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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-18

IN BOTH the coal and steel code dis
: cussions there was controversy over
the open shop versus unions. The
steel men took the open shop clause
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-18

ID ESULTS shown by the civilian
~ conservation corps are deemed
so satisfactory by the administration
that plans are being made to continue
the experiment for another six months.
Orders are to be sent out for the re-
enlistment of all those who desire to
60 on with the work.
Enlistment is on six months basis.
The first hitch" expires in Novem-
Der. There are at present 310,575 men
in the corps. including 25,000 former
service men. The forestry army is
located in 1.43S camps in all parts Of
the country. The cost to the govern
ment is approximately $20,0O0,000 a
month.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-18

visory councils. On the old issue Of
how collective bargainings should be
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-18

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, contin-
4 uing his vacation at his home in
Hyde Park, N. Y, called into confer
ence there Assistant Secretary Of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-18

No pope, professor, poet, statesman,
patriot ever left simple guide to d.
rect simple people. although these are
the guides we simple people are urged
to follow.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-18

TOR the first time since 1912 Eng
L lands tennis team has possession
Of the historic Davis cup. The island
ers won the trophy by defeating the
French players at Auteuil in the chal-
lenge round. France had held the cup
for sir years.
Q. 1873. Western Newspaper UAion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-18

Prof Raymond Moley has been de-
tached as assistant secretary Of state
to have charge of the federal govern
ment's campaign against crime. espe-
cially kidnapping and racketeering. It
was the first break in the brain
trust" that group of professors with
whom the President surrounded him.
self. Some weeks ago I wrote in these
columns the prediction that such a re-
suit had to come. It was obvious.
The professor and his theories can be
used by the statesmen and practical
men only so far. Professor Moley
was. Of no use to Secretary Hull in the
Department of State after his adven-
lures in connection with the London
economic conference and the unfavor.
able publicity that the professor
caused. In assisting Professor Moley
to the job of banishing crime, the
President said later he would put him
back as assistant secretary Of state.
@. 1893. Western Newspaper Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Offer $1,000 for
Calf. Grape Picker
Strike Betrayal

LODI, Calf, Oct. 4.-Twenty-nine
striking grape pickers have been ar
rested here in a reign Of terror to
break the strike of 1000 workers who
are demanding 40 cents an hour.
Armed vigilantes failed in an at
tempt to herd the strikers out of town
A reward of 81, 800 has been posted
for the betrayal of militant leaders
of the strike and of the Sacramento
leader of the LID.
In Fresno, where six workers who
participated in the recent strike of
grape pickers face long terms on
criminal syndicalisn charges, and in
the Bakersfield region, cotton pickers
are walking out in the face of threats
Of murder, failing, and kidnapping
The LID, organizing defense COM
mittees in the strikers ranks, and
mass as well as legal defense for the
arrested workers, has called for work.
ers everywhere to send protests on
the Lodi and Fresno arrests to Gov
ernor Rolph, demanding the right Of
the workers to organize strike and
picket, immediate removal and pro-
secution of all officials who interfere
with this right, and release of all
arrested workers, as well as repeal Of
the California criminal syndicalism
law,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Kidnapped Communist
Names Officials
Who Attacked Him

COLUSA, Cal. = Neither the
sheriff nor the district attorney of
Butte county will prosecute the
kidnappers of Herbert ]. Journey,
Colusa Communist organizer, it ap-
pears. Journey was kidnapped by
five men, held captive and beaten
for three days, then shackled with
padlocked chains and set loose in
the streets in a dazed condition.
He was seized at a point Of
gun in Gridley, where he had been
active in fruit-pickers' strike, was
forced into car with a sack over
his head, and was taken so miles
to g shack where two other men
kept him a prisoner. Journey
named residents of Gridley and Co.
lusa with whom the Butte county
officials are allied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Minnesota Farmers
DenOunCe Roosevelt
Cuba Intervention
Especial to Daily Worker,

