The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1935, Page 2

"Page 2 “Agrarian Farm Peller. Map Struggle For Real Aid Need for Increased Organization and Militancy Cited WASHINGTON, D. C 9 The first national conference of agricultural workers organized to diseuss the problems of rural work- ers, assembled here yesterday at Murray Hall, Tenth and U Streets. Delegates were present from local unions of the American Federation of Labor, independent trade unions, and from groups of unorganized workers, representing thousands of toilers from the fields, the beet in- dustry, the cotton fields, fisheries, lumber camps, canneries, truck farms and tobacco plantations. Small and middle farmers were rep- resented in addition to unemployed workers from the rural communities. The conference was called to or- der by Oakey O'Dell of the Onion Pickers Agricultural Workers Union of Ohio. A presiding committee was elected and composed of H. S. Mit- chell of the Southern Tenant Farm- Jan. ers Union of Arkansas, Tom Craw-| ford of the Agricultural and Can- nery Workers Industrial Union of New Jersey, Oakey O'Dell of the Onion Pickers Agricultural Workers Union, Jack Walker of the Citrus Workers Union of Florida, John Payne of the Colorado Beet Work- ers Association, Al White of the Sharecroppers Union, John Parker of the Oklahoma Workingmen’s Al- liance of the World, R. Urbite of the Unemployment Council of La- redo, Texas, and Don Henderson, National Secretary of the National Conference of Lumber annd Rural Workers. New Deal Outlined The opening report by Don Hen- derson outlined the New Deal pol- icies as they affect the agricultural workers and the poor and middle farmers. He pointed to the worsen- ing conditions of the rural popula- tion and the increased cost of foodstuffs to the urban population as a direct result of the A.A.A. pro- gram of benefits to the large land and plantation owners. Rural relief, he said, is being used to keep the agricultural workers during the off-season at the barest minimum starvation rates, while during the crop season, it is being witheld to force the agricultural workers to accept back-breaking jobs in the fields at wages of five, ten and twelve cents an hour. The main problem confronting the rural workers today, Henderson said, is the fight against the Roose- velt attacks, for increased relief and | against any attempts to drive still) lower the living standards of the agricultural workers. During the course of the past two ~ years, he said, there have sprung into existence large pumbers of rural labor unions, many of which are under honest rank and file Jeadership that is carrying on mili- tant struggles for the elementary needs of the farm workers. For Single Organization “We now have the task of draw- ing up plans of how best to coor- dinate these groups into a single organization of larger numbers of | ay | shortly after the kidnapping: that * the rural workers, and to draw them in as an integral part of the whole labor movement,” Henderson said. DAC WOREER, SEW Cee recpeesr, sereorerr cv, ree Conference Discusses Uniting Rural Unions TO THE 16,000,000 UNEMPLOYED WN THE UNITED STATES. TO ALL WORKING CLASS ORGANIZA- TIONS. TO THE RANK AND FILE OF ALL UN- SMPLOYED ORGANIZATIONS. FELLOW WORKERS: WINTER of bitter want and struggle faces us. Sixteen millions of our brothers and sisters and their families are unemployed. Hundreds of thou- sands are being added to the list of the jobless every month, Whether we are white or Negro, native or foreign-born, the sword of hunger cuts inte the marrow of our bones. Our boys and giris grow up without hope of work. Our children famish before our very eyes. Food is in plenty, but we canaot buy it. Clothing is in abundance, but we must go without it. Com- fortable homes stand empty, but we must huddle together in dirty tenements Facing the cold of winter, four millions of our brothers have been removed from the federal relief rolis by order of Roosevelt. The so-called “unem- ployabies”—the sick, infirm, cripples and widowed— in the midst of winter are pitilessly handed over to the mercy of hunger. Roosevelt has decreed that all workers needing relief shall be compelled to work. Not work for decent wages—but work at relief roll budgets. Single men are sent by the tens of thousands to transient camps. If they refuse, they go to jail as vagrants. A million workers’ families are being transported to the land to so- called subsistence homesteads, where they will be abandoned to their own resources, This is done in the ~7me of “economy.” “Economy” Plays No Part “Keonomy” plays no part in the generosity of the government to the bankers and industrialists. While workers’ families starve; while relief is being cut to a starvation level, the government extends billions to the banks and corporations. While workers’ wages are