The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 “MILITANT RECORDS OF C.P. CANDIDATES PRAISED BY UNION Leadership of Amter, Gold and Wortis in the| To = Day-to-Day Battles of Workers Is Cited— Roles of Boss Parties Attacked 'Ship-Builder Is Delegate To the USSR Daniel Mahoney Elected Nov. 7 Delegation | of F.S.U. to Soviet |" NEW YORK.—The Friends of the Soviet Union announce. @ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1934 ‘Industrial Union Urges Needle Workers to Vote C.P. Ticket (Cleveland Sections Push Competitions In $60,000 Drive Three-Cornered Socialist Challenges Are) Feature—Competitions Are Always Chief ship- Declaring that ‘there is only one political party- whose builder as the latest elected dele- program furthers the interests of the workers and the broad | cate to the U.S. S. R. masses of the people—the Communist Party,” the Needle| Herbert Goldfrank, national sec- Trades Workers Industrial Union yesterday called on al i needle trades workers to support the candidates of the Com- munist Party in the .coming elec-‘ tion campaign. The union appeal states “Fellow workers: A few short weeks remain before the elections. The ‘politicians of . the capitalist parties have come around, as usual with their golden promises., In ex- change for your votes, they are will- ing to promise you anything. There is nothing new in that. Did not Roosevelt talk about the “forgot- ten man,” about a “new deal” when he needed your vote? Did he not guarantee that no one would go hungry, and that the workers would be established in their right of col- lective bargaining and. of belonging to a union of their own choice? Still 15,000,000 Jobless “But what do we see?’ ‘There are ‘still 15,000,000 unemployed “forgot- ten” workers; and the manner in Which ‘Roosevelt has rédeemed his promise about the right to strike ahd to unionize can be judged from Registration | Closes Today In Detroit Communist Party Issues Appeal To Voters DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 14.—The Communist Party Election Cam- paign Commit‘ee has issued a last- minute appeal to all its supporters |to register in order to be able to yote in the November elections. To- day is the final date for registra- retary of the F. S. U\, announced today that, notifications of the elec- tion of additional delegates for the F. 8, U. Nov. 7 Worker and Farmer | delegation were coming in almost | daily. | Yesterday, Daniel Mahéney of Local 607 of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers, A. F. of L., was elected as a delegate. He was endorsed by Lodge No. 3 of the union, which includes all of the New York district locals. Mahoney, a worker well known in the shipbuilding line, respected by his fellow workers, will take with | him hundreds of questions asked by fellow shipbuilders about the building of a Socialist society in the Soviet Union. 4 During Mahoney’s stay in the So- viet Union he will be given an op- portunity to-make a first-hand in- vestigation of the shipbuilding in- dusiry, and, of course, of the living and working. conditions of those employed in his industry in the So- viet Union. Factor in Succe! - Socialist competitions! Not capitalist gouging, with each force trying to out- | maneuver the other, but determined workers fighting to- gether for a common aim—ea rifice more than the other. Such competitions are going on all over the country, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000! To Cleveland belongs the distine- tion of having 3 three-cornered races. This district, as a result, earns the distinction of having the first section to complete its quota! Section 3 challenged Sections 16 and 17. “We have. six units of less than 80 members.. Our. territory contains. less mass organizations that are..sympathetic toward us, than there are in the Buckeye and Broadway Naborhoods. But our challenge is that we will raise more money for the Daily Worker than both of your Sections put together.” of ‘Daily’ Drives o— ch trying to give more, to sac- | | Youngstown, 10 subs at Republic; Toledo, 5 at Chevrolet. In addi- | tion, sections to get worker. cor- | respondents from these plants to | the Daily Worker. | Section 2, in Cleveland, and the | Akron and Cincinnati sections form |the other three-cornered competi- tion. These sections have also | drawn up a regular contract, setting | themselves the task of completing | their quotas before Dec. 1. Akron pledges to raise $800; Section 