The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1935, Page 3

KD DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935 Page 3, | CHICAGO COLISEUM FORCED TO PERMIT LENIN MEMORIA Chiet in Beichen Bar s Meeting, ‘ells Delegation That Communists ‘Should Be Hung Up on Apple Tree’ Hearst-Inspired Hall Management Has_ | to Back Down CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—The manage- ment of the Coliseum Hall has been forced to retreat before the thun- derous protest of Chicago workers and their organizations, and the Lenin Memorial meeting will be held in the Coliseum as originally arranged. In line with the attack initiated by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the Hearst press against the working class, directed particularly against the revolutionary move- ment, the politicians connected with the Coliseum Hall had tried to can- cel the contract made for the use of the hall for the Lenin Memorial meeting on Jan. 20. The hall has been in receivership for some time past. Charles Schweitzer, Cook County Democratic treasurer, is one of the receivers, and although the hall has been used for many years for meetings by the Communist Party and other working class organizations, Schwei- tzer and other elements in the re- ceivership took the cue from the Hearst press and attempted to bar the Lenin Memorial meeting from the Coliseum. The Chicago working class will IN HIS MEMORY | | | Lenin meetings are being ar- ranged in every section of the country. The time and places of the rallies are announced today. celebrate its victory in this case and ‘Lenin R a | | i e Ss Mobilize its forces for a counter- offensive against the attacks on its organizations by giving the widest support to the Lenin Memorial meeting, 7:30 p. m., January 20, at the Coliseum Hall. | Newark Rally Jan. 11 NEWARK, Jan. 3. Newark’s | young and adult workers will com- memorate the deaths of the three @reat leaders of the struggle against imperialist war and fascism—Lenin, | Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem- | burg—with a large demonstration against war and fascism on Friday evening, Jan. 11 in Krueger’s Audi- | torium, 25 Belmont Avenue. | Speakers will include William | O'Donnell, one of the leaders of the | Seabrook Farms’ Strike in Vine- Jand, N. J., recently released from | jail as a result of mass pressure; | Mac Weiss of the National Commit- tee of the Young Communist League, | with Frank Carlson, District Or- ganizer of the League, acting as| chairman. A rich and entertaining program | has been arranged. The Jack Lon- don. Theatre will present anti-war | and anti-fascist skits especially | prepared for the occasion. Southern Industrialists. Uphold ‘Right’ of Labor ToBe ‘Free’ fromUnions | CHATTANOOGA. Jan. 3—George | L, Armistead, Nashville, Tenn., edi- tor, addressing the Southern States Industrial Council here on Satur- day urged its members to pursue fascist methods strikes. He-declared further that “every governor should catch ‘an in- Spiration and suggestion from the courage displayed by Governors Tal- | madge of Georgia and Ehringhaus | of North Carolina.” The two gov- | ernors are among the state execu- | tives who have called out troops, against recent strikes of the work- ers, The Industrial Council endorsed the open shop and low wages, de- claring with: typical fascist dema- gogy that it was necessary to “keep Southern labor free” against | “manipulation and exploitation” by “any organized labor aristocracy.” Armistead had also called for the protection of thugs hired by struck plants to scab against striking work- in combatting | In All Sections AreAnnounced Preparations for Lenin Memorial | meetings are being pushed in scores of cities and towns throughout the country. Following is a partial list of the meetings so far -cheduled: New York Cit »dison Square Garden, Jan. 20, at 8 p.m., Earl Browder and James W. Ford, speakers. Chicago, Til.—Coliseum Hall, Jan, 20, at 7:30 p.m. Bob Minor, speaker. Philadelphia, Pa—Market Street Arena, 46th and Market Streets, Jan. 18, at 8 p.m. Speak- ers, M. Olgin, M. Johnson and John Strachey. Baltimore, Md.—Jan. 25, place to be announced, Speaker, Johnson. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—Workers’ Center, 325 E. Market Street, Jan. 20, at 8 p.m. H. Benjamin, speaker. Boston, Mass.