The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1934, Page 3

| | Increased Wage Is Now Chief Demand Of Textile Workers National Textile Union| Calls for strike 10 More Workers Preparations Arrested in Illinois sosron, nins—me waa. o- Rageist Bill Fight der for a 25 per cent curtailment | in the cotton industry comes on the | 500 Protest at Court heels of a ruthless speed-up and wage-cut drive instituted with the * . Against Mass Raids, Frame-ups intreduction of the N.R.A. Cotton | Textile Code. Many cotton work- ers are already walking the streets | as a result of the speed-up sys- tem. Most workers already work on ® curtailed week basis, so a strike | against curtailment at this time is not the main issue with the worke: The main issue today is the de- mand for definite increases in wages. To. those workers who are still working a full 40-hour week the new N.R.A. curtailment order offers a permanent wage cut of 25 per cent. This means that those who are making $13 will be making only $9.75 a week. The workers who get a short work week now have lived in hopes of making it up during a Tush season. This curtailment Means no rush seasons; it means & $9.75 weekly wage permanently for most workers. Large Profits (Daily Worker Midwest Burean) CHICAGO, June 4.— Wholesale raids and arrests of alleged Com- munists occurred in Montgomery County yesterday, as authorities launched a drive to rob the work- ers of the fruits of their victory in forcing the withdrawal of the fascist ordinance passed by the Hillsboro City Council banning freedom of assembly, free speech, strikes and picketing. Ten leaders of demonstrations against this vicious ordinance were arrested in Nakomis and charged with “plotting to overthrow the government.” The ten are John Holland, George Reid, John Lap- shansky, Robin Staples, Car Ge- rulla, all of Nakomis, and Frank Pancesik and Frank Prisckett, of Relief MenWin| Strike Victory; Form Union Louis Unemployed o Demonstrate at City Hall, June 8 | SCRANTON, Pa.—After a four- jhour strike Friday under the lead- jership of the Unemployment Coun- |cils, the relief workers of Dickson City held a mass meeting on Sat-} urday at which was organized the | Relief Workers Union. Preparations were made to spread the strike throughout Tuckawana County unless demands were granted | to’ the Dickson City workers when | if was announced the relief work would be cut from 24 to 18 hours} and all single workers fired. | The Unemployment Councils of Tuckawana County include 12 coun- | cils with combined membership of | St. T |St. Louis Unemployed To | Demonstrate June & ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Demanding im- mediate cash relief, milk, coal, cloth- jing and rents for the unemployed }and endorsement of the Workers | Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. | 7598), jobless workers here, under [eae leadership of the Unemployment | Councils, will mass at the City Hall, | Friday, June 8, at 12 noon. Last week an elected committee of 38 workers representing 32 organ- izations, and accompanied by a mass | delegation of 60 workers, placed de- |mands before Relief Administrator |Peter Kasus calling for immediate Meanwhile the cost of living is not slackening on its climb up- wards. This raises the greatest need for a definite increase in hourly and piece-rate wages right now. The manufacturers can certainly afford | to give wage increases for they are making larger profits since the NR.A. came into existence. J. P. Coates, a big cotton mill in Rhode Island, made over $11,000,- | vorced the City Counell to with- 000 net profit in 1933. The Pequot Mills of Salem claim to have a sur- plus of $2.700,000 on hand. Other cotton mills have made similar large profits during this year. N.T.W.U. Demands On the basis of this condition the National Textile Workers Union has issued a call to the New Eng- land and cotton workers, raising the following demands: 1—Increased wages (at least 60 cents an hour). 2—No less than 30 hours a week and 40 weeks per year. 3—Reduction in the present speed-up. 4—Recoznition of rank and file elected Mill Com- mittees and the Union of the werkers’ own choosing. The call tells the workers to rally around these demands for now is the time to strike. | Tt is. significant that the leaders of the TInited Textile Work- Union (A. F. of L.)