2, | $400; and Cincinnati, $200. | Following the example of Toledo, | Youngstown and Section 1, they tie |up the financial compaign with cir- |culation. Parts of their contract | are very similar to that of the other | three sections. A Red Flag will be | { Thus sang Section 3. | | Having a quota of $200, the dec. ARASCEE 2 Peay doar section | tion assigned each unit to raise $40 | Promptly the units jumped inio| BSS ap debra Mee oe Socialist competitions and Units 343 | Mahoney will address a mass “the experiences‘ in Toledo, Minnea- ‘{polis,-the San Francisco strike, and * thé’ recent textile strike, * *“Néver before in the history of ffs country was such free and fre- quént use made of militia, of gun- “mién, sluggers and vigilante gangs to break “strikes, murder strikers, "and to force company unions on the ‘workers as now under the new tion. All those. who are voting for the first time, or voters who have changed their residence since they last voted, must register. The campaign committee is issu- ing thousands of copies of a special leaflet addressed to trade union farewell meeting, af which the other delegates will also appear, on Friday night, Oct. 19, at the Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E, Fourth Si., at 8:15. C. P. Issues Call and 346 challenged each other to| raise $10 more than the allotment. Hardly had the challenge been made and accepted before Unit 346 had raised $41 and Unit 343, $36. | This! Before the end of Sep- | tember, the section had completed | its quota! | Toledo, Youngstown and Section |1 in Cleveland proper have signed tions with the most outstanding record in the drive will be sent to | New York to attend the Lenin | Memorial Meeting. The best group of workers in each section will be sent to an affair in one of the other sections, Each section also promises to re- port the progress of the drive at (the end of each month, sending | members, calling on them to vote | these to the Daily Worker. Po * | tremendously effective. My faith in np apaienieaget amped greens the ILD. is the Communist | ate response. In Spain the united for rélief. The Tammany police|Party 1s such that even if along |‘front of Socialists, Communists and ‘ " the way I do not readily under-|non-party workers and peasants is brutally broke up the demonstra- 3 1" F ri : tion, beat the workers and sent | Stafd some move, I would never- offering blood and lives to halt the | : Amter and many others to prison. theless support you with my whole reactionary forces ‘threatening the {But the moment he finished his heart.” ‘| whole ‘world. Their fight is also } — prison term, he was right back in| ———~————————— | ours. While our Spanish brothers ar oe lorry pega) the fight for|the utmost ability and devotion to : | Pellet and for unemployment in- the interests of the workers. Be we win ‘smention criy & Lega eee ieee ae rs fi r ee e Communist Party is a vot ‘ = othér: candidates, all workers from |against hunger and_ oppression, | "d@al, It is high time that workers i turn in contempt from the honey- voiced politicians. “* Misleaders Favor Tammany .« “Those in control of the Ameri- w+. can Federation of Labor adhere to their outworn policy of rewarding the ‘friendly’ and punishing the .- ‘unfriendly’ politicians. It is re- » Gim Markable, however, that the ‘friend- ly’ ones always happen to be on the Tammany Hall ticket. The la- bor fakers are trying to talk it into YOU that the same people who send .. . Police and the militia with bayonets “ahd poison gas against you when an. 00... Strike, who, issue .injunctions “~<“against you ond send you to jail ate your friends and deserve your vote! lo, fellow workers! Do not listen “to ‘those that ask you to vote for *Avdidates of the Capitalist parties. “They are not your friends! They Bérve ‘the interests of the wealthy, Not the interests of the workers. “Ss P. Leaders Support Betrayers Neither have the leaders, candi- -r~dates and program of the Socialist Party proved worthy of working ‘-rclass support. We cannot forget during election time that through- out the year the Socialist ~ Party leaders are supporting such out- » standing betrayers of the workers asGorman, Green and Zausner. ‘And in the needle trades these lead- aac Communist in the © approaching. elections. The leaflet analyzes the actions of the various political parties and exposes the anti-labor policies of the Democratic, Republican and So- cialist Parties. It also deals with the role of the A. F. of L. leaders and their treacherous “non-parti- | san” policy. “There are those in the ranks of labor,” the leaflet says, "who have advised trade unionists to vote for the winner. For many years work- ers have followéd this policy and as a result have LOST with the winner. “Workers were told to ‘reward our friends and punish our’ ‘ene- mies,’ to vote for the best among those who could win, to choose the ‘lesser evil.’ This policy resulted in rewarding the workers’ enemy, in placing the enemy in office and in punishing only labor. “There are no good men who will serve the interests of’ labor inside parties. There are no lesser What must become increas- clear to every honest trade unionist in this fifth year of crisis and mass unemployment is that the workers mus! have their own party, a workers’ party, which will boldly defend the interests of labor against the attacks of capital.” To S. P. on Spain (Continued from Page 1) victory of class brothers. We urge you to give immediate consideration to this appeal. United action is imperative right now while the Spanish working class is in a State of civil war, while the struggle against fascism and for Socialism is raging furiously. We hope for immediate favorable ‘reply. * Sinverely “you: ‘NEW YORK: DISTRICT our Spanish = Charlés Krumbein, District Organizer. October 12, .1934. © Young Peoples Socialist League 7 East 15th Street New York City Dear Comrades: In view of the events that are now taking place in Spain, where the working class together w: peasantry are launching a decisive \fight for power, the Y.C.L. makes |the following two proposals to the IY PS. 1. That the Y.PSL. and the Y.C/L. immediately issue a joint jappeal to the youth of New York in support of ‘the Spanish { “| tal coniventratton *poirite;’ Sec-_|peting groups usially finish their i ‘COMMUNIST PARTY) U.S.A. ith the | |a regular agreement for their com- petition. Correctly, it concerns both the financial and circulation | drives of the Daily Worker. Six points. show the enthusiastic plan | of these sections, (On this point, the Daily Worker | {urges that reports be sent to it for | publication; even every day. This | | applies to activities of every group | and every individual in the drive— | Districts, Sections, Units, mass or- Points In Contract | ganizations, workers’ clubs, etc.) | They pledge to fulfill their | It is such activity as in the Cleve- | quotas, at the latest, by Nov. 28 | land sections, which will make the | (the quotas are—Section 1, $350; | Daily Worker drive a success, Youngstown, $500; Toledo, $250): | Socialist competitions are vital to raise the sales of the Daily among the districts, sections and Worker by Nov. 28, thus: Section | units, mass organizations, trade 1, 200 copies — Toledo, 225 — unions, throughout the country. Youngstown, 200; to build up reg- | They are evidence of fervor and | lar sales 6f fhe Daily Worker at | responsibility in the drive. Com-) tion 1 to secure at least 10 ‘sub- [quotas more quickly—and’ send in| scriptions in the Otis Steel shop; | more money—than others. Committee Votes Halt in Sea Strike (Continued from Page 1) and Sisters are united on the barri- cades, can. we in the U. 8’ A. any longer hesitate to at least unite in solidarity actions in their support? The Dis‘rict Committee. of: the | | Communist Party..calls upon the | City Executive Committee of. the | | Sccialist Party to unite with us in | York, was charged with assault, but joint actions for a series of mass | later released in the Tombs Court, | which was packed by a large num- \zer of marine workers from the | waterfront. The strike committee reported | | i | demonstrations, and for the mo- | bilization of every possible organ- | iza‘ion—such as trade unions, fra- | ternal, etc—to support in every ers have been lined up with the City Dubinskys and Hillmans who em- ~ braced the slave driving N.R.A. and sits .chief strike breaker, General Johnson. The same Socialist Party leaders consistently worked against the, fur workers in their struggle | for better conditions and a real union. “There is only one political party whose program furthers the inter- ests of the workers and the broad Leibowitz Is No Listed in U.S. Court (Continued from Page 1) revolution, by organizing a tremen- dous demonstration in, their sup- port. The details for this can be worked out by representatives of the Y.P.S.L, and the Y.GL. 2. In