The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1935 Page 2 Farm Reliet Parley Meets | Wide Support Drought Victims Eager to Press Fight for Cash Relief By Lem Harris SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Feb. 17.— The first announcements of the | proposed Farmers Emergency Relief | Conference to be held at Sioux Falls, S. D., late next month has | brought to the Sioux Falls office of the conference committee a large number of endorsements from all types of organizations, individuals, areas and crop regions. They are still coming in by the dozen, espe- cially from seventeen states cover- ing most of the drought areas. Here are some of the endorse- ments received: Ferd Koop, Mit- chell, South Dakota, president, Farmer Labor League Davison County; T. E. Hayes, president, ‘Taxpayers League Perkins County, South Dakota; Racine County Branch Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool; G. N. Varnum, chairman, United Front Committee Burleigh County, North Dakota; W. C. But- ler, secretary, Farmers Union Local 143, Tuttle, Oklahoma. Working Men’s Union of the World, Locals Leflore County, Okla- homa; and Fort Smith, Arkansas; Colton Local 173 Farmers Union, Colton, South Dakota; M. F. Wiltse, Marshalltown, Iowa, Socialist | Party; Federation of Workers and | Farmers of America, Council Bluffs, | Iowa; Crofton Local Nebraska Farmers Holiday Association. Workers and Farmers Coopera- tive Unity Alliance, Wisconsin; | Carl BE. Taylor, Court Commissioner, Aitkin County, Minnesota; United | Farmers League, Bergen, North Dakota; John McAvinney, Railroad Brotherhood Unity League, chell, South Dakota; R. A. Nichol- son, County Board member, North Dakota Farmers Holiday Associa- tion; Roy Anderson, chairman, Ait- kin County Farmers Committee for Action, Palisade, Minnesota; United Farmers League, Russellville, Local, Arkansas. This Farmers Emergency Relief Conference will attempt to bring together all farm organizations from all the farming regions where cash xelief for families and for Mit- | livestock, and where production credit for next season's credit is needed. “We must overlook our differences | and unite on a program that will meet our immediate needs,” the conference committee said in its call, Locais, county organizations, and state organizations, officers and individuals are urged to endorse this conference in order that a most representative group of farm- ers may gather in Sioux Falls in March. Send your endorsement to Box 366, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, | at once. - Ohio Sindent| Aid Seottsboro COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 17.— Headed by Harry Blank and Robert Hare, of the National Students League, Ohio State University stu- dents picketed the Commerce and Administration buildings on the campus, protesting the revoking by President George Rightmire of a permit for a Scottsboro protest meeting in the Commerce Building. The prohibited meeting had been held on the steps of the Commerce Building, where studenis cheered an appeal by the Scottsboro mother, Mrs. Ida Norris, for support of the fight for the lives and freedom of her son and Haywood Patterson, whose appeals are now being heard by the U. S. Supreme Court. Robert Hare, who led the picket- ing, is one of seven conscientious objectors to military training who were dismissed last year. After the picketing, a meeting of students adopted resolutions to be sent to the U. 8. Supreme Court demand- ing the immediate release of the Scottsboro boy: Get your club, fraternal or mass organization to elect a committee te plan activity among the mem- bership in the Daily Worker drive for 10,000 new daily and 15,000 new Saturday subs. | Single Men ‘Are To Be |County Department of Rehabilita- | SURVIVORS OF WRECKED DIRIGIBLE a “ae | Rescued members of the Macon reach San Francisco aboard the warship Richmond. These men, lucky to get away with their lives when the war balloon cracked up, got a taste of what workers in uniform can expect from the New Deal imperialist war plans. ‘ tien me - : Los Angeles 1,000 Sign Pledges Foreed Labor To Renounce Warfare At Buffalo Rally Project Begun BUFFALA, N. Y. (FP).