cut, the profits and dividends of the big capitalists climb sky-high. While children are allowed to go hungry, the government spends billions for another imperialist war. There is no security for the worker in the United States. The poor farmer has no protection in the so-called “possession” of the land. Both face, and will continue to face, destitution in the United Press Distorts Hauptmann Facts. States as long as the present system remains, in which a few control the lives of the masses. We produce the wealth—but we go hungry. We build the homes, but we sleep in hovels, We make alt the clothes and shoes, bat we walk im tatters. What is the cause of the crisis, which now is in its sixth year and has dragged the millions down into misery? The system is controlled by the own- ers who allow us to work only so long as they can make profit. Our wages are so low that we cannot consume what we produce. The employers cannot dispose of the tremendous products we turn out. When the markets fail, they close down their plants and turn us into the streets, For six years, this crisis has raged throughout the capitalist world. For six years, tens of millions have faced starvation, The crisis continues. It affects all sections of the working population—in- dustrial, white collar, professional workers—the teacher, the artist, the scientist, as well as the worker and the farmer. Capitalist Greed Greedy for markets, the capitalists plunge into foreign lands. Markets must be found—for profit | and dividends—no matter what the cost. War is the outcome—war is being prepared. Armies and navies, made up of workers, air fleets and chem- icals—all are being prepared for the coming im- perialist slaughter. This is our reward for producing so much that we must starve! Workers fight back to protect their livelihood. Farmers strike back to retain their homes. The Negro people carry on the struggle to protect their rights. Seeing that the masses will not starve in silence; seeing the unemployed organize to raise themselves out of degradation; seeing the workers strike in militant battles to improve their condi- tions, the bosses and the government mobilize every kind of violent instrument to crush them. This is the workers’ share in the N. I. R. A. This is the “New Deal,” which we were promised. This is the fascism that is developing in the United States, to keep the capitalists in the saddle, to keep the masses cowed and subdued, Rosy Promises Knowing that the workers will not accept these conditions without a militant fight, the Federal Government, Roosevelt; and his aides, continue at the same time to dangle rosy promises before our eyes. Two years of the promise of “unemployment insurance.” “Promises” of “vast building construc- tion programs”; of the “reemployment of millions”; of “industry absorbing more millions.” “I stand or fall by the idea that unemployment can be elimin- ated,” said Roosevelt on June 26—but still the num- ber of unemployed grows! “Unemployment insurance”— but not for the 16,000,000 unemployed! “Unemployment insurance” —but nothing for the millions who never again will labor at the bench; nothing for the aged; nothing for the hundreds of thousands in industry who are speeded up like mad and fall the victim of indus- trial disease and accident. Nothing for the work- ing class mothers who toil at the machine — and have to bear their children in misery. “Unem- ployment insurance,” but only when the state legis- latures enact it and then after a wait of no less than two years! This is the bleff—the sham. This is the “promise” while families go hungry and profits soar! This is the “promise,” while workers who fight for a piece of bread are shot down in cold blood! This is the “promise,” while boys and girls are turned into criminals in the search of a crust! Waited Long Enough We workers declare we have waited long enough. | Promises mean nothing to the army of unemployed. | The government makes of us a separate caste and will press us into FORCED LABOR camps—camps like in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany. We workers have learned that promises mean action only when the workers force action. The time has come for action. Millions face the same problem. Millions recognize the same solution. Mil- | lions today maintain that it should be the func- tion of government to provide for the welfare of the people —the workers and farmers, who face destitution. No greater obligation can the Federal Government have—an obligation that we workers must compel it to fulfill. Unemployment and social insurance—the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 2827—this is the fulfillment of this obligation. This obligation, the full support of the National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance, we dedi- cate ourselves to realize. No victory can be won without