—MeMahon. ¢. ed the sloean against the gentlemen very curtailment.” faised this slogan precisely because they are afraid that the workers are already preparing to strike for hieher wages. which is the real is- These sus todev. Then they called the strike eff and agreed to the cur- tailment without any corresponding weer increase. We must not forget that these heads of the U.T.W. are the very persons who helped to put across the $13 starvation wage level through the cotton textile code. They are the very men who at that time pleaded with the N.R.A. for a 30-hour week stagger plan without raising the issue of wages at all. They now try to behead the strike Movement. Taylor Springs; Gordon Hutchins of | cash relief of $5 weekly for single Hillsboro, Jan Wittenberg of Chi- cago, and Victor Renner of Pan- ama. Four other workers were arrested during a police attack on a dem- onstration Friday protesting the at- tempted railroading of thre workers arrested early last week when 1,000 workers stormed the City Hall and draw the fascist ordinance. stood at a window opened by Veen Hill, a corporation counsel, Byron Shepard, a deputy, threw a gas bomb into Friday’s demonstration in which 500 workers took part. A tossed it back at the court house. Workers and the International Labor Defense attorney, defending the prisoners, vigorously protested against the decision of the local Justice of Peace to hold a secret trial, with all witnesses and the families of the defendants to be excluded. City Attorney Baker de- clared “there were no need for wit- nesses,” thus showing clearly the determination of the authorities to carry through the frame-up of the arrested workers. The resentment of the workers to the secret trial plan was so great that the hearing was postponed. In Nakomis, a joint demonstra- | tion by the Unemployment Coun- cils, the International Labor De- fense, the Progressive Miners Local and the Women’s Auxiliary of the P. M. A. forced the withdrawal of a newly-passed city ordinance pro- hibiting demonstrations. and file action committees in all mills and prepare to strike for their most important demands. The union further calls upon the work- ers not to depend upon closed-door conferences in Washington, but to place all negotiations into the hands of reliable rank and file elected action committees. While Judge Thomas M. Pett; young worker grabbed the bomb and) 500 i Folding Chairs Cheap Also Office Furniture KALMUS, 35 W. 26th Street The National Textile Workers | Union is the only union that went | to Washington and fought for a Teal workers’ code demanding a minimum wage of 60 cents an hour, &@ guarantee of 30 hours per week and 40 weeks per year, with a guar- anteed yearly wage of $720. The National Textile Workers Union Places these demands before the workers again as the expression of the most, vital needs of the cotton textile workers today. In every cotton center the Na- tional Textile Workers Union calls upon the workers to elect rank. Sn ee FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS Sokal Cafeteria 1689 PITKIN AVENUE Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 34 Graham Ave. Cor. Siegel St EVERY BITE A DELIGHT Many readers of the DAILY WORKER have taken the trouble to write us a letter or postcard, commenting upon the new adver- tisers which have appeared in their paper since the first of the year. e These letters have been very helpful to the Business Depart- ment, because they have told us something concrete about the re- sponse and reactions to this advertising. . G e We find that most “Daily” readers are alert to every new feature and development of their paper . . that many are pleased to see these new sources of revenue opened. : e ‘ We find that many readers are proud to see their paper secure the same large advertisements which appear in the commercial We Have Received Letters--- e | workers, $8 for a family of two, and $2 for each dependent. Included in the delegation were fired workers from the Funston Nut Shop. Al- | though Kasus had promised full re- lief, workers who later called at the jrelief stations were forcibly ejected | by the police. | Relief Lists Rise in 27 |Largest New Jersey Cities NEWARK, N. J.