The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1935, Page 3

ia MINE LOCALS BACK NATIONAL SOCIAL INSURANCE CONGRESS FINAL PLANS BY U. M.W. A GROUPS IN PITTSBURGH AREA Special Buses Chartered by the Delegation for Trip to Washington—Plan Final Meet- ing of All Representatives Friday | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 31.—Fourteen local unions | M AD F CompanyUnion| In Auto Plant Is Repudiated Roosevelt Labor Board Comes To Rescue of Bosses By A. B. Magil DETROIT, Dec. 31.—Final elec- jons for collective bargaining rep- esentatives at the Cadillar Motor from the Brownsville area have elected delegates to the Na- | Car Co., held Friday, revealed over- “tional Congress for Unemployment Insurance to be held in| Whelming sentiment against the Washington, Jan. 5-7. The citi Alicia, Smock, Leith, Gillespie, Fairchance, Connellsville, es represented include: Oliver, Brazenell, Fayette City, Uniontown, Masontown, Beeson, Coal Spring and Hopwood. With the delegates | from several fraternal groups, the | entire delegation, mostly from U. M. W. A. locals, will leave for Wash- | ington by car. Three large busses have been hartered for the delegation from Pittsburgh to the National Con- | gress, Arrangements have been | completed for 125 delegates from | the Pittsburgh area, with the pos- sibility that this number will reach 150 when final registration is com- pleted. The busses for the Pittsburgh delegation will leave from the head- quarters of the local sponsoring committee, 522 ‘Court Place, Friday night at 10 o'clock. All delegates to the National Con- gress who will leave by the special busses must be fully paid up before | embarking. A meeting of the full delegation will be hel@ in the head- quarters at 8 p.m., two hours before departure, to complete registration and elect captains for the busses, In order to expedite the work, the committee has advised that all delegates send in funds for trans- New Courses To Be Given For Workers Mid-Year ‘School Term To Open Jan. 7 with | } Enlarged Enrollment | One of the significant develop- ments in the revolutionary labor movement is the tremendously in- creasing interest in Marxist-Lenin- | ist theory generally. This may be seen in the growth and expansion | of Marxist education in every part | of the country. There are now Workers’ Schools in most of the large cities of the | country; New York, Chicago, Bos- ton, Cleveland, Philadelphia, De- troit, Los Angeles, San Francisco | portation and expenses while in of Washington as soon as possible. Reports from outlying districts such as the Brownsville area show | @ broad response to the Congress call in the local unions of the United Mine Workers of America, despite | the fact that the international elec- | tions made very heavy demands upon the time of the rank and file workers. Glen Cove Legionnaires Arrange With Police To Attack Unemployed | and such important industrial cen- | ters as Pittsburgh, Youngstown and | Gary. In all of these cities the schools have already become. well- established institutions and func- tion as the center of Marxist-Len- inist education. The oldest and largest school is |the central school in New York | City. The growth of the New York | | Workers’ School has been. truly | Veteran tial In a single term the registration has increased by more than 66 per cent; 3,200 were en-| | rolled for the various courses in the school, as compared with 1,900 dur- ing the previous term. The guiding line for the educa- tion offered at the Workers’ School | GLEN COVE, L. I. Dec. 28.— ’ fi 4 iy Commissioner Frederick Bond of}! the Public Safety Department of| Clen Cove has endorsed the plans! of Commander Martin Alberta of the Glen Cove (Nassau) Post, | American Legion, to mobilize. 500| men armed with short clubs to at-/ tack relief demonstrations of un-| employed workers and to break up| meetings of the Communist Party.| By arrangement With the Fire) Department, the fascist band is to/ be mobilized by the blowing of the fire whistle in a series of blasts. The ‘ocal papers report that Com- | missioner Bond has given the Le- gion post “directions to clean up Red meetings,” and report further that the rich residents of the sec- tion have been “disturbed fre- quently in past months” by dem- onstrations of unemployed work- ers demanding relief. Commissioner Bond's reported instructions to the post follow an-| other one-day cut in work relief and renewed claims of a crisis in relief funds. A.F.L. Member Jailed 3 Days for Supporting | Insurance Congress TOLEDO, O., Dec. 31—Ben Ger- lach, member of A. F. of L. Paint- ers Local 7, was arrested on “sus- | picion” and held incommunicado | here for three days for circulating | the petition for passage by Congress | of the Workers’ Unemployment and | Social Insurance