The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1935, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW Y@RK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1935 Page 3 Communists File for Slate | In Chicago nce 58,351 Signatures Are! Collected to Place Nominees on Ballot (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) | CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 27.—Having | collected 58,351 signatures to place | its candidate on the ballot, the Communist Party today filed peti- tions with the Board of Election Commissioners for a City Ticket, | which includes Karl Lockner for | Mayor and Herbert Newton for | City Clerk, and Samuel Hammers- | mark for City Treasurer. The gathering of the signatures | was a triumph achieved by the un- | flagging efforts of hundreds of | Communist Party members who worked ten and twelve hours a day | collecting the 57,000 signatures re- | quired by law. The Socialist Party announced today that it cauld not file a peti- tion of candidates, not having suc- ceeded in getting the required sig- natures. The signature law is de- signed to keep working class par- ties off the ballot. Preliminary reports today indi- | cate that the workers’ candidate in | the 2ist Ward, Martin Miskerisk, !s | running second, | The task is now to prevent the | city authorities from disqualifying the petitions, as was done in the | aldermanic elections, where 23 workers’ candidates out of 29 were | ruled off the ballot. 10 Convicted In Oklahoma, 12 More Held OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 27.—Ten unemployed workers, who were arrested after a demonstration last May and held on charges of “conspiracy to overthrow the gov- ernment,” were convicted here before Judge Edward Vaught at the Federal District Circuit Court. An appeal has been filed by the International Labor Defense and a new trial will be held next Saturday. On the day before the conviction, United States District Attorney W. C. Lewis introduced his single piece of testimony. The “evidence” con- sists of a letter from Joe K. Pask- van to Mrs. William Conner of Oklahoma City, stating that he was coming to help organize the unem- ployed struggles for relief. Twelve other workers still face trial for having addressed protests to the trial judge. Since their ar- rest on Feb. 6, District Attorney Lewis has been searching for “Her- bert Benjamin’s right hand man,” who, Lewis declares, is in Oklahoma City. Despite the terror, the Com- munist Party, the Unemployment Councils and the International La- bor Defense have redoubled their activities. Now Lewis has declared that Herbert Benjamin is in Okla- horaa City, and has ordered his ar- rest on sight. Orders also call for the arrest of any known Commu- nist at once. Union Backs Workers’ Bill GREAT FALLS, Mont., Feb. 27. —Local 286, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and the local Building Trades Councils here have endorsed the Workers Unem- ployment, Old Age and Social In- surance Bill, H.R. 2827, and sent their resolutions to Representatives | at Washington. WHAT’S ON Philadelphia, Pa. Grand cert a} pices: employment Councils of Philadelphia, Friday and Saturday eves, Mareh 1 and 2 at Olympia Arena, Broad and Bainbridge Sts. Glamorous entertainment, Puppet Show, Play, Dancing, Music, Na- tional Speaker, Sergei Radamsky and Maria Radamsky. Proceeds for pub- lication of newspaper for the unem- ployed. Adm. 35¢ for both evenings. Come and enjoy with us a concert and banquet with attractive pro- gram and delicious eats at 4901 Thompson St., on Saturday evening, pm., March 2, C, P. Unit 303. Adm, Be. Protest Meeting against Governor Earle's new tax pi 1 at William Penn Hall, 5117 Master St., Thurs- day, Feb. 28, 8 p.m. Unemployment Council of 4901 Thompson 8t. “News from the Soviet Union.” At- tend the Open Forum on Thursday, Feb, 28, at 8 p.m. at the S.W. cor. Sth and Moore sts. Adm. free, Aus- pices: 8. Phila, Br. F.S.U. ‘Young Worker and Daily Worker Red Press Concert and Dance will take place on Saturday, April 6 at 4035 Girard Ave. Ausp.: Sec. 3, W. Phila. All working class organizations are asked to keep this date open, Cleveland, Ohio Red Wedding to be held on March 2, at 6615 Wade Park. Dancing from 8 p.m. to wee hours of the morning. Door prize, radio, plenty of -refreshments and the donation is 18. All welcome. Newark, N. J. Halt! Newark organizations don’t arrange affairs March 17, Paris Commune Day. Extraordinary ex- Migoh, aotet e fort Hlant, AdmiG , noted con anist, ‘ sion 36¢, Chicago, Ill. A nite of merriment in honor of Section Organizers, Rubey Cooper, former, and Bill Sennett, present. Saturday, March 2, 8 p.m. at the Italian Workers Club, 720 Kedzie Ave. Entertainment, refreshments, dancing to music by Duke Croswells Orchestra, Adm. 20¢. A big Banquet and Dance will be held speakers, * Shop om dinner, entertainers, etc. ers of Chicago are invited to Pursuit ¢ Happiness Ends, Saturday, ‘March 2 and 7 p.m. at 2739 W. Divi- sion St. Dancing, singing, music, Adm. 2ic, includin Don't miss a swell P. Sec. 9. refreshment tax, 2 for 3ic. time, Ausp.: C. Celebration of the L’'Unita Operaia Quotidiana, The Italian Daily paper! Sunday, March 10, 3 p.m. at Turner Hall, Roosevelt and Western Aves. Adm. 36¢ at door, 28 in adv. Good program arranged. Dancing until late hours to the music of Alabama Or- ‘Communists Urge Unity In Fight Against Ohio Anti-Labor Legislation Send Letter to Unions and Socialist Party in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb, 27.