—More than 1,000 persons at an anti- war symposium in Buffalo, led by seven prominent clergymen, signed a pledge to renounce war i and never again support another. Herded into Shelter To All seven speakers and almost Work for Sustenance |] all the 85 local clergymen who || sponsored the symposium were LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb, 17— || active supporters and_partici- ning the Los Angeles || Pants in the last war. The tem- EitagMainscog t per of the meeting was expressed by the chairman, Rev. Cameron J. Davis, Episcopal bishop of western New York, who was the marshal of the 1916 Buffalo Pre- paredness Day parade. “Never again, directly or in- directly, will I suport any fu- ture war,” he said in opening the meeting. tion entered into competiticn with | the private business interests which | heretofore enjoyed sole right to op- | erate the “slop-joint” restaurants | for unemployed single men who are | on the relief lists. | The department made this ven- ture in the guise of a self-help co- | operative organization, into which the workless are being asked to join so that they may exercise the “priv- ilege” of working for their miserable allotments of food. Arranged by Burt “ { Clinton H. Burt, who is in charge I } . C of the single men’s activities of the n a Y m a S e€ rehabilitation department, has ar- ranged this new enterprise, which !s| DETROIT, Feb. 17.—It’s two- to be housed at 213 North Los An-. fisted policy of mass pressure plus geles Street. the best possible legal defense for The building, Burt said, will also|class-war victims won another house “cooperatives,” where the un- signal victory for the International employed who enter the project will! Labor Defense when Circuit Court work for “credits” which can be used | Judge Pugsley ordered the dismissal Dismissal Won |to purchase the food and clothing of the framed-up “assault and bat- made on the premises. In essence, | tery” charge against John Rose, Mi- this has all the ear-marks of the | chigan farmer, semi-fascist program advanced by| Rose was arrested with four other Upton Sinclair in his gubernatorial | farmers in March, 1933, during a campaign. | protest meeting against a forced Eight hundred dollars has been| mortgage foreclosure sale of the made available to finance the res-| farm of William Lougheed, 77-year taurant, which will be equipped to| oid farmer. The meeting, called by feed about 200 men. Burt said that | the Michigan Farmers League, was 1,500 men are now fed in restaurants | broken up by a gang of thugs depu- under the relief program. tized and led by the sheriff of New 34 Cents Per Day aygo county. The arrested farmers The county now provides a mere were charged with violating the Mi- 34 cents a day to feed each of these. | chigan criminal syndicalism law. This pittance will be transferred to| The farmers called on the ILD. The picture was transmitted by radio. FERA Outlines Speed-up Plans In Minnesota | Blow Is Aimed Against All Organization on Work Projects INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn., | Feb. 17—A program of speed-up |and discrimination aaginst workers | who try to organize on the relief | projects is outlined in an order that was issued to all districts and | county E, R. A. engineers, by the | office of the State Engineer of the | Minnesota E. R. A. This policy, which is in line with | the Roosevelt program of separating the unemployed into two categories of employable and “unemployables” is designed to force any worker who | does not submit to whatever treat- ment is handed out to him by the |relief officials, onto: home relief where he will be at the mercy of the local relief agencies. | “Tt is absolutely necessary,” the order states,” that these employees give their most efficient effort | while working on these projects, | In order to maintain this effi- | ciency, you will inform and in- struct all project supervisors who have direct charge of working op- | erations, that they have the au- thority to dispense with the ser- | viees of any employee who does net conform to the spirit of this bulletin.” New Classification After giving the supervisors the | authority to hire and fire as they See fit, the bulletin then states that any one who is discharged twice will be classified as “unemployable” per- manently. “If persons are determined to be | unemployable,” the bulletin states | further in order to prepare for the | Roosevelt program, then “that fact should be made a matter of record Fisher Body) a | Men Present! TheirDemands | 30-Hour Week, Weekly | and Annual Scales Asked by Union } By Sandor Voros | (Daily Worker Ohio Bureau) | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 17.