The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1935 Page 3 Rank and File Miners Score Victories in Recent Voting ANTLLEWIS FORCES Lenin Rallies|Rhode Island Socialists |Indianapolis. STRUGGLE ISSUES PUT IN BACKGROUND AT M. E. S. A. SESSION Second Day of Convention Passes Without Most Burning Issues Having Reached the Floor-—New Setup Lessens Smith Control By Sandor Voros CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 4.—The most burning issues of coming strike struggles, wage increases, working agree- ments with other unions, were again shoved into the back- ground on the second day of the Mechanics Educational So- ciety of America National Convention that opened Wednes- Set By Youth p; Unions Back ELECT 3 OFFICERS [7 ohio city| 1 c* Delegate to Parley | yr ers Bil oe On Jobless Insurance Ho IN DANVILLE ARE A Cleveland Meeting to Be’ Terre Haute Central Held on Sunday at |Many Labor Organizations to Take Part in Mass Labor Union Raps Hiram House . Wagner Bill Meeting in Providence on Sunday to Demon- strate Support of Workers’ Congress | Gains Made in Progressive Miners Locals—Rowena Crorkin, Well-Known Woman Militant Wins Post in Womens Auxiliary (Daily Worker Midwest Burean) | CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 4—A con-| ference of the local unions of the} A. F. of L. in Indianapolis, Ind.,| voted to support the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill H. R. 7598. There were officially 8 local unions of the A. F. of L. represented, among them locals of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers Union, the Amal- gamated Meat Cutters and Butler | | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 4—The | | Young Communist League of Ohio SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 4—Incomplete reports of the pret phir Ee ee el : 1 Tmt . 2 : |emburg anti-war meetings ever held | recent elections of the United Mine Workers of America, |, OSS Thee sissies wil eet Progressive Miners of America, other trade unions and work- |demonstrations against the huge ing class organizations show substantial growth of the in-/war preparations of the Roosevelt | P. Ormsbee a regular delegate to the National Congress for fluence of the rank and file opposition and gains in the dif- | sovernment, and against its efforts | Social Insurance, ferent organizations | to increase the C. C. C. as an in- | By John Weber PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 4.—In a stormy session, | which lasted until midnight, the Rhode Island State Com- | mittee of the Socialist Party Wednesday night elected Earl | / In an effort to disrupt the meeting and prevent action | Workers of North America, from | ————--———-—-——---*day in Sachsenheim Hall i . Ea ‘ |strument for prepariny large re- 2 Ber | ates if rea In the elections in Sub-District No. 3 (Danville) of the |corve of youth fw war, | of the motion, the Jewish Verband s————_______________|Kingam Packing plant, and the nee z Two: days of. the scheduled dae Seated Wee Srenciea oe" Anta | y . | right-wing elements attempted aj has alreary exceeded ten, and it is| others were local unions of the 1 itants 1 1) 224 4 half pessed without the basic Molders, Plasterers, Brick Masons, | Barbers, etc. The conference decided to call a broader conference to involve the The Cleveland Lenin-Liebknecht- | Luxemburg Anti-War Meeting will | e held on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at | walk-out. Finally, after bitter de- bate on the question of the united front, the motion was passed and the signature of the State Secre- possible that in the last few days| other prospective delegates have| been duly elected | Ss issues of the utmost impor- tance for the membership and the entire working class being even touched upon anti-Lewis forces have been vic- Staunton, the well known militant torious by electing for Sub-District | woman, who openly campaigned as President, Louis Zamberletti, who | member of the Communist Party, In Fall River Rowena Crorkin has been electe received 556 votes and for Secre- tary-Treasurer, D. Spicer, who re- ceived 872 votes, and for Auditor, | D. Jenkins, who received 1,048 votes. | The “provisional government” of the | U. M. W. A. in Tilinois is already challenging the results of the elec- | tions in an attempt to declare it | filegal. The miners of this sub- district. are very much determined to defeat the aims of the Lewis machine to steal their victories in the elections. In the same Sub-District, in Local | 5509 in Westville, with a member- Ship of 1,700, John Sloan has been re-elected as chairman of the Pit Committee, In the local of the U. M. W. A, in Centralia, with 600 | mbers, another rank and file member, D. Morriss, likewise has been re-elected on the Pit Commit- tee. In Local 5509 of the U. M, W. A., two rank