The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1935, Page 3

Leader Outlines New Steps In Fight for Workers’ Bill Pressure Beginning To Tell on Government Says Benjamin By Herbert Benjamin (Exeentive Secretary of the Na- tional Joint Action Committee For the Workers Bill) The 2.500 delegates who came to Washington from every part of the United States for the National Congress provided living proof that genuine unemployment and social insurance has become the pressing need and the consciously expressed demand of many millions. Every section of the toiling pop- ulation, the workers of all indus- tries, the farmers and agricultural | workers, the masses of the cities and rural communities, the workers of all professions and occupations, | were represented by large groups of delegates. Even more important as indicating the representative char- acter of the Congress is the analysis of the political composition of the delegates and the organizations they represented. Six hundred sixty-one delegates from 306 locals and central bodies of the American Federation of La- bor testified by their presence and through their spokesmen to the fact that the demand for insurance as called for in the Workers Bill cannot be smothered by the op- Position of the leaders of the American Federation of Labor. THEY DEMAN i D INSURANCE | A demonstration of unemployed workers backing the demand for unemployment and social insurance, before the delegates and through them before the working class of the United States a clear perspec- tive for a further and_ broader | The great j | waited front of struggle. | ovation which followed this address Similarly, delegates from every type ' brought 133 Democrats, thirty-eight of unemployed organization and di- | Republicans and fifty-three Social- rectly from locals of the socialist | ists to their feet along with the and other political parties, proved | unaffiliated and the Communist | that the masses are prepared to | Party members in the great body of | Sweep aside all obstacles to united delegates. Finally, the Congress pro- | apparent to the casual and super- ficial observer. It is pzrt of the tactics of those who run the gov- ernment in behalf of the ruling class to conceal as far as possible the fact that they can be forced to make .concessions under pressure. But, the effectiveness of this power- ful united front has already been manifested in a number of very significant results. Many congress- men and department heads were DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, JA UMWA Locals! ‘Hear Reports On H. R. 2827 Birmingham Miners Hail Plea for Unity of White and Negro BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 15.—A representative of the Arrangements Committee for the National Con- gress for Unemployment Insurance spoke in the Wylam and the Edge- water locals of the United Mine Workers last week. Both unions, with a membership of between 500 and 600 workers present, heartily agreed with the principles of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and would have sent delegates to Washington had they been able to raise funds. These two unions are in the Ten- nessee Coal and Iron Company, and are most important U. M. W. A locals in the state. Both of these lceals are keeping their membership together very well in spite of the shut down. This is be: the ‘eadership of the unions is militant. The committee representative tressed the question of the Negro and white workers sticking together in the unions. It was pointed our that the bosses are keeping the ltv- ing standard of the Negro workers down and that this lowers the liv- ing standard of the white workers. 'As long as the white and Negro workers get eoual pay work and equal relief, the bosses j wal not have any way to discrimi- nate and the united working class A REFLECTIO —EVERY YEAR THOSE STONES ARE SET HIGHER— Hearst Drives Forward for equal | For a War force can get a higher standard of living for themselves. The work- ers cheered this part of the talk, ‘especially the white miners, who realize the necessity of unity Against VUARY 16, 1935 ON THE NEW YEAR ‘om Pravda). of Plunder the Soviets action for vital needs and issues. Complete Unity Of great significance is the com- plete unity of purpose and program which this congress reflected. Al- though the call for the congress did not commit those to whom it was addressed to support any specific measure, the delegates unanimously and fully approved the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and So- cial Insurance Bill (H. R. 2827) as the basic and central item of their program. This proves that the Workers’ Bill has become the ex- pressed program of all who need and all who favor genuine social insurance as against the various schemes brought forward by the government and other sponsors of capitalist “relief” and reserve plans. The unity achieved at the congress is, therefore, a unity for struggle against the capitalist program which | seeks to safeguard the profits of the few at the expense of the-living Standards of the masses. meens a unity of the working class supported by the farmers, the pro- fessionals and even large sections for the small-businessmen masses for struggle against the program of he capitalist ruling class. Not only in that it served to as- semble the forces