The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934 Page Three Louisiana Relief Cut; Pitts. Jobless Win; Relief Strikes Spread. a 1,300 Relief Workers Strike Trumbull County) Ohio Jobs | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. — More than 1,300 relief workers through- out Trumbull County are on strike demanding guaranteed minimum wages of $15 for a 30-hour week; doubling relief for the jobless; no discrimination; free medical aid; and electric, gas, and water to be paid by the relief administration. In Masury, 300 workers are out, 400 in Niles, 500 in Gerard, 75 in Churchil land 50 in Lordstown. A united front has been made between the Warren Unemployment Council, the Warren Federal Re- lief Association, Trumbull Unem- ployed Workers Union of Niles, Gerard Unemployed Union, Masury Relief Workers Union, Masury Un- employed Citizens League, Churchill Unemployed Relief Association, and the Lordstown Improvement League. A county strike committee of 17 was elected, and a Trumbull County Unemployed Action Committee formed with three delegates from each organization, Important weaknesses are evident Warren, Newton Falls, Hubbard and other towns are not yet on strike. Organization is weak in these cases, and steps are being made to pull them out, The bulk of the strikers are not being activized. Each local strike committee should immediately set up mass picket lines and register every striker. Mass meetings should be called to mobilize ail workers in support of the strike. Hillside, N.J., Relief Workers on Strike For Full Cash Pay Demand End of Present Commissary Relief System HILLSIDE, N. J., July 12.—More than 100 relief workers here, under the leadership of the newly organ- ized. Relief Workers Association, struck the relief projects Wednes- day, demanding the abolition of the commissary form of relief. Originally organized to smash the commissary system of relief, the workers in the Association instructed the executive committee to arrange a meeting with the relief officials. Getting no results, the committee met with Union County relief director Mitchell, who told the men that cash would be given but not in excess of the present commis- Sary amounts for work relief. At a meeting at the Hungarian Workers Home on July 10, the ex- ecutive reported, and advised the workers to take strike action on the basis of the following demands: () cash relief in place of the present commissary; (2) no reduc- tion in relief. After a militant, lengthy discussion the workers voted 66 for and 12 against strike action. Reporting at work the next morning, the union members in- duced other workers to join in the strike, Bat aie The Communist Party of Hillside declared its full support of the strike in a statement issued yesterday. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn DICKENS 2-3012 10 A.M, 1-2, 6-3 P.M Dr. Maximilian Cohen Dental Surgeon 41 Union Sq. W., N. Y. C. After 6 P.M. Use Night Entrance 22 EAST 17th STREET Suite 703—GR. 17-0135 Dr.D.G. POLLOCK DENTIST Brooklyn Paramount Theatre Building at De Kalb or Nevins St. Subway Sta’s. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Daily 9-9, Sundays 10-2. TRiangle 5-8620 Allerton Avenue Comrades! The Modern Bakery was first to settle Bread Strike and first to sign with the Feod Workers’ Industrial Union 691 ALLERTON AVE. NEEDLE WORKERS PATRONIZE SILVER FOX CAFETERIA and BAR 326-7th Avenue Between 28th and 29th Streets Food Workers Industrial Union 15,000‘Unemployables’ | Cut Off Relief in | Louisiana NEW ORLEANS, La.—At least 15,000 “unemployables,” the sick, the blind and disabled, including about 1,200 mothers and 3,600 chil- dren, will be dropped from the re- lief rolls by the end of July, State Relief Director H. J. Early an- nounced. After Aug. 1, the Federal | Emergency Relief Administration will refuse to care further for the state’s “unemployables,” and will expect the state to care for other workers now on federal relief, Act- ing Relief Administrator Williams informed Governor Allen of Louisi- ana. The state of Louisiana during the months of January and February, the latest complete figures available, contributed nothing toward relief in the state.’ Relief supplied by the federal government for the 21 per cent of the population which was on relief in February averaged $6.58.