The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1934, Page 2

} aes ey ‘Page 2 Delegates New England | SECRET ORDER TO FIGHT UNIONS Groups to Get = Mass Sendoft American Newspaper Publishers Association 370 LEXINGTON AVE., NEW YORK, N. Y LB. Parmer, ( | Manager BULLETIN No. 6321 NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 7, 1934 B Tremendous Support of Social Insurance Sweeps Country These bulletins a 3, Article VIII, e strictly confidential and for your personal use only. By-Laws. See Be nice wensat tion SPECIAL BULLETINS OF PENNSYLVANIA NEWSPAPER t Opera House, 113 PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION. g | Through the courtesy of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Pub- s St 7 lishers Association, members will receive with the bulletins this leave for W week two pamphlets, entitled nal Sponsor- speaker from t “The Newspapers and The New ~- ing Committee will address the Deal"’, Series 1 and 2. Meeting. be resent from Lowell, ‘Haverhill, Brockton and, CAREFUL USE OF WORDS IN LABOR CONTROVERSIES 3 other centers. carpenters The following excerpts from a letter from a member may prove of interest to publishers r the New Er nd ad, metal and **L wonder if editors, in their handling of strike news, have given.consider + ation to the powerful psychological influence and implications of the careless Several language which include use of the words ‘labor’ and ‘scabs’ by reorters and copy readers. I was Armenia h and Let- | struck by this misuse of words in some of the dispa and headlines on the tish Ww yave announced that | ‘textile strike in Tuesday's papers. representatives will report to the sendoff meeting and leave for “For instance, one large newspaper in its head lines referred to the men | Washington with the other New) who remained at work as‘scabs’. A proper r ce to them, in my opinion, | England delegate: would have been as‘ workers’ in contrast to , the latter of course being those who had quit work. Deiroit A. F. of L. Locals Elect DETROIT. Mich., Dec. 25—Amer- fean Federation of Labor lo: here are defying the official ban of Wil- “The spokesmen for the strikers were referred-to in practically all dis- | patches as the representatives of ‘labor’ or the leaders of the , Whereas Ham Green and his corps of bu-| they were neither. They were the spokesmen and leaders of a group who had reaucrats at the head of the Amer-| quit being workers and were not at the moment ‘labor’. jean Federation of Labor and are | electing delegates to the National “For years, in my opinion, the representatives of strikers have gained Congress for Unemployment Insur- support from the public at large through reference to them as the representa- ance. Among the locals that have tives of ‘labor’,.implying that they acted and spoke for all labor, which of thus far elected delegates are Paint- course is not the fact. At no time in the history of this country has any man a, ne nae ras ee or any oné group of men been authorized to speak for labor as a whole. | Other labor organizations thru.| More accuracy in reporting and a nicer use of words in head-writing would serve better to clarify the uses. In my newspaper the use of the word ‘scab’ except in a quoted statement is not permitted. Neither is the careless use of the word ‘labor’ permitted. Out the state are electing delegates and a large Michigan delegation is expected. Arrangements are in charge of the Detroit Conference for Unemployment Relief and In- surance, 2540 Park Ave., Room 1, JACKSON, Mich.. Dec. 25.—The Jackson Workers Club has elected a delegate to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance. Sor | A secret strikebreaking order sent to all its members by the Amer- ican Newspaper Publishers Association instructs editors to color all strike news in favor of empioyers and against strikers, It says that strikers should not be referred to as “workers” and that “scabs” should be referred to as loyal workers. The order was exposed by the Guild | Reporter, organ of the Newspaper Guild, Struggles of the unemploved are growing in this city under the lead- ership of the United Workers Asso- ciation. This organization, at whose call workers recently packed the City Commission's chambers in the fight for relief. is now. preparing to carry the fight, tothe County Relief Commigiwh The. United Workers A8<ociation is also securing signatures for the Workers Unem- ployment Insnrance Bill (H. R. * 7598) on. the ballots issued by the $3; Daily Worker. fessional Works Project the City Hall and