The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1934, Page 1

The Editer Writes te Ow Readers — By ©. A. HAPHAWAY — Comrades : i | 14th St., New York City. | - Only $53 was received over the week- end for the Herndon-Scottsboro Defense Fund, bringing the total to $8,603. Send contributions for the 15,000 fund te the International Labor Defense, 80 E. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Daily ,<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Press Needed—$625 a Day Total to Date vo 98590) Run Yesterday—52,800 ————————— Se I know that every Dai | Vol. XI, No. 231-<qp W YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1934 Worker reader is deephy con-| cerned with the problems of | our paper, You are concerned | with its continued existence, with its enlargement and im- provement. For these rea- sons I wish te discuss the Paper’s present position. Frankly, comrades, our fi- & ery eae $ E ~ ~ — @ —__—_—— > ——————“~— — nancial position is v. bad. | ie 3 This hampers us very greatby | > ° in our day-to-day work; * Fascist Trend Cited As Noted Men Speak Of Anti-War Parley jeopardizes our plans for a © Mass Sendoff Rew York, K. Y. under the Act of March 8 1879, WHAGEER—Fols, (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Amter Puts Thousands in New England Prete Sirtis Relief Plan 4 4nswer to Gorman’s Betrayal Deal; To Mayor am tuenien.1, 002000 Locked Out in Southern Mills Tax, While Jobless | —— Mass Outside South Is Eager for Re-| Strike, But Leaders | NEW YORK.—Unemployed and York City. Some comrades, hearing this, might ask: “Why con- sider a larger paper, with three editions daily and with added features if your finan- cial position is so bad? Why don’t you Mve within your| New York Daily Worker and Brewder, Dreiser, Gold- for three editions daily— with eight pages for New stein Urge Fight on Rising Reaction trike Goan On in Many, | Parts of New England Withhold Word means?” But the problem is not so simple. If we were toe live “within our means,” we would have te abandon a daily newspaper, because no daily paper can live from its circulation income alone. The daily capitalis t-controlled newspapers are subsidized by their advertisers. The Daily Worker must be subsidized by its readers and by sym- pathetic working class or- ganizations. We appear every day, not because we can af- ford to appear (financially speaking), but because the needs of the workers are such that a fighting paper, an or- ganizer and leader of the workers, like the Daily Worker, must appear. We are essential to the working class movement. That is our one reason for existence. For the same reasons we must make the Daily Worker a better and a bigger paper. We must attract and hold new readers. The circulation nust be multiplied many- fold if we are to really serve as a mass organizer, an ag- itator and a propagandist. | We must reach the broad mass of steel, textile, auto, | and waterfront workers, the coal and metal miners, the workers in all basic indus- tries, the Negro masses, the poor farmers, ete. We must have the space to deal with their problems as we dealt with those of the textile workers. We must be able to add such features as will interest these new readers as they are secured, so that the one-time reader is made a permanent reader. In short, comrades, we must deal more simply, clear- ly and convincingly with the great mass of social, eco- nomic and political problems as they effect the main sec- tions of the toiling population of the country. This is why we are now preparing to have a separate national edition of the paper in which more at- tention can be given to the problems outside of New York City, and two city edi- tions (one at 7 pm., the other at midnight), for the eastern seaboard cities, Of course, comrades, these changes and improvements will cost more money. And for that reason the $60,000, for which the Daily Worker is asking its readers, is urg- onily needed. We can realize these improvements provid- ing the $60,000 fund is raised in full. In fact the greatest portion of this amount is needed even to guarantee the existence of the present paper. The strike wave sweeping through industry after indus- try increases the tasks and the responsibilities of the Daily Worker. In the textile strike I am sure every reader will agree that we did a good job. We sent staff corre- spondents into the principle strike areas: we had daily (Continued on Page 2) idid not mobilize NEW YORK.—Theadore Dreiser, noted author, Earl Browder, Gen- eral Secretary of the Communist | Party, U. 8. A., and Rabbi Benjamin Goldstein, in a three-cornered press interview on Monday night, sounded the warning that the intimidation |of workers in the general textile | strike was an indication of the rapid |growth of organized attacks against the working class. Speaking to re- porters at the headquarters of the Amercian League Against War and Fascism, Dreiser said that “from what I read in the newspapers, there is considerable evidence of fascism in the textile strike.” Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, pointed to “the innumerable examples of at- tacks upon workers that seem to go in the direction of the develop- ment of fascism in Germany. Though I must say that the San Francisco vigilantes were much bet- ter organized than the brown shirts.” 4,000,000 RepreSented at Congress All three men, who are leading figures in the League Against War and Fascism, stressed the need of fighting against fascist develop- ments in this country, and of sup- porting the broad program of the League, which is holding its Second Congress in Chicago (Sept. 28, 29 and 30). Browder said that “the reaction to the increase in organized terror against workers has led to a phenomenal increase in the League’s strength. At the Congress, about 4,000,000 people wlil be repre- sented by accredited delegates.” Dreiser, when asked as to whether terroristic actions were on the in- crease, replied that “Probably they were.” He told of his experiences in Harlan, Kentucky, two years ago, where people who attempted to feed miners were beaten and shot. He was very bitter about the dis- tortion of news by the press and singled out the Associated Press for “deliberately distorting his testi- mony at a cross-examination.” One of the purposes of the League, it was brought out by Browder, was to organize strong resistance against. these manifestations of fascism. Rise of Chauvinism Rabbi Goldstein, who was driven from his synagogue in Atlanta be- cause of his efforts in behalf of the Scottsboro boys, answered the questions brought up in connection with anti-Semitism. He said that “anti-Semitism is growing rapidly because of the exigencies of the economic situation. The indus- trialists are beginning to look for some one to blame, and since the Jew has always been the scapegoat, they naturally turn to that angle to avoid trouble.” The Jews, he said, will be charged with everything as the economic situation goes from bad to worse. The Negroes would also be affected and all other minority groups. Rabbi Goldstein illustrated the complexity of the problems by calling atten- tion to the fact that the upper strata of oppressed minorities some- times utilize such oppression for | their own ends. He brought out the fact that in Harlem, a group of Ne- gro business men were organizing a@ campaign to drive small Jewish business men out of the Negro dis- trict. Their leader was a self-styled “Black Hitler” by the name of Amir Abdullah. Work Among Negroes and Jews Since the League exposes all ef- forts to utilize racial and religious prejudices for fascist purposes, the question was asked as to why the |League had shown its greatest | strength among trade unions, youth organizations, and Protestant or- | ganizations, and did not have as (Continued on Page 2) For Chicago Parley Tonight Big Meeting in N. Y.— Parade Is Arranged | in Western City | NEW YORK. — Speakers repre-| senting many shades of political | opinion, but all united in their op-| position to war and Fascism, will) appear on the platform of the mass | sendoff meeting tonight at 7:30 in) Mecca Temple, 135 W. 55th St., for| New York delegates to the Second United Stateg Congress Against War and Fascism in Chicago. Theodore Dreiser, dean of Amer- ican novelists and supporter of the program of the American League} Against War and Fascism, will speak, | as will also Ann Burlak, national | secretary of the National Textile Workers Union, who has just re- turned from the New England tex- tile strike area, and with Dr. Wil- liam Spofford, national secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democracy, and Charles Krumbein, | district organizer of the Commu- nist Party. Organizations including social) service groups, religious organiza-| tions, youth organizations, profes- | sional and intellectual groups, paci- fist organizations, and workers or- ganizations will be represented ai this mass rally, which is expected to be one of the greatest demonstra- tions against war and Fascism ever seen in New York City. A special feature program has also been prepared for the sendoff. The Workers Laboratory Theatre will present the one-act play “Free Thaelmann.” A group of anti-war dances will be performed by the Dorsha Dancers and Paul Hayes, and the Workers Music League will! sing famous songs of revolt. Four National Guard regiments have elected a total of ten: dele- gates to the Congress. The dele- gates are from the 7ist Infantry, the Negro 369th Infantry, the 102nd Medical Regiment and the 212th Coast Artillery. A total of $200 is needed by Friday night to send these delegates to Chicago. Parade In Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 25.—Prepara- tions are being completed here for the giant Second United States Congress Against War and Fas- cism, which will open on Friday with a meeting in the Coliseum, preceded by a mass parade of the several thousand delegates and thousands of Chicago workers. Chief among the speakers will be two international delegates from the World Congress Against War and Fascism, whose names have not yet been announced. Other leading speakers who will appear at the opening meeting in the Coliseum, at Fifteenth Street and Wabash Avenue, are Dr. Harry F. Ward, Ella Reeve Bloor, Robert Morss Lovett, George Koop, Thomas Amlie, Waldo McNutt, Earl Brow- der, Mabel Byrd, Kurt Rosenfeld and General Victor Yakhontoff, Michael Gold to Speak NEW YORK.—Michael Gold will speak at a party and dance at the John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Avenue, at 8:30 o'clock tonight, where the delegates to the National John Reed Club Conference and the Second Anti-War Congress at Chi- cago will be given a send-off. The Workers’ Laboratory Theatre will present several vaudeville skits. Dancing will continue until late in the evening. NEW YORK.—Pointing out that more than 80,000 strikers have been locked out by the textile op- erators, the New York Provisional Committee for Relief for Textile Strikers yesterday called on all sympathetic organizations to send delegates to a conference tomor- row at 8 p.m. in Webster Hall. “It must be borne in mind,” the committee said, “that the 500,000 ‘textile workers did not receive food and funds for relief while the strike was on. We can, say tiat the United Textile Workers Unien and the American Federation of Labor leadership did not give at- tention to strike relief, despite urg- ent calls from dozens of textile centers where families and chil- ¢rem were actually without food. We are c-1 ~aject to criti- es in that we bu organizations seek nd Relief Conference Tomorrow For Locked-Out Mill Workers we could reach in order to rush reief to the strike centers north and south. “The provisional relief commit- tee is of the opinion that we now face a most important period in the struggle of the textile workers for wages and working conditions which will mean life instead of death to their families. Those strikers who have been locked out, those who are still on strike, con- stitute local leadership and rank and filers who understand that much courage and great militancy and correct strike policies are nec- essary to defeat their exploiters. Food for these brave fighters will strengthen them in their difficuit situation, A broad and speedy campaign for funds and food must be launched at once. Attend the jpointed to the discrimination relief workers and homeless men massed at City Hall yesterday and threw a picket line around City Hall Park while representatives of the jobless presented relief de- mands to Mayor LaGuardia at the open hearing on his three tax schemes to finance unemployment | relief in New York City. | Israel Amter, secretary of the National Unemployment Council and Communist candidate for gov- By Harry Raymond (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 25—| Southern A. F. of L. leaders were marking time today in face of tre- mendous sentiment among the tex- tile workers for a general re-strike jagainst the widespread discrimina- |tion of union members. | ernor of New York State, speaking |sorin Carolina State Federation of | in the name of the Communist ; 3 Labor, admitted this morning that | Party, demanded that new fields of | ; = taxation be opened by taxes on cor-|* word from him was all that was porations and utilities, stock trans- | @cessary to bring about a continua- fers and large realty holdings, and| tion of the strike. But he failed | that the present administration | Say the word, and satisfled him- | scrap the Bankers’ Agreement and/|Self with denunciation of the mill stop the payments to the bankers|Owners’ blacklist campaign and under the debt service, in order to| Promises that the new Roosevelt meet relief obligaitons. ; Textile Board would take up the “We are just as much opposed to | cases of discrimination. the proposals made by the Board) “I fel that under the new board of Aldermen as we are opposed to|that is to be set up by the presi- those made and to be made here/dent the N. R. A. provisions will by the representatives of big busi-|be enforced,” Lawrence declared ness,” Amter said. “We are opposed| Meanwhile 60,000 members of the to these proposals because even by |United Textile Workers Union in the calculations of the city they the Carolinas were told there were | will bring in an _ insufficient |no jobs for them when they re- amount. These plans mean that the turned to the mills under the plan Jobless in New York will face worse|to settle the strike by arbitration starvation than they have even uP /tt is estimated that 20,000 addi- the tareen tional strikers were blacklisted in City Taxes Aimed at Workers | Georgia and other textile centers in| Launching into an attack upon |the South, bringing the total num- the present relief tax schemes, ber for the Southern area up to Amter pointed out that these taxes | 80,000. are directed in the main against the working population. Amter Rank and File Acts When asked what would be done }about feeding this large army of against Negroes, Latin-Americans | blacklisted strikers, Mr. Lawrence and Italian workers on the reliet| said: “We are placing the situation | lists and demanded that the Pres-/before the Federal authorities, and | ent relief budgets be increased to a | had won a “ sum equal to the relief needs of | the families of the jobless. | Pointing out that there are 700,000 families in New York who are jobless and need relief in ad- we feel sure that these people will | be placed on the Federal relief rolls at once.” It is a well known fact that all throughout the South} strikers have been denied relief by | the Federal authorities and most of President Roosevelt, Mr. Gorman, and Bayonets! AN EDITORIAL AST Saturday Francis J. Gorman suddenly called off the nation-wide textile strike, telling the strikers that through accepting the pro- posals of Roosevelt's board of investigation, headed by Winant, they veeping victory.” This “sweeping victory” came after 16 strikers had been cruelly murdered, after hundreds had been seriousty wounded, after thousands had been clubbed and gassed. A murderous police and militia terror, characteristic of Hitler fas- cism, with machine guns, rifles and bayonets freely used against pickets, was the first line of attack of Roosevelt and of the democratic gov- ernors (Roosevelt's fellow party members) in the various states. This criminal denial of the workers’ rights carried out by means even of torture (Southern concentration camps), was designed to destroy the workers’ militancy, to split their ranks, and to prepare the way for the smashing of the strike. y i second line of attack worked out by Roosevelt was the appoint- ment of the Winant board, with its fake investigation, and its pro- posals for another, a permanent Textile Industrial Relations Board, and more investigations into wages, hours, stretth-out, ete. In other words, through this maneuver, Roosevelt held out hopes that some- time in the future, after long investigations, something might be done, But now the workers should return to work, without a single concession, prepared to live on hopes—not a very substantial diet! Gorman, afraid of the workers’ growing militancy and desiring to end the strike anyway, immediately hailed these empty hopes as a “sweeping victory” and ordered the workers back into the mills. He was aided by the police, militiamen and sheriffs, who immediately singled out for attack or arrest every militant worker who opposed this empty “settlement,” this vicious betrayal—the most brazen sell-out in labor history. Gorman did not even take the simplest precautions to guarantee the most active workers against the blacklist, against dis- crimination. To get out of the strike, he threw his own best union fighters to the wolves, Roosevelt, Gorman and Bayonets — that is the combination re- dition to 150,000 young men andthe relief projects are managed by women, Amter demanded that the| men and seins having shied city provide $20 a week relief to’ stock in the textile mills, and in families and $7 a week to single workers as the very minimum |which the unemployed would ac- cept. “To finance this,” Amter declared, “we say that if the unemployed have been compelled to live on miserable relief for six years then it is time for the bankers to give up their loot.” Unemployment Insurance “Finally,” Amter declared, “though we have heard a great deal about} unemployment insurance both from| you and from President Roosevelt, we declare that there is only one} unemployment insurance bill that) will help the situation beyond the) palliatives that have been proposed | or adopted. This is unemployment | and social insurance as embodied | jin the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill. We ask and demand that the Board of Alderman and you, Mr. LaGuardia, endorse this bill and petition the United States government to enact it into law.” Isidore Begun, of the Unem- ployed Teachers Association, de- manding that adequate relief funds be provided for the jobless through | taxation on the bankers and the rich, declared, “If the city can go bankrupt insofar as the jobless are concerned and stop relief payments, then it can go bankrupt insofar as | the bankers are concerned and stop | the payment of their loot.” Begun, who was fired from the city schools for his activity in be- ‘half of the teachers, in answer to LaGuardia’s challenge to the state ment that workers were starving offered to take him to Harlem where (Continued on Page 2) N.Y. Workers To Mass At Bulgarian Consulate Friday Against Terror NEW YORK.—Workers here will show their solidarity with Bulgarian anti-fascists at a mass rally in front of the Bulgarian consulate, Friday at 11 a.m. They will de- mand the release of 150 Bulgarian soldiers who are facing trial for pub- licly demonstrating against War and Fascism, and protest the Bul- garian terror. It was pointed out by the Inter- national Labor Defense that the Bulgarian military dictatorship is fast modelling itself upon the bloody Hitler regime, both as regards the terror used to oppress the Bulgarian workers and peasants and in the fast mounting record of murder and impoverishment in the Bulgarian masses. Organizations mobilizing for the Friday demonstration will include the American League Against War and Fascism, the Workers Ex- |chief of police and sheriff avowed | Some cases | ers‘ families. In some sections, such as Con-| |cord and Roanoke Rapids, the rank |and file have taken the matter in their own hands. There is a strong |unit of the Communist Party in |Concord and it is in this town) | Where more than 2,000 strikers were | | blacklisted that a rank and file | committee led a mass march of strikers to the court house yester- day to protest the discrimination. Concord is the town where the | members of mill own- that they would “arrest every Red | that showed his head.” Workers in Concord wait eagerly for the Daily | Worker to arrive each day. They read the paper to find out what to/ do and then go ahead and try to sponsible for what Gorman called “a sweeping victory.” IN MONDAY, due to the false promises made, the high hopes held out and the terror of the textile bosses’ tools, most of the half- million strikers returned to the mills. They were angry. Most of them felt that they had been betrayed. But in the face of the combined fakery of Gorman and the terror of the police, and without their own (Continued on Page 2) N.Y Pesiile Ra Trimmers Win Flays Keller Strike Victory In Paterson nk and File carry out the policy laid down in r 4 \the editorials. All the hysterical textile strikers throughout the na- \“red scare” stories in the Concord tion have been ordered back to work | Tribune have failed to injure the by the treachery of their leaders, Communist Party. The Party has | 2,000 textile trimmers organized in gained new recruits amid the terror |the Textile Trimmers Union, an in- jand workers look to it anxiously dependent union, have just won vic- for leadership. | tories in settling with sixteen textile Tremendous Demonstration _| Shops here. Evidence that the rank and file; After mass picketing, the work- |movement is spreading can be seen/ers won a 35-hour week, with 25 jin the tremendous demonstrations |per cent wage increases, resulting jin front of the mills at Roanoke jin a mimimum scale of $18, with Rapids yesterday, where the mill | skilled workers getting $3250 and | NEW YORK.—While the heroic | (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 25—| More than 600 workers attended a} | meeting called by the textile work-| ers’ rank and file committee last | night in the union hall. The work- | ers, who had demanded that the ex- | ecutive board call a membership meeting, forced their way into the | union hall when it was found locked. | Speeches by rank and file mem-| |bers of the union denounced Eli Against Blacklist / By Carl Reeve y (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) LOWELL, Mass., Sept, 25.—Int many textile areas the textile work- |ers are fighting against discrime ination and are continuing theix strike. In many mills only a part of the force was taken back. The mill managements claim it will be several days before the mitis re~’ call all strikers. The strikers des clare that the militant fighters ara being blacklisted and that some of | these mills are instituting a locke out as a lesson to the workers. | In Woonsocket, where the works ers on Sept. 13 battled police and | National Guards all night to main- tain picket lines, the companies have locked out 2,500, the strike: declare. U. T. W. leaders and mi owners there are conferring and working out some agreement in | Woonsocket, In Easthampton, Mass., national guardsmen still patrol the Hamp- | ton Mill, which has refused to take back any of the strikers and {a running with scabs. The largest mill in Fall River, the American Print Works, is still being picketed, following dismissal of active strike ers there. Some departments the mill jare already working. The eight Imills of the French Company are discriminating against strikers. Strike Goes On The strike continues in Chicopee, Mass., with several thousand out demanding an agreement on the stretchout before they return to work. Loom fixers are picketing the Pequot Mill at Salem after two of their leaders were fired and blacklisted. In Maine the Lock- wood Plant in Waterville hired back only a fraction of its force. The strikers charge discrimination here and elsewhere in Maine. In Connecticut 1,000 U. T. W. members at Rockville continued on |strike, charging discrimination, In Lowell the leaders of the Pro- tective Union, using the same methods as the U. T. W. leaders, have succeeded in breaking the backbone of the Lowell strike. Al- though the Protective Union has not officially ended the strike, their methods have caused a rush back to work. These Protective Union lead- ers at last night’s mass meeting in the Auditorium counselled over and over again, “No picketing, no mass | meeting.” | The 3,500 present did not have ja chance to express themselves, as the meeting was hastily adjourned, Some Forced Back to Work | The policy of no mass meetings and no picket lines forced a large number back to work today. Last night there were about 4,000 strik- ing. Today most are at work. There is a great deal of discrim- ination here, hundreds not having been taken back to work as yet, This morning in the union hall the militant strikers forced the hold- ing of a meeting of the 100 strikers in the hall, but Sam Hartizigian, leading rank and file striker, was not permitted to speak. Police interference with the leaf- let distributors cut dewn the size of a Communist meeting in the of owners told the strikers that “you | mechanics getting $50. boys have given up your jobs and| if you want to work you will have to_see about it at the office.” came from Greenville, 8. C., where | none of the 3,200 workers who were | on strike, were taken back. In | Lincolnton, N. C., 150 strikers were | for work, Gaston County, one | strongest strike centers in the | South, was the center of the mill | | owners’ attack. The Loray Mill was | working today with 850 scabs, who were working under troop protec- (Continued on Page 2) M.W.LU, Calls Seamen | 'To Mass Rally Tonight At Manhattan Lyceum) NEW YORK.—A mass meeting of seamen will be held at 7:30 | o'clock tonight at Manhattan | Lyceum, 66 East Fourth Street, un- | der the auspices of the Marine} Workers’ Industrial nion. |. “There is no hall on the beach | large enough to hold such a meet- | ing, since the Dog House would not \let us use their auditorium,” the | committee stated, explaining the | | reason for holding the meeting up-_ town. All seamen, employed and unem- | | ployed, organized and unorganized, | | Keller and the other leaders respon- sible for the sellout. Moe Br Three more shops are negotiat- last two days. The textile trimmers are plan- ning to appear in a body at the Thursday evening conference of the employers. militant textile worker and Cor ling for a settlement, while three | munist candidate for Governor, was Further reports of blacklisting|Others went out on strike in the | given a tremendous ovation when | he spoke. | At the close of the meeting the | workers adopted resolutions retain- |ing their rank and file committee told, “your jobs have been filled by labor unions for the assisting of | which was chosen earlier in the day other en,” when they reported |the textile workers to demonstrate |to carry on the work of mobilizing |how rank and file militant action | and supporting the workers still on of the | and control can win victories against | (Continued on Page 2) Militant Receives Big Vote In A. F.L. Ballot in Chicago (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Sept. 25.—For the first, time since 1924, the organized voice | of progressive forces in the Chicago | | Federation of Labor was heard in the elections for C. F. L. offices Sunday, when Elmer Johnson, mili- tant candidate for vice-persident of | the Federation, received 20 per cent of the votes of this delegated body. | Johnson, progressive leader of the Painters Union, received fifty-seven votes as a result of his campaign against Oscar Nelson, the strongly intrenched vice-president. Nelson | received 248 votes, through the ener- getic work of the Fitzpatrick- Knockles machine, 3—United action of the workers | in their struggle against the at- | tacks of the employers. At the offices of the Chicago A. |F. of L. Trade Union Committee |for Unemployment Insurance, of which Johnson is secretary, it was pointed out the large vote for the | Progressives, including Johnson, was a signal victory. The Federation, which is a delegated body, to which locals snd representatives, has been | completely dominated by the most | reactionary elements ever since the expulsion of the outstanding mili- tants like William Z. Foster years ago. ‘ Signs of discontent with the pres- | Servicemen League, Bulgarian, | are invited to attend the meeting, | Greek, Yugo-Slav, and Macedonian to express their opinions and vote workers. ‘on propositions offered. Election The demonstration will be held! of representatives of the unem- | at 145th St. and Broadway. The ployed seamen on the strike com- | relief conierence in Webster Hall, Thursday night” v Consulate is located nearby, at 3569 | mittee will be one of the points to | Broadway. be taken up at the meeting. Johnson ran for Vice-President | ent leadership of the C. F. L. have on the following platform: been becoming noticeable in recent 1—Endossement of the Work- | weeks, but the progressive capture ers Unemployment and Social In- | of approximately 20 per cent of the surance Bill, 2—Intensive campaign to union- ize Chicago labor, | votes in a campaign against the leaders of the reactionary machine was the most outstanding evidence Colonial Hall last night. However, in the past two or three days 25 have signed applications to the Communist Party, and the senti- ment of the warkers for the Daily Worker is particularly strong. The Party and militant strikers, such as Sam Hartzigian, put forward the program of mass picket lines, ree |moval of weak and traitorous eles ments from both unions, and control of the strike and the union by the rank and file mass meetings, and strengthening of the relief commit- tee and continuing the strike until the national demands are won. The sentiment of the strike is that they have been sold out by the U. T. W. leaders, and many of them also place the blame directly om President Roosevelt. Tonight Ed. Stevens, Communist candidate for Governor, and Sam Harzigian, will be the speakers at a Communist Party mass meeting in the City Hail Square. Before the strike ended the union leaders were forced by the mass sentiment of the workers to dis band their strong-arm squad, which had kidnaped Joe Costello, leading shoe worker, and followed other Communists and militant strikers McCue was punched in the n¢ by a rank and file striker before vote of strike committee member@ forced him to “resign” as So of the strike committee. Phils was jailed and is out on $100 bail for distributing Commi leaflets. Timothy Burr was j for the third time for selling Workers yesterday. (Special to the Daily Worker) ROCKVILLE, Conn., Sept. Textile workers of the Stevens ant (Continued on Page 2)