—Place to he an- nounced. Speakers, Mother Bloor and Mike Gold. Providence, R. I—Swedish Workingmen’s Hall, 59 Chestnut | Street. Margaret Cowl, speaker. Washington, D. C.—Place and date to be announced. Y, J. Jerome, speaker. Buffalo, N. Y.—Labor Educa- tional Hall, 760 Main Street, Jan. 20, at 8 p.m. Pat Toohey, speaker. Rochester, N. Y.—Place and date to be announced. George Siskind, speaker. Binghamton, N. Y¥.—Jan. 20. Place to be announced. Fred Biedenkapp, speaker. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Fifth Avenue High School, Jan. 28, at 8 p.m. Clarence Hathaway, speaker. Cleveland, 0., Public Auditovi- um Ball Room, E. 6th St, and Lakeside, Jan. 20, at 2 p.m.; W. W. Weinstone, speaker. Detroit, Mich., Arena Gardens, Woodward Ave, and Henry, Jan. 20 at 2:30 pm.; I. Amter, speaker. Minneapolis, Minn., Eagles Hall, 117 Fourth St. S. E., Jan. 20, at ce | U.S. Steel Town Workers ; Plan Lenin Meeting Despite Ban BETHLEHEM, Pa., Jan. 3—Chief of police Trafford of Bethlehem re- fused to grant a permit to the Com- munist Party to hold a Lenin Mem- orial meeting, when a delegation made application last Monday. Trafford made the typically fas- ; | cist statement that he opposed free |speech for Communists, and that | they should all “be hung up on an | apple tree.” | When the delegation retorted that | they were not surprised at his opin- ion of the party which leads the fight against the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, which controls this |city, the Rey. Trafford replied that |he considered Mr. Eugene Grace, head of the corporation, as “Amer- |ica’s finest citizen,” and, with a | sanctimonious look in his eyes, add- ed, “I would wring your necks if I had a chance.” started to break through this deci- sion of this agent-of the steel in- terests, banning the Lenin Memorial in this city. That this attack on |free speech and assembly, centering |against the Communist Party, is directed against all workers’ organ- | izations, is shown by the fact that before workers cah hold a meeting they must apply for a permit to the agents of the steel trust. Bethlehem workers are determined to go through with the plans for | | the Lenin Memorial Meeting, which will be held on Jan. 19. The In- ternational Labor Defense is call- | ing on all organizations, professional |people and intellectuals to send | protests to Superintendent of Po- lice Trafford, Bethlehem, Pa., pro- | testing the ban on meetings by the |Communist Party and other anti- Fascist groups. Detroit to Plan Memorial DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 3.—A spe- cial conference of the Communist Party and other working class or- | Sanizations here will be held on | Sunday at 10 a.m, in the Finnish | Workers Hall, 5969 14th St. to com- |plete preparations for the Lenin Memorial meeting. All working | class organizations and Communist | Party units have been asked to elect | delegates to this conference. ship Hall, 113 N. Eighth St., Jan. 19, at 8 p.m, | Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 20, Place to be announced. Chester, Pa., 2524 West Second St., Jan, 22, at 8 p.m. Shamokin, Pa. 716 Shamokin | Sty Jan, 26, at 8 p.m. | _ Newark, N. J., Laurel Gardens, | Jan. 20, at 2 p.m; Carl Reeve, | speaker. Paterson, N. J., Carpenters Hall, Jan, 20, at 8 p.m, A. Markoff, speaker. Passaic, N. J., Russian National Home, Jan. 20, at 2:30 p.m. Elizabeth, N. J., 408 Court St., Jan. 20, at 2:30 pm Bayonne, N. J., Labor Lyceum, Jan, 26, Union City, N. J., Jan. 25. Cliffside, N. J., Cliffside Work- ers Center, Jan. 26. Jersey City, N. J., New Polish Hall, Feb. 1. Stelton, N. J., Jan, 20. Trenton, N. J. Hungarian Workers Home, Jan. 20. | New Haven, Conn., Speaker, Margaret Cowl. | _ Bridgeport, Conn., Central High School, Jan. 20. Speaker, Harry Gannes, Hartford, Conn., Jan, 20. Jan. 19. Brookline, Conn., Brookline | Town Hall, Jan. 20, at 3 p.m.; J. A mass protest campaign is being (Mesaba Range Parley Backs Workers Bill Workers and Farmers 11 Seats Won By Rank| to Send 3 Delegates to Washington VIRGINIA, Minn, Jan 3—| |More than eighty-four delegates, | |representing 4,500 workers and |farmers of the Mesaba Range as- |sembled at a workers’ and farmers’ |relief conference here last week at |the North Pole Hall. Delegates \Tepresenting the Mine, Mill and | Smelter Workers, Croatian Frater- nal Unions, Roosevelt Workers’ |Club, United Farmers’ League, | Finnish