— | With plans for a drive against the | trade unions and all militant work- ing-class organizations just re- | vealed in the exposure of the “Se- | cret Seven” Oommittee of the | Chamber of Commerce, a call for a united front to defeat all criminal syndicalism and reactionary legis- lation was issued yesterday to the | Socialist Party and the Cleveland Federation of Labor by the Com- | munist Party. The Cleveland Federation of La- bor has just passed a resolution denouncing the Ohio Criminal Syn- dicalist Law. In the statement for the Com- munist Party, addressed to the officers and delegates of the Cleve- | land Federation of Labor and all affiliated unions, and to the County Executive and branches of the So- cialist Party, John Williamson points to the growing menace against the organized labor move- ment and urges immediate, prac- | | tical action on the following issues: Action Urged 1, For immediate repeal of the Ohio Criminal Syndicalist laws. 2, Against all bills aimed at the elimination of any working class political party from the ballot. 3. For a movement for the im- | Mediate repeal of sales tax. 4. Prohibition of all anti-labor injunctions. For defense of trade | unions. 5, For Unemployment Insur- ance, as introduced in the Work- ers Bill, H.R. 2827 and in Ohio State Legislature, H. B. 136. Emphasizing the speed with which reaction is organizing its anti-labor drive, the Communist Party declares “that unity of all forces in this hour of open shop attacks and reaction is a burning necessity, and we appeal to the Cleveland Federation of Labor and the Socialist Party to initiate to- gether with us and any other or- ganizations genuinely interested in the problems before labor, to unite on all or any one of these issues which affect us daily.” “The numerous attacks,” the statement continues, upon Cleve- Jand workers and the organized trade union movement has received definite encouragement from the recently issued report of the Cham- ber of Commerce's “Secret Seven.” ‘To Break Unions “This ‘Secret Seven’ document is issued at this time precisely because the workers are determined by use of their organized union strength to resist the new attacks of em- ployer and government on wages, living conditions and the A. F. of L. unions. These attacks are em- bodied most dramatically in the ex- tension of the Auto Code and the newly signed cigarette code. These new attacks of the Roosevelt Gov- ernment and its varied N.R.A. is open support to the in- dustrialists open shop drive. “Cleveland’s workers have re- cently been confronted with the issuance of the most vicious injunc- tions against them. To the already increading cost of living is added the sales tax. The much heralded “work relief” plan is really a means of battering down the union wage scale. Unemployment insur- ance without taxing the laborer, has been denounced. “Now comes the ‘Secret Seven’ with its heresy hunting campaign against all labor, demanding en- forcement of the Criminal Syn- dicalist Laws and new laws aimed against all who struggle. The Se- cret Seven talk much about the ac- tivities of the Communists who are against eompany unions and in favor of the workers joining the A. F, of L. union and making them Roosevelt’s Work Re By Louis Weinstock Secretary, A.F.L. Trade Union Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance The $4,800,000,000 Works Relief program proposed by the adminis- tration was adopted by the U. 8S. Senate with an amendment for the prevailing scale wages by 44 to 43 votes, The adoption of this bill was a defeat for the administration. The original proposal by Mr. Roosevelt, provided for a $50 maximum month- ly wage for 130 hours of work for all relief workers; in other words, & 38 cent hourly wage scale for all building trades workers in the U.S. When the bill came up before Con- gress, through gag rule the amend- ment calling for a prevailing scale of wages was defeated. The clause providing for the pre- vailing scale of wages was included in the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee, but after an appeal to the senators by Mr. Roosevelt, the amendment was reconsidered and taken out of the bill. Then it came up before the Senate where the pre- vailing scale of wages was included in the bill and adopted. Mr. Roosevelt, however, indicated, that irrespective of the action of the Senate, if