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

SS DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1934 Page Three LaGuardia Gives New Order to Cut Relief and Wages 200 Workers Fired As City Bosses Use Cooked-Up Excuses Bankers’ City Executive Directs Immediate Dis- siissais of Single and Childless Married Couples in NEW YORK.—Single workers/{ and childless married couples are the first to lose their jobs under the new LaGuardia relief slashing program. A memorandum sent out by the Central Office of the Works Division of Public Welfare on Fri- day to all supervisors orders the His Drive regarded as childless. If for very sound reasons the man is to remain at work, send a memorandum to the Borough Office explaining the situation. The general rule for dis- missal still holds in all cases un- less we have a specific approval) from the Borough Office for re-| dismissals to be put into effect im- | taining a man on work relief.” mediately. The letter states: Previous orders sent out by the ““The latest word from the Cen-| Works Division stated that‘ all tral Office is that we are to dismiss | workers fired from the relief jobs from work relief single men and) are to get Home Relief after re- women and childless couples, investigation. Shortly after, an or- “There has been a shifting policy| der signed by Borough Engineer relative to dismissals of couples,| Heasley stated that workers “loaf- Disregard previous memos and act |ing on the jobs” were to be fired on this one only. This applies to| at once and denied all forms of re- all couples which have been inves- | lief for a period of at least 30 days. tigated, as well as those who are| On Friday, 200 workers were fired being investigated. In cases of| from the Split Rock Road project couples where the woman is preg-| and each given a dismissal slip reading “loafing.” One superin- nant, that couple should not be| tendent quit the job rather than Mass Hearing Seores Courts In Aero Strike BUFFALO, N, Y., July 24.—At-| tacks by the courts and police on the strike struggles of Curtiss Aeroplane workers were exposed and denounced at a mass public trial of the police department and the judges of the City Court last | Thursday night at Teck Theatre, | ‘160 Main Street. | Nearly 400 persons were present. | George Brickner, Vice-President of the Curtis Aeroplane Union, acted | as prosecutor, asisted by Manning | Johnson, District Organizer of the | Communist Party. The judges were | Henry Wright and Ed Williams of | the League of Struggle for Negro} Rights, and George Hart of the. International Labor Defense, The workers’ jury was composed of | representa‘ives from 12 labor or-| ganizations, including the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, | the L. S. N. R., the Marine Work- ers’ Industrial Union, Unemployed Council, Polish Workers’ Club and the I. L. D. The trial, upon the basis of the | verdict of guilty brought in by the) jury, adopted a resolution demand- ing the prosecution of police and do the dirty work of the LaGuardia regime. Relief workers who formerly re- ceived $12 weekly, single white col- lar workers and mayried couples who formerly got from $16 to $24 weekly on work relief will now be slashed to $2.40 weekly food allow- ance for single workers and $4 for | married couples after a long period | of investigation. { Workers on the projects should immediately elect representatives on the mass delegation which will | place the demands of the unem- | ployed before Governor Lehman on July 31 for enactment by the special session of the state legis- lature. The delegation will leave for Albany on July 30. Names and addresses of all delegates should be sent immediately to the committee headquarters at 29 E. 20th St. $2,500 Bill for Thugs Is Paid By Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, July 24—Payment | Of $2,500 to 95 deputized thugs who were used against workers of the Electric Company, during their recent strike, was voted by the county board’s committee of courts, | Police jailed eleven striking truck | county offices and supplies last week, Supervisors Herman Tucker and Robert Buech, Socialisis, voted apologetically against the payment, explaining they thought the hired thugs entitled to it, but felt that special deputies should not have sheriff's deputies who have been beating up men, women and chil- DETROIT, MICH. Detroit Finnish Workers Clubs been called out at the time. A bill for $524 for tear gas gren- ades and $10 for baseball bats with which Sheriff Joseph Shinners armed his thugs is awaiting action at the next meeting of the commit- tee. 