Workers’ Clubs, Working | | Women’s Clubs, Labor Advance- | ment Association, Communist Party, Young Communist League and va: ous youth organizations were pres ent. This conference elected a broad united front Range-wide commit- tee to begin to fight for the maxi- mum amount of relief allowed by | the State Relief Commission, but which the workers and farmers do not receive. Also, the question of hay, feed and seed for farmers free | hot lunches in schools, the steel | trust to pay its taxes without re- | duction, were points on the con- ference agenda. The conference |was the broadest united front of workers and farmers on the Mesaba | Range fighting for the rizht to live. | | Resolutions, which were passed on these questions, will be sent to the state and county authorities for immediate action. Elect Washington Delegates The conference went on record, | | adopting the Workers’ Unemploy- | ment and Social Insurance Bill, and | pledged to do all in its power to |mobilize the workers and farmers |to place pressure upon the Con- |sressmen of this district for its | enactment in the Seventy-fourth |Congress. Three delegates were | | clected to the National Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance in Washington, D. C. One delegate from each of the| organizations were elected: the| Roosevelt Workers’ Club, the Inter- jnational Union of Mine, Mill and | Smelter Workers’ Local 32 of | Eveleth, and the Finnish’ Workers’ Clubs of the Mesaba Range. Growing Militancy Seen There is a growing militancy of the workers and farmers on the | Range, due to the miserable condi- | tions, the lay-offs of hundreds of miners by the steel trust, the dis- crimination and low relief allow- ances to both adult and youth, Thousands of workers have taken part in huge mass meetings called by the Farmer-Labor Party, but | these leaders have only used rad- ical phrases, to quiet down the militancy of the masses, and take no action to fight for better condi- tions or lead the workers in strug- |gle for better conditions. A mass meeting held in Gilbert, Minnesota, called by the Co-opera- | tive Association, took immediate ac- tion to fight for better conditions, and a broad committee was elected to take up the grievances of the workers with the local relief offi- cials and to take steps to demon- strate before the relief officials if | they refuse to act on the demands |of the workers. The workers are beginning to realize that merely | meeting and passing resolutions will | not bring relief, but militant action on the part of the workers is the only solution to force the relief of- ficials to act on the workers’ de- mands. | Bring up the question of greet- ing the Daily Worker on its | | Eleventh Anniversary at the next | meeting of your organization. See _ that your organization gets on the Honor Roll by sending the greet- Militants Win Big Gains In Chicago Union Polls and File in Painters District Council CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 3.—Elections have just taken place in the paint- ers’ locals for delegates to the Dis- trict Council, to the Chicago. Fed- eration of Labor, and in other unions, which show that the mem- bership, wherever they have an op- portunity to elect their delegates democratically, they support the Progressive program in the union. Locals 637 and 275 have overwhelm- ingly defeated the candidates of the | reactionary machine and have elected eleven progressive delegates | to the Painters District Council and eleven progressive delegates to the Chicago Federation of Labor. In Local 637 one of the candidates of the machine, Harold Landahl, formerly a business agent, who ran on a platform of struggle against Communists and militants, was badly defeated, getting only 71 votes as against the progressive candi- date, Carl Ephraimson, who re- ceived the lowest of the progressive votes, 250. All other progressive candidates were elected with Elmer Johnson receiving 299 votes, Local 275 likewise elected a com- plete progressive slate for all posi- | tions and on the official ' ballot Charles Walters’ name appeared as delegate to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance to be | held in Washington. This was the stand taken by the membership when given an opportunity to ex- press their opinion as against other locals of the Painters District Coun- | cil No. 14, such as