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Central Labor Council Backs West Coast F.E.R.A. Strik DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1934 Bellingham CORRUPTION CHARGED TO INSPECTORS OF FUR CODE; UNION ACCUSES CHIEF OF AIDING THE BOSSES County Men. Seek Pay Rise United Front Strike, Committee Demands Workers’ Bill BELLINGHAM, Wash., Nov. 27.— The Central Labor Council of Bel- | lingham endorsed the demands of the striking relief workers of Bel- | lingham County at its last regular meeting here. The strikers’ de- mands call for an immediate 50 per cent increase in cash relief; for a six-hour day, thirty-hour week un- der union wages and conditions on all relief work, and endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill and Initiative Four. (UInitiative Four is the State Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill for which workers’ groups are collecting 50,000 signatures in order that it might be placed on the first order of business when the State Legislature convenes on January 15—Editor.] The demands of the striking relief workers, as drawn up by the United Front Strike Committee and en- dorsed by the Bellingham Central Labor Council, are as follws: Board of County Commissioners, Bellingham, Wash,, Gentlemen: The relief program in this county provides six cents per meal for a family of two, 5% cents for a fam- ily of three. Each increase in the \ number in the family results in a corresponding decrease in the amount given per meal. A family of eight is forced to live on 4 7/10 cents per meal. Totally nadequate provision is made for clothing, no provision is made for lights, rent, medical care, etc. Therefore we are demanding of the W, E. R. A, an immediate in- crease of 50 per cent in relief to be paid in cash. The W, E, R. A, has introduced a forced labor program. A single worker who works on a relief job receives $6 to maintain himself for a month. This is only for food, with no other provisions for other needs, rent, lights, etc, We demand that all workers em- ployed on relief work, city, county or otherwise, be guaranteed a thirty-hour week, six-hour day, psd work, at trade union rates of pai We Satan the County Commis- sioners enforce the thirty-hour week, five-hour day, rates of pay, with steady work on all county work relief projects. We are supporting the struggle for the Workers’ Unemployment In~ surance Bill, Initlative No. 4 and the National Bill, H. R. 7598, which will provide a minimum of $10 per week and $3 for each dependent at the expense of the government and the employets. For the winning of these demands the workers have declared a strike on the relief jobs. We demand that the County Commissioners endorse these de- mands and give their whole-hearted support toward the winning of these demands, And that the County Comniis- sioners memorialize the Congress of the United States for the Federal Bill, H. R. 7598, and the State Legislature for the enactment of the State Bill, Initiative No. 4. And that the County Commis- sioners elect two delegates to sit ‘with the Strike Committee to help win these demands. WHAT’S ON B5e for 3 lines on weekdays. itday 50c, Money m Chicago, Ill. First Annual Dance given by Painters Br, 565 I.W.O. Saturday, Dec. 8 at Mirror Wall, 1166 N. Western Ave, Adm. 26¢ in adv, 35¢ at door. Philadelphia, Pa. Mass meeting in defense of the Scottsboro boys, Ruby Bates, main speaker, Saturday, Dec, 3, at 2456 N. 80th St. Adm, 15¢, Concert and Report of the Inter~ national Women's Congress Against re Mother Bloor, ker, Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m. r Hall, Tol" Pine St. Adm, ; City Comm. Working Wo- yuneils, Jubilee Concert of 20 years of pro-~ letarian musical development of the celebrated proletarian composer, Comrade Jacob Friday, Nov. 30 at Mercantile Broad and Master Streets. Spa will be performed. Tic! at 316 Wi og Square Biag. "ath and Chestnut Bts. Boston, Mass. Jay eg moe served from a Nov. 29. al the fixi aan more tool Adm. 35c, Proceeds for Defense of Scottsboro boys. Peottsbore Br, 1.L,D., 1029 Tre- mont Bt. Providence, R. I. First Annual Bataar of Labor Educa~ tion Association. ‘Three evenings: ‘Thu , Nov, 29; Friday, Nov. 30; and Saturday, Dec. 1, at 1755 West~ minster St. Starts 7 p.m. Adm. 10c, Bargains, ‘dancing, entertainment. Chicago, Ill. ped gras Pe Anniversary Oelebration given R Sec. 9 C.P. Thursday, Nov, 29, 2:30 p.m. tt Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsh Blvd, Bugene Bechtold, main spesker, Adm. 10c. Unemployed eteveland, Ohio Supper and Dance a given by West Side Hungerian LL.D. Br. Saturday, Dec. at West Side Hungarian Workers Home, 4309 Lorain Ave, 1:30 pm. Benefit Political Prisoners. Adm. Washington, D. C. Film showing of “Road to Life,” th eden ‘Day, Thursday, 2 to it p.m. continuous, followed by fs picnient performance, 212 ne N.W. Ausp.; Washington fam he Photo League. Rochester, N. Y. Michael Gold on lecture tour for the New Masses, speaks on “The Crisis in Modern Literature,” Friday Eve., Noy. 30, at Lithuanian Hall, 575 Joseph Ave. at a meeting arra) by the Pen & Hammer of Roch trade union | Work Relief Strikers Win Pay Increase Sixteen Jailed in FERA Walkout To Be Tried December 11 ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov, 27.