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

Illinois Steel Workers Prepare for United Tighe Seeks to Behead | The Strike Movement, Cut Out Economie Demands —— SMWIU Calls for United Front Conferences of Locals CHICAGO, Ill, May 24-—Del- egates to the steel workers’ united front Anti-Company Union conference of June 3, which will take up united strike preparations, were elected by the Mutual Asso- ciation of Steel and Iron Workers, an independent union of 400 work- ers in the Inland Steel plant in Chicago Heights. The program of the conference was endorsed and five delegates elected. The conference called by the Calumet District Board of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and several locals of the union is intended to unite the forces of the steel workers of the Calumet Region into a solid front against company unions and for a 25 per cent raise in wages. The conference will be held in Auditorium Hall, Grand Boulevard and Michigan Ave. in Indiana Har- bor, opening at 2 p. m. Seid wee PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 24— June 16 is the deadline set by the pteel workers for strike for union fecognition and for their six other fiemands, The steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and the lodges of the Amalgamated Asso- tiation (A. F. of L.) presented their demands on May 21, to all major companies, and these demands have been rejected by the companies In response to the call for united strike action issued by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Un- ton, lodges of the A. A. and locals of the S. M. W. I. U. are now meeting in a number of districts and taking up the question of joint Strike action and joint, committees. Mike Tighe, pres. of the Amal- Bamated Association has definitely stepped into the situation in an pttempt to behead the strike move- tment of the steel workers. In the tecent national convention of the A. A. Tighe opposed the resolution bf the rank and file opposition for “offensive action” for their seven demands. Tighe and his machine opposed any strike action or strike preparations. He was voted down by the rank and file who passed a motion to present the demands on May 21. Tighe then told the del- egates, “I wash my hands of the whole business.” But today, Tighe, seeing he can- bot prevent strike struggles of the steel workers, made a bid to head the movement in order to sell it out. He said, “There is no ques- tion of backing down, The work- men themselves decided it (to strike) at their convention here a few weeks ago. We have no choice but to carry out their orders.” Tighe, however, is trying to con- fine the demands to the sole de- mand for recognition. He is trying to overrule the decisions of the national convention by dropping all the economic demands for higher wages, against the speed-up, for better conditions, etc. Tighe is also trying to lay the basis for preventing strikes by re- ferring everything to the Labor Board of the N. R. A. or to Roose- velt. His policy is to betray the steel strike preparations just as Green and Collins betrayed the auto workers who wanted to go out on genéral strike, into the hands of the Auto Labor Board and Roosevelt. The auto workers did not win their demands, and were defeated through this treachery. Tighe is trying to sell; “t the steel workers in the same manner. All steel workers should untte, and prepare a united strike for their seven demands, Six Jailed In Muskegon (Mich.) Laundry Strike MUSKEGON, Mich. May 24.—| call Police here have arrested six work- ers, five of them women, who have been among the most militant in the strike at the Prosperity Laundry. This followed a brutal attack on the picket line Monday night, when police guarded 12 strikebreakers hired by the struck laundry. The jailed workers remained im- prisoned when they failed to raise bail of $1,000 each. Communists and other workers are aiding the -Strikers, both on the picket line and by spreading the facts of the bad conditions in the laundry. Wages in 606 Minn. Firms Show 55 Cents W eekly Pay Reduction —_—- | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May |} 23.—Figures published by Merrill G, Murray, director of the Min- nesota state employment service, show that 606 firms reporting on employment and wages reported an average decrease of 55 cents in weekly wages of their em- ployes. The. figures are for March, 1934 in comparison with March, 1933. Of course this does not take into consideration the rise in prices which reduces real wages much more. The wave of strikes in Minne- sota is the workers’ answer to the wage cutting drive of the | Roosevelt N. R. A. administra- | Ni | | tion and the Olson Farmer-Labor state administration. | Relief Buro, City Officials, Scab on Cleveland Newsies Special to the Daily Worker CLEVELAND, May 24.