| a family for the entire month, a/ cut from $18.46 for the previous| month. | During the same period, the num- ber of persons on relief rose from 394,673 in January to 438,409 in Feb- ruary. Since the abandonment cf C. W. A., New Orleans showed an- other sharp rise in relief needs. Paar Pittsburgh Jobless Force City Council to Appropriate PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Mobilizing 400 workers overnight, the Unem- ployment Councils here packed the City Council chambers and forced the board to over-ride the veto of Mayor McNair on the $500,000 ap- propriation for unemployment re- lief. The money had previously been voted by the city council after the Unemployment Councils had held many open hearings and sent dele- gations demanding the appropria- tion, Declaring that the “emergency was over,” McNair vetoed the ap- propriation. Protests, committees, resolutions flooded the Mayor. Ten thousand leaflets were distributed by the Unemployment Councils. After the victory in forcing through the appropriation, the workers streamed out of the City Council, marched across the street, and a committee headed by Phil Frankfeld and Ben Carothers, Com- munist candidate for Congress, jammed the office of the Nazi Con- sul, Loible, demanding the immedi- ate release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German masses. As the workers, left hundreds of work- ers packed the street and new dele- gations streamed into the Nazi con- sulate. Schenectady Unemployed Form Rank and File Union SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—Six hun- dred unemployed and relief work- ers met here Monday at the Labor Temple, and organized the Schen- ectady County Relief and Unem- ployed Workers’ Union. The following program was adopted: (1) A minimum wage of $15 a week for 24 hours; (2) addi- tional relief for families of four or more; (3) recognition of elected grievance committees on all jobs; (4) unity with all unemployed not on the relief jobs; (5) relief for single and young workers; and (6) for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Five officers were elected, who, together with a committee of 18, form the executive committee. This committee is to be enlarged by the election of workers from the projects. The meeting was addressed by Vance Russell, leader of the Albany County Relief Workers’. Union. Workers packed the meeting hall, many standing and others forced to leave because no room was avail- able. Enthusiasm was high, and the workers expressed a determina- tion to struggle for their demands. All present demanded and elected rank and file control. Another meeting will be held in the same hall at Lapor Temple on Monday, July 16, at 8 pm. This will be followed by steps to enforce the demands adopted. DES MOINES, Iowa. — John Nordquist, member of the rank and file strike committee of 25 leading the relief workers strike of 3,000 here, and John Porter, organization secretary of the Communist Party here, were jailed and held under charges of “criminal syndicalism.” They are each held under $4,000 bail for hearing on July 17. Both are being defended by the Inter- national Labor Defense. Nordquist was seized, and Porter was jailed when he led a protest demonstra- tion demanding the release of the worker. The striking relief workers are de- manding 24 hours work weekly to all relief workers, 12 hours to single men, The strikers, on the second strike here in the past three months, have been out three weeks. At the City Council meeting last week the strike committee presented the workers demands in a petition signed by 1,400 relief workers. The rank and file committee was re- cently elected when the workers be- came disatisfied with the former | “defensive” GREAT deal is being written in, the liberal, conservative and re-| actionary press about the similarity | btween today and the pre-world| war era. Writers and speakers point to the mounting armaments, the| “disarmament” chatter, war horro. trade rivalries, the same nonsen- | sical drivel about “aggressive” and | weapons, about the pressing necessity for investigating munitions and armament manu- facturers, and so on and so forth. In other words, the superficial likenesses between 1934 and 1914. These people, of course, avoid mentioning that war is inseparable from capitalism, that imperialist war is capitalism’s most intense ex- ploitation of the worker and farmer and that only through the revolu- tionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a Soviet Amer- ica can workers avoid being sacri- ficed to the Moloch of imperialist war. There are sevefal important dif- ferences between 1914 and 1934, however. It is exceedingly impor- tant that workers realize this fact so that they will be able to counter the maneuvres of the war makers and thereby increase the effective- ness of the anti-war work in the field, in the home, on the ship, and in the factory. We