The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1935 Page 3 HISTORIC STEEL PARLEY | MAPS PLAN OF ACTION Rank and File Defeat | Tighe’s Attempt to | Stifle Movement By Tom Keenan | (Daily Worker Pittsburgh Bureau) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 5—The most important and historic con-| ference of steel workers and coal miners which has yet taken place in the United States, with 400 dele-| gates representing 78 lodges of the Amalgamated Association, and 130 delegates from five districts of the United Mine Workers attending. met in the Moose Temple Sunday to lay plans for a national organi- zation campaign in the steel indus- try carried forward by the rank and file. It welded a solid united front of steel workers and coal miners in the fight for better conditions and | for democracy in these two power-| ful A. F. of L. unions, Leading rank and file fighters from both organizations blasted the attempts of the bureaucracy, led by | Mike Tighe and John L. Lewis, to/ wreck the unions through threats} of expulsions and revocation of charters and to stifle the growing) strength and militancy of the rank | and file movements. | The “red scare,” which bosses and bureaucrats together tried to utilize to split the workers and prevent them from attending the meeting, was answered by almost every worker who addressed the assem-| blage. In each case, their defiant | replies were in effect—“Here are our | demands: $1 an hour minimum; the | six-hour day, five-day week; equal rights for Negro workers; abolition | of company unions, recognition of the Amalgamated; abolition of the North-South wage differentials; enactment of the workers unem- ployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 2827)—Call these ‘red’ or ‘Commu- nist? demands if you want, but we are going to fight for them until they are won.” Tighe and Fagan, Traitors William Spang, president of Dis- | trict. One, who issued the call for) the national conference, denounced | those as “traitors” who seek to wreck the union of the steel work- ers through expulsions and revoca- | tions of charters, in his opening speech. He read a letter received by the Duquesne lodge from Mike Tighe which threatened to revoke the charter of Fort Duquesne lodge unless certain statements issued by Spang to the press were retracted. Following the policy of “rule or ruin”, Mike Tighe and Pat Fagan, Lewis puppet-president of District, Five, announced yesterday that all locals which attended the historic conference are being notified that:| their charters are revoked. “what is holding us back,” said Spang, “is the reactionary policy of the machine members who be- lieve that the Amalgamated is their private property. The trai- tors in this organization are those who refuse to carry out the deci- sions of the membership. . . T say all those are traitors who threaten | to split and wreck our organiza- tion through expulsion of the best fighters. We ask Mr. Tighe: Do you want to be guilty of that? Roy Hallas, of Clairton, gave a detailed outline of the plans which should be followed by a rank and file organization committee, point- ing the necessity of appealing to the broadest categories of workers and professionals for support of the steel workers demands. ¥ Clarence Irwin, president of Dis-} DISTRICT 1 J. W. C. L. Brockton, Mass. DISTRICT 18 RACINE, Wis. Tit 404 BELOIT, Wis. A Sympathizer W. Naidenovict George Brown A Sympathizer WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Answer the vicious lies of Hearst and his press. Answer the lies of all enemies of the Soviet Union. Come to the Mass Meeting on Friday, Feb. & at 8 p.m. at Broad St. Mansion, 8.W. cor. Broad and Girard Aves. Prominent speakers. Adm. 20c. Aus- pices, Friends of the Soviet Union. Labor Defender Concert and Dance Priday, Feb. 22 at Ambassador Hall, 1704 N. Broad St.; Nadia Chilkovsky in a series of revolutionary dances: well known violinist; entire Fretheit Gesang Ferein chorus; excellent dance orchestra. Adm. at door, 50c; 4n advance through organizations 35c. Tickets at 49 N. 8th St., Room 207. Workers Chorus Concert, Friday, Feb. 8th, Garrick Hall, 507 S. 8th St. Concert Pianist, Soprano, String Quartet. Talk by J. Grolle on Music | and the Workers. Adm. 25c. Open Forum under auspices of F.S.U. South Phila. Br. on Feb. 7th at 428 Bainbridge St. Dr. Melnikoff speaks on “Health in the Soviet Union.” Adm. free. Discussion and questions, Chicago, Ill. Save February 16 for Theaire Col- lective Chauve Souris. A three-hour cogram of Theatre, Music and Dance followed by dancing to 3 a.m. Remember Saturday, Feb, 18, 8:30 p. m. at Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. Adm. 35c., 100 tickets at 25c. ‘West Side