— Although not all projects are not being worked, most of the F, E. R. A. strikers have returned to work in Arapahoe County with a decided vietory. Most of the pay cuts have been restored, and the workers have received 70 per cent. of the wages lost for the time on which they were out on strike. Thus, 2 man who used to get thir- teen days a month at $3 a day, and who had been cut to seven days a month before the strike, now gets twelve days’ work a month. This makes his monthly wage $36 in- stead of the $39 before the strike, but $15 more than the wage cut. The strike was initiated by the Colorado Workers’ Union here when its 600 members voted to strike against a 51 per cent wage cut, Ac- cepting the support of the Inter- national Labor Defense and the Communist Party, the workers formed a two-mile motorcade and marched on the F. E. R. A. projects in Denver. The sweep of the peace- ful strike spread. On the second project which was visited, the larg- est in Denver, the police attacked, firing fifty shouts at the strikers, Harry Brown, president of the Englewood local of the Colorado Workers’ Union, was wounded by gunfire. The enraged workers fought back, sending four police to the hospital, Sixteen workers were arrested and held under heavy bond. They will be tried during the week of Dec. 11. Scores Are Made Sick By Rotten FERA Meat Distributed in 'Toledo TOLEDO Ohio, Nov. 27.—Scores of unemployed workers here haye been made dangerously ill from meat food products distributed by the relief offices. Six cans of meat selected at random frm 2,000 cases sent here by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration were found to be dangerously contaminated, Dr. Basil B. Brim, health commissioner, reported yesterday. Dr. Prim said that the poor con- dition of the animals, which were brought to Ohio from the drought regions and slaughtered, was proba- bly the cause. All of the persons made ill had received the contam- inated meat before it was exam- ined. ‘The Unemployed Councils have called upon all unemployed work- ers to refuse the meat foods dis- tributed by the F. E, R, A. here, and to demand that supplementary meat foods be furnished by cash payment for fresh meat products purchasable at any store at which the workers wish to trade, NEWARK BANQUET NEXT SUNDAY NEWARK, N, J, Nov. 27.—Thé Newark section of the Communist Party will hold a banquet and red vaudeville show next Sunday eyen- +! ing, Dec. 2, at the Slavak Workers’ Home, 52 West Street, Newark. A three-hour vaudeville show, consist- ing of comedy acts, drama, music and solo dances, has been arranged. Subscription 35 cents. The following article concludes a series of three on the situation and struggles of the marine in- dustry. Here the national secre- tary of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union discusses future prospectives and tasks of workers in the unions, ee 8 UR tactics must be clear espe- cially in view of our tasks. We have seen that while some of the major strikes resulted in impor- tant concessions being won, it is clear that the N, R, A, and A, F. of L, leaders have succeeded in pre- venting the strikes from gaining jmaximum results. Consequently the full demands of the workers have not been met anywhere and in some cases, after months of delay, there is not even a basic change in wages, hours, conditions, control of hiring halls or union recognition. The same conditions responsible for the strike still prevail. The refusal of the ship owners in the Northwest to meet with the longshoremen for the establishment of jointly con- trolled hiring halls, called for in the arbitration award, and the lock- out of the Everett I. L. A. are a warning that the ship owners are launching an offensive against some of the concessions won and espe- * cially against the strong organiza- tion established on the coast as a result of the strike. Although the ship owners have the very methods used have created a very critical situation for them. The negotiations and arbitration on seamens’s demands now directly ef- feet practically every seaman on . |American ships. These seamen were |been temporarily checked the struggles, | Shamroth Is Engaged In Shady Practices | | By Sender Garlin Article I, | Startling