The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1934, Page 2

seams « New York City by a delegation from > the Lithuanian workers organiza- - Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1934 2,000 Workers in Relief Demonstrations in Cleveland Rally Defies Low-Pay Agreement favor’s Order; Jams Traffic Support of Insurance Congress Voiced in Mass Parade (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., Dec ing the ban by Mayor Day workers assembled at Public Square here yesterday the bitter cold and marched on the offices of the county welfare commissioners. The demonstrators, voicing their com- plete support of the coming Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Defy- 2,900 in d demands for lief to all fam- payment Insurance. immediezte Winte! ilies and single men, cash of rents, cash relief to all single men, general relief increases, and the immediate end to all evictions A tremendously advertised coun- ter-demonstration organized by Mayor Davis turned out to be a complete fizzle. Davis’ scheme to d off the militent march of the was the offering of a free the Public Auditorium ree automobiles were given | Ithough the hall seats 12,- put away 000, and three other halls were en-/} gaged to seat the expected over- flow crowd, only 600 people, mostly women and school children entered | the hali. Thousands lined the streets. however, to witness the relief march, | Traffic Jammed The demonstrators organized by | the Unemployment Councils and | the Small Home and Land Owners Federation marched from the Pub- | lie Square to the Court House. Hol- iday traffic was jammed as the workers trekked to place their de- mands and forced the county wel- | fare commissioner to hold a special | meeting. While the thousands roared their demands, the county commissioners | paszed ihe buck to the relief board, | disclaiming all authority. Previ- ously, however, the relief board had stated that their hands were tied by the county commissioners who } held the strings to future relief aid to the unemployed. Commissioners Evade Demands | Although admitting that the) “sales tax is the most vicious tax there is.” the county commissioners evaded the demands of the unem- | ployed for highly increased taxa- tion on the rich. When pressed to use their offices to halt evictions and foreclosures, they claimed that such action falls only under the jurisdiction of the courts. At the same time they admitted the effect- iveness of the mass pressure exerted by the unemployed. As one com- missioner said: “If that crowd out- side wouldn’t influence the courts, | what influence would three county | commissioners have.” The workers’ delegates reported the answers of the commissioners to the waiting workers. A huge in- door mass meeting was announced for Jan. 15 to hear the reports of the returning delegates from the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance and to read the} answers of the county commission- ers which will be mailed to the! workers’ organizations. Mills Faces Deportation from Page 1) a ee | country during the past year, with tremendous strike actions through- | out the country, demonstrations for | relief and the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, for Negro rights and against lynching, andj against the New Deal drive towards war and fascism. An appeal to all workers and their organizations to vigorously protest this new attack on the for- eign born and the unity of all work- ers in the struggle for better con- ditions was issued yesterday by the Philadelphia district of the Inter- mationa!t Labor Defense, which asked for contributions to a special fund for the defense of Mills. Con- tributions should be sent to the Mills Defense Fund, care of the I. L. D., 49 North Eighth Street, Phila- | delphia. Protest telegrams and | resolutions from organizations and meetings of workers should be rushed to Secretary of Labor Per. kins, Washington, D. C., demanding a halt to the deportation proceed- ings against Mills and the dropping of the charges against him, in con- nection with his activities in the interests of the toiling masses of Negro and white workers. Workers are urged to hold protest meetings in the shops and neighborhoods. | | | | | Anti-Fascist Workers Hit Lithuanian Terror In Protest to Consul Protection against the brutalities inflicted by the fascist Lithuanian Government upon revolutionary po- litical prisoners was made last Sat- urday to the Lithuanian Consul in tions in Greater New York. A resolution left with the Consul to be forwarded to his government denounces the treatment of the working class fighters in prison, the frame-up of Shakota, Komodaite, Levinaite and Gordonaite and the threats against the lives of these militant working class leaders. The resolution