The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 16, 1934, Page 3

LSS = (SN ——— 7 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDA OVEMBER 16, 19: 34 Page Ohio Jobless To Place Demands Before State Assembly ‘UNEMPLOYED WINTER | UNIFORM BUDGETS CASH RELIEF, INCREASES ARE DEMANDED Delegations Will Visit Governor and State | Relief. Director CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 15.— To the attention of the unemployed, | and all workers of Ohio, must be called the danger that the “lame duck” session of the General As- sembly will meet without passing any adequate relief legislation. In fact they may not consider it at all unless enough pressure is brought to bear upon them to place “Winter Relief for the Unemployed” on the order of business of the Assembly when it convenes on Monday at Columbus. The Ohio Unemployment Coun- cils and other workers organizations have organized a mass delegation which will appear before the Gen- eral Assembly Monday to present winter relief demands. A letter has been sent to all Senators and Repre- sentatives informing them that the delegation will come and that “Winter Relief for the Unemployed” be placed on the order of business. Special delegations will visit the Governor and Relief Administrator Gen. Henderson. The demands of the unemployed include a 4 per cent increase in relief, uniform re- lief throughout the State, abolition of the present eviction policy of the relief administration by furnishing cash rent for all single and married unemployed; abolition of all forced labor in the State, legislation to au- thorize municipalities to use their | Gitlow and Winitsky, Communist Renegades Join Socialist Local NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 15.— Ben Gitlow and Harry Winitsky, former leaders in the renegade Lovestone group, will have to pay extra carfare to force their newly avowed allegiance on the Socialist Party. The two have joined a Social- ist Party branch in Irvington, N. J, near here. Their action followed the refusal of the New York State Committee of the Socialist Party to accept the collective application of a group of Lovestoneite renegades for membership. The Irvington branch will en- joy a 40 per cent gain in mem- bership as a result of the enreii- ment of the two renegades. Un- til now the branch has had only five members. Relief Reaches New Low Point In Indiana HAMMOND, Ind., Nov. 15—No- vember relief appropriations for the sinking funds for relief purposes, and endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. The danger exists that this “lame duck” session will try to “pass-the- buck” to the new Assembly that meets in January. To prevent this the Unemployment Council of Ohio calls upon all cities to take emer- gency measures to insure the largest maximum delegation to the Legisla- ture on Nov. 19. Also all warkers’ organizations and individuals are requested to send telegrams to Gov- ernor White and representatives to the Assembly demanding that winter relief be on the order of business and that the jobless’ demands shall be heard. The second danger that exists which has already been hinted in the capitalist press is that not enough senators and representatives will attend the Assembly to obtain & quorum to conduct business. The reason for this is that the repre- sentatives have been paid up to the first of the year, and those who have been defeated for re-election will not appear: Should such a situa- tion occur, the unemployed delega- tion will demand the seats vacated by the irresponsible state represen- 15,000 destitute families on the re- lief list in North Township, com- prising Hammond, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Whiting, pro- vide only three dollars a month for all relief to each person. The hunger dole, $45,038 for the month, provides for $30,000 for food —two dollars a month for each per- son. Rent payments are negligible, providing for the payment of not more than $1,000 total for the 15,000 persons and for the adminis- trative offices. Other items on the township relief budget include $2,500 for coal; $5,000 for hospital- ization; $500 for dental aid; for special medical investigators; $100 for drugs, and $130 for dis- tribution of government food. GARY, Ind., Nov. 15.