The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1934, Page 3

ai ; | Army Considers Recruiting 50,000 Youths for Servic VOTE = pombe ea ter meee MES ito A NE Sererewtcnd iJ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1934 MILITARISTS PLAN TO TAKE CCC BOYS | FOR WAR SERVICE Is Part of Vast U, S. Program of Preparing| for Imperialist War; Strength of Standing Army to Be Increased to 165,000 WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The United States Army is| considering the recruiting of 50,000 youths from the C.C.C. camps directly irto the army, government officials said yesterday. This militarist move will have two purposes, officials declared; it will reduce the govern-? ment cost of caring for the jobless youths in the C.C.C. camps, and it will provide the army with “the right kind of recruits.” The C.C.C. youths have already | been subjected to military training | and jingoistic propaganda. Under- Secretary of War Woodring in an article early this year in Liberty, described the C.C.C. camps as & training ground for “economic storm troops,” and for “social security against chaos.” 7 ve to recruit 50,000| PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 28.—James oes Soathe at 7 Neeahae is| Sanchez, militant worker, charged part of the War Department action | With “riot,” as a result of the brutal io inereane tha standing Army to fascist attack made last, September 165,000. All military services in the|,0n the F. E. R. A. picket line by government are rapidly building Nee Re eT hen ise ane themselves to record strength. trial as a result, 4 The jury, receiving the Sanchez case Saturday morning, deliberated until called into court to report the stage of their consideration. The foreman stated that the first bal- Jot taken in the case showed eight for conviction and four for acquit- tal; the last ballot was eight for acquittal and four for conviction. Sanchez is out on his own recog- Hung Jury Halts FERA Picket Trial \Indian Worker May Face Court Again | in ‘Riot’ Frame-Up Dr. G. O. Vennesland Dentist 4816 N. Western Avenue LOngbeach 0757 Chicago, TH. Newark, N. J. MASQUERADE BALL... Given by Newark Hungarian Workingmen’s Home SUNDAY, DEC, 31 Laurel Garden 487 Springfield Avenue Muste by Bodal's Gypsy Orchestra Tickets 38¢ in advance, 48c at door nizance until a new trial is called. He is one of 28 workers charged with “riot” in connection with the F. E. R. A. strike. Only one pre- vious defendant has been tried and convicted. This was Clay Naff, Communist candidate for Governor in the last election. A motion has been made and is now being con- sidered for a new trial in the Naff case. The date to hear arguments on this motion has been set for Jan- uary 7 before Judge Howard C. Speakman. If sentenced to the penitentiary, Naff faces a maximum term of two years and a $2,000 fine. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. N MEMORIAL MEETING FRIDAY, JAN.-18th MARKET ST. ARENA at 8PM, 43th St. and Market Toscha Seldel,, Famous Violinist - Red Dancers - Speakers. ‘BOSTON, MASS. _ FIFTEENTH ANNUAL New Years Eve Celebration Monday, December 31, 1934 NEW INTERNATIONAL HALL 42 WENONAH STREET, ROXBURY Concert Starts at 9 P. M. | Dancing from 11 till morning ‘Two Large Jazz Orchestras Symphony Quartet, Special Soviet Selections by Freiheit Gesang Farein and Russian Quartet Checking 75 cents, with ticket 60 cents Auspices: Daily Worker. Prethelt. New International Hall NEWARK, N. J. 4 Movie Camera| | Plant Men Go on Strike 40 Workers Put Tools| In Bond and Set Up Picket Line HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 28—/ Picketing has been started at the} Mitchell Camera Corporation plant, 655 N. Robertson Bivd., following a lockout of employees, members of! trial Union. The lockout followed a wage dis- pute and the plant locked out the workers in an effort to break up the unionization of the tool and die workers, who build and repair mo- tion picture cameras. | for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill H.R. 7598 | This ballot is sponsored by the Daily ,AWorker eres: as conven MAT (geen oF cowmserr moiteLneRal? America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper 50 East 13th Street New ‘a | the Motion Picture Workers’ Indus- | B A z Insurance Bill and vote FOR E | Name Address (Cut out and sign this ballot today) I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social § | | | York | LOT AGAINST of ray G1) ae | The company, according to Har- vey Wolf, organizer of the union, is paying highly skilled and technical workers from 85 cents to $1.08 an hour, a scale much lower than pre- | vails in studio repair « shops and | other camera plants. | The union elected a committee which presented demands for a flat | 10 per cent increase in wages. The company replied by stating it would close its doors. Later, the excuse was given that it was closing for annual inventory. However, in the | past no such inventory shutdown has occurred, “All of the 40 tool and die work- ers have agreed to place their ex- pensive sets of tools in a bonded warehouse,” said Wolf, ‘to be taken out only in the event that they ob- tain work in places other than the Mitchell corporation or unless the company agrees to terms. This will