The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1934 Page 3 1,800 CHICAGO RELIEF WORKERS TO BE FIRED DECEMBER 15 Drastic Layoft|Former Incest IsVotedBehind Locked Doors Jobless Storm Welfare Stations Daily After Aid Is Slashed CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 18.—Follow- ing out the relief slashing policy of the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration, the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission, meeting behind closed doors last Wednesday, de- cided to lay off 1,800 relief staff em- ployees in Cook County by Dec. 15. That this lay-off is part of the general policy of the I. E. R. C. and the F. E, R. A. of reducing both re- ief standards and wage levels, is flearly evident from the fact that ollowing close upon the heels of this reduction in staff, the admini- stration is planning to lop off thou- sands from the relief rolls. Al- ready the drive is on to ferret out so-called fraud cases. Workers on the relief rolls who manage to earn a@ few dollars a month to supple- ment the starvation relief hand- outs and do not report such earn- ings to relief authorities come un- der this clasification. As a further threat upon present wage levels, mention might be made of the pres- ent plan of the relief authorities to replace some of the discharged workers by unemployed workers trom the relief rolls on a work re- lief basis, Many relief employees look upon this drastic reduction as an exen- sion of the stretch-out system un- der Roosevelt's New Deal program. The addition to the already large number of families which they are yarrying, will mean intolerable ypeed-ups, overtime, and nervous breakdowns. / Many relief. workers are plan- ning to meet this lay-off and the additional threat to their working conditions, by uniting their forces with the unemployed workers who have recently suffered relief slashes from 15 per cent to 25 per cent. They participated in the broad united front conference of em- ployed and unemployed organiza- tions last Saturday, and will join in the great demonstration which is to take place on Noy, 24. By the logic of recent events, hundreds and thousands of relief workers and professional workers generally are beginning to show a closer identity of interest with other workers, They have seen how the starvation policies of the Roose- velt Government, which although aimed primarily against the unem- ployed and employed wage workers, are also directed against the ‘pro- fessional class and salary workers. This action of the F. E. R. A. will open their eyes still further to the fact that the Roosevelt Govern- inent in the interests of the bank- ers and the big industrialists and ot in their interests or in the in- baad of the American working class. Picket Daily CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 18.—Daily Picketing is taking place at every relief station throughout the city as’ the indignation of the unem- ployed workers against the 10 to 35 per cent relief cut put into effect on Nov. 1 continues to mount, Cen- tral in the demand of the workers is the withdrawal of the relief cut; issuance of Winter clothing, and work relief jobs at union wages. Police are stationed at all relief offices and scores of workers are be- ing jailed. At the Woodland relief station, Sixty-third Street and Cot- tage Grove Avenue, policemen drew revolvers and threatened to shoot the starving workers. In many cases, arrests have been stopped by the workers who pull their com- eg from the clutches of the po- ice. Picketing and demonstrations are being jointly led by the Chicago forkers Committee on Unemploy- ent and the Unemployment ouncils. Close fraternization ex- ts between the membership of both organizations, and united front committees have been estab- lished locally in many parts of the city. The local actions are mobiliz- ing the workers for the giant dem- onstration next Saturday which will start from two points—Union Park, Ogden and Randolph Streets; and from Twenty-second Street and Wentworth Avenue — both converg- ing on the City Hall. Opposition groups within the A. F, of L. or independent unions can win support for the Daily Worker if the appeal is properly raised. Recently, at an affair of Garment Workers Union, the emergency call of the Daily Worker was read, and $12.50 col- lected. The group pledged further support at future affairs. - AFFAIRS FOR THE _ DAILY WORKER Philadelphia, Pa. ‘Thanksgiving Eve Dance, Wed., Nov. 28 at State Dance Hall,, 20th and Market Sts. Good Dance Orchestra. Come in costume, Prizes for best costumes. Chicago, Ill. by Unit 906, 911 and 912. Gala Dance and Entertainment, Sat- urday, Nov. 24, Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch St. Auspices: Wiggint Br, ¥.C.L, 9 and O.P, 512. Gala Affair and Dance given by Rus- sian Organizations on Saturday, Nov. 24 at Douglas Auditorium, Kedzie and Ogden Aves. WHAT’S ON Chicago, 