demands the safe release of all revelutionary political prisoners, recognition of the rights of the toiling masses of Lithuania | with freedom of the press. freedom of organization and assembly, abol- ition of torture of the prisoners and jin esch of more than 50 ships’ | |be called and each worker given “Anti-Soviet | loyalty to the Party. | ported in words all sorts of recipes For Seamer In Spite uTs Signed of Protests Men in Many Crews Denounce J.S.U. Contract for om ay = $57.50, Without Central Shipping Bureau, Signed Without Consulting Members Disregarding a shower of protests from seamen in all main ports, and demands for open mass meetings where the | members of the International Seamen’s Union could vote} on the agreement negotiated with thirty-eight steamship | companies, Victor Olander, Na signed Saturday the agreement* which goes into effect Jan. 1 | The scale is $57.50 a month in| place of the $75, demanded for able bodied seamen. There is a forced | arbitration clause, and while the | 18.0. recognized the shipowners | can hire any workers they please. The demand of the seamen for a/ shipping bureau from which wor: ers can be hired without discrim ination, was ignored altogether. The negotiations were secret and no meetings of seamen were called to | give approval. Many Seamen Sign Protests The New. York office of the} Marine Workers Industrial Union | reports that from 10 to 35 seamen | crews have signed the petitions de- nouncing the $57.50 scale, and | pledging a united struggle of all workers on every ship to fight against its enforcement. Since Pri- | day hundreds of seamen have been | marking straw ballots on postcards | addressed to Victor Olander, which | ask if the seaman favors the $57.50, scale; if he is in favor of the forced arbitration clause and does he think that membership meetings should | the right to vote on the agreement before it goes into effect. A space | for “Yes” or “No” is left for each tional Secretary of the LS.U.) ) Seaman to mark et each question. The M.W.1.U. reports that crews of at least 30 ships reported send- ing wires to Olander, protesting the $57.50 scale. Sirsilar protest mov2- ments are under way in Baltimore, Pniladelphia, Boston, Norfolk, New Orleans and other eastern and Gulf ports, the union states, Officials Raise Red Issue The officials of the International | Seamens Union, anticipating that the agreement will arouse a wave of protests issued a bulletin on Dec. | 17, in which an attempt is made to | prepare the amen for accepting | it. Olander is highly praised for the “victory” which he negotiated. The statement attempts to drag in the | red issue in order to split the united | protest coming from members of all seamen’s unions. “Radicals will carry the old line of ‘sell out,’ the staterant reads, | “but we challenge them, not with | words—but in deeds to show one step of forward movement of eco- | or legislative progress to| | It is the strike called by the| Marine Workers Industrial Union | and the Rank and File in the 1.8.U. | on the West Coast and on the East Coast which has foreed even the insignificant gains in the signed agreement. Plot Is Flayed (Continued from Page 1) oculated this insignificant group with a feeling of animal hatred) towards the leaders of the revolu tion. From vain attempts to fal- sify the doctrines of Marx and Lenin, to discredit the Leninist lead- ershiv_of the Party, from vain at tempts to crush the iron unity of the Bolshevist ranks—to direct treason to the cause of the working class and the fulfillment of the command of the class enemy to in- spire all fascist forces hostile to us towards the creation of an under- ground anti-Soviet terrorist group— such is the logic of fractional strug- gle.” The Soviet Izvestia, writes: “The terrorist group, the ‘Lenin- grad Center.’ was formed from the! remnants of the routed Zinoviev op- position. It remained unknown be- cause it lived a close life torn com- pletely from the masses, not only feiling to show any signs of polit-| ical activity, but carefully masking | its real aspect by declarations of| Its reticence was the result of the fact that it had nothing to say to fighting work- ers and collective farmers. The members of this group wished changes to be made in the present | solicy in the spirit of the so-called Zinoviev-Trétskyite platform. But this platform is the product of the! Zinoviev-Trotsky lack of confidence | in the possibility of building social- ism in our country. Apart from slanderous attacks against Lenin, the Party and its leadership. it sup- Government organ, for the branches of construction in industry and the limitation of kulak exploitation. To come forth with| such a ‘vrogram,’ even in a narrow circle of workers, would mean to be ridiculed. because the