—De- termined to improve their conditions in the present production season the Fisher Body workers organized in the United Auto Workers Fed- | eral Union No. 18614 presented a set | of demands to the company for im- mediate consideration. Completely | disillusioned by President Roose- | velt's decision to extend the auto labor code under which their strike was betrayed last year, they decided on militant action to fight the slave conditions imposed upon them by jthe manufacturers under the auto code. | The United Auto Workers Federal |Union No. 18614, which led the | Fisher Body strike last year, pre-| | sented the following demands: | Thirty-hour week. | | Weekly minimum wage of $30 | | for unskilled and $35 for skilled | | men. Annual minimum wage of $1,560 | for unskilled and $1,820 for skilled workers. The Communist Party, in special leaflets issued by the thousands to | the auto workers, pledged its sup- Port to the A. F. of L. organizational drive in the auto union to smash the company unions and to fight Successfully the extension of the auto code. | | | Workers’ Bill | | Hearing Set BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 17.—Hear- | jings on the State Workers Unem- | | ployment, Old Age and Social In- | | surance Bill, H. 871, will begin Tues- | |day morning at 10:30 o'clock in| | Room 433 of the State House here. | The Massachusetts State Action | Committee for Unemployment In- surance has called upon all workers to attend the hearings, and for all | organizations and groups to send | committees to appear at the hear- | | ings. During the time that the hear- |ings are on, the state committee | | has urged that all groups and in- | dividuals shower the State Depart- | | ment of Labor and Senator Meehan | |of Lawrence with post cards, tele-| grams and resolutions demanding | |the passage of the State Workers’ | Bill, H. 871. It further urged that delegations from each neighborhood call upon local State Senators and Congressmen to demand their sup- port to the Workers’ Bill. | | Farmers Rally | | To Win Reliet VIRGINIA, Minn., Feb. 17.—(By| Mail)—Twelve hundred workers |and farmers demonstrated here re- |cently at the Farmers’ Market un-| |der the leadership of the Mesaba | Range Relief Committee. The demonstration, which set forth demands for increased relief, free hot lunches for school children, hay, feed and seed for the Spring | planting, was initiated by the Me- | saba Range Relief Committee, al broad group elected at a workers’| and farmers’ conference last De-| cember. The organization repre- sents 5,000 workers and poor farm- | i | the new project in proportion to the number of men accommodated. The | transfer, county officials say, will be for the purpose of aiding the ven- ture, and as insurance that the tax- | payers will get “full value” for this | portion of the relief funds. If the venture proves successful, Burt said, | others will be opened. Part of the | equipment of the new restaurant will be chipped and broken dishes | collected in scavenging activities by | the County Salvaging Department. Vigilantes Attack Strikers | JACKSON, Cal., Feb. 17.—The |reversed the decision. for aid, and Maurice Sugar, De- troit’s famous labor attorney, who is now running for judge of the} Recorders Court, and John Safran | were retained for the defendants. | A mass protest movement forced | the authorities to drop the criminal | syndicalism charges. Rose was then | charged with assault and battery, and sentenced to from 6 months to 5 years in jail. The sentence was appealed, and the Michigan State Supreme Court | Last Mon- | day, the case was finally dismissed | at White Cloud in the Circuit Court. | so that if and or when the F, E. R, A. absolves itself from all relief responsibility for unemployable per- sons, the status of each such person may be known.” In an effort to make the order seem justifiable it states that ‘This | instruction shall not be construed as other than a measure to insure ers, | From the market, the demon- strants marched down slush-coy- | ered streets, which were lined with | Sympathetic workers and farmers! to the relief office. Here, H. Bierson, | vice-president of the Eveleth mine | jee who headed the committee, | | chosen to present the demands to!} that each person employed by the ; ; Work Division gives a day's work | (he Tellef officials, reported back to| Pete: Ts Gig a Dereon 8A”|: 7 Aimed Tala: Distriok Onpantice of | ing the intent herein con-| 10° G5 : : 3 tained are admonished to inject | ie mmunist Party, called upon leniency in accordance with the| he assembled workers and farmers, physical condition of persons as-|'0 Unite on the economic and po- signed for work on approved proj-| litical field. He stressed especially field headquarters of striking mine | pickets were burned down, at Ken-| nedy Flat, and the striking gold} miners dispersed, in an attack by two hundred well armed deputized vigilantes, The strikers have been | out three months in this