disclosures of corruption among inspectors of the Compliance Division of the Fur Code Authority | have recently been made by leaders | of the Fur Workers Tndusteial | Union. Chief among the charges, sup- ported by documentary evidence | and sworn statements of witnesses, are the following: 1—That inspectors of the Com- Pliance Division are shielding man- ufacturers who are violating both the Fur Code of the N. R. A. as well as the agreement made with the Fur Workers’ Industrial Union, 2—That Morris Shamroth, chief inspector of the Code Authority, has been using his office to solicit business, for various and sundry methods for a firm in which his son-in-law is a partner. The firm is Klier’s, 352 Seventh Avenue, New York. Charge “Nepotism” The Industrial Union not only ac- cuses Shamroth of these practises, but declares that Abe Chalkin of the firm of Chalkin and Liss, 350 Seventh Avenue, New York, has installed his son as an investigator of the Compliance Division and his daughter in an office capacity with the Code authorities; and that another investigator is Glasser, a son-in-law of Louis Fenster, a manufacturer of 333 Seventh Ave- nue, who never lives up to the con- ditions stipulated in union agree- ments. A sensation has been caused } among the furriers by these dis-) closures. Workers gathered at a re- cent meeting in Cooper Union heard leaders of the Fur Workers In-| dustrial Union recite the details of these activities. The workers adopted a ringing resolution de- nouncing these practises, and de- manding the abolition of the so- called Labor Compliance Division of the Code Authority, as well as the immediate removal of Shamroth, the | chief inspector. An Old Hand Shamroth was a business agent in the old Furriers’ International about 15 years ago, but was driven out of the organization by the furriers, Later he went into the fur business, first as a dealer and later in a dressing and dying firm. He has always been close to the manufac- turers, and his appointment as N. R, A. inspector, furriers charge, is only an extension of his activities as a’ pal of the manufacturers. It is also generally known that Sham- roth was appointed with the aid of the Associated to assist as a con- tact man with the right wing In- ternational, Not only is Shamroth charged with using his office for the pur- pose of soliciting business for his relatives, but statements in posses- sion of the Fur Workers Industrial Union reveal the fact that Sham- roth promised the firm of B, Dret- tel that he would overlook viola- tions of the fur code and that he would not molest Drettel’s out-of- town shop in Bound Brook, N. J., provided that the latter would bring his support behind the American Fur Association, Inc., instead of the New York Fur Trimming Manufac- turers’ Association which has an agreement with the Fur Workers Industrial Union. The latter asso- ciation, which comprises more than 300 shops, has had a working agree- Industrial Union Holds|| INSPECTOR OFFERS TO MAKE A DEAL | September 6 19%. Oe ee has promised me that if I would stop the merger with the Trinmers and steer my Assoriatioa inte the Associated in a month I could operate my out of tows factory dust as 3 wished without fear of interference frow the Code Author sty Photographic reproduction of statement made by Mr. Benjamin Drettel, a manufacturer who operates a big open shop in Bound Brook, N. J., declaring that Morris Shamroth, N.R.A. inspector, promised him “that if I would stop the merger with the Trimmers and steer my As- | sociatino nito the Associated within a month I could operate my out-. .of-town factory just as I wished without fear of interference from the Code Authority.” ment with the furriers since last September. In possession of the union is a/ statement signed by Benjamin Dret- tel, a manufacturer who operates a big open shop in Bound Brook, N. J., Where working conditions are described by workers as unbearable, Drettel’s statement, which is re- produce on this page, declares: “Morris Shamroth has promised me that if I would stop the merger with the Trimmers and steer my Asosciation into the Associated in a month I could operate my out of town factory just as I wished with- out fear of interfence from the Code Authority.” Typical of the kind of exploitation sanctioned by the N, R. A. inspec- tors is that found in Drettel’s plant. Here six cutters, all working piece- | work, are employed from 5 a, m. | until 10 Pp. m, Drettel employes eight operators, seven of whom are local girls. Operators, nailers and closers get as little as $16 a week! Joseph Winogradski, manager of Fur Workers Industrial Union and Irving Potash, leader of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, recently presented this and similar evidence before