Party and its leadership, to which the Zino-| viev-Trotsky platform prophesied a Thermidorian rebirth, has during this period constructed a giant so- cialist industry and has liquidated the kulaks upon a basis of complete collectivization, of which the mem- bers of the opposition never; dreamed. “The remnant of the Zinoviey group, the broken Zinoviey opposi- tion, under cover of the Party mem- bership card and concealing its fac- tional ‘loyalty’ and slanderous anti- Party ‘program’, could not but realize that the whole essence of their activities and strivings was the restoration of the capitalist regime. With such a program one not only cannot approach workers and col- lective farmers. but even the toiling people generally. “All that remained for these dregs to do was: Concealing themselves with the Party ticket, to shoot at leaders of the Party and the Soviet regime. Terrorism was the result of the hopelessness and doom of this group. They could not gain that aim which they wanted —to disorganize the Soviet regime by terrorist acts.” Emphasizing further that the whole Czarist machine could not disorganize the Bolshevik Party. that the Soviet regime could not be disorganized by the world bour- geoisie through intervention, block- ade and espionage, that the Soviet regime could not be disorganized by wreckers, kulaks, Mensheviks, Social-Revolutionaries and all op- Positions taken together, Izvestia goes on to say: “But if the attempt of the ter- rorist group from the dregs of the former Zinoviev opposition could not gain its aim, it could, however, by a revolver hidden behind a Party card. inflict a wound upon the Party and the Soviet regime by wrenching Kirov from the ranks of the Party. removal of provocateurs and gun- men, | “The wave o7 sorrow, the wave of solidarity with the Party, which | mistakes recognized and rectified, rolled over the whole country during the days of Kirov's funeral, already | sufficiently and clearly expressed to} the whole world that the masses of | the people demand from the Soviet | Government a merciless judgment, they demand that those who raised | the sword against the dictatorship | of the proletariat should perish by the sword. The Republic and the Party do not seek vengeance for but they must judge all Severely, according to their deeds, and any ery loud words not confirmed by leeds is unworthy of the builders of socialism.” | ‘Forced Labor ‘tn New Orleans |Place Demands Before | Relief Director in Southern Port NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 23.— Protesting vigorously against the | forced labor for flophouse shelter and meals, proposed at a confer- ence called here last week by Fed- eral Transient Director Plunkert, the executive committee of the Waterfront Unemployment Council presented him with a_ petition signed by 253 local unemployed sea- men demanding adequate relief for unemployed without forced labor or discrimination. The statement that the unem- ployed transients would have to submit to foreed labor wes made by Miss Charles, local relief official, The conference was attended by the state relief administrators of Ala- bama and Texas. If their program is put into action it will affect three states and become an example for the whole country to smash down the hard-won relief of seamen. The demands in full, as presented, follow: right of seamen to eat and lodge in places of their own choos- ing with no foreed labor; minimum allowance to be 25 cents a meal for three meals a day and 25 cents a night for lodging; adequate clothing on demand; minimum of two car- fares a day; admittance of seamen Hospital when sick; no discrimina- tion for color, creed, nationality, union affiliation or political convic- tion; recognition of elected commit- tees of seamen by relief officials; a centralized shipping bureau con- trolled by the seamen’s committees; adequate supply of shaving cream, toothpaste, soap, matches, razor blades, tobacco and other necessi- ties. At a meeting of the Waterfront Unemployment Council held Dec. 14, a letter was drafted to Assistant Director of Federal Emergency Re- lief Aubrey Williams, categorically demanding the granting of these demands and stating that the sea- men are planning a hunger march on Washington to back up these demands. The letter also stated that seamen in all ports would be called upon to support the march. Workers’Enemies General Urges War-Time Army (Continued from Page 1) goistic statement yesterday declar- | ing for a government monopoly ot | munitions manufacture so that | “We can have an army and navy sufficient to repulse a fee or group of foes that might be so foolish as ! to attack us.” In this way Senator Nye indicates that his exposure of the Roose- velt war plans is not aimed at these | plans themselves but at their al- leged inefficiencies, Summarizing the results of the investigation thus fay, Senator Nye | in his review, makes the following peints: 1. The plans of the War Depart- ment to turn over the country to the business interests during the next war. 2. The ridicuiousness of trying to limit profits by undertaking the valuation of thousands of manu- facturing plans when there is clear- ly the demonstrated inability of in- dustry itself to agree on what con- stitutes valuation, 3. Taylor, du Pont agent, testifies that conscription of wealth as well as men and labor would retard munitions manufacture. 