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The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Fire 1,5OO Packers
in Omaha Plant
Workers Committee
Blocks Speed-Up

OMAHA, Neb., Nov 22-Fifteen
hundred packing house workers have
been laid off in South Omaha, where
the Armour, Swifts, Cudahy and
Dolds packing plants are located, in
the past three weeks. The N. r. A.
officials and the A. F. of L. leaders
have been saying for the past two
months that the n. r. A. would give
the packing house workers more
work. These plants all work under
the Blue Eagle. But now the workers,
seeing the lay-offs, haven't got faith
in the N. r. A. any more.
AS soon as the N. R. A. Speed-up
went into effect, the workers in the
sheep kill in Armours elected a rank
and file committee and sent the COM
mittee to the boss to demand slower
speed on the chain. After much dis
cussion, the boss was told that q
stoppage would take place unless the
speed was slowed down, and the boss
agreed to slow down the chain. The
conference board held special meet
ing, but the workers told them that
their rank and file committee and
not the company controlled confer
ence will handle the workers griev-
ances.
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workmen of America
does nothing for the workers, and
allows a terrible speed up to be put
into effect. The workers are talking
Of the need of fighting industrial
union.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Auto Union in Drive
For 5000 Members
Building Shop Groups
in Leading Plants

DETROIT. - The Auto Workers
Union has launched an intensive two
months organization drive to prepare
Tor struggles in defense Of the vital
needs Of the workers when the plants
which are now either completely shut
down or on greatly reduced schedule,
reopen.
The aim Of the drive, which will
last from Nov. Is to Jan. Is. Is to
recruit 5000 members and to build up
strong shop groups in all the leading
plants, with special emphasis on the
Ford and Briggs plants, on which the
union has decided to concentrate
Special mass meetings and factory
gate meetings will be organized dur
ing this period and the Auto Work.
ers News will be issued regularly
every two weeks. With production
now lower and unemployment greater
than a year ago, the struggle for
unemployment relief and insurance
viii also be developed during these
TWO months. On Dec. II, a big con-
ference of auto workers will be held
Further information on the orrani-
zatlon drive can be secured at the
office Of the Auto Workers Union.
42l0 woodward Ave-, Detroit.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23

ing back to work. No sooned was
the meeting concluded when the
Kenosha Evening News came out with
an issue already set, in secret stating
that the Nash dispute was settled
Open Plant Wednesday"
They printed the shameful agree
ment which was reached between the
American Federation of Labor and
the Nash Motors Company. In the
mass meeting all opposition was
squashed. Workers who took the
floor in opposition to the proposals
were bulldozed, threatened, and ridi-
culed by the ALL. leadership. When
the vote was taken, there was also a
shout Of mo- but due to the con-
fusion and tactics of the leaders, no
exact count could be determined.
Must Organize Now
The Auto Workers Union, affiliated
to the T.U.UL. has issued a state
ment to the Nash workers exposing
this betrayal and pointing out that
the responsibility rests upon the
shoulders Of the American Federation
of Labor officialdom who acted not
as the representative of the workers
but as agents OF the company, who
from the very beginning of the strike
discouraged picketing and militant
action, and divided the ranks Of the
workers. The statement further points
out that while the strike was be-
trayed, the spirit of the workers has
not been broken. The workers going
back into the shop will continue to
organize, to unite, and to fight for
an increase in wages and against
the gang system, and to prepare for
the struggles that are sure to come
Mr.. Nash is told that the workers
will not starve-that the workers will
take up their grievances in the shop
and will fight for them-that the
coming struggles will be led by mill
tant rank and file leadership and not
by the agents of the company who
call themselves American Federation
of Labor leadership.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Ala. Court Awards
Damages to Lawyer
Named in LID Wire

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Nov. 22. -
In a new attempt to throttle mass
protest against the Scottsboro
lynch conspiracy, the local court
has awarded Jack Mcclure, Tus-
caloosa attorney, a Judgment Of
S1,499 in damage suit against the
Postal Telegraph Company for
transmitting telegram in which
his status as a lyncher was ex-
posed.
The telegram was sent by the
International Labor Defense to
Judge Foster protesting his ap-
pointment of McGnire as defense"
attorney for Dan Pippen. Jr., and
A. T. Harden, who were Iynched
shortly after the I. L. ID. attorneys,
retained by their families, were
barred from the trial by Judge
Foster and driven ont Of Tusca-
l0osa.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Nash Auto Strike Betrayed by A. F. of [. Leaders

