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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1934 Page Three St. Paul Council Fears to Ban Workers’ Bill |Decision Postponed | as Workers Back Up United Front Group Broad Committee Organizes Larger, Stronger United Movement to Compel Favorable Vote at Next Council Meeting ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 18.—Under persistent mass pres- sure brought by the United Front Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance on the St. Paul City Councilmen for their ‘ndorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, _the councilmen postpone their decision for a month. Twisting and turning, the coun-@ cilmen tried to turn aside the de-| mands for their endorsement by several hundred workers who| crowded into their meeting hall Fri- | day morning. Mayor Gehans said} the bill wouldn’t work and anyway | he had ‘a different philosophy | about relief.” Councilman Milton Rosen, reactionary agent of the big | corporations, called for a vote to} defeat the bill. Herman Wenzel, Farmer-Labor politician, said he favored the fake bill sponsored by the F.-L, P. Workers’ Enemies Exposed Golden Head and Maxwell Golden, both of Dayton, Ohio, have been expelled from the Communist Party as police agents and vicious dis- Dressmakers Seore Attack on Left Wing | Call Meeting Tonight to Protest Assault on Shop Chairlady | NEW YORK—The latest acts of terrorism against militant members and shop chairmen by reactionary officials of the International La- dies’ Garment Workers’ Union are cited in a statement of protest is- sued yesterday by the Left Wing Group of Local 22. The statement also calls for a protest meeting at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Ir- ving Place, immediately after work today. “At the shop chairmen’s meeting on Aug. 9,” the statement declares, “many militant shop chairmen were refused admittance to the hall, while hundreds of strong-arm men tion officials, Hochman, Zimmer- }man and Antonini. ... A deliberate attempt was made to preven’ mili- tant chairmen who managed to gain admittance from expressing their stands. Only one left-wing Chairman, Sol Lipnack, was given the floor. “Lipnack’s proposals so enraged were brought in by the administra- | “Stamping Out ORLANDO, Fila, Aug. 13.—At tacking as “un-American” and| “seditious” the Communist program for unconditional equality for the oppressed Negro masses, the Amer- ican Legion post here has launched a violent lynch-inciting campaign against Negro and white Commu- nists and the Negro masses gener- ally, under the slogan of “stamping out the Red menace.” It is in this district that Frank Norman, Inter- national Labor Defense organizer, was kidnapped and murdered sev- eral months ago by Klu Kluxers. The Klan is also behind the present terror campaign. | The campaign was initiated by |Major Paul Crank, chaplain of the; | Legion post and an executive officer jof the F-ER.A, project. As evidence of the “Red menace,” Crank cites | his experience in the F.E.R.A. offices | here with impoverished toilers mili- | tantly demanding relief and the) right to live. He attributes the surg- ing unrest among the harassed toil- Florida Legion Post Opens Lynch Drive FERA Official Cites Unity of Negro and White in| Struggle for Relief in Raising Slogan of Red Menace” and Negro workers and poor farm- ers to Communist influence and leadership. The attack on the Communist Party follows a series of mass strug- | gles of unemployed workers under | the leadership of the Unemployment | Council and of resentment of 1,500/ F.ER.A. project workers over the betrayal of their strike by Fred Bass and other Klu Kluxers who had wormed their way into the Unem- ployment Council, and, with the aid of city officials, captured the leader- ship, and sold out the strikers. Dixie Kuhr, post commander, and other Legion officials engaged in a| veiled threat against local Commu-| nist leaders, declaring they knew where to place their hands on seven | Communist organizers in the county. | The local Communist Party unit | is issuing a leaflet calling on the} workers to resist the growing at- tacks upon their organizations and unity and the mass fight against starvation and fascist terror. Lay Off Half (Qnion Weeder of Steel Men in Rockford Meeting to Organize Resistance Planned by Steel Union - ers and the growing unity of white | ROCKFORD, Ill.