The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1934, Page 3

nited Trade ‘Usiousl | And Jobless For a United Front In the Hillsboro Case in Joint Action Will Send Delegation to National Congress on Social Insurance By A. B. Magil (Special te the Deily Worker) DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 10.— Unanimously endorsing a mass march to the County Relief office on Tuesday, Dec. 18, a second con- ference of representatives of trade unions, unemployed organizations and workers’ fraternal and social organizations, meeting at Danish Brotherhood Temple, 1775 West Forest Avenue, yesterday swung into action to rally thousands of workers for participation in this great demonstration against the drastic cuts in relief that have been given the 60,000 families on Wayne County relief rolls, The mass congress, which was called by the Detroit Conference for Unemployment Relief and In- surance, also took steps for the sending of a Michigan delegation of about 200 to the National Con- gress for Unemployment and Social Insurance, which will meet in Front DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1984 Confe rence Plans Detroit Relief March [. L. D. Asks State Committee Will Give Answer Within Few Days CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—A delegation of the International Labor~Defense of Chicago, composed of A. R. New- hoff, District Secretary of the I.L.D., Jan Wittenber, Hillsboro defendant, Al Spiegel and Joseph Roth, attorney of the ILD., went before the Il- inois State Committee of the So- cialist Party to get an answer and to supplement the communication sent a few days ago calling for a united front defense and for the repeal of the Illinois Criminal Syn- dicalist law. After the report of the delegation | given by Newhoff and Jan Witten- ber, the chairman, Anderson, stated that an answer would be sent within two days. The delegation also brought before the state committee | meeting, the campaign of the Chi- cago Evening American to use the criminal syndicalist law against those that teach at the Workers Socialists Se ee Pr Big i suenens | Grab Claims | In Gold Rush UnemployedProspectors | Driven Off by Armed | Guards With Guns | MOJAVE, Cal., Dec. 10.—The last | tradition of capitalism has been ex- | Ploded here in this little mining | ; town, following the widely heralded | discovery of a gold deposit here. Years ago “all men were equal” | where gold strikes were concerned. | The poorest among these in a gold | rush might stake the richest claims. Not so in the year 1934, Here, as in every other field of endeavor, | money talks and monopoly walks | off with all the rich prizes. Thousands of unemployed work- | | VOTE for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill H.R. This ballot is sponsored by the Daily .AWorker cemragh even commun area cHReON OF copmUmsT iuesan@Ras) America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper 50 East 13th Street New York (Cut out and sign this ballot today) BAL I haye read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and vote FOR C] be TA) Nac aed eae Address __ Vote without delay and ret the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” Luckenbach 7598 | | LOT | AGAINST O urn your ballot at once to Returning From USSR, | To Get Welcome Today rarely ae \Had Travelled 1,000 Sports Gr oup | Miles Throughout Assails AA U Soviet Territory . _| NEW yoRK—Today the Work: On Olympics = bee, o8e 2 8,8 inne viet Union, will return to the United States. On shore they will be greet- Labor Sportsmen Push |ed by the Friends of the Soviet | Union, Plans for Boycott |” ‘The delegation left for the Soviet | Union on Oct, 20, and have since of the Games |thes traveled over more than 1,000 miles of Soviet territory. While in The Labor Sports Union issued @|the Soviet Union, they took special statement yesterday which attacked | pains to visit the focal spots of in- the decisions of the leaders of the | terest, so as to be able to report, Page 3 [Workers Delegation, Relief Heads Are Reported Scab Herding Jobless Are Asked To Take Place of Men on Strike, Report Says CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—The Mlinots Emergency Relief Commission is re- ported by an authentic source, as ree ferring unemployed who are on work relief to take the place of strikers in the walkout of 285 office machine mechanics here. The warning of the Unemploys ment Council that Bulletin No. 1976 of the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission meant that the I. E. R. C. was entering the field as a strikebreaking agency has thus come true faster even than was expected. Amateur Athletic Union not to hoy- cott the 1936 Olympic games in Nazi Germany. The statement pointed out that the A. A. U. in sidetracking the is- sue with the help of the Jewish delegates “automatically supported the decision of the American Olym- Pic Committee to accept the Nazi invitation to participate in the jon the basis of their personal ex- | perience, on the most vital questions |asked by Americans about