4, The government manufactures munitions at 33 per cent less cost than the private munition makers according to studies made by pri- vate industry. 5. That the quibbling by the patriotic munitions makers over the margin of profit during the World War was the cause of the three months’ delay in the construction of the Hickory powder plant. 8. The spirit of the munitions in- |dustry is expressed by one of the munitions agents when he stated: “This is our country, not the country of Congress.” 1. The close partnership between the government and the munitions makers; during the war, men who were stockholders in munitions plants acted for the government in contracting with these plants, with Lieutenant Colonel Williams, a stockholder in the duPonts signing ® government contract of $49,000,- 000 with the du Ponts. The Nye investigation has thus revealed that the Roosevelt govern- ment, through the War Depart- ment is working hand in glove with the biggest Wall Street monopolies, guaranteeing them enormous profits out of the slaughter of workers in imperialist war. The appointment by Roosevelt of Bernard Baruch and General John- son to “investigate how to take the Profits out of war,” has been openly denounced by the investigating Senators as an attempt to choke the investigation. The Nye committee, despite its exposures of the capitalist corrup- tion in the preparation for war, has made its position clear in several statements issued by Senator Nye, who has declared himself publicly “for an adequate defense.” Actually, the Nye investigation it- self is playing its part in the war preparations, acting as a smoke- sereen for the Roosevelt’ war plans which are being every day per- fected, as well as acting in the in- terests of a more efficient war pro- gram than now exists with the Wal’ Street plundering, ere Vernon A, Weiman of New York city, originally from Denton, Md., is exposed as a swindler, who dis- appeared around the end of Sep- tember with the funds (about $35) of an unemployed organization, of which he was the financial secre- tary. Description. Weiman is a Negro cook or restaurant worker, about 34 years old, about 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighing about 150 pounds, partly bald, He has a habit of saying: “I can’t understand. I will never be able to understand,” when he is puzzled about something. Workers in New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania and Maryland, especially, should be on guard against this swindler, . . . Charles E. Malone ‘also known as Charles Edwards), of Seattle, Wash., has been expelled from the Com- munist Party as an unreliable and irresponsible right opportunist, who deserted his post as chairman of Unemployed Citizens’ League, in the face of growing terror, and who at | the same time misappropriated or- |Sanizational funds, disappearing from the city in a precipitate man- ner. His actions are most represensible, because he was a candidate on the Communist Party ticket during the Congressional election campaign and because he has enjoyed the confidence of the masses, Deseription; American, railroad worker, age, 38; height, 5 ft. 6 in.; weight, 160 pounds; kind and color or hair, straight, brown, slightly bald in front; eyes, blue, com- Plexion, fair. T. R. Pait, of San Antonio, Texas, has been expelled from the Com- munist Party as an unreliable anti- Party disrupter and petty-hourgeois opportunist, whose actions are of the most reprehensible kind. He joined the Party in the early Spring of 1934, but after a few weeks stopped attending unit meet- ings or paying dues, Afterwards he began to agitate against the Party, spreading all kinds of vile slanders against leading Party members in San Antonio, misrepre- senting Party units as Lovestone groups, claiming that there were no Party units in San Antonio, Although he turned in his Party book about two months ago, when it suits his nefarious purposes, he still pretends to be a Party member, pretends to be organizing Party units. At other times he pretends to be organizing for the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. At the same time he is visiting members of the Workers