that seek enact- ment of genuine social insurance provisions, but in the effective use made of this great assembly, the Songress represents a tremendous achievement. The contributions made by the many delegates in cheir speeches and in the resolu- dions adopted, by the various sub- sessions provide material of the greatest value for the further work ind struggle. The reports and speeches, especially those of Mary van Kleeck, T. Armold Hill and others, served to arm the entire movement with valuable facts and irguments. The masterful address »t Earl Browder served not only to lissipate the antagonism which snemies of the united front seek to develop by means of vicious anti- Sommunist propaganda but raised WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Richard B. Moore will speak at x meeting of all I.L.D. activists on ‘Thursday, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m. at 49 N. 8th St. All officers and active mem- bers must be present. CHICAGO, It Hillshoro Defense Committee presents Hillsboro Victory Revue @ “Tombstene” Graft Newsboy Perasites of 1935 Anti-Criminal Syndicalist Mural Tom Mooney Walks at Midnight Music Hear Story of Trial from Defendants Speakers: Allan Taub, Jan Wittenber FRIDAY, JAN. 18, at 8 P. M. FORESTER'S HALL 1016 N. Dearborn St. Adm. 35c. | duced a program and plan of action | which can serve to extend the united front and effectively ad- | vance the fight for the Workers’ Bill and all other measures to de- fend and improve the standards of | forced to make definite promises to meet some of the minor demands presented by the militant delega- tions who faced them. Undoubtedly sustained pressure will force the administration to modify its pro- This | the masses. Some Weaknesses | Undoubtedly there were some or- ganizational weaknesses and short- |comings. It was impossible to Jerowd into the two days sessions | all the many conferences and sub- | sessions which were planned and | proposed. Difficulties connected with the housing and feeding of | | delegates caused loss of some valu- able time. Many who might have |made valuable contributions were | unable to secure the opportunity to j speak. Inadequate technical staff | prevented prompt circulation of documents and made its possible for | |a few irresponsible and otherwise jinsignificant disrupters of the |Lovestone clique to create some! disorder. But the unity and de- termination which permeated the |Congress and the enthusiasm gen- | erated by its political success created such a broad sweep and mighty power, that the technical shortcomings and the resultant in- conveniences were hardly noticed. The primary and immediate aims of the congress were splendidly achieved.’ The preparations for the congress served to bring into the movement and struggle for social insurance many tens of thousands who herefore were not reached. In the process of preparation and through the congress, the whole movement was stimulated, enlarged enriched and consolidated. The power of this movement is there- fore multiplied and increased. This is felt and realized not only | by the organizations and masses who are already part of this move- ment. It was and is felt by all enemies of the movement and all who have heretofore been indiffer- ent to the demand for enactment of the Workers’ Bill. Press Suppressed News gram in relation to the more basic problems that affect the masses. Roosevelt Program Threatened This is already indicated by some | developments of the past few days. Among the Congressmen who de- clared that they would support t: Workers’ Bill (H.R. 2827) is Co | gressman Connery of Massachusetts, the chairman of the Committee on Labor. This is the committee to which the Workers’ Bill as well as all similar measures must be re- ferred before it reaches the floor of the House of Representatives. The New York Times in reporting on | this development points out that if the attitude of Connery Congressmen who haye declared their opposition to the President's “security program” develops into a serious “revolt,” administration “leadership was ready to create a special committer to expedite the administration program on the | floor of the House.” (!) This means that. mass pressure and the popular demand for the | | Workers’ Bill has reached the point |Where the President finds if, neces- |Sary to create a special committee in order to assure action on his | jfake security program. It also |Mmeans that if mass pressure is | maintained and increased, the Com- mittee on Labor can be forced to | \teport the Workers’ Bill out of Committee. If this can be achieved, |it will mean a defeat for the ad- |ministration attempt to “kill” the | Workers’ Bill through the applica- tion of the new “gag rule.” (The | “gag rule” requires that 216 Con- |gressmen shall sign a motion to | take a bill out of committee if the | committee fails to act on it.) This indicates our first and most immediate task. We must prepare a campaign that will bring the ut- | Most pressure to bear on the mem- and other | The workers are preparing for | struggles in the near future and | \they say that it will not be like | the last strike, This time they are | going to kick out the fakers and | jrun the strike the way they think it should be run. They don’t plan | on letting the bosses get in to the mines at all and