The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935 Page 3 AMTER URGES RESISTANCE TO FEDERAL SLAVE WAGE PLAN FIGURES REVEAL _ $50 MONTHLY PAY AS FAKE | | | | | PROMISE $6,500,000,000 Available Divided By Number of Employables on Relief Rolls Shows Aver- age Monthly Wage Will Be $24.39 By Israel Amter The shameful wage decid ed by the United States Con- gress in Roosevelt’s “relief” bill, of $50 a month, means a} sharp reduction of the living standards not only of the 8,500,000 on the relief rolls (minus the 1,500,000 “unemploy- ables), but of the whole working class. And further, the | vage” of $50 is a fake and wil! be paid. | Facts and figures make this clear. | The appropriations made by Con- | gress was for $800,000,000 immedi- | ately plus $4,000,000,000 provided in the bill. In addition, there is sup- | bosedly “available” $1,700.000,000 re- | maining from the $3,300,000,000 ap- propriated in 1933 in connection with the adoption of the N. I. R. A. This makes a total of $6,500,000,000. Before examining these figures, let us call attention to figures of the United States Department of | Labor. In the. October report of the Department of Labor, we find | that 1,950,000 were on the “emer- gency relief program” of the gov- ernment in that month. Their total wageo were $51,000,000. This pro- | vided a “wage” of $26.16 a month for these workers. Even the boys and men in the semi-military C. C. C, were paid higher wages, in ad- dition to their food, shelter and clothing. 391,894 men received $16,- 939,595 in wages in October, or an average of $43.32 a month in wages alone. Material Cost Exceeds Wages More interesting is another anal- ysis of the figures. Total wages for 5,285,981 men employed and paid by the Public Works Administration over 2 period of 15 months—from August, 1933, through October, 1934 —amounted to $290,649,000. “Ma- terials” for this same period cost | $556,201. In other words, wages | amounted to approximatey one dol- | lar for each two dollars for “ma- terials.” These “materials” included such supplies as’ aircraft ($4,284,000 | worth), airplane parts ($4,438,000), | electrical machinery, etc. ($22,199,- 000), foundry and machine-shop products ($56,422,000), railway cars, freight ($34,644,000), railway cars, passenger ($7,152,000), etc, Obviously, | WAR materials! The Roosevelt “relief” bill pro- vides for work till June 30, 1937. In other words, for two and one-half years.. The total sum available is | $6,500,000,000 to supply wages 3514 | per cent of whole sum) and to pur- | chase materials (65% per cent). Today there are not 3,500,000 “em- ployables” on the relief rolls, but 3,650,000. For these 3,650,000 tnem- ployed there will be available over a period of two and a half years, $2,226,250,000 for wages. This gives us $24.39 a month per worker for two and a half years. Roosevelt will probably not pro- ceed in this manner, He will pro- vide an “average” of $50 to some workers for a short period. We re- member the “union scales” on C. W. A. jobs. These scales frequently prevailed, but the workers received so little work that their weekly or monthly wages brought them down to $50 to $60 a month. Scales for the unskilled “tapered off,” as did the hours. The unemployed orig- inally received 30 hours of work, then it was reduced to as low as eight hours in the South, 12 hours | in the North. | Seales Below C.W.A. Rates The scales are now reduced far below the C. W. A. rates. No longer do even. the “local prevailing scales” apply. On the contrary, Roosevelt declared that the scales shall always be below the local prevailing rates, so as to induce the workers to “find jobs” in private industry. But ex- actly the opposite will occur. The employers will use the scales on the relief jobs to cut the wages they pay their own workers. This will apply not only to building trades workers, but to all workers on jobs. The facts are before us—facts that cannot be disputed. Roosevelt has juggled big figures, in the hope that the workers would not be able to penetrate the “mystery” of his higher arithmetic. The working class is to be reduced to a hunger standard that they have never yet experienced. ‘ A Threat faces all of us workers. The unemployed face it first. of all. They must immediately organize into the National Unemployment Council and refuse to accept Roose- velt's |hunger decree. They must demand: 1) Not a single worker shall be removed from the relief rolls; 2) All unemployed shall im- mediately be put on the relief rolls, without discrimination; 3) Scales on the relief jobs shall be union scales 4) A guaranteed 30 hours of work per week for every worker shall be provided’ and at least 40 weeks in @ year; 5) Immediate enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. The trade unions must be aroused to the danger that confronts them and all workers. Roosevelt is crack- ing the whip of hunger. He utters fascist threats. Now is the time to fight. Now is the time to unite our ranks. Trade unionists, shop work- ers, unemployed, organized and un- i all nationalities, Negro and white: Hunger and terror face us. We must unite our ranks, $24.39 a month is Roosevelt’s decree. Let us weld our ranks together and fight! MOSCOW PLANS GIANT MOVIE MOSCOW, Jan. 24—A new movie theatre with seating accommodations for 20,000 spectators is to be ovened in the “Park of Rest and Culture” at Moscow. The screen will have a surface aia Ba over 234 square yards. Tt the largest theatre \this spring as yesteday eighty fed- j announced yesterday by William 80 Auto Locals Quit Industry, Labor Board Strike Comes Nearer As Green Is Forced to Back Down WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 25.— Automobile workers came a step closer towards a general auto strike eral locals affiliated with the Amer- ican Federation of Labor informed President Roosevelt of their with- drawal from the Auto Labor Board headed by Leo Waldman which tricked them last spring into calling off their strike. The withdrawal was Green, president of the A. F. of L. Green, who found the provisions in the settlement of March 26, 1934, a “victory” for the automobile workers, has now been forced to de- | clare that labor will not agree to a/ further extension of the agreement beyond February 3, when it expires. The March 25th settlement provided for recognition to company unions, | @ merit clause and low wages. As a result of this settlement company unions have been set up in most of the plants and steps are being taken now to consolidate them into a na- tional organization. As a step to counter the growing company union menace, and towards | a general strike to force recognition of the A. F. of L. Federal Locals, a conference of rank and file elements within the locals will open in De- troit at 9 a. m. tomorrow at Danish | Brotherhood Temple, 1775 West For- | est Ave. This conference, it is expected, will play a significant part | in organizing the growing indigna- tion among the membership against the stalling and dickering of the A. F. of L. officials for actual steps towards a strike. It was reported that Green told Secretary of Labor Perkins and President Roosevelt already in Sep- tember that the workers were dis- satisfied with the settlement ar- rangement, hoping to convince them that some concessions were advis- | able, The announcement which wes | withheld until yesterday, it was ex- | plained, was finally forced through the increasing pressure from the locals through many protest resolu- tions, and the fraudulent plant) election recently framed by the) Cadillac Company, which have aroused renewed wave of protests from the ranks of the workers. An intense organization drive is to be initiated in the industry, Labor Groups Urged To Protest Suppression | Of Caribbean Strikers 1 All unions of the American Fed- | eration of Labor, the Trade’ Union Unity League, all independent unions and all workers’ organiza- tions have been called upon to protest immediately the reign of terror unleashed by the imperialist sugar barons and their puppet gov- ernments against striking sugar mill workers of Cuba and Puerto Rico, the National Executive Board of the Trade Union Unity League declared in a statement made pub- lic yesterday. “The terrorist measures of the Mendieta government against the Cuban workers,” the appeal stated, “is not only an attack against our Cuban brothers but a threat to every American worker and his trade union. “Immediate protest meetings should be. organized. Resolutions and telegrams should be sent to Secretary of State Hull, Washing- ton, D. C.; President Mendieta, Havana, Cuba and Governor Win- ship, San Juan, Puerto Rico.” i Funds Needed at Once To Send Delegations To HR 2827 Hearings | The National Joint Action Committee for Unemployment Insurance yesterday appealed for finances in order that the rep- resentatives of the workers might appear in the hearings on the Workers’ Bill before the Com- mittee on Labor in the House of Representatives, Hearings on the Workers Un- employment, Old Age and So- cial Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, will begin on Wednesday, Jan. 30, and continue for three weeks. One thousand dollars is needed All contributions should be sent to the National Joint Action Committee, Room 436, 799 Broad- way, New York City. Textile Leader In Laneaster To Appeal Case Lawyer’s Tactics Bring ‘Riot’ Conviction Against Quinlan LANCASTER, Pa., Jan. 25.