Mother Load country. Against War, Fascism, Held in Tacoma, Wash. TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 17—Forty- $400 SPECIAL Year's Sat, sub and copy Add 20 cenis to (THESE PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE DAELY WORKER 3% Bast 13th Street New York, N. Y. Daily Worker for Street crcissssececssesevessecsces, Brings Hunger and Revolt: Cartoons by BURCK “HUNGER AND REVOLT: Cartoons by Burok” is now available only with the following subscription offers: Year's sub and copy of book. 6 Months’ sub and copy of book. 3 Months sub and copy of book, ' Tear Out This Coupon Please enter my subscription Gs) or Please renew my subscription 7 Copy of | seven delegates from A. F. of L. trade unions, the Soctalist Party, the Communist Party, church groups and youth, veterans,’ eul- tural, fraternal and unemployed or- ganizations met here last week at a conference called by the Ameri- can League Against War and Fas- cism. The conference received the joint support of the Socialist and Communist Parties. The main resolution adopted by the delegates was directed against the Ott Bill, which proposes to bar all parties from the ballot which advocate change or overthrow of the capitalist government. A joint leaflet against rapidly developing fascism and imperialist war was issued by the Socialist and Communist Parties at the conclu- sion of the conference and plans were made to rally wide-spread support for the Northwest Confer- ence Against War and Fascism to be held soon in Seattle. OFFER of book............$2.50 Cover Postage MANTATTAN AND THE BRONX) Epic ‘Hero’ Supporters Disrupt Election Rally LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17—At a meeting called here to protest the indorsement of John T. Baumgart- ner, incumbent, for the City Coun- cil, Baumgartner supporters, who include Merriam Democrats and the | End Poverty League Headquarers | broke up the meeting with loud cat- ca; whenever a worker directed pointed questions at the Epic “hero.” | Despite the turmoil which charac- | terized the meeting, the workers’ | candidate, William T. Thwing, man- _ aged to get the floor and speak in _ favor of the passage of the Workers te the ety Plus $1.20 for a copy of is by Burek.” vee Clty , ‘ects. Conversely, loafers and “lean-| the need of building the Mine, Mill firmly.” | Hits “Organization the real nature of the document, aS a weapon against the attempts of the workers on these jobs to or- ganize, becomes clear. It concludes with the statement that, “If any relief worker injects his personality into work program activities in such @ manner that he hinders, limits or stops the normal work output of other employees, such a person will be regarded as unemployable and will be placed on direct relief in the manner specified above.” ried out, it will mean that any worker who protests against the conditions on the job or attempts to organize his fellow workers to strike for better conditions, will be | singled out and victimized as an “unemployable.” Philadelphia Girl Grilled for Walking With a Negro Worker PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 17.— An attempt to persecute a young girl, Marjorie Hunt, and a Negro | youth, Emanuel Wright, for walking together on the street was made here by the police, it was learned yesterday. The two workers, mem- bers of the Unemployment Council, were seized by the police and taken to the police station, where they were grilled for over an hour. ‘When the two young people de- manded to know why they were ar- rested the detectives in the station replied, “Just for curiosity.” “Do you think niggers are human beings?” a detective shouted at Miss Hunt. “Of course Negroes are human beings,” she answered. After being grilled on the pro- | Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. | 2827, gram of the Unemployment Coun- cil, they were released, a ty It is in the last paragraph that’) If this order is allowed to be car- | UnitedFront Conference ers” are to be handled fairly but | @0d Smelter Workers Union among |the miners to defeat the union-| |smashing and company union Schemes of the steel trust. Another speaker, Sylvia Erikkila, |from the youth committee, called upon the young workers to build! youth groups to fight for relief. She | | urged them to elect delegates to the youth conference which will be held in Virginia on Sunday, February 24. Sympathy Strikes. Gain | |Added Support to Coal) Walk-Out in Rumania (Special to the Daily Worker TIMISOARA, Rumania, Feb. 17.— (By Cable).