Local 521 and} others, where officials did not even bother to print ballots for fear of having the membership express | their opinion and elect their dele- | | gates. | At the same time elections have | also taken place for paid officials! for the Joint Bogrd of the Inter-| national Ladies Garment Workers Union. The candidates for general | manager and secretary - treasurer | and others nominated by the rank! and file were ruled off the ballot, | and Bialas, general manager and | the candidate for secretary-treasur- er permitted no opponents on the ballot. In the elections Bialas re- ceived some 1,700 votes out of a to- tal of 2,600 ballots cast. The pro- gressives succeeded in electing one of their candidates for business | agent. Most important of the elections in the 1.L.G,W.U. is the fact that the machine was split in these elec- tions due to the pressure of the) membership, which expressed their | dissatisfaction with the policies of the official machine. This was in- dicated by the fact that Bialas a_ day or two before the election is- | sued a slate urging support for only | three of the five candidates These elections in the Painters’; District Council and the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garmen* Workers’ Union indicate the growth of the progressives in the ranks of the American Federation of Labor in the city of Chicago, Pen and Hammer Club Votes to Change Name At National Conference Clevsland Delegation Elected For National Insurance Parley CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 3.—The latest addition to the Cleveland delegation to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance, which now numbers over one hundred delegates, is the election of a dele- gate by the Cleveland Independent Merchants’ Association. The delegate is A. L. Maresh, formerly active in city politics and a@ supporter of unemployment in- surance. Maresh is also president In Capital Passes 100 Total Congress in session in Washington, D. C., and to flood Ohio Congress- men with post cards and letters de- manding the enactment of the Workers’ Bill. Congressmen Interviewed A delegation from the Cleveland Sponsoring Committee visited Rep- resentatives Young and Bolton in their Cleveland offices last week to obtain their support for the Na- tional Congress and the Workers’ |of the Cleveland Music Trades and | pin), jthe Lincoln Association of Ohio. | When the committee asked Rep- The Slovak-Bohemian section of |resentative Chester Bolton, Repub- |the Ohio Association for Unemploy- |lican, for his views on the bill, he |ment Insurance in a last minute |replied: “Your bill is class legis |drive increased its delegates from lation. I believe that everybod: | three to fifteen. The delegates in-|should pay something toward un- | | clude many Socialist Party mem-|employment insurance and not only |ers and sympathizers and the edi-| the rich.” |tors of two Cleveland newspapers,) When questioned further as to |the Bohemian Daily News and the | what sort of unemployment insur- |Svet. These two papers carry daily |ance legislation he would support, news about the Washington Con-|he replied that he will back what- gress for Unemployment and Social | ever bill will be drafted by Roose- Insurance. The Cleveland delegation leaves on Friday at 3 p. m. from the main | Greyhound bus station. Cleveland | workers are urged to come to the! station to give the delegates a send- off. Organizations are urged to get in touch with the office of the Cleve- land Sponsoring Committee, 942 Prospect Avenue, Room 469-X, to make arrangements to have speak- ers address their meetings upon the | return of the delegates. | Organizations are asked to send | greetings to the National Insurance | Velt's aides; but had not yet made up his mind on any particular bill. He promised to receive the Ohio delegation from the National Con- gress when it calls upon him in Washington, Representative Stephen Young, Democrat, likewise refused to sup- port the Workers’ Bill, and urged patience until Roosevelt acts. Replying that the workers could not live on the Roosevelt promises, the delegation pointed out that im- mediate action was necessary on | genuine unemployment insurance Such as is embodied in the Workers’ Bill, Court Blocks) Defense Plan Of FERA Men Transcript of Testimony Unavailable for Appeal | to Supreme Court DENVER, Colo., Jan. 3.