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

ee DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1934 GENERAL STRIKE LOOMING THROUGHOUT THE SILK INDUSTRY UNIONS PREPARING TO AID NATIONAL RELIEF CONGRESS 1,000 Silk Workers Already Out on Strike} in Paterson District; Parley Delegates Take Up Organization Drive The question of calling a general silk strike will be placed before the convention of the American Federation of Silk Workers which convenes on Nov. 24 at the Hotel Woodstock, New York. Already in the Paterson district there are over one thousand silk workers on strike, and} the Paterson silk workers are al-© ready taking a strike vote. In the Paterson area the employ- ers are cutting wages and declare the agreement with the union scrapped on the subterfuge that the silk workers struck during the gen- eral textile strike in violation of the contract, The silk employers are cutting wages and discriminating against union members throughout the country, following the sellout by Gorman, leader of the U. T. W., of the general textile strike. The Federation was formed soon after the general silk strike of 1933 and has as its national secretary, Frank Schweitzer, who, together with Gorman and McMahon was responsible for the shameful be- trayal of the textile workers in the recent general strike. Among the important questions which the delegates will have to take up are the following: 1. The calling of a general strike of silk workers to smash the wage cutting and increase in loomage. 2. To establish a uniform wage scale in all strike centers. 3. To discuss the possibility of merging the Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers with the Silk Workers’ Federation. 4. To establish that all con- tracts of silk centers expire at the same time, 5. To extend the union to un- organized centers. 6. ‘Lo establish democracy in the union and abolish the ex- pulsion policy. With the sharp attack by the em- ployers against the silk workers in Paterson, the chief center of the industry, following the Gorman- McMahon betrayal, the workers have been compelled to take wage cuts or to strike. Wage increases were won in Paterson after the 1933 strike, but the manufacturers, taking advan- tage of the surrender of the gen- eral strike by the officials broke the contract. Every other silk cen- ter is threatened with a similar sit- uation. By means of a general strike in the industry it will be pos- sible not only to prevent the smash- ing of wage standards but to com- pel wage increases to meet mount- ing living costs, Tied up with this is the need to fight for a uniform wage rate for the entire industry. Rank and AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Philadelphia, Pa. Family Supper and Concert given by Sec. 1 at 1208 Tasker St., Saturday, Noy. 17, 8 p.m. Adm. 25c. House Party, Soviet Film Showing, Refreshments, 5430 Gainor Road, Saturday, Noy. 17, Ausp. Unit 307 C.P, Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed.. Nov. 28 at State Dance Hall, 20th and Market Sis. Good Dance Orchestra. Ceme in costume. Prizes for best costumes, Children's Party at 1241 W. 4th St., 7 p.m., given by children : Jewish Children’s School Nov. 16, 7 p.m. Chicago, Ill. Two reel movie “Chicago Workers in Action” and "Sawing Capitalism in Two Alive,” a magician. Recitation and Violin Solo. Dance to follow, Saturday, Nov. 17, 7:30 -p.m.- Slovak Workers Home, 2147 W. Chicago Ave. Adm, 20¢ in adv., 25¢ . Given by Unit 906, 911 and Gala Dance and Entert2inment, Sat- 24, urday, Nov, Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch St. Auspices: Wiggint Br. ¥.C.L. 9 and ©,P. 512. Gala Affair and Dance given by Rus- sian Organizations on Saturday, Nov. 24 at Douglas Auditorium, Kedzie and Ogden Aves. “Modern Russia,” Nov. p.m. at LL.D. Hall, 1326 E. 55th St. Auspice: GP. Unit 718. Refreshments. Admis- sion 15¢. Providence, R. I. “Russian Tea Party and Dance. Bala- laika Orchestra; Russian food served. Saturday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. at 357 Western St., Room 402. “Arranged by Charles St. Unit of C.P, 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 2 Bec. 1. Pittsburgh, Pa. "Dance and Rally, Saturday, Nov, 17 at Rockland Palace, 2157 Centre Ave. Adm, 20¢ at door; 15¢ in advance. WHAT’S ON Chicago, lil. Symposium ‘The United Front—The Burning Question of the Hour,” by J. Lawson, Dist. Org. Sec. of the Communist Party, and A. G. Me- Dowell, National Chairman - Young Peoples’ Socialist League, Sunday, Noy. 18, 8 p.m. at Pen and Hammer, 