prevent strikebreaking and possible efforts of the company to take the men out of the union fold and re- turn them to work. The equipment can be released only upon orders of our strike committee.” Gold Miners Reject Mayor Rossi’s Offer To Arbitrate Strike) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 28. —Mayor Rossi, who achieved an un- enviable nation-wide reputation as a strikebreaker during the general strike here, has received no reply to date on his offer to act as medi- ator in the strike of 500 gold miners in Amador County. His qualifica- tion for settling the strike, he ex- plained, is the fact that he was born in Amador County. The miners have ignored the of- fer because they know Rossi as a strikebreaker, and the operators have ignored it because they are determined not to deal with the union. Meanwhile Timothy A. Reardon, state director of industrial relations, has vainly tried every means of per- suading the workers to return to the mines, leaving their demands in the hands of arbitrators. So open was his strikebreaking attempt that the Sacramento Federated Trades Coun- cil protested last week, declaring that “it brings the State of Califor- nia under suspicion as a strike- the worker who gave | Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to | | it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” Union to Push Fight Against ‘Forced Labor An organizational tour of the tional Furniture Workers Industrial Union and unorganized furniture centers, was decided on at the last meeting of the General Executive Board of the union. Joe Kiss, National Secretary of the union, will begin the tour in Pittsburgh on Jan. 7 and 8. Kiss will take up the question of trade union unity, the fight against wage cuts, the fight against the fed- eral government's policy of forced labor on mattress projects, and for the endorsement of the workers Un- employment Insurance Bill. He will take up the effects of the N. R. A. codes on the furniture workers. The dates of the tour are as fol- lows: Pittsburgh, Pa. Jan. 17-8, 1935; | Cleveland, O., Jan. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; Chicago, Ill., Jan, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; Rockford, Ill, Jan. 25, 26, 27; Evansville, Ind., Jan. 29, 30, Feb. 1, 2; Cincinnati, O., Feb. 5, 6,°7, 8 Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 9, 10; Chi- cago, Ill., Feb, 12, 13, 14, 15; Grand Rapids, Mich,, Feb. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21; Detroit, Mich. Feb. 22, 23; Cleve- land, O., Feb. 25; Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 27; New York, N. Feb. 28, ZINOVIEYSK CHANGED TO KIROVO (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 28 (By Wireless). —The request of the local organiza- tions and population of the town of Zinovievsk, in the Ukrainian So- viet Republic, to change the town’s name to Kirovo was granted by the | Central Executive Committee of the breaking agency.” 3rd ANNUAL STATE- WIDE BAZAAR Given by N. J. DISTRICT COMMUNIST PARTY Sat., Sun., Mon. Dec. 29th, 30th, 31st Krneger’s Auditorium, 25 Belmont Ave., Newark SUNDAY AFT, MONDAY AFT. LECTURE CHILDREN’S DAY SUNDAY EVE, piel SOVIET NITE MONDAY NITE Admission 25¢ BANQUET, Adm, 50¢ Combination Ticket 75¢ Admission 15¢ . SATURDAY NITE MASQUE BALL Admission 40¢ NEW YEAR'S EVE. RED PRESS MASQUERADE BALL DEC, Se DANCING — GOOD ORCHESTRA ARRANGED BY DAILY WORKER, MORNING FREIHEIT and YOUNG WORKER CHICAGO, ILLINOIS es Anniversary DAILY WORKER FEATURING : NEW THEATRE NIGHT PRESENTING STEVEDORE CAST - NEWSBOY - LYNCHED - TROOPS ARE MARCH- ING - CAPITALIST FOLLIES OF 1934- And Many Other Attractions 25e in Advance —35¢ at Door Tickets at 2019 West Div State St.; 4305 So, Park Ar Roosevelt Road. SAT. Fth JAN. U8 p.m. NORTH SIDE TURNER HALL The main task in the deep South{ is to weld the iron unity of Negro| and white workers and poor farm-| ers in the struggle for higher wages, against the Bankhead Act, for the| rights of the Negro masses, and against the growing fascist terror sweeping through the deep South. The Communist Party has from the beginning realized this need.) and has raised the slogans of unity before the masses as the means of effective strugglé for the immediate burning needs, as well as for win- ning the masses for the whole pro- gram of the Party, which alone can free the Negro masses, as well as the white workers and farmers. The basis for real unity was established by the wholesale attacks on the already unbearable stand- ards of the Southern workers during the length of the crisis. The New Deal further intensified the exploitation of the workers by legal- izing the “differential” wage, and by the crop destroying and cropper destroying Bankhead Act, at the} same time increasing the terror and! lynching against the Negro masses, and further depriving the Southern people as a whole of their rights of | free speech, assembly, etc. Wave of Strikes The answer of the masses was a Wave of organization, the building of the A. F. of L, unions into mass organizations, and the develop- ment of the greatest strike wave in the history of the South (Alabama coal and ore strikes, textile strike, etc). On the farms the Share-Crop- pers Union grew in Alabama, began to lead struggles for