—By coldly turning down the desperate strike demands of | 1,000 entombed miners in the Steier- dorfanina coal fields, industrialists | here today touched off a whole series of indignant and powerful sympathy strikes throughout Ru- mania. Harbor workers at the ports of Braila and Galata struck work on | hearing that the miners had been | forced to erect barricades in the | mine-galleries to prevent. govern- ment troops from breaking the strike. To their chief demand, the end of terrorism against the miners, the longshoremen added a notice that they no longer recognized al previous wage-cut as effective. All metal workers in the capital, Buka- rest, stopped work to force through | the abolition of a 10 per cent wage | | cut and to send their deep sympathy | and support to the Steierdorfanina | miners, | | Asturias Miners Strike OVIEDO, Spain, Feb. 17—Two hundred and fifty Asturian miners, among the most courageaus of the |October revolutionists, struck | in the Piqueras mine, near Sotrobio | in protest as police arrested four | fellow workers for having partici- pated in the Asturias Soviets, | News and Views of the Crisis HEN the New Deal fir: that it represented an effort on launch: ¢ Communists pointed out part of the capitalists to re- consolidate their position and increase their profits at the expense of the living standards of the workers. his analysis and forecast is borne out by every statement on profits published by the big corpora- tions. Their profits rose while the real wages of the workers fell The following list tells the story of what the New Deal did for the monopolies Companies 1933 % Increase Atlas Powder $ 709,000 $1 3.7 Bethlehem Steel (d) 8,736,000 Caterpillar Tractor 303,000 3.651,000 104.9 Chicago Mail Order 218,000 697.000 219.7 Du Pont 38,895,000 46,702,000 22 General Cigar ........ 722,000 2,334,000 General Motors - 83,214,000 94,769,000 Hercules Powder 2,363,000 3,038,000 Inland Steel 167,000 3,730,000 Kress, 8. H. f 5,159,000 5,872,000 Liggett & Myers 16,731,000 20,087,000 National Steel +. 2,812,000 6,051,000 Procter & Gamble .... 13,294,000 14,804,000 United Fruit 9,241,000 12,049,000 Ward Baking . 397,000 588,000 Woolworth 28,691,000 32,142,000 (d) Deficit This list of profits is representative of how well the big corpora- tions have fared under the New Deal. Others could be added. There is U. 8. Steel which increased its operating income by over $15,000,000. Industrial Rayon made $1,340,000 in the face of six months of declin- ing business. Yet despite these huge profits the capitalists are not satisfied. They are preparing to increase their gains by general wage cuts, increased speedup and higher prices. The Joker in the Auto Boomlet 'T IS important to bear in mind that the current boomlet auto industry is not based upon an actual increase in demand. duction is being puffed up in the hope that with the increased output. But the gap betw is pretty large. Last year some 2.700.000 cars factured but only a little over 2,200,000 were of 486,000 This excess outout, to a large extent, will have to be dumped to make way for the new models. As a result prices will sag, and tend to disorganize the auto market. In addition, the present flood of new autos is running way ahead of sales. These converging factors point to a decline in production, once the present busy season begins to recede. Auto, like coal and textiles, is now a sick industry. It is hope- lessly overequipped for its present restricted market. Its former sales to better paid workers and the average farmer have dwindled to zero. It now has to sell its products to the shrinking middle class market and the well-to-do. Workers and farmers cannot buy cars with in- comes that are constantly dwindling. So the industry is enjoying its temporary boomlet by selling cheap and moderate priced cars, mainly to the well-to-do and those sections of the middle class which have managed to keep out of bankruptcy. But its profits and production rest upon an inhuman speedup and low wages. The auto workers like the other sections of the working class cannot buy autos with their present wages. Consequently the industry must exhaust its present market, and fall back into a decline that will match the slump of 1929-1932, and perhaps fall to even lower levels. in the Pro- mand will keep pace nm production and sales and trucks were manu- sold, leaving a surplus The Decline in Agricultural Exports d Yaad A.A.A. program of restricting production, and the disastrous effects of the drought, which the government deliberately accentu- ated by refusing relief to the poor farmers, have begun to have far- reaching results. Prices have gone up; benefitting the rich farmer and the speculator. But poor