Civil Courts Bldg., endorsed the Washington Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance, and are raising funds to send two delegates. In- terest in the Workers’ Bill can be judged by the:fact that in’ two days one worker was able to sell $5 worth of two-cent and five-cent literature on Workers Unemployment Insur- | ance. Among the workers active in preparation for the sending of the delegates, are two leading Socialist Party members, two Communist Party members, and a number of locally prominent trade-unionis's. At a neighborhood conference to support the Washington Congress, the five churches and welfare groups participating voted support of the Washington Congress, and pledged to raise funds to send two delegates from the neighborhood, one to be elected by the Scruggs Memorial Baptist Church, and one to be elected by the Church of God in Christ. A joint committee of all five organizations wil! help these two churches to raise funds for their delegates. The pastors and congregations of these organiza- tions pledged full support of the campaign for the Workers’ Bill. Organizations from Missouri, Arkansas and southern Illinois who are sending delegates to the Wash- ington Congress are urged to get in touch with Sam Dukes, Unemploy- ment Council, 1229 North Leonard, St. Louis, Mo., for information on how to save more than 50 per cent on railroad accomodations to the Congress. Plans are to send a 13 B, in Lehith Valiey Meeting Wednesday BETHLEHEM. Pa., Dec. 28.—A meeting of all delegates from Allen- town, Bethlehem, Emaus and Easton to the National Congress for Un- emplovment In nee will ke held Jan. 2, at 7 v.m., ional Workers Hall. Street. All members Sponsoring committees are ed to attend to make plans fies te! here Wednesda 2t the Internat ve | 2 Sat ‘ reports from Lehigh y that there will be 50 attending the National This figure may be in- delegates from organ- from. Congress. creased by izations not yet heard Unempioyed League Head Rebuffed ALLENTOWN, Pa., Dec 28.—The Jast meeting of the District Execu- tive Committee of the Pennsylvania 2. Unemployed Leagues defeated the Stand taken by President Anthony Ramuglia, who fought against send- ing delegates to the National Con- grese. The District Executive Com- i mittee went on record that the in- jivicual League branches have the nt to send delegates to the Na- 195 From Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 28.— To date, 195 delegates have been elected to the National Congress from the local Philadelphia area, according to incomplete reports of the sponsoring committee. Dele- gates were elected yesterday from Painters Local 426, Carpenter: Local 1073, Railroad Clerks Victory Ledge 2151, Jewish Bakers Local 201, “Chaltenham Knitting Union, and a Millinery Union. Others include twenty-five A. F. of L, locals, eleven independent and BARBOURSVILLE, W. Va. Dec. Trade Union Unity League locals, 27.—Local 35 of the West Virginia “ixteen children elected as delegates Unemployed Leagues here en- from variotis organizations, and a dorsed the Workers Unemployment "ember of other groups. Insurance Bill at the last meetine of the local. Daily Worker ballots for the Workers’ Bill are being dis- tributed among the membership. agton ng of were completed at the delegates and the sponsoring committee TOLEDO. O., Dec. 28—The Paint- ers’ Local 7 of the A.F. of L. unani- mously voted to elect a delegate to the National Congress for Unem- “ ployment Insurance. This was done despite letters by Green and Brach, 3 who is secretary of the Central La- * bor Union. condemning the Con- ¥ress as being of Communist origin eague Acts on Workers’ Bill Spanish Terror Victims To Be Aided By Genefit CINCINNATI. Ohio. Dec. 27— 4 dance end show for the benefit Barbers Local 107 of the American’ of the worker victims of the Spanish Federation of Labor has endorsed revolution will be held today under the Workers Unemployment Insur-| the auspices of the Sranish Work- ance Bill and elected one delegate crs’ Club at the Centro Galicia, 153- to the National Congress for Un- 59 West 64th Strect. employment Insurance. The’ chorus, Operaio Italiano, many famous singers and dan i Five Elected in Houston as well 2s instrumentel artists will HOUSTON, Tex. Dec. 27.