the So- |viet Union, Thus, when the White | Guard Organizations were spreading slanders about the famine in the Ukraine, they visited the Ukraine, and cabled over that the crops were |good, the farm equipment fine, and crops abundant. After they had been in Moscow This bulletin, dated Sept. 21, 1934, | Said that: “In case a relief client is | offered bona fide employment at a rate of pay which for full time em- ployment would equal or exceed the client's relief budget, and the client refuses to accept such employment, | removal from the relief rolls should be the immediate result.” On Oct. 10, 250 members of the ten Magyar Rally Schools, and the attempt to smash these schools through the American Legion, Washington Jan. 5-7. Despite the slanderous campaign against it conducted by Frank X. | for ten days, H. Goldfrank, the head! Office Machine Mechanics’ Union, of the delegation declared in an in- | No. 717, of the A. F. of L., went on terview to the Moscow Daily News | Strike, joined later by 20 dealer me= ers, transients, men, women and children, rushed here at the first games.” Last year, when the A. A. U. Sea Strikers Martel, president of the Detroit Federation of Labor, and his clique in the Central Labor body, thirteen A. F. of L. unions were represented at the conference. “ A number of independent unions were also present, including the Mechanics’ Educational Society of | America. | The A. F. of L. locals represented included Painters’ Locals 37 and 42, Electrical Workers’ Local 17, Jour- neymen Tailors’ Local 229, Brick- | layers’ Local 2, Bakers’ Local 20, Coopers’ Local 54, Plumbers’ Local 98 and the American Federation of Teachers. | The unemployed organizations in- cluded the Unemployment Councils, the Forgotten Men’s Club and the | Unemployed Workers’ Association of Flint. The Socialist Party sent two of- ficial observers, one of them its Wayne County Secretary, Kent. Speakers Stress Action The mass march on Dec. 18 as the focal point of all immediate ac- tivity was emphasized both in the opening remarks of the chairman, Joseph Friedman, business agent of Painters’ Local 42, and in the re- port of the secretary, Richard | Kroon, who is also secretary of the | Rank and File-A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance and Relief, Kroon told how the County Welfare Com- mission had refused to grant a hearing to the executive committee of the conference and had rejected all the demands of the unemployed. In the discussion delegates Pledged the fullest support of their organizations to the mass march and decided to distribute tens of thousands of leaflets, The march will start at 2 p.m. Dec. 18 at Times Square. Support Single Men ‘ A delegation of five from the | strikers at Fisher Lodge, where Nearly 2,000 unemployed single men are quartered, was warmly received | and the conference voted to urge all possible support to their struggle against the forced labor conditions at the Lodge, Earl Reno, member of the Na- tional Executive Board of the Un- employment Councils, spoke on the National Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance. The delegates received instructions for intensifying the campaign for a strong Michigan delegation to the congress, Downs Law Spreading Throughout Alabama BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 10.— Birmingham’s anti-labor Downs law | is spreading from city to city. Last week it was openly backed by the Ku Klux Klan, which appeared be- fore the Tarrant City Council with the demand that the council make mere ‘possession of radical literature acrime, as Birmingham has done. Samuel Hall of Tarrant City openly boasted that a “citizenry committee” had already taken the Jaw into its own hands by threat- ening to attack all radicals and militant workers who did not get out of the city. He demanded that the council pass an ordinance sim- ilar to the Downs law. A similar law has already been passed in Bessemer City, which, like Tarrant City, is just outside of Bir- mingham. Railroad » & subsidiary of the U. 8. Steel Corporation. Negro Jazz Orchestra To Tour Soviet Union NEW YORK.—Luis Rus- sell, a well-known Harlem composer and conductor, has accepted a prop- osition to make an extensive tour of ; the Soviet Union with his famous “Old Man River” orchestra during the summer of 1935. The offer was American Bureau which is in the RKO Building, Rockefeller Center, in this city. !Rhode For United Defense The delegation also brought out the fact that all of the defendants ineluding Jurkanin, organizer of the ¥.P.8.L., were in favor of united de- fense both legal and on a mass scale, On Friday the attorneys for the defendants argued for the quashing of the indictment and for a bill of particulars, both of which were re- fused by Judge McWilliams, who is said to be a member of the K.K.K. While Bentall, LL.D., and Kabrick, local attorney of Hillsboro, were arguing the mo- tion, some of the remarks caused the workers in the court room to applaud. The judge, evidently pre- pared for this, ordered the court room cleared. Some