—The ap- | peal of six F. EB. R. A. strikers con- | victed here of “rioting” is being blocked by their inability to get a. transcript of the testimony to pre- sent to the Colorado Supreme Court. It would take about five days to make a transcript, and the court reporter is demanding $100 a day for the work. The convicted men, all of whom are relief workers, get less in three months work to support their en- tire families than the $100 a day which the court reporter is demand- | violation of the Oregon Third Portland Syndicalism Trial Jan. 14 Denny, Who Presided| at Protest Meeting, Faces Charges | PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 3.—Ed- ward Denny, arrested for presiding at a meeting to protest raids on workers’ organizations and the shooting of four longshoremen in| this city last July, will go on trial Jan. 14, on an indictment charging criminal syndicalist law. Eleven workers were arrested | ea aS Metal Union Asks MESA For Unity Smith Talks ‘Radical But Fails to Take Concrete Steps By SANDOR VOROS (Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 3—= Twenty-eight delegates represent= ing sixteen locals of the Mechanics Educational Society of America listened to Mathew Smith, general secretary, assail capitalism in his opening speech at the third annual convention of the Mechanics Edu- cational Society of America in the Sachsenheim Hall. Abounding in very radical phrases, Smith's speech followed closely the official welcome address of Mr. Elmer J. McNutty, assistant law director of the city of Cleveland, who, representing Mayor Davis, brought the greetings of this enemy of labor to the convention The end of the first day of the cntion showed a representation of sixteen locals with twenty-eight delegates. Capitalism” has failed—we have & choice between fascism and a cole lective society; there can be no pers manent harmonious relations with the employers,” stated Smith. These left phrases, however, were not ac- companied by concrete proposals for organization and plans for militant struggle in the auto industry. Chapman, president of the M. E. 8. A., spoke in similar vein, predict ing the 30-hour week and calling for annual wage of $2,500 for skilled mechanics and $2,000 for production men, “The M. E. S. A. must take its Place as a revolutionary industrial organization or it will decay as con- servative organizations usually de- Fight on Officers’ Terms After establishing the order of the convention a brisk fight developed on the question of extending the term of the present national officers until the next election to be held within 60 days. Delegates of Local 7, Detroit, backed by Mathew Smith, wanted to have Field Organizer J. J. Griffin excluded from this extension going so far as to threaten the withholding of dues payments un- less Griffin is dropped. Vague fi- nancial reasons were advanced for the dropping of Griffin, but the con- vention voted to retain him along with the other national officers. Part of the afternoon session was | spent in debating whether the na= tional officers be insured against ac- cidents or not. Those favoring the insurance won out without the ma- jority of the delegates being clear whether the organizers, their cars, or the Society is the one to be in=— sured against possible accidents. Of the twenty points on the order of business the question of chang- ing the Constitution on industrial unionism was moved to first place, Elimination of Sections 1 and 2 from the by-laws, which separate i i | tool and die workers from produc- Sie Barco Be oo tion workers, is proposed, making years in the penitentiary is out on | ll locals industrial in set-up. This bail pending appeal. Donald Cluster, | 18 Proposed at a time when most of young worker, was sentenced to a| the production workers have already year and paroled. | left the M, E. S. A. | Other important points on the ‘The new District Attorney Bain} .senda are points 7 and 13, the for- ing. has already expressed his intention | mer dealing with the position of | charge, “assault with intent to kill.”| tried again on Jan. 8 on a second On the same date, the district at- torney in charge of the prosecution All the convicted men are to be |to faithfully carry out the orders of 1 ' the bosses in seeking the conviction | ghee nian bepriaperrins tie bee of all working class fighters framed | sibilities of working agreements with oe eee eepeulely broad. ‘ani other unions. Concerning the for- | will be arraigned for conspiracy to| PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3.