—August re- lief lists for Lake County, accord- ing to figures just released, show larger relief needs than at any time in the present year. Whle hundreds have applied daily since last fig- ures were released, the August lists show 31,385 persons receiving relief, as compared to 19,137 last January. C. P. Resists tatives— creating working-class re- presentation, and propose legislation for winter relief as demanded by the unemployed of Ohio, The third danger that exists is that this “lame duck” session, in which very little public interest is focused, will try to rush through the sales tax and other tax levies with only a small minority of repre- sentatives present. Mass pressure must be brought to bear upon all representatives to defeat any effort to force a sales tax upon the con- sumers of the State. Sufficient re- lief funds can and must be raised by taxing the rich—tax the sale and transfer of stocks and bonds; tax on the capital investment of manu- facturers and industrialists; gradu- ate ineome tax on incomes of over $5,000 per year, and a demand for an increase in Federal relief for Ohio. In addition to presenting the de- mands for winter relief to the State Legislature, the unemployed will hold a meeting to discuss State- wide plans for the National Con- gress for Unemplyoment and Social Insurance, which will be held in Washington, D. C., on Jan, 5-7. pil Sou beep dale Re AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Philadelphia, Pa. Family Supper and Concert given b: Bee. 1 at 1208 Tasker St., Saturday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. Adm. 2c. House Party, Soviet Film Showing, Refreshments, 5430 Gainor Road, Saturday, Nov. 17. Ausp. Unit 307 C.P. ‘Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed., Nov. 28 at State Dance Hall, 20th and Market Sts. Good Dance Orchestra. Come in costume. Prizes for best costumes. Ohildren’s Party at 1841 W. 4th St., 7 p.m. given by children of I.W.0., Jewish Children’s School 11, Friday, Nov, 16, 7 p.m. Chicago, Til. “Chicago Workers in ye ian. Recitati and Violin Solo. Dance to follow, Saturday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m. Slovak Workers Home, 2147 W. Chicago Ave. Adm. %e at door, Given and 912, Gala Dance and Entertainment, Sat- urday, Nov. 24, Worker 2733 Hirsch St. Ausp’ Br. ¥.C.L. 9 and OP. 31: Gala Affair and Dance given by Rus- sian Organizations on Saturday, Nov. 24 at Douglas Auditorium, Kedzie and Ogden Aves. “Modern Russia,” Nov. 18, 8 p.m. at LL.D. Hall, 1826 E. 56th &. Auspices: GP. Unit 718. Refreshments, Admis- sion 15¢. Providence, R. I. Russian Tea Party and Dance. Bala- laika Orchestra; Russian food served. turday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. at 357 festern St., Room 402. Arranged by Charles St. Unit of CP. | Detroit, Mich. Entertainment and Dance, Saturday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. at 920 E, 79th St. Good program. Auspices Unit 2-22. Entertainment and Dance, Saturday, Nov. 17, 7 p.m. at Workers Home, 1343 East Ferry. Given by Unit 5 i ‘Sec. 1. Pittsburgh, Pa. Dance and Rally, Saturday, Nov. 17 Palace, at 2157 Oentre Ave. Adm, 20¢ at door; 15¢ in advance, Fascist Drive In Cleveland (Special to the Daily Worker) EVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 15.— John Williamson, district organizer of the Communist Party today called on every branch of every working class organization in the city to send representatives to an emergency conference next Tues- day to defeat the new threats of Mayor Harry L. Davis against all working class meetings, parades and demonstrations. ‘The meeting will be held in the Workers School, 1524 Prospect Ave. at 8:30 p. m. Delegates from all branches of the Workers Ex-Ser- vieemen’s League, the Small Home Owners Association, the Unem- ployment Councils, the Interna- tional Labor Defense and various trade union groups have been es- pecially called on to send dele- gates. The latest threat of Fascist violence against the working class movement in this city on a large seale is in the recent call of the American Legion, with the encour- agement of the Mayor, for the or- ganization of vigilante groups. “We must act at once to op- pose and to smash this menace,” Williamson said in his cell. “Every organization must send at least one representative, an appointed one if there is not sufficient time to elect one before the date of the conference.” WHAT’S ON Detroit, Mich. “Sentenced to Health,” Soviet film at Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs, Hancock at Second, Friday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m. Ausp.: Detroit Bt. PSU. Keeno Party given on Friday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m. at 4203 6th St. Car Willis. Benefit Unemployment Couneil Local 17. Adm. 100. Chicago, Ill. Symposium “‘The United Front—The Burning Question of the Hour,” by J. Lawson, Dist. Org. Sec. of