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M., from 2700 Bronx Park East. Register Your Child cade Spend Your Own Vacation in CAMP KINDERLAND HAS ROOM FOR YOU AGAIN! WINGDALE, NEW YORK Swimming, Fishing and Boating on Lake Ellis "6 (Labor Sports Union Lifeguard) See Our Red Vodyil Team—Berenberg & Jacobson — Open Air Theatre — Hans Eisler Trio — Dances — Sports — Fun Cars leave daily at 10:30 a.m. from 270@ Bronx Park East. urdays, 10 a.m. 3 and 7 Fridays and Sat- ALgonquin 4-1118, Camp store charges eity prices! eee _|platform and program of the Com- On the Strike Front} Two More Gulf Oil Strikers Arrested in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA. Two more Gulf Oil pickets were arrested here as part of the united drive by police and company officials to break the strikers’ spirit before attempting to | hire scabs. The International Labor Defense, chosen by the workers as their official defense organization, | will defend the two jailed men. | Strikers’ complaints that scabs are | being recruited through various de- | partments of the city administra- tion are being investigated. N. R. A, AIDS CIGAR BOSSES | YORK, Pa., July 24—A cigar-| industry commission investigating | conditions in the handmade cigar} industry under order of the N.R.A.| declared today that manufacturers | were “losing $1 on every 1,000 hand-| made cigars.” Over 5,000 cigar-| makers are out on strike here, Riving eM Staten Island Bus Drivers’ Strike Six Staten Island bus lines were | tied up yesterday when 100 drivers | struck for a minimum wage of 62% | cents an hour. Their present pay | is 50 cents an hour. While the strikers picketed the St. George} Ferry terminal, the Borough Hall and the companies’ garages, bosses sent out a call for 125 strike-break- ers. s 8 8 | 600 Miners Strike In Nova Scotia | FLORENCE, N. S., July 24. — a sudden walkout of over 600 Florence Colliery miners completely stopped work at the Nova Scotia Steel and | Coal company yesterday. rae 1,400 Foundry Workers Out HOLT, Ala, July 24—Over 850 employees of the Central Foundry | Company went out on strike here yesterday. The International Moulders Union, to which the men belong, demand a closed shop. In Rome, Georgia, 550 struck at four stove foundries. 11 Baltimore Strikers Jailed BALTIMORE, Md., July 24. drivers here today charging them | with having fired at scab trucks. Cgies toes) Boss Wants Pickets Arrested. S. Blechman & Sons, Inc., whole- sale drygoods firms, yesterday ap- plied to Supreme Court Justice Black for an order to arrest all striking pickets at the company’s factory at 502 Broadway. The com- pany representative claimed much business had been lost because of the picketing. = . 1,800 Still Out in Virginia HOPEWELL, Va.—The plant of the Tubize-Chatillon Corporation, closed on June 29 after 1,800 struck. has not yet been re-opened. Con- bor Department officials in New York yesterday in an effort by the company officials to re-open the plant without re-hiring the striking workers, Ohio Party Election | Conference Sunday YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 25.— The state conference to ratify the munist Party in the Ohio election campaign will be held here on Sun- day in the Central Auditorium, 225 | Boardman St. The purpose of the conference as stated by the call issued to all working class organizations is “to build a platform broad enough to fill the needs of all the workers of Ohio.” i As a basis for the formulation of the program, the Communist Party will set forth the following points: The right of workers to organize and picket; passage of the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill; cancellation of mortgages, taxes and other liens against’ small home own- ers and farmers; Repeal of all present tax Jaws and substitution of taxation of the wealthy; full equality and rights for Negroes; the establishment of a workers Soviet government in alliance with the im-| poverished farmers. 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Code authority, last June. | arations for a general strike in the | Now is the time to spread this strike | cotton textile industry, Anna Bur-|te every cotton mill in the country, lak, National Secretary of the Na-|to raise high the demands which tional Textile Workers Union, yes-| were contained in the original Code terday issued a statement of the) Demands presented at the Wash- union urging all locals of the United| ington cotton code hearing by the Textile Workers to elect rank and) National Textile Workers Union. file delegates to a special conven- tion for endorsing the demands of|upon all textile workers to show cotton workers and for the purpose| support to ihe Alabama cotton strik- of planning the strike for these de-|ers. Send telegrams, organize ac-| mands. tions of solidarity. Spread the! Eighteen thousand cotton work-| strike to every cotton mill in the ers are on strike throughout Ala-| country. | bama, she points out, and though) Thomas F. McMahon, president of| locals of the United Textile Work-| the United Textile Workers, has de-|ers Union to send telegrams to —|NTWIU Asks General Strike |Order to Oust SMWI1IU Locals Win d s Concessions As They Mass Drive Fores: Halt Plan for Convention To Deportation Moves Against Kemenovich PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 24. News of another victory secured mass workers’ pressure against de- | federal | sed in a let-| “The National Textile Union calls,ter from immigration authorities | portation activities of the government was dis which announced the cancellation of the arrest and deportation order for Vincent Kemenovich, former organizer of the National Miners’ Union. Kemenovich and Frank Borich “We call upon all members and all| were arrested for their activities | during the mining crisis in Ken- tucky in 1930. Both were charged | Cleveland Union Forced 40 Per Cent Pay Rise | Since Being Formed—Delegates Leave for Pittsburgh August 4 CLEVELAND, July 24.