Bill, Gerlach is a} member of the Joint Action Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance, which is actively promoting the Workers’ Bill in the A. F. of L. | Gerlach was grilled for hours and | the police tried to connect him with | the onion field strike. They also tried to frame him up in connection | with a hold-up but were forced to free him when this frame-up fell through. Gerlach was one of the leaders of the “death march” of the single unemployed men in front of the County Court House. Gerlach’s arrest was planned for «the purpose of putting fear into the supporters of the Worker's Bill. The city administration is desperately ’ trying to check the growing mass fight for Unemployment Insurance. ’ Veterans Fight To Free ~ Pope, Negro Organizer, | From Chain Gang Term - WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 31.— _ The Veterans Rank and File Com- * mittee, with headquarters here, is calling for protests against the sentencing of Tannis L, Pope, Negro * veteran, to six months on the chain gang in Georgia. Veterans’ and other organizations are urged to demand his release. '- Pope, an organizer of the World War Veterans, an organization of Negro veterans in Georgia, defended “himself when attacked by a gang ' of white hoodlums. His arrest and Pope has been active in securing relief, bonus certificates and other demands of local Negro veterans, who are barred from the lily-white American Legion in Georgia. “Every I. W. 0. branch shonld greet the Daily Anniversars! Worker on its | \is expressed in the slogan, “Train- | ing for the class struggle.” The education is of such a character as to prepare and equip workers active | in various phases of the labor | movement for more effective par- ticipation in the class struggle. Many New Courses For the coming term, which be- gins Jan. 7, the number of classes has been increased and a great | many new courses have been intro- duced. There are now in the) school over 125 classes and thirty- | five different courses being offered. | In addition to the regular courses in | Principles of Communism, Political | Economy, Marxism-Leninism, His- tory, etc., there are many important new courses to be given this term, | such as: Agrarian Problems, History of the Three Internationals, Colo- nial Problems, etc. Jack Stachel will conduct a) special four-week lecture course on “Current Problems of the Trade Union Movement.” George Siskind will give a course | of great popular interest, “Current | Strategical Problems of the Revolu- | tionary Movement.” This © course | will deal with burning questions of | the hour confronting the revolu- tionary movement at the present | time. Other important and interesting courses are: Shop Paper and Leaf- let Preparation, which will include | writing and laying out bulletins, | shop papers and leaflets. Morris Pass, well-known cartoonist, will conduct the class. The course in| Problems of the Negro Liberation | Movement will deal with the pres- ent conditions of the Negroes and the methods and organizational | forms to win them to the revolu- tionary struggle for the self-deter- mination of the Negroes in the Black Belt and against capitalist | exploitation. Chinese History Offered A timely course is the one in the History, Role and Structure of the Soviets in China. The course will} study the historical records of the | national liberation struggle of the peoples of China, will present a) graphic account of the present struggles of the Chinese Soviet Re- public, of the role of the. Imperial- ists in the Far East, and in general will offer a comprehensive picture of the world historical forces acting in the Pacific area. Much unpub- lished material will be presented. A special course will be given in conjunction with the New Masses | in Revolutionary Interpretation of Modern Literature—a symposium which will analyze from a Marxist viewpoint recent trends and tenden= cies in modern literature. The lec- turers will be members of the staff of the New Masses and will include outstanding revolutionary writers and most prominent Marx- ian critics. Among the lecturers will be Michael Gold, Granville Hicks, Joshua Kunitz, Joseph Free- man and others. This course will include a three months’ subscrip- tion to the New Masses. It is advisable that those who wish to register for the classes at the Workers’ School do so as early very rapidly. Registration is now going on daily from 11 am. to 9 pm., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. company union. Nevertheless, the results of the balloting, because of | the fact that the bulk of the work- | ers voted for no union at all, play into the hands of the company, which is a subsidiary of General Motors. The real role of the Roosevelt-ap- pointed Automobile Labor Board, | under