the Communist Party, and A. G. Mc- Dowell, National Chairman Young Peoples’ Socialist League, Sunday, Nov. 18, 8 p.m. at Pen and Hammer, 20 E. Ontario St. “Fascism and the Social Revolu- tion,” by Palme Dutt, will be re- yiewed by Beatrice Shields, Sunday, Nov. 18, 4 p.m., 548 Wisconsin St. (1900 North on Larrabee St.). Aus- pices: C.P, Sec. 4. First Annual Dance given by Painters Br. 565 I.W.O. Saturday, Dec. 8 at Mirror Hall, 1156 N. Western Ave. Adm. 25c in adv., 35¢ at door. Boston, Mass. Baked Bean Supper. Home-baked with brown bread. Music. Saturday, Nov. 17, 1029 Tremont 8t. Scotts- boro Br, I.L.D. Adm, 15¢. Philadelphia, Pa. “Is War Imminent in the Far East?” Hear General Victor Yakhontoff lec- ture on the Soviet Union in the Far East, Frid Nov. 16, 8 p.m. at fall, 120 N. 18th St. Aus- ° $208 | | Youngstown Councils | Speed Election of | Delegates YOUNGSTOWN, Ghio, Nov. 15. —Delegates are being elected from | every local of the Mahoning County Unemployment Council as part of | the Statewide delegation which will | present relief demands at the spe- | cial session of the State Assembly | in Columbus, Monday. While bitter cold weather is al- | ready here, thousands of families |are without coal, supposedly pro- | vided for in “sufficient quantities” | by the State Relief Administration; | and thousands of the jobless are ‘actually in rags. The relief office ignores the appeal for Winter clo- ; thing and claims to care for “emer- | gency cases” only. The Councils | have forced issuance of clothing | in numerous cases. Although the State Relief Com- | mission was forced to admit that all families with children are to be | given milk without a doctor's certi- | fication when a delegation from Mahoning county presented de- mands before them on Oct. 25, the local relief offices continues this practice. | Citing these conditions, the dele- | gations from Mahoning and Trum- ; bull counties will protest to the State Assembly and place demands with the other delegates from throughout the State, an imme- diate 40 per cent relief increase, and FERA jobs at union wages for all able-bodied unemployed work- ers. In addition to the regular dele- gation of the unemployed, a special delegation of single men from the newly organized local in the City Lodge will present demands for immediate adjustment of prevail- ing conditions, improved diet to include meat twice daily and fresh fruit and vegetables. = cence Meet on National Congress YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. 15. —The Mahoning County Unem- ployment Councils have issued a call to all unemployed organiza- tions, trade unions, fraternal, pro- to a meeting for setting up a local sponsoring committee on the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance to be held in Washing- ton on January 5 to 7. The meeting will be held Satur- day, at 2 p. m., at 310 West Federal | Street, and will map out plans for obtaining. a broad representation from the Youngstown area for the National Congress. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Noy. 15. —An entertainment and dance will be held by the Unemplyment. Councils here Saturday night, Nov. 2, at the Veterans Hall, 118 East Boardman Street. fessional and other organizations | Central Job Control Asked! ‘By LS.U. Men Sailors on Beach at San Pedro Sign Petition of Industrial Union Receive More | Than Jobless Monthly Feed Allowance | Exceeds Amounts Given Families SAN PEDRO, Noy. 15—Demands for a centralized shipping bureau have been expressed in writing by | 160 out of approximately 200 sea- | men on the bench here following a | meeting Friday night called by the | Marine Workers’ Industrial Union. Forty of those who signed the demand for the centralized ship- | ping bureau belong to the Interna- tional Seamen’s Union, 35 to the M. W. I. U. and the remainder are | unorganized. Mass picketing is being used to enforce this demand. In the short time that the project, | has been under way, the reaction- ary leaders of the International | Seamen’s Union have already be- come alarmed. Recently they have | been thoroughly exposed by the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union in its bulletin “The Crow's Nest.” This lively bulletin, in addition to outlining the need for a Central- ized Shipping Bureau, showed how the I. S. U. officials have misused their job control by shipping out men without any previous experi- ence while men with experience were waiting in the hall. It showed how a relative of a harbor official joined the Sailors’ Union and was shipped out ten minutes later, and how three men with strike clear picket cards were pulled off the Diamond Head by the Firemen, Oilers and Water Tenders delegate and replaced by men with no strike record at all. 4 Reported Drowned, Thousands Homeless In Pacific Storm MANILA, Nov. 15.