—Pat | Quinlan, local organizer of the | United Textile Workers, found guilty on framed charges last week, for alleged rioting during the general textile strike last September, has taken action to appeal the decision | to a higher court, ‘The boss-picked jury found Quin- lan guilty of four charges: riot, in- citing to riot, resisting arrest and unlawful assemblage, despite the fact that Quinlan was not even at the scene when the so-called rioting | took place at the Stehli Mill. The | testimony of State Police, and the | city police which were sent by Mayor Ross to the Stehli Mill, which is outside the city limits, merely’ brought out that Quinlan was looked upon as the leader and therefore responsible for any dis- order which occurred. The lawyer for Quinlan was the Democratic politician Robert Rup- pin, who wasn’t even interested to challenge the obviously prejudiced | jury panel. Due to the disgraceful | tactics of Ruppin, the other four | workers. were fooled into pleading | guilty and were fined $65 costs each, and given a six months sus- pended sentence by the labor-hat-. ing judge Benjamin. Atlee, J, Granville Eddy, local Commu- | nist leader, has his case postj med to April. This was after District Attorney Paul Mueller privately ad- mitted that he did not have “enough on him.” Not desiring to admit their framed arrest of Eddy, police will either try to find a stronger basis for doing so or wait until such time as the general public here forgets about the case and drop it. Five Gernyan Workers, Arrested for Criticizing | Nazi Road Directors! BRUNSWICK, Germany, Jan. 25, | ~—The Brunswick Tribunal is at | present dealing with an affair | which provides another instance of increasing open opposition to the Nazi regime. The case concerns, five workers who had been employed on the con- struction of an arterial road. One | of them is accused of having “at- tacked the directors of the work in | front of a large number of his fel- low-workers,” while the others are alleged to have “incited the workers to insubordination.” Division of Abyssinia Is/ Planned by France and Italy Reports Indicate ROME, Jan. 24.—The colonial armies of Italy and France and the diplomats of these powers will unite their efforts to dismember Abyssinia and absorb the rich booty of the country, an official spokesman in- timated here today. The incredible hypocrisy of the French imperialists in deploring on the one hand the incident of the killing of a provocative military squad and on the other in sending heavily armed contingents into the Abyssinian interior was duplicated | by Italian fascism this afternoon. The French-Italian invasion of Abyssinia. was now taking place with the excuse that “its govern- ment is incapable of controlling the situation on its borders,” an official statement declared. Two Dead, 46 Still Missing In Mysterious Ship Sinking Two members of the crew are known to have lost their lives and forty-six persons are missing as a result of the sinking of the liner Mohawk, a Ward Line ship, in a collision with a Norwegian freighter, the Talisman, off the Jersey coast on Thursday night. The latest catastrophe follows on the heels of two other Ward Line disatsers, one of the tragic burning of the Morro Castle which took 124 lives, and the other, the Havana, lost on a Ba- hama reef on January. One hundred and seventeen sur- vivors were picked up by two rescue ships. Thirty-two members of the crew and fourteen passengers are still missing. A coast guard patrol reports sighting two empty swamped lifeboats. As with the other Ward Line dis- , asters considerable mystery hangs over the sinking of the Mohawk. Although the boat took one and half hours to sink, giving ample time to launch the life boats, it is reported by some of the rescuers that persons were floundering around in the icy waters when picked up. + There is also the question as to how the two boats came to be at the same spot at the same time, al- though the Mohawk, a much faster boat sailed out of New York an hour before the Talisman. The Ward Line ‘s notorious for bad working conditions on its ships, and for undermanned crews. It has collected $4,500,000 insurance on the Morro Castle, and although guilty of gross negligence was whitewashed by the government. Circulation Drive Running neck and neck, Wisconsin, New Jersey _ Lead Other Districts In Subscription Race Low Totals Show Most Districts Have Failed to Put Organized Apparatus Into Motion for of Daily Worker Wisconsin and New Jersey lead all the other districts in the Daily Worker subscription | drive! Chicago, though it has gained sixty subscriptions, is | only in fifth place. New York and Philadelphia are tied for fourth. Only three districts have ® | not yet scored. prizes that every “worker considers | PICKETING