the event that this is not acceptable to your organization, we |propose that our two organizations | shall immediately issue a call for la conference of all youth organi- ‘zations in the city of New York, letter to Clarence Hathaway, editor of: the Daily Worker, declared, in part: masses of the people, and that is| “I was moved by the letters of whose purpose it shall be to ergan- = * tertorism. jize a mighty movement among the youth of New York in support of our Spanish brothers. Hoping that these proposals w: be acceptable to you, we remain Comradely yours, J. LITTLE, Dist. Org. YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE. An appeal for united support of “thé Communist Party. The Com- munist Party fights for old age pen- | sions and genuine unemployment insurance; for the right of workers to organize and strike. The Com- manist Party fights against boss’ It leads in the battle a@ainst war and fascism. That is why the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union appeals to all needle trades workers to elect the working Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. the Scottsboro boys, and by the wire of Jack Mitchell, all of which appeared in the Daily Work- er of October 12, that I must write you and tell you so. “T also, like Mr. Mitchell, am a Negro who comes from the South. and I also want to say that he sure does speak for me and many, many ill possible way the heroic struggle of | | the Spanish workers; to protest the | | bloody pogrom of the fascist-mon- | archist reaction in Spain; and to express sympathy and _ solidarity with the struggles of the Spanisa workers and peasants. | Through such united action of | Socialists and Communists in the | | city. of Buffalo we can develop wide | | support and mobilize thousands of | | workers to struggle against the | bloody reactionary forces of the | Spanish bourgeoisie. Such united | action would lay the basis for united | struggle against the attacks on the living standards of the workers and against rising fascism in America, Can we allow any more: precious | days, and’even’ months, to slip by | while the whole capitalist: world is | drifting ever more rapidly into fas- cism and war, without a serious ef- for’ to build a united working-class | that seven pickets were arrested while picketing the S.S. Massmar, a Calmar liner which was struck in Philadelphia. Workers at a mass meeting at Central Opera House, in New York, which was called by the Workers International Relief, pledged to sup- port the struggles of the seamen to make better their conditions on the ships and docks. Code Committee Cites 6-Cent Average Wage in Outwear Industry WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14— Wages of from two-and-one-half to 6 cents an hour are being paid to American workers, despite President. Roosevelt's glowing speeches about improved conditions and N. R. A. others when he wires you: ‘Refuse to. believe Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris repudiate IL.D.’ and ‘I voice sentiment for millions of Negroes when I solemnly 4d: clare that Patterson and Norris +i) neyer voluntarily-on their own will turn down or leave 1.L.D. which has thrilled world with inspiring de- fense.’ “Tam 100 per cent for the ILD. and the heroic and dauntless Reds. The program and tactics are not class candidates on the Communist, ticket. The candidates of the Com- | munist Party have long records of | militant activity in the interests of the working masses. They can be | relied upon to work with might and main.to make their program effec- tive. Cite Records of C. P. “Can there be the slightest com- parison between Israel Amter, the standard bearer of. the, Communist Party and any other candidates? Back in 1930, Amter, together with only correct, but have already been | the heroic Spanish workers. was | | addressed io the Buffalo. Socialist | Party by the Communist Party of | | Buffalo. The text of the statement | | follows: | | October 12, 1934. | City Executive Committee, | | | |18 Villa Place, | Buffalo, N. Y. | Dear Comrades: ‘The heroic struggle of the Span- ish working class against the fas- Socialist Party, Buffalo Local, Care Robert Hoffman, | | cist reaction demands our immedi- | front? | minimums. These rates were cited as the average wage for home workers in the knitted outwear industry, at a recent code hearing here. Under the code, home work is per- mitted until the end of the year, with a