whose auspices the elections | | were held, was demonstrated when | it came to the rescue of the com- pany union. The results showed that of the 16 chosen out of 32 can- didates, not one was a member of the Cadillac Employees Association, the company union. Nevertheless, the Board ruled that the company union had received sufficient votes in the primaries on Dec. 19 to de- serve a representative on the col- lective bargaining agency and added a 17th from the Cadillac Employees Association. Of the other 16 winning candi- dates, one, Emmett R. Reed, is a member of the American Federa- tion of Labor, while the others are unattached. This means that the company and the government will be in a position to use all sorts of pressure on them to get them to accept passively General Motors’ | wage-cutting, union-smashing poli- cies. The A. F. of L. officially boy- | | cotted the elections, though it was | |the A. F. of L, leaders who helped strangle the general strike move- | ment in March and negotiated the | | Washington settlement, under whose provisions the present | “Works Council” elections were | held. As in the. primaries, nearly one-third of the workers abstained from voting, 1,657 casting ballots out of a total of 2,360 who were eligible. Thirty metal polishers re- fused to vote in a body. The Communist Party is calling on the Cadillac workers to set up VOTE for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill | H.R. 7598 This ballot is sponsored by the Daily,QWorker corr seca coment raere Bk America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper 50 East 13th Street | New York (Cut out and sign this ballot today) BAL Insurance Bill and vote FOR ie] Name DoT I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social AGAINST O Address City- | | Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” U. S. Government Order Establishes Jim-Crow Practices in F. E. R. A. | ‘Mixing of Races” on Relief Projects Forbidden | and Negro Workers Are Insulted by Los Angeles Administrators By Loren Miller LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 31.--Negro social workers in the employ of the federal government are forbidden to pay professional calls on white applicants for relief, although which the unemployed go for their | supplies is ‘forbidden | On one relief project, a city affair, | Negro and white workers, employed |in the same camp, were required to | use separate dining tables, separate | bathrooms, separate washrooms, white social workers in many instances have files composed | entirely of Negro cases. “Mixing of races” at relief stores to the less real, bankruptcy of the so-called “social service” cases and LACRA has charge only of those cases in which, to use the parlance committees of action in every de-| separate toilets and a sign was| of social work, unemployment is the partment, to organize in the A. F. of L. United Automobile Workers The camp doctor was a Negro who| for production workers and the Me- | was forced to submit to the aa chanics’ Educational Society of America for tool and diemakers, and to prepare for strike action as the only way to better their condi- tions. Detroit Rally Backs Capital Congress For Jobless Insurance DETROIT, Mich. Dec. 31.—A meeting held last Friday at Yemans Hall in Hamtramck, to discuss the National Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance, was attended by seven hundred workers who adopted a resolution endorsing the Workers’ Bill and the National Conzress. Speakers at the meeting were Joseph Kowalsky, state organizer of the Polish Chamber of Labor; Leo Prep of the Unemployment Csuncil | and George Kristalsky, section or- ganizer of the Communist Party. Although the Hamtramck Con- ference for Unemployment Insur- ance had invited Mayor Lewan- dowsky, Congressman Sadowsky, a | Tepresentative of the City Council and other politicians to speak, none of them put in an appearance. The resolution demanding action on social insurance was sent to President Roosevelt, Secretary of Labor Perkins and the United States Congress. The fascist contents of the New Deal were written in the blood of 57 murdered strikers and the wounding of additional hundreds of striking workers during the year now ending, as the armed forces cf the bourgeois state were hurled against workers fighting for the right to live and in defense of their constitutional rights and class in- terests. Roosevelt's. honeyed” promises to the working class were accompanied by the murderous rattle of machine guns, the flash of bayonets as they were buried in the vitals of work- ers, the rumble of army tanks and the poisonous fumes of gas bombs, used against Negro and white work- ers, striking against the New Deal attacks on their living standards, the right to organize into unions of their own choice—a