—Approximately 14 per cent of the population of the 27 largest cities of New Jersey, with &@ combined population of 2,217,517 are on the relief lists, figures re- leased here show. With a total of 316,139 on relief in the first 15 days of May, there has been a rise of 10.6 per cent above the same period for April, 1933, when 260,909 were on relief. The 27 largest cities of New Jersey listed in the report represent some of the most highly industrialized sections of the country. | Albany Relief Workers | |Protest Police Brutality | | ALBANY, N, Y—A delegation of | seven workers met with Mayor Thatcher here last week in protest over police brutality and intimid: tion of unemployed and relief work- lers. The delegation, two of whom represented the newly organized Re- |lief Workers Union with a member- | Ship of 300, demanded that the city jtake immediate steps to provide. adequate relief to all jobless work- ers, * , 23 Italian Aid Societies |Endorse H. R. 7598 PHILADELPHIA, Pa—Forty- eight delegates, representing 23 Italian mass and fraternal organ- izations with a combined member- ship of 2,500, endorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) at a conference here Sun- day. Delegates present represented varied organizations, including an Italian American Legion Post. permanent committee was elected to popularize the Workers’ Bill among the Italian workers, . A ‘Work Relief Strikes in iNew York Spreading | NEW YORK.—Five hundred relief workers at Kings County Hospital ; Struck last week for full pay on jtainy days. They were joined by | the 600 relief workers on both shifts |ab Brooklyn State Hospital. The ;men won full pay for the day on | which they were on strike, but due to a weak leadership were only | granted one-half pay for rainy days. | About 350 relief workers at Creed- |More, Jamaica, L. I., are still on |strike when they walked out last | Friday in protest agains the victim- ization of workers for organizational | activities. The Relief Workers League is forming job committees on all relief work projects, raising the demand for a minimum $5 day and a four- day week minimum on all relief work, union rates for skilled work- ers, (Classified) WILL RENT room with or without meals to responsible individual or couple in our home in Westchester suburb. 30 minutes Grand Central or subway. Write Box 1%, Daily Worker. | FURNISHED Proom, sunny, near park, for om qepee Privileges, 414 E. 10th St. pt. 18, HAT—found panama at 1.8.0, dance Sat- urday. Notify Box 10, Daily Worker. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1934 COPS, IRON SC REENS, BUT CLEVELAND CAB In spite of the heavy police cordon riding inside these cabs are halted by taxicab drivers on strike in Cleveland. S ARE STOPPED Carnegie Steel Heads Foiled inAttemp To Choke Braddock Steel, Metal Union Great Lake Boatmen on concentrated industrial and coal Electric Motor, Car and Strike; 8,000 Out in | Bellville, Tl. | BRADDOCK, Pa.—The Carnegie| company, one of the most vicious | few weeks ago Steel Company's fascist “Commit- | tee of 100,” organized among the | puppet “business men’ of the tri- boro district of Rankin, Braddock, | and North Braddock, were foiled | here Friday night in an attempt to | smother a meeting called by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union as part of the preparations for the coming strike. | The Braddock I. O. O. F. hall had been obtained for the meeting but | when the workers arrived on the scene they discovered the doors locked, and were informed by Odd Fellows officials that a permit for the meet must be issued by the chief of police. | However, within the gates of the Edgar Thompson piant in Braddock was where real preparations were made by the bosses to guard against any employes attending the meet- ing. Each worker in the employ of the company was warned individu- ally that he did hot have to join | the fighting union to be fired, that if he so much as attended the meet- ing he might as well not report for work the next morning. When the workers, assembling outside the hall, discovered the trick which was being attempted by the steel bosses, they merely moved the site of the meeting to the Un-| employed Council headquarters, a few blocks away. | Pete Chappa, secretary of the Pittsburgh District of the S. M. W. I. U., and “Red” Walsh, recently released from jail after his frame- up in connection wiih the Rankin “riot,” addressed the workers, call- ing their attention to the need for unity between employed and unem- ployed, organized and unorganized, in the coming strike. Their remarks were, roundly applauded by an audience of 100 Negro and white workers. | 8,000 Out on Strike In Belleville, Illinois BELLEVILLE, Ill, (By Mail) — Over 8,000 workers have downed tools in a sympathy strike with the Knapp-Monarch strikers in Belle- ville, Ill. This great demonstration of working-class solidarity brought to life all of the rich labor tradi- tions of Belleville, county seat of St. Clair County, in the heart of a | and proposals as outiined in a leaf- center The Knapp-Monarch workers have been on for more than six weeks, demanding better wages and recognition of their union. The scab-herding outfits in this terri- tory, has