they are going |to have a mass picket line that will “Tremendous Power of Hearst Publications Seeks To Create Situation for War,” Communist District Organizer Says By Charles Krumbein New | | All the yellow newspaper magnates such as Hearst dote | York District Organizer, Communist Party stop the scabs before they get On brutal murders, filthy scandals and bloody war. Every | murder, scandal and war means a tremendous increase in circulation for these gentlernen, and therewith a huge rise started, Prades Council On Social Bill MOBILE, Ala.gJan. 15,—The Cen- tral Trades Council here unani- mously endorsed the Workers Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 2827), at its last regular meeting. The Workers’ Bill was introduced to the Central Trades Council by its president, William Doyle, who pointed out that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., had is sued orders to all A. F. of L. locals that this was a “Communist Bill,” and was not endorsed by the top leadership of the A. F. of L. Other delegates to the Council took the floor and pointed out the differences between the various measures which parade under the name of unemployment insurance and showed that the Workers’ Bill was the only measure that could receive the support of the working class. After a thorough discussion, a motion was made for endorsement. The vote was unanimous for the | Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill. In Mobile Acts Even the organized policy of sup- bers of the Commitiee on Labor. pression which was carried out by From all parts of the country and the general capitalist press in line especially from the Congressional with Roosevelt's system of press censorship could not conceal the import of this great congress. Prac- tically every member of the United States Congress and every depart- ment of the Federal government felt the direct pressure of this great mass action. The scores of dele- gations that swept aside bureau- cratic barriers, found their way into the offices of the President, the members of his Cabinet, his bu- reaus and departments, The lobbies of Congress were crowded with groups of delegates who cornered the so-called representatives of the people and impressed upon them \their vigorous protests and de- |mands. Thus the temper and the |determination to struggle which prompted the election of delegates, was effectively communicated to mands of the masses in the in- those who hope to escape the de-| | Districts represented by the mem- bers of this Committee, the demand must be made for an immediate hearing and a favorable report on H. R. 2827, | Committees Must Meet The local sponsoring committtees together with the returned dele- gates must meet immediately to | constitute a permanent local int Action Committee fer the Workers’ | Bi.” These committees will work lunder the direction of the Naional elected by the congress. They will co-ordinate the activities of the va- ‘rious organizations and groups in the various fields within their lo- |ealities. They will be the instru- ments through which the plan of action adopted by the congress can be carried out. The National Action Committee Joint Action Committes which Was | is. already applying itself to the t phase of our work and It is seldom that the effects of 7°* P such actions become immediately S7usele. fads is ee te sulated isolation of Washington. Limited! Orders Are Now Being Taken - Ready February 1 HUNGER and REV Cartoons by BURCK Only 100 copies are available. Money wiil be re- |f, turned to those too late to secure a copy. 8 5 @@ Check or Money e POSTPA 1D DAILY WORKER - 50 E. 13th St., New York |] jTeports and proceedings of the Na tional Congress. These can be ef fectively used to bring the work and decisions of the congress to the jattention of the broadest masse: Autographed! OLT: | Order must accompany orders. |Steps to prepare for the heaz before the Committee on Labor; for ngs: wide distribution of millions of copies of H. R. 2837; for a hroad endorsement campaign; for a cam- paign to secure the affiliation of every possible interested group and organization and for mass demon- strations and struggles in support of our program are now being taken by the National Commiitee. De- tails of all these plans will be com- municated to local committees and to delegates The National Congress for Unem- pleyment and Social Insurance was ® great achievement in the devel- opment of a united front of struggle for a greater measure of economic security, The entire movement and the organizations that worked to make this congress possible have been strengthened in the course of this. But the Congress was not an end in itself. It was a means to an end. We must now make clear to all concerned that the Congress is over but cur fight for the Work- carnestness, “Note: All figures quoted are i Dace! upon the partitt repert of the credentials com: it A com- plete taputation wil pe pabusnet (mo otne rortnecomine “Uonyensson | Proceeding, ers’ Bill is now beginning in all ‘Eleven Failed ‘Farm Workers Win Release BRIDGETON, N. J., Jan. 15.