Section of I.L.D. will have two showings of a Soviet film based on Gorki's story “Cain and Artem.” All proceeds to go for Scottsboro- Herndon Pund. Film will be shown Feb. 6, Wednesday, at the Culture enter, 3223 Roosevelt Road, 7:30 p. m. and §/p.m. Adm. at door 25c. Organizations Attention! The Inter- national Workers Order of Chicago is celebrating its 5th Anniversary at the Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m, to 2 a.m. An excellent pro- gram has been arranged. Kindly keep this date open. as Newark, N. J. Victor A. Yakhontoff, former general in the Russian Imperial Army speaks 1 Situation,” . . pm. Jack London Club, 901 Broad St. Adm. 25¢, Cabaret Night—Set., Feb. 9th, 8:30 p.m. at 901 Brosd St. Negro Orch. —Special entertainment. Subs. 35¢, incl. werdrobe. Arranged by Jack London Club of Newark Sovie Anti- t Lies Hit Approves of Action Against Enemies (Special to (he Daily Worker) LONDON, Feb. 5 (By Wireless) — Support of the delegation to the Soviet Embassy, elected Jan. 23, to assure the Soviet government that the English working class com- paper slander against the U. 8. conference attended by more than 200 delegates from labor organiza- tions, trade unions, and co-opera- tive organizations. There were only three dissenting votes. On Jan, 23 a resolution was adopted at a huge workers’ meeting here approving the measures taken by the Soviet government against counter-revolutionaries and White Guard agents in the U.S. S. R. It was at this meeting that the dele- gation of representatives of workers’ organizations was elected, to in- form Soviet Ambassador Maiski of the point of view of the mass meet- As a supplementary delegation, representatives of the Transport Workers Union, Wood Workers, Ma- chine Builders Union and repre- sentatives of the Central Committee of the Furniture Union were chosen, ing. trict Six, in his report suggested a ten point program later adopted by the conference, calling for the quit- ting of the National Steel Labor Board by the steel workers. A national organization committee and file leaders of the various dis- A. W. MacPherson, Lou Morris, Florence Irwin, Violet Harvey, Al Martin, M. Moore, A. W. Johnson, R. T. Martin, Roy Hallas, Lou Mayors, Tom Breslin. This committee will undertake an immediate organizing drive in steel, based on the following ten-point program: 1, The campaign to be national in scope, to be widely publicized, to in- clude meetings, parades, etc, and to secure the endorsement and aid of all labor unions. churches, frater- nal organizations, etc. 2. The creation of local organiza- tion committees to carry on the above locaily. and to coordinate the work where more than one lodge exists in a locality. 3. To seek the aid of all prominent people, speakers, writers, educators, in molding public opinion in favor of the steel workers in their struggle. 4. The forming of lodge organizing union old members, to recruit new, to form women’s auxiliaries, and work in harmony with the city or- ganization committee. 5. The utilization of volunteers, who shall pledge themselves to do specific organizational tasks. committees to train the workers along the lines of trade unionism— lectures, forums, etc. 1. The creation of Relief Commit- tees in each lodge, to fight for the steel workers, and to recruit the latter into the union. 8. The drawing of a special set of demands for the Negro workers, against the differential, to bring into the union all the Negro work- ers. 9. The setting up of District ENGLISH LABOR DELEGATES VOTE TO SUPPORT U. S. S. R. London Mass Meeting pletely repudiated ail lying news- | R., was voted here at a broad | was set up for the Amalgamated | Association, including all the rank | tricts—Wm. Spang, Clarence Irwin, | committees to bring back into the | 6. The setting-up of educational! needs of unemployed and part time | Joint Anti-War ActionPlanned In Calitornia Condemn Hearst’ s) Red Baiting Campaign LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 5.— | Responding to a call issued by the | Glendale Committee of the Amer- ican League Against War and Fas- cism, forty delegates from the San Fernando Valley met at the Social- |ist Party headquarters in Glendale recently to discuss actions again | | fascism and war. Epic clubs, Utopian societies, the | |Communist Party, discussion groups, women’s organizations, the Social- ist Party, officially participated in a | united front. | When a resolution condemning | Hearst and his activities was in- troduced, a Utopian delegate made the motion that a paragraph be included to state plainly that Hearst's anti-Communist drive was not only aimed at the Communists, but was meant to get the Commu- nists out of the way so that