20 E. Ontario St. “Fascism and the Social Revolu- tion,” by Palme Dutt, will be re- viewed by Beatrice Shields, Sunday, Nov. 18, 4 p.m., 548 Wisconsin St. (1900 North on Larrabee St.). Aus- pices: C.P, Sec. 4. Pirst Annual Dance given by Painters Br. 565 I.W.O. Saturday, Dec. 8 at Mirror Hall, 1156 N. Western Ave. Adm. 25¢ in adv., 35¢ at door. Boston, Mass. Baxei Bean Supper. Home-baked with brown breed. Music. Saturday, Nov. 17, 1029 Tremont St. Scotts- bero Br. LUD. Adm. 15¢. Stamford, Conn. Affair at Pelish National Home, 804 Atlantic St. Play “Oscor Sapp,” will be formed, 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17. file members point out that at the present the bosses have a weapon against the workers, the threat of moving to other centers where the wage rate is lower, and that silk workers have a right to the same wage whether they live in New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania or any other center. The decision of the last U. T. W. convention favoring -industrial unionism should open the way to bringing about unity of the Silk Workers Federation and the Silk and Rayon Dyers who are closely linked together by common prob- lems, either by merging or “joint action,” By this means it would be possible by united effort to or- ganize the unorganized, to arrange for the expiration of the contracts at the same time and for the en- forcement of union conditions, which would result in benefits to workers in both federations. For Rank and File Control Rank and file members urge that the delegates go on record at the convention condemning the entire National Strike Committee for its treachery to the strike and espe- cially the representatives of the Silk Federation who served on the com- mittee. At the coming covention to which, except for officials, all the delegates will come directly from the mills, steps should be taken by the delegates to make amendmenis to the constitution and provisions assuring rank and file control. At present far too much power resis in ihe hands of officials and execu- tive boards. In Paterson, for example, 22i- sion after decision has been nulli- fied by these officials. Further- more, bearing in mind the lesson of the general strike the silk workers must not permit strike settlements to be made without first placing them before the workers for ap- proval. Conduct of the strike must be in the hands of a large strike com- mittee elected by the workers to assure the best possible mobiliza- tion for the strike and success in winning demands. The convention of the silk work- ers should welcome into its ranks those workers who have merged with it from the National Textile Workers Union and other unions by granting full rights to participate in the responsibilities of union work and to hold office. Clique control in Paterson has resulted in expelling many of these militant workers and depriving them of their rights. (From the Rank and File Fed- erationist, November, 1934) 8,000 Vote Communist In Portland PORTLAND, Ore., Noy. 16.—More than 8,000 votes were cast here for e the Communist candidate for State Secretary, Earl Steward. This represents a doubling of the 1932 yote. It is all the more sig- nificant in view of the fact that Steward is one of the workers now waiting trial on charges of “criminal syndicalism.” The slogan of the campaign was the fight against the fascist ter- vorism which is rising here against’ the workers. “Communism vs, Fas- cism” was the way the election literature was marked in the cam- paign for the Communist candi- dates. Dirk DeJonge, State Senator can- didate on the same ticket, whose trial is now in progress, was ac- corded in early returns, 3,300 votes. Other “Communism vs. Fascism” independent candidates are listed in the same incomplete returns as fol- jJows: for Governor, Harry J, Cor- rell, United Farmers League state organizer, 1,700; for U. S. Congress, 3rd district, Louis Olson, section or- ganizer of the Communist Party, 1,150; for County Commissioner Multnomah County, N. A. Mack- dill, 2,800, and Louis Jessen, 2,300. Topping the slate’s candidates for state representative was Kenneth Fitzgerald, former Socialist leader of the unemployed, with 3,700 votes, Virgil Aiken, Ray Billings, George -Butterfield.and Mary Goold, Inter- national Labor Defense secretary, all passed the 3,000 mark. Ithaca Relief Workers Strike Against Layoff ITHACA, N. Y., Nov. 16.