and file miners have been elected as delegates to the Trades and Labor Council of the A. F. of L. in Danville. Gains Made in Progressive Miners | In the Progressive Miners of | America, the rank and file candi- | dates for District Offices gathered some strength. However, it does not correspond to the real strength of the oppesition forces. The candi- date for vice-president, Francis Ski- binski, received 1,574 votes. For | Secrctary-Treesurer, Joseph Burrel | received 2,425 votes (a supporter of Muste, who was, however, supported by the rank and file opposition). For Special Accounter, the rank and | file leader, Adam Chura, received | 2,018 vote: An rank and file candidate, Victor Renne:, received 1,434 votes. | None of these candidates, however, | have been clected. The rank and | file opposition was successful in electing to the Central Strike Com- mittee of the Progressive Miners of America two outstanding leaders of | the rank end file opposition of the | P. M. A., namely, Francis Skibinski o: Zeigler, and Chas. Schultz of | mi Belleville. In the local unions of the P.) M. A, very incomplete revorts| show the follow: That local 120) in Zeigler, with membership of 1,384 elected the whole local leader- | ship of the rank and file opposition, headed by E. Browning, the pres- ident of the local. In local 8 of; Edgemont, with 773 members, Chas. Schultz has been elected on the pit commitiee. In this local, however, the rank and file opposition has been defeated for all other posts. | ‘The reactionary elements have been victorious. In lIceal 81 of Beck-| meyer and in local 42 of Hillsgoro, | the rank and file opposition suc- ceeded to elect a number of their | candidates. | Women's Auxiliary Scores Victory | locals of the Women’s} Ausilisry of the P.M.A., likewise | the rank and file opposition was vic- | torious in a number of elections. In | WHAT’S ON _ Chicago, Ili, Musical Evening by tive, a string orchest: vielin seleist, classical music, Sunday, Jan. 6 at 3419 Roose- velt Ré., 3rd floor, 8 p.m. Adm. 15e. Refreshments served. By popular request the Chicago / Workers Theatre repeats ‘Troops Are Marching,” “John Hen: “Capitalist Follies of 1934,” Jan. 6, 18 and 27 at Workers Playhouse, 505 South State St. Tickets in adv. | 2c, at door 35¢. Detroit, Mich. Special Engagement, John Boving- ton, internationally known Dancer, will perform Saturday, Jan. 5, 8: pm, at Maccabbee Building Aw torium, Woodward and Putnam Sts. Auspices, Friends of Soviet Union. Adm. 35¢. Newark, N. J. “Sex Morals of Today” {s topic of lecture by Dr, Paul Luttinger at Jack London Club, 901 Broad St., 8:30 p.m. Sunday evening, Jan, 6. Adm, 25¢. Trenton, N. J. Spaghetti Supper for Benefit Daily Worker and Italian Weekly, Saturday evening, Jan. 5 at Castel Terminals Hall—Matt & Hudson Sts. ll com- trades’ of Trenton and vicinity are requested to attend and bring friends. Philadelphia, Pa. ORGANIZATIONS — Attention! Ail orgenizations are-asked not to ar- range any affairs-on April 26, 193 ‘The Freiheit Gesangs Ferein has thi date for its Grand ith. Annual ~ Spring Concert in the Academy of KIROV MEMORIAL MEETING, Sun- day, Jan. 6, 8 p.m. at 1187 N. dist St. All workers invited. Admission free. A. W. Mills, District Organizer Communist Party will be main speaker. y BANQUET for benefit “Soviet Russia Today.” Real Italian Dinner. Good Musical Collec: | featuring 2 50c. Auspices: Friends of Soviet Union. “Ernst Thaelmann,” sound picture, first time in Philadtiphie. Nature Friends Play. German Singing So- ciety. H. M. Wicks, speaker. All at Liebknecht-Kirov Memorial Meet= ing, Wed., Jan. 9, 8 p.m. at, Gewerbe Hall, “N. 2nd St. Adm. 30¢, Auspices, Northeast Worcester, Mass. Banquet and Entertainment celebrat- | ing the 11th Anniversary of Daily Worker, funds", dan. 6, 7:39: p.m. » CP. ;| Young Communist League. Among President of the Local Auxiliary. In the elections in the locals of the Illinois Workers’. Alliance in the following branches some rank and | file oppositionists have been elected: Zeigler, Staunton, Edwardsville and in the Centralia County unemployed organization. Also some rank and file oppositionists have been elected as delegates to the County Commit- tees of the Illinois Workers’ Alliance in Cacoupin and Franklin counties. In the Local Union of the U.M. W.A. in Centralia, William Park was elected to the Trade and Labor) Assembly in Centralia. Rowena} Crorkin has been elected to the Staunton Progressive Trade Assem: bly, E. Galli of Collinsville and L. Bigone of Edwardsville also have} been elected. In other unions, the following are | the results: The Hod Carriers Union | of Benld elected the young militant | worker E. Pintar as President. In Gillespie. the same union, elected L. Frame as President. Likewise, | the Unemployed League of Benld elected as its president a