I | car |RUSSIAN CONGRESS - s OF SOVIETS RAI Ss. LIVING CONDITIONS While U. S. Congress Passes Wage-Cutiing ‘Relief? MOSCOW, Jan. | when the capitalist Congr (By Wire Bill, Soviets Bring Health Service to Workers to World’s Highest Level —At the very moment ‘|| well as of the unemployed, to the m ss in the United States was pa itting “Relief” Bill, the bill w a ing standard ll workers,-as r income of $42 ing the Roosevelt wage- | will ultimately reduce the + sofa y | mediate gain, | free trip to the Soviet Union and | with Rakosi. But with the total gain in sub- scriptions so far only three hun- | dred it is evident that the districts have still not set their apparatus in motion. Must Set Example Such districts as Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Boston and Philadelphia particularly are! charged with the heavy re- sponsibility of showing an im- They must set the pace for the rest of the coun- try. Boston an- nounced yester- day that it is planning to send letters to all subscribers in the district, calling upon them to renew their subscriptions and to help get new subscribers. This is an idea that might be utilized to good advantage by every other district. Popularize Contest Only workers from nine districts | were entered in the subscription contest, when Thursday’s reports were made up. The leadership in each district must assume the re- sponsibility of organizing an in- tense campaign for registrants. The the nine other prizes are certainly | Rakosi Hits White Terror In Courtroom (Continued from Page 1) found the use of armed force nec- essary. “It is sufficient, however, to mention as an example of ruth- lessness on your side, that even those who were not even radical enough to be pacifists were sav- agely shot by the Rumanian and Czechoslovakian troops.” Makes Deep Impression The trial-room was absolutely silent. Some were quiet with heip- Jess anger at Rakosi’s accusations. Others were openly and deeply im- pressed that a man whose very"lif2 had been sapped of vitality through nine years of dungeon-imprison- ment should so passionately and clearly lay bare the whole nature of the class-struggle particularly when such an exposure could only strengthen the determination of the Hungarian bourgeoisie to do away Attorney General Dietz called up- | on the Budapest chief of police to testify as to the truth of Rakosi’s statement that only when urgent- | ly required was force called upon b; the Soviet government of Hungary. The chief of police completely con- firmed Rakosi’s explanation. At this, in great consternation, the court went into a huddle, Rakosi’s sister was ordered ar- rested by the court for having said that she was “proud of my brother.” Visit Consulate Here A delegation, representing the | Tom Mooney Branch of the New York District International Labor Defense, visited the Hungarian Consulate yesterday in the Cunard Building, 7 Morris Street, and pre- sented a resolution demanding that the Hungarian government free Mathias Rakosi, Communist leader, on trial for his life in Budapest. Consisting of May Gellman and T. Pravoleas, the delegation refused to leave the Consulate office when so ordered and forced a represen- tative of the Hungarian government to accept the resolution for for- warding to Budapest. The Consul, it was said, was not in the office because of illness. The New York District I. L. D., which will hold a giant five-day | bazaar, starting in Manhattan Lyceum on Feb, 20th, to raise funds for the defense of all class-war pris- oners, urged all its branches, sec- tions and other workers’ organiza- tions to send delegations to the Hungarian Consulate to demand Rakosi’s release. I. L. D. Urges Phone Calls to Consulate The New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense, through its executive committee, calls upon all working class organizations to send protests and to make tele- phone calls to the Hungarian Con- sulate at 7 Morris Street, DIgbey 4—2672, demanding safe release of Mathias Rakosi. “The International Labor Defense sent the following telegram: “In the name of 15,000 members and affiliates we demand the im- mediate release of Rakosi. Demand you inform your government we hold them responsible for Rakosi's safety.” We urge all mass organizations not to delay since Rakosi’s life de- pends on world-wide protest. worth striving for—and getting sub- | scriptions for the Daily Worker is | certainly not a difficult task for ac- | tive, diligent Shock Brigaders. A. A. Larson, of Chicago, has | shown how easy it is. Larson’s | method is to visit workers in their | homes regularly and talk to them. No matter what the problem in| time and energy 10,000 daily and } 15,000 Saturday subscriptions must be written by April 5. The subscription table follows: aie $ | a : 33 32 With workers of the National 3 ae = Biscuit Company on strike, mem- 4 aS gs 3) 3 zt ee | $3 | bers of the union are seeing to 3 33 cy 3 5§| it that retail customers know the a ae £39 id rae ety sao 47] facts of the strike, too. Here's Bos ” A s aimee’ vorkis! 