a hearing held on the fur manufacturers code author- ity, In the presence of Shamroth, Hershkowitz and other Compliance Division officials, they presented evidence showing flagrant violations of the code and charged that the N.R. A, inspectors—and particularly Shamroth—were shielding manufac- turers, How Shamroth was involved in the firing of Sydney Handelman and Abe Small, fited from their jobs in Easton, Pa., after they com- plained to the Fur Code Authority that they were forced to work far below the scale, is revealed in a signed statement by Handelman. The statement graphically describes how the manufacturer falsified time-sheets and hid the workers in a freight elevator when word came that inspectors were on their way. In his sworn statement Handel- man declares: “I have been a worker, cutter of the Progressive Manufacturing Company, located at the Simmons Building, North 13th Street, Easton, Pa, I started to work for this firm on April 12, 1934. I was engaged for this job by Mr. Max Oldman of Oldman Bros., at their premises, 350 Seventh Avenue, New York on Wednesday, April 11, 1934. At that time he told me that he was en- gaging me to work as a cutter for a shop belonging to him in Easton, Pa. Mr. Oldman told me that he would pay me the same wages he had been paying me when I was employed by him last year for a stalled around on the codes for a year, After an 84 day strike on the Pacific Coast they were unwillingly forced to submit to arbitration. On the East Coast a truce was enforced only through the most strenuous strikebreaking measures and prom- ises that their demands would be met shortly, After all this nothing has been changed. Only promises, delays and the prospects of more delays, Workers Learned from Recent Struggles The masses are rapidly becoming aroused against these delays and what little hope some had about the arbitration is being dissipated, The past struggles and experiences have strengthened them organizationally and politically and even greater struggles are now maturing. Dis- satisfaction is being reflected in or- ganized action. Months after the strike is over scabs continue to be beaten up for their activities. On the West Coast a large number of recent strikes have taken place, es- pecially in the last month, partici- pated in by I. S. U. and M. W, I. U. members. These actions have taken Place in spite of the I. S. U. offi- cials, who say that individual ship strikes get nothing and that mili- tant action will prejudice the sea- men before the arbitration board. The campaign for a Centralized Shipping Bureau initiated by the M, W. I. U, is gaining strength be- cause of the refusal of the I. S, U. leaders to lead a struggle against the re-opening of the fink halls. The mass movement of the East Coast unemployed seamen in sup- port of the strike has been continued iin a fight for relief and in all ports recently important concessions have ‘won. The extension of these By ROY HUDSON struggles to the Gulf has resulted in a big advance there for the M. W. I. U. creating for the first time a situation where it is possible to get mass strength among all the Gulf seamen. Finally, the I. 8, U. leaders, because of the growing dis- content of the seamen, have been forced to circulate rumors on the coast that “both coasts would be called out to force the arbitration board to act,” and on the East Coast the I. 8. U, officials have been forced for first time to make a pretense at reporting on the pro- gress of the negotiations. M, W. I. U, Must Lead The Marine Workers Industrial Union must organize and give lead- ership to this movement. A wide united front campaign must be launched to protest against the de- lays in arbitration and negotiating, to demand that a decision on the seamen’s demand be arrived at within a specified period of time and that the agreement be uni- form on all coasts, that it guaran- tee the right of the seamen to be- long to a union of their own choos- ing, and that the agreement be sub- mitted to a vote of all seamen re- gardless of union affiliation, The movement must be directed against the compromising of the demands by the I. S. U. officials and for the Purpose of forcing a favorable award and to prepare the masses to resist continued delays or an ef- fort to put over a sell-out agree- ment, The- organization of strong ship's committees will give strength to the movement and the organiza- tional basis for taking action. The question of hiring halls or job control will not be decided in the negotiations, no matter what the proposals of the I. S, U. or gov- i ; Period of about one month in East- | ton, Pa. Dodged Investigator “I was discharged on Monday, June 26, 1934. My wages have been on the average of $33 per week. I have been working piece