right sup- posedly guaranteed by the N.R.A., under the Clause 7-A. In addition to the 57 strikers murdered, 5,000 others were arrested for strike activities and 24 Negroes lynched | during the same year, according to figures compiled by the Labor De- fender. In Georgia, textile strikers were thrown into concentration camps, in emulation of the Nazi regime in Germany. In addition, hundreds of workers and students were jailed for taking part in anti-fascist demonstrations and other struggles of the working olass. Class Struggle Sharpened The second year of the New Deal, Reva BMGies Ge tie eae eae masses: tion, Negro and white, in the dema- ‘posted forbidding mixed gambling! kind of Jim-Crow practices. Administrative positions invariably | go to whites. Relief Workers Insulted | } . Negro relief workers are abused on one project and called vile and insulting names by their foremen. Negro relief workers show a high rate of discharge for “inefficiency” | although it is common knowledge that they are discriminated against because of color. Negro and white women working on a sewing project were separated, the forelady telling the “Americans” | to go to one room and the “colored women” to another. | _All of these things and many more | about which I wil write in this series @ articles have happened and are happening, not in a Southern or a posed to be at a minimum and where Negro rights are supposedly | protected by law. The present relief set-up in Los Angeles is the Los Angeles County | Relief Administration—the LACRA jfor short. LACRA is a federal bureau which secures its funds from the FERA and is in charge of Ellis lo. Braught, a former Ohio college Professor and touted far and wide | as a humanitarian liberal. | Braught and the LACRA came into the picture only a few months ago following the hidden, but none By gogic promises. and alphabetical panaceas of the New Deal, and the tremendous sharpening of the class and national struggles throughout the entire country. It witnessed the most magnificent strike struggles in American labor history, with in- creasing pressure of the rank and file of the A. F. of L. against the bureaucracy and its treacherous class collaboration policy and against its open and covert sup- port of the fascist program of the New Deal. It saw the heroic strike struggles of the West Coast long- shoremen and the powerful San Francisco general strike in support of the demands of the longshore- men; the general textile strike; the militant teamsters’ strikes in Min- neapolis and Toledo. where the workers battled fascist corps of armed business men and gangsters. There. were agricultural strikes from Cape Cod to California, from the cotton pickers on the Gulf to onion pickers near the Great Lakes. The answer of the bosses to this mighty explosion of mass resent- ment and struggle against the New Deal program was to sharpen the reppressive forces, legal and extra- legal, of the bourgeois state, against the working class and its organiza- tions. Raids and mass arrests on workers’ organizations were car- ried out jointly by vigilante bands and police in California. The Ku Klux Klan and the White Legion in the South increased their ter- roristic activities against Negro and white workers uniting in strug- gle against their common border state, but in Los Angeles, | California, where prejudice is sup- | problem. Jim-Crow Accounting For the purpose of relief adminis- ‘tration, Los Angeles is divided up into a number of districts. Each | of these districts has a relief office | under the direction of a supervisor, | under whom in turn there are a| | number of social case workers. Very obviously, the district boun- | daries were drawn in order to place | as many Negroes as possible in one district, the Vernon district. One other district, the Adams district, also contains a number of Negroes |and there are a few in three other districts. The district set-up was inherited | by the LACRA from a previous re- lief organization, the S. E. R. A. In the first rush of setting up the districts, Negro case workers were given a certain geographical area in which to work. There was a fly in the ointment. The Negro ghetto is not very strict, and consequently varous Neégro case workers found a | few white applicants in their files. That was soon remedied. About De- cember 1, 1934, an order was issued requiring Negro social workers to | transfer all white cases out of their files. The order raised a storm of pro- | test. Plainly it branded Negro so- cial’ workers as inferiors and pariahs, unfit to visit the homes of whites. work both ways. White social | workers could still visit Negro ap- plicants. Promises of New Deal Are Written in Blood Of 57 Strikers Who Were Murdered in 1934. CYRIL BRIGGS | Sacramento, Calif., 18 workers, ar- rested