The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1934, Page 1

Cast Your Vote Now for Unemployment Insuranc Get Your Shopmates to Subscribe to the Daily Worker Vol. XI, No. 308 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934 NATIONAL EDITION Six Pages) Price 3 Cents HUNGER LISTS SWELL THROUGH U.S. BROWDER DENOU ON C.P. RIGHT TO BE HEARD Cites Fascist Aims of Diekstein Group and Industrialists NEW YORK.—Declaring that the refusal of the Congressional Com- mittee “investigating un-American activities” to grant the Communist Party the right to present its posi- tion before the committee aids in the development of fascism, Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, has sent gress demanding the right to make | Sound almost incredible were it not! issued today by Langston Hughes, | in the Négro poet and novelist and presi- the Party position part of the pub- lie records of the investigation. Quoting tne telegram which Cla- rence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, sent to the Dick- stein committee, denouncing its ac- tion in keeving Party spokesmen out, of the hearings, Browder reiterates the determination of the Communist Party to expose the fascist purposes of the Dickstein committee allegedly set up to fight the Nazis in America. “Your refusal,” Browder quotes, “to hear authoritative spokesmen of the Communist Party when sup- posedly you are ‘investigating’ Com- munism shows up your committee for what it really is, a tool of the Chamber of Commerce and the Na- tional Manufacturers Association in their openly announced drive to il- legalize the Communist Party, de- port and imprison active Commu- nists as the first step toward cut- ting workers’ wages, speeding up production, cutting relief for the unemployed, and introducing fascist measures for the suppression of the workers’ movement as a whole.” Warning the masses that the Congress is preparing to enact anti- Communist laws, Browder de- nounced the Congressional commit- tee for its democratic pretenses, | stating that this “democracy” served to introduce fascism, in Ger- many and Austria, and is now being used to pave the way for fascism in this country. NLB Decision Helps Plants To Move Away WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 25.— Apparently ordering the reinstate- Schoellkopf TERA Head Fired Andi- tor Who Exposed Graft in Cohoes Relief By SIMON W. GERSON | Relief administration in New | York State is the creature of the | great utilities and in particular, A. |H. Schoellkopf, State Temporary |Emergency Relief Chairman—and president of the powerful Niagara U til ity Reaped Profit Negro Poet Lauds ILD Fight | _ From Duplicated Light Bills Paid | By Relief Clients, Inquiry Reveals To Save Scottsboro Youths Cooperation of All Who Stand for Freedom for Negroes Urged by LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 25.— | Hudson Power Corporation and Di- Co-operation of all who stand for | |rector of 17 others, an investigation | Negro freedom, in the fight to save | | by the Daily Worker revealed. the Scottsboro boys which is being | This startling picture of graft, led by the International Labor De- a letter to every member of Con-| corruption and intimidation would’ fense, was called for in a statement | for unimpeachable proof {hands of the Daily Worker. dent of the League of Struggle for | At least one of the companies Negro Rights. | | which Mr. Schoellkopf controls has | 2 : Hughes’ statement was in the | rendered double light bills to at) form of an appeal to all genuine | aside all |least one city relief administration | friends of the boys to lay |—and gotten paid for them. A TER.A, auditor who brought this to the attention of T.E.R.A.| Officials was promptly discharged | for his pains. Mr. Schoellkopf per- | sonally wrote the employee that he | would not be reinstated. President Roosevelt, Governor Lehman and State Comptroller | Morris S. Tremaine have all been | informed of the facts—but not one jf them has seen fit to move a muscle to expose these conditions to the people of New York State or reinstate the discharged auditor. | Practically every large newspaper in New York City was approached with the facts of the story—includ- ing the “liberal” “fire-eating,” “util- | ity-fighting” New York Post. Not one of them touched it. There was too much dynamite in it. It hit people in high places. This, in brief, is the outline of the sordid story of New York State Relief. The munition makers, who liter- ally coined gold out of the torn flesh that strewed the world’s bat- tlefields in the World War have met their equals—the uitilities that traffic in civil misery. rene duPont | may now offcially shake hands with | Alfred H. Schoellkopf. Scene Laid in Cohoes, N. Y. The scene of the story is