work, get- ting $2 a coat. I had worked reg- ularly from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. every day and on Saturdays from 7 a. m, to 3 p.m. “On Friday, June 15, I gave no-| tice to the firm that I would no longer work on Saturdays. How-| ever, fearing I would be discharged, I did come to work that Saturday. During that Saturday, on June 16,| there took place an investigation by the N. R. A. authorities. I had| already left the place, however, and my co-workers informed me that most of them had been working during the investigation, but hay- ing reecived notice of the investiga- tors approaching, they were all driven into a freight elevator and taken downstairs, whereupon the investigators came into the place and found only a few people work- ing, among whom were Tony Ma- rullo, a general workersand George, a water, “During the following week I had talked to the workers of the shop, advising them that all of us should refuse to work longer than 4:30 p.m., especially since we did not get any extra pay. As a result of this, one day during the week all of us| had actually stopped at 4:30 p.m. The manager, Mr. Reiner, then as- sured us that there would no longer be any investigations, nor any other kind of trouble, from the N, R, A, “After the investigation on June 16, the manager informed me and the others that no matter what time we started to work in the} morning we should punch the time cards at 8:30 a.m., and also at 4:30 P.m., even if we worked later, On Several occasi I found my card punched at 4:30 p.m., although I didn’t do it. “Having been notified of this in- vestigation I informed the manager, Mr. Reiner on Friday, June 22, that I would no longer work on Satur- days because we were not supposed to. Another cutter, Abe Small, like- wise informed the manager of his refusal to work on Saturdays. “On Saturday, June 23, Small and I went up to the Fur Code Authority headquarters in the Greeley Arcade Building, and we lodged our complaint to Mr. Sham- roth under what conditions I have been working and Small told him that he had been working longer hours than I did. “After June 16 (following the N. R. A. investigation), the workers coming from Easton, Pa., insisted on shorter hours, whereas the work- ers coming from New York con- Marine Union Leader Cites Need of a Broad United Front ernment are. Abolition of the fink halls, control of hiring, is one of the major issues put forward by the workers. The plans of the ship owners and I. §, U. can be de- feated by mobilizing all seamen around the demand of a central- ized shipping bureau, The sale of the Centralized Shipping Bureau pamphlet must be pushed and spe- cial meetings called in all ports to discuss and explain the bureau. We must begin to get out of the propa- ganda stage in this campaign and organize daily struggles against ev- | ery case ©f discrimination, back- door shipping, favoritism and biacklisting. Organize Jobless The consolidation of the unem- ployed councils as functioning in- dependent organizations must re- ceive the most careful attention. The recent advances in the unem- ployed struggles and growth of the councils must be further extended by pushing our program for a na- tional fight for a uniform scale of immediate relief. Mass support must be mobilized for the demand brought forward. These demands should be presented to the local au- thorities, and with the perspective of a strong seamen’s delegation at the Washington Unemployed Con- gress where this delegation, repre- senting an organized movement in every port, should present demands to the federal authorities. On all these major issues a strong united front with the membership of the I, S. U. must be built up through the systematic development of a rank and file movement. In view of the lockout of the Everett I. L. A. the militant mem- | bers of the I. L. A, in all ports must |the past summer.” The Daily Worker [| Workers I Demand That Compliance Division Be Abolished tinued to work the same hours as they did prior to the investigation. | Workers Are Fired |. “Mr, Shamroth did not show any | interest in our general complaint. | He was interested only in the com- Eee that we were making about ourselves. He told me and showed jme the record of a raid made on | the shop in Easton, Pa. by the | Philadelphia Code Authority. | “When Mr. Shamroth asked us | foir our names we told him that we | didn’t want our names exposed be- |cause we felt we would lose our | jobs. He assured us the names | would be kept absolutely confiden- |tial and that the complaint would} be made without our names being exposed. “On Sunday, June 24, Abe Small | got a telephone call from Mr. Sam Oldman of Oldman Brothers, that |Mr. Oldman wanted to see Small| and me at his New York office) at 350 Seventh Ave., in the morn- ing of Monday, June 25. On Mon- day morning Small and myself went to the office. Mr. Max Oldman spoke to me and told me that there was no need of me going back to Easton because he was closing up the place. He said that he would try to get me a job. He told me that there was no need of me go- ing out to Easton for my things and my check because they would | be sent to me, “After Mr, Oldman got through | with me, Mr. Max and Sam Old- man spoke to Abe Small and told him the same thing. After leaving the office of Mr. Oldman, we im- mediately went to Easton, Pa., where we found all the old people and the additional help working. We demanded our checks and re- ceived the same. The manager, | Mr. Reiner, wanted us to sign a statement that we have nothing to do with the place and that we| would have no complaints upon the place, which we refused to do. My check amounted to $32.25 for the week of June 18, when I had worked about 54 hours. On Tuesday, June} 26, we again went to see Mr. Sham- | roth, because we knew that our dis- charge was caused by the informa- tion about our complaint by Mr. Shamroth to Oldman Brothers. “We told that to Mr. Shamroth, whereupon he claimed that anyone who gave out this information in-| cluding himself would be fired. We were not satisfied and Mr. Sham- roth promised to get us a job. When we insisted on our old jobs, he promised to get them for us. On| Wednesday, June 27, Abe Small in- formed me that he had gone up to see Oldman and that he spoke to Harry Bloom, who is the sales-| man of Oldman Bros., who in-| formed him that Mr, Shamroth had | told the firm of our complaint and} that was the reason why we had been discharged. Small also told me that Mr. Bloom remarked to) him that he had better not make a} fuss about the whole thing because | for such things, he, Mr. Bloom, had | already broken the heads of some | people. | Signed) SYDNEY HANDELMAN, 2509 Mermaid Ave., Brooklyn. ah eer TOMORROW: Concrete evi- dence of piece-work and long hours in violation of the Fur Code | and union agreements, | S. 0. of Claremont, Va., when he renewed his yearly subscription, sent an extra $1 for the Daily Worker drive, “It is the best I can do, as my income dried up out West fights for genuine relief for workers and farmers. Contribute to the $60,- 000 fund! strengthen their positions in the various locals where they have a foothold, But the progressive ele- ments in the I, L. A. must under- stand that unless their movement is extended to all ports and locals they will be open to attack because of their isolation. The rank and file groups now in existence must as- sume the initiative in organizing and leading the membership of the policies of Ryan and Co. In view of the new offensive special atten- all marine unions which, under rank and file control and militant leadership, will be powerful fighting weapons in the hands of the workers. The lack of organization and unity made arbitration possible and has enabled these maneuvers to be dragged out. An energetic recruit- ing campaign to bring thousands of unorganized seamen into the M. W. I, U. will strengthen the de- mands of all seamen. The strug- gles led by the M. W. I. U,, the strikebreaking activities of the I, S. U, leaders and the arbitration delays, make a real, mass recruit- ing campaign possible and neces- sary. The basis of this campaign must be the mobilization of the seamen to force action on their de- mands, and to prepare for action against efforts to betray them. Ev- ery cffort must be made to build and strengthen the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union in preparation for the National Committee meet- ing in January, which will have I. L. A. on a coast-wide and na- | tional basis, in the fight against | the ship owners and the sell-out | tion must be given to the move- | ment for Waterfront Federations at | Wi ea are Vote On Union In Tire Plants Bosses Attempting to Foist Company Union On Employes AKRON, Nov. 27.— Employ the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co and the B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, will decide before Dec. 11 whether their “collective bargaining agent” is to be the company union or the American Federation of La- bor. The decision of the National La- bor Relations Board ordering an election for that purpose will affect more than 21,000 workers in the two plants. The exact date of the elec-| tion is to be set by the regional | board. | The Firestone local had asked | that the company union be defi-| nitely outlawed, However, the deci- sion specified that the name of the| company organization should ap-/ pear on the ballots, This decision | gave support to and tended to legal- | ize the company union. The mere fact that collective bar- | gaining is difficult under plans | sponsored by companies is not suf- | ficient reason for refusing to place their names on the ballots, the | board held, stating that “the choice, | good or bad, is for the employes to make.” Another section of the re- port states that the formation of the} company organizations may have| been undue interference with the | right of self-organization, but that | the board did not consider this issue | since a “secret election can remedy | the wrong already done.” | | Worker Fired 3 Times | For Union Activities | (oe | NEW ORLEANS (F.P.).