The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1934, Page 3

DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 96, 1534 PETITION PUTS WORKERS’ BILL IN WASH. (= Workers o If Not Passed | Bill Must Go Before Voters Communists File Names of 50,000 Who Signed | Initiative Demand SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 25.—In- itiative number four, a State un- employment insurance bill, modeled on the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, was of- ficiaHy filed with the Secretary of State at Olympia last week, after workers had collected 50,000 signa- tures to a petition. Under the state initiative laws, the State Legislature is forced to place the State Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill on the first order of business when it con- venes on Jan. 14. Under the same law, if the bill is not passed by the State Legislature it automati- cally goes on the ballot for refer- endum vote at the next general elections. Initiative number four, which hhas been backed by hundreds of working class organizations in the State of Washington, is worded the same as the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill introduced into Congress last Feb. 2, under House Resolution 7598 with the in- clusion of a paragraph stating that it will be effective until the Work- ers’ Bill is passed on a national scale. Filed by Communist Candidate It provides unemployment insur- ance benefit payments equal to average local wages for all work- ers and farmers unemployed through no fault of their own. The benefit payments under the bill are fm no case to be less than $10 a week for each unemployed worker plus $3 for each dependent. It further provides full payment ef benefits to workers unemployed because of sickness, old age, mater- nity, or strikes. Initiative number four was filed by Charles E. Malone, Communist candidate for State Senator from the 45th district. Malone is presi- dent of the Central Federation of the Unemployed Citizens League (affiliated to the National Unem- ployment Councils). The League led in the drive to obtain the nec- essary number of signatures to place the Workers Bill before the State Legislature. Malone, for twelve years a mem- ber of the Railroad Switchmen of North America, was an organizer of the militant Crown Hill local of the Unemployed Citizens League, and led the two hunger marches to the State capitol. His long fight for the working class won him the candidacy on the working class ticket for State Senator. Malone, in filing the Workers’ Bill, warned all workers that under the State initiative law the State Legislature has the option of presenting a substitute bill along with initiative number four, and called upon the workers in the State to continue .an unrelenting fight for real unemployment insur- ance as embodied in the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (in- itiative four), the bill which has the support of millions of workers throughout the country. The drive for the 50,000 signa- tures was well under way during the past week, with all mass meet- ings called by the Unemployed Citizens League filled to capacity. The Cedar Mountain Local, the United Mine Workers of America and the Boot and Shoe Workers Union and the Painters locals lead- ing in the drive for the 50,000 sig- natures. Relief Drive ‘inPhiladelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 25.— Delegates from 82 organizations representing A. F. of L., indepen- dent and unions affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, women, youth and Negro groups, met at a conference on unemployment here Sunday to plan immediate steps in the fight for adequate relief. addition to these delegates from Philadelphia, Reading, Coatsville and Scranton, two dele- gates representing the Ministers’ Alliance, an organization of 400 Negro ministers, pledged support to the struggles of the unemployed. A program of action under which the organizations participat- ing in the conference will conduct a vigorous campaign to force the city relief administration to adopt the demands of the jobless was unanimously decided upon. This plan calls for the sending of one hundred delegates from the partici- pating organizations to the City Council at its meeting on Oct. 18. A mass demonstration will be held Saturday, Oct. 20, at Rayburn Plaza, Philadelphia. State-wide ac- tion will be held on Oct, 19 at 10 am., at which time unemployed workers throughout the state will demonstrate before the local relief stations and elected delegates will present, demands for immediate adoption by the relief officials. The delegates pledged to enroll 25,000 new members into the Un- employment Councils by Dec. 31. Herbert Benjamin, national or- ganizer of the ‘Unemployment Coun- cils, reported on the immediate campaigns of the unemproyed and the plans for a National Congress for Social Security to be held in Washington on Jan. 5, 6 and 7 to demand that the Federal govern- ment enact real unemployment and social insurance. Hollywood Movie Men Organize, Win Demands HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25.