of the workers complied, but most of them stayed. Defendants Protest The defendants arose as one man} and protested to the court for its high-handed action. The ordered Saathoff, former sheriff, now chief deputy, to arrest the de- fendants and place them in jai When the judge saw that the work- ers did not clear the court room and that the defendants continued to protest, his face became red, he pointed his fingers at the defend- ants, hollered “shut-up,” ordered the sheriff to arrest Prickett, Village Board ‘member of Taylor Springs, John Adams, leader of the Great Lakes Marine Workers, and Jurk- anin, organizer of the Y.P.S.L, Scheme Failed In the meantime the judge noticed that his scheme to frighten the workers did not succeed. Those that had left had all come back into court, The defense refused to con- tinue with the case unless the de- fendants were all present and the judge was defeated. He had to order those taken in custody to be brought back into court In the meantime many of the cit- izens in Montgomery County are calling for the halting of the trial, due to the tremendous amount of money spent by the already bank- rupt county. The Hillsboro Defense Committee of the LL.D, are organ- izing a series of mass meetings in \the coal fields, are visiting Progres- sive Miners locals and auxiliaries, and have called for the election of a workers jury from the coal miners. The I.L.D. in fac~ of the tremendous tasks in defending the Hillsboro case is asking for all Chicago work- ers to attend the annual I.L.D. ba- zaar, proceeds for Hillsboro Defense December 14, 15 and 16. ‘Help complete the Daily Worker drive by Dec. 15, Approach friends, fellow-workers and mem- bers of your organizations for ad- ditional funds. Article IL Were there is common agree- ment that the new contract of the silk and rayon dyers is a big gain for the workers, some workers ask if the contract couldn’t have been still better if the strike would have been prolonged. In order to answer this, it will be necessary to review some of the important events prior to and in the course of the strike. Although the workers on the whole seored a significant victory, there can be no denial that some points in the contract are objectionable. Among the main reasons for mil- ure to score still greater gains, we could list: 1) The strikebreaking tactics of the International leader- ship of the United Textile Workers, the Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers is a part. 2) Failure to organize the Pennsylvania and Island mills. 3) Splitting tactics of the Lovestonites. 4) Will- ingness of the Federation of Dyers to accept the rejected November 10 contract. 5) Weakness and narrow- ness in the organization of the rank and file group in the dyers’ union. Let us take each of these reasons. Even before the strike was called, it was already evident that the chief enemy the workers had to contend with is Francis Gorman and the U, T. W. officials. At first, the em- ployers would not even answer the request of the union for a confer- ence to negotiate a new contract. The employers were confident that Gorman would place the dyers under the “truce” arranged with President Roosevelt for the half million tex- tile workers wigo were on strike. Their offer was the renewal of the contratt for six months more and attorney of the} judge! *| rushed eagerly northward, only to news of the strike. Now they loiter around the town, wondering how they will get back to the city. Many of them hitch-hiked up here; others came in battered old Fords that | haven't enough mileage left inthem | to geb them back out of the desert. | Gasoline station owners can't stand | the gaff of furnishing free gas to, the influx, even to get them out of | town again. | So here they huddle in tents and | in old cars and around fires at| night on the edge of town. | “We haven’t a chance,” they de- | clare. “Big business has it all.” The hotels are crowded with rich mining men, Nevada Senators and judges, bankers and speculators. All !land that has any potential value |has been bought up long since. There isn’t a prayer of locating a claim within miles of the discovery claim, Came news of another rich strike 15 miles north of Mojave. The poor be met by shotguns. Here, too, all land is controlled by the big mining company. The last illusion about “equal op- portunity” has been blasted out of | the minds of thousands of workers. | NAACP Membership Opposes Withdrawal From Jim Crow Fight NEW YORK, Dec. 10, (€.N.A.).