—Four persons 'were reported drowned and seven others were missing today in the province of Sama in the wake of a {typhoon that swept the island of Luzon. The damage caused by the storm mounted rapidly as reports came in from the provinces. | It was reported that 20,000 per- | sons had lost their homes in Cama- rines Sur Province, and in Albay Province at least 3,000 families were homeless. A larger toll of death is feared ; Since scores of fishing smacks are missing and hundreds of homes were engulfed by the giant waves. The principal damage was cen- tered in the provinces of Leyte, Ta- ‘yabas, Sama, Albay, Camarines Norte, and Camarines Sur. Manila itself escaped with but slight dam- age. Every reader of the Daily Worker contribute to the $60,000 | next week! OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov. |15.—Nine hundred mules purchased | over a month ago by the F. E. R. A.| jare being maintained at the stock-} yards here at an expense to the re-| lief administration that is greater | than the relief given to entire fam-| ilies of the unemployed. Feed for | jeach mule averages $8.63 a month; the 7,000 destitute unemployed |families on the relief rolls here av- erage $7.20 a family for an entire month. Yet the 900 mules held here rep- resent less than half the number that the F. E. R. A. has in scattered concentration pens throughout the State. More than 1,000 others, among the 4,000 purchased for ru- ral habilitation, at a cost of $400,- 000, are in these pens. Thus, the monthly food bill for the 900 mules would be sufficient to maintain 1,050 families under the present F. E. R. A. relief allowance. Yet on Oct. 24, State relief head- quarters announced in the daily press here that “relief rolls in the rural areas should be sharply re- duced.” The mules, now that F. E. R. A. owns them, must be cared for at least until the Spring planting sea- son, since difficulties in establishing “needy” disqualified farmers who last applied for them. In passing, it might be noted that several hundred mustangs, wild horses acquired by the Oklahoma | F. E. R. A., are also in corrals and concentration pens throughout the State. The relief set-up in Oklahoma was originated by Carl Giles, State F. E. R. A. administrator, whose economic sorcery has won unstinted praise from Washington for his outlined program, Youngstown Will Hold Anti-War Rally Sunday YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. 15— Dr. Harry F. Ward, national chair- man of the American League Against War and Fascism, will be the principal speaker at an anti- war and anti-fascist meeting on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Central Auditorium, 225 West Boardman St. The appeal for the meeting has been signed by the following mem- bers of the executive committee of the Mahoning chapter of the League: Clarence Irwin, president of the Sixth District of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers; C. H. McCarthy of the Deforest Lodge of the A. A.; Ed Kephart, of the Buckeye Lodge of the A. A.; the Rev. Jones, of the Plymouth Congregational Church; I, Vagnoazzi, of the Independent Sons of Italy, and John Steuben, of the F “E-R.A. Mules|Herndon To ai Wes Coane teel Bosses To Speed Drive for Defense! Ask for Laws Of the Mass Meetings Will Be Held in California and Arizona LOS ANGELES, Noy. 15.—Angelo Herndon will be greeted Sunday night at the Mason Theatre here with an overflow house of Negro and white workers and their sym- pathizers. This prospect stands as virtually assured today, four days before Herndon’s arrival on Sun- day, Nov. 18, to speak that night at the annual concert of the In- ternational Labor Defense The heroic young Negro Commu- nist will relate the latest steps in the mass and legal fight for the Scottsboro boys. He will deal with the latest efforts. of the Alabama lynchers, acting this time through the renegade defense lawyer, Sam- uel §. Leibowitz, to disrupt the Scottsboro defense. Wide interest is being shown throughout California in Herndon’s visit here. With requests pouring in from workers desirous of hearing the famous class war prisoner, the itinerary for his tour of California has been extended, as follows: Nov. 18 at the. Mason Theatre, Los Angeles. Noy. 19, San Francisco. Nov. 20, open date Noy. 21 to 25 inclusive, San Fran- cisco. Noy. 28, Santa Barbara. Noy. 29, San Diego. Angelo Herndon ov. 30, Central Cauren, Los An- 1, banquet Santa Monica. Dec. 2, Los Angeles. Dec. 3, Bakersfield . 