The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1934 Page Three Some Highlights In 700 Paper Mill Workers Recent Strikes in the 2” Strike in Louisiana *| Birmingham Area Milwaukee Socialist Party in “Horse Trading” of Juicy Jobs ‘Peace Terms,’ M’ pls | Olson in Sell-Out | Worker Writes ‘Daily’ By a Worker Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — the Daily Worker is the only | |] militant working class organ in the U. S., it behooves me to ex- EeeaSS Coal, Gas, Poultry Workers, Cigar-Makers and Other Trades in Strikes Thruout Country SEEK TO PERPETUATE POWER BY “SPOILS SY a a TEM” Plain through your press, as Pt there is no other that will let me express the truth and woes the Regional Labor Board's By H. YARIS NEW ORLEANS, La—The en Dan Hoan, that exemplar of honesty and cleanliness in civic life. The dis- pute covered a little “horse trade” A = which Hoan wished to put across in jer which New York’s Tammany Hall) order to get the support of several has been the national model, and| “non-partisan” Ul the evils attached to such politics. Be gern fein hecge The Socialist Party, which has been| py, i j Ys | e trade was just another one of fhe dominant Party here for the past | those deals which every capitalist {5 to 18 years, claimed no small part | politician, since “Boss Tweed” has of the credit for this achievement in| had in his stock. In order to get the Milwaukee civic life. Many outsid- | ees trs, whose naivete surpassed their | : + tmowledge of facts and good sense, believed this, and as a result in mu- | iicipal annals Milwaukee has always | ILWAUKEE has been one city which has been boasting that it was free from machine politics, | the war for the purposes of setting up & municipal food selling project. Hoan refused to give an accounting of this project and refused to turn the profits over to the city. He needed the support of this Alder- man Lassa and one other non-par- | tisan in order to have the Common Council drop this suit. He got this | Support by means of the good “So- cialist” principle of “horse trading.” | Mudroch refused to make room| for Hoan’s choice, and so the dis- |pute started. In themselves such deeds are not very eventful—prob- of my class, as I wish to say in relation to our local truck strike, it was the biggest sell-out. Governor Olson and his henchmen are the fault of it. We've elected governor Olson to represent us, but he called the militia. The peace terms weren't made through militant labor, but through the friends of Governor Olson. We fought for the closed shop. And it was this we fought for, but didn’t get it. I, as a pioneer builder of the Common Bond Between T.C.I. Coal, Ore Miners and Steel Men NAT ROSS made a vicious attack on the Party, BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A peculiar; told the coal miners that the UM. feature of the Birmingham area| W.A. did not believe in mpa | where 8,000 ore miners are striking| strikes, and ordered them back to is that the steel corporations, head-| work. ed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and| On May 4th, 8,000 ore miners Railroad Company (U.S. Steel), own| struck, tying up the whole indu: all the ore mines and the main coal| | mines, in addition to the steel mills,| fluence and stronger organization | This feature establishes at the outset | among the ore miners than among The Party had even greater in-| crew of the Celotex plant at Mar- | Tero, La., went out Thursday. men, of the | whom struck. The strike was called when of- ficials of the company r | acceded to the demands f. crease in ‘ot one of the employes of plants reported for work rsday, although the office force was func- tioning as usual - The demands of the employes are and vention: only one half of the ers are to go back to work “inas« much as the other jobs had been filled by ‘recruited workers’”; the union’s demands for wage increase |and shorter hours “are to proceed” but without the plants being shut down by the strike. Cigar Workers Strike for 20°, Raise in Philadelphia By a Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The works f 8 V jably occurring in every city, Mil-| er- r Party, am opposed || Common bond between the steel|the coal miners. And too, the ore|for a closed shop, reduction of|ers of the Razarte Shop, about 23 ts Pasar , V_ cits Farmer-Labor ¥, AM oppo’ ‘ : , a } seater in a sort of exceptional Waukee included, each day of the|| to such hypocrisy. workers and the coal and ore