CROSBY, MINI, Oct. Delayed.
The State Conference Of the United
Farmers League Of Minnesota closed
here with the unanimous adoption
of a resolution demanding the i'm
mediate withdrawal of battleships
from the harbors Of Cuba, and the
cancellation of all debts to Wall
Street and the abrogation Of the
Platt Amendment.
In addition to demanding the cam
collation. of all farm mortgage debts,
back taxes, and feed and seed loans,
the so farm delegates, representing
many hundreds of dirt farmers, also
passed resolutions demanding the
recognition of the Soviet Union, and
pledging their solidarity with indus.
trial workers in their fight against
the NRA slavery codes.
A dramatic incident Of the confer
ence was the story told by Frank
Murtland, militant farmer Of Bemidji,
who came to expose the attack made
on him by the Farmer-Laborites who
control the state. Murtland told how
his children had been taken away
from him because he had denounced
the hospital authorities for dishon-
esty. The delegates unanimously
passed a resolution demanding the
Farmer-Labor Governor Olson return
Murtlands children from the County
Ward.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Federation Bneaucrats Interest Harness Workers the MIRA.

MIRA code in textiles, tried to put
over a $12 and $13 weekly wage on the
workers. these two facts give an ac-
curate measure of both their hypo-
crisy and the stupidity OF their adj
vjsers from the ranks Of the reform
list intelligentsia.
Coming Winter Worse.
Another revelation: On page SO the
following statement occurs:
Although our trade union employ
ment figures show that employment
was still gaining in August the gain
was too small to make any substantial
decrease in the army of unemployed.
Unless the return to work takes
place at faster rate in the months
Just before us, the unemployed will
suffer worse hardehip in the coming
winter than ever before" (My en-
phasis.)
Since the opulent gentry. of the
Executive Council who make this
statement are the same ones who
have fought tooth and toe nail
against compulsory federal unem-
ployment insurance for four years of
the crisis, are the same ones who
have expelled Communists and rank
and file union members for advocat-
ing federal unemployment insurance,
we have here an additional guage OF
their sincerity.
In the 125 pages Of the Executive
Council report unemployment in
surance is not even mentioned.
Gap Between Facts and Conclusions.
The deeper one digs into the report
of the A. F. of l.. Executive Council
to the Fifty-third Annual Conven-
ton, the greater becomes the gap
between its facts and conclusions.
This is especially true in regard to
unemployment and the measures pro-
posed for taking care Of the jobless
millions and their dependents.
The Executive Council Recommended
tons are based on the theory which
it's own estimates of numbers of I'M
employed and employment trends ex-
plode, the theory that mass unem-
ployment--now in its fourth year
is merely temporary. The corollary
of this theory is that the only neces-
sary measures are temporary relief
not cash, but in the form of cloth
ing and provisions bought and handed
out by government agencies, with the
boundless opportunities for graft at
the expense of the unemployed, OPP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Green & Co. Are Hostile to Jobless Insurance
in Order to Safeguard Bosses Profits

portunities which American history
assures us will not be overlooked
and reduction in hours of work.
The Executive Council shys away
from the issue of compulsory unem-
ployment insurance at the expense
of the employers and the government
as If it were the smallpox. 1t con-
tends, taking its cue from the Roose-
welt administration, that the crisis
depression" is the A. F. of L. trans
lation--is being overcome and that
the 6-hour day and 5-day week is all
that is necessary to give jobs to the
jobless, for which its own estimate is
11,781 900.
Gives Lie to Optimism.
But the statistics on which 1t bases
It's program give the lie to its OPP
timism. The Executive Council
figures for total unemployment and
part-time work among union mem
bers show that there is now, in spite
of all statements to the contrary, a
certain sterilization of mass unem-
ployment taking place and that,
within the vast army of unemployed
there is now a fluctuation up and
down of not more than 100000 in
basic industry on the upward trend,
but running as high as 100000 when
the curve plunges sharply downwards.
Unemployment Trifling
The report itself states on Page g.:
I'm any case, the number who have
returned to work is trifling compared
to the large unemployment in our
chief industries. BY July, 1888, the
building industry had re-employed
only per cent of the Is per cent laid
off since 1893, the railroads only A
per cent of their As per cent, facto-
ries Is per cent of their IA per cent,
and retail trade per cent of its 20
per cent" my emphasis.)
The most optimistic estimates do
not dare to claim that more than
100000 have returned to work in
these four big occupational groups.
The trade union percentage figures
are even more convincing in regard
to the persistence of the high level Of
total unemployment and part time
work. ct should be remembered that
part time work means anything less
than five days per week, and that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Number Who Returned to Work Is Trifling
Compared to Unemployment" Report Shows

