The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1934, Page 3

1! a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934 —— Page 3 CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED AGAINST CRIMINAL SYNDICALIST LAW NORTHWEST PARLEY S#cramento 18 TO DEMAND REPEAL OF ANTI-LABOR LAW il Rights Conference to Be Held Dec. 23 in| Portland—Fight for Freedom of De Jonge to Be Central Issue in Drive PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 17.—A broad united front cam- AreThreatened By New Plot |Prosecutor and Juro r Hatch False Tale of | | Death Warnings By JACK CRANE (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dee. 17— |The day after Abbott and Hoffman, for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill H.R. 7598 This ballot is sponsored by the Daily ,AWorker America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper 50 East 13th Street New York (Cut ont and sign this ballot today) Farmers S ay VIRGINIA WORKERS Cotton Act'TO SEND BIG GROUP ‘Ruined Them | See |System Gives Aid to Plantation Masters, Says Educator | | TUSCALOOSA, Ale. Dec. 17—As a direct result of the Bankhead |Cotton Control Act, arbitrarily re- | ducing cotton acreage, thé Alabar TO SURETY PARLEY Socialists, Negro Churches, and Jobless Groups Join in Local United Fronts to Organize Del- egations to Congress in Washington Ann Burlak DANVILLE, Va., Dec. 17.—In the face of police ine timidation, workers here are proceeding with preparations for the coming National Congress for Unemployment Ine paign against the Oregon criminal syndicalist law and for |two reputed stool pigeons of “Red” Fy A |Hynes, chief of the Los Angeles the release of Dirk De Jonge, Communist candidate for |ieq Squad,” arrived hath trom tos tenant farmer is now closer to ser dom than ever before, Dr. Clarence E. Cason, head of the school of | journalism at the University of Ala- BALLOT Mayor in the last election here, wil! be launched at a Civil! angeles a new frame-up was sprung Rights Conference to be held land on December 23. The confer-% “5 ence is called by a large and repres- entative group of workers and liber- als who have formed themselves into & provisional committee to aid the fight for the repeal or the vicious anti-working class ordinance, under which DeJonge was convicted and sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment. Signers of the conference call in- clude Ben Anderson, lotal attorney and sétrétary of the provisional | committee, Ralph C. Clyde, Port- land city commissioner, Harry Ken- in and Harry W. Stone, members of the Multnomah Coutt School board; Harty Milner, retired U. S. Army major; several prominent members of the Portland Central Labor Coun- cil; many professional and business men, well-known Oregon ministers and various officers of the Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Amer- iean Civil Liberties Union. Gust Anderson, sécretary of the Portland Central Labor Defense, al- though admitting while appearing as a witness against DeJonge, that the A. F. of L. was on record against the Criminal Syndicalist Law, re- fused to sign the Call on the pretext that he “was unwilling to place the Central Labor Council on record without its sanction.” Several local A. F. of L. unions, however, have already demonstrated that they do not share Anderson’s conciliatory attitude toward the anti-working class law, by electing delegates to the December 23 conference. With the frame-up conviction of DeJonge and other militant work- ers, sentiment for the repeal of the ¢fiminaél syndicalist law is growing thoughout the State. Painters of Murals Ordered Thrown Out Of St. Louis Quarters ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 16—The Unemployed Aft Class, Which painted a now fatnous mural on the walls of the Old Court House, has now heen ordered out of the build- int by Direstor of Public Safety Chadsey, following the statement of a radio broadcaster that “the Dem- ocratic administration will clean out thas rest froti the Old Court Heise," : This fascist attack on a cultural institution of the workers, follows on the heel of the imposing of sen- tenets of six months and of one year on nine workers arrested in the November 30 demonstration. The Art Class is rallying unions and professionals to protest against the fascist order and has appealed at the W. 0. W. hall in Port- | Pact Violation By Dye Boss Brings Pickets PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 17—A | mass picket line of 1,000 silk work- ers forced the Park Silk company to close its doors on Saturday. The shop was making an attempt to operate with non-union workers, in violation of the union agreement. | \against the 18 workers now on trial jon charges of criminal syndicalism, |with the district attorney charging lthat he and two prospective jurors (had received death threats. | Notified of the new charge only a \few minutes before court convened jon Friday, Leo Gallagher, Interna- jtional Labor Defense attorney, at jonce demanded a full and public hearing on the matter. Mrs, Nix, |one of the jurors testified that last |Thursday 18 men called oh her in the course of two hours and threat- ened herself and her husband with “death by machine gun and drown- jing.” ; Under defense questioning, Mrs. Nix became so confuse¢ arid in-, volved in contradictions that the | The boss of the shop drew a re-|prosecution hastily intervened, and| I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and vote FOR Ped AGAINST io Name is [ete [eetoal isch: Sano Me Aaya City. Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” Fishermen Prepare bama declared in an interciew. | surance, which will be held “The Federal money which the | control act has brought into the South has given much comfort to the large plantation masters and county merchants, but there is con- Milwaukee siderable doubt as to whether ~ ° has aided the tenant farmers A as Store Strike form the bese of the pj is resenting the Southern agricultural Toth | Holds Firm “These tenant farmers who have | 0 been perennially in debt and on the verge of starvation, glimpsed a ray a ‘i We jof hope in the compulsory reduc- | MILWAUKEE, Wis. Dec. 17 ; tion plans for 1934. But this au- | After being on strike two weeks tumn not a few of them find them- | stfikers of the Boston Department selves closer to serfdom than ever | Store here defeated attempts of | before. | their officials to send them back to volver on a committee of the union, despite the vigorous protests of Gal-| lagher, she was allowed to go home, | Plainly the better to rehearse her) \fantastic story. | Defendant Cited for Contempt | Martin Wilson, one of the de-| fendants, was cited for contempt of court for protesting and pointing to the hand of the district, attorney jand “Red” Hynes in this latest |frameup. A defense motion for a ideclaration of mistrial on accout of the open prejudice éxpressed against jthe defendants was denied by Judge |Dal M. Lemmoh. A motion for a change of venue on the same |grounds was also denied. Continuing her testimony on Sat- urday, Mrs. Nix admitted that she jand het husband have been in | California less than the year de- mandeéd under th law for prospec- ‘tive jurors, Called to the stand by Gallagher, District Attorney Mc- Allister admitted that he had had a conversation with “Red” Hynes a |few days before the arrest of the 18 defendants, that he was well ac- jquainted with members of the Vigilantes, by person though “not by name,” and that he had placed @ woman stool pigeoh among the gitl defendants to seé if they spoke to women jurors in the fest room jduring recesses. Assistant Deputy D. A. Buchler, ‘questioned by Gallagher, stated that \the mother of defendant Warnick had ¢alled on Mrs. Rose to discuss the case. Gallagher demanded that Judge Lemmon, the District Attor- ney, the court stenographer and himself visit Mrs. Rose immediately. {At her home, Mrs. Rose testified |under oath that Mrs, Warnick never had spoken to her or visited her home. She, however, declared that Buehler had stopped at her home jfor dither afd cocktails duting the trial. | The defense charged the prosecu- tion With tampéring with the jury, jan? demanded a further investiga- but the workers disarmed him be- fore he could fire. The picket line followed a meet- ing of the broad silk department of the Silk union (United Textile Workers), where nominations for candidates to the executive board of the department were made, The Yank and file nominated a slate which included Alex Phillian, Luigi Valgo, S. Sheber, S. Phillian, Bob Appel, Sarah Berlinski, Joseph Brooks, Millie Del Vecchio and others. Alex Phillian was elected chair- man of the membership meeting, with a Keller nominee getting only a few votes. On a motion of the rank and file, a@ committee was elected to make changes in the proposed new consti- tution and report back to the next tmhembership meeting. One of the propesals opposed by the rank and file is that the Joint Executive Board shall be the highest body in | the union instead of the member- ship meetings. Eli Keller, Lovestoneite renegade, refused to report on the second point on the agenda, the progress! of negotiations with the silk em. ployers, who are violating the agree | ment. But another oflicial reported | ho progress, with the employers at- rea to enforce Saturday work and Wage cuts. The meeting thén adjourned to the picket line. | In the Dyers’ Union, Local 1733, | Which also met Saturday, a slate headed by Charles Vigoritto, rank | and file leader, was nominated. Vi- goritto is running for president in opposition to Anthony Ammirato. | Ammirato is a member of the | national éxectitive council of the United Textile Workers Union and voted with Gorman to call off the general textile strike. Vigoritto, at present vice-presi- dent of the union, was one of the | for national protests to be sent to| most aggressive and mililant lead-| Director of Public Safety Chadsey,| érs of the recent dye strike, which St. Louis, Mo. | culminated in gains for the dye a | workérs, Trial Date Set for Five On ‘Bombing’ Charges | In Birmingham Strike BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Dec. 17.