—Half of the workers at the Drop Forge plant here have been laid off and speed-up for the remaining wor almost unbearably increased. | A meeting of the workers has been called for next Tuesday evening at Black Hawk Park to elect a broad rank and file committee to present their grievances and if necessary to prepare for immediate strike action. The workers have already through organized action prevented the at- tempt to force them to work an extra hour without pay to heat the iron and set the dies. At the last meeting the officials of the company union used their influence to prevent the men from adopting a militant program. These tactics are being fought by the members of the local of Steel and Metal Workers’ Indv trial Union. 2,000 Workers Serfs Face Courts, Thugs, in Kight-Week Strike Wholesale Terrorism Fails to Cow Workers Fight ing Against 10-Hour Day at 4 to 12 Cents An Hour, Medieval Living Conditions LTON AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 13.—In Hardin County, Ohio, ‘bow 50 miles from the State Capitol, are 17,000 acres of the rich- est and most fertile land in the world. And on these acres of rich land live about 1,500 of the poorest fed, poorest clothed and poorest housed humans to be found anywhere in this country. o— ———__—__—_— The wages paid these onion work-, mothers and young babies are be- ers are from four cents to 124 cents | ing brutally thrown out to combat per hour foz> a ten-hour day. Chil-|the elements. Gardens are being dren from six years of age up are|mowed down in a futile attempt to blistering sun, | starve the kers into submission. What all reatment is doing, how i make the triking workers more determined n ever to fight to the bitter end. ‘hey are learning that they belong one class, the working class, and both the/that the growers belong in another, the master class. They are learn- and ed that the onions might grow big and fat t bring more profits to the mone: lords who own them, onions and the children. In spite of the fact that the councilmen obviously were against the bill, they didn’t dare vote it down decisively but delayed action for 30 days, hoping that by that time the workers’ mass pressure would become weaker. Speakers for the workers at the meeting were Bob Turner, Negro secretary of the United Front Com- mittee and candidate for Secretary of State on the Communist Party ticket, and Morris Karson, Section Organizer of the Commumnist Party. When the demands of the work- ers for endorsement of the bill and for more immediate relief grew louder, the councilmen hurriedly closed the meeting and walked out. A joint meeting of the City Coun- cil and the Welfare Board to dis- cuss the relief question had been prommised the United Front Com- mittee for Thursday, Aug. 9. When Several workers showed up, how- ever, they found the officials ab- sent and were given excuses by three councilmen for the failure of the meeting to materialize. The United Front Committee is organizing workers of A. F. of L. locals and other organizations for 4 stronger united movement for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and for more immediate relief so that at the next meeting of the City Council the councilmen will not be able to stall of action => Beating of Organizer by Police Protested by Furniture Union NEW YORK.—Following the po- lice attack last Friday on Jack Gordon, organizer of the metal bed section of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union, the union sent a sharp letter of protest to Police Commissioner O'Ryan. Gordon was beaten by policemen and detectives at the Grand Metal Bed Co., 12-16 Taylor St., Brooklyn, where a strike is in pi « The letter, signed by Max Per- low, loeal general secretary of the union, follows: “In the name of the membership of our union we protest against the actions of the police and detectives | at 12-16 Taylor Si., Brooklyn. Yes- terday, Aug. 9, one of our organ-/ izers, Jack Gordon, and a commit- tee of workers went to the Grand, Metal Bed Co., 12-16 Taylor St., where we are conducting a strike. They were suddenly approached by a group of police in uniform and several detectives. “One of the detectives called the organizer, Jack Gordon, into the shop, and, having cornered him, gave him a terrific beating. After the detective exercised his physical brutality he took the organizer and the committee to the police station. The employer, Mr. Abe Denenberg, and his sons were also forced to go to the police station to make out complaints. After the committee and Jack Gordon were held there for an hour and a half, without questioning, they were released be- cause no complaints or charges had been made against them. “This is an outrageous act on the part of the police of that precinct. We protest against these brutal ac- tions and demand from you, the Police Commissioner, to immedi- ately call to responsibility those who are guilty.” Need Admitted for 250 More Slum Inspectors After 32 Are Fired NEW YORK.