—A wide- spread boss and city drive is in progress here to break the militant strike of six-hundred newsies, now in their fourth day of struggle for higher rates. The Cuyahoga County | Relief Association yesterday became| an agency for sending scabs in to! break the boys’ strike. | The local Home Relief Bureau is sending jobless youths to the city hall for jobs. There they are offered $5 to scab on the striking newsboys. Police on horse and on foot pro- tect the scabs at prominent corners | in the city. | Of the more than 40 boys arrested on Monday, all but 12 were released | by the folowing morning. These 12) were held without charges named! against them, The International| Labor Defense filed a writ of habeas | corpus, whereupon the 12 boys were, immediately released by the police, without answeting the writ. Daily Worker sales have increased somewhat in Cleveland since the strike, which is being courageously fought by the boys with the support | and sympathy of a large section of | the local population. | IWO Calls Chicago Meet on H. R. 7598 New York Fraternal Orders to Meet CHICAGO, Ill, May 24.— The) International Workers Order here has issued a call to all fraternal organizations and all branches of the Chicago District of the I. W. O. to elect delegates to a conference on the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill (H. R. 7598). The con- ference will be held at the Mirror Hall, 1136 N. Western Ave., Sun- day, May 27, at 10 a. m. The conference will map the im- Mediate plans to obtain further en- dorsements of the Workers’ Bill, and will plan an extensive cam- paign to popularize further the bill in the Chicago area. * Parner aie New York Fraternal Orders NEW YORK.—The New York Fraternal Federation for Social In- surance Conference held on April 22 unanimously went on record to a mass demonstration at the City Hall Plaza on June 30 if the city administrative body did not endorse the Workers Bill. In the name of the 35 fraternal organi- zations which participated in the Conference, the committee on sev- eral occasions sent registered letters to Mayor LaGuardia, asking that he meet with their committee on that date. So far, LaGuardia has not answered. The Fraternal Fed- eration urges all fraternal organi- zations to mobilize their member- ship for the demonstration at the -City Hall Plaza on June 30. | boss press helps to frame workers.” | militant truckmen. BAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 23, This story can be accurately called ; “The First Steps in a Frame-up”| and equally sub-titled: “How the | | Look at the accompanying proto- graph. It was snapped by a photog- rapher of the Minneapolis Journal shortly before noon Tuesday in Minneapolis, when cops and special deputies and thugs attacked the When it ap- peared in that paper, the caption below it described the scene in this way: “A picket, swinging a bludgeon, like a baseball bat, fells a fleeing policeman.” No mention of anything else. But then the police and big in- dustrialists and financiers of Minne- apolis, against whom the strike is being waged, discovered that one of their number, a business man named C, Arthur Lyman, president of the American Ball Co., had been killed. And so, without a moment’s delay, the frame-up machine went into ac- tion. Yesterdays papers reprinted the original picture with a yariety of} captions. Most of them, however, | uncannily agree that the man on the ground is the late C, A. Lyman. The New York Daily Mirror, con-}| tradicting the original caption in the | Minneapolis Journal, says that the picture is that of “C. A. Lyman, who suffered fatal injuries, is shown as he was felled with bat.” ‘The Daily News now presents the picture as the “Photo Record of Actual Killing.” It describes the man on the ground as “unconscious | on pavement,” although the Photo | actually shows the man in the act of moving! The “liberal” New York Post says: "Death Was in the Wake of This Blow,” and also describes the figure on the ground as Lyman, and “un- conscious.” And the “liberal” twin- ard World-Telegram, reproduces the picture by writing that “O, A, Ly- man... goes down under the ter- rific blow of a strike sympathizer.” But even these despicable anti- working class papers couldn't get together skillfully enough. They slipped up on the dirty work. For example: The New York American, William Randolph Hearst's yellow sheet ,publishes the photo greatly en- larged, but described the fallen fig- ure as “a special officer.” No men- tion of Lyman, And the New York Times, slickest and most skillful of America’s capi- | sister of the Post, the Scripps-How- | talist organs, evidently fell down on | in this incident. 