The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1934 } Page Three New York Unemployed March to Relief Bureau Today; Seattle Jobless Seamen Win Their Demands from FERA Philadelphia Marine Workers’ Group Puts | | Demands at Capita Socialist-Led Unemployed Union Locals To Join) Councils in Demonstration, Despite Rejection of United Front by Their Leadership NEW YORK.—Downtown workers will march to the Spring and Elizabeth Street Home Relief Bureau today at 10 a, m., demanding adequate relief, removal of the police from the relief stations, and immediate action on all needy cases presented. The eight locals of the Unem- Ployed Councils which have called the joint demonstration will mass at central rallying points and march to Spring and Elizabeth streets, The Council locals at 513 E. 13th St., 327 E. Eighth St., and 234 EB. Second St, will mobilize at Seventh St. and Ave. A at 9:30 am. The lower Hast Side locals at 298 Henry St., 48 Jef- ferson St., 112 Madison St., and 109 Ludlow St., will mobilize at Rutgers Square at 9:30 a.m., and the West Side local at 107 McDougal St. will meet at its headquarters. United front proposals made by the Unemployment Councils and endorsed by the workers in the Workers Unemployed Union were rejected by the Socialist leadership in the city central committee of the Unemployed Union, Nevertheless, whole locals in the Workers’ Unem- Ployed Union have stated their in- tention of joining in the march, Seattle Seamen Win Demands SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 20—After months of struggle under the lead- ership of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, unemployed seamen here wrung from the Federal Emer- gency Relief Administration the right to a seamen’s relief project, three meals a day, clothing when Fei and free tobacco and razor lades, In the fight for all their demands, the seamen will meet today at 94 West Main Street to lay plans for the smashing of all discrimination against militant seamen, for sea- men’s control of all relief, medical and dental aid, and for the enact- ment of the Wofkers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, At the mass meeting today the seamen will elect joint committees of the International Seamen’s Union and the Marine Workers Industrial Union to carry on the future strug- gles. Wee oe Seamen Make Demands in Capital PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 20.— A committee of six, elected by the Mariné Workers Industrial Union, left here Saturday to present relief demands to the Federal Transient Bureau officials at Washington. The seamen’s demands for the unemployed include: a relief project within two blocks of the waterfront, the elimination of forced labor on seamen’s relief, provisions for razor blades, tobacco, tooth paste, etc., the end to all discrimination, seamen’s control of relief, and passage of the Rane: Unemployment Insurance ill. After having been repeatedly Promised a seamen’s relief project, the unemployed seamen have been forced to live at the transint bu- reau, which is 12 blocks from the poetione and work at forced la- A picket line has been thrown around the transient relief project at 1011 Locust St. by the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and will be maintained until the demands are granted, Workers School Will Open in Chicago Loop in New Headquarters CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 20—The Chicago Workers School will open its Fall term in its new headquar- ters in the Loop. For the first time in Chicago the Workers School will be centrally located in the heart of the city, with branches in the heart of the packing, railroad and steel industries. Beginning with Labor Day, the Chicago Workers School is conduct- ing a training school for teachers in order to improve the quality of the instructions and train new teachers to fill the many posts that the Fall and Winter program de- mand. All workers in mass organizations are urged to support the cam; of the School for $1,500. Contribu- tions should be sent to the Chicago Workers School, 505 8. State Street. New Jersey To Open Communist Campaign with Picnic on Sept. 3 PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 20.