—That New York City lacks at least 250 tenement inspectors has been admitted by Commissioner Langdon W. Post, who stated in his report for 1933 that the present inspection force of his department is inadequate to make inspections required by law. Since last year, however, thirty- two inspectors have been dropped. Despite the inadequate investigation 5,000 violations of tenement laws were reported. Nothing has been done to decrease the danger of an- other outburst of fires in the slum areas such as broke out last winter. Mayor La Guardia claims that nothing can be done about it be- cause of the lack of funds. The real reason is that the Astors and Vanderbilts and the other wealthy owners of tenements in the slum areas are the biggest taxpayers who dictate smaller municiples budgets for providing safety and comfort to workers. As large landlords, they are against spending money for re- pairs and would rather collect in- surance in case of fires,’ ‘with no After private interviews with the district attorney they came out with lying anti-semitic and anti-Party statements and with slanders against the Soviet Union. Walter E. Swalley of Dayton, Ohio, has been expelled from the Communist Party as a double-faced disrupter and an agent of the bosses. He has collected signatures for a capitalist politician and has tried to mobilize new Party members against the Party leadership. Deseription: Age—about 35 years; heavy weight; light complexion; he has no fingers on his right hand (from birth), SR ae W. T. Foster of Dayton, Ohio, (previously may have been in Gary, Ind., or in Flint, Mich.), has been expelled from the Communist Party as a disruptive and provocative ele- ment, He became a member of the Party in January, 1934, on the recommen- dation of W. E. Swalley, and man- aged to be sent to the District School of the Party, where he raised all kinds of provocative questions. Description: Battery repairer by trade; about 30 years old; about 5 ft. 5 in, in height; weighs about 130 pounds; light hair. yates av te Henry Huis, Wm. W. Tanner and Jacqueline Franks (Mrs. A. Franks) of Klamath Falls, Ore., have been expelled from the Communist Party as factional disrupters who have as- seciated themselves with the polic2 in their vicious efforts to disrupt the Party and the unemployed or- ganization. Henry Huls, former head of the Unemployed Council, was the leader of the faction. Working in close alliance with the Mayor's office and other city officials, he tried to stop any efforts to organize the unem- ployed. Wm. Tanner and J. Pranks aligned with him in this vicious dis- ruption and betraying of the un- epee workers and their strug- les. All three of them later joined the Relief Workers Protective Ass’n only with the intention of trying to disrupt and break it up. Workers should be on guard against these individuals. Place no confidence in them. Give them no funds. They are enemies of the working class. Cleveland Consumers Win Fight To Compel Cut in Bread Prices CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 13— William Weltman, secretary of the consumers bread strike committee announced today that the fight of Jewish workers here for a reduc- tion in bread prices has been won. A settlement reached last Thurs- day night establishes the following price schedule nine cents for an 18-ounce loaf, 17 cents for a 36- ounce loaf and 18 cents a dozen for rolls. The terms were approved by a mass meeting of the strikers at Carmel Hall before they were agreed to by the settlement commit- tee. The master bakers also agreed that they would make no effort to raise bread prices without the con- sent of the consumers. Following announcement of the settlement, the Jewish World, con- servative newspaper with liberal pretensions, attempted to create the impression that the settlement amounted to a defeat, claiming rep- resentatives of the paper could have won a settlement of eight cents a pound for bread, which is the exact equivalent of the newly established price. The newspaper sought to incite its readers against all workers who accepted Communist leadership in the strike and justified the reduc- tion of bakers’ wages as an un- avoidable result of the strike. Y.C.L. Functionaries Will Meet Tomorrow NEW YORK. — All members of Young Communist \League unit bureaus, section committees and of the district committee have been called to attend a special function- aries meeting at the Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St, tomorrow evening at 7:30, to hea> a report, on the San Franeisco Genera! strike. gard for lives of workers and arbors’ shildren: v Unemployed? Join the Red Buildarst ‘ the officials that they sent their strong-arm men to attack the left- wing chairmen. In the course of this assault, Shirley Blumenthal, a left-wing chairlady, was brutally beaten about the eyes and head, and a number of other shop chair- men were injured.” Unemployed Workers Hold Mass Picket Line In Linden, New Jersey LINDEN, N. J., Aug. 13.