—All locals| tional Copper and Smelting Co. of the Steel and Metal Workers’| The present agreement was signed | Industrial Union in Cleveland dis-| for a six months’ period and in- | trict are busy preparing to elect cludes a clause that if the cost of | delegates to the Second National] living increases 5 per cent the | Convention of the union to be held | union committee has the right to in Pittsburgh Aug. 3, 4 and 5. The| open up negotiations for a corree main part of the delegation, which | sponding increase in wages. | will come directly from the mills,| The Chandler and Price Local | will leave from the union head-/| 1105 is at present negotiating for a five cents per hour raise; a new clared the U.T.W. is behind the|McMahon demanding that he im-| with sedition by strike, his policy has been: “Strike | mediately issue a national strike call,| action was instituted talk and no action.” The statement in part follows “Eighteen thousand cotton textile worke:s are on strike in Alabama. These workers are on strike against the decision of ‘No pay increase’ made by the N.R.A. Code Authority after the recent investigation of the cotton textile industry. They are | demanding the 30 hour week, with that the coming special convention of the U.T.W. make definite plans to spread this cotton strike to every cotton mill in the country, North and South. “We urge all locals of the U.T.W. to elect rank and file delegates to the special convention; that the membership elect delegates who will fight at the convention for the federal nts g| quarters, 1404 E. Ninth St., at 6) oon Prager tl jam. Aug. 4. Others will leave | earlier. e oie * | them out of the country. | A mass campaign of protest was |immediately begun by working-class organizations. This was responsible \for the dropping of charges against | Borich early this year, and has now |brought about the cancellation of the order standing against Kemeno- | vich, | The information was contained in Locals Negotiate Agreements Local 1102 of the Steel and Metal | Workers’ Industrial Union has re- newed its agreement with the Na- \Saleaa Called: | |bama City, no less than $12 a week in wages. | endorsement of the demands of the Already the strike has involved the cotton workers, and to work out jeotton workers of the following im-/definite plans to strike for these portant centers: Birmingham, 1,100;|demands throughout the entire cot- Huntsville, 7,000; Gadsen, 1,500; Ala-|ton industry. Wherever the textile) 1,500; Florence, 2,500;/ workers come out on strike do not Jasper, 250; Cordeva, 600; Albert-|depend on the National Labor ville, 250; Guntersville, 250; Anni-|Board and the U.T.W. leaders to ston, 550; Winfield, 250. | arbitrate your grievances. Elect “Other Alabama mill workers are) broad rank and file committees that reported joining the strike hourly, | will carry on direct negotations with This actually means that half of the| the mill owners and which will mili- cotton textile workers of Alabama) tantly fight and carry out the deci-| are already on strike. There is| sions of the broad masses of strik-| every possibility that the strike will) ers. | quickly spread theroughout the; “Textile workers everywhere, this | South, Every textile worker in the Alabama strike is your strike. | country sust’ jump to the support Spread it. It is the only weapon of this strike. These Southern work-| that will improve the miserable ers are on strike against the 25 per| working conditions under which cent wage cut which affected the| you are slaving. cotton textile workers nationally,| “Forward to a general strike in | through the curtailment order of| the cotton industry,” Bosses Find Steel Board To Endorse “Agreeable” Workers’ Bill (Daily Worker Washingron sureau) WASHINGTON, July 24. — The only issue of “Steel,” trade organ of the industry's big trusts, dis- closes today that the logic of “more ae are peta age molasses than! of a resolution endorsing vinager” won “the industry’s ready | , acceptance” of the National Steel Workers’ Unemployment and | Labor Relations Board before that | ‘ial Insurance Bill. agency was set up by President BAYONNE, N. J.—Jobless work- jers filled the council chambers of | |the Board of Commissioners here | on July 17 and forced the passing |a letter addressed to Roger Bald- | win, of the American Civil Liberties | Union, which reads as follows: “You are advised that the de- partment has cancelled the war- rant of arrest, the order and war- rant of deportation, and the out- standing appearance bond in the case of Vincent Kemenovich, (Signed) W. W. BROWN, Assistant.” Drought Relie Is Party Plan in Farm Areas JOPLIN, Mo., July 24.