1 n 600 °45| One young woman walking back 3—Phila. 2 2 600 45) and forth in front of the At- -Butisio = 6B 200 28 lantic and Pacific store telling 5—Pittsburg! 3 7 Vati 6—Cleveland 138 30 800 a1 | the oe oe Sere National Topetrolt 6 16 300 32) Biscuit products while the strike 8—Chicago 12 60 1500 4.0) is on. 9—Minnesota 2 10 500 2.0 —— ————$______— 10—Nebraska 1 ¥ 200 3.5 11—North Dak. 4 8 200 a W k G 12—Washington * 3 200 15 ye 13—California 1 18. Sho a2] orker roup 14—N. Jersey 10 20 400 5.0) 15—Connecticut 1 6 200 3.0 Vi . C | 16—N. Carolina 1 5 150 3.3 irae 2 § 3 ©! Visits Carlson 18—Wisconsin 10 a1 400 5.4) 19—Colorado 1 2 300 1] I N il 20—Texas 3 3 150 2.0) 3 ye com, ¢ 6} Belin Newark Jat 22—W. Virginia — 1 150 6 | 23—Kentucky - _- 150 —_—_— | t= per yep eRe NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 25.—A mass rH eine eae ape delegation has been organized by the | 26—South Dakota zs International Labor Defense here, 32/to visit Frank Carlson this after- noon in jail at Newark and Central | Avenues. Carlson is serving ten days | for leading a delegation to the C.| C. C. headquarters here and form- | ing a picket line to protest the ffr- 303 TOTAL } 113 Gaincils Call ‘Demonstration : In Cincinnati : Fables to Assemble 3, Next Saturday at Hospital Place CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 25.—The |Communist Party and the Unem- |ployment Councils yesterday called upon all workers to assemble at Hospital Place and 12th Street and | Central Avenue, Saturday, Feb. 2 at |11 a.m. to fight the sentencing of six unemployed workers to jail and |the denial of jury trials to 23 others who had massed at the relief sta- tion demanding aid. The city and welfare officials of | Hamilton County, unable to cope with the growing mass movement }among the unemployed industrial workers and farmers in the outly- bite townships, are resorting to new | moves in an attempt to smash the unemployed organizations. When the 29 workers who were | arrested for demanding relief for | two famiies who refused to wait ence Sprawl, six were sentenced to the workhouse. All the rest de- manded jury trials. The Council Law Committee then moved to recommend passage of a proposed ordinance reducing the {the workers of other mines. | tional Labor Board upheld the rul- ; Mine Owners, Cases Show By GRACE HUTCHINS Labor Research Assn. N.R.A. coal labor boards, both divisional and national, continue to hand down decisions favoring the operators against the miners. Cases thus decided, of qourse, become precedents for decisions against The | following are typical of many re- | cent rulings. At the Union Pacific Coal Co.’s mines, Rock Springs, Wyo., the National Bituminous Coal Labor | | ing of the mutineers from the South Mountain camp. between one and three o'clock. The visiting hours are from one to two o'clock for women and from two to three o'clock for men. A delegation was also to visit the home of Judge Seymour Klein, who | sentenced Carlson, to demand the immediate release of Carlson and the seven other members of the Picket line who are serving five-day sentences. Three of the 12 who were arrested have been released after serving three days and the last of the 12 will come up for trial at the Seventh Precinct Court, Seventh and Summer Avenues, at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. Workers have been urged to turn Board has favored the company in an important decision on mine | workers’ wages. This company is | @ subsidiary of the Union Pacific | Railroad, of which W. Averell Har- | riman js chairman. Harriman has recently been appointed N.R.A. ad- ministrative officer. | The N.R.A. code calls for in- | creases in tonnage rates equivalent | to the increase in rates for men paid by the day. Workers in the | Union Pacific mines claimed this increase should be ten cents per | ton for pit-car loaders. The com- pany claimed it should be only | seven cents per ton. The N.R.A. board, of which John L. Lewis is an important mem- ber, upheld the operators against | the miners and ruled that the in- crease should be only seven cents. | This makes a difference to the | loaders of three cents on every | ton loaded, In another case, where the Na- | ing of Division II, hoisting en- gineers are excepted from the seven-hour day provisions of the N.R.A, code, and must therefore work a longer day than other mine workers. Lenin’s Works Offered -As Subseription