—Moe Brown, Paterson textile workers’ leader and Communist candidate for Governgr, will be the principal -zraker at the picnic on September 3 which will mark the formal open- ing of the Communist Party's elec- tion campaign in New Jersey, The picnic will be held at Village Barn, Haledon, N. J. An invitation has been extended by the campaign committee to’ all silk and dye workers and to mem- bers of the Amezican Federation of Labor unions in the textile and other local industries. Get Subs for the “Daily” During the Finance Drive!” og we ® Needle Trades Union and Women’s Council Act for Bronx Rally NEW YORK. — The United Council of Workingclass Women and the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union yesterday called on their members “to make their pledge of ‘no more Sacco- Vanzetti murders’ and to express this concretely by making the Scottsboro-Herndon meeting at the Bronx Coliseum tomorrow night the greatest meeting ever held in that hall.” The meeting, which will com- memorate the day of the execu- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927, will also be used as an oc- casion for rallying defense forces for the Scottsboro boys and An- gelo Herndon. C.P. in Chicago To Celebrate Its 15th Year CHICAGO, Aug. 20. — The fif- teenth anniversary of the Com- munist Party, U. 8. A., will be celebrated here Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m. with a mass meeting at Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren Sts. Communist candidates in the forthcoming Gongressional elections will speak, Leaders of the Com- munist Party from many fields of industry will review the work of the Party and stress the need for a firm revolutionary movement to- day. Special appeal is being made to the packinghouse, steel and metal workers in the city who are organ- izing and preparing for struggles against the increased attacks of the bosses, against lowering wages, speed-up, increasing cost of living, and against the class-collaboration Policy of the A. F. of L, officialdom, The Worker's Theatre is pre- paring to give scenes from “Peace on Earth,” the anti-war play which had a successful run in New York Jast Winter. The play is particu- larly applicable at this time in view of the preparations that are going forward for the Second U. 8, Con- gress Against War. Militant Worker Jailed with Wife in Florida; Bail Set at $100 Each WINTER PARK, Fla., Aug. 20.— Leon Bland, prominent in the working class movement here, has with his wife been arrested on trumped up charges of vagrancy and prowling. Chief of Police Smith has refused them their right of using the telephone. Bond has been set at $100 in cash for each, The trial will be held Monday, NOTE:—This is the first of two articles on the U. T, W. conven- tion, just concluded. Srey as By CARL REEVE The national convention of the United Textile Workers Union (A. F. of L.) just concluded reflected the rapid growth of militancy among the million textile workers of the United States. The U. T. W. since its last convention, has grown into a mass urion. The secretary treasurer’s report showed 230,000 new members in more than 500 new locals, It was a national conven- tion, with every important textile center and every branch of the in- dustry in the country represented. The delegates included scores of textile workers from the south. Th convention was a strike con- vention, with the question of general strike at all times in the center of the deliberations, The delegates met at a time when strikes on,a broad scale are already taking place, in New Hampshire, Conn., Pennsylvania, as well as in the south. While the convention was in ses- sion, several thousand more walked out in Georgia and New England. Before the delegates convened the Paterson silk workers had voted in | | the 35-hour week with wage in-| End of Strike In KnitGoods | Called Sellout) Industrial Union Brands| Dubinsky’s Settlement | ‘Shameful Betrayal’ NEW XORK—The general strike | committee of the Knitgoods Work- ets Industrial Union, which met} here Saturday, unanimously declar- ed that the settlement of the gen- eral strike concluded by David Dubinsky, president of the LLG. W.U., was a shameful betrayal of | the workers" interests. Dubinsky has | agreed to call off the strike on the | basis of the 36-hour week without | wage increases. The popular de-| mand of the workers, however, is creases, The treachery of the settlement | is made obvious by the fact that the strikers who were fighting under the leadership of the Knitgoods Workers Industrial Union have suc- ceeded in making a large number of settlements with important shops | in the industry on the basis of the | 35-hour week, wage increases up to | eleven dollars a week over the high- | est wage prevailing in the industry, and two legal holidays with pay. “There is no excuse for Mr. Dub- insky to conclude a settlement for a thirty-six hour week without any increases in wages,” said a state- ment issued by the strike commit- tee of the Knitgoods Workers In- dustrial Union. “Such outright favors and generous presents to the knitgoods employers is a crime ageinst the workers whom Dubinsky is supposed to represent. “The Knitgoods Workers Indus- trial