The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1934 Page Thres ANTI-WAR LEAGUE AND NEEDLE TRADE GROUP MEET TOMORROW MEMBERS TO MAP Church Group Mass Rally in Harlem Boston Police LANDLORDS SHOOT — i A c« You mW 7 : Wo ‘Seeks to Ai DRIVE TO OBTAIN Scottsboro Day Meeting Bie oie wacaree Right of Assemb]y worsen in connie Young Methodists Call on Their Leaders To Meeting of New York League Against War and Lnsiet out Féatlen Fascism to Follow Rally of Needle Trades Workers To Hear Jennie Giacco Unemployment Councils Later Persuade Small Proprietors To Join with JoblessTo Demand Relief Rent Payment Milton Herndon, Jailed for Picketing Jim-Crow War and Fascism | Restaurant, and Harry Haywood, Communist BOSTON, Sept. 3—Police broke * up an International Youth Day rally of about 150 young workers held ATLANTA, Ga.—A_ resolution calling on bishops of all denomina- tions, on all heads of educational NEW YORK.—To mobilize Greater New York forces for the Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism ‘will be the initial purpose of a mass meeting to be held to- morrow at 7:30 p. m. at Irving Plaza, 15 Irving Place, JNew York City. The general membership of the / American League Against War and Fascism in Greater New York will come together with its City Cen- tral Committee and many impor- tant events leading up to the Con- Bress will be discussed. The procedure of electing dele- Rates will be taken up as well as the further recruiting of delegates from trade unions, workers’ clubs, | Y. M. C. A.’s, veterans’ organiza- tions, women’s clubs, etc. Anti-Nazi Film Obtained Besides arrangements for a send- off banquet and mass meeting, the question of other possible support- ing functions will be considered as part of a program of events leading up to the departure of the delegates on the Anti-War Special, which will leave for Chicago on the morning of Sept. 27. Plans have already been com~- pleted for a showing of the Anti- Nazi Thaelmann film on Sept. 19, 20, 21 and 22 at the Fifth Ave. The- atre, Broadway and W. 28th St., New York City. It is expected that this will contribute toward addi- tional support for the Congress. Needle Trades Meeting Tomorrow For the purpose of publicizing the Second U. 8. Congress Against War and Fascism a mass rally of all needle trades women workers has been called by the Needle Trades Workers’ Women’s Committee Against War and Fascism for to- morrow at 6 p.m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. Jennie Giacco, needle trades dele- gate to the International Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism held in Paris last month, will make a report on what happened at that Congress. Sol. Marquit, city organ- izer of the New York City section of the American League Against War and Fascism, will outline the plans for the Congress to be held in Chicago Sept. 28, 20 and 30. A representative from the A. F. of L. Renk and File Committee en Un- employment Insurance and Relief will also speak. Texas Relief Funding Bill Mortgages Social Services to Bankers AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 3—The State of Texas is to be mortgaged to the bankers in order to pay for the latest issue of relief funds. Representative Robert Long of Wichita County, author of the new relief bill, has frankly admitted it had been written by attorneys for the bond buyers. Under its provi- sions, the buyers of the bonds are given a lien on all State funds not otherwise specifically set aside by the Texas constitution. The schools, hospitals and other social agencies may be drastically crippled by this stupendous mortgage. The bill provides for the sale of $9,500,000 in relief bonds, the sum to be augmented by a like amount by the federal government. In view of the fact that the entire population of some drought-stricken counties will shortly be on relief, the amount appropriated will not last until May 1. Representative Wells of Navarro County attempted to restrict relief expenditures to $2,600,000 a month. “Half starvation is better than starvation,” he declared, Ida Norris To Speak at Brooklyn Meeting NEW YORK.—A demonstration to support the public mass trial of Angelo Herndon which will be staged Friday evening at the Brook- lyn Academy of Music, Lafayette and Flatbush Aves., will be held to- morrow evening at Howard and Pitkin Aves. Brooklyn. Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of Clar- ence Norris, one of the Scottsboro boys, and Milton Hernon, brother of Angelo Herndon, will be the main. speakers at the demonstration. Or- ganizations are being uzged by the International Labor Defense to mo- bilize at Nostrand Ave. and Fulton St. and at Stone and Pitkin Aves., at 7 p.m, to march to the meeting place. > Angelo Herndon will speak at Friday's mass trial in the Academy of Music. Food Workers Protest Coast Fascist Attacks MONTICELLO, N. Y., Sept. 3.