\ kENOSHA, Vision Monday, Nov.
20, over 1000 Nash workers came out
to the picket line, displaying deter
minatlon and miltancy in the fight
TO win the strike and their demands.
The same afternoon, there was wit
messed in Kenosha one Of the big
gest parades of labor in many years.
The strikers, Joined by thousands of
other Kenosha workers, marched
through the streets after gathering
in front Of the Nash plant, demon-
strating their will to continue the
struggle.
I But on this very same day, when
The wave of enthusiasm of the strikers
was at its height, the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor officialdom perpet-
rated their act of betrayal. They
concluded an agreement with the
Nash Company and the Federal ar
bitrator, DR.. Lapp-calling off the
strike without gaining one single de-
mand for the workers who have been
out for II days. On the very first
day of the strike, the Auto Workers
Union, affiliated to the Trade Union
Unity League, urged the workers to
unite regardless of organization af-
filiation, to win the following de-
\ 'nands:
A.W.U. Program Of Demands
1. Thirty-five per cent increase in
wages for all Nash workers! 2. Abol-
ition of the gang system! 8. Turn the
lockout into an effective mass strike!
4. Elect broad strike committee
with representatives from each de-
partment! 5. No settlement by de-
partments but by the shop as a whole
g. No returning to the shop on prom
ises of arbitration. We must win
our demands through militant actionl
z. Mass picketingl 8. No settlement
by the committee without the fullest
consultation and vote of all men in
the shop 9. No discrimination against
any worker for his activity in the
strike and lockout. In event of settle
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Enthusiastic Labor Parade Turned Into Rout
By Sell-Out; Organization Tasks Now Face
Workers, Says Auto Workers Union

partments, is the substance of the
plaintiffs will work through the
committees of three which will be
set up only when there are grievances
or disputes. Theer is only promise
to take up the controversy in the
final assembly line and this Is to be
subject to arbitration. Thus the A.
F. of l.. officialdom deserted the other
5000 workers in the plant and be-
trayed the few hundred workers In
the assembly line who were the first
ones to go out on strike.
Nothing On Wages
The settlement does not say one
word about the question of wages!
Not word about the gang system
which is so despised by the workers!
In fact, on this point, the Officials
of the American Federation of Labor
Stated that in view of the fact that
industry everywhere is adopting the
gang system, there is nothing that
can be done about this in the Nash
Motors. Time and a half for over
time was completely thrown over
board. The same is true with the
question Of rest period during the
day. AS to the seven-hour day de-
mand, this was fake from the very
beginning, because the men we're
working 35 hours a week even before
the strike. So this was not point
of issue.
Many of the workers going back
into the factory are not yet clear as
to the settlement. When the thing
was raised at Mondays mass meet
ing, the American Federation Of La
Dor officials created an impression
that the proposals read were not yet
final, and told the men to watch the
newspapers as to the question OF GO
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Terzani Speaks in
Phla. Friday Mite
Framed Anti Fascist
in New York Sunday

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22.-Tn his
fight against his frame-up for the
murder Of anti-fascist comrade, Athos
Terzani will carry a challenge into
the home city of his accuser, General
Art j. Smith Of the discredited fascist
Khaki Shirts Of America. Terzani will
speak at huge mass meeting here
this Friday evening.
Leaflets advertising the meeting
accuse Smith Of being "an accessory
to the murder OF Anthony Fierro,
because he has shielded the real killer
ever since the crime"
NEW YORK.-A Terzani defense
meeting will be held this Friday eve
ming at the Savoy Mansion, 6322-20th
Avenue. Brooklyn, with Jacob Kahan,
chairman, and the following speakers:
Bruce Of the International Labor De-
Tense; H. D. Sizemore of the I. w. W.,
and Pitro Allegro, of the italian De-
fense Committee. The Socialist Party
has refused to participate in the
meeting.
Terzani win go on trial in Long
Island City, N. Y, next Monday.
Evidence will be presented by the de-
fense to show that Fierro actually
was shot by member of the Khaki
Shirts while defending a friend who
was being elected from an Astoria
meeting Of that outfit.
TerZani will tell his own story here
next Sunday at a mass meeting in
Irving Plaza Hall. 18th st. and Irving
Place, at which William L. Patterson
Of the International Labor Defense,
Norman Thomas, Carlo Tresca and
others will speak.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23