the right to sell their own cotton for the crop- pers, and the strike for higher wages for cotton pickers, and reached a membership of some 10,- 000, for the first time taking in white farmers. In Arkansas the Southern Tenant Farmers League grew as the expression of the Negro and white tenants’ willingness to resist the uttacks of the landlords and their government. In all this wave of organization and struggle the Communist Party consistently called on the workers and farmers to organize solidly, to struggle militantly, to unite white and Nezro on an equal basis, and to defeat any attempts on the part U.S. S. R. By SYD bosses and landlords. The struggle for the freedom of the Scottsboro Boys won the love of millions of Negroes, the support of the struggles of the Share Croppers Union won the sympatny or the farming masses, and the correct slogans, the exposure of the fakers won the respect of the coal and ore miners and textile workers, and thousands of the best rank and file trade unionists and local leaders. Militant Socialists throughout the South expressed willingness to work together with the Party for a whole series of immediate demands. Wave of Terror The sharpening of the terror fol- lowing the Birmingham May Day demonstration brought the work of the Party under new conditions. The wave of arrests, the raids, the beatings, the confiscations of any literature was directed towards iso- Jating the Party from the masses, and destroying the Party organi- zation. At the same time an attack was launched against all militant activities of the workers, A. F. of L leaders were given long sentences on bombing charges which they denied at their trial, and which they branded as attacks on organ- ized labor. A wave of arrests in Atlanta was matched in Birming- ham by more than thirty arrests and long sentences in many cases. The Downs Ordinance was launched to provide nine months in jail for mere possession of more than one copy of any revolutionary leaflet. This red baiting found an echo in the activities of Robert, Moore, head of the Alabama Fed- eration of Labor who announced that names of all Communists in the labor unions would be handed over to the police. Negro fakers like Robert Durr, a petty editor who prints a paper for the sole purpose of attacking the Party and the I. L. D., began to poison the air. The brave and determined struggle of the Party in the face of all the combined terror of the police, the demagogy of the labor fakers, the mouthings of the Negro misleaders, won the further respect and liking of the working masses. They sensed that the terror against the Party Was in essence at attack of misleaders to confuse the struggle in the interests of the * against the living standards of the masses, and that the heroic fight Midwest, covering locals of the Na- | John Spivak Urges Support of LL.D. Drive By JOHN L. SPIVAK | I saw Haywood Patterson sen- tenced to death twice. I was in the Decatur courtroom when Clarence Norris was sentenced to die. But in |addition to seeing the forces of lynch rule in action down there, I also jsaw the power of mass campaign | mobilized and led by the ILD. It was a pleasure to see the irritation on Knight’s face grow deeper and deeper as another and still another protest telegram was handed to him. | Those protests accomplished a great | tests actually tied his hands. There | can be no doubt in any right think- | ing person’s mind about the power of this protest action in keeping those boys alive during ‘these three and a half years since their original frame-up in Scottsboro, The huge sum of money necessary to conduct this defense fight has totalled $64,351.75. It was very in- teresting to me to examine the an- alysis of this sum to compare it | With what I found in ti.e Red Cross financial account, The Red Cross | Spent 71 per cent on administration | and the I.L.D. 24 per cent. |. Another $6,000 is still needed to | carry through the appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court on the Patter- son and Norris cases. The I.L.D. has already spent $2,526.52 more than it has collected on the Scotts- boro case. The splendid defense battle of the I.L.D. must not be crippied for lack of funds, and I jurge everybody to rush every possible |sum, without a moment's delay to | the International Labor Defense, 80 East lith Street, N. Y. C. No cbstacle can be allowed to block the | path of the fight to free the Scotts- boro Boys. United Front in South Must Be Center of Struggle BENSON jof the Party under these conditions showed more clearly than ever be- fore the need for real unity. Reginning of Unity The first step was made in New Orleans, where the Communist |Party and Socialist Party united in | the struggle against terror, and for relief, The united meeting held there for the support of the Spanish workers roused a great deal of enthusiasm. Other gains showed the possibilities which lay in the united action. The next step was in the starting of united front ne- gotiations between the Share Crop- pers Union of Alabama and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union of Arkansas, each with a membership estimated at 10,000. The Party fol- Jowed up these steps with appeals to the S. P. in Birmingham, which ignored the