trade unionists, peace organizations, etc., | could be attacked. Publicity Committees, to enlist the support of writers, professionals, etc. to the steel workers cause, | 10, The raising of finances for the | tees to carry on this work through affairs, parties, appeals, etc. Early in the conference, one cf the delegates from West Virginia, | workers with Tighe’s work is almost | | first step which should be the rank and file. Another delegate, from Baltimore, | immediately scouted the suggestion | jof withdrawing from the A. A. or, | the A. F, of L., pointing out that |this policy is not unity, but “dis- unity,” and just “the move the bosses want the rank and file to| make,” | | Among the resolutions adopted | ;Was one answering Tighe’s and | Fagan’s expulsion threats, pledging | Tesistance to every expulsion at- tempt and denouncing their tactics | as betrayal of the interests of the | workers. | The miners, meeting separately | while the steel workers drew up | their program for organization, | heard reports on the situation in| each of the five districts represented, | the attempts of the Lewis machin to muzzle all democracy in the dis. tricts, the stealing of elections, the Progress of the fights for autonomy | Among the delegates were leading | rank and file fighters—Martin Ryan, | leader of the great 1933 strike in| the Frick Coke fields; Joe Finan, | leader of the rank and file in Ma-| sontown; Charley Nolker, candidate against Fagan for District Five president; Ted Gaul and Mike | Stanevich, of Russellton; Oscar| Guynn, rank and file candidate for | vice-president in the last inter-| national elections, A committee of 27 was set up to carry on the fight for autonomy and to assist the steel workers in their campaign, with an executive com- mittee of five to direct the active work, taken by} e | JIRO MINAMI While the masses of the Japan AT REINS OF JAPANESE WAR MACHINE b SENJURO HAYASHI ese people demand peace, a military clique backed by the fmancial interests is lustful for conquest and Asia-wide power. These are latest imperialism, General Jiro Minami, photos of two leaders of Japanese Commander in Manchukuo puppet kingdom, and General Senjuro Hayashi, Minister of War. By Meningitis FORT EUSTIS, Va, Feb. 5.—| tagious malady that sweeps damp and unsanitary military camps and slums, has broken out and is) boys quartered in the forced labor | here. Quarantine has been declared. | Two deaths have resulted and four other cases have been diagnosed as positive cases. The actual not definitely sweep of the disease is known because of the agony, have been isolated. DULUTH, Minn., Feb. 5.—-While one group of the C. ©, C. boys at Camp 725, at the nearby town of Orr are resorting to organized mass pressure in their own ranks, others are appealing to public sentiment for relief from inhuman army offi- | cers who forced the boys to work in weather thirty-six degrees below zero, Twenty-five of the boys refused to go out in the extreme cold. The others went to work, and many froze their hands and feet. Later another twenty-one left off working and walked back to camp. 3. P. Youth Uphold U.S.S.R. OSLO, Norway, Feb. 5—A rank- and-file meeting of the Social- Democratic Youth League at Sta- vanger unanimously decided to “energetically protest against the Social-Democratic press” standing on the same level as the bourgeois press, which fights the Union with the worst lies. The workers’ youth admire the socialist construction and cultural activities in the U. S. S. R. Kirov, who fell by a murder’s hand, was one of the Soviet | C.C.C. Swept Madame FDR | ‘Solves’ Crisis WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5.— |organization drive—lodge commit-| Spinal meningitis, the deadly, con-| After lengthy deliberations on the | Years, without discrimination relatively large number of unem- ployed in Dutchess Coun: HY, Seats of their feudal estate, Pres- where the patience of the steel | spreading among the 2,500 men and | ident and Mrs. Roosevelt have an- nounced that they hope to solve the question of unemployment there withdrawal from the A. A. a ia |e ee concentration camp | by installing a forge in Mrs. Roose~ velts furniture factory. If the installation of the forge, |which may provide a job for one | worker, doesn’t improve the situa- | tion drastically, they will install a larger loom in the President's home. | strict army censorship. The four|The Presidents birthday suit was | patients, their bodies twisted in| made on a small loom. The larger capacity of the new loom would enable the Presidents seamstress | to make two pairs of pants for the President instead of one it is be- lieved. It was pointed out here, however, that the seamstress probably gets \less than union wages for clothing | workers, | Delegates Instructed To Push Silk Strike PATERSON, N. J., Feb, 5.