3,000 Butte Copper Miners On Strike 16 Day ; en, Are in Walk-Outs Auto, Textile, BUTTE, Mont. May 24.—The| striking copper miners and smelter | workers are remaining out solid.) ‘The Anaconda Copper Co., has only been able to recruit 150 scabs in all. Three thousand are on strike in| Butte alone. The strike, on its 16th day, is being betrayed by the refusal of the international officials of the* Inter- national Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union to call out the wire producing unit of the Anaconda Co., at Great Falls, Mont., under the pretext that while it is working it is being held as a club over the company’s head. A conference has been called for today of union offi-| cials and company representatives | by the Federal mediator, Pratt Whitney Aircraft Strike Is Settled HARTFORD, Conn. May 24— The strike of the Pratt Whitney aircraft strikers here has been settled under the terms of an agree- ment which ostensibly give recogni- tion to the union by the Boston Re- gional Labor Board and the em- ployers, but the exact terms of the agreement are not yet known. The strikers are back at work, the senti- ment among the workers is very good. Details of the agreement will be published as soon as they are known. Philadelphia Auto Strikers Hold Out Solidly PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Auto work- ers here are holding out solidly despite bosses’ attempts to smash their ranks and arouse the senti- ment of non-striking workers against the union and its demands for a closed shop. Stool pigeons in the union have several times tried to swing the membership into ac- cepting a small wage increase in return for giving up demands for{ union recognition and the closed shop, and to split the ranks of the strikers by raising the red scare, but these moves were defeated when the membership voted full confidence in the strike leadership and its pro- gram, pees Newsm Williamson, C. P. Organizer Speaks at Dayton Sat. Night DAYTON, Ohio—John William- son, Ohio District Organizer of the Communist Party will speak on “The revolutionary way out of the crisis versus the capitalist way” at @ mass meeting here at St. Stephens Hall, corner Herman and Keowee Sts., Saturday, May 26, at 8 p.m. The Socialist Party, whose leaders have endorsed the N. R. A. as a “step toward Socialism,” have been challenged to debate Williamson on/ the announced topic sale Ale Picket Evanston (Ill.) Paper) Despite Police, Injunction EVANSTON, Ill.— Many of the striking employees of the Evanston News-Index are still picketing the concern by walking up and down before the building with placards, in spite of the injunction issued by the circuit court. This injunction is pasted up all over the front win- dows of the building. Police are stationed outside the building, equipped with night-sticks, to take part in the scab work of loading the papers. The News Index has enlisted the business interests here in a cam- paign of slander against the strik- ers, whom they call “hoodlums,” etc. ee oe 500 Charlotte Textile Workers Out CHARLOTTE, N. C. (F. P.)—De- manding abolition of the stretch- out system, reduction of speed of machines and repair of their homes, 500 textile workers in three Plants of the Waverly Mills, Inc., near Charlotte, have struck. se 40 Moulders Strike in Bridgeport Iron Foundry BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 24.— All the moulders of the Gray Iron \ Foundry, a division of the Eastern Malleable Iron, went out on- strike yesterday under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union for higher wages and recognition of the union. The moulders, numbering about 40, met and elected a strike com- the job too. Maybe the signals got mixed. But Adolph Ocha’s paper repeats what Hearst’s sheet said. Nothing about Lyman. Just “a spe- cial officer.” The King Feature Syndicate de- | scribed the picture as: “A vivid close-up of the violence in Minne- |apolis truck driver's strike—as a | strike breaker is smashed to the ground by swinging club of rioter.” | (Emphasis mine—Ed.) Figure it out for yourself! The |frame-up machinery in action is seldom more flagrantly flaunted in the eyes of the working class than mittee of seven to represent them, who later met with Davis, the man- ager of the plant who stated that $3.50 a day was enough for them. The demands of the workers’ meet- ing was $5.50 for bench mouldres and $6.50 for Rollover machine moulders. A provisional demand was made for the laborers of ad- justing their pay upwards. The Communist Party is mak- ing every effort to help the workers win their strike by picketing, raising jfunds, and mobilizing organizations behind the strike. 