resisted the attempts of | the workers to organi: | During this strike bosses have | at:empted through injunctions to prevent the workers from carrying on mass picketing and successfully smash any attempts to bring in scabs. On the morning of May 29, how- ever, the workers massed on the! picke‘ line, carrying out the policy let issued by the Young Commu- nist League, the night before. The leaflet called upon the workers to take mass action. A group of work- ers in the foundry (shakerouts), upon the proposal made to a group of the most militant by a Y. C. Ler, voted to call their shop out in sup- port of the strike. These workers joined with the strikers and de- cided to call upon all workers to j in sympathy. The strike sen- timent rose like wildfire and by! | noon 36 plants had been called out and over 8,000 workers had joined in solidarity with their brother and | sister s‘rikers. The picket line around the factory on strike grew to 2,000 strong. ne Tugboat Men Strike In Milwaukee Port MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 4- Tugboat service ceased here today | as tugboat and dredge operators struck in sympathy with boatmen in other Great Lake ports. . ,. Oklahoma City Butchers on Strike OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., June 4--Nine hundred plant and s‘ock- yards workers of packing companies here are on strike for higher wages, guaranteed hours of work and rec- ognition of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Pickets stopped all approaching cars, Police Attack Pickets At Philadelphia Theatre PHILADELPHIA, Pa—Brutal po- lice terror here crushed the picket line of two theatre strikers and 20/ members of the Young Communist League who on May 30 showed their) solidarity with the Earle Theatre) strikers. The strike was called aj} Bus Workers, Strike in Middle West by the rank-and-file leadership of the Ushers’ and Door- men’s Union, Local 1910 (A. F. of L.) in the face of the starvation wages paid them by the Stanley- Warner Co. The strikers had been receiving $6 a week. The theatre has been flooded with scabs, who re- ceive $2 more than the striking workers did. Ce are Dayton Motor Workers On Strike Three Weeks DAYTON, Ohio. (By Mai workers of Brown and Brock producers of electric motors, 1000 Overlook Ave., have been out on strike for the last three weeks under the leadership of the International Association of Mechanics. Their main demands are a minimum wage of 75 cent8 per hour for all ma- chine workers and 50 cents for the armature winders, 36 hours per week\and time and a half for over- time; recognition of the union, the I. A. of M. All that the union was doing for the —The myer, Page Three Calumet Steel Men Vote for Fraternal, Mass (Organizations To | Demand HR 7598 Will Mass at City Hall June 30 Demanding Endorsement NEW YORK.—The Fraternal Fed- eration for Social Insurance. ported by 250 fraternal organiza- tions with a combined membership of 40,000, will send a delegation of sup- Strike At Unit y Conference Delegates From A. F.L. Steel Union Pledge Their Unity By BILL ANDREWS Special to the Daily Worker CHICAGO, Ill., June 4. — “Prepare to strike. Unite your ranks.” These were the keynotes of the United Anti-Company Union Conference of the steel workers held in Indiana Hare 25 to Mayor LaGuardia on June 39.| worked out a program of joint ac- at 130 p. m. to demand that he y the for a strike bring the Workers Unemployment |a to fight for the workers’ Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) before the Board of Aldermen for en- from the Steel and dorsement. Congressmen Rudd and | Metal Workers Industrial Union, the | Sirovitch, two of the three Yew York Congressmen who have signed the round robin motion to release the Workers’ Bill from the House and the thick iron screens protecting windshields, | Committee on Labor and bring it before Congress for immediate vote, | will accompany the delegation. | While the delegation is visiting | LaGuardia, there will be an open- air mass meting at the City Hall | Green at which the report of the | delegation will be given. All frat- ernal organizations affiliated with | the Federation will turn out en masse at the mass meeting. To date, LaGuardia has not an- swered the request that he acknowl- edge the visit of the delegation, but | plans are being made for the dem- onstration regardless. Fur Union Elections To Be Held Thursday | NEW YORK—Elections of of- ficers of fur dressers and dyers sec- | tion of the Fur Workers Industrial | | Union will take place Thursday |night in the headquarters of the union, 131 W. 28th Street. The following candidates have nominations for office: | Manager: (Dressers and Dyers) | S. Burt. | Fur Dyers’ Paid Organizer: Dom-| enick Flaiani, Anthony Perrone,! Chester Galletti. Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and two independent unions such as the United Roll Turners joined with representatives elected by groups of unorganized workers in the mills to set up a joint committee of ac- tion charged with responsibility for strike preparations. Local Conferences June 9, 10 The conference instructed the committee of action to prepare for a steel strike, with a tentative date of June 16th set, the committee was also instructed to prepare action be- fore that date where discrimination against ion members in - indi- vidual 47 might make plant strikes necessary. Every recom meni n of the committee of ac tion is to be referred to the workers concerned for final approval. Local conferences will be held next week-end, June 9th and 10th, in Gary, South Chicago, Indiana Harbor, Chicago Heights and West Puliman, at which local committees of action will be elected. The principle of joint action through elected committees, repre- sentatives of all unions and unor- ganized workers was approved and resolutions for the election of joint shop committees were adopted. The need of drawing the Negro workers into these committees was especially mentioned. United parades and mass meet- ings to popularize the strike were recommended. Fur Dyers Unpaid Organizer: | I. Laskin, Joe Gerraffa, Jack Bruno. | Demands Approved | Charles Morris. The demands drawn up at the | Pur Dressers’ Paid Organizer:| Amalgamated Association conven- | Mike Hudyma, Dave Feuer, Sam ‘ion and approved by the Steel and Tendorio. » Metal Workers Industrial Union Fur Dressers’ Unpaid Organizer M. Contrastino, Nick Cvitanova, | Prank De Prisco. | 40 Street Cars, 20 Buses Tied Up in South Bend, Ind. SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Forty street | ;cars and half as many buses are | were approved as the basis of strug- gle. These demands are for the 30-hour week, one dollar an hour | minimum wage, abolition of the dif- ferential between North ‘and South, junion and shop committee recogni- tion, equal rights for Negroes, and the Workers Unemployment and So- cial Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) Joe Weber of the Steel and Metal strikers was to organize a) tied up in South Bend and Mishe-| workers Industrial Union made the benefit dance and have some col-| Waka, Ind., by a strike led by the) opening report for the arrangements union long enough to get it. In A. F. of L. affiliate. The unions of |lections made. They do not get any| local branch of the Amalgamated! committee. He sharply exposed the | strike benefits, as the union offi-| Steel and Electric Railway and'role of the Mike Tighe leadership |cials claim they are not in the| Motor Coach Operators Union, an of the A. A. and made a stirring plea for united action of the rank keeping with the traditions of the|the Central Labor Council have|and file of the A. A. with other were urged to be peaceful and pa-| and many sympathetic workers were tient, not to resort to any mass| OM the picket lines recently. | picketing or other means to keep| (The strike is against the laying | the scabs out of the shop. The| Off of many workers as the company result was that the boss was able to| Closes its inter-urban service. The | | A. F. of L. officialdom, the strikers| Voted to support this small strike, | workers. Steel workers in discussion brought out the rotten conditions in the mills today and unanimously spoke for militant strike action. A delegate from the Amalgamated As- hire many sc2bs, who entered the shop withet ie! At pres- ent there are at least scabs, out of a full force of 150, regularly employed. Many strikers on the third week got disgusted the way things were zoing on and they came to the Workers’ Center for advice and help. The Communist Party or- ganizer had a meeting with the committee of the strikers and after consultation with the strike com- mittee agreed to haveall the mem- bers of the Communist Party and Unemployment Councils help picket the factory and really put some pep in the str The spirit of the strikers was raised 100 per cent and now they are alltalking about increasing their picket lines, and getting more sup- prt from the outside, | workers demand 8 hours a day, 50 cents an hour and 40 cents an hour | for track men | Lincoln (Neb.) Jobless Mass at City Hall LINCOLN, Neb.