are witnessing an open attempt to “sell’ the un- wary worker the lie that he has an fighting for the bankers and in- dustrialists in the looming impe- rialist war. shis is an approach which is becoming more and more the dominant theme while the pacifist notes of “Disarmament’ Conferences, presidential oratory about “peace,” pacts “outlawing” war, ete., ete., grow weaker. In the world war, the Allies sugar-coated their imperialist designs with tne slogan “Fight against Prussian militarism,” while the Prussian-led forces mobilized their workers for the war with the slogan “Fight against Czarism.” United States imperialism went the whole dema- gogic hog with the slogans “make the world safe for democracy” and the “war to end all wars.” But today imperialism plans to fool the masses in other ways. Johnson’s Big Navy Talk Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali- fornia, Republican booster and favorite of the Roosevelt Adminis- tration, voiced this open imperial- istic approach in his March 6, 1934, speech demanding the passage of the Vinson Bill. Johnson thun- dered in his rolling pulpit tones: “I want a navy, I want a real navy, I want a navy that either upon the Atlantic or Pacific will be able to do all that may be done in behalf of the commerce interest to be protected by| By SEYMOUR WALDMAN The War Set-Up in W ashington that it has no interest in war and | A NEW AIRPLANE CARRIER—Just another bit of concrete evi- dence to prove the insistent contention of the New Deal administration that its policies are not in the least affected by the prospect of a possible new world conflagration. and that may, if the worst comes to the worst, finally do what the Navy has ever done for the United States of America. “It will be in time to come our first line of defense. It will be in days to come our first line of offense.” Secondly, the government, the of this Nation, in its protection, semi-official (Reserve Officers As- sociation of the U. S.) and finan- cial-industrial forces (such as the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.) are spraying the people with fascist propaganda, the main purpose of which is to militarize the broad masses of workers and farmers against mass opposition to war and against mass movement towards a Soviet America, This fascist prop- aganda shouts for a larger army| and navy and supplementary “eiti- | zen” forces which, while perform-| ing strike-breaking functions, will be prepared not only for what is| described as “invasion” in hign | sounding declarations of war but also for what Assistant Secretary | |of War Harry H. Woodring pub- | licly calls “economic chaos, or s0- | cial revolution,” and what Major | General Douglas MacArthur, Chief | of Staff of the U. 8. Army, terms | “unrest.” In other words, in ad-| dition to propagandizing the work- ers and farmers for non-question- ng ser in imperialist war, the | ment of the American bank- | | ers, landlords, industrialists and big farmers, are attempting to recruit | storm troopers and regular soldiers | to prepare for revolutionary crisis) and if necesary to crush mass work- | ing class revolt. They realize that | for the first time in history Amer- | ican capitalism is confronted with mass revolt, mass power. | “Our” Jingoes Thirdly, American capitalists and | their various tools, from the jingo| publisher and industrialist, William | Randolph Hearst, on the right, | through the various fascist ten- dencies to Muste’s fake radical American Workers Party, on the “left,” are feeding the fires of na-| tionalism. This is a nationalism designed to prevent American workers from supporting workers in other countries, from strengthening | the world proletarian revolution, and especially from defending the Soviet Union from encroaching im- perialisms. Now, more than ever before, in view of the rising class consciousness of the workers (shown through broad strike struggles, po- litical demonstrations, etc.) and the imminence of contests for Soviet power, proletarian internationalism is openly recognized as the main enemy in each capitalist country, especially in those countries where | fascism rules. Fourthly, the most important of all the differences between today and 1914, from the standpoint of the workers’ interests, is the ex- istence of a revolutionary move- which are international in a real sense. It is a revolutionary move- ment which, being Leninist, com- bines the explanation of the causes of imperialist war with day-to-day anti-war work among workers, farmers, and intellectuals. Today the workers have Communist Par- ties in each country which not only circulate the anti-war program of the Third International but which carry out concretely the day-to-day work essential in the struggle against war and fascism. (To be continued) | One Year NRA By Labor Research Association NEW YORK.