— ‘Trial of five Negro and white work- éfs, ffamed in connection With several recerit bombings here, has been set for January 21. The defendants are John Catch- ings, George Porter and Lee Carter, white, and William O'Neal Cotton and Melvin Watson, colored. Henry Manuel, another Negro worker, is to go on trial January 7 on a trumped-up charge of dyna- miting a railroad ¢ar of Republic, occurred | Steel. The bombings during strike stz-uggles here and are believed to be the work of agent provoéatetirs hired by the bosses. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Corliss Lamont will lecture on “The Soviet Union and Religion,” Friday, Dec. 21, 8 p. m. at Musicians Hall, 120 N. 18th St. Admisison 30c at door, Mags Meeting and sefid off for Dele- gates to National Congress for So- ¢ial_ and Unemployment Insurance, Friday, , 8 p.m. at Broadway Aréha, Broad and Christian streets. Speakers: Herbert Benjamin, Mother , William N. Jones, Preiheit Ge- gangs Fafein, Workers’ Harmonica Band. John Reed Club presents Michael Gold, author Of “Jews Without Money” on. * Ctisis in Modern Litefattre,” Thursday, Dec. 20, at 8 p.m. sharp at Musieians Hall, 120 N. 8th St. Adm. 30c. Malden, Mass. ‘Mass mééting for Unemployment In- surance, Odd Fellows Hall, 45 Holy- oke St., ¥, Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. shatp. Linden, N. J. New Jersey Film Cireuit presents t fim “Shamé” at St. Géorge corher, Tuesd: performances wri4ion 256, +. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Detroit, Mich. ‘Witt. Weinstone, District Organizer of the Communist Party will spéak on “Karl Mar. Life apd Works,”’ Thursday, Dec. 20, at 8:30 p.m. at Maccabees Auditorium, Woodward at lay, Dec. 18. Continuow: from 7 to 11 p.m. Ad= Putnam. onsoréd by John Reed Olu ct Detroit. Admission 256. East St. Louis, Mo. Benefit Banavet, Sunday, Dee. 23, 1 p.m.. rt Yociss Hall, 537 Collinsville St. Adihission 16 Bangtiét, 43¢ per il Y bat automobile code, written by ' # the mafiufacturers, approved by : the President and signed by Wm. Green and other A. F, of L. leaders, Hi to have expired September 4, | For the workers, the results of the code during the past year have been: (1) A general cutting down of maximum wages towards the minimum of 43c to 4lc per hour. (2) Resistance by employers to every demand of “workers for wage increases to meet the rising living costs (which rose as high as 20 to | 30 per cent). (3) Utilization by em- ployers of the infamous “merit clause” to victimize thousands of active union workers belonging to the A.W.U,, the A. F. of L. and the M.ES.A. (4) The open violation by many employers of their own code by paying less than the minimum , Wage and forcing the working of more than the maximum number of hours. (5) The growth of com- pany unions. Only where atito workers went on sttike, in most cases against the wishes of the A. F. of L. top lead- ets, did they succeed in stopping the attacks of employers and win- ning increased Wages and improved conditions. Big Profits For the auto manufacttitets, the (code has been of cofisiderable aid in helping them register a very profitable year. For the first nine months of 1934, the General Motors Corporation registered net earnings available fot dividends of $92,445,341 compared with $81,409,794 for the similar period of 1933. A number of other manufacturers declaréd divi- dends for 10 months of this year of $91,851,000 compared with $57,- | 848,000 for the first ten months of last year. These last figures show jan increase in profits of close to per cent. To further his no-strike “truce” scheme, President Roosevelt re- newed the atito code until February Ast, and instructed the National In- dustrial Relations Board to conduct a “study” of thé “possibility of reg- ulating employment and othertvise improving the conditions of this ih- dustry.” He retained the infamous “merit clause.” The objective of the éttiployers, backed by the government, is the sameé this year as it was last year, jtisn. Which was denied. Al Waren Of the American Civil Liberties Union, assisted Gallagher in. the questioning. namely, to put over the employers’ program of speed-up, wage-cuts and company unions; and by means of prothises and delays, prevent work- ets ffom taking action into their own hands and striking at a time when united action would insure victory for the workets. Sloan, of the General Motors Corporation, furthers this scheme with his announcement of a plan to put out new models at different times of the year, thereby eliminat- ing peaks and valleys of production and “abolishing tinemployment.” This announcement gave Wm. Green ah opportunity to boast of another “victory” for A. F. of L. leadership. One of the four pro- posals that he made for modifying the auto éode was for thé “assur- ance of a production schedule with- in the industry that will space new Model offefings in a manner thet will obviate long lay-offs