—Feed sup- plies for drought-stricken cattle, milk prices paid to farmers and |government relief for workers and |farmers alike will be among the \central issues of the Communist| Party county election campaigns in the Joplin area. A county platform has been pre- pared and will soon be issued. Cam- |paign committees are being organ-| Curtis Ave., August 12, at 8 P. M \ized and a drive for nominating |petition signatures is already under way. The candidates who will run on the Communist ticket in the five jfarm counties surrounding Joplin} |are: John Day for Congress in the the seventh District; Ken Hunter * Calls Meeting So- state senator in Jasper County;) Wiley Templeton, H. A. Berty, Wesley Odell, candidates for state To Colorado agreement and a closed shop. The membership votes unanimou: for the raise. The Chandler-Price Co. is one of the largest makers of printing machinery. Gets Second Boost The Eaton Local 1101 received their second half of the wage boost negotiated in April. The April raise was 15 per cent and the July raise is 10 per cent. Since the local was organier the union has raised wages 40 per cent at the Eaton Spring and Bumper Manufactur< ing Co. A district-wide picnic of the junion, to include Massillon, Lo< rain, Toledo and Cleveland will ba held on Aug. 11 at the German | DENVER, Colo. July 24. — All| Kintracht Farm on Route 82, near | unemployment organizations, trade | Royalton, Ohio, All workers are |unions, veterans and small home| invited and urged to support the | owners groups and all working-class | picnic, Brother Pat Cush, National ‘organizations are asked to send dele- president of the union, will speak gates to the Colorado State Unem-/| ang a feature will be three base- ployment Convention, to be held! pai) games betw sebal! here August 12, at 2563 Curtis St. reali inbtparicecrtes. | The united front call, signed by | |the Unemployment Councils, the | Relief Workers’ Protective Union, I d d in epen ents |and employed workers in the fight for increased relief, unemployment | will be the main speaker at the mass meeting to be held at 2563 Convention the Spanish League, the Co-opera- tive Alliance, and the A. F. of L. |Rank and File Committee for Un- jemployment Insurance and Relief | urges the unity of all unemployed SMWIU Parl linsurance, and a 30-hour week on| ar ey all relief jobs. | pace | Herbert Benjamin, organizer of | | the National Unemployment Coun- Glassford A. F. L. Steel | cils will address the convention and| Workers Ask to Join Industrial Union Representation at the convention McKEESPORT, Pa—As a result will be on the basis of one delegate é 7 for each 25 members of each partici- ey aren ag egret | Pating organization. workers have won a 10 per cent | jimecrease and an independent union | was formed. Members of the union stated that they will opropose and demand that the local elect dele- | gates to the Steel and Metal Work- \ers’ Industrial Union Convention in Pittsburgh Aug. 3, 4 and 5. ‘For Defense o ferences were being held with La-| Roosevelt, The magazine also notes that President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, who did his utmost for steel employers by knifing the scheduled national steel strike, did the “job” of getting Amalgamated Association leaders to put through a sell-out approval of the Board. Bfore this, according to the trade organ, lading steel employers had agreed to creation of the Board, at the suggestion of big business mem- bers of N.R.A. Administrator John- son’s Industrial Advisory Board. The Steel Labor Board was ap- pointed by President Roosevelt to be an “impartial” mediator of la- bor complaints. But “Steel,” which speaks exclusively for the bosses, characterizes the Board as “an agreeable, apparently _ efficient” group. The magazine gives this warn- ing: To a remarkable degree the coast disturbance closely paralleled what labor had set up for steel in June and also affords a clew to what might happen this fall in event production expands and the opportunity to harrass the industry recurs.” It records that the steel labor board is slated to receive and dispose of the new strike-threat that followed Carnegie Steel’s re- fusal to deal with its workers through their Amalgamated Asso- ciation lodge. It says: In its “Labor” section, “Steel” prints striking figures on the results of speed-up under the N.R.A— figures showing great increases in disabling injuries in the steel in- dustry. No word about the speed- At the initiative of the Unem-|representative in Jasper County; ployment Council and the Commu- William A. Schmidtke for state nist Party of Bayonne, a united representative in Newton County; i vi |O. L. Skiver for state representa- front drive was started five aoame in McDonald. County; ago to enlist the support of all theodore Templeton for state sen- workers for the bill. Four unem-/ator in Newton, McDonald, Barry ployed organiations were involved | and Lawrence Counties. jin the fight. Signatures were col- | Cc. W. A. workers here average lected on petitions circulated among | $3.50 a week the employed and