4, Pasadena. . 5, Monrovia. Dec. 7, Phoenix, Arizona . 8, Yuma, Ariz. Dec. 9, Tucson, Ariz Boyle Heights, Clothing Mill Is Shut Down By Strikers CLEVELAND — (F.P.) — Striking employes of Kaynee Co., manufac- turers of boys’ wash clothing, have forced the company to close down | its factories with 95 per cent of its winter orders unfulfilled, Vice-Pres. Edward C. Seitz has revealed. About 800 workers are affected. Strikers are demanding recognition of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of America, and reinstatement of workers fired for union activity. They have received pledges of sup- port from the Cleveland Federation of Labor and numerous independent unions and labor groups. Following three days of testimony before the Regional Labor Board, the National Labor Relations Board has notified the A.C.W.A. and the company that it will hold hearings on the case on’ Nov. 20. 700 FAMILIES LUSE RELIEF DARIEN, Conn., Nov. 15.—Seven hundred destitute families in this town were without relief yesterday because the Town Board of Select- men “had found the poor account Communist Party, exhausted.” Cites Gains Made When Unity in Struggle Was Achieved By AL STEELE “Were it not for some of these reactionary leaders of A. F. of L. metal unions,” James Lustig, dis- trict. organizer of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, stated in an interview with the Daily Worker yesterday, “joint ac- tion of all workers in the trade and a more rapid improvement of our conditions would have been com- paratively a cinch.” Interviewed between shop meet- ings at the union headquarters, 35 East 19th St., Lustig described how he, with a delegation, appeared at the meeting of Local 26 of the United Electro Platers League, A. F. of L., Tuesday night. He at- tended the meeting on invitation from John E. Sterling, Business Agent of Local 26. United Strikes Conducted In the past year and a half, he explained, the New York District of the S. M. W. I. U. conducted a number of strikés in a united front with other unions in the metal in- dustry. These struggles resulted in considerable economic gains for the workers engaged in the industry. Sterling sent the following letter to the S. M. W. I. U., addressed to Lustig: “Dear Sir: . “You are hereby invited to at- tend the meeting of the above or- ganization, in Teutonia Assembly Rooms, 156 Third Ave., N. Y. C., on Tuesday, Noy, 13, 1934, at 8 p.m. to discuss the matter of cooperation as suggested by you at our recent meeting in Long Island City “Our President, Brother Kelly, has decided to grant you the privilege of the floor for a period of one- half hour. Expecting to meet you at this meeting, I remain, “Yours truly, “JOHN E. STERLING.” After writing this letter, Sterling set the stage, Lustig related, by bringing to the meeting the reac- tionary leaders of the Metal Spin- ners Union, Mr. Sperling, business agent; Caruso, president, who was scabbing in the Eastern Metal strikes, Kastelak, and others as well as Timothy Daly, notorious business agent of Local 8, of the Interna- tional Polishers Union, A. F. of L. At the meeting Lustig utilized his half hour to give a picture of the conditions of the workers in the metal industry. Pointing out that although the platers are highly skilled workers, some of whom are electro-chemical engnieers, they were nevertheless, he said, wage earners, and like all the other work- ® |ers in the industry, were affected | by the present economic crisis. Many Piaters Jobless There are more platers unem- ployed now than ever before. Ef- ficiency schemes, introduced in the | plating departments, by the estab- lishment of the so-called “service system,” endanger the very liveli- hood of the platers. In order to fight these evils suc- cessfully, Lustig suggested that the platers of the U. E. P. L. unite with the workers in the 8S. M. W. I U. | to fight for the following program: (1) Against wage cuts; (2) For in- creases in wages corresponding to the rising cost of living; (3) Against speed-up; (4) For better ventilation | systems; (5) For job security; (6) For the right to strike; (7) For ade- quate unemployment relief and in- surance, and (8) For recognition of the unions In order to prove the correctness of his contention, Lustig pointed to the instances of the Anchor Manu- facturing Company and the Presto Lock, where all the workers received $2 wage increases per week as a result of the united action of the S. M. W. I. U. and