The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1934 Daily Worker Launches Intensive Balloting Campaign _ for Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill Yotal of Million Votes Set as Goal in Drive To Finish in 20 Days Ballots Should Be Circulated in Shops, C. C. C. Camps, Transient Bureaus, Trade Unions and Among Jobless One million ballots have been printed by the Daily Worker and distributed throughout the country in order to give every worker an opportunity to cast his vote for the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. The ballots, which have been sent to all Daily Worker re resentatives and to all districts © the Communist Party from Maine te the Pacific Coast, should be signed and returned to the office of the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City, within the next twenty days. In this campaign which will end on Jan. 1, the Daily Worker has asked that each of its readers should obtain at least twenty-five ballots. These ballots can be obtained at trade unions, Unemployment Coun- cils, mass and fraternal organiza- tions and all Communist Party headquarters. The ballots should be circulated in the shops, among the millions who live on the Roosevelt hunger dole, at the C.C.C. camps, in the flop houses, concentration camps and transient bureaus. The ballots may also be obtained by writing to the office of the Daily V orker. Reprint Workers’ Bill The ballots each carry a reprint of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) as it was introduced into Congress Jast Feb. 2. Each worker, after read- ing the bill, is asked to return it co whomever gave it to him or mail it directly to the Daily Worker. In addition to sending out the campaign, the Daily Worker urges | immediate response. This can be no | long drawn out campaign. Congress | will meet in January. Simultane- | ously with the opening of the United | States Congress, another congress | will open in Washington—the | Workers National Congress for Un- | employment Insurance, At the time when the 5,000 work- | ers who will attend the three-day | sessions of the National Congress | for Unemployment Insurance meet, they must be supported by the mil- lions who demand the passage of the Workers’ Bill, To Publish Returns ‘Tabulations and complete returns | of the vote will be published weekly in the Daily ‘Worker. At the com- pletion of the voting on Jan. 1, the | ballots will be presented to Congress ployment Insurance Bill. In announcing the campaign, the Daily Worker has sent out copies of the following letter to all district Daily Worker representatives and to all district organizers of the Communist Party: Dear Comrades: “The Daily Worker has under- taken a poll on the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) which is to be presented to | the Unemployment and Social In- | surance Congress being convened million ballots, the Daily Worker| in Washington, Jan. 5, 6 and 7, will carry on its pages a reprint of | 1935, It is important that the in- the ballot daily. In launching this| coming Unted States Congress | in the form of a petition for the | enactment of the Workers Unem- | shall not hear only the voice of the Unemployment Congress but shall also hear the demands of one million workers for the Un- employment Insurance Bill. The popularity and effectiveness of such a campaign cannot be over- estimated. “We are enclosing a copy of the Bill which you will note carries the announcement that it is sponsored by the Daily Worker. This in a way will help to popu- larize the Daily Worker among the broader masses of people and make it known to them that the Daily Worker is the only news- paper deeply interested in the Worker's Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. “This Bill, a bundle of which is | being sent to you under separate cover, should immediately be Placed in the hands of mass or- ganizations. They in turn should spread it among the workers in the factories and at union meet- ings and get in as many votes as possible, “You are only getting a supply of ... copies. These must be placed in the hands of the workers within in TEN DAYS to enable you to return them in time for the Con- gress. Therefore the matter must be placed immediately before all organizations as a SPECIAL OR- DER OF BUSINESS so as not to cause any delays.” Comradely yours, Management, Daily Worker. Ask Support of Program Side by side with this ballot cam- paign for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill, the Daily Worker calls upon all its read~- ers to carry forward at this time the most intensive campaign in support |of the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance which will be held in Washington, D. C. on Jan. 5-7. Into every trade union, social and fraternal organization, every group of veterans, of the Negro people, women and youth, the call to the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance must be brought. Up until now, the power of the millions of workers and farmers in thousands of organizations that fa- vor genuine unemployment insur- ance has not been cemented into one driving force. This great movement represents a force which if properly Jed and consolidated, will be the power that will drive forward the final