well known militant young worker, George Na- vatnick. A branch of the Federal) and State Aid Association of Belle- ville, Illinois, elected a militant member as secretary. This is an incomplete report of the results of the elections in a} number of working class organiza- | tios in Central and Southern Tll-| inois, which indicates very definite- ly the growth of the influence of the Communist Party and the rank and file opposition in different or- | ganizations. This is particularly | important in view of the prepara- tions for strike on April 1, 1935. The Daily Worker congratulates the victories of the Rank and File | Opposition and pledges support to} the struggie of the opposition forces against the reactionary Lewis and Keck machines of the U.M.W.A. and} PM.A. respectively, for the unity ef the miners of Illinois and com- mon struggle against the coal ba- rons and their agents in the labor movement, the is machine. Workers School Opens In Los Angeles Jan. 14 With Score of Classes LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 4.— With the prospects of having the largest enrolment in its history, the “Les Angeles Workers School will open its spring term on Janu- ary 14, at the Cultural Center, 230 South Spring Street. The spring term, which will end on April 6, includes more than a) ses and courses for workers on a dozen subjects per- taining to the class struggle. | In addition, this semester will! see the continuation of the special two year course for those who wish to have a well-balanced education | in revolutionary theory and prac- tice. The staff of instructors is the best yet assembled and includes} outstanding leaders in the practical | fields of work in the movement. | Classes include Principles of Communism, History of the Amer- ican Working Class, Trade Union Strategy and Tactics, Political Economy, Building Socialism in the) Soviet Union, Fascism and Social} Revolution, Foundations of Lenin- ism, Public Speaking, Labor Jour- nalism, International Labor De- fense, Problems of the Youth Movement. Tuition is $1 per term for em- ployed workers and 50 cents for un- employed workers. Newly Elected Soviet of Moscow Prepares for Its First Session (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 4. (By Wireless). —Today the first plenum of the new Moscow Soviet, composed of newly elected deputies, among whom is | Robert Robinson, American Negro worker in the Ball-Bearing Plant, will be held. The deputies elected to the So- viet. numbered 2,056, of which 571) or 27.8 per cent are women, as against 24.9 after the last elections. The youth were represented by 223 deputies. In the Moscow Soviet 1,341 are workers—i.e, 55 per cent. Those newly elected include 1,004 members and candidates for the All-Union Communist Party (53 per cent) and 163 members of the the elected are Stalin and members of the Political Bureau and the gov- ernment. The deputies are com- posed of workers, employees, Red Army engineers, mechanics, scien- tists, writers, actors, artists, house~ wives and craftworkers. Sixteen per cent of all members of the new Soviet have completed their hither secondary education. |! Of 1,702 deputies, 82 per cent, were “at Worxers Center. 126 Green st, Gontribution “ase meee elected to the Moscow Soviet for ‘the first time, . - |the Hiram House, corner of 27th St. and Woodland Ave. The pro- gram of the meeting will include: (John Williamson, District Organ- izer of the Communist Party, and Irving Herman, District Organizer of the Young Communist League), play by the Young Pioneers, to be followed by a dance. Admission will be ten cents. The Akron Lenin-Liebknecht- | Luxemburg Anti-War Meeting will | be held Sunday, Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. | at 784 Washington St. Similar meet- ings will be held in Youngstown and Dayton, Call Meeting Against War CHICAGO, Jan. 4—A joint elec- tion and youth rally against war and fascism will be held here Sun- day, Jan. 13, at the North Side Turner Hall, 820 N. Clark Street, at 8 p.m. The meeting is called by the Young Communist League to mo- bilize the youth in the struggle for unemployment relief and insur- ance and against the growing fas- cist reaction and drive for a new World War, with militarization of | the youth in the colleges, C. C. C. camps, etc. Some of the main de- mands of the Young Communist League are that all war funds should be turned over for cash re- lief for youth and adult unemployed workers, for unemployment insur- ance and for the right of the youth to vote at the age of eighteen. The meeting will commemorate the three heroic leaders of the in- ternational working class youth, Lenin, Liebknecht and Rosa Lux- emburg, and will bring to the youth of Chicago the teachings and experiences of these great leaders in the working class movement, to assist Chicago youth in their daily struggles against wage and relief cuts, worsening of conditions in shops and schools, war and Fas- cism. Claude Lightfoot, active fighter and Negro ‘leader, will give the main youth address. Karl Lockner, Communist candidate for Mayor and leader of the Unemployed Councils, will out line the issues in the present election campaign. An exceptional program has been ar- ranged, including a biographical dramatic sketch of Karl Liebknecht by the Nature Friends cast. BANQUET IN PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan, 4.