unemployed. To- ‘ . gether with the Gnemployment, | Chicago Candidates Meet Saturday i i 24. — The first Council, the Non-Partisan Unem-| CHICAGO, July i. ployed organizations were involved | county-wide meeting or ie an |in the campaign. As a result, there | didates nominated on the Co is hardly a working-class organ-|nist Party ticket for the Congres- |izations in the city that has re-|sional and Senatorial elections will | mai » be held Saturday, July 30—1 p. m., | mained untouched by the Workers \et the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. and | Bill. Bayonne is a Standard Oil town with a population of 90,000 and is part of Hudson County, Mayor Hague’s stronghold. Terror has al- ways been used against workers here, Negro workers are especially dis- criminated against. Landlords are conducting a vicious campaign against Negro tenants, charging exorbitant rents and evicting whole- sale, The victory on the Workers’ Bill is being followed by organiza- tion and struggle against the evic- tion of Negro workers. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the dictatorship of the proletariat! | Chicago Ave. This meeting according to the lelection campaign manager will have the following agenda: A Report and discussion of the is- sues and tasks of the coming elec- |tions; report of campaign manag- ‘ers; election of a state committee. } . . . |New Haven Rallies Every Thursday NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 24— The New Haven Communist Party will hold regular election campaign lrallies for the coming state elec- ltions every Thursday evening at 8 p. m. Central Green. Various of jthe Communist candidates for the candidate for governor on the Com- munist ticket, will speak at these rallies on the party program. state officers, including I. Wofsy,| Foreign-Born NEW YORK — The reactionary | | threat of General Hugh S. John- son, N.R.A. head, of wholesale de- | | portations of foreign born workers {was answered yesterday by the | Committee for Protection of the | | Foreign Born, with a call to all la- | bor organizations for an Emergency | | Conference to be held next Monday | levening, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 | |E. 4th St. | The call points out that the pres- ent savage attacks on the foreign- born are part of the general fascist terror unleashed by the employers | and their government agencies against the whole working class, | notably on the West Coast where | vigilante bands and police are raid- ing and smashing the headquarters of unions and other labor organi- | zations, and making wholesale ar- rests of militant workers, native and foreign-born. All trade unions and other work- ers’ bodies, all groups opposed to | fascist reaction, are urged to send delegates or representatives to the conference which will open at 8 p.m. at Manhattan Lyceum, Mon- day evening. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means | | a tremendots step toward the | | dictatorship of the proletariat! Negro Woman Congress, up, naturally, appears. But the} magazine quotes the National Safety Council, Chicago, as report- ing an increase of 20 per cent in Share- Cropper, of to Paris Tells of Oppression in South The sub-district committee of the 8. M. W. I. U., which met here on July 19, completed plans in preparation for the convention. Mass layoffs are taking place in all the local factories. The sub- district committee decided to mo- bilize all unemployed steel workers in the fight for immediate relief. Independents to Elect Delegates CARNEGIE, Pa.—Workers in the Columbia Steel Shafting Co. here, which employes about 400, have ex- pressed their intention of sending Official delegates to the National Convention of the S. M. W. I. U. The workers are organized into an independent union. eo ea cee A. F. of L. Men Seek to Join S.M. W. I. U. GLASSPORT, Pa.—Members of the International Moulders’ Union, affiliated to the A. F. of L. em- ployed in the Pittsburgh Steel Foundry here, have torn up their membership books and asked to be taken into the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union because of the continued betrayal actions | of their leaders and the refusal to fight for relief for laid off workers, About 350 workers are employed part time in this factory, New Jersey Carpenters Sending Delegates to Jobless Conference | JERSEY CITY, N. J.—The Hud- |son County( New Jersey) District Council of Carpenters (American | Federation of Labor) has elected | delegates to the conference on the | Workers Unemployment and Social disabling accidents during 1933, and |Insurance Bill being called by the an advance of 15 per cent in sever- ity “putting to an end four years of steady improvement.” Open Shop Firm Seeks Injunction to Forbid Picketing By Fired Men NEW YORK.