—Under the leadership of the Motion Pic- ture Workers’ Industrial Union the first. significant. workers’ victory in the industry in the past several yaers has been won at the Mitchell Camera Company. The settlement was mine vag the employees, 100 per cent organ~- ized if the Industrial Union, had yoted to strike in the event an ade- quate settlement was not reached. ‘Wage raises as high as 15 per cent, including a 15 per cent raise in the minimum hiring rate, were granted. The company agreed to adhere to the 35-hour work week. Numerous important but minor correctives in working conditions were won. The methods of rank and file controlled industrial unionism are new to studio workers. They are being popularized not only by the growth of the union itself, but by the monthly “Motion Picture Worker,” published by the Associa- tion of Motion Picture Employees and supporting the Industrial Union. This paper has a five-point pro- gram of struggle, around which it calls for unity of all motion picture workers in all unions. Gome and Hear: JAMES CASEY Managing Editor of the Daily Worker on the “EXPOSURE OF THE JOHN L. Noted Journalist CAPITALIST PRESS” SPIVAK and Author, on “EXPERIENCES IN NEWSPAPER WORK” Chairman: HEYWOOD BROUN IRVING 15th St. and PLAZA Irving Place Sunday, Sept. 30th, at 8:30 P. M. Auspices: Press League (For Support of Revolutionary Press) ADMISSION 35 cents CHICAGO, ILL, 15th PARTY ANNIVERSARY Saturday, Sept. 29th, 1934 North Side Workers Hall 548 Wisconsin Street 1900 North Main Speaker: ROBERT MINOR PROGRAM — Russian Group Sketch, Armehian Folk Dances, Negro Orchestra. Auspices: Communist Party, Section 4 Admission in asivance, 15 cents at door, 25 cents In| Lancaster, | Against Any Struggle | | for Demands By PAUL CLINE industry, particularly on the East | Coast, have placed the question of | new mass strikes of the longshore- men and seamen on the agenda of the class struggle. ments are: | 1. The expiration on Oct. 1 of} the East Coast longshoremen’s work- | ing agreement. In the negotiations! |now taking place in New York the| | shipowners have made it plain that| j they will stand pat for renewal of | the present agreement, and for no concessions to the men. On the other hand the mass of longshore- men affected by the agreement— 40,000 of them in ports from Maine to Virginia—are bitterly dissatisfied | with the present working conditions | and wage scale and are increasingly pressing for action. The weight of this pressure is re- vealed by the fact that Joseph P. Ryan, President of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association, has been forced to come out with a demand for $1 an hour and $1.50 for overtime as the basic wage rate for the new agreement. (This scale is) ‘the same as that put forward by/| |the rank and file longshore dele- gates at the Baltimore Unity Con- ference, Sept. 1). Ryan’s Demagogy Ryan, in making talk for $1 an} hour, has another motive in mind | besides posing as the champion of | high wages: He wants to cover up, to push into the background the | question of working conditions (one or two days work a week, curtailed size of gangs, tremendous speed-up, | discrimination in hiring, etc.) from which the most burning demands of | the dock workers arise. Furthermore, Ryan has already | made it plain as day that he is quite prepared to drop his bluff for high wages. Fearing that the long- shoremen may take him seriously and prepare to back up demands with strike action, he has come out with the following public statement: “We have been renewing contracts with the shippers since 1915 with- out trouble. I don’t anticipate there will be any necessity for a walk-out in this instance. It has always been my policy to arrive at an agreement with the employers | across the table.. With two com-| mittees conferring, I believe we will} get any .reasonable. demands we) will make.” Ryan Against Strike In this statement Ryan openly | |places himself on record against | |strike action. He expresses confi- dence in the goodwill of the ship-| owners—the same people who did not stop at turning machine guns on the West Coast stevedores. He implies, of course, that the demand for $1 an hour is “unreasonable,” — 9 Ryan Already on Record) | file opposition. demands