The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1934, Page 3

- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934 a Page Three RELIEF LISTS SWELL WHILE APPROPRIATIONS ARE SLASHED $l ee On Relief in One County Struggle for Workers’ | Insurance Bill Is | Urgent Task | NEW YORK —Each day brings | reports of mounting numbers of | jobless workers applying for relief while reports from all parts of the| country show renewed attacks upon | the unemployed in the form of} slashing reductions in average and | total relief payments. Vast sections of the unemployed remain without any relief whatso- ever. Negro and foreign-born work- ers are singled out for special dis- crimination. Widespread relief cuts in every part of the country run as high as 64 per cent in the June relief slash in Boise, Idaho, and 40 per cent in Waterbury, Conn. 229,000 Laid Off In June The workers in the ‘shops are in no better situation. June reports by the Department of Labor indi- eate that in the manufacturing in- dustry alone 229,000 workers were thrown out of work in the month of June. Average payrolls were slashed 2.6 per cent in the same period, while food prices rose. State and national reports show an increased demand for relief. In the copper country of Michigan, late relief figures show that 81.5 per cent of the entire population of Keweenaw County are on relief. In Ontonagon County, Michigan, the percentage is 67; in Houghton County, 54.7. A recent survey of Silver Bow County, Mont. another copper mining section, shows 37,000 persons out of a total population of 51,000 are on relief. One-Fifth In Colorado On Relief One-fifth of the entire population of Colorado is on relief, and the lists have risen from 96,777 in Jan- uary to 208,364 in June. A recent federal order demanded that the lists be slashed. Herndon Conference Is Set for August 8 NEW YORK. — Hundreds of delegates from national and local organizations will take part in an Emergency Herndon Conference next Wednesday, Aug. 8, at St. Paul's Church, 249 W. 132nd St., at 7:30 pm. The conference will formulate plans to intensify the campaign to free the working- class Negro youth sentenced to 20 years on a Georgia chain- gang, and to free the Scottsboro boys, and Ernst Thaelmann, militant leader of the German workers. The Scottsboro case has gone to the Alabama State Supreme Court for the second time, and proof of the boys’ innocence has been established before the whole world. All organizations— clubs, lodges, churches and unions—are urged to elect two delegates to the conference. Or- ganizations are invited to send speakers. The conference, which has been called jointly by the Inter- national Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, has received the endorse- ment of 50 organizations, includ- ing the International Workers’ Order, American League Against War and Fascism and the Com- munist Party of the U.S. A. Independen Labor Body To Be Formed New England Unions To Meet September 1 In Bridgeport NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 31. — A conference for the purpose of organizing an Independent Federa- tion of Labor for the New England | states has been called to take place in Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 1 and 2. The conference, decided on at a meeting of delegates from inde- pendent and industrial unions which took place here Saturday, Vigilante Raids, State Violence, Inspired | by Boss Press | | | newspaper publishers, | into a “Newspaper Publishers’ Coun- cil,” led by John Neyland, Hearst | attorney, played a major role in | breaking the general strike, it is | admitted in the current issue of the Editor and Publisher. “Dailies Help Break General | Strike,” is the revealing title of this article by Earl Burke, which re- counts the steps by which these publishers spread daily propaganda against the unions and their lead- ers, and inspired the vigilante raids |and police arrests of union leaders. The “Council” received the full co- | operation of the “conservative union leaders” in this strike-breaking | work. | That these publishers, including all the kept press in and around San Francisco, understood the issue |as a fight against union recogni- tion, is shown in the statement that | to grant the demand of the long- shoremen for control of hiring halls | “would be a compromise with revo- lution.” | publishers, through splitting the | unions and manufacturing a wave) of terror under the guise of the red | seare, was to defeat this demand for union recognition and maintain the open shop. "Just before the zero hour a group of publishers of the bay region newspapers ... met to de- NEW YORK.