min-| miners had watched the coal strike| hours from eight to six, and an/in number. In the past few weeks, some very | interesting facts have been coming 'o light which throw a new angle on | week. But the upshot of this has} been a long drawn-out dispute in the Milwaukee Socialist Party, which ESSE STE SRA 2 for defending Party, apparently ers, who together form the decisive working class force in this area. The Strike Demands with breathless concern, They went| over the heads of their hig officials. Elements of real increase in the wage scale from 33 cents an hour to 45 cents an hour are out on strike now for a 20 per cent increase in wages and better sanitary conditions. The lik lar electi hine| principles which are supposed to be strike t revolutionary| The emploves of this plant are| average wage is $3.2 week, 10 hours like every similar election machine} ciples D The tw tst: ds s e tactics were cropping out as a ai Sulphite \d | Work a day and five and a half days mated character of the Milwaukee wants to maintain power, a machine | cipal policies. dry, textile and other industries have| Slogans into practice. There waS| heir meeting to draft the de-| The boss has just ordered a ma= Bocialist Party and its politics. piri be ene oiled on the principle) Such instances of Tammany meth-| heen: (1) Recognition of the A. F.| mass picketing at every m Wo-| mands was attended by J. C. Futr,|chine to make bunches. Before this That Party has laid its chief claim it to he “victor belongs the ods are not isolated events. What} of L, union; (2) For higher wages. | men and unemployed wo! joined | representative of the national or-/the cigars were entirely hand-made. to leadership in this city to its pre- spoils. city employee in Chicago, New York,| The demand for higher wages was| the picket line. Jim-Crow dis- senses for clean, honest and cheap jovernment and to its fight against ‘arty domination and “bossism” in tity politics. Socialist Politicians’ Corruption | The first pretense has been wiped sway by the many acts of corrup- tion which have come to light in recent years, the latest of which is the scandal in the Milwaukee House Correction which has enmeshed ¢ Socialist politicians up to their The “spoils system” in capitalist Politics has been the life juice of every corrupt machine, Tammany, Vare, etc. Without it, the whole coterie of followers and ward heelers would disapper into thin air. Thus also in Milwaukee. The Socialist officialdom and some | of their supporters have become so corrupted through the many years of job-holding in this city that just like any other capitalist politicians DANIEL HOAN Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee Philadelphia, etc., is not forced to “contribute” several times a year to the war chests of the local political machine, or of some individual pol- iticlan, through taxes imposed upon him in the form of expensive tickets for picnics, bazaars, and what not? One must suffer such “voluntary” contributions, in order to keep a job. Socialist Demagogy In Milwaukee the only difference part of the whole struggle against the slave differential wage rates es- tablished for the South by the N.R.A. During the first week of the coal | strike in April, which closed every mine in Alabama, the demands of the miners for union recognition and against the differential, found @ unanimous echo among the ore miners and steel men. As long as the steel mills could run with the stored up coal of their captive mines, appeared as the pickets fought to- gether. In some cases rank and file committees were elected to lead ane strike. The ore miners were really fighting to win. In the meanti! the coal miners were becoming rest- less, especially in the ca e mines, and so were the steel workers. It was in this situation that the| steel trust ordered their deputized thugs to shoot to kill | From then | on the ore strike zones became an| ganization. This is the second time | in seven months that this plant has | been closed by strikes. - * Pittsburgh Gas Station Workers Demand Pay Raise PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 28.— Recognition of their union and an increase in wages are the demands laid yesterday before 16 of the larg- est oil distributing companies here This machine will very likely throw some of us out of work. As yet there are no scabs working there because it |is very hard to find Cubans to scab. Most of the workers are Cuban or Cuban descent. Fi of the workers read the Daily Worker. They are very class-consc! . having been in |many struggles in Tampa, Fla., bee |longing to the Tobacco Workers In- dustrial Union there. 6 * ran a 2 |by the Gasoline Station Employees’ Two Strikes Called in Hard hoses. The story of some other shady |vote of a certain Alderman Lassa|they seek to perpetuate themselves| in method is that the price of each| the Coal miners could never win a armed camp, with the national |tnion, local 19404, Uniess these de-| Coat Fields Colleries Wealines were printed in the May| in support of the election of a So-| in bows through the use of the/ ticket is reduced somewhat and the ae ia cisalitns which: stisced tee Soe smen on twenty-four hour|mands are granted by the bosses, | ‘ First, edition of the Daily Worker, | cialist as president of the Common| ‘spoils system,” the giving out of| quota each individual must take is ied lek Us Chae deta: Aha Chonein duty. ar \the union announced, it would call) WILKESS-BARRE. Pa, (FP) ind the facts cannot be challenged.) Council, Hoan promised a good Suenos of jobs, big and small, to| raised considerably. Thus tens of hist Party boldly walled on the ore| ranks Divided by A. F. of L. Ja strike within 12 days. Two strikes have made the hard coa Now another side of the picture| juicy job in the city treasurer's office | Vote getters, campaigners, ward heel-| thousands of tickets are “sold” an-| 8" Parts ; Officials Suet) vi thattering their second pretense has me to light. Starting as something significant, it has developed into a nkenstein threatening the very indation of the Socialist Party and hold on the political life of this to the son of this Alderman Lassa, and simply forgot to mention it to the city treasurer who had to fire a left-over from the previous ad- ministration in order to make room for young Lassa. ers, and “friends” of one sort or an- other. The Milwaukee municipal payroll amounts to some $20,000,000 annually and a good deal of this goes to appointed officials, or grease for the political machine, nually for the S.P. picnics and bazaars, and the city employee whose wages have already been cut, has to smile and like it, This political machine, which has miners and steel workers to prepare to strike for their own immediate demands, and to support the brave fight of their brother coal miners. This ringing appeal of the Party found a universal echo among the In this critical situation the big} officials of the A. F. of L. crudely| exposed themselves as misleaders of | strikes, as enemies of unity, and friends of jim-crowism. Their bally- | hoo for the N.R.A. was even louder Labor Board Imposes Fake “Peace” on Poultry Workers LOS ANGELES, Cal—tThe strike of 150 workers in four wholesale | fields a battle-ground again, Over 1,200 mine workers of the |Glen Alden Coal Go. at its Maxwell | Colliery went on strike, when com= | pany officials forced miners to ale low check-off of union dues for the ss ; become quite an efficient vote getter,| ore miners and steel workers. Strike , a cr | poultry plants ended here on May| United Mine Workers of America. ity. The very interesting fact about) Mudroch, for whose views we hold} has heen one of the chief means|talk was in the air. Even a general Se oe bas Be Ome at when Dr. Towne Nylander of the| This is now a common practice, but Some time ago, a controversy| this deal is that it was also an at-|no brief, found himself bucking| with which the Socialist Party has|strike was feared. The ore miners ted B' % trike tae i | Regional Labor Board effected 8| the members of the United Anthre- ted between an elected official,| tempt on the part of Hoan to quash 9 acted as real strike breakers and ‘ity Treasurer John W. Mudroch, fmember of the Socialist Party for re than 20 years, and some other cialist city officials, namely, Mayor a court action against him by the Common Council as to his disposi- tion of certain funds which had been entrusted to his care during against this well-oiled machine for reasons of his own. The steam roller went into effect and this week Mud- roch was expelled from the Socialist SOVIET GRANTS JEWS AUTONOMY IN BIRO BIDJAN Decision Has Declaration of Representatives of Workers Mass Organizations TO THE JEWISH MASSES IN AMERICA: On the 7th of May, the Soviet passed a historic decision by which ‘becomes a Jewish autonomous region. This de- cision will stand out in history as the best proof that in the country where the workers and peas- ants