— Another victory was won by the workers of South Jersey as eleven | workers arrested during the recent | Seabrook farm and relief strikes were freed as the County prosecutor refused to prosecute the case against | them. Following the release of William | O'Donnell, arrested militant wor! er who went on a thirteen di hunger strike, tle workers here con- | tinued their tremendeus mass pro- tests in the form of mass parades {and demonsivations, finally forcing ' Thomas G. Tusso, prosecutor, to re- lease the cleven remaining prison- | ers. The workers had been ~rrested for | | their activities in the strike against | the wealthy farm-owner, Seabrook. A broad united front of Socialists, | Communisis, trade unionists, church | groups, and others was formed to | win the freedom of the workers. | | All threats of K.K.K. violence end ements by Seabrook in the local | press failed to stop the united front | protest which now has been crowned ! with the successful liberation of | O'Donnell and the eleven farm | workers. | |War Department Ready ‘To Use Auto Plants DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 15.—-Posi- tive proof that the United States War Department has made a rangements to convert automobile factories into plants manufacturing war equpiment is contained in the following passage from the Monthly Digest of November 1934 of the chief of the Air Corps: “A conference was held with the Planning representative in regard to the utilization of the Briggs or Murray Body Corporation by the Air Corps for the production of air- | Planes. It was learned that sched- dules have been placed with both of these facilities which will require their and it is not believed possible for the quartermaster to relinquish either of these facilities in exchange for some other Air Corps facility.” in profits. That is how Roosevelt’s dearly-beloved profit sy: tem works in the newspaper field@——-——— = controlled by the press monopolists. In this respect, the newspaper kings have the same interests as |the munitions manufacturers. Be- tween du Pont, who is arming for and provoking wars, spreading cor- ruption and briberies in every con- jtinent, and Mr. Hearst (both of | Whose profits increase with war) there is no essential difference. Hearst, the producer of reactiona: dirty anti-workingclass campaigns vhich he peddjes as “public opin- ion,” does not even wait for a | “favorable” moment for war, but he strives with the tremendous | might of his newspapers, magazines, radio stationg, as best he can, to create the situation for war, to incite war, Hearst’s campaign against the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the United States, which he stated with the greatest ferocity efter his return from Fascist Ger- many, and which reached a high Point after the assassination of Comrade Kirov, is a conscious prep- jee for a moral atmosphere for war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. “Impcssible! The United States |which just such a short time ago \recognized the Soviet Union is not now going to make a war against |the Soviet Union,” some people will |answer. Some others will as incred- ulcusly add: “In the present sit- uation, with tremendous increase of imperialist contradictions between the United States and Japan, for jexample, is not the Soviet Union e jSort of ‘natural ally’ of the United States?” The question is quite different |than pictured in the heads of these good people. It is true that the “well-intentioned” Roosevelt gov- ern, so highly Jauded by the liberals of the “Nation” and “New Repub- lic,” is involved in a very aggressive imperialist policy against Japanese imperialism. This government has ‘started a struggle with the equally aggressive Jepanese imperialists on many diplomatic fields, a naval race, etc.—a policy that will inevitably lead to a war if not prevented by the toilers. The pze-war contradi tion between England and Germany jis being here repeated to a wider jextent. And the “liberal” Roosevelt regime, the regime of the New Deal, is preparing consciously for the jenjoy the perspective of trying to | win spheres of influence in the ter- |ritory of the Soviet Union for cap- italization. The terrible frightening |nightmare for the capitalists, and inspiration for the world’s toilers of |Socialist construction on one-sixth |of the earth could be ended. They strive and work towards this goal, though we know the outcome would | be a deadly surprise for them, That uch thoughts are adenturous, play- ing with the lives of millions of people, worries the millionaires not |at all. They do not risk their lives in war. They make huge profits at every step, despite all of the Poisonous chatter of Roosevelt. In Hearst, this tendency of the | American capitalists has already |reached a conscious stage, to the jextent that he uses his whole | mighty power of press and radio to agitate the mes to accept this Policy. Hearst sooke with Hitler in Germany about the foreign policy ,of the Nazis. One of the most im- portant points in Hitler's foreign policy is to try, together with Po- land and Japan, to prepare the war against the Soviet Union, as the “vanguard” of capitalist civilization. Japanese provocations against the Soviet Union increase, in turn, the beligerant activity of Hitler and inspires Hearst to speed his cam- paign in the United States against |the Soviet Union, his campaign of defense of the bloody Hitler rule, to | mobilize sympathy and active sup- port here for these criminal inten- Itions of Hitler's war plans against the Soviet Union. These war-plot- ters