—The Pen | Commit bribery and perjury, while and Hammer Clubs, organizations is brother-in-law will be charged | devoted to social and scientific re- With running a gambling racket. | search for working class organiza- oer police cnet ae a tions, have voted to constitute | Safety Gel g miter are themselves as a nationally affiliated | Klansman, both bitter opponents of body under the name of the Na- japor, are being “investigated for tional Research League. pane Raney | graft and gambling.” The decision was made a‘ e 7 second national conference of the pid workers who face Jong prison rms were attacked by police on Sroups which ended here on Dec. 30. | Tuesday, Oct. 30, as they visited | syndicalism act. The International Labor Defense which is leading an energetic mass protest campaign here, is appealing to all workers and organizations throughout the country to flood Dis- trict Attorney Bain and Judge Jacob Kanzler, Multnomah County Court House, Portland, Oregon, with wires, resolutions and letters protesting the continued use of the criminal syndicalist act against the militant leaders of the working class. vague provisions of the criminal mer, Jesse Chapman, in the course of conversation, stated that there is a possibility of the M. E. S. A. go- ing on record for a new workers” Political party. The’ convention took on a real business aspect for the first time when a letter from the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union was announced, Amidst attentive silence Mathew Smith read the pro- posals of the S.M.W.LU. for a joint council in the metal trades, with Milton, speaker. |The change of name was effected | relief projects to bring out all relief | Waterbury, Conn., Jan. 20, at 8 representatives of all bona-fide |to indicate that the organization ers and spoke about the right “to metal unions to unify and lead the 7 p.m.; Morris Childs, speaker, | ing as quickly as possible! work being as fundamental as the right to strike.” He did not attempt to explain the denial of this right to the 15 million unemployed work- | ers in this country, for whom the bosses have no need at present. ” WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Lenin Memorial Meeting Friday, Jan. 18, 1935 at the Market St. Arena, 46th and Market Sts. Prominent speakers, excellent program. Buy tickets now. War or Peace in the Saar Plebiscite? Lecture and discussion at Lulu Tem- ple, Broad & Spring Garden Sts. Auspices Phila. Relief Comm. for Vietims of German Fascism, 8:15 p.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. Aus- pices International Labor Defense. Kirov Memorial Meeting, Frida: 4, 8 p.m. at 1208 Tasker St. A. W. Mills will be main speaker. Ad- mission free. Auspices Sec. 1 Com- munist Party. Chicago, Ill. Musical Evening by Musical Coliec- tive, a string orchestra featuring » violin soloist, also finest classical music, Sunday, Jan. 6 at 3419 Roose- velt Rd., 3rd floor, 8 p.m. Adm. 15c, Refreshments served. Debate on “Practicability of Proposed New System = Cal ‘The Law of Use’? at 1118 W. Madison St., Sat- urday evening, Ja: defend the sys- E. Early, of the Commu- nist Party, will oppose it. Auspices, West Side Workers Forum. Detroit, Mich. Special Engagement, John Boving- ton, internationally known Danci will perform Saturday, Jan. 5, p.m. at Maccabbee Building A\ torium, Woodward and Putnam St Auspices, Friends of Soviet Union. Adm. 35c. Newark, N. J. “Sex Morals of Today” is topic of lecture by Dr. Paul Luttinger at | Jack Londen Club, 901 Bread &t.,| 8:30 p.m. Sunday evening, Jan. 6. Adm. 25¢ S. Paul, Minn, Odd Fellows Hall, Jan. 21, at 7 p.m.; Morris Childs, speaker. Reading, Pa., Knights of Friend- The most serious attack yet made by the railroad interests on the million railroad men still holding jobs is planned for Chicago, Jan. 12, at the Morrison Hotel. At this time the 1,500 General Chairmen of the twenty-one standard railway unions will convene to hear Joseph Eastman, Roosevelt's railroad co- ordinator, present his program for guaranteeing dividends and bond interest to the railroad owners. Eastman’s program, which is the . | Program of the Roosevelt adminis- tration and of the railroad finan- ciers, calls