—The San Francisco | The whole strategy of the | vise ways to meet the crisis. John | Francis Neyland, general counsel, | Hearst Newspapers, was chosen | for leadership,” says the article. | The fascist Hearst, who “tele- phoned from London,” set the tone for the strike smashing drive. Then the pubdiishers’ | “The public was asked to back the| | leadership of Mayor Angelo J. Rossi.” Rossi's police killed more than one striking longshoreman. Governor Merriam, who had in- structed the national guard to| “shoot to kill,” was consulted. “The | Mayor and Governor Merriam wel- | comed the plans of the publish- ers. 7% | A great propaganda mill began manufacturing lies. The next step| was to try to split the ranks of the workers. Red scare hysteria was| raised. “On Sunday, July 15, the Ex- | aminer and the Chronicle pub- | lished front page editorials stat- | | ing that radicals had seized eon- | trol by intimidation and that the | general strike was a revolution against constituted authority. William Randolph Hearst tele- phoned from London to Clarence Lindner, saying a story was being | eabled telling how the general strike in England in 1926 had | been crushed when the govern- ment took control of the situa- tion. This was published on Monday in the Examiner, Chron- icle, Call-Bulletin, Post-Enquirer and all Hearst papers. The Oak- land Tribune ran a similar story | based on other sources. The | | News sounded warnings to unions not to paralyze the vital processes on which the lives of all de- pended. The lessons from English strike gave all papers their theme for further editor- ials.” The reactionary A. F. of L. lead- 5 council | ers were then enlisted in order to} organized | swung into its anti-union campaign. | split and demoralize the strikers. “Under Mr. Neyland’s leader- ship plans were made to crush the revolt. ... Mr. Neyland en- tered into negotiations with con- servative labor leaders. . . . Con- | servative labor leaders welcomed this help, as they realized that Communists in control of mari- time unions had stampeded other unions by saying this was the time for organized labor to take its place in the sun. Newspaper editorials built up the strength and influence of the conserva- tive leaders and aided in split- ting the conservative membership away from the radicals.” When General Johnson came to San Francisco, he favored promising | some concessions to the strikers, i order not to embarrass the Presi- dent, the article states. But after a stormy conference with the news- paper publishers, “The General then endeavored to be as helpful as pos- sible, and the next day, in an ad- dress broadcast from the University of California, he affirmed the right of labor to strike, but denounced |the general strike as ‘revolution’ | and said that it had to stop.” By use of the most extreme ter- |ror, with fascist bands and police | raids, arrests, shootings, and with the aid of the reactionary A. F. of L, officials, the strike began to dis- | integrate. e the | Publishers’ Paper Boasts How Frisco Editors Led Fight on Strike With Lies ° |Hearst Attorney Leader | of Council That Spread Poison The publishers’ daily propaganda against the “menace,” with the ; Slogan “that the general strike was Tevolution,’” was pushed forward. “The strategy of Mr. Neyland | and the publishers’ council had now begun to work. ... On Thurs- | day the general strike was called | Off in San Francisco and the next day in the East Bay area.... As the strike collapsed the publish- ers’ council endeavored to get things moving again.” Editor and Publisher contains an \ editorial advising editors to stop the red scare on the grounds that it gives the Communists too much | publicity. The publishers did yeoman serv- ice for the shipowners, one of the largest of which is the Standard Oil Co. They maintained constant contact with the Mayor and Goy- ernor and the Roosevelt government officials, They worked hand in glove with the reactionary A. F. of L. officials. They manufactured daily strike-breaking material. Once more the West Coast news- paper owners struck a blow against the working class, against the rights |of the workers to organize, and to | strike. against the trade unions. | Once more the state of California | boasts of its employers’ propa- | ganda mill, on guard to maintain | the open shop. New Effort Is Urged By Shepard in Drive BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 1—Henry Shepard, acting district organizer for this area, today called on all} Party members and sympathizers to | intensify their work in the circula- tion campaign for the Daily Worker. Shepard's appeal was made in com- By NAT GANLEY DETROIT, Mich, July 31.—The | Men in’ the strike and winning a! Matthew Smith, Harry Harrison leadership of the Mechanics’ Edu- Sinith MESA Machine ‘Ended kali Clubs Will Burroughs Strike in Defeat hope for involving the production | smashing victory. Smith, the Socialist Party mem- Hold Benefit Picnic Sunday NEW YORK.