committee appointed mean- while to “study” the subject and report on piece rates and control. This “generous” committee has proposed wages ranging from 10 cents to 25 cents an hour, as fol- lows: Infants’ wear, 10 cents an hour; hand crocheted headwear, 13 cents an hour; hand joining, finish- ing and trimming of garments, 15 cents; hand-knitted ‘underwear, 1614 cents; hand crocheting of adult Comrades, it is imperative that we rally workers in the American Fed- eration of Labor and other trade unions, Socialist and Communist workers, and all other honest and sincere elements behind the heroic Spanish workers and peasants, and against fascist reaction in Buffalo. We call upon you for immediate and favorable action on this, our appeal for unity. Fraternally yours, H, SHEPPARD, District Organizer, District 4, C. P. U.S. A, for the District Committee. A Red Builder on Every Busy | «very battle that concerned your | ---minick Plaiani. ==H66dle trades workers, i given to the cause of the workers. | Street Corner in the Country Means |a Tremendous Step Toward the |Dictatorship of the Proletariat! garments, 15 cents; and hand join- ing and finishing of garments (adult workers), 25 cents, Croppers Win All Demands ‘On Plantations Wage Raises Offered in Tallapoosa After Union Strikes MONTGOMERY, Ala.—The chief demand of the cotton-pickers’ strike, $1 for picking a hundred pounds, | has been won on the large planta- tion belonging to Howard Graves, on the border of Lee and Tallapoosa Counties. .Croppers’ monthly credit allowances have also been increased, from $10 to $15. The strike is un- der the leadership of the Share Croppers’ Union. On General Pearson’s plantation in Tallapoosa County 1,000 cotton- pickers refused to gin their cotton at the landlord’s gin and carried it to an independent mill in Dade- ville. the landlord from seizing their cot- ton and keeping it for “debts.” Practically every landlord in Tallapoosa County has offered to increase wages for cotton picking to 7 cents a hundred. The cotton pickers however; are: Hading, out ioe $1 a hundred. Even beyond the borders of the strike area, landlords are raising wages from the usual 35*or 40 cents, in fear that their pickers will join the ‘strike. White cotton pickers and share- croppers are joining the union in considerable numbers, sitting in the same locals with the Negroes. doing their best to break the strike, | without success. Thad Holt, state relief administrator, sent orders throughout the state that all cotton | pickers who are offered employment | in the fields in their local commu- nities, and who refuse, are to be cut off the relief rolls. LLD. Urges Unity In Fight for Boys (Continued from Page 1) liberation, and would merit the sharpest condemnation. Outlines Actions To Stop Lynch Murder Nothing must stand in the way of stopping this murder, which in- yolves every right of the oppressed Negro people, and is being planned as a direct, bloody attack upon them, the signal for Wholesale lynchings, terror, and increase of the. already unbearable oppression of the Negro. people. What is necessary now {s the broadest’ united front action, in which every sincere friend of the Scottsboro boys will participate. With this in mind, we propose the holding of conferences on the broadest united front basis, involv- ing churches, unions and mass or- ganizations, lodges, fraternal or- ganizations, of every political, re- ligious, or national affiliation. We feel that on this issue, every friend of the Scottsboro boys, every organ- ization and individual who is inter- ested in the Scottsboro defense, can and must be united. Must Rouse Entire Toiling Population =~ Such conferences must be held in every city in the United States, to formulate plans and direct actions which will rouse the millions of Ne- gro and white workers throughout this country and throughout the world to such action as will force the Supreme Court of the United States to grant the application for review, to reverse the lynch deci- sion of the Alabama State Supreme Court, and to set the Scottsboro boys unconditionally free. This is in the power of that court. We propose demonstrations, pa- rades, meetings, in every city and in every neighborhood, to expose the lynch plans of the southern rulers, their maneuvers and the maneuvers of their agents. Protest Actions on a National Scale We propose that stich conferences formulate plans for action on a na- tional scale, involving