adoption of a system of gen- uine unemployment insurance, UNEMPLOYMENT Be it enacted by the tives of the United States Unemployment and Social SEC. 2. a system of unemployment employed through no fault average local wages. by workers and farmers and regulations prescribed formity with the purposes Punds for such insurance SEC. 3. conditions set forth in sec! maternity. SEC. 4. The benefits qualified for tne benefits ticular trade and locality, from home, Figures at the beginning of each line aanewr SRESR |TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF INSURANCE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Senate and House of Kepresenta- of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known by the title “The Workers’ Insurance Act.” The Secretary of “Labor is hereby authorized and directed to provide for the immediate establishment of and social insurance for the pur- pose of providing insurance for all workers and farmers un- of their own in amounts equal to Such insurance shall be administered controlled by them under rules by the Secretary of Labor in con- and provisions of this Act, through unemployment insurance commissions composed of the rank and file members of workers’ and farmers’ organizations. shall hereafter be provided at the expense of the Government and of employers, and it is the sense of Congress that funds to be raised by the Government 9 shall be secured by taxing inheritance and gifts, and by taxing individual and corporation incomes of $5,000 per year and over. No tax or contribution in any form shall be levied on workers for the purposes of this Act. shall the unemployment insurance be less than $10 per week plus $3 for each dependent. The Secretary of Labor is further authorized and directed to provide for the establishment of other forms of social insurance in like amounts and governed by the In no case tion 1 of this Act for the purpose of paying workers and farmers insurance for loss of wages because of part-time work, sickness, accident, old age, or of this Act shall be extended to workers and farmers without discrimination because of age, sex, race, or color, religious or political opinion, or affiliation, whether they be industrial, agricultural, domestic, or pro- fessional workers, for all time lost. No worker shall be dis- of this Act because of refusal to work in place of strikers, at less than normal or trade-union rates, under unsafe or unsanitary conditions, or where hours are longer than the prevailing union standards at the par- or at any unreasonable distance correspond with those of the original bill, The unity thus achieved behind the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance must be carried for- ward and led into active struggle for jthe enactment of the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill. With each succeeding day, the | of workers, of those now working | | to couch it in the formal language forward in support of the Workers’ Bill and elect delegates to the Na- tional Congress. Less than one month remains be- fore the historic National Congress | |for Unemployment Insurance will convene. The Congress will be the expression of the needs of millions and whose lives are haunted with the spectre of unemployment. will be the expression of the joble: millions who live on the Roose’ hunger dole and of the greater number who are denied all relief. Popularize Workers’ Bill In launching this campaign for | the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, the Daily Worker has | called upon all its readers to under- take the widest possible campaign of popularizing the Workers’ Bill and all its provisions as compared with the various fraudulent schemes advanced by Roosevelt and scores of others. Today it becomes necessary for every worker to acquaint himself with the Workers’ Bill so that he can answer every question put to} him concerning it. Briefly, what are the provisions of this bill which has received the backing of millions of workers, farmers and profession- | als? When the Communist Party first | brought it forward it was couched | in the simplest and most brief manner possible. When introduced into Congress, it became necessary It of legal procedure. Yet today, in its brief thirty-two lines, it re- mains a document that is under- standable to every worker. For this reason, the ballots distributed by the Daily Worker carry a reprint of the bill as it was introduced into Congress. Wide Endorsement The Workers’ Bill, which has been endorsed by 2,400 A. F. of L. locals, by six State Federations of Labor, by the national conventions of six international unions, by scores of central labor bodies and city coun- cils, sets forth four provisions for genuine unemployment insurance, These are its provisions: 1—Insurance benefits shall be paid to all workers when unem- ployed; to the aged, the sick and disabled. 2—Compensation to be equal to! sweep of the campaign behind the | average wages and in no case to Workers’ Bill and the National Congress for Unemployment In- surance grows. Groups hitherto fall below a standard of health and decency. 