—More than 400 relief workers on a T. E. R. A. project here were striking to- day against the layoff of 250 work- ers and a 20 per cent slash in wages, Strong picket lines have been set up. Two days ago at a meeting of the workers a unanimous strike vote was taken. The strikers are: de- manding that all layoffs be stopped, and that the previous scale of 50 cents an hour on a 24-hour a week basis be restored. 968,000 JOBLESS IN PA. HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 16— Twenty-six per cent of the entire working population of Pennsylvania, 988,000 persons, are out of work, according to the latest figures of the State Department of Labor. c) ’ i — ‘Ohio Jobless ‘To Push Reliet Fight at Capital | Will Mass Before State Legislature When It Opens Monday | | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 16.— | Twenty-five unemployed workers | will leave here early Monday morn- ing to meet with other delegates from all over the State to place the demands of the unemployed work- ers and the poor farmers before the General Assembly of Ohio, which meets in special session in Colum- bus. The entire delegation of 250 will be welcomed by the workers of Col- umbus at a mass meeting at 701 Long Street, where final. details will be worked out. Following the mass meeting, the delegates will march to the State capitol, where a huge mass meeting will be held. The five-point relief program to be placed before the General As- sembly, Governor White and Relief Administrator Adjutant - General Henderson, call for the following: 1. Uniform relief throughout the State and authorization for a 40 per cent increase in relief. This relief to be raised through special taxes on the sale and transfer of stocks and bonds; a tax on the capital in- vestments of industrialists; a steep- ly graduated tax on all incomes over $5,000 a year; and increased Federal relief allotments. 2. Cash payment of rents for single and married workers; no evic- tions. . ‘Trade union wages and condi- tions on all work relief and P.W.A. jobs; no forced labor. 4. A moratorium on the pay- ments of all municipal indebtedness; the State legislature to authorize the use of these and all sinking funds for extra relief needs such as medical aid, clothing, household supplies. 5, Endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Iasurance Bill and cash and transportation for the 300 delegates who will leave Ohio to at- tend the National Congress for Un- employment Insurance, which will be held in Washington on. Jan, 5-7. The Unemployment Councils have called upon all organizations in the State to immediately send resolu- tions embodying their demands and the unequivocal demand that the unemployed delegation be permtited to place these demands before the General Assembly, to Gov. White. Jobless Demand More Relief in Racine RACINE, Wis., Nov. 16.—Fifteen hundred workers jammed the cham- bers and halls of the court house at the meeting of the Board of Supervisors here and demanded an immediate 50 per cent increase in relief, issuance of winter clothing and provision for medical aid. Fired F. E. R. A. workers, who were re- cently let out on a mass layoff, demanded that all be immediately placed back on the jobs at a 30- hour week with union wages and conditions. The workers forced through a de- mand for a delegation to visit Gov. Schmedeman, demanding that he cali a special session of the State Legislature to take up the matter of winter relief. Another demand won by the workers called for a committee com- posed of five workers and five su- bvervisors to investigate the workings of the relief administration. At a meeting, which the workers attended for hours, Frank Luhn, of the Socialist-led Workers Commit- tee spoke on the demands of the workers, but left before the de- mands could be acted upon. Two Washington, D. C. units, No. 1 and No. 3, collected $42 at a party. Units should hold par- ties next week to fill their quotas by Dee, 1. Youngstown Organizer Takes Personal Charge Of Daily Worker Drive Area Stands in Fourteenth Place Among Ohio Sections in Fulfilling Quota | Late, but. still with time enough |to carry out the decision of the} | Central Committee, John Steuben, | {Section Organizer of Youngstown, in the Cleveland district, has per- sonally taken charge of the whole campaign in his section for the Daily Worker. With by far the highest quota in the district — $500 — Youngstown stands in 14th place among the sec® tions. It has raised only 28 per cent of its assigned sum. Youngstown is chief among those responsible for Cleveland's failure to complete its quota by now. “I am still absolutely confident that we will raise