every organ- ization of the Negro people and the white toilers, including a national delegation to President Roosevelt, in whose power it is to free the Scottsboro boys unconditionally. We propose actions on a local and city scale everywhere, including parades and demonstrations which will demand from city and state of- ficials their endorsement of the de- mand for the unconditional free- dom of the Scottsboro boys, to be communicated' by them to the Supreme Court of the United States, to President Roosevelt, and to Gov- ernor B. M. Miller of Alabama. Calls for All Willing to Fight fe for Boys : We urge participation in this united front of every organization the needle tradés, all well known to you, needle trades workers, because they have been in the forefront of against fascism and war, against | capitalism that kills the masses by slow starvation. A vote for the Communist Party is a yote for un- | employment insurance, for higher | wages, for the right to strike and ss picket and for the complete libera- ‘ Gold, Wortis Praised i Sara ng that nave oo tal go: Co of the workers from capitalist Demanding Release of who Ben| “Vote as you strike! | Mathias Rakosi Gold and Rose Wortis are or how| “Vote as a worker, loyal to your | é @ ‘any years of their life they have |class and conscious of your rights | jand interests! | CLEVELAND, Ohio. Oct. 14— you seek for better, more de-| “Vote for and support the can-| Attempting to furnish police with or more vigorous fighters for }didates of the Communist Party!” 22 excuse to smash the mass picket your interests? It is surely no ac-| Anterests. There is Rose Wortis, Ben | Gold, Isidor Weissberg, and Do- | \Protests Flood Consul! cident that the Communist Party | has selected workers like Rose | Wortis, Ben Gold and the others | ¥' be their’ candidates. The Com-| munist Party fights for the work- ers. Tt therefore selected as candi- dates only those who have shown il? Jacl INDUSTRIAL UNION, 28th Street, N.Y. C.” 131 West A Red Builder on Every Busy Street Corner in the Country Means a Tremendous. Step Toward the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! at | “NEEDLES TRADES WORKERS | line before the Hungarian Consul- | ate, provocateur knocked a number of placards out of the hands of the wozkers, protesting against the at- | tempt of Admiral Horthy’s regime, |to legally murder Mathias Rakost, |by trying him before a puppet Fascist “péoples court,” on the ae charge of treason, for his leading role in the ‘establishment’ of the Hungarian Soviet in 1919. ~ They were thwarted by the firm | proletarian discipline of the work- ers who retrieved their signs and did not allow themselves to be pro- yoked.” The picketing continued right through the big Saturday | afternoon shopping rush, hours, at | Cleveland’s' busiest corner (Has! /Ninth and Euclid Streets). Headed | by Dann Little, Secretary of the | Waterfront Unemployment ‘Council and Sam Stein, I. L. D. organizer, 2 | delegation visited the office of the Fascist Consul to present démands calling for the immediate release of Rakosi and guarantee of his safe conduct to any country for which arrangements ‘are made for him 10 enter. i The Consul locked himself in. A few vigorous knocks on the door by the delegation in the hallway resulted in a shivering flunky com- ing out. The sight of the delegation sent him scurrying back into the office, which was again locked. Resolutions, listing the demands, were pushed through the mail slot. of the door. Stein, on the shoulders of two workers, spoke to the assembléd Cleveland Workexe Mass Before Constilate Demanding Freedom for Hungarian Leader Pickets Remain. Firm _ Despite Attempted | Provocation workers watching the picket line. He exposed the fascist schemes to murder Rakosi. Many expressed their sympathy to those distributing leaflets on the case, The I, L. D. Rakosi defense committee, and the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and a number of ‘Hungarian organizations organized tha action, i CLASH ON | Secretary of R. R. Mot Tuskegee Institute, 250 Negroes Less Than Code Minimum NEGRO SPOKESMEN JIM-CROW PAY DIFFERENTIAL on, President of the Aids Moye to Pay | WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—Payment of lower wages to In this way. they prevented | | Negro than to white workers was an issue over which spokes | men for Negro organizations clashed sharply at a hear‘ | before the Board of Industrial