—Five be featured at the affair, to which de'egates, white, Negro and Mexi- throngs are expected ob come. Th? H can workers, were elected to attend | Centro ‘Galicia has a capacity of . the National Congress for Unem-_ 3,000. Dance music will be provides ‘ ployment Insurance at a recent by Andy D’Aquila and his Spanish conference of 200 held here. Cavaliers Although those attending the tonference were unemployed work- | ers for the most part, representa- tives of the carpenters local union 11th Anniversary. Ack your mass and of the Age-Limit League are. organization to send its revolu- serving on the locel committee.) tienaty greetings today. House to house canvassing and tag —_ days will raise funds to send: the delecates to Washington. | Greet the Daily Worker cn the Are you collecting gee’ ings from yeur friends, your feilow- | members in trade unions and Workers on Preject Back Parley | macs organization, for the special ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 28—More! 11th Anniversary edition of the than 400 workers employed on Pro-| Daily Worker? special railroad car from St. Louis. | Mills, | most significant strikes of the year. Do this today! | Noted Figures To Be at Show To Aid Parley Otto Soglow, cartoonist; Elmer | Rice, dramatist, and other widely- known Broadway dramatic figures | will take part in the vaziety and puppet show, tomorrow afternoon which has been arranged by the I[n- terprofessional Sub-Commitiee for | Support of th National Congress for | Unemployment and Social Insur- ance. The show will be held in the New School for Social Research on Sun- day at 2:30 p. m. | The puppet show will consist of skiis presented by Bunin’s and | Cutl puppet=. Lillian Taiz will | present a short song program ac- companied by Sam Jaffe, of the | cast of “Grand Hotel.” The Pierre | Degeyter String Quartette will offer | several selections and the Tamiris dancers will present revolutionary dance a:rangements. | 34 Strike Wave F Workers Showed Mili. | taney in Biggest Strikes Country Has Seen | By Carl Reeve More than one million and a half workers walked out on strike in 1934, | in the most powerful strike wave in| the history of the country. As anew} year begins, the great unrest of the workers, the tremendous fighting capacity and radicalization turned | against the attacks of finance cap-| ital, in the past year, has in no way | receded. In the basic industries of | the country—steel, coal, auto, tex-| tile, rubber, ete.—the workers re-| alize that their problems have not been solved under Roosevelt's N.R.A. nd are preparing for even bigger struggles in the immediate future. The strike wave of 1934 was marked by the largest strikes in the , history of the country, by the ex- trom militancy and radicalization of the rank and file of the strikers, | and by the bloody repressive meas- ures of the government and the em- | ployers’ hired bands of gunmen. The | strike wave of 1934, directed against | the conditions brought about unde: | the N.R.A. were of high political | content and were in the main} directed against the decisions of the | Rocstvelt- government boards, and} the conditions brought ebout under | the N.R.A. codes, The great general textile strike, of \ far more than a half million work-° ers, and the San Francisco general strike in sympathy “ith the West Cozst marine strikers, with 145,000 on strike in all, stand out as the two These two strikes symbolized the in- flux of hundreds of thousands of workers into the A. F. of L. unions, and the repudiation by these masses ef workers, of the class cooperation no-strike policies of William Green and the American Federation of Labor. On the West Coast the longshore- men won some concessions as a re- sult of the strike because the militant rank and file leadership partially overcame the terror of the DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1934 ~ Prepare to Leave fo Retused Bail By U.S. Court NEW YORK.—Judge Martin P. Manton of the U. S, Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to set bail for the release of John Ujich from Ellis Island. The Government is setting up every obstacle to prevent the release on bail of workers now held at Ellis Island until it can de- port them to fascist Italy and other countries where they face severe persecution. The case of Ujich, along with that of Ray Carlson, is now being appealed. A mass protest meeting under the auspices of the Ujich Defense Com- mittee and the Committee for Pro- tection of Foreign Born will be held Sunday, at 2 p. m. at 108 West 24th Street, the Jugo-Slav Workers’ Home, to demand the release of Ujich and all other militant work- ers now being held for deportation. | y of the; D. C. Morgan, Se Commitiee for Protection of For- eign Born, and other speakers will discuss the steps that are being taken in the fight for