Educational Club, most of whom he knows personally, and is trying to scare them away from any connections with the Communist Party. All workers are warned against Placing any confidence in Pait, against joining any organization he may attempt to form, against pay- ing any “initiation fees” or donat- ing any funds to his fake organiza- tions, Description: Pait is a white American, about 40 years of age, 3 ft. 11 in. in height, about 180 xounds in weight, and with dark rown hair. You know neighbors who should read the Daily Worker. Ask them | 10 subscribe: eligible for relief to U. 8. Marine | /Seamen Ray |BakersFramed In Anti-Labor \DriveinDetroit LL.D. Calls on Workers To Demand Pickets Be Freed DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 23.—Call- ng upon the workers of Detroit to prevent a concerted anti - union drive, the International Labor De- fense in a statement issucd yester- day, declares that the arrest of 28 members of Local 78 of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union, who were picketing Haftka’s bakery, is an attempt at a frame-up of a most vicious character. The 23 workers were arrested fol- lowing a fight between gangsters, who supplied the bakery with scabs, and Haftka and his son. Haftka’s son was shot to death as a conss- quence. John Doe warrants to arrest lead- ers of the union. Threat to All Workers Meanwhile bakery bosses are flooding the city with propaganda about “union-made bread being cov- ered with blood” and that the “union label is a label of murder.” The I. L, D,, in making preparations for a series of protest meetings, warns that unless the membership of all unions and workers’ organi- zations is aroused against this frame-up, similar drives will be made against active union members in other unions. The statement follows, in part: “For over two years the Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union Local No. 78 has carried on a strike at Haftka’s Bakery, for the right to organize and for collective bargaining. For over two years Mr. Haftka has been ‘dealing with gang- sters, thugs and shady underworld characters, who have supplied him with strikebreakers to replace hon- est union men who are struggling for a living wage and humane work- ing conditions, For over two years Haitka has been producing seab- baked bread under the protection of gunmen, Terror Aimed at Union “A few days ago, Haftka, his son and several others got into a fight with some of these gangsters and underworld characters. In this fight Haftka’s son was shot to death. Shootings are the natural outcome when deals are made with the un- derworld, The Detroit police de- partment and the prosecutor's office, instead of seeking these gangsters and thugs, have arrested 23 work- tent that some could not walk. Why? Because these workers are members of the Bakery and Con- fectionery Workers Union Local 78 of the A, F. of L—honest men who have been in the forefront of the struggle for better wages and de- cent working and living conditions. ‘The bosses see a chance to frame these workers and with that break their union. Meanwhile the mur- derers roam the streets.” | De. Gal dwater Refuses To See Queens Group Dr. 8. 8. Goldwater, Commis- sioner of Hospitals in the La- Guardia city administration, Fri- day bluntly refused to see a delega- tion from the Queens Committee for Equal Rights, a united front body comprising more then 70 or- ganizations, which visited him to protest discrimination against Ne- groes in the appointments to the staff of the new Queens General Hospital, and the exclusion of Ne- gro doctors and workers from moat of the other city hospitals. He de- clared he was under no obligation to hear the complaints of the dele- gation. The Commissioner attempted to incite the arrest of the delegates, giving instructions, according to a statement made to the delegation by Police Officer No. 5562-to “let them stay around and if they get boisterous lock: them up.” The delegation then went to the offices of Mayor LaGuardia, where the Mayor's secretary, Major Dun- ham, at first refused to see them, but was later forced to see five of the delegates and to accept a pro- test letter from the Committee for Equal Opportunities, with the promise that he would forward it to Dr. Goldwater. The five dele- gates finally admitted into Major Dunham's office were Mrs. Ger- aldine Chaney, chairman of the Committee for Equal Opportunities; Richard Skeeie of the Progressive Democratic Club of Corona, Fred- erick W, Williams of the Mills Citi- zens Voters’ League, Frank Martel of the American League Against War and Fascism, and William Lefkowitz of the Economic Federa- tion of Dentists. The delegates all. expressed tn- dignation over the treatment of ihe delegation by Dr. Goldwater and the Mayor's