— The workers of Camp Harmony affiliated with Local 117 of the Food Workers Industrial Union have adopted a resolution protesting against the efforts of California authorities to illegalize the Com- munist Party and militant indus- trial organizations. “We consider the imprisonment of the thirty-one workers held in the Sacramento jail on charges of criminal syndicalism, and the thirty held in San Francisco on similar charges as a travesty on the rights of workers to organize ayd struggle for their demands,” the resolution read. “We demand the release of these prisoners and the immediate Wicker Killed At Gas Plant Busy For War MIDLAND, Mich—The Dow Chemical Co. one of the largest manufacturers of war gases and ma- terials for war gases in the country, is putting up new buildings in prep- aration for increased war produc- tion. Another worker was killed here last Tuesday. He was on a scaf- fold, fixing pipes, when he was over- come by poisonous bisulphide fumes and fell down, his head hitting the concrete floor. While falling, a steel bolt also tore a hole in his head. The company has slashed ‘wages by cutting out the monthly profit check which the workers received in the past. The Dow company com- pletely dominates the lives of the workers and has the city govern- ment firmly in its grip, the Mayor of Midland being the employment manager of the plant. The A. F. of L, union has collapsed because of the failure of the leaders to. do anything in behalf of the workers, ‘Mother’ Mooney Is Dead at 85 (Continued from Poge 1) am enjoying better health today than I have for many years; you are the real cause of it, for in your wonderful work of arousing and in- spiring the workers to greater ef- forts in my behalf and your super- human efforts of co-operation with the International Labor Defense in their campaign for my freedom and that of all working-class political prisoners is nothing short of mar- velous, “All who see or hear of your work are amazed at what you are doing and how you do it in your old age. You have by these tours en- deared yourself in the hearts of millions of workers all over the world: they love you and sympa- thize with you in your great suffer- ing and struggle, and glory in your fidelity and devotion to me and the fight for my freedom, They shed tears in your presence—that is their way of paying you homage. Stay with it, Mother Dear, you will be one of the real factors in arousing that great mass of slumbering work- ers to militant revolutionary action in my behalf and also in behalf of those poor little children of black skin that have been sentenced to be burned in the electric chair in Alabama. “This may be the last letter you will get from me before you leave on your greatest of all your lifetime efforts in my behalf. Mother Dear, I envy you in the opportunity that is now before you—an opportunity of service—the like of which seldom comes to any human in a lifetime— and my fervent prayer—wish and hope is that you will not hesitate to seize it—avail yourself of it imme- diately and without hesitation. Grab it eagerly, for in it is your greatest possible hope of doing that one great thing for me that I know you want done and are willing to help—gain my freedom. “Dear Mother, the ocean trip will do you good—it will rest you—it will be a treat for you such as you never before in all of your life enjoyed and at its end, you will see sights that you never before ever dreamed of seeing. Where you have seen hun- dreds cheering you and struggling for working class freedom, you will gaze upon tens of thousands. “You will see the greatest sight human eyes ever laid eyes upon in Moscow, on November 7th, the 15th anniversary of the Russian Revolu- tion, where two millions of human beings—as workers all—will gather in Red Square before Lenin’s tomb along the side of the Kremlin Wall. There you will see the body of Lenin —lifelike as it was the day he died back in 1924,... Lenin is more re- sponsible for the success of the Rus- sian Revoluition than any other liv- ing or dead human and were it not for the revolution I would not be alive today and you would not now be struggling for my freedom—-that is why you MUST go to Moscow with a letter from me to the Russian workers thanking them for me for their efforts in my behalf, that saved my life. “I am asking the good comrade who is to be your companion abroad to take along with her and read to you on the boat a book written by one of the world’s novelists—a Rus- sian—Maxim Gorky. His book, “Mother,” will give you a picture of the land you are about to see. It