300 Out in Providence PROVIDENCE, R. I. (F. P.)—As @ result of the company’s refusal to take on additional workers, 300 employes, including day and night shifts of the Lymansville Mill at Providence, walked out and voted not to return until satisfactory negotiations are completed. The United Textile Workers of America is leading the walk-out. Newspaper Printers Win Promise of Wage Raise NEW HAVEN, Conn. (F.P)—A verbal agreement granting sub- stantial wage increases is the re- ward of New Haven newspaper printers, members of the Interna- tional Typographical Union, who negotiated for a month after they called off their strike. The strike caused the New Haven Register to miss a publication. Printers of The New Haven Journal-Courier were also involved in the strike and the subsequent wage agreements. Day men received an increase of 8%c an hour for a 40-hour week, and night men a fraction of a cent less, Silk Workers Meet Demands 30-hour Week PAWTUCKET, R. I. (F.P.)—A New England conference of union silk workers meeting at Pawtucket sent resolutions for a 30-hour week and uniform establishment of the 4-loom system to the Silk Code Authority. Farmers Crushed by Roosevelt Pule, Fight for Relief Farm Bill THE FRAZIER BILL IS MERELY AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE INVESTMENTS OF THE WALL STRE ‘By H. PURO bigs meet 4 masses of the cduntryside have — now lived through one year under the Roosevelt New Deal. As a result they find themselves regimented to the servitude and slavery of the bankers, insurance companies and landlords more than ever before, by the chains of the A. A. A. autocratic codes. Their purchasing power, which the A. A. A. Was supposed raise, has been further shattered. This ts verified by the fact that farmers are now selling their prod- ucts at 67 per cent and buying at 120 per cent of pré-war levels, and that their buying power for April was 56 as compared with 100 before the war. SS However, these official statistics, even if reliable, take a general aver- age of the purchasing power of all farmers. And it is clear that the A. A. A. program has increased the purchasing power of the landlords Yt to| lords than ever before. Other meas- ET BANKS and big farmers, whereas it has lowered the purchasing power of the great sections of toiling farmers. Cee Oe ECOGNIZING the failure of the New Deal, the New Dealers are clamoring for more power to estab- lish a real fascist dictatorship under the N. R. A. and A. A. A. codes. The Bankhead Bill, just passed by Congress, is a real fascist measure which forces the poor sharecroppers in the South into a deeper misery and deeper bondage to the land- ures, like the Jones-Costigan Bill for the beet farmers, which protects the interest -of the great sugar trusts against the demands of the small farmers and agricultural laborers, are pending in Congress, Under these conditions, it is no wonder that the spirit of revolt among the toiling farm masses is growing. Their illusions regarding the New Deal are being shattered. They grow indignant. Nebraska farmers recently passed a resolution condemning tr, A, A. A. codes and t adding, that if Wallace wants to make codes, why doesn’t he make a rain code? The Frazier Bill But the shattering of the illusions of the farmers regarding the New Deal do not automatically lead them to class consciousness. For years the Wall Street. masters have been able to provide harmless outlets for the growing indignation of the radi- calized farm masses through the s0-called “Progressive Bloc” in Con- gress, led by Senators Norris, Borah, Brookhart, La Follette, Frazier and Shipstead. These capitalist agrarian Politicians have sometimes made Joud speeches against the “vested in- terests,” against Wall Street, etc., and have cooked up all kinds of legislative proposals which they claim, if passed, would help the farmers and the common people. The Frazier Bill has been intro- duced in the Senate by Senator Frazier of North Dakota. Senator Frazier is a former North Dakota governor, elected by the farmers as the Non-Partisan League candidate) on the Republican ticket. The Fra- zier Bill is a very clever maneuver to make farmers pay their mort- gages to the bankers and the in- surance companies. It provides loans to the farmers on the as- sessed valuation of the land plus one-half the value of the improve- ments at an interest rate of one and one-half per cent, with loans on livestock at 65 per cent of the value with three per cent interest. On the loans on the land, however, be- sides paying one and one-half per cent interest, farmers have to pay