— By unanimous vote, the member- ship of the Jamaica branch of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People last Tuesday overrode the action of their president, G. W. A. Murray, in withdrawing co-operation from the Committee for Equal Oppor- tunities. This committee is fight- ing to place Negro doctors and den- tists on the staff of the Queens County General Hospital. Murray had written to the com-/| mittee, asking that the name of the N. A, A, C, P. be withdrawn from the committee’s letterhead, A group from the committee visited the branch at its annual meeting, and asked if the membership concurred in this action, Murray admitted that he had sent the letter with- out consulting the membership of the branch and at the suggestion | of the national office of the N. A. A.C, P. Units which have completed thelr quota in the Daily Worker financial campaign must continue raising additional funds so that the drive will end by Dec. 15. i all demands be left in the hands of the Textile Labor Relations Board. But the consequence of the “truce’—the wage cuts, discrimina- tion and speedups—were already so Apparent that the dye workers rather chose to strike. Had Hopes in Gorman Although Gorman was unable to ‘avert the strike, still the employers had confidence in his help during the strike, and for a settlement. Gorman injected himself into the early negotiations, which were in | Washington. He made statements j which were widely publicized in the capitalist press, giving encourage- ment to rumors that a settlement on the basis of arbitration will be made. It is due to the work of the Communists and the militants in ithe union that this part of Gor- |man’s plan was foiled, but the hope that the employers had in his ser- vices, contributed to prolonging the strike and to holding back conces- sions to the workers, The damage of the U. T. W. of- ficials did not stop at this, how- jever. They did everything in their power to prevent the Pennsylvania and Rhode Island dyers from join- ing the sarike. It was disclosed that there are even locals of the dyers which have not yet been placed un- der the jurisdiction of the Dyers’ Federation. For weeks the officials of the Federation promised the Strikers that steps will be taken to pull the Allentown and Hazelton Workers out on strike, but they either expected that those workers will be pulled out through some miracle, or that Gorman would do them the favor. Hold Ranks (Special to the Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., Dec, 10.—Ranks | of striking seamen of two Lucken- | bach ships in Seattle and one in Tacoma, remain solid as attempts of the International Seamens Union officials to force the men to return were defeated by the rank and file committee leading the strike, Victor Olander, National Secre- tary of the I. 8, U, wired from New York ordering the strikers to return to work stating that negotiations | between shipowners and the union are going on. Andrew Fureseth, President of the I. S. U. has arrived at Seattle by Plane from San Francisco, in a move to break the strike, which it is feared may spread along the entire coast. The strike of the seamen which started on the Robert Luckenbach, has already spread to the Dorothy Luckenbach, and to the Jacob Luck- enbach in Tacoma. The wire sent by Olander read: “We are negotiating in the Ply- mouth Hotel (N.Y.C.). The ship- owners agree to give us $57.50 for A. B’s and others in proportion. Go back to work; you are harming the negotiations.” McGill, business agent of the I. S. U., called a meeting Friday, to which the workers sent represen- tatives, consisting of two from a department of each ship. Olander’s wire was unanimously rejected by the seamen. Thereupon, MeGill, seeing that the strike cannot be broken through Olander’s wire, told the strike committee that he will call up the general manager of the Luckenbach Line and arrange for a conference with the strike com- mittee, At a conference with a representative of the Luckenbach Line, the workers left their de- mands and insisted that these must be granted immediately, not pend- ing negotiations, as Olander prom- ises. Fureseth, it was learned, on his way here stopped in Portland to take measures against a strike there. In a statement issued to the Portland newspapers he says: “The shipowners have found from bitter experience that they cannot get rid of the reds. If they could give us (. 8. U. officials) a chance we could get rid of them.” Despite Fureseth, however, the I. 8. U, crews of the Point San Pedro, San Luckas and groups of longshoremen have taken up col- Jections to donate to the strikers. The spreading of the strike to in- clude the few plants outside of the Passaic Valley, the chief centre of the industry, was very essential, as, although they cover only a small fraction of the dyeing which is done in the country, they operated night and day during the strike, and re- lieved much of the essential require- ments. The workers voted that a large committee go to the national office of the U. T. W. and demand that the outside plants be called out. But, apparently, this was one of the “delicate” matters between the officials of the dyers and the U. T. W,, and was simply sabotaged, On top of this not one cent was contributed for strike relief out of the treasury of the U. T. W. The Dyers Federation is also.a part of the A. F. of L,, but although the strike was in its sixth week, and the manufacturers announced that the plants will open with police protection, William Green did not even ask for moral support from the rest of the labor movement. Another obstacle which made the correct conduct of the strike diffi- cult, were the activities of the vari- ous renegade groups, such as the Lovestonites, Muste, Trotzky or Git- |Such settlements make the best out to prevent a still better agreement low supporters. It is only the work of the Communists among the strikers which prevented the con- fusion which these groups brought in, from seriously affecting the strike. : The activities of the Lovestonites and those among them who have already joined the Socialist Party (Rubenstein), should be especially noted, because these being repre- sented in the officialdom of the Won to Fight CLEVELAND, O., Dec, 10.