the $500,” states Comrade Steuben. He sends $15 and a promise of “additional money by Monday.” The Daily Worker will watch closely Comrade Steuben’s efforts to make up for lost time! Two Weeks To Go Two weeks still remain before Dec. 1, the finish line set by the Central Committee. If Comrade Steuben and the Section Commit- tee turn their whole attention seri- ously to the drive, they will suc- ceed. Youngstown is a section with such good prospects for raising money that at the beginning of the | drive it increased its quota from $350 to $500, of its own accord. Section Leadership Responsible The Daily Worker regards Com- rade Steuben and the Section lead- ership as responsible for carrying through the plan of work which he presents, “Within the next few days,” he declares, “I and other leading comrades will cover ALL the units in the section and we will mobilize the comrades in the same tempo as we did for the col- lection of signatures (in the elec- tion campaign).” Other Sections Need Speed An energetic spirit and fast tempo is immediately required of the Cincinnati, Erie, Dayton, Akron and Toledo sections also. Akron is | only at 61 per cent of its quota and | the rest are still below 50 per cent. The leadership of each of these sections has the responsibility of seeing that the decision of the Central Committee is fully car- ried out. Comrade Steuben’s idea is one that they can well adopt. Personal visits by members of the Section Committee to ALL the units and mass organizations in their territory should be immedi- ately made. The I. W. O. and language or- ganizations, too, must take emer- gency measures. The I. W. O. has raised only $100 of its $600 quota, and 14 language organizations should certainly be able to do bet- ter than $209, which is all they have raised up to now. The Daily Worker calls upon the Cleveland district to work to the limit to go over its quota by Dec. 1! The district which fails to do its share in supporting the Daily Worker is but adding to the joys of the capitalist class! The Cleveland District table fol- lows: Section Amount Percent Quota 15 East Ohio 67.20 134.4 = $50, 3 Cleveland 216.38 © 108.2200. 17 Cleveland 102.42 102.4 100, 1 Cleveland 324.10 © 92.6 350. 2 Cleveland 216.94 72.3300. Mansfield 49.15 65.5 15. 5 Canton 92.58 61.7 150. 4 Akron 185,68 61.2 300. 11 Cleveland 63.36 50.6 125. 7 Toledo 117.27 46.9 250. 13 Lorain 16.25 40.6 «= 40, 16 Cleveland 30.15 38.2 100, 14 Cleveland 19.99 30.9 5. 6 Youngstown 141.54 28.3 500. 10 Cincinnati 49.61 24.8 200. 9 Columbus 10.82 21.6 50, 8 Erie 26.10 174 150. 12 Dayton 12.00 12.0 100. 18 Elyria 3.00 12.0 25. Cambridge 1.00 10.0 10. MASS ORGANIZATIONS Amount Percent Quota South Slavs 64.72 48.1 $150. Finnish 28.56 © 28.6 100. Hungarian 5.00 5.0 100. Bulgarian 31.15 41.6 15. Italian 0. 0. %. Scandinavian 5.00 20.0 35. Czechoslovakia 0. 0. _ Polish 20.00 0. - Ukrainian 200 2.0 100. 0. 0. 1090. 15.00 30.0 50. 0. 0. 25. Russains 33.28. Lithuanians 518. SH. L. 0. 0. — — Unemployed Council 8.78 8.8 100. I. W. 0. 97.75 (16.2 500. T. UU. 0. 100. John Reed Ciubs 0. $1.80 a Week for Two Is. Maximum Allowed On Forced Labor in 8. D. STROOL, 5. D., Nov. 16—A family of two gets three hours of work relief a week here. With wages at thirty-five cents an hour for a man and twenty-five cents an hour for a team, the most such a family is permitted to earn is $1.80 a week. Families of three to five are given six hours work a week, while families of more than five get eleven hours. C.P. Gets Votes Though Ruled Off Tlinois Ballot MADISON, IIL, Noy. 16—Although the Communist Party was ruled off the ballot in this State, at least 17 voters cast ballots for the Commu- nist Party in this community. Voters were supplied with a special Com- munist Party ballot which they were able to put into the box in the place of the one regularly supplied which did not bear the name of the Communist Party candidates. In 1932, when the Communist Party was on the ballot, it received only 12 votes according to official count. The Socialist Party reecived 35 votes here. Cleveland Factory ' Picketed. as Owners Say They Will Move CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 16.