every year one and one-half per cent on the principal, besides keep- ing up taxes and insurance pay- ments. On the livestock besides three per cent interest, 10 per cent of the principal must be paid every year. These loans are to be financed by the issuance of the government guaranteed bonds, but if not enough bonds are sold, the government is authorized to print paper money to cover the rest of the loans, Besides payments on principal, in- * if terest, taxes and insurance, farmers have to pay appraisal, abstracting, need deed fees and for registering the deed. His loan, would be in- creased to cover back interest and taxes, all of which have to be paid to the new mortgage holder! So even though seemingly good and tempting, the Frazier Bill is just another attempt to save the mort- gages of Wall Street bankers and insurance companies and to make farmers continue to pay tribute to these money lords. The Frazier Bill is sponsored in the House of Representatives by Congressman Lemke, also from North Dakota and it is supported by the so-called progressive and Farmer-Labor Senators and Con- gressmen, by Milo Reno of the Holi- day Association, the Farmer-Labor Party, Socialist Party and other misleaders of the farmers. The Frazier Bill does not relieve distressed farmers from the $12,- 1934 Southern Militant Workers Will Hit Birn’ham Terror | Lawson, Teclies: Ral- ston, Racolin Will Ad- dress Monday Meet NEW YORK.--A wire received from Alabama yesterday, states Herald Ralston, Communist organ- | izer in the South whose heroic con- | duct in the Birmingham lynch court aroused nation-wire attention and Alexander FE. Racolin, ILD. lawyer associated in his defense, are coming here to address the mass protest meeting to take place Mon- day, May 28, at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and E. 15th St. John Howard Lawson, well-known playwright and reporter of the strike to the Daily Worker who was run out of Birmingham by the police, will give a first hand account of the events in Alabama. Other speakers include Pat Toohey, editor of Labor Unity, Eula Gray, organizer of the Sharecroppers Union, and Allan Taub, Assistant Secretary of the Na- tional Convention for the Defense of Political Prisoners. The possibility of sending a dele- gation of writers and intellectuals, similar to the one that went down to Harlan, Kentucky some years ago, will be discussed at a supper Mon- day, night before the meeting to which 300 prominent liberals and in- tellectuals have been invited. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the National Com- mittee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, the New Masses and the John Reed Club. Call State Police At CCC Camp, Oust 44 Young \ Workers CCC Workers Support Leader Framed for Organizing PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—After sev- eral weeks’ struggle against the hor- rible conditions prevailing at the camps, Capt. A. M. Watson called state police into C.C.C. Camp 130 at Lushbaugh, Pa. The following morning, 44 out of a total of 201 in the camp were expelled from the camp. Some time ago there was a strike! in the camp against Saturday after- noon work. The workers continu- ously protested against the food and the neglect of sick workers. These protests continued. On Monday, Capt. Watson called a court martial trial of Irving Kastrow, who had been active in mobilizing the C.C.C. workers. Kastrow was “tried” on the fol- lowing “charges”: possessing a “Communist” magazine (a copy of Labor Unity was found in his bunk resisting work on Saturday after. noons, forming a group and meet- ing in the woods with them, making “Bolshevist” and union statements, | and other charges. | Although Kastrow demanded | open trial, this was denied. The workers grouped around the win- dows and booed at the trial. Finally Capt. Watson told Kastrow to go out and quiet the workers. Instead, Kastrow explained to the workers the nature of the trial, a meeting was held in the recreation hall, and a committee elected to demand that | the hearing be open. Capt. Watson called the state troops. After raving before the men| and attempting to intimidate them, | he asked all those in sympathy with | Kastrow to step aside, Forty-three | workers lined up with Kastrow. Arrangements are being made to stage protest meetings in Philadel- phia and at the camp at Lushbaugh | where the military-prison. regime | will be unmasked before the workers, | Trade Union Unity Council to Discuss Dock Strike Friday NEW YORK.