111. ‘$irtt, Annual: Dance. given by. Painters . $65 L.W.O, Saturday, Dec. & at ‘Mirror Hall, 1156 N, Western Ave, Adm, 25¢ in ady., 35¢ at door. Interview Reveals the Aims, Methods of Organization By SENDER GARLIN The high priests of the “Utopian Society” have arrived in New York from California and are ready to do business. Their headquarters. consisting of a couple of shabby rooms at 23 Barrow Street, lage, are not particularly imores- sive. But neither was the beer- cellar in Munich in which Hitler hatched his “putsch” in 1923. The reporters for the capitalist press discovered the Utopian chiefs the other day and wrote up their program at length, some of them earnestly and others with a touch of contempt because their head- quarters was located in a Green- wich Village apartment instead of in the Empire State Building. What They're After “You, too, Brutus!” exclaimed Eugene R. Reed, the chief Utopian, when I inttoduced myself as a rep- resentative of the Daily Worker. Reed is chairman of the board of the Eastern as well as the Western division of the Utopian Society. He is a former investment broker of Denver, Reed, who was in a_ frightful hurry to leave, put Dunham Thorp, one of the co-directors of the Utopians in charge of answering my questions. Thorpe. who is 32, started his career as a seaman, so he says, but Jater found movie publicity in Hol- lywood more congenial to his spirit. Now he is one of the triumvirate which guides the destinies of the Utopian Society. “What we're after? Well, we're focussed on one thing: to change the system and to get a new sys- tem. There are different steps. but our definite job is education. We've endorsed no candidates, We have a in Greenwich Vil- | | | | | EUGENE R. REED classes, whereas what we must look for is a split through all the classes. The class struggle, Thorpe as sured me, is “a mere optical il- lusion.” At this point another director of the Utopian Society entered the |room, and I was introduced to Mr. Chester A Arthur, Jr., grandson of the 21st president of the United States. Arthur, a foppish-looking individual, joined the discussion with the announcement that the New York Sun reporter who had been around the previous day made 1a “dirty crack” about him which jhe wanted me to correct in my story. “He said that my wife in her di- vorce petition a couple of years ago had said that I neyer would work,” Mr. Arthur complained. “That's absolutely untrue. I have a letter in her own handwriting, — positively denying it. As a matter of fact, we're very good friends.” Arthur, too, seemed to think that we Communists had the wrong slant on the question of the class strug- gle. “Now, only last night,” he in- formed me, “I spent a little time at both the Racquette and Knicker- bocker clubs. And it would surprise hands-off policy on darn near every- you, I know, if I told you that thing.” Except the initiation fees, . i tanitee *| many well-to-do capitalists there I suggested to Thorpe that such a long-range program presented few problems unless one took an active part in day-to-day struggles of the American masses. “What was the attitude of your society toward the West Coast strike?” I asked. “Must Watch Our Step” “We issued no statements on the strike, pro or con. We had plenty of issues in our organization with- out going afield. We keep clear of all official stands on strikes. We must watch our step all along the way. One of the most fundamental things is not to get tangled up in debates.” Exploiting the growing discon- tent which reflected itself in the recent California election, the Utopian Society has enrolled thou- sands of members on the basis of their vague shadow-boxing against capitalism. Officials of the organi- zation claim that they have an en- rollment of 600,000 members. At $3 a crack for initiation fee, the Utopigns have undoubtedly hit on a sure-fire business proposition which thrives precisely because of the crisis. “What is your basic program?” I asked Thorpe. “Our program calls for a change from what we call the ‘economics of scarcity’ to the ‘economics of abundance.’ We hope to build up a real mass organization—of mil- lions, if possible. But until we reach that goal we don’t propose to make a trial of strength.” He’s Got All the Answers As to the political action, “if some other party goes our way, we'll sup- port them; otherwise. We'll put up candidates of our own. In the meantime we consider that we're doing important social spadework.” Mr. Thorpe was convinced that the capitalist, class would give up their possessions without a struggle. He was sure of this despite the fact that a well-thumbed of “The Communist Manifesto” lay on a bureau in the room. “The democratic machine is good enough,” he assured me. “The con- stitution has certain resiliency. The principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are a more important part of the constitution than the selfishness that