—Italian workers’ Ironically, the same edition of the | clubs, and Call Issued to Youth Fall Congress 2,000 Meet, Back Logan ‘Mine Strike Groups March Agai Firing of Militant Union Members By a Miner Correspondent NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — The picket lines in every city. strike of the miners of the Pitts- “Danger threatens us. The || burgh and Allegheny Coal Co. at storm of war is about to engulf || Logan’s Ferry is in its tenth weck, the world,” declares the call to | with the picket line as strong as the Congress issued by the Youth |/ever. The miners were locked out Section of the American League || when they fought against firing of |] Against War and Fascism. militant union members, and It urges immediate and inten- || turned the lockout into a strike. sive campaigns in every area to On Sunday, July 22, over two elect delegates to the Congress, || thousand miners attended the mass to insure representation on || meeting at Orchard Park, Actma- broad and decisive scale, to carry || tonia, Pa., in support of the Logans the program of the League into ||Ferry Miners. This meeting was every locality and build militant | attacked in the press and by the mass support for it. district and national officials of the Young workers and students of the nation are mobilising for the Youth Congress Against War and Fascism called for Sept. 28, 29 and 30 in Chicago. Thousands in the factories and on the farm, in schools and col- leges, in settlement houses and neighborhood clubs are laymch- ing preparations for an event of historic importance in the strug- gle agains imperialist war, in hurling back the concerted fas- cist drive being waged by the Roosevelt administration against The Youth Section of the || United Mine Workers of America American League was organize |)as an “outlaw” meeting. Resolu- last September at the first U. S. s were ‘otesting the passed of th n's Ferry U. ter by the district and officials. Greetings were sent to the Minneapolis and San Francisco strikers. Congress Against War and Fas- cism, where more than 500 of the 2,616 delegates were young work- ers and students. That assem- blage drew representatives from organizations of all descriptions —farm, union, social, fraternal, international The district and international of- ficials of the U. M. W. A. have sup- ported the company from the start and have tried to force the men to return to work and accept dis- crimination agafust their leaders, This the local union members re- fuse to do. 7 More Unions On Tuesday, July 24th, the men Give Approval ,o:.2 on eae toWorkers’Bill =: | |front of the line, they were the first to make the applications. This time they were not refused. They. NEW YORK —Four more A. F.| Tchired all of the men, but they {of L. local unions and three inde- * 2 work. The men are determined to | Pendent unions have added their stick until every man is put back names to the thousands of trade/ on his job. When this action took unions which have endorsed the) piace the women gathered on the sport and peace. did not tell them when to come to trade union groups |branches of the International | Workers’ Order will take part in a| picnic at North Branch Park, As- | toria, on Sunday for the benefit of | L'unita’ Operaia, Italian working- Workers’ Unemployment Insurance hij}, one of them playing the ac- Bill. Independent unions and fra-| cordion, and singing took place, ternal and mass organizations have|'The women are also out in the also backed the Workers’ Bill in| morning when the men are on the recent period. picket duty daily. will include independent and indus- trial unions not affiliated to the American Federation of Labor. ‘ The initiative for the conference | S¥bscription quota, i was taken by a large independent! “Wherever the oppressed are at- union in Connecticut. | tacked it is the Daily Worker that The latest A. F. of L. unions to act on the bill are: International | Moulders’ Union 275 of South Chi-| cago, which instructed its delegates | to the I. M. U. convention to be held in Chicago on Aug. 13 to pre- | menting on the fact that his dis-| cational Society has succeeded in| ber, proved that he did not believe | class weekly newspaper. There will | trict leads all others in filling its getting the Burroughs Adding Ma-| in building a united front of the| be an open-air mock trial of Angelo chine Company strike called off. | workers, His stand during the big| Nunzio, editor of the paper, and They did not even fight for a guar-| tool and die strike that it was “a| Joseph Ingargiola, head of the In-| antee from the company that there | Calamity” and it “would interfere) dependent Order of the Sons of) would be no discrimination in the| with the Roosevelt recovery pro- WIN FUR STRIKE CHICAGO, Ill, August 1—The strike of the Komiss Co. employes has been successfully ended. The After an election campaign in which he repeatedly promised un- employment insurance to the job- Jess, Roosevelt gave