—~The end of the N. R. A. and N. I. R. Avs first year, June 16, 1934, was marked by misleading statements from President Roosevelt and his crew of “professional optimists.” The N. R. A.’s first year, said Roosevelt in a message to the Governor of West Virginia, ‘“re- veals significant. increases in in- dustry and business generally.” (New York Times, June 16, 1934). And General Johnson, in a copyright and signed Associated Press dispatch, June 15, added that the N. R. A. “raised pur- chasing power and employment, and stimulated production on sane lines.” Business Declines The fact is, however, that business activity on the N. R. A.’s first birthday was below that of a year ago. The New York Times index of business activity for the week ending June 16, stood at 85.3, as compared with 91.4 for the corresponding period last year. In 46 of the 52 weeks during which the N. R. A. has been functioning, business activity has been under what it was before the passage of the act. Fur- thermore, the Annalist (June 22) points out that “the immediate business outlook . . . is in some respects as bad, if not worse than at any time since, let us say, last March.” Unemployment More Acute Conservative American Federa- tion of Labor figures, which al- ways understate the situation by several millions, assert that “em- ployment in industry is not yet back to the September, 1933, level, since 10,267,000 were out of work in May, compared to 10,108,000 last September.” (New York Times, June 27). “Need is greater among the mil- lions unemployed that it was this time last year,” the state- ment concludes, In New York City, the biggest retail market in the country, re- tail sales, excluding liquor sales, for the first two weeks of June, 1934, were 0.1 per cent lower than the corresponding period a year ago. Since prices have in- creased upward of 28 per cent strike committee of three during the year under consider- Hear DAN SUNDA DO not fail to ATTEND Second Annual Picnic of the INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER : Postponed on Account of Rain to ‘ MAX BEDACHT, Gen. Sec’y of IWO (CE AND HAVE A GOOD TIME JULY 22%” Win aFree Trip to U.S.S.R. BAY PARK $s PLEASANT Increased Mass Suffering, Belying Roosevelt tie decline in physical volume of sales, (See Economic Notes, July, 1934). Thus the workers’ purchasing power under N. R. A. has declined. The situation is summed up by A. W. Zelomek, economist of the Fairchild Publications, who wrote (Daily News Record, June 5) of the N. R. A.’s “increased cost to the consumer, greater in most cases than the increased wage. We find that while a minority of the population, most- ly in the lower income group, found their income enlarged through the raising of the min- imum wage scale, the majority continued with the same income in the face of a higher cost of living. We find that labor has given back more than received in the form of increased costs, and this in turn has tended to re- strict demand, causing curtail- ment. In fact, a large portion of our population received prac- tically no aid.” (Emphasis ours, as elsewhere, unless otherwise in- dicated—L.R.A.). Terror, Company Unions, for Workers Both Roosevelt and Johnson harped on labor's share in the N. R. A. Roosevelt said: “Collective bargaining and the right of work- ers to choose their own representa- tives were established.” Yet work- ers who took literally the language of Section 7a and acted upon it have been confronted with terror, company unions, compulsory arbi- tration, and a host of. other anti- labor devices. General Johnson, however, asserts that “In these days the country is burdened by labor strife almost entirely because of misunderstanding by employers and workers of what the industrial act and N. R. A. codes offer to them...” General Johnson, as well as the other capitalists, know that the em- Ploying class has not misunderstood the N. R. A., but on the contrary has taken every advantage of it, for it is designed for them. This 4s recognized by C. F. Hughes, New York Times columnist, who lists as the N. R. A's major “faults”: “to yieid everything to industry and little or nothing to labor . . . (and) to leave the consumer pretty well out in the cold.” Utility Workers Plan New England Meeting PELHAM, N. H. (F.P.).