The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1934, Page 3

OF GOV. united action for increased relief yesterday forced leaders | of the Legislature to grant one hour and a half of a joint session of both houses for today for: a hearing of the demands of the unemployed workers. Meanwhile Pinchot maneuvered for the provision of only $14,000,000 of state funds as Pennsylvania’s share of her relief burden until Jan. 1, a sum not much larger than that dispensed each month to date in the starvation food orders now in effect. Sessions of the unemployed dele- Gates convention in the Farm Show B o¢ continued yesterday with ‘om the delegates on local * and the discussion of de- io be presented today. ate Woods, of Philadelphia, Rave a report on the demands, de- nouncing Pinchot and the Legis- lature for their procrastination in dealing with the relief problem as & political football. Woods pointed the lesson in mass Pressure which is to be drawn from the three visits which the Unem- ployment Councils have paid to Harrisburg. The first time, a build- ing was provided for shelter, but the workers were left to sleep on the concrete floor. The second time, & building and cots for sleeping were provided. Now, the third visit, a building, cots, and food have been provided in response to the mass demands of the unemployed work- ers, Fisher, of Harrisburg Unemploy- ment Council, described the fight which was waged to obtain the food thus grudgingly provided, and the growth of the organization in the capital. Other delegates from various sec- tions stressed the need for building a still broader unemployment move- ment if the fight against hunger is to be successful, calling for a vigilant watch against the attempt cf local politicians to use the Coun- cils for political ends. Textile Strike Endorsed A resolution was passed endors- ing the strike of textile workers, pledging solidarity, and promising that no unemployed workers in Pennsylvania who are represented at the convention will serve as Scabs. Ben Careathers, Pittsburgh Com- munist Party candidate for Con- gress in the 32nd District, gave an account of the successful struggles of the Pittsburgh workers against evictions, the worsening of condi- tions in the steel industry (now at 15 per cent capacity production), and the growing movement of the workers for struggle against hun- ger and unemployment. 1,000 Join in Few Weeks Miller, a representative of the | Unemployed Union of York, Pa., told of the fight there against dis- ruptive elements which later left the independent organization to form a fascist “Liberty League” last week, modeled much on the line of the American League, and pledged to chase all “agitators” out of town. A representative of Fayette County told of the unemployed miners who dwell there in coke ovens and the signing up of 1,000 new members in the last few weeks. os; Dance and Entertainment given by Waterfront Anti-War Committee Friday, Sept. 14, 1934 at 8 P.M. At IRVING PLAZA 15th St. and Irving Place, N.Y.C. Subscription 25 cents { By Tom Keenan (Special to the Daily Worker) ARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 18—A committee from the State-wide convention of Unemployment Council delegates | rhd representatives of organizations participating in the/| tional secretary of the Friends of PINCHOT Unemployed Workers Convention Draws Up a Relief Program To Be Placed Before State Legislature Session in Harrisburg N.Y. Jobless To Mass Today At City Hall | NEW YORK.—Demanding imme- | diate adequate appropriations for Winter relief, employed and unem- ployed workers will demonstrate at | the City Hall at 12 noon today, at! | the time when the Board of Ald men meet to vote on the LaGuardia | relief tax schemes, The Unemployment Council relief | tax program, to be presented to} | Mayor LaGuardia, demands an end| |to the debt service payments to| the bankers and those funds ear- | marked for relief, taxes on large| realty holdings, big business and | | public utilities, stock transfers and |large incomes and inheritances. | The Councils demand that abso- | lutely no taxes be levied on the} working population as provided in| the present relief tax schemes, and | that provisions be made for the} | ever-increasing army of unemploy- | ed. The Councils point out that under the LaGuardia schemes, ab- solutely no provision is made for the growing relief demands, and that a future drastic relief cut looms, Homeless men from the Muni- cipal Lodging House and the Salva- tion Army Gold Dust Lodge will mobilize at the Gold Dust Lodge, Corlears and Water Sts., at 10 a.m., and march in a body to the City Hall. They will arrive at the time | Salvation Army “General” Evan- | geline Booth is scheduled to be wel- j}ecomed by LaGuardia. |Stachel Will Discuss | Strike at Mass Rally NEWARK, N, J., Sept. 13—A | mass meeting in support of the tex- tile strike will be held here tomor- row at the Ukrainian Hall, 57 Beacon Street. Among the speak- | ers will be Jack Stachel, secretary of the Trade Union’ Unity League; | |Moe Brown, Communist candidate for Governor of New Jersey, and H. | Sazer, district organizer of the} Communist Party. | The meeting has been called by | the New Jersey district of the Com- | munist Party. | Special Sirike Edition A special textile issue of the Young Worker, containing latest strike news and a full page of strike | action pictures, has just come off | the press. This issue is on the | street now and sells for a cent. | All Young Worker agents in New York are requested to report to the | District Office of the Y. C. L. today | for special sales. CORRECTION | Members of the American Fed- leration of Hosiery Workers at | | Reading, Pa., have forced local offi- | | cials into acceptance of demands for a thirty-hour week, not a thirty- four hour week, as erroneously re~ ported in the Wednesday issue of the Daily Worker. The Crown Heights Branch 25 Chauncey Street, Brooklyn, Principles of Class Struggle Revolutionary Traditions of the Negro People Spanish i Current Problems of Negro | Liberation Movement | Public Speaking Courses also forming in } History of American Workingclass Masxism-Leninism | ATTENTION Workers of Williamsburg, Flatbush and Crown Heights Location easily reached by all elevated trains and street cars of the Workers School at is now registering for courses: Political Economy Trade Unionism Youth Problems English-Elementary, Interme- diate and Advanced Voice and Speech Direction Historical Materialism —Tom Truesdale, Director, i —Philadelphia — HARRY Associate Editor of the Daily Worker Will Meet the Philadelphia Daily Worker Shock Brigaders at Robert Minor Banquet Celebrating the Fiftieth Birthday of Robert Minor, Veteren of Working Class Struggles, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Saturday, Sept. 15th at 8 P. M. ADMISSION FREE TO THOSE WHO WILL DOOR A SOLD COUPON BOOK FOR THE DAILY WORKER . Leading Members of the Daily Worker Staff JACOB BURCK, Cartoonist, and GANNES Broad St. Mansion Broad and Girard Ave. PRESENT AT THE of Young Worker Is Out) D! AILY WORKER, EW YORK, FRIDA SEPTEMBER 14, 1934 ONLY $14,000,000 Hosiery Union VY, Seamen Fight PROVIDED IN PLANS Picks Delegate To Visit USSR The Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union of Philadelphia yes- terday sent word to the Friends of the Soviet Union, throu William Leader, president of the union and member of the Socialist Party, that they had elected a delegate to the | F, S. U. November 7 Worker Dele-| gation to the Soviet Union. Pointing out that the action of the hosiery workers was of particu- lar significance in view of the exist- ing strike situation in the textile industry, Herbert Goldfrank, na- the Soviet Union, 799 Broadway, stated that this year’s delegation to the U.S.S.R. would include repre- sentative American workers from a number of industries in various parts of the country. The F. S. U. plans for the dele- | gation, which will reach Moscow in| time for the eighteenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolu- tion, call for the sending of a Pitts- burgh miner from the United Mine Workers of America, a Pawtucket textile worker, a Boston seaman, a New York City machinist, a Pitts- burgh steel worker, a South Dakota farmer, a Southern Illinois miner from the Progressive Miners of America, a Chicago stock yard worker, a Los Angeles railroad worker and an agricultural worker from a section where considerable struggle has taken place recently. Pointing out that tens of thou- sands of farmers in the Middle West who have been affected by the drought, are active in the campai to send one of their number with the F.S.U. delegation, Goldfrank stated that the F.S.U. is also cam- paigning for an additional steel worker, an aircraft worker and an auto worker to go to the Soviet Union and see there how men and women live and work under Social- ist construction. Twice each year, for the May Day and November celebrations, the F. S. U., cooperating with the Soviet trade unions, sends such delegations to the U.S.S.R., that they may see with their own eyes the progress that is being made, and how Soviet workers live, what is being done in the field of social insurance, Soviet culture, and all the other achieve- ments already realized. Without exception American® workers who have already gone to the Soviet Union with the F.S.U. delegations have returned to speak to their fel- low workers in glowing terms of the tremendous accomplishments of Socialist contsruction, Every delegate is a worker who is widely and favorably known among his fellow workers. It does not matter what his political affili- ation is—all that is necessary is that he be honest, and trusted by others in his factory, mill or mine, 500 French Reserves Adopt Soviets Slogans PARIS, Sept. 13.—Their Summer War maneuvers ended, 500 reservists have arrived in Paris in a train draped with red banners and chalked with the hammer and |Sickle, singing the Internationale. When the train stopped at |Rheims during the “war’—the | scene of World War destruction and | mass murder—they staged a dem- | onstration on the station platform, | Shouting “A Soviet France!” and |“Down with Military Service!” Along the way to Paris, the dem- jonstration continued, At many | points slogans of the revolutionary | movement were received by civilians | With raised arms, On their arrival, the reservists formed a solid column, and, carry- ing many small red flags improvised jat the last moment, marched out of the station behind a banner on which were painted both the ham- mer and sickle and the three ar- rows of the Socialist Party. The police appeared, but were not able to break up the demonstration, which ended only when truckloads of police reserves arrived. MADE & IMPORTED FROM SOVIET UNION , (U, 8. 8. RB.) Smooth, invigorat- ing PURE WHEAT IMPORTED RUS- SIAN VODKA is at last available in America! Be sure you get ONLY Genuine Imported Russian Vodka — label marked “Made in the So- viet Union (U. S. Ss. R.)” Ask for Genuine {Imported Russian VODKA at your local store. Leaflet on request. lf Distributed by: D. & B. PRODUCTS CORP. Jersey City, N. J. by arrangement with AMTORG TRADING CORPORATION New York n | of representative American workers | After War Maneuver) For New Wage Scale communist Party and Marine Workers Industrial Union Issue Statements Pushing Demands as Ryan Maneuvers to Block Struggle NEW YORK.—Action to win a, wa new wage scale of $1 an hour for rfront, Main responsibility for this rests upon the concentration ja 30-hour week and a 6-hour day | units and Section Committees in is being and file | Sectio: 1, 3 and 7, and upon the longshoremen on the leading di | Com ghoremen and sea- of the Eastern Coast, while Joseph|men. But t' hole Party P, Ryan, president of the Interna-|tus, from the District Committee tional Longshoremen’s Association, | down, all of the revolutionary is attempting to block a real strug. gle for higher wages through nego tiating with the shipowners. Ryan, forced by the tremendous resentment of the men to propose | the program adopted by the recent | Baltimore conference of longshore- ms and mass org! now give marine wi }most support, politically tionally and financially, must sume their share of respo! in the realization of the tremendous political importance for the whole ni |men, is seeking through protracted ing class movement of the | negotiation to whittle the demands |struggle of the longshoremen of ; down, leaving the men in the same | New York. tion as before. Yori | “Defeat the betrayal maneuvers t Bureau | of Ryan in connection with the new , realizing | working agreement! gotiations,/ “For a new agreement on the sierday issued an urgent call to} basis of the rank and file demands! all its members and sympathizers io} “Forward to militant struggles organize immediate rank and f d victories of the New York and | The New |of the Com actions and committees to see that | Atlantic Coast longshoremen and the new wage scale is won from | seamen! the employers. | “Forward to a Bolshevik tempo Rank and File Militancy jot concentration work in the marine Pointing out that the work of the | industry!” rank and file and the Communists | Committee of Action on the waterfront will be decisive; ilitant longshoremen in the in winning the new wage scale, the }rank and file committee of action Communist Party statement de-|in the I. L. A. are distributing the clares: following leaflet up and down the “A situation now exists among | Jeadi: ports in the Bast the New York longshoremen which | “prothers: We all know that, represents the most urgent strategic | Ryan is only throwing sand in our task immediately confronting our | eyes when he comes out for $1 an | Party and mass organizations in| hour and $1.50 for overtime. This | this district. is why he talks! But when it comes | “The statement of the Rank and |to action he will try to put over | File Action Committee of the Inter- | another sell-out agreement for 35 national Longshoremen’s Associa-|or 90 cents an hour and the same tion giving the demands worked out | rotten conditions we have now. | by the Baltimore Marine Unity “If we remain quiet, if we do| | Conference, and suggesting imme-| nothing, Ryan will get away with | diate steps for action, gives the|it. And we will have another year | background of this situation. | of speed-up, big drafts and small Around the demands and proposals | gangs, discrimination, etc. With contained in this statement and | prices up 30 per cent (and still go- | around the question of the NeW | ing up) how will we feed and clothe | wage and working agreement which | our families this winter on one or | is now being negotiated by Ryan,/two days’ pay a week? How will there is taking place a widespread | we pay our rent, our gas,.our doc- discussion among the masses of the | tor bills? Of course, Ryan and the longshoremen, The sentiment of the | ship owners don’t worry about this, longshoremen is characterized by: | They've got plenty themselves! Wages and Conditions Bad Frisco Strike Example “(a) Deep-going discontent with “Some longshoremen say: ‘What’s wages and working conditions |the use? The men won't stick to- | which have worsened considerably | pether. You can't do anything during the past year; against Ryan.’ But the great West “(b) General distrust and hatred | coast strike proved that this is not of the corrupt and treacherous lead-j|trye. The Frisco longshoremen erahip of Ryan” |stuck together like glue. They “(c) Growing will to struggle | chased Ryan off the Pacific Cozst | both against the bosses and Ryan | when he tried to sell them out. In| for a better agreement, trade union spite of treachery and betrayal by | Gemibere 65, Oye , A. F. of L. and I, S. U. officials, in “The existence of this sentiment spite of Ryan’s keeping us from is indicated by the fact that Ryan | striking in sympathy, the Pacific has been compelled, due to rank } ; Coast men fought the shipowners and file pressure, to put forward as | to a standstill. They did this under a@ maneuver the demand for the ; Tank and file leadership! And to- | same wage scale ($1 per hour—$1.50| Gay the Frisco longshoremen are for overtime—30-hour weck), as : | more solidly united than ever— that adopted by the Baltimore Con- | eatlgite canyon tors ering the erence. 3 courageous fight which won them “All of these factors making for i h te ry arent many gains already. struggse have been greatly str - ‘ coer as the recent period by the} Follow Frisco Example example and lessons of the great| “The basis of our struggle 1s pro- West Coast strike. vided in the program and demands c aiiration tndust worked out at the North Atlantic prsgeel nc cold Unity Conference held at Baltimore “The marine industry is a basic f !on Sept. 1 and 2. This conference concentration industry in our dis- | included delegates from I, L. A. trict. And the longshoremen—over | }o9)s and rank and file groups from 15,000 of them—are a key strata of | - 4 |the American Radio Telegraph- workers in this industry. A struggle | ers’ ssociation and the Marine | of the New York longshoremen | Workers’ Industrial Union—all of | would (as the Frisco strike demon- whom pledged their support for our | strated) stir the entire working | cirugole, A complete program for | class of the city, would lift the class | jonoshoremen was worked out, of | ’ | further 2,300 Jobless Join in Rally In Cleveland (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohi Twenty ve hundre onstrat at the Tuesday ni the local pr stop the mol ati that the Home O: and the Unemp! had called off the A committee was workers Tu their dema 13 the city bo Page Three Pennsylvania Jobless Force State Body to Hear Demands Friday and to report and propose | action at the Herndon meeting at 5008 Euclid Avenue. i NEVER SHOWN BEFORE IN THE U. S. A. | NEW SOVIET MOVIE—“SENTENCED TO HEALTH” (A Soviet Satire) and DANCE to an excellent Orchestra SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th 8:20 P.M IRVING PLAZ 15th Str A ng Place Admission 35 cents ces—Friends of the Soviet Union We shall try to maintain, as long as possible, our low price of $18.75, but due to textile strikes and other condi- tions beyond our control, we may be compelled to raise our price. We, therefore, advise immediate selection as pro- tection against any possible in- crease. THE ew CRAWFORD Custom Quality CLOTHES are still 138” NO CHARGE FOR ALTERATIONS struggle, the Party and the reyolu- high level. the Party’s base among the long: shoremen means a solid step to: ward the Bolshevization of the Party. “Our district is here confronted with a specific and concrete oppor tunity to carry through in practice the line of the Open Letter and Eighth Convention of our Party, which placed as one of our central and decisive tasks the work in the marine industry. Urge Active Aid “The District Bureau demands the maximum mobilization at once of all forces and resources for sup- port of the program of the Rank and File Action Committee of the tionary mass organizations to a new | The strengthening of | which the three demands at the | | top of this leaflet are the main | beams. | “Brothers! Our only protection | against a new sell-out agreement by | | Ryan is rank and file control of the | negotiations. | “Demand special local union | meetings to discuss the agreement and to elect rank and file negotia- | teins committees. | “Send letters, resolutions and | petitions to Ryan demanding that no agreement be signed unless rati- fied by a conference of elected rank and file delegates! “Prepare to back up the demands with work-stoppages and strike actions! “Forward to unity, struggle and victory of the Atlantic Coast long- Never before have we had as much reason to be as proud of Crawford Custom Quality Clothes as we have today. Only at Crawford can you get $40.00 values for $18.75. Because we are New York's largest clothing chain, we offer Custom Quality woolens—expertly tailored in our own large daylight factories where we em- ploy happy workers, who take pride in our product direct to you through our own stores is the final step in our eco- nomical method of manufacturing and distribution. Styled by the celebrated D'Ambrosio, the new Fall Crawford Clothes are the most distinctive it has ever been our pleasure to show. We'll give you COM- PLETE selection and will fit you regard- less of your measurements. Come to your shoremen!” RANK AND FILE ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE ILA., Room 810, 1 Union Square, New York, N. Y. International Longshoremen’s As- | sociation, for carrying through our four weeks’ plan of marine con- centration work, for building of the Party and Daily Worker on the BROWDER TO SPEAK IN THAELMANN FILM IN N.Y. ON SEPT. 19 NEW YORK.—Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, has completed the recording of the sound film introduction to “Ernst Thaelmann — Fighter Against Fascism,” which will be shown for four days at the Twenty- eighth Street Theatre, Broadway and 28th St., from Sept. 19 to 22. Browder will appear on the screen | barbarous reign of terror in Nazi to introduce the picture and again| Germany, smuggled out of that at the end of the film, with sum- | country with the utmost difficulty, mary remarks on the struggle; the film depicts the heroic struggles against fascism. Browder’s appear-| of the Red Front Fighters and the ance in this talking film makes it | German anti-fascist masses. 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