—Pro- posing a ynited front not only of Hungarian but of all South Slay or- ganizations against war and fascism, Emil Gardos spoke at a mass meet- ing of one thousand Hungarians | held here Friday night and called by Hungarian reactionaries in an effort to rally support behind the | fascist dictator, Horthy. | Gardo's speech was received so | favorably that the chairman had to | | maneuver to pass some of their own | |Zesolutions, and finally he was | forced to invite workers’ organiza- | tions into the Hungarian society. Caroline Ovear, speaking in behalf of Jugo-Slav workers’ groups, re- ceived great applause when she ap- ;Pealed for a united front against beth Jugo-Slav and Hungarian fas~ cism, Leaflets on which were re- printed an editorial of “Uj lore,” which set forth the reasons behind |the deportations and explained the war character of both fascist gov- ernments, were eagerly grabbed. Following the meeting, the Na- jtional Hungarian Bureau resolved to- picket. the Jugo-Slay consulate against the danger of war and ex- pulsion of Hungarians, the picket- ing to take place in unified action | with the Jugo-Slavs, Rumanians and Slovak workers. The Hungarian-Jugo Slay Action Committee in calling for a demon- stration Tuesday evening at the Hungarian Home, 111-23 Buckeye Road, took steps to broaden the united front, demanding the cessa- tion of deportations, of the oppres- sion of minorities, the release of all political prisoners, and calling for the unity of the workers against war and fascism, Detroit Workers to Pay | Tribute to Sergei Kirov DETROIT, Dee. 10,—A memorial meeting in honor of Sergei Kirov, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who was assassinated by a counter-revolutionist, will be held Friday, at 8 p.m,, in Finnish Work- ers Hall, 5969 Fourteenth Avenue, near McGraw. The meeting has been arranged by the Michigan Dis- trict of the Communist Party. William Weinstone, secretary of |speakers will tell of Kirovs work as jan outstanding leader of the work- ers and peasants of the Soviet ‘Union, union actually performed strike- breaking services. Jack Rubenstein, who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929, together with Lovestone, is now in the Socialist Party, and an organ- lizer for the Dyers Federation in U,T.W. organizer in Pennsylvania. Single Shop Settlements In the early stages of the strike, when the tieup was complete, and the workers were more determined than ever to spread the strike to the outside regions, Rubenstein started (agitating for individual shop agree- jments, on the theory that “it will: split the bosses,” He actually suc- ceeded in confusing some strikers in Union City, Later he tried to |foist his plan upon the Paterson shop chairmen, but they, being more experienced workers, made short work of him. A settlement with individual shops, or with groups of shops may be in order in a situation when: strikers are demoralized, have lost ground, and if there is danger that large numbers will return to work. of a bad situation, and obtain the: most favorable terms for the work- | ers under the circumstances. But there was no such situation at any jtime during the strike. In Paterson, |Passaic, Lodi and Rutherford where about 90 per cent of the: strikers were concentrated, not a single Worker had returned. The spirit of ,the strikers remained determined to, the very end. ; passed a militant resolution against American participation in the Olympics on the ground that the |that “everything from the Red Pu- |tiley Workers Club down te the | Moscow subway indicates rapid tem- | iet ‘kers and farmers | principle of equality and democracy |p0. of Soviet. wor! | chanics. The demands are for rec- lognition of the union and $35 a | week scale. The big typewriter com- | Panies refuse to deal with the union. Against Wa LT’ | Nazis were “violating the Olympic jin their struggle for a Socialist so- | The strike committee has pointed of sport,” the L. §, U. exposed the | insincerity of the position of the A.A. UL ciety,” }out that although the companies One of the most interesting mem-} have increased charges for service bers of the delegation is Julius Wal- | since 1929. wages of employes have The L. S. U. even then declared |stead, South Dakota farmer who | been cut 30 to 40 per cent. that the A.A.U, which had always ;Sented to the convention delegates |sport having nothing to do with