has be- come embedded within it.” Then, as though to give his point the final touch of finality, “What the devil, it's largely a matter of interpreting the constitution.” ' Chief Program: No Struggle Mr. Thorpe was not impressed by my reference to Germany and the scrapping of the ‘Weimar constitu- tion. Nor would he acknowledge that ‘constitutional rights” are a myth for the working class of the United States—even though his Utopian Society blossomed out in a state where Tom Mooney has been @ prisoner for 18 years and where bayonets and tear-gas are the chief strikebreakers. The formula of the Utopian So- ciety leaders is simple: no strug- gle against capitalism, but instead a vague, loose program of “taking over the country some time, some day, somehow. And in the mean- time members can join by paying the $3 initiation fee. A Favor to Mr. Arthur. Thorpe’s arguments bear the stamp of fascist ideology. “We don't see eye to eye with you Commu- nists on. the class struggle, for ex- ample, because social consci is more important than class _ are quite dissatisfied with things as they are now.” Additional evidence to support his contention was brought forward by Arthur, who related that he had met a capitalist by the name of nent Broker Is High Chief of ‘Utopians’ Hollander at the Union Club who! gerous Fascist army. Assistant Chief Says) He Keeps Clear of Class Struggle refused to shake hands either with | himself or with Lawrence Dennis. “You see how this disproves your theory of the class struggle? Den- nis is a fascist and I'm not, and this old fellow refused to shake hands with either one of us.” “Money Has No Earmarks” | The Utopian Society does not en- gage in racial discrimination, Thorpe informed me, picking un the discussion. What he meant was \that the Utopian Society is not averse to raking in $3 initiation fees from Negroes, Mexicans, Jews, Filipinoes or Japanese. ; “We translate all our rituals,” Thorpe informed me. “What is the | purpose of the ritual? Well, it’s |the thing to get them started. You | take a bunch of people who don’t read books and probably wouldn't understand them if they came to jthem old, and after they've been through the ritual they go off as if they had seen God. The rituals are, of course, secret. The applicants are asked a number of questions, they must pledge utter secrecy as well as complete allegiance to the Constitution.” Mr, Thorpe was strong on the patriotic motif. “It's effective,” he suggested, “why not make use of it?” His eyes lighted up brightly as he recalled the big shindig the Utopian Society had put over at the Hollywood Bowl several weeks ago. Chauvinist Trappings “We had. 30,000 people that night. Mme. Aldrich of the Metropolitan Opera Company sang the ‘Star Spangled Banner.’ Then we had a follow-up with the American flag, there was a trumpeter behind the Spotlight and it showed the stars and stripes nicely ruffling in the breeze. Lieutenant-Colonel Barnes of the United States Army read the 23rd psalm, and the 30,000 people present repeated it. I want to tell you, Mr. Garlin, it was darned im- pressive!” Armed. with all the chauvinist trappings, the Utopian Society marches on—collecting $3 initiation fees from thousands—and building up an organization which can easily be transformed into a really dan- |of this county, Syndi ealist Trial Delayed For 18 inWest Prosecution Hard Up for Evidence, Asks Delay to Fabricate Some SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 18.— Trial of the 18 workers’ leaders in-| dicted here on charges of criminal Syndicalism, has been postponed to Nov. 26 on request of the prosecu- tion. Neil McAllister, district attorney who based his cam- paign for re-election heavily on his persecution of militant workers, and on his pushing of the criminal syn- dicalism cases, was voted out of of- fice. McAllister has now announced that he is not quite ready with his evidence, which indicates diffi- culties in its manufacture The International Labor Defense is conducting the defense of the 18 workers, six of whom will defend themselves in court with an I. L. D. lawyer acting with them only in an advisory capacity, to protest their technical legal rights. 