— Strikers at the Kaynee Co., manu- facturers of boys’ wash clothing, are picketing the plant, in spite of the announcement that the owners are closing down their plants and moy- ing out of Cleveland. The strikers, eight hundred strong, are demand- ing recognition of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Other unions have offered sup- port, and have volunteered to send pickets to help Kaynee strikers close the Bucyrus, Ohio, plant. The Cleveland Federation of Labor has also voted support of the strike. The company is using the threat to move in order to put over its anti-union drive as the A. & P. company did here. MADISON HOLDS MEETING MADISON, Ill, Nov. 16—The seventeenth anniversary of the Bol- shevik revolution was celebrated here at a meeting attended by some 250 workers in the Crystal Ball Room. Frank Warfield, organizer of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in St. Louis was one of the principai speakers. He outlined the tremendous industrial, social and cultural strides made by the work- ing class under their own rule. | i | | | | | | | neighborhoods Pro tests RiseFOUR-YEAR TERM Over Shooting AGAINST FRANKFELD Of Ne I. L. D. Moves to Stop/ Frame-Up of Wounded! | Worker | aes | HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 16.—| Seething indignation is sweeping the Negro population and militant white working class here against the bru-| year old Negro C. C. C. worker, last| Sunday morning. Allen lies in the} Hartford Municipal Hospital suffer-| ing acute pain with a bullet in his | hip bone. Six eye-witnesses to the} attack have sworn that Allen was; shot without the slightest provoca-| tion by Patrolman William Smith, long infamous for his persecution} of Negro workers. | Allen and his parents have re-! tained the International Labor De-j fense to fight a framed-up charge of “breach of peace,” made by local authorities in an attempt to white- wish the criminal attack by the po-} liceman. | Leaflets Denounce Shooting Negro and white working class| are being flooded with leaflets denouncing the shoot- ing and frame-up, and exposing the systematic terror against the Negro masses, culminating in the shooting of Allen. Mass meetings under united front auspices have been held throughout the city with the support of the League of Struggle |for Negro Rights, American League Against War and Fascism, National Students League, Trade Union| Unity League, Communist Party,} and Young Communist League. Pro- | test resolutions are pouring in upon | Mayor Beach of Hartford from these meetings and from many or- ganizations demanding the firing of Patrolman Smith, the dropping of the framed-up charge against Al- len, a stop to the vicious terror against the Negro people and pay- ment of indemnity to Allen and his family. Officials Inciting “Race Riots” The fierce indignation of the Ne- gro masses has alarmed the city Officials, who are making every ef- fort, behind the scenes, to split the united front protest movement. The Hartford Negro Ministerial Alliance has called an independent protest meeting for Nov. 19, in the union Baptist Church. The Alliance has} been approached by the I.L.D, with a plea for unity, and Rey. Hopes, one of its leading members, has ex- pressed himself in favor of the united front but states he would have to consult the local N. A. C. P. leaders. City officials are also circulating rumors of “impending race riots” and are evidently preparing the ground for attacks by fascist gangs on Hartford Negroes. To defeat this vicious plan, the revolutionary working class movement is ener- getically seeking to involve as many | white workers as possible in the de- fense movement, and a series of mass meetings will be held tomor- row throughout the white working class districts. Raise Demands for Scottsboro 9 | The I. L. D. is organizing a broad | united front delegation to visit Mayor Beach with the demands of the defense movement, and is alsd seeking to set up an impartial in- vestigating committee of prominent white and Negro intellectuals to lay bare the vile Jim Crow and segre- gation policy out of which the pres- ent wave of terror arises. Resolutions demanding the release of the Scottsboro boys, and de- nouncing the projected legal mur- der of two of the boys on Dec. 7,|™achine building, shipbuilding and | were adopted by the various mass meetings held throughout the city, BAZAAR IN CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 16.—The annual bazaar of the Communist Party will be held here Prospect Auditorium, 2612 Prospect Avenue, on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 8 and Dec. 9. All mass organi- zations in the city have been urged to keep these dates open for at- tendance by their memberships. Supervised Election Held in Pitisburgh By TOM KEENAN PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 16.