The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1934, Page 3

Hard Coal Miners U MISLEADER MOVES TO DELIVER UNION Fer Workers’ TO GOV. PINCHOT Rank and File Opposition Proposes United Front of Members of Anthracite Union and U.M.W.A. to Prepare Strike for Demands WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Oct. 16.—At the special conven- tion of the United Anthracite Miners Union of Pennsylvania | here last week to map out a cam- (independent), taking place in Wilkes-Barre, District Presi- dent Thomas Maloney, proposed a “peace plan” between the Anthracite Union and the United Mine The plan calls for¢—— (A. F. of L.). the resignation of officers of both unions and that provisional execu- tive committees be appointed. The provisional executive would then appoint two members from their respective unions who with a fifth “neutral” person are to tabulate elections to decide which set of officers the miners want to elect. Maloney’s plan aims to divert the members of the Anthracite Union from preparing a strike for their demanes. Many miners resent this proposal, pointing out that it will mean again a sell-out. When Maloney was asked who will appoint the fifth person, he stated the fifth person should be none other than Gover- nor Pinchot. At the mention of Pinchot, boos spread throughout the hall. Maloney then requested that there be no demonstration in the hall. Delegates speaking on the ques- tion, asked Maloney whether it is not a fact that Pinchot sent state troopers to smash the last strike, therefore how can we expect Pin- chot to act favorable to the miners. Father Curran proposed that Roosevelt’ appoint a fifth person. Another proposal was Father Coughlin. Maloney is now maneu- vering and trying to make the fifth person the issue at the convention. He evades the motion to reject the “peace” plan as a whole. Many delegates are in open disagreement. and are fighting Maloney on the floor. Strong Opposition For the first time since the new union wes organized, a strong op- position can be seen against the Maloney policy. A delegate from Pittston stated: “Men, I am sick of all this peace talk. All you hear is perce, peace, peace. This damn Peace doesn’t give me and my wife and children anything to eat.” Another delegate from Auchin- Ccless made a motion that the peace Proposal be tabled and the five- point program, proposed by the Nenticoke Policy Committee be dis- d first. This program includes ration of strike for the de- of the miners. The con- was less attended than pre- conventions. The gallery, is packed with visi- not filled. her, leader of the Rank Opposition, expelled by and Maleney from the new union, appealed to the con- vention for reinstatement. Many delegates who know Dougher, now agree with Dougher that what he said in the past about Cappelini and Maloney is proved correct. A number of rank and file delegates are determined to fight to a finish. Others are walking out of the con- vention, disgusted, saying the same old sell-out policy of arbitration 1s being handed to us again. Maloney on Gorman Payroll Maloney was recently exposed as having been on the payroll of the arbitration board of the govern- ment, for the last few months at fifty dollars a week, This board, headed by Gorman, has ruled against all the miners’ demands for months. Gorman recently — ruled that the mine owners would deal only with the United Mine Work- ers of America. The Cappellini-Maloney leader- ship of the independent union are cooperating with the employers and their government board in order to try to destroy the United An- thracite Union and prevent the coming strike. Cappellini, now in jaii on an ar- son charge, recently issued a letter from prison proposing to liquidate the Anthracite Union, of which he is State president, Maloney and Cappellini called the convention now going on here in order to put over this treacherous program. They are doing everything possible to keep the miners from engaging in a struggle for their demands, a struggle demanded by the rank and file of both unions. The Rank and File Opposition of hoth unions have called for the set- ting up of united front mine com- mittees, elected by the members of beth unions in each mine, in order to carry forward the fight fer the mines’ demands. The Rank and File Opposition opposes the turn- ing of the whole Anthracite Union ever to the corrupt Boylan ma- chine of the United Mine Workers. Terror Drive Launched On New Orleans Jobless NEW ORLEANS, La.. Oct. 16— Beesting that they will have all! the “reds” in jail within two years, Emergency Relief Administration officials here have started a drive against the leaders of the unem- ployed. Ida Bates, leader of an Unem- ployment Council local which has won relief for two hundred fami- lies, has been beaten and jailed in an attempt to smash the Council local. She will be tried today at the First Recorders Court, Tulane- Saratoga. Workers of America Tailors Strike For Demands In Detroit Joarnéymen’s Local Fighting for New 6-Month Pact (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 16.