Of the anti-strike and compulsory gov
eminent dictated arbitration in the
supplementary agreement to the coal
code flow logically.
Fight for Their Privileges.
The only fight the bureaucrats are
making is for the protection of their
privilege of being the ones who sell
the working class down the river into
the forced labor plantations OF the
N.R.A. and the organizations Of en-
ployers which it has made more
powerful, from which it has removed
even the formal restrictions of the
Sherman antitrust law, ito assist
and speed up national recovery"
Compared with such deliberate dec
larations of basic policy, the sniping
criticism of "unduly" long hours and
'sunduly" low wages by this or the
other A. F. of L. leader are seen to
be merely some fancy feats of mark
manship INDUCED in with the full
consent of the Roosevelt administra-
ton since they serve to give an ap-
pearance of militancy to leaders, who
need it badly because of growing dis-
illusionment among workers and other
toiling sections of the population as
to the purity of the MIRA. intentions
regarding living standards and ele-
mentary political rights, evidenced by
the great strike wave.
The body of the report is full of
facts and figures used by the Execu-
tive Councils brain trust of Socialist
Party and Amalgamated Clothing
Workers trained interpreters to prove
that the MIRA. is the only hope for
the masses, but which actually prove
the criminal character of the official
labor support of the MIRA. For in
stance:
On page So the following statement
is made: "a report of the National
Bureau of Economic Research shows
a IL percent increase in production
per worker per hour from 1929 to 1882
in manufacturing industries.
For the period since 1882, judging
from the statistical data available,
production per man hour has in
creased even more rapidly with the
rising industrial activity this spring
than it did in the full three years of
the depression !. From 1882 to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
By BILL DUNE.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. Aft
any doubt fingers that the Executive
Council of the American Federation
Of Labor has made the National Re-
covery Act its official program, the
report of the Council to the Fifty
third Annual Convention should dis
pei 1t.
II there has been created any doubt
that the A. F. of L. leadership whole
heartedly supports the MIRA, and If
such doubt has been strengthened by
the recent criticism Of some Of its
administrative features, in the public
speeches of President Green and
others, the report Of the Executive
Council, containing 125 pages, should
settle this question.
Working Out New Deal.r
For the Executive Council report
begins by printing the MIRA. in full
and concludes with the following
statement:
This convention meeting at cru
cial period in the history of this
country has the opportunity and the
responsibility for shaping policies Of
momentous importance. We are at
least attempting to work out the
principles Of New Deal which our
government has legislated. AS unions,
we have no choice but to obey the
law and to serve the agencies for put
ting it into effect. Our immediate
problem is to function so as best to
advance justice and economic prog
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

AmeliS Legion the reason for this
demand is, according to the explana-
ton, to secure documentary EVIL
dence of the connection of the Com
munist Party in Chicago to the So
Wet government" and use this EVIL
dence against the recognition of the
Soviet government by the U. S. gov
eminent" It is also known that a
meeting of the representatives of the
American Legion and city officials
of Chicago have been held in which
this whole matter has been discussed
The Legion proposes to receive a
search warrant signed by friendly
to the Legion judge and the Legion
mares together with the city police
to make raids.
At their last convention at Detroit
the bureaucracy of the Legion broke
into the office of the Communist
Party and wrecked all the furniture.
A message of greeting was read to
the convention from Mussolini.
Pursuing its Jim Grow policy, DR..
Emmett j. Scott, of Howard Univers-
ity, who was invited to address the
convention, was permitted to talk
only to the Negro members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
Strikers in
the Shoe Industry
Hold Mass Meeting