is out of the question. The shipowners’ position is that budge beyond renewal of the pres- is obvious: To make a ‘bluff at demanding the rank and file wage scale, shelve the much more basic demands raised by the men, create These develop- | illusions among the more backward | sections of the I. L. A. membership —and to sign a “victory” agreement on the basis of the present agree- ment with perhaps an increase of five cents an hour as the sugar- coating, In order to carry through this sell-out strategy, it is necessary first of all to smother militant rank and This Ryan is at- tempting to do by an intensified campaign against the Rank and File committees and their dock bulletins (in Local 1258 a motion was jammed through for a dollar fine against anyone caught accepting “Red” lit- erature), by raising the “red scare,” by defeatist slander against the Pacific Coast strike, etc. Also as part of this campaign, the I. L. A. bureaucrats in New York are carry- ing on a fake organization drive among the unorganized longshore- men, aimed primarily at controlling the militant spirit of the workers, and holding them in line for the sell-out. Heading Movement to Behead It (2) The Oct. 8 strike call issued by the International Seamens’ Union | (A. F, of L.) is a bid by the mis- leaders to head the coming strug- gles of the seamen in order to be- head them. At the same time it is a brazen move to strengthen their bureaucratic apparatus by gaining recognition of the I. Ss. U. and control of hiring. This is made plain in the strike resolution which exempts from strike action seamen “on ships under agreement with the I. S. U. or ships sailing under arrangements approved by the Paci- fic Coast division of the I. S. U., for] ships of companies with whom negotiations are now in progress.” In this way Olander, Furuseth and Co, call on the unorganized seamen to strike for the I. 8S. U. code sub- mitted to the N. R. A. while their own union members are ordered to remain scabbing on the job for wages and conditions below the re- quirements of this code! The M. W. I. U,, in energetically exposing these treacherous maneuv- ers, calls on all seamen to convert the fake Oct. 8 strike into a real strike controlled by rank and file committees, tying up all Atlantic coast and gulf shipping. It calls on the seamen to prepare to strike in support of the longshoremen if they go out before Oct. 8. United Action Popular Any action undertaken by the seamen is assured of a strong sym- and that granting of the more basicpathetic response from the long- |shoremen — and vice versa. The | great West Coast strike has broken | Wages should be cut 10 per cent anjdown the wall of craft separatism | | hour, but in any case they will not| responsible for the defeat of many , _pres-| marine strikes in the past, has dem- | ent contract. Ryan’s strategy (which | onstra: | During the past few weeks in-/ is being carried through under the | spirit: |portant developments in the marine | direction of the shipping interests) | hore, ted both the power and pos- 'y of united action of the long- | men and seamen. In this con- | nection it is important to bear in jmind that whereas in the West | Coast strike the longshoremen were |the first to go out, here it is pos- sible that the seamen will initiate the strike movement. The strength and influence of the M. W. I. U. on the East Coast is greater than it was on the West Coast. On the other hand the Ryan machine is more firmly entrenched in New York, Philadelphia and Boston than it was in ‘Frisco, Los Angeles or Portland. The M. W. I. U. has led many successful ship strikes and unem- ployed actions in the ports on the East Coast and the Gulf and has thousands of new members and a broad influence among the seamen This was reflected in the recent United Action Conference of all marine crafts held in Baltimore on Sept. 2 and 3 at which were present eighty delegates representing 6,500 workers in all branches of the in- the necessity of preparing for broad \strike action through unity of all |marine unions and crafts, and worked out a program of minimum demands as a basis for the com- jing struggle. (The longshoremen’s demands are printed elsewhere in | this issue.) Rank and File Activity Grows (3) During the period since the Baltimore Unity Conference the activity of the rank and file groups in the I. L. A, in New York has been intensified. Opposition to Ryan and his treacherous policies has been openly expressed on the floor of local union meetings. At a re- cent meeting of Local 1258, ad- dressed by Ryan, a worker got up and asked the notorious misleader whether or not he had been chased off the West Coast by the strikers. Upon