for wartime government control and regulation of all na- tional transport; railways, inland waterways, pipe lines and buses and trucks. | The 1,500 General Chairmen, who are the executive body for all tweny-one railroad craft unions, are expected to approve national consolidation of railroad terminal facilities, pooling of freight car equipment and repairs, and count- Jess other “economies,” under cover of regulating competitive forms of transportation to increase railroad business. Layoffs Loom The object of the conference is to pave the way for wholesale lay offs and payroll savings through re- classification of jobs downward, in- troduction of every known speed-up device, lengthening of divisions and sections, doubling of work, reduc- tion of crews, etc. This is not a new process, having been carried on road by road, pro- gressively since the war, But its | pan; J. Milton, speaker. | Milwaukee, Wis., | Auditorium, Jan. 20; | dacht, speaker, Milwaukee Max Be- adoption-as a united attack of all railroad. companies lies in a given terminal and nationally was pre- pared through government pressure | under the Emergency Traasporta- tion Act of June, 1933. Through this process 800,000 rail- road jobs have been cut off in the past years. Through this process | 64,000 railroad jobs have been cut ‘off in the past five months, 20,900 between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15. This extermination of railroad jobs is, however, not going fast |enough for the railroad profiteers who plan the sacrifice of at least another 100,000 jobs in the coming months. It is to ensure the smooth carrying out of these and future lay-offs that Eastman is going into conference with the 1500 General Chairmen. , Workers Can Stop It The only factor which stands in the way of putting this program into effect at once is the railroad workers themselves. Organized half @ million strong, particularly pow- erful in the key departments of train and engine service, members of the 21 railroad unions have giyen cause for alarm in forcing union Officials to call strike ballots on five important railroads this past year. On two roads, the Delaware and Hudson and the Kansas City South- ern, the determination of the rank _and file stopped, at least tempo- rarily, the abolition of the mileage basi8 of pay for train and engine crews, which would have meant a 30 per cent wage cut and the wip- _ing out of time and a half for over- | time, Unions — the Daily Worker is Your greatest ally! Greet it on its Eleventh Anniversary! ' Likewise the plan to extend the ten per cent wage reduction was halted last spring by the action of hundreds of lodges who sent reso- \lutions of protest against any ex- tension of the reduction and de- manded a wage increase in line with the rapidly mounting cost of living. It is the fear of similar rank and file action which caused the rail- |Yoad labor executives to shroud the coming Chicago conference with Eastman in utmost secrecy. Ten ‘days before the scheduled meeting, |not one newspaper has mentioned | the event. To this day many rail- road lodges and lower union offi- cials are unaware of the blow which is being planned against their mem- bership, although the membership | will be assessed some $100,000 to finance the conference. Hatched in Washington The January 12 meeting with Eest- man was hatched in Washington at Eastman’s request. It will be fol- lowed. on January 13 by an execu- tive session of the General Chair- men to approve a legislative pro- gram, the same legislative program which has been put forward each year and which remains in the pockets of so-called progressive leg- islators, while laws of grave damage to the interests of railroad labor, | such as the Railway Labor Act, the Emergency Transportation Act, etc., are put through. The legislative program this year will include Fastman’s proposals for leasing his lay-off plans though there is no assurance whatever that will extend its research work, for- | |merly confined largely to the social | fire and wounded sciences, into’ the fields of the | physical sciences as well, l Railroad Union Executives Join Eastman in New Layoff Maneuver the approval of Wall Street’s poli- ticians. Eastman’s proposals are a “dismissal wage” for the youngest men in service, which means one or two weeks’ wages and then the bread line. Next a very inadequate