—At a | meeting of shop chairmen and del- |egates of the Silk Workers Federa- | tion here, Saturady, delegates elected to the tri-state convention of the union at Allentown, Pa., were in- | structed to propose a national strike jof silk workers for higher wages. | The meeting also voted to protest | Herbert Benjamin's ejection by po- lice at the Washington hearing on the Wagner-Lewis Bill, concerning unemployment insurance. A joint meeting of the plain goods, warpers and winders depart- ment of the local will take place | next Saturday to rally the union jin a fight against further wage jcuts. Since the new executive board 129 WORKERS’ CANDIDATES FOR ALDERMAN IN CHICAGO TRIAL RU Rally Called For Relief In Midwest Mesaba | To Make Demands on Poor Commission Range Toilers| VIRGINIA, Minn., Feb. 5,—The Mesaba Range Workers and Farm- ers Relief Committee which was elected at the Range-Wide Cor ference last December and which represents 5,000 workers and farm- ers, has called a demonstrations at the Poor Commission Office, corner Chestnut and Fifth Avenue, here at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 13. This demonstration is called for the purpose of placing pressure up- on the relief officials and the ag- ricultural county officials for the winning of the demands of the workers and farmers of the Mesaba Range. The main demands of the work- ers and farmers are: 1. Increase in relief, the max- imum allowed by the relief com- mission of the State, without dis- crimination 2, Free hot lunches for all needy school children at the expense of the state, county and school dis- tricts. 3. Free medical and dental aid 4. Maximum relief for single men |and women above the age of 18 | 5. Hay, feed and seed loans for the farmers. Road jobs to be given farmers to pay back loans; 75 per cent of days work to be paid in |cash to farmer, 25 per cent to be |applied on hay, feed and seed ac- count when working out loans. 6. Adequate relief to all part-time workers (miners, and other wage- | earners). | Committees have been elected | that will meet with the Poor Com- mission officials, the County Agri- |cultural agent, the School District jauthorities and the County Com- | missioner, to demand immediate |action on the above demands. | Over sixty-four organizations and groups of workers and farmers are preparing and mobilizing to be in | Virginia on February 13 to back up | the committees Eisler’s Tour UIs Announced | Oragnizations in numerous cities | have arranged welcoming affairs for Hans Eisler, famous German worker-composer who is a refugee from Nazi Germany. The itinerary of the composer of “Rot Front,” “Comintern,” “Kuhle Wampe” and other mass songs will be as follows, according to the Hans Eisler Committee: | Newark, Feb. 22; Boston, Feb. 25; | Rochester, Feb. 27; Buffalo, Feb. |28; New York (Mecca Temple), March 2; Pittsburgh, March 3; Cleveland, March 5, 6; Detroit, |March 7; Chicago, March 9; Mil- |waukee, March 11; Indianapolis, |March 13; St. Louis, March 14; |Denver, March 16; San Francisco, a Moscow Subway Starts FULLY SUCCESSFUL: MOST COMFORTABLE IN WORLD Ten-Mile Line Soon To Be Opened Up for Public Use By Vern Smith (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (By Wireless The first trial run through the Mos-| cow letro” Subway was held yes- terday. Soon the beautiful new un- derground city will be crowded with passengers. Storming underground Moscow a year ago, led by the Moscow Bolshe- viks headed by L. M. Kaganovitch thousands of toilers of the proleta- rian capital participated in the sub- way’s construction. The “Metro” was built under the slogan, “The red capital must have the best sub- way in the world.” The train ran along the whole| line of the first ten miles. All equip- ment passed the test excellently. As the train flew along. The construction of the Metro has} enriched Moscow with new archi- tectural structures, unique in idea These are the surface stations of the “Metro,” which like the under- ground stations, are admirably ‘eco- rated. The opening of the subway is a great victory in Bolshevik tech- nique, science and art. Seamen Cut From Relief NEWPORT NEWS, Va Feb. 5 Fifty seamen were completely cut | off the relief lists when they re- fused to do forced labor in return for a beggarly allowance of food and a vermin-ridden lodging, and the police chief has ordered that all seamen begging for food, not com- plying with the Federal forced labor laws would be arrested un- der the vagrancy laws. The fifty seamen were part of the unem- ployed who struck last week and raised demands for $10 weekly