—A strong mass demonstration of unemployed workers was held here in spite of the manoeuvers of the Emergency Relief Bureau and city politicians to block it, A picket line of 400 mar- ried unemployed workers was formed around the Relief Bureau, against the attempts of the Emer- gency Relief Director, who tried to convince individual workers to re- turn to work at ten cents an hour. For the last few weeks, the relief investigators have been canvassing from house to house, trying to urge workers to go back to work begin- ning Aug. 9, and promising them new registration cards to fool them into thinking that conditions would be improved. At the last council the unemployed to go back to work. However in spite of all these demmagoguic phrases, the workers Eleven FERA Workers Are Jailed in Tampa TAMPA, Fla. Aug 13.— Eleven F.E.R.A. workers who were organiz- ing workers to unite their demands for $12 a week for all unemployed, with rent, gas and water free, were arrested Priday morning. They were arrested while speak- ing to their fellow workers at the F.ER.A. sub-station at 2415 E. Mi- jchigan Ave. on charges of “breach of the peace” and “agitating.” The jailed workers are: M. M. Kingston, W. A. Swectzer, Mann, K. Chastain, William Lee, Smith, M. A. Gonzalez, Cecil Asbel ous English paper. Tampa Workers Need (Special to the Daily Worker) TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 13. — For speaking at a meeting of project workers on a Federal Emezgency Relief Administration project, Wil- son, labor organizer, is to be tried tomorrow in City Plant on a charge of “disturbing the peace.” The meeting was called to protest the brutal methods of the F. E.R. A. manager in dealing with the relief workers. Wilson is being defended by E. L. Bryan, who brought habeas corpus proceedings to force his release on bail. The sum of $50 is urgently needed for the defense. Polish Workers Strike Against New Wage Cuts WARSAW, Aug. 13—In conse- quence of wage disputes, the silk workers of Lodz have struck. About 42 mills are on_ strike, involving 1,800 workers. The trade unions are endeavoring to impose a wage- cut of 60 per cent on their as- sistants. The workers refuse to accept this and resolved to strike work. In a stocking factory the owners have imposed a 35 per cent wage cut, and the workers have struck work, Opticians Co-operative to Give Non-Profit Service for Workers NEW YORK. Cooperative Opticians, an organization ac- curately described by its name, with quarters in the Office Workers Union, 114 W. 14th St., has been commissioned by the International Workers Order to care for all its members. Individual members of the Communist Party or other mass organizations will also be accepted for treatment. Cooperative opti- cians is a non-profit making or- ganization Vital Issues of Working Class Will Face A. F. L. Convention Page 1) submission and starvation or of! é * | Most of the families live in what |ing that to get anything they must Aet in United known as company “houses.” |unite with all other workers into e ° h Anti-War Fig FPL AES | the cracks and knot holes. |Many of these “houses” are just| One big unit and fight for what is |shacks, nine by fifteen feet, with no |Tightfully theirs: the right to life, |floor, no windows, and the walls| liberty and the pursuit of happle PARIS, Aug. 13—A united front] |The women and children have no Artists Will Discuss meeting was held in Tours, at-|Shoes, stockings, erwear. - * tended iy 2,000 persons, and ad. | There are no sanitary conveniences Fight for Relief Jobs papered with newspapers to cover | ness. dressed by the Socialist mayor of and in many instances water is meeting of the city, politicians had proposed arbitration, and advised n hei rotests ere as asten L rages oa When these conditions, under the pauperization. N. R. A, became unbearable, the ook Roy Smith, Edward Harris, A. C. $50 to Defend Leader By CARL REEVE to the workers is proven in the history of the past few months. Where the A. F. L. leadership has been able to prevail and prevent struggle, the demands of the work- ers have been lost. Green