400 Storm Philadelphia Relief Office Demanding Additional Relief Aid PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 18. — Four hundred Negro and white workers stormed the relief station at Wishart and Amber Streets here Friday demanding immediate de- livery of coal, issuance of Winter clothing and increased relief. As workers receive their reduced relief checks following the announced new budget effected on Nov. 14, daily demonstrations are being held at each relief office. At the Amber Street relief office, the workers held a meeting inside where workers spoke. The assistant. supervisor was forced to promise immediate delivery of coal orders, and stated she would attempt to get increased relief for the clients. Twenty-five unemployed workers joined the Councils, and others later came to the Council head- quarters, 919 Locust Street, apply- ing for membership. n |Slow Work in Man y Districts NegroW orke rs Retarded Daily’ $60,000 Fund im prisoned Campaign During PastWeekin Africa 25 Districts Sent Only $2,141 of Week’s Meager|Had Refused to Work Overtime Witheut Total of $3,634; Seattle and Minneapolis | Still 50 Per Cent Below Quotas Another s the $60,000 dr Twenty-five $2,141! New York contributed the mainder. In all, a meagre $3,634 was received Seattle, California and Minnea- polis still remain below 50 per cent of their quotas. Milwaukee and k was received by e last week! districts sent only re- | Buffalo are still below 60 per cent. New Haven, which three weeks ago promised to complete its quota by Nov, 7, remains more than $100 behind. It gained only 4 per cent last week. Denver still needs $40 to go. Thongh the need of the Daily Worker for immediate funds has | not abated one bit, most of the districts are not intensifying their work to carry out the decision of the Central Committee that all quotas be filled by Dec, 1! New York has been dropping steadily. It dropped $800 last week under its total of the week before. So far this month it has dropped $2,500 under its contributions of the last two weeks in October. In Buffalo, the Rochester section has already completed its quota and has pledged itself to increase it 100 Distriet Quota Boston New York City Philadelphia Buffalo Pittsburgh Cleveland 7 Detroit Chicago Minneapolis Omaha North Dakote Seattle California Newark 15 New Haven Charlotte Birmingham Milwaukee Denver Houston $2,000 30,000 3,500 750 1,200 3,090 2,500 6,500 800 250 250 Lonisiana 25 Florida 26 South Dakota Miscellaneous 24 200 1,000 26 Districts $60,000 , Per cent before the end of Novem- jber, but in a stater issued yes jterday by Henry Shepard, the Di trict Organizer, the Ellico} Black Rock Sections are e task for not throwing their | forces into the drive. Let Us Hear Milwaukee nd n to full; ganizations are not responding the urgent appeals of the ‘Daily It would be “easy to push waukee over the top the next weeks,” if the mass organization: “got behind the drive,” is the s ment of E. G. Cla . Daily W agent for that district The Daily Worker is compelled to as: What are the plans in Mil-' waukee and Buffalo? What are the plans of the lagging districts in the rest of the country? Every district must whole attention the problems of finishing quota by Dec. 1. The Daily Worker calls upon the Commu- nist Party units and mass organ- izations to put every ounce of strength into the drive. Every district must be heard from with resounding emphaisis this week! The District table follows turn immediately its to | Received past week $ 31.42 1493.86 Received Percent | 19295.60 3838.58 433.08 655.41 1801.98 1788.30 3481.64 263.83 33 $87241.53 ‘Elections Stil Think Roosevelt Will Fulfill His Promises By BILL GEBERT Democratic President Wilson was elected in 1916 on a pacifist plat- form, under the slogan “He kept us out of the war.” And in April, 1917, President Wilson, serving the best interests of Wall Street Amer- ican imperialism, declared war on Germany. The Roosevelt New Deal admin- istration has just been victorious in the November 6th elections. Just as in 1916 the workers and the toil- ing masses thought that Wilson really was against war and voted for Wilson, now they think that Roosevelt really wants a new deal for the masses, that he really will chase “the money swindlers out of the temple.” But as Wilson, like- wise Roosevelt has no such inten- tions. As the pacifist slogans in 1916 were necessary to be used by Wilson for the best interests of Wall Street—to disarm masses, to place them in false security—the New Deal slogans of Roosevelt are needed today for the same purpose —for the best use in the service of ruling class, Strikes Against N.R.A, The toiling millions who voted for the Roosevelt New Deal are not critical enough as yet of the real Policy of Roosevelt. They voted for Roosevelt, not because of his real service to Wall Street, but because of the fake promises that he made to the toiling masses, which include unemployment insurance, etc. We must see in this vote for Roosevelt, as the Daily Worker editorials have correctly pointed out, a contradic- tion between the desire of the masses and the real class character of the New Deal. The New Deal is ‘designed not for the purpose of helping the masses, but the oppo- site—to attack the masses, to pro- tect the interests of the robbers of the masses, the capitalist class. This has already been demon- strated in the course of the execu- tion of the New Deal. We will recollect the fact that in the early stage of the N. R. A. the miners, as well as other workers, went on strike precisely for the execution of the N. R. A. and especially para- graph 7-a. But in the latter stage