for the industry as a whole during the period of new model preparations.” This is the only proposal that the employers or the government makes a@ pretense of studying. The other proposals of Wm. Green, for the elimination of the “merit clause,” for an increase in minimum Wage- scales, and a 30-hour week, were rejected. Needless to say, Wm. Green did not demand that a re- vised code shall recognize the right of workers to sttike, provide for un- employment insurance, or the elimi- nation of all discrimination against Negro and foreign-born workers. This promise of abolishing un- employment in the industry is a false hope dangled for the purpose of misleading the wotkers. The productive capacity of the industry is 10,000,000 cars a year. The most optimistic of the capitalists dare not predict a market for more than 3,000,000 cars for next year and the probability is very strong that ac- tual production will be even less than this year. The competitive struggle is more intense than ever, particularly amongst the Big 3— Ford, General Motors and Chrysle-. Each one triés to hog the market. Fach tries to speed up the workers to the u'most, to eliminate the number of operations, to cuit down wagss. Steady ettiployment, plantied Pfoduction, is impossible under a For Union Conference On Northwest Coast Parley to Arrange for National Convention of Fishermen’s and Cannery Workers Industrial Union; Fight for Higher Prices Planned BULLETIN PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 11.— In a mass funeral last Wednesday night, Portland workers paid their last tribute to Emil Linden, mili- tant fighter for the working elass, who was killed in an automobile accident in Seattle on Nov. 30. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 17—Plans for the Northwest conference of fishermen and cannery workers, which was to have been held some time this month, have been altered by the death of Emil Linden, na- tional secretary of the Fishermien’s and Cannery Workets’ Industrial Union, in an automobile accident on Dec. 2, Although the conference will deal with the probletiis originally set for it, it will hot meet until January. Reorganization of the work of the union, made necessaty in part by the déath of Linden, has been un- dertaken by National Chairman Elias Gimstead with the assistance of Paul Dale, Columbia River or- ganizer of the union in the Astoria territory. This conference will be prepara- United Farmers League Urges Holiday Group to Aid Scottsboro Fight BELDEN, N. D.—tLetters urging the Farmers’ Union and the Holi- tory to the holding of the National Convention of the Fishermen’s and Cannery Workers’ Industrial Union, which will unify and build a mighty | Weapon of struggle for better fish Prices and conditions for the fish- ermen and cannery workers of the Pacific Coast and the United States. Fishermen Refused Supplies ASTORIA, Oregon, Dec. 17—The fish packers at Astofia are trying to keep the fish prices down to starvation levels by refusing twine to fisherfien unless they have cash to pay for it. They ate already speaking of a fish price settlement. Unless a satisfactory price agree- ment is reached they will not give out twine. ‘They know that the largest per- | centage of gill-netters on the Co- lumbia made nothing last summer and have no cash to buy twine. Un- less they get twine ahd other sup- plies they will not be able to fish next summer. The packers see in this a Way of forcing the fishermen to accept a low fish price so that theif profits will continue. have beensent by Arvo Husa, state secretary of the United Farmers’ League of North Dakota, it was an- | notnced today. The letters enclosed a copy of a call to action on the Scottsboro | case which has been sent to all | United Farmers’ League locals, with “One of the reasons for this con- dition lies in the widely employed | contract between the landlord and | |renter which places the landlord's lien on the first three bales pro- duced by the tenant. If this renter | |happens to have been given a gov- | ernment allotment of exactly three | | bales, he has no way of getting his jhands on a bit of cash except | through baying the surplus tax on | |each pound he may have in excess |of the allotment. | “It is these tenants whom we |hear describing the control project |@8 ‘legalized robbery’ and a ‘mis- | |erable political blunder. ” State Attorney-General Fights Mooney’s Effort For Freedom on Writ) | | coer | SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 17—The | Use of perjured testimony to rail- | Toad Tom Mooney to a life sentence cannot upset the jutisdiction of | California courts in the case, Attor- ney General U. 8. Webb contends | in a brief sent to the United States Supreme Court in opposition to} Mooney’s petition to file a writ of | hebeas corpus in that court. In his brief, Webb denies that the | introduction of false eviderice “in- validated the valid process by means | of which the trial court obtained | | jurisdiction.” Mooney, he says, has | | “failed to cite a single