laid | principally in the little town of Cohoes, New York, a municipality a few miles north of Albany on the banks of the Hudson. What tran- spired in the relief administration of this community of 32,000 people, has, in one degree or another—as the relief investigation now going on in New York City eloquently indicates—happened in many an- other city in the State. differences and throw the weight | Langston Hughes felt to the highest court in the land. “For three and a half years the International Labor Defense has | been leading the fight for the inno- cent boys. Many of the members of the organization have served without any pay, working sixteen | and eighteen hours a day for months at a time. But for their | sacrifices, and those of the poor and underpaid workers, both white and Negro, who have given their last pennies in many cases, the boys would not be alive today. “The International Labor Defense | of their influence on the side of | has backed up its campaign of edu- the Scottsboro defense, away from | cation, rousing protest everywhere, | the disruption of its enemies, who | with the best legal defense.” have sought to scuttle it, in what) Puynds to carry on this legal and he termed the crucial moment of | mass campaign, to perfect and pre- the long fight for their freedom. | sent the appeals before the U. S. “Legal defense is important, very | Supreme Court, are urgently needed. | important,” Hughes said, “and we | Rush every cent possible at once, | | ‘Civilized? Amenities, know that the I. L. D. is providing | the best legal defense. But legal defense alone is not enough. We | must. support the fight with our | protest and make public opinion | ‘YULE’ SPURS. CHACO WAR Discarded in Fight for Imperialists BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 25.—The Bolivian and Paraguayan govern- ments, who are fighting to deter- mine whether the British or American imperialists shall tap the rich Chaco oil fields, spent their | Christmas slaughtering the peas- ants and workers that comprise the armies with renewed vigor. This was the first Christmas that the armies spent fighting in the three years of war. On the previous Christmases “civilized” amenities were adhered to and truces were agreed upon. This year the Paraguayan armies are pressing the Bolivian forces by telegraph, airmail, special deliv- | ery, to the Scottsboro-Herndon De- fense Fund of the International La- | bor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th Street, New York City MACY STORE TO FIRE 5,000 Officials Are Instructed! to Avoid Appearance of Mass Lay-Off NEW YORK.—“Every effort is to be made to avoid the appearance and rush of a mass lay-off.” So reads the statement issued to | Officials of Macy's department store, | on procedure for a Christmas lay- | off of at least 5,000 in that store alone. Macy’s heads the list of New | York stores now in the process of laying off tens of thousands of workers. Macy’s lay-off procedure instruc- tions dated Nov. 30, were issued in seven copies; to the heads of the time office, training,’ employment, floor superintendent, record, hos- pital offices and protection depart- ‘YULE’ GAROLS HIDE RUMBLES OF NEW WAR Workers Face Increased | Starvation As New Year Approaches By Milton Howard The rumblings of approaching war drowned the piping of Christ- | mas carols, and the gaunt miseries of the capitalist crisis stalked un- | impeded through the capitalist lands of the world as Pope and president, priest and stockbroker, zhed yesterday over the pieties of | a legend that has the supreme vir- tue of being profitable to capital- | ism. | In Washington, D. C., Roosevelt, | having spent a hapoy year dis- | pensing more than two billion dol- lars for the building of the biggest war machine in the history of the country, basked in the self-com- placency of hopes fulfilled. “We have seen fulfilled this year many things that a year ago were | only hopes,” he said. Calls for “Unity” of All He called, with no less hypocrisy than usual, for all Americans, ex- ploiter and exploited, Wall Street and Hooverville, landlords and their evicted tenants, bankers and the foreclosed farmers facing pauner- ism, the bloated and the starving, “to serve and dwell together in unity.” At the same moment came the report from the War Devartment that the Army had just awarded a $1,656,394 contract for the immedi- ate construction of 74 new war planes. This foliows on the heels of the recent purchase of 90 new bombing nlanes, and 110 attack and pursuit planes. Urgent war building {s following the heightened tension between the big imperialist rivals, Japan, Britain. and the United States. The Naval | conference has collapsed. Day and | night, the battleships are being | rushed to completion as Davis, Roosevelt's representative abroad. maneuvers against Britain and Japan for supremacy in the world markets and naval power. If the millions of workers who yesterday went to the grocery and butcher stores found that ther pay envelopes had shrunk in buying power since last Christmas, the ex- planation was forthcoming in a re- port which shows another price ad- vance of 1.85 per cent for November, | bringing the cost of fcod to a peak | 28 per cent higher than last March when the benign Roosevelt took office. Meanwhile, Roosevelt prepared to “give consideration” to the proposals of the recent secret conference of NCES COMMITTEE GAG Death Threat Frame-Up ${ A WEEK In Sacramento Trial I$ NATIONAL earthed by Gallagher NERACLAS U. S. Court Presents $23,000,000 Gift To Steel Magnates A benevolent Supreme Court, ffused with the spirit of Christmas, on Monday gave six officers of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation a tidy little gift— $23,000,000. Charles W. Schwab—skilfully publicized to an allegedly affec- tionate public as “Charlie’—had given himself and five brother officers of the company a “bonus” of $23,000,000 as reward for their abstinence, faith, hope and charity, and their uncanny ability to get government con- tracts for warships. Some irri- tated small fry stockholders sued in objection, Yesterday the court, unwilling to sully the holy purity of the holiday season, upheld the bonus as “legal.” Now, the six boys will collect. The problem is—how many thousand steel workers and their families have to go hungry to provide the $23,000,000 bonus for the six jovial gentlemen of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation? NAZI SPLIT BARES GRAFT Anti-FascistGroupOpens | Exposure of Friends of New Germany Leaders Evidence: of graft and corruption | on the part of leaders of the pro- Nazi Friends of New Germany, to- day led to the New York Locai’s | bureaucracy attempting to defend library. themselves by on injunction agains’ a revolt of disillusioned membe:s. | At a regular weekly meeting of| she Friends of New Germany on Dec. 12 a rank and file member rose on the floor and accused the leader- ship of gross misappropriation of | funds. When he demanded the; immediate issuance of a complete financial statement, he was set upon | and beaten by the so-called “Or- dnungsdienst,” better known as| | with statements such as “I cannot | a fishing expedition by ILL. D. Lawyer Charges Again D. A. Tampers | With Jury By JACK CRANE | SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 25.— |An attempt by the prosecution to |cover up its tampering with the jury by counter charges that Mrs. | Warwick, mother of Jack Warwick, jone of the eighteen ciminal syndi- lealist defendants, had interviewed one of the jurors, collapsed during a judicial investigation Saturday |morning. On the other hand, ques- |tioning of Mrs. Rose, a juror, by Leo Gallagher, International Labor | Defense attorney, brought the ad- missioa that Deputy District Attor- ney Buchler had close relations with the juror, and a visitor to her | home during the time she has been jon the jury. and had accepted sev- | eral gifts of ducks from her in that | period. The court, confronted with this | damaging evidence against the pro- |secution, criticized Buchler for his failure to inform the court of his acceptance of ducks from Mrs. Rose. | Mrs. Devis, who was called on one of the first jury panels but not | accepted for jury duty, denied that | Mrs. Warwick had approached her. | She testified that she invited Mrs. | | Warwick to her home for dinner | Italian Organizations after she had been excused from | jury service. Caught in Contradiction “If you did not know Mrs. War- | wick, how did you get acquainted | with her,” the prosecution asked. “While waiting to be called as aj juror I overheard some insulting re- marks made to Mrs. Warwick by other prospective jurors that an- gered me,” Mrs. Davis replied, “and | lafter I was excused from the jury I then spoke to Mrs. Warwick and | our acquaintance was furthered after that.” Mrs. Davis was hastily excused by District Attorney McAllister when she stated that she had looked up the meaning of the California Criminal Syndicalist Law in the | | McAliister was then put on the tand by Gallagher. He attempted to counter the defense questioning give | privately in my office,” and information publicly, see me “this is the de- fendanis.” He admitted that he| had received thousands of protest | letters, cards and resolutions from | Plans Pressed in Many Cities for Insurance Congress Jan. 5 “Witn the yearly increase in the relief cases during the past year amounting to more than 5,000,000, according to the recent statement of the American Federation of Labor, one of the most urgent ques- tions which will come before the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance will be the winning of full equal relief for all unem- ployed in all sections of the coun- try,” Herbert Benjamin, executive secretary of the Congress declared yesterday. The most recent figures issued by the relief administration ow that from September, 1 to Sep- tember, 1934, relief li have swollen from 13,338,000 to 18,402,000 persons. Relief to these millions has aver= aged less than one dollar a person for each ‘week, and in the case of Oklahoma, averaged less than 92 cents a week for entire families. Polish 8. P. "in United Front DETROIT, Mich., delegates representing organizations have been elected here by the Detroit Conference of The Confer- ence has decided to continue as a united body to carry on the work for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and will meet once a Week. All Italian workers groups have been asked to affiiate to this conference. Delegates from the A. F. of L, Painters Local numbers 37 and 42, have been elected and these organi- zations are supporting the cam- paign for the Workers’ Bill in spite of the attacks made by Martel, the head of the Central Trades and Labor Council. The Polish workers have been very active in the preparations for the Congress. They have formed a united front with the Polish local of the Socialist Party and have suc- ceeded in getting branches of the Polish National Alliance, veteran organizations and church societies active in the campaign. Two mass meetings with over 1,000 present at each were held here last Friday and delegates were elected to go to Washington. Reading S. P. to Send Delegates READING, Pa., Dec, 25.—The \all parts of the country denouncing Chauffeurs and Teamsters Union |the frame-up of the 18 defendants, members here last week clected the e---See Workers’ Bill Ballot on Page 3\ \ who were arrested in the vigilante |Tecording secretary of their local raids on workers’ organizations dur. ‘0 Tepresent them in Washington at ling the West Coast strike struggles the National Unemployment Con- : ment of workers dismissed by two Brooklyn fur dressing firms, the National Labor Relations Board On June 6 of this year, a T.E.R.A. field auditor, Karl Hiller, of 16 Oswald Court, Oceanside, New very hard, and at the moment are threatening the iast line of Bolivian Sterm Txoopers. At this point a general fight developed and many industrialists at White Sulphur | Springs regarding wages, open shop, ment. The care taken in Macy's depart- yesterday actually affirms the right of these firms to move, and thereby to break down union conditions. While the two concerns, the Globe Gabbe Corporation, now at South Norwalk, and the Shuster Gaio Corporation, now at Farming- dale, L. I, are instructed to re- instate their Brooklyn employes, this decision is being disregarded by the companies. The decision followed the com- plaint lodged by the Fur Dressers Local 2 and the Fur Floor Walkers Union Local 3. The two concerns in May moved their plants without notifying the unions, and terminated the agreements without notice, and threw the employes out of work. Non-union conditions were insti- tuted in the new locations. The decision of the N.L.R.B. or- ders the Brooklyn employes re- instated “who desire to work at the new location,’ but makes no provi- sion for the moving of the employes to these new towns. The decision or- ders the companies to “recognize and bargain collectively with the two unions as representatives of all their employes.” This decision is as valueless as many similar deci- sions of the N. R, A. Boards, unless the workers themselves, through their own organized strength are able to force the decision. These demagogic decisions, as for exam- ple in the Houde case, are disre- garded with impunity by the em- ployers unless the workers them- selves are able to enforce them. CLASSES POSTPONED Due to the American Youth Con- gress and the holidays, classes of | the Youth Section of the Interna- | tional Workers’ Order have been postnoned until Jan. 6. They will be resumed on that date. \ York, was ordered by T.E.R.A. head- quarters into Cohoes to make a pre- audit of expenditures and commit- ments made by the local relief group. We use the term “pre-audit” advisedly, since the State T.E.R.A. was then paying 100 per cent of the relief expenses of the com- munity and not 75 per cent as Prescribed by the Wicks Act. When Mr. Hiller arrived in Co- hoes he found six months of com- mitments awaiting examination and payment. He immediately informed his superiors at T.E.R.A, headquar- ters, 79 Madison Avenue, of his discoveries. In particular, Mr. Hiller informed his executive officers of the duplication of light bills by the New York Power and Light Com- pany—a subsidiary of the Niagara and Hudson Power Corporation. Mr. Alfred H. Schoellkopf, be it noted, is chairman of the Board of: this company and a director. Submits Written Charges In a formal report submitted to of the T.ER.A. under date of August 10, Mr. Hiller wrote: “,. the New York Power and Light Company rendered dupli- cate bills, showing exactly the same meter readings and kilo- watts consumed, the only variance on the bills being that the period ending for light consumed dif- fered by two days. This company also filed sworn claims for these duplicate bills with two orders for the same amounts, one of which was erroneously issued in the Home Relief Bureau. “Specimens of these irregulari- ties were given to Mr. McVicar, | Acting Comptroller, at a meeting held in Hearing Room No. 4, State (Continued on Page 2) S. H. McVicar, Acting Comptroller | Turyirog) in order to gain military defense which separates them from the properties of Standard Oil. Con- sequently, this year both sides an- nounced that they would not en- tertain a truce if it were proposed. Two Held by Soviets As Spies for Japanese On Siberian Frontier (Special to the Daily Worker) KHABAROVSK, Dec. 25. — Two Chinese have been arrested as spies on Soviet territory westward of the town Turyirog. One is the com- mander of a section of the 15th regiment, Third infantry brigade of Manchukuo, named Khaminfa, the other being an inhabitant of the Manchurian frontier hamlet of Orenbai. Both stated that they were carry- | ing out instructions of Japanese | officers to reconnoitre the locality eastward of Propasti Hill (west of information on the condition of roads, the construction of barracks, and also the position of military units. A strict inquiry into the case is proceeding, Berlin Publishers Put Pay Cut in Stockings BERLIN Dec. 25.—The managers of the publishing firm of Ullstein have decided that the wages of the entire personnel shall be reduced 15 per cent after Jan. 1. The usual Christmas bonus will not be given. The managers explain that the re- duction should have been in force from Dec. 1, and that the post- ponement to Jan. Ist constitutes ment store to “avoid the appearance of a mass layoff,” gives a clear in- dication of the hollowness of em- ployment increase claims. “There will be two dates for gen- eral Christmas layoff — Saturday, Dec, 22 and Monday, Dec. 24,” the instructions stated. “The layoff in the Delivery de- Partment will take place Dec. 21, and 22 for internal delivery, and Dec. 22 and 24, for the external delivery.” “No one employed previous to January 1, 1934, may be laid off in the Christmas reduction of force between Dec. 15 to Dec. 29. Such layoffs where necessary may be recommended for Dec. 29 or later.” But the layoff is not limited only to those who have been hired dur- ing 1934. The Christmas layoff is usually taken advantage of for re- Placing old hands with younger and lower paid workers. The following are layoff instructions for all who have been employed for over a year. “(a) People employed during the (Continued on Page 6) Germany Buys Autos For Army Transport} BERLIN, Dec. 25.—Official statis- tics show that 3,370 automobiles were imported into Germany dur- ing the period from January to August, 1934, as against 1,480 for the corresponding period of the preceding year. If, however, one takes into consideration the im- ports—carefully disguised—of vehi- cles for army use, the true figures for imported automobiles amount | to more than 8,000, which means a the bonus. decided progress in military equip- | ment for transport. \ | and reduced relief. Confer with Roper It was considered significant that | the associate of Roosevelt in yes- terday’s Christmas festivities was Secretary of Commerce Roper. who addressed the National Association of Manufacturers in New York, pledging them action on six points covering increased profits. As Congress prepares for session within the next two weeks, plans to slash the real wages of all work- ers through inflation, along with further devaluation of the dollar, loom as a prospect made necessary by imperialist world competition for markets. At the same time the slashing of all Federal appropriations for re- lief came closer as a reality through open preparations yesterday by leading edministration spokesmen to block all attempts to halt Roose- velt’s balancing of the budget at the expense of relief appropriations. Relief cutting will be a major item for the next Congress. 22,000,009 on Relief Meanwhile, workers and relief rolls, despite all attempts to de-| crease their number, have increased to 22,000,000. In Europe, the capitalist coun- tries were an armed camp, with the capitalists in each ccuntry fearful of the growing hatred of the masses and the imperialist war plans of their capitalist rivals. The presence of the Soviet Union in the League of Nations and her peace policy becomes ever more clearly evident as a major bulwark against war. Yesterday. France chose a new) military chief for her army, Gen- eral Maurice Gamelin, as the Hitler of the old guard leaders, including Joseph Schuster, national mander of the Ordnungsdienst. were severely beaten. The meetin: finally broke up in complete disor- der. On the following day, Dr. Herber Schnuch, national leader of the “Bund,” issued a leaflet charging Anton Haegele, leader of the Man- hattan group, with fomenting the revolt and announcing his expulsion. On Dec. 15 the Deutsche Beobach- ter, official organ of the Friends of New Germany, carried a headline announcing the “end of mismanage- ment” and in its editorial proceeded to attack the old guard leaders as “unfit and dictatorial.” It an- nounced that that paper would ap- pear under a new editor and that Schnuch, Giessibl and ‘other old leaders were deposed. The Schnuch group had played right into the hands of Haegele, since, when the Deutsche Beobach- ter was founded, it was decided to (Continued on Page 6) Nazis Rush Training For New Storm Troops BERLIN, Dec. 25.—Following on the recent report that members of the Storm Troops and the Special Guards were to be deprived of their Christmas furloughs, comes news that the number of the detachments of the Storm Troops armed with revolvers has been increased, while those who are not yet fully familiar with the management of arms are to be passed through the necessary training as quickly as possible. These measures have caused a& (Continued on Page 6) great ferment among the Storm Troops. com- | }last Summer. | Frame-up Collapses | | McAllister’s attempt to spring an | additional frame-up against the defendants with a fantastic tale | that “death threats’ had been| | made against himself and one of | the jurors also collapsed under the questioning of his principal wit-| nesses by the defense. Mrs. King, | |wife of one of the prospective jurors | |failed to confirm the story by Mrs. Nix, the jurors claimed by Mc-; Allister to have been threatened. | Mrs, Nix had testified that Mrs. | King had come running excitedly} into her rooms to tell her that a} men had forced himself into the} apartment and was threatening to} kill Mrs. Nix. Mrs. King could not | remember: any such incident. | Gallagher renewed his charges against the District Attorney's of- |fice of tampering with the jury to} further the frame-up of the 18 defendants. and of planting M Rose on the jury. The judicia: investigation is to be continued next Saturday. Gallagher is also) pushing for an investigation of Jury | Commissioner Le Graves. | Meantime, selection of the jury will be continued from the seventh special panel called after the ex-| haustion of two regular panels and |six special panels. Negroes and all workers or any one suspected of the remotest sympathy with the work- |ing-class movement have been ex-j |cluded from the jury panels called to date. The panels have been packed. with vigilantes and stool pigeons. | Protests against the frame-up |and the whole procedure in the court should be sent to Governor | Frank Merriam, Judge Dal M. Lem- |mon and District Attorney McAl- \lister, all at Sacramento, Calif, gress. This union has already endorsed the Workers’ Bill and is supporting the work of the sponsoring com- mittee in their efforts to reach) other workers’ organizations. A number of delegates are ex- pected from the Bethel A. M. E. Church, the Berks County Local of the Socialist Party and Branch 10 of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers whose last national convention in Reading endorsed the Bill. Birmingham Conference BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 25.—A cell for a trade union conference to increase the support for the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance was issued here last week, pointing out the need for the Workers’ Bill and the urgency of rallying mass support to break the opposition of the big industrialists. The conference will be held Sun- day afternoon, Dec. 30, at 2 o'clock, in Carpenters’ Hall, 708 North Sev- enteenth Street. Each trade union has been asked to send five dele- gates. The call was signed by a spon- soring committee which includes A, L. Bowers, International Organizer of Local 91, Blacksmiths, Drop- forgers and Helpers; C. H. Brand, Vice-President of Federal Labor | Union 18388, Tarrant City; Lee Burns, Secretary, Federal Labor Union 18435, Bessemer; Chas. Ws Hallman, Trustee, Bricklayers’ In= ternational Union 1 of Alabama}; H. D. Hardwick, Secretary, Local 67, | International Molders’ Union; Joe Howard, Lodge 23, Amalgamated | Association of Iron, Steel and , Metal Workers; Joe Strange, Sece on 1 (Continued on Page 2)