3—Benefit payments to become | upon supporting various reserve schemes | effective immediately to meet the and anything offered in the name | present needs of the employed and of unemployment insurance, come | unemployed. | Measure Introduced In Congress Reprinted for Wide Distribution Drive Inaugurated as Day Approaches for Open- ing of National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance 4—Administration through the elected representatives of the work- ers, 5—The full cost of this protec- tion is to be made a general charge industry and government without direct or indirect contribu- tions by workers or farmers. This is your bill, Clip out the e January 5-7 ballot printed below. Ob plies of the ballots from you ment Council local union secretary to obtain Fill out the ballot; get y workers as possible to fill Ss. and mail them to the Worker, 50 East Thirteenth Street, New York City. VO a for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill H.R. 7598 This ballot is sp Daily America’s Only Working 50 East 13 Worker onsored by the Class Daily Newspaper th Street New York (Cut out and sign this ballot today) BALLOT I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social 0 Insurance Bill and vote FOR de Address Z a Vote without delay and ret AGAINST urn your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” Porniars Vitally Coniitkod In Preparations for Jan. 5 Social Insurance Congress By JOHN BARNETT The masses of farmers over the vuntry have a particular interest the National Congress for Un- nployment and Social Insurance. ; lot only have thousands of farm- ers been deprived of their only means of making a living, have been driven from their homes. Not only does sickness, accident and old age leave many of them in need, but they are also faced with the sub- sistence homestead schemes of Roosevelt and Hopkins. According to these plans, farmers and work- ers are to be moved onto little plots of ground, where they must try to dig out a living. When conditions are such that in many cases farm- ers have not been making a living on even 50, 100 or 200 acres, they must now try to do so on a few acres. Not only this, but they must buy or pay rent for these places. ‘They cannot make a go of it, and the government knows it. But per- haps the subsistence farmer or worker will work part-time in in- dustry! Indeed, this is the plan! They should under these circum- Stances be willing to work for the lowest wages, if they can get a job at all with the 15,000,000 to 16,000,- 000 already unemployed. Industry wants cheap labor! In fact this is a colossal plan to ganize “forced labor,” to regiment. erty, to put starvation into a raight-jacket, to make the farm- ; ers and workers take poverty with- out struggle. The whole A.A.A. reduction pro- | gram aims to drive the masses of | smaller farmers to reduce their in- dividual farms to the subsistence level or move onto the subsistence plots. See what they are doing to the drought-stricken farmers, To sugar-coat this pill the goy- ernment begins to call these starva- tion homes, by such names as “‘re- habilitation farms,” “garden homes,” and the like. Yes they can call them “rose-beds,” “love-nests” or “pird-nests,” but they are all the same. | _ The National Congress of workers’ farmers and others will be a big blow against the New Deal plan to reduce large sections of the toiling population to the level of miserable peasants or worse. A special group session will be held on farm relief, where these problems can be dis- cussed, where social insurance, prob- lems of drought and emergency re- lief measures, such as the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill, which has been endorsed by thousands of farmers, can be taken up. The small, ruined and impover- ished farmers and farmer organ- izations have these and many other reasons for supporting, for sending delegates, and for passing resolu- tions: of support and greetings to the National Congress for Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance ‘ wh8n it meets in January. Mayor ‘Dodges Relief Issue In Haverhill (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVERHILL, Mass., Dec. 7.— Mayor Dalrymple and the City Council dodged the question of en- dorsing the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill when a committee from the Unemployment Councils of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union appeared before them. Joseph Costello, spokesman for the delegation, stated that this bill meets the most burning question | before the people today. He pointed it that the Workers’ Bill has been dorsed by scores of cities and jousands of trade unions and other orking class groups. It is the work- ers’ answer, he said, to the employ- ers moving their factories to where cheaper labor is available and leav- ing thousands destitute. Mayor Dalrymple asked for more time to “consider” the bill. He had been given a copy during his elec- tion campaign. The aldermen had likewise been supplied with copies of the bill. Alderman Costello stated: “I don’t see why we have to Provide for the non-citizens as the Workers’ Bill provides. . He was answered by Joseph Cos- tello, the delegation spokesman, who said that “we are unemployed not because we wish it, but because we can not make profits for the bosses at the present time. When their profits are endangered, the manu- facturers lay us off