-—Na- tional Steel Labor Relations Board hearings began in Pittsburgh again yesterday on the issue of requests for Board-supervised elections in the Allenport and Monessen plants of the Pittsburgh Steel Company. filed by A.A. members in both miils. Judge Walter Stacy and his col- leagues of the Board did not attend, sending Commissioner Witte here to take testimony and conduct the hearing. In answer to petitions filed by the Allenport and Monessen lodges charging the Pittsburgh Steel Co. with “violating Section 7-a of the N.R.A.” and demanding a “fair” election to determine collective bar- gaining representatives, Attorney J. J, Heard, for Pittsburgh Steel Co. raised two objections to the hearing. First, he questioned whether the Board has authority to handle the petitions and stressed that the Pittsburgh Steel Company is not recognizing as constittutional the authority of the Board as set down in the President’s executive order and the joint resolution of Con- gress. Second, he denied the right of Commissioner Witte to conduct such a hearing in the absence of the Board. | Company Uriens Hated The petitions claim that the Em- ployee Representation Plan (com- pany union) now in operation in both plants is “creating bitterness” and “a spirit of rivalry” between the company union and A.A. mem- unrest” and a “situation destructive to the peace of the community which actually threatens the peace of the community”—and an election is necessary to restore the peace. Stated in plain words, the A.A. leadership wants an election because strike sentiment now exists (“un- rest”) in Pittsburgh Steel Company plants and “elections” are necessary if the workers are to be prevented from taking direct action to force the company to “bargain collec- tively.” Taking the line of all steel com- panies before the Board, Heard | stated that the company is “willing to deal with any organization rep- resenting its employes at any and all times, but before the company enters such a meeting it must be} shown conclusive evidence that the organization represents the em- | ployes it claims to.” Attorney Charlton Ogburn con- j tended that “credentials of the Amalgamated should satisfy the company in this respect,” but Heard insisted that the company be shown. the membership list of the lodge. This Ogburn refused as being “un- reasonable.” Ogburn asked if the company would consent to a Board-super- vised election. The steel company counsel answered that consent would be granted if a “substantial number” ‘tere shown to be in fayor of such an election, if a “fair ballot” were used, and if the balloting were bers; that it is “creating a spirit of | conducted on company property. The A.A.’s claim of a membership of approximately 2,000 and’ 1,200 in 4 Se: the Monessen and Allenport plants, respectively, Attorney Heard at- tacked, demanding to know whether these numbers represent members who have paid full initiation fees ($3 or $2) and are paid up in dues. He attempted to go into the A.A. constitution to show that “mem- bers,” to be allowed a vote, etc., in the Amalgamated, must be paid up in their dues, and obviously in- tended to use the small vote cast in the recent A.A. international elec- tions to prove his point, but was stopped by Commissioner Witte. Cummings, Mink, Stark, Roy, and Bernnard. all officers of the two lodges—to prove that the petitions for an election were passed at regular meetings of the lodges. All these witnesses refused to give the exact number who attended the particular meetings or voted for the petitions. All five testified that they were ready to abide by the outcome of the elections if supervised by the Board, even if held on company property. Throughout the hearings Attor- ney Heard kept insisting that the “best evidence” which could be pro- duced to prove that an election is desired by the employes of the Pittsburgh Steel Company, are membership lists. Results Not Posted The company held “representa- tive plan” elections in June of 1933 and 1934, the results of which were never posted, which it contends were fair elections and set up bar- gaining apparatus for the entire force. The company counsel declined to | jc Ogburn summoned five workers— Steel Lawyer Shows Bosses! Disdain for N. R. A, Pugs hi Hearing of Demands for Demands Membership Lists of Union Be Shown to Him bring any witnesses to testify to support their contentions, and laid the basis for later opposition to any Board orders in the courts by say- ing: “We deny the jurisdiction and authority of the Board under the constitution and laws of the United