the prevailing scale of wages is included, he will veto the bill. To save Mr, Roosevelt fur- ther embarrassment, after the bill was passed in the Senate, a motion ‘was made to turn the bill over to the Senate Appropriations Commit- tee for reformations. Not What Workers Demand While the ane defeated the open wage slashi Proposal of Roosevelt to place maximum relief wages at $50, they did not pass the scale demanded by the workers. They passed an amendment to Roosevelt's bill for the “prevailing” wage scale. This “prevailing” wage is not necessarily the union wage, and in the south, for example, is far below union wages. The work- ers demand that Congress so amend the bill as to provide the prevailing | Th | 3,000 F.E.R.A, Men On Strike in Toledo For Higher Wages TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 27.— About 3,000 F. E. R. A. workers are now striking here against the Roosevelt slave wage relief rates and against the general Roose- velt assault upon living standards of the workers. “The strike may become the biggest and most widespread in the history of the county among building workers on relief proj- ects,” said President Fred Payne of the Toledo Central Labor Union and manager of the Brick- layers Union Local 3 which called the strike. All building craft workers in the city have an- nounced their support of the strike, and the Central Labor Union has endorsed the walk- out. { struggle for real better conditions and for defeating instruments of company union. We Communists do not deny this. “But we emphasize that the at- are directed against the entire labor movement —against every struggle of the laboring class and, therefore, are of concern to every- one, Serious Danger “The sharpened attacks, both lo- cally and nationally, against the trade unions and the entire labor movement, creates a very critical situation if not answered by a pow- | erful effort of the working class. The whole trade union movement and every working-class organiza- tion is in the most serious danger. “We Communists greet the action of the Cleveland Federation of La- bor at its last meeting in calling for the repeal of the Ohio Criminal Syndicalist Law. We greet the militant action of the auto workers’ locals affiliated to the A. F. of L. who have correctly decided upon a mass organization drive into the unions and for a fighting interna- tional of auto workers within the A. F. of L. We greet the steadily increasing number of labor unions supporting the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827 in the National Congress and H. B. 136 in the Ohio Legislature. “We urge your favorable action on these points as in the interests of all workers, unions and their or- ganization, The specter of Fascism | already teaches us that these people declare war not only upon Commu- nists but upon Socialists, trade unionists and all militant workers. Now is the time to forge a powerful Joint action of labor. “We are ready to cooperate with everybody,” the statement con- cludes, “no matter what political opinion they may have, who place ore question uppermost—how to strengthen trade unions and destroy the company unions; how to make | the unions powerful fighting organs |for improving conditions; how to defeat the activities of the Cham- ber of Commerce and its ‘Secret Seven’ and all of its anti-labor legislation. “We stand ready to confer with you or any authorized representa- tives, to further elaborate our posi- tion and to work out the ways and means of establishing in Cleveland one solid front of labor against the Chamber of Commerce.” | Anti-Fascist Meeting PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 28,— The mobilization of Italian fascism for the murderous war on Abys- sinia will be protested here today by a mass meeting at 1208 Tasker Street, at 8 p.m. All workers are invited and admission is free. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Italian Buro of the Communist Party and the South Philadelphia. section of the Com- munist Party. tacks of the Chamber of Commerce | ‘Arizona Bill | | Makes Crime Of Criticism Everett Canteal Labor Council Assails Anti- Labor Bill PHOENIX, Ariz. Feb. right of the American people to criticize and protest government policies and acts is denied in a bill introduced in the Arizona House by Representative J. Melvin Goodson, of Maricopa County, prohibiting “Communistic or other radical meetings at which the government is denounced.” Violation of the proposed anti- labor law would be punishable by imprisonment of from one to 14 years. Protests should be sent to Gov- ernor B. B. Mouer, and to the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Phoenix, Arizona. 27.—The Labor Fights Ott Bill | EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 27.