The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1934 Page Three Gallup FERA Workers Beat Pay Cut in One-Week Strike Victory Won M’MAHON COUP AT U.T.W. CONVENTION IS ANALYZED Under N.M.U. Leadership Relief Walkout Spreads to Three Other Cities in the State | GALLUP, N. M., Aug. 21.—After| & one-week strike, FERA workers | here, under the leadership of the| National Miners Union, defeated a} 20 per cent wage cut, winning a restoration of the 50 cent an hour| wage scale. During the entire strike, the unemployed miners won the right to relief. In a meeting with local and state FERA officials, Felipe Baca and Frank Williams, secretary of the National Miners Union sub-district | board, represented the striking FERA workers. | The Gallup workers struck on the| relief projects on Aug. 3 when the} tate FERA announced a 20 per cent wage cut effective throughout the State. Calling upon the work- ers throughout the State to join in the walkout, strike votes were pre- | pared in Duke City, in Raton and in Albuquerque. In Raton, five workers were ar- rested when police and state patrol- men were placed on the projects in order to stop picketing. One of the arrested workers was Tellesforo Gallegos, strike leader in Dawson last. winter. Harry Mavrogenis, leader of the Duke City walkout and former Gallup miner, speaking before the Albuquerque Common Labor Union, urged an immediate walkout, but his motion was sidetracked by union heads. At the beginning of the Gallup strike, Homer P. Powers, FERA ad- ministrator, declared that the 40 cent hourly wages could not be changed. Under his proposal, the relief workers would be forced to work longer hours for the same monthly pay. Attempting to recruit scabs, Powers at first declared that “full police protection” would be given to all who wished to work. As the picket lines held, Powers was forced to grant the workers’ de- mands that all relief projects would be closed until a full settlement had been reached. Chicago Police Raid LL.D. Street Meeting; 11 Workers Arrested (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, -Aug: 21. — Eleven workers were arrested at a street meeting at 55th St. and Ingleside Ave. Saturday night. The meeting, called by the John O’Neal Branch of the International Labor Defense has been a regular weekly affair for some months. Mike Mills, head of the Red Squad, revoked the permit last week, claiming residents were pro- testing. The protests came from hoodlum and _ politician elements who had tried to smash previous meetings. Many of the eleven jailed were not actively participating in the meeting, but were bystanders. Some were picked up as much as a block away from the corner. Last night police refused to book the prisoners, claiming they were being held on ‘suspicion of robbery.’ Defense delegations, however, forced the release of several of the prison- ers. Among thos jailed were Rey. Aaron Gilmartin, Dr. Twigg, Vir- ginia Basch, and Nathan Berman. Lochner, Candidate of Communist Party, Goes on Illinois Tour‘ (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—Karl Loch- ner, Communist candidate for Con- gressman at Large in Illinois, has begun a state tour. Lochner is well known in Chicago and throughout the state as a militant and able leader of the unemployed. The fol- lowing is an outline of his schedule: From “August 19 to 28 he will be in the vicinity of Springfield. He will then return to Chicago, remain- ing until September 3, on which date he will speak at the Section 3 picnic. From Sept. 4 to 9 he will be in and near Rock Island, prob- ably speaking at Moline, E. Moline, Alpha, Silvis, Mathersville, New ‘Winsor and Galesburg. From Sept. 10 to 15 he will be near Peoria, with meetings in Pekin and other cities. He will speak in Decatur on the 16th and in Bloom- ington the 17th. - The State Campaign Committee is asking all workers near these cities to help arrange meetings for Loch- ner. Details of when meetings will be held can be obtained from Un- employment Councils and Com- munist Campaign Headquarters in the cities mentioned. Railway Lodge Backs Anti-War Congress (Dally Worker Midwest Bureau) SHICAGO, Aug. 21. — Railroad tachinist Helpers Lodge, 915, of the Snternational Association of Ma- chinists unanimously endorsed the call to the Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism to be held heve Sept. 28-30. Dan Hart, president of the lodge, was elected a delegate to the Con- gress. Hart has also agreed to serve on the Congress Chicago Arrange- ments Committee. . A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the dictatarshin of the Lovestoneites Failed To Expose Anti-Strike Machine’s Role Note:—This is the second and concluding article summing up the lessons of the recent thirty-third national convention of the United Textile Workers Union of Amer- ica. The union officers reported a gain of 230,000 new members in 537 new local unions, since the last convention. The convention voted to strike in the cotton tex- tile industry, with