | ices: John Reed Br. L.L.D.| tives are urged to be present on Meet a.m. sherp, New International | time. } Hall, 42 Wenonah St., Roxbury. | TONIGHT “WINGDING” MOVIES — PHOTO EXHIBITION Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St.,| Tredes Council. Three months ago Brandle was forced to get out of the Iron Work- ers Union. SOUND RECORDING — DANCING GOOD MUSIC — REFRESHMENTS 12 EAST 17th STREET Subscription 25 cents — 8:30 P.M. — DEBATE Under the Auspices of Social Werkers Discussion Clu Wed., May 16th, 8:30 p.m. Town Hall, 113 W. 43 St. Tickets, 50 cents. On sale at League of Nations Assn., 6 E. 39th St.: Social Workers Discussion Club, 233 W. 21st St.; American League Against War and Fascism, 112 E. 19th St.; Work- ers Book Shep, 50 EF. 13th St., Co- Iumbia Book Store, 2960 Broadway. Resolved :“T hat the League of Nations World Court and Diplomatic Procedure Cannot Avert War” Clark M. Eichelberger Director, League of Nations Associat’n Says: IT CAN Clarence A. Hathaway Editor, The Daily Worker Says: IT CANNOT Roger Baldwin, Chairman Director, American Civil Liberties Union CHYTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST Daily <QWorker DAY and MOONLIGHT EXCURSION To HOOK MOUNTAIN on the Beautiful Steamer “CLAREMONT” (Capacity 3200) SATURDAY, JUNE 9th Dancing — Entertainment — Mass Singing led by Daily Worker Chorus — Baseball — Boat Leaves Tickets on sale at Shop, 62 Herzl St. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL? By MARGUERITE YOUNG | es | SHANGHAIED | sailors | before you were born, and! Tl shanghai sailors after you) ‘are dead.” | Old Mrs. Million wasn’t. joking either. Her one eye} blazed. For thirty years she’ | had been one of the leading ship- | |ping sharks of Baltimore. Now, | |right across the street from her | | “Globe Restaurant,” lived several | hundred seamen who not only were | |administering relief to the unem- | ployed with United States govern- | |ment funds, but had set up their own employment agency. On Mrs. | Million’s own threshold stood the | (Chairman of the seamen’s United Front Shipping Committec, serving | notice that henceforth marine workers of all unions and the un- Hiking—Refreshments at city prices Returns at Midnight Tickets in advance $1; at Pier $1.25 35 E. 12th St.; Workers’ Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St.; I. W. O, Book Shop, 80 Fifth Ave.; 699 Prospect Ave., Bronx; Scandinavian Book Shop, 4012 8th Ave., Hudson St., Yonkers, | necktie, through the seamen’s Cen- | |tralized Shipping Bureau. |_ The shipowners felt the same as Mrs. Miion about it. Before they realized whet was happening, how. } ever, the seamen were so solid in| |the Centralized Shipping Bureau that there was nothing they could do directly. They formed a united | front against seamen’s control cf relief, therefore, with officials of the International Seamen’s Union (A. F. of L.) the Socialist Party, the I. W. W., the Y. M. C. A, and the Sea Service of the United States Shipping Board. The federal gov- ernment accommodated them by withdrawing relief funds. But it was too late! The seamen who they contended were “intimidated” into shipping through the Centralized Shipping Bureau in order to get relief gave | the lie to the sham by uniting closer | | than ever to protect the Centralized | Shipping Bureau even before they | | thought of relief. They realized | 'the drive was an oblique attack _upon their employment agency. And the Centralized Shipping | Bureau still controls 80 per cent of | the jobs in the port of Baltimore. It faces a mew menace: the Tennis — Swimming Pier A at 1 P. M. Daily Worker City Office, . Brooklyn; Co-op. Barber ; Yonkers Book Shop, 27 organized as well would be shipped, | |free of charge and without obliga- | tion to purchase gin, food or fancy | ongressmen To Pass B ill Mass Meetings, | Post Ca rage Three AY fe i | rd Campaign to Homes of Congressmen to Demand Action “HR 7598—Not Sym- pathy Is Our Demand of Congress” UR fight for Unemployment In- | surance is beginning te show results. The issue which all “practical” politicians treated with bitter hos- | tility or good-humored contempt only a year and two years ago, has | now become the major issue. Con- gressmen who used to rack their brains for some way in which they jcould safely straddle the prohibi- tion issue, are now beginning to | seek for some way of capturing the |vote of the constantly growing masses who demand unemployment insurance. This is indicated and admitted in many ways and by reports from Washington. Thus, the New York World-Telegram of May 9, carries a story by a staff writer who points out that “Candidates for re-election | this fall have begun to worry be- |cause the year’s legislative record contains nothing to appeal particu- | |larly to wage-earners. The Unem- ployment Insurance Bill seems to be their answer.” This, in the opinion of the World-Telegram writer, means that the Wagner-Lewis bill is “almost certain to pass.” As further proof that this fake unemployment insurance bill is “the answer” and is almost sure to pass, the writer of this story, who is one | of the most faithful propagandists |for Roosevelt's “New Deal,” points out that: “It is indorsed by the