his support to the fake Wagner-Lewis Bill, which is of no benefit to the working class, and then adjourned Congress with a message that he “intends to study” the question once more. Embracing as it does every sec- tion of the working population, the demand for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) must be broadened. The members of the A. F. of L. unions must be won for the Workers’ Bill by means of struggle in the neighborhoods and at the relief stations in the de- mand for relief, pressure on the city, state and national governments for additional relief funds, for jobs at trade union wages, and against forced labor on the relief projects. White collar workers, veterans’ and small home owners’ organiza- tions must be approached with the Workers’ Bill. Bronx Bread Strikers To Press Price Fight At NRA Board Today Representatives of the 174th Street Neighborhood Organization Against The High Cost of Living will appear this morning at a hearing of the New York N, R. A. Consumers Board, which has injected itself into Together with the representatives from the independent and indus- from the federal unions of the A. F. of L. in view of the policy of the A. F. of L officialdom in at-| tempting to exert jurisdication | rights of A. F. of L. international unions over the federal organiza- | tions. Conference calls will be mailed out immediately. Stachel to Speak In N. Y. Aug. 17 Jack Stachel, acting Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, will speak on “Left Wing’ Communism: An Infantile Disorder” on Friday evening, Aug. 17, at 8 o'clock, at 50 E. 13th St. second floor, New York City. This lecture comes at a time when the attempts of the capitalist class to break up the trade union movement are im- measurably helped not only by the A. F. of L. misleaders, but also by the renegades of the working class movement, the Trotzkyites and the Lovestonites. THREAT WINS DEMANDS NEW YORK—New Jersey unions yesterday won an equal division of work for the unemployed of New | rallies the masses for struggle... . |I call upon every Party unit, every | trial unions, delegates will be invited | mass organization in western New | York to continue to throw their full | force into the campaign to secure new readers for the Daily Worker.” Buffalo Jobless ‘Call District Relief Parley | BUFFALO, N. ¥. Aug. 1—The }a call yesterday to all working- class organizations to a district un- employment conference on unem- ployment insurance and relief. The | conference will be held at 881 Broadway, Buffalo, on Aug. 18 and 19. | Every working-class organization |is asked to send two delegates for each 50 members. | The conference committee tenta- | tively put forward the demands for | the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- | ance Bill, for immediate adequate | cash relief to all unemployed work- lers, and against evictions. | All unemployed groups and or- rehiring of the strikers. Thus the Smith machine and the District Committee of the M. E. S. A. bears full responsibility for leading the union from defeat to defeat (the {lost Tool and Die strike, the lost | Michigan Stove strike and now Burroughs). The Burroughs strike started on |May 22 and at its height involved | some 400, of about 2,000 work- jers in the ~lant. Most of the 400 | strikers \ > tool and diemakers. The Smith machine made no real | attempt to strike the production Auto Workers’ Union letter of July | hundred This letter sent to the Bur-| members of the International Long- | workers, though many were mem- bers of the M. EF. S. A. The tool |John Koetters, chairman of the | Burroughs Shop Committee, was laid off for an alleged infraction of the company rules. The real reason was an attempt by the com- pany to smash the union of the | workers’ own choice, in this case the M. E. S. A. The workers knew | this and they struck in a fine, mili- tant spirit. | United Front Developed | Under the influence of Smith's anti-strike wavering and indecisive | policies the Burroughs’ struggle be-| M. |gan to peter out. The Regional | Labor Board, N. R. A., played chess with the strikers, took their mind gram” was revived during the last phase of the Burroughs struggle. Smith's slogan became: “It’s no use getting killed for a 10-cent raise! Call the strike off!” Despite the confusion and demoralization sown by the Smith machine about. half of the workers at the last strikers’ |Meeting voted to continue the | struggle. But the machine ruled | that a majority had voted to re- | turn, { Plan of A. W. U. | This was Smith’s answer to the 1, roughs Strike Committee and the A. made the following proposals for | strengthening the strike: (1) That another mass picket line be organ- ized on Monday. That all assist- jing organizations come together in jadvance to plan the picketing. (2) That a big central mass meet- ing be organized in the center of | the