—The Everett Central Labor Council has voted unanimously to oppose the pas- sage of the Ott Anti-Communist Bill in the Washington State Sen- ate. The bill was recently railroaded through the House under pressure |by local Chambers of Commerce and the pro-fascist Hearst press. Members of the Council expressed | the conviction that the Ott Bill is | directed against the entire working class and would stifle independent political action by labor. S. P. Leader | Seored by 300 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 27.— More than 300 workers, members of | the Ohio Association for Unemploy- jment Insurance, booed down Mr peentelhety chairman of the So- |cialist Party County Committee, | who came to their meeting at the |Bohemian National Hall to speak jagainst the State Workers’ Bill, 'H. B. 136. The Ohio Association was first organized by the Socialist |Party, and many members of the Socialist Party were present at the meeting. Immediately after the address of Frank Rogers, secretary of the Cleveland Committee for the Work- |ers’ Bill, Mandelkorn demanded the \floor. J, J. Vanecek, chairman of the meeting and a leading Social- jist, gave him the floor, Mandel- korn called Vanecek a “traitor” for |his support of the Workers’ Bill and the recent National Congress |for Unemployment Insurance. Chicago C. P. Repeats ‘Unity Offer on Election 'To Socialist Committee (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 27.—Robert Minor and A. Guss, representing the | Chicago district of the Communist |Party, appeared Saturday before the | Cook County Executive Committee of the Socialist Party with renewed proposals for a united support of the workers’ candidates in the al- derman elections here, on a plat- form of minimum demands. In view of the seriousness of the present election campaign here, the FOR RECOGNITION AND HIGHER PAY | Six thousand Chicago needle workers, members of the White Goods Workers’ Union, are on strike for recognition of the union, strikers on picket duty. ‘Non-Support’ Used as Club On Jobless HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. you demand the same pay, of less, for doing the same work on a relief job that others are doing. you run the danger of being jailed for non-support of your family. That is what happened to An- thony Abruzzo and Joseph Landrie, unemployed workers who led a del- egation to Relief Superintendent Ryan here to demand 50 cents an hour for shovelling snow. Men on the relief rolls assigned to snow shovelling jobs had been receiving only 40 cents an hour, while FE. R.A. men working side by side with them were being paid 50 cents an | hour, | Abruzzo and Landrie, both active members of the Unemployed League, were sentenced to 60 days each with the alternative of “contributing $10 a week to the support of their fami- lies for 26 weeks.” The judge knew while passing sentence, that both men have been unemployed for a long time and are on the relief rolls. Resentment is running high against this fascist trick to suppress the efforts of the Hartford jobless to gain more relief. The Central La- bor Union here has englorsed the fight of the Hartford Unemployed League against the. forced 27.—If instead fare department together with the city officials. | In a statement to the local pr: the Communist Party has endorsed the demands of the Unemployed League and pledged to mobilize all |its forces against the forced labor program. Committees are visiting united front against forced labor. This also includes the fight for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill H. R. 2827, and the State Work- ers’ Bill, Communists requested a joint state-/ | ment by the two parties to unite the | working class behind the five So-| cialist candidates and the six Com- munist-supported candidates run- ning for office on a non-partisan} | ballot, with the support of various trade unions and other workers’ or- ganizations. The united front proposals were | again turned down by Cook County | Executive Committee of the Social- ist Party, with the statement, is-| sued te Saturday afternoon, that) “the Communist Party be informed | we are not ready to go into united | front of this kind at this time.” — | Single unemployed men here have been moved to the Meadows, a swamp on the outskirts of the city, where they are forced to work five days a week for one dollar, Stanford U. Conducts Forum on Communism PALO ALTO, Cal. (F.P.).—The first university open forum on Com- munism on the Pacific coast has been held at Stanfrod University, with students and faculty taking wage increases, and other demands. labor | program instituted by the local wel-/ all organizations in building the| New Jersey Rolls Show Sharp Rise In Need for Relief NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 27.