—The Trade Union | Unity Council will discuss the long- shore strike and the developing | struggles in the metal trade at its | regular monthly meeting on Friday night, May 25 at Irving Plaza. These reports will deal with the question of strike strategy, oppo- sition work, and will have many | lessons for the whole trade union movement of New York City. cause of this the secretariat, has de- cided to linvite active workers of other organizations, in addition to the regular delegates to attend this council meeting. Arbitrary Decisio Ends Theatre Strike Strike Action Con Anglo-U. See Socialism By R. BISHOP (Special to the Daily Worker) Sor Steel Bosses Proposes Gangsters To Break Strikes veet By L. R. A. NEW YORK methods in dea is openly recommended in a cent issue of Steel, leas 1} paper of the steel i menting on recent auto industry, it says. “There appears to be no surer cure for treating bothersome la- than organized strike-breaking on the part of he auto manufacturers them- di spots eradica through the a scene of trouble-making squads, whose occupation, profes- sional, might be termed hazard- || ous, yet who talk the same force- ance on || ful language as strike foment- ‘| ors.” Phila. Seamen Win A Partial Victory On Relief Demands | Organize Fight for Own Control of Relief Project (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 24.— Militant picketing of the local transient bureau offices, a delega- tion to Washington, and a threat of | |@ mass march on the capitol has | forced the transient bureau to set | aside a building for the sole use of the unemployed seamen. are fighting for workers’ control of the relief project, demanding a superintendent and a | committee elected by the men. | A committee of five elected sea- |men forced these concessions from the special federal investigator, King, turning down a proposition to | include other “transients” with the seamen, ‘The men recognize this as @ move to have men on hand as | crews for struck ships, and to con- | centrate all jobless together for war | mobilization. | The seamen’s relief project build- | ing is at Tenth and Spruce Sts., ten | blocks from the docks. The em- | ployed and unemployed seamen, who | are uniting their ranks in opposition to war, consider this as an attempt to isolate the jobless from the em- ployed seamen. In answer, the sea~ men are fighting this move by a series of meetings on the water- | front, an anti-war parade on June |7, and an intense organization cam- | paign. Chicago Fascists Try to Force Negro Woman from Home Daily Worker Midwest Bureau CHICAGO, May 24—Plans to disrupt, provoke, even attack the National Youth Day demonstra- tion on May 30 have been dis- cussed the last four mectings of a Friends of New Germany group in Rogers Pk. on the north side of Chicago. The use of tear gas by the Nazis has been con- sidered. At the same time, police con- tinue to refuse a permit for the demonstration to be held at 47th and Halsted Sts. Delegations from various organizations are protesting to the police demand- ing the issuance of the permit. Leaders of the demonstration stated today that no amount of threats of terror from the police or the Nazi groups will prevent the mobilization of thousands of youth in a mighty demonstration against fascism and war May 30. Defend Foreign-Born Before Officials in | NEW YORK. — The Committee .\for the Protection of Foreign Born | has issued a call to all organizations |to send telegrams to Attorney | General Cummings, demanding that they see the delegation which will arrive in Washington on June 4th to protest deportations of workers and to demand the return of citizen- ship to Emil Gardos, whose citizen- ship was revoked because he took a | leading part in a textile strike. Final plans for the delegation will The men | grievance | Washington, June 4 Page Three ferences Worker Delegate Gain in USSR for Leningrad whenee sail for E. European part of the Leningrad. Moscow, propetrovsk, Doneta dessa, Gorky, where the famous automobile plant is los they visited Ivanovo, the tile center, the Jarslyals ic rubber plant, the Sverde ew machine building plant n, whence they visited the 2 reas of the Tartar Republic, The delegates visited rest schools, theatres, hospitals as dustrial plants. They ersations with respone si persons from whom they learned the structure of the Soviets, s, relation of the Come rty to the Soviets, etc, those interviewed were Among Kalinin, president of the Central Exe e Committee of the Soviet Kk, secretary of the See “ y the delegation a movie theatre to see the famous film “Potemkin.” The producer, Hisenstein, will be present to exe plain its significance and the role of the cinema in the Soviet Union. The delegates had the widest ope portunity for study of every aspect of Soviet life, cultural, educational and industrial. All were vastly ime pressed with the great