States, and claim that they are without legal authority to hear plaints or interfere in any ac- tivities of the Pittsburgh Steel Company.” Mike Tighe, international presi- dent of the A.A., arrived as the hearing neared a close, He had just returned from a_ conference in Washington with William Green, the subject of which an Associated Press dispatch had announced as proposed recognition of “outside unions” so as to complete Roose- velt’s suggested “labor truce.” Tighe told your correspondent thet the conference concerned “the position of the Labor Boards,” de- clining to comment further on their conversation. Asked whether the Amalgamated would take any steps in regard to the framed Aliquippa steel worker, George Issoski, other than bringing him before the Steel Board to testify, Tighe replied he “didn’t know.” It has been disclosed here that George Williams, who opposed) Tighe for the office of president in the recent elections, accepted a job as foreman with the Standard Tin Plate Company of Cannonsburg immediately after his defeat was announced, A, | ruling in the} cilia iti nities 8° UPHELD BY COURT Leader of Pennsylvania Jobless Is Jailed for Leading Struggles Against Hunger and Evictions—Urge Protest PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 16.—Upholding the original tal police shooting of Joe Allen, 23-| frameup of Phil Frankfeld by the Mellon-owned courts of Allegheny County, which was sustained by both the Sue perior and Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, Judge Lewis of Clears Killers of Claude Neal MARIANNA, Fia., Noy. 16.— by persons unknown to 4 traditional verdict of white ruling class Grand Juries “investige the lynchings of Negro wor! returned yesterday by the Jackson County Grand Jury in connection with the fiendish lynching of Claude Neal on Oct. 27. The lynching of Neal was adver- \tised locally and nationally for 36 hours before it took place, after he was delivered to a “lynch commit- naped across the state line into Florida. The lynch leaders made no attempt to conceal their iden- tity. The Grand Jury, however, states: “We are not able to get much direct or positive information with reference to this matier, practically all our evidence and information being hearsay and rumors.” A Grand Jury, “investigation” of the jail delivery of Neal has been set by Gov. B. M. Miller of Alabama for Monday twenty-four days after the crime. The Federal government has refused to invoke the Lindbergh Law, used to hunt the kidnapers of rich men, to punish the kidnapers and murderers of the Negro worker. The verdict of the Florida Grand Jury was denounced yesterday by Harry Haywood, National Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, as a class verdict openly | protecting and defending the white | class lynchers, Haywood jurged that workers and their or- ganizations continue to flood Presi- dent Roosevelt with demands for the arrest and punishment, under ers and murderers of Neal, and for the unconditional and safe release of the Scottsboro boys, two of whom are facing legal lynching on Dec, 7 in Alabama. Of Metal Union Set for Sunday All arrangements have been com- pleted for the Fourth Annual Convention of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. to open on Sunday, 10 a. m., at Irving |Plaza, Delegates from 12 locals in repair, metal fabricating and wire manufacture, have been elecied. In adition, eight independent un- fons in the metal industry, having wise elected fraternal The district convention aims to jachieve unity of all these forces. {An appeal was also sent by the |the International Association of Machinists, Lodge 15, A. F. of L., which reads in part: Organization Weakened war, the organization among the metal workers and machinists has been considerably weakened. Many Miembers of the International As- sociation of Machinists were ex- Pelled, and many dropped their membership in the organization, with the result that the great ma- jority remained unorganized. Today we find that hundreds of these machinists who stayed away from organization for years, have organ- ized into the different locals of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial tions. It is the duty of both major organizations in the field of this district to get together and start a most vigorous drive against the prevailing conditions, The appeal asks that fraternal delegates be sent to discuss these issues at the convention. But at the last meeting of the District Lodge of the I. A. of Mveven the reactionary machine