in the vigilante-police raids, are now on trial charged with vio- lating the Criminal Syndicalist Law of that state. Candidate Given 9 Years The Illinois Criminal Syndicalist Law was used to frame 15 unem- ployed workers, arrested during re- lief demonstrations, on charges of attempting to overthrow the gov- ernment. In Portland, Washington, Dirk De Jonge, Communist candi- date for mayor in the recent elec- tions in that city, was sentenced |to nine years imprisonment for membership in, and advocacy of the program of, the Communist Party against unemployment, hun- ger, fascism and war. There was also a sharp increase in the use of the deportation weapon to deport. foreign-born workers for taking part in the struggles of the Ameri- can working class. In Georgia, Negro and white members of the International Work- ers Order, a fraternal organization, were indicted on a charge of “in- citing to insurrection” for defying the ukase of the Georgia ruling |class forbidding the fraternization of Negro and white workers. Two girl textile strikers were indicted in the same state under the old, resur- rected slavé law used to railroad Angelo Herndon, Negro leader of the working class, to a sentence of 18 to 20 years on the chain gang. In Chicago, Ill., the courts tried to enforce residential segregation against the Negro people, with enemy. | prison sentences for white and assed | Negro workers resisting the attempt to evict Herbert Newton, Negro Communist leader, from 615 Oak- wood Boulevard, county after five years of crisis. Los | Angeles County retains control over | But the order didn’t | Is Endorsed | At Conference New Meeting Between C.P. and S.P. Leaders Slated in the South | | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 31 —A meeting at the Highlander Folk | School on Dec. 28 between Nat Ross | Dombrowski of the Tennessee or- of the Communist Party and James ganization of the Socialist Party, Myles Horton of the Tennessee | State Committee of the Socialist Party, Zilla Hawes, Southern Labor Secretary of the Socialist Party, and others, wholeheartedly endorsed the Chattanooga Dec. 6 United Front Appeal and the Six-Point Program of Struggle of the United Front Agreement between these members of the Socialist Party and the rep- resentatives of the Communist Par- ty in five southern states. Last Friday's meeting decided that all Socialist Party members pres- jent should send letters to every Southern State Committee of the Socialist Party, urging the calling of special State Committee meetings |to favor immediate action on the six-point program, and also to speed plans for a Southern United Front | | Conference against lynching and for |trade union and constitutional rights. The meeting decided that this conference should be held in Chattanooga in the Spring, and also voted greetings to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance meeting in Wash- | ington, D. C., Jan. 5 to 7. Movement Broadening | Friday’s action and the united | front achieved between the Socialist Party and the Communist Party in New Orleans, La., and between the Share Croppers Union and the! Southern Tenant Farmers Union is broadening the united front move- | ment and inspiring the trade union |Mmasses in this section, and is an| | answer to Lovestone and others who are trying to disrupt the grow- | ing united front movement. | The Dec. 6 meeting between the | | prominent members of the Social- | ist Party in the South and the Com- | munist Party of the following five southern states, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and Alabama, adopted the following six- point program and called on all So- \cialist Party state organizations to join the united front movement: Six-Point Program (1) The struggle against war and fascism (against lynching, for dis- banding the K.K.K. and other armed fascist bands), and against | denial of constitutional rights; | (2) Support of the National Con- gress for Unemployment and Social | Insurance to be held in Washington, | D. C., Jan. 5 to 7, and of the Lou- don Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill; (3) Against the New Deal differ- entials in wages, and relief for | southern labor; (4) Campaign to unionize the South and develop aggressive rank and file trade union movements in the A. F. of L. on the basis of equal rights for Negroes and the unity of | white and Negro workers; (5) Support of the united front action of the International Labor | | Scottsboro boys; (6) Campaign against the A.A.A. and the Bankhead Act in the cotton | fields and struggle for the needs of | the exploited farm population. Be sure that you do not fail to send your greetings to the Daily Worker om its Anniversary! Your greetings should be in before Jan. 12! Greet the Daily Worker in the name of a