maintenance, work relief aboard tied-up ships at the rate of $4.50 a day, with a minimum of three days a week, and passage of the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827. “Many local shopkeepers and business men have voiced their hearty approval of the seamen’s demands,” the Waterfront Unem- ployment Council said in a state~ ment to the press, “as opposed to the government forced labor proj- ects, which wil deprive local busi- ness of a considerable income.” In support of the seamen, many of the smaller storekeepers have lent material aid to the destitute seamen. The police order to in- voke the vagrancy laws is a blatant attempt to spike this aid and at the same time push through the forced labor scheme. One unem- ployed seaman has already been railroaded to sixty days in jail on this score. Seamen’s Relief Cut PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 5.— The union smashing drive of the relief administration showed its teeth here last week when seamen’s relief was slashed in carrying out the announced policy of forcing all unemployed seamen into con- best men of the Soviet working | of the union took office, over 100| Oakland and Berkeley, March 18 to|centration camps. Every seaman class and we detest the band of murderers who put an end to his life.” This is the third of a serie: of articles on the effects of the N.R.A. The last article analyzed the provisions in the auto code, signed by Roosevelt in August, 1933, and extended by him four times since then, with all its anti- labor provisions Included. Roose- velt has just extended the code for the fourth time, until June 16, 1935, ignoring the demands of the auto workers.—Editor. By Carl Reeve The date of March 25, 1934, will long be remembered by every auto | Worker in the United States. On | that date late Sunday night Presi- dent Rooseevlt, William Green and the auto manufacturers signed an agreement which prevented a strike of 250,000 auto workers scheduled to break out the following morning. It was this agreement which estab- lished the Auto Labor Board, now hated by every auto worker, and which gave open government back- ing to the company unions under the guise of “proportional” repre- sentation. The auto workers were on the verge of general strike because the auto code of the N.R.A. signed by Roosevelt in August, 1933, had in- creased speed-up, kept wages down whiie living costs rose, and encour- aged the company union and union smashing by means of the “merit clause.” Company Union Kecognized Roosevelt saved the auto manu- facturers on March 25, 1934, by his personal intervention. The pact put over on the auto workers first of all, robbed them of the right to strike, declaring, “Decisions of the board shall be final and binding on employer and employes.” This board of three consisting of Leo Wolman, “neutral,” Richard Byrd, “labor representative,” and Nicholas Kelly for the manufacturers, was This “works council” of course, |given sole right to decide on the} conditions of hundreds of thousands | | of auto workers. Second, the Roosevelt “peace” | Pact legalized and recognized the |company union to a bolder extent | | than had previously been the case. The pact stated: “The employ- ers agree to bargain collectively with the freely chosen representa- tives OF GROUPS, and not to discriminate in any way against any employe on the ground of his union labor affiliation. If THERE BE MORE THAN ONE GROUP EACH BARGAINING COMMIT- | TEE SHALL HAVE TOTAL MEMBERSHIP PRO RATA TO THE NUMBER OF MEN EACH | UNION REPRESENTS.” This clause gave the company union, the instrument, of the em- ployers, legal recognition and gov- ernment backing and enabled the auto corporations to force employes to “join” and then claim represen- tation for the company union, It gave Roosevelt's sanction to the auto corporations’ discriminatioin against union men. Roosevelt immediately gave the employers the government's sanc- tion to build the company union not only in auto, but in all indus- tries. He said, in making the pact public: “I would like you to know that in the settlement just reached in the automobile industry, we have charted a new course in social engineering in the United States . It is my hope that this sys- tem may develop into a kind of works council in industry in which all groups of employes, whatever may be their choice of organiza- tion or form of representation, may participate in joint confer- ences with their employers and 1 am assured by the industry [the employers—C. R.] that such is also their goal and wish,” By would be controlled by the company unions—that is the employers. The union-smashing aims of the; PACT SAVES COMPANY UNION.” | creation of the Auto Labor Board| The New