-—A |banquet the celebrate the appoint- | ment of Ben Carreathers as district organization secretary, and the choice of Tom Meyerscough as or- ganizer of the important “Hill” sec- tion which Carreathers is leaving. will be held tomorrow at the Pyth- | ian Temple, 2007-13 Center Ave. 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 greeting as quickly as possible! slave rule and inhuman brutal treat- ment of the inmates (ages ranging from 9 to 21) at Cheltenham Re- formatory has recently come to the attention of the militant labor movement, and to the public in gen- eral, in spite of the heavy wall of censorship surrounding the reforma- tory. Tortures, medieval in char- acter, are practiced in this institu- tion for Negro boys. Whippings, clubbings, and bread and water “diets” are on the order of the day. The Board of Trustees in charge of Cheltenham only employs white guards, and these are selected from the most brutal and ignorant of potential prison guards. A letter by an inmate, smuggled out of Cheltenham says: “If a boy talks in the building, he is made to bend over for six or seven hours with his right arm touching his toes, and his left arm over his shoulder. If he is caught out of this position, he is then beat across the head with a pick handle or slugs of iron. The boys are locked up in a cell from thirty to sixty days and fed on stale bread and water.” The Cheltenham Reformatory, lo- tary, Joseph M. Coldwell, was af- fixed to Ormsbee’s credential Ormsbee, who ran on the So- cialist ticket for a State office in the recent elections, had been ac- tive as Secretary of the Rhode Island Sponsoring Committee for the Congress since its inception. His election is greeted by all fighters for unemployment insurance as & step forward to cementing all sec- | tions of the labor movement in Rhode Island for the fight for so- cial insurance. Considerable sec- tions of the American Federation | of Labor, such as the Painters Un- ion, the Barbers Union, the Ma-| chinists Union, the Central Labor | Unions of Providence and Newport, | and numerous others have already been won to support the principles of the Workers Social Insurance | Bill and the Congress. The num- ber of delegates already elected to} | the Congress from American Fed-| | eration of Labor unions, the Young | Women’s Christian Association, | Party and the Communist Party, On Sunday, at 2:30 p. m. at the £agies Hall, 830 Westminster Street, near Hoyle Square, there will be aj big rally to show united support! of labor for the principles of the| rest of the labor movement in the city and to organize a trade union committee for unemployment in- surance. There will be a delega- UTW Election While Smith, Chapman and the rest of the national officers gladly posed for the lebor-baiting Cleve land News photographers, the Daily Worker correspondent was barred Workers Bill and to back up the| tion from Indianapolis and An- Rhode Island delegates to the Con-|“erson, Ind. to the Washington | Congress for Unemployment a | gress. Mr. Donahue of the Veter-| ans of Foreign Wars will be chair- man and the speakers will be Wil- Social Insurance. In Terre Haute, Ind., a local of | Federation of Labor; A George Bigge of the Economics De-| Workers’ Unemployment and Social | | | | partment at Brown University, | Insurance Bill H. R. 7598. liam L. Connolly, president of the| the International Union of Steam | | Rhode Island Branch, American|2%d Operating Engineers, at its last | Professor | Meeting, unanimusly endorsed the | National Officers ‘Void’ Reelection of Leader in Nashua FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan, 4—In | the election of officers of Local 1057 | of the United Textile Workers, held and the reporter of the Uj Elore, Hungarian Communist Daily, was ordered out of the convention at the beginning of the second-day session, To make all locals industrial in set-up, sections 1 and 2 of the by- laws were changed to admit all workers engaged in the auto, metal and allied industries into the same Polish organizations, the Socialist | whose support of the workers’ | The official organ of the Central struggle for unemployment insur- ance is not thorough-going, since he still favors contributory meas-| ures; John Weber, New England | Field