tolerated widespread discrimination within its own ranks against Negro athletes would not carry out a con- sistent fight against the Nazis’ per- secution of Jewish athletes. Despite irrefutable evidence pre- | to “let the farmers back home know {what's going on on all those col- jlective farms.” He wanted to check up on the reports that “every col- lective farm has movies once a week.” The other members of the dele- that Herr yon Tschammer-Osten, | gation went with equally epen eyes. Nazi sport Commissar, had boasted | Robert 8. Wissner, 4 husky West- that the Olympics were to be used |inghouse Electric worker, wanted to as a political weapon to win the know the state of railway electrifi- | sympathies of the people in foreign |cation and the problems of religious maiiien for the Hitler regime, the |freedom in ine Sons paige hayes er their phrases about |Gunsser, a Soc! , and member 0! ee hoes, a i the American Federation of Hosiery “politics, racial questions, religious | Workers in Philadelphia, wanted to went to the Soviet Union especially! The original demands of the strik- |ers were for, a scale of $160 per month, a two week vacation period, jand forty hour week, The matter | Was referred to the Regional Labor ;Board on Oct. 19. The hoard | brought in a proposal for $150 a |month, which the union accepted, | but the employers refused to deal | with the union, except on an indi- vidual basis with the men after they | would return to work. | One company, the Royal Type- | writer Company, is carrying on ne- | gotiations which may result in a set- | tlement. At present, the case is re- know the truth about Soviet trade | ferred to the National Laber Board. apes vygany Be unions. V. Modjeski, a Socialist and | The 0.6. U., the Olympia Boyoots Socialist candidate for Secretary of | U. Clubs will be invited. League and the A. A, U. Rank and /| |File Committee to Boycott the 1936 | Olympics haye all declared that the | stand of the A. A. U. leaders will | jonly intensify their efforts to boy- | cott the games. The latter organ- | ization will hold a conference next month to which all New York A. A. State in Rhode Island was interest- ed in culture in the Soviet Union | and the living standards of the/ workers. Sheffield, a Boston sea- man, was anxious to know about Soviet seamen. On Wednesday, Dee, 12, 1934, the | delegation will report on their ex- periences in the U. 8..S. R. at Irving Picketing continues before every typewriter and office machine shop in the Loop. The spirit of the strik- ers is excellent. County Stops Payment To Small Omaha Stores \On Grocery Vouchers |Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th | |St, Justin Wise Tulin, attorney and | the Party in this district, and other | Ades Defense Presses | Issue of Negro Rights | | In Disharment Battle | BALTIMORE, Md., Dec, 10.—Act- ing as counsel for Bernard Ades, | white International Labor Defense | attorney, who is on trial for dis- |barment before the Supreme Bench | of Baltimore, Joseph Brodsky, of the | staff of the I. L. D., last week | | charged that the Baltimore Bar As- |sociation, which is bringing the ac- | , tion against Ades, has violated its | }own charter and constitution by | | barring Negro attorneys and women |from membership. | The proceedings against Ades grew out of his challenge to the; lily-white jury system of the Mary- | |land courts, in the case of Euel Lee jand other Negro workers whom he has defended. Ades is being de- fended in this case by a staff con- | sisting of Ben J. Davis, Jr., Brodsky | and Edward Kuntz. As the trial opened Wednesday { morning, Brodsky demanded toj know why the association has taken no action on a letter demanding |that Negro men and women lawyers | |be admitted to the organization, jwhile at the same time it is push- |ing so vigorously the action against Ades, ! Communists Safeguarded Dyers Against Move To Split Their Ranks | By GEORGE MORRIS |Monroe Jobless Will | |tefuse to cash relief orders issued daughter of Rabbi Wise, will also | speak on the Significance of Trade | Union Delegations te the Soviet | Union. Pat Toohey, editor of Labor , Unity, will officiate as chairman | and the F, 8, U. Balalaika Orchestra will provide the music. Demand Relief Increase At City Hall Today, MONROE, Ohio, Dec. 10.—Fired | with the success of their last dem- onstration, which won coal, Winter clothing and the freedom of two arrested workers, the unemployed here under the leadership of the! Unemployment Council Local 602) will demonstrate tomorrow before the City Hall. Tuesday’s demonstra- | tion will demand increased relief for | all families and single men and the! abolition of forced labor. | Last week, after forcing the relief) administrator to meet with their full | committee, demands were taken up for immediate aid to all emergency cases, and issuance of clothing which heretofore had not been} given. In addition, two workers who! were arrested for stealing coal,! since the relief supplied no fuel, were released. | | | OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 10.