office, and declared the intention of the committee to con- tinue and broaden its vigorous fight aaginst jim-crow practices in the city hospitals, The circulation of the Daily Worker can increase only if we convince our friends, shopmates and neighbors to read the paper regularly, Point out to them that the Daily Worker is one of the chief sponsors of the Workers Unemployment Insuranee Bill A. R. 7598, which provides insurance for those workers NOW nnem- ployed! | ers and beaten up five to the ex-/ The police hold five more ' ‘Hand of Monopolists _ |Jobless F orn In New Deal Reaction Shown in Roper Repori 1U. S. Secretary of Commerce Unwittingly Shows How Business Council Directs Govern- ment Attacks on Workers ceeded in “providing business fairs of the Federal departme representation of big business in the government apparatus is among the few concrete facts that emerge from the report which consists of little more than optimistic state- ments. When Secretary Roper does not come to grips with the eco- nomie situation he admits that “un- employment is still a major prob- lem.” “Valuable Cooperation” Secretary Roper dealt at some length on the “valuable assistance and cooperation” that his depart- ment has obtained from ihe mem- bers of the Business Advisory and Planning Council which was set up under the New Deal on June 26, 1933. It now consists of 52 of the most important representatives of American business and industry. They see to it that the voice of big business directs all phases of the questions involving the government } and industry. Among the big-shots upon whose “seasoned judgment” the Depart- ment leans are: Pierre 8. du Port, of the munitions and chemical trust; Walter S. Gifford, of the tele- phone corporation; Gerard Swope, of the General Electric and one of the most prominent of the Morgan representatives, Myron C. Taylor, of ‘the Steel trust; Walter C. Teagle, This steady growth of the direct ?——— WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23.—In his annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, Secretary of Com- merce Daniel C. Roper, tells of how the new deal has suc- with a direct voice in the af- nt representing it.” of the Standard Oil of New Jersey; and James H. Rand, the head of the anti-labor Committee for the Nation crowd which is subsidizing fascist activity in this country. Represent Biggest Monopoly These representatives of the big- | gest monopolies in the countries, working through “a score of small organized groups within the business council,” present their views, using | the government department as their direct instrument, on such vital matters as unemployment insurance and relief, Their attacks on ihe! workers. get the direct support of | the government in these as in other matiers. ‘i Since these representatives of | monopoly capital are also members of other parts of the government machine, the council had become a government hody of big business, ; and as Secretary Roper says, “A clearing house and a center of co-} ordination for industrial views on , ssovernment matters which affect’ business.” The New Deal has consequently increased the open participation of monopoly capital in the. government. which is now more opsniy used against the workers on every issue ranging from relief to higher wages. Jury Packing Charged on Coast (Continued from Page 1) by the prosecution to tamper with the jury occurred last week when the defense brought out that Dis- triet Attorney McAllister had visited the home of Mzs. Rose, one of the jurors, that Mrs..Rose arid her hus- band were close friends of McAllis- ter, who has been a f:equent recip- ient of gifts of ducks from the couple. Leo Gallagher, Interna- tional Labor Defense attorney, also showed that the District Attorney's staff had close connections with all of the members of the two regular and seven special jury panels called so far. Gallagher has ‘demanded an investigation of Juzy Commissioner Le Graves. He is also pressing for an investigation of the district at- torney’s office, Deputy Sheriff Baker and others, including a “mystery” woman, in connection with the lie that members of the International Labor Defense bad “visited Mrs, Nix and threatened her with death.” The defense yesterday called the attention of the court to the fact that Jurer Cowsell had been seen talking to a court official, in viola- ‘ion of court rules, “That has nothing to do with the case,” declared the prosecution, al- though the District Attorney’s of- fice has placed a stool-pigeon among the women defendants ‘to see that they do not talk to any of the prospective jurors.” Brings Out Torture Judge Dal M. Lemmon sustained an objection by the prosecution to a defense question to Juror Harvey, in which the defense brought out the torture