—The New England Council of Public Utility Workers will hold its first convention in Pelham on Aug. 3 to 5, according to action voted by the council at a recent meet- ing. Approximately 60 delegates, representing 3,500 members of | affiliated locals of light, power! and gas employes in Massachu- setts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut are ex- pected to attend. ation, these figures show a dras- | ‘Mass -Picketing Still Goes On at Burroughs Strike Communist Party Urges Effective United Front Actions DETROIT, Mich., July 11.—Mass picketing continued this morning at the Burroughs Adding Machine Co. strike, with the picket lines as large as they were during the special mo- bilization Monday morning. Yes- terday the union organizer, Wilson, was arrested and held for the entire day by police, who stated that other than Burroughs men would not be permitted in the picket line. Three strikers are being held for trial, charged with beating scabs. Mon- day night, at a united front mect- ing, W. W. Weinstone, of the Com- munist Party, Renner, of the Prole- tarian Party, and Harrison, of the Mechanics Educational Society of America, spoke. Weinstone pointed out the necessity for coordinating a committee for united front efforts. Harrison, secretary of the M. E. 8. A., stated that it was the decision of the strike committee to return donations from political parties on the grounds that the M. E. S. A. was a non-political organization. John Anderson, from the floor, challenged Harrison's statement, asking him point-blank whether it was true that during the big strike Jast autumn the union accepted do- nations tfrom Weideman, Demo- cratic political leader, later exposed as maintaining a stool-pigeon or- ganization. Harrison dodged the issue. It is reported that the action of the strike committee in refusing money from the Communist Party is due to the influence of Smith, who opposes the united front. Wein- stone stated that the Communist Party, as a workers’ organization, will give funds nevertheless. Effarts to work up successful joint activ- ities through coordinating commit- tees haye received no reply from the leadership of the M. E. S. A. The Auto Workers Union today sent a letter to the Burroughs Strike Committee, proposing that (1) a co- ordinating committee be estab- lished; (2) a big protest meeting of all organizations be called against police violence on the picket line; (3) that the M. E. S, A. make spe- cial efforts, calling all locals to- gether to strengthen the picket line and also that they call their mem- bership of production workers that are not on strike together, with the aim of spreading the strike to pro- duction workers; (4) prepare jointly for special mobilization again on Monday morning's picket line. The Communist Party is also addressing a letter to the Socialist Party to arrange joint meetings with other organizations agains} police vio- lence, for the right to organize and strike, and for increased wages, which are the issues involved in the JO pvaye POL BO ‘SHOP Ma CIGAR WORKERS STRIKE PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 12. — Workers of the Royalist Cigar Com- pany under the leadership of the Get Daily Worker Subscribers ‘ “ ¥ ' Tobacco Workers Industrial Union. 81.5 P. C. of Mich. Copper Mining Area Now on Fed. Relief HOUGHTON, Mich.—Wide- spread unemployment in the copper mining region here has resulted in 81.5 per cent of the population. of 5,075 in Keweenaw County on relief, a recent survey by the F. E. R. A. shows, In On- tonagon County, the percentage is 67, and Houghton County 54.7. In the three counties which comprise the “copper country” only 2,000 workers are now em- ployed in the industry which once employed 18,000. As a result of the decline in employment, the population of the three counties, which in 1910 numbered 103,904, has dropped to about 55,000 in 1934, DISTRICT 9 CHANGES ADDRESS MINNEAPOLIS, July 12. — The office of the Communist Party of District 9 today announced that it has moved its offices from 425 Kesota Building to 213 DeSoto ment, the policy and program of | Hat Strike Ends With | Workers Getting Gain | In Prices On Work NEW YORK.—Two thousand striking hatters, members of the United Hatt Union, were return- ing to work yesterday following a meeting Wednesday at which the workers decded to accept a 25 cent a dozen increase in prices for fin- ishers and a 10-cent increase for trimmers. The bosses fought hard against giving any increases whatsoever, but the militancy of the strikers forced them to kick in with more} money. The strikers had originally | demanded a 70 per cent increase. On the Strike Front} 1,000 Los Angeles Garment | Workers Prepare for Strike | LOS ANGELES, July 12.