The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1934 Page Three Unemployed Councils Lead March to Harrisburg Today Amter Calls on Mass Organizations to Spur $60,000 Drive JOBLESS TO PLACE LIST OF DEMANDS | AT STATE CAPITAL 1,500,000 Workers and Officially on Pennsylvania Relief Rolls, Face Worst Winter of Crisis Their Dependents, Now| PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept Councils and other organizations of the employed and un- employed will send a mass delegation to Harrisburg tomor- row to place the demands of the jobless before the special session of the State Legislature which convenes on that date. issued & In an emergency call : Saturday, the Councils of the Phi- | ladelphia, the anthracite, and the Western Pennsylvania Districts urged the local councils to hold mestings at once, elect delegates, and obtain trucks to transport the | delegations to Harrisburg. | For the million and a half job- | Jess and their dependents officially | on the relief lists in the state, now | facing the worst winter of the crisis while relief appropriations are made the political football of the oppos- ing factions in the State Legisla- ture and in Washington, the Coun- cils have adopted a tentative set of demands. These demands call for: (1) The immediate appropriation | of fifty million dollars from the | state for winter relief until Jan. 1. These funds to be raised by ap- propriations of $21,000,000 from the State Vehicle Fund, the $6,000,000 from state liquor store profits, a tax on publie utilities, increased taxes on higher incomes and profits and disbandment of the state po- lice and National Guard. | (2) Cash relief of $2 weekly to| each person in a family and $2.50 to each single worker. (3) Cash payment of rents and tax exemption for small home own- ers and poor farmers. (4) No forced labor; all work re- lief to be paid in cash at minimum rates of 60 cents an hour for a 30- hour week; union wages and con- ditions to apply. (5) No discrimination against Ne- gro. foreign-born, women and youth, (6) State unemployment insurance modeled after the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill to be ef- fective until enactment of the Workers’ Bill on a national scale. Schenectady Jobless Plan Action Today SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Sept. 10. —The Schenectady County Unem- ployed and Relief Workers’ Union | called upon its membership to mass | at the City Council meeting today | to demand endorsement of the | Workers’ Unemployment Insurance | Bill. Immediate enactment of legis- | Jation providing a 40 per cent in- | crease in relief for single men, | guaranteed minimum wages of $15 | a week for relief workers plus addi- |his policies and those of the Cour- tional relief for dependents, and no discrimination against Negroes and those workers owning insurance policies and auto license plates is demanded. | Last week the union memiber- | ship packed the City Céuncil, and through its spokesman, Harry Dan- | iels, Communist candidate for sher- | iff, demanded enactment of a sim- ilar set of demands. The Councilmen, eight members out of fourteen of whom work for the General Electric Co. here, re- fused to move the demands in a formal motion. At the close of Daniel’s presentation of the de- mands, the president rushed through | a motion for adjournment. Following the Common Council meeting today, the unemployed and relief workers will hold a mass open hearing to expose the inade- quacy of relief, the graft on the Emergency Relief Bureau, and the resultant misery for the jobless workers. ap Solicit Subs for the “Daily” —TO ALL MASS ORGANIZATIONS —. ROTOGRAPH Co. Inc. MOVED TO 817 Broadway, Corner 12th Street 10th floor. GRamercy 5-9364 10% REDUCTION on all leaflets, posters, tickets, bulletins, shop papers, etc. +*PROMPT AND SATISFACTORY SERVICE- To Be Slashed attacks on the Scottsboro defense laid and support to the Southern |adopted protesting Schuyler’s col- . 10. — The Unemployment Winter Relief Expenditures WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 10.— While on the one hand declaring that present relief was “inadequate,” Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief ad- ministrator, in a statement has an- nounced a “new drive to get the re- lief rolls down to those people who are actually in need.” “We want our relief machinery tightened up for the Winter,’ Hop- kins said, regarding as “unfortu- nate” the present “inadequacy of | relief.” Hopkins stated that during the month of July there were 3,800,000 families on the relief lists in addi- | tion to 525,555 single persons and 200,000 transients. The statement by Hopkins cited previous attempts to slash the relief N. Y. Councils; To Hold Rally At ‘Aid’ Depot Downtown Jobless Will Mobilize Tomorrow for Demonstration NEW YORK—Acting to spike the) delays in home and work relief checks and to mobilize the down- town workers for the mass march to City Hall on Sept. 22, the Down- town Unemployment Councils have called a mass demonstration at the Spring and Elizabeth Street Home Relief Bureau for tomorrow. | East Side workers will mobilize at Seventh Street and Avenue A at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning and march to Rutgers Square, where they will be joined by workers from | the lower East