and terrible conditions imposed upon the 18 political pris- oners in the Jocal jail. and the poor food, insufficient blankets and lack of steam in the women's quarters of the prison. Selection of the jury is nearing completion, with only six challenges left to the defense. Ten prospec- tive jurors were challenged for cause Friday, during the question of 22 members of the seventh special special panels have been exhausted, with the prosecution challenging all workers and sympathizers, and the defense fighting to bar stool-pig- eons and vigilantes from the jury. Class Character Shown cution of the 18 defendants, and the determination of the ruling class to railroad them to jail, has been brought out several times in» the questioning of prospective jurors, and particularly in the altering by the presiding judge of a quotation from the Declaration of Independ- ence on the right of the people to “alter or abolish government” in the interests of their well-being. Judge Lemmon added the word “lawfully” before the quotation, al- though the passage quoted at length by the defense clearly recognizes the right of the people to overthrow & government or system which has become a barrie: to further progress and a guarantee of the profits of a small group of capitalists and the continued misery of the vast ma- jority of the population. The I.L.D. has called for the send- ing of protest telegrams and reso- lutions to the court and Sacramento and State officials, and for funds for the defense. Hold « party and use the pre- ceeds to get Daily Worker sub- seriptions fer workers who cannot panel. Two regular panels and six} ‘The class character of the prose- | No Insurance Says Perkins; (Continued from Page 1) Union; 8. K. Davis, organizer, Min- Neapolis Unemployment Councils; } William Brown, president, General Drivers and Inside Workers Local 574; James Flower, state secretary, berg, secretary, Iron Workers | Union; George Guider, Ice Wagon. Drivers Locel 221; Jack Carson, dis-' trict organizer, Communist Party; I. G. Scott, Alderman, Tenth Ward,| Plasterers Local 65; Roy Wier,. or-; ganizer, Central Labor Union, mem- ber of State Legislature; L. Boeri- bact, Painters Local 386; Water Frank, secretary, Lathers Union; Local 190; D, Moses, secreiary, city committee, International Workers Order; John Baker, secretary, A. F. of L, Commitiee Unemployment In-, surance and Relief. TRINIDAD, Colo., Dec. 23. — One delegate to the National Congress| for Unemployment Insurance has been elected by the Unemployment Councils here. More Shoe Workers Act LYNN, Mass., Dec. 23.— Lasters Local 6 of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union has en- dorstd the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance and will send a delegate, NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 23.—Paint- ers District Council 10 at its last meeting endorsed the National Con- gress for Unemployment and So- cial Insurance and elected one del- egate to attend the sessions in Washington. BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 23—The National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance has been endorsed! by the Jewish Building Trades Un- tersitzung Verein which has elected two delegates to go to Washington. BOOTH PLAIN, N, Y., Dec, 23.— Bricklayers, Masons and Plasters International Union Local 75, has endorsed the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance and elected one delegate. . Polish Groups Send Support DETROIT, Mich., Der, 23. — The movement in support of the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and of the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance is making real progress among the Polish workers of this city and throughout the State. z On Friday, Dec. 14, 600 workers packed the Polish National Home at a meeting called to discuss the National Congress. The meeting ‘was, arranged by a Committee of Action elected at a conference held earlier in the month, called by the Polish Chamber of Labor. Congressmen Lesinsky and Ding- ell, who profess to be in favor. of unemployment insurance, were in- vited to the meeting, but failed to attend. A resolution. was . unani- mously at endorsing — the Workers’ Bill and the National Con- gress. More than 400. signatures were secured on the Daily Worker ballots for the Workers’ Bill. It was decided to send the resolution. to President Roosevelt, Secretary of Labor Perkins and the congressm of that district, Another resolution was adopted and sent to the City Council. pro- testing the rise in gas rates recently announced by the Detroit Gas Co. MUSKEGON, Mich.. Dec. 23. — / afford te order the paper! broad conference of Polish organi- zations, called at the initiative of . Relief Hearing Despite Police Council Calls Workers to