city around the issues involved in the strike. (3) That delegations be sent to involve more organiza- tions, including A. F. of L, locals. (4) That the other locals of the . E. S. A. be involved in the | struggle. (5) That efforts be made | to draw in the production workers, | demands drawn up for them, etc. | Italy. | the order following an expose of his | activities by Uunzio. Dockers Plan Ingargiola was ousted from | ™o Strike on ZA strikers, led by the Fur Workers In< ied ane ee, bill Raed dustrial Union, defeated an injunc« be pth tet cl @chinists’| tion through mass protest, and oo Union 203 of Akron, Ohio, and Lo- . is | ducted mass picketing. This is the cal 125 of the International Union | 5 : first fur department store to be ore of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, i ity ik ganized in the city A strike is now and Carpenters Local 1229 of Iron|in progress at the M and T Fur River, Mich, shop, led by the F W. 1. U. independent unions, the! Mobile Piers | MOBILE, Ala., Mobile Aug. 1—Twelve longshoremen, | shoremen’s Association, are prepar- Unemployment Councils here issued and diemakers walked out when! District Committee of the M. E. S.| ing to renew their strike here if the | Mobile Steamship Association does |not live up to an agreement which | ended the last strike. | The company has been sponsor- \ing a company union and has been | discriminating against members of jthe I. L. A. since the strike was jcalled off. Former strikers have |been refused “employment while | strike-breakers have been taken on. |Grand Jury Indicts 14 | Jailed in Oklahoma City Way 21 Demonstration Three Pe Metal Workers’ International) C.C.C. WORKERS STRIKE | Society of Detroit, the Weavers’) Progressive Association of Fall| , @=LTSVILLE, Md., Aug. 1 River, Mass. and the Bricklayers pe Hart habs i beget Sie “ ; 8 vorking conditions, an! and Masons Independent Union Of | angered at the failure of the camp eoemie have endorsed the Work- | authorities to meet their demands | for an increase in rations, 101 of 192 In Iron River, Mich. where the | young workers at C C. C. Camp newly-formed Iron County Labor | 2301 struck here yesterday | Union, a rank and file relief work- | ers’ organization, has been active, | | the Caspian Village Council has | | been forced to back the bill, Cas- | pian is a mining town with a popu- | NEW YORK.—A vigorous protest ation of 1,200. against the proposed dismissal of | SF ATES IN HE Moses Siegal, a substitute clerk in 7 Sti the Grand Central Post Office, for | Workers Stop Eviction | organizational activities, has been SHAMOKIN, Pa., Aug. 1—Work- | Sent by Alber: Gottlieb, President ers under the leadership of the Un- | of the National Association of Sub {employment Council stopped the | Stitute Post Office Employes, to | eviction of Blassic, an unemployed| John J. Kiely, New York Poste worker, here Monday. master. Kieiy is attempting by | When the workers arrived they | threats and intimidation to prevent | found that the landlord's son had| the organization of the 22,000 New | smashed down the door, and depu- | York postal employes, the union de |ties were already moving the fur-j|clared. A telegram of protest has The workers massed before | also been sent to the First Assistant PROTEST P. 0. CLERK DISMISSAL | i : ie off the picket line and led them! (6) That the united front work be| ‘LAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 1. | niture. the fight of Bronx workers to com. Jersey andi New: ‘York: states.on’ the | OK} , eg. | pel lower bread prices in neighbor- hood bakeries, The neighborhood organization accepted the invitation on the proviso that arrests of their pickets would be stopped. It was disclosed at a hearing yes- terday that three of the bakers against whom the consumers’ strike is aimed are being prevented from making settiement by the associa- tion of bakery owners to which they belong under the threat of $500 fines, Since the beginning of the fight three weeks ago under the lead- ership of the Council of Working Class Women and the neighborhood units of the Communist Party and Young Communist League, 33 pickets have been arrested and sentenced to short jail terms. Protest Brutality Used Against Relief Pickets NEW YOR/X.—A protest delega- tion of Broniz workers and mem- bers of the International Labor De- fense forced Mayor LaGuardia to order that Helen Lynch be taken out of solitary confinement at the Women’s Jail, where she had been sentenced to fifty days for her par- ticipation in a picket line at the Bronx Relief Bureau. Helen Lynch, organizer of the Bronx County Unemployment: Councils, together with eight other workers, was arrested last week when police attacked the picket line. Married women were given one day sentences and single wo- men two days. The women were put in solitary confinement for re- fusing to undergo an examination usually given to prostitutes to dis- cover any veneral disease. REPUBLIC LOCKOUT ENDS WARREN, Ohio, July 31.