retirement pension, partly paid for |by the men themselves, for those older men still holding jobs under \their seniority. And third, some which will apply only to those re- | maining at work and which will | Wages, | In return Eastman will have a at will, This steamroller drive to sacrifice ence, jobs and conditions won | through years of heroic struggle, calls for fearless and quick action on the part of every progressive member of a railroad union, every lodge which still calls itself a labor union, t Cloaked in Secrecy Time is with the government, the railroads and those of our union executive who have given up the heritage of union struggle. Already Robertson, president of the Loco- motive Firemen and Enginemen, |and Harrison of the Railroad | Clerks, have approved going along with Eastman on the basis of his “concessions.” The secrecy in which the Chicago conference has been cloaked, the fact that news of the |conference only leaked out two | Weeks before the date set, the fact jeven these stop gaps will receive|that the organized progressive workers on strike against a 51 per cent cut in wages. Police opened Henry Brown, | president of the Colorado Workers) Union. Scores were clubbed. Your name will be on the Honor Roll in the Special Edition of the Daily Worker if you send your greeting tod: the challenge. The path that the | machinists and metal workers in the successful struggle for their common aim and interests. Gallup Miners Keep Pits Closed in Strike Against False Scales GALLUP, N. Mex. Jan. 3—De- | nied the right to inspect the scales at the mines, 150 miners of Dia- scheme for unemployment reserves | also be financed by deductions from | icdge meetings taking place before | ‘ting Eastman’s program and in- free hand to fire and cut payrolls | in two days at the January confer-| very weak, place serious difficulties railroad unions will take in 1935 | ™Ond Coal Company are continue movement in the railroad unions =| in the way of widespread lodge pro- | test. All the more reason for taking | and thereafter depends on how soon advantage of such resources as we | 4nd how effectively the rank = have, file can weld the unity of the mem- | In many terminals rank and file| bership in the splendid tradition | meetings are being held to unite/ of union struggle through which the 21 crafts against putting into 4 effect any such new lay-off or con-| the gains of the past were won. solidation plan. These gatherings of| Every lodge and every member union members, lodges and officials, | should strike the first blow by de- are utilizing all conferences and e Jan. 12 to get the following resolu- | structing the General Chairmen ac- | tions passed: | cordingly 1. To instruct General Chair- = men to reject all proposals of Eastman, regardless of promises — made for the men laid off. 2. To turn the meeting of the | General Chairmen into a confer- ence to solidify the power of rail- road labor within the 21 crafts and unite forces at every terminal | to take strike action where neces- | sary. To prevent lay offs from ‘going into effect at any one point, win the CHICAGO, | th Anniversary DAILY WORKER FEATURING ing their strike, under the leadere ship of the National Miners Union, The mine officials stated that they are willing to have their scales in= spected by the state inspector but not by the miners. The workers charge wholesale cheating and are determined to ntinue the struggle. Mass picket es have kept the mines shut. An important victory was won by the miners when relief authorities were forced to grant relief to all strik- ing families in need. ILLINOIS | six-hour day without reduction in| earnings, stop speed up and in- creased production tasks, limit speed and length of trains, main- tain full crews, fight for a Federal system of unemployment insurance financed by the government and the railroads and an adequate retire- ment pension act. In other words, | win the legislative program through | the united force of the unions. | The railroads, the government. and those union officials carrying | out their policies, have thrown down | NEW THEATRE NIGHT PRESENTING STEVEDORE CAST - NEWSBOY - SAT. Fth LYNCHED - TROOPS ARE MARCH- JAN. 98 p.m. ING - CAPITALIST FOLLIES OF 1934 - And. Many Other - Attractions NORTHSIDE 25e in Advance —35¢ at Door Tickets at 2018 beat pee Pea FE age TURNER HALL iste st: i005 te part are: