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| ILY WORKER, NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1934 Page 3 Frisco A. F. L. Rank and File Pa Many Rallies Held LOCALS TO ELECT Mills is South|Penn Naibacadl Officials Bia Negro Nasaed CITIES I Ready to Make Growing Influence on Leaders On C.P. Ticket THEIR DELEGATES FOR PITTSBURGH Resolutions Prepared to Press Rank and File Control, for Unemployment and Social In- surance, Against Green Expulsion Policy SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., | Oct. 9.—Simultaneously with | the A. F. of L. National Convention being held in San Fran- | cisco, the Rank and File Conference called by the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, was held here in Equality Hall, 141 Albion St. Accredited dele- gates were present from A. F. of L.® locals in nearly all representative industries. Louis Weinstock, national secre- tary of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Trade Union Committee, pre- sented the committee's report at the first session. Weinstock outlined the plans for a nation-wide stzuggle for rank and file control, elimina- tion of reactionary boss-controlled Officials, redress of grievances with- in the A. F. of L., and the passage of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. Rank and File Reports During the following session, re- ports were presented by rank and file delegates, reviewing the experi- ence and struggle within locals in every part of the country. Resolutions were passed for un- employment insurance, for greater democracy in the trade unions, for the freedom of political opinion, against the usé of national guard and hired thugs by employers, and against injunctions. Industrial Organization Other resolutions called for the reorganization of the trade unions into industrial unions, condemning Green’s statement on the San Fran- cisco and Bay counties strike, for exemption of unemployed union men from dues payments, for the release of Mooney, Billings and all other political prisoners, against war and fascism, against racial dis- crimination and against all anti- labor laws. Fifteen hundred persons attended the mass meeting called by the Rank and File Committee at Eagles Hall in connection with the Rank and File Conference. Among the speakers av this mass meeting were Henry Schrimpf of the I.L.A.; Wil- liam Dietrich of the Railroad Brotherhood, Maintenance of Way, Denver local 14; Kaspar Bauer of the Butchers Union of Santa Cruz; F. J. McConnel! of the Conference for Labor's Civil Rights, and Wein- stock, who is a member of local 499, New York painters. National Conference Set A national conference has been called by the Rank and File Com- mittee to take place in Pittsburgh, Oct. 27 and 28 at the National Slovak Hall, 516-518 Court Place. Local conferences of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committees are now being held in preparation for the national conference. All A. F. of L. local unions are urged to elect delegates to the Pittsburgh confer- ence. Delegates attending the San Francisco rank and file conference included workers from rubber, coal and metal mining, meat, building, vegetable packing, auto, machinists, barbers, cooks, cleaners and dyers, needle, textile, shoe, marine and other local unions, Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Importance! PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Europa Theatre Market above 16th St. Beginning Tomorrow! AMKINO Proudly Presents — Dostoyevski’s — “PETERSBURG NIGHTS” With a Cact of Moscow Art Theatre MAXIM GORKY says: “The genius of Dostoyevsky, his imagination can only oe compared with that of Shakespeare.” AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Detroit, Mich. ‘Affair given by Section 2 C.P. at 2113 Lycaste St., Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m. Chicago, Ill. Dance, Saturday, Oct. 13, Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. House Party at Nuger's home, ‘W. Roosevelt Road, Sat., Oct. Geod foct and entertainment. free. Given by Unit 314. Literary, Musical, Dramatic Evening, given by Units 301-307 C.P., Friday, Oct. 12th, 8 p.m., at Culture Center, 3223 W. Rocsevelt Road. Adm. 15e. Philadelphia, Pa. Concert on Friday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. at Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian Strects. M. Olgin, main speaker. Emile Babad from “‘Artef,” and cther attrac- tions. Affair given by Unit 104 on Sat., Oct. 13th, at 1829 S. Fifth St. Good pro- gram and plenty of fun. at Imperial Adm. 20¢. 3614 13th. Adm. CP Candidates| Now on Ballot In Minnesota S. K. Davis to Run for Governor—Nominating Petitions Filed MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 9.—| That at least three candidates for state office will find places on the ballot under the insignia of the Communist Party has been made a ceztainty by the filing of nominat- ing petitions with State election authorities. State law here requires the pay- ments of a $50 filing fee for each candidate, placing a severe tax on the impoverished farmers and underpaid and jobless workers who are most interested in seeing Com- munist candidates on the ballot, The three filed for State office are S. K, Davis, for Governor; Alfred | Tiala, for United States Senator, and Robert Turner, for Secretary of State, Beside these three, the | following Congressional candidates | have been nominated by petition: Thomas Tracy in St. Paul; Peter | Sjodin in the Third District; Harry Mayville in the Fifth District (Min- | neapolis), and Thomas Foley in the | Eighth District (Duluth). Nominating petitions are also ex- pected to be filed for Emil Nygard, former Communist Mayor of Crosby, in the Sixth District and Bauman in the Ninth District. The placing of these petitions, however, is en- dangered by the difficulty faced in| raising the required nominating fees. \Socialist Workers Starve in Austrian | Concentration Camps VIENNA, Oct. 9—How hundreds of Socialist workers, thrown into the Woellersdorf concentration camp without trial, are slowly starv- ing to death under the most hor- rible conditions. is revealed today in reports and letters coming from Vienna. The Austrian fascists have estab- lished a whole system of such con- centration camps for the wholesale imprisonment of workers without trial, The brutality, of the Schnusch- nigg administration seizes on any fragment of an excuse for arrest, some workers having been dis-! patched to the camp prisons on the mere suspicion of “subversive” po- litical opinion. Of those who took any part in the February revolution, apart from those who were hanged, 1,182 ar- rested workers were sentenced be- tween February and August to 1,339 years of imprisonment. Navy Yard Workers Win Release of Two Jailed in Bremerton, Wash. | BREMERTON, Wash., Oct. 9.— Roy De Groan and George Ferris. arrested last Thursday in front of the Bremerton Navy Yard for distributing copies of the “Yard Worker,” organ of the Yard's Com- munist Party unit, were sentenced yesterday to five days. With the courtroom pcaked by protesting workers, the judge was forced to rule that they had al- ready served their time, however, and ordered their release and the return of the literature confiscated by the police. From the courtroom, the assem- bled workers went directly to the gate of the Navy Yard. where they held a noon gate meeting protest- ing the attack on the workers’ press, The Navy Yard unit countered the threat of suppression with a spe- cial edition on Mondey, exposing the arrests as an attempt to stifle the struggles of the workers for better conditions. Chelsea to Hold C. P. Anniversary Rally CHELSEA, Mass.. Oct. 9.—Sidney Bloomfield, district organization secretary of the Communist Party will be the principal speaker here at the 15th anniversary celebration of the Communist Party which will be held at 232 Broadway next Sun- | later, | duct.” War Products Of Rail Brotherhood UnionsIn Detroit Birmingham Plants Can New Company Unions Are Established Under Amended National Railway Act Make 1,500,000 Shells Monthly, Says Officer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Not less than a million and a half shells a month is “a conservative estimate’ of what factories in the Birming- ham district are prevared to turn out for the Army and Navy upon the declaration of war, Captain | Watched with interest by Brother- | By LEN DE CAUX WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (FP).— |The tactics whereby the Pennsy vania Railroad may seek to circum- vent the amended Railway Labor Act, with its sharper restrictions on company unionism, are being | Paid by the Pennsylvania Railroad, | @s_were expenses of meetings and ot: activities, but under its new name these practices have pre- ;Sumably been eliminated to keep within the new law. | The Pennsylvania Fraternity has a somewhat different history from J. D. McIntyre of the United States hood leaders, At present company | ther similar bodies, in that it was Army Ordnance Department, re- vealed in a talk before the Real Es- tate Board here. Claiming that the Birmingham industrial district can make more shells for war ammunition than any other district in the country, he said that there are 63 plants “where service could be obtained,” 24 of them in the immediate Bir- mingham district. Among those plants whom he definitely named as “lined up,” were the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. (U. S. Steel), Virginia Bridge and Iron Co., Hardie-Tynes Manufacturing Co. and Stockham Pipe and Fit- tings Co. Plans to “acquaint the manage- ments and men with what the gov- ernment wanted in case there should be an emergency,” have been made, the captain revealed, and said that the executives have al- ready pledged co-operation. Delegates from the mines and mills of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. attended the Congress Against War in Chicago and are now reporting to grouns of workers in the shops on organization plans and methods of the toilers to com- bat the war plans of the ruling class right here, in the most vital points. Mass Drive Laupehed by Philadelphia I.L.D. To Free Robert Clark PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9.—The ‘International Labor Defense here has launched a mass campaign for the release of Robert Clark, who was jeiled last week when he re- fused to sign a pledge to discon- tinue his activities among the un- employed Clark, Organizer of the North Philadelphia Section of the Unem- ployment Council. was framed up while leading a struzgle to prevent the eviction of the Fishers, a Ne- 2ro couple of 1533 St, Luke St. Workers, mobilized by Clark, had prevented Constable Smith from evicting the couple. Some time Smith sent a note to the Fishers, saying “Come to my office Tuesday morning, or else—.” The Fishers informed the Unem- Ployed Corneil of the consiable’s threat, and Comrade Clark headed a delegation of five to go to the constable’s office to protest against his threatening of the Negro couple. Clark was immediately arrested and charged with “threatening to do bodilv harm, and disorderly con- He was held in $1,000 bail. At the trial, Judge Francis Shunk Brown declared that the Unem- ployment Council had no “right” to proles the Negro couple from evic- ion. peace bond. which Clark refused to do. The militant worker was then committed to Mayamensing prison. The I. L. D. is calling on all workers and their organizations to send protests to Judge Francis Shunk Brown, 5927 Drexel Road, Phila. | union bodies are being reorganized as “unions,” with constitutions |changed to eliminate direct finan- cial support by the company and to keep within the letter of the labor act. The Pennsylvania is by far the | most powerful and aggressive of the |company union railroads. It has | built up a system whereby even the | Brotherhoods with which it has |contracts keep within the bounds |of the company’s grievance adjust- | ment machinery, which also in- |cludes the company unions, It has | jalso attained considerable success | ; jin influencing the internal affairs |of the Brotherhoods. Delegates from the Pennsylvania system have formed a_ powerful | bloc in many conventions, through | which it has been common gossip |that President W. W. Atterbury of | the company has frequently ex- | pressed his will. A growing number | | of Brotherhood general chairmen |on the Pennsylvania have become Officials of that road. |_ The latest labor move on the | Pennsylvania has been the signing of an agreement by the company | with the new “Maintenance of Way | Employes’ Union.” which is the succe: to the Pennsylvenia Sys- tem Fraternity. Salaries of the of- ficers of the old fraternity were Relief Bureau Fires Worker | For Protest | | NEW YORK.—Sidonia Dawson, | supervisory aide at the West Forty- | Fourth Street Home Relief Bureau, |was fired on Friday for protesting against police attacks upon unem- | ployed workers. The Home Relief | Bureau Employes Association. with |a membership of 3.000 in New York City, is beginning a vigorcus cam- | paign for her re-instatement. The firing of Sidonia Dawson arose out of the organized protest of the relief station employes after police had clubbed a_ delegation | from the Unemployment Council, at the precinct on Sept. 28. Meeting immediately after work |that day, the Grievance Committee of the precinct organization drew up a statement protesting the use st Police, which was distributed to all the employed The relief administration coun- tered immediately by criculating a petition through stool-vigeon ele- ments calling for the discharge of |the entire grievance committee. | Sidonia Dawson, who has worked He ordered Clark to sign a in the Home Relief Bureau since | April, 1932, and was employed in the City Commission Work Bureau and the Emergency Work Bureau (Gibson Committee prior to estab- lishment of the present relief set up under the Wicks Law), is an ex- perienced social worker with a spot: ‘less record, inquiry revealed. | formed as an organized breakaway |from the International Brother- | hood of Maintenance of Way Em- ployes, to which the men formerly belonged. The Pennsylvania lodges, jafter a sharp convention fight, | broke away in a body and formed the Pennsylvania Fraternity in 1921. | Brotherhood officials, however, declare that they have long been jon friendly terms with the Fra- |ternity, which they do not regard jlike other company unions and} | which they have refrained from at- | tacking. At the present time there | | ity that the Fraternity, its as a or rather affiliate Brotherhood, though which way the successor, body may with re- the Pennsylvania Railroad may throw its influence is likely to be of deci- sive importance. Standard railroad labor organiza- tions with which the Pennsylvania railroad has contracts are the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- | gineers, the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Firemen and Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men. and the Brotherhood of Rail- road Signalmen, none of which is affiliated with the American Fed- | jeration of Labor. Most of the rest of the workers have long been or- ganized in company unions. Techion Plans Protest Rally On Scottsboro | TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 9—A mass | meeting to protest the recent de-| jcision of the Alabama Supreme | Court upholding the Scottsboro jlynch verdicts was called by the} jlocal emergency Scottsboro Cam- paign Committee for Saturday eve- ning, 8:30 o'clock, at the St. Paul | Church, 308 N. Willow St. Angelo Herndon, Negro hero of the Atlanta “insurrection” trial and now out on bail pending appeal, will be the main speaker. Mrs. Ida Norris, Scottsboro mother, and Richard B. Moore, who are accom- panying Herndon on a nation-wide tour, will speak in addition to the| following local leaders, Alex White, Section Organizer of the Commu- | nist Party; Mrs. Griffin, militant |Negro_ worker, and Sam Beagles | from Princeton. ;. An admission of ten cents will be charged to cover expenses of the meet and raise funds for the Scottsboro-Herndon appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court. ONTO RELIEF NEEDS RISE | CINCINNATI. O., Oci — One | out of every five persons in the en- | tire state of Ohio will have to be fed, clothed and housed by the gov- ernment this coming winter, ac- | cording to a statement last week by Carlton 8. Dargusch of the Ohio! Tax Commission. \ Opposes Aide of Ford in Hunger March Murders in State Election By A. B. MAGIL DETROIT, Oct. 9.—Harry S. To; the man who conducted the grand jury investigation that whitewashed the Ford Motor Co. after the mur- der of five workers in the Ford Hunger March of March 7, 1932, lags been nominated by the Repub- lican Party as its candidate for attorney-general in the elections. The nomination of Toy at tne Republican State convention at Flint marked the culmination of a bitter factional feud in W: e Count The county Republican convention on Sept. 20 in Detroit ended in a riotous brawl in which: skulls were cracked and 500 po! had their hands full trying to p suade the upholders of “law and ordi to stop punching each other The two factions that engaged in this harmony act were led, respec- tively, by Toy and by Edward S. Barnard, attorney nearly disbarred for shady practices. Chief lieutenant of Barnard and a leading participant in the riot was none other than Frank X. Martel, president of the Detroit Federation of Labor, a shining light of labor racketeering and betrayal. Both factions claimed the vic- tory, but at the state convention at Flint, a week later the machine dominated by Frank Fitzgerald, can- didate for governor, threw in its support to Toy, refusing to seat the Barnard delegates. It was Toy’s office that only a few months ago tried to send to jail for life the Negro worker, James | Victory, on a framed-up charge of haying attacked a white woman. Only the organization of a mass protest movement by the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights succeeded in smashing this frame-up. Negro on C. P. Ticket Significantly enough a Negro worker will be the only opponent of Toy in the November elections who really represents the broad masses of workers and farmers, Negro and white, native and foreign-born, of Michigan. Lonnie Williams, young Negro worker, is candidate for at- torney-general on the Communist Party ticket. Williams is secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and has been active in the struggles of the young workers of this city for several years. He has taken a leading part in the fight against war and fascism ond last year was a delegate to the World Youtl Congress Against War and Fascism in Paris. He, together with the rest of the Communist ticket, headed by the militant trade unionist, John Anderson, candidate for governor, offers the only possibility for the of Michigan of im- working masses t the sveed- ed relief, spy erable condi- ; tions of this open shop state and leading the way towards a workers’ | government. “I will not contribut: Worker $60,000 driv asserts Mr. Ralph Easley, The Daily Worker can get along without Mr. Easley! But it cannot get along without the contributions of the working class. Send your contributions today! to the Daily Machiiie: Delegate at A.E.L. Pp 6 arley Tells Bedi Soviet Labor Democracy Is Greater Than U. S. Was Elected by Central Labor Council in Vallejo, Calif. By BILL DUNNE SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.— Two lakor conventions are being held here. The spotlight of the capital- ist press of course, is focussed on the offical convention. But the convention that will really make labor history is unsung and in this city where the bosses and their hangers-on still tremble when any- one speaks of labor in anything but the official sense, in a city where the fearsome echoes of the general strike will ring down the streets of the prosperous looking but poverty stricken real estate sub- divisions, the real convention of labor is of course, unhonored. But even the not too bright re- porters of the local press knew that something is going on that is not on the-scheduled program for the official A. F. of L. Convention. In the Building Trades Department a delegate arose and told the offi- cial crowd that their description of the status of labor in the Soviet Union was all wrong. He did not get much of a hearing and he was very indignant about the manner in which his point was ignored. The assembled representatives of the press were puzzled at first by day. his aggressive indignation. They knew the hard boiled and cynical character of the average building trades delegate and they were really at a loss to explain the insistence of this delegate that there was more democracy in the Soviet Union labor movement than in the Sood old U. S. A. A little inquiry, however, brought out the following amazing facts. This particular delegate is a mem- ber of a local union of machinists in the Navy Yard in Vallejo. More than that he is a regularly elected delegate from the Vallejo Central Laber Council. On top of all this, and please remember that Vallejo is in the Bay. counties area where labor has been under bitter and violent at- tack previous to, during and after the general strike, and he stands instructed by this Central Labor body to demand and get forty-five minutes time in the A. F. of L. Convention to explain what is going on in the Soviet Union. If the convention does not grant him this forty-five minutes then his Central Labor body has given him further instructions; to ask for the impeachment of the entire Executive Council. There will be a lot of people who, Position of an A. F. of L. cenven- tion, may get a big laugh out of this incident. But, speaking just as a person who knows the Amer- ican Labor movement fairly well, I would like to warn them that knowing the organized official com- | they may laugh at the wrong time or on the wrong note. | Big things are happening in the | American labor movement today workers on the march in spite of |do. It would be a very wise thing |for some of these super sophisti- cated people who claim that the workers can never do anything for themselves to take a couple of looks at the labor front and then ask themselves if it isn’t just pes- jSible that workers have started to {do something for themselves and if one doesn’t azree with what the; are doing it might be better to get (out of the way. . To this convention which is about as rank and file proof as the | Senate of the United States, there jhave straggled in delegates whose |Mere presence is probably the besi: |tribute to the unconquerable spiri! jof the vast mass of American | workers. Their numbers are not large but /anyone who doubts that they rep- |resent the new contingents of or- ganized workers in the basic in- dustries has something wrong with his head. | These delegates, far more in number than the rank and file | committee estimated, are not to be found in the Whitcomb Hotel where the official hoadauarters of the A. F. of L. Convention are. They will be found in pretty cheap |Yooms somewhere around the Civic Vote Communist to End Bonuses to Landlords and St and there are a lot of Amorican | jall the A. F. of L. officialdcm can | Tastructed by Body to Speak 