will help you to a better under- standing of it and its people—who fifteen years ago were as backward in development as the Ireland you left 60 years ago. “Bon Voyage, Mother Dear, with all my love to you and your good comrades and companions. cessation of the fascist attacks against the California Communist “Your loving son, “TOM MOONEY,” a institutions, and other outstanding | leaders to take action on behalf of | the Scottsboro boys, was passed at) the Young People’s Assembly of the | Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, with more than 300 delegates, held August 22 to 24, at Macon, Ga, The statement and resolution of the Assembly reads: “As young people, we are gravely interested in the Scottsboro boys. To us, their persecution is not only in evidence but is the most horrify- ing and discouraging occurrence in our present day civilization. It is| hardly thinkable that America with | all of its churches, institutions of | learning, philanthropic boards, and | high-powered government could stand one moment for the persecu- tion of nine innocent boys and tamong the humblest of our popula- tion. The history of the case is too well known to be recited at this time. “Resolved, therefore, that we ask the bishops, heads of institutions of learning, together with all patriots to call a meeting, formulate plans, and seek to hold conference with the Governor and Supreme Court of Alabama; and that they insist that justice be done and that these boys | be given their freedom. “Signed; M. C. PETTIGREW, Chairman | R, V. WALLACE, Secretary. | Jewish War Veterans | Condemn Nazi Regime in National Convention! NEW BRITAIN Conn., Sept. 3.— | Resolution expressing the feeling of | the rank and file against fascism were adopted in today’s session of the three-day convention of the Jewish War Veterans of America. The national encampment of the ex- | servicemen, which ends today, adopted a resolution condemning the Hitler government in Germany and urged a stricter boycott on goods coming from the Nazi Reich. The meeting also urged that the 1936 Olympics be held at some place other than Berlin because of the discrimination against Jewish ath- letes. Another resolution, evidently pat- terned after those now being intro- duced into various state American Legion conventions, called for the | “conscription of wealth and indus- try in event of war,” In another document adopted by | the gathering the government was asked to permit more German ref- ugees into the country. |St. Louis Rank and File, /ILGWU Members Fight: New Sellout Agreement| ST. LOUIS, Sevt. 4.—Rank and file members of the International Ladies Garment Workers here are bitter against the recent agreement negotiated behind the backs of the workers by the Joint Board of the I. L. G. G, W. U., a committee of workers in the union stated today. Militant members of the union, organizing themselves into a rank- and-file opposition against the po- licies of the leadership, intend to continue the fight against the new agreement, it has been announced. The pact, effected with the Silk and Wool Dress Manufacturers of St. Louis, does not contain any provisions against sweatshop condi- tions, against firings, or for higher prices on piecework. New Workers Center | Will Open in Harlem NEW YORK —A new Workers’ Center in Harlem that will house the offices of the Harlem Workets’ Schocl, Communist Party, Young Communist League, International Workers’ Order and the Domestic Workers’ Union, will open Sept. 15 in the old I. W. O, Hall on 131st St. and Lenox Ave. Alterations have been made in the building. The school will be lo- cated on the second floor and will include beside classrooms a reading room and refreshment counter, Candidate, to Speak NEW YORK. — White before the Empire Cafeteria, Lenox Ave. and 125th St.,|members had applied for a police tomorrow night at 8 p. m., to support the fight initiated | P* by the Young Liberators, Youth Section of the League /for the Riot Squad from a box not and Negro workers will mass POTTSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 3. — Two youths were shot here Thursday when a d ation from the Unemploy- ment Council went to protest an eviction to the landlords, Sam and Caesar Julian. The two landlords were released on bail on charges of “maliously and wantonly pointing Saturday at Merrimac Square, West End, under the auspices of the Young Communist League. Y. C. L rmit but it had been refused them. While the policeman mage his call of Struggle for Negro Rights, for employment of Negro }more than ten feet away from where firearms with intent counter-men, and to protest police¢————_——— —_—— brutality and arrests of pickets,of the right of workers to picket} during the past