Side. After marching to the Spring and} Elizabeth Street relief bureau, the | employed and unemployed workers | will place their demarids for in-| creased relief to meet the rising food | prices at the rate of seven dollars weekly cash relief to each unem-| ployed worker plus three dollars) for each dependent. In addition, | the jobless demand cash payment | of all rents, no discrimination against Negro, foreign-born, women and young workers, and four dollars monthly cash allowance for cloth- ing. From the relief bureau the work- ers will march to the office of George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute, at 340 Broadway, where they will join the picket line around this office, Chelsea Jobless to Demonstrate NEW YORK—Following the re- fusal of chief supervisor Burt to meet with their committee and “the lists down to the barest minimums, | and called for a concerted drive to) eliminate all those who are not | “actually in need” before the com-| ing Winter. Pittsburgh Protests Schuyler’s Slanders on Angelo Herndon) PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10.—The growing mass indignation against the poisonous attacks on Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro boys by the Pittsburgh Courier and its star columnist, George Schuyler, was expressed here in a militant protest meeting last Wednesday night in the “Hill” Y.M.C.A., under the joint auspices of the League for Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense. Although specially invited to ap-| pear before the workers to defend their lying statements, neither Schuyler nor any members of the Courier’s editorial staff attended the meeting. Schuyler failed to acknowledge the challenge of Ben Careathers, Communist candidate for Congress in the 32nd district, to a debate on ier in regard to Herndon and the Scottsboro boys. Careathers and Bill Thornton of the L.S.N.R. pointed out that the and Angelo Herndon gave objective lynch rulers. Resolutions were unanimously umn and demanding a retraction of his slander on Angelo Herndon; protesting the fascist attack on Mc- Keesport workers last week, and de- nouncing the refusal of the Cali- fornia bosses to permit Tom Mooney to attend the funeral of his mother. Maryland Lynchers Seek Life of Framed Negro) PRINCESS ANNE, Md., Sept. 10. —The Eastern Shore of Maryland, where many Negro workers have been lynched in the past two years, has been swept by another wave of lynch sentiment following the framed arrest of James Boland, a young Negro farm hend, on a charge of attempting to czim- inally assault Mrs. Anna Waddy, white woman, on whose farm he was employed. Local Negroes and white workers believe the arrest and lynch incite- ment another case of ruling class vengeance against a Negro laborer who dared to demand his wages. | MASS CONFERENCE for DAILY WORKER @ MORNING FREIHEIT YOUNG WORKER BAZAAR Thursday, 7:30 P.M., September 13th at the WORKERS CENTER 50 East 13th Street — Second Floor @ Ail mass organizations are urged to take this matter up at their next meeting and elect two delegates. If there will be no meeting of the branch, the executive com- mittee should appoint two delegates. All mass organizations, Iabor unions and Party units must be represented to this conference and help make this affair a success. the clubbing and arrest of five workers at the 18 Precinct Home Relief Bureau Friday, tae Chelsea locai and the West Fifty-Fourth Street local of the Unemployed Councils have called a mass demonstration at 418 West 53rd Street Thursday at 12 noon. The unemployed workers demand the immediate removal of supervisor Burt who ordered the arrests, the removal of the police from the relief bureau, and immediate increased relief for all unemployed. ‘The Council locals also called up- on all workers to mass at the Fifty- Fou:th Street Police Court Wed- nesday at 12 noon when the five arrested workers will be brought up for trial on “disorderly conduct” charges. Miss Burt, the supervisor, was re- moved from the Harlem Relief Bur-| eau at 102nd Street by mass pres- sure following her discrimination against Negro and Jewish workers, her discriminatory practices against | the Home Relief Bureau Employes| Association, and her outspoken de-| nial to meet with committees from | the Unemployed Council. East Side March Thursday NEW YORK—Locals 2 and 3 of the Workers Committee on Unem- ployment (affiliated to the National Unemployment Councils) have) called upon all ‘workers in the neighborhood to mass at Rutgezs Square Thursday, Sept. 13, at 10 a, m,, and march to the Home Relief Bureau at Sheriff and Broome Streets where an elected delegation will present demands for increased | cash relief, cash payment of rent, etc. Investigation Is Asked | on Furriers Union Raid) NEW YORK-~—Investigation by Mayor LaGuardia of a police raid without a warrant on the head- quarters of the Fur Workers Indus- trial Union was urged yesterday by the New York City Civil Liberties Committee in a letter signed by Attorney A. L. Wirin, Secretary. The raid, occurring Thursday evening, was led by Deputy In- spector McDermott, formerly of the radical squad. Fifteen persons pres- ent were searched and held “on suspicion of felonious assault,” the committee declared. Evidence against the workers is “completely non-existing,” Mr. Wirin said. IU. T. W.. Officials Maneuver With Mayor and Police Chief to End Walkout (Special to the Daily Worker) LOWELL, Mass., Sept. 10.