ment. every worker must get back his
job!
The leadership of the American
Federation of Labor offered no pro-
gram, when the strike broke out. But
when the workers enthusiastically
picked up the demands of the Auto
Workers Union as their own, then
the American Federation Of Labor
came forward with counter proposals.
They promised the workers that they
are going to propose to the COM
pany to: Recognize the union ca.
F. of Id; to abolish the gang sys-
tenn; to get the seven-hour day; to
get time and a half for over time;
to obtain rest periods for the men
during the day; etc.
The so-called settlement which the
American Federation Of Labor agreed
to, does not contain one single de-
mand which they originally put for
ward. Instead Of recognition of the
union, Mr.. Nash, in the settlement
refers to paragraph one of the union
proposal by stating that this "is fully
covered by law by the automobile
manufacturers code and we always
have and will comply with it," In
paragraph 5, the Nash Motor Com
pany says full right of discipline
and discharge shall remain with the
company but this right shall be ex-
ercised with due regards to the in
terest of the employees" The para
graph which the Nash Company re-
fers to is that famous open shop
clause in the Automobile code.
The settlement does not provide for
dealing with the grievances of the
workers in the shop as whole. This
is completely ignored, but instead of
a company union set up by the de-
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Greensburg JobleSs
Make Demand for
Food and Clothes
Organize to Enforce
Promises
(By a Worker Correspondent


GREENSBURG, Pa, Nov. 22-The
County Committee of the Unemployed
Councils of Westermoreland County,
representing the miners and steel
workers met and presented demands
to the County Emergency Relief
Board at Greensburg on Nov. 10, and
as usual the Relief Board tried to put
off the unemployed with promises.
The committee told the relief board
the unemployed cannot be put off
with promises any longer. The unem-
ployed must go on the slate dumps to
pick their own coal or else freeze.
We are going ahead to organize the
unemployed for demonstrations to
force the promises through.
The demands include: adequate
fur, shoes, clothes; free medical aid
and doctors care; free shoes, clothes
and lunches and milk for school
children; one ton a month of coal
for the unemployed; no discrimina-
ton in the distribution of relief; relief
for all unemployed; and Endorsement
by the relief board of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Third OF JObleSS
on Forced Labor
Jobs in Arkansas
Majority Left Without
Relief Of Any
Kind

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-One third Of
the total jobless in the state, or a.
600 have been dropped off relief, and
placed on forced labor projects, as
part Of Roosevelt's plan to abolish re-
lief.
In this manner two-thirds of the
unemployed get absolutely nothing
and are left to starve since they
cannot get either the relief or the
forced labor jobs.
In a short time even these workers
employed on the forced labor Jobs
will lose the30 and 40 cents an hour
NR.A. wages and the remaining few
workers speeded up. A statement
from one official of the Civil Works
Administration that: "timekeepers
will have the right to hire and fire at
will for ineficiency, incompetent and
shiftless workers" No new workers
can be hired under the plan, and the
fired workers can get no relief.
Workers must demonstrate and
fight against being dropped off relief.
They must form committees of action
on the Jobs to use every grievance as
a means of arousing mass action.
y
5000 Dropped in Omaha.
OMAHA, Nebraska.-Out Of 10000
registered unemployed in Douglas
county, 1000 are to be put to work
cleaning and repairing the streets
and the rest will just be dropped off
the relief list, according to Mr.. Park
inson of the county Office.
The Workers Unemployed Council
is preparing to call county confer
ence to fight against removal from
the relief lists, against forced labor,
for rent payments and SO cents an
hour on public works jobs.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
JObless in Cambridge,
Mass, Reform Union
to Fight Evictions

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The Cam
bridge Unemployed Union is being
rebuilt here by the jobless workers
and will fight the large number of
evictions taking place daily, and the
starvation relief given by the city.
Only one months rent out of three
is paid. The union will affiliate It
self with the militant Unemployed
Council.
The Unemployed Union meets
every Wednesday evening at o'clock
at 631 Massachusetts, Ave-, on the
third floor.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Sharp, Drug Store
Picket, in Court Today

NEW YORK.-Sidney Sharp, one
of the striking pharmacists in the
strike called by the Pharmacists
Union, was arrested last week while
picketing Lindernan's Drug Store.
Hearing has been set for this morn
ing in the Essex Court, Second Ave.
and Second st. The union has called
upon all members, and the workers
generally, to pack the court to pre-
vent the railroading Of Sharp to Jail.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Compel Payment of
Rent Before Eviction