they strucy precisely against the decisions of the N. R. A., the out- standing case of which was the Na- tional Textile Strike. Masses Against Militarism The masses who voted for Roose- velt, Sinclair, Farmer-Labor Party in Minneapolis or LaFollette in Wisconsin, will fight, and more than that, they will vote for the working class candidates, for the Communists. As soon as it becomes very clear to them that the Roose- velt New Deal is an armed fist against the workers. Let us cite some examples of the recent elections in Chicago. Fred Britten, Republican Congressman who has ‘been Congressman for a‘ ployed grows. From 10,108,00% sciousness. You folks conceive of a | number of years, and who is known Oct. 1, 1933, to 10,951,000 on Odt, 1, split between the upper and lower|as a “Big Navy” advocate of years! 1934, These figures are not correct. MLL LLL LL LLL ALLA LAA AAR RRA LL EAE uA CTA CNN 6 | President Roosevelt and his policies, | | American Navy.” Show the Mossés:‘ Demand Weliet standing, whose motto has been “America First,” has been over- whelmingly defeated by his New Deal Democratic opponent. Does that mean that the masses Who | voted for the New Deal favor a big | navy? If they did, they would have voted for Britten. But they | were against it. But Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson de- clares: “The overwhelming. victory of the Democratic Party shows the country has full confidence in including that of building up the And immediately after the elec- tions, we read in the Chicago Tribune the following dispatch: “ROCK ISLAND, IIl., Nov. 14.— Plans for installation of the finest government munitions research laboratory in the world. at the Rock Island arsenal, within’ the next two months, were announced today by Lieut. Col. Alexander G. Gillespie, commandant.” And in a dispatch from Wash- ington, we read the following: “WASHINGTON, Noy. 12.—The Roosevelt administration today replied to Japan’s recalcitrant at- titude on naval limitations by tentatively approving a 1935-1936 naval building program for twenty-four new fighting ships, to cost more than $120,000,000.” The masses yoted against a Big Navy, voted for the New Deal, and the New Deal does precisely what | the masses are opposed to. It builds a big navy and prepares for another mass slaughter of the toiling popu- lation. Unemployment Insurance The jobless workers voted for the New Deal because they felt that Roosevelt's New Deal will bring them unemployment insurance, re- lief and jobs. But what are the facts? Just the other day the New Deal President declared that there will be some sort of unemployment insurance, which really will not be unemployment insurance, but most important, that the fake scheme of unemployment insurance has the objective of defeating the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill, H. R. 7598, Even that fake unemployment insurance of Mr. Roosevelt “must be financed by contributions — not taxes.” The money bags are not to be touched. This is the motto of President Roosevelt. And how about the jobs?? “Help” to small home owners, about, which we heard so much, is already taboo. And Miss Perkins, on Nov. 13, de- clared: “It is childish to believe we | will always have jobs for every- body.” So there is no unemployment in- | surance, there are no jobs. What, the New Deal really admits is only one thing, that the army of unem- ployed will be premanently with us. A nice perspective for everybody! But let us examine the situation a little further. Jobless Increase According to the statistics of the. A. F. of L., the army of the unem- j on -~% They just indicate the growth of the army of the unemployed. In! reality, the army of the unem-/j ployed in the country today is the largest in the history of the United States. It already reaches up to 18,000,000, Who are these unemployed? The | Illinois Emergency Relief Commis- sion, in one of its reports, states: “At the present time there are ap- proximately 900,000 employable un- employed in Illinois, of whom not | more than 350,000 are receiving re- lief." Naturally, the figure here, too, is grossly underestimated. The | army of unemployed in Illinois has reached 1,500,000, But what is very important is that they admit that there are nearly 1,000,000 unem- ployed workers who want jobs, and that out of that tremendous army of the unemployed only a small portion of them are receiving any kind of relief, and that miserable relief that has been received up till now has been slashed below the starvation level. Just recently, in the State of Illinois, relief has been cut from 10 per cent to 35 per cent. Payrolls Drop How about the employed? William L. Austin, of the Bureau of Census of the United States De- partment of Commerce, reports that ; in the City of Chicago the payroll | $367,007,299 in the year 1931 to; $253,005,850 in 1933, which means from 1931 to 1933 the total wage cut for workers in