headed by Stilsonbauer and Peabody. Some members were interested in discus- sing the letter. Today at 10 a. m., the Eastern Conference of the Union, at which the New York, Massachussetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, James- town and Buffalo districts of the union will be represented, will open at Mnahattan Lyceum. Steps will be taken to consolidate the efforts of these districts for an intensive organization drive in the industry. The Midwest Conference of the Steel and Metal Workers Union will take place on Dec. 9, at Chi- cago. Among the most enthusi- astic to get behind the conference is the Cleveland and Cincinnati region, where two new locals have just been chartered. A special issue of the “Steel and Metal Worker” press immediately after the East- ern Conference and will carry all its decisions, Mercer County refused to grant Florida Jury tee” by his Alabama jailers and kid-| the Lindbergh Law, of the kidnap-| District Parley a membership of 12,000 have like- | delegates. | | district committee of the union to } “For a number of years since the | Union, and have secured higher | wages and better working condi- | cussion on the matter was killed by | will come off the | a parole for the Unemploy- leader now year term in t house. Lewis the judge who was responsible for rai ing Franke feld and sentencing on charges is conduct of for. the he 1s” why he parole, because Frankfeld would not submit to the conditions hic would be imposed in case his release was granted—that he would | agree to suspend all his acti unemployed work or other worl activities. Second, that he is being kept in jail and will continue to remain there until “the people of Allegheny County learn that the | courts can not be coerced.” | Workers Protest stating the second “rea ge reached over on his des’ mapped the rubber band on a le of protests which he had received, each demanding the | lease of the railroaded U. © from workers throughout the jern part of the state. | “These are some of the numer- | ous letters I have received,” said the j judge, “many of them prior to the appeal of Frankfeld’s case to the j higher courts, all based on the } premise that Phil Frankfeld was | ‘railroaded’ to jail and demanding | that he be rele 1 immediately.” |He uttered the word “dema: whit | In the | bundl {in the way a Jesuit would si | rilege.” His Honor went on to jthat many of the letters were | “sharply critical in their tone,” that | Frankfeld had been given a “fair | trial” and found guilty by a “jury of his peers,” and that he wou'd | remain in Blawnox until the w jers ceased trying to “coerce” the | Allegheny County courts. I. L. D. Defense An I. L. D. attorney presented the petition for parole. Harvey O’Con- |nor, chairman of the Frankfeld- | Egan Liberation Committee, .and | Bill Doyle, successor to Frankfeld as j County Secretary of the Unemploy- | ter witnesses for the prisoner, de- scribing his activities in organizi unemployed workers for the struggle against hunger and for increased | relief. Judge Lewis refused to hear the testimony of the mother of a large family who attended .the hearing to tell how the efforts of |Frankfeld and the Unemployment | Council saved her children, from starving. Urge Protests Next step in the fight for*the will. be release of Frankfeld | filling of a petition fo: the State Pardon Board, | must be accompanied by a ce! copy of the courts’ refusal to #rent |him a parole. The machinery’ for pardon provides for the elapsé of | three months between the filing and hearing of pardon petitions. In the meantime it is necessary that workers and workers’ organiza tions double the number of protests being sent in to the Governor: and the | | {the Pardon Board. It is recalled |that only ten days before Judge |Gray paroled Sam Jessop, framed on the same case as Frankfeld. he same remarks retarding and demanded that the letters cease. Instead of this, -they were increased in number and the parole was soon granted. Dr. G. O. Vennesland Dentist 4816 N. Western Avenue LOngbeach 0757 Chi: mH. Beautiful Ri Hammer & Sickle Emblem RINGS —$1.50 prepaid — Grand WN D. "PHILADELPHIA, PA, OFFICE WORKERS UNION presents D*® Paul Luttinger who will speak on “Sex and Modern Civilization” SUNDAY, NOV. 18th, at 8 P. M. Soci lps Coming to Detroit — Soviets on Parade Thrilling Document of the U. S. 8. R. HEAR: Joseph Stalin, Maxim Gorki, Voroshilov 7 SEE: Great Moscow Celebretion, Building ef Socialism Opening Friday, Nov. 23rd McCOLLESTER HALL, Forest and Cass Admission 83¢ & i f -