struggle. The government and the capitalists are determined that the millions of unemployed shall have no part in social insurance. We are to remain the objects of charity and of forced labor. We are to be reduced and used as a permanent army to lower still fur- ther the conditions of the employed. | Manifesto of National Unemployment Council Convention ‘The Lines Are Drawn Fellow workers: The lines are drawn: Either united struggle of those who produce against those whe today control —or we go down together. The bosses do not want us to unite, for our unity would break them. Their agents in the working class do not want us to unite, for that would smash their control. The unity of the unemployed—the organization of the wnor- ganized unemployed—the unity of white and Ne- gro, of native and foreign-born—of employed and unemployed, of workers and farmers—this is the burning need. By lies and slanders and by misrepresentation we are kept apart, suspicious of one another, fight- ing one another—strengthening the hand of our enemies. William Green, Matthew Woll, John L. Lewis, James Oneal, Norman Thomas, A. J. Muste, Wm. Truax, Father Coughlin, Upton Sinclair,- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wm. R, Hearst—use different means—but keep us from uniting our ranks, Fellow workers: We unemployed have all one interest—no. mat- ter in what organization we may be. Our jeint in- terest it is to organize the vast numbers of unem- ployed. Our joint interest it is to win more relief, union conditions on jobs, to defeat forced labor whether it be in transient or C.C.C. camps, or on subsistence homesteads. Our joint interest it is to win the Workers Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill, Our joint interest it is with united ranks to fight for our daily needs, and out of this unity to forge one united organization of the unem- ployed. Who stands in the way? Who keeps us apart? Ask your leaders: your local, your county, your staté, your national leaders. YOU want unity— WE all want unity, Whoever says “no” plays the game of the bosses, We unemployed workers, in the midst of the sixth year of the crisis, with worse conditions star- ing us in the face, declare that we will fight for unity. This is our basic need. Without it we cannot succeed, but will sink into worse misery. With it we go forth to victory. Forward to one powerful united unemployed or- ganization, with a militant policy, with fighting leadership, to unity of employed and unemployed, to victory in the struggle for the Workers’ Bill! 4th NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT COUNCIL CONVENTION ‘ing with baited breath to be al-) the whole truth of the Lindbergh, | lowed to participate | rapidly taking on the proportions| not only does the population of of an American Stavisky scandal. The difficulty of gaining admit- here know this, but so does Reilly, tance to the trial is also worth who has admitted it openly, and in what is | scanadal has still to be told. And | Flemington and the newspapermen Living Costs Soar, Delegates Press | Perkins Admits gram, and points out that the Na- tional Action Committee provides “the means whereby they can act |unitedly on the basic questions which are of general concern, by (Continued from Page 1) report of what actually occurred at these proceedings. It is thé excerpts—published verb- | atim—from the complete report of the proceedings that are “played up” by the capitalist press under eight column headlines, plus what is not reported at all, that creates in the reader the picture of what actually happened. The enormous headlines, for ex- ample, which proclaimed that Betty Gow had frustrated Reilly's at- tempt to shake her testimony, were a@ complete distortion of what actu- ally took place, as a careful scrutiny of even the “verbatim,” partially complete, reports will prove. Reilly cross-examined Betty Gow that day with the view of bringing out that she was the intimate friend of “Red” Johnson, an apparently easy-living Sailor who was shipped to Norway she frequented roadhouses with him, and that she had been in the com- commenting on. The capitalist press has been assiduously trying to create the impression that the whole world is making a desperate attempt to steal a look at the “greatest hero of modern times,” | and at the “greatest criminal,” etc., | ete. The purpose of this is nothing | but to try to justify the barrage of | news-opium and capitalist hero-wor- ship that the press is thundering at | the American workingclass. Ac- tually, anyone can get into the trial who is willing to be at the Court House at 7 o'clock in the morning and wait the three hours or so un- til the Court convenes, | Symbolic of System | But most important of all that ‘is being distorted by the capitalist press is the truth concerning the | profound scandal that is imbedded {in the kidnaping and murder of the Lindberg baby. It need not be repeated at great length here that the scandals of the capitalist class are completely unimportant to Com- munists except insofar as they prove | Attorney General Wilentz, who ad- | mitted privately a few days ago to an umimpeachable source that |“Hauptmann is not the only one| | guilty in this case, but the —— | ought to get the chair because he won't tell who else is.” Police Shoot 3 In Minneapolis Garage Strike | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 9—| Three striking garage mechanics were shot by police and deputized thugs this morning when they at-| mony also showed that the expenses ; tempted to call out strikebreakers | working at the McDonald Gilfillian Ford Garage here. Two were shot in the leg, while one was hit on the chin. The police fired under| instructions of Chief Johannes, who) directed the massacre of truck driv- (Continued from Page 1) It is a matter of judgment,” the | Secretary replied evasively, A “Fine” Point Miss Perkins declared also in dis- | cussing the steel situation that “I've | got the matter under consideration. | Our lawyers are going over it. It’s a fine point.” She said that the testimony before the Steel Board | showed that the “employee repre-| sentatives [company union men] Plan group didn’t question the con- stitutionality of the order. They merely said the order to hold an election was unwise and unneces- Sary and are asking for a review of the order on the ground that it is against pudlic interest. Testi- of the employees were paid by the employers.” “Food, which rose by 5.8 per | cent from June to November | (1934) was the most important factor in the increase. of living costs,” Workers’ Bill Fight (Continued from Page 1) tional Congress for Unemployment: Insurance, representing directly two million workers, after hearing these reports on the National Run Around given them by the Roosevelt gov- ernment, voiced the determination to bring into action still more mil-| lions of workers, farmers and pro- fessionals and force the Roosevelt government to act on the Workers Bill and on relief. The delegates rose and cheered when I. Amter, on behalf of the National Unemployment Councils, | proposed that when deemed neces- | sary the Congress authorize the National Action Committee to call @ mass march of workers and farm- ers to Washington. “The Unem- ployment Councils, which initiated this Congress,” Amter said, “pro- Pose that if necessary, the masses shall march to Washington and compel the Roosevelt government to pass the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill.” coordinating and guiding the work and efforts of all groups and or- ganizations that seek to advance our common purpose and program.” All organizations possible are to be drawn into the National Action Committee for this purpose. Simi- lar committees, based on already existing Sponsoring Committees, are to function in each congressional district and state. The program outlines the detailed steps to be taken in the fight for the Workers’ Bill. Coughlin Wants Communists Shot (Continued. from Page 1) paaaanemes ere ad like to sit down any evening and have a chat with him for an hour.” Later on he said: objects in view that I have.” “Norman Thomas has the same! Steel Workers Press Fight For Union Poll | Carnegie Co. Ignores Deadline Set by Labor Board By Tom Keenan DUQUESNE, Pa., Jan. 9.—Gen- eral sentiment for action grew stronger among the steel workers today as the “deadline” set by the \National Steel Labor Board for |surrender of the Carnegie Steel \Company's payroll list of Duquesne jemployees passed without an elec- tion. Instead, through its company un- ion stool pigeons the company has stalled the election most likely for many months, through court ac- |tion in the Philadelphia and Cin- cinnati Circuit Courts of Appeals. |The Duquesne local is proceeding with collection of pay envelopes and will itself conduct an election. Everywhere in this central steel area the general keynote is one of organizing the unorganized in prep- {aration for concerted action. The same spirit is in evidence in all other districts of the Amalgamated |Association of Iron, Steel and Tin |Workers, according to reports. In Duquesne, the feeling is high and overflow mass meetings are held every day. At an open meet- ing Saturday night, approximately 1a thousand employes gathered to ‘hear Lodge President William Spang, sound a warning in regard jto the loopholes in the Steel Board's election order and against banking on the Board to do the work of Winning concessions from ithe employers. Union to Conduct Poll Spang made an appeal for all Duquesne employes who have not \alfeady done so, to submit their-pay {envelopes to the union so that the base for an honest election can be laid without waiting for the sur- render