Chicago amounted to $115,000,000. And the number of workers at the same time has been reduced from 282,518 to 247,672. These are the official figures which really throw light to what extent | the working class is being attacked | by the New Deal. To all this, one must always add the increased cost of living which on the average has increased above 30 per cent. Add this to the total wages received in the year 1933 and all indications are that the wages of 1934 are even below 1933, and you have a picture of the “benefits” of the New Deal for the working class. New Offensive The Democrats are jubilant with the results of the Nov. 6th elections, A special dispatch from Washing- ton, D. C., printed in the Chicago papers, summarizing the optimism of the New Deal rulers in Washing- ton, states “Now we can really go places.” This simply means that the Roosevelt New Deal prepares to “go places’—prepares for further attacks upon the toiling masses, workers, farmers, Negro people and the lower middle class, which is part and parcel of the fascist meth- | ods, sharpening of the attack upon the workers and preparations for war. Yes, the Democrais are speak- ing of going places. The Demo- crats are using both ends of the stick—terror and social demagogy. Growing Disillusion But the workers are also learning in this period and learning fast. They will also begin to learn much faster as they begin to experience more and more the “benefits” of the New Deal, Already in the re- | for {faster tempo than ever. Mass Actions to Grow As Disillusion With New Deal Spreads | cent elections, in many parts of the country, the workers registered a larger number of votes for the Communist Party than in any | other period, in addition to the mass support for the New Deal which carries all kinds of promises the masses, As the editorials, that the masses aside the reactionary American Lib- erty League leaders. The masses are drifting to the left. United Front The task confronting our Party is to become the organizer of these masses and in all the struggles of the masses to bring the class con- tent, to raise the struggle to higher planes, to strengthen the weak- nesses of the American proletariat, its class consciousness. The Amer- ican working class, unfortunately, as yet did not divorce itself from the bourgeois class politically. This process, however, will now assume It is pre- cisely because of this that the tasks. confronting our Party are: 1. To develop the broadest united of the workers has decreased from ‘front activities, involving the broad- est masses of workers in action for the demands they are ready to fight for, and, in the course of it, to clearly point out the perspective of the American working class, for the next period, popularizing the revo- ‘jutionary way out of it, a Soviet America. 2. This task can only be achieved if the Party is built. Anybody who underestimates today the building of the Communist Party into a mass Party of the American prole- tariat, to bring into it active, mili- tant American workers, trade union- ists of the A. F. of L., workers from the basic indust: from the big shops, is preventing crystallization, consolidation and unification of the American working class as a class. The Central Committee very cor- rectly estimated the situation when it raised before the whole Party, and before every member of the Party, the problem of building the Party. Unfortunately, as yet this is not the problem of the Party as a whole and of every Party mem- ber. There is only a small section of the Party that realizes how seri- ous the situation is, how necessary it is to build the Party to that we can take full advantage of the present very favorable conditions. Side by side with this the ques- tion of political education of the Daily | | Worker correctly points out in its brush ! AFL Reports | Sharp Rise | In Food Cost: WASHINGTON (FP).—How the rapid increase of prices has can- celled all gains in the wage income | of the average American worker, so that his real income is actually jlower today than at the depth of the crisis in March, 1933, is pointed | out by the American Federation of | Labor in its monthly survey of busi- ness for November. In ierms of food, the average worker's dollar was worth only 85 cents in September, 1933, only 78 cents in September, 1934, and at the end of October, still 78 cents, according to the survey. “In clothing,” it continues, “the story was much the same: The worker's dollar would buy 81 cents’ worth of clothing and furnishings in September, 1933, only 7912 cents’ worth in September, 1934. “Workers’ average weekly income in 104 industries employing nearly two-thirds of all industrial workers was $19.65 in March, 1933; $19.05 in September, 1934, when the rise in living costs is accounted for.” The survey points to figures of the Brookings Institution, ¥ I show that in 1929 a wealthy group of less than 3 per cent of