—New Jersey relief figures reached an all-time high in January with 610,900 persons, more than 15 per cent of the State’s population existing on the hunger rations of the relief. the Emergency Pelicf Administration announced yes- terday. Compared with January a year ago, last month’s figures repre- sent an increase of 81 per cent The number on relief then wa: 337,355, as compared to the p! ent 610,900 out of a total popu- lation of 4,041,334. The figure as for the past month also shows an advance of 12,973 over De- cember, Average relief pay- ments for all forms of relief— || food, clothing, shelter, gas and || electricity—amounted to about $1.79 per person a week. Philadelphians Hit Sales Tax PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. A mass meeting to protest the sales tax proposals of Governor Earle will be held here tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at Brotherly Love Hall, 5157 Master Street. Scores of neighborhood meetings are being projected by , the Unemployment Councils here together with other | organizations. | These m: meetin: nete in a mass confi Workers’ Unemr r | and Social Insurance Bill | 2827. The conference will be held | Sunday, March 24, at 2 p. m, at | 507 North Forty-first Street. | Governor Earle’s tax proposals, | which are the prelude to introduc- tion of sweeping sales taxes, call | for a tax upon gasoline, cigars and | cigarettes, amusements and electric | jcurrent. A shift in the real estate apinst will culmi rally fall upon the tenants and ‘sraall home overs directly. |part freely and discussing tl merits or objections to a Commi- nist form of government. President Ray Lyman Wilbur, sec- retary of the interior under Hoover, |said the forum will be followed by analyses of Fascism and other gov- ernmental systems. The meeting was open to the public. No revolu- ‘tion followed. | seale of union wages, and that the minimum wage for all those on work relief be $100 a month for skijled, and $80 a month for unskilled work- ers, While discussions were going on in the House, in the Appropriations Committee and also in the Senate, Jabor organizations all over the country, trade unions, building trades locals, Unemployment Coun- cils and other organizations show- ered telegrams and letters on the Senators and Congressmen urging them to vote against the 38 cent hourly scale and asking them to in- clude in the bill the prevailing union scale of wages. Every single con- gressman and senator received such letters. Green Accepts Low Pay The pressure from below was so great that even the Executive Coun- cil of the A. F. of L., headed by William Green, was forged to ap- pear before the Senate Appropria- tions Committee and plead for the inclusion of the prevailing scale of wages in the bill. Mr. Green in his testimony before this committee made no attack against the whole scheme of Roosevelt to further re- duce the living standard of the workers. He was even willing to accept a $40 mont'ily wage scale as long as it was based on the prevailing scale of wages. When Senator McCarran asked Mr, Green whether it would be possible to employ three and one- half million unemployed workers at the prevailing scale of wages, Mr. Green replied that at $40 a month, instead of $50 as proposed by the administration, it would be possible to employ more than three and one- half million workers. Mr. Green also said that the administration has a perfect right to pay $40, since this would discourage workers from seeking relief jobs. Mr. Green, in making such a statement, joined with those who claim that workers failed to point out, however, is where private jobs are to be found. The 17,000,000 unemployed in the U. 8. cannot find them. 10 Cents an Hour on Relief The administration sent its agents to the Appropriations Committee to fight for the 130 hours of work at $50 per month. They tried to con- vince the senators (which was not so very hard) to vote for this pro- posal, since relief workers, they stated, receive less now than the Proposed $50. Mr. Gill, assistant federal emer- gency relief administrator, appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Feb. 11, prepared with facts and figures and with a great big map showing wages paid by the administration to relief ¢workers in various parts of the country. Ac- cording to his figures a large sec- tion of the population in the South- ern States employed on relief jobs received 10 to 19 cents per hour, while those in other sections 20 to 29 cents an hour. In some sections relief workers are paid 30 to 39 cents and a small group receives 40 to 50 cents an hour. Mr. Gill, in bis argument for the $50 maximum wage scale stated that on an average the relief work- ers receive $25 per month. However, in the Northern states, some are paid $40 or more, while, on the other hand in the Southern states the relief worker gets as low as $8 and even $6 a month. Administration Lying Senator McAdoo asked Mr. Gill the following question: “I want to ask Mr. Gill if the terms which seem to be expressed in the tele- grams and I am receiving and which are expressed in the news- paper reports as coming from labor leaders and others interested in the labor movement, are based on any tangible ground, when they appre- hend that the passage of this bill prefer federal