—Herbert | Shephard, officer of the American| | Federation of Hosiery Workers, pre- | viously discharged twice by the Alden Mills and ordered reinstated in each case by the Regional Labor | Board, has again been fired by the| mills for union affiliations. Three | other members of the union also have filed charges of discrimination | against the mills. The unionists! figured as witnesses or principals | in other cases filed against the mills | in recent months and charge that} they were fired for their activities! on behalf of their fellow workers. Page 3 'Vagrancy Law Taken to High | Court By LL. te Fight on Convictions in California to Go te U. S. Court LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 21 Vagrancy laws, used in many states to railroad militant workers to jail, are being sharply challenged by the mass campaign and court actions organized by the International La- for Defense around the cases of Emma Cutler, F. Sales and Barl Ambrose. Last week, the I. L. D. won @ partial victory in forcing the Dis- trict Appellate Court of Southern | California to grant an appeal to the U. 8. Supreme Court for Emfha Cutler, who was sentenced to six months in jail on a vagrancy charge when, as a representative of the I. L. D,, she tried to organize defense for some 400 strikers ar- resied in the lettuce strike last January in Imperial Valley. She was sentenced within three hours of her arrival in the Valley. Earl Ambrose and F. Sales were also brought from their prison cells into court last week on a writ se- cured by the I. L. D. demanding to know why they are illegally im= prisoned. The two workers already have served eight months of a sen- | tence of one year each,on a charge of vagraricy. This is the first time that the fight against this vicious law, used |to perpetuate Negro peonage in the South and to spread forced labor |to other parts of the country, will be carried to the highest court in |the land. The results of this fight will affect labor throughout the country, and it is necessary to mo- bilize the strongest nation-wide support behind this appeal, Organizations are urged to send resolutions to the U. S. Supreme Court demanding a review of the Cutler case, and the removal from the statutes books of the anti-labor “vagrancy” laws, with the uncon- ditional release of all workers now held under these laws. BOSTON, Mass. Fifteenth nnual Bazzar New International Hall 42 Wenonah St., Roxbury Fri. and Sat 1 Wed., Thurs., Noy. 28-29-30 and Dec, Russian Linen - Furniture - Dresses - GALA ENTERTAINMENT! Toys - Novelties Skirts - Blouses Admission Free! Thanksgiving Eve. Wed., Nov. 28th GOOD DANCE Philadelphia, Pa. DAILY WORKER MASQUE BALL STATE DANCE HALL 20th and Market Streets COME IN COSTUME ORCHESTRA @ SUN. DEC. 2nd District — Philadelphia, Pa. — DAILY WORKER VICTORY BANQUET BROAD STREET MANSION Broad and Girard Ave. CHAS. KRUMBEIN District Organizer of New York JOHN SPARKS District Organizer of Boston will present the flag to our FREIHEIT GESANGS FAREIN WORKERS’ ADMISSION: Official delegates from organizations free. LABORATORY THEATRE Comrades who will collect $1 until the banquet, will be admitted free. CHICAGO, ILL. Peoples Auditorium | || 2457 West Chicago Avenue Program: “Newsboy” by Theatre Collective Freiheit Singing Society Musie by 6-Piece Orch. Gala Entertainment and Dance FUN GALORE, FOR ALL! — EATS OF ALL KINDS DANCING UNTIL ? 2??? All proceeds of this affair will go towards completing the Chi- | cago District Quota in the Daily Worker $60,000 Drive, v SATURDAY, DEC. Ist — —8P.M— Prizes will be presented to: Section having raised most © money over quota—Lenin Set. — Organization with highest amount.—Red Flag, a Section far behind achieving _ quota. —Black Flag. — Chicago, Tl. -- “NEWSBOY” Freiheit Singing Society Large Orchestra problems of basic importance to take every step to consolidate and discuss, Well-known Violinist DANCE and ENTERTAINMENT | Saturday, theatre Cottetive in | PEOPLES AUDITORIUM 2457 West Chicago Ave. Tickets: Division St., 805 So. State St... 4808 South Park, | 3228 West Roosevelt Road. December Ist, 1934 at 8 PM, 35c; in advance 25¢-~at 2019 West