Union before the strike and during the strike proposed a united strike of all the unions in this in- dustry. This proposal was rejected by the officials of the IL.G.W.U. We look upon this treacherous set- tlement as the price for Mr. Dubin- sky’s rejection of uniting all the knitgoods workers, which would have guaranteed full victory for their demands. “The General Strike Committee | decided to continue settling shops | only on the basis of thirty-five hours, minimum wage scales and all the other demands, to maintain these conditions in the already set- tled shops and to continue making every effort possible to unite all the strikers to win the same demands before they go back to work and for the establishment of one Knitgoods Union in the trade.” Anti-Nazi To Combat Deportation Efforts Before Court Today NEW YORK. — Fredrich Beyer- bach, political refugee from Ger- many, who came here as a stow- away aboard the Leviathan on Aug. 7, will fight efforts to deport him when he appears in United States District Court this morning for a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus. The writ was obtained for him by the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, Beyerbach faces imprisonment in a concentration’ camp and almost certain death if he is returned to Germany. The National Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born urged all workers who could do so to attend this morning's hear- ing, which will be held in the Old Post Office Building on Park Row, near City Hall Park, | Aug. 27, in the Municipal Court in Winterpark. Workers are rallying to attend the trial in the court and to lend the weight of their num- bers to the two victims of police a referendum instructing their ex- ecutive board to prepare strike ac- tion. More than fifty resolutions for terror. Competitio n Is Keener’ As Circulation Campaign : ‘ ~ |For Literature) Is Linked to Fund Drive ea | CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 20.—District 8 accepted the challenge of District 2 to Socialist competition for the remaining two weeks of the 20,000 new-reader drive. With an 11 per cent’ lead in quota standings, Chicago threatens to score heavily against its formidable rival, New York. ITH Districts, Sections and Units tugging at the leash to be off to a flying start in the $60,000 Daily Worker and Communist Party finance drive, there must be no ten- dency to ignore or neglect the need of doubling the ‘Daily’s’ circulation by January 1, 1935. 20,000 new-reader drive. Two weeks remain of the These two weeks must produce a tremendous increase in Daily Worker sales and subscrip- tions in order to give our circulation a mass base and create broader sources of incomé. Readers attract readers and open new and important sources of revenue, To get money for the maintenance of a workers’ press is vital, but it is paramount that such a press constantly widen its circle of readers. The two tasks go hand in hand. Advance reports from Districts and Sections show that our Party is ready and waiting to start the $50,000 flow which will assure the “Daily” of another year’s operation. This determination on the part of the membership of our Party and the many sympathetic workers’ organizations and unions is splendid and graphically shows the possibilities for organized effort in spreading the “Daily.” enough, however, to get workers’ support for our press. It is not Workers must read our press to give this support the full meaning of working class solidarity. The Socialist competition among the Districts to reach their quotas first wil be maintained during the last two weeks of the 20,000 new-reader drive. about the other 23? Therefore, every Party member .. . Three District are over the top! What every reader of the “Daily”... push circulation hard during the next two weeks! Do not be satisfied wth only collecting money from workers who are not regular readers of the “Daily.” bundle! Join the Red Builders! Get them to read the “Daily!” Solicit subs! Order a Reach the hundreds of thousands of workers who are daily turning to the revolutionary way out! Labor Plans Indianapolis Rights Meeting INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 20.