—| One thousand workers in the} women’s silk and wool dress in- dustry are preparing for strike. Standing firmly for union rec- ognition the workers refused to arbitrate. 4-Day Furniture Strike Is Won In Baltimore By a Worker Correspondent BALTIMORE, July 12—The| four-day strike of the furniture | workers of the Majestic shop| here ended in victory today, with the demands for wage increases and no discrimination against workers for union activity grant- ed. The strike was led by the rank and file of the Upholsterers’ International Union of Norti | America, A. F. of of L. affiliate. | The furniture workers are now preparing to fight. under their} rank and file leadership in the} Fall for the closed shop. | Continue Cigar Strike | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 12.| —Not a single scab tried to en-| ter the Royalist Cigar company | plant today, where 300 workers are on strike. So far the bosses have failed to come to any agreement with the strike com- mittee and the representatives of | the Tobacco Workers Industrial | Union. Militant mass picketing continues, 12 Arrested After Police Attack Phila. Oil Strikers PHILADELPHIA, July 12— Twelve men were arrested today following police attack upon the picketers at the strike of 1,000 oil workers at the Gulf Refinery plant. Foremen and straw bosses are attempting to intimidate the strikers, trying to get them to return to work. The capitalist newspapers of Philadelphia are carrying large advertisements, | calling scabs to apply for strike| breaking jobs through the mail,| thus using the U. S. Post Office} Department as scab recruiting agencies. The militancy of the strike, led by the Independent Oil Work- ers Union, continues unbroken. TUUL Head to Talk On Union Struggles Members of the trade unions of New York will have the opportunity to hear Jack Statchel, acting sec- retary of the Trade Union Unity League, who will speak on the les- sons of the great strike battles of the working class in the past few months. The meeting at which Statchell will speak has been ar- ranged by the Trade Union Unity. Council of Greater New York and Building, 703 Third Avenue, South, Minneapolis. Minn. will be held at Irving Plaza, Fri- day, July 13, at 8 p. m. NEW YORK.— The Women’s Committee Against War and Fas- cism will hold an anti-war parade in support of the Women’s Con- gress in Paris, tonight at 7 p.m., starting at Varet and Graham Aves. and winding up at the Grand St. Extension, Brooklyn. There will be a special division of women with baby carriages, a spe- cial children’s section, and a num- ber of working class women's or- ganizations will participate. The Communist Party Section calling upon all workers to take part in this parade, will raise the slogans of “Free Thaelmann, Herndon, and the Scottsboro Boys.” Martha Stone, section organizer DELEGATE FROM WeE*S*he SPEAKS .OF DEADLY AVAILABLE FoR FUTURE WARS Brooklyn Women to Parade Against War and Fascism of the Communist Party, will be one of the main speakers. | ei oe fe | | By HELEN LUKE NEW YORK.—The terrific heat did not wilt the anti-war determi- nation of 241 delegates who at- tended the New York Regional Conference at Irving Plaza last Saturday, the last day of the |record heat wave. | These 241 delegates represented | 110 organizations with a total membership of 180,000. Four delegates to the Paris Con- gress were elected. From the needle trades, Jenny Palerno, of Local 62, opposition, I. L. G) W. U.;_from the Metal Workers Union, Nettie Selin- ger, with a fine record of activity; from the Domestic Workers Union of Harlem, Martha Johnson, highly recommended by her union as a courageous and tireless worker, and from the United Council of Work- ing-Class Women, Clara Bodian, secretary, a reliable and competent member of the housewife group. A resolution was adopted to propose the formation, at the Paris Congress, of a delegation to visit Ernst Thaelmann and other Political prisoners in Germany and report on their condition, Resolutions were also passed to send protests to Hitler and the German Consulate demanding the release of Thaelmann and other German political prisoners; tele- grams to Alabama and Georgia de- manding release of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon, to the Governor of Nebraska demanding the release of Mother Bloor, who should be a delegate to the Paris Congress, and to President Roose- velt and Mendieta protesting the A.F.L. Joins Jersey City Strike Move Wood Carvers Support Industrial Union Strikers NEW YORK.