half 2 million workers, on or before Sept. 1, and voted to strike in the silk, rayon and woolen and worsted industry, leaving the strike date to the Ex- ecutive Board. But a combina- tion of the socialist leader, Emil Rieve, together with the Thomas MacMahon machine, assured the conservative MacMahon of re- election without opposition. * By CARL REEVE SECTION of the “opposition” at convention was the Lovestoneite leadership. Three leaders of the Lovestone group were delegates to the convention: Eli Keller, J. Ru- binstein and Bernard Herman. Dur- ing the course of the convention a number of speeches were made by these Lovestoneites. Herman in- troduced a score of resolutions. But in not a single one of these speeches was the betrayal policy of the MacMahon - Gorman machine analyzed. These Lovestoneite leaders refrained from any but the most general phrases in advocating a militant strike policy, They did not once go into the whole history of betrayal of MacMahon and Gor- man. ote ae Concrete Exposure Lacking PPORTUNITIES to |expose and weaken the MacMahon machine were ample. Why was it for ex- ample, that Gorman’s report was not analyzed by the Lovestoneites. Gorman declared: “I desire to ex- press our sincere appreciation to the research department of the A. F. of L. and the Labor Advisory Board of the N.R.A. for the splendid assist- ance rendered to the United Tex- tile Workers of America and their willingness at all times to cooper- ate in our endeavors.” Gorman made this statement at the conclusion of a report in which he admitted that he had signed an agreement with the N.R.A. which called only for an “investigation’ of wages and hours, and which gave up the proposed strike in the cotton textile industry. Gorman thus praised the N.R.A. after he had quoted the N.R.A. “investigation” decision that “under existing condi- tions there is no factual or statisti- cal basis for any general increase in Cotton Textile Code wage rates.” Gorman said of this decision that it was “disappointing” then went on to praise and endorse the N.R.A. Jim Crow Policies But the Lovestoneites did not say a word concretely exposing Gorman or MacMahon’s treacherous record. They did not bring out that of the 17 board members elected, not one was a Negro or a woman. They said not a word against the Jim Crow policies of the Mac- Mahon machine. They did not raise their voices even to point out that of the 500 delegates, not one was a Negro—not even from the Jim Crow locals of the South. fact that not a single woman was Nor did they even mention the elected’ or even nominated for one of the 17 executive board members. This is striking in view of the fact that there are 452,007 women in the industry, which employes more women than any other industry in the U.S. In the silk and knitting industry women outnumber the men. And yet no women officers were elected by the reactionary MacMahon machine. It is one thing to make leftist speeches of a general nature, It is another to concretely expose the U.T.W. leadership. The reason for this can be seen in Paterson. Eli Keller, leader of the Paterson silk union, is following out MacMahon’s policies in practice. When Schweitz- er told the convention that, “We had our hands full inducing the workers not to strike but to accept a 3 per cent wage cut,” there was not a word from the Lovestoneites. Keller and Rubinstein helped put over this wage cut in Paterson. Keller said not a word in criticism of Schweitzer throughout the con- vention. He uttered not one word of criticism of MacMahon’s concrete acts of treachery. Keller is now engaged in Paterson in a campaign to expel militants from the union. The general left phrases of the Lovestoneites cloak the fact that in practice they are part and parcel of the MacMahon machine. To cap the climax, the Lovestoneites failed to put up one of their lead- ers as either presidential or vice presidential candidate and thus the officers were reelected unopposed, ’ Tasks of Communists E U.T.W. convention once more sharply calls to the attention of the Communist Party members and militants within the U.T.W. of the importance of opposition work in- side the A. F. of L. unions. With one truly militant floor leader the ‘complexion of the convention might have been altered. MacMahon and his machine will be unable to drown the militancy of the textile workers, They will be unable to prevent the broadest strikes in the coming weeks. But MacMahon will behead these strikes unless the Communists and the militants inside the union are able to at once organize rank and file oppositions in the most important U.T.W. locals. MacMahon already has raised the | | Mary Lincer ..... Many Loans for Fievaden Bail Given to Appeal Fund NEW YORK.