—The officials of the U. T. W. and the Protective Union of Lowell are com- bining with the Mayor, a fake labor lawyer, Jerry Suilivan, and the chief of police—the agents of the ees oe a complete sell- out. This was first known at a gigan- tic mass meeting on Friday night when the Protective officials handed over their meeting and their poli- cies to the local politicians and raised the red scare to prevent op- position from the floor. “Follow your leaders” and “put all of your trust in your leaders” was the keynote of the meeting. The Mayor was the main speaker and he made a dramatic political speech, during which he assured the work- ers he was on their side, and said he could prove it by giving out cans of Federal beef—an excuse for zeal relief! He gave a check for $25 to EXHIBIT A! Seite | CRELE | Urge Passage Of Relief Bill Federated Unemployed) Delegates to Appear | Before Legislature NEWARK, N. J, Sept. 10—The United Unemployment and Relief | Workers Association of New Jersey. @ federated body, is mobilizing ali unemployed groups, mass organiza- | tions and trade unions to elect dele- ates to the Special Session of the| State Legislature, which convenes! on Wednesday, for the purpose of | |demanding enactment of its pro- gram of cash relief and the Workers | Unemployment Insurance Bill. | _The Unemployed League of Jersey | City has accepted the united front |call and is mobilizing its member- | ship to send delegates. The organi- zation in Trenton is being called upon to send delegates also. The seven-point program to be presented at the State Legislature demands enactment of the Workers’ Bill by the State; for immediate Payment of adequate cash relief controlled by elected representatives of workers’ groups and organiza- “It is recalled that the Vestris disaster was caused by | tions; union rates and conditions on a delay in sending an S.0.S. that ship owners might save | salvage fees charged by veasels coming to the rescue.” | Steel Workers Herded Into Sellout Unions By New NRA Order West Virginia Rail Comp Represented by Amalgamated Association by Vote of 237 to 134 By TOM KEENAN PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 10.— Workers in the West Virginia Rail Company’s plant at Huntington, W. Va,, on Friday voted 237 to 134 in favor of the Amalgamated Associ- ation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers as their “collective bargaining” representative in the first election conducted under the supervision of the National Steel Labor Relations} Board, and the capitalist press is loudly heralding the elections as the | New Deal finally come to the steel workers. To get a complete perspective on this latest dogmatic attempt of the Roosevelt government to herd work- | ers into the sellout A. F. of L. unions | where a tendency toward actual or-| ganizations is evidenced by the toil- | ers, it is necessary to hark back to| Hugh Johnson’s speech to indus- | trialists assembled at the March) conference of code authorities. At} that time Johnson warned against the creation of possible “Franken- steins” in the shape of company unions, guaranteeing to employers that “their (the A. F. of L. leaders’) | interests are your interests.” Since then the steel captains as a group have shown most reluctance in agreeing with the administra- tion as to how much demagogy should be employed, and to what! lengths it should be pursued, in rob- | bing the workers and repressing their struggles against exploitation. In consideration of this, Roosevelt, faced with their obvious determina- tion to fight the original NRA Na- tional Labor Board—the case of Weirton Steel and its employes— obligingly created the National Steel Labor Relations Board by special executive order, a “special” agency removing the steel industry from the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board. This latter board, headed by Lloyd Garrison, recently handed down the decision regarding “majority rule” which the bess press is now dema- gogically applying to the West Vir- ginia case—the ruling that any or- ganization or representative chosen |izing the holding of elections of | employe or group of employes the} if any Workers Vote to Be ’ by the majority of employes in any) plant shall act as the sole repre- sentative in collective bargaining of | all employes in that plant, The executive order, after author- “collective bargaining” representa- tives who shall be recognized by the company, states emphatically that all this shall be done “without | thereby denying to any individual right to present grievances, to con- fer with their employers, or other- wise to associate themselves and act, for mutual aid or protection.” Company Unions Remain | That some of the steel compamies | will choose to utilize this clause for | the maintenance and building of company unions even where thie| A. A. might reach a majority at | one time can be seen in the declar-| companies and the government, and | strike and establish these condi- ation of the Apollo Steel Co. when it admitted the Amalgamated’s ma- jority in that plant. These Apollo officials retained the right to deal with minority groups in addition to the A. A, at the steel