of company lists. A large lmajority of the workers, it is re- |ported from reliable sources have . already turned in their envelopes, estimates placing the number as high as seventy-five per cent of the ‘present working force of about 3,200. Answer Lies The lodge issued a leaflet Sat- jurday night in answer to the com- Pany’s attack on the union which appeared in the local weekly news- paper, the Duquesne Times. It de- ‘nounced the spreading of “com- \pany poison” by “this gutter sheet,” jand the lying attack on the union, “We want that election right now!” declares the leaflet, “It has been a hard fight to force the Board to order an election. For months they have listened to the steel bosses’ demand for delay so that they could attempt to crush our union and put over their company union. Only when we condemned them and decided to move toward action (last Sun- day's conference) did they order an election.” Serious Dangers | At least two serious pitfalls now threaten the path of the steel work- ers. in Duquesne. First, and most jdangerous, is the possibility of iwaiting too long while giving the board a chance to bring about the lelection without carrying through - the = Perki; = - ~- A partial list of the organizations | Pany of many men in Detroit when | tne contention of Marxists that the Perkins survey de Coughlin repeatedly tried to im-‘an election by the A.A. lodge itself. represented at the conference in- cluded: International Hod Carriers, Build- ing Trades, and Common Laborers Union Local 1921 of Arkansas, (A. F. of L.); Sawmill and Timber ’ Workers Union of Kimball, W. Va. (A. F. of L.); Colorado Beet Work- ets Association; Sea Food Workers Union of Biloxi, Miss.; Florida Cit- rus Workers Union; Unemployment Councils of Laredo, Texas; South- ern Tenant Farmers Union of Ar- kansas, Inc.; Sharecroppers Union of Alabama and North Carolina; Agricultural Workers Union of Mc- | Guffey, Ohio A. F. of L.; New Jer- sey Cannery and Agricultural Work- ers Industrial Union; Unemploy- ment Council of Charlotte, N. C.; United Farmers League of New Jer- sey, Connecticut, Minnesota, Wis- consin; Farmers Holiday Associa- tion of Wyoming; Workingmen’s Al- | liance of the World and the Rocky Mountain Beet Laborers Association, Nebraska and Colorado. Silk Victory Is Expected (Continued from Page 1) progressive and pogsibly draw votes from Vigorito, came out a bad third with 240. Early reports of the Daily Worker on other offices were confirmed in the final results, although the exact votes cast have not yet been made public. John Tovano was elected secretary, and Tony Ventura is one of the three business agents. Both were on the rank and file ticket. Charles Perolo is vice-president, and the other. two business agents are Dominick Ammirato and John Ly- dig. The following are on the new executive board of the local: Carlo Trichilo, Carmen De Lorenzo, Ray Emidio, Edward Healey, Joseph Ventura, Harold Neynhouse, Ralph La Pera, Anthony Fiore and Ben- jamin Turco, All but the last two: were on the rank nnd file slate. | Great progressive advances are | expected to begin when the new ad- | ministration takes office. Vigorito was president of the local when it she had lived there. Reilly’s purpose, of course, was to try to prove that Gow liked the company of sophisti- cated men, and that when she lived in Detroit she might have been friendly with members of the no- torious Purple Gang in that city who have been accused of being the actual kidnappers of the Lindbergh baby. What Press Omitted And did Betty Gow actually make Reilly look foolish, as every capital- ist paner in New York and almost certainly in the United States, de- clared, quoting the “verbatim” tes- timony? On the contrary. Reilly made his point every time. Not only did Gow admit the three points that he was trying to prove, but he actually forced her to contradict herself twice in her testimony on important points. Something, none of the capitalist papers mentioned, | | although it was hidden in most of the verbatim reports which they carried. Then there is the enormous amount of wordage being carried in the capitalist press to the effect that the povulation of Flemington is in a white heat over the trial. The purpose of these stories is to try to convince the American work- ing class that not only are the newspapers vitally interested in the proceedings of the Hauptmann trial, but that the local workers are too. “It is verfectly justifiable for you, | @t is most characteristic of the) as workers, to be interested in this trial to the exclusion of your real interests,” the capitalist press is saying, “because the workers of Flemington, whose interests are similar to yours and who know more about the case than you do, are in- terested in it as much as we are. | And if the workers of Flemington are interested in this case, you