scope of the social services, the huge industrial progress and the well-being of tha workers. Even the Hfe-long supporters of the Soviet Union had their highest expectations surpassed, while thos@ who had harbored doubts, found them vanished in the face of So* viet actuality. The Donbas particularly impressed two Australian miners and Lewis, | West Wales checkweighman, The | latter declared the equipment, the safety precautions, the ventilation, etc., of the pits he descended, wer the best in the world | Joe Shakespeare, labor alderman | and coal miner from New South Wales, Australia, was so enthused by pit 1717 in Stalino Donbas that he insisted on putting in a full six-hour shift hewing at which he performed so well that he was de- clared a “udarnik” (a shock treoper) on the spot by the local miners’ committee, ‘Odessa and Kazan greatly im- pressed all delegates. The Tarta? Republic, of which Kazan is thé capital, was formerly among the most oppressed and backward re- gions of the Czarist domains, and has now forged ahead under So- | viet powerm Great agraran successes of the past two-years-are being fol- lowed by .a triumphent industrial | advance which is now commencing. The delegates were all impressed by the healthy, happy, well-fed ap- pearance of the Tartar populace, especially the children. Saklatvala, British India delegate, drew a poigne lant contrast with the statving, | pinched children to be seen in the villages of India. “The Soviet power alone,” he said, “can do for them what it has done so superbly for once the | equally oppressed Tartar toilers* s June 16 and 17 Tag | Days for Chicago Election Campaign CHICAGO, May 24.—A Guss, the | district campaign manager of the Communist Party, issued a state- | ment today urging all working class groups to elect delegates to the | United Front Nomination Confer+ ences to be held in every congres« sional district in Chicago within the | next few weeks. “Only a broad mass campaign be+ |ind the Communist candidates," | said the statement, “can give the workers a spokesman in the govern- | ment.” June 16 and 17 will be city-wide tag days for the raising of money to conduct the campaign. basi Auto Workers 1 | Endorse H.R. 7598 DETROIT, Mich. (F. P.)—Aute | Workers Union, No. 18,677, made up | of 3,000 employes of Kelsey-Hayes |; Wheel Corp. at Detroit, has in- dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment | Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598. It claims | to be the first federal local to ine | dorse. } | | Longshoreman Killed | Fighter in the I. L. Ay | | NEW YORK.-—Louis Sperto, a6 tive member of the Rank and File | Action Committee of the Interna« | tional Longshoremen’s Association, | who was shot and killed in Brook- llyn last Monday by an unknown assailant, will be buried today at | noon following a funeral to be con | ducted from Sperto’s home, 143 | President Street. NEW YORK —The strike of ush-| be drawn up at an executive meet-| Sperto was popular among the ers, doormen and cleaners of the Loew and R.K.O. theatres ended in an arbitrary decision of Charles C. Levy, Secretary-Treasurer of the Theatre and Amusement Employ- es Union. These workers, whose wages ranged around $14 a week, went! on strike on May 17 for an increase in pay. Thep picketed the theaters | j and on Monday, five-strikers were | Financed by P. W. A. funds, the | arrested and held for $2,500 bail. Levy didn’t offer any help to the jailed strikers and on Monday evening at a meeting attended by about 80 strikers called the strike off without taking a formal vote. | 000,000,000 debt load and the ac- (Cowtinued on Page 6) Strikers who were discriminated | against are urged to get in touch| about the Daily Worker. Let them | | with the A, F. of L. Rank and File Committee, 1 Union Square, ee ear nnn nn nn EERE RRR tonight at Room 430, 80 EF. 11th |St. The Gardos petition blanks, j signed, should be returned to the | same address. PWA Funds to Finance Two Armories in Towa | ing, OTTUMWA, Iowa. (F. P.). Towa Nat'l Guard is to have a new armory in Ottumwa to cost $125,000. Another armory at Burlington, in- | cluding a cavalry stable, is to cost | $30,000 ‘Tell vour friends and shopmates read your copy, Ask them to sub- scribe, s | Brooklyn longshoremen for his ac- | tivities in building a militant rank and file opposition in the I. L. A |He was shot through the chest ong block from his home and died in- |stantly last Monday. Sperto’s friends say that the shooting was part of an organized attack of the I. L. A jOfficialdom against the rank and jfile group. CHICAGO, ILL. Daily Worker Reader's Conference SUNDAY, MAY 27th —- 10:30 A. M. — ; at 3069 Armitage Avenue Chicago, TH. |