American Federation of Labor... . It is strongly indorsed by the ad- ministration (Roosevelt). The prin- ciple of unemployment insurance has just been approved by Henry I. | Harriman, president of the Cham- | ber of Commerce and no particular opposition to the pending measure (Wagner-Lewis) was voiced at the recent Chamber meeting. The Lezgue of Women Voters .. . has put unemployment insurance at the head of its program for immediate action. A recent poll of clergymen showed 63 per cent favoring it.” Those who wonder how the admini- | | stration, the Chamber of Commerce, | the misleaders of the A. F. of L.,| |etc., were won over for “unemploy- |ment insurance,” can find the an- |swer in the final paragraph of the aforementioned article, which de-| |scribes the bill on which such a| |“broad” united front has been es- |tablished. Says Miss Ruth Pinney (the correspondent): “The Wagner- | Lewis Bill does not establish fed- eral unemployment insurance. It is intended to encourage states to set up their own systems, with mini- |mum standards. . (Our empha- sis.) “It levies a 5 per cent federal tax on employers. . . . If the tax is paid it will go into the federal treas- ury as other revenues do. The idea is that it will not be paid—that em- plovers will prefer to hasten State unemployment insurance and keep money at home. where it will lighten their relief burden.” So here we have the answer to the prayers of the much worried congressman. By means of the Wagner-Lewis Bill they can main- tain their traditional loyalty to the interests of big-business and at the same time pretend that they are ‘responsive to the growing need and Walter Staek, leader of Baltimore Marine Workers, speaking at | Seamen’s Meeting. threat of the federal government's establishing its own “Centralized Shipping Bureaus” to breax up the seamen’s and to act as govern- ment shipping sharks. Not only for the purposes of cracking this, the most powerful weapon ever forged by labor in the marine in- dustry, but also to concentrate the workers so vital in war in centers and under conditions where they can be gotten at swiftly and in- be shot to pieces in a battle for shipowners’ prefit. “But they'll have to step pretty lively to get anywhere.” Harry Alexander, Chairman of the United Front Committee, chuckled, “Since they cut off seamen’s control of re- lief, the Centralized Shipping Bu- reau has gotten stronger instead of exorably, and sent off to drown or} weaker. Since then, for the first time, ships’ crews, and unorganized ones at that, have protected the Centralized Shipping Bureau by threatening strikes. They put a couple of seamen on the Eastern Temple shipped off the dock. The crew informed the mate he could throw these guys off and get fellows from us, or they'd strike. The mate telephoned us to replace them. | Lest week, they wouldn't Ist our Centralize1 Shipping Bureau dele- gate go abcard the S. S. Dixians. | The crew threatened to strike. The skipper welcomed our delegate.” | Of all the events in this histofic | struggle on the Baltimore | front, the development of the Cen- | tralized Shipping Bureau casts per- |haps the longest shadow. Tt drives Sir: Along with millions of other American workers who suffer from and are threatened by insecurity through unemployment, sickness, accident, maternity and old age, I look to Congress to en: the present session. act adequate social legislation during The Workers’ Bill (H.R. 7598) ix che only Bill that calls for genuine uneinployment and social insurance at the expense of the Federal Government Sign the Lundeen motion, which is now om the Speaker's desh, to discharge the Committce and bring the Workers’ Rill before the House for consideration in the present session. Signed: (Address) POST THIS IS OUR BILL “HL R. 7598 ( THE ROUBK OF REPRESENTATIVES Femur 4 i Me Lerma trend te ang 2, ath ae rte he Coe a Lake lied he A BILL To provide lor the maubchmen of enesuploynions snd svt mernnes, nd lr other parpoem. Ciroulated by Federation Architects, Engineers and Technicians, 10 W. 47th CARD ° CONGRESSMAN WASHINGTON, D.C. N.Y.C, One million of the post cards reproduced above will be circulated by the National Unemployment Councils to force Congressmen to sign the round robin petition to bring the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill out of the House Committee on Labor and onto the floor of Con- gress for vote. Minnesota, two from Pennsylvania, As yet, only 17 have signed the petition, three from two from Wisconsin, two from North Dakota, one from Nebraska, one from Ohio, one from California, two from Michigan, and one from New York. Workers everywhere should deluge Congressmen from their state with these cards, demanding that they act on H. R. 7598, mass demand for unemployment in- | surance. Demand H. R. 7598 We workers must let the members of Congress know that they can’t get away with it. We must tell them in no uncertain terms that: “Yes, we are aware of the fact that the record of Congress contains nothing to appeal particularly to wage- earners (and unemployed). Yes, the | Unemployment Insurance Bill is the | Ment insurance. numerous and militant, but more consciously directed toward winning