—Again the injunc- tion law is being resorted to by New York employers, who are try- ing to maintain the open shop. The latest attack on workers through the courts was started Monday by the S. Blechman and Sons, Inc., a dry goods firm at 502 Broadway. Supreme Court Justice William Harmon Black reserved decision Monday on the firm's ap- plication for an injunction to halt picketing. Workers of this company have been picketing in protest against the firing of workers who were at- tempting to organize a union.) Several arrests have been made, but picketing continues. CAthedral 8-6160 Dr. D. BROWN Dentist 317 LENOX AVENUE ALgonquin 4-3356—4-8843—4-7623 Between 125th & 126th St., N.¥.C. By JEROME ARNOLD prov the heart of the Black Belt in the South to the Women's International Congress Against War and Fascism in Paris, Euquile Mc- Keithen will bring the message of a nation of Negroes oppressed and persecuted by a white ruling class. She will tell of the misery, of the starvation and slavery foisted upon them by the white landlords. She will report of discrimination, Jim- Crowism and terror used by the landlords to keep Negro and white separated. She will recount tales | of beating, night raids and murders of innocent Negro boys by the po- lice of the ruling class. But she will also tell of the he- roic struggle of the Share-Croppers’ Union to organize into a fighting organization the Negro and white share-croppers welded together on a basis of common interests. She will tell of underground meetings, , of open protests, of actual revolu- and white toilers against the ex- ploitation of their masters. Active In Share-Croppers’ Union Euquile McKeithen should know. jin the Share-Croppers’ Union in Montgomery County, Alabama, and has been active in the union since tits formation last November | tionary work to arouse the Negro) |She’s in charge of women’s work | “Qur children have to walk six miles to school,” she said. ‘They're not allowed to ride on the school bus. The officials say we don't | pay taxes, so we have no rights. But we do pay taxes. We pay taxes on tobacco, cigarettes and on gaso- line. We pay tax on the road by working on it. Children Died Young Mrs. McKeithen herself has no children. She is 45 years old now and has béen married for some time, Years ago she had five chil- dren, but they all died when they were small. “IT think they're beter off dead,” she said “If they were living I'd have to be fighting for them, too.” Both Mrs. McKeithen and her husband are indefatigble workers for the Share-Croppers’ Union and the revolutionary movement in the South. Her husband was a dele- gate to the Chicago Farm Confer- ence las: November and is one of |the leaders in the union. Fifty Cents for 2 Days’ Work “Yes, the union is growing fast,” she said. “It has to, the conditions are so terrible. The landlords offer us women 50 cents an acre to chop That’s at least two days’ | cotton. | Work, At the end of the year we don't make enough out of the cotton to pay the rent. The landlord takes | all we have—cotton, corn, potatoes, | chickens, cows and even greens out | of the garden. And then we're still | in debt.” | Comrade McKeithen told me more about Roosevelt's relief. Dump Relief Food | “They have what you call a re- lief garden, where you raise stuff to be given for relief for workers. But what they do with it is dump} it into the Alabama River. About four weeks ago they dumped over 900 pounds of rotten wheat into) the river. In order to get anything at all a Negro must have a white boss testify as to his need. And then you've got to be downright paupers to get any relief at all. | Ruling Class Terror ' Comrade McKeithen related! stories of terror, beatings and mur- der of young Negro boys by police- men. How one cop had become en- | raged at a Negro boy of 16 and had| beaten and shot him, and then, while he lay on the road dead or | mortally wounded, the cop pumped | | bullets into his body and kicked jhim like a dead dog. “And nothing is ever done about Nothing at all,” she said. | “They're sore about the Scotts- | |boro boys. They're sore because i they can’t kill them. too.” if it. New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment In- surance and Relief, for Saturday, July 28th, 1 p.m., at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St., New York. The Carpenters District Council of Hudson County has a total membership of 2,500. The sending of delegates from this A. F. of lL. body follows the receipt of creden= tials from twenty A. F. of L. local unions and two lodges of the rail- road brotherhoods. Reports are coming in from A. F, of L. organized shops that groups are electing delegates to attend the conference on Saturday. The New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance and Relief, its sec retary, David Gordon, announced, has printed and distributed 15,000 leaflets calling upon A. F. of L. and railroad brotherhood members ta have delegates elected from theif locals and lodges and to elect from | their jobs delegates to the confers ence on the Workers’ Unemploy ment and Social Insurance Bill. Gordon stated that the Commits tee in charge strongly urged that all delegates appear promptly at the conference as the time for thé occupancy of the hail is limit The committee headquarters are 1 Union Square, Room 810, New York City. 3 te eee orien! SN ea nn Ate he ame NN