comrade of your organization. In their attack on the working class and the Negro people, the bosses have directed their blows | Particularly against the Commu- | nist Party, the fearless leader and unifier of the struggles of all sec- tions of the toiling population. This attack, reflecting the fears of the Tuling class at the rising resistance of the workers and the deepening of the general crisis of capitalism, became particularly ferocious dur- ing the closing weeks of 1934, with the initiation by the United States Chamber of Commerce and the Hearst press of a drive for the sup- pression of the Communist Party, as the necessary prelude and signal for a broader onslaught against all |working class organizations. In Chicago, this drive is at present centered around the attempt to de- and jail its instructors. Against these attacks, the de- jVeloping united front struggles of the Communist Party, Socialist workers and several Socialist Party organizations, anti-fascist workers, professionals and students recorded {Many important victories during the past year in defense of the rights of the working class and the Negro People. These victories attest to the growing force of the united front movement and its power, as it is further developed, to smash the fascist reaction and beat back the drive of the Roosevelt government to fascism and imperialist war. The forging of a mighty proletarian united front is the guarantee of working class victory in this strug- gle. This is the immediate task confronting every Communist, So- cialis; and non-party worker. It is a wait. stroy the Chicago Workers School | United Front YOUNG SOCIALISTS _ AND COMMUNISTS | JAILED IN STRIKE nited Front Picket Line Established in Milwau- U kee After Boston Store Strikers Override | Leaders and Call for Solidarity MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 31.—The Boston department store strikers, after forcing their union leaders to call a meeting, voted to invite all workers’ groups to join their picket line, and Saturday morning mass picket lines stood out against police reserves. After Democrats Aid Bank Officials Held for Theft Last Act of Michigan Administration Eases | Terms for Two DETROIT, Dec. 31.—The corrupt | Democratic Comstock State admin- listration is making its farewell bow |in office in characteristic style: by |pardoning and commuting the sen- tences of bankers convicted of em- bezzling thousands of dollars, while miiltant workers, arrested for par- |ticipating in labor struggles, are kept in jail. Robert M. Allan, former president jot the American State Bank, who | Was sentenced to from ten to 20 years for what is politely called “misappropriation of funds” (in or- dinary language: Stealing thou- sands of dollars of poor depositors’ money), has just had his sentence commuted by Governor Comstock to two and one-half to five years. | Though sentenced on Dec. 23, 1931, | Allan did not enter prison till July 7, 1933. In announcing the com- mutation of his sentence, W. Alfred Debo, commissioner of pardons and | Paroles, declared that because of “good behavior,” Allen will be eli- gible for parole in May, 1935—less | than two years after he entered jail. At the same time Governor Com- stock pardoned Joel Stockard, De- troit broker and former vice-pres- ident of the same bank. Stockard has been sentenced to three to 20| years for “abstraction and misap- | Plication of funds.” He has never | served a day. Oscar L. Green, an- other former vice-president of the American State Bank, who in June, 1933, was sentenced to five to 20 years for embezzlement of $4,500, had his sentence commuted to two years. He also will be eligible to ‘leave jail May 1, 1935, | The action of Comstock and Debo, | whose pardon and parole racket has become notorious, was so raw, that even the judges who sentenced the |bankers have been compelled to | | protest. Judge W. McKay Skillman, | | who sentenced Allan, admitted that | | “If the cases had involved men with | no influence, the judges would have | been consulted. We always get let- | ters from Debo about men of little | influence who are up for parole, or | commutation of sentence.” | | Among the “men of little influ- fused to pardon is John Battenberg | |of Grand Rapids, who is serving a two-year sentence for participating | in a demonstration against a relief jcut in January, 1933. Other “men! of little influence” are the workers, Burman and Immonen, instructors at a camp for Finnish workers’ children at Eben Junction, Mich., who in August, 1933, were arrested and sentenced to long jail terms because a red flag was raised on the camp grounds. |_ After serving a year, Burman and Cone were recently released on bond and the case is now pending | in the State Supreme Court. The International Labor Defense is