genuine unemployment insurance. This in turn has forced scores of city and county governmental bod- ies to endorse our Bill and memor- \ialize Congress for its enactment. We must not allow these worried Congressmen to evade the issue by platonic expressions of sympathy with the “principle” of unemploy- We must make | answer that Congress must make to|Clear that they cannot discharge |the impoverished masses. But, pre-| their obligation to enact genuine |cisely for that reason the Wagner- | Lewis Bill is not acceptable. We want action that will take the bur- fake Wagner-Lewis Bill. Right at this moment we must social insurance by a vote for the} ,an | collective control. at the heart of capitalist oppres-| | den off the backs of the workers. A | bill that meets the approval of the Chamber of Commerce because it will lighten the burden of the em- ployers, cannot meet with the ap- proval of the workers, who will thus be compelled to carry a greater burden.” It is clear that our fight for the Workers’ Bill (H.R.7598) has made impression. Congressmen who are trying to secure re-election are feeling the effects of the thousands | of endorsements by unions, fraternal organizations, veterans and farmers groups. The post cards and mes- sages with which they have been flooded; the fact that demonstra- tions have not only become more | Labor Rouses the Waterfront TV.—The Centralized Shipping Bureau sion of the working class—at the ownership by the few of the jobs of the millions—by uniting them in As the control of relief by seamen gave a concrete | demonstration of the benefits the worker and his allies will derive from proletarian dictatorship in the political field, control of employ- ment by the marine workers fore- casts the results that will flow from proletarian ordering of economic affairs. The political atfack upon relief by the government in re- sponse to complaints by economic powers against the employment agency serves to show. with a con- creteness the American worker rarely has experienced the econom- ic base of the political structure. Baltimore seamen understand this —thousands of them have learned this jn their struggle. Consider Alexander, the slow-svoken, sturdy Chairman of the Centralized Ship- |ping Bureau committee: “I been a seaman fourteen years, |in the Navy two years. For four |vears I was a member of the I. S. |U., for a year and a half an I. W. |W. I was in the I. W. W. when \ shipped here from New Orleans on the U. 8. Tank Corporation's ‘Dora’ last January. 1 heard about |the strikes and activities going on. and thought the I. W. W. must have suddenly come back to life. I asked a fellow on the street, ‘Where’s the hall? I'd like to see what this activity’s about? Where's the I. W. W. hall?’ He pulled out a Marine Workers Ind7:trial Union book and said, ‘Say, you better tear up that book of yours and get one like mine.’ I came on down and got active.” Within a few weeks he joined the M. W. I. U. And then the Com- munist Party. I acked him why. “Here's the way it is,” he sai | “After you see who the government is, afters vou see that the govern- ‘ment and the shipowners is the same, the only thing vou can do is keep fighting them. But. of course, | vou know, the Centralized Shipping Bureau is appealing to all werke vater-| and everybody gets his job when |count, the |his number comes up, whether or not he knows that he can’t depend | on_the government.” | press the demand that every Con- |gressman shall sign the motion to out of the House Committee on Labor and onto the floor of Con- gress for vote. This is the first test of the sin- |cerity of those Congressmen who |claim that they favor unemploy- | ment insurance. Two hundred thousand post-card | messages have been sent out. by as m workers in all parts of the | United States to their Congressmen. This and the various other activities bring the Workers Bill (H.R. 7598) | 145 Congressmen Must Sign Round Robin en HR é 598 r ho’ and onto vote. With t 17 Cong the ssmen pet ‘ar signed bring the Bill up f tures are neces: Signing no way gressmen ion Fs will ac bill Congre: signed the petition A. Olmstead, employment bill—Ed.) o introduced by Mr. Lundeen. Unless we can get a considerable number of signatures in the next two or three ks, we wil! not be able to get the rkers’ Bill) up in the House Unemployment Councils urge immediate steps by all workers groups to force action during this session of Cong: Accordingly, during the week of June 4 to 10, demonstrations will be held near the homes of every Con- gressman, demanding that he sign the round robin petition, and in- form the National Unemployment Councils of his action. As part of the campaign, the Councils are issuing one million Post Cards for ‘circulation in all work- ers’ organizations and to be mailed to Congressmen demanding that they sign the round robin motion at once. As part of the same at an earlier date, demo! and mass pressure must be brought to bear upon City Councils, mayors and individual councilmen to en- dorse the Bill. In the meantime, the campaign to secure endors ments by unions, mass and fraternal organizations, the National Unem- ployment Councils urge, must go | forward. | In addition to post