the members of the U. E. P. L. In other shops, he said, where this cooperation was lacking, like in the Continental Silver Company, only the members of the S. M. W. I. U. received wage increases. He con- cluded his remarks by appealing to the members of the Electro Platers League to establish unity with the S. M. W. I. U. in all shops to im- prove the conditions of the workers in_both organizations. Following him, Lustig related, Tim Daly and Sperling launched a bitter attack against the S. Ww. I. Uz Answers Charges In his closing remarks Lustig answered point by point the charges made by Daly and Sperling, declar- ing that during the past year and a half the S. M. W. I. U. led a gen- eral strike in the silver and hol- Jowware line, two general strikes in the metal fixture line, individual strikes in the light metal and nov- elty trades (Majestic, Meltzer, Seiden, Columbia Metal, Grand Metal Shops), and a number of other strikes in the heavy metal section of the industry (Pioneer In- strument, Karp Metal, Johnson Machine, Quantiproducts, North American Iron, etc.). As a result of these strike strug- gles and other organizational ac- tivities of the union, approximately 5,000 metal workers received wage increases ranging from $3 to $18 per week. “This maybe doesn’t mean much to Mr. Sperling and Mr. Daly,” Lustig’ said, “but it means a great :| likewise, and fired him. M., | ceived wage increases to the amount deal to these 5,000 workers and their | families.” Besides these wage increases, he added, the union was successful in reducing the working hours, getting security of the jobs and bringing about better working conditions for these workers. This is the reason why the S.M.W.1.U. grew and solidi- fied its ranks and the workers stick to and fight for the steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. “The bosses and reactionary la- bor leaders, like Mr, Sperling,” Lustig continued, “are the ones who are_ bringing about such conditions for the workers in order to maintain the system of starvation. The S.M. W.LU. and similar organizations are the ones who are fighting for the immediate improvement of the com- ditions of the workers, and at the same time pave the way for the workers to do away with the system of starvation.” As for the Continental strike, Lustig stated that for three months preceding the strike the polishers had been asking for a wage in- crease, but all they received from the bosses were promises. At a department meeting the polishers decided to quit at 4:30. The fore- man of the department started a fight with the polisher, who quit first and called on the others to do That night the polishers decided unanimously to strike for the rein- statement of the fired worker and for a wage increase. This was the reason for the Continental strike. The strike was won after a day and a half. .The fired worker was reinstated and the polishers re- of $2 and $3 a week, in spite of the fact, that Sterling kept the platers and Sperling the spinners working during the strike. Sperling Would Aid Boss “Sperling and company,” Lustig stated, “claim that we cannot put forth big demands because by us doing so the manufacturers will leave the city, They propose to accept wage cuts and the absolute rule of the bosses and make the unions instruments for the intro- duction of more efficiency, more speed-up for the benefit of the bosses.” The Industyial Union, he said, proposes to carry on a fight for the improvement of the conditions of the workers, to follow every manu- facturer who goes out of town, wherever they go, with organiza- tion, and strike action. “If this is done,” he said, “we will put a stop to their fleeing from the city to avoid organized labor and union conditions.” Charging that the manufacturers Metal Union Leader Talks On the United Front © Reactionary Leaders Held Back Victory in Many Cases of various industries, including metal, with the responsibility for the starvation of about 17,000,000 unemployed and the semi-starvation of millions of employed in the coun- try, Lustig stated that the leaders of the type of Daly and Sperling are largely responsible for it by their selling out of the interests of the workers. It was Mr. Daly who wanted to sell out the strike of the Columbia Metal Stamping Products Company, only a few weeks ago. “Our union stepped in,” he said, “and led the workers to victory, getting wage in- creases, time and a third for over- time and security of the jobs. “The workers present at the meet- ing realized the correctness of the methods of the S.M.W.LU. to win strikes and improve