—Uniting with the Furniture Workers Industrial Union in their fight for the right to strike and picket in Jersey City, the Inter- national Wood Carvers and Mould- | ers Association, an A. F. of L. affie late, contributed $100 to the united front fighting fund. The contribution was given Wed« nesday night by J. Z. Sussman, corresponding secretary of the union, at a meeting held in Irving Plaza Hall, Wednesday night. He said that the A. F. of L. Wood Carv- ers Union would fight side by side with the Furniture Workers Union against the tyranical anti-picket edict of Mayor Hague. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, the International Labor Defense, Civil Liberties Union and the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prison- ers. Among the speakers were Joe Kiss and Max Peslow of the Union, and Corliss Lamont and Alfred W, Bingham, both of whom were ar- | Tested on the picket line in front jot the Miller Furniture Plant in Jersey City. Representatives of the Furniture Workers Union announced that they will not only continue to picket the Miller Plant, but they will also Picket two more shops in the city. The fight against the Hague edict has spread to practically all labor unions in Jersey. The Central’ Labor Union, a delegate body rep- resenting 50,000 workers, criticized the Hague administration for pro- hibiting picketing. The action of the unions on the issue, however, depends on the rank and file. Leaders of the Central Labor Union have taken steps for concrete action. At the meeting held in Irving Plaza Hall resolutions were passes pledging full moral and financial support of the unions involved in the struggle. There were also res- olutions supporting the fight for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann and protesting against the murder of the two west coast maritime strik- ers. ‘NRA Bows to the Transport Bosses NEW YORK.—The Inierborough Rapid Transit Company officials turned down flat an order of the Regional Labor Board to appear at a hearing yesterday on charges brought by the Transport Workers Union that the company had fired two workers without good reason, The traction officials bluntly stated that they do not recognize the Labor Board's jurisdiction in the matter. Miss Bearson, representative of the Board, revealed the fact that the N.R.A. machinery was not set up to aid the workers when she told union representatives that the “Board is powerless in the situa- tion.” The union is demanding that Leon Cashnan, who worked for the company for six years, and John Murphy, employed by the company for eight years, both of whom were fired, be reinstated. Union leaders today stated that they will carry the case to Mayor LaGuardia and the Transit Com- mission. “Only mass action of the work- ers will force the company to re- place these old workers and stop their policy of intimidation,” said a statement issued by the uniop yesterday, Mass Trial Tonight In Brooklyn on the Scottsboro Frame-ups BROOKLYN, — The Brownsville Section of the International Labor Defense is holding a mass trial to- night on the Scottsboro case at the Ralph Ave. Zion Church (250 Ralph Ave., Brooklyn), in which leading figures will take part. Osmond K, Fraenkel, who argued the appeal before the Alabama Su- preme Court; Ruby Bates, defense witness; Milton Herndon, brother of Angelo Herndon, and Eula Grey, militant organizer of the share- croppers union, will be among those taking part, while F. D. Griffin will take the part of Haywood Patter- son, George Anderson will be Cla= rence Norris, William Blank will represent Lester Carter, ete. Al workers are urged to attend and add your voice to the verdict of the workers’ jury. Trial starts at 8:15 p.m. Take the LR.T. to Rutland Rd. from Man- hattan and walk over to the hall, or B.M.T. 14th St. Line to Atlantic Ave. Change for Fulton St. Line to Ralph Ave. Walk three blocks. Maintenance Way Local Endorses Insurance Bill} By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—The Brother- heod of Maintenance Way Em- ployes Lodge 1077 of the Rail- road Brotherhesd endorsed the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill and elected two Trade Union Conference on the Workers Bill, to be held Satur- day, July 28, at 1 pm, at Ire ving Plaza. os F. Ney spoke on the Workers Bill and on the conference called by the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment. Insurance and Relief. The wozk- ers of the lodge, which numbers several hundred railway main- tenance workers, enthusiastically- endorsed the conference and reign of terror against workers in Cuba elected delegates. ch a atnrncuuinnnnnnintinnecnaanittssree sagen oh”