work- ers needn't be ashamed of being in- terested in it, too.” But what are the facts? The workers of Flemington, as the Daily Worker reported the very first day of the trial, are NOT vitally inter- ested in the trial, precisely because they know too much about it. Last week this reporter happened to be present when a photographer took a “shot” of Flemington workers who were waiting to be allowed to en- capitalism is inseparable from the | most deep-going corruption and | hypocrisy, and that one has scarce- ly to put one’s finger on a typical incident involving capitalists to un- cover the corruption that has helped to make cavitalism a hell on earth for the working class. In addition, Communists know that Lindbergh’s popularity with the masses is being consciously utilized by leading im- perialists to further their class aims, so much so that Lindbergh himself, at the request of the late who was his father-in-law, re- | quested libraries throughout the country to withdraw from circula- tion the anti-war book which Lind- bergh’s father wrote. Even the N. Y. Public Library, in the heart | of American “civilization and cul- ture.” acceded to Lindbergh's re- quest by taking the book out of circulation until a storm of protest forced the librarv officials to put | it back on the shelves. | It is this universal attempt on | the part of the capitalist press to | preserve the illusion of the Amer- ican masses that the “noble and heroic” Lindbergh is a model fd? American youth, and that any | American boy who emulates him can become a “great” man by be- coming an associate of J. P. Mor- gan’s, which Lindbergh has become, | accounts that the capitalist press |is reporting. No touch of scandal must be allowed to tarnish the rep- | utation of the model American who _waves the flag of imperialism in his numerous flights. The Hearst | papers in particular, which defame | Lenin, the greatest leader of the | world's working class, and there- fore of humanity, who ever lived, and which make that great Bol- shevik out to be something between | a fanatic bomb-thrower and a Ger- | man-Jewish spy, are fighting, at | this the image of Lindbergh as THE | great man whom every honest youth | must emulate. | Preserving Myths It is because of the necessity for _ the capitalists of preserving this | myth, that the capitalist press as a ter the court-room. There were) whole is refusing to report the com- certainly no more than 25 to 30/ plete account of what is happening workers bunched together in line, ‘here. For the complete account would was founded in 1933, and at that/ but as the New York Journal car-| prove what everyone in Flemington time stood for united action with | ried the photograph the next day,| knows and what it is the duty of the then existing National Textile) under the caption “swirling crowd Workers Union. Now with all work-| tries to enter court-room,” the pic- ers united into one powerful union,| ture seemed to prove that half the Tapid strides forward are certain, | population of the town was wait- | a Communist newspaper to report: that the Lindbergh case is exposing some of the basic corruption of capitalism to its very roots and that! Dwight Morrow, Morgan partner, | trial in Flemington, to preserve | ers last July. | Following the shooting the entire strike committee of the striking | mechanics has decided to go in a | body to the Central Labor Union to- | night to demand support. | The Unemployment Council, which | arranged for a demonstration be-| fore the City Council meeting Fri-| day morning against the 10 per cent | cut for E.R.A. workers and a cut in direct relief, will go tonight be- | fore the union to urge a joint dem- onstration to include demands for the removal of Chief Johannes and Mayor Bainbridge, and for the re- Jease of 13 workers arrested in the | Strike, to be’ tried Monday. Twenty-two hundred automobile | last Friday remain out, tying up most of the repair shops in the | city. In an interview with the | Daily Worker correspondent, Huss- | man, business agent of the Inter- national Association of Machinists, | Stated that he is in favor of ac- cepting the offer of the Minneapolis |employers to arbitrate, but not (unless St. Paul garage owners ac- | cept arbitration as well. | Hussman stated that the tieup in St. Paul is more complete than in Minneapolis. Forty-five shops there have already signed an agreement to pay the scale of 90c |per hour minimum to mechanics, | and 65 cents per hour for runners, greasers, simonizers and washers. At meetings of strikers in both | cities, rank and file members have |made demands that the two local | unions appeal to the trade union | movement and to the unemployed to assist the strikers in the pick- eting. Newark Relief Workers Meet Today to Discuss Threat to End Projects | | NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 