BROCKTON, Mass, October A.
At a mass meeting of Brockton
shoe workers which was held at
Pythian Temple, District Organizer
Sparks of the Communist Party of
New England exposed the illusory
aspects of the NRA and the strike
breaking tactics of General john
son of the NRA administration.
He also flayed the A. F. of L.
burocracy for sabotaging rank and
file strikes. Sparks stressed the
need to continue the strike of the
Brockton shoe workers under rank
and file control until higher wages
and better working conditions are
won. The workers were told to
GUST every. corrupt A. F. of L.
official from the uniol organization.
There is demand for more
copies Of the Daily Worker among
the striking shoe workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

in favor of continuing the bonus fight
and the fight against compensation
cuts is growing among the rank and
file of the Legionnaires. The commit
tee frankly is afraid to fight the bonus
and compensation issues out on the
floor of the Convention.
Officials Support.
Instead Of fighting for the bonus
and against the Roosevelt $500, 000,-
600 slash in veterans compensations,
the officialdom of the Legion has
joined with Roosevelt in Gripping
the rank and file fight against the
Roosevelt veterans program.
National Commander Johnson
warned the Convention that they
must fight against government ex-
travagance and recknessness." Refer
ring to the bonus in thinly yelled
statement. johnson urged to dele
gates to refuse to be led into danger,
no matter how tempting the fruits
may be-"
Calls for War Program
Referring directly to the demand
that exists on the floor of the con-
vention among the rank and file op-
position, that the Workers Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League be permitted to rep
resentative in the convention, John
son declared: eve should never agree
to accept one shred of responsibility
for what any other organization
chooses to- do"
Johnson's report contained a call
for saving the national defense
structure" call for support of the
Roosevelt war preparations program.
He also spoke of the Legion's fight
against Communism, radical pac-
ifism, and subversive radicalism."
This fight, he declared, "has gained
increasing Importance during the past
year" He urged greater efforts
gaainst the Revolutionary movement.
Plan Attack ON Communists
While all this is going on, in the
high circles of the American Legion
there are open demands for organ
lied raids during the convention upon
the headquarters of the Communist
Party and Communist Party publica-
tions and working class organizations
in the city Of Chicago. In the high
circles Of the officialdom of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

actually millions of workers rated ss
employed part time have such low in
comes that they are in some instances
worse of than those eligible for
relief.)
These figures show that for the
three years l931-32-33 (the estimate
for 1888 is for eight months only the
percentage of totally unemployed
among union members runs as
follows: 1871, 23.8, 25.3. The figures
which make up the average for 1888
include the months of May. June
July and Augustine period Of most
intense activity Of the N. r. A. ad-
ministration and the period Of the
greatest advertisement Of it ~
panacea for unemployment.
Unemployment among trade union
members was as follows for these four
months: 25.8, 24.5, 24.1, 1871. For part
time work the percentage was: 20, 81,
81, 20.
The percentage over the three-year
period for part-time work was: 10
81, 81. nj,
These cold figures. of such decisive
character that even the expert sta
tisticians of the Executive Council are
unable to conceal them (they are able
only to keep them down to the abso-
lutte minimum), show that the N. r
A. has made no real step toward
industrial recovery"
These figures show that 1t Is not
any genuine evidence of the over
coming Of permanent mass unem-
ployment which actuates the Exec
utive Council in its hostility to, and
sabotage of, compulsory federal UNI
employment insurance, but loyalty to
the slave and hunger program Of the
N. r. A., keen interest in keeping the
swollen fortunes and incomes of its
capitalist masters free from the nee
essary taxation for unemployment in
surance, and betrayal of the most
vital interest of the working class that
is behind its tremendous efforts to
keep the A. F. of l.. program within
the framework of the N r. A.
This is the main motive determin-
ing the character of the conclusions
OF the Executive Council and the
main motive behind its activities IN
the convention
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