all non- farm families received 31 per cent of all non-farm income; that a middle class group of 31 per cent of such families received 40 per cent, and that the lower wage- earning class, forming 66 per cent of all non-farm families, received only 29 per cent of the income. “Since 1929,” it says, “the work- | ers’ share in our national income has declined. From 1929 to 1932 wage earners’ income declined 60 per cent, the income of ‘entrepre- neurs’ 45 per cent, and property in- come 30 per cent.” ‘Locked Out Gold Miners Denied Relief by SERA, | AFL Organizer Reports SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18. — S. E. R. A. officials have refused aid} to the 500 striking gold miners |Jocked out in the Mother Lode area! j unless they return to work, accord! jing to a letter from Pres. E. W. Dombrosio of Local 48, Mother Lode Miners Union, to Joseph M. Casey, American Federation of Labor or- ganizer in California. | While the complaints are being ! In Milwaukee, too, the mass or-| 7) fall under | tunatel | partment. »Being Paid hearing it was is no legal a native may be vithous to the ho pelled to w us Master and Se facto: and r the } ng evidence in the case, of the furniture consider wi a.m. to 5:30 p.m. > people have no rk until they ate the evening. White at 5 pm. Unf get the white ne with- in. We working d 0 finish we can't rks to stay for overt permission from the 1 have to pay the white workers for overtime.” : Rank and File Force Reliet Action by AFL FLINT, Mich., Noy. delegates representing Fed- eral Auto Local in this General Motor Company town met here at a conference called by the rank and 18. — Thirty every file on Noy, 3 and voted to set up welfare committees in all A. F. of L. locals, 1p a new City Wel- fare Committee to replace the de- funct Central Body Welfare Com- mittee, and passed a resolution calling for the removal of County Relief Administrator Victor 8, set | Woodward. During the past three months the Welfare Department has been grad- ually cutting relief. Not meeting with any organized resistance, Re- lief Administrator Woodward an- nounced on Oct. 16 that relief would be cut 50 per cent, and steps would be taken to close the Welf: Although unemployed A. F. of were effected by these cuts, there Was no answer from the top lead- ership of the Federal and craft locals of the A. FP. of L. Committees by the scores poured into the Welfare offices, meetings were held, and an unemployment organization was formed. A protest demonstration was held at the Wel- fare Department. Since the top leadership of the local A. F. of L. remained silent, the rank and file called the convention which was held on Nov. 3. An attempt was made to spike any action by the membership when the Ceniral Trades and Labor Council voted to hold a_ special meeting, and without a quorum, ad- journment followed. When the res- lutions to form union welfare coms mittees and a City Welfare Com- mittee and demand the removal of the county relief administrator were finally presented at the regular meeting of the Central Labor Eody, they were unanimously passed, Heywood Broun Column Is Censored By Howard Newspaper Syndicate “It Seems To Me,” syndicated column of Heywood Broun, Presi- dent of the American Newspaper Guild, has not appeared for two days in the columns of the World: Telegram for the first time since, Broun joined the staff of the Scripps-Howard paper. No explana- jtion was printed in any of yester= day's editions of the paper. It wes learned that Broun’s- column was censored by the Scripps- Howard ndicate, which disap Proved of its contents. Broun was in conference with Roy Howard, owner of the newspaper chain, all’ day Friday. At a late hour Friday night, the results of the discussions” had not yet been announced. Wa | investigated, Casey has been au- thorized by the San Francisc Labor Council to give $1,000 of its funds for the relief of the miners. Lack masses, the deepening of the polit- ical understanding, the populariza- tion of propagandistic literature is the question of the hour. The | masses really want to know the way | of clothing and shoes was keeping out. No more can we answer thes | miners’ children from going to} tion Eleven of the Communist. questions only by calling upon the | <cncol, Casey reported after a trip Party will hold a banquet and) Ayaka? tannin cate bis) to the mine area, where he found dance in honor of A. Murphy, sec= tire take cei “the strug- | ™@0y in distress. tion organizer, I. O, Ford, Commu gle for the bottle of milk for starv- Miners are nevertheless holding nist candidate for governor in the ing children there cai no strug- | their ranks firm. Since the lock- ent elections, and John | gle for the dictatorship of the prole- | Out, Local 48 has added 100 new|%on, organizer fer the Cl an members, district on Saturday. eae | (Cleveland Workers Plan Dinner Saturday. CLEVELAND, ©., Nov. 18—Sec= tariat.” Brow” ar)