pre- vented the auto strike. The auto workers lost their demands. Green stopped the steel workers from striking. The steel workers did not gain any of their demands. Wher- | ever the A, F, of L. leaders put into effect their policy of “no struggle” the workers’ grievances remained unsolved, their demands lost. Conditions Worse The workers are now reaping the harvest of this “no strike” policy. Company unions, under N. R. A. patronage, flourish in all main in- dustries as never before. Prices of necessities have soared, reducing the real wages of the workers. Star- vation minimum wage levels prevail. Mass lay-offs increase. Profits have been maintained, dividends have been paid, at the expense of ever mounting misery of the workers. Terror Increased workers launched into an unprece- dented wave of strikes and struggles over the heads of Green and com- | | pany. The Roosevelt government, |finding that demagogy did not} quiet the workers, increased its fas- cist measures. Murder of strikers by troops and police, jail, beatings, union smashing, suppression of all the elementary rights of the work- ers took place throughout the coun- ty. In the face of murder of strikers in Alabama, Toledo, Minneapolis, the Pacific Coast and elsewhere, the A. F. of L. leaders have carried their treachery to the workers a step further. At a time when the A. F. of L. rank and file was on the battlefront, the A. F. of L, lead- ers, instead of organizing and lead- ing a mass campaign against the terror, abandoned all of the work- ers’ elementary rights. Thus William Green and his col- leagues cleared the way for the na- tional guard, attacking the strikers instead of their murderers. They have abandoned the workers’ ele- mentary right to picket, to meet and to speak. Instead, to cover up this treachery, Green raised the Red Scare, and launched a cam- paign to split the workers and drive all militants who are in favor of struggle out of the unions. Rank and File Militancy But this is not. the position of the masses of trade union members. The strike wave took place in spite of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy. In Minneapolis, San Francisco, Toledo, Milwaukee, the workers struck in defiance of the wishes of the A. F. of L, leadership. They fought for their economic demands” with the greatest heroism and _ militancy. The struggles for small economic demands quickly spread to the broadest class fights involving the majority of the population of these cities. Green and company were powerless to prevent, although they later beheaded, many of these struggles. The strike wave is developing. The rank and file is in gncreasing revolt at the no strike; arbitration N. R. A. policy of their leaders. They face the road of either meek struggles for their needs. Paramount questions before the | national convention of the A. F. | of L. will therefore be the organ- ization of the impending strike | struggles, the organization of the fight for the right to organize, to strike and to picket, the organ- ization of a broad mass protest against the terror of the Roose- | velt government, The rank and file of the conven- tion will present a program of struggle, for a fight against the N. R. A. attacks on the workers’ living | standards and on their elementary rights. The rank and file will pre- sent a program for a broad united front of all workers for these basic demands. Although the mass resistance of the workers to the union smashing campaign of Roosevelt is growing, the weakness of the rank and file has so far been the lack of organ- ized opposition groups inside the A. F. of L. unions. As the article of Comrade Browder of Aug. 4 clearly pointed out, in those places such as San Francisco, where the left wing groups were active and organized, | the workers won concessions in the form of part of their economic de- mands. Where the rank and file opposition was weakest, the A. F. L. leaders were able to end the strikes in defeat of the workers demands. | The task of the Communists is to ‘throw all energy into the organiza- tion of the rank and file opposition. Comrade Browder states: “In San Francisco, the strength of the strike movement from the be- ginning, including the general strike, was based upon definite, organized | left-wing groups, which even though young and weak, played a most de- cisive role, and brought San Fran. cisco into the vanguard of the whole | national strike movement. “The lesson is the supreme, vital importance of work inside the A. F. of L., the same lesson that the 8th Convention of the Party hammered so heavily and stubbornly. Even the beginnings of