Organizer of the Communist) Party; and Rev. Edwin FE. Sundt | of the Peasant iVew Baptist Church of Pawtucket. Plans have already been laid for @ large mass conference on the fol- lowing Sunday, Jan. 13, to hear the| reports and recommendations for action brought back by the dele-| | gation from the Congress. | Prolesionals Meet Sunday On Insurance WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4— The Inter-Professional Association | for Social Insurance will meet here Sunday morning at eight o'clock at | the Allies’ Inn, 1703 New York | Avenue, to plan its activities for 1935, and to. utilize the opportunity offered by the National Congress on Unemployment and Social Insur- a national conference of its own or- ganization. | A committee will be elected to | arrange for this national conference. At the meeting, Mary Van Kleeck, chairman of the.1.P.A. will report on past organizational activity and sional workers attending the Na- tional Congress as well as LP.A. members are urged to attend. I. L. D. Urges Protests As New Orleans Jobless Are Railroaded to Jail NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 4.— The International. Labor Defense here has issued a call asking all workers’ organizations to send let- ley, and Chief of Police Reyer pro- testing the railroading of the five militant workers who were sen- ance to develop the background for | | preside at the discussion. All profes- | ters to Judge Rose, Mayor Walms-| tenced on Dec. 21, for fighting for! Jane Newton Will Describe Eviction Figh Eviction fight: | | | CHICAGO, Jan. 4—Jane Emery | Newton, storm center of the New- ton eviction case, will tell her own | \story at a mass meeting in her honor next Wednesday evening, Jan. 9, at the Royal Circle Hall, Fifty-first Street and Michigan Avenue. | Wife of Herbert Newton, Negro) leader of the Communist Party and | | its candidate for City Clerk in the coming elections, Jane has been the | center of a fierce struggle since the | attempt of a Chicago court to de- |clare her insane on account of her marriage to a Negro. She was freed by mass pressure of enraged Negro and white workers on the chauvinist capitalist court. Examined by psy- chaitrists, on the order of the court, she was pronounced “not only sane | but brilliant.” | Other speakers at the meeting will includ? Dr. Arthur G. Falls of |:ne_antcrrecial Commissiorr, David | R. Poindexter, Workers Ticket can- | | didate in the Third Ward for Alder- | | man, and “Fighting Bob” Minor, of | the Central Committee of the Com- | munist Party. The meeting is arranged by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights jointly with Section Seven of the Communist Party. WAR PRISONER DIES | relief. | | Theee workers were arrested when| SACRAMENTO, Cal. Jan. 4— they refused to leave the relief Philip McLaughlin, one of the | station until they were given the | relief they had come for. They the House of Detention by Judge ganization that we want in the United States.” The International Labor Defense ask that the letters to Judge Rose be addressed to the Second Record- ers Court, to Mayor Walmsley at the City Hall, and those to Chief Reyer to Tulane and Broad Streets. proximately 40 miles from Balti- more, was established mainly by private individuals, ostensibly to re- | form “lawbreakers,” but in reality | a8 a source for exploiting the in- | Mates making profits for some pri- vate individuals, and helping to pe Nes the Negroes on the out- le. The majority of the inmates work in the broom factory. The brooms are sold throughout the State of Maryland, which serves to compete with outside labor. ; The incident which resulted in the opening of a campaign for the abolishment of Cheltenham, was the shooting of one of the inmates Aubrey Bronson by a white guard named Hurley. The International Labor Defense immediately got on the job and took the lead in estab- @ committee of fight against the slave rule at Cheltenham and to bring about the immediate dismissal (after the shooting Hurley's case was whitewashed and he returned to his job as guard) and punish- ment of Guard Hurley. The Abolish Cheltenham Com- mittee got in touch with mothers i | were sentenced to thirty days in) famous Sacramento group of con-| scientious objectors, who served a) five-year sentence in Leavenworth | Labor Union of the A. F. of L, in| 2ere last Saturday, almost all the Terre Haute, Ind., in its issue of | Old reactionaries were defeated and December 28, 1934, carries a lengthy ,;& new rank and file leadership, Cie a Pra a | consisting of militants who took an ¥: ‘ ‘SUT | active part in the recent general seotat tae Fy hy at poe |strike, was swept into office presses its support to the National Antonio Abrantes, for many years known as one of the most militant Congress for Unemployment and | Social Insurance in