the release of Ujich, Carlson, Christ Popoff, Oscar Mannisto and others beng held for deportation. The cam- paign that is being waged against the proposals made at the Dickstein Committee hearings for revoking citizenship and deporting the for- eign-born workers who join work- ing class organizations, will also be discussed. Fur Workers Meet to Halt Holiday Labor Aiming to eliminate completely all yvertime work, especially on Satur- day, the Fur Workers Industrial Union, in an announcement made yesterday, called upon all active fur- riers to report to the headquarters of the union, at 7 o'clock this morning to help put a stop to this practice. “Overtime work is detrimental to the interests of all furriers,” the | union pointed out, “not only be-| cause it is contrary to the rules and agreements of the union and there- by undermines the conditions won through years of struggle, but is particularly harmful at this time, when the number of workers un- able to. get work is growing wit! the approaching slack séason.” In making the announcement, J. Winogradsky, manager of the union, attached particular importance. to special meetings. of all active fur- riers at noon today in the head- quarters, 131 West 28th Street. He refused. however, to disciose what the meeting is called for. “The active furriers will ‘respond to the mesting when announced,” he said, “they know from exnerience that we don't call special meetings on short notice unless; something very im- portant is coming up.” Has your un't erdered a special bundle of the lith Anniversary edition of. the Daily Worker? Orders must be in by January 12. Plan now for mass sale of the Daily Worker before factories, from house to house and at con- centration points, government and the sell-out tactics Gorman of the United Textile Work- | érs Union, who was able to send the | contested, A r Insurance Congress Will Support Workers’ Bill An open-air meeting under. the auspices of the Chinese Unemployed Alliance will be held tomorrow | afternoon at 2 o'clock at the corner | of Bayard and Mott Streets to rally the Chinese people in support of the National Congress for Unem- ployment Insurance. All workers have been asked to join this meet- ing to show their solidarity with the Chinese workers. A delegation from the Chinese Unemployed Alliance recently vis- ited the Chinese Consul-General ciation and won endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. William Yim, chairman of the delegation, pointed out that the Workers’ Bill is the only unem- ployment insurance bill which does not discriminate against the Chi- nese people. The Consul-General, J. K. Yip, gave the Workers’ Bill his full sup- port, but explained ihat, as a rep- ment, he could not demand that the United States government enact it. The Consul-General promised to write Congressman Lundeen, who the last session of Congress, urging bill. It was pointed out by the Chinese workers yesterday that by this maneuver this agent of the hated Chiang Kai-shek in no way commits himself or his murder gov- ernment. W.C.L; to Hold ‘Lenin Meeting on January 13 The New York District of the | Young Communist League will | issue a Souvenir Journal as part of the Lenin-Liebknecht-Luxem- burg campaign. The Journal will consist of greetings and advertise- ments from mass organizations and small businessmen. In _ addition, there Will be printed the names of all individuals who contribute to the campaign. Contracts and collection lists for the Journal have already been sent | out to the sections and. units. The League units are urged to approach all sympathetic organizations in their neighborhood. and all small shops which are patronized by the workers. This financial drive to cover, the expense of thé campaign is to be utilized also to mobiize masses of workers, youth and adult, for the mass mesting to be held on Jan, 13, at the New Star Casino, | 107th Street and Park Avenue, at 7p. m. As yet, the response from the sections and units in the financial drive has been very poor, it was announced by the campaign com- mittee, All contracts and collection lists which have been fiiled are to be sent to the District Office im- mediately. The deadline for the | Souvenir Journal is Jan, 5. Sec- tions and units are urged to organ- ize flying squads to visit the local organizations and shops. In addi- | tion, the District finance committee urges that Party sections and units be approached to give greetings to the Y. Cc. L, and the Chinese Benevolent Asso- | Foreign Born Chinese Rally Soviets Celebrate Advances \45 Million Who. Lived (Special to the Against Illiteracy Under Czarist Rule Taught to Read and Write Under Proletarian Dictatorship : MOSCOW, Dec. 28 (By Wireless).