letters, Finaliy, on Dec. 6, at a meeting states, a united front agreement was drawn up with the representa- tive of the District Bureau of Dis- trict 17 of the Communist Party which will take its place as one of the most historic steps in the whoie struggle for the unity of the South- ern masses against oppression. In a document which serves as living proof of the desire of the rank and file Socialists for unity, together with many of the leaders who are actally in contact with the masses and willing to put into practise their expressed demand for unity, the Socialist leaders called on the Socialist organiza- tions in all Southern states to “start negotiations immediately with the Communist Party on the following specific issues among others: Issues of Struggle “1. The struggle against war and fascism. (Against lynching, for dis- banding of the KKK and other fas- cist bands, against denial of consti- tutional rights, etc.) “2, Election of delegates to the National Congress for Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance. Wash- ington, Jan. 5-7. A sustained effort to have passed the Lundeen Un- empoyment and Social Insurance Bill. | “3. Against the New Deal dif- ferential in wages and relief for | Southern labor. | deal more than irritation, those pro- | Fight Finds RA with Boss Pecan S he llers Face Hard Battle Against Winter Hunger SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. With the statement that a of the situation involving the en forcement of the code inaugurat for the pecan shelling industr must first be made, W. L. Penck of the litigation division of the R. A. has announced that no pres- ent effort will be made to enforce the code in this city. Knowing that |no injunction against the code is | needed as long as there are going to be no prosecutions against vio- lators of the code, Federal Judge R. J. McMillan did not grant the peti- tion of the Southern Pecan Shelling Association and thirty-four other complainants for such an injunc- tion. El Nogal, rank and fiie union of the shellers, is fighting to enforce | the code. This organization, com- prised of 2,000 members, has been pledged the co-operation of many independent local organizations in addition to various organizations over the country. The A. F. of L. refused to endorse the code, it is reported. With winter at hand, the failure of the N. R. A. to enforce this code, which would have guaranteed the pecan shellers $6 a week and forty | hours, instead of the more miser- able 15 cents per day, which is the average scale at present, at least | 8,000 shellers will find themselves |fighting starvation harder than |ever. Their living conditions deny |many beds to sleep in, much less |food, which is barely enough to | keep life in the body. | ‘Police Chief Orders Union Out of Town SEABROOK, N. H., Dec. 28.— Runaway employers in search of “cheap labor” are welcome to Sea- brook, but if unionists follow to try to organize the workers and demand a decent living, they will be arrested ‘Texas Code/TIGHE ‘PEACE’ PLAN IN STEEL INDUSTRY | AIDS WAR PROFITS Leader of Amalgamated Association Backs | 6-Month ‘Trice’ To insure Smooth Ful- filment of Government War Orders By Tom Keenan PITTSBURGH, Pa., |the administration for a six-months’ “truce” in the steel ine | dustry so as to insure the smooth fulfillment of expected | war orders, the top leaders of the Amalgamated Association Dec, 28.— pporting the line of | of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers are doing their utmost to stop mass disillusionment with the® Steel Labor Board through which |the rank and file demand for ac- | tion is finding an immediate outlet ; As an instance of this can b> cited proposed plans of the A. A. |heads for maintaining at ail costs | the “peace,” presented to the Amal- gamated workers in certain plants In McDonald and Duquesne greement. So that, d that the steel patiently more of delay by Tighe and Co. want it understood that negotiations are by wait |plants of the Carnegie Steel Com- "0 means to be broken off with | Pany, the rank and file forced Tighe ©OmMpany unions, but rather and his assistants to turn down the | Strengthened. company's proffer of “recognition of union committees as representa- tives of only those workers who are in the union. But the substitute plan proposed by Amalgamated At- After the election (there has been one!) Tighe’s plan provides that the company will receive and ne« gotiate in said plant with repre atives of that organization on! torney Charlton Ogburn for the receives the majority of | workers’ consideration was even | votes, and “any agreement shall ap- worse, ply to all employes of said plant.” But the last proposal of this mise leading plan of the A. A. top leade ip, is the rankest of the lot: “All cases of discrimination in employment, for any cause, dis- These proposals began by accept- ing, justifynig, and providing fo: | the continuance of the status quo |of company unions and their com- |Mmittees: “It is agreed that the |company will receive and negotiate, | charge or preference of employes jfor the purpose of collective bar-/ hereafter arising, which cannot be |gaining, with the representatives | settled by direct negotiation, shall of any organization of its em-/|be