—Many workers and intellectuals have answered the call of the International Labor Defense to change their loans for the Hern- don bail to contributions toward Herndon Defense Fund. The following have signified their willingness to place their loans on the contribution list and have re- ceived Scottsboro-Herndon Honor building the $15,000 Scottsboro- | Certificates: HONOB LIST Name Amount Name Amount Max Kalvarsky . $3.00|J. H. Levine Louis Emerson 15.00 | Z. Zabel Anon. Certificate .. Belle Levine... Flora Dormand .. Len Zinberg .. Henry J, Magazin Alice Heier, secretary Esther Roth . Anon, Certificate . Mary Panella . Anon. Certificate Marjorie Weston Murray Keil . Irwin Hellner I. Milgram Jacob Friedland .. Frank Coghlen . Ethel Nonen . Carl J. Chancas Dieudonne Rouge Noah Minkin ... August P. Hope Jacob Weisman .. Xenia Kebrich ....... Harold G. Grayzel Moses Soyer Julius Rothman Nellie Clark Corliss Lamon’ Gertrude Epstein .. Paul Bipschutz Ses n Heights Unem, Council . Leon Mi Mo? ‘ Ralph D, Marcus R. Yasney Riva Kotofsky .. 8. Welsdort . J. Wilbert Poor Louis Colman .. Sssesssszssssessssssss 415.50 Legion Pushes; Drive Against NegroWorkers ORLANDO, Fia., Aug. 21.—Fear of the growing unity of Negro and white workers and of the general strike weapon of the working class is revealed in statements by Legion and F.E.R.A. officials in the rabid lynch incitement campaign here against white and Negro Commu- nists and the Negro masses. Major Paul Crank, American Legion chaplain and executive officer of the Federal F.E.R.A. projects in Orange County, speaking at a recent meeting of the Legion, attributed the militancy of West Coast strik- ers and the development of the marine workers strike into a gen- eral strike to the growth of the in- fluence of the Communist Party among the workers, He expressed fear of a general strike of F.E.R.A. relief workers here. He stated that there are between 2,000 and 3,000 persons in the coun- ty who are active sympathizers and supporters of the Communist pro- gram. He was particularly incensed at the success of the Communists in breaking down race prejudice and uniting Negro and white workers in joint struggle against their ex- ploiters. Following his red-baiting speech, the Orlando post of the American Legion adopted a resolution calling for the “stamping out” of Commu- nism in Orlando county, and pledg- ing to uphold the fascist program of the Roosevelt “New Deal” of forced labor, wage differentials and ruination of the poor farmers. Daily Worker Readers in Atlantic City Hit Interference of Sales ATLANTIC CITY,.N. J., Aug. 21. —Fifty subscribers and Daily Work- er sympathizers have sent a reso- lution of protest to Police Recorder Altman, the Director of Public Safety, and Chief of Police Mc- Menamin demanding that the police allow George Johnson, Daily Worker agent, full rights accorded to any other news dealer. The resolution condemned the action of the police in licensing George Johnson and in restricting his sales, and called upon all work- ers, members of the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party, to join in the protest. Johnson has been arrested sev- eral times while selling Daily Workers and New Masses on the boardwalk and in other places in the city. Metal Bed Men Strike Libel Charge Defeated by Taxi Union NEW YORK.—The charge of criminal libel brought against Sam Orner, Joseph Gilbert and William Gandall, leaders of the Taxicab Drivers’ Union fo Greater New York, by Jerry Kamm, head of the Association of Terminal Drivers (company union), was dismissed by Magistrate Goldstein in court Mon- day. The General Motors Corporation, through Mr. Kamm, brought the charges against the union leaders several months ago, citing an ar- ticle which appeared in the Union Hackie, the union paper, which re- ported an alleged dishonesty of Mr. Kamm while manager of the Ter- minal garage. The libel charge was one of the many attempts of the fleet owners through their puppets in the com- pany unions to destroy the Taxi- cab Drivers’ Union. It was charged by the Union Hackie that Mr. Kamm while manager of the Terminal gar- age assesed drivers various sums of money for accidents and did not turn this money over to the com- pany. During the taxi strikes last winter Kamm was employed as a strikebreaker for the large fleet owners, Labor Day Pienic Planned in Cleveland by Industrial Unions CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 21.— Free dancing, sports, a special game by the Workers Soccer League, din- ner and refreshments of all kinds— this is the program for the Labor Day Picnic to be held on Sept. 3 at Haag’s Grove, 5222 Broadview Road, under the auspices of the Joint Council of Industrial Unions. The Joint Council has announced that it is preparing an organiza- tional campaign to build the indus- trial unions of the Trade Union Unity League. The picnic will raise finances for the campaign and serve to dramatize the struggle against injunctions, company unions and the whole N.R.A. open shop policy. How to get to the picnic: Take a West 25th St. car marked Broad- view Road. Get off at Broadview and Brook Park Road. From there trucks - will run to the picnic grounds. Rank and File Steel Revolt Looms in Ohio (Special to the Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, O., Aug. 21—A rank and file revolt is brewing in the Amalgamated Association in Against the Open Shop PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 21.