—The workers of Hughes and Hatcher and the Finsterwald Clothing Co., manufacturers of men’s clothing, s ruck here under the leadership of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union 229 (A. F. of L.). They are demanding the signing of a six-month agreement calling for seventy cents an hour for bushelmen, seventy five cents for tailors, pressers and fi'ters, a forty- hour week, time and a half for overtime, and equal pay for equal work for women, Last Spring the workers struck for a union agreement, but Frank X. Martel, President of the Detroit Federation of Labor, put over a settlement together with the Re- gional Labor Board that gave the workers no signed agreement, but resulted in discrimination against militant workers and in all kinds of chiseling by the employers. 500 Jobless Workers Demonstrate at Relief Offices in New Castle NEW CASTLE, Pa., Oct. 16.—Five hundred men. women and children, Jed by the Women's Auxiliary of the relief workers union here, dem- onstrated before the local relief of- fices yesterday demanding suffi- cient relief to all unemployed. After a short meeting before the relief headquarters, two commit- tees, one representing the men and one the women, met with the reli¢f director and presented demands calling for doubling the present re- lief, free medical and dental aid, cash payment of rent, gas, coal, electricity and water, issuance of orders for winter clothing as need- ed, allowances to be made for young children on the family relief budgets, and jobs at union wages and conditions for all unemployed workers now on relief. Relief Director Ormond was forced to promise that all the de- mands would be presented to the State Relief Commission and will report at the next open meeting of the relief workers union. Pay Cuts Continued for Detroit County Workers DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 16—Two the saiary of the county prosecutor and his chief assistant by nearly 20 per cent, the Ways and Means Committee of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors decided to Postpone ‘indefinitely the with- drawal of tyro 10 per cent wage cuts handed out to county employes in 1932. The salary of county prosecutor was increased from $9,600 to $11,- 500 a year, with a proportionate increase for his chief assistant, upon the request of Gomer Krise, Republican candidate for prosecu- tor, who evidently expects to get elected. At the same time that top offi- cials are having their pay boosted, relief budgets for thousands of un- employed families are being cut 5 per cent, while new applicants are finding it increasingly difficult to get on the welfare roll. New Orleans Furniture Workers Vote to Strike NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 16— At a meeting of Local 12 of the Na- tional Furniture Workers’ Indus- trial Union a strike vote was taken, the workers voted almost 100 per conditions in the retail furniture trade, and are asking the following: (1) closed shop, (2) 36-hour week, (3) for time and a half for over- | time, wih double time for Sundays and holidays, (4) skilled men, "5 cents per hour; unskilled, 50 cents. Conditions in the shops here have not been anything like they should be, net only have they been work- ing overtime but they have no} been paid in proportion to the work performed, Fight Against Bonuses for Rich Landlerds and Starvation for Poor ; Farmers by Voting Communist. Workers Who Vote Communist Should Join the Communist Party. days after it had voted to increase ! cent to go out on strike, for bet er | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1934 | PushCampaign Insurance Bill United Front Congress | Initiates Drive in Shamokin, Pa. SHAMOKIN, Pa., Oct. 16—Sixty | delegates from fourteen organiza- | tions met at. the Northumberland | County Congress for Social Security paign of support for the Workers’ | Unemployment Insurance Bill and | to prepare for the state-wide un- employed demonstrations on Oct. 19 and 20. Delegates at the conference rep- resented the Communist Party, the Unemployment Councils, Garibaldi Society, United Mine Workers of America, International Workers Order, American Workers Party, Workers Protective League of Mount Carmel and Women’s Auxil- Taries, The congress unanimously en- dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and a Nozthumber- jland County Committee for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance J Bill was elected