because I thought they would take
a vote to go back to work. We
didn't vote.
1--WE have got the power to get
our rights, and we will get them.
Continue picketing, get every man
on the picket lines in the morning.
Don't let any man put a piece Of
paper down your throat and choke
you like Lewis did in 1922. They
tried to get the Prick miners to
go back to work They didn't do it..
If you have the CUTS, you will win"
Have Plenty of Cuts"
eve have plenty of CUTS" shouted
back the miners.
Districts 2, 3, and are stand
ing shoulder to shoulder, and will
guarantee you we will get victory"
When Steve Petrone of the Foot
dale local got up to speak, the
miners were in an ugly mood.
Petrone had told some of the men
to go back to work Il am sorry
for what happened" he pleaded. 1T
wasn't my fault. You got me
wrong. I got up on the floor at
Murray's meeting five times, and they
pleaded ana begged us to send the
men back to work. Bill Heines &C
tually cried, we all cried. We all
love our union. Last night some
miners came up to me and showed
gun in my belly. They misunder-
stood me. I didn't send them back
to work. They told me they would
shoot me. Shoot me now if you
don't think I'm for the strike. I
didn't tell them to go back to work. :"
The gun incident made Petrone
indulge in little self criticism. II
am going to be much stronger with
you. If anyone wants to put a gun
against me let him do it."
Steel Striker Speaks
A delegate from the Walworth
Foundry Co. strike in Greensburgh
spoke. He told the miners that the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union were with the coal miners 100
per cent. eve have a rank-and-file
controlled union he said. 1--WE are
with you against your takers, Feeney,
Murray and Lewis: Drive them all
out as you did Feeney here" He
was greeted with loud shouts and
cheers.
About a dozen miners spoke.
Every one of them declared for con-
tinuing the strike despite Roosevelt,
Pinchot, Lewis or anybody else. we
are out to win and we will not go
back into the pits until an agree
ment is signed with our union so
that we can all see. No more be-
trayals and sellouts."
Pat Minerard of the Republic Mine
spoke
ut wouldn't make any difference
whether Roosevelt himself came here
today. He couldn't get the men
back to work under present condi-
tons"
Hell, no." echoed the miners.
A Negro miner from Newburg then
spoke. THE so-called signing by
Moses is a fake. When contract
is drawn up it must be drawn up in
black and white so we can all see It,.
The operators said We WILL but
they didn't say when"
Capitalist Press Lies
The capitalist press is already busy
in it's endeavor to split the ranks of
the miners by announcing figures of
miners returning to work. The
miners know of this attempt, and
this morning are planning huger
and more militant picket lines than
ever to meet the threat.
"a majority of Western Pennsyl-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

July 1888 less than one year) pro-
duction rose 40 percent, man hours
only rs percent" (My emphasis)
Outlaw Strikes.
To remedy this alarming condition
the Executive Council proposes to
press forward" for the 30-hour week.
If, for the sake of argument, we &C
cept this as solution of the burn
ing question of the ever more in
tensive speed up of American work
ers, let us remember that the A. F..
of L. leaders, Lewis Of the United
Mine Workers, and Green, have al
ready established a precedent in the
coal code for the outlawing Of strikes.
Even the 30-hour week cannot be
won without strikes and the wide
spread strike struggles show that
American workers will not accept
the shorter work week with the cor
responding-or greater-reduction in
pay upon which the big corporations
insist.
This is the meaning Of the mil
itancy' OF the official leadership on
this issue.
The report makes some more dis
closures: On page So we find the fol-
lowing:
although the field agents of the
Federal Relief Administration are
instructed to raise standards Of relief
(the boys never forget to absolve the
government Of blame-B. d., the
amounts given are seriously made
quate in many cases. While relief
per family averaged 1855 month
from April to July, amounts vary
from 81 per family per month in Mis-
sissippi to $50 in New York state.
The average family receiving relief
has between four and five member
(44 members). When it is considered
that, at June 1888 prices, $21.50
week was the necessary budget to give
a family Of four even . bare sub
sistence, the serious inadequacy Of
even the highest relief Of $50 a month
$3.50 WEEKS obvious. -. Reports
from Philadelphia and New York
state show that A percent Of the
persons on relief rolls are children
under 16 years of age" (My en-
phasis)
Since the members of the Executive
Council who in their report speak of
$3.50 per week as giving only bare
subsistence for a family of four, are
the same gentlemen who, backing the