whether or not we are citizens.” The committee from the Unem- |ployment Councils will return next | Tuesday to demand endorsement of |the Workers’ Bill, In the mean- |time a campaign is being waged |among the unions to obtain endorse- ment of the bill and of the National Congress\ for Unemployment. Insur- ance which will meet in Washing- ton, D. C. on Jan. 5-7, League Against War | to Launch New Branch in Toledo Next Week TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 7. — The Toledo branch of the American League Against War and Fascism will be launched on Dec. 16 at the Y.M.C.A. hall. The support for the League represents a broad united front of working class organizations. The Cloak Makers are sending a delegate; the Journeymen Tailors will be represented; there will be a delegate from Local No. 7 of the Painters Union; Bricklayers Local | No. 7 will send 5 delegates; the | Women’s Trade Union League will be represented, and the Mechanics | Educational Society is sending a delegate, te NEW YORK —Assembled in Washington Jan. 4 and 5 at the Mecca Auditorium will be dele- gates representing hundreds of thousands of youth. The call ts- sued by the Continuations Commit- tee of the American Youth Con- gress, which is being sent to youth organizations all over the country, Says, in part: “The spectre of hun- ger and want, resulting from mass unemployment, faces the youth with grim reality this Winter. Mounting military budgets and sharpened international relations bring nearer the possibility of out- break of a new world war. Openly fascist forces raise their heads with greater audacity. Policies of edu- cational retrenchment are intensi- fied. Wages of youth in industry are reduced to unbearable levels. “The purpose of this National Congress of Youth is to work out the concrete steps necessary to carry the program adopted at the first American Youth Congress into action; to focus the attention of the great masses of American people upon this program and these ac- tions; and to present to Congress and the President the demands of the American youth.” Prominent Speakers The National Congress will open with addresses by prominent per- sonages and then will go on to round table discussions on unem- ployment, war, fascism, education, industry and agriculture. Report- ers elected by each group will then bring recommendations to the gen- eral Congress. After the discussion on the re- ports and voting on the resolutions | proposed, delegations will be elected ‘to present the proposals to the President, to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate. These delegations will then report back to the Congress and it will close with addresses by speakers of the most important and largest youth organizations. The National Congress is to be held at the Masonic Auditorium, Tenth and U Streets, Washington. Regional Congresses are being held all over the country, in prep- | aration for the National Congress. Among these will be one in Ann Harbor, Michigan, Buffalo, Chicago and New York, Rank and File on U.M.W.A. Ballot in District By Tony Minerich PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 7—The District 5, U. M. W. of A., ballots have been sent to the local unions, with all of the rank and file candi- dates, except Russell Esken, candi- date for International board mem- ber, listed on the ballot. The coal miners of District 5 were in the forefront in the fight against the Lewis machine. In this elec- tion, they also made sure that a slate would oppose that of Pat Fagan. He is the Lewis leader in this district and also the president of the Pittsburgh Central Labor Union. Whom to Vote For Among the candidates on the rank and file slate are Charles Nolker. He is running for ‘district president. He is now the president of the large Curtisville local union, and is known in all parts of the district as a good fighter. The race is only between Nolker and Pat Fagan. For vice-president there are six candidates in the field. Some of them are Lewis men, who are also running against the present vice- president, W. J. Patton. He is not even a “good Lewis man.” Not that he is not for the company, but he is not even a good disorganizer. Everyone takes him for the fool that he is. Because of this, the machine is also allowing some of their people to run against Patton. There are also others, who were “progressives” in the past fights. Most of these have gone over to the machine. Others are running to split the anti-Lewis vote. The rank land file miners. at a meeting in ® The Congress to be held in New York on Dec. 21, 22 and 23 at the Union M. E. Church, 229 W. 48th Street, will hear prominent speak- ers of the Republican, Democratic, Socialist and Communist Parties. held at the Central Opera House, 67th Street and Third Avenue, will be open, with the general public admitted. Round table discussions on problems of youth in industry, | and agriculture, unemployment and social insurance, education and rec- reation, and the international sit- | uation will take place the next day. 1 Endorsements Received Among the endorsers of the New York Regional Congress are E, Ed- ‘elman of the League for Industrial | Democracy; Rudolph Newbauer, Y. M. C. A. National Council; Ben Fisher, Young People’s