and tenant farmers are being driven off the land in increasing numbers. Thus on the one hand the internal market is shrinking because high prices have forced the workers to cut down on their purchases. On the other hand the export markets are disappearing since the artificially pegged prices of American agricultural products are much too high in the world market. The volume of all agricultural exports in December was only 62 per cent of pre-war shipments as compared with 116 per cent in the same month in 1932 and 109 per cent in 1933 respectively. Though cotton and tobacco warehouses are bursting with supplies, their ex- ports are declining because American exporters are undersold by their foreign rivals. Thus the very efforts of the administration to pull agriculture out of its permanent slump have only accentuated all those factors that brought on the agricultural crisis. The Money Market 'HE money market in this country continues to stagnate. The volume of new financing in January was only $5,267,000 according to The Commercial and Financial Chronicle. This amount was even smaller than the meager volume in the same month last year. It contrasts with $46,664,000 for January, 1932 and $399,849,000 for Janu- ary, 1931, both crisis years. The stagnant money market is a reflection of the acuteness of the crisis, and in turn it blocks the “normal” capitalist solution. The banks are choked with excess capital, but the capitalists see no open- ings which are profitable. There is no incentive for them to inyest in new industrial enterprises since industry is only operating at a frac- tion of capacity, In terms of the capitalist market there is excess capacity which has to be cut down. The contracting capitalist economy, with but few exceptions like the war industries, the luxury trades and some innovations which can be profitably exploited, has no outlet where the capitalists can reinvest their accumulations. Consequently money is cheap, but the volume of commercial bank loans continues to contract. Tie banks lend only to the government as the one present source of profitable investment. And there is good reason to believe that the present luxury boom—Florida hotel patronage and other parasitic trades--is in large part due to the desire of the rich to spend some of their surplus funds. There are no speculative undertakings in which they can sink their accumulated capital. The pressure of these surplus funds dictates expansion abroad where the capitalists could export goods and capital, if they could secure control of fresh markets. The necessity for this commercial and financial outlet is a large factor in shaping the imperialist war Policies of the Roosevelt regime. Because the American capitalists must find markets for their excess goods and capital, they are preparing for a new redivision of the world. Index of Business Activity 'HE weekly index of business activity of the New York Times declined to 87.9 for the week ended February 9. Four series were lower, the chief decreases taking place in steel mill activity and railroad car- loadings. Weeks Ended Feb. 9 Feb. 2 Feb. 10 1935 1935 1934 Combined Index 87.9 88.2* 80.4 Freight car loadings 66.3 67.1 65.1 Steel mill activity 3.8 75.8 52.9 Electric power production » 101.3 101.2 93.2 Automobile production 95.2 96.1 749 Lumber production .... 66.6 63.3 69.7 Cotton cloth production 92.0 92.9* 89.1 * Revised. Terre Haute Jobless Will Protest Against Sham Relief Inquiry TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 17.— A mass meeting to rally the work- ers here for the Workers’ Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, and to protest the white- washing of relief officials at a hear- ing here last week, has been called by the Unemployment Council for Saturday, Feb, 23, in the Rumanian Workers’ Hall. the City Hall on Feb. 6 was at- ‘tended by more than 500 workers, who expressed their indignation at | wife of a bed-ridden, tubercular | veteran, bitterly assailed John T. | She charged that he only allows her seventy-five cents a week for the | support of her two children and | war-wrecked husband. She de- clared that the relief agencies had refused to intercede in an eviction suit now pending against her in a local justice court. y is | The hearing which was held in| | every opportunity. One worker, the | Sankey, who dispenses relief here. | Gebert Urges Final Effort For Petitions Wide Response to C. P, Program Shown by , Chicago Workers CHICAGO, Feb. Declaring that an overwhelming number of Signatures is the best guarantee nst challenges to the nominating tions of Communist candidates William