Demonstrate at H. R. B. Breakng through police lines more than fifty workers led by the Down- town Unemployment Council, en- tered: the Home Relief Bureau, at Spring and Elizabeth Streets, Fri- day morning, and forced Super- visor McNulty to~ recognize: their delegation. After a bitter struggle with the police stationed inside the Bureau office, in which many workers were slugged by the police, the workers finally won their way to the sec- ond floor and forced McNulty to see their delegation of five, three of whom he had previously barred. During the fighting two women fainted and a worker, Tony Marsh, was attacked by a bureau attendant with a knife, but was saved by a fellow-worker who beat off his assailant. Workers outside the bureau set up & picket line, demanding that their delegation be seen, but were driven across the street. by police. The police beat a worker named Lazitsky, 62, when he tried to join the workers inside, and later ar- rested him on.a charge of assault, He was taken to the Tombs where has case was set over till Dec, 26 and bail set at $250. The five delegates presented: de- mands for Winter relief and the ending of the coal racket. whereby workers are given coal cards at sta- tions far from their homes and as a result must pay to have it brought. to their houses. One of the spokes- men told McNulty that the Unem- ployment Council held him directly responsible for the use of the terror and pointed out to the assembled workers that this was an example of fascist metheds that relief offi- cials are trying to substitute for adequate relief. ‘Jobless Push Relief Fight In Jackson JACKSON, Mich, Dee. 23.—In response to leaflets issued by, the United Workers Association, a local organization fighting for the inter- United Farmers League; John Lind- ‘ests of -the unemployed, workers packed the chambers of the City Commission here recently, demand- ing immediate reply to their relief demands. : Previously, a letter had. been sent to the City Commission ‘by the United Workers Association setting forth the following demands: 1.—Resognition of all workers’ committees by the Jackson County Relief Committee; 2.—Elected committees of work- ers’ groups be permitted to sit at all meetings. of the relief commission and voice.their relief demands, The City Commission passed: the matter to the relief body and re- fused to take action on the workers’ demands. The newly-formed United Workers Association, with head- quarters at 1300-Belding Road, cor- ner East High Street, is mobilizing more workers to force the granting of their relief demands. Have you lost your job? Have your wages been cut? Does your employer force. you to specd-up your work, in order to get-more out of you for the same wage? Read the Daily Worker to find ovt how you best can protect yourself! Become a subscriber! See to it that every worker you know gets the paper! the Polish Chamber of Labor, was held here for the purpose of. or- ganizing mass support for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and the National Congress. Among the organizations repre- sented were the Polish National Al- liance, which has 500,000 members throughout the country, the Polish Falcons, whose top leadership is re= actionary and openly. militaristic, and the Polish Citizens’ Club. The conference endorsed _ the Workers’ Bill and the National Con- gress, and decided to call another conference Dec. 30, where a dele- gate to the congress will be elected, Grand Rapids Conference GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec, 23. --A conference, called here by the Polish Chamber of Labor, endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill and the National Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance, Among the organizations represented were the Polish Na-~ tional Alliance, the Polish Falcons and the Polish Taxpayers’ Associ- ation. esa The resolution endorsing — the Workers’ Bill was sent to President Roosevelt, Secretary of Labor Perk- ins, the Congressmen from this dis- trict, the State Legislature, Gover- nor Comstock, and Governor-elect Fitagerald. © 5 TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec, 28. + The Toledo Community Welfare Assoct= ation, an organization of foreign- born workers, at a meeting on Dee, 16, reconsidered a previous endorse- ment of the Wegner-Lewis Bill and voted instead to endorse the Work~ ers’ Unemployment Insurance: Bill. Tt was decided to send letters to President Roosevelt and Congress, notifying them of this. On the same day two conferences of Polish - workers’ organizations, representing a total of about 1,500 nembers, were held here.- The con- ferences endorsed the Workers’ Bij! ‘nd the .National - Congress and dopted: resolutions protesting -the recently enacted state sales tax.