conditions. They realized that unity is a vital question for every worker in the shops and will resvond to the call of the S.M.W.LU. in spite of the fact that certain individuals are doing everything in their power to prevent unity.” Unity Meeting Called In order to further develop this movement towards unity a meeting of all polishers, members of the In- dustrial Union, members of Local 8, and unorganized polishers, has been called for Tuesday, November 27, at Manhatian Lyceum. “We are in- viting Mr. Daly,” Lustig stated, “to attend this meeting and put forth his ‘proposals’ for unity of all pol- ishers and every worker of the in- dustry to improve the conditions of the workers.” All indications point toward a growing gap, he said, between the leaders and the membership in these unions. On the one side of the fence are the workers striving for unity, and on the other, certain leaders trying to stop thise move- ment towards unity. “The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union,” Lustig concluded, “will do everything in its power to establish united action in each in- dividual shop in the different trades and in the whole metal industry, for the benefit of all workers. “The district convention of the S.M.W.L.U., which will take place this Sunday at the Irving Plaza Hall, will clearly indicate the strength of the union and will re- view its activities for the past year. The question of joint action of vari- ous unions, quite a number of which will be represented there, will be one of the main points in the con- vention proceedings.” Plans Action For Jobless MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 15.— |The preliminary conference of | workers and farmers organizations which was held here on Oct. 29 and attended by seventy-eight delegates representing a total membership of 11,500, has laid plans for a State Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance and Relief. The congress will be held in St, Paul at the opening of the State Legislature on Jan. 12, 13 and 14, The discussions at the prelimi- nary conference clearly brought out the insufficiency of relief, the slave conditions on the E. R. A. jobs, and starvation conditions existing in the farm communities throughout the State. The preliminary conference drew up two bills for enactment by the State, one for the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill, and the other for farm relief. Lo- cal demands and plans of action around which struggles are already being developed on the relief jobs and in the towns were adopted. An arrangements committee was set up to organize the State Congress. In the farm areas, joint struggles have already been developed by the United Farmers League and the Farm Holiday Association. The State office of the Farm Holiday Association has also agreed to sup- port the coming congress and thé joint struggles for relief to the im- poverished farmers. Plans have been drawn up to visit all locals of the American Federation of Labor for the election of delegates to both the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance to be held in Washington on Jan. 5, 6 and 7, and the State Congress on Jan. 12 and 13. Unemployed Seamen Make Relief Bureau Give Them Clothing PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 15.— Unemployed seamen here organ- ized into the Waterfront Unem- ployment Council scored another victory yesterday in winning is- suance of Winter clothing. Recently a delegation of 80 seamen from the Council met with G. C. Huckaby, director of the bureau of the homeless and transients. Huck- aby refused to issue necessary clo- thing, saying that the men would have to go to Harrisburg. The seamen threatened to place a mass Picket line about the relief head- quarvers unless their demands were met. Yesterday the members of the Waterfront Council received a let- ter stating that clothing would hereafter be distributed to jobless seamen daily at 129 South Second Street. Decision Is Reserved On Appeal of Attorney in Niagara Court Fight BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov, 15.