45 Minutes On Soviet Union Auditorium where the sessions are being held. convention Bus ons dition to the medest character of their lodgings, is the possession of somewhat tattered and thumbworn copies of one cr re resolutions jthas they have mtzedueed. If one discounts the labored phrasing cf jsome of th jerudities in ¢ uction they ali |bear e surprising resemblance to the resolutions which make up the program of the rank and file com- mittee, These delegates are all very serious abcut their resolutions and | they explain if questioned how jit was that they were adopted. |Thece explanations disclose a very important fact; that large num- bers of organized workers have }been devoting a lot of time to |talking among themselves about a |pregram tor the American labor movement. Let Labor Officialdom get what decisive trend among the rank and file. It remains to be secon how far this rank and file sentiment can be and to what extent it can break through the official blockade. coming who was onc2({ \thing they have in common in cd- | cocuments and som? | rley Maps National Drive in Buffalo to Speed Hunger March Plans N WESTERN PART OF NEW YORK MOBILIZE SUPPORT Jobless and Employed Workers Attend Street Meetings in Syracuse, Rochester, Utica, James- town, Rome and Niagara Falls BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 9 streets and at factory ga mass mestings in the —Dails tes are being held throughout the northern New York area to mobilize the employed and’ ufi- employed workers behind the Texas Reber: Lists Slashed As Need Rises Proof of Destitution | Required of All Relief Clients AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 9 (F.P.)— There will be no more funds for relief in Texas unless the federal government grants an application for $2,000,000 in advance, according to Texas officials. The number of persons needing relief has continued to swell during the summer: months, and as the harvest season ends, the number will increase. Relief for these destitute, limited to $1,000,000 a month by the State Legislature, must be stretched out through elimination from the rolls, officials have announced. The State Board of Control in charge of the relief administration is worki! with the State Relief Commission to eliminate as many clients as pos- sible from the relief rolls. Relief is only granted on proof of total destitution and local author- |ities have been instructed to en- force the relief law which calls for @ penitentiary sentence of from two to five years for “false swearing of | destitution.” | Fascists Tell 250,000 Italian Boys in Rome Not to Expect Jobs ROME. Italy, Oct. 9—Two hun- dred and fifty thousand boys be- \tween the ages of 18 and 21 as- sembled today in every large city of Italy and were told that fascism promises them “neither honors nor jobs nor profits—but only duty and combaé.” This statement is part of Musso- lini’s campaign to prepare Italian | | workers for “asceticism” and “pa- |triotism” by way of inflating the lira, cutting the wage level and |Teducing the standard of living. | ‘This blunt statement that here- after the younger generation will have to s! its bread on the meagre wages of its parents is bet- ter understood in the light of Italy's economic situation, which makes Italy the worst-hit country in the depression for the whole of Europe. The industries of Milan, which suffered least ‘under the economic ‘is, repcrt that the number of ‘employed fell from 252,727 in No- vember, 1928, to 190,874 in April, 1934. Land-workers in Milan re- ceived in November, 1929, the monthly sum of 512 lira ($25.60) and in April, 1934, were being paid 384 lira ($J9.20). These figures do not include Italian inflation. California Relief Men Travel Eighty Miles To SERA Work Project | Oct. 9.—Under the barrag> of wage cuts lowering ll further the subsistence level of the California uncmployed, S. E. R. A. workers are gradually learning whet the New Deal in this state means. On the little Tujunga job No. 212, two hundred men are building a fire road in Angeles National Ferest. In crite of their labor this road will jin all probability wash away with | the first rain. The shortest distance jee any one worker has to travel TUJUNGA, Ca | 80 miles a day for the privilege of | working on a job paying them an average of $335 per month. | They face real physical dangers. |Dynamite is used for blasting out |part of the road and thirty or |forty holes are shot at a time by jan electric battery. When this method is used, the shots cannot be counted and workers can't tell | if one has been left unfired. There is grave danger of accident h: only recently a worker sank his pick | a few inches from the cap of one such unfired shot. | STEEL UNION MOVES | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 9.