Ryan’s denial, this worker shouted: “That’s a lie. Because it says in this paper that you were!” And he pulled out and waved a copy of the Daily Worker! In this same local, 1258, the rank and file opposition has been issu- ing an official organ, The Hook. This bulletin, coming out ev other week, has gained a wide in- fluence because of its sharp ex- posure of graft, job-grievances, dis- crimination, etc. A number of job actions (against Negro discrimina- tion, against graft) have been car- ried through under the leadership of the rank and file group. In Local 808, Brooklyn, workers Walloper, popular rank and file bulletin published bi-weekly English and Italian. \Basic Issues Are Ignored dustry. This conference projected | took the floor to defend the Dock | in} in Proposals of A.F.L. | Misleadership At a meeting of Local 791, held several weeks ago, Ryan devoted his speech to attacking the Rank and File Committees, the Daily Worker and the Communist Party. But several workers rose up to challenge his statements and to demand a real struggle for the return of 1929 |working conditions and wages. | The central Rank and File Ac- tion Committee, at Room 810, 1 |Union Square, issues a monthly |port bulletin called the Shape-Up News. Many thousands of leaflets and |stickers containing the demands |and program of action of the Balti- }more conference have been dis- |tributed. These leaflets urge the formation of rank and file commit- |tees on the docks and in the local | | unions to prepare for strike action, and to demand rank and file con- | , | trol of the wage negotiations. West Coast Militancy High | | 4) Reports from San Francisco | jof the strike of two Dollar Line |ships crews and solidarity picket- ing of 1,000 longshoremen, coupled | with the election victory in the I. L. | A. Frisco local of the rank and file |slate headed by Harry Bridges, |leader of the strike, show that the |fighting spirit and organized power of the West Coast men are un- broken, and that they can be! counted on to give effective sup- port to strike action on the East Coast. This is a positive factor of ,the utmost importance. Joint ac- | tion of the seamen and longshore- | }men on both coasts would repre- | sent a tremendous concentration of | working-class power. The question of whether the treacherous line-up of Ryan, Olan- | der and company will succeed now jin putting over their betrayal | maneuvers of side-tracking strike action is a question of developing | the maximum activity of the mili- | |tant elements among the marin | workers on the docks and ships, in side the I. S. U., the I. L, A. and among the unorganized. The work- | ers must demand regular reports on the negotiations, must fight for rejection of any sell-out agreements or arbitration proposals, must pass strike resolutions on the docks, | ships and in the local meetings, and | above all must insist on united ac- tion and solidarity of all marine unions and crafts under commit- | tees elected by the rank and file. | It is now the most serious class | responsibility of all revolutionary | workers and their organizations to assist to the utmost the militant longshoremen and seamen in pre- paring and leading the coming strike battles in the marine indus- | wy. Police Seize Lawyer Appearing for 2 Held for Distributing ‘Daily’ DANIELSON, Conn., Sept. 25.— Joseph West, Connecticut secretary lof the International Labor Defense, was arrested yesterday when he ap- |peared at the courthouse here to jarrange for the defense of - Russell Danielson, Dartmouth College grad- uate, and Donald Wiley, Penn State College graduate, arrested for dis- tributing the Daily Worker and other Communist literature. Both men are charged with “sedition.” Danielson is a direct descendant of James Danielson, first settler in this community, and for whom the place is named, and his advocacy of the cause of the revolutionary working class has created quite a sensation in local bourgeois circles. Wiley is an organizer of the United Farmers League. No charges have been filed as yet against West. The I. L. D. is organizing a mass protest movement for the release of the three organizers. Furniture Workers Of Warren Organize An N. F. W. I. U. Local) WARREN, Pa., Sept. 25—A new local, 106 of the National Furniture Workers Industrial Union, was formed at a meeting Thursday by 200 furniture workers. The work- _es, representing 50 per cent of the feity’s workers in the trade, heard Joe Kiss, national secretary of the union and Frank Herron, secretary of the Jamestown, N. Y. Joint Council, on the need for organiza- tion. The membership of Local 1002, of the Carpenters and Joiners In- ternational, A. F. of L., with a mem- bership of 400 a year ago, is dis- gusted with their union because the “verbal” agreements entered into with the bosses were com- pletely disregarded by the manu- facturers and nothing has been done about it. The membership of the local is down to seven work- ers now. Local 106 of the N. F. W. I. U. has initiated a campaign, in co- operation with the Jamestown Joint Council, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, to unionize all the furniture workers in the city. Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Importan ce! Demands for Longshoremen Following is the list of demands for longshoremen, adopted at the Baltimore United Action Conference, Sept. 1, and approved by the National Rank and File Committee of the International Longshore- men’s Association and the Marine HOURS 1. Six hours of work shall constitute a day's work. The day shall be between 6 am. and 6 p.m. The working week shall be from Monday to Friday. 2. While 30 hours shall constitute a week's work, there must be a guarantee of 20 hours work a week, 40 weeks a year. The government and industry shall guar- antee this minimum of 40 weeks, All workers getting less than 40 weeks shall receive the difference between their tual earnings and the minimum wag from the Unemployment Insurance funds, which shall be raised by 1 per cent tax on every 100 pounds of cargo and from funds appropriated for the Jones-White act. The foregoing minimum shall be so guaranteed until the passage 6f the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, which bill has the endorse- ment of the U.A.C. WAGES 3. The wage shall be $1 per hour for general cargo and $1.50 overtime. All work on offensive and dangerous cargo, hides, explosives, sulphur, barbed wire, damaged cargo, etc., wages for such cargo shall be $1.25 an hour and $1.87! over- time. Explosives are to be plainly marked as such. Wages are to be adjusted regularly as prices rise, so that there will be no low- ering of the standard of living due to in- flation. HIRING 4. The gang system of hiring shall be discontinued and a rotary system insti- tuted, to be controlled by the longshore- men. There shall be no discrimination against race, creed or color in giving out Jobs, There shall be no checkerboard gangs. Negro workers are to be given equal opportunity for any job on the dock. 5. When men are called out and no work is provided, the men shall receive three hours pay at the prevailing rate. After six hours, the men shall receive time and a half, meal times to be double straight time. 6. There shall be no overtime after six hours. A new gang is to be shaped up. All Saturday and Sunday work is to be paid at overtime rates, time and a half. Double straight time ‘shall be paid for Workers Industrial Union: the following holidays: New Year's day, Independence day, | day, Armistice day, and Christmas these holidays fall on Sunday, the over- time rate shall be paid on the following day. All workers to be given time off with pay to vote on election days. 7. Under no conditions shall seamen do longshoremen’s work, such as driving winches, etc. 8, No deduction shall be allowed for shifting. 9. Transportation shall be furnished to the men working in the stream from the time they leave the docks until they re- turn to the docks. All work at outside points, the men shall be paid travelling time and transportation. Time is to start from the time they leave the starting point until they return. MINIMUM GANGS 10. In order to create more jobs, the minimum gang for general cargoes ‘shall be 22 men, with corresponding increases for all other types of cargo. The union local and dock committees shall determine the size of the gangs. 11. Compensation shall be $20 n week, Payable at once, upon injury. All ex- Renses incurred, such as doctors, etc.,.to be paid by shipowners and compensation, Workers to have the right to any doctor they want. 12. ‘The above demands and wage scale shall apply to all men employed in the business of loading or discharging of all vessels and the assembling of all cargoes, ail checking, all cargo repairman, all longshoremen on deep water and coast~ wise docks. RECOGNITION 18. The longshoremen shall have the right to Join any union they see fit; the right to ‘strike when their demands are not otherwise granted; recognition of the elected dock committees for the enforce- ment of wages and labor conditions con- tained in these demands and in any other problems that may arise. In all confer- ences longshoremen shall be represented by committees elected by and from the ranks of the longshoremen. There shall be no discrimination on account of union activities. When Shooting of Workers in, Costa Rica Strike Protested by I. L. D. NEW YORK.