jobs to private jobs. e important thing that Green without the prevailing scale amend- ment would lead to a general de- lief Wage ds Blow At All Trade Unionism moralization of the wage scales throughout the country and reduc- tion in wages in private industry in the country, Do you think there is any real ground for that fear?” . Mr. Gill answered, “There is not, in my opinion.” The assistant federal relief ad- ministrator is thus trying to con- vince Mr. McAdoo and the other Senators that the employers in this country would not follow the ad- ministration policy and would not cut wages. The Roosevelt administration in putting forward the 38 cents hourly scale of wages is fulfilling the dreams of the powerful employ- ers’ organizations, of the powerful Master Builders’ Associations, which are advocating wage cuts as a step towards “reviving business activi- ties.” Blow at Trade Unionism The drastic wage slash proposed by the administration would not only reduce the living standards of the workers, but would also be a head-on blow at the trade union movement in this country. The proposal of Roosevelt is an attack against the living standards of the entire working people, employed and unemployed. Millions of unem- ployed on relief would be forced to accept jobs for 38 cents an hour, work which is paid for $1 an hour and more, They would work in most cases less than the 130 hours a month. The bill would outlaw work relief strikes. It specifies that anyone refusing to accept a job for $50 a month would be deprived of relief. Rank and file members in the A. F. of L. unions are realizing that the Roosevelt New Deal is a new) deal for the employers. They have | learned that the support given to! the Rooseveit administration by the | top leadership of the A. F. of L. proved detrimental to organized | labor. The rank and file have also gressmen whom the A..F. of L. of- ficialdom supported and endorsed | turned their backs on organized la- | bor and on labor in general and are | now in line with the Roosevelt wage | cutting policies. Struggle Must Continue It is true that some Senators, afraid to lose votes, have come out against the Roosevelt bill. Senator | Wagner of New York City, for that same reason,. opposed the adminis- tration proposal, but he would not | say that Roosevelt, his best friend | and saint, is the instigator of the | wage slashing proposal. Senator | Wagner knew that Roosevelt was going to veto the bill if adovted | j with the amendment calling fo: | the prevailing scale of union wages. Workers in the trade unions and in the unemployed organizations must continue sending protest tele- | grams and letters to Roosevelt and to their Senators and Congressmen | demanding that the $4,800,000,000 be | appropriated immediately and that | jobs be secured for the unemployed | at the prevailing scale of union wages. The workers must also de- mand the earnings on all relief | jobs must be no less than $100 a month for skilled workers and at jeast $80 for unskilled. Demonstra- tions and meetings should be ar- ranged before the offices of the re- lief administration and force them to act immediately. The New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance and Relief is call- ing upon all workers to come to the mass meeting, to be held on Saturday, March 2, at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Piace and 15th Street, New York City, to protest against the administration proposal, and to demand that prevailing scale of union wages be paid to all workers on relief jobs. Organized labor must join its forces to de- found that the Senators and Con- feat this wage cutting proposal of the administration. Above are shown a group of girl Urge Pressure To Place Bill Before House The National Joint Action Com- mittee yesterday called for imme- diate pressure to force the House Cemmmittee on Labor to vote the Workers Unemployment, Old Aze and Social Insurance Bill, H. R 2827, out of committee and onto the floor of the House for vote. On Monday the seven members of the Sub-committee on Unemploy- ment Insurance voted the bill to the full committee. This full commit- tee must vote a majority for bring- ing the Workers’ Bill onto the floor of the House. To date, ten members of this com- mittee have in one way or another signalized their support of the Worke:s’ Bill, These ten are: Rep- resentatives William P. Connery of Massachusetts, chairman; Matthew A. Dunn, chairman of the sub- committee, of Pennsylvania; James Gildea of Pennsylvania; Reuben T. Wood of Missouri; John Lesinski of Michigan; Richard J. Welch of Cali- d Hartley of New Jer- Vito Marcantonio of New . ‘e Schneider of Wisconsi: Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota Other members of the committee are: Mary Norton of New Jersey; | Glen Griswold of Indiana; Charles Truax of Ohio; Joe Fagle of ‘Texas; Jennings Randolph of West Vir- | ginia; Robert Ramspeck of Georgia; Kent Keller of Illinois; Marcellus