—A vi- gorous fight to protect labor’s right of free speech and assembly was projected last night at a conference | at 143 East Ohio Street. The con- ference, sponsored by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, was attended by 32 labor delegates representing nine labor unions, and fraternal and cultural groups. The conference unanimously adopted resolutions protesting po- lice brutality, arrests of workers and attacks on workers’ meetings and voted to hold a huge free speech rally in the immediate fu- ture and to prepare a larger free speech conference to be held within a few weeks. Police recently broke up a work- ers’ meeting at Kingans and Mili- tary Park, arrested ten workers, one of whom was subsequently beaten at the police station. Speakers at the conference, including Milton Siegel, I, L. D. attorney, vigorously denounced these attacks. Mr. Hull, president of the Cross Roads of America Lodge, Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of the A. F. of L., was elected chairman of the con- ference, and Helen Layton, of the I. L. D., conference secretary. FUR CHAIRMEN MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK.—A special shop chairmen’s meeting of the Fur Workers Industrial Union will be held tonight, after work, at the general strike were submitted to the convention. The demand for strike among the hundreds of thousands of silk, woolen, worsted, rayon and cotton workers was so strong that it was a foregone conclusion that the dele- gates would vote in favor of strike. The question which remained was, what form of strike resolution would be passed by the convention? MacMahon's Strategy The strategy of the conservative leadership of Thomas MacMahon, president of the union, in view of the overwhelming demand for strike, was to allow the motions for strike and other militant motions to go through the convention unopposed. At the same time the MacMahon- Green machine worked to inaintain the organizational control of the union and of the strike activity, and to maintain as much as possible the illusions of the workers in the N. R. A. and in Roosevelt, The MacMahon machine thus did not oppose the resolution for indus- trial unionism, for the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill, for strike, for a labor party. There was even a lot of “criticism” of the N. R. A. But when the convention was over the MacMahon machine was re-elected to leadership, with all strike activities in their hands, The motion condemning Green for be- traying the San Francisco strike was union auditorium, 131 W. 28th St. Clique Denies Delegate Seat (Special to the Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 20.—Led by George Dean, a member of the local Socialist Party, the machine at the head of the Central Labor Body of the Detroit Federation of Labor has voted not to seat Richard Kroon, militant painter and representative of Local 37 of the Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators. Local 37 countered with the res- olution adopted at its last meeting that if all its delegates are not seated, it would withdraw from the Detroit Federation. A stirring speech was made in behalf of Kroon by Paul Rumble, president of the local, Rumble pointed out that the rank and file placed the greatest confidence in Kroon, the painters having elected him no less than five times to the C.L.B. The repre- sentative of Bakers Local 20 staunchly supported Rumble’s speech. So fearful is the official clique of the Detroit Federation of Labor, headed by Frank X. Martel, of its own membership, that forthe first time in several years an executive session was called to consider the Kroon question. f Local 37, largest painters local in Michigan, will take steps to win the support of other locals in the fight against the expulsion policy of the corrupt Martel gang, it is expected. Every New “Daily” Reader Adds a Fighter to Our Ranks! defeated by a full mobilization of the MacMahon machine by a vote of 193 to 103. Even the motions for more authority to the department of the union were defeated, Rieve’s Betrayal In this betrayal of the militant rank and file, the Socialist Party leadership in the convention must take front rank. A number of the rank and file socialists at the con- yention aze still smarting under this betrayal, carried through by Emil Rieve, head of the Hosiery Workers Federation, They did not under- stand how in the course of a few days, as the convention proceeded, the situation had so quickly changed. On one day Rieve was being boosted as the candidate of the “progressive,” pro-strike ele- ment, to succeed McMahon as presi- dent. One day later, MacMahon was asking the delegates to rise from their seats in honor of Rieve, and was appointing Rieve as chairman while MacMahon was re-elected . without opposition. Rieve, who had posed as the champion of militant struggle, was making a fight against a strike in the silk or woolen industry, declaring, “one strike at a time,” while rank and REEVE New Leader of Aug. 18, as “the hosiery workers’ battling chief,” was fighting tooth and nail to deteat a motion condemning the N. R. A. as an instrument of the big employers, and declaring that the workers had bettered their