Appeals. The.occasiun was |appeal by the Southland Manufacturing Co., Montgomer, | #Ala., for permission to pay some 25 Relie f Fun ds ee Ac nagas less than the cod Slashed As Tuskegee Institute, Negro univer Need Rises sity, was represented by G. Lak. ‘August F.E.R.A. Report Imes, secretary io Principal R. R Moton, who supported the com- | for 110 Cities Shows Large Cut pany’s contention that the Negrc workers should be paid less, on the grounds that they were less effi- cient. The Tuskegee representative claimed that the color question was | |-mittee on National Recovery, . op- | posed the contentions of. the. com- | WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14— | pany and the Tuskegee Institute. Increased destitution together with | Describing their arguments as \greatiy decreased relief expendi- | “fallacious,” Davis told the- Feder~ not involved, but merely the ques- tion of relative efficiency. John P. Davis, Negro. attorney and secretary of the Joint Com- tures are shown in the preliminary |and partial relief figures “for Sep- ember, reported Friday by Federal | ated :Press that he had made a | study of the plant | which exploded claims that the Ne- machinery, t The relief authorities have come Relief Administrator Harry L. Hop- | gro workers were inefficient. He to the aid of the landlords and are jing, ee gan | found that 99 out of 100 machines | were of the old type, 30 to.35 per cent: slower in. - production. thar those used in the plants..employ- ing’ white workers. ‘The old ma- chines: were constantly needing re- pairs, which also slowed down the ‘Negro workers’ production. The Southland Manufacturing Co. is a subsidiary of the Reliance | In 110 cities reporting, the num- ber of familiés in relief increased | from. 1,602,507 to 1,610,220 between | August. and September, while relief | expenditures were slashed from $40,- 308,000 to $46,267,000, Hopkins report, stated. In New York City alone | there was 10 per cent less money spent for relief in September than in August, where, although appro- | priations for each month were the same, the city refused to spend its entire relief allotment in the face of increased destitution. August was the latest month for which Hopkins gave totals. These figures showed a sharp rise in the number of families on the relief lists which rose from 3,800,000 to 4,000,000 during the one month period, The number of destitute families on the relief lists has risen steadily this year from 2,486,229 in January to 3,070,551 in March, 3,864,765 in. April, to- 4,000,000 (preliminary) in August... ‘ ~* | | Corp., formerly noted for prison contracts for manufacture of work shirts. It employs some 6,700 women in its different plants, all‘ of whom are white except the 250 at the Southland plant. 43 While denying claims of ireffi- ciency afd declaring itself opposed to lower wages for Negro than for white workers, the Joint Committee on Industrial Recovery approved a conditional six-day exemption to “prevent closing of the plant,” the conditions being that the company should ins‘all new machinery and agree to keep open for at least a year. No provision was iniade against sossible firifig of the Negro workers, ‘of the Négro people, and every or ganization of the tollers, white and black, everywhere. Anyone who at- tempts to split the Scottsboro de~- fense at this time is giving aid and comfort to the lynchers. We call specifically on those or- ganizations represented by Mr. Wil- liam H. Davis, publisher of the Am- sterdam News, the Rev. Lorenzo H. King of St. Marks’ M. E. Church of Harlem, the Rev. Richard Manuel Bolden of First Emanuel Church, Brooklyn, the Rev. J. W. Brown of Mother A.M.E. Zion and the Rev. A. C. Garner of Grace Congrega- tional Church, the Interdenomina- tional Ministers’ Alliance of New York and Vicinity, and all elements who have entered into the so-called “American Scottsboro Committee,” to join in united action with the In- ternational Labor Defense, which has saved the lives of the Scotts- boro boys for three and a half years. ‘We urge all those individuals and organizations who are willing to en- ter into this united front of strug- gle for the defense of the Scotts- boro boys, to communicate imme- result of the ‘strike. place. i Even though the masses -ha> been unable to-carry through a suc- cessful strike at this time, we can State that the mass of:seamen, even now, have ‘little or -no ‘faith in the present negotiations: Because non of the basic grievances of ‘the sea. men. will be settled, the seamen wil prepare to continue the struggle. As'a result of the recent experi- ences the seamen will be moré able to prepare for the coming’ struggle, Already there is greater organiza- tion and unity in their ratiks. LS.U. Leaders Spread Demoraliza- tion i Thousands of seamen know that the I. 8, U. leaders were the main | agencies used by the shipowners to | confuse, divide and demoralize their ranks. Also, these scabby officials, openly and brazenly, recruited scabs to replace the crews that came out jon strike. The vast majority of the seamen realizé that Axtell, “Olander and company did everything possible to prevent the workers from winning ‘their demands. These seamen know possi le that hes-taken diately with the International Labor | that the United Front Strike Com- Defense, expressing this willingness| mittee did everything possible to and their determination to. enter help the seamén march forward to into this uncompromising struggle victory. ne i to save the lives of the. Scottsboro; Ih spite of the “official” ‘blessing boys, so that such conferences as/| given by the shipowners and 'N.R.A, are outlined above can be called. [to these pict ierid thousands National Execative-© ede of seamen, uring the struggle, have become - s Scie | convinced that it is the Ma rine Workers’ Industrial .Unio1 League of Struggle Endorces Call they must look toward for leader The League of Struggle for Negro Rights, through its General Sec- retary, Harry Haywood, issued a statement yesterday unqualifiedly endorsing the Call of the Interna- tional Labor Defense and calling upon its branches and affillates all over the country and smpathizers to whole-heartedly initiate and sup- port all protest actions against the lynch: verdicts. ‘ Seamen’s Need | To Fight Remains (Continued from Page 1) An organized retreat was necessary built up, to conserve the organized strength that has been’ built up ‘during the strike, and to utilize all these and the initiative of the sea. men for launching an intensified campaign to prepare for the coming struggles, Strike Sentiment Remains The seamen -retreated—but the manner in which. they carried through the retreat shows. they are far from defeated or crushed. The shipowners have checked and de- layed the strike—but they will not prevent the sentiment for strike action crystellizing into an organ- ized mass strike in the near future. The conditions which aroused the to maintain the unity that has been. ship if they are to defea‘ the ship owners. is They know that the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union was the backbone of the United Front which rallied thousands of. workers, or- ganized and unorganized, licensed and unlicensed, for struggle. They know that the Marine Workers’ In- dustrial Union has a correct pro= gram, the ability and willingness to organize the struggle, and a lead- ership worthy of the confidence of the rank and file. The increased ‘strength and influence of the M. W. I. U. is the best guarantee that the seamen will carry out their plans for organizing the coming struggles. The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union must make full us‘ of the present situation by recruiting thou sands of new members into its ranks. The retreat declared by the seamen must be a period: when every member, every funetionary, must intensify his efforts in a cam- Daign 10 organize the united front, especially on the ships, by’ the or-p ganization of ships’ committees, and by helping the rank and file members of the International Sea-* men’s Union carfy oif a struggle to gain control of their organiza- tion by removing and expelling the strikebreaking officials. © Chicago Coliseum Rally Will Hail 17 Years of Soviet Achievements (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, 14. —. Achieve- discontent of the workers will not | ments of 17 years of Socialist con- be changed in the agreement being | struction in the U. 8. S. R. will be negotiated by the I. S. U. officials | hailed by Chicago workers in a huge in their secret conferences with the | mass meeting at the Coliseum, 16th shipowners. These people will not | Street and Wabash Avenue, Nov- fight for the demands of the work-| ember 4, ai 2 p.m. Clarence Hatha- ers, and any small concessions that | way, editor of the Daily Worker, will might be announced will only be a'be the main speaker. = v ,