Evans of New York; Sebert Dunn of Mississippi; William Lambertson and Clifford Hope of Kansas, The National Joint Action Com- mittee for Genuine Unemployment mee urged that individual and mass demands be directed at all members of the House Committee on Labor, all Congressmen and Sen- ators, and especially at the remain- ing members of th House Committee on Labor who have not yet given ; and their support to the Workers’ Bill, | H. R. 2827. Auto Union Backs Bill KENOSEA. Wiz., Feb. 27 almost unsn'mous vote, Lozal 19008 of ithe U 2 bile Workers Union (American Fed- eration of Labor) endorsed the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827 at its last regular meeting. Only five votes could be mustered against {ire bill in the union which numbers 2,500 members. A storm of applause greeted the president of the union when he announced the Workers’ Bill resolution adopted. Workers To Honor Tiala MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 27.— Alfred Tiala, newly-elected organ- izer of District Nine of the Commu- nist Party, will be welcomed at a banquet to be given here in Hum- bolt Hall, 1317 Glenwood Avenue, 8 o'clock Saturday night. Admission will be twenty-five cents. 4 “HUNGER AND REVOLT: 6 Months’ sub and copy 3 Months sub and copy DAILY WORKER 50 East 13th Street New York, N. Y. or Daily Worker for I am enclosing $ ; the Spartanburg Mil 0 0 Brings You a Copy of Hunger and Revolt: Cartoons by BURCK SPECIAL OFFER available only with the following subscription offers: Year's sub and copy of book.. Year's Sat. sub and copy of book............$2.50 Add 20 cents to Cover Postage (THESE PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX) Piease enter my subscription Please renew my subscription “HUNGER AND REVOLT: Cartoons by Burck.” State Police Help to Ship Scab Goods Writ Aims To Break Cotton Garment Strike in Chicago Pa., Feb te Troo protec from the plants of t Inc., manuf: cotton garments Glen Rock Clothing Wort ranks of the pany’s plants are holding firm rikers of Injunction in Chicago tl Feb. 1ufacturers As County Superior Court y. The Garment Workers Union condu the strike of 6,000 worker made preparations during end for intense strike activity, a it is expected that the strike w spread to many more shops v a few days. Marshal Fields, w le dealers in cotion garmer losed down sociation Seven Strikers Fined SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass., Feb, 27.— Seven s! of the Hamilton Woolen Mill here were fined $50 each and given suspended sentences. ‘ged A They are throwing stones at tt company police officer. e house of a Agreement Reached HUNTSVILLE Eight hundred v h Mills will return to work, an agree- ment having been reached which Provides gains for the worke: mill was closed down by a Officials Balk Strike ALLENTOWN, Pa., Feb. 27.—Of- ficials of the American Federation of Silk Workers are making efforts to get the intervention of the ¢ ernors of Pennsylvania, New Jetsey and Rhode Island to stall the threatened general strike of silk workers, it was reported yesterday. The strike decision was made at a recent national conference of all lo- cals of the Federation, but in place of actually preparing for the strike the national officials are busy ma- neuvering to prevent it. Anti retchout SPARTANBURG, S. C., Feb. 27.— Walter S. Montgomery, President of commenting on the Godfrey “anti-stretcho: bill declared that if the bill passes it means that a number of mills in South Carolina may have to close down because they would be at a disadvantage in competition with northern milis. The mill owner ex- pressed satisfaction with the pres- ent National Textile Labor Relations Board, which he claims could take up all matters concerning working conditions. Strikers Convicted FARGO, N. D., Feb. 27.—Sixteen truckmen, members of the Fargo | General Drivers Union were found guilty of rioting. The jury which brought in the verdict deliberated 21 hours. The workers were ar- rested when vigilantes and police raided the union’s strike head~ quarters, and drove the women, children workers in it, out with tear gas bombs. CLEVEL/ D, Ohio, Feb. 27—Two more conferences, with the L. N, 3ross Company and David Dub- y, president of the International Garment Workers Union Ladies here, failed to bring a settlement of the strike of 550 in the company’s two cotton garment plants. The company refuses to comply with a union shop agreement. The workers remain firm and conduct mass picketing. Four Strikers Wounded DAISY, Tenn., Feb. 27. — Four marchers were wounded when com< pany thugs of the Daisy plant of the Richmond Hosiery Mills fired upon a peaceful Washington Birth< day parade. About 22 shots wera fired into the parade from inside the plant. None of the marchers were armed. One of the placards, carried by the marchers, read, “Daisy come out, Spring is here.” i | Cartoons by Barek” is now -$7.00 $450 $3.00 of book of book... » Pius $1.20 fer a copy of