Prize) By ‘Working Woman’ Eight volumes of Lenin’s works | free is the prize offered by the Working Woman magazine in its subscription drive. The person sending in the highest number of yearly subscriptions over | two hundred, will receive a com- | plete set of Lenin's works, For ten subscriptions the prize will be a free subscription. For every five subscriptions a copy of the new In- ternational pamphlet, “Mother Bloor,” by Ann Barton will be given. The subscription drive ends April 1. Subscriptions are 50 cents yearly. They should be addressed to Working Woman, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. If the winner wishes, an alternative first prize is a set of cast aluminum cooking pots. BAUMGARTNER HEADS COUNCIL The caption appearing above the picture of James Matles, national secretary-treasurer of the Metal Workers Industrial Union in Thurs- day's issue of the Daily Worker in- correctly stated that he heads the national council of independent unions in metal and mschine build- ing industry. While Matles is a member of the executive board of the council, the chairman of the council is William Baumgartner of out for the delegation and to tele- phone Judge Klein at Market 2-2660, to demand the immediate release | of Carlson and the other pickets, Plaingoods Workers To Meet Tomorrow To Nominate Officers The delegation will visit the jail | {fine in “disorderly conduct” cases |to $40. This will deny the jury | trials, since under a law passed by the State legislature in 1933, the right to jury trial is granted only | to cases involving a fine of more | than $50. The Central Labor Council and numerous A. F. of L. locals have protested the passage of this ordi- nance, Ei: B Leales Held in Seattle | For ‘Contempv (Special to the Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 25. Wesley Rand: district secretary of jonal Labor De- was sentenced to ten days in jail for insisting on his right to defend transients who were arrested here in a demonstration for improved relief. (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 25—A/ special membership meeting has | been called by the plaingoods depart- | ment of the American Federation of Silk Workers here for tomorrow 9 candidates in the approaching union election. | Nomination for general officers will also include nomination for a general manager and the member- ship at last has the opportunity to rid itself of the present reactionary Lovestoneite, Eli Keller, who holds the position. CAFE WORKERS STRIKE Twenty-five workezs of the Dean’s Restaurant Corporation, 577 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, responded yester- Restaurant and Cafeteria Workers day to the strike call of the Hotel, | Judge Bell, in police court, de- nied Randall the right to give the men defense counsel because he was not a member of the bar. When Randall attempted to quote the law to prove his right, Judge Bell or- dered that he be arrested. The case a. m. at Turn Hall, Ellison and|has been appealed. Randall is Crosbie Streets, to mobilize the| free in $100 bail. membership for the fight against | ————__—_—_——*— renewed attempts by the mill own- Silk Union Organizes ers to cut wages and to nominate | 150 Employes in Lodi Cotton Bleaching Plant LODI, N. J., Jan. 25—Extending the union into the cotton bleach- eries, the American Federation of | Silk and Rayon Dyers, Lodi local, signed an agreement with the Mil bank Bleachery here, employing 150 | workers. The same wage scale, 66 |cents per hour, 36-hour week and | other concessions which formed the basis of the recent general strik settlement is provided for all silk jand rayon dyers in the plant. Union, local 123, section of the Food Workers Industrial Union. The daily firing of workers for union activity by Mr. Sheel, owner and former president of the Brooklyn Restau- rant Owners Association, leaders of the union he said, is a conscious attempt to prevent the workers from organizing into the union. Roys and girls: Sell the Daiiy Worker after school and make expenses. Write to 50 East Thir- teenth Street, New York. Women workers on rayon finish- ing get 48 cents. For cotton worl ers the contract provides a mi imum of 50 cents for men bleachers, | |and 40 cents for women. The cot-| ton scale is 15 cents above the code minimum, under the cotton code authori But the contract now pro’ if at any time more tha: per cent of the work in the plent is on silk and rayon dyeing, the entire) | plant goes on the basis of the 66 ‘cent rate. Protests Ter MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 25.