Washington, | workers, was elected president, For vice-president, the workers elected | The average tenant family’s Japanese Ministers Raise Jingo Slogans In New Year Talks (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 4. (By Wireless). —The Japanese Premier Okada, Naval Minister Osumi, and other ministers in their various New Year speeches unanimously intoned the jingoistic slogan of the “unity of the nation” in the face of the “in- ternational crisis,” newspapers here report in publishing their speeches. Okada mentioned among the chief international difficulties “various problems arising in connection with the Manchurian events,” the with- drawal from the League of Nations and the London Naval Conference, and the transitional period “in the economic relations of Japan, created in connection with Japanese trade expansion on the world markets.” Among the internal difficulties Okada mentions the questions of the wholesale starvation in the rural districts and calls on the popula- tion “more attentively to fulfill its duties toward the state.” Referring to the naval conference, prepared “to throw off the fetter Osumi stated thet Japan must be ot the present agreements, if the powers reject the Japanese pro- posal.” Income of Workers Who Rent Homes Fell 32 Per Cent in Crisis WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 4— in- come dropped by 52, between 1929 and 1933, a study of 165,000 fami- | lies in 61 cities by the Department of Commerce shows. The survey also reveals that “in every area covered the decline in income was substantially greater than the de- crease in rents.” The rents of 65,000 of the fami- lies that were studied took more than 30% of the family income | John Obveiras, and John Soares is delegate to the Textile Council and | Central Labor Union. After the election was announced, one of the reactionary group made a motion for a recount. This was granted, but did not change the |results. The main reason for the showing made in the local was the determination of the workers not to be misled any more by reaction- aries of the Gorman type. Local Election Cancelled Textile Workers rank and file offi- jcers were elected, Thomas Mac- | Mahon, president of the U. T. W., and several national organizers are coming to Nashua Sunday to | “supervise” a new election. The | clared the local offices vacant. Local president, George Haslam, against whom the attack is cen- tered, was the outstanding local leader in the general textile strike last September, and was president of the local then. When he, to- gether with other workers here, found that Francis Gorman’s “great victory” meant blacklist and worse conditions, Haslam did not hesitate to expose the strikebreaking treach- ery of Gorman and Stella Moskwa, the unwanted “organizer,” sent into this region by the national office. | The national officials, in order- ing the new election, speak of the “unwarranted activities’ of the local. This is in the election of | Haslam as delegate of the local to |the National Congress for Unem- | ployment and Social Insurance in Washington. The local only fol- [lowed the line set in the National Convention of the U. T. W. last summer, where the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill was en- dorsed. | The Nashua local calls upon other locals of the U. T. W. to protect their own constitutional rights in |the union and protest this action | of the officials. national office of the U. T. W. de- | local. Reservations were made that the different crafts could meet separately to take up special prob- lems relating to their craft, but no decisions can be made outside of the locals After much discussion the number of full time national officers was cut down to three from the present five, leaving only the president, the ceeretary and one organizer, The question of dues and per |capita tax provoked a long and heated discussion. Proposals ranged jall the way from fifty cents a |month to one dollar and a per | capita tax from one to two dollars. | The obvious intention was to raise the dues of the production men in |favor of the tool and die makers. | Since no agreement was reached, it | Was referred back again to the com- |mittee. The financial statement of | the society showed a net deficit of | $7,226.51, with sums owed to the Detroit District Committee and In- terstate Committee not included in | NASHUA, N. H., Jan. 4—Al-/ this fizure. | though at a recent regular election Matthew Smith reported for the of the Nashua local of the United majority on the “Duties of the Inter-State Committee. cording to the majority proposal the Inter- State Committee is to be the big- gest boty in the M. E. 8. A. be» tween conventions, to be above the national officers. After Smith finished reporting, | Chapman made a passing remark which opened Smith’s eyes