Socialist | League; J. Little, Young Commu- | nist League; Jeanette Krutis, Y. W. ©. A. Industrial Council, and many others from church, liberal and | radical groups, | The American Youth Congress, The opening session, which will be | American Youth Congress Against Hunger Will Meet on Jan. 4 and 5 in Washington | | Viola Ilma and her so-called “Cen- tral Buro for Young America” after she visited Germany and held con- ferences with many high govern- | ment officials, was supposed to unite the youth behind a program of forced labor camps for all youth, | apprenticeships of from one to five | years, with little pay and opposi- tion to all radical organizations. The united front of liberal and radical organizations, representing 1,700,000 youth, defeated Viola’s fascist plans and united on a pro- gram which includes struggle against war and fascism, and re- placement of transient and C. C. C. camps with jobs and unemploy- | ment insurance. The representation at the Na- tional Youth Congress will be one for each organization, two for each national, state or city-wide central body, and delegates which will be elected at the regional congresses, Calls for the National Congress can | be had by addressing the Continua- tions Committee, American Youth Congress, 112 East Nineteenth | which was originally called by/ Street, New York City. 5) Arnold City, decided only to sup- port the candidate selected at the rank and file miners’ conference. Joseph (“Scotty”) O'Hara of Ren- ton, Pa., is the rank and file can- didate for vice-president. For secretary-treasurer the race is only between the Lewis man— William Hargest—and the candi- date of the rank and file, Robert Crawford of Richeyville. In board member districts 3 and 7 there are two rank and file can- didates. One of these is Joseph Yablonski (Sub-District 4). the president of the Crescent local. This is a big mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Elections Dec. 11 In Sub-District 7 the candidate is Ted Gall. He is a well-known rank and file fighter. He is op- posed by John Murray, the present appointed official and relative of Phil Murray, international vice- He is | , President of the union. | many candidates. There are nine for auditors and only two to be | elected. For tellers there are six- | teen candidates and three to be elected. For auditor the rank and file slate is William Duke and Richard | Shultz, There are other good men running, but due to the fact that the rank and file was not organized well enough, there was no elimina- | tion of candidates, so that only one set of candidates would run against those of the machine. The rank and file slate for tellers are E, C, Culp and Joe Moravitz. Culp is a well-known Negro fighter and national vice-president of the Unemployment Councils. Dec. 11. The rank and file are printing 50,000 copies of a marked ballot. This will be done to help Fascist Group Snoops In Trade Union Office BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 7—The office of the A. F. of L. rank and file committee has been visited by White Legionnaires Gullidge and Rasdick, accompanied by a police- man named Bryant. employe, Louise Reese, and an- nounced their intention to “keep an eye” on the office. Several weeks ago, the A, F. of L. rank and file committee office was raided by De- tectives Moser and Cole, searched for “Communistic” literature. Louise Reese was arrested, finger-printed and released. The three questioned the office | Canadian Militant Wins \Fight on Deportation TORONTO, Dec. 7. — Word has been received from Ottawa that Carl Prokupchuk, a Ukrainian worker who was arrested during a vag factory strike last spring, will not be deported but will soon be released from prison where he has been held for six months, Prokupchuk was sentenced to jail for his activities on the picket line, and later was held for deportation. The mass campaign for his libera- tion conducted by the Canadian Labor Defense finally secured his release. The election will take place on} the coal miners in their voting. “We For auditors and tellers there are{are for the rank and file and| against the machine,” is being said by many coal miners. The International Elections The International elections will be held on the same day. In these John L. Lewis has ruled the rank and file candidates off the ballot. They are not there for interna- tional president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer. But the names do appear for delegates to the A. F. of L, Convention. The rank and file coal miners decided to vote for only the four places on the International ballot. That will be for James Emery for teller and for John F. Sloan, James Emery and George Green for dele- gates to the A. F. of L. Convention. At the same time the miners are demanding a special international convention to hear charges against John L. Lewis. The situation looks bright for the rank and file coal miners. They will pull a majority vote in the Dis- trict 5 election, and also pile up a! big vote in the International elec- tion. Together with this, the miners | are taking steps to see that they | 200 Ohio Groups Rescind Support of the Wagner Bill; Back Natio CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 7,—Two} hundred Bohemian and