case in which | it was held that the introduction of | false evidence did or could deprive a trial court of jurisdiction. He | failed to cite such a case because | | it does not exist.” | After this brazen defense of the | frame-up methods and perjured | | testimony by which Mooney wi railroaded to jail in connection wi the Preparedness Day parade bomb- | ing in San Francisco in 1916, the| State Attorney General declares | that the United States Supreme | Court has no power to ré-open the | | work on the basis of a settlement that would leave them with virtually no gains. The, strikers were offered a guatantee of the present minimum for clerks and a straight percentage of net sales; increase of fifty cents a week for oth mployees, p vided they were with the comp: for at least a year; and immediat return without t inatio: After James P. Shechan of the Federated Trades Council, Joseph Padway, attorney of the State Fed- eration of Labor, and Fede-al mediator H. L. Mc Carthy took three hours to make their pleas be- | fore the strikers’ meeting, they were | asked to leave and following a few short speeches by rank and file workers exposing the tems, the proposals were defeated. Me C Stated that “the fed- eral government is much concerned oves the Milwaukee department | store trouble because it is the first of its kind in the nation and be- cause of its effects upon department storés all over the country He admitted that there was great con- cern in Philadelphia and New Or Jeans where there are similar str! in prospect. 5 of ‘Stevedore’ Cast To Appear At Concert For Young Worker PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 17—A concert and lecture program for the benefit of the Young Worker will be held on Friday t at the Boslover Hall, 701 Pine Street, at 8 o'clock. Amotig the speakers will be Ella Reeve Bloor and James W. Ford. The prograth is under the aus- pices of the Philadelphia Committee for the Young Worker, which is in the midst of a drive for citculation and ftind In adi to the speakers, there be Red vaudeville, a wrestling teh, the Workers’ Chorus, and other features. The highlight of the w diy ‘Assdolation te join inthe cam | 4 request that similar letters be sent S5t - case, and that it is “a matter for| evening will be a presentation of paign to free the Scottsboro boys AUTO WORKERS URGED TO REWRITE By PHIL management whose main objective is Profits. But demagégi¢ promises can setve to keep workes from taking action to help theistlves. While makinc TOsy prothises, wages afé being slashed. “Anteimotive Indtstries,” an employefs’ publication, declares that Roosevelt’s understanding with the bankers and Big Business will usher in a péri6d that will be known as “the eta of good feeling.” It then boasts of how one large com- pany had cub the wages of offic? workers 5 to 10 per cent. Automobile tanufacture-s “era of good feeling.” Grinders from the Briggs Mack Ave. Plant who were eatning 80 cents per hour at the time they were laid off were re- cently rehired at 55 cents per hour, Metal finishers in the Packard Plant were rehired at reduced rates, Buick has slashed wages from 20 per cent to 32 per cent. The installation of one machiie in Department 411 of the Ford Plant has eliminated 39 men. In the Chevrolet Plant 3, twelve mén now operate machines in place of 19 men formerly employed on the samé machines with wages re- duced from 55 cents to 50 cents per four. In several departments, foremen have been told to send any on Pee for a hase caught Speaking @ gtoup o! ot moze workers. The M. E. S. A. Code In the face of the determination of employers to smash all unions of Workers and reduce wage standards, what proposals d5 the leadership of the Mechanics Educatichal Associa- tion of America offer for a “workers etde” fo- the atito industry? The M. E. 8. A. calls for a mini- mum wage of $1 per hour for regular workers and 87 and a half cents pet hour for apprentices and learners. It calls for a 30 hour week. There ave no provisions for wage increases, for those now gei- ting $1 or more per hour; atid it thakes Wage adjustments that are necessary t6 mest increased living costs depend upén the statistics of the U. S. Deéparttnent of Laher Which expetience has shown can be €asily manipu'ated to suit the | to all Farmers’ Union and Holiday | Association locals, RAYMOND wishés of fhe employers. According to its definition of a bonafide trade union, foremeh, supe-intendents, and other executive officers are eligible for metfibetship. The M.E. S.A. code does tiot even ask for the abolition of the infamous merit clause tegarding the tight of em- ployers to hite and fite regardless of union affiliation. The Code of the M.E.S.A, makes no dethand for unemployment in- su ance, orfor straight hourly wages and the elimination of cheating piece work and bonus schemes. There is no demand for equal wages throughout the industry are making for equal work, for women, or for ready in the same fashion for this the abolition of all discriminatory practices against Negroes, foreign