— Governor LaFoliettee of Wisconsin was asked last Saturday by the W. A. Gardner Lodge of the Brother- hood of Railroad Trainmen to make @ special investigation of the terror in Racine, Wis., where Sam Her- ee Communist organizer was kid- the lives of militant workers threat- | ened. The resolution de | would hold the gov: respon- sible for any further “attacks upon the working ciass of Racine.” The lodge demanded the release ed the Lodge the Tool and Die Makers Club of Newark, N. J. of John Sekat, Racine Communist section organizer railroaded to one ’ Railway Brotherhood Lodge 'naped and beaten, the Communist | {headquarters and halls wrecked and | ror in Racine {to two years in the State prison {on a trumped-up charge of “i citing to riot.” It also asked that similar framed charges against Her- | man be dropped “at once.” The resolution was adopted at a membership meeting of the lodge, formed the governor. ‘and declares: “We demand that you (the gov- ernor) investigate thoroughly at once the situation in Racine and ef- against labor.” \ sum of wages and alone amounts to les.” [This sum has for the Russian S5- d Soviet Republics republics vote 370,000,001 been “The national health protec- tion of the Soviets, under the conditions of growth of genes] culture and the consolidation of material power, has been raised to such a high level as has not been reached by any capitalist country. The health of the ngz tion kas been strengthened not only through doctors and medir cal aid. It has been improved by physical culture, by vacations and also by the number of sanatoriums and rest homes scattered through- out the Soviet Union, which are attached to trade unions and vari- ous factories and institutions ja various localities. “In the capitalist world the careful attention of the doctor towards his patient is predeter- mined by the sum of money which the patient pays. the doctor. Ia our socialist country the health of the workers and peasants is the chief concern of the state. , “From year to year,” Kalinin cone cluded, “we aze fulfilling our. finan cial plan and our industrial tasks. | I have no doubt also that in. the forthcoming years, until the new 17th Congress of ts of RSFSR. the tasks which arise in the development of indus- try, agriculture and culture will-be fulfilled by us in full—100 per cent!” The Congress elected the Alle Russian Central Executive Commit tee, which comprises 401 members. Kalinin was unanimously elected tary. At the first session of “tt Committee, D, E. Sulimov was ap- proved as Chairman of the Coun- cil of People’s Commissars. This act concluded the 16th Congress of Soviets of the R.S.F.S.R. The Sev- enth Congress of Soviets of the ene tire Soviet Union opens tomorrow. Young Communists Plan Collections in Chicago For Fund Tomorrow | topic will be “The ‘Discussion On Negro” | Question To Be Held Christ A. Hummel, president, in- |New York District of the Youn The resolition pledges “the full | Thursday, Jan. 31, 7:30 p. m. @ support and cooperation” of the | Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place |lodge “to combat terror in Racine,” | Fifteenth Street, |fect. severe punishment for the in- | the Trade Union Unity Couneii All stigators of these vicious sien Ws the speaker, cago units, on Communist members, and on mem! organizations and all sympathizers of the revolutionary movement to aid in the special tag day for the Young Communist League fighting fund on Sunday, 10 a. m. Volun- teers are asked to report to the following stations: “4 Italian Workers Center, Lexing- ton and Kedzie Avenues; Cultural Center, 3419 Roosevelt Road, (top fioor); 4003 Roosevelt Road; Liberty Hall, 14th and 49th, Cicero; 9133 Baitimore Avenue; 10413 Michigan Avenue; 1014 East 75th Strast; 9332 Cottage Grove Avenue; 4090 Archer Avenue; 5ist Street and Whipple Avenue; 2609 West Po- tomac Strect; 4825 North Kedzie Avenue, 1145 North Spaulding Ave- nue; 3911 Chicago Avenue; Peoples Auditorium, 2457 West Chicago Avenue; 557 Browning, Holman House; 3214 Wentworth Averfie; 4733 Michigan Avenue; 1326 East 55th Street, International Labor Defense, - = | Hathaway Wi! ill Speak | In Pittsburgh Monday At Memorial Meeting PITTSBURGH, Jan. 25.—Clare The shop is at present | ence Hathaway, editor of the Daily .| Worker, will speak here on Monday jat the m meeting to commemo- rate the anniversary of Lenin’s Geath at the Fifth Avenue High School auditorium. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. Hathaway's ife, Work and Teachings of Lenin. ia David Doran, district organizer of the Young Communist League, will speak on “Liebknecht and Luxéme burg.” Ben Careathers, Negro | working class leader, will be chaire man of the meeting. | At Youth Mass Meeting A mass meeting called by the Communist League will be hel to discuss “ti “Position and Tasks of the Youn Communist League on the Question.” Manning Johnson, organizer,