—For the second time this week, workers here massed | at the City Hall, Friday, demanding jobs or relief. The City Council, state relief administrator and the) work director were forced to | | county telegraph Harry L. Hopkins, federal |relief administrator, for additional | relief to Lancaster County. | Earlier in the week, 400 workers massed at the City Council meet- | ing, forcing the Mayor to meet with the workers. At a mass: meeting of the Laborers Union on May 24, the program of action proposed by |the Unemployment Councils was | adopted. SF. Pindors Evade Most Vital Issues at Convention 6 (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, June 3—There was one revolutionary speech made ve the meeting which opened the So-| cialist Party Convention Thursday; night. It will probably be the only one at the convention, It was made by Eugene Victor Debs. about that more later. A mass meeting was held at the ‘No Call for Organized Struggle Against Roosevelt Or Menace of Fascism; Silence on German and Austrian Defeats cents to be charged. The auditorium was less than But Meetings in schools, permitting 25) New Deal and no call for struggle against it. Nothing about struggles in the automobile industry during the e | stead of calling for struggle against j War, he said mournfully: “War will be the end of all our hopes, and of all our schools (schools of Ameri- can imperialism—A, B. M.) stand | for.” And then the final revolutionary one, so incongruous amid this social-fascist clatier. On the screen was flashed the film of speech, a | sociation stated: “We want solidarity; some of our leaders don’t. But I'll be the first |to turn the spotlight on anyone that jinterferes with unity in the coming strike,” Guardsman Speaks | A Negro worker from the Youngs- town steel plant told of a stoppage of work for two days in his depart- ment, which employs largely Negro workers, against slave-driving fore- men, He told the delegates that they did not have to worry about the Negro workers becoming scabs. |“Nineteen nineteen was our last time | for breaking strikes,” he said as the | crowd cheered. A National Guardsman from Il |linois, disguised with dark glasses, »| told the workers of the rising sen- |timent among the guardsmen |against doing strike duty, especially since the recent events in Toledo, |Fraternal greetings and pledges of active support to any steel strike | were brought by members of the |Marine Workers Industrial Union jand the Railroad Brotherhood Unity | Movement. “We'll be with you even though | we may have to wallop some grand |lodge chiefs to do it,” stated a jrailroad worker. Every decision of the conference | was unanimously agreed upon. Com- jplete unity of purpose was one of | the outstanding features of the con- ference. Two hundred and thirty-nine del- egates were registered. Twenty of |these were from the Amalgamated Debs, dealing especially with the| Association and eight from other newspapers. They know that this indicates new strength Per Cass Technical High School, the} two-thirds full, about 2,000 people new growth. They know that it means new sources of revenue to ROOM, bright, single, hall-bedroom, 324 F.| very school which in March was re-| being present. Of these nearly 1,000 meet the mounting costs of a constantly improved paper for workers. baicd thonseenaaft fused to the militant Auto Workers’, were delegates and ou’ of town vis- | past few months, with exception of | reference to Toledo Auto Lite strikers. period after his release from jail in|American Federation of Labor | 1922. The film showed him on a,Unions. Seventy-nine represented | speaking tour and gave quotations | Steel and Metal Workers Industrial itors. | It is only common sense that the DAILY WORKER should carry the advertising of those firms which sell their products and services to our class of readers. This is a function of a complete It is gust as sensible for “Daily” readers and supporters to patronize “Daily” advertisers in preference to non-advertisers. By patronizing our advertisers, our readers keep these advertisers in the paper . + maintain an important source of revenue. By using their influence as consumers, our readers can attract other advertisers to the DAILY WORKER. e | Workers and workers’ organizations are urged to mention the DAILY WORKER to advertisers and prospective advertisers. In newspaper . . . it is a service which many readers exvect who York, N. ¥.. to be consumed upon the said read the “Daily” to the exclusion of all other newspapers. pengesiien wee ee ag tee e lenberg, Pres. rec ‘i LICENSE NOTICES NOTICE is hereby given that 1 number B16265 has been issued 