—Offi- cias of the Republic Steel Corpora- tion plant here announced they would resume operations following the acceptance of the National Steel Labor Relations Board arbitration plan by officials of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel Ellis Island seawall by threatening a strike. New Jersey unions de- manded the apportionment on the grounds that Ellis Island is in New Jersey waters. STEEL CONVENTION FRI. PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 31—The national convention of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, which meets here on Friday, will weigh growing strike sentiment among the rank and file in the in- dustry and will map strike for va- rious important plants in which struggles for wages, improved work- ing conditions and union recognition are developing. PACKING PLANT ON STRIKE FARIBAULT, Minn. (F.P.).—One hundred employes of the Wilson Packing Co. here have struck for higher wages, better working con- ditions and union recognition. They are led by the Independent Union of All Workers. THREATEN STEEL STRIKE CHICAGO, Ill, July 31—The workers of the Pettibone Mulliken Co. in this district have voted to strike if the employers do not grant their demands for a 15 per cent wage increase, weekly pay days, no layoffs, equal division of work and recognition of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. ORDERS STRIKERS BACK (Daily Worker Midwest Bureaus CHICAGO, August 1.—Throwing the whole question of the tug boat- men's demand into a series of drawn out conferences, Joseph Noo- nan, president of the Chicago Tug- boatmen’s Union, yesterday ordered 135 marine workers to go back to work. The tugboatmen have been striking for a couple of months, and are now going back without any guarantee of improved conditions. DEFEAT COMPANY UNION TACOMA (F.P.)-Employes of the Spokane United Railways have and Tin. Workers. |The agreement covers only the hot mill workers. The rest are unorganized defeated the company union by a vote conducted under N R. A, aus- pices. | ganizations are urged to send dele- | gates for the working out of a single | unified unemployment movement. | |Circus Men on Strike in Indianapolis for Increase in Wages INDIANAPOLIS,Aug. 1. — One hundred roustabouts and canvas men of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus walked out on strike today. The walkout occured while the men were erecting the animal tent. Employes from other sections of the circus scabbed on the men and put up the tent, while police herded the strikers to an adjoining lot. The strikers are demanding the restora- tion of the 1930 wage scale—$10.50 a week and a $15 monthly bonus. Allen Talks in Harlem Workers School Tonight jolutionary writer and research work- er will lecture on “Prologue to the Negro Liberation Movement: Civil War and Reconstruction,” this eve- ining, 7:30 o'clock, at the Harlem Workers School, 200 W. 135th St. Next Wednesday night, August 8, Herb Kline, young revolutionary playwright, will give a special read- ing of his new play “John Henry— Bad Negro,” at the school. AIMED AGAINST STRIKE OMAHA, Neb, July 31—In an effort to break the strike of street car men here and in Council Bluffs, city authorities have decided that any owner of a private automobile may start a jitney bus service dur- ing the period of the strike. Mean- while R. L. Blume, secretary of the Regional Labor Board, continues his efforts to send the men back to work without any guarantees for compliance with their demands by the company. CREOSOTE WORKERS STRIKE HATTIESBURG, Miss. (FP).— The entire force of 175 workers at the Gulf States Creosoting Co. of Hattiesburg has gone on strike fol- lowing the refusal of the company to take back three union officials discharged for labor activity. NEW YORK —James Allen, rev-| _ neighborhoods, \ | into passivity. were lost. During the first week of front support of the strike. “We will present stiffer terms! We wiil | broaden our picket lines! of Detroit: means at your disposal. We are out to win!” declared the Burroughs’ | Strike Committee. The Communist Party, Auto Workers’ Union, A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee, etc., answered | | this call with a mass picket line of jover 400 on Monday, July 9.