rule, there was not only completely eradicated every form of national oppression, but there was Tremendous Historic Significance Soviet Government of May 7th, 1934. This decision does not aim to deceive anyone. It is not a deci- sion purporting any national segregation, it is a | firm determination to secure the best condition for a healthful life for the Jewish masses. A deci- sion which is a logical outcome of the Leninist na- tional policy of the Soviet Government. We, the undersigned organizations convened at Government Biro-Bidjan kept itself in power. However, it has not been the sole means; to think so would be to greatly underestimate | them. As a means of winning mass | support the Socialist Party had de- veloped a whole series of municipal demands, like municipal ownership of light, power, gas, water, etc. By means of such demands, which an- swer some of the discontent of the masses with capitalism, they can still succeed to win large numbers of votes in each election. In the coming state election cam- paign, the Communist Party must develop its own program of muni- cipal demands and demands cover- ing the various utilities. Such a pro- gram would be a good lever with which to win over large sections of the working population who still vote for the Socialist Party, but who are rapidly turning away with dis- gust at such spectacles of Tammany Donne as the recent Mudroch af- ‘air, Mike Mantararkas, Charter Member C.P. and steel workers were raring to go. How Officials Split Strike So strong was the pressure of the ore miners for strike, especially since they recognized that they were stor- ing up ore for the steel corporations just like the coal miners had done previously, that the officials of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, which had| completely organized the ore fields, set May 4th as the strike date unless their demands for union recognition and higher wages were met. The officials made this declaration the last week in April. In the mean- time Bill Mitch, District President | of the United Mine Workers of Ala- | bama, used this situation to come to | an agreement with the steel and coal | corporations. The coal miners were forced back to work without recogni- tion of the union, and in some cases with actual wage decreases, with the T.C.I, miners going back last, as the ore miners came out on strike. The most glaring example of this | was seen when the Republic Steel | workers, organized in the same union |as the ore miners, went on strike | the latter part of April. | This was the first breach in the scabs—yes, literally. | For example, in the Woodward Blast Furnace, which is organized in the same union as the Republic | steel strikers and all the ore strik- | ers, the officials of the local, with) the consent and under the orders of International Vice President} Coles, who is in Birmingham to} “lead” the strike, issued a statement to the press that the steel workers of Woodward were satisfied and would not join the strike. This was| an attempt not only to smash the} ore strike, but to prevent the stecl| strike from spreading, and thus win- ning the demands for the ore min- ers and steel workers. Just as the| big A. F. of L. officials tried where possible to get the white workers to jim-crow the Negroes, so the Negro reformists were trying to in-| still distrust among the Negro strik- ers toward their white union broth- | ers. However, neither the white nor} the Negro fakers had a great deal of success. At this time also a wave of terror was let loose against the Party, with the purpose of smashing the strikes. No one was more vicious than the shameful “peace” between the strik- ers and plant operators. Here is what the strikers got from the steel workers and the coal and ore miners in the Birmingham area, became more clear. In fact, such strike action becomes the basic perspective in the gigantic struggles ahead in Alabama, Activity of Party The Party was very active in these strikes, It issued close to a quarter of a million leaflets during the ten weeks the strike wave was develop- ing. The Party's influence was wide spread among the strikers. A num- ber of Party slogans were being adopted by the strikers. They began to see the Party as the real fighter for union recognition, against the differential, and for rank and file strike leadership. Here was a golden opportunity for our Party. It is a fact that the Party..stepped forward and made progress in this situation. But