to the meaning of these proposals. Since the majority of the delegates seemed to be for it, Smith took the | floor and now spoke against it, fa- | voring the minority report that left jthe control in the hands of the |national officials. When he was bitterly attacked for it, he pulled his usual weeping act, saying he was perfectly satisfied to get out— jhe could go back to England and ;get a good job there, etc. This | threat, however, failed to impress | the conyention. The majority voted |for the proposal, This concluded the session. The bitter attacks made against Smith from the floor reflected clearly the bitter inner fight for leadership be- tween Smith and Griffin. The en- tire session seemed to revolve around this and the finances, with the class issues carefully shoved into the background. Unless the progressive elements change the | procedure, the convention will not settle anything for the membership. —CLEVELAND, Ohi PENSQ. Thea. Pais E. 55th St. Rose who declared that “The Un-| Prison for refusing to take part in| while about 50,000 families paid the World War, died here on Dec.’ more than 40¢7 of their income for Week of Jan. 6, Starting Sunday Eo Council is not an or-) | | 26 at the age of 52. Every class-conscious worker should be proud that the Daily | Worker is now celebrating its | Eleventh Anniversary. Show your | pride by greeting your paper! Your greeting should be in TO- DAY! Negro Children, Whipped, Clubbed, Tortured In Slave Dungeon by Brutal Prison Guards BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 4. — The cated in Prince George County ap- | of the boys in the institution. Form- jas received from the Board by the er inmates were located, An in- formation bulletin was published and distributed. A number of mass meetings were held on Cheltenham. Speakers and former inmates were sent to various churches and frater- nal organizations. These actions aroused sections of the Negro popu- lation. Several Negro ministers be- of the Committee. A delegation went before the Cheltenham Board of Trustees with demands for a complete change in conditions at the institution. Among were mothers of present inmates, a3 well as some of the former inmates. The delegation was armed with a number of affidavits signed by form- er inmates testifying to the inhuman conditions existing at Cheltenham. petitions demanding the abolish- {ment of the slave rule were also in |the hands of the delegation. A set. gan to take an interest in the work’ those accompanying the delegation | In addition, hundreds of signed) jtent. The difficulty in meeting rent | | bills with reduced incomes was in-| | dicated by the number of delin-| | quencies in rent payments. On Jan.| | 1, 1934, 27% of the families were be- | hind in their rent. The department) reported that “delinquencies were! greatest among families having the! | lowest rent bills and incomes.” Dr. G. 0. Vennesland Dentist 4816 N. Western Avenue LOngbeach 0787 Chicago, Ill. Dostoyevski's “PETERSBURG NIGHTS” Soviet Talkie. English Titles * Sat. & Sun. open 2 P. M. Cont, Week days 7 and 9 P.M. Cont. PHILADELPHIA, PA. | Abolish Cheltenham Committee. Board Condones Whippings The answer of the Board condones the whippings, brutal treatment. | bread and water cells, etc.; Guard | Hurley still remains working. How- ever, as result of the fight the! Abolish Cheltenham Committee has carried on, a number of boys have | been liberated. A statement was | | forced from the Cheltenham Board that boys will be released if proper | homes will be found for them, @ Program LENIN | MEMORIAL MEETING Friday, January 18, 1935 ARENA, 45th and Market St. M. OLGIN, Editor Morning Freiheit and MANNIN JOHNSON, Ne- tionally known Negro. labor leader, will speak @ Chorus of 200 voices @ Dance Group @ Mad2m Sue Smith McDonald, Negro contralto @ Pulger’s Red Popply Orchestra Admission: Reserved seat $1 and 75c — General Admission: 35c (Most of the boys have parents). ‘The Abolish Cheltenham Commit- tee realizes, however, it is not suffi- cient to liberate individual boys. The Committee has planned to carry on the fight until the whole slave institution is abolished. | A mass petition drive and a dele- |gation to the new Govenor-elect Nice has been organized. Chelten- ham was used by many politicians including the governor, as one of | the issues in their election platform. | SONGS ABOUT LENIN Available for Small Cities Write for Terms and Dates to of fifteen demands was presented The Abolish Cheltenham Committee to the Board. The Board refused | is preparing to arouse the workers in to answer immediately but promised | order to force action and abolish to reply in writing. Frlow we| Cheltenham, the slave dungeon for | present the demands and answers | Negro children, GARRISON FILM DISTRIBUTORS, Inc. » 728 Seventh Avenne, New York City