submitted to the Steel Labor | Ployes. . . .” Eoard for final decision. Both em- The Tighe proposal continues, of | ployers and employes shall agree course, by qualifying the above as only to apply “until there shall be jan election in the plant supervised \by the Steel Board, to determine by what organization the employes of said plant shall be repre- sented. . . .” But the accomplished fact of company unions and all the at- tendent sham “bargaining” with employes. under such schemes, is the strongest legal point on which the steel trust today attacks the “intervention” of the Steel Board In the seven months of the Board's existence, that, body has or- dered one election out of the hun- of Socialist leaders of five Southern! for “creating a disturbance.” Such was the verdict of Chief of Police Ernest Crandall, here. Barr and Bloomfield, shoe manu- | facturers, moved from Lynn, Mass., | and set up a plant just across the| | state line, here. As members of the | United Shoe and Leather Workers Union from Lynn and Haverhill ap- proached the state boundary, Chief Crandall and three patrolmen barred their way. “The first person to step into New Hampshire will be ar- rested” said Crandall. The workers, about 50 in all, | shouted to the workers of the fac- | tory but eventually went home. Two | days later another auto-load of shoe workers tried to force an entrance into New Hampshire, but were turned back. The workers inquired | from one part of the United States if a passport was needed to travel ‘to another, dreds of petitions submitted—West | A Torgsin Order will enable your relatives in the U.S.S.R. to buy heavy clothing, shoes, underwear, foodstuffs, household utensils, tobaccos and countless other domestic | or imported articles. These gifts will be doubly valued with the oncoming of the long Rus- in winter. | “4. Campaign to unionize the! South and to deyelop an aggressive rank and file movement in the A.} | F. of L. on the basis of equal rights! _ to abide by the Board’s decision.” In an interview not long ago, President Tighe declared that his desk holds a huge stack of cases of discrimination in not one of which has the Board forced the re- employment of the victimized work- er Tighe demands that the steel workers continue to put their trust in the Board which thus betrays them. But the rank and file of the union say the final word in all these is sues, and the above treacherous Proposal was turned down unani- mously by the Carnegie Steel Come pany workers affected. x in Prices compare favorably with those in America For Torgsin Orders see your local bank or authorized agent General Representative in U.S.A, at | for Negroes and unity of white and Negro labor. | | “5. Support united front action | with the International Labor De-! |fenze in its struggle to free the! nine innocent Scottsboro Boys. | | “6. Campaign against the AAA |and Bankhead Act in the cotton! fields and struggle for the needs of the exploited farm population. | “We urge that these united front agreements take prompt steps to effect action on these vital issues | while making at the same time mutually satisfactory arrangements to allow for criticism by the parties of each others larger political pro- SHOES for the Entire Family... at Reason: able Prices ECONOMY H. Wsloge, 4138 East LADIES $765 SHOES up specific issues do not curtail in any way the autonomy of each party, nor limit their agitational or or- ganizational work.” | The present task of the Party is| to see that this splendid step is cenir. SHOE St. Louis, Mo, this ad. and get a AMTORG, 261 Fifth A’ N. Children’s SHOES 98e and up STORE . Prop. on Avenue MEN’S $495 SHOES up a vary | grams, Furthermore it is understood Actin A | that these united front efforts on fate : Sone sou- | at once put into action, that there} is a unity affscted in every) |Stete and every city, that joint] | demon:trosions and movements are initiaved around the issues agreed | upon. Especially is it necessary to) popularize widely the meaning of this step among the masses, and above all the trade union masses, Already in the struggle for relief, | and for the Washington Congress) there has been started an excelient | movement among the trade union! locals, and among many of the; most militant local leaders of the| trade unions. In Tennessee Zilla! Hawes, a militant Socialist and | trade union leader, has written to | the Alabama Arrangements Com- | mittee for the Congress requesting all the material needed in con- ducting a real campaign in the unions. | To popularize this agreement, to| develop concrete actions on the) points raised, to involve the trade! union masses, as well as the work-| | ers and farmers as a whole is the proper way to carry out and con- solidate this step forward, to spread it out so it can really serve as a rallying point in the struggle in the | South, and as a model for the whole ‘ country. | Workmen’s Sick and Main Office: 714 50,000 Benefits paid Workers! | Death Benefit according to the age classes. CLASS A: 40 cents per month—Dea! at the age of 44, Sick benefit paid from the sixth ¢ respectively, per week for the first 50 50 wi Protect Your Families! In Case of Sickness, Accident or Death! 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