board | hearings in Pittsburgh last month. | The important thing, however, is| that the crafty Roosevelt has made | allowance for all shades of opinion among the steel barons on the ques- tion of how exploitation of the workers shall proceed under the New Deal. If they want to -force the workers into company unions, as at Weirton, they may. If they want to provide for the building of company unions alongside of A. F. of L, unions, while apparently deal- ing with the latter, this can also be arranged. Lastly, if they want to accept Johnson’s guarantee that “their interests are yours,” Wm. Green, Mike Tighe, and John Lewis} stand ready to prove their loyal de- votion to the cause of the employ- ers. Steel workers thus face the New Deal attack of the steel trust on three different fronts—the employer | himself, his company union (em- ploye representation plan), and the traitorous A. F. of L. top leader- ship, start a relief fund, thereby setting a new low for the price of 2,500 workers’ votes! The rest of the evening was taken up by a Democratic representative, reciting his qualifications for office, and by various misleaders from other industries. The Protective Union, which is an independent union, -has many more members than the U. T. W., so that it has become the concentration point for the arbitration sell-out. Bob Dempsey, a shoe union offi- cial who was compelled to resign from his union last year, is the chief adviserofthe Protective, and his cohort is Jerry Sullivan, the lawyer who tried to foist a typical | company union charter on the union | only mass meetings are being held which can be controlled from the platform. The meetings are ad- journed immediately after the speaking and no opportunity is given the workers for questions of for demands. Twelve thousand workers are being led into the noose of arbitration! The mass of the workers are un- sympathetic with such methods and they are watching the officials closely. Ir the strike is arbitrated it will be against a unanimous vote of the union, and these “leaders” will be exposed, but it may be too late. Sam Harzakian, militant picket captain, is leading the fight of the rank and file against these sell-out tactics of these fakers. when it started, but who was ex- posed by the rank and file. Cherette and Cody, the union of- ficials, are the complete tools of these fakers and have handed over all settlements to them. The strike | committee was dissolved in order to | purge it from any rank and file, voice and will be reorganized under | the direction of the ex-shoe official and his lawyer. All membership meetings are being postponed and This week-end Mayor Buin, Sul- livan and the chief of police con- ferred on the future picketing, and it is doubtful if mass picketing will continue with the sanction of the union officials. The U. T. W., which has con- sisten‘ly refused to go into any united front action with the inde- pendent union, is marking time for | the A. F. of L. sell-out. It is sus- pected that the independent union | all work relief jobs; no evictions or foreclosures, mortgage, interest and taxes to be paid by the relief ad- ministration; gas, light, rent, medi- cal and dental aid to be provided) all unemployed; suspension of all laws that might now exist which disfranchise the unemployed. Jobless in Michigan Will March in Fight on State’s Program LANSING, Mich., Sept. 10—More than 40 per cent of the population of northern Michigan is now on re-| lief, Dr. William Haber, state re- lief administrator, said here Fri- day. Instead of taking steps to provide decent relief for these un- employed workers, the state relief administration, according to Haber, will support the plans of the Roose- velt government for transferring large groups of unemployed starvation colonies in line with pro- posals originally made by Henry | Ford. Dr. Haber admitted there was no chance of most of these unem- ployed getting their jobs back. One mine, which formerly employed 18,- 000, now has 2,000 working and this is the maximum they will ever use, Haber said, That the unemployed themselves are definitely opposed to these schemes is also indicated by state officials. Throughout the stete |these unemployed workers are pre- |Of paring for a mass march to the state capital here some time in October to declare in no uncertain terms that they want adequate cash relief and unemployment insurance, to be paid by the millionaire auto that they will fight against all starvation schemes. 'Organizer of Bathrobe. Union, Beaten by Thugs, Returns to Activity NEW YORK—Ben Stallman, or- ganizer of the Bathrobe Workers Industrial Union, who was badly beaten b ythugs last Thursday, is back at work and aiding in the strike work, an announcement of the union said yesterday. Stallman was slugged Tuesday by four gang- sters who, Bathrobe Union officers charge, were from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Amalgamated Clothing Work- | ers. The attack on Stallman is an outgrowth of the three-weeks old strike in the industry. The work- ers, who have been fighting for im- proved conditions, are already re- ceiving offers of concessions from |the employers, The first offer of the employers for a 36 hour week and a 10 per cent pay increase has been rejected by the union as not meeting the original demands of