—Claiming that it has not enough money to meet its current expenses, Douglas County has deferred payment of all bills until next August. This in- cludes the honoring of coynty gro- cery orders, and many of the smaller groceries will be forced to by the county. When similar action was taken some months ago by the cunty, gro- cers cashed the orders at the banks at a 10 per cent discount, which meant a loss in the case of the small grocers who operate on a very small margin. A large number of independent grocers in the city have been sum-= marily cut off from handling fed- eral relief orders on various pre- texts, such as violations of N. R. A. labor codes. In one case, for in- stance, the excuse was that the gro- cery owner and his wife were both working long hours as proprietors. These grocers have not been given a hearing, but were arbitrarily de- prived of what has amounted, in the case of grocers in the poorer neighborhoods, to their only source of business. WHAT’S ON B5e for 3 lines on weekdays. 0c. Extra eharge Notices must be im evious day. RATES: Friday and Satur for additional spa by 11 A. M. of th Philadelphia, Pa. Canton Commune Commemoration, rejected in the decisive regions, his'one. But, as we know, so strong was! agitation did have a demoralizing |the control of the rank and file on effect in small centers, especially|the conduct of the strike that it Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m. at Girard Manor, 911 W. Girard Ave. Speakers: Hansu Chan, editer China Today; Mother Bloor; also Workers Mandolin Union City. Recently he was ai Union City, his own territory. In Union City most strikers were back | in shops, not settled, before the strike ended. In New York most workers returned under a group! shop settlement. These were the | only breaks in the lines throughout | the strike. As results have proven, | a policy of individual settlements j|Would haye been a serious mistake, It should be remembered that the dyeing industry is basic, and every jplant that begins operating relieves the tieup in many silk and garmept iright to strike in individual shops is |recognized; every vacancy left by a} wasn’t up to the officials to decide. | The bosses soon found that out} themselves, and had to make sub-| stantial concessions in order to} settle. | Results proved that it was well| worth the additional three weeks of | striking. Improvements were forced | on 12 points in the contract. The| union worker is to be filled by a union member; the workers are to} get a minimum of two hours pay if} ‘plants, owed to the shop; no new workers | In citing the role of the Love- are to be hired unless those in the) stonites, we should not forget the |“ePartment already put in 90 per, | if ii eek. Thi splitting policy of Eli Keller, man- be PR GPa hsderts Mitasnal Segall ager of the Federation of Silk Work- |the former agreement. | ers in Paterson. He worked night| The Communists and the rank) and day to prevent a strike of silk and file elements in the union in workers from breaking out at the | 27ousing the suspicion of the work- lsame time, although the workers |€fS against the actions of the offi-| | voted to do so. A joint struggle of |“lals from the very start, in warn- | the two unions sae have pate Sie ing against a settlement without ap- | in better gains for both. proval of the membership, have} th t i pba anion thereby proven to the workers that | Among the most important factors |ints policy ts connected with their | te-that the ‘ofMetele of the Dyers [2ebt for a better living standard. | Federation accepted, and proposed! A Stronger and more active rank that the workers accept, the un- and file group in the union would | satisfactory ka akigitead of Bibipigeee jhave therefore meant a still better | 10, The proposal was unanimously Fy t rej when brought 6the work: /opportunity for the workers. Pub ers, and the officials were booed off S°me of the problems before our | with it. From then on the bosses |Party and the militants in the Dyers | saw that they had the cooperation | Union and our weaknesses whieh | of the union officials for putting | were especially evident during the | over a contract that may be hardly | strike, will be the subject of the! Although Rubenstein’s line was an improvement over the rejected next and final article on the strike. | Orchestra, Workers Chorus and Play by Nature Friends. Commemoration Event under auspices of LL.D. Adm. 25c. Tickets at the door. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Columbus, Ohio Dance and Entertainment for Work« ers’ Press—Daily Worker, Uj Elore and Radnik—Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8 p. m. at Ivanoff Hall, 1890% So. Parsons Ave. Adm, 25c. Paul, Minn. Dance and Entertainment given by Unit 1 at St. Paul Labor Lyceum, 57 E. llth St., Sat., Dec. 15. Adm, 100. Party and Entertainment, Sat., Dec. 15, at 489 Iglehart Ave. Given by. Unit 2, C. P. St. — PHILADELPHIA, Pa. —— Market above 16th Street EUROPA TH®A. 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