from the floor to involve workers’ organizations in the fight for its enactment and to Popularize the bill among unions and groups not represented at the conference. All organizations present at the congress endorsed the State Con- gress for Social Security to be held in Harrisburg on Oct. 27 and 28. John Kuchinski, County Or- ganizer of the Unemployment Coun- cils and Communist candidate for Stete Legislature, outlined the state-wide campaign and demon- stration to be held on Oct. 19 and 20 in the fight for increased relief. winte: clothing, fuel, rent and genuine unempioyment insurance. After he spoke, Mike Demchak of the American Workers Party moved that these demonstrations should not receive the support of the con- gress but should be postponed to Noy. 24. The delégates voted to demonstrate on both dates. Resolutions adopted at the con- gress demanded the endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill of all candidates fo: office in the coming elections. The Workers’ Bill, which was initiated by the Communist Party, is in- corporated in the Communist elec- tion platform. ae Jobless Demonstrate At Youngstown Relief Office; Get Hearing (Special to the Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Oct. 16—' More than 300. workers stormed the Youngstown relief office when | County Relief Director Noble re- fused to meet an elected commit- tee of workers today. When Grey, Unemployed Council organizer, re- Por-ed to the demonstration of 400 on the Wick and Rayen School grounds, pointing out that only mass pressure would bring relief, | the response was unanimous for a march to back up the committee despite mass mobilization of police, plain clothes men and Republic ! police, who attempted to in‘imidate the crowd. Shouting militant slogans of ac- tion the workers compelled relief officials to recognize over seventy- five cases wri'ten on Unemployed Council complaint blanks. The un- employed remained at the relief station for over an hour to see that every case was acted upon. This was the most militant dem- onstration seen in years in Youngs- town. A public hearing is being or- ganized by the Unemployment Councils to uncover the conspiracy of silence in the capitalist press and the state of the relief situation on Monday, Oct. 22, at 118 East Board- man Street. | Shsenlniina Washers Battle For Industrial Unionism Constitutional Committee Is Instructed to Draw Up New Constitution Embodying Rank and File Industrial Unionism NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., Oct. 16. —Rank and file members of the Aluminum Workers’ Union local here are moving into action to pre- vent the American Federation of Labor Executive Council from har- nessing their union io reformism under “industrial unionism” of the type of the United Mine Workers, with a set of top officials ap- pointed by William Green. At Fri- day’s meeting of the local union the rank and file forced through a move calling for the election of a cons ‘itution and by-laws committee. This constitution committee was duly nominated, will be elected at next Friday's meeting of the local, and will report back in two weeks from that date with a cons.itution which, according to the wording of the motion which created it, “will embody the principles of industrial unionism under rank and file con- trol.” Vote Forced By Members Immediately after the mo‘ion was introduced by a rank and file leader Dave Williams, A. F. of L. organizer, tried to hold up the ac- tion by declaring that the union already has a constitution and that such a move is contrary to A. F. of L. rules. But a vote was forced through by the rank and filers in which the motion was carried al- most unanimously. Almost every nominee is a rank and filer, the few reactionaries which were named by friends of the officialdom refusing to serve on the committee. Action for the election of a new executive council was also forced through at the last meeting, and many of the rank and file leaders who comprise the slate for the con- stitution committee were likewise named as candidates for the execu- tive council. These will be elected at the next meeting. President Paul Howlett’s threat- ened resignation failed to material- ize, but the la‘ter’s attitude to- ward leaders of the rank and file movement has noticeably altered and now he rarely attempts to rap them out of order when they are speaking from the floor, having learned that they have the full support of almost the entire union membership. Revive Arrest Threat Williams has revived a former threat to have the workers arrested who rented the post office box which the “Committee for Rank and File Control” uses, and is vainly attempting to disconcert these leaders with talk of bringing in the Department of