serious systematic work, with all its weaknesses, brings the most tremendous results for the workers and for the entrench- ment of the Communist Party among the masses.” These are the opposing forces in the coming A. F. L. convention. The A. F. L. officialdom, represent- ing the Roosevelt government, de- termined to stifle all struggle. On the other hand the Rank and File Opposition, demanding and leading a struggle for unemploy- ment insurance, a fight for the eco- nomic demands of the workers, for their elementary rights—the organ- ization of a broad, united strike front of the workers—a determined fight against company unions and fascist terror—a fight against the treacherous policies of the A. F. L. leaders, In the preparations for the A. F. L. convention, as Comrade Browd- er’s article demonstrates, the key question is the strengthening of the rank and file opposition groups in- side the A. F. L. In the prepara- tions for the coming A. F. L. con- vention, these problems should be discussed in all A. F. L. local unions and in mass meetings of the Rank and File Committees. The fight for the election of delegates to the na- tional convention, representing the rank and file, the organization of the left wing groups in the A. F. L. locals, are major party tasks. Cowper Powys Backs Gallagher’s Candidacy LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 13.— The Non-Partisan Committee cam- paigning for the election of Leo Gallagher, Communist - endorsed candidate for Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, today made public an endorsement of Gallagher's candidacy by John Cowper Powys, the novelist and critic. Powys’ letter of endorsement, ad- dressed directly to Gallagher, says in part: “I am overjoyed to learn that you are a candidate .. . Your back- ground is cxeetly ricnt for this im- porsnt pe: ion a your clect.2n 5 ‘ will indeed ‘raise a standard to! Builders! which the wise and the honest can repair.’ A man with your tradi- tions and noble spirit is the best hope we can have in these troubled days.” HOUSEWIFE PICKETS JAILED NEW YORK.—Two women were arrested Sunday night while pickei- ing before the Grossfeld Bakery and Lunchroom, 935 E. 180th St., the Bronx. They were Mrs. Eva Simon, 33 years old, and Mrs. Eva Kahn, 35. Both women, members of the 180th St. Neighbo-hood Com- mittee, had carried placards de- manding reductions in the price of bread and rolls. Earn Expenses SecHing the “Daily” Join the Red land yet hundreds of employes of the town and the Communist mayor of St. Pierre de Corps, In Bourges 1,500 persons. After the meeting held. The idiemonstration proce: sion ended in front of the Prefec- ture, where a speech was given by a representative of the C. C. of the C. P. An anti-fascist regional confer- |ence was held in St. Etienne, at-| : = tended by 800 delegates represent-|0n June 20th Okie O'Dell, a valiant ing many thousands of workers. Resolutions were adopted unani- mously for the struggle against fas- cism and imperialist war, and stressing the successes of socialist construction in the Soviet Union, Dublin Printers Tie Entire City Up in Strike for More Pay DUBLIN, Aug. 13.—Four thou- sand printers here have tied up the entire newspaper business in a strike for better wages and condi- tions. cept a bulletin issued by the strikers themselves. The wages of some of the strik- ers is as low as $4 a week, and highly skilled printers are getting | less than $10 a week. | The workers in a _ statement printed in their paper, the Dublin Daily Record, the organ of the printing trades, declare: “The cap- italist press is the mos‘ sinister in- fluence supporting the system that it serves and its organizations are | maintained at fabulous costs . . .| these firms in the Dublin offices) are paid ridiculously poor wages on! which unfortunate men and women are forced to live wretched lives in| the poorer quarters of the city... “| It is evident that the employers are | can force the workers to. submit. They will find that they are mis- taken.” Tim Buck, Tom Ewen Are Still Held in Jail By Canadian Officials | TORONTO, Aug. 13, — Though | forced to release five of the eight/ Communsts arrested in the police | raids of 1931, the Conservative Price-Henry government still keeps Tim Buck and Tom Ewen, Com- munist leaders, in jail. The government, which was forced to admit that eleven shots were fired into Buck's cell in October, 1932, refused to indict those respon- sible, and is making use of the nine months added sentence as an excuse to keep Buck longer in jail. In the case of Ewen, the governmen* but is nevertheless keeping him, anc