for every one striker we re- cruited, twenty others wanted to | join but we didn’t get at them. Our main weaknesses were that we did cite Miners of Pennsylvania, who are bitterly opposed to John L. Lewis |and the U. M, W. A. demand that miners not belonging to the old union be permitted to pay dues to |the new union, The Payne Colliery of the Hast Boston Coal Co. was tied up when its miners went on strike against |the company operating the breaker, | while the mine is idle. |Los Angeles Charities Try To Break Tailors’ Strike | LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 22—Di- |rect connivance of the L.A. County | department of charities in efforts to | break the strike of the Custom Tailors in Los Angeles, led by the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, was exposed here today. A striking tailor had been receive ing some aid from the, welfare bil- reau in the form of food and lodg- ing. After givingthis relief for 15 | days, this striker was offered a job in the strike-bound shop of Morris the tailor. When he refused to go | to work as a scab, the county bureall cut off the miserable little relief -it ; ¢ the problem of the call of the National Executive of the Icor, resolve Dies in Ft. Stanton |) $1, industry since the 1919 strike! pig 4. F. of L. officials, who took a| mot carry out a correct concentra-|had been giving to this union man. ip ci aaa cee follows: | ee ang ee considerable number of hours at| t licy, We didn’t pick out one| After six weeks of strife the situa- national minorities, and a healthy life is being se- as follows: It was the first answer of the Bir- sat tion policy. pick | s eeks of s cured for the fraternity of liberated nations amongst which the Jews were now given the opportunity to puild their autonomy in Biro-Bidjan. 1) We solemnly greet the historic decision of the Soviet Government granting Biro-Bidjan status of a Jewish autonomous region. | Brothers and Sisters: Just try and recall that but a short while ago—a little more than 17 years ‘We call upon the broadest masses of the Jews in this country to participate in the celebration in FORT STANTON, N. M., May 25.—Comrade Mike Mantarakas, member of the Communist Party, and a charter member of the Marine Industrial ‘Workers Union, died here today after a Jong illness of tuberculosis. | mingham steel workers to the Party slogan for spreading the strike. On this same day Mitch called a hurried meeting of the coal miners of the Republic Steel, forcing them back to work, At the same time the Party their recent annual state conven- key mine in order to build up a strong Party unit and develop a} powerful opposition in the local | which would show the way to the; tion to make slanderous and insane | attacks on the Party. The solidarity of white and tion remains virtually unchanged with solid ranks. Several shops have gone back to work with some cons cessions granted to the workers. Negro strikers was never before seen in Birmingham. The remark- conscious revolutionary leadership of the strike movement. This is all | Metal Workers Win Strike i . called on the Republic coal miners| able militancy of the Negro strik- | the more serious since our Party) : ago—a Jew under the Czar was subjected to op- ee with, fe ee event, peed Seka He was a steadfast revolution-f|to stick with their Republic Steel| ers has won the admiration of | units were functioning in the five} NEW YORK.—Workers of the \ pression and degradation and he was in constant ‘e call upon the Jewish masses 0 ns e for the ary, and although dying for the | brothers, and urging the Republic] large sections of the white masses, | biggest ore mines, and a number of) Yankee Metal Products ‘Corpora I fear of pogroms. Bear in mind that at present one se the Soviet Union which liberated all its past two years, it was through) Ore miners to strike. many of whom only a year ago |Party members were local union| tion, 460 W. 34th St., who have nationalities. capitalist country after another is witnessing the rise of Fascism and Anti-Semitism, In this coun- try too, we stand face to face with the spread of Fascism. There are being revived the medieval ac- cusations hurled at the Jews that they practice ritual murders. At the time of this horrible increase of anti- Semitism in all the capitalist countries of the world, 8 totally different condition prevails in the Soviet Union. There anti-Semitism is classed 2) We convey our proletarian greetings to the “Komzet” (the Soviet Government Organization to settle the Jews on the land) and to the “Ozet,” the mass organization of the Soviet Union doing the same work. 3) Our heartiest proletarian greetings to the Jewish Pioneers who are building the socialist sec- tor of Biro-Bidjan. Our greetings to all the Jewish as a serious toilers in the Soviet Union. Greetings to the family Comrade Mike's unceasing ef- forts that many of us here in Ft. Stanton became class cons— cious and found our way into the revolutionary movement. Response to Party Call The next day the steel strikers of Republic picketed the Republic coal mine and shut it down, despite the sell-out agreement signed by Mitch a day before. Tt was then that Mitch considered the Negro as fit only for scabbing. Over the heads of the burocrats the fight for Negro rights was placed on a_ higher plane, a real first step forward, The need for united action of | officials and strike leaders. Another serious mistake was our failure to prepare our Party units to function solidly in the strike situation, no matter how intense the terror became, | been striking for two weeks under | the leadership of the Steel and | Metal Workers Industrial Union, | went back to work victorious, wine ning their demand for equal die | vision of work, New Orleans WorkersWin Demands; Jobless March, Demonstrate crime; pogroms or any form of instigations toward of all the nationalities of the Soviet Union. Our Leer ms © ecaneesd 5 national hatreds are impossible. The Jews, as well _teetings to the USSR. where slavery, exploitation | Penn. Unemployed to creased relief. When squad cars, mands for surplus ood, shoes and| 17, to plan action against the con-|Gas, Slug, Jail Okla. ‘ as all the other national minorities enjoy there com- and national oppression was ended. M i. Hah | detectives and patrolmen placed| clothing and the payment of rents|tinued slashing of the hours of Jobless: M a 3 plete emancipation. Hundreds of thousands of Jews 4) We undertake to expose the Jewish petty eet in Harrisburg | can Rode and Ellen Allen under | of the unemployed. The City Council] F.ER.A. workers, the program pre-) 4 obless; Move to : i i i i i “s kK 3 =| 9 c y y yment Coun- | . Rie egal pec Sie AA See ieee Che Dos Piers AGE bea eet coasting a ipath- Today mit” although a permit ‘had Been | the: Workers Bill (AR. 7598). | ells was’ unanimoush” adopted Tae| SUppress Councils ‘ Ukraine and Crimea. Hundreds of thousands of — paign of vicious calumny against the Soviet Union : obtained, the workers, mostly Ne-| The committee will meet with the| program for immediate action calls} —_— ; Jews are gainfully employed in the vast network of generally and against Biro-Bidjan in particular, (By a Worker Correspondent) | groes and women, demanded and| Pennsylvania Relief Commission in| for (1) not less than 48 hours a| Jail, Gas Okla. Jobless; Cops i Soviet industrial establishments and are employed The attitude of this press to the latest decision of NEW ORLEANS, La., May 28. —/ won their release. Harrisburg, May 29. Unemployed} month for single workers, 96 hours| Moye to Suppress Councils y im the various governmental institutions. the Soviet Union in relation to Biro-Bidjan is an vee cherie from Lait ee | The meeting was held a block| Workers’ delegations from through-| for workers with families of four) In the light of this condition, the historic deci- additional confirmation of the bias, maliciousness the oimeer oF ue iiergeney rel from the entrance of the Armour | Out the state will also mect in Har-|or less, and more for those with} OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla,—Re« i sion of ‘the ‘Soviet Government in relation to Biro- and hatred on the part of these petty bourgeois | administration here May at and plant in the neighborhood in which risburg ee up the demands of edi Acar (2) 50 cents fan hour’ sisting a vicious police attack and t Baiveaat cae vewid wit noribia secibdi becomes ren: organs, the “Forward,” “Day” and “Morning Jour- | forced the officials to grant many | the packinghouse workers live, becca e ne ee Oe ee ai ef se fibegatetions ard sc a * ; paras od ag Ligne ; si more significant. Ten thousand Jewish toilers are nal,” that froth at the mouth whenever they speak | concessions. A number of the job-| Pittsburgh Jobless Meet; the workers assembled at South|Tates; (3) 8-hour days; and (4)|Sr2ieq in front of the F.BRA. 2 NS at present engaged in active pioneering in Biro- about anything connected with the Soviet Union. ae Acai pengitinoped ee ey ‘Win’ Con : i Side, Pittsburgh, at the National| recognition of job committees. headquarters, demanding cases my ® Bidjan. 