OMAHA, Neb.-Altnough the poll
cy of the city and county relief
agencies in Omaha had been to pay
only one month rent, permit the
eviction of the unemployed worker,
and force him to find another house
from which he would again be
evicted. the Unemployed Council to-
gether with the Women's Civic
League and the Democratic Club
forced the County Relief to pay the
rent of Mrs. Montgomery, pregnant
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
NeeUs Briefs
Gordon Owner Of Six
Breweries

Waxey Gordon, the beer racketeer,
is the operator Of six breweries and
two Manhattan hotels, a Federal
Court Jury charged today. He is
accused with having eyaded income
tax payment on over two million
dollars deposited in various banks.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
HaverhiIl Shoe Local
Forces Election Of
Jobless Committee

HAVERHILLs, Mass.-Stitchers Lo-
cal No. 10-A of the Shoe Workers Pro-
tective Union, a union with reactionry
leadership, voted to elect an Unem-
ployed Committee at the next regular
meeting on Nov. 20 after proposal to
this effect was made from the floor
by the militant rank and file group.
Local 10A is the largest local in the
city with paid-up membership of
over $500. About two thirds Of the
members are unemployed.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
GreenviIle Starts
probe" on Lynching
of Negro October 16

GREENVILLE, S. c., Nov GAN
Investigation" into the lynching of
George Green, nliddle-aged Negro
worker who was taken from his home
at Taylors, near here, last Thursday
morning and shot to death by a
masked and robed band, was opened
here today.
Two other Negroes, a man and a
woman, who lived near Green were
brutally whipped the same night.
wife of an unemployed meat packer
and mother of four children.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
FlOphouse Workers
Win Concessions

CHICAGO, Ill.-Ffty unemployed
workers of the Municipal Lodging
House No. Of 81 w. Austin Ave,
compelled the State Relief to pro-
mise overcoats and other clothing. As
result Of this mass action the man
ager Of the Lodging House Is at
tempting to transfer the actives in
the group to another house.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
MASS PRESSURE WINS IN
ELHTART

ELKHART, Ind. Mass pressure
organized by the Unemployed Coun-
Gil forced the Federal Relief Bureau
to give aid to three needy families
without food Or fuel. Workers re-
ceive food checks amounting to 3h
cents meal. Mobilization is going
forward to compel increase in relief.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Dramatic Concert

CHICAGO.-Sonia Radina, famous
dramatic soprano, will appear in a
Soviet concert of classic and revo-
lutionary songs, in costume on Sun
day, Nov. rs, at the Masonic Tenn
pie Auditorium, 80 Randolph ST.,
14th floor, at 8 pm, under the
auspices of the Friendsof Russian
Music.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Penitentiary Riot in Phila.

PHILAD LPHIA, Nov. 22.-Run-
ming wild during a recreation period,
.seventy-fve enraged convicts smashed
into and set fire to prison buildings
and wrecked valuable machinery.
Warden Smith said the riot was due
to lack Of space and insufficient ac-
commodations.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Trapped Unemployed Miners
Rescued

SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 22-Five
unemployed miners who were en-
tombed by a cave-in while digging
coal for their own use in an unused
mine we're rescued today by other
miners. One suffered broken leg.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Lindberghs Plan Flight

HORTA AZORES, Nov. 22.-Colonel
and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, who
reached here from Lisbon yesterday,
plan to return by plane to the Con-
tinent by way of the Island of st.
Michael.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Paterson Strikers
Hold Out, Against
Scheveitzer, For $25
UT. W. Leaders Abandon Wage Demand
Suppress Strikers Leaflet, Try to Complete
Betrayal of 5000 Silk Workers
BY CARL REEVE

PATERSON, J. 22-The
the Associated Silk Workers GU T. W. prevented the T. W.
striking
Monday Tuesday u. already greatly
weakened the strike by
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
.Neov York Workers
March Saturday in
SCOttsbOrO Protest
Thousands, Reused by Lynch Conspiracy
Against Nine Boys, Will Turn Out

NEW YORK-With ScOtsbOo
and their attorneys growing hourly acute the New York District of the
International Labor Defense called demonstration
for this Saturday O'Clock
protests against lynch conspiracy
The daily worker., 1933-11-23