from strong rumors, it seems, in- tends to keep both Buck and Ewen | as long as possible, for they fear to have these leaders of the Canadian toilers again in action. The working class mass pressu-e that forced the release of the five, can be strengthened to force the release of the remaining two, and must be strengthened through all possible demonstrative actions. War Opponents Plan City-Wide Conference In New Haven Friday NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 13-- A city-wide conference of anti-war and anti-fascist organizations will be held here on Friday at 8 p. m. in the Y. M. C, A. auditozium in preparation for their participation in the Second United States Cou- gress Against War and Fascism to pe held in Chicago on September Na newspapers are appearing ex- | labor dispute. has not even a technical excuse, |/ |obtained at a~common well, used by ten to twelve families, carried as |a similar meeting was attended by |far as 200 yards. | Proper food and medical atten- jan enthusiastic demonstration was|tion are practically unknown, re- sulting in the largest percentage of | tuberculosis of any county in the state. Epidemics of typhoid fever | |have been frequent and other pre- ventable diseases run rampant due to neglect, Such were the conditions when and fighting leader, called the strike now nationally famous. ‘These | workers are asking for 35 cents per hour and an eight-hour day. They went out almost 100 per cent and |those who did not go out volun- tarilly were forced out by the picket line maintained over a nine-mile area, The strikers have now been organized into the Agriculture] | Workers’ Union, No. 19724, affiliated to the A. F. of L., the first agricul- jtural union ever to affiliate with |the A. F. of L; Headquarters have | been established at McGuffey, Ohio. | On June 23, Judge Hamilton J. Hoge granted one of the most sweeping injunctions ever issued in Picketing is con- fined to two at any farm entrance and it is a violation of the injunc- tion for strikers to congregate in groups of more than two. Sheriff Wilbur (“Buck-Passing’) Mitchell immediately, over the protest of labor leaders, appointed National Guardsmen as deputy sheriffs to uphold the injunction and break the strike. These hired thugs, many of whom saw service in the famous Toledo Auto-Lite strike where two workmen were murdered and scores of others gassed and wounded, have lived up to their evil reputation, shooting, clubbing, stabbing and otherwise manhandling strikers on the slightest provocation. Court Terrorism A continual stream of strikers are being arrested, dragged to Kenton, ‘spoiling for a fight,’ thinking they |tne County seat, and fined, thrown into jail, bail refused; and mock trials held. The courts of Hardin |County make no pretense of met- jing out justice. They are on the |side of the money barons and make |no bones about it. Company at- |torneys act as prosecutors in all cases. The laws are flouted and an arrest is tantamount to a con- |viction, however slight and trumped- up evidence. Families are now being evicted and forced to live in the ditches and on the roads. Expectant | on Meeting Tomorrow NEW YORK.—The Artists Union, under its new organization plan, will hold a meeting tomorrow at | 11 West 18th St., at 8:30 pm. The |demands formulated at the last meeting will be discussed and ac- tion taken to put these demands in- | to effect. | The fight for jobs for all un- {employed artists, for relief until | Jobs are given, the struggle against wage-cuts and lay-offs, will be handled by the new Grievance Committee, which proposes to | strengthen its struggle by a fight- ing picket line and mass protest at the offices of the College Art Association—employment center for art jobs—at the home relief stae tions and at Commissioner Hod- son’s office. Get Daily Worker Subscribers! Build a Daily Worker Route DAILY WORKER PICNIC SUNDAY AUGUST 26th NORTH BEACH PARK Astoria, L. I. Dancing Games Sports Admission 25c Directions: I. R. T. or B. M. T. Second Ave. “L", to Busses to the park. 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Admission 15¢ DIRECTIONS: Take Irving Park Blvd. car to end of Ine where ‘ our buses will take you direct to grove, 28, 29 and 30, The local conference | is being’ called by the American | League Against War and Fascisra. | Calls have been sent to 300 groups engaged in labor, religious, cultural, political and fraternal activities. A delegate from the International Wo- men’s Congress Against War and Fascism which recently completed its sessions in Paris has been in- Unemp eyed? vited to address the conferencé,