cards, the | National Office of the Unemploy- | ment Councils, is preparing color | posters to be placed in homes and {in the windows of stores and busi- ness houses with the aim of re- placing N. R. A. emblems with H. R, 7598 posters. the Congressman from the given district is to be fully publicized: (4) | demonstrations during the week of June 4th to 10th around the homes of the Congressmen who have failed to sign the motion with telegrams in the name of the workers assem- bled in such demonstrations; (5) increased pressure through demon- strations ete.. to force city and county governmental bodies and of- ficials to endorse our Bill and other demands upon the Congressmen. | already forced about seventeen Con- gressmen to sign the motion to take | the Bill out of Committee. But this jis still far from the 145 signatures |that are required. The seventeen| ance, It is an achievement that we | Congressmen who signed the motion | have been able to make this the are no more friendly to the workers | recognized foremost issue in the | than those who have not yet signed. | present campaign. We must direct They simply were subject to more | ourselves to the development of # The approaching Congressional elections provide us with the opvor- tunity to greatly advance our fight for unemployment and social insur- pressure. It is obvious from this that our task is to increase the | Pressure upon those who have not j yet signed. Campaign of June 4 to 10 The National Unemployment Council is developing an intensive campaign to force favorable action on our Bill before Congress ad- journs. Our plans call for: (1) th flooding of Congressmen with a new post card which specific: calls | upon them to sign the motion th will bring our Bill out of Commit- tee; (2) resolutions by unions, lodges etc., specifically directed to the given ; Congressmen pressing the same de- mand; (3) open air meetings in the neighborhoods where the position of Toone in the Rhode sland Elections | PROVIDENCE, R. T.. Mav 11 | The Rizht to Live Club hore is con- ite-in” of In- jductine an extensive campaign for the endorsement the Workers’ Wnemnlovment surance Bill (H. R. 7598). special elections to be hal ti out the state en May 18. In this campaien werkers are urged to vet stickers from the Richt to Live Club, 1755 West- minster St., circulate them among all veters, and urzve them to at- tach to their ballots. The stickers read: “I endorse the Werkers’ Unemployment and Social In- surance Act (H. R. 7598), and ask the Rhode Island Legislature to | pass a resolution instructing Sen- ators and Coneressmen to work for its passage.” If when voting, workers have not this sticker, they are urged to write “I endorse H. R. 7588” on the ballot. | To meet the “scare” being raised | by local politicians about snoiling ballots, the Right to Live Clu) in a tement, declared: “This is your ballot. The election laws permit you to write in or mark your ballot as you please. To safeguard the Right to Live Club will |have a committee at the State House to watch the counting. Every office holder in the state will be forced to state publicly his tj for this vital me: | broader and deeper struggle than ever. Every present member of | Congress must feel that we workers }are going to make the stand of jevery Congressman on the Workers’ | Bill, the test of his fitness for office, | We must let them know that in |the coming elections we will want every candidate to prove not only thet he is willing to support the Workers Bill. but that he actually is capable of fighting most effectively ure, In the meant: let us press for- ward to our next immediate objec- tive—Force every Congressman to sign the motion to bring H.R. 7598 out of Committee and onto the floor of Congress. stand on the Workers’ Bill, Con- ssmen will be forced to sign the ‘ound robin petition now on the desk in Convress and to ely support the bill when it s up for vote. Mass suppori, of the Workers’ Bill is evidenced in Rhode Island as elsewhere by the sweep of endorse- ments in A. F. of L. and independ- ent trade unions and workers’ mass and fraternal organizations the country. Already, 2.000 A. F. of L. unions have rsed the Workers’ Bill In Rhode Island, the Bill has been en- dorsed by the 186 delegates repre- senting 84 different A. F. of L. lo- |cals at the State Convention meet- jing on April 29. The Providence Building Trades Council, Painters’ Ierals 195 and 692. Plasterers’ local | 40. Plumbers’ local 28, Steamfitters’ 476, Asbestes Workers 31, Iron | Workers 37, Window Washers 125, |Bricklayers 1, Tile and Marble | Workers 8, Moving Picture Oper- ators 223, Hod Carriers 271, Street Carmen’s 618, Sheet Metal 37, Hoisting Engineers 37, Machinists |119 and 110, Carpenters 810, Car- Lay seer 1695, Painters 15, are some of the A. F. of L. unions which have | taken seperate action on the Work- | ers’ Bill. throughout ove’ The Right to Live Club urges i to e the Daily er on sale at the following Berman’s Confectionery, Willard corner Bay; Blasbalg. 629 Westminister St.; Lambert Drug, 259 Bread; Rialto Shoe, 90% Mathewson; Mulcaney News, 275 | Cranston; O. J. Boyle, 735 Main; J. Posner, 111 Charles, and G, Nar- della, 681 Eddy St.