Justice on an investigation of their leaflet. “Red” Giordano, one of the Will- iams’ machine, tried to pass a mo- tion thanking the New Kensington police force and Burgess for help- ing the aluminum workers during their last strike. Rank and filers attacked the motion, however, and when a vote was taken Giordano’s resolution was turned down unani- mously by the membership. These leaders also spiked an at- tempt by Williams to strike the words “rank and file control” from the motion establishing a constitu- tion committee. The aluminum workers are fully alive to the danger of being saddled with a John L. Lewis-industrial union by Green and company, hence their eagerness to write a constitu- tion of their own before the A. F. of L. dictates one. U.S. Farmers Elect Delegate For Soviet Trip Julius Walsted to Make Survey of Collective Farms in U.S.S.R. Julius Walstad has been elected as the delegate to represent Ameri- can dirt farmers on the friends of the Soviet Union delegation, which will reach Moscow in time for the Nov. 7 celebration. Walstad, en- dorsed by the Farmers National Commitiee for Action and the United Farmers League, as well as by tens of thousands of other dirt fermers, will make a thorough sur- vey of State, collective and com- munal farms in the Soviet Union. The newly-elected delegate has ‘been active in the struggle for bet- ter farm conditions in South Da- kota, his home state, and was re- cently arrested with 16 other farm- ers for stopping an eviction of a debt-ridden tenant-farmer. Walstad, as well as the other delegates, will speak at a mass send-off to take place at the Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., on Friday evening. All interested in having the delegation obtain an- swers to questions regarding the Soviet Union while in the U.SS.R. are urged to come to the send-off, where such questions will be col- lected and given to the delegation. Fight Against Bonuses for Rich Landlords and Starvation for Poor Farmers by Voting Communist. Farm March In Minnesota Wins Reliet Two Hundred Destitute Farmers Present Relief Demands CARLTON, Minn.—Two hundred farmers, under the leadership of the United Farmers’ League, marched on the county relief offices here, held the court house for four hours, and presented their demands for sufficient relief, medical aid, free cattle feed and endorsement of the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. Despite the refusal of the relief Officials to listen to the demand, and despite their avowal that they had not received copies of the de- mands in advance although com- munications sétting forth the de- mands had previously been mailed to them, the farmers, individually and through their spokesman, R. Tanttila, demanded full payment of all relief in cash, increased relief to single unemployed and poor farmers, no discrimination in the giving of relief, free feed for cattle” and hot lunches for school children. Immediate relief was granted to farmers who had previously been denied relief and allowances were increased in several cases presented. A-commiitee was elected to rep- resent the farmers of Carlton County at the State Relief Conference to be held in St. Paul on Oct. and 29. Vote Red Against the Menace of Fascism! Nebraska C. Says Fight Against the Fascists Is the Major Issue in Campaign By ELLA REEVE BLOOR |OHN J. SCHEFCIK, Communist candidate for Governor of the State of Nebraska, announced that one of the major struggles facing the workers and poor farmers in that region is the fight against rap- idly developing fascism. “During the campaign here. while we are fighting for relief and insurance of the unemployed and material aid for the impoverished. farmers, our fight for the right to (ctrike and organize and against the fascist bands that have been at- tacking workers and farmers in the ;Loup City area, has become a cen- tral issue,” declared Schefcik. In this drought-stricken country fascism flourishes, with the most bestial intimidation and attacks by armed gangs, peace officers, courts, ete., on the workers and farmers, aimed to break up ther organiza- jtion and stifle their struggles for «relief. The Farmers Holiday Associa- tion, the Unemployed Councils of three towns (Arcadia, Loup City jand Grand Island) formed a united front to support the strike struggles of the women workers in the big creamery at Loup City, where they worked at miserably low wages and under the most terrible unsanitary conditions and speed-up. We held a joint meeting with P. Candidate Assails F ascist Terror these girls one day last June. The County Chairman of the farmers’ organization presided at this meet- ing. The leader of the Unemployed Councils, a girl striker, Bert Sell, a well-known farmer of Arcadia, and myself, were