conditions under the N. R. A. Rieve played a similar role in the textile convention that the Commit- tee of Ten leaders played in the steel convention. Both began shouting “militant action.” Both ended up posing with the reaction- ary A. F. of L. leadership for pic- tures and declaring “we have no differences with the present leade:- ship.” Rieve, socialist leader, already a member of the Philadelphia Re- gional Labor Board, came out of the convention a member of the Executive Board, elected by the MacMahon Machine, of which he is now openly a part. Rieve cleared the road for Mac- Mahon. By putting forward a sham “opposition,” Rieve sabotaged the formation of a genuinely militant opposition and his complete sur- render to MacMahon at the decisive moment demoralized and confused many delegates. The Fight on the N, R. A. file delegates were demanding a strike s0 as not to be “turned into potential scabs by a decision of the convention.” Rieve, termed by the foe The fact that Rieve prevented the organization at the convention of @ genuine left wing is seen in te attitude he took toward the N. R. A., Military Polic Beat 5 Youths Leaflets Given Guards- men in the Chicago | Military Display (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) | CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—Five young | workers distributing leaflets calling | |for solidarity between workers and |the National Guardsmen were seized | and badly beaten by military police during the jingoist military display conducted here last Friday. Ten thousand National Guards- men, with infantry, cavalry, artil- lery and air forces combined, staged | an immense military demonstration } Friday. Michigan Avenue was a river of bayonets as the troops| marched through the The capitalist press unanimously cheered | the armed forces as a bulwark against a militant working class. The attack on the five youths was| made after it became evident that the Guardsmen were showing sym- pathy with the statements on the leaflets. Those beaten were distrib- | uting it to the 8th Regiment at its camp in Grank Park on the lake front. The 8th Regiment is a jim- crow Negro regiment, and its en- listed men are the victims of even} | worse treatment than the white| Guardsmen, They received the leaflet gladly, some of them coming back to thank the distributors. The five youths were seized by white officers and | dragged before a minor commander, who turned them over to a group of officers. One of the five visited the Daily Worker office the next day. His face was covered with bruises and welts, his body terribly marked, He told the “Daily” reporter the rest of the story: “This group then walked us about half a mile and we were taken to the chief office of the military police. The commander seemed angered by the presence of one worker who was dressed in a good suit. He tore his tie off and crashed a blow right into the youth’s face, smiling and walking away, saying, “Go to it, boys!” At least four M.P.’s sur- rounded each of us and began a beating process which seemed as though it would never end. “We dropped to the ground, bleed- ing profusely and were kicked with hob-nailed boots. When we could not rise we were picked up and beaten more. Two M.P.’s would hold our hands while a third would drive blows to the face and ribs. “Finally we were released and told to run. Then another group of thugs chased us and beat us more. Finally we were thrown into the street and ordered to leave. A po- liceman who saw us turned his back. “We all remember the excellent response given to the literature by the rank and file Guardsmen, and the looks of sympathy we received when we walked down the street drenched with blood. We are re- Solved to keep up the good work that can be done.” ase Against ‘Randa: Wounded by California Police, Is Dismissed LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20. — The case of Tom Sharpe, marine worke:, whose leg was shattered by Officer Strand of the San Pedro red squad in the San Pedro jail, was dis- missed on motion of the prosecution when it came up for retrial on Aug. 14. Originally the jury had disagreed in spite of conclusive proof that Sharpe did not attack Strand as charged. Strand and the other police lackeys testified that Sharpe's leg was broken when he resisted offi- cers on the street. How Opvonents of Strike Retained Control of Textile Union MCMAHON, UNABLE TO HALT ACTION, MANEUVERED WITH AID OF RIEVE TO CLAMP HIS GRIP ON MOVEMENT By CARL vention. Here. Rieve took an iden- tical position with MacMahon and Vice-President Gorman. Both real- ized that they would have been howled off the platform if they had unstintingly praised the N. R. A. The delegates were partially dis- illusioned with the N. R. A, The lesson of the betzayal of the wage and recognition demands of the cotton workers and of the woolen and worsted workers by the N. R. A. this summer has not been lost on the textile workers. They know that undez the N. R. A. their condi- tions have worsened. This partial disillusionment is seen in the delegates reaction to the speech of Green’s representative J. Googe. Googe worked to a climax of praise of Roosevelt, “the greatest humanitarian that ever sat in the White House’—and there was not even the faintest ripple of applause. The first time Googe was able to draw applause was when he men- tioned “picket lines,” and there was a thunderous burst of applause at these words, A Demagogist Formula And so the Green-MacMahon leadership had to put forth a mor? demagogic formula, they had to “criticise” the N. R. A. This for- mula was repeated by MacMahon, Gorman, Googe, Dubinsky and above all by Rieve. It was “We one of the key questions at the con- must fight, we must build our union, ryland C.P. Body Sees Chance to Elect Nominees to Office | Petitions Are Filed for 38 Candidates in State— Ades Named for Governor; Gale, Negro Longshoreman, for U. S. Senator BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. . 20—The Communist Party has entered the election campaign in Maryland by filing pe- | titions for thirty-eight candidates for local and state offices. In all cases the nominating Worker, Acquitted, Faces a New Trial in Terror Campaign LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 —A retrial of the “disturbing the peace” complaint against Snyder, a worker of Belvedere, will be held at the Belvedere Township Court Sept. 9. Snyder was acquitted recently on two counts of vagrancy, but the jury failed to agree on the remaining charge. The prosecu- tor shouted “red” all through the trial, Grover Johnson, defending attorney, brought Harold Hen- dricks out of his cell at the city jail to testify. The charges against Snyder grew out of the workers’ protest at the eviction of Hendricks from his home, Hendricks is now awaiting appeal on his two-year sentence for participating in the June 10 demonstrations. Connecticut Petition Drive Faces Danger NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 20.— Grave danger of being eliminated from the fall elections faces the Communist Party in this State un-| less all available forces are mobil- ized for the collection of nominat- ing petition signatures. This pros- pect was reported today by J. Mil- ton, State campaign manager. “Six thousand certified signatures are necessary to put the Party on the ballot,” Milton said, “and the deadline is the first week in Sep- tember. So far only slightly more than half have been turned in, and unless the entire: Communist Party membership and the supporting mass organizations are swung into action, we may not be able to make} the grade.” | Several cities, particularly Bridge- port, show an alarming lag, accord- ing to Milton. He pointed out that where systematic house to house canvassing has been the rule, good results have been realized. | Undeterred by the lag in sig- | nature collections, Communist forces have started the campaign in sev- eral Connecticut cities with shop- gate and street corner meetings, and weekly speaking tours of territory never before penetrated. Trainmen In Chicago May Quit Work to Aid Bus Drivers’ Strike DETROIT, Aug. 20.—The first request facing the executive board of the Amalgaamted Association of Street and Electric Raliway Em- ployes of America, meeting here today, was reported to be for a strike of elevated and surface op- erators in Chicago in sympathy with the striking bus drivers. we must be militant—but we must | fight within the N. R. A. apparatus.” Dubinsky expressed this formula in the phrase, “The unions plus the N.R. A” “We must build our union stronger,” Rieve, and the other members of the MacMahon machine declared. “Then we can win moze representation on the N.R.A. boards and we can fight better to get the N. R. A. to better the codes.” Thus the MacMahon - Rieve leadership of the union were able to defeat the militant rank and file through this demagogy.. They “criticized” the N. R. A., but they defeated the resolution to with- draw from the N. R. A. boards; they kept the emphacis on nego- tiations within the N. R. A. boards and not on the organization of the strike itself. They built up the idea of “going to Roosevelt” and kept away from the vital problem of mass picket- ing and rank and file control of the strike. They maintained the illusion that by becoming appen- dages to the machinery of big business, the N. R. A., that some- thing can be won. They operated on the basis of class collaboration with Roosevelt and the N. R. A. instead of a class struggle basis that only militant strike action will win the demands. (TO BE CONCLUDED) é © | State Senator. petitions carried signatures in excess of the required total. A statement on behalf of the Communist election committee dee clared today that there is a strong Possibilty of electing several of the 1|red legislative candidates to office, The two chief local and state is- {sues in the campaign will be the ;repeal of the State Jim Crow laws Jand the fight for state unemploy- |ment insurance. Planks have also |been written into the State Come jmunist platform offering farmers, | miners and the Negro population of |the East Shore effective weapons \for defending themselves against |the effects of the crisis. |. Bernard Ades, attorney who fear- lessly led the defense for Euel Lee, Negro farmhand railroaded to his death by the East Shore courts, has been chosen as the Communist nominee for Governor. Samuel |Gale, Negro longshoreman widely | known on the Baltimore water- front, is candidate for United States Senator. These two will lead in raising the demands of the Party | for the abolition of Maryland's bar- | barous Jim-Crow laws. State Candidates | Other State candidates are: | Howell, seaman, for Comptroller; |Thomas Pinkerton, young Irish American worker, for Attorneys General; Bruce Parker, young Ne« gro worker, for Clerk of the Court | of Appeals. Petitions have been filed for twelve out of a possible sixteen of fices in the Baltimore local elece |tions. The nominees for these of fices are: Wilson Kesterson, Clerk of the Superior Court; Edward Russell and Oscar Rabovsky, Clerks of the Circuit Courts; Robert Hol- jloway, Clerk of the City Court; | Edgar Brown, Clerk of Common Pleas Court; William 8S. Henson, | Register of Wills; Elmer French, Surveyor; Charles Isaacs, Mary Roberts and Jean Whitney, judges of the Orphans Court. Candidates also have been en- | tered in three of the six legislative | districts. Two of the three districts in which no candidates were en- tered are “silk stocking” districts and the Party election committee thought it better to concentrate its forces on the three most important working class sections. | The legislative slate consists of: Legislative Slate Walter Potrzuki, Polish needle needle trades worker, running for State Senator in the First District, | Which includes the waterfront and steel industries and the Polish and Italian working class residential sections. In this section the fol- lowing six were nominated for the State House of Delegates: Anton Becker, seaman; Joan Hardy, steel organizer; Solomon Hurvit, clerk; Frank James, seas man; Clarence Prince, steel worker, and Alexander Sylvester, needle trades worker. In the Second District, in East Baltimore, John Fedd, cement finisher and a leader among the Negro workers, was chosen for The following six were chosen for the House of Del- egates: Milton, Bertholdt, Harry Blank, Needham Horton, Mabel Jackson, Joseph Kralik and Benjamin Kuhn. In the Fourth District Leonard Patterson, young Negro seamen’s organier, is the nominee for State Senator and the six candidates for the house of delegates are: William E. Hinton, John W. Gattes, Samuel Hoffman, Charles Raffeld, Isadore Samuelson and William P. D. Whitney. Criticizing the weaknesses dis- played in the early stages of the campaign, the election committee pointed out that 95 per cent of the petitions signatures came from Ne-= gro workers and that little or no attempt was made to reach white workers with the petitions. The committee also stressed the failure of the Party to place can- didates for Congress on the ballot and urged that this failure be remedied by concentration on the effort to elect State legislative cane didates, Sympathizers have not been lined up in the campaign, the com- mittee declared, pointing to the fact that only two of the thirty-eight candidates are not members of the Communist Party. The failure to arouse the interest of larger groups of white workers was attributed in part to neglect in swinging the sympathetic organizations into ac- tion. Only the Relief Workers Pro- tective League signed the petitions as @ group, the committee said. Jobs Drop 1.4 Per Cent, Wages Slashed in Pa, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 20.— Basing its report on figures from 1,931 manufacturing plants in 68 industries, the Federal Reserve Bank announced today that the number of jobs dropped 1.4 per cent and wages were cut 9.5 per cent in Pennsylvania during July. * The 1,931 manufacturing plants included in the survey, employing 4 total of 404,000 workers, laid off approximately 5,700 workers during ‘. ‘ Roy July.