York Times of March 27) rectly analyzed this betrayal of| access to all payrolls and to ail lists | of claimed employe representation.” | A contradictory “face saving” clause was added “No such disclos- ure in the particular case shall ell made without specific direction of the president.” Then comes the bor Board as a part of the spy sys- tem of the employers, “In where no lists of employes claim = |to be represented have been dis- closed there shail be no basis tor a claim of discrimination.” This. ruling assists the employers in fir- | ing of union workers. Economic Demands Denied While entrenching the company union, this pact did not grant a single one of the demands of the auto workers, The speed-up went on as before, and increased. The unions were not recognized. Wages were not increased to keep pace with rising living costs, hours were | not. shortened. Unemployment re- lief was not taken up. The settle- ment empowered the Auto Labor Board to decide on cases of “repre- sentation, discharge and discrimina- tion.” Thus at the same time that the emplovers secured legalization of the company union and preven- | tion of the strike, the workers got | nothing. Green Signed Pact The Auto Labor Board set up ing” (New York Times, March 26, | under this “settiement” continues to act against the workers and has| Green said the pact was “a great | just been endorsed once more by | | Roosevelt in an amendment to the! auto code. | The employers’ press generally | hailed this settlement as a victory |twaited almost a year before he told | | new members joined, and members |are taking increasing interest in the work of the union, {company unions. The New York | Post said in a headline, “AUTO were further made clear by the | stated, “The company union stands clause that the Board was to “have | completely validated by the presi- dent’s statement.” Alvin Macauley, chairman of the board of the National Automobile | Chamber of Commerce, said, “We are very grateful to the President and to General Johnson that they have been able to find a settlement |clause which reveals the Auto La-|in accord with the principles in which we believe.” | Now William Green, as a result | of the revolt among the auto work- | ers, has denounced this pact as well as the auto code. In order to re- tain his leadership over the militant auto workers Green has declared that the A. F. of L. unions have withdrawn from the March 25 pact, | j;and no longer recognize the Auto Labor Board. Let the workers not forget it was with Green’s help that this pact was put over by the auto corpora- tions and by Roosevelt. Let the workers remember that Green signed this pact which recognized the company union. Green fooled the workers remaining at work. He said, “The terms of the settle- into |ment of the threatened auto strike, recommended by the president, and accepted by the automobile manu-— \facturers and the workers (that is by Green—C.R.) guarantees the workers the right to organize, to bargain collectively and to be repre- sented by men of their own choos- 1934), step forward for the automobile workers,” and that the workers “gained the principal point for which they were contending.” Green for the manufacturers and for theirthe auto workers the truth about 20; Los Angeles, March 21. Dates | for Philadelphia and Minneapolis have not yet been set. {the Auto Labor Board, and the, March 25 pact which he signed. The Communist Party at cor- the March, 1935 strike, and Green's |role in putting it over. On March} 27, 1934, the Daily Worker, in a) front page editorial, declared, in | part: “Slaving away at the line, the auto workers will learn of tne gigantic treachery imposed on them by their leaders. . . . The | ‘settlement’ in the auto industry is a blow against the whole Amer- ican working class. The capital- ists in every industry will rejoice over it. The A. F, of U. leaders have fully lived up to General | Johnson's characterization of them, when he told 4,000 bosses | Vou Can | Contest. } the ten Contest winners. their equivalent. | Ten Prizes for Contest Winners Ten vacation prizes will be awarded to In addition, valu- able prizes will be awarded to all contest- ants securing five yearly subscriptions, or (In the event of a tie, duplicate prizes will be awarded.) DAILY WORKER - who has not worked for at least a year has been denied relief. The remainder have had their reltef cut. AUTO PACT CLAMPS COMPANY UNION ON WHOLE INDUSTRY CARL REEV E——-———— Washington speaking of the A. F. of L. leaders, “Their interests are | your interests.” “Conditions in the auto plants are unbearable. As a result of Roosevelt's ‘seitlement’ they will become worse. Rooseevit brings in a new force in an effort to keep the auto workers from struggling aaginst these condi- tions. [the Auto Labor Board— C. R.] Only by action by the workers, only by united ranks, mobilizing their forces for strike, can the workers beat back these attacks and win union recognition and better conditions. Auto Werk- ers! Organize and prepare for stike action!’ The auto workers can see that these prophetic words apply today. Soviet Union. 50 Win a PRIZE! | Enter the Special Daily Worker Subscription Visit your friends and fellow-workers; | canvass your neighborhood. Twenty-five yearly subscriptions, or their equivalent, makes you eligible to compete for the FREE trip to the Every Contestant Gets A Daily Worker Button Every contestant sending in his first sub- scription receives a handsome Daily Worker Shock Brigader button. TODAY. Apply to your District Office, or write direct to the “Daily.” Lockner, Young Jobless Leader, Is Communist Choice for Mayor CHICAGO, Feb. 5—The twenty- nine candidates nominated at ed front ward conferences in the Aldermanic election campaign here, all of whom are receiving the full support of the Communist Party, are facing a bitter fight by the Democratic machine to elim- inate them from the ballot Nominating petitions for twenty he twenty-nine have been allenged and hearings before the ion commission are now in ‘ogress. The election commission by the Democratic George Racz, eighth ward; Brown Squire, second; David Poindexter, James Hoffman, first; Lulu first; Alfred Stocker, Frank Servillas, twelfth; Young, nineteent Alice Grasso, twentieth; Martin Miskerik, Frank Cermak, James Brecka, Samuel LissitZ wenty-fourth; Floyd Walker, twenty-seventh; Ned King, twenty- eighth; Andrew Russo, thirtieth; Wilburn Wells, thirty-first Helen Appelman, thirty-second; Russell Forbes, thirty-fourth; Hans W, Pfeiffer, thirty-sixth; Hjalmar Jacobson, thirty-seventh; Harry Fimoff, thirty-ninth; Hyman Do- lins! fortieth; Warren Lamson, forty-second; Guy A. Phinisey, forty-third; Jack Mitterer, forty- fourth; Robert Foley, forty-sixth; August Hoekstra, ninth; and Victor Cejka, fifteenth Six Candidates Negroes Six of the candidates are Ne- groes; four were chosen as youth candidates, on a platform of relief for single youth, end of the C. C. C, and the abolishment of the R. O, T. C. units in the Chicago city schools: | The Communist candidate for | Mayor, likewise, represents the young voters. He is Karl Lockner, twenty-six-year-old Secretary of the Unemployment Councils of Cook County. The Communist can- didate for City Clerk is a Negro, Herbert Newton. Sam Hammers mark, the Party’s candidate for City Treasurer, is a veteran labor leader, who has taken an active part in the American Federation of Labor. In the Aldermanic elections, in- terest centers especially in the Eighth Ward, where the support given Racz involves many organizae tions. Candidates Arrested Other candidates, likewise, have had their difficulties. Russell Forbes, from the Thirty-fourth | Ward, was jailed recently for dis« tributing an announcement of an unemployment council meeting, and was described by the chief of de- tectives as being “worse than a criminal.” The judge dismissed the ease. Floyd Walker, of the Twenty- seventh Ward, is serving a jail sen- | tence for his picketing activities. Herbert Newton was released from Bridewell recently and was up for trial again on further charges growing out of his picket- ing against racial discrimination. He is to be honor guest at a ban- quet which the Communist Party Election Campaign Committee is giving on Saturday at 308 West Madison Street. Robert Minor, chairman of the election campaign committee, will speak at the Newton banquet. Herndon Tour Is Announced BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 5.—Angelo Herndon, Negro hero of the Atlanta “insurrection” trial, will make a ten-day tour of New England, start- ing Feb. 9, in support of the mass and legal fight. led by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, for reversal of his chain gang sentence of 18 to 20 years and for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. The U. 8. Supreme Court is expected to hear argument by I.L.D. attorneys early in Februe ary in both cases. Herndon, who will come here die rectly from the Second Scottsboro- Herndon Conference in New York City, will speak at the following meetings: Boston, Sunday, Feb. 10, Ruggles Hall, Ruggles and Washington Sts. at 3 p.m. Barre, Vt. Tuesday, Feb. 12 Soampini Hall, at 7:30 p.m. Worcester, Friday, Feb. 15. New Bedford, Saturday, Feb. 16. Providence, Sunday, Feb. 17, Swedish Workingmen’s Hall, 59 Chestnut St., at 8 p.m. Additional meetings are being are ranged. Enter the Contest EAST THIRTEENTH STREET New York, N. ¥.