the speakers. We or- ganized a committee of 25 to visit the creamery bosses to present our demands. As a result of the united fight of the workers and farmers with the strikers, some of these de- mands were granted. Upon our return to the Court House steps where the farmers and workers were waiting for our report, an army of thugs, armed with blackjacks, swooped down on the assemoly, screaming, “Kill the nig- ger” (the unemployed organizer), “Get the woman,” etc. Fifty-year- old Bert Sell was struck down, his skull broken wide open, his rids broken and his kidneys terribly in- jured, as the thugs kicked and trampled him as he lay uncon- scious on the ground. The doctors believe that ‘Bert Sell will never be a well man again. I escaped injury only by getting behind a great tree as the thugs rushed upon us. Fascists Attend Trial The story of the jailing of the Negro organizer, his wife and my- self during those terrible hot days last summer has been told. The first trial where we were convicted and sentenced was attended by 100 armed fascists. Five times high-powered rifles were used to bombard the home of Floyd Booth, the young Negro un- employed organizer, tearing holes in the sides of his little home, dam- aging his furniture missing Booth and his wife as they Jay in bed. Now the second trial has been i held—our appeal to the District Court. Again we were charged with “inciting to riot,” although all the rioting was carried on by the fas- cist bands who attacked our meet- ings and shot up the home of Booth. This second trial was turned into an educational forum for the workers and farmers who packed the court in militant soli- Garity with the defendants. Be- cause of this solidarity, the armed fascist bands were absent from the second trial and the court itself was Jess openly hostile, although clear- ly intent on carrying through the frame-up, but in a more concealed manner than at the first trial. Perjured Testimony Despite the masterly defense put up by the International Labor De- fense attorney, Bental, and the lo- cal defense attorney, and their thorough exposure of the. perjury and contradictory statements of the state witnesses the jury re- turned a verdict of guilty. Through- out the appeal of the defense at- torney and my own address of 10 minutes to the jury, the jurors had sat there stolidly, determined to do the will of the bosses. The verdict, of guilty, returned in the face of the clear proof of perjured test-- mony, surprised both the judge and the prosecuting attorney. The for- mer soon recovered his equilibrium, however, and beamed approval at the jury, and sentenced us to $100 28 | and barely | Asks Action on Hunger March Sullivan Urges Grounps to Intensify Their Preparations Asking for intensification of the entire campaign leading up to the state-wide hunger march to con- verge on Albany on Oct. 31 to pre- sent demands for a special session of the State Legislature for enact- ment of winter relief and the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, Richard Sullivan, secretary of the New York City Unemployment Councils, yesterday appealed to all working-class’ organizations to carry forward preparations for the march. Sullivan's statement follows: “The Well Street banker. Herbert Lehman, governor of New York, has flatly refused to call a special ses- sion of the State Legislature or take any othe: action to provide winter relief. “I am sure that the unemploy- ment insurance question will come before the regular session next year,’ he declared when representa- tives of the United Action Confer- ence met with him Saturday. At the last special session, when rep- resentatives of workers’ groups pre- sented relief demands an‘ called for the enactment of the Workers’ Bill he answered, ‘You will get neither this bill nor any other at this session.’ In the same manner as Roosevelt, he now puts off ac- tion to some future date. “These promises will not feed hungry children; they will not clothe the unemployed this winter, nor heat the cold flats in Harlem. The brazen answer of the governor is proof that he will not act without pressure of the masses. “He told a delezation in July, 1933, that ‘Your program will be considered only if there is sufficient public interest indicated.’ “That public interest has been il- lustrated by the endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill by hundreds of work- ing-class organizations throughout the state. This interest must be turned into active struggle. “The executive mansion in Al- bany must be deluged with post- cards setting forth the demands of the unemployed. Every organiza- tion, the workers and farmers, pro- fessionals, students and youth must be rallied in support of the hunger march to Albany. All workers’ groups should immediately elect delegates from among their mem- bership for participation in the march. and get behind the cam- paign to raise money, food, blankets and other necessities for the merch “In every town and city where the governor speaks in his election campaign, delegations should visit him demanding a snecial session of the State Legislature for enact- ment of the jobless workers’ de- mands, and for feeding and housing the delegetes while on the march and in Albany. “Every assemblyman’s should be picketed until he calls upon the governor to convene a special session of the legislature. “Hundreds of marchers from throughout the state, arriving in Albany on Oct. 31, will force the governor to change his mind.” home Newark Union Leaders | Will Speak at the Jersey Thaelmann Rally Today NEWARK. N. J., Oc‘. 16.—A “free Thaelmann” demonstration at | which representatives from several local labor organizations will speak | will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow | night» in Military Park.- Broad Street. here. The demonstration has heen called by the Newark branch of the American League Against War and Fascism. Mother Bloor Tells How Mobs Fired on Home of Negro fine each and 30 days Booth's wife was released. The indignation of the workers and farmers was so great that the j Judge was forced at the same time to reduce our bail to $300 each, when we filed notice of appeal, to the State Supreme Court. We now have less than 90 days to prepare the briefs, and must raise funds at once for the court tran- script. We believe this appeal should be made, as this case in- | volves the constitutional rights of the unemployed workers and farm- ers, of the Negro masses, and of all toilers to organize and fight against starvation and for adequate relief. in jail. Defense Funds Needed The farmers, bankrupt by the crisis, the Roosevelt policies and the drought, cannot raise the nec- essary funds. Neither can the un- employed workers. We must, there- fore, appeal to the workers still in thé factories, to all friends and sympathizers of the struggles of the farmers and unemployed work- ers to help us raise the necessary funds and to mobilize protests against the fascist terror in Ne- braska. We need $500 and need it quickly. Contributions should be sent to the Mother Bloor Defense Fund, In- ternational Labor Defense, 80 East llth St., New York City. LOANS 4 Page 3 rge Strike as Maloney Acts for Sellout n ~ \Jobless Leader|U,S, GOVERNMENT _ IILLIONS TO MILL OWNERS Federal Officials Grant Huge Subsidies to Textile Bosses—No Relief for Thousands of Underpaid Textile Workers NEW YORK (L.R.A.)—Three mills in Ch&ttanoge Tenn., district have received struction Finance Corporation & Son, Inc., Graysville Hosie: a total of $344,700 in Recon- loans. They are: W. B. Davis ry Mills, and Aycock Hosiery Mills. The loans were obtained through Textile Mortgage MLE.S.A.. Local Urges Unity in Auto Industry Demands Removal of Byrd from Auto Labor Board DETROIT, Oct. 16.—A motion urging the Mechanics Educational Society of America, independent union of tool and diemakers, to issue a call to all unions in the automobile industry for united ac- tion was passed at a meeting of Local 9 of the M.E.S.A. Sunday. The motion asked for united ac- ton around the following points 1—The removal of Richard L. Byrd as “labor” representative on the Automobile Labor Board; 2—Abo- lition of the Labor Board and the Auto Code; 3—The drawing up of a Workers’ Code in place of the present manufacturers’ code. The passing of this motion mar! not only a step forward toward unity, but is a setback to the Mat- thew Smith clique in control of the M.ES.A., who have steadfastly op- posed united action in defense of the interests of all automobile workers. New Orleans Strike Wins Reinstatement Of Fired Relief Men NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 16.—/ Relief workers employed at the City | Park project here struck last week, | following the firing of forty-five workers, elected a committee under the leadership of the Unemploy- ment Council, and forced the re- lief office tc reinstate the dis- charged workers. The men set up @ permanent organization on re- turning to work, despite the an- nouncement by the relief office here that it would refuse to meet with them collectively in the future. The workers have protested against the terrorist tactics and discrimination practiced by the supervisor, foreman and an office worker. Raymond, Riley and Tobin, and demanded their removal. Rub- ber boots for workers employed on the lagoon, and raincoats and shel- ters are démanded during rainy weather. Detroit Jobless Plan Fight on Relief Cuts DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 16—Sixty delegates of various organizations, at a relief conference in North Detroit Saturday, held in Polish Chamber of Labor Hall, mapped out a program of struggle for in- creased relief and against the new 5 per cent cuts in the family bud- get that the welfare authorities are trving to put through. The conference decided to at- tempt to secure relief for eleven needy families in that section, and to organize a demonstration to demand a 20 per cent increase in the family budget, winter coal, in- creased medical and dental aid and other demands. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Boston James Casey, managing editor of the Daily Wor! speaks 2t Dud! St. Opera House, ; 2%, BP. M. Los Angeles, Cal. Annual Workers’ Press Concert, Sun- day, Nov. 4 at Mason Theatre, 127 8. Broadway. Concert Program. nent speakers. Chicago, Ill. Cencert and Dance given br esd Br. L.W.O., No. 546. Sundar Oct. 21st at Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Biva. Halloween Party and Masquerade Da Sat., Oct. 2th at North Side all, 548 Wisconsin Street. th cn. Larrabee Street). Auspices: Unit 419 C. P. Bunco Party and Dance given by Unit 404 st Viking Temple, Sheffield Ave. and School St., Thursday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 _p.m. Good music. Promi- | John Corp., and will be used “to pay their bank loans in closed banks and a sufficient additional sum to assure their carrying on an enlarged pro- gram,” according to the Daily News Record of Aug. 21 Botany Mills of New Jersey has received a loan of $1,000,000 from the government, and U. S. Finishing Company a like amount The Booth Manufacturing Com- pany of New Bedford ras been | Sranted @ capital loan of $300,000 by the R. F. C., it was reportea on Oct. 8. The Taber Mill of New Bede ford had previously received a sim- ilar loan Survey Mees City Shows Workers’ Homes Are Unfit as Dwellings PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 16—A survey of housing conditions in the city’s First, Second and Sixth Wards just released by the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh Bureau of Busi- ness Research draws a faciual in- dictment of the degradation of the working class by the ig class here. comments: “These present one of the gloomiest housing pictures in the city of Pit'sburgh.” One of ihese is the “downtown” ward, the other two are known as the “Strip” dis- trict. Three-fourths of the houses in the Second and Sixth Wards have no hot water, and over that per- centage of the dwellings in ihe Sec- ond have no bathtubs or showers. Of a total of 5,957 occupied dwell- ings, 767 are pronounced “unfit for habitation,” and 1,518 need struc- tural repairs. In the First Ward, 90.4 per cent of ‘he houses have no central heat- ing system; in the Second Ward 96 per cent have none; and in the Sixth, 94.1 per cent. In the Second Ward, 126 occupied dwellings have no plumbing of any sort. More than 43 per cent of all the dwellings surveyed were built over fifty years ago. Over 88 per cent of the houses are occupied by ten- ants. steel-dom- STRIKERS WIN CASH PAY SEQUIM, Wash., Oct. 16.—Strik- ing because they were to be forced to take their pay in canned goods, a hundred Sequim cannery work- ers won the promise of cash for all back pay and went back to work to finish the stock on hand. A Communist Vote Is a Vote Against War! WHAT’S ON Grand Rapids, Mich. HARVEST Festival, Bazaar and Dette, Wednecday, Oct. 17th at L.S.D. Hall, 1057 Hamilton. Ave. NW. Herman Curtis and Admission 10 cents his Coloréd Band. Philadelphia, Pa. THE Philadelphia 2nd floor Workers Bookshop, 44 ounces the of arr. Membership ca aa Limited classes. Worke School, 908 St. 5th floors chool opens Cct | THE 17th Anniversary Unicon will .be celebrated, in conjunction with a mass Election Rally, on_ Nov. at Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian ts. All working class organizations keep this date open. | Bridgeport, Conn, | REPORT of delecates to Second U. 5. of the Soviet Cengress AS: Hallett St Thursday, Oct. 18, Detroit, Mich. WORKERS Movies jay. “Oct. 18, at Ferry Hall, 1343 E. Fer: Two shows 8 and 9-11 A 2-hour program of real living, working and fighting conditions of werkers ef Califorva. Adm. 15¢. Philadelphia, Pa.- Pirst Time in Philadelphia! PRIZE W ING PLAY “NEWSBOY” Drem_Group ERS ob) Saturday, October 20th 8:15 P. M.— Kensington Laber Lyceum PHILADELPHIA, Pa. DAILY WORKER CONCERT FRIDAY, October 19th, 8 P. M. Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian Sts. M. J. OLGIN “DEL,” EMILE BABAD, FROM VIOLIN SOLOS; BER’ CARTOONIST DAILY WORKER, ing Freiheit, Speaker IN : “ARTEF"; GABRIEL BRAVERMAN, NICE CORNELIUS, ACCOMPANIST. Farmers, Vote Communist for Debt Cancellati on, and for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. ta fim