9—A meeting to discuss the threatened discontinuance of the emergency | relief projects here has been called | by the Provisional Committee of the _Emergency Relief Workers for to- | morrow evening, at 8 o'clock, at 2 | Shipman Street. | Twelve hundred workers were |summarily dismissed from this project in December and the re- \lief officials have now proposed that | the whole project be closed. The | Association of Emergency Relief Workers has urged that all clerks, stenographers, investigators, libra- rians and other white collar work- ers attend this méeting mechanics who came out on strike} clared. “Fuel and light costs in- creased 1.3 per cent during the period and the average cost of house furnishing goods increased { 1.0 per cent. Average rental costs in the cities studied remained un- | changed from June to November. The average cost of the miscel- laneous group of - items, (which includes medical and dental ser- vice, drugs, hospital care, trans- portation costs, telephone. | laundry, barbers’ services, toilet articles, newspapers, movies, and tobacco products) remained the same. Average clothing costs de- creased one-tenth of one per cent.” The large increase in food costs | in the South Atlantic area, for Jacksonville, Norfolk, Richmond and Savannah, 8.5, 6.5, 5.6 and 7.7 per cent respectively, as compared with 2.8 per cent for New York, 1.0 per cent for Philadelphia and 3.9 per cent for Pittsburgh, illustrate the degree to which the employers’ N. R. A. codes, most of which pro- vide for a lower wage in the South where the Negro workers predomi- nate, profit by the intense anti- Negro attitude of their New Deal. Exposes Roosevelt Ballyhoo The full significance of the sur- vey released today becomes appar- ent when one recalls the ballyhoo Preceding the release of what was generally expected to be a more or less complete study. The fact that the study deals only with the five months period from June 1934, to Novesnber 1934, the fact that when the Roosevelt administration wants to show the rise in employment. payrolls in addition to not explain- ing the share-the-work clause of the increase, it always picks the lowest. month of the crisis, March 1933, and the fact that when it re- ports on food increases it avoids comparison with March 1933, as much as possible. The retail price of food, for 51 cities, increased 26.3 per cent from March 1933 to December 18, 1934, according to Lubin’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report of the widely dis- cussed Committee on Economic Recovery may or may not be made public, Miss Perkins informed the press. She said its publication de- pends on the President. Start a competition with your comrades to see who can collect more greolings for the Daily | arose in the A. F. of L. subsession, ‘The Workers Congress was im-! bued with the spirit of complete) unity, of solidarity, of determina- tion to fight and to bring mass/ pressure to secure unemployment | insurance and relief. When a member of the Lovestone group and declared that the A. F. of L. delegates were a fake delegation and did not really represent any- body, he was silenced by a wave of indignation. By unanimous vote this lone disrupter was repudiated, and the resolution of this large sub- session was passed unanimously in favor of the Workers Bill and of the Congress program. There were 661 members of the A. F. of L. pres- ent as delegates to the Congress, and 307 of these were elected by their A. F. of L. local unions and central labor bodies. Program of Action The Program of Action unani- mously adopted by the Workers Congress, sounded the keynote that the Congress is the jumping off place for greater mass action, for broader unity, for a bigger move- ment to secure enactment of the Workers Bill (H. R. 2827). ‘The program of action began: “Recognizing that those who own the wealth and thereby exercise great political power will continue to resist and oppose our program, for genuine unemployment and so- cial insurance, our task is to de- velop a movement in support of our program which will be so broad, so conscious and so militant that it can overcome all opposing forces and surmount all obstacles. Thé movement in support of our pro- gram must undertake to embrace all who need and all who favor the measures we sponsor as the means of affording greater protection against poverty, want and insecu- rity for the masses whose livelihood depends upon wages, salaries, self loss of normal earning power due to social hazards, over which the individual has no control.” The Program of Action calls on all who want to fight for real un- employment insurance and relief to affiliate to the movement which is unified in the National Action Com- mittee elected by the Congress. The program declares, “We call upon all organizations that have not yet done so to join those who