week. Milton Merndon, brother of An- gelo Herndon, and one of the four workers arrested last Saturday night when police smashed picket line, will be one of the main speakers. Herndon is out on $300 bail, pending trial set for Sept. 6. Other speakers include a represen- tative of the Food Workers Union; Harry Haywood, National Secretary of the L. S. N. R. and Communist candidate for State Assemblyman | front basis, with the perspective of |98@inst war and fascism and heard 19th Assembly District; | spreading the movement and inten-|Mark Lieberman, district organizer in the Bonita Williams of the City Coun- cil of the L. S. N. R., Louis Camp- bell Councils; William Fitzgerald, sec- retary of the Harlem Section of the | Haywood will visit Mayor LaGuar-|ican, especially in connection with International Labor Defense; and|dia Wednesday morning to protest|the textile strike, Isidore Dorfman of the Young Communist League. Ashford, of the Young Liberators, will act as chair-|struggle for Negro rights, and to|ing the police by having it given man, The demonstration will be a test Buffalo Challenges Califoru ‘To Race in ‘Daily’ Fund Drive “Comrades of District 13, we shall reach and pass our quota before you get started!” These are the enthusiastic words contained in the challenge to a Socialist competition issued by Communist Party District 4, Buf- falo, to District 13, California, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Buffalo’s quota is $750, Califor- nia’s is $2,000. Signed by H. Shephard, district organizer of the Communist Party, the Buffalo challenge lays a foun- dation for raising the money while carrying out the organizational purpose of the “Daily.” “We must make the Daily Worker known to every steel, chemical, marine and textile worker in our the | and every effort’ is being made to mobilize the unions and other | workers’ organizations to support the action. A committee composed delegates from the the L. S. N. R.; jset up, Young Li ‘atc \the I. L. D., Unen and the Food Workers Uni | Efforts are being made to draw in jother organizations on a_ united | sifying the fight for the employ- | ment of Negroes as conductors and of the Harlem Unemployed|motormen on the Fifth Ave. buses.|in Boston, denounce the red-baiting A delegation headed by Harry against police attacks on white and Negro workers united in the | demand the right of mass picketing, | freedom of speech and assembly. ia sponse the Daily Worker fund com- mittee declared: “In bringing the ‘Daily’ to the toilers in the basic industries, the Buffalo district is carrying out the policy of the Party of con- vincing these toilers that the ‘Daily’ is their paper—that their contributions — the contributions of the whole working class—are needed to keep it alive—to give it the added space and the three editions which are planned.” “The Buffalo challenge contains other suggestions which the other districts can use to the fullest ex- tent. “Organize house parties, enter- tainments, everything you can think of, Buffalo urges the mem- of representatives of the organiza- a jtions at present involved has been with the speakers’ stand was, C. Collins, of the Y. C. L., continued to ex- pose the war-making policies of the N. R. A. and to call for support of the textile strike. When the police squad arrived Drivers Union they began to lespite the orderliness of the v CAMBRIDGE, Mas Sept. 3.— |One hundred young workers dem- ternational Brotherhcod of Te: sters and Chauffeurs (A. F. of L.) declared a fake strike Friday night at Beethoven Hall when they railroaded through a resolution | against the wishes of the drivers to call a strike only against the truck owners who have not agreed to the demands of a $5 pay restoration. | The workers who crowded into| Beethoven Hall for a strike vote| Friday were determined to strike against all truck propietors in the city, regardless of whether they had signed the agreement or not. A | year and a half ago the employers’ associations in the industry had | ordered a wage cut of $5 a week | until Sept. 1 of this year. At Fri- | day’s meeting the drivers demanded that the strike be called against the associations, rather than individual | companies who had not kept their promise to restore the cut. | The “strike call” means that only about 2,000 men employed by about | 100 independent truck owners, are | to be out today. The demand of | drivers for a city-wide truck strike | was frustrated by the International | | Vice-President Michael J. Cashal| who closed the meeting without tak- | ing a vote after his resolution had | been read, A tremendous roar of | “No, No!” was completely ignored. | Cashal and his henchmen had} great difficulty in spiking the de-| mand for militant strike action on the part of the drivers. Two of his onstrated in Central S in the |International Youth Day rally of the Young Communist League and candidate for the General Court | fforts of the Hearst Boston Amer- Other Y. C. L. speakers attacked Mayor Russell's policy of militariz- |military training by marines, and buying tear gas bombs. The meet- \ing adopted a resolution demanding | that the funds used for this purpose be turned over to the unemployed. | |Food Workers Win | Demands in Newark Lunch Room Strike NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 3—Agree- |ments between the Grant Lunch, |Inc., operating four stores in this | city, and the Food Workers In- | dustrial union, will be in effect to- | morrow as a resut of the strike of| | the 135 workers of the company |that ended last Friday with com- plete victory for the men. Among the demands are wage in- |creases ranging from $1 to $3 per | week to all the strikers, abolition | of the split shift on or before Jan- | uary ist, | During the course of the struggle tion called at the y were threatened As they turned ta ing to soft small lan At a h before Alderman Shimer, the two landlords, now des claring the need of small landown- ers uniting with the job tain rent payments relief board, prom furniture damaged 4 tion, find a home for the evicted tenant, and to attend tonight's meeting of the Unemployment Council at 503 North Center St In order to prevent similar occurs rences, the Unemployment Councils of Pottsville are developing a mass campaign for payment of rents of all unemployed and tax exemption for small home-owners, as well as for a broad fight for the enactment of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill. All small home-owns ers, unemployed and employed worke ers are being urged to attend the meeting of the Council, where steps will be taken to win rent payments. In the preparations for the state hunger march to Harrisburg on Oct. 12, the questions of rent payments and tax exemption are being raised. Lynn Relief Workers Protest the Denial of Political Rights the local business manager of the Cooks’ and Waiters’ A. F. of L.| Junion tried to jsplit the ranks of chairmen left the platform after| LYNN, Mass, Sept. 3.—Relief the workers refused to be split up | Workers here, in a letter to Presi into two meetings, according to|Gent Roosevelt, demanded imme- locals. Pleas by the chairmen for|‘“iate revocation of the order of ‘Theft by Bank istrict,” the challenge announces. “We must reach every impoverished farmer. The Daily Worker must be used in the struggle against war and fascism, in the struggles of the unemployed.” Commenting on Buffalo's re- bership of its district. “Parties and entertainments are one of the best ways of raising money. “Comrades—the three editions, the eight pages—the $60,000—are up to you!” of Fund, Home Police Control Exposed by CP. (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 3— The theft of the life savings and | « ” home of an aged couple, Mr. and | an investigation into the relief Mrs. Kenyeres, by the Tatra Bank, administration of New York City, the Rev. Cautoros and “‘Szabadsag,” | Aldermen Cashmore of Brooklyn Hungarian reactionary newspaper,|and Kinsley of the Bronx will NEW YORK.—Clouding their real purpose behind the smoke-screen of ‘Alderm en Plan | Of City Relief was exposed and condemned at a mass trial, attended by more than 2,000 persons, in the Hungarian Workers Home Thursday night. Uj Elore, Hungarian Communist newspaper, had exposed the trick- ery by which the aged couple were robbed of their home, valued at $33,000. Section 17, of the Com- munist Party, and the Hungarian Bureau théreupon organized a United Front Committee of churches, fraternal and home owners for the mass trial of the looters, Alex Wright Voros, Communist candidate for the State Senate, re- | ceived mass applause as he exposed the robbery of the Kenyeres and called for a sharp fight to protest their interests. The meeting unanimously adopted the following demands: a life lease on their home and financial aid organizations | | today introduce a bill at the Board of Aldermen mecting calling | for the elimination of “fakers and aliens” from the relief lists. In revealing their plans for the “investigation,” the two aldermen declared that about one-quarter of the 1,600,000 persons on the relief lists in the city were “fakers or | aliens.” The formal resolution which they will introduce, proposes police su- | perviSion of relief. Their plans call | for the turning over of all “caso | records” of the unemployed on the relief rolls to the Police Depart: ment, “The card index system now | used by the Welfare Department,” Cashmore said. “could be turned | over to the police stations with little | | or no resultant overhead.” | Their plan, they revealed, calls for | the firing of all case workers, in- | for police supervision of relief and} |the workers by promising them all’ men of locals 807, 282 and 816 to| | Sorts of victorles if they joined the divide failed to move the men from |A. F. of L, This the workers re-} the pall, jected. | " The men, who are members of | | the Hotel and Restaurant Workers | jlocal of the F. W. I. U., are deter-| | mined to go forward to the union- | ization of the other cafeterias and estaurants of Newark. As the meeting progressed the jeers of the drivers against the of-| ficials, N. R, A. and the bosses’ | associations grew strong. Announce- | ment that Ben Golden, executive secretary of the Regional Labor | Board, was present was greeted by | boos from the men. Golden did not | | speak. When Cashal saw that he could| not get his fake strike motion} adopted by a vote he declared his —- motion carried and dismissed the JAMESTOWN, N. Y., Sept. 3.— | meeting with a wave of his hand. hes of the Union Furnifpre| Workers were indignant, but due to any of this city, stopped Fri-| lack of organized opposition could} | day when all workers of the plant| take mo concerted action against | struck, will be still tomorrow) the officials and for a real strike. | morning. | SPA EE RENE eee Nee | The strike is under the auspices of Local 34 of the National Furni- ture Workers Industrial Union. The walk-out was called only after unremitting discrimination against union workers in the shop. | Unless the workers’ demands are| ‘ granted the union may spread the PEORIA, Ill, Sept. 3.—Effective pe Oct. 1, all persons receiving aid lonmieante Rene ae th ae | from the Illinois Emergency Relief A pr nage | Commission, but who are unable to fe dns eatruck daneaey, aE pute work, will be transferred from the | nounced. rolls of the Relief Commission to the Overseer of the Poor for the | Town of Peoria. The transfer has | |been ordered by the Commission, | acting under the orders of the fed- | eral relief administration, which de- | |mands that all “unemployables,” }aged, sick and blind, be removed | from the federal lists. Ir ae iN pbtihsatas © pana Sane Under this arrangement, the town |representing organizations with a| Of Peoria is preparing to levy new | | total membership of 865. The local| taxes on small home-owners and Socialist Party branch was also|fatmers to cover the additional represented in the conference. burden of unemployment relief. The delegates elected an action On the relief jobs under the committee of fifteon to work out in| FERA, workers are paid 40 cents an detail the plans developed at the|hour for any number of hours | Union Furniture Co. | Strack Because of Anti-Union Stand Unemployables Ordered iCut Off FERA Relief Lists in Peoria, Hlinois! Passaic Workers Act Against Food Prices PASSAIC, J., Sept. 3.—Action | against the riSing prices of bread | Workers and work Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins which prohibits all re- lief workers from running for of fice in the coming election cam- paign under penalty of losing their jobs. The letter, unanimously adopted by the members of the E. R. A. Workers Protective Union of Lynr Specifically refers to Joseph = gerson, William Mannell, David Keefe and Joseph Leedes, all relief ‘s’ candidates in the coming elections “Our organization,” the letter States, “has adopted this letter unanimously, and is convinced that Hopkins’ action constitutes intimi- dation against active members of this union, and further condemns Such action as a treacherous and unconstitutional form of disfran- chisement.” Unemployment Rises in Chicago District as Production Slumps CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 3—State relief officials here predict that 340,000 families will be on the State relief lists this Winter, a larger. number than at any time duting the crisis. Unemployment continues to in+ crease in the entire lake region, | Steel plants in East Chicago and Gary are operating at less than 24 per cent of capacity. Practically all steel workers are on a “share-thes work” basis. The building trades, which normally employ about 150,< C00 in Chicago alone, a still, only a few hundred men w ing. The only activity the construction indu: demolition of buildings in the Loop area in order to reduce tax pay= ments on what would otherwise be from the bank for the couple; cash | vestigators and social workers, who, relief for the unemployed; can- | they charged, “are eating up 18 per cellation of debt and passage of|cent of all relief funds spent.” unemployment insurance bill, H.R.| Policemen on the beats, they said, 7598, and five cent street car fares.’ could be used as “investigators.” conference. Bakery owners here have re- cently raised the price of bread) three cents a pound and rolls five cents a dozen. Strikebreaking Tacties | of Frey Rouse Anger of Miners (Special to the Daily Worker) SUTTE, Mont., Sept. 3. — Bill Dunne spoke to the regular meet- ing of the Butte Miners Local of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers last ‘Wednesday night. Among the audience of 1,000 were many members of the Hoisting En- gineers Union and of various craft unions affiliated to the American Federation of Labor. Dunne dealt with the question of the “Red Scare” and the program and work of the Rank and File groups, with special emphasis on industrial unionism and the fight for the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill. Exposes Frey There was sustained applause when the speaker, mentioning that John P, Frey, member of the A. \ Butte Workers Cheer Exposure of AF. of i. Agent F. of L. executive council, heading the squad of national union officials and organizers working in the three | strike cities to split the mechanics’ unions away from the miners and smeltermen, was also editor of the Molders Journal; that the Amer- ican Brass Company, owned by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, operated many foundries and em- ployed large numbers of molders in Waterbury, Conn., and other east- ern cities. Dunne asked the question: “Why, if Frey really wants this strike to be won, is he here trying to split the ranks instead of organizing the molders and other workers in the American Brass plants for better wages and conditions and in sup- port of the miners and smelter workers on strike in the basic center of the industry?” ’ 'HE sharphess with which the class lines have been drawn in { . * Butte and vicinity since the strike now in its fourth month is illus- trated by the following: While Bill Dunne has spoken: to three big meetings of workers in Butte and Anaconda since Aug. 27, the hangers-on of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company were making the most strenuous efforts to arrange a reception and banquet in the Finlen Hotel for U. 8. At- torney-General Homer Cummings and Bruce Kremer, former Demo- cratic Party committeeman for Montana. The popular response was so poor that the two Anaconda Copper Mining Company papers in Butte—The Standard and The Post —were compelled to carry cuts of the distinguished guests, etc. and two or more inspired news stories on their first pages day after day. A Class Contrast The conizast between the extraor- dinary cfforts needed to get any- thing like a substantial turnout for ? | U. S. Attorney ~ General Geis No Welcome From Workers the two guests with long records | of “public service,” and the spon- | tanecus manner in which thou- sands of workers crowded into meetings to hear Bill Dunne talk about the revolutionary way out of the crisis, was so striking that | Senator B. K. Wheeler, who had been in Butte for several days with | his nose in the air and both ears to the ground, suddenly announced that he had to go to Billings and would be unable to meet and greet the U: S. attorney-general and Mr. Kremer, BILLINGS, Mont., Sept. 3—Bill | Dunne spoke here Thursday nigh’ to an audience of 300 to 400 on the “Next Step for Labor.” The} meeting was under the auspices of the Communisé Party Unit, | business men and A. F. of L. offi- jas of Aug. 1, only 800 had been | which the relief commission may | empty loft space. determine. The hourly wage rate was set by a committee of local NEWARK, cials, | DAILY WORKER RELIEF NEEDS RISE | FEORIA, Ill., Sept. 3.—According | CONFERENCE to Howard Hunter, field represen- | WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5 tative of the FERA, out of 3,300 | 8 PM. families receiving relief in Peoria, | i GEORGE WISHNAK Business Manager of the Daily Worker | Main Speaker given any work on the relief jobs. | Hunter predicted greatly increased | demands for relief during the com- ing Winter. DEFYING POLICE AND K. KK, Company deputies and White Legion gangs, thousands of copies of the new issue of the Southern Worker are being distributed by heroic white and Negro tojlers of the South, while two workers stand trial on charges #3 criminal anarchy for possession of the August issue, which was seized by Birmingham police. You, too, wiil want to read this only Voice of the Southern Toilers, right hot from the scene of struggle. You, too, will want to aid these struggles. Subscription outside the South itself: $1.25 for 25 issues; 60 cents for 12 issues; 5 cents the single copy. SOUTHERN WORKER Paper of the Southern Toilers Birmingham, Ala, — 7 CHARLTON STREET Box 572