—The | headquarters of the Steel and Metal | Werkers Industrial Union here, have comfort it can out of this new and | bee moved to 942 Prospec: Avenue, | Apple Frank the room 388, according to Rogerc, district secretary of | union. Workers can get all infor- | reflected in the coming convention | mation either by coming to the| headquarters or by calling Cherry (7744, the phone number of the to reach Albany on Oct. 30. is 22 miles. Forty of the men travel | mass delegated hunger march The hunger marchers from ®throughout the State will converge on Albany, where after a State cane ference, they will march in a body to the State House and present the demands of the unemployed. to or Lehman. pase fe demands call for an. ime special session of bosh. houses of the State Legislature: jor the enactment of the Workers: Un- employment Insurance Bill, the- Small Home and Property Owners’ Relief Bill, and sufficient appropria- tions to provide adequate Winter relief Workers’ Bill Pushed The Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill which has been. en- dorsed by millions of American workers through their unions and organizations, provides for the pay- ment of benefits equal to local average wages to all workers un- employed through no fault of “their own. The Workers’ Bill was initi- ated by the Communist Party and is incorporated in the Communist Party elec.ion platform. The Small Home and Property Owners’ Relief Bill provides for a moratorium on all foreclosures and sheriff sales for the duration of the crisis. Buffalo Rally Oct. 26 In Buffalo, arrangements are be- ing speeded for a city-wide rally to send off the delegates on Oct. 26. Factory gates are being covered with mass meetings where con- tributions are being received to sup- por. the march. Although the A. F. of L. Central Council has denied the floor to representatives from the hunger march committee, each local union is being ap- proached for the election of dele- gates to the march. A mass delegation will go before the City Council tomorrow to pre- sent demands for endorsement of the march and for — petitioning Governor Lehman for calling of the special session of the State Legisla- ture for enactment of the Workers’ Bill. Meeting in Syracuse A mass meeting attended by hun- dreds of workers was held in Syra- cuse last week. From this meeting a committee was elected to present demands for increased relief and endorsement of the hunger march to Commissioner Abbott. Thirty | delegates have been elected from Syracuse. A recent delegation forced Federal | Transient Director Baker to promise to feed and house the marchers as they pass through the city. Similarly, mass meetings are be= ing held in Utica, Rochester, James town, Rome and Niagara Falls. Unemployed, Farmers and Workers Picket in Railroad Strike MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 9.— Shipment of strikebreakers for. the resurfacing gangs on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.at Pippen, Wisconsin, was halted..Sat- urday by the Unemployment Goun- cils here. soot After a meeting held before-the unemployment office which. was shipping the scabs for jobs paying~ 20 cents an hour, a picket line was established and a committee. des: manded that the shipping of seabs be stopped. The men on the road gangs;who are striking were being paid $1.60 for an eight-hour day. Out of: #his was taken sixty cents for meals and eighty cents for Sunday meals, only two of which were served. The resurfacing gangs are main- taining their picket lines despite & tear gas attack by the police. The United Farmers League is helping. to feed the strikers and is joinins on the picket line. i Cleveland, Ohio GENERAL Victor A. Yakhontof speaks on “The Soviet Union and the Far Baste ern Situation,” Thursday, Oct. 11, 8 p.m. Locomotive Engineers Bidg., Ontario and St. Clair Ave. Auspices: F.8.U. “KREPKIN” play cn the Russian Revo- chewing fer the first time, by 2068 Slov. Sec. LW.O., together m. Circle of Slov. Workers. Oct. 14, rt Bohemian Mae Brozdway, 4 p.m. sharp, 35 at Goor. Ors. 3 tional Hell, 4945 Adm. 30c in adv, Omaha, Neb. TALK on “Fight ef the Unemployed for | the Right to Live’ by Wm. Reynolds at Sunda | Workers Culture Center, 2404 Park (1900 Block on No. 24th St.), Sundi | tober 14. Chicago, 111, BARNYARD HY-JINX. m Bobbin et | corn. & p.m. Auspices JOSHUA KUNITZ, editor New Masses, lectures at John Reed Club Room, 108 W. Hancock Ave. 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, [on “Artists in Red Uniform.” op Starvation for Poor Farmers