Communist district organ- for redoubled the mayoralty elections. bert r, called yesterday Commun demonst: 50 in 40 Minutes One solicitor collected 50 tures in 40 minutes from passersby t a street corner. Two others col- lected 200 each in several hours house to house canvassing Brown Squire, Aldermanic candi- date who has been barred from the ballot by the arbitrary ruling of the election commissioners, collected 350 Signatures for his own candidacy. Need Thousands Gebert urged the collection of thousands of signatures during the current week as the most effective reply to the action of the Election Commissioners in barring 26 of the 29 workers’ aldermanic candidates from the ballot Every worker who can do so, should report as frequently as possible, he urged, to the campaign comm headquarters at 101 South Wi Street or to the office of his neigh- borhood election campaign commit- tee. Gebert put particular stress on the activity of Communist Party members during the current week, Their slogan,” he said, “should be, ‘every Party member a signature collector.” Layoffs Spur FERA Union NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb, 17— With the announcement that all FERA relief work would be stopped by Thursday, Feb. 21 at the very latest, the membership of the FERA Workers’ Union of New Haven has grown by leaps and bounds, until it has.now become the largest organi- zation of relief workers ever banded together in this section With the growth of the union and its putting forth of a militant pro- gram, the local employers’ news- papers have attempted to resurrect the red scare to split open the ranks of the FERA relief workers. | A letter, setting forth the program of the FERA Workers’ Union and answering the charge that the union is dominated by the local Commu- nists, has been sent to these news Papers. The letter, after pointing to the fact that all relief is crim- inally inadequate, states that the workers, with the threat of com- plete stopping of work relief to goad them on, will not stop until the re- | lief workers are completely organs ized and their demands granted. The letter states, in closing: | “As for the Communists, it is well known that the Communists are the most courageous and loyal fighters for the interests of the working class and are invariably found in the front ranks in defense of these same in- terests. What do the Communists want in the FERA Workers Union? First of all, this union be controlled by the membership at all times and not become the property of one or a few individuals. Second, that all FERA work must be continued whether the funds come from fed- eral or local sources. Third, adee quate cash relief for all the unem- ployed with no discrimination and support for the Workers Unemploy- ment, Old Age, and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 2827. Former S.L.P. Leader Scabs in West Coast Street Car Walk-Out LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17.—Social- | ist Labor Party functionaries in Southern California have added to their repertoire of anti-labor acts, Until now they have contented \ themselves by rushing their fiying squadron of eight members from the Huntington Park Open Forum on {Monday nights to the Glendale Open Forum on Tuesday nights, letcetera, where they consistently | disrupt meetings with their tactics, | Now, however, they are able to “point with pride” to R. W. Stavens, |ex-member of the National Exec- | utive Committee of the Socialist Labor Party. Stevens, an employee of the Los Angeles Railway Corpo- | ration, has scabbed from the first day of the strike and ts still work= | ing. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Labor Defender Concert and Dance Friday, Feb. 22 at Ambassador Hall, 1704 N. Broad &t.; Nadia Chilkovsky in a series of vevolutionary dances; well known violinist; entire Fretheit | Gesang Ferein chorus; excellent | dance orchestra. Adm. at door, 50¢; in advance through organizations 35¢, | Tickets at 49 .N. 8th St, Room 207 Grand Concert and Bazaer. Aus- pices: Unemployment Councils | Philadelphia, Friday and Saturdsy eves March 1 and 2 at Olympia Arena, Broad and Bainbridge Sts, Glamorous entertainment, Puppet i Show, Play, Dancing, Music, Nae tional Speaker, Sergei Radamsky and Maria Radamsky. Proceeds for pub- | lication of newspaper for the uneme } ployed. Adm. 35¢ for both evenings, Chicago, Ill. Organizations Attention! The Inter= national Workers Order of Chicago is celebrating its Sth Anniversary at the Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. An excellent proe gram has been arranged. Kindly keep this date open. { } |