10,000 more will be settled in the course 5) We greet the Icor, the organization engaged te raedtacaon a pods, marches ‘ cessions Youth Day demonstration, which is| after a unanimous vote of ac-| all work, immediate increased relief, t of this year. Thanks to the present decision of the in enlightening the Jewish masses in America about | \oivers one a white worker and| PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 28. — A/ being held in the territory near the) ceptance, a committee of three was| and an end to the forced labor sys+ 3 Soviet Government the collectives, the various in- the Soviet Union generally and about the Soviet three Negro women, were jailed. ; committee of five representatives of Jones-Laughlin Steel Mills. elected to present the program to} tem of F. E. R. A. relief. ‘ , dustrial undertakings and the cultural institutions solution of the national problem particularly. We The arrested workers were tried | the City Council met with an equal i E the Laborers Union Executive Com-| Nine workers were jailed by the 4 will gain new forces, The work will proceed with pledge ourselves to give the Icor our utmost co- | immediately. Two were sentenced to Number of delegates from the Un-| Form United Front on Relief) mittee, which took no action, but! police. Simultaneously with the 7 even greater vigor and the Jew who but yesterday operation in all its activities. ee apeke 20 days in jail and ten) ea ee oe a Demands in Lincoln, Neb, Pater on Sater aed oe te police roe ren sue 3 ‘2 : i lays “extra.” y ‘ ‘s ‘ 3 | are conferring wil ie ce in an = had no firm foundation under his feet will not fail 6) We pledge ourselves to mobilize all the mem- y * * * Thursday, and agreed to meet the| LINCOLN Neb., May 28.— At a| demands were circulated among all | effort to winnen the Sippy: Un- 3 ' to utilize the opportunity to become a productive bers of our Organizations for the participation in 1,200 Workers and Farmers | °XPemses of two representatives from| mass meeting called by the A. F.| the workers on the projects. the F.E. employment Councils. toiler in Biro-Bidjan, where he will have his own the huge celebration which the Icor is organizing De trate in W: W.V. each group who will present de-!of L. Laborers Union here on May| R.A. administration shut down all! the workers mobilized at Civie flf-government. Pioneering work will proceed with in connection with the decision about Biro-Bidjan. monstrate in Wayne, W. te ae | WOK On May 22, Park. When their delégation was 3 even a greater pace than hitherto. We call upon all our members to come to this cele- each ug Meas ee etd in- | ‘ | Another mass meeting was called | not ESechtes ~ F. ripe ye 4 i pe! ie Wage. on} May 24 by the union. Practically| ters, the workers marche 6 Jewish masses in America, bear in mind that the bration with their banners, signs and bands in msed relic AFL R P. Gl on May y lly ne G itaic daelelbn Gb tha cSevibk Govemmant ie: the order that this celebration should be of the most de oe Be llineisrayibint aks ae | epor t aints oomy all the workers were anxious to join,|Commissary. The workers returned ¥ tally different from the notorious Balfour declara-~ imposing character and should fittingly express demanding mass action of all work- blow for blow as the police savagely Court House lawn here Friday. | ° ers, unity of action between em-| Slashed away with clubs, black- 3 tion about a “Jewish Homeland” in Palestine. That the significance of the great event of the establish- | County F. BE. R. A. Administrator P. icture of Employ ment ployed and unemployed and indus-| Jacks and revolver butts. Tear gas 2 declaration turned out to be nothing more than a ment of a Jewish autonomous region in Biro-Bidjan. | Stroebel, cowed by the mass dem- | trial unionism for struggle. was hurled at the workers. i soap bubble. It was a war maneuver on the part Long live the Soviet Union, long live the Leninist So ree ee Hrip hl cate | Vahn Danio SO TL conpauioeh: Ree gehen a Dolios brutal- of the imperialist government of England which de- national policy of the U.S.S.R.! larger appropriation for the county. WASHINGTON, May 28.