Alabama officials end terrorist groups.
Organizations will gather with their
banners as follows: Section l and 2
Of the 7. L. D. at 18th Street and
Lenox Avenue. Friends of the Soviet
Union, Downtown I. L. D. and the
EX-Servicemen's League at 18th st.
and Lenox Ave. Trade unions at 10th
st. and Lenox Avenue. Section 6 and
8, (Brooklyn), at 121st Street and
Lenox Ave, Section a, and the Finnish
Federation at 126th st. and Lenox
Ave, Sections and Is (Bronx) and
the League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights at 127th st. and Lenox Ave.
The line of march viii be up Lenox
Avenue, from 18th St. to 136th St.,
east to 5th Ave, north to 137th st,
then turning west to 7th Ave, and
down to 125th st, and returning to
121st and Lenox Avenue, where the
workers viii be addressed by Negro
and white leaders Of the revolutionary
movement.
Bronx Meet Tomorrow
NEW YORK.-Bronx workers VIII
protest the Scottsboro frame-up and
lynch threats at mass meeting of
the Bronx Section Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, at Ambassador
Hall, Third Ave, near Claremont
Parkway, Friday, Nov. "a, at 8 pm
The Bronx delegation to the Balti-
more Anti-Lynch Conference and the
Leon Blum delegation will report.
The main speakers will be Allen Taub,
Scottsboro LAWYER; a Negro share
cropper from the South, Bruce; the
Bronx organizer; S. Schiller, Leon
Blum Defense Committee.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Young Farmers See
Hope Futile Under
Capitalist System
Juanita, Wash

Juanita, Wash.
Daily Worker,
New York City.
A group of us farm youths got
together and with our pennies,
nickels and dimes made up con-
tributiOn Of S1.2S for the Daily
Worker. We are realizing the flu
tile hopes for a better day under
the present system. We see only
misery, starvation, slavery and
war until the day of class eman-
cipation.
cipation. YOUNG FARMERS.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
MARX-LENIN EXHIBIT

WASHINGTON, D. Can exhibi-
tion OF Marxist-Leninist documents
will be shown all day tomorrow at
Jerusalem Hail, 1909 115th, N. w. A
lecture by H. M. Wicks will close the
exhibition. Adm. Is cents.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23

and file settlement committee of all
the mills it would be crime to ac-
cept the manufacturers proposal of
individual mill settlements" The N.
r. w. U. calls on the workers to con-
tinue the strike until the $25 mini
mum rate is granted.
The reference to arbitration COM
mittees applies particularly to Mayor
Hinchcliffe's committee, with which
Schweitzer, Keller, ETC., are trying to
send the workers back to work, de-
feated. Hinchcliffe has put forward
the So per 100000 picks proposal of
the bosses as the only basis for set
tlement. Schweitzer went to this
committee and demanded only rec
ognition of the union.
The N. T. w. U. and the united
front conference of last Sunday
called on the workers in the silk in
dustry to- set up mill committees in
every mill based on a broad united
front, regardless Of union affiliation,
and to link these mill committees to-
gether with delegates to shop dele
gates councils, and thus lay the
basis for one industrial union in the
silk industry.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
Washington Book Sale

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. o.
The International Book Shop, 8O6
Eye ST., N. W.. will open its fall sale
Of the latest books on international
literature, political economy, Soviet
text books, working class literature,
Saturday, Nov. 25. The sale, during
which Is to 20 per cent discount
will be allowed, will continue until
Dec. 5th.
TIL International Book Shop is
also raising funds for the Daily
Worker and expects to increase the
total Of $3.50 raised so far consider
ably during the sale.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
National
Events
PATTERSON IN RoxBURY

PATTERSON IN ROxBURY
BOSTON, Mass. William L. Pat
terson, national secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense, will be the
main speaker at a banquet and a
dance given by the I. L. D. in New
International Hall, AZ wenonah st.,
Roxbury, Wednesday, Nov. 20.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
CORRECTION

Two typographical errors changed
the sense of two important sentences
in the article on page of Mondays
issue of the Daily Worker dealing
with the Paterson strike. The fifth
paragraph states =. "to fight jointly
with the employed for Unemployed
Insurance at the expense Of the en-
ployed." This should read, of
course, "at the expense of the en-
ployers."
In the sixth paragraph the phrase
which reads "the new industrial
union cannot be based on the N. T..
w" should read cannot be based
on the U. T. W."
The daily worker., 1933-11-23

st. Louis, no.
November 26th:
Monster Banquet at Peoples Finance
Bldg. Tickets SOC.
The daily worker., 1933-11-23
So. Norwalk, Conn.
November 24th:

Film showing Of the Soviet movie
Ths Two Thieves" at the Workers
Center, 1o2 Washington st., at ais
pm. Auspices OF Iw.O. Branch 81.