Slovak fra- ternal groups in Ohio, meeting at a delegated conference here Wed- nesday, rescinded their support of the fraudulent Wagner-Lewis Bill, backed the Workers Unemployment | Insurance Bill, entered into the lo- | cal sponsoring committee, and de-| nal Congress meeting of the Sponsoring Com- mittee to be held Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. at the Painters Hall, 2030 Euclid Ave., to discuss further preparations for the Washington Congress. Post Card Campaign The Ohio Association for Unem- ployment Insurance decided to send cided to send delegates to the Na-| delegates both to the Washington tional Congress for Unemployment | Congress and also to Columbus. In Tasurance which will meet in Wash- | addition to this they printed 15,000 ington on Jan. 5-7. | post cards to be sent to the Con- In its own name, the group has/| gressmen in Ohio asking them to printed 15,000 post eats to be | Support and vote for the Workers mailed to Ohio Congressmen de-| Unemployment and Social Insur- manding that they back the Work-| ance Bill, The post cards read as els’ Bill. s | follows: SN Le eA Sate Ohio} Hon. Robert Crosser, Congressman, | Association for Unemployment In-| ty g§ genate Office Bldg., surance, which is composed of 200} Washington, D. C | Bohemian and Slovak organizations | .o. sir. | ; Which are mostly under Socialist | “pnis is my sixth winter that I | influence, met at the Bohemian Na~| nist suffer want, privation and the | tonal Hall Wednesday to discuss) srects of the ravages of inclement unification of all organizations for) oy rs : | i “ weather through no fault of mine. je penenee of the ay Unem-| “All this is due to our present un- | ployment Insurance Bill. : just economic and social system. Two months ago the Ohio Asso- | As a worker, I am entitled to a just | ciation for Unemployment Insur-’ share of the wealth I help to create. | ance was behind the Wagner Bill. ‘I further demand and justly so but since then, after careful inves-| a share of profit from the machine tigation of both the Workers’ Bill| that discarded me in my industrial and the Wagner Bill, it lined up| endeavor. I therefore urge you to solidly behind the Workers’ Bill as| support and vote for the Workers representing the interest of the) Unemployment and Social Insure working class. | ance Bill known as H. R. 7598. Representative Speaks | Yours truly, The Sponsoring Committee of the} ....... a hoevnee bases tndeesk bade coos Washington Congress for Unem- (Signature) ployment Insurance sent a delega- | — | tion to this conference. In the name | Arrange Collection Days lof the delegation, Frank Roge! The local sponsoring committee secretary of the Sponsoring Com-! has arranged two “Penny Collection | mittee, expressed his agreement with | Days,” Friday and Saturday, Dec. | their aim and promised all support | 21 and 22, to collect funds for the | for unifying the entire movement local expenses in preparation for behind the Workers’ Bill. He also| the National Congress for Uneme asked them to send delegates to the ployment Insurance. Many Rural Schools | J yy c kenback | May Close in Alabama ‘ Sik Marine Strike | Grows in West BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 7.— Governor B. M. Miller called state | relief officials and educational lead- | ers into conference at his office to- | day to discuss federal aid for Ala- | bama’s public school system. | School officials have announced; SEATTLE, Wash., Dec, 7.-—'The that Hebe schools will close this strike of seamen on the Robert | month, more in mid-January and | practically all rural schools after |LUckenbach spread to the Dorothy | Operating five months. Schools in | Luckenbach yesterday. The Jacob Escambia County are scheduled to Luckenbach has gone on strike in | close Monday. |Tacoma, The leaders of the Inter- |national Seamen’s Union (A, F. of |L.) continue to call the strike “un- Receives New Trial oficiai.” Victim of Downs Law Leaders of the Masters, Mates and are not cheated in these elections.| BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 7.—The case For this purpose there will be a of Israel Berlin, white worker, was delegated conference of the dele- | brought before Judge McElroy of gates from all of the local unions | the Circuit Court by Attorney C. B. in District 5 on Dec 16 (Sunday) in | Powell, acting for the International California, Pa. The local unions | Labor Defense, upon his motion for will send a tabulated vote of their | a new trial. elections and the rank and file will) Berlin was convicted Oct. 26 of tabulate their own vote. violation of the Downs ordinance We will take office if we have to | and sentenced to six months’ im- go there and threw them out, say prisonment and a fine of $180. the rank and file coal miners, They | Judge McBiroy has not yet ren- mean business, : dered a decision. Pilots and Tow Boats union per- |mitted towboats to shift the “Rob- \ert.” Pickets stoned the towhoats. The officers were not yet called out. Teamsters and longshoremen are jout solid. The Marine Workers Industrial |Union has notified all ports ta | spread the strike on all Luckenbach ships. The fight for the original demands must continue, the union declared, ice ‘sy ns nt ar at. we in iet 10° : of