are working to act conjointly jagainst the Soviet Union. That is the sense of Hearst’s conscious lying campaign about the “suppressed peoples,” about ‘starvation,” the “weak regime,” and a hundred other such canards, which we have exposed and are exposing day by day. | Hearst, the agitator for war against the U. 8. S. R., the insti- \gater of supporting such a war on |the side of Japan and Fascist Ger- |many, is at the same time acting | as the chief propaganda agent of the American millionaires, the bankers and trust owners, who hope |to profiteer immensely from such ja war. That the yellow socialists of the “Forward,’ and the Trotzkyites with | their Muste recruits, are the coun- | about | |Nese markets. very old deal of a new imperialist | ter-revolutionary cohorts of Hearst war, for the domination of the Chi- |—who can deny this today? What About these facts |the workers, farmers and intellec- there are not the slightest doubts. |tuals do not believe when coming But from this follows by no |frem a contemptible yellow Hearst, means that the Soviet Union is con- | these voluntary Hearst agent's sidered by the American capitalists |(whom we must treat indistinguish- as their “natural ally.” ably from the Czarist white guards) On the contrary. As the impe- \try to convince is true with spuri- For War Equipment. Detroit Quartermaster Procurement | entire productive capacity, rielist contradictions between Jap- anese and American impcrialism mount, at the same time, the ten- ‘dency increases among the Amer- ican exploiters, or at least among ‘certain important and decisive sec- tions, to do everything to encour- age and provoke an attack by Jap- anese imperialism ageinst the Soviet Union. The American capitalists are now yet theroughly prepared for a war |against Japanese imperialism. They feel they must build more warships, |Maval bases, airplanes, that they must make further diplomatic prep- |arations and clarify their relations |toward the British imperialists. |There’s capitalists reason in this manner. | If in the meantime, Japanese im- Perialism were to attack the work- \ers' fatherland, that would mean a ‘kening of the Jap- ts, which they hope jcould be used to adayntage of the American robbers in China. If, at ‘the same time, the Soviet. Union were to be weakened, or perhaps as capitaist “optimists” hope, the So- viet Union would even be destroyed, then from their viewpoint, two birds could be killed with one stone. Then the American imperialists would not only have at their mercy athe vast Chinese markets, but could ee ous “left” arguments. The agitation | ef this clique against the Soviet Union, which comprises 100 per cont of their “activity,” hes as its result \the preparation of the workers to g’ve creflence to Hearst putrid lies, | Just as an adherent of the Zino- |viev-Trotzky gang assassinated ; Comrade Kirov in the Soviet Uniow. ‘so the agents of this clique in the United States are preparing by their systematic slanderous agita- tion against the Soiet Union, and its outstanding leader Stalin, the possibility of a mass killing of the | teilers of the Soviet Union; that ‘means, to help in their own fash- ion in the moral preparation for a igeneral armed attack against the | Scivet Union. As necessary as it is to vaccinate the masses against the diseased agitation of the yellow Hearsts. it is just as necessary to isolate this voluntary gang like the carriers of | the pest. | Sellers of the Daily Worker: What haye your experiences been in selling the paper to workers be- fore factories, on street corners, at meetings, and in the home? Write the Daily Worker. Letters will be published to stimulate particip?‘'on in the circulation campaign, ‘ y STEEL BOA Page 3 RD BALKS AS DUQUESNE MEN On Pretext That Outcome of Court Action By Carnegie Company Must Be Awaited PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. the Duquesne Lodge of the Iron, Steel and Tin Workers ( tion would or would not be h Carnegie Steel Company, the has clearly indicated tion? of making another W of Duquesne. A wire sent las its inte on case out Monday to the board demanded a yes or no ar A reply received four days later stated that no further action will be taken by the board pending action by the Third Circuit Court ef Anpeals on the company union's petition for a review of the election order. Charlton Ogburn, attorney for the Amalgamated Association, also gives his support and that of the interna- tional officers to the stalling of the | Labor Board, having notified the | Duquesne workers that, in effect, he and Mike Tighe, Amalgamated As- | sociation president, will fold hands | and await a court decision while the steel workers continue to starve and | suffer discrimination. With the gracious cooperation of the Steel Labor Board, the United States Steel Corporation barons have used the recognized status of the company union, achieved through Messrs. Green's and ‘Tighe’s block- ing of a strike last spring, to check- mate the election. | Meanwhile, in the Duquesne mill, |the company goes merrily on its way, | strengthening the company union's Position. New workers are being hired to pad the payrolls in the | highly improbable event of a gov- ernment ele tion. Company rumors are flying to the | effect that the mill will reach a ninety per cent production