born workers and youth. | The M. B.S. A. Code shows no Consideration of the needs of the \ great mass of the production work- @fs in the industry, nor for the necessity fot the united militant action of all auto workers to protect their interests against the attacks of the employers. Matthew Smith, General Secte- tary of the M. E. 8. A. has learned nothing from the loss of the Bur- roughs Adding Machine Strike which was dué to the policies of Smith, which prevented production workers from coming to the aid of tool die makers who wére catrying on stiuggles to defend their union. To cover up his narrow reactionaty policy, Smith makes the demagogic provision in the Code that if ahy employe: violates it, the Commi'tes on Administration composed of two representatives of Jabor unions, two representatives of émployérs, and one representative ef the govérnment “may recom- mend to the president that the government take over the factory cr factories involved and adminis- trate them on a cooperative basis.” Matthew Smith is trying to rival William Green in the use of dema- gogy. Does Smith really beliéve that the M. E. S. A. membership takes him seriously when he proposes that @ government whith reb-escrits the interests of automobile mantfac- turers énd other employers will se!ze their factories ard rtin them in the Workers’ interests? ct empty bluster, but tnitet Propztation fer strike struggles will legislative rather thah judicial ac- | tion.” | stop wage slashes and improve con- ditions, A real workers’ code will be enfercéd on the pitket line. A teal Workers’ code must rally all ranks 6f atttomobdile workers in defense of their most Vital needs. Thése needs pre—a living yearly wage, eliminatich of the murderous speed-up system, unemployment and social insurance to take care of those whom a nfofit management cannot employ, the wiping out of all discriminatery practices against all groups of workers, atid the right to organize, sttike and picket. Several different unions of auto workers have already gone on tecord for a 30-hour week, for a minimum weekly wage of $30 to $35, for the right to organize, and fcr the out- lawing of comvany unions and Steolpizeon agencies. It is of the ut- most importafice that by February 1, at the latest, all organizations of auto workers shall unite in backing wD a real Workers’ code for the in- dustry and to be prepared for mili- tant sttike action for its enforee- Ment. The following proposals for & Workers’ code have been endorsed by the Auto Workers’ Union, and by several conferences of members of American Federation of Labor fed- eral auto unions. It offets a basis fOr agreement and common action. 1, Inereased wages and shorter hours: a) $35 minimum wage for a 30-hour week (6-hour day, 5-day week), with corresponding increeses in wages to cover further rises in cost of living. b) 30 per cent in- creasé for these net receiving above this minithum. c) No overtime. d) A guaranteed minimum of 40 full weeks’ work a year. ¢) Straight weekly wage, abclition of all piece- Yates, rang work. percentage, bonis, Badouz. and other cheating pay schemes. 2. Abolition of the Speed-tp. a) Abolition of the inhuman speed-up system. b) Election by workers of depertment committees to reguiate ell production norms. 8. Right of Workers to Organize. @) The right of workers to organ- ize into unions of their own choice. b) Right to establish democratically elected shop committess without fear of victimization. c) The abo- lition of comnany unitns, spy sys- tems, sérvice msn. and industrial Spy aseneies. d) No interference five metnbers of the cast of “Steve- dore,” now playing in Philadelphia. CODE BY STRIKE ACTION with the right to strike and to picket. €) No compulsory arbitta- tion schemes. f) Reinstatement of all workers discharged for union ac- tivity and payment of full wages fer all time lost. 4. Against Discrimination. a) No cisstimination against any workers, particularily Negroes, women and youth. b) Payment of equal wages for equal work to these sections of ' workers. ¢) The grantitig of full Tights to Negroes to work in all de- partments, afd to perform all op- erations, skilled and unskilled in the plants. 5. For Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance. a) Adequate cash relief to all unemployed auto wotkers to be naid by employers, city, state and federal governments. No contributions from workers’ wages. b) The immediate enact- ment of the Workers’ Unerhvloy- ment and Social Insurance Bill~ HL R. 7598. Workets have very little time to prepare for united, militant and de- cisive action. A. F. of L. M. E. 8. A, A. W. U. and all auto workers must get together as quickly as possible. ‘The production season will be short. mloyers plan to put over their Wage-cutting, speed-up program while keeping workers passive by Promises and delays. By April, they plan to counter the anger and dis- illusionment of the workers by an- other mass lay-off. The Automobile Labor Boatd, in its attempt to divide the. ranks of the workers and