the workers. Plan Strike Sellout in Lowell \Turn Over Meeting to Local Politicians, Raise ‘Red Scare’ officials are preparing to consoli- date with the U. T. W. and no word of criticism of the A. F. of L. is allowed, although the independent union was formed in the first place because the workers would not af- filiate with the A. F. of L., knowing and hating their tactics in other Lowell and Massachusetts strikes. The only hope in Lowell is for the rank and file to demand mem- bership meetings and to hold them, if need be, without the officials; to watch the officials and to keep aj} careful check on the new strike | The red scare is not | committee. bothering the mass of workers much. They are too wise to be frightened by it. They have heard the cry before and have understood i‘. They know the most militant fighters for their demands are al- ways the “Reds.” If fighting against bad conditions means to be called a “Red,” then the workers are not afraid of being called Reds, »« N, J. Jobless CITES HERNDON BAIL IN FUND APPEAL TO ‘DAILY’ READERS | Communist Candidate for Governor of New York | Urges Workers to Contribute to Campaign as Aid in Fight Against Fascist Terror By I. Amter (Communist Party Candidate for Governor of New York) What will the new Daily Worker mean for the revo lutionary movement? Facing the rapid development of F Bridgeton, New Je States—California, ism in the United Chicago, the | South—facing t ion of all reactionary forces by the government in the effort to put through the “new deal”—face ing the mobilized strength of the he mobilizati Rabbit Trade Workers Win 100% Pay Rise | NEW YORK—Workers in the rabbit trade here will report to work today under union con- tracts that call for a 100 per cent increase in wages, the Fur Dressers and Dyers Industrial an- nounced yesterday, as the result of the settlement of the three-week strike that was effected last Friday. The scale in the rabbit industry | before the strike was $1.10 for flesh— ing 100 grey rabbit skins. Now the workers won $2.10. The same pro- | Union rapidly fascizing leadership of the, A. F. of L. in an effort to rid the, unions of all militant elements— and above all facing the feveristy Preparations for war—how invalu« able is the Daily Worker? On the other hand, facing tha rapidly radicalization of the masses of this country—who look to the, Communist Party for leadership—~ what we will be able to accomplish with a more powerful Daily Worker? The Daily Worker is our most important weapon in the or< ganization of the workers in the shops and mines, in the organisa< tion and mobilization of the unem-, ployed, the farmers, the veterans, the Negroes, the youth. We not only will not allow the Daily, Worker to fail, but we will do every- thing in our power to build a more powerful “Daily.” to | portion for all other operations, such as pulling white skins, etc.,| strengthened Daily Worker! Each has been agreed upon. The mini-| Party district, section and unit— mum scale for floor workers has|each Party and Y.C.L. member; all now been established at 75 cents. the mass organizations; each group The floor workers before worked|in the reformist unions and other for all sorts of prices, much lower | mass organizations—all together we than 75 cents, in spite of the fact | will push forward to make the $60,- that the code provides 65 cents for |000 drive for the Daily Worker = these- floor workers, and the vast | challenge to the capitalist class. majority in the industry work for| We surprised the capitalists by less than that. | raising $15,000 in cash for the re- Ten cents for 100 skins for the|lease of Angelo Herndon. We will unemployment fund is also stipu-| Surprise them still more by demon- lated. | strating that even though they “ia | BaVe cut our wages and relief—we union together with the interna, | Wil give to the last to the $60,000 Re ave He | dive for the Dally Werkse, <4 ional locals 85 and 25, jointly con- | fighting new: of the fightin: ducted the strike. The Industrial | ,S.0 8 MOM eg |Union right from the outset of the | ne: strike made all efforts to conduct | it on a united front basis, and in/ 'spite of the maneuvers of the lead- | ership of the International to break | the united front, the Industrial | Union was successful in maintain- | ing it. In order to make the united |front more effective, the Industrial | All support for an enlarged, remember October 19, 20, 21 | Union sent its strikers to the hall | ayes the International where all} DAILY WORKER haere activities were conducted MORNING FREIHEIT jointly, The workers in the industry now YOUNG WORKER realize that the efforts of the In-| dustrial Union and its united front | policies made it possible to win the BLA. Z A AS tions. | Enjoy Indian Summer at \Camp Nitgedaiget | THIS IS NEEDLE TRADES WEEK! @ Rates are lower. Programs more interesting. Every @ comfort. Steam-heated hotel. Finest foods. Modern | @ showers, etc. Bungalows. Mt. Beacon Countryside Is Loveliest Now! | Leaves Are Turning Red and Gold! Register at Union Office, 131 W. 28th St., for lowered rates: $13 = week; || $8 for four days; $6.50 for three; $4.50 for two, and $2.50 for ome full day. Special Busses. |CA MP UNITY Wingdale, New York Hi Is Open All Through September! 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