} William Weinstone, District Organ- | izer of the Communist Party, was) greeted with applause when he | at the strikers’ mass meeting. The struggle had reached a higher level | of militancy, there was renewed |a co-ordinating committee, with | defense for arrested strikers, etc. The charges of the M. E. S. A. Workers | progressives that the tactics of Support us with all Smith and the District Committee have been similar to the policies of the A. F. of L. leaders are com- pletely borne out by the results of the Burroughs strike. The call of the progressives to the M. E. S. A. membership to unite their ranks against the disruptive Smith ma- chine and to initiate united front struggles against the worsening con- ditions of unemployment, low wages, discrimination by the employers, pledged the support of the Party | company unionism, etc., becomes a/ life and death question for the M. E, S. A. after the Burroughs de- feat. Lynn Union Heads Given Heavy Fines in Contempt Trial LYNN, Mass., Aug. 1.—Costs of | | $1,000 and fines of $300 were paid | by three former officers of the Na- | tional Shoe Workers Union, now merged with the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, in con- tempt proceedings brought against the organization in 1933 by the Gregory and Read Shoe Company. The three officials were John Van Sciver, William B. Mahan and Mrs. Mary Magee. Gregory and Read is the largest shoe manufacturer in the city and maintained the open shop for ye . The contempt proceedings was based on an injunction gotten out against the union to halt pick- eting of the company plant. PETITION DRIVE STARTS CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 1—The State \election campaign committee has issued an appeal to all workers in | Chicago to enlist themselves in the drive for ihe nominating petition signatures necessary to place Com- munist candidates on the ballot. Volunteers are asked to report at 101 South Wells Street or to the Ohio Collects 20,000 Signatures; Deadline Extended to August 8 CLEVELAND, Aug. 1—A check- up at the State Ratification Con- ference held at Youngstown Mon- day showed that twenty thousand signatures had been secured for nominating petitions to place the Communist Party on the ballot of Ohio State. Fifty thousand signa- tures are needed. The deadline to file the petitions has been extended one week till Aug. 8 During this week an in- tensive campaign of all possible forces will be conducted. Several delegations pledged themselves to fulfill their quota by Aug. 8. The conference adopted a plat- form based on the National Con- gressional Platform of the Commu- nist Party. It endorsed the State candidates nominated by the Party and adopted proposals for an in- tensive campaign. UNION SECTION TO MEET A meeting of the Upholstery De- partment of the Furniture Workers’ | Industrial Union will be held to- elections headquarters in their ® night at the union headquarters, 812 Broadway, at 8 o'clock, Six valable weeks | made more effective by setting up| —Fourteen workers, arrested dur-|the house and stopped the eviction. | ing a demonstration of 3,000 unem- July the Burroughs’ Strike Com-| representatives from all organiza-| ployed on May 21, were indicted by mittee decided to break with the tions uniting in support of the|the Federal Grand Jury here on/ passivity of the past, to develop a| strike. This would mean better! July 12, on charges of “obstructing new militancy and a solid united picketing, raising of strike relief,| an officer.” In the May. 21 demonstration the | workers marched on the federal) food commissary after relief had | been cut off. Police attacked the} workers with tear gas and clubs, | and the fire department was mo- bilized to turn streams of water on the marchers. Scores were beaten and one leader was seized and| beaten by thugs. | Six workers, part of the scores) arrested, are still in jail. The In- ternational Labor Defense of Okla- homa City is circulating a petition demanding their release and the | dropping of all charges against the | arrested workers. 14 Ordered Deported Following Vigilante Raids in California —- | SAN FRANCISCO, July 31—Four- | teen workers arrested in the fascist | raids on the Communist Party and | | the unions were ordered deported by | | Edward Cahill, United States Com- | missioner of Immigration. The In- | ternational Labor Defense has an-/) nounced that a mass campaign will | be started to halt the proceedings | of the federal government against | these workers. |150 N. Y. Fur Shops Win Wage Increases NEW YORK.—The Fur Workers Industrial Union forges ahead win- ning victory after victory in the fight for summer wage increases. ‘Yesterday the union chalked up its one hundred and fiftieth victory in the campaign which began last month. | To discuss the situation in the} trade, the fight for the July in-} creases, the union manifesto and the election of officers district shop | chairman meetings will be held) ‘after the working hours today at the | union headquarters, 131 W. 28th St.) A special meeting of furriers re-| siding in the Bronx will be held | at 7:30 tonight at 1304 Southern Boulevare, pheromone ne N Postmaster General, W. W. Howes. Best Seller--- wt “How to Sell the Daily Worker” oP gen! onken First edition of this 32-page booklet practically sold out! 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