level in| two months; that the only thing holding back the resumption of full production schedules is the Amal- gamated. | Workers Not Fooled | | Not fooled in the least by any of | this, the workers of Duquense are | going about the business of gather- | | ing pay envelopes to be used in} making up a list of qualified voters for an election. When this is com- | piled, the Labor Board will be in- vited to supervise an honest elec- tion; if they refuse the workers in- tend to go through with the elec- tion themselves. ‘ The Duquense lodge has issued a | leaflet in answer to a lynch-incite- ment editorial against all “reds” which appeared in the Duquesne Times. mouthpiece of Mayor Craw- ford, Carnegie Steel puppet. Above the reprint cf a Hearst editorial calling for the imprisonment and deportation cf all “native born and alien Reds,” the Times editor, one Wm. J. Filcer, had run the follow- ing: “Editor's Note. — The following article should be published in every | | loyal newspaper in the United | States and if results are not favor- | | able communities should adopt the | same method that for a time was in| leis in the early history of Calif- |ornia, There are plenty of vacant | trees and hemp these days can| | readlly be procured.” “Who are these ‘Communists’,” says the union leafiet. “They are the same honest workers who slave | away year after year in the mills, As long as they submit to low wages, the speed-up. miserable | working conditions—they are all | right, according to the bosses. But as soon as they organize and pledge themselves to the strug- | gle to better their conditions— | then they are ‘Reds’ ‘Communists,’ and the company wants them mm out of town or hung from the | Nearest vacant tree.” Leaflet Cites Demands The leaflet then quotes the de- mands of the workers, drawn up at the fifty-ninth convention: One dollar an hour, the six-hour day, the five-dev no discrimination against Negro work abolition of 4. .2+.2u 1 waze differentials, en- acixr2ns of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurarce Bill (H.R. 2827). The National Steel Board rendered | its “no-further-action” decision in Duquesne simultaneously with an | cfficial whitewashing of the terror-| ization of Aliquippa workers by the | Jones and Laughlin Steel Corpora- | tion. | The company is absolved of any | | connection with the thuggery o! their roving deputies by the board's ruling: “Certain acts of espionage oc- | curred on the part of certain spe-| cial police employed by the corpora- swer. | jtion as guards, against certain Amalgamated sociation organizers | and certain pr tive or actual | members of Beaver lodge, but that | tea espionage ceased when called | Youth Mass Meeting Hails Memory of Lenin Liebknecht, Luxemburg | A tremendous ovation greeted C. | A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily | | Worker, when he walked onto the | platform in New Star Casino last | Sunday night to address the largest and most enthusiastic Lenin, Lieb- knecht, Luxemburg memorial meet- | ing ever held in New York. | The meeting was held under the | auspices of the New York District | of the Young Communist League. | Performers were the Junior Red | Dancers, the Theatre of Action Shock Troop and the Young Lib- erators. One of the highlights of the/ meeting was the pledge, read by John Little, the- district organizer of the Young Communist League, and repeated by all at the meeting, | pledging. unswe:ving allegiance to the working class and the Commu- | {nist Party, ' a, * ‘ | cuss 15.—Answering the query of Amalgamated Association of A. F. of L.), whether an elec- eld in the Duquesne plant of National Steel Labor Board the attention of mill officials.” her words. e terroristie not have the sanction of y, ar ere committed s knowledge. Aliquippa Eiecton Stalied One worker, Jo> Latone, has been = d the So the Aliquippa workers’ demand for an fe no Geferred by both —the company and Mike and the Aliquinpa case is as far as the international of the union and the Steel Boerd are concerned. At the Rankin plant of the Amere ican Steel and Wire Co. (U. S. Steel) the company has distributed cards for the workers to sign.—“This is to certify that - am a member of the Employes Representation Plan at Rankin Works of the American Steel and Wire Company,” with a space for the signature and check number of the worker. This maneuver is matched in Dus quesne by the circulating of coms pany union petitions supporting the six-day week, to entice the workers into signing the Employes Repres- entation Plan list. In the Pittsburgh district, the workers in the Amalgamated are turning their attention to the Feb, 3 conference in Elks Hall, Pitts- * burgh, where delegates from ail lodges and from local unions of the United Mine Workers and the Alu- minum Workers will gather to dis- ways and means of assisting each other in achieving their de- mands. Workers?! Enter the Special Subscription ONTEST Ist Prize—A Free Trip to the Soviet Union. 2nd Prize—A Month in Any Workers’ Camp, or $50 in Cash. 3rd Prize—Two Weeks In Any Workers’ Camp or $25 in Cash. 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Prizes— One Week in Any Workers’ Camp, or $12 in Cash. —Rules of the Contest— Open to all readers support- ers of the Daily Worker. 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