— The workers of the Metal Bed Co., which also has a plant in Brook- lyn, struck here last week when the boss tried to operate on an open shop basis. The shop is out one hundred per cent. Mass picketing of Negro and white workers takes place daily. The neighborhood workers, who are for the most part Negroes, are very sympathetic to the strike. The bosses are trying to terrorize the workers by using gang- sters on the truck making deliveries. The Communist Party and Young Communist League in this city are helping the strikers on the picket lines. trying to split the strike up into sections, to carry out the betrayals department by department. He is now trying to kill the strike by running to Roosevelt and Green. If the demands of the textile workers for better wages, against the speed-up and for union recog- nition are to be won, the rank and file must be organized now to take the strike preparations and the conduct of the strike into their hands. The extent to which the Commu- nists are able to organize the mili- tant rank and file opposition inside the U.T.W. will determine what de- | mands can be won and will deter- mine the defeat or success of the Red Scare at the convention. He is| textile strikes Warren and Niles. Sentiment for a strike is growing as the workers realize that their own leaders betrayed them by tell- ing them the union was recognized when, as a matter of fact, the let- ter signed by the Republic Steel Corporation did not recognize the union, but only agreed to nay the A. A. scale, meet the A. A. working conditions and A. A. mill commit- tees, without specifying union rec- ognition and without any set pe- riod of time. In other words, the company can cancel the agreement at any time. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union has addressed a let- ter to all A. A. lodges in Warren and Niles, pointing out this be- trayal and proposing a united front struggle against the company union and for the Republic workers’ de- mands. Dallet, S.M.W.I.U. dis- trict secretary, spoke last night in the Niles Lodge of the A. A. and was warmly applauded. No word has been disclosed yet as to what action the lodge took on the united front proposals. F. 8S. U. TO HOLD MEETING DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 21.— Robert Lee Minor, who recently re- turned from the Soviet Union, will speak on “Industrial Conditions in the U.S.S.R.,” on Friday, at 8 p.m., in the Finnish Hall Gymnasium. Admittance is free. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Minor was a delegate to the May Di celebration in Moscow, a Workers’ Bill Is Backed by | Railway Men West Coast Local Also Acts on Program of Unity Movement SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 21—En- dorsement of the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill and the Four Point Program of struggle against railroad layoffs was at a recent meeting of Local 698 of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen here. The four point program originated in Wolverine Lodge 227 of the Rail- way Brotherhood in Chicago, where, despite the attempts of the Grand Lodge chiefs to suppress the reso- lutions, the railway workers voted for the program put forward by ‘the Railway Brotherhood Unity Move- ment. ‘The program bases itself on the following: 1—A thir duction in present ra‘es. 2—Immediate relief and the es- tablishing of relief committees with power to act in all organizations. 3—End of the speed-up and dis- tribution of all work planned by vithout re- __| workers’ organizations. 4—Adequate unemployment and social insurance, The Wolverine Lodge also pro- posed a conference of shop craft lodges on the Chicago and North- western system and a march in sup- port of these demands. Local 698, which is on the Great Northern Line, voted the program as a basis for action on their system. Relief Bureau Heads Announce Gag Rule— Jobless Plan Protest NEW YORK.—Trying to stifle pre-election criticism and further slash relief without organized op- position, local relief officials have joined with the national relief ad- ministration in threatening lay-offs to any one on the home relief staff “who is contemplating . . . taking active part in any political club or group.” Edward Corsi, admitting that he was backed by Mayor LaGuardia and Commissioner of Welfare Wm. Hodson, declared that he would “dismiss anyone in the organization whose political position affects the E. H. R. B, in any way.” The United Action Committee on Work Relief and Unemployment has protested this latest discrim- ination and will fully expose the dictatorial measures at the mass conference to be held at the Stuy- vesant Casino, 142 Second Avenue, Aug. 26, at 1 p. m. In addition to demanding com- plete political freedom for all un- employed and relief workers, the