—A gloomy picture of employment is ad- | immediately called for a mass dem- nee Unkianinpiene? Councils ate ceived both Jew and Arab in order to keep oth of “ICOR” pe Ras ates mitted in a statement issued today by William Green, President of the | Onstration. The chairmen of the| be sent at once to W. ©. Lewis them chained to its imperialist chariot. S. Almazov, Secretary : 500 Workers and Farmers American Federation of Labor. Green places the number in April |{2>0r¢rs Union Executive Commit-| acting U.S. Attomey, Enid, Okla, Do not forget that the Zionists allied themselves FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNIO! Demand Relief “still without industrial work” at 10,616,000, ins pausive Saptiseg me ake ange bia a eas Chief John Watt, 5 with British imperialists, Jewish legions were A. Goldfrank, Secretary MILTON, W. Va—Six hundred “The fact that there were on relief rolls in March (the latest figure), | tions raised by the workers, a com- ishome. City: 3 Organized in support of British Imperialism and the INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER workers and poor farmers stormed | 3,013,000 families and in addition 614,000 individuals not grouped with | mittee of 15 was elected to draw Sy) 4 lives of thousands of Jewish young men were sacri- R. Saltzman, Secretary the Welfare Office here Saturday) families, dependent on direct relief payments, shows the widespread | up leafiets calling for a mass dem-| Texas Unemployed t ficed. The object of Zionism is to wrest the land JEWISH BUREAU demanding increased relief. need throughout the country,” the report. states. onstration to back the workers’ 4 from the Arabs and to squeeze the Arabs out of industrial employment, this must inevitably lead to war between the Jew and the Arab; this spells the growth of Fascism and Chauvinism in Palestine. In Biro-Bidjan there is no need of wresting the J, Sultan, Secretary JEWISH WORKERS CLUBS H. Castrell, Secretary COUNCIL OF WORKING CLASS WOMEN Clara Budin, Secretary Relief here has been slashed to practically nothing. Welfare offi- cials claim that the farmers can live on their farms, and the jobless workers can secure seasonal em- Ployment on the farms for their (Using the official FERA estimate of four and one-half persons as constituting a family, this would make a total of 14,172,500 on relief throughout the coun- try.—Editor.) Although Federation figures show a drop in percentage of union members employed from 20.7 per cent in April to 19.9 per cent in the committee when it meets with the City Council, state relief admini- strator, county relief administrator and county F.E.R.A. work director, on Tuesday, May 29. Demand Food SAN ANTONIO, Texas, — De- manding food, 300 unemployed stormed the Harlandale relief sta= tion here last week. Unemployed wo- 4 After the mass meeting was ad-|men in the demonstration slapped land from anyone. There is no room in Biro-Bid- PROLETPEN board. ge area first part of May, Green says that “In comparison with the large | iourned, a special meeting’ of the| the faces of relief officials who re= ; hp sa z jess ee eure a Noe Rabay, Secretary Packinghouse Workers Force numbers still unemployed these gains are small. Laborers Union was held. All the| ‘#Sed them food, and the relief offi= the generous assistance of the Soviet Government, and thanks to the co-operation of all the nationali- ties of the Soviet Union, Biro-Bidjan will be built - as a Jewish autonomous territory. This is wherein lies the significance of the historic decision of the M. Friedman, Secretary WORKERS MUSICAL ALLIANCE J. Chertkoff, Secretary. B JEWISH WORKERS UNIVERSITY Cherner, Secretary Cops to Release Speakers OMAHA, Neb.—Cops attempted to provoke a riot at a meeting of the Unemployment Council held at 28 and R Sts. here last week to Protest relief cuts and demand in- Despite the Spring busy season, the report points out, “at the season's peak in April, unemployment was still above the September Jevel (10,108,000—Ed.) with over 10,600,000 out of work.” In addition the report shows a continuous rise in part-time employment from 20 per cent in August, 1933, 21 per cent in September to 24 per cent in May, 1934 demands except that calling for no reduction in pay of skilled workers, were adopted. This exception was made because of A. F. of L. union rules. Further steps are being taken to broaden the united front. cials ran from the building shouting that attempts were being made to murder them. Other workers entered the rear of the building and threatened to wreck the flimsy shack unless they were given food, +