insure victory for company unicns, has announced elections in the Cadillac Motor Company. Legitimate trade unions and company unions are to be giv- eh _broportionate retresentation, The Auto Workers’ Union pro- poses that all legitimate trade unions in the atitomobile industry shall hold a joint mass meeting in Detroit to organize a united labor front for this election. The Auto Workers’ Union calls upon all its members and production workers as a whole to support the A. F. of L. United Automobile Workers and on all tool and die makers to vote for the Mechanits Educational Society. A united labor froht against com- pany unions can well be the first step for united strike action, for the enforcement of a workers’ code in the auto industry, in Washington on Jan. 5-7, In this community, which was the scene of the huge @textile strike in 1929 and recently the arrest of Jane Allen and myself by police, who raided the home of a Negro worker when Negro and white workers met to plan for the election of delegates, the workers ate the more determined to have representation at the coming Na- 1 Congress. to sending textile and workers, the local com- mittee has been asked by a group of Negro ministers to speak on the forthcoming Congress. Both Negro and white workers are planning to fill the court room at the trial of Jane Allen and myself tomorrow. Throughout the South energetia activity is centering around the coming Congr In Newport News the Unemployment Councils have set up a united front between the unemployed and longshoremen and several Negro churches for the elec~ tion of delegates. The Richmond Unemployment Councils, which have t the lead in the drive behind the Cong: , have set themselves he goal of bringing a represénta= tive delegation of fifteen to the Congtess m the employed and unemployed. A local united front between the Socialist and Communist Parties, | the Unemployment Council, Amal- | gamated Workers’ League and trade junions and churches has been firmly established around the com- ing Congress. Fully 400 workers, | about 305 of whom were Negroes, j}met at a mass meeting here and | raised $50 for the local expenses of ‘the Congress. Throughout the entire Northern part of the State of North Carolina, a section covering Durham, Reids- ville and Winston-Salem, the to- bacco workers, who are organized into the Tobacco Workers’ Intéer- national Union (A. F. of L.), are responding to the call, to the Na- tional Congress, and até pteparing to send delegates. These workers have been kept on wages as low a8 $2.18 to $4 for a week of 40 hours, although the blanket code sup- posedly established a minimum wage of twenty cénts an hour. These poverty stricken workers are collecting their pennies and nickels to assure themselves of @ representative delegation at the Congress. Help is needed, however, if the delegates from the Southern are to attend the National ess. All individuals and or- tions which sincerely wish to get behind the drive for unemploy- ment insurance should rush con- tributions to the National Sponsor ing Committee, 799 Broadway, Room 624, New York Ci Philadelphia Judge Seeks to Bar Hall To Lenin Memorial (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. 17.— After all arrangements had been completed between the United Wo-kers Organizations and the city- owned Convention Hall for the Lenin Memorial meeting here. Judge McDeviit released to the press a letter addressed to the Mayor urging hit in the name of god and the United States of America not to permit the Lenin Memorinl meeting to be held at Conv. m Hall. The same judge has just sen- tenced Kate Stone, knitgoods work- er, to thtee months in jail for Picketing duzing the last knitgoods strike here. He denied a motion for a new trial. Similar slanderous attacks were issued by the Committee of Seventy against thé workets’ organizations preparing the Lenin Memorial meet- Ing. The Communist Party is issuing tens of thousands of leaflets, expos ing the fascist nature of McDewitt’s screed, and is also developing a Postal card campaign for the right of Philadelphia workers to use thr Convention Hall. Literature Agent Held By Washington Police For Passing Leaflets WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee. 17— The Washington Branch of the Friends of the Soviet Union has filed a vigorous protest with the District Commissioners and Major Brown, Chief of Police, against the atrest and finger-printing of Sam Dickian, literature agent of the branch. Dickian was arested last Monday night for distributing leafiets deal- ing with the tremendous advance sf socialist industry and agriculture in the Soviet Union @pi the firm peace polity of the workers’ and peasants’ government. He was held incom- municado for 24 hours at the precinct station, fingers] photographed and questioned by immigration officers. Although no charges were against Dickian and he was released, the police have so far ré= fused to return the literature take from him at th. time of his Spread the Daily Worker | Yeur Shopmates,