conference will plan a mass march on City Hall on Sept. 22 demanding increased relief and decent wages and work conditions on the relief jobs. Chicago Police Chief Stalls on Permit for Youth Day Celebration (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Aug. 21—Police Com- missioner Allman Monday avoided a definite statement of whether a permit for International Youth Day would be granted. He passed the buck to Lieut.. Mike Mills of the notorious Red Squad. A young workers’ delegation, seeking a permit to march on LY.D., August 31, were unable to reach Mills Monday, but will try again Tuesday. The proposed route for the dem- onstration is from 16th and Avers, East to Lawndale, and South to the hill at 2619 8. Lawndale. The Young Communist League, which is calling the demonstration, is calling for all Chicago youth to come out in a mighty anti-war demonstration, regardless of the ac- tions of the police. Organizations are also asked to send protests and delegations to demand the grant- ing of the permit. Delegates Honor Negro For Election Activity TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 21—When delegates to the recent special sec- tion meeting called to review con- trol tasks entered the meeting hall thy saw a huge sign running the entire length of one wall with this inscription: “We point with pride to the shock work of Comrade Miller.” The sign was a tribute to the work of James Miller, Negro candidate for the Ohio Legislature, who singie-handed collected 484 nominating petition signatures in the drive to put red candidates on the ballot. WIN WAGE INCREASE NEW YORK.—Workers of the J. A. Kaplan Curtain Company report that they have concluded a victory over the boss and have won a 15 per cent wage increase under the Jeadership of the Curtain and Drapery Workers Union. A report of the settlement will be given at a mass meeting Thursday at 6 p.m. at the union headquarters, 40 W. 18th Street. FUR UNION ELECTION TODAY NEW YORK.—Election of officers of the Fur Workers Industrial Union will begin today and continue throughout the day Thursday. All members of the union have been urged to come to the union and by del City officials are sponsoring free cooking classes for | assembly housewives.—News Item. ‘Primary Rally PlannedinN.Y. By Section One Preparations Under Way for Series of Meets for Voters NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—The downs town section of the Communist | Pi embracing all the terri! sO) of 14th St. is making en ic preparations for its part i he ¢ Communist primaries ever to | be held in this State. These will be |held on Oct. 13, All persons en- |rolled as Communist voters in the | last election will be able to par- | ticipate. | The following candidates have | been nominated in the Downtown Section Gussie Reed, Joseph y Forbes and Peter 12th, 13th and Districts, respec- Cowlsfor State ti " Senator r district, and Clarence R lin the 14ih a | Angelo Del useppe Magliae Freedman, Rubin Shule cano, Harry ZA man, and Brodsky have been nominated for the State Assembly 2nd, 4th, Distr | Sam Gonshak, is the nominee for Municipal Court | judge in the second d t. jin the Ist, 6th and 8th t NRA Contract Deputies eee Pays Sweat Shop Wages (Daily Worker Mid-West Bureau) | CHICAGO, Aug. 21—With thou-| sands of skilled furniture makers jobless throughout the country, the federal government has ordered 2,000,000 mattresses using labor hired at wages far below the stand- ard won by the workers in the in- dustry. Even the low minmum wage es- tablished by the N. R.. A. code for mattress makers, is cut, and relief clients are being forced to do the work of skilled men at the rate of thirty cents an hour. This is about the same as the rate established as a minimum for apprentices. The alibi given by government of- ficials for this sweat shop practice is that the mattresses will go to the unemployed. As a matter of fact, this excuse is being used to conceal the fact that most of the mattresses | will be stored for use by the army. Two million pounds of cotton and 400,000 yards of mattress ticking have been allotted to Illinois alone. Twenty-nine shops have been estab- lished in the state to work up the material, six of them in Cook Coun- ‘ty. Relief suthorities expect to turn out 45,000 mattresses in August. It is significant that the largest | of the “relief” factories has been established in the heart of the Ne- gro district of Chicago where the lowest wages prevail. Inside Oak- wood Relief Station, 505 E. 50th Place, more than 500 are employed on the mattress job, besides about 450 women who are making pillow cases and layettes. This relief work cuts deeply into | the earning of regular furniture. workers, particularly the skilled ones. Their jobs are being stolen from them, and forced on other workers at wages far below usual rates. Besides creating widespread un- employment among the furniture workers, this goverment work will undoubtedly have a far-reaching effect upon existing wage scales. The example of the government in paying wages usual for the un- skilled to those on skilled jobs can hardly be lost upon the private manufacturers. Joe Kiss, National Secretary of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, outlined the plan of his union against this relief work. Fol- lowing are the main points: 1—To send a large delegation | from the union to visit Reynolds} and demand that unemployed mat- tress makers be given jobs on the project through the union at union wages. 