10 the ane dersigned to sell beer and wine at retail, under Section 76 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at 116 University Place, New Union for a Ford massacre memo-| rial meeting. While all public schools have been banned to mili- tant organizations, the auto manu- facturers’ city government accom-— modated the Socialist Party by not only allowing the meeting. but also by setting aside the city ordinance forbidding admission charge at HERE’S REAL NEWS! Wingdale, CAMP UNITY | lsw York t Evidently most of the audi-| ence were either middle-class peo- ple and intellectuals or workers in light industries. Automobile work- | ers were conspicuous by their ab- sence. Your correspondent walked | up and down the aisles looking for | Negro faces, and discovered exactly three, with a fourth, Frank Cross- | waith, the S. P. “Negro front,” sit-: ting on the platform. | Speakers Thursday night were | Norman Thomas, Leo Krzycki, Na-| Dan Hoan, of Milwaukee; Al. Ben- No criticism of the strike-break- ing A. F. of L. leaders. Nothing about Fascism, with the exception of Plettl’s speech in Ger- men. Even the “hero” of the Aus- trian uprising, Dr. Winter, did not men‘ion Fascism, but confined him- self to an appeal for winning the youth. Mention of the war danger by two or three of the speakers, but no indication how to fight it. Nothing about oppression of the | tional Chairman of the S. P.; Mayor | Negro people, no call for unity of Negro and white. No mention of the Soviet Union, on his speeches. Though quota- tions were undoubtedly carefully selected, culled, they were in strik- ing contrast to the speeches made thing Debs stood for. Yet it may be taken for granted that these people who only a short while ago had talked about | “getting control of the reigns of government,” through elections, | felt no embarrassment when Debs’ words were flashed on the screen: “You cannot vote capitalism out of | existence.” And when Debs lashed by those who have betrayed eo | Union locals. Several independent | unions and shop groups elected del- | egates and workers’ organizations sent thirty-one. Eighty-eight work- |ers came as individual delegates. Resolutions against the Wagner | Bill and all other forms of arbitra tion, against the participation of Il- | tinois and Chicago Federation of | Labor officials in mobilization plans of the National Guard, as well as greetings to the marine workers on strike on tha West Coast, wesy |passed. Special resolutions emplné’ \sizing the importance of drawing |youth and Negro workers into tet | struggles were adopted. IS READY FOR THE GRAND OPENING! » You won't recognize the grounts. We're proud of the case of large firms, letters from our readers will indicate the the results. influence of the “Daily” and the loyalty of our following to “America’s only working-class daily newspaper.” i e DAILY WORKER Is the RED LETTER Day! Bosting Swimming Real programs. Phil Bard’s direction that you'll like! for $14 a week. For detaiis phone Algonquin 4-1148 | JUNE FIFTEENTH | Sperts A Social Staff under And ali Is It 2 D2 ; son, former sheriff of Milwaukee; ; dames Woodsworth, Socialist mem- ber of the Canadian Parliament; Dr. Max Winter, former vice-Mayor of “icnna; Martin Plettl, former} head of ‘the German Clothing * Union. end Roy Burt, Na- {1 Organizer. What these speakers didn't say 5 fully as important o3 what What they didn’t say: No basic criticism of Roosevelt's’ except a reference by Woodworth | to the fact that he had visited the | U. S. S. R. and “conditions in Rus- sia are different and we can't apply their methods here.” No mention of the German and) | Austrian Social-Democracy, except | by the and AustTian speak: Nothing about ths united front. These omissions give a good idea ef the character of the speeches. Touching on the war danger, in- German | bitterly at open-shop California! 4 delegation wz: elected to go we | Corporations that were keeping Tom | washington to the hearing Tuesday Mooney in jail, it is certain that} to lay before the government offi- Thomas, Kraycki and the rest did | not blush for shame that not one of | them had so much as mentioned | Mooney or any other class-war pris- | /oner that night. | | The spirit of Debs filled Ca High School auditorium, a mis ; rebuke to those that dare to hide their social-fascict nakedness with his revolutionary name \ cials the demands of this confer- ence. SS Final meeting of the Daily | Worker Excursion Commitee be held Thursday, June 7th, at M., on second flees, 50 EB, ‘\" Yolunteers to serve on the committee are ursently needed,