have already endorsed our program and more particularly the Workers Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill (H. R. 2827).” The pro- Worker on its Eleventh Anniver- sarys declares its support of the employment and compensation for | press on his audience the distinc- tion between international Social- ism, which he identified with Com- munism, and modern American cialism as represented by the So- cialist Party. “The American So- cialists have nothing to do with Communists. would be better than Capitalism, under Hoover and the rest of them.” Coughlin also cited with great approval President Roosevelt's mes- sage to Congress and declared that his program, even using the phrase “Social Justice.” _Pians Tour ‘The priest revealed that in a few | weeks he will start a nationwide speaking tour. He repeated the claim made in his radio speech Sunday that his goal of five million members in the National Union for Social Justice had already been achieved and that now he was after ten million. He announced that next Tuesday he would be in Wash- ington; he did not, however, tell his audience why. He did not men- Jan. 16, Senator Thomas of Okla- homa, who is Coughlin’s chief spokesman in Congress, has called a conference of inflationists to map out @ campaign in line with the | priest’s program. I make the pre- at this conference, Father Coughlin or Louis M, Ward, head of his Washington lobby, or both and George LeBlanc, New York banker and Rockefeller agent, who is the movement. Resurrects Old Lie In his speech last night Coughlin repeated the ancient discredited lie that Lenin and Trotzky were Ger- man agents. “Communism was imported into Russia by Kaiser Wilhelm,” he said, “who in desperation brought a man from the Bronx, Troteky, and an- other from Lausanne, Lenin—alto- gether 42 individuals, all of one vace, of one mind—the mind of de- struction—to put them in sealed cars and transported them to Rus- sia. Trotzky and Lenin got Ger- man airplanes and had them drop literature among the soldiers in the trenches. That started the revolu- tion. Marx was financed by Engels, @ rich textile manufacturer in Eng- land, and Lenin and Trotzky were financed by the Kaiser.” He lyingly stated that until séven months ago all Soviet workers, no matter how skilled, received the gram } organizations fighting for the pro- same pay, and described Stalin as Modern American) Socialism under Norman Thomas! Roosevelt was practically adopting | tion the fact that on Wednesday, real field general of the Coughlin | | Such a course would lead to & ‘slacking of the growing local sen- timent for struggle; give the come ‘pany more time to maneuver both in and out of court, strengthen the \company union as a weapon, and ‘launch their drive in the capitalist | press against all concerted action; ‘and would greatly cripple the or- |ganizational drive in the steel in- |dustry and the general movement toward the winning of the demands formulated at last year’s conven- tion. | The holding of an election as soon jas possible by the lodge, on the basis of the list of pay envelopes, and with the Steel Board invited to come in and supervise the bal- loting on a certain specific date— will avert the first danger.to some ‘extent. Meanwhile, the carrying |on of smaller, inner plant strug- gles—departmental grievances, tem- porary stoppages, etc. — and the raising immediately of concrete, economic demands would do much to increase the tempo of the move- | ment toward action. Second, is the possibility of allows ing the company to betray the Du- © quesne workers into a premature walkout, before sufficient support had been consolidated in other mills of Carnegie Steel and other companies where the A.A. is now, diction that there will be present |8towing. The incitement to mob vioience immediately launched by the com- pany in the local press indicates that increasingly provocative at- tempts will be made to draw the union into pitfalls of premature action, so that discipline among the workers is a most important phase of the preparation for struggle. “becoming a very peculiar kind of capitalist.” Despite the fact that 90 per cent of the pre-revolutionary churches are still in use in the Soviet Union and there is complete freedom of worship, Coughlin declared that “the Communists demolished the church- es, put to death the clergymen, for- bade the people going to church, saying their prayers or having re- ligious statues in their homes.” Coughlin began his speech with a few mild words about Hitlerism and Italian Fascism. The only criticism he made was that Fascism “forgot about the international bankers, the Warburgs and Rothschilds.” He also introduced an anti-Semitic note by declaring that Mustapha Kemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, is not 4 Turk, but “a Jew who rules over Mohammedans,” a 1 ' » ' aon