—Cables protesting the shooting of banana strikers in Costa Rica and court action taken against Communist Congressmai Mora in connection with the strike have been sent by the International Labor Defense, the Anti-Imperialist League and the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union to President Jiminez and the Costa Rican Congress. At the same time a protest against the same action was sent by the trade unions and other worker or- ganizations to the United Fruit Co. Offices in New York City. The wire charged that a reign of terror has been instituted against the banana Strikers at the direction of the United Fruit Co, and that the Costa Rican government is dominated by this company | Office Workers Union Wins Klein Pledge Vo Rehire 9 Workers NEW YORK.—After one week of intensive negotiations with the S. Klein department store, Union Square, the Office Workers Union |has received a promise of re-in- | statement for nine union members, fired for union activities. The terms of the agreement, reached Sunday, guarantee against intimidation and interference by the company. This victory has been won not |only through the spirit of solidar- \the leaders of the O, W. U., but by Beale and Albertson, of the Food Workers Industrial Union, who co-operated as representatives Labor day, Columbus | jity of the Klein store workers and | Los Angeles Furniture Strikers Discriminated | Against After Walkout LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25.—After | two months’ strike, during which | they were persuaded by their lead- ers to refrain from militant picket- | jing, the workers of the Gillespie | | Furniture Company last week called | |off the strike with all losses and | | no gains. Only 30 of approximately 150 who | struck on July 5 were taken back. The remainder were placed on a “preferred” list for future hiring, which only means that the boss can discriminate against whoever he pleases. The Gillespie workers, realizing | the sellout policy of the A. F. of L. furniture local here under the dom- ination of Thomas Mayhew, still were kept away by the “red scare” from the rank and file policy of the Furniture Workers’ Industrial ! Union. They organized an inde-| pendent union, but failed to adopt a militant policy based on rank and file control. Their loss of the strike stands in | significant contrast to the victory several weeks ago of the F. W. I. U. in the Martin Young Shop. The two strikes began at the same time. I. L. D, Acts To Sue Matron Who Attacked Jailed Militant Worker ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 24—A suit | for $10,000 is being prepared against Police Matron McDonald for striking Annie Mae Leathers, arrested strike militant, in an effort to force her and Leah Young to dismiss John H. Geer, Atlante Negro attorney. Gear was retained by the International Labor Defense to defend the two framed workers. Louis Tatham, local white attor- ney, who is working with Geer on the defense of the two white women textile strikers, will file suit papers this week. Meatwrhile, Assistant Solicitor Hudson is being flooded with pro- tests from I. L. D. branches and other workers’ organizations de- |nouncing this assault by the police | matron on Annie Leathers. Protest meetings are being held throughout Atlanta and are closely linked with the I. L. D. recruiting campaign, i of the workers in S. Klein's. More than 100 of the 1,000 work- ers in the store applied to the O. ‘W. U. for membership during the past two weeks. An intensive or- cafeteria @ ry he’ tinion Urges Release Of Thaelmann (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, Sept convention of the Miners of Amesica yesterday passed resolutions calling for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned German Communist leader, and all anti-fascist prisoners; against the N. R. A.; against deportations, and for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and Tom Mooney. The convention also endorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and the soldiers’ bonus, and passed a resolution declaring its solidarity with the textile strikers. All of these resolutions were intro- duced by left wing delegates. The convention, dominated by the Pearcy machine, tabled telegrams from the anti-war congress ar- rangements committee as well as the question of granting the floor to a speaker for the U. S. Congress. Against War and Fascism. After two hours of heated dis- cussion the convention refused the floor to Hutchins, representative of the fourteen Hillsboro defenders. Sympathizers To Build Sound Truck for C. P. NEW YORK The Technical | Equipment Committee, a group of| Communist sympathizers, are ar- ranging for the constructicn of a powerful sound amplifying truck for the use of the Communist Party in the election campaign. The committee calls on sympa- thizers who are interested to tele- phone S. J. White, Gramercy 5-9808 for further information. CORRECTION It was incorrectly stated in yes- terday’s Daily Worker that Moe rown is a local leader of the Na- ional Textile Workers Union. Moe Brown is a member of the United Textile Workers of America, an af- filiate of the A. F. L. THEODORE DREISER @ Internationally known author CHARLES KRUMBEIN @ N. ¥. District Organizer Communist Party REY. WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD @ Sec. Church League for Industri Democracy PROF. COLSTON E. WARNE @ Prominent Economist, Amherst College REY. CLAYTON A. POWELL, Jr. @ Abyssian Baptist Church NORMAN TALLENTIRE ” Page Thies ERY STATE LEGISLATURE n Docks and Ships Demand Militant Mass Strike; Only United and Vigilant Rank and File Can Force a Victo ® Jobless Plan Police Bullet Kills Militant Chicago Baker Mass Funeral Parade Is Set for Tomorrow Morning at 9 (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 25.-—Chicags police murdered Joseph Piskonoe wicz, @ member of Polish Local 49 the International Bakery and Confectionery Union Sunday. Piskonowicz was returning home from work and was passing by the ‘bakery which the local had des clared on strike when Police Bere geant Joseph Ponicki shot him. He died instantly. Sergeant Ponicki, according to the local press, said that he had watched Piskonowicz for days bee cause he was active in the strike. Local 49 had declared strikes in a number of bakeries; the P. and G. at 1352 W. Huron St.; Palmer Bak- ery, at Ashland and North Ave., and | Morris Aldman, 1114 N. Ashland j Ave. It was in front of the last | mentioned bakery that Piskonowica | was murdered. Immediately after his death Chicago police raided the headquarters of Local 49, at 1660 ; Augusta Blvd., and arrested nine | workers, holding them for over a |day. They later released eight, and held the secretary of the local for | questioning. |. The murder of Piskonowicz, who has been a delegate from Local No. 49 to the Bakers’ Council for eight years and a delegate to the Chicago Federation of Labor—and who was | also a member of the International Labor Defense and Polish Workers’ Club Solidarity and a Red Builder with the Polish paper Trybuna Robo‘nicza—has stirred tremendous indignation among the broad masses of Polish workers and among the trade unionists in gen- eral, A huge mass funeral will be held Thursday morning starting from the Union Hall at 1660 Augusta St. at 9 o'clock. The line of march will | Pass each of the three bakeries now | being struck by the union. The funeral will be under the auspices of Bakers Local 49 and the Polish Society “Jednosc.” Other working class organizations are taking an ‘active part in the preparations. TONITE AT 7:30 O'CLOCK of Mecca Temple 133 West 55th Street @ City Secretary League Against War and Fascism WILL SPEAK AT THE ENTERTAINMENT DORSHA - PAUL HAYES @ Dances of Revolt ~ WORKERS MUSIC LEAGUE @ Songs of Strife WORKERS LABORATORY THEA, @ New Anti-War Plavlet Admission 25¢ & 40c LLY AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM AMERICAN LEAGUE AGAINST WAR & FASCISM 213 FOURTH AVENUE Tickets at New Masses, Workers Bookshops, Freiheit, Office of the League FIRST ANNUAL POLITICAL COSTUME BALL of the Workers Laboratory Theatre Saturday, Sept. 29 at 8:30 A New Election Revue; Comrade Punch and His Puppets; Iser Walzer and His Orchestra at IRVING PLAZA Irving Place and 15th Street TICKETS: 50¢ vance; 75c at door, at Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St., W. L. T., 42 E. 12th St. CLEVELAND, OHIO DAILY WORKER 15th ANNIVERSARY Of the Communist Party Sunday, September 30th, at 7:30 p. m. 5010 EUCLID AVENUE Speaker: CLARENCE HATHAWAY Editor, Daily Worker UKRAINIAN CHORUS FREIHEIT GESANGS FAREIN ADMISSION 25 CENTS Literature Exhibit and 20% to Theatre. 80% off Sale in the lobby of the Opens at 6 P. M. 15th Anniversary of the COMM Concert Celebration UNIST PARTY WEDNESDAY EVE., SEPT. 26th, 8 p.m. at the Y. M. and Y. M. H. A. AUDITORIUM High and West Kinney Sts., Newark, N. J. Hear James Casey, Managing Editor of the Daily Worker, formerly City Editor || of the N. Y. Times. | Moe Brown, Communist Candidate for Governor. Chairman, H. Sazer, N. J. Organizer of the Communist Party. ganizational campaign has been started by the union, Concert Program: Socialist Liedertafel Chorus; Workers Laboratory Theatre, of New York: | Mendelsohn String Trio; Freiheit Ge- sangs Ferein, and others. ADMISSION, AT DOOR—35 Cents