han- dling the case, with Maurice Sugar, now running as labor candidate for Judge of Recorder's Court, as at- torney. Coca Cola Company Fires Negro Workers | CHICAGO, Dec. 31. — The Coca [ee Company here has fired all its | Negro employes. All of them were union members and in good stand- | ing. George Phelan, superintendent of the plant, has bluntly declared that | the company does not want to use any more Negro help. The League of Struggle for Negro | Rights here is organizing a protest | campaign against the action. The! | League points out that the firing of ; the Negro workers is in line with the! | increasing fascist attacks organized | | by local courts and landlords and| | the Hearst press against the Negro masses of Chicago. CHICAGO, ia SAT. Fth JAN. Y8 p.m. NORTH SIDE TURNER HALL the police attack seven work- ers were arrested The union leaders wanted post- ponement of the meeting until after New Year's, but were forced to give in and the meetng was called. The Communist Party imme- diately mobilized its forces and on Saturday morning one of the largest, picket lines the strike has yet seen was thrown around the store. The strikers sent delegations ta all A. F. of L. locals and organiza tions with the result that there was a large A. F. of L. representation on the picket line to counteract this miltant -and strengthening picket line. Chief of Police Laubenheimer ordered over a hundred extra police- men held in reserve in the Y. M. C. A. across the street to augment the police cordon already thrown around the store. The Communist Party issued 20,- 000 leaflets calling fo> mass picket- ing and pointing out how the street car strike last Summer was won by the solidarity of the Milwaukee workers in support of the striking carmen, AF.L., ¥.P.S.L. Members Picket Police attacked the picketers after an unknown person, not on the picket line, hurled two bricks, but the lines held firm in spite of the reserve police forces. Among the seven arrested were A. F. of L. workers, Young Peo- ple’s Socialist League and Young Communist League members. The mobilization for a stronger Pictxet line is being prepared for the coming week. Toledo | Seamen Take | Food After Relief Head | Orders Its Withdrawal (Special to the Daily Worker) TOLEDO, O., Dec. 30.—Fifty sea- men rushed the Transient Bureau here Friday night and took their evening meals following the refusal ~ of the relief director to retrurn their * meal tickets which had been take=—*~ from them. Previous to this, thiter-__ unemployed seamen had jamme® the office of Relief Administrato. 7g" Thompson demanding restoration of their meal tickets, an end to all ‘iPS forced labor and payment of union ~ wages for all work done. The meal tickets amount to $2.80 a week for each man. Forced labor jobs at four cents an hour for a twenty-four hour week were offered and indignantly refused by the sea= men. Thompson referred to “ore ders from Washington” to justify the coolie wages, and told the dele- gation that “if you don’t like it; do Defense in its struggle to free the | ence” whom Gov. Comstock has re-| as you please.” Following the interview with Thompson, the enraged seamen Tushed the Transient Bureau. Police were called and attacked the work= ers, ejecting them from the build ing. The relief administration here haa announced a 5 per cent relief in- crease for January in an attempt to stem the rising demand for a 30 per cent general increase. General increases of 15 per cent had been promised by the relief administra- tion. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Lenin Memorial Meeting Friday, Jan, 18, 1935 at the Market St. Arena, | 48th and Market Sts. Prominent | speakers, excellent program. Buy tickets now. x Wer or Peace in the Saar Plebiscite? Lecture and discussion at Lulu Teme ple, Broad & Spring Garden Sts, Auspices Phila. Relief Comm, for Victims of German Fascism. 8:18 Pp. m. Thursday, January 3, 1935. Lawyers’ Banquet, Friday evening, Jan. 4, 8 p.m. at Broad St. Mansion, Broad and Girard Aves. Prominent speakers and talents. Adm. 50c, Ause pices International Labor Defense. Cleveland, Ohio The 10th Ward Assembly Unemployed Council 1 will hold a benefit for its Washington Delegates Jan. 1, 8 pins at Slovenian Hall, 5607 St. Clair Ave, 3 sievtiaemat Bes 2 re ES Se cpmcracigised bapasii HELP WANTED: Agents to sell NEW. MASSES subscriptions. Live leads furnished. Commissions and ex- penses for active workers. Apply: NEW MASSES, Midwest Bureau, Room 1500, 5 N. Wabash Ave., Chi- cago, Ill, any day at 3 p.m, ILLINOIS Anniversary DAILY WORKER FEATURING NEW THEATRE NIGHT PRESENTING Be STEVEDORE CAST - NEWSBOY ING - CAPITALIST FOLLIES 1934- And Many Other Ai 25e in Advance 35 at Door Tickets at 2019 West Division St.; 505. State St.; 4805 So, Roosevelt Road. Park Ave.;