2—To expose the government at- tempt to cut wages and destroy union conditions in the industry. 3—To attempt to organize work- ers now on the projects, demanding for them union scale, hours, ec. 4—To hold a mass meeting here to show up the whole rotten deal, and to show the workers that only the militant union is fighting against it. 5—The Chicago local, which is most vitally concerned in this mat- ter since the heaviest production is planned here, pledged to the rest of the N. F. W. I. U. that it would be in the forefront of this struggle. Allentown Communists Choose Election Slate ALLENTOWN, Pa., Aug. 21—The Communist Party here has com- pleted its lst of local candidates and has launched its campaign by opening headquarters at 617 Union Street and by arranging two rallies for the current week. The candidates are: Steven Puka- necz for Congressman; Victor Brotz- man for State Senator, and Conrad Huster and John Washeck for State Assemblyman. Dan Slinger, Communist candidate for State Secretary of Internal Af- fairs, will be the principal speaker on Fridey at an election rally here at Center Square, Scventh and Hamilton streets, at 7 p.m. On Sun- day Slinger will speak at the cam- cast their ballots as soon as possible. Offices to be filled through the elec- tion are manager, paid and unpaid organizers and trade board mem- bers. paign picnic at Kulick’s Farm, Route 60, Allentown, arranged joint- ly by the Communist Party organi- zations of Allentown. Bethlehem and Emaus | A meeting of all e | munist voters in the Ist, 2nd, 4th, \6th and 8th Assembly Districts has | been called by the Downtown Sec And Gas Relief: tion campaign committee for Thurs day at 7:30 p.m. in the Manhattan j Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. A S ik Pi k united front election conference of trl e 1c ets | an mass organizations and trade | unions will be held on Aug. rhe the same hall. Each organization MILWAUKEE, Wisc. Aug. 21—| should send two delegates. Tossing tear gas bombs and swing-| Following the primary elections, ing night sticks, deputy sheriffs at-| there will be an election rally at tacked a group of striking F. E. the Manhattan Lyceum on Septem- r 15. R. A. relief workers in Lincoln Park |" 1 eee here Monday and arrested two! Get Subs for the “Daily” Daring workers and clubbed scores, a Fighter to Our Ranks! The striking relief workers had | Means * Quickening Tempo in Class marced on the Estabrook Park job | SUs6le: and were joined by the F. E.R. A.|~ workers there, Continuing their | march to pull out all the relief } projects, the men, now numbering | several hundred, marched on Lin- | coln Park, where about 200 relief | workers are employed. RED ELECTION CARNIVAL and PICNIC North Beach Picnic Park Astoria, L. 1 LABOR DAY MONDAY, SEPT. 13, 1934 Deputies, thugs and police weet? hurriedly mobilized. Captain James | Flatly ordered the attack and two} workers, Alex Licora and Elmer | Grams, were seized. As other work- ers surged forward to release the | prisoners, the deputies discharged | twenty-five gas bombs. Retaliating | with stones and rocks, the workers | were dispersed by the armed thugs | and deputies. FURRIERS! Forward to the Elections! Election for officers of the Fur Workers Industrial Union will be held this Wednesday and Thursday, August 22nd and 23rd. Manager, organizers and Trade Board will be elected. FURRIERS! You are called upon to participate in the elections and select the most capable and devoted workers to carry on your struggles for better living conditions and also help carry on the affairs of the union. Voting will take place on Wednesday and Thursday from 10 o’clock n the morning unt) 8 o'clock in the evéning. Furriers! Participate en masse in the elections! Election-Objection Committee Fur Workers Industrial Union, 131 West 28th Street, New York City. Communist Party, New York e@ Support the New York Daily Worker Dancing Games Fun Entertainment Sports DAILY WORKER @ e icnic Sunday AUGUST 26™ Admission 25c. @ NORTH BEACH PARK ASTORIA, L. I. Direction: ILR.T. or 7 subways, Second Ave. to Ditmars Aye. Bus to park CHICAGO, ILL. : Red Election Rally | Saturday, September Ist, 8 P.M. Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Caicago = The in all signatures. Election sf to Springfield to file petitions Hear FRANK PRICKETT Communist Aldetinan from Taylor Springs and one of the Hillsboro defendants Dancing — Excellent Program — Admission 15¢ Auspices: State Election Campaign Committee 1 day for tz © trip ae aH