—Judze Gould of the Niagara County Court has reserved decision on the appeal of Stanley Chmiel, International Labor Defnsee attorney, sentenced to 30 days for “contempt of court.” The sentence was imposed by the City Court of Niagara Falls when Chmiel insisted on the constitutional right to bail of several workers ar- rested at a mass meeting, Sept. 5, called to protest the framing of Alphonse Davis, Negro worker, on @ charge of “rape.” The appeals of George Hart, I. L. D. district secretary, and two other workers arrested at the Sept. 5 meeting, will be heard tomorrow by Judge Gould. Hart and Stone were sentenced to 90 days each, and Wagner, the other worker, to 30 days, on a charge of “participating and encouraging a meeting without a@ permit.” Send your contributions to the Daily Worker today! St. Paul Parley, cottsboro Youths To Bar Strikes Urge Passage of Laws Similar to English Disputes Act By Labor Research Association fireside talk” of last an enthusiastic re- ception from the steel companies. | Writing in Iron Age, October 11, 1 declares is “jittery though the i led last he efforts of Roose- m Green, A. F. of L, their ly behind in an effort to off- f the trade unions, t the Federal Gov- d “do well to restrict of national unions, . .” ‘om the company unoins, ng his tip from T. M. ident of Republ the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers and other ies that have recently been ng for the passage of such an Tike law as they h ie British ex- ple by studying the British Trade utes and Trade Unions Act of Two weeks later, October 2i, Iron Ag spread entitled ulation jof Bri Labor Policy Would j Lead returns to the subject of janti-strike legislation. It declares that if the provisions of this Brit- jish ant, ike law were passed “this its issue of aa ft age country would soon be rid of the major labor controversies which have been so seriously retarding business reeove: Then it summarizes in bold type: | “The British act prohibits sym- pathetic general strikes.” | “It bans picketing as we know it ,in this country.” j “It requires unions to make an accounting to the Government of \their receipts and disbursements.” Following this, Iron Age gives in three long columns excerpts from the British Act. Steel, the other leading trade organ, is also | backing the passage of this anti- |strike legislation. In an editorial jin its issue of November 5, it de- jclares that if a provision “similar to that of the British labor disputes {act” had been put in Section 7a jof the N.LR.A., “few of the strikes of the past curred.” | It is quite clear from these lead~ ing articles and editotialsin the steel trade papers, that the steel capitalists are going to be one of the main forces pushing for anti- strike and anti-union legislation jin the coming session of Congress, |Maryland C, P. Vote Shows Drop; Gains Listed in One Office BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 15.—Un- , Official election tabulations for this city and for 11 of the 23 counties jin the State give the following re- turns for Communist Party candi-< | dates Bernard Ades, for Governor, 591; |Samue Gale, for United States Sen- ator, 816; Pinkerton, for Attorney~ | General, 654; Howell, for Comptrol- |ler, 781; and Parker, for Clerk of the Court of Appeals, 1,235. Although the vote for most Com- munist candidates showed a reduc- tion from the 1932 vote for the Same offices, the vote for Parker showed an increase of almost 200 over the vote cast for the same office in 1932. The vote for Communisé dates for year would have oc= candi- the House of Delegates in the Fourth Legislative District as follows: Samueison, 160; Raffeld. 186; Whitney, 176; Gattes, 175; Hoffman, The showed 2, sharp proportionate dro} No returns have been made public |yet on local Communist candidates or on 15 candidates for the House of Delegates in outlying counties. Toledo Teacher ‘Talks At Anti-War Meeting TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 15—The American League Against War and Fascism held an anti-war meeting last Saturday in the Central Labor Union Hall which was attended by over 500 people. Clyde Kiker, a teacher who was demoted to the rank of janitor for anti-fascist activities. spoke of war, education and fascism. John ©, Taylor, of the Socialist Party, em« phasized the necessity of the united front in the anti-war and anti-fas- cist struggle. Walter Guntrup, ed= itor of the Union Leader, spoke on the opposition of union labor to war activity and fascism. Henry Dana Speaks On War at Maynard MAYNARD, Mass., Nov. 15.— Professor H. W. L. Dana of the American League Against War and Fascism spoke on “What Can Be Done to Prevent the Next War,” at an Armistice Day meeting spone sored by the Methodist, Congregas tional and Episcopal Churches and the local anti-war committee. This is the first time that such a meeing has been held in May= nard. The large audience was ine tensely interested in Professor Dana's eloquent speech. Has every I. W. O. branch con= tributed for the support of the greatest fighter for Social Insur- ance—the Daily Worker! meee