— At this moment, when the collapse of the educational system in the United [Building Union e e j L in Fight In Arbitration Realty Board Members Refuse to Live Up To Agreement in Darkest Ignorance Threats of strike on the part of | Officials of the Building Service Employees International Union, without as much as consulting the | membership, and refusal by spokes- men of the Real Estate Board to live up to provisions of the agrees |ment reached a month ago, marked jthe first sessions, yesterday and Daily Worker) States is being admitted by many government sources, when the public schools in nine states have been shut down “for lack of funds,” the entire Soviet press marked yesterday as Thursday, of the arbitration com- mittee set up at the time. The Real Estate Board retained resentative of the Chinese govern- | introduced the Workers’ Bill into | that he continue his support of the | on which Lenin signed the decree on the liuidation of illiteracy in the proletarian dictatorship, This de- leree of the Soviet People’s Com- missars framed the beginning of the enormous work of the complete abolition of illiteracy, a work whieh comprises one of the chief parts of | the cultural revolution in the Soviet Union. Now, fifteen years later, illiteracy on the whole has been liquidated throughout the U.S.8S.R. and a cen- tral place is being occupied by a different task ofa higher type—the task of the liquidation of semi-lit- eracy. In order fully to estimate the entire significarice of the gi- | gandic work performed in fifteen | years, it is necessary to mention a | few figures: | 78 Per Cent Were Illiterate | Before the revolution seventy- | eight per conf of the population of | Russia were illiterate. Even in the! census of 1920 in the R.S.F.S.R, (the| White Russian republic) and Ukraine there were 679 illiterates per | thousand. An especially low per- \cartags of literates existed in the villages among the women in the “national” regions (the former Czar- ist colonies in Asia mainly). | Lenin's decree, published in 1919 ‘during the war devastation, was the | beginning of the victorious advance | of socialist culture. One million | adult illiterates had learned to read | and write even in 1920. Year by year | the Commisariat of Education and , the Down with Illiteracy Society, led | by Mikhail “Kalinin, developed an ever wider campaign for the com-. | the fifteenth anniversary of the day? [1984 over 25,000,000 rubles. Tens of | Walter Gordon Merritt, notorious open-shop and injunction lawyer, to it it. Edward McGuire rep- plete literacy of the population, During these years, with the heip of state and Soviet social-organiza- tions, 45,000,000 persons became lit- | erate. National Regions Advance The national regions, which for- merly were especially backward, have achieved enormous successes. For example, Adigei Autonomous Region, which had only three per Considerable resentment to the one- cent literates in 1917, had practic-|™man union idea as practiced by ally liquidated illiteracy in 1931, Bambrick and a complete lack of Ingushetia before the revolution | democracy characterized the stormy with under one per cent literates | Meeting of the shop chairmen, now has wiped out all illiteracy. | General compulsory education is now t : nine») ODL E88: Plan Brooklyn-wide Demonstration barbarous and pitiful legacy from Tsarism has advanced with unpar- | alleled energy along the path of | the expenditure of the trade unions | Demanding an immediate 25 per wry ihe quidation, of peatite cent increase in cash relief, full pays Curran, chairman, presided. Reporting to the shop chairmen’s meeting Thursday night at Webster | Hall, 119 Hast lith St, James J. Bembrick, president of the union, ‘stated that the question of wages was out altogether” as far as the real estate interests were concerned, real mass culture. In the struggle! against illiteracy the. trade unions | played a great role. Significant note should be taken of the increase in 1929 they spent over 6,000,009 rubles, | issuance of Winter clothing, relief in 1930 and 11,000,000 rubles, and in| to the single unemployed workers, thousands of peasants and workers, | no discrimination and endorsement who were recently illiterate or semi- 0! the Workers’ Unemployment In- illiterate, are now teaching others | surance Bill, the Unemployment in the management of collective | Councils has called upon all Brook- farms and factory ‘shops, have be-| jwn workers to assemble at Borough come the engineers, technicians, and | Hall tod: 10 agronomists, or work in the Soviets | vi vs ay i ane iat or in the trade union and in the co- | 2080s | The Pict tin aan operative societies—in every way ad- | Clected committee of the workers repr resented the union, and Harry H, for this purpose 1,563,000 rubles, in Ment of rent, gas and electricity, { ministering their workers’ state. 4,000,000 Are Cut (ff Federal Relief (Continued from Page 1) Wednesday night, reaffirmed their | endorsement of the Workérs’ Bill and the Nationa! Congress and their previous election of a delegate. | William Schaeffer, business agent of the Joint Council of United Tex- tile Workers and the Inte-national Lediés Garment Workers Union Local: 155, into which the workers | are organised, bitterly opposed the | ac‘ion of the workers. | Despite the union official's threats that the delegate could not go in | the name of the shop, the workers | defended the Workers’ Bill and the | National Congzess while the official | attempted to bludgeon them into | support of William Green’s “re- | serves” schemes. * |The delegate elected is Anna | Berezin, chairlady of the shop. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 26.— orecasts Sharp F ights in 35 | the textile industry, but in the A. F. | of the top A. F. of L, aders.° The! of L. steel, coal, needle, musicians, | textile strike was betrayed and de-| and many other A. \feated by William Green and Francis | F, of L. unions. Strikes Bitterly Contested The strikes of 1934 were bitterly Seore were killed for strikers back unde: the Roosevelt | picketing in the textile strike alone. arbitration without any gains be-| Workers were murdered by govern- cause the rank and file was not well ment armed forces in Toledo, Minne- organized. | apolis and West Coast strikes, In A Practical Weapon ‘the South, where big strikes oc- The general strike and sympa- curred, workers were murdered in thetic strike came forward a3 a prac- the ore and coal mine strikes. Fas- tical weapen for the workers in win-| cist terror against strikes increased. ning bétter conditions. In Minne-| The workers found that they had to apolis, 35,000 to 40,000 building trades | struggle for the very right to strike workers struck with the striking) itself, for the right to organize, to teamsters. In Toledo the majority | picket, to meet and speak. The gov- | of the workers went on the mass ernment, using the N.R.A. apparatus, Picket lines and fought the national | attempted to crush these elementary guard to aid the striking Auto-Lite | rights of the strikers, The war prep- workers. In Milwaukee thousands| paretions of Roosevelt proceeded , fought on picket lines in support of hand in hand with these attacks | | the street car str a kers, In Centralia, on the workers. Injunctions (as in tl, a city-wide one-day general many New York City strikes) be- strike on Feb. 2 tied up the town in’ came common. National guard | Suppert of the striking Barnes Shoe | troops were called out by the state Co., workers, governments in all these big strikes The sirikes included practically | of the year. An army of armed thugs every industry. War industries and were turned loose against the picket basic heavy . industries were well | lines, The company unions grew un- represented, with coal miners and der the protection of Roosevelt ore miners striking in all sections, (auto settlement) and the N.R.A. with rayon, aircraft, aluminum, ship | boards. Reosevelt had the army building, leather and shoe, marine, ready on a war footing in New workers on strike. The strikes in-| England during the textile strike, cluded such industries as food and| The strikesreaking activity of the Testaurant, auto (Fisher body),| government succeeded, through such building trades, laundry, teamsters, compulsory arbitration Boards a4 the packnghous¢, clothing, taxi, transit, | steel, Auto, Textile Labor Boards, in metal, steel, agricultural workers, preventing, @ general steel and a and many other indusiries. Negro! general atito strike. These govern- workers and wemen workers were ment boards succeeded in defeating among the best fighters. the demands of the workers tem- One of the most effective strikes porarily also in the textile industry. of the year was the strike of 25,000 They succeeded only through the Paterson dye workers, who after five’ help of the A. F. of L. national lead- weeks on strike, last month won ership, which tried to prevent the recognition, wage increases and growth of the strike wave, and fail- better working conditions. This ing that, as in textile, beheaded strike marked the growth of the strikes wherever they could. Rank and File movement in the} As the year ended, a bitterly A. F. of I., especially in the latter. fought strike of the Los Angeles part of the year. The Rank and street car and bus employes took File was in control of the Paterzon | Place, with numerous tzar gas strike and rejected arbitration pro-| clashes as police attacked picket posed by the A. F. of L, leaders and | lines, , the government. The Rank and) Strike Growth Admitted File movement showed a marked) The great growth of the strike growth in recent months not only in| wave was admitted by the Depart- Strikes Were Directed | Against the Conditions Brought by N.R.A. ment of Labor figures, which were, however, a great under-estimation of the number on strike. These | figures admit that in the first nine months of 1934 alone, 1,108 strikes took place with 1,197,534 workers out on strike. Not only do these figures leave out many strikes, but for example, the number out in the textile general strike was greatly under-stated. Undoubtedly a million and a half struck in this period alone, and in the last three months of the year many thousands more. The workers enter the coming ) year faced with the necessity of | sharper and bigger strike struggles. | The Roosevelt government is at- | tacking all along the line, preparing | wage cuts, company unionism, lay- | offs and relief cuts. Fascist meas- (ures are increasing. The red scare is raised in every struggle. Suppres- | sion of the rights of the workers in- tensifies. The workers are deter- mined to fight against spesd-up, low wages, compulsory arbitration, com- pany unions and bad worsening con- ditions and suppression of their | rights. | is the building of the rank and file ‘movement inside the A. F. of L. | unions. The millions of workers in- | side the A. F. of L. are radicalized, are fighting against the attempt of finance capital and its government to lower their living standards and suppress their organizations. | In these coming struggles, the 1934 strikes chow, the gréatest necessity | With the electicn of delegates from the State Committee of the Social- the International Seamens Union as- sured, the sponsoring committee here stated yesterday, the Provi- dence Central Federated Union (A. F. of L.) voted Wednesday night to send Joseph Cahir as their official delegate to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance. Other delegates include Madeline Rondina of the Providence Y.W.C.A. and Bryn Mawr Alumni Association, Albert Iannuccillo, business. agent delegate Union of Operating Engineers. Leagues Give Support COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 38.—The lar action by other groups of the same organization and endorsed the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance and elected an of- ficial delegate. Despite the fact that Truax, John- son nad Ramuglia, the national leaders of the Unemployed Leagues, have opposed the Congress, the rank and file continue to rally in its sup- port. One delegate to the County Committe: in Columus. reported that Arnold Johnson had instructed the County Committee to adjourn any meeting at which the National Congress is brought up. 8. P. Gives Support NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 28.— Two delegates to the National Con- gress were elected at 4 recent con- unions, unemployed and the So- cialist and Communist Parties, The Socialist Party delegate re- ported that his local would have sent a delegate to Washington, bu’ feared disciplinary action by the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party. TRINIDAD, Colo., Dec. 28.—The Slavian Fraternal Society here has endorsed the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance and elected one delegate to go to Washington. NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—The United Scenics Artists, Local 828, of the retors, has clected two delegates to attend the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance. The Young Democratic Club of the Second Assembly District in Brooklyn and Branch 115 of the International Workers Order, Brookiyn, also elected delegates at their mettings yesterday. Sparrows Point A.A. Acts cal 11 of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- ers Union at Sparrows Point, three locals of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Upholsterers Interna- tional Union, and the Carmen’s Lo- cal of the Rajiroad Brotherhood, all unions of the American Federa- tion of Labor, wiil send delegates |_ To win further gains in the com- ing year, the Rank and File move- | ment in the A. F. of L, must be built ; UP. the militant masses of workers in the A. F. of L. must take charge , diate the class collaboration polici of Green, and sweep ahead to defea! the attacks of the Roosevelt gov- ernment and win better conditions ‘of their own organizations, repu-/ to the National Congress for Un- ; employment Insurance. | In line with the Congress, the | fraternal groups sending delegates |to it are calling 2 ference for ; Sunday at which plans will be made to form a permanent committee on unemployment. insurance. A mas3 send-off meeting to greet the local delegates will be held here Friday, Jan. 4, where the speakers through militant fighing, class strug- gle policies. from the National Sponsoring Com- mittee will address the audience, ist Party and the unemployed in| mittee will place relief demands to of the Barbers Local 224, and a/ from the International! Oklahoma unit of the Ohio Unem- | ployed Leagues joined in the simi-} ference of fifty delegates from trade | Brotherheod of Painters and Deco- | Philadelphia, Pa. BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 28.—Lo- | | will present demands to Borough President Ingersoll.. Following the | demonstration, workers will march to the.county relief. office at 201 Adams Street, where a similar com- the Borough relief . supervisor. As a climax to this demonstration and similar borough-wide demon- strations throughout the city, the Unemployment Councils have called upon ‘all workers to rally at City Hall, Monday, Jan, 7, at 12 noon, at the city-wide demonstz: tion called by the New York Sponsoring Com- mittee of the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance. oses Again’ This. city-wide demonstration will ¢ set forth three central demands— an immediate 25 per cent increase | in cash relief, abolition of the sales tax and increased relief to be pro- vided by direct taxation on the wealthy and the corporations; en- darsement of the Workers’ Unem- ployment Insurance Bill by the La- Guardia administration. TRACTOR PLANT FILLS QUOTA (Special to the Dally Worker) KHARKOV, Dec. 28 (By Wire- less).—The Kharkov Tractor Plant has fulfilled its annual production program ahead of schedule. In the second year of the Second Five Year Plan the plant produced 40,000 tractors, 60-HOUR WEEK IN GERMAN BAKERIES BERLIN, Desc. 28—The labor week for women in bakeries and pastry shops is henceforth tobe 60 | hours, according to orders given by the Commission¢r of Labor for Silesia and published in the Reich- sarbeitsblett, the official organ for the Office of Works for the Reich. WHAT’S ON Chicago, lil. New Year's Eve Celebration Mon- day, Dec. 31 at 2733 Hirsch Boules vard. Auspices John Reed Br. 546 LW.O. Adm. 30¢. A. Newhoff, organizer I.L.D., will speak on “World Significance of the Scottsboro Case” Sunday evening, Dee. 30, 8 p.m. at Chicago Pen and Hammer Fortm, 20 East Ontario St. ‘Adm. 15¢. Booboizie Frolic, given by Theatre usuel ente-tainment Roorerslt Road. Tim: New Yerr's Eve, Collective. Un- Adm. 28¢, 3419 9 p.m. New Year's Eve Dance and enter- tainment Monday, Dec. 31 at Girard Manor Hall, 911 W. Girard Avenue, Good orchestra, bar and buffet. South Phila. Br. Friends of Soviet Union presents “Two Thievés or Reli- gion in Czarist Russia,” a Soviet film, Sat, Dee. 29 at 1208 Tasker St. ‘Two shows: 7 p.m. and $ p.m, Subs. 25¢. Lenin Memorial Meeting Friday, Jan, 18, 1985 at the Market St. Ar: 46th ond Market. Ste. speskezs, excellent program. tiekes now. War cr Peace in the Saar Plebiscite? Pre aad discussion at Lulu Tem- rie, Aurpices Phils. Relief Comm. for Vietims of German Fascism. 8:15 p.m. Thursday, January 3, 1935. Open Forum, Dec. 30—7:30 p. m. at neighborhood céntre, 428 Bainbridge St. Good and speaker discussion on topic for the night. All invited. to attend. Auspices: 8. Phila. Br. F.S.U, Xmas Sermon: “Religion in the v. S. 8. R.” by Comrade Skleroff at 2760 Kens: m Ave. Saturday, Dec. 29 at 8 p. m. Admission free. Lawyers’ Banquet, Friday evening, Jen. 4, 8 pan. st Broad St, Mansion, Broad and Girard Aves. Prominent Speakers and telents. Adm. 50c. Ause Pices Interhaiional Labor Defense. Cleveland, Ohio ‘The 10th Ward Assembly ae Couneil 1 will hold. a benefit for its Washington Delegates Jan. 1, 8 p.m, at Slovenisn Hall, 5607 St. Clair Ave, Broed & Spring Garden Sts. — S|